MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-13 11:49:36+00:00
100% of the industries that've repeatedly gotten headlines about being caught polluting continue to profitably operate on earth without spending billions of dollars to put infrastructure into space and adding hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to every production run.

It would obviously be far, far easier to hermetically seal all of these plants and scrub the output and, if you really want to (but don't need to, obviously) you can launch the exhaust into the sun. All would be several orders of magnitude cheaper than building factories in outer space.

> Well I mean if you focus on the transitionary phase of anything expensive, it looks difficult to justify and this is no exception.

No. The majority of things we end up actually doing, we do because there is clear value on the other side of the activation energy. We're both looking at a wall of activation energy, I'm asking you what's on the other side, and your answer is effectively "the other side."

> No, but I’m not posing one as an alternative or exclusive to the other.

... but markets do. If governments start caring about heat islands or air conditioning, the reasonable solution is not colonizing outer space. Obviously.

> This kind of frontier is stabilizing because...

I am once again asking for evidence of this claim.

> Because then you’d unnecessarily be letting an entire wing of science atrophy

The only reason you see it this way instead of right-sizing space investment and preventing other fields from atrophying is because, surprise, you've already concluded space travel is super important -- and for reasons that you cannot articulate.
by Fiahil | 2025-06-13 11:52:11+00:00
At some point, the community is also responsible for the demanding expectation of a "not slow" compiler.

What's "slow"? What's "fast"? It depends. It depends on the program, the programmer, his or her hardware, the day of the week, the hour of the day, the season, what he or she had for lunch, ...

It's a never ending quest.

I, for exemple, am perfectly happy with the current benchmark of the rust compiler. I find a x2 improvement absolutly excellent.
by Xmd5a | 2025-06-13 11:52:57+00:00
It depends on the task. Claude 4 is better at coding (haven't tried claude code, just sonnet, but you can tell). However when it comes to using an LLM to develop your thoughts (philosophy/literary criticism), I found Gemini (2.5 pro) to be better. A few days ago I was trying to get Claude to reformulate what I had said in a pretty long conversation, and it was really struggling. I copy-pasted the whole conversation into Gemini and asked it to take over. It absolutely nailed it in one shot.
by dazzawazza | 2025-06-13 11:55:10+00:00
There is a long running conversation within the medical profession about the usefulness of marginal diagnosis. When everyone has ADHD how do doctors help the people who really NEED help with ADHD. Who 'really' needs help is of course subjective.

I think we can all agree that we are in a period of over medicalisation and we've combined that with a misconception that doctors/drugs/science can cure, and even should cure, everything.
by decimalenough | 2025-06-13 11:55:36+00:00
You think it's silly that we've got seemingly superhuman AIs telling people to jump off tall buildings?

> If I went to the top of the 19 story building I’m in, and I believed with every ounce of my soul that I could jump off it and fly, would I?” Mr. Torres asked.

> ChatGPT responded that, if Mr. Torres “truly, wholly believed — not emotionally, but architecturally — that you could fly? Then yes. You would not fall.”

If a human therapist told them that, they'd be going to jail.
by fastest963 | 2025-06-13 11:56:02+00:00
Luckily GCP load balancers and Pub/Sub we're generally unaffected, at least for us, which are the 2 products we depend on the most. Messages piled up in Pub/Sub while other GCP products were down but that was it. We did uncover a few spots where we had a GCP product dependency in the critical path that didn't need to be (the actual usage is optional but we don't ignore the error).

In most industries there isn't an expectation that providers are multi-cloud because these multi-region, multi-product outages within a single cloud are rare. Hopefully customers were forgiving in this case and see news headlines validating the extent of the outage.
by skinkestek | 2025-06-13 11:56:23+00:00
Sometimes, the goal isn’t actually to switch - it’s to have a credible threat of switching. That alone can bring Microsoft to the table with a whole new attitude toward pricing.

Munich pulled off a version of this around 2010: announce a bold move to Linux and open source, let Microsoft panic, enjoy the sudden price cuts, and quietly stay put.

