MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kragen | 2025-07-11 17:04:15+00:00
I don't think any of tensions, classical conflicts, asymmetric conflicts, the amount of people with nothing left to "loose", or all of these together, are at particularly unusual levels compared to the previous 6000 years, though they're higher than they were 20 years ago. But, for most of that time, warfare was geographically localized; you could avoid directly experiencing warfare by not being a soldier and living inside a country that wasn't being actively invaded, or on the national border between two countries that weren't at war with each other or being actively invaded. Sometimes that was easier said than done, but most people managed it most of the time.

In the Drone Age, though, you can remotely pilot a quadcopter 4300 km away to blow up airplanes on the airstrip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb — or to blow up your political opposition, if you can guess where they are or will be. The US has been doing this for 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/former-drone-operators-s... (use Readability mode to bypass "this is not a paywall") but a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper costs on the order of US$100 million, so there are less than 400 of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper#In... while Ukraine's most popular drones cost on the order of US$300, can be 3-D printed in a basement, already cause 70% of casualties on the battlefield, and are produced in volumes approaching 10 million per year https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/03/world/europe/.... Many experts believe drones have made tanks obsolete on the battlefield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRqXBhnvCs.

Even without autonomous weapons, we're rapidly moving toward the future of borderless war without end so vividly envisioned in Slaughterbots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA. Ukraine is already an order of magnitude past the headline number it opens with, "Customer pilots directed almost 3,000 precision strikes last year."

If you want to see what precision strikes on the Ukrainian battlefield look like, plenty of Ukrainian military units have posted fundraising videos, so you can watch terrified conscripts dying all day long if you want to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjIgTJ-73v4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhQBf4VFMwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64TmBvbn1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXUqJAnAP9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoCxARDEio.

Those videos are a preview of what life will be like for you and your family in the years to come as war becomes borderless.
by Retric | 2025-07-11 17:04:18+00:00
You don’t need to extend the freeway into the city for it to cut down commute times, removing street parking is one of the ways to then speed up flows within a city. Often you have a ring road around the city with people migrating for there, but such rings can have more spokes going out and often more bridges going in.

Alternatively, going underground removes the noise and dust assuming the city wants to pay for it.
by SJMG | 2025-07-11 17:04:38+00:00
While electric vehicles do cause more road wear, applying that tax to most consumer vehicles is the joke. Road wear is completely dominated by semi-trucks.

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

The simplest method is to raise the HVUT, but we have so much data, we could assess miles driven * axel weight and charge a graduated fee based on that.
by lukan | 2025-07-11 17:05:02+00:00
"I think having a sort of "DMT Clinic" that you can go to would be the best middle ground "

Well, Ayahuasca (with DMT as the active ingredient) retreats seem more and more common and are for some reasons tolerated more and more in europe. Technically it is illegal, but I can still book them online.

But I won't, as I don't trust the competence of the average new age "shaman".
by lanstin | 2025-07-11 17:05:51+00:00
Where truth is treated with scorn, scientists and other geeky professions have to scurry into the shadowy corners; where the wealthy rule over the rest due to the confusion of wealth with virtue and truth; where the best instincts of humanity, for curiosity, exploration, compassion, and rationality are mocked and cruelty, disdain for intelligence, disdain really for anyone not like the cookie cutter mainstream really, are lifted up at the cost of all groups that can't or won't fit in.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-11 17:06:17+00:00
No I think the opposite conclusion is correct - turmeric starts out whole, and can be either ground down at that point or dried and sold whole. In the whole state, it's much easier to detect that lead chromate was applied.

If the turmeric is ground before sale, it's even easier to apply lead chromate and make the whole version "appear" healthier to the next processor who grinds it down and then sells the powder. If you buy it whole, then you can more easily see the color of the original root.
by ta8645 | 2025-07-11 17:06:38+00:00
Obviously this administration has no interest in the homeless, but I'm personally a little tired of all the ivory tower elites getting upset that their intellectual play toys are in jeopardy, when millions of people struggle for food and healthcare.

