MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by foldr | 2025-07-14 11:00:59+00:00
> But I think it's a mistake to shrug it off and assume the fact it was the Post Office had nothing to do with how it played out.

I agree. My only aim here was to correct some of the wild misconceptions about the powers of the Post Office that pop up in these threads. It’s one thing to suggest that the Post Office was given special deference by the CPS and other parts of the legal system. It’s another thing to suggest that the Post Office has its own judges, or that the Post Office has some kind of unique legal power to bring private prosecutions. Unfortunately, serious factual errors of this kind tend to get passed over lightly in pile-on threads where everyone wants to vent their (justifiable) anger at the Post Office. People expend more energy responding to my factually accurate posts (probably because I don’t redundantly rant about how awful the Post Office is) than they do correcting blatant misinformation.
by polivier | 2025-07-14 11:01:13+00:00
I started looking into bitcoin when it was at around $3, but never made a move to buy any. I have some regrets, but when I stop to think about it, I would clearly have sold everything when it reached $10 or something. So I haven't passed up the opportunity to make millions, I only passed up the opportunity to make a couple hundred bucks.
by conjohn86 | 2025-07-14 11:01:14+00:00
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by throw0101b | 2025-07-14 11:01:32+00:00
> And of course just a storage of value.

See also gold.

At some point it did make sense as a currency because of its hard-to-fake nature, but once governments became stronger and regulations and documentation became more strict, gold was not needed anymore. (And gold has all sorts of downsides [1] too.)

But there seems to be some 'nostalgic valuations' for it, and Bitcoin now has the same psychological appeal.

[1] https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...
by randomtoast | 2025-07-14 11:01:37+00:00
Let's face reality: as soon as you browse the internet, you will be tracked and identified. Here are just a few data points used for fingerprinting:

IP address, User-Agent string, Referrer URL, Requested URL, Language, Locale, Screen resolution, Time zone, System time, Installed fonts, Installed plugins, Cookie data, Browser fingerprint, Canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, AudioContext fingerprint, Mouse movements, Click paths, Keyboard input timing, History sniffing, DNS queries, Destination IP addresses, HTTP traffic content, HTTPS metadata (host, SNI, timing), MAC address, Query parameters, Session ID, Login status, User account info, Geolocation (via IP), Geolocation (via browser API), Page interaction data, Time on page, Scroll behavior, Clicks, Form submissions, Browser type, OS type, Network provider, Client ID (\_ga cookie), Session ID, Timestamp, Pages visited, UTM parameters, Interaction events, Google Ad ID, DoubleClick cookie (IDE), Cross-site behavior, Cross-device behavior, Inferred demographics, Mouse tracking, Scroll depth, Video interactions, Audio interactions, Session replay, Keystroke logging, Facebook login status, Pixel events (Meta, LinkedIn, etc)

If you want to avoid that, you need to make a real effort (not just using DuckDuckGo). The Tails operating system might be a good place to start.
by derbOac | 2025-07-14 11:01:40+00:00
> afraid of knowledge and don't want to look weak

I've come to the conclusion this is basically it, aside from corruption.

Intellectual weakness and cowardice, avoiding what you can't actually do or don't understand.

In the case of anything space related though, I'd look to corruption, trying to cut public resources to reduce competition with private equivalents, shifting money from something publicly owned to something privately profited from.
by bspammer | 2025-07-14 11:02:38+00:00
The best antidote to this kind of thinking is to realise you would have been tempted to sell so may times over the last decade, that there's close to zero chance that you'd still be holding it today.

To make a lot of money with bitcoin you either need to have been a true believer for a ridiculously long period of time, or find the password to an old wallet you'd forgotten about.
by pmkary | 2025-07-14 11:03:04+00:00
I wonder why they should make iOS specific engines. To be honest only two things come to my mind: Shortcuts Integration and WebExtensions. Currently Orion is trying to bring extensions but I think there is a lot to be done for that to be considered operational and if that proves to work, then only remains Shortcuts which only lets you inject JS, or say get the content of a page from a "Safari" web page (while I think every webview is basically a Safari page).

That brings me to this: Chrome extensions are valuable and we know as early as the rumors of Apple being forced to open up, Google started working on iOS port, but really, is there any justification for bringing a browser engine to iOS? I really don't understand how will it be beneficial when the user probably will notice anything.

Also we only have like four players to enter: Google (which will come), Mozilla (broke and miss-managed as hell), GNOME Web (will never come), Ladybug Browser (they are crazy and will definitely come someday, but it takes a long time for them to be an actual player)

So my question is: Will all this effort even fruit?
by SideQuark | 2025-07-14 11:03:27+00:00
Prices change due to inflation among other things, which is over 50 % from that time period. And given that the median house age (not median age of sold house!) is 40 years, you did buy a much newer house than the majority of people have.

