MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-24 22:49:27+00:00
Reading Barrett Brown's "My Glorious Defeats" at the moment, being reminded of that time Anonymous went after Visa, Mastercard, and others, in retaliation for them blocking payments to Wikileaks.

An action the payment companies took extrajudicially at the behest of the US government because the US gov was't happy with Wikileaks. Wikileaks' crime was that they'd been very successful at getting true information to the public about what governments were doing.

This was quite shocking to me (and at least some others, presumably) at the time, in 2011. I guess if we were taking it seriously, we would have been obliged to say: oh, how fundamentally authoritarian and anti-democratic.

When progressives/democrat/left types shout "fascism!" now on account of something Trump did or said, the cynical part of me says that a lot of them probably just want Obama/Clinton/Biden-flavoured authoritarianism rather than "ugly" lower-middle-class Trumpian authoritarianism.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-24 22:49:50+00:00
Glad to hear that exercize has worked for you.

>Add up enough of all these tiny things over the course of a day, things you probably don't even realize you're doing, and each tiny fraction of a calorie expended eventually pushes you to the levels you see with more regular exercise.

Fidgeting will obviously burn some calories. But I find it hard to believe that fidgeting will burn the same amount of calories as sustained exersize.

I have heard some suggestion that the extra energy is being burned at a cellular level (causing inflammation). But would be office work get hot if that was the case?
by juliasilge | 2025-07-24 22:50:44+00:00
I work on Positron, and I do not entirely disagree with you! We do have support for managing connections from Python and R: https://positron.posit.co/connections-pane.html

But we have some pretty big aspirations around expanding our SQL support, based on the features we have already built like that Connections pane, our Data Explorer, our Observable support via Quarto, etc. We plan to invest in this area over the coming months, starting in Q4 this year.
by aetherspawn | 2025-07-24 22:50:47+00:00
It’s $10/mo and then like 15min/$50/mo in everyone’s time in admin chasing down and filing receipts, reconciling to bank statements, etc.

If you’re a founder doing your own finances, well every additional little monthly charge even if it’s just $1 is quite annoying:

Filing and reconciling 12 receipts takes say 1 hour per year, what if you’re using 20 dependencies? That’s an extra 3-5 days per annum of admin.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-24 22:51:33+00:00
In the 1970s people were looking at a "hockey stick" graph of world population and thought we were cooked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth [1]

McLuhan said "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror" and there is no area like that more than gender and reproductive issues. For instance the idea that men have it better than woman still persists although it's definitely not true for those under 30. [2]

The diffusion of the idea is still suppressed because it is right wing coded, it's going to take another 20 years or so for it to be safe to talk about in mixed company. If you believe in sustainability, the reproductive rate has to be regulated to a tight band over the long term: someday "my child my choice" and "my carbon my choice" will be seen the same way.

[1] this aged better, it predicted that real trouble starts in the next few decades

[2] Girls have internalizing problems and we say they are sensitive, Boys have externalizing problems and we say they are brutes. Boys who have internalizing problems are invisible. Reviving Ophelia was actually a great book that brought Kohut's self-psychology into the mainstream but people came to the wrong conclusions from it: while teenage girls are anguished about their self-image, teenage boys are getting killed or winding up in jail.
by donmcronald | 2025-07-24 22:51:34+00:00
That would suck.

I bought INTC to hold for 10-20 years based on the promise of long term investment in domestic manufacturing. I didn't care if they took a decade to battle back. Seeing them sell of the foundry business would be enough for me to cut my losses before the titanic hits the ocean floor. They'd be a walking corpse at that point IMO.
by knome | 2025-07-24 22:51:39+00:00
there's a lot of interesting problems just in the networking.

if it took four years for a message to cross the void from where you are to the recipient, you certainly wouldn't want to wait a full eight years to see they didn't send a receipt message and only then retransmit.

eight years is some awful latency.

