MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-29 18:40:36+00:00
> repairs

My house is 7 years old and the various amount of things I need to fix is making me miss being a renter.

That being said, generally the reason why home ownership is a "good deal" in the US is because you can accumulate equity, even when the value of the home keeps up with inflation. (Technically it means that inflation works in your favor if you have a fixed-rate mortgage.)
by zdragnar | 2025-06-29 18:40:56+00:00
Sure, that's what the pressure tank is for. The well pump keeps the 20 gallon tank pressurized, and as the pressure drops the pump kicks on until it is stable again.

Maybe you could get a bigger one if you have a large family, but I've never heard of one that would be large enough to dump that much water except for mountainside cabins that are too far from the water table for a well in the first place.
by fluidcruft | 2025-06-29 18:41:09+00:00
If Microsoft encourages people to believe "the world is flat" and deploys deceptions and weasel words when directly questioned for confirmation there are two conclusions: (1) Microsoft knows the world is in fact not flat and (2) Microsoft wants everyone to believe the world is flat. And ultimately when people do believe the world is flat it is in fact a belief Microsoft has encouraged.
by alganet | 2025-06-29 18:43:00+00:00
I don't know. It seems too vague of a description.

On the guitar, I did some identifying and learning.

On drums though, I just sat there and in a matter of months I was able to play to a lot of songs. I was doing polyrhythms, for example, before I knew what polyrhythms were.

Possibly, this is nothing extraordinary and fits the overall learning curve for the general population (I'm assuming lots of people do polyrhythms without knowing them). Which means that before the first episode, I was below that general curve of learning music (slower than everyone else would learn), then something changed right after such episode.

Since I'm on HN, let's use a computer analogy: I would describe it as upgrading a PC to new hardware, things felt smoother. The world of music (and arts in general) felt higher resolution, faster, more responsive to my actions.
by tolerance | 2025-06-29 18:43:42+00:00
I'm calling it:

A major design trend of the future will be a "brutalist" iteration of previous trends like the De Stijl movement but with a digital/technological bend to it.

It's going to be called Cybermod, because Cyberpunk is dead. The future that the latter envisioned turned out to be a lot more...minimalist, for lack of better words. [Cyberpunk authors apparently didn't optimize their world-building to accommodate for likes of Issey Miyake and Rick Owens].

This fits right with how Modernist art movements had their roots in the Interwar period. Cybermod will inhabit a similar time period, what I reckon will historically know as the intermediate stage between the War on Terror and whatever war society is mobilizing to fight next.

In the meantime friends, Zang Tumb Tumb!!.
by dale_glass | 2025-06-29 18:45:00+00:00
One thing that worries me about home tape use is dust and cat hair.

I've had a DDS4 tape way back, which ended up dying, and that could well be the cause. My house is not going to be as clean as a server room.

I've seen tape drives taken apart and there seems to be a worrying lack of concern with any kind of air filtration on the ones I've seen at least. And I don't think it should be all that hard to deal with it. Maybe something like sucking air in through a replaceable filter and exhausting it out of the tape door.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-06-29 18:45:42+00:00
So IIRC for the last 50 years the DMSP satellites broadcast all their data in the clear. If the program is only shutting down the ground stations and data distribution, it seems like an opportunity for some researchers to buy some SDRs and start collecting their own data.

I'm actually surprised that the successors to DMSP don't meet the same needs. Or is the problem that they do and the government just doesn't share that data?
by westurner | 2025-06-29 18:46:19+00:00
We were fortunate tohave a nice soft track for our track and field in high school.

In middle school, on an asphalt track with painted lines, I took out a hurdle and a chunk of my hip learning to run hurdles.

Sometimes people fall where they're running.

The roughness of a soft track also scrapes but it's definitely nicer than road runs IMHO.

I really doubt that we're evolutionarily tuned for running on hard surfaces.

So, the control model for this study

For how many generations have humans had what kinds of shoes
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-06-29 18:46:27+00:00
> What's funny is that the one example you facetiously picked (a curve detector) is extremely culturally dependent.

Actually, it wasn't intended as facetious! I'd bet money that male attraction to females is indeed based on curve and jiggle detectors! If not this, then what - it has to be based on some (simple, perceptual) physical characteristics. I realize that female ideals vary a lot between cultures, and time periods, but the differences are more about things like fat percentage and distribution than the underlying characteristics that visibly differentiate men from women.
by sgarland | 2025-06-29 18:46:38+00:00
This. OP, tools often install their own update mechanisms (e.g. `uv self update`), so this may not be as useful as you think. As an alternative (albeit one that adds potential hosting costs), consider running a small DB - can be as simple as SQLite - with hashes of scripts. You also need to handle legitimate updates from the script's author[s], though. If you can extract versioning from the URL, e.g. GitHub releases, you could include that in the schema.