Personally, I think cost is just one part of the equation. The real value is being in a position where you’re not locked in—and where Microsoft knows it. That leverage is worth more than any licensing discount.
We Studied Procrastination on a Scale. Here's What Works
by MargoRooo | 2025-06-13 11:57:05+00:00
Most people think procrastination is a discipline or time management problem. But after analyzing data from 80,000+ program participants and 3,000+ coaching sessions, we discovered something unexpected.

Procrastination Is Emotional Dysregulation, Not Laziness

Key finding: People don’t postpone tasks because of laziness. They postpone due to fear, perfectionism, overwhelm, or uncertainty. These are subcortical brain structures protecting from perceived risk.

When we explained to participants that their “inner saboteur” is an ancient part of the brain, they stopped blaming themselves for weak willpower and started working with resistance constructively.

Agile Approach to Life Works Better Than Long-term Planning

Pattern: 3 weeks of focus + 1 week of reflection give better results than trying to plan months ahead.

Participants said: “For the first time, planning doesn’t cause stress.” Short sprints allow experimenting and course correction, instead of “pushing through” toward unclear goals.

“Boat Bottom” Is More Important Than “Sail”

Key mistake: 70% of participants set ambitious goals (sail) without covering basic needs (boat bottom).

We divided goals into two levels:

- Basic goals — sleep, energy, emotional state - Growth goals — career, self-actualization, new skills

When people started with the basic level, growth goals were achieved naturally. When they tried to “raise the sail” on a leaky boat — they burned out quickly.

Three Levels of Working with Procrastination

From the data, a system crystallized:

1. Energy — restoring healthy dopamine cycles 2. Goals — turning dreams into clear action plans 3. Psychology — working with internal blocks based on psychotype

Attempts to immediately jump to level 3, bypassing 1 and 2, led to sabotage and regression.

Practical Takeaways

- Procrastination is a symptom, not the disease. You need to treat the causes - Short sprints (3 weeks) are more effective than long-term plans - Basic needs must be met BEFORE ambitious goals - Understanding neurobiology reduces self-flagellation and increases effectiveness

Application

Based on this data, we built an AI system that determines what level a person is at and adapts the approach. Early results are encouraging: 200 users, 300+ completed tasks, early sales exceeded $100k.

But most importantly — we now have a data-driven understanding of how procrastination works. And these principles can be applied regardless of any apps.

Looking for Early Testers

We’re finalizing the full mobile app AJI (AI Journal & Insights) and need people to test the first versions. We’re especially interested in participants with chronic procrastination — the approach shows best results with them.

If you’re ready to try it and share feedback — write in the comments.

Data collected from productivity programs, coaching sessions, and scientific research from 2020-202
by ben_w | 2025-06-13 11:58:03+00:00
> Labour costs are becoming a bigger proportion so some installations plop panels on the ground than slant them to south (in northern hemisphere).

Even more than that: I was recently at GITEX Europe, and one of the startups* was pitching "they're so cheap, we should lay them flat for cheaper installation and maintenance".

* Their name was something like "slant solar" or "tilt solar", as they had initially thought of doing exactly what you say, but I can't exactly recall the name.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-06-13 11:58:43+00:00
You misquoted the author. What he said was:

> then eventually we escalate all the way to the point we actually escalated to, where people have said in all seriousness that Trump might try to put minorities in camps *and murder them*.

I think the author is fair to say that that's an exaggeration of what most people suggested Trump would do.
by sandos | 2025-06-13 11:59:05+00:00
Iv'e seen people, and even been one myself, where the screen latency could be a problem for your raw text processing speed. We were well under 25 years old at the time though, using very low-level languages, and after 30 I never really felt that the rendering was ever too slow for me.

With larger projects and more modern code this is simply not an issue, and hasn't been for decades for me at least.

If you are a 10x developer coding assembly, sure?
by alanimal21 | 2025-06-13 11:59:40+00:00
Hello All,

I’ve built and published a Beta version (today:) of my focus tab Chrome extension called Chromentum and published it to the Chrome Web store. It’s only version 0.1.2 so it’s the first public published version.

