MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-23 18:00:33+00:00
> I would highly encourage such a person to assimilate to the norm in this country of not defecating in public, and were they not able to do so, I would be antagonistic against more of such people immigrating to this country.

Do you also believe that Muslim women should be forced to take off their hijab or that it should be illegal for them to wear burkinis in public pools like the laws they passed in France?

Should gay people not hold hands in public because it may make straight people uncomfortable?

When a Spanish family is speaking to each other in public, should they speak English? This really offends some people.

I go to a barber shop where everyone speaks Spanish and they play Spanish music. Most of them speak English also. But when they speak to each other, they speak Spanish. If I happen to go to the barber who doesn’t speak English, I switch to my limited Spanish and keep it moving.

The “norms” the culturally conservative want is perfect English without a foreign accent, straight, Christian.

> So, respectfully, I disagree fundamentally: those who choose to put down new roots in a different country absolutely do owe it to the existing inhabitants to assimilate. I, as an immigrant, owe it to existing Americans to assimilate to the American way of life. When in Rome, do as the Romans.

If someone can manage in this country catering to people who speak their language, why should it be anyone’s business if they speak English?

> But it is equally a failing if white adult were to find a black youth's behavior to out of the ordinary in a negative way[2]

This kind of thing happens all of the time to Black people living in White neighborhoods. Ving Rhames was in his own house minding his business and got SWAT called on him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-ving-rhames-said-...

How many times has a White person been harassed outside of their own home and having to prove they live there.

> or we can have monoethnic societies, either in parallel ("separate but equal" where each group plays by their own rules with minimal crossover) or as the eventual result of a vicious struggle between the factions that leaves only one standing.

Or we can do like I’m suggesting and treat people like people, celebrate the gay couple, mixed race couple, etc who decide to get married. Dance salsa when the Latin music comes on. Be willing to sing along with the country music, hip hop, rock, music when the DJ plays it.

When me or my step son is walking in the neighborhood where I was making twice the median household income of the most affluent area in Atlanta (working remotely for BigTech), mind your business instead of putting a message on NextDoor about a strange Black man suspiciously walking into his own house with a key.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-chief-orders-probe-handcuff...
by bawolff | 2025-08-23 18:00:41+00:00
This is mostly not an issue in browsers so much as non browser implementations. Its not even really an issue in modern implementations with better defaults.

What it did do is create a perception that XML is insecure. This hastened its demise.

> It's trivial to mitigate security risk arising out the use of entities.

Obviously. However in practise, historically most implementations did not. At least not by default.

XML spec bears some responsibility for this for not being explicit about suggesting secure defaults.

Regardless, JSON won partially because it didnt have the attack surface, so people didn't have to worry. XML being theoretically easy to secure means nothing when practically implementations made it difficult.
by vishnugupta | 2025-08-23 18:00:50+00:00
> my 2013 MB Intel still looks and runs great

I switched to MacBook in 2017. My first MB was a pleasure to use, solidly built and the keyboard a delight for a touch-typist.

But then Apple got crazily fixated on making them thin. By God they are some of the worst physical devices I've ever owned. That butterfly keyboard is so bad to the point of being non functional.

Fortunately they course corrected with M1 onwards. I still have their immediate predecessors of M1 as a secondary/backup device. While the spec is maxed out the physical device is just bad.
by foldr | 2025-08-23 18:01:06+00:00
It's easy for criticisms of a scientific study to look valid if you've only read the criticisms and not the study, and if you lack the expertise and context to evaluate them. One of the authors has posted a response briefly explaining why RFK is (as consistent with his track record) talking rubbish:

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/data-vs.-doubt-danish-scient...

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/landmark-danish-study-on-alu...

I'm sure that, as usual, the methodology of this particular study can be debated and people can disagree over exactly which conclusions can be drawn from it. That's not a reason to withdraw it from publication.
by dh2022 | 2025-08-23 18:01:19+00:00
My understanding is this is the standard SOP for security vulnerabilities: 1. Report the security vulnerabilities to the “victim” 2. Work with the “victim” the schedule for mitigation and publication 3. Publicize the vulnerabilities (the security researcher wants his findings to be publicly recognized)

If the victim does not acknowledge this issue it is impossible to execute step 2. So then the security researcher goes to step 3.

