MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomhow | 2025-07-27 05:05:14+00:00
You can't comment like this on HN and we have to ban accounts that do it repeatedly. This style of commenting is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. HN is only a place where people want to participate because other people make an effort to keep the standards up. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by ggm | 2025-07-27 05:07:06+00:00
A rare instance of NOT betteridges law: it is.

We need Logan's run to fix this. By the time the great boomer wealth transfer happens, it will be too late. I don't see an Australian political party willing to sacrifice the rich superannuation generation for future good, unfortunately.

I confidently predict Keith Richards will still be alive in 2070 when housing prices stabilise at the proper low point.

(I am a boomer, and I just cleared my mortgage last week)
by dreamcompiler | 2025-07-27 05:07:24+00:00
I'm sure your doc already told you this but chest pain while playing tennis that goes away quickly sounds more like angina than a heart attack. IOW your episode was not a heart attack but rather a strong indicator that a future heart attack was likely and that further tests were warranted.

A real heart attack (MI) -- the kind that can kill you quickly -- is usually not exercise related and the pain continues for many tens of minutes without going away.

PSA: If you experience either type of symptom above, call 911. Don't wait around and don't drive yourself to the hospital. Take an aspirin if you have one handy and you're not allergic to it. Real aspirin, not ibuprofen or tylenol.
by onecommentman | 2025-07-27 05:07:33+00:00
Playing around with stable diffusion, I’m wondering if the act of prompting/“creating” pornography is somehow more engaging/addicting than simply consuming pornography. Watching gambling channels isn’t the problem. Actively making gambling choices leads to the problems. I suppose we will find out.

Also, the sort of inconsistent porn/IP controls these image creation AIs implement add a peep show element (will it or won’t it generate this image, or something close…let’s find out) which is oddly more engaging. It adds a puzzle element to the mix…”boudoir oil” prompts combined with historical eras lead to a range of sensual images most wouldn’t know even existed as part of the history of Western Art. Their training sets pretty obviously include sensual images of many eras, and clever folks with a knowledge of cultural history can ferret that content out with the right stream of legitimate prompts. So that gaming/discovery element unintentionally makes generating these “almost-porn” AI images under simple screening more engaging/addicting than a simple Internet search. Boy, I would have been a popular 14 year old boy in AI class in junior high…
by dotancohen | 2025-07-27 05:08:55+00:00
> And if you think it's weird to read conversations nearly as old as you, I'm a millennial and I've read Usenet conversations older than I.

I first read the Apollo transcripts when I was maybe 8 or 10 years old - this was deep into the 1980s but the Apollo missions were still before my time. Reading such material at 8 or 10 didn't feel unusual.

Now, rereading as I near 50, they are surreal. The conversations, and the moon itself, have not changed one bit. But myself and the world around me are unrecognisable to the 10 year old me still reading over my shoulder.
by tomhow | 2025-07-27 05:09:57+00:00
> heavily subsidized by the tax slave called the European worker,

> people like you are still not satisfied

> wanted to control people’s freedom of movement and/or can’t stand that people would have freedom of movement you don’t have

You can't comment like this on HN and we have to ban accounts that do it repeatedly. This style of commenting is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. HN is only a place where people want to participate because other people make an effort to keep the standards up. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by SL61 | 2025-07-27 05:10:39+00:00
Yes, the biggest fault of those books was that the titles were a cheap gimmick. The implication that you could blow through the book in a day and know the language is kind of a lose-lose, because it undersells the difficulty of the lessons to newcomers and sounds patently ridiculous to professionals. Realistically, someone who has no prior programming experience would take more than an hour per lesson, and would probably take a month or two to get through the book, like any other first-time programming tutorial.

My first exposure to programming was Sam's Teach Yourself C++ In 24 Hours from a used bookstore in my early teens. I didn't stick with it for more than a couple chapters but compiling a program that printed "Hello world" was a magical experience.
by rsanek | 2025-07-27 05:12:28+00:00
can attest that this test is worth it. despite having no symptoms i decided to take at 32 yo it since I have a family history of cardio problems. altho no calcified plaque was found, it uncovered other serious issues I wouldn't have know about otherwise for probably a decade or two. if you call around different radiology labs you can get it for as low as $200 -- be warned tho many places (esp hospitals in my exp) will quote far higher numbers.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-27 05:12:43+00:00
Nope.

The energy required to split water is around 1.25 eV, while the energy of red photons is already around 1.5 V and the energy of green photons is well above 2 eV.

However, it is true that plants need 2 red photons (or of higher energy), not 1, to generate both free oxygen and a reduced organic substance, NADPH, which is used later to reduce carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. The reason is that the captured solar energy is used not only for these redox reactions, but also for pumping ions across the chloroplast membrane. The energy stored in the ion gradient will be used later to power the chemical syntheses, which need both a reducing agent and additional energy.

