MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-07-13 04:39:50+00:00
Betamax, as released, was not better than VHS. It also had very low recording times of like 1 hour per tape.

Betamax was updated repeatedly, as was VHS. At no point was contemporaneous consumer Betamax able to match VHS for quality with the same recording times.

This is a persistent myth propagated primarily by people who have probably never seen Betamax in use.

Often people compare a professional version of betamax to consumer versions of VHS as well.
by CoolCold | 2025-07-13 04:40:50+00:00
Just in case - I'm using LXD inside my WSL and it working great. BTRFS backed storage via loopfile, saves $$$.

For others, why it may be useful in regular sysadmin job:

* say doing Ansible scripting against LOCAL network is hell amount of time faster than against 300+ ms remote machines

* note that because you can use VE snapshots, it's very easy to ensure your playbook works fine without guessing what have you modified when testing things - just do rollback to "clean" state and start over

* creating test MariaDB 3 nodes cluster - easy peasy

* multiple distros available - need to debug Haproxy from say Rocky 8 linux? Check!
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-13 04:40:54+00:00
Doctors intervene to operate on minors all the time. Their guardian and doctors can decide to do essentially anything. If the doctor and guardian feel that the blockers, while harmful, are outweighed by the risk of self harm even with therapy and other medication, then let the doctor do the doctoring, not the politicians. There are almost twice as many intersex people who literally have at least partial sets of both reproductive organs as there are people who identify as trans. Doctors have to make hard calls without knowing the future on a regular basis. They can handle this too.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-07-13 04:41:58+00:00
I am also alarmed. Google has to split off its development of both Chrome and Android now, this crazy vertical integration is akin to a private company building and owning both the roads AND the cars. Sure, you can build other cars, but we just need to verify that your tires are safe before you can drive on OUR roads. It's fine as long as you build your car on our complete frame, you can still choose whatever color you like! Also, the car has ads.
by hattmall | 2025-07-13 04:42:47+00:00
I have absolutely no clue about circumcision in the bible. But if it's in there WHY would it be, there's probably a reason that they figured out overtime and the benefits. There is an abundance of literature and well formed research to indicate the benefits of circumcision. It's not at all unlikely that people 1000s of years ago figured that out too, especially during a time when there were far fewer hygiene options.

The most impactful benefit of circumcision is the lower cervical cancer incidence. As evidenced by the lower rates in the US despite the much poorer healthcare than in European countries, particularly the Nordics that choose not to embrace science and advocate for circumcision.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-13 04:43:04+00:00
> Do you believe that the mere concept of questioning your gender identity or expression is something that should be kept from the minds of minors?

Not at all

I just think that the clothes you choose to wear shouldn't have anything to do with gender identity

They may be related because it might relate to how you choose to express your gender

But the fact is that clothes are clothes, not genders
by umanwizard | 2025-07-13 04:43:04+00:00
“There’s nothing wrong with boys wearing dresses and playing with dolls” is true, but it’s a very dishonest summary of what the transgender movement advocates for.

A more honest example would be something like “children with a male anatomy might actually be girls, depending not on physical but rather on psychological characteristics (i.e. ‘gender identity’)”. That’s a completely different claim, and one that fewer people would agree with, so your post is more or less a motte and bailey.
by duped | 2025-07-13 04:43:54+00:00
> I comment the code blocks, maybe with steps/parts, but there's no point in making a function that's only called in one place.

I encourage junior developers that get into this habit (getting worse now, with LLMs) to convert the comment into a function name and add the block as a function, thinking pretty carefully about its function signature. If you have a `typedef struct state` that gets passed around, great.

The reason for splitting up this code is so that the person writing it doesn't fuck up, the input/output is expressed as types and validated before they push it. It's easy for me to review, because I can understand small chunks of code better than big chunks, and logically divides up the high level architecture from the actual implementation so I can avoid reviewing the latter if I find trouble with the former. It's also good as a workflow, where you can pair to write out the high level flow and then split off to work on implementation internally. And most importantly, it makes it possible to test the code.

I have had this discussion with many grumbly developers that think of the above as a "skill issue." I don't really want to work with those people, because their code sucks.
by cpgxiii | 2025-07-13 04:45:35+00:00
That is a somewhat complicated answer. The simplistic answer is that certification criteria require all turbine aircraft (turboprop or jet) to meet minimum climb performance following an engine failure at the worst part of takeoff. Multiengine piston aircraft (almost all of which are grandfathered in under prior rules anyways) are not required to do so. As a proportion of commercial passenger aircraft, multiengine piston aircraft are fortunately fairly rare in terms of passenger-miles flown, but they are still fairly common in certain markets.

