MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p_ing | 2025-07-25 13:33:31+00:00
There are 78 Arleigh Burkes completed, six in the build stage, and 15 on order.

There were only 31 Spruances and 4 Kidds.

That seems like an investment in destroyers, and much more capable ones than it's predecessors at that. Argubly more capable than even the Ticonderoga.

But maybe you mean something else I'm not groking.
by const_cast | 2025-07-25 13:33:43+00:00
You don't need 100 pounds of muscle to reap the benefits.

My point is, yes eating a sugary snack takes 1 hour of walking. But it doesn't take 1 hour of weightlifting. It can take 0 hours of weightlifting, if you've already been weightlifting.

Even with walking and running, you do build muscle. When the treadmill says 100 calories, you didn't actually burn 100 calories - you burned 100 plus the increased rate from the muscle you gained.

So, if you're an athletic person, you're burning more calories regardless of if you work out. Just by existing, sleeping, whatever, you have a big head start. For some athletes, this head start is in the 1000s of calories range.
by maxdo | 2025-07-25 13:34:00+00:00
Right , just to remind that China is the country that supports Proxy wars with west ( Ukraine ), supports Iran , a country that placed tariffs on whole industries, like cars, software , spy and buy technology to replace anything advanced.

A country willing to cut mineral supply anytime they don’t like anything is good partner and friend of EU , lol, how delusional someone can be ?

Even current US Administration sends Patriots and military support to Ukraine, while China is sponsoring WAR, help Russia to keep up with war killing people around the world.

China can end that war in 1 week if they really want.

US spent fortune to protect collective west while countries like Germany almost dismantled their army in the past.

Very rational thinking , sure. China will wipe out entire west with technological superiority in the next decade or two without west being united.
by kube-system | 2025-07-25 13:34:42+00:00
The license snippet you quoted means that they have given YOU the right to copy, change (or compile), and redistribute, distribute anything you've created from it. Nothing about that implies contributors are required to give you binaries.

This isn't all that uncommon -- usually open source licenses only apply to the source.

> comically easy to bypass and literally forces someone to automate a github mirror that builds new releases. Your essentially enforcing the existence of a fork. They even provide the github actions necessary to do so in their repo already...

Yeah, cloning and building software is something that is straightforward for software developers to do. Traditionally people would clone software to their own machine, but you can use GitHub or whatever tools you want to work with the source. I'm not sure if I would call this a "bypass" -- this is the typical way FOSS software has always worked, and it's part of the reason why FOSS is popular :)
by pjmlp | 2025-07-25 13:34:45+00:00
I would say one we are allowed to bash upon, forgetting the history of key programming languages with checked exceptions predating Java (CLU, Modula-3 and C++), whereas the other is the cool FP programming concept that everyone coding is coffee shops is supposed to find cool.

Semantically from CS point of view in language semantics and type system modelling, they are equivalent in puporse, as you are very well asking about.
by dcow | 2025-07-25 13:35:12+00:00
The NIST link talks about the EU version of this. IDK specifically if the British govt has their head up their ass or not and I’m sorry if they do. The EU and industry standards all support selective disclosure today (there are at least mature standards drafts) and people are working on incorporating ZPKs. The thing Discord does is how you have to solve this problem if you don’t have digital ID. And unfortunately it will exist for quite a time to fill the gaps until digital ID fully proliferates.
by uecker | 2025-07-25 13:35:20+00:00
You are using a narrower definition than me. The language implementation builds on the functionality of the a larger system. An implementation can utilize the functionality of the overall system and close the loopholes. For example, using sanitizer you can turn out-of-bounds accesses to arrays into traps. This is not a segmentation fault but SIGILL, but it also builds on the trapping mechanism to achieve bounds safety (if you limit yourself to arrays).
by aftbit | 2025-07-25 13:35:24+00:00
That doesn't seem to be stopping Russia from engaging in the energy war, where they're "wasting" incredibly valuable and rare precision missiles attacking substations and power generation.

So far, this has been only moderately successful in impacting the military, because most of Ukraine's military production is not actually located in Ukraine, and because they've gotten quite good at repairing their electrical grid.

This was generally true of allied strategic bombing campaigns in WWII as well. Simple adaptations like building walls between sections of the plant to require more bombs to attack any given target, hardened shelters for skilled employees, and staging parts outside of the plant enabled some targets to maintain better than 50% uptime during aggressive bombing campaigns. Look into the Oil campaign[1] for more details.

It is interesting to see how precision missiles and cheap drones may change this in the future.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-25 13:35:34+00:00
> the money and the moat they have prevents a financial collapse for many years to come, even if they do not improve.

