MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-16 12:07:22+00:00
You pose an interesting theory.

That said the article you linked to is horrendously biased. I'm not sure if I'm maybe pointing out the obvious to you but to me it reads analogously to other well written highly partisan propaganda. It certainly poses some interesting questions to think about but then so do the higher quality far right essays.

I mean the author is unironically positing that single women as a class are better across the board than single men. Why would it be that (apparently) all the best men married all the worst women? How does that make any sense outside of some radically far left filter bubble?

I think a far more convincing theory is that ideological extremism has thoroughly permeated our society, is highly toxic to both critical thinking and functional relationships, and can be seen more prominently among single adults. I'll cite the very article you linked as evidence in favor of my claim.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-16 12:08:02+00:00
You’re making this a very strict, binary situation. Either you’re broke and every single dollar you are gifted or requesting is specifically earmarked for a specific thing, or you have all the money you need and you can’t ever receive a gift or request a donation. Nothing is that simplistic. Charities doing well and able to meet all their goals/payroll still keep asking for money because they need it to be sustained for more than months or a year.

Also at the end of the day, they are requesting donations to keep things operating. And that means paying people to run things, including CEOs. Every charity has somebody at the top, so your donations are also paying for those people as well. Unless you’re willing to say that all charities are therefore fraudulent because you are paying executive personnel, I just don’t see how this argument can really be put forth in earnest.
by graeme | 2025-07-16 12:08:05+00:00
Your first comments suggests it isn't happening ("which nato countries")

Now, predictably upon being told that it happens you pivot to NATO is useless.

Which is it: a set of attacks so obscure no reasonable person would be aware, or a horrendous onslaught where Article 5 should have been invoked and a mass retaliation begun?

NATO countries historically didn't invoke Article 5 even for terrorist attacks killing their own citizens. It takes a certain level before it makes sense to invoke, normally something beyond the capacity of that country to handle.
by JdeBP | 2025-07-16 12:08:24+00:00
Actually, it's about 20cm from my left elbow, which is physically several orders of magnitude closer than anything run by my ISP, and logically at least 2 network hops closer.

And the closest resolving proxy DNS server for most of my machines is listening on their loopback interface. The closest such machine happens to be about 1m away, so is beaten out of first place by centimetres. (-:

It's a shame that Microsoft arbitrarily ties such functionality to the Server flavour of Windows, and does not supply it on the Workstation flavour, but other operating systems are not so artificially limited or helpless; and even novice users on such systems can get a working proxy DNS server out of the box that their sysops don't actually have to touch.

The idea that one has to rely upon an ISP, or even upon CloudFlare and Google and Quad9, for this stuff is a bit of a marketing tale that is put about by thse self-same ISPs and CloudFlare and Google and Quad9. Not relying upon them is not actually limited to people who are skilled in system operation, i.e. who they are; but rather merely limited by what people run: black box "smart" tellies and whatnot, and the Workstation flavour of Microsoft Windows. Even for such machines, there's the option of a decent quality router/gateway or simply a small box providing proxy DNS on the LAN.

In my case, said small box is roughly the size of my hand and is smaller than my mass-market SOHO router/gateway. (-:
by justinclift | 2025-07-16 12:08:59+00:00
We still use Windsurf at work, but I've cancelled my personal subscription as (frankly) the code which Claude Sonnet 3.7 (thinking) generates is just not good enough, and much of the time its analysis of issues is also not correct. :(

That being said _sometimes_ its analysis is actually correct, so it's not a total miss. Just not something I'm willing to pay for when Ollama and free models exist.
by hollerith | 2025-07-16 12:09:20+00:00
>as anyone who lives near an air force base can tell you.

In the US, the Air Force is simply not allowed to fly supersonic anywhere near a city or a suburb with only a few exceptions.

One exception is Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert: there are houses nearby, but the base (and supersonic warplanes) preceded the construction of the homes, so the reasoning is that the home builders and home buyers knew what they were buying into.

Another exception (quoting Google Gemini):

>From 1964 to 1966, the FAA and U.S. Air Force conducted supersonic flights over St. Louis and other cities like Oklahoma City to gauge public reaction to daily sonic booms. The goal was to understand public tolerance for commercial supersonic transport (SST) operations. Reactions in St. Louis, as elsewhere, were largely negative, contributing to the eventual ban on commercial supersonic flight over land in the U.S.

Have you have experienced sonic booms? I have (when my family visited West Germany in 1970) and I certainly would not want to be subjected to them regularly.
by tomhow | 2025-07-16 12:09:53+00:00
> I regularly see positively rated HN comments that are indistinguishable from stormfront posts 20 years ago.

This is the kind of comment that is only ever made without links that would enable the claim to be evaluated by others.

