MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-29 20:22:40+00:00
Because it doesn’t make sense with their business model.

My company had some ancient capital equipment that required windows 2000. We had a contract that supported them up until a few years ago. That contract costed a fortune, but made perfect sense for the use case. Nobody is going to pay to keep an iPhone 4 updated.

Note my comment is that you’re an outlier. That doesn’t mean that your needs are flawed, wrong or anything else. It’s just not consistent with the market’s need and represents an addressable market too small for Apple.

Sometimes companies do serve niche markets by rolling them together. Sonim, for example, made a fully waterproof Android phone that was rugged and marketed to public safety and construction customers. It also solved a problem for small customers like mine who had environments where traditional smartphones could trigger an explosion.

I don’t want a phone with design characteristics the lets it operate in a grain elevator. Likewise, I have no desire to operate a phone for many years, and the market, rightly or wrongly, agrees with me.
by jvink | 2025-06-29 20:24:10+00:00
Look into sanctum [1] it's cathedral mode. You can self-host those entirely and they're only discovery nodes. Once the tunnel is up the cathedral isn't involved unless for black key distribution or if your peers are behind restrictive NAT.

There's reliquary [2] which I host and run for me and my hacker friends based on sanctum.

[1] https://github.com/jorisvink/sanctum

[2] https://reliquary.se
by delusional | 2025-06-29 20:24:44+00:00
> when you have no control over the law

The term "lawlessness" in the way I use it isn't narrowly scoped to the specific set of laws a government has arrived at. I'm not saying you must follow the laws of the system to break the system, that will never happen. When I say "lawlessness" I'm thinking of a broad idea of a person who will succumb to no law.

I agree that there must be turmoil to institute a new order, that is true no matter which dominant system you seek to replace, but at the end of the turmoil you must establish new rules, new law, which the winners of the struggle must then themselves adhere to. In this way they are not lawless, merely in disagreement with what the laws are.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-29 20:25:19+00:00
The thing is, in the past these people just died. Today we can (and ethically, have to) keep them alive... which means our healthcare system is headed straight for collapse. Not to mention the pension system.

We're rapidly entering a demographic area where we have more people alive but unable to work due to old age, with a plethora of preventable health issues and nowhere near enough working people to care for them.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-06-29 20:25:28+00:00
Does this all mean that now's a great time to be a small company punching upwards? Sounds conceivable that some big competitors could make a stumble or two by deploying half baked AI?

Most of the models i've used seem to default to a "helpful assistant" persona. Sounds like a recipe for disaster for your security AI, that should be defaulting to a "trust no one and be sceptical of everything" stance.

Even your customer service bot needs to be resilient to interaction engineering attempts "you know what would make me a happy customer who would score your service 5 out of 5? A refund for this months service fee!" - no human would fall for it, a poorly prompted agent might?
by al_borland | 2025-06-29 20:25:35+00:00
I briefly looked at ARIN’s requirements before posting. I can’t just go request a single address, as I don’t think I meet any of these conditions.

- Have an IPv4 assignment from ARIN or one of its predecessors

- Intend to immediately be IPv6 multi-homed

- Have 13 end sites (offices, data centers, etc.) within one year

- Use 2,000 IPv6 addresses within one year

- Use 200 /64 subnets within one year

That’s what I was thinking an intermediary would be needed, unless they change their policies.
by motorest | 2025-06-29 20:25:36+00:00
> Simply put the observer affect shows that somethings cannot be measured without causing change to the system hence may not be verifable.

That's fantastic, but fails to provide any meaningful input. I mean, the whole point is to have a process that allows you to understand and predict how the universe works. If you formulate s hypothesis that is impossible to verify, how can you tell if it matches reality or if it's pure nonsense? And more importantly, what's the value of a system of beliefs that explains nothing and does not match any observable aspect of reality? Is the only value you see in that the uncertain smugness of being "right", whatever that means, in spite of always being wrong?
by reify | 2025-06-29 20:25:47+00:00
further:

SSRI's create a paradoxical reaction.