I made a gist demonstrating a SQLite schema and using it via direct user input: https://gist.github.com/stephanGarland/5ee5281dedc3abcbc57fa...
by somenameforme | 2025-06-29 18:46:41+00:00
I don't think the obsession with the short-term is necessarily the natural state of people, especially not in leadership. There were buildings built in times past knowing full well that it would take decades and even centuries to complete.

But I think long-term thinking requires a unified people in a democracy, or a non-democratic system. Democracy in a divided society makes long-term stuff basically impossible when the next guy who comes in will just undo it to spite you. And long-term visions often come with short-term costs without anything yet to show for it, which can then be weaponized against you. Oh and the best trick of all is doing something with short term benefit and mid-term costs, and then blame the consequences of your own actions on the next guy in office. Excessive printing of money is an obvious and extremely common example of this.
by dayjah | 2025-06-29 18:47:01+00:00
I have been using asdf for ~12 years, and made the switch to (what is now called) mise about ~4 years ago. This year I challenged myself to switch to nix. asdf and mise are essentially less virulent nix, after all. nix is a complete and utter phase shift for the better. However, the learning curve is steep due to atrocious documentation.

If you’re into these environment / tool managers I highly recommend giving nix a solid try for 4-6 months.
by timewizard | 2025-06-29 18:47:56+00:00
> That Apple can be trusted in ways that other “big tech” companies cannot.

This is pure nonsense. From someone with the experience to know better. It's amazing to me that people could say this out loud.

> The perception of privacy is just as important as the technical details that make something actually private.

The "perception of privacy" is _all you have_. You don't even have access to the technical details!

> I’m 99.9 percent certain this F1 ad was just blasted out to zillions of Wallet users indiscriminately

Stop making excuses for the trillion dollar gorilla in the room with you. You don't understand it. You've anthropomorphized it to a point of pathos. It's going to rip your arms off. It's just a matter of time.
by crawfordcomeaux | 2025-06-29 18:48:01+00:00
I'm going by how people in the global majority, victims of imposed poverty by empires through debt slavery, who also experience OTHER forms of genocide & recognize poverty for the genocide it is.

Check out the quality of life of the Aka, Baka, and Mbuti tribes. They're genetically and culturally linked to a mother tribe 150k years ago.

So a culture has kept these people going for 150k years. Capitalism has no such capability.

Collaboration, spontaneous improvisation, counterdominant play/decision making/protection, egalitarian, matrifocality, immediate return. Those are values that flourish in an infinite game theoretically and in real life. We just have been taught so many backwards ideas these ideas seem foreign & barely recognizable.
by edfletcher_t137 | 2025-06-29 18:48:01+00:00
> The perception of privacy is just as important as the technical details that make something actually private. I try very seldom to call for anyone to be fired, but I think whoever authorized this movie ad through Wallet push notifications ought to be canned.

Spot on. Look at it this way: would SJ have allowed this to happen? Absolutely not. And if it somehow had happened while he were still there, he would've unquestionably (and quickly) fired the responsible parties.
by stryan | 2025-06-29 18:48:11+00:00
I'm lazy by nature so I don't like learning new tools if I don't have to. I've stuck with make, direnv, and my distros package manager instead of learning just or asdf so that I don't need to learn anything new. But mise hits that sweet spot of being a better direnv and a (mostly) better Make that it became worth the effort to try it out and I'm glad I did. It also helps that jdx (the author) really cares about the ergonomics of use and it shows; the documentation is up to date, the commands make sense, and every time I start to get annoyed some paper cut with it I discover there's already a fix for it (like `mise task run task-name` and `mise task-name` being equivalent commands so you don't have to type as much).

If you try to stick to the classic POSIX tools since they're installed everywhere, I urge you to give mise a try anyway. It and fzf are the only programs I've found that are truly worth the extra effort it takes to install them, even if it is just grabbing a binary.
by have-a-break | 2025-06-29 18:48:59+00:00
Simply put the observer affect shows that somethings cannot be measured without causing change to the system hence may not be verifable.

Maybe the only way to make enough random looney until they outnumber the "sane" individuals. The only issues being how do you organize the new pyramid structure which will evidently be formed by this new "religious" organization?
by anigbrowl | 2025-06-29 18:49:06+00:00
The point is hollow, as is your restatement of it

why should I have to be the one having to work to pay the taxes required

You're not. You are not the only person paying tax. And far more of your tax bill is going toward subsidizing people and industries who are already rolling in money than helping relieve the burden on the poor.