you'd probably want to send each message at something like a fibonacci over the months. so, gaps of (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc) would mean sending the message on months (1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 20, 33, etc) until you got a confirmation message that they had received it. they would similarly want to send confirmations in the same sort of pattern until they stopped receiving copies of that message.

spreading the resends out over time would ensure not all of your bandwidth was going to retransmissions. you'd want that higher number of initial transmissions in hopes that enough of the message makes it across the void that they would have started sending receipts reasonably close to the four years the initial message would take to get there.

if you had the equivalent of a galactic fido-net system, it could be decades and lifetimes between messages sent to distant stars and messages sent back.
by conductr | 2025-07-24 22:51:42+00:00
Interesting take. My son is in this summer right now. He can’t tie his shoes yet but can whistle pretty well. My passing theory on shoes, as opposed to my 80s experience, is twofold. First, the end of unstructured/unsupervised play outside means he’s rarely/never been in a circumstance where an adult hasn’t been near enough to tie them for him. Second, has to do with shoes themselves. I feel like no tie/velcro shoes didn’t exist past toddler sizes when I was young. Maybe they did but I’m sure they were severely limiting compared to the options available today. He’s even been using the pre-tied elastic laces for last year or more, I don’t remember those at all when I was a kid. I remember Velcro was a something a bully might target you for so most kids wanted out of them asap back then.

His need of this skill is lower than mine.

Another example is bike riding. I was all over my neighborhood by first grade and BMX was a dominant hobby. My son has practically zero interest in even learning how to ride. There’s no FOMO of his friends leaving him in the dust like when I was a kid.
by pornel | 2025-07-24 22:51:47+00:00
I like Hyundai's HDA much more than Tesla's.

With Tesla it's all-or-nothing, and when it inevitably drives poorly, I can only turn it off. It physically resists me turning the steering wheel while it's driving, and overcoming the resistance results in an unpleasant and potentially dangerous jerk.

OTOH in IONIQ I can control lane assist and adaptive cruise control separately. The lane assist is additive to normal steering. It doesn't take over, only makes the car seem to naturally roll along the road.
by amluto | 2025-07-24 22:51:50+00:00
The Internet is full of nice articles of people bragging about their RCE exploits that start with single-byte overruns or seemingly-weak type confusions, etc.

> Where does the attacker-controlled data come from.

The example I gave was an HTTP server. Attackers can shove in as much attacker-controlled data as they want. They can likely do something like a heap by using many requests or many headers. Unless the runtime zeroes freed memory (and frees it immediately, which GC languages like Go often don’t do), then lots of attacker controlled data will stick around. And, for all I know, the slice that gets mixed up in this bug is fully attacker controlled!

In any event, I think this whole line of reasoning is backwards. Developers should assume that a memory safety error is game over unless there is a very strong reason to believe otherwise — assume full RCE, ability to read and write all in-process data, the ability to issue any syscall, and the ability to try to exploit side channels. Maybe very strong mitigations like hardware-assisted CFI will change this, and maybe not.
by XorNot | 2025-07-24 22:52:11+00:00
Why are people showing up to tell other people they'll be sorry if they don't pay more for the same product now, but are also absolutely opposed to subsidies by the government?

I already own a perfectly adequate computer for my needs. In every possible way this won't affect me, and infact so long as the cheaper product is available for purchase it still won't affect me. If I'm a business I'll be 20% better off then other local businesses by continuing to not buy local anyway. If I'm consumer...well I'll just have more stuff I want.

And so on in this way you might want to go read up on The Tragedy of the Commons in economic theory and then reflect on what one of the primary roles of government actually is.
by pstuart | 2025-07-24 22:52:17+00:00
I do think that they want America to be great, but only in the sense of "we're number one!" (chanted incessantly). Day after day I see nothing that shows that they know what they're doing (other than following the Project 2025 playbook).

I abhor partisan politics and would have no issue pointing out the plentitude of failures that happened under Dem leadership. But the Right has this One Weird Trick where they make everything political (in a partisan sense) and the act of criticizing a policy or whatnot on its merits then becomes a "biased political opinion".

