MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 12:15:34+00:00
>The contrarian parties tend to get very popular in the years between election cycles as the governing party can't deliver on everything and has to compromise.

So what happened in Hungary, or Italy, or other examples mentioned by troad?

Are you aware that RN, at this very moment, has by far the most seats of any party in the French parliament? Those far-right sentiments didn't magically disappear on election day.

>The Scandinavian experience is that these parties crash as soon as they get to real power and have to compromise. Suddenly they had to be responsible.

>If we do see these Trumpian parties win the majority in these elections in more rather than one-offs then we have a problem.

The "majority" comparison is meaningless in this context because the US only has support for two parties. (Imagine Germany had a contest between AfD and Die Linke only. That's akin to the situation in the US right now.) "Governing coalitions" aren't really formed here, so the notion of "they get to real power and have to compromise" doesn't exist in the same way.

So: Even assuming we grant your argument, Trump's power in the US has more to do with quirks of our political system than something fundamental about American culture.

>you can't accept how completely wacko Trump is

I never said he wasn't completely wacko. I simply said he doesn't personify the US any more than Biden does.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-27 12:15:40+00:00
You do know that the per capita number is from your own link? Japan sits at number 19 per capita.

Was the US doing about as much as Japan the argument you wanted to make?

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

Or are just here to be a contrarian?

Maybe the US have an incentive in seeing the American built world order continue?

But hey, turn inward and let China and India win.

But don’t get mad when tariff situation with Europe etc. Is equalized over time and the American big tech is targeted to lessen the dependency.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-27 12:15:49+00:00
Unpopular, but backed by numbers: school shootings are predominantly media hype.

There are a total of 50,000 gun deaths in the United States each year. Half of those are suicide. The total number of fatalities from all school shootings in the US since 1990 is 536, with roughly 1100 injuries over the same period.

School shootings are very disturbing, but they are also flashy and attract media coverage, and so they are overblown, especially relative to other gun deaths. But I think human psychology leads people to see higher risk in situations where they feel like they have no control. The idea of sending your kid off to school and having them get killed evokes sort of the same helpless feeling as the feeling around a plane crashing when you're a passenger. But when it's inner city gang violence, or a depressed man killing himself in his garage, we don't seem to care as much.

This also plays into the narrative around police shootings. There are about 1100 people killed by cops every year in the United States, and that number has stayed pretty consistent over the last decade. But our narrative around it is out of proportion to the actual number of people killed because of the circumstances around the killing.

In any case, it's often easier to articulate the cost of freedom rather than its value.
by mhitza | 2025-08-27 12:16:03+00:00
You can also use it pretty comfortably in vim (with a couple of plugins) https://gist.github.com/mhitza/a00d7900571e9f13bac2bbf4a203d... . I've used this setup to write both Guile and Chicken Scheme programs.

The LSP is the biggest missing piece for these niche languages.

In my perspective the reason why it still hasn't taken over is because it's not a focused and supported effort. In my understanding Guile should have been "the GNU scripting language" but the integration is nowhere near what a universal language would be (GNU Make integration is disappointing and totally not what I was expecting).

Then the fact that the project seems to be hopping between different directions (last time I checked they wanted to be a runtime for more than one language).

And they also lived their own Python2 -> Python 3 "migration pain". (In my above gist, I specifically had to compile Guile from source because at that time some application with a hard dependency on Guile2 wasn't getting updated in Fedora, which was holding back the Guile v3 rollout).
by balamatom | 2025-08-27 12:17:00+00:00
I think the "software doesn't wear out" assumption is just a conceivable excuse for the underlying "we do not question" assumption. A piece of software can be like a beautiful poem, but the kind of software most people are familiar with is more like a whole lot of small automated bureaucracies.

Bureaucracy being (per Graeber 2006) something like the ritual where by means of a set of pre-fashioned artifacts for each other's sake we all operate at 2% of our normal mental capacities and that's how modern data-driven, conflict-averse societies organize work and distribute resources without anyone being able to have any complaints listened to.

>Bureaucracies public and private appear—for whatever historical reasons—to be organized in such a way as to guarantee that a significant proportion of actors will not be able to perform their tasks as expected. It also exemplifies what I have come to think of the defining feature of a utopian form of practice, in that, on discovering this, those maintaining the system conclude that the problem is not with the system itself but with the inadequacy of the human beings involved.

Most places where a computer system is involved in the administration of a public service or something of the caliber, has that been a grassroots effort, hey computers are cool and awesome let's see what they change? No, it's something that's been imposed in the definitive top-down manner of XX century bureaucracies. Remember the cohort of people who used to become stupid the moment a "thinking machine" was powered within line of sight (before the last uncomputed generation retired and got their excuse to act dumb for the rest of it)? Consider them in view the literally incomprehensible number of layers that any "serious" piece of software consists of; layers which we're stuck producing more of, when any software professional knows the best kind of software is less of it.

