MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LocalH | 2025-07-11 22:02:00+00:00
> The question: will companies segregate their customers? Everyone gets to click-to-cancel or is there now a dedicated code path just for the lucky few?

The answer to that is that companies will use geofencing to restrict click-to-cancel to only the states that pass such laws. We've already seen this happen on a national level, when Apple segregated the EU and the rest of the world on the topic of sideloading
by rglullis | 2025-07-11 22:03:14+00:00
He could've easily taken down Reddit if he wanted. He just needed to port Apollo to Lemmy and get people to migrate. I personally offered him help to set up as many servers needed to get the migration going.

But not only he refused, he went on to mock the other developers who were implementing an Apollo-like client for Lemmy (Voyager) and went on to work on a YouTube viewer for the Vision Pro.

It seems like some people just enjoy being put in a cage and get constantly abused.
by ddahlen | 2025-07-11 22:04:15+00:00
Final edits of a paper at the moment, aim to submit next week. Perturbers are easy to add, though a little poorly documented at the moment. Additional physics right now are J2 of jupiter/sun/earth, and GR corrections for the sun and jupiter.

Biggest speed gain is that I have a custom SPICE reader that is multi-core friendly (I re-implemented a lot of the SPICE standard in rust), and it is used as the source for planet positions. Being able to skip planet integration leads to massive speedups.
by const_cast | 2025-07-11 22:04:24+00:00
I have zero reason to believe pornography is the culprit.

Erectile dysfunction is a physiological issue. It's almost always an issue of blood flow. This young man could have heart failure or some other condition limiting his blood flow to that of an old man.

Not to mention testosterone levels have been declining for what, 70 years? Why are just intuitively, and pre-emptively, blaming random stuff on pornograhpy? You can't do that. You have to show the causation. The world is complicated.
by jacobgkau | 2025-07-11 22:06:06+00:00
> A matcha place I like only lets you order from the real menu after you’ve unlocked enough visits from a punch card.

What's the "fake menu" you have to order from before you unlock the real one? Or do you just have to swing by but aren't allowed to order anything? Compared to the others, it's hard to think of how this would necessarily help the business, aside from possibly disincentivizing people who are uncaring enough that their traffic would be bad but still care enough that they won't go there if they can't order something specific.
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-07-11 22:06:56+00:00
> I mean more competitors that care about user experience, preserve your privacy to an extent, and aren't using the platform as just yet another way to serve ads and harvest data.

TANSTAAFL. User experience costs money. Privacy costs money. Not serving ads is an opportunity cost for more money.

Take away the app store royalties, and the obvious path forward for Apple is to compromise on the other legs of the stool.

Linux will never have the UX of macOS simply because a lot of what makes macOS great is boring and tedious work, and nobody does that for free.
by const_cast | 2025-07-11 22:08:46+00:00
> If your government has slid that far down the dystopian shithole scale

The problem with laws such as this which rely on benevolent enforcement is that they're volatile. Any country could become fascist, at any time. We're all just sort of hoping that the data and privacy we've all given up isn't used for evil - but certainly the frameworks to use it for evil are there, and are being expanded constantly.
by maxbond | 2025-07-11 22:08:50+00:00
> there is no way to enforce access controls

(I thought this was a fun puzzle, so don't take this as advice or as disagreement with your point.)

There is the option to use functions with SECURITY DEFINER to hack around this, but the cleanest way to do it (in the current API) would be to encrypt your messages on the application side using an authenticated system (eg AES-GCM). You can then apply access control to the keys. (Compromised services could still snoop on when adjacent channels were in use, however.)
by stretchwithme | 2025-07-11 22:08:52+00:00
Citation needed for the right to other people's money.

Government running charity interferes with the normal feedback in society. And the need to ask politely, justify one's apparently bad decisions and change failing behavior.

People become "entitled" to regular cash so a lot of the fear that ordinarily motivates the rest of us goes away.

Any system that asks nothing of people is a bad system.

I grew up on welfare. I've also seen how a lot of people on welfare actually live and how they spend their time. They don't spend it cleaning, I can tell you that.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-11 22:09:58+00:00
>as much as 1000 ppm or even higher.

The higher it is, the less likely for challenges in detection, and/or interference from background.

>lead concentrations as high as 483 ppm

SSDD.

Shouldn't be that hard to detect at that level which is way above ppb. There are a number of reliable methods.

However if the Minimum Detectable Level for a particular test procedure was only 500 ppm or above, one of these samples would report just as clean as a sample having no lead whatsoever; < 500.

MDL's like this which vary among different test methods do need to be carefully compared to the toxicity levels being screened for.

That's another one of the confounding aspects to be aware of.

Depending on circumstances, I may or may not prefer a different calibration session for each of these two levels, even though they are both within the same order of magnitude.

