MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobofan | 2025-07-14 11:12:18+00:00
> For example, if you’re making a game for a 24-hour game jam, you probably don’t want to prioritize clean code. That would be a waste of time! Who really cares if your code is elegant and bug-free?

Hate to be an anecdote Andy here, but as someone who has done a lot of code review at (non-game) hackathons in the past (primarily to prevent cheating), the teams that performed the best were also usually the ones with the best code quality and often at least some rudimentary testing setup.
by nathan_compton | 2025-07-14 11:13:02+00:00
I think part of it is that I just don't think of pain as per se bad. A lot of people I know who struggle with exercise feel a little discomfort and act like its the end of the world. They get shin splits or something and they decide they can't run. I've had mild shin splits continuously for 15 years. It doesn't really bother me in the same way, I guess. When I get back from a run if I lightly bump my shins its excruciating.

I will say that now that I am getting older its getting a bit tougher - the pain is worse and lasts longer and real chronic pain kind of bums me out, but I just enjoy the challenge of trying to work around my body.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-14 11:14:47+00:00
When I was active, most people I knew (that were active in crypto) sold most of their stuff prior to 2015-2017.

It was almost a rite of passage to make your exit-post once you reached your goal, or didn’t want the risk/stress. For most that included things like purchasing a home, car, paying off student loans, retiring your parents.

Most of the people I know that became rich off crypto, were those that went all in around 16/17/18. And many of those did buy/sell their way up. Or got lucky with meme coins etc.

I don’t know anyone that bought 1000 BTC in the very early days, and just held onto them with diamond hands. Nor do I know anyone that DCA’ed from 2012 up until today.

(Not that they don’t exist, probably a bunch of them)
by throwaway0351 | 2025-07-14 11:14:49+00:00
From what I understand, open source has no requirement to distribute the source for free, so long as the source can be freely distributed afterwards. Even GPL allows for fees. Open source is about freedom and not getting things for free.

GPL FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireA...

> If I distribute GPLed software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge?

> No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
by mindwok | 2025-07-14 11:16:06+00:00
Weird timing to see this, as I have come to the same conclusion and was writing a blog post on it. I think we need to start figuring out how to modify our economic system to prevent this, because as you pointed out the tech world is much more “winner takes all” than the physical world, and watching industries consolidate globally under a handful of players is extremely concerning.
by physicsguy | 2025-07-14 11:16:15+00:00
It's always going to be more work with composable libraries since they don't 'flow'.

Just picking one of the examples I gave, pagination - that requires (a) query param handling (b) passing the info down into your database query (c) returning the pagination info in the response. In Django (DRF), that's all built in, you can even set the default pagination for every endpoint with a single line in your settings.py and write no more code.

In Go your equivalent would be wrangling something (either manually or using something like ShouldBindQuery in Gin) to decode the specific pagination query params and then wrangling that into your database calling code, and then wrangling the results + the pagination results info back.

Composable components therefore always leave you with more boilerplate
by hippich | 2025-07-14 11:16:28+00:00
I thought about it quite a bit and I came to conclusion that it is not 100% alignment between consumer and insurance, like it would appear on the surface. To me it seems insurance in the long term is interested in health services becoming more expensive (bigger pie they can manage), but steadily. I.e. it will affect insurance negatively if costs will suddenly increase by alot in a single year while premiums are locked in. But if it will keep inflating steadily and predictable - it only gives them a larger chunk of cash to manage and profit from. There are of course limits, so it needs to align with income inflation to avoid situation where their pie is shrinking because people/government simply can't afford it anymore.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-07-14 11:17:43+00:00
> United States: The main patent is expected to expire around 2032. Monthly Price: $950 - $1,350+ (cash price without insurance)

While 2032 seems very far away now, its actually remarkably soon in the grand scheme of society.