A few years back, median age of sold house was 27 years. So by that metric you bought even a newer house than the majority of house sales.

Your 1997 house is almost certainly much larger than the median 1950 house.

And, your single data point in no way invalidates aggregate statistics.
by kruador | 2025-07-14 11:04:08+00:00
It wasn't possible on the 386. Ken Shirriff discusses how the Intel 80386's register file was built at https://www.righto.com/2025/05/intel-386-register-circuitry..... Only four of the registers are built to allow 32-, 16- or 8-bit writes. Reads output the entire register onto the bus and the ALU does the appropriate masking. The twist is for the legacy 16-bit upper half-registers - themselves really a legacy of the 8080, and the requirement to be able to directly translate 8080 code opcode-for-opcode. The output of these has to be shifted down 8 bits to be in the right place for the ALU, then these bits have to be selected.

AMD seem to have decided to regularise the instruction set for 64-bit long mode, making all the registers consistently able to operate as 64-bit, 32-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit, using the lowest bits of each register. This only occurs if using a REX prefix, usually to select one of the 8 additional architectural registers added for 64-bit mode. To achieve this, the bits that are used to select the 'high' part of the legacy 8086 registers in 32- or 16-bit code (and when not using the REX prefix) are used instead to select the lowest 8 bits of the index and pointer registers.

From the "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual":

"In 64-bit mode, there are limitations on accessing byte registers. An instruction cannot reference legacy high-bytes (for example: AH, BH, CH, DH) and one of the new byte registers at the same time (for example: the low byte of the RAX register). However, instructions may reference legacy low-bytes (for example: AL, BL, CL, or DL) and new byte registers at the same time (for example: the low byte of the R8 register, or RBP). The architecture enforces this limitation by changing high-byte references (AH, BH, CH, DH) to low byte references (BPL, SPL, DIL, SIL: the low 8 bits for RBP, RSP, RDI, and RSI) for instructions using a REX prefix."

In 64-bit code there is very little reason at all to be using bits 15:8 of a longer register.

This possibly puts another spin on Intel's desire to remove legacy 16- and 32-bit support (termed 'X86S'). It would remove the need to support AH, BH, CH and DH - and therefore some of the complex wiring from the register file to support the shifting. If that's what it currently does.

Actually, looking at Agner Fog's optimisation tables (https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf) it appears there is significant extra latency in using AH/BH/CH/DH, which suggests to me that the processor actually implements shifting into and out of the high byte using extra micro-ops.
by markanton | 2025-07-14 11:04:10+00:00
Nice project but there are several dozens of “AI/LLM gateways” now.. all kind doing the same thing. Kong AI gateway [1] was maybe the first to attack the LLM traffic governance and is indeed far ahead in both features and adoption. Trying to understand the value add and differentiator here, since it’s a problem kinda solved already.

[https://github.com/Kong/kong]
by sweezyjeezy | 2025-07-14 11:04:22+00:00
BTC is a (roughly) net-zero enterprise, every dollar taken out of the system comes from someone else putting a dollar in. Sure, if you had a crystal ball you could have made millions, but if everyone else ALSO had that same crystal ball you couldn't, since traders are mostly just shuffling money between themselves anyway.

There's no point kicking yourself over not foreseeing a far-fetched future scenario, if you were at a casino and a roulette spin landed on 12 - would you feel bad for not betting on that happening, despite having no good information it would land on that?
by sealeck | 2025-07-14 11:04:37+00:00
> it is clear that Apple only moves exactly as far as the EU forces it to

I don't think this is a secret - Apple publicly opposes these kinds of laws.

> And within the limits the law allows, they're doing everything they can to make it tedious and difficult to actually get alternative apps stores or browser engines on their OS.

Sure, it's unclear what the EU can do to oppose this though. If they push too far they risk invoking the wrath of the much more powerful US government.
by 6510 | 2025-07-14 11:04:57+00:00
You don't know if it works, that's the whole point. European investors are like: How do I know 100% for sure this company will be a success? Why do I need this product? I have a car with chauffeur, why do I need a taxi app? I have a cook and a butler, why do I need a food delivery app? Pitching the LLM would be outright offending.
by throw0101b | 2025-07-14 11:05:38+00:00
> And there is no other asset that does that with as little inflation and risk as Bitcoin.

LOL. Having 30% drops is not 'little risk':

* https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/bitcoin-btc-price-plunges-bu...

Or 50%:

* https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/bitcoin-whats-going...

I want a 'store of value' to be fairly predictable, and even with inflation (generally 0-4%) fiat currencies have that (I can plan around that by investing in bonds and equities, or even some bank savings products).
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-14 11:05:45+00:00
My version of the basics is slightly different but very close.

