MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by user____name | 2025-06-16 17:51:10+00:00
Inequality always expends until the political interests of the rich and poor diverge so much that societies come apart at the seams.

Relative equality is just as important, people get all kinds of stress related illnesses if they cannot keep up.

One example is people people putting themselves in debt in order to get a college degree.

Furthermore, the financial system works as a procyclical tool for the wealthy, since they can use debt financing as a leverage mechanism, while the poor have an insufficient credit score. This makes is easy for those with money to commandeer an outsized share of the available resources within an economy.

For example, wealthy owners using real estate and as an investment vehicle, bidding up house prices for everyone. The banks make a killing on selling mortgages while the population becomes indebted and precarity rises.

Here are some theories which I find interesting:

The Iron Law of Oligarchy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

Structural Demographic Theory https://peterturchin.com/structural-demographic-theory/

Elite Overproduction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction

Firm Hierarchy predicts Income https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/11/19/firming-up-hi...
by detourdog | 2025-06-16 17:51:31+00:00
>- OpenSCAD --- see the book >series: Geometry: >https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make Trigonometry: >https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make Calculus: >https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make

Do these books actually reference OpenScad or is OpenScad a tool for experimenting with the ideas in the series?
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-16 17:52:23+00:00
> lol, might have been good to conduct this study BEFORE making that decision

Why?

First, they wanted to do a layoff for financial reasons (and they did), secondly they came up with a reason for the layoffs (aside from the truth, which is needing to make more profit per employee, because growth).

LLMs are a convenient scapegoat for firing decent employees just because you want your other ones to work harder so you can return more cash to shareholders.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-16 17:52:52+00:00
I disagree about "Illuminated objects (natural or manmade) almost never go outside that".

There are plenty of frequently seen purple-red-orange-yellow objects, like flowers and fruits or clothes which look very noticeably washed out when seen on an sRGB monitor in comparison with being seen on a DCI-P3 monitor, where they look pretty much like in the original (assuming adequate software configuration for managing the color spaces).

While for commercial movies I cannot verify the fidelity of the color reproduction, because I do not have access to the original images, for photographs that I am taking myself there can be no doubt that the color gamut of sRGB or Rec. BT.1886 cannot reproduce satisfactorily a lot of commonly used things.

The primary red of sRGB/Rec. BT.1886 is really a very bad red, very far from a monochromatic red, because the red phosphors of the early CRT tubes could have either good saturation or good luminosity, but not both, so they have chosen a low-saturation red that was bright enough to match the green and blue phosphors.
by BrouteMinou | 2025-06-16 17:52:55+00:00
Hey chatgtp, make an article from the following story, at least 500 words: >> "Someone said that a guy said his cousin talked to an AI." said the person we interviewed on the phone.

He added, "AI is good".

Be afraid, Doom and Gloom. <<

Thank you,

-- a reporter still having a job apparently.
by hosh | 2025-06-16 17:53:08+00:00
Hearing this is exciting to me, because it is a very concrete and actionable target for a true “local-first” ecosystem and infrastructure.

I was very disappointed to find that the “local-first” manifesto was not the “local-first” as I understood it. In my mind, I should be able to connect an app on my phone to another phone via bluetooth, and sync without going through a central server. However, it makes very little economic sense, if someone is building a SAAS product that locks customers into dependencies on a central server where services can be metered and billed. To my mind, those are “offline-first”.

