MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelnos | 2025-08-25 03:32:07+00:00
> They can offer a hardware device.

As someone who worked at a company that tried to do this, years ago, that's hilariously laughable, and either you're just incredibly unaware of what that sort of thing takes, or you're arguing in bad faith.

And if you think SPAs or regular websites on mobile Safari can give you the same experience and hardware access as a native app, I'm not sure what to tell you.

> They can make an android app compelling enough to convert users.

Sure, right, now you're just spouting fantasy stories. (And I say this as an Android user.)
by monkeyelite | 2025-08-25 03:33:19+00:00
I'm being a little bit facetious. When the government actually owns/operates the labor or equipment they can do a lot more. In the prison example state COs are certainly better than rent-a-cops.

It's just unfortunate that's how most administrators work. The traditional debate about public vs private usually focuses on different tradeoffs and incentives of the public - but if they are just paying market vendors it's greatly diminished.
by ikr678 | 2025-08-25 03:33:42+00:00
The only people I know who purchased VR & regularly used it were weathly, childless and had enough spare space in their house to dedicate to it. Yes, you can blow $$$ on a pc but the footprint of a pc is much smaller (a desk+ chair against a wall) vs how much clear floor space they had set aside for VR.

I personally believe that VR of the arm swinging/interactive variety will never be widely adopted due to the cost of real estate in the tech savvy, trend-setting consumer population centers.
by bdcravens | 2025-08-25 03:34:01+00:00
There are some private prisons, but overwhelmingly most are run by the state or federal government. However, that makes what you say even more true; they aren't driven by competitive market forces. Of course, many things aren't, and presumably that's the role of government regulations, to protect the public interests and fulfill the social contract. (Whether it does or doesn't is larger topic, and not something I'm trying to address in this comment)
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-25 03:34:34+00:00
> Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming

That's a lot of "red" states. Looks like a money transfer since the Federal Gov pays for the activated guards. Right outta the Texas immigration playbook to fund their border dog and pony show. There are a couple "blue" states in there so my bet is any news of sudden criminal and immigration outbreaks happen there to justify the payments to the others.
by kelnos | 2025-08-25 03:35:34+00:00
Just because people will go along with something because they have no other choice, it doesn't mean it's a fair business practice that we should allow.

Apple's deal is still an acceptable business proposition because there aren't any alternatives. Android users don't spend much on apps compared to iPhone users. It's an ok market, but not a great one, and in the US, if you aren't on the iPhone, then you aren't relevant, period.

Maybe if there was an actual competitive market on iOS for app stores, we'd see what app developers actually thought was a good business proposition, not the only take-it-or-leave-it (but if you leave it there's no way to be successful) proposition they have now.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-08-25 03:35:50+00:00
Acetaminophen is often recommended for pregnant women because NSAIDs carry risks in pregnancy that have been known for far longer. Indeed, the researchers here indicate that they recommend judicious use, not "broad limitation" because failing to manage fevers during pregnancy also carries risk. So there is no good option, only an understanding that all the options carry drawbacks and that we should go into maternal healthcare with our eyes open.
by schoen | 2025-08-25 03:35:52+00:00
This is great. It feels like a central example of the phenomenon of parser differentials (and nice use of tools to find them more efficiently).

Also, as the lead author's name is spelled the same as an English pronoun, we can anticipate natural language parsing ambiguities from writing about this research in English prose! For example, "You discovered that there are many opportunities for parser differentials due to the underspecified nature of the ZIP format" or "You described a practical method of bypassing plagiarism detectors and several other kinds of file content scanners".

Actually, I'm tempted to propose that for the April Fool's Did You Know? on Wikipedia next year. "Did you know ... that You won a Usenix Security award for finding ways to construct ambiguous texts?"
by schiffern | 2025-08-25 03:36:55+00:00
As Uvalde showed us, in extreme situations we need professional, competent cops, not (wannabe) "warriors."

The warrior cop mentality is the worst combination: it teaches police to be simultaneously afraid of their own shadows and belligerent and trigger-happy. The all-too-predictable result is that they escalate and shoot innocent people in nonthreatening situations, and then fail to lay down fire when it actually is life-or-death.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-warrior-cop-ethos-and-the-s...
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-25 03:37:05+00:00
The cache headers are correct, you can't indefinitely cache those because they might change. Maybe you could get away with a short cache time but you can't cache them indefinitely like you can a javascript bundle.

Not to mention on a more involved site, each page will probably include a variety of components. You could end up with deeper nesting than just 4, and each page could reveal unique components further increasing load times.

I don't see much future in an architecture that inherently waterfalls in the worst way.
by cmeacham98 | 2025-08-25 03:38:26+00:00
> Many might support rehabilitation for e.g. petty thieves (or murderers, since recidivism for homicide is low!) but not rapists.

This would be an example of not supporting rehabilitative justice, as there's no reason to believe this other than emotional reasoning. As a matter of fact, the evidence suggests the contrary - recitivism rates are _lower_ for rape and sexual assault than most other types of crime, including theft: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsorsp9yfu0514.pdf

> you’re obviously looking for the answer “nobody supports rehabilitative justice”

I never said nobody or anything close to it, that's a straw man you've made up in your head. Obviously, some people truly do support rehabilitative justice, but I believe they are in the minority.
Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
by jmward01 | 2025-08-25 03:38:38+00:00
I was just using PyCharm, which I have paid for and used for many years now, and and an ad for their 'Cadence' product came up in the IDE as a notification. I have now canceled my subscription and am looking for a good alternative. The majority of work I do is with python and I'm looking for solid step trace debugging and something that integrates reasonably well with Claude Code and other tools like it. Above all else though I am looking for something that won't advertise to me. I am willing to pay, I like supporting software I use, so what should I be looking for in the age of Claude code, Windsurf and the like?
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-25 03:38:59+00:00
I did physical therapy which mostly involved strengthening core muscles - if the cause is a herniated disc, which it usually is, this can slightly speed up the recovery process because a stronger core can push the disc back into place. But this is a speedup in the sense of "8-10 months instead of 10-12". Welcome, certainly, but not a silver bullet.