If the hacker has the emails sent at step 1 he will be fine.
by Animats | 2025-08-23 18:01:25+00:00
Marvel's movie business was, for decades, run by the toy business in New York.[1] The movies were optimized for selling the merch. The Hollywood end finally broke free of the New York based "Creative Committee" once film revenue became large enough. The core base for merch is young boys, and that shaped the films.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77264987-mcu
by TranquilMarmot | 2025-08-23 18:01:48+00:00
Yes, one of the reasons for "de-Googling" was to make it easier to switch to different devices if I want/need to. After moving everything out of Gmail/Google Drive/Calendar/Photos I can much easier switch to iOS. My current phone has many years of life in it, though, so I'm okay with sticking with it.
by mid-kid | 2025-08-23 18:02:04+00:00
> If I write [str] I want the inut string to be Unicode.

No, nothing about the "string" type in python implies unicode. It's, for all intents and purposes, its own encoding, and should be treated as such. Not all encodings it can convert to are representable as unicode, and vice versa, so it makes no sense to think of it as unicode.
by manaskarekar | 2025-08-23 18:02:27+00:00
And they're too large. I know, super unpopular opinion. I prefer the middle of the road size on trackpads with the physical buttons form the dell latitudes of 2010s. They work remarkably well with linux too.

The clickpads are pretty imprecise and poor, and compared to this the Macbook is much nicer.
by blackbear_ | 2025-08-23 18:02:48+00:00
> There are a lot of seemingly valid problems pointed out with it.

As I said, if the problems are indeed valid then a new analysis will show it. Otherwise, it's all speculations, and that is simply not enough.

Science isn't built on speculations but on hard data, and this standard is not negotiable. Saying "sounds about right", shrugging and calling it a day is just not acceptable.
by cm2012 | 2025-08-23 18:02:59+00:00
This is accurate for three reasons:

1) MBTI cannot be used adversarially - if people know certain types are preferred, they will answer to the test.

2) MBTI is strictly worse than Big 5 in study design since it doesnt have continuous variables and they correlate anyway.

3) There are huge liability issues if you say your product will help you hire or promote in the united states. Like q tips saying you can't ever use them in your ears.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-23 18:04:04+00:00
This is getting into semantics. Personally I would not consider downloading a zip file from a GitHub releases page in a web browser to be using a “package manager”. But someone could try and make that argument.

None of this has formal definitions which makes it difficult to discuss.

Your rant on Snap/Flatpak was great.

The core gripe is that I want running computer programs on Linux to be easy and reliable. It is not. MacOS and Windows are far more reliable, and they don’t require (imho) package managers to do it.
by mnahkies | 2025-08-23 18:04:42+00:00
I saw what I thought was a nice talk a couple of years ago at fosdem introducing the topic https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1...

Even when running on bare metal I think the concept of measurements and attestations that attempt to prove it hasn't been tampered with are valuable, unless perhaps you also have direct physical control (eg: it's in a server room in your own building)

Looking forward to public clouds maturing their support for Nvidia's confidential computing extensions as that seems like one of the bigger gaps remaining
Show HN: Clinic – A lightweight API client in the browser
by haxzie | 2025-08-23 18:04:46+00:00
I got tired of how bloated Postman became, and how buggy/clunky browser-based API tools are. So I started building Clinic — a lightweight, developer-first API client.

Right now, it only works with remote servers. Support for local development servers is coming soon.

Still very much a work in progress, but would love feedback and suggestions.
by bko | 2025-08-23 18:04:59+00:00
It was never saturated. The peak was probably Thanos. Everything since then has been pandering to a more female driven potential audience that was never there.

It's not just female super heroes, which always existed and were popular to some degree (Buffy, Lara Croft, Zena, etc). It was a particular form of shallow female empowerment where the female characters were perfect, or if there was any growth to be had, it was realizing that they were perfect all along and the world just needed to change.

Take for instance She Hulk series, within minutes of gaining her powers, she was able to outperform Hulk. There was no personal growth. Whereas male superheroes typically had to overcome obstacles. Spiderman had to learn with great power comes great responsibility. Batman has to constantly battle with his grief and moral code. Ironman fought substance abuse and his philandering selfish nature. What was the story arch of Captain Marvel? It's just not good story telling
by Dwedit | 2025-08-23 18:05:50+00:00
I'm sure that modern compression algorithms could do a better job than what Doom was using for its images. It appears that original Doom was basically using a vertically-oriented image format which indicated vertical strips of raw bytes, or transparent areas. It's much cheaper to skip drawing transparent areas.

Would obviously need some decode time to decompress the images, and memory to store the decompressed images.
by therealpygon | 2025-08-23 18:06:12+00:00
You don’t have to prove anything.

If the LLM helps you, that is what matters to you. If it doesn’t help them, that is what matters to them. The problem is always the people trying to be “right”. If a person, project or company doesn’t want to allow/use LLMs for their controlled code, go ham, doesn’t bother me any. Why the reverse of that isn’t also true is baffling, but often par for the course here.
by plqbfbv | 2025-08-23 18:06:37+00:00
> It's almost too stupid for me to believe this is genuinely a claim made in France.