I have thought about what it would take to build a local-first software forge and package distribution, and yet, I couldn’t see a good reason to expend that effort. We have a lot of the pieces … with this example — if we want to be able to expand a meshtastic network _after_ a disaster, then the whole tooling, development, etc. needs to be local-first and resilient.
by trebligdivad | 2025-06-16 17:53:09+00:00
The article talks about the wonders of bucky balls and nanotubes - does anyone know what useful stuff has come out of those yet? I think I heard there's some work on nanotubes coming up on transistors in the next gen of chips? Not sure what bucky balls and other fullerenes are being used for? (I remember originally there was talk of lubricants?)
by zahirbmirza | 2025-06-16 17:53:51+00:00
Apparently there is an entire team in WhatsApp that is there to maintain the ancient user interface. And I can see you're correct, chat will be similar. However, I think, one of the reasons for the demise of x/Twitter is that the clutter makes it hard to separate useful from junk. The appearance of ads in the status view will probably just make me less likely to go to the status section. I guess the more annoying issue is that it is possibly deviating from a chat app to another social media portal with ad delivery.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-06-16 17:53:55+00:00
The bump allocator declaration occurs after the 2.1 cycles per allocation line. Perhaps all the information is the article. But it is not presently clearly imho. YMMV.

FWIW I’m super supportive of bump allocators and arenas. I just don’t find this particular analysis compelling or sufficiently informative. YMMV.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-16 17:54:05+00:00
Yeah, I really want people to understand this.

I know HN doesn't want to get political in general, but this is an incredibly terrible thing that's happening that affects everyone.

The cuts to the NIH based purely on the politics or perceived politics of the institutions doing the research will kill people. It very likely will be a death sentence for my wife with a cancer that has treatment options available but really needs additional research.

Everyone that lives long enough will get cancer. Researching cancer and disease treatments is universally beneficial to the population.
by juanmera01 | 2025-06-16 17:54:06+00:00
Quick update after the first 24h online:

814 developers have taken the 60-second Debug Quiz.

Archetype spread: - Log Sniper — 41 % - Rubber-Duck Sage — 36 % - Over-Optimizer — 23 %

A few surprises: I expected Duck Sages to dominate because dev-Twitter loves rubber-duck stories, but Log Snipers are still top. Mobile completion rate is 12 % higher than desktop (didn’t see that coming). Roughly 14 % of finishers shared their result link—way higher than my blog posts ever get.

Link for context (no signup, 60 s): https://hubblequiz.com/mini-quiz?src=ih-update
by elmerfud | 2025-06-16 17:54:11+00:00
https://trumpmobile.com/

Not so much the Trump family, more they sold the rights to use the name. Looking at the website, it looks like a very poor AI generated site. They couldn't even bother to hire an editor to review it and correct the minor mistakes. So imagine whatever trashy phone they found to rebadge and the number of mistakes it will have.

I predict that this phone will be preloaded with tons of spyware. Like even more than the normal amount of junk ware that are loaded onto normal phones. There will be secret stuff intending to track everything you do baked into it.

Further prediction will be that people use this phone as kind of a secret handshake to show that they are loyalists to the party.
by simonw | 2025-06-16 17:54:21+00:00
https://blog.darklang.com/goodbye-dark-inc-welcome-darklang-... includes this, which is a really interesting pattern that I don't remember hearing about before for this kind of company:

> In conversation with our investors and the board, we believed that the best way forward was to shut down the company, as it was clear that an 8 year old product with no traction was not going to attract new investment. In our discussions, we agreed that continuity of the product was in the best interest of the users and the community (and of both founders and investors, who do not enjoy being blamed for shutting down tools they can no longer afford to run), and we agreed that this could best be achieved by selling it to the employees.

Any other examples of that? I'm particularly interested in that for this kind of software product.
by john-h-k | 2025-06-16 17:54:28+00:00
> Show me literally any study that correlates the amount of work performed/the value of work/the ability of the worker with wealth. I'll wait.

Not too long ago I dug a large hole, and then filled it back in again. It was very difficult and tiring, and entirely useless.

If you accept that I don’t deserve money for this, then you reject the premise that effort/work is the only factor determining value, and “utility” or value to others also matters
by bionhoward | 2025-06-16 17:54:46+00:00
Who can take em seriously when cursor has privacy mode while copilot implicitly trains AI on copilot interactions with customers’ private repo code unless you get some enterprise tier of service?