My understanding is one of their defendable moats is the patent not on the compound itself, but on the injectors. Which is far longer.
by mindwok | 2025-07-14 11:19:20+00:00
Both things can be true. Amazon is great for consumers, Google is great for consumers, no doubt. But consolidation of economic power under tech juggernauts I would argue is a net negative for society over the long run. The tech giants are not at fault, neither are the consumers, the fault lies with the system in which they operate that allows one outcome while ignoring another (potentially bad) one. What we need to do is change the rules.
by 55555 | 2025-07-14 11:19:37+00:00
This is about to get way worse with AI. They'll be able to call you, say nothing, you'll answer, "hello?" and then hang up and by then they've cloned your voice and left a message on your parents' answering machine that sounds like you begging for them to transfer money because you're in danger. They'll be video calling everybody on linkedin with a job in accounting and will have the face and voice of their boss, asking them to transfer money. The situation is about to be terrible, and the only thing keeping it remotely in check is that most people choose to be somewhat moral.
by perihelions | 2025-07-14 11:20:01+00:00
No; the budget cuts the Earth Science division (encompassing MODIS et al.) in half[0]. You need only query at the budget request itself[1] to see it does so with wilful malice, under the rationale that climate science is "woke" and a "radical ideology"[1].

[0] https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/as-nasas-budget... (.... It called for a 24% overall cut to NASA's budget, including a 47% reduction in Earth science funding...")

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal...

> "The recommended funding levels result from a rigorous, line-by-line review of FY 2025 spending, which was found to be laden with spending contrary to the needs of ordinary working Americans and tilted toward funding niche non-governmental organizations and institutions of higher education committed to radical gender and climate ideologies antithetical to the American way of life."
by throw0101b | 2025-07-14 11:20:36+00:00
> true but then it always goes back up 100%...

So far.

It took gold, another popular 'store of value' commodity, several decades to reach its previous peak originally reached in 1980 (blue line):

* https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/11/07/CMD_GLDNFLT0711_VF...

There was ~20 years of it not doing much. Then ~10 years post-GFC of it not doing much. A lot of folks are looking at headlines and making long-term conclusions that certain things are inevitable:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias

> ...which is why its not gonna plunge anymore. too many people have "seen" the pattern now […]

And how many times has the 'stock market plunging pattern' have we seen? Does that prevent people from panicking? As someone who has been in /r/PersonalFinanceCanada for many years now, the panicked posts of March-April 2020 were very real.

There is an entire field of study examining how people act badly when it comes to money:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

People still think they can pick winning stocks and beat the market consistently over the long-term:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-07-14 11:21:33+00:00
I think the difference between you and I is that I am trained to adopt whatever ontology I must in order to understand the subtlety and nuance of various physical theories, without experiencing existential angst or cognitive dissonance. My education did not infect me with epistemology disease.

In case you want to understand the differences further, your "Truth" is to me a figment of your imagination; to be quite clear the existance of an objective physical reality is not a given, the error of insisting the opposite is an enormous failure of imagination, and imagination is more important than intelligence.
by graycat | 2025-07-14 11:21:35+00:00
Seeing Musk's announcement of his Grok 4, three questions:

(1) Is there a function from the plane to the real line that is 0 on the Mandelbrot set in the plane, strictly positive otherwise, and infinitely differentiable?

If so, then what function?

If not, then why not?

(2) In the Kuhn-Tucker conditions, are the Kuhn-Tucker and Zangwill constraint qualifications independent? For an answer, give a proof.

(3) Given a triangle ABC, using Euclidean construction, inscribe a square so that each corner of the square is on a side of the triangle.

I solved this one in the 10th grade.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-14 11:21:51+00:00
That sounds surprising. As an European, I thought that UK only thinks their English is the dominant one, because it's the one officially taught everywhere. Meanwhile, the reality is, people learn English primarily from Hollywood and MTV; music, video, television and computer games are both the primary exposure and the main reason for people to pick English up, and they're almost all in US English. Secondarily, computers - the OS, software, SaaS - all of that is either in US English or localized to wherever the users live, and even then the US English version is usually better.