And this isn't a matter of "you can do two things at once"; we should provide for our own people _before_ we worry about cosmic inflation.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-11 17:06:41+00:00
I almost never get videos where people actually die unless I really want to (and usually, I don't). Lots of close calls, suggestive images, but an actual death caught on camera, no. Even the killing of animals is not something I see often, even though it is part of daily life for many farmers. Maybe some of it slips through, but algorithms tend to not let that kind of content pass.

If anything, I find mainstream news to be worse. They don't show the act of murder itself, but they are definitely going to show you a bunch of scenes and let your imagination fill the gaps. They constantly tell you how ugly the world is and how it is becoming worse. It is all war, natural disasters, climate crisis, overpopulation (or is it underpopulation), toxic chemicals, etc... Yes, these are real problems, but these are problems we solve. Wars end, natural disasters are better predicted and mitigated, we are using more and more renewable energies, it turns out that population self-regulates, toxic chemicals get banned and replacements are found, etc... It seems we are breeding a whole generation of people who think we are doomed instead of seeing all these things as obstacles to overcome.

Overall, I find social media more positive than mainstream news. I dislike how they turn our brains into mush, but we get more cute girls dancing and less massacres in Gaza.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-11 17:07:12+00:00
Ok, but you're a citizen, which is a higher status than a "permanent resident."

Actually, you fully can discriminate for or against local or state residency. I think national residence would be harder, though to be fair you're absolutely able to not hire non-residents.

Frankly the biggest barrier might be that as actual residents would get mad if you asked for proof, and if you didn't test everyone it would likely be an open-and-shut racial (or maybe national origin if you tested on the basis of accent) case.
by GOPbIHbI4 | 2025-07-11 17:07:19+00:00
Hey folks. I don’t know about you, but I kind of tired of this Dispose(bool disposing) nonsense that is used in vast majority of projects. I don’t think this “pattern” ever made sense to anyone, but I think it’s time to reconsider it and move away from it to a simpler version: never mix managed and native resources, and just clean up managed resources in Dispose method. No drama and no Dispose(boil disposing).
by deaddodo | 2025-07-11 17:07:35+00:00
This rule applies to most confucian/communal East Asian societies with individuals from the West. People aren't idiots, they realize cultures differ, so they're willing to give some slack; especially, with a culture they're somewhat familiar with through media (the US, for instance).

With Japan and Korea (especially the latter) towards Americans, there's also a soft-unspoken rule (that sort of goes both ways) due to the relationship those countries have fostered towards each other. A Brit/German/Italian/etc who spends more than a short visit in Korea/speaks Korean will probably start being taken to the side for flouting cultural norms like age-deference, polite speech, etc to be informed of their cultural mores (usually phrased with an indication that they also come from a structured society, they should understand that this is the way it is); while this will rarely happen to the same group of Americans. In some cases it's the "dumb/naive American" effect, but it also has to do with the larger relationship between the two countries.
by advisedwang | 2025-07-11 17:07:44+00:00
Do LVT proponents believe economic activity that requires minimal land ownership relative to the profit should be untaxed?

E.g.

* Offshore oil drilling

* Tech companies

* Fully remote CPAs

* Electricians

* etc

It seems very weird large sections of the economy become virtually untaxed, requiring a MASSIVE tax burden on the others. The simplicity of the LVT plan kinda hides that it implies a huge restructuring of the economy.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-11 17:07:46+00:00
>Yeah if only the L ran as often as it did ten years ago lol.

The price of good transit is everlasting vigilance. Make sure to always argue for increased funding.

A lot of people would rather spend another 10k annually owning a car vs 1000$ a year in additional taxes. Not to mention the more people drive the worst traffic is and the more miserable the actual experience or driving is.

My dream city would be more or less car free ( exemptions for emergency and commercial vehicles) with a full blow Autobahn as a connecting freeway.