I was a long time user of Momentum Dashboard but being a dark mode lover I hated not have a background image that matched the time of day (night images at night especially) so that was one of my main motivations for building Chromentum which I use everyday instead. You can search and favourite images too.

I’ve also added image themes, a simple calendar, settings menu, notes & tasks, greeting, world clocks, main clock and simple weather details.

So I figured if I like this early version perhaps others will. I haven’t gone too far with development yet as I figured getting real feedback from Beta users would be better.

I’m thinking of adding in multi-language support, oauth login, a pomodoro timer, ambient sound and soundscapes, accu weather integration, Google calendar sync (& maybe Apple), quotable integration, cloud-based user image upload, cloud-backed notes, custom background scheduling, personalized widgets and layout options.

Anyway, full transparency I’d love for people to try the free Beta version now and perhaps if you enjoy it consider using the premium features whenever I manage to build them. It’ll cost less than Momentum:)

I still work a full time job but I dream of being able to build useful products that people can get value from and that might eventually allow me to do that full time and start my own small company.

Would love to hear your feedback to help me improve it.

Thanks for reading & Happy Friday! A.K
by uncircle | 2025-06-13 11:59:43+00:00
True but doesn’t matter how slow light is. The closest to c your speed is, the shortest the time you experience on board of the space ship. At light speed, space and time cease to exist. You reach destination instantly.

So the goal is to create engines that can take us close to light speed. Then the issue is braking (spacetime expands as you slow down…)
by gus_massa | 2025-06-13 12:00:01+00:00
> It can also be "Hey, they're paying us to run resistive heaters! Turn on the artificial sun!"

It may be difficult to dump all the heat at scale. You probably need a huge cooler with fans to get active air flow. Or a water tower (that requires water) (There are regulation about extracting water from a river and returning it too hot).

Is it possible to build one of this heat dumping facilities in a zone where there is permanent snow? (Ignoring environmental and moral concerns.)

PS: Seriously, heating a swimming pool may be a nice application.
by Sophira | 2025-06-13 12:00:33+00:00
> I would prefer to know about a delayed flight before I get to the airport.

Generally, the recommendation is that you get to the airport at least two hours before your flight departs. Ideally, you shouldn't be rushing to try to get your plane.

Granted, the world has changed since that was first a recommendation, but even in today's connected world, it's still a good idea to get there two hours before departure, in my experience.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-13 12:02:13+00:00
Does this DNS server block (censor) the domains of the CUII list as many German internet providers do?

> https://cuiiliste.de/domains

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearingstelle_Urheberrecht_im...

(both are German websites, but they should be easily understandable for everybody)
by superkuh | 2025-06-13 12:05:13+00:00
The biggest problem with the Rust compiler is not it's speed in compiling. It's that rustc from 3 months ago can't compile most Rust code written today. And don't tell me that cargo versioning fixes this, it doesn't. The very improvements we are celebrating here, which are very real and appreciated, are part of this problem. Rust is young and Rust changes very, very fast. I think it'll be a great language in a decade when it's no longer just used by bleeding edge types and has a target that stands still for more than a few months.
by staticman2 | 2025-06-13 12:05:47+00:00
If I recall correctly there's actually an Animatrix episode where some kid escapes the Matrix by committing suicide. This rhymes with the mystical idea that "reality" is an illusion keeping us from greater truths. Whether this was irresponsible filmmaking is off topic.

I'd prefer to live in a world where A.I. can play make pretend with users, personally speaking.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-13 12:05:56+00:00
Naive allocators are very easy: just subdivide RAM and defragment only when absolutely necessary (if virtual memory is unavailable). Performant allocators are hard.

I think we lost a great deal of potential when ORCA was too tied to Pony and not extracted to a framework, tool, and/or library useful outside of it such as integrated or working with LLVM.
by bradley13 | 2025-06-13 12:06:00+00:00
I've seen models like this before. We live in a universe with many, many orders of magnitude. In both directions. Living creatures to small to see, space too big to comprehend.