Unfortunately, you do have a point there. We let companies grow way, way too large - not only does any potential competition just about zero chance to rise against effectively infinite cash coffers, but it also removes any incentive to improve when the moat is so large that one doesn't have to care about anything...
by coldpie | 2025-07-25 13:35:55+00:00
> THIS. Why is this PoV even controversial?

Because it is stating that the government should control private behavior, which bumps into free speech and freedom of association issues. That gets pretty controversial.

There are other solutions to the stated problem:

> Given their market dominance, they should absolutely not have any right to refuse service.

The fix is to address the precondition in that statement: their market dominance. If a single entity is so powerful that it can control entire markets, then the problem is not what it does with that power, but that it has that power in the first place.

The solution to this problem is enforcing our existing anti-trust laws, not passing new laws to compel private behavior. We should not have only one or two entities that control this entire market. That's a sign of a broken market, and that's what must be addressed.
by itomato | 2025-07-25 13:36:11+00:00
The visual I have of him in 1989 full Hulkamania Regalia holding a Publix shopping basket while reaching in for bologna will stay with me forever.

Bright yellow and red Hulkster with the green Publix basket, reaching down next to me to grab hotdogs or bologna or whatever it was and nodded 'hello'.
by curiousguy | 2025-07-25 13:36:17+00:00
Minor annoyance, but just a few limitations and restrictions, after all you need a smartphone and internet connection.

So.. when paying in a store, you need to open your banking app in your smartphone, and if you’re in an area with bad cellular connection (inside a few buildings or in a countryside), you need to connect to the store wifi. Only then you can scan the store QR code and make the payment.

So a single payment can easily take a few minutes, as opposed to a contactless card payment which takes a few seconds.

My main issue with pix is the even more reliance on a smartphone for our day to day life.
by bandie91 | 2025-07-25 13:36:19+00:00
process inheritance was the best invention, because it models reality quite close. you dont have new things just sitting in an empty universe all alone and initialize everything themself from ... somewhere ... because everything is reset around them.

environment (in a broader sense, not just environment variables, but also CWD, file handles, uid/gid, sec context, namespaces) is there for a reason: to use. if you dont want your children processes to read the stdin in place of you, dont give it to them. it's the parent process responsibility to set up the env for the children.

although subprocesses are invented to do (some of) the parent's job by delegating smaller steps and leave the details to them. for example a http server would read the request (first) line, then delegate the rest of the input to a subprocess (worker) depending on who is free, who handles which type of request, etc. this is original idea behind inheritance, IMO.
by codingdave | 2025-07-25 13:36:39+00:00
I'd say the good from photography, aside from more options for creativity, is documentation. Journalism without photography would be of lower value. Photos are highly impactful in education, both formal and informal, to get visuals of the world beyond your immediate reach. Documentation of history, in particular local and family history, is far more powerful since photography came along.

I'd say the commercialization of it and the follow-on effects you mentioned are the bad, not the good.
by dust42 | 2025-07-25 13:36:59+00:00
tldr; low effort website that only contains 26 Google, OpenAI and Anthropic models and only input and output prices but no info about prompt cache and prompt cache prices. For a list of 473 models of 60+ providers with input, output, context, prompt caching and usage: https://openrouter.ai/models (no affiliation)
by dathinab | 2025-07-25 13:37:29+00:00
yes, but at the moment the user facing interfaces are not greate (in most countries, they are pretty good in some countries)

- sending money (P2P, P2B, B2B) often requires manually entering a IBAN in your banking app/website (_except in some countries_, and some systems on top of it can also reduce the friction) which is okay for many P2P use cases but not good for physical shop checkout P2B use case or ad hoc bill sharing use case in P2P (also compared to some other solutions this often comes with less consumer protections)

- doesn't interface (well) with the card payment/payment terminal ecosystem (but technically can and you do find it in some edge cases)

- fast (in seconds) payment cost extra and price is bank/country dependent (through in some countries it's free or consistently "cheap" e.g. a fixed 15ct(€) independent of amount and recipient)

but this is likely too change, some countries have already put up standards for more convenient P2P (and P2B??) payment methods and they seem to be in the process of being adapted EU wide (but not necessary UK and other non EU SEPA members)

in addition there are standardized interfaces for 3rd parties companies to link up with SEPA and/or you bank account which do technically allow companies to innovate on improvements. Practically this often runs into issues, 1) from a consumer POV in many (not all) EU countries the state of card payment is just fine and convenient features like easy bill sharing many people either don't need or don't know what they miss out on. 2) many issues are on the (physical) shop side, but you need to provide things users can use and having multiple systems in parallel is often not very practical, 3) at the same time without shops allowing new systems customer don't have any reason to adapt such new systems

anyway all of this likely will improve quite a bit relatively soon
by AznHisoka | 2025-07-25 13:38:47+00:00
I think 90% of the hype could be understood if you look at things from a non-coder's perspective. All of this tooling helps non-engineers with building AI applications, because they don't know how to code.