I agree with you, but at the same time I recall my last trip to NY 20 years ago. It was end of summer, so kinda hot, and many times I walked into buildings that would shower you at the entrance with <16C AC air, it literally felt like stepping into a freezer room. I felt cold in many shops after a 10m stay, and I like cold. I'm not sure that's still the case, but I can see where that's coming from (and don't get me wrong, I need AC to survive when temps are above 27C). Removing humidity and bringing temps down in the 21~24C range would be plenty enough.
by dahart | 2025-08-23 18:07:00+00:00
Great question. It really depends. 10 years isn’t very long, so most well known languages & platforms will be fine. But 20 or 30 or 50 or 100 years, that gets more interesting.

I’ve kept all my dumb little side projects for my entire life, starting from Basic, Pascal & x86 assembly as a teenager 30 or more years ago, lots of C++ and OpenGL in college, python over the last 15 years, and HTML+Javascript mostly from ~10 years ago.

Surprisingly, the stuff that still runs with the least trouble from my teenage years several decades ago is the assembly code. Basic and Pascal I can do with emulators, but it takes more work. My C++ OpenGL projects from 15-25 years ago take some work to resurrect, but can be done. C++ command line code from 25 years ago compiles and runs without issues. Python from 15 years ago still runs, even the python 2.x code. HTML+JS from 10 years ago still runs without changes. My Arduino projects from 10 years ago might have bit rotted the most; they almost require starting over to get them going again.

Ironically even though the JS ecosystem has had some of the highest churn, I feel like it’s one of the safer bets, as long as you keep dependencies down. Don’t pull a ton of crap from npm/yarn/whatever. Use mostly vanilla JS+HTML, and it will definitely run on almost any OS and mobile device 10 years from now.

Anything with standards behind it necessarily moves pretty slowly. What C++ looks like is changing over time, but old code is pretty safe most of the time, and code written today should continue to work for 10 years easily.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-23 18:07:11+00:00
> I have found that they can get into "death spirals," where their suggestions keep getting worse and worse. I've learned to just walk away, and try something else, when that happens. I shudder to think of junior engineers, implementing the code that comes from these.

The death spirals (great term btw) are caused by context pollution. Basically if the LLM gets something wrong in its head (context), it can't move away from it. Just the fact that it exists nudges its decisions towards it.

This is where you need to ask it to summarise where you are to a markdown document or similar (the kids call it a "memory file"). Clear the context (start a new chat) and use the markdown file to bootstrap your progress.
by mbreese | 2025-08-23 18:07:21+00:00
It also inadvertently proves their point. The strength of Apple hardware is the OS integration. This level of integration and polish is only possible because of the limited components they have to support. Even if you have powerful components on the PC side (Windows or Linux), you're at the mercy of a few different vendors and how well they support the hardware. And even if you get supported components, it's possible to get yourself into situations where your configuration is sub-optimal.

Versus a Mac where you can just start it and get working. It's possible with PC hardware, but it takes more work for the customer (or vendor).
Ask HN: What can I do to fight internet censorship in Spain as a non-EU citizen?
by PutaXavier | 2025-08-23 18:07:31+00:00
Thanks to a recent court order [1], and in an effort to "prevent piracy", La Liga (the Spanish football league) has ordered major ISPs in Spain to block access to IP ranges belonging to CDNs during football events. [2]

Since this measure is imposed on ISPs by court order, I understand that complaining to them as an ordinary customer would be ineffective. As a non-EU citizen, is there anything I can do to push back against this kind of restriction on internet freedom?

Currently I've configured my home router to use mosdns [3] to rewrite DNS answers in the Cloudflare IP ranges to known-good addresses (e.g., chatgpt.com, medium.com). This works for now but will eventually be defeated by SNI-based blocking, which some ISPs are already doing.

[1]: https://vercel.com/blog/update-on-spain-and-laliga-blocks-of-the-internet [2]: https://hayahora.futbol/ [3]: https://github.com/IrineSistiana/mosdns
by setopt | 2025-08-23 18:07:38+00:00
My 2021 M1 MacBook is still good, but my 2020 Intel MacBook Air (16GB RAM) has felt unusable since 2022 or so. After upgrading macOS past Big Sur it just got unusably slow, would randomly hang or have high idle CPU usage, battery power was short lived, and it was constantly hot. I therefore downgraded it to Catalina and was happy to have my laptop back, until Homebrew and App Store wouldn’t let me install new things anymore, then I upgraded it to the latest macOS again and found it unusable again.