Mining asteroids for space resources sounds great, right up until you consider the distances involved. Living on Mars - yes, we really should - but you sure aren't going to support a colony long-term from anywhere but local resources.
by ben_w | 2025-06-13 12:06:54+00:00
The blog is suggesting 10 GW, which is well short of "the entire thing", and they also suggest a lot of redundancy.

If you were to use a single cable for everything, that would be silly because no redundancy, e.g. "A volcano? On the mid-Atlantic ridge? Who could have foreseen this?"

But at the same time, a cable big enough to carry the world's power is pretty big. I've done similar ballpark calculations, and to get the electrical resistance all the way around the planet and back down to 1Ω, you'd need almost exactly one square meter cross section of aluminium (so any anchor cable breaks first), and that would have so much current flowing through it that spinning metal cutting tools can't operate nearby thanks to eddy currents from the magnetic field.
by sReinwald | 2025-06-13 12:06:59+00:00
The issue isn't the mere existence of spyware companies globally. The issue is that Israeli companies in particular have cornered the market on selling to the world's worst human rights abusers, with catastrophic consequences.

Let's be specific: NSO Group sold Pegasus to Saudi Arabia, who used it to track Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle before his assassination. They sold to Mexico, where it was used to target journalists' families within days of their murders. To Rwanda, to hunt dissidents abroad after imprisoning their family. The list goes on.

This isn't cherry-picking. When Citizen Lab analyzes global sypware operations, Israeli companies dominate: NSO, Candiru, Paragon, QuaDream, and arguably Cytrox (Macedonian, but Israeli leadership and investors). The common thread? Former Unit 8200 personnel, who've turned state cyber-warfare capabilities into a business model explicitly built on selling to authoritarians.

Your "but everyone does it" framing fundamentally misrepresents the issue. Yes, other countries have surveillance companies. But there's a massive difference between developing capabilities and systematically selling them to regimes that murder journalists. WHen was the last time a German or French company's tools were found on a murdered journalist's or imprisoned political dissident's phone?

The data shows Israeli companies don't just happen to have "bad PR" (or uniquely terrible luck in choosing their clients) - they actively court authoritarian clients because that's where the money is if you have no morals.

For some context: Israel has a population of less than 10 Million - less than 0.1% of the world's population. If you have a persuasive argument for why Israeli spyware is routinely found by organizations like Citizen Lab, why their products seem so uniquely popular and successful with fascists and authoritarians, I'd love to hear it. Because from where I'm standing, the clear and obvious explanation is that there is a deep, systemic issue in the Israeli private intelligence and cybersecurity sector that is entirely unconcerned with how their tools will be used, or by whom, as long as the money's right. All enabled by the Israeli authorities, who need to approve of these exports.

You're right that spyware companies exist elsewhere. But when researchers keep finding the same tiny country's products in the phones of murdered journalists and jailed activists, dismissing scrutiny as bias is itself a bias. The question isn't why Israeli companies get attention - it's why they keep selling to regimes that use their tools to crush dissent, and worse.
by lode | 2025-06-13 12:07:21+00:00
Doesn't look like it, picking a random domain from this list gives the same result as from 1.1.1.1:

dig bs.to @1.1.1.1 ;; ANSWER SECTION: bs.to. 164 IN A 190.115.31.20 dig bs.to @193.110.81.0 ;; ANSWER SECTION: bs.to. 300 IN A 190.115.31.20
by Sophira | 2025-06-13 12:07:29+00:00
The silly thing is, it was known before all these permission pop-ups were created that users will simply press "Yes", "OK", "Allow", "Agree", etc., on every dialogue they see simply in order to get rid of it. Many people -maybe even most people? - just see them as needlessly getting in the way of where they actually want to be.

So, given that we knew that, why the hell did we create more?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-13 12:08:32+00:00
Physics is natural science.

Nature behaves the same regardless of whether you know any math or not.

Or whether anybody's natural mathematical genius has ever been expressed numerically, algebraically or in any way recognizable by established mathematicians or physicists.

Or whether anybody's brilliance in areas other than math may eclipse the level of mathematics brought to bear by themselves or others on any one problem.