They don't know how to write a simple function to call a REST API, store the results in an database, etc. etc. So they need this tooling.

There's also the fact that humans love to abstract things, even when the thing they're trying to abstract already does the job fairly well (see: Kubernetes, GraphQL)
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-25 13:39:03+00:00
I don't think we have to wait for all related crimes to have been prosecuted before we ask the people close to Epstein what they knew and why they did nothing.

We have enough people in the country to pursue both simultaneously.

Trump should answer for why he was so close with Epstein for so long while saying and doing nothing about the extensive crimes he was aware of.
by krapp | 2025-07-25 13:39:36+00:00
The context of this thread and the linked article implies that we aren't discussing every civilization on Earth. I apologize for not explicitly having stated that, sometimes I forget that this is HN, where nuance and context go to die.

Norms against nudity within Western societies - excluding non-Western societies such as in China, Japan and India - are based on Abrahamic religions.

It is true that other non-Western societies also have norms regarding nudity, but those norms are not the same as in the West, and even within the West and other Christianized nations such norms tend to be more permissive than in the US. To give an example, in the US breastfeeding is considered implicitly sexual and thus allowing it in public spaces is controversial, whereas this is not the case in cultures where any display of the female breast is considered to be pornographic. You can even find cultures where public nudity has little if any taboo at all.

So no, other than the strictly physiological need for humans to provide a layer of physical protection around their bodies by means of garments, there is nothing more fundamental going on here. Norms around nudity are entirely cultural.
by tomhow | 2025-07-25 13:39:40+00:00
Many thanks!

By the way, you were right that the other person was inflammatory, and I should have called them out at the same time; it's just that we're often working quickly through lists of flagged comments and don't always think to look over the whole subthread.

In short, the answer to "why didn't you also call out that other user's abusive comment?" is almost always that we hadn't seen it yet, but we likely would have if you'd flagged it or emailed us.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-25 13:40:12+00:00
You know, for all their ills at least the historical communists meant well. Sure, some of them were pretty f-ing brutal but at least they tried to make their societies better, tried to make their countrymen richer and more prosperous.

The comparable people today telling us we have have to live under constant surveillance and be subjugated by all powerful governments and government intertwined institutions and organizations or otherwise losing all our rights and practical autonomy to various collective interests don't even do us the courtesy of pretending that the goal is to everything better and nicer. They just tell us that we'll all gaslight ourselves into liking the bugs or whatever and that despite everything being worse it's somehow better because stonks up and microplastics down, or whatever other metrics they also control.
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-25 13:40:21+00:00
If "centrist liberal" means being critical of all authoritarianism, from Obama to Trump, where would the democrats lie in this political balance?

I ask sincerely here. That would be a centre which would be ten miles left of where the centre seems to be, from where I'm sitting. Curious to know how you view the political spectrum to arrive at this framework.

For example, Macron might be a good example. How would you classify his politics, based on the above framing?
by jodrellblank | 2025-07-25 13:40:21+00:00
The USA has people taking part in the World Naked Bike Rides and the Folsom Street Fair, but the USA has "norms against public nudity". The millions of people going outside each day are not naked or expecting to see others naked. That's a "norm" and it applies to Japan as well; clothed is normal, the exceptions are few and constrained to a few places/situations/events.

A photo of a Japanese public space, would you expect to see a) everyone clothed, b) everyone naked, c) roughly 50:50 as people choose for themselves and going naked is a perfectly acceptable thing to do which nobody thinks is weird ? (a), obviously.
by _mlbt | 2025-07-25 13:40:30+00:00
There are two reasons why I don’t believe Colbert’s cancellation had anything to do with the merger.

1.) His show was losing $40 million dollars a year. I fully expect many of the other late night comedy shows to follow, since it is a dying format.

2.) They’re letting him stay on the air for a whole additional year. If the goal was to silence him, why not cancel him immediately.
by aftbit | 2025-07-25 13:40:49+00:00
They did, to some extent, though not to the degree I described.

As an American, I would be more worried about China than Russia though. They makes a lot of our hardware and firmware, giving them plenty of chances to embed killswitches and zero-days. They have possibly the most successful industrial espionage program in the world, giving them the opportunity to find vulns in other systems and embed agents inside critical platforms. They have deeply internalized the concept of fighting where their enemy is weakest not where they are strongest, so they have likely invested in attacking the American military at home rather than on the field.
by larrik | 2025-07-25 13:41:09+00:00
Well, mother-in-law's developer collapsed in the middle of building their development, and managed to empty the escrow accounts using forgery and fraud on the way out the door. That's not really the same scale as what we're talking about here, so much, though.