Either way ideally I would be preparing NIST-traceable reference materials at the proper levels for comparison & confirmation. Not much differently than I would do for the benchtop models and the forklift models of x-ray units. And to really get down into the ppb levels that's when the ICP/mass-spec comes in handy, that's a benchtop unit itself, too big to fit on a regular desk though. However you don't really get the most out of the ICP without a huge cryogenic tank of liquid argon out back so you can "consume mass quantities" ;)

With a handheld x-ray unit, if you are only assaying gold & silver it may be fine to send it back for calibration once a year, if the pawn shops even do that. For food testing I would want more of a laboratory-style analytical procedure and calibration which is concurrent with materials being tested.
by fnord77 | 2025-07-11 22:10:09+00:00
For my purposes, a disk NAS is both too large and too noisy.

The only place I can put a NAS is my living room. I'm not putting a fucking 4-bay synology on my entertainment shelf. And if I can hear it, it is too loud.

these mini-NAS boxes are about the size of a single 3.5 HDD
by BobbyJo | 2025-07-11 22:10:17+00:00
> But is it really so strange to you to think that the richest and most powerful country might have some role to play in international problems that arise from comparative poverty?

I think this is a mischaracterization of parent's point. He didn't say it was strange , and he didn't say we had no role to play.

> that the use of our military is more criticized than any other. But we're big and rich and powerful and we've had some military presence in other continents pretty much continuously since WWII, and we shouldn't expect to be able to act with impunity

This seems largely orthogonal to parent's point, which I would rephrase as "We can't be police and not police at the same time. If your expectations require us to be both, they're bad expectations."
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-07-11 22:10:22+00:00
Yet another one? Instead of cloning yet another ask your notes app that has the same flaws like every other ask your documents app, work on the fucking flaws for once.

Namely that you are using a fucking RAG like everyone else and they almost NEVER find the right spots.

Besides when using openai, you could aswell just use notebooklm.

Fucking hate those lazy clones.
by snorrah | 2025-07-11 22:11:10+00:00
Ed has been beating this drum for a while, I don’t see a problem with it. He’s putting in whatever research he can into these black boxes.

He warned a while ago that a $20/month sub was not going to be sustainable, and now what do we have? $100, $200, and $300 dollar tier plans. And now he’s warning even this isn’t going to be enough.

It might seem like breathless hyperbole to you or me, but I think he’s giving a pretty fair warning in advance to anyone who is hitching their wagon to these services in a big way and might get caught out badly if they aren’t lucky
by tripplyons | 2025-07-11 22:12:02+00:00
I know layer 2 chains have lots of hype, but its nice to see improvements to the Ethereum layer 1 mentioned in the article. Although proving may be slow, verifying proofs is exponentially faster and can use a constant amount of memory (depending on the proving system), which could allow for extremely lightweight nodes to verify the layer 1 chain.

I remember hearing that Ethereum aims to be verifiable with only $1,000 worth of hardware. If they were implement validity proofs, it would be much easier for people to verify the chain on everyday hardware.
by EngineeringStuf | 2025-07-11 22:12:38+00:00
I really do agree.

I was a lead Technical Architect and authority on behalf of HM Treasury for a while, and I will tell you this: this is just the tip of the iceberg in government procurement.

I've witnessed faulty systems in DVLA, DEFRA, DWP, Home Office, MOJ and Scottish Government. Systems that have directly resulted in suicide, false convictions, corruption and loss of money to the public purse.

The problem with Horizon and Fujitsu is that in the end the government has to sign it off, and there will be someone who is the Accountable Officer (AO). More often than not, all parties (customer and supplier) become incredibly motivated to protect the AO because it protects profits, protects reputational damage and essentially builds a good news story around the whole thing.

It's just elitism, wrapped up in cronyism, veiled in lies so that AOs can fail upwards into positions with suppliers. I've seen it too many times and I'm fed-up with it. Government is completely and utterly corrupt.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-11 22:13:01+00:00
I compile static-pie HAproxy binaries using different TLS libraries. Size varies a little based on the versions and compile-time options for those libraries

For example, max sizes for the largest and smallest TLS libraries I have tried

OpenSSL 9.0MB

WolfSSL 4.6MB

OpenSSL bloat is unfortunate

Does Traefik allow any TLS libraries other than OpenSSL
by thesz | 2025-07-11 22:15:38+00:00
> What they overestimated was the ability of LLMs to provide real productivity gains on a given task.

This is exactly my point.

This is not about the ability of LLM overestimated by developers, this is about the ability of developer interacting with LLM overestimated by developers themselves, economic experts and ML experts.

LLMs are not "able" per se, they are "prompted" to be "able." They are not agents, but behave as agents on someone's behalf - and no one have a clue whether use of LLMs is positive or detrimental, with the bias being "LLM's use is net positive".

