MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eitland | 2025-07-21 05:24:53+00:00
From the article:

> Malcolm C. Smith, a control engineering professor at the University of Cambridge, first introduced inerters in a 2002 paper.[1] Smith extended the analogy between electrical and mechanical networks (the mobility analogy). He observed that the analogy was incomplete, since it was missing a mechanical device playing the same role as an electrical capacitor. The analogy makes mass the analog of capacitance, but the capacitor representing a mass always has one terminal connected to ground potential. In a real electrical network, capacitors can be connected between any two arbitrary potentials, they are not limited to ground. Noticing this, Smith set about finding a mechanical device that was a true analog of a capacitor. He found that he could construct such a device using gears and flywheels, one of several possible methods.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-07-21 05:25:23+00:00
I think I will respectfully disagree and stop at that. There are a lot of assumptions and statements mentioned as absolute truths in your response.

Children are celebrated. Rape is abhorred. I have no idea what you mean by IVF is rented wombs and profited by men. Are you confusing IVF to surrogacy?
by annie_muss | 2025-07-21 05:27:52+00:00
This article really makes sense.

I think back on my past and all the evil actions I have taken have all been fed by very low self-worth and insecurity.

When you think of yourself as below everyone else, trying to bring them down to your level with malicious acts can feel like quite reasonable. You're "punching up" so you can feel a sense of righteous justification.

It's only looking back that I realize I wasn't nearly as weak as I thought.
by jdwithit | 2025-07-21 05:28:40+00:00
Yeah from an extremely quick read of the code, I agree with atworkc. It's showing any IP address you have an established network connection to.

void refreshConnections() { ssOutput = popen("ss -atun4 | grep ESTAB | awk '{print $6}' | cut -f1 -d\":\"", "r"); if (ssOutput == NULL) { printf("Failed to run ss command\n"); exit(1); } }

edit: ssOutput is a global variable which is read elsewhere.
by hollerith | 2025-07-21 05:28:56+00:00
Some people here maintain that what ruined the web is the consolidation of the web into a few huge web properties. Others say it is advertising. Others, VCs or the profit motive. In contrast, my big beef is with the browser, which I see as a frustrating barrier between me and the information (and the people) on the internet that I want to access. I've felt that way for about 20 years.

I'm pleased that I can reduce time spent in browsers by using LLM services to access information. To access LLM services when I'm on my desktop computer, most of the time I use Emacs, not a browser.
by queenkjuul | 2025-07-21 05:31:01+00:00
People really act like SpaceX didn't rain fifteen tons of concrete onto employee's cars because musk decided he wanted to be the first person in history to launch a heavy rocket without a flame diverter, and none of the brilliant engineers were able to convince him otherwise or had the guts to otherwise scuttle the launch for the sake of safety.

Clearly Tesla engineers will do the same
by jeisc | 2025-07-21 05:31:18+00:00
All of AI workers must realize that the wall of misunderstanding is in the language itself. Everything written down about the phenomenal world must be experimented to obtain all of its details of the infinite contextualities possible. Answering multiple choice questions is a mere circus trick while something like building a bridge over a chasm is an true undertaking from its conception to its completion.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-21 05:33:04+00:00
> The Council of Europe (CoE) has nothing to do with the EU, you're probably confusing it with the European Council (EUCO)

Yes! Thanks for the correction! I did mean the Council of Ministers

> So, no, Ireland can't unilaterally block any such legislation, it has to convince other countries to join in

Yep, but my point still stands.

Poland, Romania, Czechia, and Bulgaria have overwhelmingly profited from FDI from American BigTech players - they were the largest winners in the GCC and outsourcing rush of the early-to-mid 2020s due to very pro-business subsidizes and tax incentives.

Ireland has also continued to overwhelmingly profit from it's very American business friendly tax legislation.

All these countries have enough pull together to push back on any attempts at coercing American tech companies in a manner that other EU members may want.

Furthermore, they themselves have shown how the EU can better attract American companies to build a European presence - they need to become friendly to FDI and foreign players potentially dominating a market.

