MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlhpdx | 2025-07-27 00:50:21+00:00
What’s large? I’m not sure the creeks and swimming holes I frequented in my youth would qualify.

Also, the post isn’t about swimmable water—it’s a cautionary tale about how little it takes to drown. I can confirm that as one winter my neighbor drown in a shallow mud puddle off his back porch. He had a non-fatal heart attack and fell into it unconscious.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-27 00:50:45+00:00
We already nearly have a national ID. That’s what RealID is clearly building towards. It helps to build a standardized and federated database of state ID cards that meet Federal guidelines. There’s an de-duplication system called SPEXS as well as a standard called Nlets that can be used to search the state databases. There’s a multi-state query (MSQ) that allows law enforcement to query all of the state databases and obtain a lot of the functionality that we get from a national ID. What’s missing from this is citizenship data, but ICE has a system called IAQ/IAR that can help with that. The recent “BBB” bill also tosses a lot of IT funding at DHS and ICE, which might lead to further expansions.

There’s also a system called mDL that allows you to obtain a digitally signed mobile driver’s license that can be used in your smartphone. This is only supported by a few states for now but it’s not hard to imagine this expanding to many more states in the near future, especially now that both Apple and Google are starting to support it. TL;DR we may not have a national ID, but it sure seems like pretty soon we’ll have an effective “national ID” that does most of the same stuff.
by christianqchung | 2025-07-27 00:50:48+00:00
The failed recall vote was trying to solve political gridlock for the DPP by winning enough seats for a legislative majority. My point is that in a well functioning system, this shouldn't be a step the DPP should take if they could get good results by compromising with the KMT/TPP. Having said that, I think the KMT/TPP are poorly aligned for Taiwan's interests, so this makes the situation extremely difficult.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-07-27 00:52:22+00:00
Depending on the age of the petroglyphs, would be directly or indirectly related to:

Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity (2003)

https://archive.org/details/anthony-peratt-characteristics-f...

Characteristics For The Occurrence Of A High Current Z Pinch Aurora As Recorded In Antiquity Part II: Directionality And Source (2007)

https://archive.org/details/characteristics-for-the-occurren...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-27 00:52:58+00:00
They are localized, and not enough to overcome the migration Apathy. Reddit in 2023 was a great example of a high profile boycott that ultimately failed (in terms of impacting revenue. You can definitely argue brain drain).

>We have bigger things to worry about as the shit is oozing out of everything.

Yes, but "Tech bad/greedy" is about as far as we can push on HN before it becomes "too political" and and people/bots try to hide the story. At least I have other sources to discuss those matters.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-27 00:54:49+00:00
While SF has microclimates, the weather goes from barely cold to barely warm. It doesn't really need heating or A/C very much. The thing though is that PG&E's (traditionally) lower costs for natural gas than electricity incentivize(d) the consumption and use of gas water heaters, clothes dryers, and stoves. If the city-county of SF or state wanted to address this as a policy level, they could slap a tax on natural gas. The thing though is they should help people afford the change to electric and on-going higher costs of electricity because people on fixed incomes cannot afford any changes.
by Mtinie | 2025-07-27 00:54:56+00:00
Political persuasion as an aside, isn’t the premise of the article itself functionally correct? Recalls should be used to recall politicians who endanger the citizens, not as a “do over” when the election results don’t match a particular ideology.

That none of the candidates targeted were successfully recalled suggests the proponents of the recall overstated or overstepped their understanding of the electorate’s desires to see change.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-27 00:56:17+00:00
I asked this same question last week and got some good answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44630224

Three things that stood out to me:

- Terrestrial plants evolved from green algae. There are other colors of photosynthetic algae. The advantage of absorbing red and blue may have been about avoiding competition with nearby red algae (which absorbs green), and about how blue light penetrates more deeply.