However, that answer is hiding a lot of complexity. In a multiengine turboprop, single-engine climb performance is dependent on fathering the propeller of the dead engine(s); if you don't (or can't), you will probably crash.

In all aircraft, different takeoff conditions (ambient temperature, pressure, runway length) will result in different performance (maximum takeoff weight, runway length and takeoff thrust required). In some extreme conditions (e.g. "hot and high" airports like Mexico City or Denver) this can result in a reduction of maximum takeoff weight to ensure that engine-out climb performance is maintained. Generally aircraft used in these airports are designed and/or acquired with these conditions in mind, and thus the aircraft are still profitable to operate with the reduced MTOW.
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-13 04:47:26+00:00
Attempting to equate watchful waiting with conversion therapy is a bad faith attempt to discredit the evidence that without active affirmation, most gender dysphoria patients desist after going through natal puberty.

What are you going on about "contagious trans-ness"? Gender dysphoria isn't spread by a bacterial or viral infection. I have no idea what you mean by "contagious". The second sentence reads like a total non-sequitur.
by comex | 2025-07-13 04:47:54+00:00
Nope. A key aspect of this ruling is that it's about "sexual content that is obscene to minors but not to adults". "Adults have the right to access speech obscene only to minors [..] and submitting to age verification burdens the exercise of that right. But adults have no First Amendment right to avoid age verification."

The Texas law at issue takes the same three factors you quoted and lists them verbatim, but tacks on "for minors" to each factor, e.g.:

> (C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

There's no precedent yet on what it means for something to "lack [..] artistic [..] value for minors", but it's almost certain to be interpreted as a harder standard to satisfy than the normal one.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-13 04:49:10+00:00
> Peer review doesn't tell you if the data is valid or not.

Sure but nobody claimed that.

> Watson and Crick's paper describing the structure of DNA wasn't peer reviewed.

I'd point out that outliers exist but that was before peer review become so popular.

Right now there's a good correlation between competency and peer review.

> if you think they're wrong, try it for yourself and publish the results.

Watson and Crick or the article?

For a balanced discussion of the article, it's reasonable to point out a lack of peer review to give context to what stage this is at. If "try it yourself" is the bar then I guess nobody comments? That doesn't seem like a good way to learn anything.
by gazook89 | 2025-07-13 04:49:21+00:00
This is off-topic, but I'm curious about the claims that it has "10,000+ daily active users" and "1 million names generated" yet is being launched here on HN as a first mvp. And the domain name was registered like 5 days ago.

My gut assumption is that the stats are fake, and so with that perspective I sort of assume the reviews are fake (I couldn't find anything related to any of the names except "elara vance" the romance writer).

Is this totally off the mark?

Edit: And this is just an observation of curiosity-- it could totally be that it is all fake, up until enough real stats come in, or it's fake and going to remain fake, or it's actually gained a huge amount of steam and all real. I'm just interested to know, because with that many users it would be surprising to not already know about it.
by mathsTeacher82 | 2025-07-13 04:50:14+00:00
The International Math Olympiad will take place on 15th and 16th July in Australia. Google Deepmind will attempt to win a gold medal with their models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry, after announcing a silver medal performance in 2024. Any open-source model that wins a gold medal will receive a $5 million AIMO prize from XTX markets.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-13 04:50:33+00:00
I used to feel the same way about prisoners, but there are plenty of arguments that they’re not slaves. The one that convinced me was that you can’t buy a prisoner, for example. Ditto for children (most of the time).

The trouble about laws involving children is that you’re up against every parent who has a child. By default they’ll err on protection, because our biology says that’s the safest thing to do. But as you say, that’s not always the best approach.

Male circumcision is an interesting one. The correct thing to do isn’t to say "here’s an example of something screwed up" as a way to justify something else; instead, ban the screwed up thing.

Personally, I hope it’ll be banned one day. I once asked my dad whether I was circumcised. He laughed and said haven’t you looked? I still have no idea whether I am. Now I’d rather not know.
by stubish | 2025-07-13 04:51:20+00:00
Privacy is required for the mental health of many people, perhaps everyone except the extroverted and naive. Anxiety and fear over people watched, caught, punished, especially innocently. Anxiety and fear over their lack of privacy being abused and harming them, such as currently popularized with identity theft and other crimes, or simple ridicule or bullying. And the resultant chilling effects, where people who wish to speak feel they cannot because they might suffer, especially in cases where this is an actual risk rather than normal existential dread. Without privacy, you can't be inclusive.
by deryilz | 2025-07-13 04:52:40+00:00
Hi, I appreciate your opinion, but really disagree. First of all, this is one bug, and most of the ones I find don't "act against user's interests" (not that this one could have been used effectively without being patched anyway). Doing bug finding is how I make a difference and a skill I feel proud of.