Nobody actually uses UK English here, except for English teachers. Computers don't. TV doesn't. Corporate jobs don't. And so regular people don't either.
by nathan_compton | 2025-07-14 11:21:57+00:00
I don't know dog, that is a pretty bold statement given everything we can presently firmly say about the universe.

Like we can imagine some kind of purely deterministic thing going on but when the rubber meets the road the best ways of working stuff out seem to very strongly imply some fundamental indeterminism. No one likes it, but thats the way it is.
by varispeed | 2025-07-14 11:21:59+00:00
Trump’s administration - stacked with figures who openly parrot Kremlin talking points - doesn’t need to fly a Russian flag to serve Moscow’s interests. Undermining NASA, cutting science funding, and hobbling strategic assets like the James Webb isn’t just budget theatre - it’s part of a broader effort to erode US soft power, fracture alliances, and retreat from global leadership. The US got pwned by Russia and security services are stuck in a paper bag.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-14 11:22:20+00:00
> It has the I/O effect

it does not, because it can take a vtable that does not call i/o

concretely:

const VTable = struct { f: &fn (*VTable) void, }; const A = struct { io: IO, v: VTable = .{ .f = &A.uses_io }, fn uses_io(this: *VTable) void { const self: *A = @fieldParentPtr(.v, this); self.io.some_io_fn(...); } }; const B = struct{v: VTable = .{.f = &void_fn}}; fn void_fn(_: *VTable) void {} \\ WHAT IS THE COLOR OF THIS FUNCTION? pub fn calls_vtable(v: VTable) { v.f() }
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-07-14 11:24:02+00:00
This post feels a bit meandering.

One point which I consider worth making is that LLMs have helped enable a lot of people solve real world problems, even if the solutions are sometimes low quality. The reality is that in many cases the only choice is between a low quality solution and no solution at all. Lots of problems are too small or niche to be able to afford hiring a team of skilled programmers for a high quality solution.
by benterix | 2025-07-14 11:24:03+00:00
> Forget Kubernetes, Redis

While I agree with you, these two are the boring tech of 2025 for me. They work extremely reliably, they have well-defined use cases where they work perfectly and we know very well where they shouldn't be used, we know their gotchas, the interest around them seems to slowly wane. Personally, I'm a huge fan of these, just because they're very stable and they do what they are supposed to do.
by FabHK | 2025-07-14 11:25:09+00:00
I don't think the title implies that Google is tracking DuckDuckGo searches directly, just that using DuckDuckGo instead of Google often doesn't prevent Google from tracking you. The article also makes clear that using DuckDuckGo is an improvement, just not enough.

Furthermore, I don't see any intimation in the article that Google owns DuckDuckGo.

All in all, it seems you and the article are on the same page.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-07-14 11:26:34+00:00
Real rates have overwhelmingly been positive

That is what the government tells you. But I don't see that when I look up my real expenses.

When I look through my old bills, what I paid for apartments, hotels, coffee it seems the real inflation was around 8% over the last 20 years. For hotels for example, it is easy to look up the same hotel today and see how prices changed.

And bonds paid less than 4%.

Can you give an example of something that increased less than 4% in price annually?
by pydry | 2025-07-14 11:27:08+00:00
>US DoD confirmed that Ukraine struck the Moskva and sank it

This is kind of like saying that the Japanese dominated the Pacific in WW2 because they sunk the Lexington.

>At the end of 2023, UK's defense minister said Russia had lost 20% of its Black Sea fleet in the prior four months.

The UK have been coming up with ever more creative ways to declare that Russia is losing this war, each straining more credulity than the last.

They were the source of the rather famous "Ukraine faces off against poorly trained demoralized soldiers armed just with shovels" intelligence briefing from 2022.

In the case of the black sea fleet they made a huge a deal out of the destruction of fleet HQ while neglecting to mention that it was a poorly defended historic site rather than an operational hq and nerve center.

