MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Adverblessly | 2025-07-25 14:29:44+00:00
I can't speak to other countries, but here in Israel at least, religion is highly correlated with number of children.

Focusing on jewish women, fertility rates for different levels of religion in 2021-2023:

Ultra-orthodox 6.48 Religious 3.74 Traditional-religious 2.81 Traditional, not so religious 2.20 Not religious, secular 1.96

So naturally over time the religious portion of the population grows.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-25 14:29:45+00:00
I'm not seeing the point here, TBH. What use-case does this author's single-binary satisfy?

1. You just want to serve static files from your blog? Install a webserver and knock yourself out in your editor, creating html and css (and maybe js) files.

2. You want to serve static files, with some dynamic crap stuffed inside here and there like the examples given in the article? Install the mod_php or equivalent for your webserver, and go mad with the editor.

3. You want fully generated content? Install one of the many backend frameworks in any language you want to use, and then go mad in your IDE.

What use-case does "one binary I wrote in Go" satisfy that isn't covered above? From everything I gleaned from the article, the PHP solution is even easier, while still technically being "one single binary".

EDIT: as an example of over-engineering, here is the authors code for a specific use-case:

func ipHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain") fmt.Fprintf(w, r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-For")+"\n") } ... http.HandleFunc("/ip", ipHandler)

And here is the equivalent in PHP:

header('Content-Type: text/plain'); echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-25 14:30:15+00:00
>That is not a simple test. Ask any straight person if they’d want to turn gay, the vast majority would say no. My guess is they’d say no if you asked the same question about their children.

The way you can wildly change the answer to this by changing the age, gender and marital status of the subgroup of straight people you ask is a lot more interesting than the answer itself is.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-07-25 14:30:29+00:00
That makes sense only if they also have legal responsibilities to go along with their rights.

Take for example PG&E, the large gas/electric utility for the northern 2/3rds of California. PG&E is a convicted felon and was sentenced to five years probation, but they remain un-rehabilitated.[0] Under your theory, the "group" with the rights should have been jailed. Instead, a new layer of rights is created out of thin air for the corporation but no meaningful responsibility was ever assigned, unlike individuals.

[0]https://liberationnews.org/pges-rap-sheet-the-criminal-histo...
by rybosworld | 2025-07-25 14:30:32+00:00
Yeah it's interesting that a RTO is included, as if remote work was somehow part of the problem. Intel's spiral started at least 10 years before remote work was normalized, and you can make a pretty good argument that they stopped innovating in the early 2000's.

This is a company that declined to supply chips for the iPhone because they didn't think the margins would be good enough. Consider how much that one decision has favored competitors. And that's just one bad decision of countless.
by tmsh | 2025-07-25 14:30:44+00:00
I agree on the surface. But where do we draw the line of choosing what we think (in our very limited human understanding of future events) is better for a child? Soon it’s GATTACA. As an extreme counter example consider if you could choose the race of a child. Or their melatonin levels. You might think one is “easier” for the child or even “better” for a happy life or something, but then at what point do you have that “right”?

I’m very pro-science but I also feel for the people with downs who are like - what? They’re going to end everyone like me in the future?
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-07-25 14:32:12+00:00
I spent months working on a dating website. Had Stripe configured, spent the whole time testing with it. Published the site, swapped Stripe to production, and boom, account was closed/banned.

According to their own documentation, dating sites are indeed allowed, so long as there's no adult content. The site I built didn't allow adult content. I argued my case, provided the TOS as well as showed that I had features built into the site to prevent that sort of stuff. Still banned. The next step was to go for CCBill, etc. But they all charge a ~$2,000 setup fee. Not happening.

It had so many features built into it, and was by far my favorite project. Sadly, I just unpublished it and it will probably forever sit in my project folder unused.
by ovi256 | 2025-07-25 14:32:22+00:00
> Cheetah robot can run 10.3 km with a 3 kg (465 Whrs) LiPo Battery

> the 33kg robot runs at 22 km/h (6 m/s). The total power consumption from the battery pack was 973 watts and resulted in a total cost of transport of 0.5, which rivals running animals’ at the same scale. The 76% of total energy consumption is attributed to heat loss from the motor, and the 24% is used in mechanical work

Cheetah was the robot built by Ben Katz, which then went on to electrify Boston Dynamics' dog.

Given we've had no major energy density or motor efficiency breakthroughs since 2015, I bet the above still holds. That's a 30 min run at full throttle BTW. So to escape the current killer bots, try to run above a 2h marathon pace for 30 minutes.

Source: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/108096/Effici...
by 9x39 | 2025-07-25 14:32:40+00:00
You experimented with your reduction in language such that it’s a banality now.