1. A 1080p screen with a reasonably good backlight. 100% scaling is just fine thank you.

2. Totally agree with the keyboard, if you can fit a numpad on that thing even better.

3. A functional touchpad. Precision and lag measurements certainly dont matter to me. I mostly won't be using it anyway.

4. Gigabit Ethernet, at least 2 usb-A ports, at least one hdmi or displayport port.

5. 3.5mm jack.

6. Reasonably modern cpu, it doen't have to be super fast.

7. Discrete GPU is a nice bonus

8. User replacable RAM, User replacable nvme drive.
by acdha | 2025-07-14 11:06:14+00:00
Look at why cryptocurrency hasn’t had much real-world adoption: almost nobody must have it. A strong fiat currency like the USD has tons of built in demand from the economy which uses it and all of the people who get paid or pay the government, but a weak fiat currency like bitcoin is highly volatile because it doesn’t have that baseline volume stabilizing things.

The speculators are hoping that Trump will give them what they’ve been hoping for: officially-backed demand. That helps with both volatility and simple volume, and if it comes with exemptions for some of the anti-money laundering or gambling policies it could allow some of the businesses which have stayed out of the American market to come in and drum up business.
by tobylane | 2025-07-14 11:06:35+00:00
> contemporary Oxford English

If you chose Oxford because of the Oxford English Dictionary, note that it's not regular en-gb, it's en-gb-oxendict. "the OED often favo[u]rs "-ize" (and its derivatives) over "-ise" for words derived from Greek roots, and may also include historical or less common usages."
by herrmaier | 2025-07-14 11:06:59+00:00
After months of conversations with experienced Magento 2 developers about AI tooling, the feedback is brutal: "AI delivers horrible code," "It's fundamentally stupid," "We tried it and went back to writing everything ourselves."

They're not wrong about their experience—they're wrong about the cause.

Recent METR research on AI-experienced developers found productivity reductions, not gains, when using AI tools for complex tasks. The problem isn't AI capability. It's that most developers treat AI agents like junior developers: throw requirements over the wall and expect clean code back.

This approach fails catastrophically because it ignores fundamental limitations like the "Lost in the Middle" problem, where LLMs degrade performance on long contexts, and error propagation in multi-step reasoning.

The implementations that work treat AI agents as specialized components in larger systems, with proper validation, error handling, and human oversight. Success comes from better architecture, not better prompts.

*Full technical breakdown of production-tested patterns inside.
by jakobnissen | 2025-07-14 11:06:59+00:00
I don't really think so. Areosol pollution is short-lived and kills a ton of people. So you get enormous downsides in the short run (WHO estimates 2 million people die of air pollution in China alone), and in the medium term, you don't gain anything in terms of warming. The underlying CO2 accumulation happens anyway, and as soon as the short-lived areosols and suphur dioxide rains down to Earth, the accumulated warming kicks in.
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by Cognitia_AI | 2025-07-14 11:07:34+00:00
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by webdevver | 2025-07-14 11:07:47+00:00
true but then it always goes back up 100%...

...which is why its not gonna plunge anymore. too many people have "seen" the pattern now, and the instant it dips even 5% people are gonna be buying "the dip" in droves, thinking this is gonna be their entry, this is their moment in the sun. "I've seen it do this before, I know how it ends, I gotta get in now!!!"
by FabHK | 2025-07-14 11:07:49+00:00
Sorry, one cannot make statements about crypto "long term" yet.

Nobody should hold large amounts of fiat long term. That's what shares and bonds are for, which incidentally also support productive enterprises (unlike crypto).

Long term, equity, debt, gold have pretty good inflation and risk profiles. Real rates have overwhelmingly been positive, so government bonds are a fairly good store of value.
by SideQuark | 2025-07-14 11:07:49+00:00
Gen Z has worked far less and is much earlier in that career than Gen X, among many other things.

Incomes for each income quintile at the same age shows Gen Z as having more income than Gen X did. They are also statistically much worse with money and expenses.

You can dig all this out of historical Census data. Find personal (or household) income by age group, do the same for each cohort over time, inflation adjust, and it's pretty clear.

So I can certainly argue they have higher quality of life than Gen X at each point in their lives thus far.
by zimpenfish | 2025-07-14 11:08:34+00:00
> Also, Rust compile times aren't that bad the last time I checked.

I dunno - I've got a trivial webui that queries an SQLite3 database and outputs a nice table and from `cargo clean`, `cargo build --release` takes 317s on my 8G Celeron and 70s on my 20G Ryzen 7. Will port it to Go to test but I'd expect it to take <15s from clean even on the Celeron.
by eru | 2025-07-14 11:09:03+00:00
Oh, that's what you mean. Yes, insurance is there to smooth out risks. And I agree that items you can self-insure, you probably should.

