MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joecool1029 | 2025-07-29 05:00:22+00:00
The rotring 800 0.5mm pencil has been a workhorse for me. My conditions were that it can handle being carried at all times and not stab me in the leg.

It's even survived going through clothes washing machine. The one part I had some minor annoyance with is the ring below the control to adjust tip retraction would loosen up when carried awhile. I originally used a bit of superglue which came out in the wash. Now I've added some loctite so it will probably never loosen again. Other than some finish wearing off it's been great for years.

Edit: oh I use pilot neox F graphite in it. Feels like writing with HB but it doesn't break as easy as I write with pretty heavy hands.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-29 05:00:26+00:00
> I always thought taxing money leaving the country might be interesting way to approach the problem.

Capital controls. By the time they are applied it's always too little, too late, and they only ever apply to the plebs -- the wealthy always have ways to move money out (and back in, later -much later-, if it becomes necessary or advantageous). Always too little too late because -I suspect- capital controls don't really work -- not against the wealthy.
by xtracto | 2025-07-29 05:00:26+00:00
I feel it would be better to start cycling 2 colors, so that you naturally "catch" the reasoning you have to do. Then keep adding colors.

It reminds me of the dual n-back game, where you had to remember N steps before of 2 things. You start with 1-back and progress once you "get it".

As it is now, I just couldn't "get" what was the required reasoning behind this puzzle, before I got frustrated and left. And the hints didn't give me nothing personally, because once you get it, it basically solves it, without actually helping you understand the reasoning process.

Also similar to Sudoku... if you start with a difficult one, you just get lost. You have to learn the reasoning tricks.
by rashunain | 2025-07-29 05:00:28+00:00
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by ChadNauseam | 2025-07-29 05:01:53+00:00
> There has yet to be a usecase for distributed ledger that isn't solved better by a centralised ledger

what about situations where centralized ledgers won't serve you? e.g. someone who wants to buy drugs, or sex workers want to get paid. And you mention "niche counter-culture solutions" but I don't think it's so niche - in 2002, the government of Argentina stole 2/3rds of everyone's savings by forcibly converting their dollar-denominated bank accounts into pesos at a terrible exchange rate. Not having to worry about this because you have a trustworthy government is nice, but it puts you into an elite class of your own.
by jhanschoo | 2025-07-29 05:02:23+00:00
It's a bit surprising for me to see you describe final -g as such, because a lot of English speakers while they have lost the final plosive, still frequently pronounce the final nasal at the back of the mouth, hence analyzing -ng as a digraph representing that sound. Writing it as -n explicitly signifies the other more innovative pronunciation that just uses the usual nasal at the front of the mouth instead, that some but not all speakers use. Few speakers pronounce the plosive. I also wonder if assimilation may occur, e.g. a speaker may simultaneously prefer nuthin', and also lugging.
by iFire | 2025-07-29 05:02:37+00:00
Weird I can barely run vrchat virtual reality headsets at 2k at 35 fps on a 4090 rtx with a 2020 era 16 core cpu. The new amd x3d chips double the performance to 70 fps. In some single core locked cases the gpu is not the bottleneck. I wonder which one this is.
by climb_stealth | 2025-07-29 05:03:12+00:00
I really wanted a Sony phone as it ticked all the boxes. Headphone jack, SD card slot and bootloader unlock with LineageOS support. AFAIK no one else does that in current phones.

But the sad reality hit when there were all kinds of hurdles around getting 5G/4G working in Australia. Was not going to risk ~$900 dollars on a phone that could end up being a paperweight and returned it.

It's a sad state and makes me miss the good old days.
by raphman | 2025-07-29 05:03:39+00:00
While I am personally opposed to software patents, I'd argue that the JPEG XS patent holders [1] are not 'patent trolls' in any meaningful sense of the word.