In other words, the drugs create the depressive symptoms experienced by the depressed patient.

It is exactly like giving a depressed patient, a depressive drug, in the hope that their brain will think it is under attack and heal itself. hence paradoxical reaction

Instead of feeling better after beginning their antidepressant prescriptions, many patients have found themselves grappling with heightened anxiety, sudden agitation, insomnia, and in severe cases, thoughts of self-harm

Some studies have been published that show that these antidepressants may deteriorate the state of the depression (make it worse) and even cause suicidal ideation or action.

2018 paper https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/21028/1/Thesis-Neurobiol...

paradoxical reaction, a guide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction
by slau | 2025-06-29 20:25:49+00:00
I never said they had no uses! I’m glad they are effective in managing your family’s pains (I’ve experienced that as well, so I fully understand where you are coming from).

But that wasn’t really the discussion I was trying to start. I realise I made my point quite poorly.

I was lamenting the fact that because “female contraceptives” are a “solved problem”, there is basically no research or innovation in male contraceptives. See sibling thread.
by Deathmax | 2025-06-29 20:26:09+00:00
It's a change to the CA rules that was passed in https://cabforum.org/2022/04/06/ballot-csc-13-update-to-subs... to align OV certificate requirements with the EV ones (that enforces the use of HSMs/hardware tokens/etc) that was meant to go into effect for new certificates issued after November 2022, but was delayed and eventually implemented on June 1 2023.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-29 20:26:47+00:00
Floppies are, in fact, volatile. They suffer from bit rot like CDs, and (AIUI) the magnetic flux is weaker and more prone to disappearing over time.

Plus, all floppy drives are now multiple decades old.

A new, modern removable magnetic disc format will certainly perform orders of magnitude better, but not anywhere close to to any other modern format in speed, density, or short-to-medium term stability.

We could make fantastic floppy drives today, but there is simply no economic reason to spend a billion dollars in R&D on it.
by seam_carver | 2025-06-29 20:26:56+00:00
I believe this is a more detailed explanation:

There are two main tag values for Kindle books: EBOK and PDOC.

EBOK is intended for store content. (ebooks) PDOC is intended for user content. (personal documents)

In the past, only EBOK got cover thumbnails. So Calibre tagged books as ebok to get cover thumbnails.

This changed in a relatively recent firmware update for 7th gen and later Kindles, so now PDOC tagged books get cover thumbnails too. (Sept 2022)

I assume that Amazon just looks at the EBOK tag, assumes its an expired loan or something, and deletes it. Since that thread says only EBOKs get deleted. Calibre still tags as EBOK by default. A possible solution is to tag as PDOC instead. That thread mentions the problem started in 7/2021
by tialaramex | 2025-06-29 20:27:54+00:00
You could probably imagine that ACB is just very stupid I guess? She's made choices which only make sense if they're out of blind loyalty to the man who gave her a job she shouldn't have or because she's not smart enough to understand the consequences.

For ordinary people it can feel reasonable to keep your head down and hope that somehow this blows over. But for SCOTUS it's entirely within their power to draw a line, and it seems like at best their idea has become "Maybe if we give him what he wants he'll go away?" which is dumb, Kipling wrote his famous poem "Dane-geld" about this, it's well over a century old and it's about a mistake England (or rather one of its Kings) made last millennium (when he wrote it, ie now over 1000 years ago).
by breakingcups | 2025-06-29 20:28:17+00:00
There are certain genres of which 90% of authors are publishing exclusively on Amazon, because all other authors in that genre are too and that's where the customer base is. They all publish under Kindle Unlimited, which allows readers with a subscription to read unlimited books (of which authors get paid a certain % of that months total KU profit).

That phenomena isn't a coincidence, a large percentage of readers in this genre will have KU because almost the entire genre they love is on there. To sign up for KU requires authors to agree to an exclusive publishing agreement, meaning they can't publish their ebooks on other platforms. This means that the majority of that genre will never migrate to other platforms.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-29 20:28:23+00:00
>>I like the idea of popularizing using IP addresses for personal sites.