- The trick is not capturing as much energy as possible, but rather capturing and routing energy to the reaction centers such that it neither overshoots nor undershoots the energy necessary for the reaction. This works better with two absorption peaks instead of one (more here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduc...). The absorption peaks of chlorophyll are both adequately distant from one another, and also more or less centered on the visible (i.e. most energetic) spectrum emitted by the sun.

- The idea that the green-yellow region of the visible spectrum is most energetic is, if not a misconception, at least more complex that it seems (https://www.oceanopticsbook.info/view/light-and-radiometry/l...).
by michaelsshaw | 2025-07-27 00:56:37+00:00
The same thing happened to me, I nearly drowned when I performed poorly on a single wave, and the repeating nature of them kept me under the water for so long I thought I was going to die. I went up to the nearest lifeguard, about 10 feet laterally and 20 feet above the pool, and went "what the fuck?" They were confused. Probably will never go in one again.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-27 00:58:55+00:00
That sounds weird and fun, although I can't seem to find the pattern that would have resulted in those numbers. 1024×768@144 (8bpc) works out to 340 MB/s, while 800×600@160 (8bpc) works out to just 230 MB/s, should have been able to refresh even faster. Or is that some other limitation that's not bandwidth? [0]

Was a bit surprised by that double A4 thing btw, but I did the math and it checks out - paper is just surprisingly small compared to desktop displays. Both size and resolution wise (1612×1209 would have put you right up to 96 ppi, with regular 1600×1200 being pretty close too). It's kind of ironic even, the typical 1080p 24" 60 Hz LCD spec that's been with us for decades since just barely fits an A4 height wise, and has a slightly lower ppi. Does have some extra space for sidebars at least, I guess.

[0] Update: ah right, it wasn't a pixel clock limit being ran to the limit there, but the horizontal frequency.
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-07-27 00:59:16+00:00
> bunch of people were wearing T-shirts with the slogan “I am the impurity.”

Reminds me of what happened in Bangladesh. Protestors opposed the leader, the leader calls them razakar (genociders, referring to the 1971 genocide), and they ironically started chanting "Who are we? Razakar, razakar!".

Of course, once she fled the country, the actual razakars ended up making a bid for power based on all the apparent support they had gotten ("look at our numbers!") and now are in line to run the country. And those who called themselves razakars now seem to regret it, realising that they were used and thrown away. This kind of negative polarisation ends up hurting way more.

Important rule of war-strategy: Always give your enemy a way out. Or they will carve a way out, and that would get ugly.
by fasbiner | 2025-07-27 00:59:17+00:00
This comment appears to be explicitly racist by refusing to engage with the content of the author's arguments and instead explicitly dismissing it on the grounds of the author's race. Not only is it racist, it's profoundly incurious and shuts down discourse.

> "What is the author saying?"

> "Who cares, she's chinese."

I find that repugnant.

It also seems to be an illogical non-sequitur since the article is about a political system of three political parties headed by ethnically han-chinese people on island with a 90% ethnically han-chinese population.
by throwanem | 2025-07-27 00:59:20+00:00
(2023) and it is worth noting that web typography is painfully rudimentary, as even a quick skim of Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style suffices to demonstrate. I would strongly recommend the purchase of a physical copy to anyone in or aspiring to design; you will make far more beautiful text just for having read it, which I think you will also enjoy (I have and do!), and it is a handsome artifact besides.
by ok_dad | 2025-07-27 00:59:41+00:00
Not even doing it from scratch is the hard thing, the hard thing is getting the experience to know how to fit stuff together the best way to achieve your design and utilitarian goals, what wood to use, etc.

The hard thing isn’t building the date parsing library in assembly, it’s learning assembly well enough to do it in the first place.

I’m not sure where this discussion began but I was rebelling against everyone who says “just buy it” in regards to anything hard to do.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-27 00:59:59+00:00
"Let’s start with the obvious one. If the compliance costs of safety regulation get too high, it will shut down iteration and innovation in the industry. These innovations include safety enhancements."