The issue is Germany and France (logically) tend to oppose this as their own domestic competitors are getting undercut.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-21 05:34:33+00:00
It seems dynamic programming (some predetermined sequence of steps) as envisioned by Bellman is strictly less dynamic than ordinary programming today, hence the confusion?

Elevating "memoization+recursion" to "dynamic programming" seems like a development that Bellman didn't anticipate

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/99513/dynamic-program...

There is another mid century term which is oddly specific for something oddly general (or the other way?) "Operations Research"

Guess Bellman should have called it "Reactive Optimization", then we would have the totally appropriate "Recursive Memoization" or "Memoized Recursion"
by npsomaratna | 2025-07-21 05:34:38+00:00
Sri Lankan here. I used to compete in the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics), back in the '90s.

I aced the competition in Sri Lanka, but I failed to win a medal the first time I competed internationally. I solved several problems with recursion, but these failed to complete within the strict time limits allowed.

One of the contestants from another country told me: "You needed dynamic programming to solve problems 1 and 5." I then spent the next year trying to figure out what dynamic programming was. The folks over here weren't familiar with the term. In fact, I was often asked "did you mean dynamic memory allocation?"

After a while, I managed to find a book that talked about dynamic programming, and I was like "Oh, it's recursion + storing results" and "Ah, you can also do this iteratively in certain circumstances"

Bottom line, armed with this new knowledge, I ended up winning a gold medal at IOI 2001. Fun times.
by sameerds | 2025-07-21 05:34:52+00:00
Come on, it can't be that bad! If such small nerdy groups existed, what are the chances that their membership does not overlap with places like HN? It would only be a matter of time before we heard about them.

> I am now older and more burned out and less prone to chasing after cool new things.

Yeah, mostly true for me too. I hear about cool new things, but rarely choose to chase after them.
by troupo | 2025-07-21 05:35:55+00:00
> I gladly buy from local EU businesses, but not if they're just a middleman charging an unreasonable fee for importing Chinese-made products.

I bought LED string lights from a local company (Clas Ohlson in Sweden), and very similar looking lights from Temu.

Clas Ohlson: wires isolated from each other and running perfectly parallel to each other through the entire string. A nice power converter. Lights all identical, properly secured. Made in China.

Temu: wires nearly touching each other in multiple places. No power converter, you plug the thing directly into the power socket. Lights embedded every which way. Made in China.

Quite often those "unreasonable fees" are for quality control
by closewith | 2025-07-21 05:36:47+00:00
It's a common trope on this site that people wholeheartedly believe the legal systems of the world should and do conform to their personal beliefs, no matter how outlandish.

I can assure you that this is such a scenario, as a restaurant in the UK is absolutely responsible for providing safe toilets for their customers, especially if a risk has been brought to their attention.
by jabjoe | 2025-07-21 05:37:15+00:00
Interesting. The one time I ended up writing assembly was because of SIMD. I was speaking about it recently and had forgotten it was because SIMD instructions, so nice to be reminded. However, that one time, I also ended up finding the right syntactic sugar, to get the compiler to do it right. If I remember right it was all down to aliasing. I had to convince the compiler the data wasn't going to be accessed any other place. It wasn't working that out itself, so it didn't know it could use the SIMD instruction I was. Once I found this and the right non-standard extra key words, the compiler would do it right. So I ended removing the assembly I had written.
by anthk | 2025-07-21 05:37:44+00:00
Here in Spain from time to time (near Christmas) often they fine some warehouses/companies sending cheap toys to dollar stores with no safety regulation and often with toxic paints. No, they aren't the same. And if some of the stuff from our 'dollar stores' are slightly dangerous, some stuff from Temu or Shein (hello plastic clothes) can be midly dingerous over time.