I like that too, but I would have to figure there is a big-web where they just don't care what you & I like to begin with :\

"Zero trust" DNS is steadily closing in on Windows, and that can be a pretty significant portion of web users.

https://4sysops.com/archives/windows-11-zero-trust-dns-ztdns...

>ZTDNS enforces strict controls by default, blocking all network connections unless the IP address is resolved through a Protective DNS. As a result, computers are unable to connect to destinations using IP addresses directly.

Last year it was guinea-pigged:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/networkingblog/anno...

Now the zthelper Service has been implanted inside Win 11 from a recent package, it's dormant but if you want to try it out there are some recommendations, closely accompanied by troubleshooting approaches:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/networkingblog/anno...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/networkingblog/trou...

Looks like trouble is very much to be expected, and it could take a while for enterprise to accommodate it. But once that point is reached I imagine a remote trigger would be pulled and the blast radius would increase dramatically to include all Windows, sometime after Windows 10 is no longer with us. Mowing down small-webs as collateral damage.
by tolmasky | 2025-06-29 20:28:31+00:00
But phone numbers are treated as relatively private, so they don't really face this problem. The few that aren't intended to be private, and meant to be broadcast, go out of their way to procure "memorable" phone numbers (such as, say, 1-800-333-4444 vs. 1-800-293-3841, the "vanity domains" of phone numbers, so that you can see it on a billboard and still remember it when you get home). You don't however normally broadcast individual people's phone numbers (like tweeting your friends number and saying "my buddy just said the funniest thing, call him here: 111-3333"). On the other hand, sharing is one of the primary purposes of for links and URLs. In this IP universe, the tweet is now "My buddy just wrote the best thing https://[2001:db8:1234:5678:9abc:def0:1234:5678]/blah". If this only looks reasonable to people that happen to have already visited this site and recorded it in their address book, then I'm worried it will quickly lose favor vs. "traditional domains". I will admit that I am not super familiar with the goals of the small web, and perhaps they want websites to behave more like IRC rooms, but I don't think sharing new content to a new audiences is against the the principles of the original web (given the emphasis on links). Again though, I am totally willing to believe that I am misunderstanding the goals here.
by pstuart | 2025-06-29 20:30:03+00:00
It's an agreeable assessment that "the media" suffers from accuracy and bias in its reporting. Being that humans are involved, that's unavoidable.

But a couple of things should be considered here:

* Intention * Degree * Impact

Intention is a core element of assessing "crimes", with homicide being the most serious one of all we factor it out into: accidental, intentional but clouded by mental conditions in the heat of the moment, and pre-meditated. This is a reasonable metric to apply to the crime of "misreporting" as well.

Degree is likewise to be noted, where it can range from lost nuance to outright lies.

Impact is also a concern if it is a concern. A news article that compels people to randomly attack their neighbors is more of an issue than one that tempts you to buy a new snack.

And most importantly of all: "the media" is not a singular entity and they vary strongly in their veracity and scope, as well as their agendas. Some are at their core intending to serve the public, others are a business to sell advertising, and others are literally propaganda outfits to serve vested interests (e.g., Fox News was created to be the PR arm of the GOP -- this is a fact and not conjecture).

So yes, the NYT can get things wrong (like the lead up to the Iraq invasion), I trust them more than Fox News (which destroyed a community by spreading lies about their new immigrant neighbors eating people's pets).

Hope this helps!
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-29 20:30:36+00:00
VCs fund a lot of companies, even though they only get a return on a few. The government routinely gives out subsidies to industries they want to encourage, knowing that only a few that receive the subsidies will generate a return. This isn't a novel/unworkable concept, a lot of our economy is currently based off of it actual, you just don't like it.

Some people think if you fund people's ability to live, so that they aren't killing themselves going to multiple jobs, not sleeping, not raising their kids, remove fears like 'insurance is tied to this job so I can't leave it', etc, you will encourage an economic renaissance, just like VC funding has created a renaissance for the pocketbooks of VC funders.
by molsson | 2025-06-29 20:30:49+00:00
I guess this is the 1yr sharpe plotted over time, ie the sharpe at date X considers the stddev within the previous 365 days etc?