An interesting point here is that you can sometimes get safety improvements in an experimental aircraft that you can't get in the same airframe under Part 23 because the manufacturers don't want to go through the certification process for upgraded parts and newer technology.
by Out_of_Characte | 2025-07-27 01:00:26+00:00
Because arrays simply do not deal with fragmentation. Yes, you could probaly get decent performance on a modern system that has memory overcommit strategy where you could allocate sparse adress ranges where you would probaly never run out of pointers unless you actually write to your variable array.

But its just kind of mediocre and you're better off actually dealing with the stack if you can actually deal with certain fixed sizes.
by jerf | 2025-07-27 01:01:35+00:00
Some Star Trek books took the opportunity to work multiple species into the Enterprise's roster, when you don't have special effects problems with doing so.

But some others took the approach that Starfleet has a lot of vessels, and they're still somewhat segregated by species just because of those issues, and while the TV series don't corroborate that very well, I think it's better fanon overall. Peace and harmony among the species is great and all but trying to work 17 hour shifts in 2.5 Gs is going to get really old for the humans. And who wants to wear complicated breathing apparatuses for years at a time?

It would be an interesting direction to take a book series in... why do we see so much about the Klingons and Cardassians and Vulcans on TV? It's not because they're the only important species, it's because they're the species that breath our atmosphere at more-or-less our gravity and solar cycles. The Federation could be a whole bunch of parallel Federations-within-a-Federation where there's an entire set of species who also crew with each other but breath methane, need .7G, and work around 14-hour day/night cycles, and they just don't interact much with each other, not because they hate each other but just because it's so tedious to have prolonged contact.
by ridgeguy | 2025-07-27 01:03:20+00:00
Lab-grown diamonds can be tailored to exhibit the same impurities internal stresses, etc. that cause a minority of natural diamonds to fluoresce. This has not been a goal to date for synthetics because the highest price point is for diamonds that are most pure with least internal strain. If the economics of fluorescent diamonds suddenly become more attractive, I guarantee fluorescent synthetics will be on the market immediately thereafter, and will be indistinguishable from naturals without $100K worth of characterization tools.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-07-27 01:04:03+00:00
I went back half a year in her account, and it seems like it was entirely re-Tweets and self-promotion? It would make sense if the algorithm isn't prioritizing that kind of content, or that kind of content isn't gaining traction.

I saw she re-Tweeted something from Bryan Johnson. Looking at his account, he has less than half as many followers, but many more likes and a lot more engagement. But it's almost all his own content, and it's content that readers would actually find engaging.
by bobthebuilders | 2025-07-27 01:04:10+00:00
Alloca is a fundmentally insecure way of doing allocations. Languages that promote alloca will find themselves stuck in a morass of security messes and buffer overflows. If Zig were to adopt alloca, it would make the catastrophic mistake that plagued C for over several decades and introduce permanently unfixable security issues for another generation of programming languages.
by rgmerk | 2025-07-27 01:04:24+00:00
Hmmm.

I have a couple of concerns about a large expansion of personal aircraft of the type the original author is advocating.

For one, even certified GA aircraft have a fatality rate far in excess of automobiles, let alone public transport or airliners. Yes, some of that is pilot error which can be mitigated to a substantial extent by computer controls, but it’s also a result of the lack of redundancy and hard failure modes of a light aircraft compared to a car. I’d also note that the flight controls don’t do the maintenance that is required to keep a light aircraft safe. Yes, the more libertarian amongst you won’t have a problem with this, but I’d also observe that the proposal is to make these regulations applicable to four-seater aircraft, so plenty of spouses and especially kids will be affected by this risk.

Secondly, expanding a class of vehicle that chews a lot of fossil fuel is going to worsen the already serious effects of climate change; and while short-range aircraft might well electrify you’re not going to fly at 250 knots for 1000 nautical miles on batteries any time soon.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-07-27 01:04:30+00:00
Did someone wanting to sell flying cars bribe Trump, or is this from before the current administration? Didn't they cut loads of FAA inspectors and such?