You can have similar crap on AliExpress but the quality at AE it's far better for electronics at least.
by litbear2022 | 2025-07-21 05:41:02+00:00
This reminds me of the IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree[1].Unsurprisingly, the original address has been offline. When I checked the archives, I saw the archives from January 7, 2017[2]. Could it be that some guy is celebrating Orthodox Christmas? :)

- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186051 - [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20171201000000*/http://ipv6tree....
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-21 05:43:17+00:00
Hello, now the design is great, you did a great job, now you can either rest or start promoting your site again. Or if you still have the strength, you can add theme customization, for example: light, dark, system, custom (the ability to customize the color of the site for yourself).

And I don't know what it's all about, but your site sometimes loads for me, sometimes it doesn't, it seems like it decides for itself when to load and when not to.
by vintermann | 2025-07-21 05:44:48+00:00
The soundtrack to Disco Elysium was made by the band British Sea Power (now just Sea Power).

I'd say that like Minecraft's music, it's good enough that it could almost have carried the game on its own.

Some indie games have licensed indie music, but generally I think it's hard to convince "big names" to make music for small games, unless they're already video game composers.
by matwood | 2025-07-21 05:46:03+00:00
> You'll see reason for the hate, mainly with people not bothering to spend any time searching before posting.

As a beginner at anything it’s hard to search. It’s the “you don’t know what you don’t know problem”. I see this all the time both as the expert and the beginner.

On topics I understand, I can craft a google query that will drop exactly what I’m looking for as the first result. On new topics I have to query and scan over and over until I start to hone in on some key words.
Ask HN: Advice on Offer
by thathnwisdom | 2025-07-21 05:46:15+00:00
CEO gave me an offer for a CTO role. Private startup, no VC, profitable. I asked for financial details and cap table, and was told it’s confidential information and it won’t be disclosed. Offer only includes vague terms about equity saying that they will be done at a later date and at the discretion of the board of directors. What do you think of this scenario?
by snickerbockers | 2025-07-21 05:50:27+00:00
I sure hope not. Internet is fine but the web is more of a virtualized app platform than a hypertext platform by this point, as evidence by the fact that I can't read TFA without giving them money or looking it up on a third party archive.

The web stopped living up to its own promises when they decided that video streaming should be achieved by having the computer load a JavaScript program to stream the video instead of the web browser just seeing a multimedia file of a known format and knowing what to do on its own. Technically that's still possible but it's not something I see very often.

Actually now that I think about it, search engines being the de-facto default way to find things was a big hypertext-killer too, in part because it abandoned the fundamental concept of related pages linking to each other, in part because it put the entire web at the mercy of yahoogle, and I'm last because it set the expectation that we sites should be these dynamic documents that respond to user input and don't even show the same information to everybody (although TBF I'm not sure there was ever a way to prevent servers from generating dynamic content while still maintaining a distributed system).
by alephnerd | 2025-07-21 05:50:31+00:00
> even Russia, a much, much smaller and poorer country, has a full set of replacements for the US tech hegemony, at least on the software side

Not really. Meta and Alphabet products like FB, IG, and YouTube remain heavily used in Russia, even in spite of domestic alternatives like VK or Yandex.

That said, pre-2022, Russia definitely had a strong VC and entrepreneurship scene compared to the the rest of Europe. NGINX, Yandex, VK, and Kasperskey were all able to be formed in Russia in the 2000s due to a much less risk averse capital market. Same with Ukraine (eg. Grammarly, Ring) and Belarus (eg. Wargaming)

Aside from Romania and Czechia, I don't see a similar ecosystem anywhere in Europe (even Poland and Ireland's tech industry are largely dominated by FDI from large American players like Google and Bulgaria's from contractor and freelancer shenanigans).

Ofc, unlike France and Germany, Czechia and Romania are way less combative to American tech companies and capital, so it's easier for them to justify investing for the long haul. Romanian successes like UIPath show that the only way a competitive European tech player can develop is through cooperation with the US.
by llamasushi | 2025-07-21 05:50:52+00:00
I appreciate this comment. You will see that the modern day capitalistic system, in general, punishes anyone with even a smidgen of the moral compass you have. The world of finance is this in spades. Having worked on wall street for pretty much my entire adult career, having gone on to found my own fund. I came to an epiphany through a few fucked up experiences that my investors did not give two flying fucks what kind of person I was as long as I was generating solid returns. Moral compass be damned.