The ping-pong is done with electrons, not with photons. There are 2 photosystems, which absorb separately photons, using their energy to transport electrons against the potential gradient. The electrons pass through both photosystems in series, achieving a potential difference between the endpoints that is greater than what is required for splitting water.

The potential difference over each photosystem is significantly smaller than corresponding to the energy of the absorbed photon, because only a fraction of the energy is used for electron transport against a potential gradient, while the rest is used for ion transport against a ion concentration gradient.

Photosystem II contains manganese ions that are oxidized so strongly that they can oxidize the oxygen from water, converting it into free dioxygen. Photosystem I is able to make a strong reducing agent, to which the hydrogen remaining from water is bound.
by slashdev | 2025-07-27 05:14:46+00:00
I actually agree with this, which is why I don’t think Israel will let starvation happen in Gaza. They’ll do what they have to do, because the can’t afford to have their few remaining allies turn on them.

Time will tell. But they’re not that stupid. I don’t think they’re that evil too, but I don’t have to be right about that.
by 9rx | 2025-07-27 05:16:07+00:00
1. Papers are written to invite replication — the most important part of the scientific process. It is already difficult to compel replication even when you only put the most promising research in people's faces. Now you want them to have to also sift through thousands of entrants that have almost no reason for replication attempts?

2. It's easy to call it shameful when it isn't you who has to do the work. If you are like most other normally functioning people, you no doubt perform little experiments every day that end up going nowhere. How many have you written papers for? I can confidently say zero. I've got better things to do.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-27 05:16:17+00:00
I don't doubt porn addiction is somewhat harmful to some people (I doubt it is nearly up there with alcohol, which afaik is easily in a class of its own).

I've also had a kid in a London school for the last 9 years, so I'm in the parent whatsapp groups etc, and talk to parents about what should be done.

For a politician, getting parents to agree to "Should we protect kids from harmful material on the internet?" is an easy statement to make, and an easy one for parents to answer. The next steps are the hard ones, which is why enforcement of this legislation was delayed over and over again. This was first legally mandated in 2017! Then delayed, abandoned, delayed, reintroduced, etc. Why? Because getting the implementation right is very hard, and I do not think that this current system will be effective at stopping much harm to consumers of pornography, but I do think it will lead to terrible privacy breaches.
by CalChris | 2025-07-27 05:17:27+00:00
I initially had an LDL of 152 and was prescribed Atorvastatin which gave me dizziness. So I switched to Pravachol with no side effects. But I needed to increase my dosage to get under 100 LDL and Pravachol is limited to 80mg. So I switched again to 10mg of Rosuvastatin which took me from 114 down to 83 also without side effects.
by nkurz | 2025-07-27 05:17:38+00:00
I don't know anything about the industry, but I thought it would be a good test for the state of AI. I put Animats' comment and your question into DeepSeek R1 and it said (I think correctly) that the company was Gemesis and the retiree was Carter Clarke Jr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemesis.
by belZaah | 2025-07-27 05:19:16+00:00
Amazon with all its power and incentive still can’t figure out there’s a limited number of toilet seats I might need. Linkedin is still offering me (50ish male, 30+ years in it, 15+ years of teaching in universities, board member etc) jobs as a kindergarten teacher. If anything, I’m amazed they are still so bad at this.
by systoll | 2025-07-27 05:19:41+00:00
Based on all this is does seem like there's a 'missing' option to only swap the fonts when they’re off-screen, which avoids:

1. blocking first-paint 2. 'flashes' of anything 3. Not showing the font at all.

A quick mockup: https://codepen.io/pjwdev/pen/ByoLJoR

(This is an intentionally bad fallback. If it were Georgia the effect would be a whole lot more subtle.)
by begueradj | 2025-07-27 05:20:45+00:00
No, the book is not about rehearsing you for interviews. In contrary, the book emphasizes on the mastery of your tech which books rehearsing you for interviews neither claim nor can do.

The whole idea of the book is to get deep insight into your tech following the 10 000 hours rule which one might achieve within 10 years of practice.

It was published against the mainstream idea of that time advertised under the name "Teach Yourself Something In 24 Hours". This book is a call for hard work, mastery and is against rushing when learning.
by antognini | 2025-07-27 05:22:30+00:00
In addition to his more substantial pieces that others have mentioned, the real turning point in his music was a very small piece called Für Alina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXy69eF__Y

Prior to this he had composed in the dissonant, serialist style that was expected of "serious" art music in the middle of the 20th century. This was the first piece where he broke with the contemporary style and introduced his unique "tintinnabuli" style.