While I have no personal experience on that topic, I'd assume that a codec with a patent pool is a safer bet for a commercial project. Key aspects being protected by patents makes it less likely that some random patent troll or competitor extorts you with some nonsense patent. Also, using e.g., JPEG XS instead of e.g., pyrowave also ensures that you won't be extorted by the JPEG XS patent holders.

One may call this a protection racket - but under the current system, it may make economical sense to pay for a license instead of risking expensive law suits.

[1] https://www.jpegxspool.com/
by fahhem | 2025-07-29 05:04:11+00:00
Israel didn't pull out of Gaza, it simply moved its people to the border and continued its subjugation. They bombed Gaza's airport and implemented a land and sea blockade where they controlled everything that went in or out (to the point where they put the Palestinians on a diet with calorie counting at one point). That's not pulling out.

The border with Egypt was controlled indirectly, Egypt is a puppet state of the US. For a moment it wasn't and suddenly they got a military coup and nobody stopped them in the name of democracy...
by joshvm | 2025-07-29 05:04:52+00:00
Jetstreams are great. Worth pointing out that you can buy refills in various form factors, including Parker style that'll fit the Rotring 600:

https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-SXR-600-Jetstream-Ballpoint-Pen-...

I also recommend the 800 mechanical pencil which has a very satisfying twist-retract tip.
by lmm | 2025-07-29 05:05:44+00:00
Extremely unlikely, given that there is no "active" scanning happening (no "give me a ping, Vasily"), we're just passively looking. I'd think the most likely way to find out would be listening in on our radio broadcasts (I assume someone's been talking about this object on the radio) rather than being able to directly detect the Hubble being pointed at it.
by DocTomoe | 2025-07-29 05:06:45+00:00
I've been using the rotring 800 mechanical pencil for a while now ... until it randomly broke down (no, I did not treat I strangely in every way or form). I'm using the - much cheaper - Kuru Toga Advance now ... which rotates the graphite slighly whenever I lift the pencil from the paper, leading to a sharper tip and thus a sharper script.

Plus, I am a lot less concerned with losing a 5 dollar pencil as compared to a 50 dollar pencil.
by godelski | 2025-07-29 05:06:58+00:00
> just running regular apt-get upgrade if it has too many packages to update, or takes too long

That's really interesting! How's it handle nala[0]? I ask because it parallelizes apt. So if it crashes fast then might be a good hint that it is overloaded but if it is more successful could be a timeout?

Also... I mean nala is also a much better experience than apt...

[0] https://gitlab.com/volian/nala
by JimDabell | 2025-07-29 05:09:12+00:00
> They are actively working on the standard and Firefox has committed to it.

Mozilla standards position says neutral:

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#fedcm

Their issue tracker on the subject shows they are interested but have a lot of reservations about the details:

> However, some of our reservations on the initial positive position have not been addressed and some new issues have arisen.

— https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/618

Apple had a vague “interested” position over three years ago, with no further detail:

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/309

Have these positions changed?
by mattbillenstein | 2025-07-29 05:09:42+00:00
I looked at crypto a little for a startup - the thing that isn't usually mentioned is the huge downside of custody. Not your keys, not your coin - and holding those keys securely, think fire, theft, hacks, backdoored hardware wallets, etc - is really really hard to get correct. And if you mess up once anywhere - poof - all your money is gone and there's nothing you can do to get it back.
by monero-xmr | 2025-07-29 05:09:50+00:00
There is no market test for “fundamental” research. So when an avenue of research secures taxpayer funding it exists into perpetuity, and as papers are published and requests for additional funding are made, it tends to grow like a tumor over the decades, getting more PhDs to be matriculated in the labs that began the avenue and grow ever more forever. Very rarely is an avenue of research closed off once the trifecta of university research labs + journals, PhDs who are minted to continue the research, and grants secured and grown.

A lot of the hand wringing by academics themselves are unfocused but circling the root cause, which is this. I would prefer corporations fund research but directed through the university system. The patents and gains are then funneled through the corporations that funded it, rather than the academics and universities with zero return to the taxpayers other than abstract “society gains” pablum, when the academics and universities truly gain all the profit.