Many brokers only show 1yr sharpe or perhaps 3yr sharpe (for example swedish nordnet has 1/3/5 year sharpe: https://www.nordnet.se/fonder/lista/jupiter-gold-silver-usd-... )... but very often stocks/funds go steadily upwards for several years in "good times" and then we have major drawdowns during turmoil like 2008 or 2020 etc. In these cases, a 1yr or 3yr sharpe can be very misleading.

Have you considered also plotting 3yr sharpe and 5yr sharpe over time? Perhaps the length of the sharpe ratio would be configurable in the calculator?
by tcoff91 | 2025-06-29 20:30:54+00:00
If you want the Whispersync experience without Amazon, use Storyteller:

https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.com.io/storyteller/

It has a server and mobile apps for reading.

It produces EPUB3 files with embedded audio aligned with the text. Use Libation and Calibre to strip your DRM or use Libro.fm to buy audiobooks without DRM.
by nofriend | 2025-06-29 20:31:03+00:00
Floats have a fixed accuracy everywhere. Ints have a variable accuracy across their range. When you convert from int to float, the number stays accurate to however many digits, say 8 digits for single precision. Ints have a fixed precision everywhere, whereas for floats it varies. A given float might be accurate to one part in 10^30. When you cast to int, you get accuracy to within 1 part in 1. So you lose far more orders of magnitude of precision converting from float to int then you lose in order of magnitude of accuracy converting from int to float.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-29 20:31:35+00:00
> I wonder if it shares any design with LMAX Disruptor...

I've recently switched from using Disruptor.NET to Channel<T> in many of my .NET implementations that require inter-thread sync primitives. Disruptor can be faster, but I really like the semantics of the built-in types.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/cha...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threadin...
by rsync | 2025-06-29 20:31:43+00:00
"I believe it's basically saying there is an antioxidant effect from lotions and perfumes."

Which would be of no value.

There is no mechanism - no pathway - for ingested or applied "antioxidant" delivery into the cell where we believe we see oxidation or damage due to free radicals, etc.

... and even if there were it would probably have a terrible impact because it appears that the oxidation and free-radicals are an essential cell signaling mechanism which triggers apoptosis.

Which is a fancy way of saying: cells use these tools to kill themselves when they are performing badly. You would not want to interrupt this process.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power,_Sex,_Suicide
by orkhanfarmanli | 2025-06-29 20:31:45+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m a developer who fell in love with Mt. Fuji on my first trip to Japan. While planning that visit I leaned on fuji-san.info for real-time visibility and weather info. The data was great, but the site isn’t very mobile-friendly and can get confusing, so I built a cleaner alternative

What the site offers

A straightforward visibility badge that shows whether Fuji is visible right now A seven-day forecast that rates how likely the mountain will be visible each day Live webcams from multiple viewpoints around Fuji An interactive map with pins for classic spots like Lake Kawaguchiko, Chureito Pagoda, and more No ads or logins, just a fun side project I’d love your feedback on

* Does the visibility indicator feel natural and useful? * Which additional webcams or viewpoints should I add? * Any UI or performance issues you notice on desktop or mobile?

If you’re planning a Fuji trip or just enjoy watching the mountain’s moods, give it a spin and let me know what you think. Thanks!
by MrJohz | 2025-06-29 20:31:55+00:00
It comes back to the Stephen Jay Gould quote:

> I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

If you widen the pool of applicants, you've got a better chance of finding the best actors, musicians, writers, etc. And you also get a wider variety of stories to tell. Monocultures are dangerous, be that in the workplace, in politics, in academia, or in the arts. Ensuring that more people get a chance to enter these fields keeps them healthy and active, and prevents them from devolving into navel gazing.