When I drive I want to DRIVE. Not sit in traffic for an hour.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-11 17:08:05+00:00
Folks, let me tell you: nobody thought it could be done, but your favorite President (that's me, by the way) took on cosmic inflation and won, big league. We passed the spectacular Inflation Reduction Act - everybody's talking about it - and guess what? It didn't just tame rising prices here on Earth. No, no, we went ALL THE WAY. We ended cosmic inflation EVERYWHERE too. Incredible, right?

First of all, they said "not possible." Scientists, astrophysicists, even Big Foot was scratching his head! Nobody could figure out how to stop the universe from exponentially expanding faster than my rally crowds. But under my leadership, we negotiated the best cosmic deal. We deployed state-of-the-art interest-rate spinners on dark energy, put tariffs on runaway space-time, and - I'm not kidding - built the beautiful galactic wall to keep excess inflation out of the Milky Way!

The results? Beautiful. The universe has stabilized. No more exponential bloat! Stars remain at just the right distance, galaxies keep their perfect shape, and astronomers can finally retire their "Big Bang gone wild" theories! Our beautiful Inflation Reduction Act also saved trillions of light-years' worth of energy - making it green, making it lean, and letting us focus on what really matters: making America go WOW again!

Now the Fake News Media will try to discredit us: "Impossible!" they'll cry. But we know the truth. We have the best cosmic economists, the smartest black-hole negotiators, and let me tell you, they're all saying the same thing: "Sir, you've done what no one else could!" So join me in celebrating the greatest cosmic achievement in history. We've ELIMINATED inflation, not just here at home, but across the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. That's what winning looks like, folks!
by mrweasel | 2025-07-11 17:08:22+00:00
> I feel like I can't be the only one.

You're not, but you're also not the majority. I'm continually surprised that people are still on Facebook. I get why they use Facebook Messenger, or Facebook Marketplace, but the actual Facebook "news" feed? Have you seen that, it's ads or ads disguised as content... How the hell that thing isn't dead i beyond me.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 17:08:45+00:00
> Maybe if you're referring to iPhones and iPads.

Or the new laptops ;) They're no longer Intel Macbooks, and compared to laptops from other brands, the new Apple hardware seems way harder (although I'd confess to not having the experience of picking any of the M* models apart personally). https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-sc...

Didn't the latest iPhones have some sort of "repairability" push or something? Don't remember exactly, but seems to have given me the idea that Apple is moving towards making it easier to repair the iPhones specifically.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-11 17:08:48+00:00
Since billions of people eat turmeric every day (not the same set, but >1 billion each day, surely), if this was an issue we'd have known about it before now.

Yes we have known this is an issue for several years (https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/09/lead-found-turmeri...). Maybe you weren't aware.
by rvz | 2025-07-11 17:09:00+00:00
I read that too and these are the kind of statements which really tells you what happens when a profession embraces mediocrity and accepts something as crass as "Vibe-coding" which is somehow going to change "software engineering" even when adding so-called "AI agents" - which makes it worse.

All this cargo-culting is done without realizing that more code means more security issues, technical debt, more time for humans to review the mess and *especially* more testing.

Once again, Vibe-coding is not software engineering.
by dpifke | 2025-07-11 17:09:29+00:00
For all of GnuPG's faults, the usage you've described is exactly why I still use it. I have my master PGP key copied to several offline Yubikeys (one of which is stored offsite), and two day-to-day Yubikeys (one of which is always with me on my physical keychain) containing my current signing and encryption subkeys. The signing subkey is also used for SSH authentication. The second slot on the day-to-day Yubikeys is used for WebAuthn/Passkeys. The master key is brought out of storage only if I need to rotate or revoke a day-to-day subkey, or attest someone else's key for web-of-trust purposes.

I sign all of my Git commits, as well as Debian packages. I occasionally sign and encrypt email. My most important encryption use case is file backups, which are encrypted to my public key and copied offsite.