I USED to keep bugs (read: exploits) for myself without sharing them, but after a while I realized it was not worth it and my skills were basically going to waste. You can say philosophical stuff about ads if you want but bug finding for me is a fun challenge with a good community. I'm not pretending Google is my best friend.

Plus, doing this gets me a bit of money. It's either this or I work summers at a grocery store, and I prefer this.
by CrossVR | 2025-07-13 04:52:54+00:00
If that is the reasoning behind allowing infant circumcision, then there should be no argument against puberty blockers. It is proven to be beneficial to a person's quality of life if they suffer from gender dysphoria.

I'm not sure what my personal opinion is on the topic, since I'm principally against infant circumcision. But I have less problems with puberty blockers, since it can still be reversed once a person is old enough to give consent.
by chmod775 | 2025-07-13 04:53:39+00:00
It was never going to last long enough anyways, being sure to get patched as soon as any adblocker uses it.

It's however still interesting in the sense that it might be fairly trivial to change, so chances are the next adblockers are going to ship executable that wrap chrome, modifying something like that at launch, allowing their extension to make use of it.

Obviously Google is going to hate it when random popular extensions start nagging users to download and install "companion" software in order to work, since that will train users to not think twice about these things and bypasses legitimate security efforts.

But Google made their own bed - and that of their users. Now they all get to lie in it together.
by WD-101000 | 2025-07-13 04:53:58+00:00
> It's going to be fascinating if there's a mechanism by which sleeping with light can cause heart disease.

I suspect everyone in the field already knows the top-level answer: light at night blunts the output of the circadian pacemaker (SCN), with all sorts of downstream effects including control of various hormones. So the levels will be different with light at night. "at night" means biological night. If someone consistently sleeps on some schedule with bright enough light during their awake time, and it's dark during their sleep time, it's fine.

I'm not in the field. I read up on it at one point at a shallow level and talked to some researchers about it informally.
by peterlk | 2025-07-13 04:54:26+00:00
Hijacking this comment because it seems to be the most recent. I’d love to start a private email thread with you if you’re willing to do so.

After the previous election, I felt wildly out of touch, and I’ve been trying to find people who I can talk to who might be able to help me improve understanding of my (metaphorical) neighbors. I suspect that our beliefs will be quite different, but I appreciate your willingness to provide long-form, respectful responses to so many comments here.

If you’re up for it, my email is in my profile
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-13 04:55:24+00:00
Let either of us stay just ever so slightly ahead of Ezra by musing that, of the handful of Euro entities that have been shifting left:

Norway <- Oil (with help from Iraqi)

Denmark <- Ozempic/rare earths

Iceland <- Geothermal

(Shifted a bit right, but)

Spain <- solar roll out

Pretty certain chatbots ain't gonna do it given the financing climate, tho some sama aligned people seem to think they're the new oil rig automation

Another thing the US could learn from the East is caste system (Law of Manu)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manusmriti#Modern_reception

V2= Separation of concerns: gov from com from edu (rhymes with the tripartite (socialist) form of corporatism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism
by KittenInABox | 2025-07-13 04:55:30+00:00
How much can the disparity in life outcomes be attributed to a trans person needing to undergo a second puberty in a society where doing so is discriminated against?

I feel like as a society we put trans people in a situation where it is controversial for them to transition as children, but also controversial for them to transition as adults. (The notion of a man in a dress no longer exists if the man never had male puberty, but not only is it controversial for such a boy to never have male puberty, we villainize the now-man's attempts to become a woman!) But then we say that outcomes for trans people are bad so them staying in the closet is good. Which is weird, because the cause of the bad outcomes is that there is no stage of their life where trans people can transition noncontroversially.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-13 04:56:04+00:00
Lobotomies were also once considered solid science, but our views change over time. That people did it millennia ago isn’t really a persuasive point.

Would you mind citing some of the research supporting that it’s a good idea to take a knife to a baby’s penis? (Sometimes it feels like the word "circumcision" is a nice way to sidestep the implications.)

It seems strange to blame infant penises for higher cancer rates, but if there’s science to support the claim, it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.

On the other hand, perhaps a higher cancer rate would be worth it. The question is, how much higher?
by bowsamic | 2025-07-13 04:56:08+00:00
> "Just install Linux bro, it's better than pussy bro. What, u still got dat spyin machine goin on?? [links a 30 minute Mutahar video with him faffing about with some technologically trivial bollocks he visibly barely understands]" Please. I think it's pretty agreeable at least that this about as far removed from well supported decision making as one can casually get to be.