Being from Connecticut, this case comes to mind as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

Where a developer planned some huge build, forced people out of their homes via eminent domain, and then never actually broke ground at all.

These companies shut down once they hit some snag and then pop up somewhere else under a different name.
by danaris | 2025-07-25 13:41:13+00:00
Tell me you've never been outside the US without saying you've never been outside the US.

Taking just one example, in Finland it is extremely common for people to visit saunas, and from what I've heard, you'd be laughed at if you tried to wear clothes (or even a towel) in the sauna.

One Finn posting online I saw a while back remarked that a lot of the problems Americans have would be resolved if we all saw our grandmas naked regularly.
by const_cast | 2025-07-25 13:41:51+00:00
Yes, which is a huge problem. This is a big part of why Android phones suck so much ass - you're often stuck on old versions of android because the hardware vendors are too lazy to update their proprietary bullshit blobs that barely fucking work.

And now you're running a two year old phone and it's effectively obsolete.

If they would just upstream their firmware into the Linux kernel, you could upgrade these phones for years and years. Until the hardware is actually physically incapable of running the latest features.

Some vendors, like Google, promise to provide updates for a long time. But it's just that - a promise. There's no technical guarantee or mechanism for this, it's purely based on trust.
by AngryData | 2025-07-25 13:41:52+00:00
And how is that different than the US? Do you think people when they hear gun shots all grab their guns and run outside in the US? The US has a crime problem, but that crime problem is neither caused by guns nor will be solved by gun prohibitions.

Even despite the prevalence of legal firearms the US busts illegal gun factories every week, there is no feasible way to disarm the US population except through them wanting to be disarmed and willingly destroying their guns. And until US police stop shooting people with impunity, courts stop imprisoning people for being poor, the government stops deploying armed US troops on US soil and running a gestapo squad, and until crime rates drop to something not resembling countries without functioning governments, I don't see why the US population should want to disarm themselves.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-25 13:41:53+00:00
The only non-GC language that offered Java like capabilties in productivity, without being either C or C++, was Delphi, which has stuck being mostly for Windows shops, and is taited with the way Borland went through re-inventing itself.

Ada is not something that these companies would bother using, even though there are about 7 vendors still in business.

Likewise with either FreePascal or Modula-2.

Most likely a few of these exchanges are writting new code in Rust for such deployment scenarios.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-07-25 13:41:57+00:00
AFAIU, there's two forms of NFC payment:

- Adding your card to Google Wallet. - Using a banking app which actually implements payments via NFC.

Many banks used to implement the latter, but dropped it in favour of "just use Google Wallet". In the Netherlands, it seems to be all of them. This varies a lot per region.

I believe that the "just use Google Wallet" banks are the ones that don't work.

Also (as others have mentioned): many banks perform integrity checks, to ensure that you're using a software chain signed by Google.
by dakial1 | 2025-07-25 13:42:18+00:00
Seems like maybe he was good natured but susceptible to the influence of the environment he grew up/lived.

Kind of like those grandpas who were very kind to all people but for unknown reasons had prejudice against minorities.

I was hopeful that this kind of bad influence in good people would stop with society evolving, but in reality things seem to be cyclical...
by troupo | 2025-07-25 13:42:35+00:00
Repos and maintainers etc. are just a long unauditable supply chain [1]. And everyone is encouraged to blindly trust this chain with sudo access.

It's worse than that. If your distro doesn't have some package, you're encouraged to just add PPA repos and blindly trust those.

Quite a few companies run their own repos as well, and adding their packages is again `sudo add repo; sudo install`

Yes, it's not as egregious as just `curl | bash`, but it's not as far removed from it as you think.

[1] E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
by Sanzig | 2025-07-25 13:42:43+00:00
Most of what they do is Layer 2 and above, so it's hardware agnostic - prototyping on a Pi is fine.

Their work is gaining traction. DTN Bundle Protocol has been baselined for the LunaNet specification, which a bunch of private companies are designing to for lunar relay networks. Bundle Protocol is also currently on the CCSDS standards track so it should be formally part of the CCSDS protocol suite soon.

For those unaware: CCSDS is the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, they set widely used standards for spacecraft communications protocols. Basically anything beyond Earth orbit flies some variant of a CCSDS protocol stack, and a substantial chunk of missions in Earth orbit do as well, particularly if they are government funded. It's an international effort, China and Russia participate too so that everyone can communicate if need be.
by vicnov | 2025-07-25 13:42:56+00:00
It is an important point. Our understanding of what is “disease”/“malfunction” and how to address diseases has been changing.

I can see how if we, as society, - gain such immense wealth that taking care of/ providing support to/ humans with DS becomes so easy - arrive to the conclusion that there is no downside in emotional health/wellbeing - change definition of what “living full/happy life” Then parents stop perceiving DS as a concern