>Without the need for type certification, manufacturers can iterate on their designs more rapidly without going through the costly supplemental type certification process. They can include cheaper uncertified avionics. They can do over-the-air software updates.

Being completely out of the loop and nothing more than a moderately interested member of the public (outside USA) -- isn't lack of type certification one of the causes of recent major aviation calamities.

Looks like they're saying loads of EABs crash but well just call them LSAs because those don't crash as much, problem solved! Oh, and software is totally reliable so well have that control the aircraft. And we'll make them go faster.
by al_borland | 2025-07-27 01:04:43+00:00
Without knowing how long I’ll live, I have no idea how to do this. My grandma lived to 104. Despite living frugally her whole life and getting various government benefits, she was effectively out of money at the end. Had she lived another 6 months it would have been a real question of where the money was going to come from… and it only lasted that long because family was doing a lot of work to get the various benefits. The finial years can be very expensive, and not having enough money to make those years comfortable can be pretty miserable.
by skissane | 2025-07-27 01:05:10+00:00
> if there was a digital network there is a good chance it was Novell or Token Ring

As the other commenter pointed out already, the vast majority of Netware networks used Ethernet. I knew what Token Ring was, but I don't think I ever actually saw it, my knowledge of it was purely from books and magazines. My dad's work (a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant) was somewhat of an IBM shop in that their main computer was an AS/400 that ran the whole factory, but I interned in their IT department for two weeks in 1997 (I think I'd just turned 15) and I don't remember seeing any Token Ring, or hearing it even mentioned.

And this is the thing, I was a teenager in the 1990s, I was there. I saw Ethernet (and Acorn Econet too, which is much more obscure). I saw it at my school. I saw it at my dad's work. I remember one of my school friends had Ethernet in his house (not in the walls, they just had 2-3 computers in the family room connected to a hub/switch). I was trying to convince my dad to buy Ethernet cards but he wasn't sold on the idea–he was familiar with it from work (his field was chemistry and pharmaceutical manufacturing not computing, but he was technical enough to know what it was), but at home he was happy with Laplink. We had dial-up Internet before we had Ethernet; we had multiple computers, more than one of them had a modem, and my siblings and I would fight over who would use the dial-up since only one of us could use it at once. I remember around 1998 I was invited to a LAN party at a church, but I didn't go.

"the world were most people actually lived" is a bit meaningless, because then we are talking about what was happening in rural villages in Africa at the time. In the world in which I lived, my 1990s, Ethernet was widespread, first in school/work settings, and by the end of it, it was really taking off in home settings too. Maybe your 1990s were different from mine (different country/geography, different social milieu), or maybe you weren't actually there to experience it firsthand.
by SR2Z | 2025-07-27 01:08:12+00:00
> I will get a lot of heat for this but I think the FAA has killed a lot of people.

On the balance, the FAA has saved more lives than it's cost just because big jetliners hold SO MANY PEOPLE.

But otherwise I fully agree with you.

It's deranged that students these days are taught to manually lean the mixture until the engine sputters (i.e. the engine begins to DIE), then bump it back up.

It's incredibly stupid that an aircraft flying in 2025 has multiple solid state accelerometers and gyroscopes on board as part of people's phones - but the only certified one is a vacuum-powered analog instrument from 1981.

And why the hell do we still fuel GA aircraft with a gasoline that's literally ILLEGAL to use anywhere else?

Don't even get me started on the DPE or medical systems.

These changes cannot come soon enough, because the entire GA world has slipped through the cracks as the FAA has become a disaster.
by firefax | 2025-07-27 01:08:19+00:00
I decided to run a small experiment

ping -c 20 -i 5 google.com; ping -c 20 -i 5 yahoo.com [snip] --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.746/19.939/25.057/3.153 ms [snip] --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.561/20.883/25.080/2.675 ms

They look comparable to me?
by SR2Z | 2025-07-27 01:08:58+00:00
> Secondly, expanding a class of vehicle that chews a lot of fossil fuel is going to worsen the already serious effects of climate change; and while short-range aircraft might well electrify you’re not going to fly at 250 knots for 1000 nautical miles on batteries any time soon.