Such a person may exist but why do you insist that that person is here in the room with us? Let us talk and find out what the other people are like. You’ve already shown what you really are like: someone who will assert that the others are a certain way even before they talk
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-13 04:56:28+00:00
Sepa, pix, ideal, swish? Bitcoin? A debit card from a bank on the us west coast that has state laws forbidding them to comply with laws like Texas'? If your hosting, banking, and residence are in CA, OR, or WA, and there was no discernable intent to target residents of the other state, it seems pretty unlikely anything could happen to you. Just don't take any plane that might get emergency diverted to some other state.
by photonthug | 2025-07-13 04:58:04+00:00
Not OP, but this resonates, so I'll speak for myself. One common thread in a lot of PKD is that he takes tons of very esoteric philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas extremely seriously. This includes everything from Buddhist Maya, to Platos circular theory of time, and includes lots of really interesting Gnostic stuff too.

Reading his stuff at 10-15 years old can set you up with a follow-up reading list that lasts decades and reaches way outside of scifi. As a human being, there's some very real benefit to explicitly grappling with ideas like Cartesian solipsism at ~12 instead of hearing about it for the first time at ~20 in philosophy 101, but there's also some real dangers too! Besides being well read, PKD was obviously compelled to imagine the logical conclusion of almost everything he encountered in his life, including socio-political trends. While this inclination obviously bestowed an amazing gift, if you look at biographical elements of his life, it's equally obvious that it was a curse. There's definitely such a thing as being way too smart for your own good.

His prescience on many topics is well known, so I'll skip that and add something more obscure. I'm very pleased that PKD is gradually becoming recognized as way more than just some pulp / SF writer, or just another prolific pop-fiction dude (like say Dan Brown or Stephen King) with an existing audience that Hollywood can monetize. PKD deserves much credit in the high-brow postmodern canon too, and although it's not widely realized yet, probably has done more to pioneer and popularize truly experimental fiction generally, and metafiction in particular, than almost anyone else you could name.

Since I recently reread 3-stigmata, I will also quickly remind everyone that Choosy folks choose Chew-Z. As of today, it's uncanny how much Palmer Eldritch looks like an unholy combination of Zuck+Musk.
by mindslight | 2025-07-13 04:58:56+00:00
> have they not heard of Sega v. Accolade ?

My mind went here immediately as well, but some details are subtly different. For example being a remote service instead of a locally-executed copy of software, Google could argue that they are materially relying on such representation to provide any service at all. Or that without access to the service's code, someone cannot prove this string is required in order to interoperate. It also wouldn't be the first time the current Supreme Court took advantage of slightly differing details as an excuse to reject longstanding precedent in favor of fascism.
by AdamH12113 | 2025-07-13 04:59:36+00:00
That’s probably not going to happen. RF simulations are done using extremely expensive special-purpose software, and many components (including basically all digital and mixed-signal components) don’t have simulation models available at all. If they were available, the computing power required to simulate even a medium-size board over any reasonable time scale would be impossible. Simulation is a small-scale thing; you don’t do it for a whole board.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-13 05:00:13+00:00
Not sure about them, but for me, that’s correct. Solid research should be the foundation we make decisions on.

I used to have a problem with that idea too, until someone pointed out that puberty is an irreversible process with major consequences. The fact that everyone goes through it is a bit irrelevant; if it was happening to someone over 18, puberty blockers wouldn’t even be controversial.

As a parent, what to do? I look at my 2yo daughter and wonder if I’ll have to support her in a decision like that one day, or go against her wishes just because she’s 11. If there’s research indicating that delaying puberty doesn’t have major long term harm, then I’m more likely to endorse puberty blockers.
by hattmall | 2025-07-13 05:02:21+00:00
It's not about blocking it all. It's about blocking some, removing the monetary incentives to entice children from major players. It's about stopping some of the addiction and damaging effects. Just like we limit alcohol but kids still drink, or vape etc. They still do it, but it requires more effort and that barrier can be a very real barrier to addiction formation.
by StableAlkyne | 2025-07-13 05:02:27+00:00
Trouble is always the economics of production. We've been able to turn CO2 into useful materials for a long time.

Sabatier's reaction has been known for about a century, and that turns CO2 into methane. Also Fischer Tropsch will convert CO (which you can get from poor combustion) into larger hydrocarbons.

Many of the advancements nowadays are in making the catalysts more energy efficient or cheaper.

But I suspect eventually what needs to happen is a combination of regulation (to reduce the amount of fossil derived CO2) and government subsidy (to harm the economics of extracting oil, as the free market doesn't intrinsically penaltize long term harm)