The core of GitHub is about version control, including private repos, the fact they would violate that trust relationship just to chase AI capabilities means they’ve totally lost the plot as far as I’m concerned.

Maybe Copilot is a nice toy for open source projects or noobs working on private codebases who don’t take 5 minutes to read their website, but cursor just seems way ahead in terms of basic respect for customers
by Aurornis | 2025-06-16 17:55:17+00:00
> Wow, 15-30 years seems like an insane amount of time for drug possession.

The sentence was for intent to distribute. It's an extremely potent substance. This would be like discovering someone had 30,000 pills. You can't really argue that it was for personal use at that point. They also found him in possession of carfentanil (a more potent version of fentanyl), scales, baggies, and other products. This looks like a very clear case of someone importing high-potency synthetic opioids to redistribute.

High potency synthetic opioids are a high priority target for law enforcement. These are most often cut (diluted) and then sold to buyers expecting some other opioid product. As you might expect, perfectly diluting a 1mg dose of a powder into a 500mg - 1000mg pill form is extremely hard to do and there's a high risk of "hot spots" forming in certain pills (or sections of a powdered product). This results in a lot of serious overdoses.

It's a severe problem right now. Most fentanyl overdoses are from users who thought they were taking some other drug. They might have even "tested" it before, but missed the hot spots.
by notahacker | 2025-06-16 17:55:35+00:00
Even more so when the context is "this person is an AI research engineer at a company doubling down on AI agents, designing relevant benchmarks and building agents that run on that company's stack" not "this is an AI-skeptic dilettante who wrote a weird prompt". It's not like we have reason to believe the average Salesforce customer is much better at building agents who respect confidence and handle CRM tasks optimally...
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-06-16 17:55:50+00:00
This is quite interesting, and might come as a surprise to some non-European marketers:

Consent frameworks can’t just check a box — it’s a wake-up call for anyone still treating compliance as a technicality rather than a structural shift.

Interestingly enough, there's always a lot of trackers - sometimes hundreds on a page - and that aks the consent for "legitimate reasons", in addition to all those who don't claim legitimate reasons.

If they indeed have legitimate reasons, they shouldn't need to ask for consent!

The EU ought to enforce DNT and some new X-Cookie-Consent: Essential-Only header.
by MisterKent | 2025-06-16 17:56:07+00:00
My tech friends and I cannot wait for this agentic bubble to pop. Much like the dotcom bubble, there's absolutely value in AI but the hype is absurd and is actively hurting investments into reasonable things (like just good UX).

The hype and zealotry remind me of a cult. And as I go higher up the chain at my big tech company, the more culty they are in their beliefs. And the less they believe AI can do their specific jobs, and the less they have actually tried to use AI beyond badly summarizing documents they barely read before.

AI, as far as I can tell, has been a net negative for humans. It's made labor cheaper, answers less reliable, reduced the value we placed on creativity and professionals in general, allows mass disinformation, and mostly results in people being lazier and not learning the basics of anything. There are of course spots of brightness, but the hype bubble needs to burst so we can move on.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-16 17:56:17+00:00
Made it 2 pages in so far.

As just a potential consumer of True (tm) Random (tm) Numbers (tm) [0] rather than a physicist, I'm still only vaguely sure this meta-review is actually assessing what I'm having a problem with. I'm also struggling with the language and layout a bit, but it's not too bad, and I do see that my phrasing above is incorrect (should have said ontic and epistemic).

Not sure what kind of report are you hoping to hear though, sounded a bit like you're waiting for a laughter?

[0] got a degree in compsci but I don't work in academia, or any industry fields where reading papers on the regular is a thing (AI, graphics, physics sim, etc.)
by vanschelven | 2025-06-16 17:56:34+00:00
The article never really explains what eBPF is -- AFAIU, it’s a kernel feature that lets you trace syscalls and network events without touching your app code. Low overhead, good for metrics, but not exactly transparent.