I'm excited about FOKS if it can serve as a modern alternative to the above, with fewer footguns that GnuPG.
by altcognito | 2025-07-11 17:09:31+00:00
This is about populism as a reaction to "elites", such as those who head universities and science. They are looking to eliminate or replace them. The reality is this has nothing to do with debt or deficit. I'm not sure why this isn't understood. They've done nothing to hide this fact. They've been clear that they are replacing the heads of both private and public institutions with those that are loyal to the party head.
by Bender | 2025-07-11 17:09:43+00:00
One way around that is to set up a cron job that queries the most common domains one visits hourly. When requested by workstations and cell phones they will be served up by cache. At least that is what I have been doing for a few decades and works fine. I block all the DoH/DoT resolvers which is easier to do than some might think. One can do the individual A records or just the apex A/NS records to get infrastructure cache and then configure Unbound to prefetch records about to expire.

Just for fun I have added some of these into my cron job.
by sdenton4 | 2025-07-11 17:09:57+00:00
There's two answers to that....

The first is, how do you know the subjective optimization your making is actually any good? You're just moving the problem back one layer of abstraction.

The second is, we did that, eventually, by training models to predict subjective listening scores from the giant pile of subjective test data we had collected over the years. (ViSQoL) It's great, but we still don't trust it for end-of-the-day, cross codec comparison, because we don't want to reward overfit on the trained model.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09584
by jgraettinger1 | 2025-07-11 17:09:58+00:00
> You can't do that for LLM output.

That's true if you're just evaluating the final answer. However, wouldn't you evaluate the context -- including internal tokens -- built by the LLM under test ?

In essence, the evaluator's job isn't to do separate fact-finding, but to evaluate whether the under-test LLM made good decisions given the facts at hand.
by ixtli | 2025-07-11 17:10:00+00:00
NDT made this clear like a generation ago: its absolute nonsense to cut science funding to get federal "spending under control". The amount that goes to all of this is a drop in the bucket compared to military and subsidies. hell, we spend 1/10th of the total federal science funding (~200bn) per year JUST giving free money to oil and gas companies. trying to "fix" spending this way, even if it was actually reasonable to try and do, is tantamount to trying to save to buy a house by eating two fewer avocado toasts per week.
by viktorcode | 2025-07-11 17:10:43+00:00
I'm not sure if you are serious or not with that proposition that would treat gatekeepers more strict than monopolies.

Regardless, I wanted to point out the obvious: each new broad regulation increases the cost of operating in the market where said regulation applies. The gatekeepers of today might not leave, but every new potential newcomer will calculate is it even worth it to operate in a market like that? Maybe it pays off to invest hundred of millions into lawyers and lobbying instead of technologies? Or maybe we'll skip EU market altogether (for reference, according to a courtroom statement Apple gets 7% of their revenue from Europe)
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-11 17:10:59+00:00
Just want to nit: none of those are sentence fragments, they are complete thoughts with a subject and a predicate. Yours kinda comes close to being a fragment but it really just omits what "are not" (the predicate) is referring to, which is included in prior context.

For example, a fragment with a missing predicate.
by rtkwe | 2025-07-11 17:11:01+00:00
On a similar vein there's Project Lyra which is a theoretical fly-by mission of ʻOumuamua or 2I/Borisov. The proposed trajectories to catch up are pretty crazy with my favorite being the 2030 launch for a 2052 fly-by that uses Jupiter and a close Sol 10 solar radii!) gravity assist to rocket out of the solar system [0].

It will be interesting to see if we've just been missing these extra solar objects. I have doubts we'll actually do a project Lyra style fly-by though. Funding is going the opposite direction and all.

[0] http://orbitsimulator.com/BA/lyra.gif and https://i4is.org/project-lyra-a-solar-oberth-at-10-solar-rad...
by jonathanlb | 2025-07-11 17:11:41+00:00
I'm curious whether you think that resistance is genuinely adversarial or more based on ignorance and institutional inertia.