Your average single-engine piston gets ~22mpg with a single passenger. It's not terrible at all.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-27 01:09:20+00:00
This is peak utilization of efficiency in the USA. This is what corporations think is acceptable optimization/efficacy looks like if we give them the choice. And then the non-wage slave caste people will complain that this single mother didn't raise her children well enough and call her lazy/a bad parent:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14908283/hardest-wo...
by cwmoore | 2025-07-27 01:11:43+00:00
I think this is true, manmade diamonds are valuable in a way that counterfeit currency is not. But "most people" may not be as important as people who know the story of, and the person wearing, the gem, and provenance is always a meaningful point of reference for expensive luxury items.

My screenshots of NFTs are pixel accurate, but not exactly as valuable as the real thing.
by echelon | 2025-07-27 01:11:53+00:00
Python needs a version 4 to make a clean break:

- runtime optionally type checked interfaces

- make depending on system python an antipattern

- a reasonable package manager with lockfiles and transitive dependency versions

- package org namespaces

- steps towards hermetic builds with less linking against system libraries and dependencies

- cleanup and slimming down of the standard library. Removal of cruft. Less "batteries included" so people lean more on packages and enforcing good practices with packages.
by MBCook | 2025-07-27 01:12:02+00:00
The big credit/debit networks can easily justify killing buying crypto.

Terrorism, money laundering, illegal things like drugs, whatever.

If it’s hard enough to get crypto, then it doesn’t matter if it’s technically an option.

You could make it possible to buy this stuff with Fruity Pebbles box tops. They’d have no visibility into that either. And roughly no one would do it.

They just have to make this stuff hard enough. And that’s currently very easy.
by immibis | 2025-07-27 01:15:46+00:00
I think they'll just send X-Is-Over18: Yes. Nobody actually cares about this issue enough to invest money in it - just enough to get certain stupid politicians off their backs. There will be third party browsers that always send the header, and they'll be banned from the app store upon discovery, and if they get famous enough their creators will be sent to jail, just like Tornado Cash.
by ivanbakel | 2025-07-27 01:16:15+00:00
Given this is an article about Taiwan, surely the more logical conclusion is that “Chinese” refers to the PRC? Otherwise, as you say, it makes little sense. The rest of the comment is still low quality.

This alternative interpretation doesn’t seem to have much basis either, since the author is apparently native Taiwanese, but perhaps the GP is accusing her of PRC loyalties?
by sokoloff | 2025-07-27 01:17:16+00:00
> equipped with real time satellite weather

Many people have died from believing that their satellite weather was real-time. It’s 3-15 minutes delayed typically.

Go up on a VFR day with widely scattered wet clouds and maybe scattered showers or virga. Fly near some of the wetness and notice they are physically quite displaced from where they are on your weather display. In some cases, your weather display will show weather on the left and clear right, while your windshield will show the weather is actually on your right, having moved during that delay.

Imagine then trying to navigate that in more serious weather and you’ll hopefully get religion that the display is definitely not real-time and must not be relied upon as if it were. It’s a strategic tool, not a tactical one.
by immibis | 2025-07-27 01:20:29+00:00
In Germany it's not the case, but in Germany they have to store your IP address, and your IP address records are linked to your passport. It is illegal to get an Internet connection without a responsible party. The person who provides their passport is liable for all misuse no matter who did it. Public wifi was effectively illegal in Germany until recently due to this rule, until a special exception was made for public wifi but the rule is otherwise still in place.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-27 01:20:51+00:00
In all fairness, that's a pretty common experience with any transition between dislike platforms.

I'll never forget one Java developer who transitioned to JS frontend work (pre-typescript days). Try/catch everywhere.

There's a semi-accurate mindset that "good developers are good in any language" as if software engineers are fungible resources, but the transition time to a novel paradigm isn't really well appreciated.