So, casino industry perhaps is a convenient pinata when in reality it's not the specific industry, it's the system.
by mind-blight | 2025-07-21 05:51:24+00:00
I honestly want to know why you think trying to consume foods that have been through fewer processing steps is equivalent to rejecting medicine. Those are absurd comparisons to me.

If I have a medical issue, the risks often outweigh the rewards. Chemo ain't good for you, but it's better than cancer. Artificial food coloring isn't necessary, and multiple dyes appear to contain carcinogenic contaminates. I can appreciate that chemo exists and avoid artificial dyes.

The US food industry also has historically introduced a lot of unhealthy and/or poisonous additives that were later banned or recalled. Formaldehyde was added to milk in the early 1900s because the industry didn't want to adopt pasteurization. Partially hydrogenated oil as margarine was advertised as a healthier butter alternative in the 50s and 60s.

There are cool things that come out of food labs (Xanthum gum is one of my favorites), but it seems weird to be condescending towards people for taking a reasonably cautious approach towards food - especially when there's historical and scientific evidence that backs the approach
by creer | 2025-07-21 05:51:56+00:00
> 20%, 50% or even 100% markup for such a product

I don't know that this is realistic. Like you recognize, there ARE usually boutique higher quality products - at significantly higher prices. There are also nearly always product management-based, "higher end" product lines. And the quality of these is only sometimes better. And they are not often repairable probably.

I think there is a significant issue with achieving "Mass produced at scale" together with "lifetime and repairable (ie, parts available and easy to replace)". Without people going out of their way to be evil, see lightbulb lifetime mgt, it's easy to be too expensive to miss the "mass produced" window, and your price might be much higher. Not just 20% higher.

Chinese companies built massive factories to corner the market on specific products. Years ago, see the halogen torchiere market. Suddenly the world was flooded with torchiere halogen lamps for an insanely low price. ... a price so low that nobody could really complain that spare parts were not available. These stunts must have been very expensive. An all or nothing bet on a market.

Nowadays, you get factories that make ALL the models of, say, steam irons for basically ALL the brands. These factories take care of some of the issue of quantity-related low price, by sharing parts and processes between all these brands. But could they be competitive in price on smaller runs of steam irons with replaceable parts? Plus the cost of stocking and distributing these parts? I don't know.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-07-21 05:55:02+00:00
> If a user hostile descision is made

> I don't see what this has to do with BSD vs. GPL

That is my point, license does not matter that much (and i meant the BSDs OSes). A license is not the only barrier of participation, you need to have the resources (time/money/expertise) too, and when you enter as a directly competing fork with marginal market share, you better have more resources than the parent project or otherwise your fork will not be able to keep up to with an adversarial company, trying to keep that jucy monopoly, they might have build ages ago with community contributions.

Forking and maintaining a gigantic project is not really a practical option for angered hobbyists. The costs are too high or competition to harsh.

IMO this is not only a problem of the GPL but of FOSS in general. Lets call it capitalistic capture.
by joshjob42 | 2025-07-21 05:55:06+00:00
There is no cost pressure on Waymo to reduce rates below Uber or Lyft as they are much smaller, they are price takers not price makers in the market. Lowering prices far below your competitors when you are supply constrained for the time being would just be lighting money on fire.

Mapping is expensive, but not really in a per-mile-driven basis. There are 4M miles of public roads which get over 3.2T miles of total driving, or ~800k vehicle-miles per road-mile. You could have pretty high mapping costs per mile and still have very low per-mile-traveled costs for mapping. And there's every reason to think the cost of mapping and updating maps on a per-road-mile basis will go down over time, not up.

Waymo is scaling pretty rapidly, and the rate of expansion is accelerating. They've been proving out the technology, and are only now starting to commission special purpose vehicles as they move out of the research phase and into deployment.