But at least it saves time and the forest, right? Ironically, getting things done in a bureaucratic context with less overhead than filling out paper forms or speaking to human beings, makes them even easier to fuck up. And then there's the useful fiction of "the software did it" that e.g. "AI agents" thing is trying to productize. How about they just give people a liability slider in the spinup form, eh, but nah.

Wanna see a miracle? A miracle is when people hype each other into pretending something impossible happened. To the extent user-operated software is involved in most big-time human activities, the daily miracle is how it seems to work well enough, for people to be able to pretend it works any good at all. Many more than 3 such cases. But of course remembering the catastrophal mistakes of the past can be turned into a quaint fun-time activity. Building things that empower people to make less mistakes, meanwhile, is a little different from building artifacts for non-stop "2% time".
by firesteelrain | 2025-08-27 12:18:11+00:00
To add. Safety-critical software is not something you pick up in a classroom, it is something built over years of disciplined practice. There are standards like DO-178 for avionics and IEC 61508 for industrial systems, but how rigorously they are applied often depends on cost and project constraints. That said, when failures happen, the audit trail will not matter to the people harmed. The history of safety engineering shows that almost every rule exists because someone was hurt first.
by x187463 | 2025-08-27 12:18:44+00:00
Awesome. This is the cleanest ascii-art tool I've seen, so far. To date, I've been using

https://asciiflow.com/#/

and

https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/

to create input text for TerminalTextEffects to create terminal animations like the following:

https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/img/change...

https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-27 12:18:55+00:00
Curtailing renewbles due to grid constraints is usually a perfectly rational decision. New generation, new storage, new demand and new grid connections don't always happen on the same schedule.

Now, banning onshore wind in England for a decade when it was the cheapest source of energy available. That's just plain stupid (or a corrupt gift to your mates in gas companies).
by supermatt | 2025-08-27 12:19:23+00:00
Why no ryzen ai max+ 395?

It feels like this mobile chip has been hijacked for a bunch of mini desktops, a single ASUS tablet that you can’t use with a keyboard without a desk to stand it on, and a single HP laptop that (while actually the only real mobile computer) is priced insanely for even the low RAM variants.

What a waste.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-08-27 12:19:24+00:00
Quoting ChatGPT (and after a quick sanity check),

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter uses a specialized hydraulic fluid that’s based on a synthetic ester formulation, not a petroleum-based fluid.

Specifically, it uses phosphate ester–based fire-resistant hydraulic fluid (commonly in the MIL-PRF-83282 or newer MIL-PRF-87257 class).

Apparently the older phosphate-ester based hydraulic fluids were hygroscopic but I'm not sure if the newer variants are.
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-27 12:19:49+00:00
I moved over to Linux about a year or so ago when Microsoft announced they were going to start pushing their AI shit on every Windows system. I created a small partition intending to just give it a shot but ended up never moving back since 99.9% of everything I tried just works. It's really quite amazing how far Linux has come in the past decade alone and right now the only reason I keep Windows on my work machine is because there's still specific dev pipelines I can only do on Windows.
by kingforaday | 2025-08-27 12:20:05+00:00
I know the thread is saying $0 because Zerodium doesn't exist anymore, but there are others. This [0] one for a full chain mobile iOS is at $15M. I agree with tptacek though, the airdrop would reduce the value but you may still be in the low 7 figure range for 0 click RCE.

0. https://advance-sec.com/#bounty
by sschueller | 2025-08-27 12:21:27+00:00
Switzerland, if they want something they can fly for air policing is forced to buy the F35 at what every price the US feels fit (even though the contract with Lockheed states a fixed price, naive politicians and consultants found out the hard way). Of course the CHF to USD conversion is fix at a shit rate from many years ago and from what I understand there is no way around that because the SNB did the conversion back then already.

We have no alternative we can get before 2035. They are talking about extending the F/A-18 but since we would be the only ones still using them we would have to pay for that too at who know what price.

The public approved 6 billion and now it looks like it will be way more, excluding skyrocketing maintenance which is not included and a patriot missile system that when it is finally delivered will cost who knows how many billions.

The whole thing is an absolute shit show here and that's ignoring the technical issues this thing has...
by efitz | 2025-08-27 12:23:03+00:00
F-35 is a boondoggle.

$200M for one fighter plane is insane.

If the USA ever had to go to war with this weapon, a huge number of them would be offline at any given time, and every single airframe loss would cause a huge dent in overall combat power.