If you have even a basic familiarity with music theory it's worth taking a look at the structure of the piece because it's surprisingly simple for the effect. As the right hand plays the melody, the left hand simply plays notes from a b minor chord, with the particular note being whatever is just beyond one octave below the note that the right hand is playing. However there is one exception towards the end where the left hand plays a C# instead of a D as it would be expected to, and this marks the climax of the piece.
by jemmyw | 2025-07-27 05:22:43+00:00
It's not much better. It's slightly better at specific things and worse at most things. I've had plenty of gas hobs. I think I'd prefer normal electric over them just for being easier to clean and not having to deal or worry about gas. You learn to deal with the shortcomings of electric. Induction is great though. When we remodeled our kitchen we went from electric, gas for 3 months, induction. Life has improved.

The only thing I don't like about induction are those cooktops where they put the controls as touch buttons on the surface. I'm glad we rented a place in the past with that to learn how stupid it is so as to get one with proper knobs that don't you can't accidentally get hot.
by farazbabar | 2025-07-27 05:23:29+00:00
I interviewed at yahoo during the tenure of Marissa Meyer and decided not to join after noticing a strange lack of diversity in my interviewers (I saw a similar lack of diversity at Apple Pay much more recently), anytime top level organizations become infested by monocultures, it becomes impossible for progress, new ideas and innovation to take foot. It doesn’t matter which clique or group has infected the organization by giving priority to conformity over diversity, it all ends the same way. This is not a call for institutional DEI, this is about being on the lookout for monocultures in innovative organizations.
by kocial | 2025-07-27 05:25:03+00:00
Yes, there are a few communities currently available, and you can find them here: https://kocial.net/communities. Some of them are not available for search and lists because of their visibility status of "private"

- Yes, it is multi-tenant; people can create their own community and use their own domain, like kocial.co. I have some plans, but I'm seeking feedback here first.
by iloveitaly | 2025-07-27 05:25:08+00:00
I agree. It still needs a lot of work and is a far cry from ActiveRecord.

I've been working on a wrapper around it to make it more usable, hoping to get as much of the work merged upstream into SQLModel:

https://github.com/iloveitaly/activemodel

Unfortunately, I just don't see a better option than SQLModel for ORM at this point.
by Szpadel | 2025-07-27 05:26:24+00:00
something that people forget with raid1 is that this only protect from catastrophic disk failure.

this means your your drive need to be dead for raid to do it's protection and this is usually the case.

the problem is when starts corrupting data it reads of writes. in that case raid have no way to know that and can even corrupt data on the healthy drive. (data is read corrupted and then written to both drives)

the issue is that there are 2 copies of the data and raid have no way of telling with one is correct so it's basically flips a coin and select one of them, even if filesystem knows that content makes no sense.

that's basically biggest advantage of filesystems like zfs or btrfs that manage raid themselves, they have checksums and that know with copy is valid and are able to recover and say that one drive appears healthy but it's corrupting data so you probably want to replace it
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-27 05:28:06+00:00
How popular is Niall "Safe-as-Houses" Ferguson's thoughts on "property rights" these days

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2wGL4ypn7C8N54r9fl...

(He had a very public spat over austerity with Krugman last decade which seems prudent to revisit now)
by beefnugs | 2025-07-27 05:28:56+00:00
This is the main problem with all the AI stuff, you really need: whitelist only network isolation, idempotent clean virtual machine creation and cleanup, automated git branches and merging strategies, full chain multi host logging to an external log collector (when something unexpected happens to should be able to review an entire event log of where it went wrong so you can improve), social-graph like tracking of what works and what doesn't, constant background model testing (to detect when censorship is going to bite you) or when a new better model for quality for cost effectiveness can be swapped in, anything background like agents needs an orchestrator so you can set up daily or weekly budgets to try and keep a handle on costs, some defined methodology to reduce long running agent based production down to actual reliable code on an ongoing basis

The tooling required for any of this to approach actual engineering reliability levels is unbelievable really
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-27 05:29:08+00:00
This is changing in Australia somewhat, as the country has enacted age verification laws for under-16s iirc for logged-in users:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear... | https://archive.is/4vbKX

Similar age verification standards are being proposed in the EU:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat... | https://archive.is/LjfI2

UK folks apparently are using VPNs to circumvent age checks:

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/people-in-the-uk-now-... | https://archive.is/WVNwM

Social media sites and app stores are bristling at being legally induced to create age check mechanisms by local governments:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/meta-clas... | https://archive.is/7vqL6
by musicale | 2025-07-27 05:29:40+00:00
There is software maintenance when you are building on quicksand, as you frequently are if you are writing web apps, mobile apps, etc.

The continuous technical churn of the underlying platform (which you typically have to accept because it cannot be separated from essential platform security updates and bug fixes) causes a continuous maintenance burden in order for your own software to simply maintain existing functionality and stop things from breaking.