I'm not saying you should pay more tax, you should probably be paying less. But we should reorganize the economy away from rewarding ownership of property as if it were productive economic economy activity in and of itself.
by em-bee | 2025-06-29 18:49:21+00:00
i always felt that it didn't matter what job i had on as long as i was part of a good team where we could support and motivate each other even if the tasks themselves were boring. in fact a good team is the only thing i find motivating at all. no work is interesting if i have to do it all by myself or of i have to fight teammates or office politics.
by dale_glass | 2025-06-29 18:50:26+00:00
What people don't care about is seeking novelty.

Think of it: a lot of people listen to music as a background of some kind. That means they don't want to keep going "Ugh, this one sucks, next, next, next..."

But, there's thousands of absolutely excellent songs that are time tested. You can play top 100 from the 80s and not be annoyed most of the time.

But ever time somebody plays Prince or Duran Duran is a time they're not playing the song you just released.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-06-29 18:50:42+00:00
So because Israel has a "long history of humanitarianism", we can dismiss evidence of Israeli war crimes as fictitious hit jobs? And once we've dismissed all evidence of Israeli war crimes, we can conclude that Israel has a "long history of humanitarianism"? Rinse, repeat — do I have that right?

The source is one of the biggest Israeli newspapers, by the way.
by marssaxman | 2025-06-29 18:51:07+00:00
Likewise - it's funny to me that $25,000 is cited as an "affordable" price for a car, when that's almost double what I spent on the most expensive car I've ever owned (a Land Rover Discovery II, which was a lovely machine). I cannot imagine what it would feel like to look at a $60,000 price tag and think, "yes, this would be a sensible use of money".
by orangecat | 2025-06-29 18:51:08+00:00
AI code generation has caused the number to fall

Not at all clear.

FOSS before that likely made it fall as well

Almost certainly false. Imagine a world where the concept of open source never happened, so if you want a website you have to pay thousands of dollars for web servers, compilers, databases, etc. Would the demand for software developers be higher or lower than in our world?
by timewizard | 2025-06-29 18:51:22+00:00
Apple should be sued for this. This is their responsibility. They built it, left it unsupervised, and allowed the obvious to happen.

This is not the fault of ONE low level worker and there is no reason to punish them and then walk away like you've accomplished /anything/ meaningful in the long term.

These are precisely the types of public cases that should be brought against them. It would lend a lot of aid to the anti trust efforts against them as well. They clearly privilege themselves and see the devices and app store as their asset, not something they maintain on behalf of customers and developers.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-29 18:51:23+00:00
> Most companies rely on private address spaces to logically separate them...

Which is a hack driven by address scarcity. You can, and should, separate address spaces just fine if they're publicly routable.

> ...and will ultimately end up using NAT66, ending up exactly where they started, but with significantly more complexity.

Then those companies are managing their network very poorly. Which is their choice, but not really an argument against IPv6.
by schiffern | 2025-06-29 18:52:44+00:00
>The loss of DMSP comes as Noaa’s weather and climate monitoring services have become critically understaffed this year as Donald Trump’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) initiative has instilled draconian cuts to federal environmental programs.

Translation:

"We can't actually say this was DOGE, so we're going to imply it using emotionally charged words, and 90% of folks with bad media literacy will come away thinking it was DOGE (just check the reddit comments)."

This in-vogue method of "lying without lying" is shockingly common nowadays, but apparently it's okay for media to lie because Bad Man Bad.
by callmeal | 2025-06-29 18:52:46+00:00
>When you speak a foreign language than English, you accent is bound to be messed up. Look at Indian Americans or Pakistani Americans or other people who speak dual langauge. There is always something off about their accent.

in the case of Indian Americans or Pakistani Americans, I've seen that it's not about the accent, but about the vocalization: there are some sounds that are exclusive to English that simply don't exist in Indian languages. As an example: the "f" or "v" sound - made by lightly touching your bottom lip to your upper teeth and then blowing air through (unvocalized for "f" and vocalized for "v").

Similarly for "th" - you stick your tongue out between your teeth and the sound of the air flowing through that restriction is what defines the "th" (vocalized or unvocalized). I guarantee that if you start making these sounds in these ways, you will be seen as closer to a native speaker of English.
by alwa | 2025-06-29 18:53:11+00:00
If we’re all smelly, then none of us are smelly!

Only half-joking: I really do think people habituate quickly to fragrances and scent norms.

I’m hygenic but I (and the people around me) really do avoid scented personal care products. I really notice when I’m in regions or settings where kids schlump around in clouds of Axe Body Spray or Summer Strawberry Juicy Whatever Mist.

Or when an older person has become so habituated to their own perfume that they’ll tell you with a straight face they’re barely wearing any. Ma’am, I literally followed your scent trail to find you.
by susam | 2025-06-29 18:53:18+00:00
> Domain names are tiny little rows in a database. They cost next-to-nothing to set up and maintain. There’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t be a public good, paid for from the public purse.