However, submitting to pimps is degrading, submitting to the violence and extreme sexual behavior of sex clients is degrading, and at least in most societies, losing one’s social place to perform sex work is also degrading.

Not all sw’ers, sure, some sw’ers are wealthy, sure a few are.

It’s just extreme arguments of the extremely online. Zero parents in this thread are encouraging their daughters to participate in such an industry.
by VegaKH | 2025-07-25 14:32:40+00:00
I agree with the premise of this post, but I'd like to see it made by someone else (and not only because this is on a furry blog.)Their argument is also poorly formed and poorly written.

They start by defending their use of furry art and railing against potential backlash from HN. Then spend a lot of words talking about how Collective Shout isn't anti-LGBTQ, but could potentially become anti-LGBTQ, but even if it's not anti-LGBTQ it's bad because it's anti-abortion. None of this is actually pertinent to the argument.

Then they talk about alternatives to Visa /Mastercard, such as crypto, WERO, FedNOW, petitions, blah blah blah. Next we move on to some good-old-fashioned self promotion, talking about how they helped save some library from the evil right wing politicians.

And the article ends without even making one coherent argument, which should be this: two American companies should not be able to dictate the moral standards of censorship for the world. They have too much power and too little oversight. Let's start with that.
by genewitch | 2025-07-25 14:32:45+00:00
DLSS really messes with the realism, however for actual gameplay it's less annoying to me than i thought it would be from such games as diablo IV and others in that cohort. If you want maximum quality, don't let an AI draw what the developers (artists) intended, just draw what the developers intended. i replied to a sibling comment with 4 photo mode screenshots, and you can see that there's a lot of variation in environment lighting, and all of the ambient light is pre-arranged by the design team and developers. In CP2077 a lot of quests are "go to <location> at dusk/dawn/night/noon, or between x&y time, because they want the scene to be cinematic, and it shows. Harsh fluorescent lighting on scenes with a doctor, muted, hazy interactions with a shady character or a scene with emotional turmoil, long shadows and lots of reds at the end of a story arc.

It really feels like they put so much work into how everything looks in the primary and secondary stories.

i can agree though that just "jobbing" it looks more like a run-of-the-mill shooter, though.
by monospacegames | 2025-07-25 14:32:49+00:00
Yes, but my point is that the article is constructed in a way that deliberately obfuscates that there is unrelated text following the phishing message (quoting my initial comment: The full email is definitely in the format "scary text here" "actual google message", so something like "Give us all your money or die has been created as a google app")

This led to the initial response here being quite frantic (some people even claiming that DKIM is now pointless) because presumably not everyone read the article to its very end where the actual explanation is, and then went back to the first image to realize that the author has been intentionally misleading to sell their cybersecurity services.
by ben_w | 2025-07-25 14:33:46+00:00
> Radiation is measured in gray, which is 1 J absorbed by 1 kg. I can't find the conversion between flux to absorbed dose. 5 gray is fatal. If even a fraction of that energy is absorbed, it would be fatal.

It's measured in a lot of different ways depending on the need, and the unit "sievert" is Gy times a conversion factor that depends on the kind of radiation (for equivalent dose) and which body parts (for effective dose): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Radiation_type_weighti...

But also, beta radiation (electrons) will be stopped by a thin sheet of tinfoil, while alpha radiation (helium-4 nuclei) by paper or the outer layer of dead skin on your body and therefore only matters if you eat a source of it, and a significant fraction of any gamma radiation you're exposed to will pass right through you without getting absorbed.
by azemetre | 2025-07-25 14:33:55+00:00
Could anyone recommend any plugins that turn asciinema recordings to SVGs that are currently maintained?

I'm aware of this one, which seems to be the only one actively maintained from when I lasted looked:

https://github.com/MrMarble/termsvg

Hoping others have different recommendations.

What would be nice about transforming to SVG is low bandwidth and ease of use for static sites.
by thechao | 2025-07-25 14:34:06+00:00
I do a lot of very low level programming with awful performance-maintenance trade-offs. Here's a great trick for a "binary" JSON: remove all of the extra whitespace, normalize your numbers, and the LZ4 the resulting string.

UTF-8 is already a great wire format.

I've never found a "binary JSON" that's significantly better than this; I mean you can beat it, but you need awkward encodings (prefix indices & other weird shit). You end up burning nearly-byte for any particularly clever integer encoding.

Most data structures are just nested arrays of integers. If you need an integer keyed OBJECT you're SOL, but I just play fiddly games with astral plane UTF-8 characters. (Yeah yeah yeah ad hoc encodings are nasty news.)