And the rest of the comment that seems to assert that the political craziness in the world is the fault of HN is pretty wild, but is perhaps an assumption that explains why some people think this is an important place to conduct ideological battle.

We’re a tiny site in the scheme of things. None of the tech leaders who are influential in politics have been active or popular on HN for years, if ever. The HN audience has always been distrustful of big tech and the relationship between corporations and politics. The core HN audience is people who work in tech (mostly employees or freelancers) who are interested learning new things and like to work on interesting projects.

We know we are not - and cannot be - a bubble that’s isolated from the rest of the world. But it’s a mistake to think that HN has any significant influence on politics or the tech leaders who are active in politics.
by coldtea | 2025-07-16 12:10:04+00:00
>this entire comment section has a lot of people making guesses or putting forth their own theories without having even skimmed the article.

The article doesn't make some definitive argument either (I've read it).

It's just serves as starting point for a discussion under the subject, and just like the author the people commenting here have their own theories and hypotheses why that's the case.

As for "the receipts", most of them can be argued in multiple ways. Empirical observations and working theories are still useful.
by Yizahi | 2025-07-16 12:10:08+00:00
Generated code only works because "test" part (compile/validate/analyze etc.) is completely external and written before any mass-market LLMs. There is no such external validator for new theorems, books, pictures, text guides etc. You can't just run hard_reality.exe on a generated poem or a scientific paper to deem it "correct". It is only possible with programming languages, and even then not always.
by velcrovan | 2025-07-16 12:11:14+00:00
I’m once again begging people to read David Gelernter’s 1994 book “The Muse in the Machine”. I’m surprised to see no mention of it in Gwern’s post, it’s the exact book he should be reaching for on this topic.

In examining the possibility of genuinely creative computing, Gelernter discovers and defends a model of cognition that explains so much about the human experience of creativity, including daydreaming, dreaming, everyday “aha” moments, and the evolution of human approaches to spirituality.

https://uranos.ch/research/references/Gelernter_1994/Muse%20...
by lvass | 2025-07-16 12:11:51+00:00
How exactly is Linux becoming popular going to make my EXWM setup suck? To be fair, if it does get a large market share, some company is probably going to take MS's role and make a distro that sucks but many people use. But that shouldn't be an issue to existing users unless they take over something like a major DE and you insist on using that for some reason. For IT people, having the possibility of running a decent shell and sshd in most desktops would be terrific.
by coldtea | 2025-07-16 12:13:00+00:00
And ...boom! we lost the nuance, and shoehorned together disparate elements into a bunch of measurements, as if those explain everything (as opposed to needing explanations and a working theory themselves, and often fitting multiple theories about how they came about).

Not to mention the cases where the numbers are collected or analyzed in bogus ways (from wrong methodologies and false reporting, to p-hacking), and people are asked to cargo cult respect them anyway...
by CapricornNoble | 2025-07-16 12:13:09+00:00
> With more than 1.2M dead or out of service injured, Russia is spent

> All they can effectivley do, until they grow new soldiers, is defense.

I'm genuinely curious what your information diet/sources looks like that would lead you to make such statements.

According to Ukrainian sources, Russian end strength in Ukraine continues to increase and they are maintaining a strategic reserve of personnel as well:

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-plans-to-increase-groupin... The Russian military plans to increase its grouping in Ukraine by 150,000 soldiers in 2025, equivalent to around 15 motorized infantry divisions, Presidential Office Deputy Head Pavlo Palisa said on April 3, Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne reported.

"Their formation is ongoing. The Russians have no problems with recruiting personnel now..."

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/syrskyi-warns-russia-stockpi... "Moreover, Russia maintains an additional 121,000 troops in its strategic reserve—comprising 13 divisions, as well as various regiments and brigades—that could be deployed to the battlefield if necessary."

"This means their army grows by an average of 8,000 to 9,000 soldiers every month," the Commander-in-Chief noted.

As for Russia only being able to defend, how do you square that with this Finnish analysis group's tracking of Russian territorial control rates increasing every month this year?

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1l30kb...

That data roughly matches one of Reddit's most prolific meta-analysts, who mostly uses Suriyak data (the most reputable Russian mapper):

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1lpspn...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-16 12:13:11+00:00
Indeed, this is actually one reason why I like Python's closed-left, open-right syntax. It lets us sidestep the inclusive bound issue entirely, because, as noted in the post, for all 0 ≤ l ≤ r ≤ len(L) where L is a Python list,

L == L[0:len(L)] == L[0:l] + L[l:len(L)] == L[0:l] + L[l:r] + L[r:len(L)]

I actually didn't like this syntax until I had to work this out. Now everyone else's approach seems silly to me.
by palata | 2025-07-16 12:13:20+00:00
I agree with your points, except this:

> thanks to the Steam Deck [...] but I would be reluctant to call that Linux Desktop anymore than I would call Android an uptick for Linux.