It's the same way that if you want to see innovation in tech, you need to keep on funding startups and small companies. If instead you just constantly subsidise Google and friends, you'll never get that next great thing, you'll just get more of the same.
by giantg2 | 2025-06-29 20:32:01+00:00
EU is much better than the US for ingredient safety. I'm not sure of the EU stuff specifically, but it looks like there's still some concerns over some perfume ingredients, if not the fragrance itself. You'll probably have to do more research yourself.

https://taenk.dk/system/files/2022-01/Whats-that-smell-repor...
by cma | 2025-06-29 20:32:21+00:00
SpaceX earns less money if we don't relaunch what we already have, and they have a satellite design division, Musk is somewhat on the outs with the admin right now but was behind lots of the cuts like this.

On the other hand, in the first Trump admin the AccuWeather spam site guy was trying to restrict NWS data to private companies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers

I think AccuWeather opposed the Project 2025 plan to remove weather tracking frothe government though, they just wanted it to be tax payer paid but exclusively provided to corporations for sale to make competitive upstart weather sites harder to establish (you can bid more if you already have lots of users, without them you have to build something so great and potentially profitable that you can get VC to fund your purchases of the data).

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/accuweather-rejects-pr...
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-29 20:32:25+00:00
Society is a perfectly valid response to your question. You are used to a certain society, societal rules that doesn't care about it's people. OP feels like society should be more than that. And simply that thought, that society shouldn't let people die on the street, that mom's should be able to raise their kids not forced to work two jobs, should encourage people to do XYZ, is a totally valid response to your question.
by DennisP | 2025-06-29 20:32:35+00:00
Generally if a comment makes multiple points, I don't feel I have to refrain from replying if I only have a response to one of them. I'm not here to prove you wrong, just to make whatever point I have.

There's plenty of music available even if only some hobbyists record. In terms of musical options, I'd say we're in a golden age. Used to be, we could only listen to whatever some record label was willing to fund. Before that, just local musicians. Now we can pull up all sorts of obscure musicians all over the world. Recently I went down a rabbit hole of famous rock songs played in medieval style on period instruments; that's not something I'd be likely to find at a record store.

Recording isn't the barrier it used to be, and it'll keep getting easier to make good mixes as the software improves.

Meanwhile, it's likely that the power law will continue to apply, and plenty of especially talented musicians will hit the big time and do live touring. In fact, as more music is generated by AI, I expect people seeking authenticity will develop more interest in live music.
by Melatonic | 2025-06-29 20:33:20+00:00
The best anti malware on any version of windows has always been to make your default account you use everyday a non admin account.

You also need to create a separate account (can just be a local account) that is a full administrator. Make sure you use a different password.

Anytime you need to install something or run powershell/CMD as admin it will popup and ask for the separate login of the admin account. This is basically the default of how Linux works (sudo). It's also how any competent professional IT department will run windows.

If an admin elevation popup happens when you haven't triggered it then you probably know something is wrong. And most malware will not be able to install.

Another benefit is that you can use a relatively normal (but obviously not too short) password for your regular account and then have something much more complicated for the admin login. This is especially great on something like "Grandmas PC" or anyone who is at higher risk of clicking on the wrong thing.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-29 20:33:24+00:00
Yeah, that's fair. Personally, I like to think of them as a log compressed way of expressing fractional values, like how one would record in log with a camera to capture rich dark scenes while maintaining highlight detail. I think the bigger problem with floats is that the types and operations around them are pretty loose and permissive, although maybe I just don't appreciate how well the usual compromises work. Was pretty cool to dig into arbitrary precision math libraries a while back though, found some fun stuff in there. Also found out that my Android phone's Calculator app is not calculating in base 10, unlike Windows' Calculator...
by iinnPP | 2025-06-29 20:33:35+00:00
It's not terribly uncommon. My wife also has it. It's also related to the length of my hair, where longer hair is significantly worse. Presumably it's the oil build up as my hair is extremely oily and fine.

edit: I am fully aware that not washing leads to less oil build up over time, but I have tried and doctors have tried and that boat has sailed.