Now I’m not sure whether to install Linux on it (I’ve used Linux as my main OS before the Mac), or try to downgrade to Catalina again and just build whatever software I need from source.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-23 18:08:14+00:00
For those who aren't familiar with the document, it has been described as "probably the best sales manual ever written." It was one of the first things ever written by a young David Ogilvy.

It's mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but one of the best books I have ever read on advertising and marketing is Ogilvy on Advertising. If you have even a passing interest in selling anything to anyone, or just want to see how the sausage is made, I would strongly recommend it. One thin book, no fluff, with more concrete advice than ten thousand blog posts.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-23 18:08:37+00:00
In a way it makes sense. My US mail is mostly junk - coupon brochures, scams (like extended warranty scams disguised to look legitimate), and bills or noticed that are legally required to be physical. I do enjoy greeting cards from friends or family but that type of thoughtful communication is rare these days and mostly replaced by casual digital stuff. Still, having the ability to send things to other people feels like an important government funded service.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-08-23 18:09:00+00:00
The article is very manipulative.

Take this example:

> Three of the study’s authors are affiliated with Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a government-owned vaccine company that develops a number of aluminum-containing vaccines. SSI also procures and supplies vaccines for the Danish national vaccination program — a clear institutional conflict given its role in supporting vaccine manufacturing and promoting vaccine uptake.

There are several points in there, can you see it?

The article is really full of such subliminal messages, some people are vulnerable to.
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-23 18:10:17+00:00
Sure, we should diversify our food sources. The stat is something like 20k+ edible plants, but 90% of calories come from 20 of them, and 50% come from wheat/rice/maize.

(Note that maize, sugar cane, sorghum, and some millets are C4 crops already in use.)

It takes a lot of selective breeding to develop varieties that are palatable, productive, climate adapted, (remain) disease resistant, amenable to automation, etc etc. There are folks doing amazing work in their backyard to improve promising and interesting species (see "landrace gardening" community. It's super cool how one can leave a "genetic legacy" for future generations this way.) And of course university and extension office breeding programs too.

Many people believe that we need to shift towards a more management-intensive perennial-emphasized polyculture / "permaculture" type approach in order to create diverse and resilient systems tailored to the local conditions. But then the entire food consumption system needs to align on top of that. Lots of coordination problems.

So of course the big industrial ag systems are also doing things their way, which includes modern biotechnology. I'm not opposed to that - if I could wave a wand to improve some crops I certainly would. Hopefully we get lots of people exploring all types of solutions.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-08-23 18:10:20+00:00
Not sure I'd take that source seriously.

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/06/fact-check-blog-p...

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/covid-19-vaccines-don...

https://fullfact.org/health/CDC-PCR-Tests-trial-news/
by nunez | 2025-08-23 18:11:28+00:00
Two reasons.

First is age. These devices are 5-7 years old. Many are using their original batteries, which have several dead cells. So they literally have less capacity than they did back then.

Second is JavaScript, in my opinion. I can often see my battery drain in real time when I use the browser, even when Low Power Mode is on. Demanding client side JavaScript is a big reason for that.

You also have extensions doing stuff on pre/post-load that also contribute to power usage.

Finally, so many web developers test against modern devices, and there isn't enough demand to warrant accommodating less powerful CPUs/SOCs. You can try to use the web without JS, but you'll find that many websites will think that you're a bot and block you.
by Spivak | 2025-08-23 18:11:34+00:00
That's a much stronger claim, stronger than the one made in Kennedy's criticism. If you or anyone can prove that they actually lied or fabricated data then yeah, nuke the paper from orbit. But if the criticism is that they're wrong—and that is the criticism here, then you tear it apart in the open. And if you want people to believe the opposite conclusion rather than simply ignoring the results then you need some data proving your new conclusion.
by esoterae | 2025-08-23 18:11:47+00:00
> They did really well in some things like ... devops

Did they, though? I ask because the vast majority of people touting LLM as a huge win usually seem to speak from a.. DK-heavy perspective. As in, the bulk of their profession experience hasn't actually been doing the subject they're gushing about the LLM crushing.

So I ask you, what is your level of devops experience to make such a dismissive, sweeping statement? I am pointedly inquiring about my own area of expertise, in case that wasn't clear.
by apetresc | 2025-08-23 18:13:38+00:00
I wonder if that’s also because Grant uses his own branch of manim from which the mainstream public one (manim-ce) has diverged quite a bit.

I can imagine LLMs being very confused being asked to write “manim” when everyone talking about “manim” (and the vast majority of public manim code) is actually the subtly-but-substantially different “manim-ce”.