Tariffs are being used in an attempt to replace income tax (Trump has been clear about that), with a benefit of being a weapon to punish perceived enemies and with a bonus of being yet another thing he can be bribed on.

I do think that Trump is pure evil -- there's zero redeeming qualities about him. Please correct my assumption if you have anything.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-24 22:52:37+00:00
The capitalist class has always conspired to keep labor down.

Meanwhile, a lot of laborers in our profession have fallen for their propaganda of markets and so-called meritocracy, not realizing they have more in common with the fruit picker than their common exploiter.

Class warfare is real. It's time tech workers wake up to that fact and start fighting back instead of letting oligarchs walk over them.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-07-24 22:52:38+00:00
I can't put my finger on it, but it also seems to prefer doing that for some topics than others. Some videos will have the effect you describe, while others will basically just disappear the whole topic after you watch the video. So far it feels like it prioritizes spamming you with videos on the same topic when the 'seed' video is shorter, more sensational and has some other elements of making the video more 'addictive'. Like it's trying to push you towards Shorts.
by moomin | 2025-07-24 22:52:41+00:00
You’re making a very good point here. We’ve always known that malign forces of various varieties will exploit the vulnerable in society, and we’ve definitely experimented with trying to imprison every last one of the vulnerable sucked into criminality. The War of Drugs has pretty definitively demonstrated this strategy doesn’t work. Poverty has been a national security issue for some time.
by adsharma | 2025-07-24 22:52:44+00:00
I see some discussion here about protobufs being widely used and preventing innovation because it's good enough and comes from Google.

I see a second effect that's probably more regressive: using protobufs (designed for RPC) as a database schema definition language or a disk data structure description language.

Much prefer something like typespec to describe types.And then derive the rpc and disk schema languages from that programatically.

My first attempt was to use the flatbuffer schema language as a starting point. But being attached to a serialization format can be a net negative. Did not find traction.

Motivation: can not stand field numbers in a database schema when other migration mechanisms exist.
by chrisg23 | 2025-07-24 22:52:56+00:00
Thank you for your reply. Good food for thought. ----- "LLMs are trained in the annoying American way of starting with something positive, even if it's irrelevant, or isn't meant." Agree. LLM's make me feel like I'm in kindergarten and need positive reinforcement at every step of the way to be intellectually curious.
by umeshunni | 2025-07-24 22:52:56+00:00
RuPay isn't an implementation of UPI - it's an alternate payment network like STAR etc in the US. As a matter of fact, it's only recently that RuPay and UPI were connected:

From 8 June 2022, RBI allowed the linking of RuPay credit cards with India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI). In the absence of a physical card, customers can use their credit limit through for transactions.
by cooper_ganglia | 2025-07-24 22:54:01+00:00
I think that means there's a biblical mandate to evangelize and convert Jews to Christianity, but it doesn’t change the fact that there is no scripture requiring Christians to support the modern nation or government of Israel.

To me, Romans 9:8 and Romans 11:13–32 (especially verses 30–32) summarize this well. In Romans 11:26-27, Paul is referencing the promise in Isaiah 59:20:

“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the Lord.

But that promise is conditional, it’s directed at those who repent. And you can't repent of the sin of denying the Holy Spirit, the very testimony of Christ, if you refuse to even acknowledge that He exists!
by slefsacrifice | 2025-07-24 22:55:14+00:00
> the Pentavirate at The Meadows!!

Nice “So I Married an Axe Murderer” reference!

It appears that Lip-Bu used an LLM to help write this memo. Also: 15% of staff with an arbitrary 50% management? Boy, he must have been up all night working on that one! Maybe everyone can have an ice cream social when they return- bring your own.
by jmcphers | 2025-07-24 22:55:29+00:00
VS Code's complexity is due in large part to its extensibility. It has the biggest, most robust extension API of any modern editor. Extensions don't get to run on the main/UI thread but run in a separate process that communicates with the main window over RPCs. This necessitates a lot of plumbing and layered generics but makes the main UI fast/stable and was a key innovation over other editors at the time (cough Atom cough).