I don’t understand why our military and political leaders keep trying to buy ridiculously overpriced Swiss Army knife weapons (lots of flexibility but great at nothing) instead of mass producing combat knives (only good for one thing but great at it and lots of them).
by sofixa | 2025-08-27 12:23:53+00:00
> It's normal for countries to prioritize their own self-interest

I'm not talking about countries, I'm talking about Trump voters. An "America first" approach is totally fine, nobody outside of the US cares about.

An "America first" approach by a convicted criminal that is obviously senile, that results in arbitrary tariffs, threats of invasion of various allies, and a million other absurd consequences, is a problem for everyone. It's a problem for US partners, allies, and also the US for it's short and medium term future. Nobody will trust the US as a future trade and military partner.

In any case, as I said, I'm talking about Trump voters. The "extremely narrowly self-centred" ones are of the Andreessen types, the ones who think they can make a little bit more money if Trump is in power, even if objectively he's a terrible candidate on literally every level (criminal, rapist, pedophile, senile, can't string more than half a sentence, mocks disabled people, lies, doesn't comprehend realtively basic things, promises to deport millions of people while that being physically impossible, makes up stuff on the fly, wants to curb rights for women, LGBTQ folks, etc)
by nerdjon | 2025-08-27 12:24:35+00:00
If I am reading this right I assume this is only if you have onedrive enabled?

If that is the case, I think it makes some sense if you are already setup to use that to default to saving there since it makes it easier to find your files on other devices and they be safe. Theoretically if you have it setup you already agree to the risks of storing data in the cloud.

however... The real problem to me is that onedrive is enabled by default and that they are now requiring you to login with a microsoft account to use Windows. If both of those were not the case this makes complete sense.

But until they stop enabling one drive by default and making it a pain in the ass to disable this is bad.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-08-27 12:24:39+00:00
While working on the HTML document in your program, you have it always represented as a tree of nodes, a nested list often. When you want to insert user input, that user input is available as a string (unless you first turn it into something else). When you put a string into that nested list, and then at the very end, when you form the response, ask SXML to turn your tree into the HTML string, SXML will error, because it wouldn't know how to handle the string.

(All the other nodes are symbols with potentially subtrees in them, which are also symbols with potentially more subtress in them.)

If you put your user input into one such node as a value of that node, lets say a paragraph tag <p>, then SXML sees the user input as it is, a string. It will make sure, that when it turns the tree into HTML, that string remains merely a string, by escaping things, so that for example when your string is <evil-tag-with attrs="bla"> this is exactly what will be seen as text inside your paragraph text, and not be interpreted.

Basically, SXML will render it like: "Oh, you want some string to be inside your p tag? Sure, can do ... This is what you wanted to be displayed to the user ... You didn't want to run that, did you? Nahh, because then you wouldn't have passed it in the SXML as text content of a p tag."

So I think the answer to your question is "Yes.".
by mhitza | 2025-08-27 12:25:20+00:00
Making it clear that I never worked with Racket... Guile was the most ergonomic Scheme I used. Great documentation, "mostly" batteries included, and a while loop macro (the blasphemy, but the convenience!).

The reason I switched was that I wanted to use my small programs on servers, and with Chicken Scheme it was easy to build a statically linked executable. Guile should definitely be packageable as such, if someone versed in C has the patience, but it isn't out of the box and there are no "project templates" out there.
by kotaKat | 2025-08-27 12:26:03+00:00
> It said if the conference call participants had referenced the 2024 maintenance newsletter, “they likely would have advised a planned full stop landing or a controlled ejection instead of a second touch-and-go” that eventually led to the conditions that caused the crash, the report said.

I guess the engineers on the call didn’t get the memo about those pesky TPS reports.
by N-Krause | 2025-08-27 12:26:12+00:00
I am using Linux personally for the last 5 years or so. When she bought a new laptop I told her that she wouldn't need windows for her use case and the (free) Linux would be more than adequate. She is mostly using it for education (university), browsing internet. Just casual stuff.

She then proceeded to install and test the programs she needed and everything worked basically out of the box, so now she continued to use it because it doesn't matter to her what she uses, as long as she can use it.

(She is using Fedora on a Framework laptop)
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-08-27 12:26:15+00:00
I'm confused why you mentioned Rolls-Royce and then in relation to BMW.

The government intervention of RR was nothing to do with the cars.

The original Rolls-Royce company, which included the car division, was nationalized by the British government in 1971 due to financial issues with its aerospace business.

The car division was separated in 1973.

The parent company, Rolls-Royce plc (nothing to do with cars), was sold to the public in a share offering in 1987, meaning it was no longer government-owned.

In 1998, BMW purchased Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
by clejack | 2025-08-27 12:26:27+00:00
While incompetence might be an issue, I think the greater problem is that Microsoft is rolling back control and generally sucks at UX.

Why does this app that's been working just fine as desktop software need to save anything to the cloud by default? It's conceptually odd.