When corporations that actually have a market test and profit motive are funding the research, avenues that are unlikely to succeed will be cut off sooner, and alternatives to the current vogue will be funded quicker. You can see a real-life example (of failure) in Alzheimer’s research which was hamstrung by decades of political control of research labs and taxpayer grants that refused to fund alternatives to the “mainstream” theories which set back society and the disease.

You asked for the justification and I provided it
by 7402 | 2025-07-29 05:10:42+00:00
> they could do this unilaterally and just withdraw

Which they tried in 2005 in Gaza. They evicted the remaining settlers in Gaza and unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.

Hamas won the first and only election thereafter and ruled in Gaza from that point on.

In the years during and after the pandemic, Hamas deceived Israel in the way it presented itself. An IDF report assessing the massive intelligence failure on Oct 7 reported [0], "Israel saw Hamas as a pragmatic movement with whom it could do business." That was a tragic mistake.

The opinion of the Israeli public towards the desirability (and feasibility) of a two-state solution has tended to vary over the decades depending on the actions of external Palestinian and Arab actors. After the wave of Palestinian suicide bombings of buses and restaurants starting around the year 2000 it went down. Two years after the Gaza withdrawal it was back up, with 70% support for the two-state solution in 2007, when there were peace talks. [1]

The mass killings and kidnappings that Hamas did in 2023 pretty much eliminated any enthusiasm for two states at present. A recent poll put Israeli opinion at 70% opposition to a Palestinian state.

That could change again. Israel is a democracy, and people vote depending on what they see. The idea that a Palestinian nation will ever encompass "the river to the sea," is a complete delusion. The idea that Israel will ever see peace and security by annexing the entire area of the former British Mandate is likewise a complete delusion. If Hamas can be defeated, if the Palestinian Authority can get more effective, less corrupt leadership, if Israel can get a parliamentary majority that is no longer dependent on right-wing parties, if ordinary Israelis can get a hint that Oct 7 is not something that will happen again, then there might be hope for peace.

Y'all do want peace, don't you?

[0] https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkd8rnrqkl

[1] https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/with-only-40-per...
by oefrha | 2025-07-29 05:10:44+00:00
> Why would you share your real name with Google when making a gmail account, or use your real picture?

Google made a big push in that direction starting in the Google+ era. IIRC at some point my fake names were rejected by Google and I had to change to more plausible fake names.

You can't fault regular people for falling into Big Tech's traps.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-29 05:11:00+00:00
> This cannot be reconciled with the meaning of the slogan "from the river to the sea". (Wikipedia claims that the slogan is used by both sides of the conflict, citing a JSTOR article I can't access; but I have only ever seen it used by Hamas and their supporters.)

It was literally Likud's electioneering slogan throughout the 70s. It's not just that it's been used by both sides - it was actually created by Israelis.
by sbierwagen | 2025-07-29 05:11:16+00:00
It's not subtle. Donald perceives colleges as bastions of wokeness. Nature literally endorsed Joe Biden: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02852-x

Now that he's president, here come the reprisals. Zero out NSF's funding, shut down NPR, end the COVID era break on student loan enforcement, withdraw grants from Harvard.
by vkaku | 2025-07-29 05:11:20+00:00
That is not conducive to getting anything complex done and will likely burn the team out and create slop over a period of time.

A better long term approach would be to onboard people and give their time to lean in, understand practice and do their best work.

When deadlines are short, there needs to be a well defined practice and things to quickly execute on, with everything well documented.
by godelski | 2025-07-29 05:11:23+00:00
> Pixel 8a has 8gb ram. It's not a low end number for Android phones.