The API is so good that a lot of core VS Code behavior (e.g. Github integration, support for lots of languages) is implemented in the form of built-in extensions.

It is possible to get 80% of VS Code's functionality with 10-20% of the code if you just bake everything into one monolith, but this has been tried repeatedly and it keeps failing in part because the extension ecosystem and attendant network effects form a wide moat.

(disclaimer - I work on Positron)
by donmcronald | 2025-07-24 22:55:33+00:00
It's not just drivers. I'd line up to buy a a couple 24GB B580s to play around with local AI, but they're only going to be available in workstation systems. When it gets to the point where you're losing, but still won't sell people things they want, I think it's a good indicator that management is just plain dumb.
by jrpear | 2025-07-24 22:55:49+00:00
For those install scripts which allow changing the install prefix (e.g. autoconf projects---though involving a built step too), I've found GNU Stow to be a good solution to the uninstall situation. Install in `/usr/local/stow` or `~/.local/stow` then have Stow set up symlinks to the final locations. Then uninstall with `stow --delete`.
by op00to | 2025-07-24 22:56:06+00:00
I want him to realize that he achieved what he did not because he’s somehow better than people whose skin is darker than his, but because he was very lucky in where and when he was born, who his parents were, etc. I want him to realize that pulling up the ladder behind him (he often says that minorities don’t deserve the same benefits of society that he got) does nothing but make life worse for other people.
by LucCogZest | 2025-07-24 22:56:44+00:00
To better understand the mental processes involved in falling asleep, Luc P. Beaudoin proposes the Somnolent Information-Processing (SIP) theory, which will soon appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Sleep Theories and Models.* Simply put, this theory helps explain how our minds decide it’s safe and appropriate to fall asleep, and why certain mental habits can get in the way.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-24 22:57:08+00:00
Nah, nothing that extreme. The broadcast range and bandwidth of even current technology in space could handle a huge amount of fairly rapid data transfer between the two planets.

It would be more like a handful of satellites, some orbiting earth, some orbiting mars, and then a handful of relay satellites serving as intermediaries.

Don't count on playing e-sports competitively, though.

The lag under ideal conditions would be insane, about 2.5 minutes each way (when the planets are "only" 40 million kilometers apart), but with repeaters and overhead probably closer to twice that.
by kinakomochidayo | 2025-07-24 22:57:16+00:00
Stablecoins are tokens issued by a centralized issuer that is backed by fiat and /or US treasuries (especially for USD stablecoins). This would mean USDC by Circle, or USDT by Tether, but there are more stablecoins issued by others as well.

Itch could update the prices pegged to BTC or ETH, yes, but they'd either want to keep them, or liquidate them to USD, in which case there is risk of fluctuation between when the token is sent, and when it's liquidated.
by uses | 2025-07-24 22:57:20+00:00
Doesn't this type of thing prove that we can just... start manufacturing things domestically if we really wanted to? Which would presumably be when it actually makes sense to do so? But it mostly doesn't right now, so we mostly don't.

There are certainly benefits to being able to make something down the block and quickly iterate. But that's a different thing from industrial scale production. And if we really wanted that benefit wouldn't we just... do it?
by BeetleB | 2025-07-24 22:57:34+00:00
I recently got into handguns and training.

I recommend everyone who has access to it go into training where you take a real handgun that's been modified to shoot laser and has CO2 recoil. The setup is that you have a screen (perhaps all around you), playing out a scenario. You're in a convenience store, and something may happen that requires you to defend yourself.

Even with a fair amount of training, the adrenalin surge is significant, and the time you have to respond is very limited. Doing this eliminated any illusions I had regarding guns and safety. There's little time to rack the gun to put a round in the chamber. And if you haven't done it, it's not easy to rack a gun (you need the right grip, angle, etc). And racking can fail. Even I, with very limited experience, have experienced multiple failures while racking.