I also consider typical bug fixes to be maintenance since it isn't changing the feature set but is making it work as intended (and usually as expected by users.)
by riedel | 2025-07-27 05:29:54+00:00
Does someone know what the technology behind the tiering on QNAP NAS Systems is? I use an SSD RAID 1 in front of an RAID 10, which seems to work great.

IMHO flexible tiering rather than caching would be very nice for many Systems as it is rather difficult to teach users to separate rather stale data from changing data. Often does not have to be perfect.
by myrandomcomment | 2025-07-27 05:30:09+00:00
I would like to understand a bit here about what you are saying as having been involved in a few startups and I do not quite understand what you are getting at. My understanding based on experience (successful exits, small exits and crash and burns) follow.

First a 409A is generally engineered to keep the lowest value possible in order to allow the employees to exercise their options at the lowest value via an 83b election so at an exit they can be taxed at the long term capital gains rate. When someone joins a startup and is issued options the value of the stock is set via the 409A (which has to be renewed every year). The lower the number the more likely an employee can afford to write the check. 100K shares at $0.01 vs at $0.25 is a major factor for anyone to consider. Any startup worth their damn will make sure the facts in any 409A fit a low number for that reason. The reality of an exit where you are acquired will be based on other numbers that optimize for forward earns and value of your team and tech.

The questions you need to ask are:

What is the total authorized shares? What is the required process to raise that number? How are we funded? Does funding include preferred shares? What is the preference on those shares? On an exit what is the payment order?

I agree about the salary bands and at my current company we provide them, as well as answering all the questions above upfront to any candidate with an offer.

The reality of windsurf is that the founders are scum and this is going to end up in court for years. Google should be ashamed.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-27 05:30:27+00:00
> then I think someone will do so.

Yes, but, would they be any where near the level of what FB achieved? Take Truth Social as an example. It started because people wanted a place they get out of the larger group to dedicate to like minded. In this Philip K Dick style rewriting of history where FB was created by those behind Truth, would it have ever achieved critical mass?

Just because someone else attempts to fill in the vacuum of something else not being there does not mean that it will succeed in filling the void. Truth only survives on the cult of personality, not because people really want to be using it or because it's like a good product
by b33j0r | 2025-07-27 05:32:22+00:00
I have a question. Why do you prefix your package files with an underscore?

In fact, you write all of your python like you really have something to hide ;) Like `_Todo`.

Where did you get this pattern?

(I’m way more curious than accusatory. Are people embracing private modules these days as a convention, and I just missed it?)
by yawaramin | 2025-07-27 05:33:56+00:00
There's plenty of evidence. Here's the OCaml compiler catching a redundant rule in the Unicode line-breaking algorithm: https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2020-m03/0000....

People who like rejecting this kind of stuff as 'feels' are ironically also being guided by their 'feels'.
by simoncion | 2025-07-27 05:34:51+00:00
> "Why do you people always presume they know what is best for other people?"

Well. Let's examine the context of the conversation. You replied to the statement "Don't like porn? Cool, don't buy it or avert your eyes!" with "Why do you then tell others how to live their lives? Is really leaving everyone to their own devices the good idea?"

Most folks have a healthy relationship with porn, and a reasonably-healthy relationship with sex in general. Given that the US is a reasonably-free society, its default stance is "Mind your damn business, and everyone else will mind theirs.". You rejected the call to avert your eyes from something that is moderately offensive. This indicates that -when it comes to porn- you're not content to mind your own business while people quietly go about their own. This means that you are the busybody poking his nose in other people's business.
by WA | 2025-07-27 05:36:32+00:00
Hmm, hard to tell. On the one hand, Pieter Levels with Nomadlist also never bothered with an app.

I have a B2C app that is in a niche, it started as a web app many years ago, but customer expectation is clearly in having an app. It also comes with the benefit of offline-first and local data storage. I wrote the whole thing with Ionic. So one code base for web, Android and iOS.

In my case, not having an app would’ve been a bad decision financially. The app also unlocked external reviews/comparisons of magazines and such. Basically free marketing.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-27 05:38:00+00:00
This is a great post and you made a compelling argument. But I think it's important to remember that for every case like yours, there's another person who became a directionless failure who spends his days lazing about and mooching off those around him. I think that parents are reasonable for being afraid that their kids will go down the failure path rather than your success path, because there's no way to know up front which branch they will take.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-07-27 05:38:49+00:00
A quest indeed. In my state, it is not uncommon for there to be a months-long wait for appointments at the DMV. So, you can either wait the necessary months (how are you driving?), or try to slip in as a walk-in by showing up when they open and waiting the entire day for a chance to be seen. My local office will have 3 or 4 agents staffing the front and a line dozens long waiting outside the door before they even open. I get it, no one likes the DMV, bastion of inefficiency, blah blah... but for such a critical service, they're clearly not staffed for the demand that they're facing.