The Steam Deck very much runs Linux Desktop. Android runs the Linux kernel, but everything else is different. SteamOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch. If you run your Steam Deck in "desktop mode", it is very much a Linux Desktop (with a read-only system and A/B updates etc, but still).
by JdeBP | 2025-07-16 12:13:39+00:00
The reality is that it's rather complicated to say what "most clients" do, as there is some behavioural variation amongst the DNS client libraries when they are configured with multiple IP addresses to contact. So whilst it's true to say that fallback and redundancy does not always operate as one might suppose at the DNS client level, it is untrue to go to the opposite extreme and say that there's no such thing at all.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-16 12:14:29+00:00
He's never tried it.

Sorry it may not have been clear, I was comparing the experience of knowing he might love Rust (or not) but not knowing if he'll decide to learn it - against the experience of watching unspoiled people playing a discovery game such as Outer Wilds where you know what they don't know yet and so you're excited to watch them discover it. I dunno that's maybe not an experience most people have.

If you either enjoy learning new languages or have a purpose for which Rust might be applicable I encourage you to try it. As you're an F# user it won't be as revelatory as it is for someone with say only C as a background, but on the other hand if you have no bare metal experience it might also be a revelation how fast you can go without giving up many of the nice things you're used to.

If you're a polyglot you probably won't encounter much that's new to you because Rust never set out to be anything unprecedented, I've heard it described as an "industrialization of known best practice" and it's ten years since Rust 1.0 drew a line in the sand.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-16 12:14:44+00:00
How nihilistic and dismissive.

Do you wait for the end of football matches before deciding which team to support, because only the one that won matters?

I advocate against laws I don't like, and try to give people practical advise about how to protest against them, as well as how to circumvent them, and minimize their effects, and encourage them to pass this knowledge on. I consider it a good use of my time, even if not everyone cares to retain that info or pass it on.

Politics is never a foregone conclusion (unless you completely give up and go silent, in which case your opposition has carte blanche to do what it likes)... but like "viral content", it's not something you can always whip in your your favour. People are irrational creatures, and you never quite know what will make them all sit up and take notice. You can never be sure what will set the nation's agenda, and what stories "have legs", until they happen. For example: the Post Office scandal was a dull boring thing that nobody cared about, and then... an ITV drama made people care? But there have been ITV dramas about political scandals before, and they didn't all have that effect. But that one did. And the writers of the drama didn't just make stuff up, they followed the details of campaigners and journalists who had been covering this for years, even if at times they felt they were shouting into the void.

You just keep trying and see what sticks and what doesn't. The standard UKGov petitions site has at least some quantum of usefulness in that it encourages people to think about the issue, and if they sign it, they know there are others that agree with them. Change is possible.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-16 12:15:20+00:00
I'm sorry that you don't appreciate my "position" of "not arguing with your opinion, because you never asked anyone to help you change your opinion, and because you don't seem interested in changing it anyways if someone tried".

It sounds like you just want to fight rather than understand why different people have different views. Even after someone politely tells you that your opinions are common and your conclusions are reasonable given those opinions, you're still trying to find something to fight them on.

I'm more interested in the latter (understanding) than the former (fighting), so I'll pass, but luckily you'll have no trouble finding someone else on the internet who just wants to fight and doesn't seek understanding.
by jsnell | 2025-07-16 12:15:24+00:00
Indeed, OS X goes down, and obviously none of us actually believe that. But not only does Statcounter report that clearly faulty number, but they have yet to fix the problem.

This happens all the time. When their numbers are clearly wrong, they don't care about the numbers enough to fix even the glaring problems, their sample is unsound, and their methodology is unpublished, why exactly are we supposed to give any of their numbers any credence?

What you've written is the first I've heard of a recent change to the Safari on OS X user-agent string, and I see no indication of it in my access logs. What's it supposed to be now? It seems a bit unlikely, and given Safari never ran on classic Mac OS, it seems like a company that's supposed to specialize in analytics should be able to handle it...
by JCM9 | 2025-07-16 12:15:29+00:00
On Shark Tank if you walk in and say “I have no revenue, no viable business model, and an idea that’s easily copied in a space that’s rapidly marching towards commoditization. I’m asking for $5 billion for 25% of my company.” You’d be laughed off the set.

In the increasingly frothy world of GenAI that’s a Wednesday and you get the cheque.

If it looks like a bubble and smells like a bubble…

The tech is cool, but investors are about to lose their shirts in this space.
by redeeman | 2025-07-16 12:16:38+00:00
in 2003 it was WAY easier to install linux than windows. You had to mess with floppys for sata drivers and shit to install windows.

and KDE was always ATLEAST as easy as windows, arguably more. At this time lots of older crappy hardware people had also only had win98 drivers, giving people immense problems. It mostly worked better on linux. This still goes today.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-16 12:17:15+00:00
Linux will be stuck in the 5% range as long as people who love Linux are the ones making Linux.