I don’t mind paying for the domain name so much but I do mind the fact that even after paying for the domain name, there is no guarantee of having full control over the domain name. I do mind that even after spending money year after year, we are only renting a domain name, with the possibility of the domain name being taken away from us anytime!

I used to be a big proponent of hosting your email address at your own domain name. But then I had a very unpleasant experience of losing my domain name several years ago, for no fault of mine, due to anti-malware operations completely unrelated to my website. After that incident, I am not so sure!

I have written more about that incident here:

https://susam.net/sinkholed.html

I wish the mainstream World Wide Web were built around the concept of owning a domain name where we could prove our ownership using a private key.
by red75prime | 2025-06-29 18:53:54+00:00
> The "non-standard number of steps" is as nonsense as it sounds.

That is we can add a nonsensical axiom and get a consistent nonsensical theory that has nothing to do with actually running Turing machines (no matter in which physical or abstract universe they run). Er, OK, fine I guess.

A universally inapplicable theory.

No. I can't wrap my head around it. Successors for the tape state are defined for the initial segment of a non-standard natural numbers. How the proof of termination would even look like? Something non-constructive that doesn't allow to choose the machine among a finite number of the machines?
by drabbiticus | 2025-06-29 18:55:04+00:00
For a slightly more digestible take, see https://news.uci.edu/2025/05/21/lotions-perfumes-curb-potent...

But really, I wouldn't worry about the result of this study _at all_ in daily life. It's quite surprising to me that this would be the top HN article at the time of this comment.
by rini17 | 2025-06-29 18:55:20+00:00
Fine, what steps were taken to accurately prosecute these 1915 deaths? Are there any people indicted and undergoing fair trial for that? Can you name them? ICC did, but then got practically canceled. So who is to do it and when?

Oh you can't answer that easily without trivializing these deaths yourself. Accusing others, that are suspicious of all of this, of "attitude" is easier.
by pineaux | 2025-06-29 18:55:30+00:00
Its not a strawman. The argument is: because you need the other people in the society. You need them for basically everything. You have built your life on shoulders of others. Everything you can do, you can do because you profit from other's labour. That is why. You would not have culture, language, computers, roads, garbage collection, nursing homes, music to listen to, etc. You have enjoyed all these things "at the expense" of the people who did that for you.
by zokier | 2025-06-29 18:55:58+00:00
The article is conveniently ignoring that getting your own IP block ranges from practically impossible (ipv4) to very involved (ipv6). And then you also need to figure out way to route traffic for that IP block; not all ISPs and hosting providers are willing to offer BGP sessions and whatnot. In any case it will be orders of magnitude more expensive than basic domain name and DNS hosting.
by absolute_unit22 | 2025-06-29 18:57:04+00:00
> High Performance: Processes millions of events per second, about 4x to 10x faster than channels.

Wow - that’s a pretty impressive accomplishment. I’ve been meaning to move some workers I have to a pub/sub on https://www.typequicker.com.

I might try using this in prod. I don’t really need the insane performance benefits as I don’t have my traffic lol - but I always like experimenting with new open source libraries - especially while the site isn’t very large yet
by em-bee | 2025-06-29 18:57:21+00:00
but these points were obvious from the start. ubuntu went through that before and did it right the first time. like they actually talked to valve about it. this proposal was not thought through and should not have been made in this form in the first place. i am not involved with these decisions (but i use fedora and would be affected) but i would get annoyed if people kept making proposals that they don't think through. therefore i think the response is justified, because how otherwise do you stop bad proposals?
by hinkley | 2025-06-29 18:57:29+00:00
It’s always worth discussing what features were thrown out to get the performance boost, whether it’s fair for those features to impose a tax on all users who don’t or rarely use those features, and whether there’s a way to rearrange the code so that the lesser used features are a low cost abstraction, one that you mostly only pay if you use those features and are cheap if not free if you don’t.

There’s a lot of spinoff libraries out there that have provoked a reaction from the core team that cuts down cost of their implementation by 25, 50%. And that’s a rising tide that lifts all boats.
by cb321 | 2025-06-29 18:59:36+00:00
The calling process being dynamically linked might impact fork() a lot to copy the various page table setups and then a tiny bit more in exec*() to tear them down. Not sure something like a shell has vfork() available as an option, but I saw major speed-ups for Python launching using vfork vs. fork. Of course, a typical Python instance has many more .so's linked in than osh probably has.

One could probably set up a simple linear regression to get a good estimate of added cost-per-loaded .so on various OS-CPU combos, but I am unaware of a write up of such. It'd be a good assignment for an OS class, though.