Perhaps Tesla will catch up, but for now we know Waymo's are at least ~6x safer than humans in diverse independent conditions, while FSD according to publicly available information is 50-100x less safe (with critical interventions every few hundred miles).
by twtran | 2025-07-21 05:55:15+00:00
This project has been a godsent! The latest Daikin indoor units have a built-in WiFi module which only allows control through their cloud infrastructure. Besides it being a privacy and/or security issue, it's very slow and buggy (e.g. I've had two units reset their credentials after a power outage).

There are two caveats to going the Faikin way: you need to source or build your own cable that's compatible with your unit, and there's no access control (that I could find) for the web interface so you need to firewall and proxy it properly.
by cheald | 2025-07-21 05:56:05+00:00
"Creating a weapon is as easy as loading a print file in your print queue"

Well that's just flat-out false. You can print things like frames, receivers, and misc hardware, but you still need machined metal components for parts that need to tolerate heat and pressure, and specialized hardware like springs of specific dimensions and tension which are really not easily home-manufacturable.

The author explicitly links to another article[1] on Tom's Hardware which specifically says this, so, uh, top notch journalism there, fellas.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/i-tried-3d-printing...
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-21 05:56:24+00:00
Tempeh is easier to digest: the soy (fibers and amino acids) is pre-eaten by the mold.

I can drink milk but feel the same as you do with beans. When it’s fermented cheese I’m totally fine.

Can you eat falafels, tofu or slip peas? If so the hull may be the cause. Also beans trigger gaz on many people because they don’t eat much insoluble fibers, but after a while of regular consumption it comes back to normal. Don’t hurt yourself through, take care.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-21 05:58:20+00:00
Lots of truth here, but context matters.

Firstly some tracks have a lot of overtaking. Some are harder, Monaco has none.

The need for DRS is primarily because the aerodynamics of the following car are affected by the dirty air caused by the car in front. DRS is an aero assistance to overcome aero penalties.

Regulations, spending caps, wind tunnel limitations etc are indeed designed yo keep car performance as close as possible. Frankly without that racing is terminally boring. Without it the pack would simply spread out in predictable formation based on car speed. By keeping the cars closer together in performance the driver matters more, and there is more opportunity for actual racing.

I'll also point out that all sports, including all motor sports, are manufactured to create a contest. From the NFL draft system, to baseball cost caps, to endless rule tweaks, the goal of sport is to provide for more unpredictable outcomes. Thats kinda the point.
by dangus | 2025-07-21 05:59:11+00:00
I wouldn’t say I’m experienced with this scenario but I see red flags everywhere.

They could disclose that financial information with an NDA at minimal risk to themselves. They could even choose to leave out sensitive details.

They are being cagey about equity because they want to stiff you on it, or at least, that’s what you have to assume.

If there’s no VC involved I think you want to know the owners’ goals and you want to evaluate whether this company is going to scale or whether it’s functioning more like a small business.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-21 05:59:16+00:00
> I have no idea how you think “they probably could have” sounds any better, or how it makes your argument stronger at all.

When I talk about "can" I'm talking about in the medium future or further, not what anyone is using or developing right now. It's "can someday" not "could have".

> If we can apply AI to these situations but shouldn’t, why even bother with your first comments?

Because I dislike it when people conflate "this technology has flaws that make it hard to apply to x task" with "it is impossible for this category of technology to ever be useful at x task"

And to be clear, I'm not saying "should" but I'm not saying "shouldn't" either, when it comes to unknown future versions of LLM technology. I'll make that decision later. The point is that the range of "can" is much wider than the range of "should", so when someone says "can't" about all future versions of a technology they need extra strong evidence.
by kanbara | 2025-07-21 06:00:18+00:00
i've never needed to present ID in any mandarake or book-off or the like. of course if you go to events, they'll check ID to make sure you are 20+, or i'm sure if you look young. point is, the content is just there, even in some konbini, and it's not the norm, but certainly isn't demonised-- look at maid cafe and idol culture. /shrug