If you've got a BUTT LOAD of data just fire up a compressing SQLite DB like a normal human.
by kbody | 2025-07-25 14:34:09+00:00
There have been solid efforts with niche adoption that have quite nice UX like Umbrel [1] that allows installing all the mentioned and a ton more open-source apps [2] just by using a UI. It was spawned as bitcoin node hardware+software combo but expanded and is now primarily about self-hosting.

The rise of better home internet connections worldwide will make this even more attainable for more people. At least on my low-level EU country that has been always lagging to progress tech-wise, we've seen great progress on fiber internet adoption, so I have hope of acceleration.

[1] https://umbrel.com/umbrelos

[2] https://apps.umbrel.com/
by _neil | 2025-07-25 14:34:19+00:00
I haven't gone deep on prompting around health data specifically, but I've built some other data agents. Agree that there isn't always an easy path, depending on the domain. It might be worth exploring multiple subagents with different focuses. I.e., have one subagent that is going to focus on writing window function queries in order to find interval variations.

My general belief around data agents is to offload as much as possible to SQL.
by vel0city | 2025-07-25 14:34:52+00:00
Its probably B.

And it doesn't have to be some special fancy device. Lots of open source KVM platforms out there let you choose whatever device ID appears for your keyboard and mouse. Here's how to make your PiKVM show up as whatever monitor, keyboard, mouse, cdrom, flash drive, whatever you want.

https://docs.pikvm.org/id/

Unless you're not allowing anyone to use any kind of external monitor and you're not letting anyone use pretty generic and common external keyboard and mice your endpoint software is going to be pretty useless. Even if you give them a mouse and keyboard, all they have to do is tell the remote attackers "its a Logitech MK200 keyboard and mouse" and they can make the PiKVM look like a MK200 keyboard and mouse. Same if you try to limit it to only some specific monitor. EDID data can be easily faked, there's no cryptographic validation of USB device IDs or monitor EDID data at all.
by throwaway9151 | 2025-07-25 14:34:52+00:00
Correct.

Combine required/trendy KYC. With trendy reputation score and similar attributes for purchase/sale/trade. With machine agent automated decision flows. With pushing everything into digital. With near mono/duo/tri-opolization of goods/services.

Then, a near invisible control grid is almost complete.

But that's the goal on the face of it.

Let's use it for good, all.
by thmsths | 2025-07-25 14:34:53+00:00
We ran out of battery and fuel (I was on the backseat so I don't remember the exact sequence, I just remember the car basically losing power without much warning on the autobahn). The car was towed to a gas station were we proceeded to refill the tank, but the range extender would not start and the car computer was adamant we had to recharge. Which led to a quest to find a public charger in the middle of the night, after 2 failed attempts, we gave up and asked to be towed to our destination instead since it was close enough.
by const_cast | 2025-07-25 14:35:07+00:00
> If pixels somehow phoned home on a hardware level, do you think we wouldn't be able to tell?

Yes.

> Do you think we wouldn't see it in our network logs?

If it's done on the baseband processor, no.

I believe grapheneos has some sort of band band processor isolation, but I'm not sure exactly how it works.

But yes - your phone has a separate SOC, with its own operating system you can't access, which communicates with cellular networks. We don't know what, exactly, it's used for or what, exactly, is being transmitted. We do know it's used for location tracking because this is utilized by law enforcement somewhat regularly. But cellular triangulation isn't too accurate, not like precise location services.
by jones89176 | 2025-07-25 14:35:07+00:00
it's not always 9 pins. you can get pretty creative regarding the number and type of pins (high current, coax) you can fit in that shell:

DE with 2 High current contacts:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Sub#/media/Datei:D-Sub_conne...

DE with 15 contacts ("VGA"):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Sub#/media/Datei:D-SUB_DE-9-...
by torium | 2025-07-25 14:35:47+00:00
> Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers

I should create an account that posts nothing but the phrase "Stallman was right". I'd have work every day.

Anyway, I have a Pocketbook[1], recommended. Got the cheapest one, cost me something like 100 pounds. Doesn't need internet if you don't want it, and supports all the usual file formats.

[1] https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch
by RansomStark | 2025-07-25 14:36:12+00:00
simple answer no. OFCOM the regulator responsible for ensuring compliance has a nice guide on how you can prove you should be allow to see such filth: """ And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

- Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age.

- Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

- Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

- Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

- Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.

- Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18.

- Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours. """

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/a...
by layer8 | 2025-07-25 14:36:25+00:00
String.intern() doesn't reuse the data per se. It merely gives you a canonical instance with the same value as the String instance you invoke it on (unless it's the first time it is invoked for that value, in which case it returns the same instance you already have in hand). At that point the latter duplicate instance has already been constructed. The only benefit in terms of memory is that the duplicate instance might be garbage-collected earlier if the program stops referencing it and uses the interned instance instead.

Also, String.intern() can be quite slow compared to something like ConcurrentHashMap.putIfAbsent().
by fsloth | 2025-07-25 14:36:40+00:00
Not really an expert here but happy to share my path. My current goal is to maintain minimum flexibility, do some resistance training and keep some aerobic fitness.

If you have very little exercise from recent years, I really recommend finding a local personal trainer, explain you want a bare minimum personal program and start from there.

Once you know what your body can do under supervision you can think about how to develop routines that last your life.

Personally I bought some courses from GMB fitness for mobility and for some kettlebell stuff read the book ”Simple&Sinister” whose basic program I did for a year, and then started doing ”The quick and the dead” program from the same author. Now - the books are a bit weird and the motivational narration may be offputting but the exercises seem legit and effective.

I don’t know if any of the above is usefull at all for anyone else. But the basic science sort of goes you need some basic aerobic exercise and some resistance training. Free weights like kettlebell seem to offer best bang for buck since the basic exercises actually train a lot of the muscles at the same time.

The ”lets isolate the muscle groups and pinpoint these exercises” regimen might have it’s use but’s imho it’s sort overcomplicating the basic equation if you really are not training for anything particular and have no handicaps from injuries.

I understand the deadlift is a super effective and simple technique but I hate going to gym and don’t have space for anyhting else except kettlebell.

Like Scott Hanselman tipped - plan a routine that gives you least amount of opportunities for excuses.
by sloaken | 2025-07-25 14:36:51+00:00
Back then, the two (allegedly) extremest positions:

1) We are running out of room, need to target zero population

2) More people lead to more innovation. Grow grow grow.

I had some relatives that were convinced that population growth yielded pollution and thus damage to the environment. Therefore they had no kids. Of course, despite advocating for the environment they had a small private plane they enjoyed flying for fun.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-07-25 14:37:36+00:00
I tried librem and pine a year or so ago. As long as it is basic phone use ( phone, text ), it is ok for daily use. That said, the experience is nowhere near ok experience in terms of speed or responsiveness, when compared to most basic android phones. I do not know if that changed since, but librem left a bad taste in my mouth based on how they seem to operate. Pine, by comparison, was a lot more honest about its limitations.
by shrumm | 2025-07-25 14:37:40+00:00
> But what exactly is the value in having humans grovel through logs to isolate anomalies and create hypotheses for incidents?

Agreed! I think about this using Weakly's own reference to "standing on the shoulders of giants."

To me, building abstractions to handle tedious work is how we do that. We moved from assembly to compilers, and from manual memory management to garbage collectors. That wasn't "deskilling" - it just freed us up to solve more interesting problems at a higher level.

Manually crawling through logs feels like the next thing we should happily give up. It's painful, and I don't know many engineers who enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I'm very biased - working on an agent for this exact use case.
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-25 14:37:59+00:00
Why is it not enough to seek a well-educated person with a good demeanor and character, and to break off the relationship otherwise?

Why are these not of help: established background search services, video chat, location sharing, ID exchange, etc.

How do you know what "all the women" are sharing is even true?

Do you think it would be okay for men to also have an app to share dirty laundry about women? If not, why not? (I don't, but at least I am consistent.)
by singpolyma3 | 2025-07-25 14:38:22+00:00
It's interesting to me that recently people have started equating self hosting with having a physical server in your house.

Beyond that, the "how do I talk to other people if it's on my server" thing is generally solvable. Give them an account on your server. Don't want to need to make an account on every friend's server? That's why we have SSO technologies. I don't think. Self hosting and community collaboration need to be incompatible.
by bernoufakis | 2025-07-25 14:38:24+00:00
> I'd like to switch phones soonish and was looking at the fairphone 6 with /e/OS but feel deterred by its mid range specs which would probably limit its longevity. I would like to get away from google.

> Is waiting for the new pixel and then putting grapheneOS on it a good way forward? Seems weird to pick a google device to get away from that company.

> Has anyone else done the same?

I did end up going for a Pixel + GOS. Although it is conterintuitive to use a Google device to get away from Google, according to GOS developers themselves, the Pixel series were the only devices that met their strict requirements for security.

From personal experience, been using it for almost 3 years now, and it gives you 95% of the benefits of Android while giving you back control over your phone, and being generally more secure.

Just stay out of the radar of the leadership, they can be a bit abrasive, for the lack of a better expression.