Which is to say, if they announce 20% you can probably safely assume the internal estimate is 10% with an upper bound of 20%.

>None of this implies that Russia's fleet has been entirely disabled.

Nothing of what I said implied that Ukraine didnt sink any ships in this war or that Russia hasnt sustained black eyes.

The idea that Ukraine has done such serious damage that it "denied" the black sea fleet the ability to operate is errs more on the side of shovel-flavored cope rather than trenchant analysis, however.
by scottfr | 2025-07-14 11:27:21+00:00
We're building a Chrome extension grammar checker that runs locally using Chrome's built-in LLM.

You can try it out here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/grammit-the-ai-gram...

LLMs can also correct other sorts of mistakes, such as correcting "The first US President was _Ben Franklin_" to "George Washington".
by hippich | 2025-07-14 11:28:20+00:00
Can't find the post on Reddit right now, but someone broke all three down and it is more nuanced. They act slightly differently in different areas.

Before I started experiments on "my lab rat" with retatrutide, I found that combination of the about half max dose of semaglutide and 1/3 of Max dose of tirzepatide had the best combination of losing weight and lowering side effects. But another "lab rat" did not respond that well to this combo and we keep adjusting it.

Retatrutide so far looks the most compatible, but it is sample of 1.
by nabla9 | 2025-07-14 11:29:18+00:00
Security Analysis found

- insecure IKEv2 Extensions

- A-over-C protocol uses the same vulnerable cryptography as iMessage.

- uses other privitives that leave the payload data entirely unauthenticated

> the security weaknesses we found stemmed from proprietary protocol extensions and nonstandard cryptography

Conclusion

> Our work on WatchWitch shows that true interoperability between the Apple Watch and third-party Android devices is feasible despite prior contrary claims: We have reimplemented several essential smartwatch features on Android, including push notifications, Inter- net sharing, and health data synchronization. We have also shown that we can achieve this level of interoperability while maintaining security—employing the same cryptographic protocols and storing keys and data with comparable hardware-backed security. Going beyond interoperability, we have seen how opening the Apple Watch ecosystem to open-source implementations can bene- fit users by offering better privacy, more complete access to data, and even entirely new features such as a fine-grained firewall. Our research makes the security and privacy properties of the Apple Watch visible and presents a way towards autonomy and independence, allowing users to use their devices on their own terms and beyond the manufacturer’s intentions. We look forward to seeing researchers, tinkerers, and manufacturers build upon our work—be it in terms of alternative software, hardware, or entirely new applications
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-14 11:29:55+00:00
> From the perspective of a far-away observer it would look as if time is slowing down as the photons would take increasingly longer to escape.

Photons travel at the speed of light always, that's what Einstein told us.

So rather, the observed energy (frequency) of the photons decreases, and it takes longer between each photon.

At least that's my understanding.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-14 11:30:23+00:00
Why people here brandish Communism when someone critics Capitalism? It’s like we’re still in the coldwar. Those two views have many sub-categories and there’s others in-between and on the sides. Just a few in the last decades:

- socio-democratic countries are the norm in Europe, namely Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

- Ordoliberalism: Germany, Switzerland

- cooperative economics: Japan, Spain

- market socialism: China, hungaria

- Parecon: brasil, Argentina

- Ubuntu: South Africa

- Anarcho-syndicalism, The third way, Islamic economic…
by NicoJuicy | 2025-07-14 11:30:35+00:00
I'm wondering/guessing about a couple of things:

- Epstein list is being held by Trump and associates so that they have blackmail against their fellow republicans

- Podcasts are Russia sponsored, Trump is having a fallout with Russia and so podcast owners are now against Trump

The question now remains how much of Trump and his entourage ( possibly not, but I doubt it) is infiltrated with Putin trustees and Trump will "suddenly fall of a window".
by gus_massa | 2025-07-14 11:30:39+00:00
Here, for a lot of profesional (from medical doctors to plumbers) the only contact is a WhatsApp numbers, no email, no real phone.