The overestimation of LLM's abilities by everyone calls for Dunning-Kruger.
by sunaookami | 2025-07-11 22:15:39+00:00
It was barely better than Cursor and they got shafted by Anthropic because of the takeover announcement so nobody really used it anymore because let's face it - Claude Sonnet is just the best coding model. Design-wise the chat panel and autocomplete integration was a bit nicer than in Cursor but not by much. Subscription for Windsurf was/is also 5$ cheaper.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-11 22:17:09+00:00
This might be a different program, but NEVER use Google's trade-in program.

You might get lucky, but they use a third party to process the phones and they have ZERO oversight or control over them. It's extremely common to send in a perfectly working phone to get denied because it's DOA with whatever claim and google refuses to do anything about it because "it's an external partner"
by bell-cot | 2025-07-11 22:17:53+00:00
> While fear of mass shootings and new gun regulations are often cited as factors for impulsive gun purchases, the research indicates that social media lobbying by anti-regulation groups and targeted media coverage are more influential factors in driving firearm acquisitions. Personal safety concerns drive many gun buyers more than reactions to mass shootings or potential legislative changes.

It would be extremely interesting to see things broken down by how many guns the the buyer already owned. For tiny n, personal safety concerns seem quite credible. For larger n, it's gotta be some combination of gun-nerd collecting and anxiety-driven repetitive behavior. Presumably the gun industry works hard to encourage the latter, same as the tobacco industry works hard to encourage 7-pack-a-day smoking habits.
by const_cast | 2025-07-11 22:18:25+00:00
> Only a completely closed-off environment with no access to the internet could prevent this.

Okay, then we should do this.

> Either make the incentives personal enrichment instead of letter grades

This just straight up does not work.

The incentive for not being obese is perhaps the most perfect incentive ever: you live a happier life, with a greater quality of life, for longer, with less societal friction. It's the perfect poster child of "personal enrichment".

And yet, obesity is not declining. How is this possible?

Because internal locus of control as a "solution" for systemic issues just does not work. It doesn't maybe work, it doesn't sometimes work, it never works. If you don't address institutional issues and physiological issues then you're never going to find a solution.

What I mean is, kids use AI because it's easy. It's human nature to take the path of least resistance. This has a physiological, a biological, component to it. If we're just going to be waiting around for the day people aren't lazy then we're all gonna die.

Schools are artificial environments by design. They're controlled environments by design. If we leave children to their own devices, they grow up stupid.

The problem is that education is a cumulative endeavor. We don't give calculators to kindergartners trying to learn the number line. Why not? Because if you don't have the neural connections to intuitively, and quickly, understand the number line, then Algebra is going to be a nightmare.

AI can enhance learning, if and only if the prerequisites are satisfied. If you use AI to write but you don't know how to write, then you're going to progress on and struggle much more than you should. We carefully and deliberately introduce tools to children. Here's your graphing calculator... in Algebra I, after you've already graphed on paper hundreds of times. You already understand graphing, great, now you're allowed to speed it up.

We, as adults, are very far removed from this. We have an attitude of "what's the problem" because we already have built those neural connections. It's a sort of Lord Farquad "some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take" approach, but we don't even realize we do it.
by thayne | 2025-07-11 22:18:30+00:00
> it inherently discourages landowners from searching for new and innovative uses for their land

That seems like a feature to me, as long as the tax enough less than the increased value of the land, and using up a funite resource, lime oil, correspondingly decreases the evaluated value of the land. If you discover oil on your land, I think you should be taxed more. And I think that adding a reasonable dicencentive to things like drilling for oil isn't a bad thing.

Also, for non-renewable resources found on a property that are sold, not rented, I think it could make sense to tax them differently, such as based on the sold value, when it is sold, rather than increasing the taxes on the land itself.

> Another issue with the LVT is that it acts as an implicit tax on nearby land development.

This is the case for property taxes, regardless of whether it includes "improvements".

Also, it doesn't remove the incentive. If an improvement on one parcel increases the value of a nearby parcel, that means you can rent or sell that property for more, and the ducentive isn't really any worse than a tax on that increased income being a disencincentive to increase the value of nearby land.

There is a related problem where increased value can result in families no longer being able to afford taxes on their residence. Although its not like gentrification isn't already a problem, and I'm not sure it's any worse than the problems with other tax systems. It could also be combatted somewhat by lower tax rates or deductions on primary residences (possibly with a limit on the area that qualifies).
by rand_num_gen | 2025-07-11 22:18:41+00:00
TL;DR — This post is a deep reflection on insights shared by YouWare’s founder (a user-generated software platform) during a recent podcast conversation. It explores what it really means to build AI-native products, rather than simply wrapping LLMs in traditional software shells.