I mean... linux runs fine of a Gen 1 raspberry pi... I have several machines around me that are running linux with 4GB or less. Hell, my 3D printer only has 128MB and my car has under a gig and run Linux fine. A low end phone *should* be just fine...
by seanhunter | 2025-07-29 05:12:38+00:00
Yes and for people who think “centuries” is an exaggeration, the knights templar gained their power and wealth in the middle ages specifically because people could use their promissory notes to exchange for cash so that they didn’t have to physically transport valuables around between Europe and the middle East during the time of the crusades. They allowed people to deposit cash at temple church in London and withdraw it in Jerusalem.

See https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38499883 and elsewhere.

It’s really telling how poor the knowledge of financial history and the existing state of the art in traditional financial tech there is among people in the crypto-boosting space. Many of the “innovations” they claim have been around in traditional finance for hundreds of years.
by dubyah | 2025-07-29 05:13:28+00:00
They're medical professionals. Not IDF soldiers. [1]

65 doctors, many of whom signed the letter previously mentioned, also signed an opinion essay on the NY Times. There are CT scans in the article. [2]

The NY Times Opinion editor even chimed in to state they saw corroborating said images, consulted independent experts to attest the credibility of said images, and ultimately decided the 40+ photos & videos of children with gunshots to the head and neck were too horrific for publication.[3]

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/16/israeli-so... [2] https://archive.is/w8q7a [3] https://archive.is/1fkOp
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-07-29 05:13:32+00:00
>David Satterfield, who served during early months of war

So we should not trust "hospital director" or "journalist" with scare quotes as they MIGHT be Hamas, but happily take IDF soldier's words as truth. The transparent bias is laughable.

I guess also that Israel forbids aid airplanes to take air footage of Gaza because Hamas bends the light to make it seem like IDF is committing war crimes. How devilish of them.
by yegle | 2025-07-29 05:14:15+00:00
You can have "read" access anonymously (with a big asterisk, see the end), but as soon as you need "write" access, the service provider (the website etc) is legally required to verify your ID. It's why there's no pseudo-anonymous discussion forum in China, at least legally.

Source: https://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2016-11/07/content_5129723.htm

> Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, Article 24: When network operators provide users with network access, domain name registration services, fixed-line and mobile phone network access procedures, or provide users with information publishing, instant messaging and other services, they shall require users to provide real identity information when signing an agreement with the user or confirming the provision of services. If the user does not provide real identity information, the network operator shall not provide the relevant services to the user.

The big asterisk: there's no anonymous internet service in China, you have to ID yourself to get access to the internet (article 24), and the service provider are required to keep record of you (IP and everything) (article 21), and they are also required to cooperate with the authority (no surprise here) (article 28). And using VPN or Tor is likely illegal (article 27).
by arunabha | 2025-07-29 05:14:16+00:00
Understood. My point was that the current state is entirely of Israel's choosing. At this point, there is no functional Hamas resistance left in Gaza. There is no need to starve people by restricting aid and then gunning down desperate civilians when they try to get the meager food aid that trickles in.

Israel has lost all moral superiority at this point and probably alienated an entire generation across the globe. All so that Bibi can cling to power a bit longer.

Edit: Spelling
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-29 05:14:20+00:00
That’s precisely the letter I was referring to.

They’re not in the war zone taking an unbiased sample.

They’re in a hospital receiving critical but patients after triage

Inherently, their statistical sample of war injuries is biased. It’s a textbook example of the survivorship statical bias!

This is all I’m trying to say: not that their observations are false or that children aren’t being shot, but that they’re not in a position to draw accurate conclusions about what goes on outside the walls of their hospitals based on information they receive inside its walls. They certainly can’t draw conclusions about the motivations of IDF soldiers from the information available to them.

This logic applies to both sides, of course, and to all similar scenarios.

A random example are the Russian claims of having destroyed ‘X’ instances of ‘Y’ weapons system when Ukraine got less than ‘X’ delivered. The reason is simple — they’re not lying — they just counted the decoys they also blew up!

It’s war. It’s messy. Information is hard to interpret.
by markdown | 2025-07-29 05:14:24+00:00
That's the point. In a world in which citizens are finding it harder and harder to engage in commerce without the use of these payment processors, we need to make it harder for them to deny service without just cause.