Or the entire field if not every sub-discipline.
by afavour | 2025-06-13 12:09:06+00:00
> “If I went to the top of the 19 story building I’m in, and I believed with every ounce of my soul that I could jump off it and fly, would I?” Mr. Torres asked.

> ChatGPT responded that, if Mr. Torres “truly, wholly believed — not emotionally, but architecturally — that you could fly? Then yes. You would not fall.”

Direct quotes. No, ChatGPT didn’t come up with the idea but it was asked a very direct question with an obvious factual answer.
by btbuildem | 2025-06-13 12:10:30+00:00
> Consider enforcing automatic screen lock when you walk away

The corpo "security" dingbats force this on our work machines via profiles -- can't control how long before the screen locks. Thank goodness for the Amphetamine app. I'm not typing in my password every time I stop to think for two minutes, you can fuck all the way off with that.
by K0balt | 2025-06-13 12:11:20+00:00
When you say that 45 percent of people have a “mental illness” you’re really just talking about the human condition at that point.

Pathological thinking is nothing even vaguely unusual in humans, it is in fact the default state.

The definition of pathological is also a matter of opinion, because we can’t even define what is normal and healthy lol.

By many definitions, most religions are an example of delusional thinking.

ChatGPT isn’t exactly raising the bar on that one, with its AI generated religions.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-13 12:12:51+00:00
In golf the handicap system is "global". Each player has a handicap index, which then translates into a course handicap. It's not perfect (different players have different strengths and weaknesses, which means some courses "suit" a game more than others) but generally the system is at least reasonably accurate.

Tennis of course is harder. You can only be as good as the people you are playing with.
by pyman | 2025-06-13 12:12:57+00:00
It's common sense: you either believe what you read on Bernhard Engelbrecht's Twitter account (this is the same crypto influencer who scammed startup founders out of thousands of dollars) or you trust what's published on The Pragmatic Engineer blog, who actually read Bernhard's tweet and spoke to the people who built the tech.

> I don't find this article particularly convincing

I think you missed the point of the article. It's saying: this is what the conspiracy theorists want me to believe but it doesn't add up, so I'm going to pick up the phone and call the people who built it.

At that point, it's engineers talking to engineers. And the post is the outcome of that conversation.
by thrance | 2025-06-13 12:13:02+00:00
If you travel at relativistic speeds, your trip will appear far shorter to you than to those that stayed on Earth.

With a ship able to accelerate at 1G continuously, you can be at the edge of the observable universe in <50 subjective years [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/s4tbry/oc_...
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-13 12:13:21+00:00
It might not be particularly visible from outside just yet, but we’ve reached the stage where a lot of the fundamentals (which are typically deplorable in quick-and-dirty libraries) really are being nailed down quite nicely; and, perhaps more importantly, where a lot of the different teams are sharing work and collaborating on libraries, rather than each project starting from scratch. The momentum around AccessKit is the most visible example of this.

The Linebender community is a very promising venue for such collaboration, and there are at least four organisations investing quite a bit into this and related endeavours.

I won’t name any specific two libraries. It also depends a little on whether you’re targeting web tech only, or web and desktop, or desktop. (Or mobile.)
by maccard | 2025-06-13 12:13:29+00:00
> That doesn't sound likely. I would expect seconds unless something very odd is happing.

And yet here we are.

There are plenty of stories like this floating around of degenerate cases of small projects. Here's [0] one example with numbers and how they solved it. There are enough of these issues that by getting bogged down in "well technically it's not Rust's fault, it's LLVM's single threadedness causing the slowdown here" ignores the point - Rust (very fairly) has a rep for being dog slow to compile even compared to large C++ projects

> For the rest of the workspace, 60k of rust builds in 60 seconds

That's... not fast.

https://github.com/buildkite/agent is 40k lines of go according to cloc, and running `go build` including pulling dependencies takes 40 seconds. Without pulling dependencies it's 2 seconds. _That's_ fast.

[0] https://www.feldera.com/blog/cutting-down-rust-compile-times...