People mentioned videos where people practice doing all this, and time themselves. I saw a video where someone 3 yards away draws a machete and runs at the other person. The time he has to draw and defend is just not enough at 3 yards. One needs to actively dodge the machete while drawing. Adding the complexity of racking is almost a guaranteed failure. The person drawing was very experienced (and a handgun trainer), knew the attack was going to come, and still had a low success rate.

Other things I've had to unlearn:

"Why didn't they just shoot at the legs?" At short notice, in an emergency scenario, aim is very poor. People train for these situations to get a reasonable likelihood of hitting a person without needing to spend time aiming. And the primary way to do it is to aim at the body - not arms/head/legs.

"Why did they have to shoot the person 3 times?" See above. Aim is hard, and there's a good chance of missing. When your life is on the line, you are not going to shoot once and check if it hit. You'll shoot 3 rounds quickly. When I did the simulator, I often shot 4-6 rounds without even realizing it (and was told by the instructor to keep it down).

This may be hard for some to believe/digest. As I said, I didn't believe it until I was put in those (simulated) situations.

Another thing I thought was crazy: People sleeping with a loaded gun by their bed. A guy did a video where an intruder was in the house and running towards their room. They timed different scenarios (unloaded with magazine on the side, different gun safes, etc). He succeeded only with one particular gun safe, and only with the gun fully loaded.

If I ever keep a gun at home, it will not be for "defend against an intruder in the middle of the night". It's just too risky to keep a loaded gun next to your bed. But if you have good reason to believe someone is after you, this is the only way to go.

Having said all that, if I carried a gun, I'd likely not have a round in the chamber. But that's really me saying I'm not going to carry a gun for safety purposes.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-24 22:57:52+00:00
Not being the #1 priority is very different than not caring at all. It may feel that way when trying to sell the alternative, but the merchant would still disagree at the end of the day.

The alternative to new competition (which would probably also raise its rates as soon as it became popular enough) is regulation on the fees, as seen in Europe. This makes some sense as the problem is less with the capabilities of the systems which exist today and more with the size of the fees of established players. I don't see the US going down this route any time soon though.

Most likely, in my mind, is the world (and maybe eventually the US) moves away from US based solutions in this space over the coming decades as other governments continue to consider this something to act on.
by asabla | 2025-07-24 22:57:53+00:00
For ChatGPT and DeepResearch yes, not when using the API. I guess you could just return empty results if you want to offer other tools as well (can't test it now, since custom connectors only supports Workspace or PRO accounts for this moment).

Quote we're talking about: > To work with ChatGPT Connectors or deep research (in ChatGPT or via API), your MCP server must implement two tools - search and fetch.

Reference links:

- Using remote MCP servers with the API: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-remote-mcp

- Which account types can setup custom connectors in ChatGPT: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connectors-in-c...
by kindkang2024 | 2025-07-24 22:58:36+00:00
> why do all these business leaders all do the same

Simple. These companies need enough 'fitness' in order to survive and thrive. No one has the power to fight against the Nature’s Wille—survival of the fittest. They have to obey, especially when faced with the ruthless, life-and-death competition of the commercial world.

P.S. Hoping this comment doesn’t get downvoted too much and end up dead, not surviving.
by benced | 2025-07-24 22:58:55+00:00
People always cite the first-order benefits of this regulation but don't look into anything else. To be clear, I haven't either but what I would look for is: - are real prices cheaper for consumers? - is economic activity higher or lower (i.e. maybe credit cards encourage purchases?) - does making credit cards a less lucrative business lower credit card penetration? - is lowering credit card penetration, particularly for people bad at doing interest math a good thing? - is making cash or debit cards relatively more appealing good?

My vague impression is that the studies on these questions are mixed (am I wrong? A quick Google found several EC funded ones which I'm a little suspicious of). Note that the US has 4 credible payment processing networks but the fees have remained constant. My suspicion is that 3ish% is the optimal value or a very large anti-trust investigation (not a price cap) is in order.