You argued that it was due to the prevalence of chargebacks but they already have a fair solution for that (banning vendors or simply requiring vendors to secure their accounts with collateral to manage that risk).
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-29 05:15:09+00:00
Thanks, that's a very reasonable comment on a sensitive subject, and I appreciate that.

I don't disagree with you. But because this is a predictable result, it's also part of the calculus that Israel has to weigh as part of the choice to deploy its soldiers in those positions in the first place.

I do think that Israel doesn't have to be fighting this fight; instead it could be playing the soft power game in Gaza much better, and it's barely even trying to. In my opinion the carrot almost always works better than the stick, and Israel should be throwing a Marshall plan at Gaza, literally truck-tons of money making Palestinians rich and happy, under the one condition that they turn over the hostages and any Hamas militants who don't surrender. All that would cost pennies compared to the costs of waging war (and the eventual rebuilding, and the next century of anti-terrorism policing, all of which Israel will undoubtedly be footing the bill for). Instead Israel is choosing to stir the pot in the West Bank at the same time, removing any chance of getting the Palestinian Authority as an ally against Hamas, and burning through what was left of the post-WW2 international goodwill that got it statehood in the first place.

It's understandable and predictable but I think it's still deeply mistaken, and very sad for me to watch.
by banashark | 2025-07-29 05:15:17+00:00
One thing I don't usually see addressed with the pure-sql approaches is how to handle dynamic query building. The most common example being large configurable forms that display a data grid. Kysely[1] does a good job of starting from this angle, but allowing something like specifying the concrete deserialization type similar to the libraries here.

I'm a big fan of sql in general (even if the syntax can be verbose, the declarative nature is usually pleasant and satisfying to use), but whenever dynamic nature creeps in it gets messy. Conditional joins/selects/where clauses, etc

How do folks that go all in on sql-first approaches handle this? Home-grown dynamic builders is what I've seen various places I've work implement in the past, but it's usually not built out as a full API and kind of just cobbled together. Eventually they just swap to an ORM to solve the issue.

* [1] https://kysely.dev
by shrinks99 | 2025-07-29 05:16:02+00:00
From the readme:

> NOTE: full bidirectional sync, like what nextcloud and syncthing does, will never be supported! Only single-direction sync (server-to-client, or client-to-server) is possible with copyparty

Worth noting that if you're considering using Nextcloud this may be a dealbreaker... But if it's not, I would also recommend not using Nextcloud!
by basilium | 2025-07-29 05:16:21+00:00
The use case for crypto (eth) and stables (dai) at least for me is clear as day 1) to be able to save money 2) to be able to freely take it with me anywhere (on a vacation for example)

Having no other way to do these simple things, from my point of view, it is not a problem of hundred thousand people in Venezuela, it's a valid problem of tens (if not hundreds) of million people around the world.

IMO The author significantly underestimates how limited and inaccessible the current financial system in the world is.
by nosefurhairdo | 2025-07-29 05:17:01+00:00
Lots of bold assertions without evidence. Author claims Google's high salaries killed entrepreneurship. Is there any data to back this claim?

Or the idea that democracy can't adapt to social media discourse; not everyone is chronically online. Politicians still respond to public sentiment to similar degree as they always have.

Then there's this:

> AI systems aren't just tools—they're deployed faster than we can develop frameworks for understanding their social implications.

If they aren't just tools, what are they? Why do we need a framework for understanding their social implications?

Post feels like a fever dream of someone who fell asleep to the Navalmanack audiobook.
by ecocentrik | 2025-07-29 05:17:16+00:00
I have personal experience with companies that consistently violate environmental regulations with very little understanding of the regulations they are violating beyond their effect on profit margins. They pay the fines or pay environmental engineers to help them pass an inspection that could potentially disrupt operations and are violating the same statutes 6 months later. The only regulatory clarity they care about is knowing which regulations can impact production and which can be gamed or paid off.