At work, 70% of the messages are by WhatsApp. We have like 10 buildings distributed in a 3 million person city, like 3 miles away from each other. So there is a lot of global coordination (mostly by WA). Also inside each building each subgroup of TA (like Algebra+Monday-Thursday+Morning) has one WA group, and the students have an unofficial WA per course.

We even have a WA group for the "HOA" of my home. (It's an apartment.) People can't maintain a mailing list or use CC correctly, but can use WA.

And there is another WA for the parents in each course of my children in primary school. Everything is discussed there, in particular invitations to birthday parties. Also, the school has like 3 official methods to send info (that is very confusing), but someone kindly repost all the info in the WA group.

Also, WA has a few aventajes: [1]

* If someone sends a message, they get angry if you don't reply in less than 5 minutes.

* If you realize something a Saturday at 11:30 pm, you can't send a WA about that, because the other person will think you expect them to get out of bed/party to reply.

* You can't mark a message as unread to reply it later or in a few days.

* It's even more centralized than email

[1] /s
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-14 11:31:56+00:00
Even if you get past the roadblocks Apple has put in place, it’s not beer and skittles for browser makers in the EU.

The CRA, which is now in effect, lists browsers as class I important products. Technical documentation, design documentation, user documentation, security conformance testing, a declared support period at the time of download, software bill of materials, the legal obligation to respond to and make all your internal documents available to market surveillance organizations, etc.

And if the EU doesn’t publish harmonized development standards by 2027, you will be required to pay a 3rd party to come in and analyze you, your design, and the security of your browser, and make a report to send to the market surveillance organization, who gets to decide if you have the requisite conformance.

Are you sure that anyone but the big boys want to make a browser in the EU?

Here is the law, please point out where I am wrong. Much appreciated :)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
by griffzhowl | 2025-07-14 11:32:45+00:00
Hmm, I don't think so. General relativity and quantum mechanics were acknowledged as fundamental (relative to previous theories) more or less immediately, because they provided a coherent theoretical scheme that accounted for the observations which were problems for previous theories, and they also made many new predictions which were experimentally confirmed within a few years.

The problem for theoretical physics now is that all experiments from the LHC and so on are consistent with the standard model. So there are no recalcitrant observations that can guide new theory formation. The regime where we might get new physics, where gravity and QM are both significant, is so far experimentally inaccessible, though see here for a nice talk by Carlo Rovelli on one such experiment that might be plausible in the coming years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgieRctZ4dE

The problem with Wolfram/Gorrard's model is that it doesn't relate to any experiments. As far as I know the most that can be said for it is that Gorrard showed that in some limit the model is able to replicate some features of GR and QM, so that by definition doesn't go beyond the predictions of GR nor QM.
by afh1 | 2025-07-14 11:32:58+00:00
China.

Seems like a deliberate effort not to mention it in the title and abstract, despite the text clearly defining "East Asia" as "mainly China".

Also major contributor to plastic pollution in the ocean (from rivers) and #1 in CO2 emissions. All the while western economies hurt themselves and consumers in vain efforts instead of being serious about the issue and confronting its major contributor.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-14 11:33:21+00:00
I thought the difference between practice vs. practise was that the latter is British. My spell checker (US English) does not like "practise" though, it is underlined with red. UK English, however, does not underline "practise" with red. So is it really not the case that "practice" is US English and "practise" is UK English? Because based on the spell checker, that seems to be the case.
by fifilura | 2025-07-14 11:33:29+00:00
Thank you for your comment about identity. Was it something I wanted or did it sneak up on me?

The 1000+ days behind me means something. And many days it is what pushes me through.

It would be nice if I could find a ramp down scheme, but then with something else to ramp up, otherwise it would probably be better to just keep going.

Just stopping on a random Wednesday, it would just feel very weird.

(I am not the person in the article, just another guy with a streak)