Similarly, I can't really understand insuring against expenditures that are certain. Eg insuring for the cost of routine pregnancy (as opposed to insuring for complications only). Or even worse: yearly allowances like 100 dollars flat for new glasses: just decrease my insurance premiums by that 100 dollars, please. (Unless it's a tax dodge, then it makes sense.)
by agumonkey | 2025-07-14 11:09:53+00:00
Trading is soulless, yet it gives some deep philosophical lessons about regrets, future... You never know if a positive outcome is too early or too late. So you just take what you got and move on.

About crypto early narrative.. there's some lesson here, nothing means nothing, things get twisted, blended, rebranded .. they wanted to replace the world, they're not part of it, as yet another asset. Sad, cynical but nothing surprising IMO.

That said there might be an offspring of all the distributed blockchain VMS that will emerge a new layer replacing the economic and information exchange in the future (I still believe this a bit).
by emt00 | 2025-07-14 11:10:06+00:00
Thanks for checking this out.

I built this after one too many rounds of debugging refund logic that lived partly in code, partly in Slack/Notion and in human HDD.

What it is: A minimal framework to define decisions (refunds, escalation, tiering) in YAML, run them in Python, and trace exactly what rule fired.

Not trying to be: - A full-blown policy engine - A DSL replacement - A product

Just something useful for when your business logic needs versioning, traceability, and tests but you don’t want to build all that infra from scratch.

Trace output → shows you exactly which rule fired and why Versioning → write your policies like code, diff them, roll back Testable → run them with real inputs, locally or in CI

Happy to answer: Why YAML? (it’s config, not code) How this fits in a real app What I’d add next if people use it

Use it. Abuse it. Feedback very welcome.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-07-14 11:10:13+00:00
Isn’t that the point of having a government with laws and regulation… to allow the majority to bully specific undesirable minority groups into submission?

For some things it’s even a worldwide consensus, e.g. any groups with a desire to acquire large amounts of plutonium (who don’t belong to a preapproved list).

There’s even a strong consistent push to make it ever more inescapable, comprehensive, resistant to any possible deviation, etc…
by agoose77 | 2025-07-14 11:10:22+00:00
I love this angle, and would take it further. I'm starting to think about AI in the same way that we think about food ethics.

Some people are vegan, some people eat meat. Usually, these two parties get on best when they can at least understand each-other's perspectives and demonstrate an understanding of the kinds of concerns the other might have.

When talking to people about AI, I feel much more comfortable when people acknowledge the concerns, even if they're still using AI in their day-to-day.
by agust | 2025-07-14 11:10:50+00:00
Browser engines define the capabilities of web apps and websites. When they don't support APIs or have bugs, they impact negatively web software.

Apple's WebKit is renowned to be lagging behind, refusing to implement crucial features and being rigged with bugs, hence limiting the capabilities and quality of web apps, and effectively preventing them to compete with native apps.

Getting other browser engines on iOS would be beneficial for developers, businesses and end user by making mobile web apps viable.
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by Fluorescence | 2025-07-14 11:11:11+00:00
Too often the only sites I find are broken in Firefox are "necessary" things like financial and medical things. I rarely see any issue with hobby and nonsense sites where "laziness" might be excusable.

It's the perverse incentives where companies with a captive audience that can't easily churn will be the ones that ship broken half-arsed sites and not care.

One phenomena I am seeing more that makes me boil with fury is infinite captchas in Firefox. If Firefox increasingly gets excluded "for security" then...
by webdevver | 2025-07-14 11:11:14+00:00
i actually used to like the hamster wheel. until i learned how much money people were making on crypto. now i dont like the hamster wheel...

crypto is a legit information hazard that threatens to completely demoralize the actually productive hamsters in the economy. if everyone knew they could've made more money in a year than their entire career, they'd give up working forever.
by joshvm | 2025-07-14 11:11:45+00:00
Speaking for the US stations, in the summer you can run outdoors. I don't want to say many people do, but there are always some.

Here's me from a few years ago, to give an idea of the clothing required https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at-the-pole/2021/01/week-...

Even at the South Pole, we have a 5k "Race Around the World" at Christmas, and a marathon shortly after New Year. In 2022, someone did an ultra. It's compacted snow/ice. Not easy terrain, but doable in your average pair of running shoes (with wooly socks). For the race events we normally ask someone to drive round the route a few times to compact it a bit more. On the coast at McMurdo there are routes that are more like traditional trail running - dirt/gravel, hills. I assume other stations are similar.

The more intrepid folks gave up when it got to around -50C and then it's treadmills until sunrise and it warms up again.

There's also a more pay-to-play marathon: https://www.icemarathon.com/ ($22k)