Key ideas: - Do less, align with the biggest variable — AI: feature restraint is a virtue when model progress is the true leverage. - Token speed as a core metric: DAU may mislead; the faster and more effectively a product consumes tokens, the more tightly it aligns with model intelligence. - Wrappers vs. Containers: great AI products don't just function — they shape user behavior and learning (e.g., Midjourney's use of Discord). - Coding as a new creative medium: coding should evolve from expert work to point-and-shoot creativity, like photography did.

Curious to hear thoughts from others building AI-native tools — or grappling with similar product trade-offs. Really, any thoughts are welcome.
by heisenbit | 2025-07-11 22:19:23+00:00
The timing is really curious.

08:08:35 Vr

08:08:39 Liftoff

08:08:42 Engine 1 cut-off

08:08:42 Engine 2 cut-off

08:08:47 minimum idel speed reached

?? One pilot to other: why cut-off. Other: Did not do it

08:08:52 Engine 1 run

08:08:52 Engine 2 run

1 second to switch them both off and then 4 seconds to switch them both on. No one admitted to switch them off. They are probably going with fine comb over the audio and also the remains of the chared switches.

Looks like the engines react very quickly to cut-off so it is not clear whether the question about the cut-off is prompted by a glance to the switches or the feel of the airplane.

The big question is whether the switches were moved or something made it seem as if the switches were moved.
by YuriNiyazov | 2025-07-11 22:20:51+00:00
A long long time ago, at ClojureConj 2014, I asked Rich Hickey whether a cpp-based clojure was possible, and his answer was "well, the primary impediment there is a lack of a garbage collector". There were a lot of conversations going on at the same time, so I didn't get an opportunity to "delve" into it, but:

1. does that objection make sense? 2. How does jank approach that hurdle.
by extr | 2025-07-11 22:21:31+00:00
IMO other than the Microsoft IP issue, I think the biggest thing that has shifted since this acquisition was first in the works is Claude Code has absolutely exploded. Forking an IDE and all the expense that comes with that feels like a waste of effort, considering the number of free/open source CLI agentic tools that are out there.

Let's review the current state of things:

- Terminal CLI agents are several orders of magnitude less $$$ to develop than forking an entire IDE.

- CC is dead simple to onboard (use whatever IDE you're using now, with a simple extension for some UX improvements).

- Anthropic is free to aggressively undercut their own API margins (and middlemen like Cursor) in exchange for more predictable subscription revenue + training data access.

What does Cursor/Windsurf offer over VS Code + CC?

- Tab completion model (Cursor's remaining moat)

- Some UI niceties like "add selection to chat", and etc.

Personally I think this is a harbinger of where things are going. Cursor was fastest to $900M ARR and IMO will be fastest back down again.
by xenadu02 | 2025-07-11 22:23:00+00:00
It could be defective switch springs, fatigue-induced muscle memory error, or something else. The pilot who did it saying he did not may not have realized what he did. It's pretty common under high workload when you flip the wrong switch or move a control the wrong way to think that you did what you intended to do, not what you actually did.

That said Boeing could take a page out of the Garmin GI275. When power is removed it pops up a "60s to shutdown dialog" that you can cancel. Even if you accidentally press SHUTDOWN it only switches to a 10s countdown with a "CANCEL" button.

They could insert a delay if weight on wheels is off. First engine can shutdown when commanded but second engine goes on 60s delay with EICAS warning countdown. Or just always insert a delay unless the fire handle is pulled.

Still... that has its own set of risks and failure modes to consider.
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by exiguus | 2025-07-11 22:23:40+00:00
Thats not true. It's 75% renewable. Means, biomass, wind, solar etc.. And in Winter it is 55% renewable. Shortages are compensate mostly with fast booting Gas, Coal and Hydrogen plants. Also trading[1] in Germany is relatively even (in/out).

[1] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.ht...
by GMoromisato | 2025-07-11 22:24:07+00:00
The designation 3I means the third interstellar object discovered. 1I (Oumuamua) was discovered in 2017, and the new Vera Rubin telescope is likely to discover a lot more in the future.

We're just at the beginning of finding this new population of objects, and I think it's very exciting. It's like when Ceres was first discovered (in 1801) and suddenly people found a whole population of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. We're in a similar time now with interstellar objects.

How many interstellar objects pass through the Solar System each year? How many will we find in the next 10 years? We're about to find out.
by dalemhurley | 2025-07-11 22:24:41+00:00
Cursor (and Garry Tan’s X post) has shown us that the VC money is propping up these companies astounding growth, the only way for them to become profitable is to increase the cost per a request, which means they need to innovate like crazy.

The moat is paper thin.

GitHub has open sourced copilot.

The open source community is working hard on their own projects.

No doubt Cursor is moving fast to create amazing innovations, but if the competition only focuses on thin wrappers they are not worth the billion dollar valuations.

I love watching this space as it is moving extremely fast.