I've used Google docs from the beginning, but I actively choose what docs I want on that platform.

All MS had to do was add "save to cloud" as an additional save option along with "save" and "save as" (maybe renamed as "save to desktop") then auto save could activate where your last save location was. This would be good design.
by pfdietz | 2025-08-27 12:26:34+00:00
The thermal time constant of a 3d object scales as the square of the linear dimensions of the object, so time constants measured in years are quite achievable.

The dirt here will not be wet in most of its volume -- the initial charging will bake out all volatiles. The hottest part of the pile will become something like dry brick. It's like storing energy in ziggurats.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 12:26:55+00:00
The damage is done.

Today, the best alternative to fossil fuels is renewables - but 40 years ago, it was nuclear. If eco-activists made sensible decisions, fossil fuel power could have been curbed back then.

Instead, we got what we got. Eco-activists, being what they are, made vibe-based policy decisions, and the vibe of nuclear power was Very Bad and Glowing Acid Green and Way Too Industrial. So nuclear power was strangled with activism and overregulation in many countries, if not banned outright.

So we had to sit on fossil fuel power for those 40 years - until the economics of renewables finally became more favorable. Which, again, happened not because eco-activists willed it into existence - but because industrial capitalists developed the relevant technologies and pushed them into mass production.

What would have happened in an alternate world where renewables just weren't economical? Would the world sit on fossil fuels for another 40 years, until fusion power actually materialized?
by Qwertious | 2025-08-27 12:26:56+00:00
The problem was "compromise" - essentially as part of forming government the Greens and the CDU (Angela Merkel's party) agreed to an energy policy where they would phase out nuclear and replace it with a fuckton of renewables. But the actual govt did only the former without the latter (despite the previous agreement and the Greens' protest of Where Are The Fucking Renewables), thus leaving only coal and gas.

Leaving nuclear in place would be good, going heavily into renewables would also be good, but doing neither would be idiotic, and somehow that's what they did.
by olau | 2025-08-27 12:27:00+00:00
The UK used to have very high subsidies for offshore wind for some reason. The last I've heard, subsidies for new plants are much lower today.

As for being cost effective, onshore wind is probably the cheapest option, and I think it's hoped that offshore will come close to that once more of the learning curve has been traversed. Perhaps fossil gas from the North sea is still cheaper for now, if you ignore the external cost.

I think solar power is even cheaper, but doesn't deliver much in the winter so far up north.

Backup: Batteries are cost effective for short term shortages. For long term shortages, you'd fire up thermal plants, either biomass or biogas (fossil gas for now).

It doesn't make sense to back up wind with nuclear. Nuclear has a high capital cost and relatively low running costs, so you don't save much from being standby but you still need to pay back the loans.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-27 12:30:32+00:00
I know the history well about the involvement of private contractors, the difference is that in the end, NASA, a government agency owned the tech and the public benefited massively from NASA and continues to benefit today. Basically every tax paying American was a shareholder in that greatness.

I bet you one thing for sure, if this didn't have Elon Musk smell on it, and it was a government funded project, it would have 2500 upvotes. I can tell you that for sure. Just most people are afraid to speak their mind because...well you know, the flagging and down votes. Which I couldn't care less about, I think this whole down voting ideas you don't like game is rather stupid. This community has not evolved in years.

300 something upvotes for something "this big" as opposed to the 2500+ yesterday about Google's anti-side loading efforts should tell you that.
by Moldoteck | 2025-08-27 12:30:35+00:00
Yeah, your link is straightforward - It takes all fossils imports from Russia but for Ukraine help it takes only EU fund value, ignoring additional individual state contributions. If you add those I think the sum is larger. Not justifying gas imports in any way, just observing

Norway does definitely have problems to takle

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/08/20/n... https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/southern-norway-...
by arghwhat | 2025-08-27 12:30:39+00:00
> Regular people also commit fraud which can make some differences here.

Yeah, but it's hard for a regular person to under/overreport a property by, say, 200 million USD, and most people do not have the power to negotiate with or bribe municipalities to get different tax treatment like big companies and the rich people owning them do.

> Unpaid property taxes result in forfeiture

Avoided taxes are not unpaid taxes - we're not speaking of people on the run from debt collectors, but people who cheat their way out of having to pay anything.

> So do regular people

What regular people own properties in foreign countries selected for their tax benefits, for investment or recreational uses?

Most regular people own between zero and one property. Granted, they could move, but it takes extra riches to be able to casually straddle multiple borders.
by N-Krause | 2025-08-27 12:31:50+00:00
To be honest, I think most non-technical people that are not close to someone technical probably don't even know about Linux and/or just don't care about it.

If it isn't a problem it's not worth fixing. A lot of people don't even know where they are saving their stuff to, so if it's in the cloud or on their device doesn't really matter to them.