It’s the umpteenth OTEL-critical article on the front page of HN this month alone... I have to say I share the sentiment but probably for different reasons. My take is quite the opposite: most value is precisely in the application (code) level so you definetly should instrument... and then focus on Errors over "general observability"[0]

[0] https://www.bugsink.com/blog/track-errors-first/
by AlexandrB | 2025-06-16 17:56:34+00:00
This made me think of Norton's Dome[1] and how a particle would choose a direction to move when warmed from absolute zero to above absolute zero. Though I guess, "warming" in this context would mean a collision with another particle and that would determine the initial direction?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome
by pbiggar | 2025-06-16 17:56:58+00:00
I agree it won't fit it, but IMO it will remove one of the barriers to adoption. The problem with doing something revolutionary, is that it's only going to be revolutionary in some ways, and it has to compete with things that are mature in ways you are not. And the original version (now called Darklang-Classic) was quite immature in an awful lot of ways that made it difficult to build on.

That's being addressed with the new version of course!
by sa46 | 2025-06-16 17:57:59+00:00
Funny timing—I tried optimizing the Otel Go SDK a few weeks ago (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/issues/67...).

I suspect you could make the tracing SDK 2x faster with some cleverness. The main tricks are:

- Use a faster time.Now(). Go does a fair bit of work to convert to the Go epoch.

- Use atomics instead of a mutex. I sent a PR, but the reviewer caught correctness issues. Atomics are subtle and tricky.

- Directly marshal protos instead of reflection with a hand-rolled library or with https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/easyproto.

The gold standard is how TiDB implemented tracing (https://www.pingcap.com/blog/how-we-trace-a-kv-database-with...). Since Go purposefully (and reasonably) doesn't currently provide a comparable abstraction for thread-local storage, we can't implement similar tricks like special-casing when a trace is modified on a single thread.
by bowmessage | 2025-06-16 17:58:03+00:00
OP, great work, bypassing internet restrictions is always fun.

Though, I hope your family isn't cruising much in the future-- sharing stuff like this, with so many specifics about which cruise line and exact retry methodologies used, is a surefire way to get it shut down. (Or worse, a nasty internet bill from the cruise line.)
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-16 17:58:28+00:00
For simple electronics circuits, reverse-biasing a transistor past its breakdown voltage will give you "noise" — an ADC will give you random values.

I don't know how statistically random it is — suspect it is quantum in nature though since we're dealing with transistors.

(EDIT: checked with ChatGPT, has a sense of humor: "Be careful not to exceed the maximum reverse voltage ratings, or you’ll get more “magic smoke” than white noise.")
by sottol | 2025-06-16 17:59:08+00:00
Why? $500M could pay 1000 scientists/academics (up to) a $50k pay-bump for 10 years each. Even if 50% would be lost to "administrative overhead", $25k over the usual EU market rate (which is lower than US) per year per scientist might entice many to move.

I don't know how this program would be structured, but imo this program is not doomed to fail due to underfinancing - of course this being an EU program it surely has other issues.
by rybosome | 2025-06-16 17:59:38+00:00
I have a very clear memory of offending someone with the use of the word “crap” years ago.

As a kid I worked in a restaurant that sold Cincinnati-style chili - noodles with sweet chili and cheese on top. We were encouraged to offer customers who ordered a plain bowl of chili this noodle concoction instead.

Late one night, I had a customer order a bowl of plain chili. I gave her the spiel I was supposed to, suggesting that she try the noodle dish. She said, “so you won’t sell me a bowl of chili?”. I replied, “sorry for the confusion ma’am, I am happy to sell you chili. We are asked to say this crap because management is worried customers don’t know what they want”. She replied, “I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to use the word ‘crap’ with me”. I apologized again, gave her her order, then was removed from my position 3 days later when she emailed management to complain. I had “refused to sell her chili”, and “used vulgar language”.
by teraflop | 2025-06-16 17:59:38+00:00
The Zstd spec allows a stream to consist of multiple frames, but that alone isn't enough for efficient seeking. You would still need to read every frame header to determine which compressed frame corresponds to a particular byte offset in the uncompressed stream.