You still cannot crtl+V in the terminal. No faster way to scare off users than give them a CLI heavy OS and have the trip over the very first copy+paste command they try to run (once they figure out the circa ~1982 cursor)

I really cannot say enough about the total fumble of Linux distros in an age when people are more desperate than ever to leave Windows.
by coldtea | 2025-07-16 12:17:23+00:00
People today think a 18-19 year old (which is still a legal adult in most places and for most purposes, can drive, go to war, live alone, work, and was always considered an adult throughout history) is "a child".

Of course kind of makes sense when 30 and 40 year olds also behave and live like children and find "adulting" out of their capabilities.
by vinhatson | 2025-07-16 12:17:30+00:00
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by CapricornNoble | 2025-07-16 12:17:36+00:00
> Ruzzia advances in Ukraine slower then a snail, check the numbers. and there are more than 1000 Ruz casualties for square km

Net Russian gains in June 2025 were 572 km^2.* In order for your statement to hold true, Russia would have suffered over half a million casualties in June alone. Where is your evidence to support such an assertion?

* https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1lpspn...
by libertine | 2025-07-16 12:17:36+00:00
Not really, the point being made goes deeper.

The Russian regime (and apparently a lot of Russians) deem Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group - they call them "little Russians".

Ukrainian authorship would mean:

- Ukrainians are competent people with agency (which they are of course, for lots of reasons) - this plays into ethnophobia;

- their government, military, etc, is competent, functional with agency - this plays into government legitimacy;

- Overall, in a lot of instances, the Russian government is incompetent, even more incompetent than the guys their propaganda has been trying to paint as corrupt, incompetent people who are being manipulated.

That's why a lot of time Russian propaganda trys to spin Ukrainian wins as "NATO/CIA/MI6/external agent did this".

For example, they tried really hard to bend reality to remove the credit for the Ukrainian drone operation that destroyed a lot of bomber jets, saying it was planned and executed by CIA, MI6, Israel, etc [0].

This is what we're dealing with here: massive ethnophobia and propaganda.

So in their propaganda, Ukraine can't be competent and stand on its merit, because that would mean they're not inferior people and that they have agency.

You should always be wary of someone making these claims without any evidence.

[0]https://uacrisis.org/en/rospropaganda-zaplutalas-v-pavutyni
by homebrewer | 2025-07-16 12:17:46+00:00
No, it's deliberately not implemented:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/faq/#does-1111-sen...

I've also changed to 9.9.9.9 and 8.8.8.8 after using 1.1.1.1 for several years because connectivity here is not very good, and being connected to the wrong data center means RTT in excess of 300 ms. Makes the web very sluggish.
by Protostome | 2025-07-16 12:17:51+00:00
I have pipelines written in both frameworks. Nextflow (despite the questionable selection of groovy as the language of choice) is more powerful and enables greater flexibility in terms of information flow.

For example, snakemake makes it very difficult if not impossible to create pipelines that deviate from a DAG architecture. In cases where you need loops, conditionals and so on, Nextflow is a better option.

One thing that I didn't like about nextflow is that all processes can either run under apptainer or docker, you can mix and match docker/apptainer like you do in snakemake rules.
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by AzharKhann | 2025-07-16 12:17:55+00:00
I've been self-learning from YouTube for years—everything from coding to design to business skills. But I kept hitting the same wall: YouTube learning has no structure. Your knowledge gets scattered across random playlists, you're passively consuming content without real retention, and when you're confused, there's nobody to ask.

I built Notetube to fix this by layering organizational tools with AI to create a proper learning system:

Organizational layer: Build structured collections by topic/course/skill, visualize your learning progress with dashboards, create and track your learning goals

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...plus additional features like timestamped note-taking, but I'll keep this brief.

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Would love your thoughts and feedback from the HN community!
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-16 12:18:00+00:00
>It’s not burned into the BIOS, instead Microsoft maintains a database mapping licenses to hardware identifiers.

Wrong. IT IS 100% stored in the UEFI firmware, specifically ACPI tables, MSDM field. Only if that exists, it is then verified on-line for activation to make sure the license is genuine and matches the device ID you're referring to for witch the license was sold(typically for OEM) or if it's portable.[1]

On linux you should be retrieve the license via something like:

sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

OR

sudo acpidump | grep MSDM

[1] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-windows-10-oem-prod...
by DataDaoDe | 2025-07-16 12:18:01+00:00
That’s wild. The last time I had that experience with Python must have been more than 10 years ago. I’ll admit a decade ago you definitely did need to know way to many details about way too many tools from virtualenvs to setuotools to wheels, etc. to get things working from somebody else’s project, but imho, poetry and uv have really changed all that.