For example, someone might have insights about the interconnectedness of all life and wants to transition to regenerative agriculture or communal land use, but face zoning laws that enforce individual property ownership. Or someone might experience ego dissolution and wants to create more egalitarian workplace structures, but runs into rigid corporate hierarchies.
by Lalo-ATX | 2025-07-11 17:11:54+00:00
absolutely.

energy is a time accelerator. You can do more, produce more, using energy.

all of our "wealth" is due to our application of energy. Maintaining and increasing wealth both require energy.

Some people look at the relationship between wealth and energy. And there's more than one way to look at it. I found this interesting for a really big picture perspective.

https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1021/2022/
by volkl48 | 2025-07-11 17:12:27+00:00
Kind of a thing that isn't uniquely difficult if you've ever worked in a laptop before, hard if you've never done it.

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The ZIF connectors for those fans aren't different or much more fragile than the ones in most other laptops.

The adhesives on certain cables tend to trip people up a bit with causing them to pull more than they should and damage things.

Gently working under and releasing the adhesives on those fan cables with the spudger (or a fingernail) before you even start trying to move/unplug them will work a lot better for not tearing things than grabbing them with tweezers will.

The TouchID cable is fragile. Still shouldn't be any serious risk of breaking if you know to treat it with caution, but that would always be the one to take the most care with and watch the most closely while you're working around it.

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The secondary challenge is pretty much just making sure you have all the cables out of the way when you're putting the board back in, because you've got a dozen or more that you need to watch the positioning of and/or tape out of the way.
by jjulius | 2025-07-11 17:12:36+00:00
>You aren't going to find them because Google does not care about discovery they care about ads.

I frequently post to two very small, hobby-specific phpBB forums with old-internet-style communities that I found by googling the hobby. The forums themselves were listed at the top of Google's results when looking for the broader hobby, and I regularly find specific posts in Google results when searching for very specific subject matter.
by geoffmanning | 2025-07-11 17:13:36+00:00
In the linked paper it mentions a specific strain that i, admittedly, used duck duck go's search ai response to come up with an answer, so you may want to verify:

"To increase Bacteroides uniformis in the gut biome, certain dietary choices can be beneficial. Foods rich in non-digestible carbohydrates, such as legumes (e.g., beans, lentils), are particularly effective as they provide the necessary substrates for Bacteroides uniformis to thrive.

Additionally, a diet rich in fiber, including sources like soybeans, inulins, unrefined wheat, and barley, can stimulate the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, including Bacteroides uniformis.

Consuming fermented foods that contain lactic acid bacteria, such as cultured milk products, can also increase levels of Bacteroides.

Moreover, plant-based proteins like pea proteins have been shown to increase gut-commensal Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus while decreasing pathogenic Bacteroides fragilis.

Finally, incorporating foods high in polyphenols, such as fruits, vegetables, tea, and cocoa, can also promote the growth of Bacteroides."
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-07-11 17:13:43+00:00
It's quite interesting to me that ChatGPT is in the 200s and 300s.

By almost every metric this is one of the 10 busiest websites, and some sources are already putting it in the top 5.

Are they just disproportionately not using Quad9?

I understand that there's a lot of overlap with Google having several spots in the top 50 itself, several being infrastructure like cloudflare and akamai, and several others being malware - but it still seems surprising.

It's just kind of shocking to see Slack, Zoom, LinkedIn, and even DropBox, Roku, and Yandex much higher up.
by smith7018 | 2025-07-11 17:13:50+00:00
The Big Beautiful Bill will add $4.5 trillion to the deficit in the next decade. If we hadn't passed it, we could have continued learning about cosmic inflation _and_ helped millions of people regarding food and healthcare and still saved trillions in the process. Of course, America would never do that, but our current issue is no longer "we should be helping people instead of doing unnecessary spending." Now we're squarely in "let's starve everyone of resources and give it all to the 1%."
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-11 17:13:57+00:00
i agree ideologically, but the cuts are all coming from one ideological group of people bent on omnicidal domination of the planet. to them, healthcare and food for poor people is literally as unimportant as space exploration (unless it benefits the revolving-door relationship). we who oppose this should not cede ground on anything because those who propose this will not, either.