"Seekable Zstd" is basically just a multi-frame Zstd stream, with the addition of a "seek table" at the end of the file which contains the compressed and uncompressed sizes of every other frame. The seek table itself is marked as a skippable frame, so that seekable Zstd is backward-compatible with normal Zstd decompressors (the seek table is just treated as metadata and ignored).

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/seekable_f...
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-16 17:59:42+00:00
I don't live in SoCal. I live in rural Canada where I get several power outages per year due to inclement weather downing lines.

It sounds like there wasn't really a problem with gas availability, in your case. You were able to get enough gas to comfortably power a generator with no preparation during one of the biggest emergencies the city has ever seen. During the LA fires, the power cuts were to small enough areas that you could have just driven to a different area of the city. That sounds inconvenient, but hardly worth the effort of building independent power generation sources for the 10k+ gas stations in your state.

A far better solution is to do what we do in my part of Canada: a competently run power company that doesn't arbitrarily shut off power due to failing infrastructure setting billions of dollars worth of city on fire. We don't have PSPS's despite living in a very fire prone place with extreme weather because our infrastructure is maintained much better.

Instead of forcing everyone to subsidize individual power plants for gas stations to do long tail risk mitigation, California should maybe invest in a grid that doesn't regularly cause billion dollar fires.
by pookha | 2025-06-16 18:00:00+00:00
The Russians tried using a carfentanil aerosol to sedate hostages and it killed over 120 people. It's 100x more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine. He put the lives of god knows how many people at risk and could have easily cross contaminated the weed we also know he was dealing (probably to kids). And peer-pressure is an immense force, even with adults (https://news.utdallas.edu/health-medicine/peer-pressure-adul...). If he had the humility and self-reflection to post that his actions were ruthless and killed people than I'd be feel better about his mindset, but his insistence on being classified as a (non-violent) drug offender is clearly an attempt on his part to manipulate.
by jasonjayr | 2025-06-16 18:00:07+00:00
I imagine one of the ships officers will be tipped off by the IT team about the unusual number of free-internet activation attached to your booking id, and either give your room a visit to knock it off, or just bill some multiple of the $170 anyway.

It sounds like it should only be used only a few times per booking, and this is going to hit at least 4/hour for multiple hours a day, so it will stick out like a sore thumb in the logs ....

But, a cool hack, nonetheless :)
by jasoncartwright | 2025-06-16 18:00:35+00:00
Pirate seaborne internet has been tried.

"A Navy officer is demoted after sneaking a satellite dish onto a warship to get the internet"

https://apnews.com/article/navy-illegal-wireless-internet-53...

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy...
by alephnerd | 2025-06-16 18:00:41+00:00
It's too little.

Even countries like India are offering $50K-100K lab seed grants for western educated academics from the diaspora in high impact fields to take tenure track roles at major institutes, while offering free housing (as in an actual house) and a $15-30k salary depending on experience.

These EU programs are pennywise and pound foolish, and fail to incorporate private sector players or partnerships, and the lack of English fluency and established communities from a number of overrepresented countries in STEM makes the EU not as enticing.

You may as well go to America and earn the top dollar, or go to Australia, Japan, or Korea where you will earn a Western European salary but US level grants and have added cultural competency.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-16 18:01:21+00:00
> They guy was selling a good to willing and aware buyers

In general, high-potency opioids are cut (diluted) with other powders and then sold as a different product to unsuspecting buyers.

Most fentanyl overdoses are from people who thought they were consuming a different, more familiar opioid. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids like this one are preferred by drug dealers because it's much easier to smuggle a tiny amount of powder and cut it 1000X than to smuggle the real product.

It's nearly impossible for amateurs to properly dilute a powder like this, so the end product has a lot of "hot spots" that lead to overdose.