The other thing the PT taught me was nerve glides (also called nerve flosses). These don't seem to make recovery any faster, but help a decent amount with pain and tightness .

Sadly, that plus loading up on NSAIDs appears to be about all you can do for most cases of sciatica. I got a consult with a back surgeon who basically said, "I can operate if you want, but it probably won't help much, you just have to wait".

Good luck: it can be a pretty miserable time, but the good news is that most cases of sciatica do in fact clear up on their own even without PT. It can just take a while and you'll be hurting in the meantime.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-25 03:40:09+00:00
'The West also does bad stuff' is not the same thing as 'China and the west are the same' or 'Russia and the west are the same'. That's a false equivalency. The west has a long tradition of respecting individual rights. You aren't going to get disappeared like you absolutely will in those places. Say what you will about the failings of the west, but there's a clear moral high ground there, even if that height is an inch tall.
by vilhelm_s | 2025-08-25 03:40:25+00:00
The radioactive lead isotopes come from decay of uranium and thorium, so lead from different mines will have different isotope ratios depending on how much U and Th happened to be in that ore.

Not all leaded gasoline was the same either:

> 206Pb/207Pb ratios commonly found in Pb ores throughout the world range between 16.0–18.5 and 1.19–1.25, respectively (Hansmann and Köppel, 2000). Exception to this rule is the commonly used Pb ore from the Broken Hill deposit, Australia, which is characterised by extremely low 206Pb/207Pb ratios (1.03–1.10). On the other hand, Pb originating from the Mississippi Valley ore deposit, USA, exhibits significantly more radiogenic Pb isotopic composition (206Pb/204Pb N20.0; 206Pb/207Pb= 1.31–1.35) (Doe and Delevaux, 1972). American leaded gasoline reflected therefore significantly higher 206Pb/207Pb ratios compared to European gasoline (Fig. 1). The introduction of the European leaded gasoline around 1945 resulted in a steep decrease of the 206Pb/207Pb ratio of atmospheric Pb (Weiss et al., 1999; data from peat deposits). The isotopic composition of leaded gasoline was to some extent dependent on economical factors, such as the availability and price of Pb ores and has evolved due to the different Pb ores used. For example, Pb used for French leaded gasoline originated from Australian, Moroccan and Swedish ores and the contribution of the separate ores changed during time (Véron et al., 1999). It is therefore indispensable to gather data concerning the origin of gasoline used in studied regions.

[from https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2007.10....]
by evanjrowley | 2025-08-25 03:40:43+00:00
I've only read the book and never paid attention to any analysis of it, FWIW. It never occured to me that the weapon in Infinite Jest could be anything like GenAI, and that's probably because everyone in the book who could articulate what they experienced all described something vaugely specific... unless the ending is meant to suggest that visions of "the angel of death" are a common experience! The inability to describe what one's watched after an hour of slop does lend credence to this interpretation. Thanks for the fresh perspective on the book.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-25 03:41:08+00:00
It has actually been drank at least once more, by two French oenologists in 1994:

>La verdeur du vieillard En 1994, une analyse du vin de 1472 a été réalisée par deux oenologues, MM. Lobre et Windholtz, prouvant « que c’est encore du vin » et non pas « une mixture bonne à assaisonner » une batavia. Le nez a été jugé « puissant, très fin et d’une grande complexité ». En bouche, ils ont relevé des notes de vanille, de miel, de cire, de camphre et de noisette. Alors qu’un « vin normal » possède 20 g d’extraits secs, celui des hospices strasbourgeois dépasse les 45 g ! Conclusion : « Ce vieillard a conservé une étonnante verdeur », 538 ans après sa naissance.

from https://web.archive.org/web/20131103183014/https://www.lalsa...
by arcticbull | 2025-08-25 03:42:04+00:00
$20,000 for a 6kW system with a 15-20% capacity factor that lasts 20 years means you're going to generate a total of 157,000kWh. That's 12.7c/kWh. Before factoring in anything that might happen to it, including damage, cleaning, replacing your inverter. That is not cheap electricity -- the LCOE of nuclear is 9-15c/kWh. That's within spitting distance of Vogtle before you add storage.

Sure the panels may last 30 years, so you can juice the numbers and maybe you live in the middle of Nevada so you can get the upper end of the capacity factor but I mean, my estimate assumes nothing happens to those panels before the year 2055. My estimate also doesn't include financing costs for your car-sized purchase or any changes to your insurance premiums.

If you add a PowerWall for $15,000 that lasts 10-15 years, that doubles the cost despite increasing the capacity factor of the system, once again assuming you have zero issues with it until 2040.

> A vast number of US homeowners have installed such a system and are very happy they did so.

I'd do it myself and I'd be happy too, because it's neat, but that doesn't mean I'm getting a good deal or that residential solar is a cheap way to get electricity.

I suspect the people who are happy with their financial decision don't understand the difference between opex and capex, and aren't factoring in the opportunity cost of their $20-35,000 investment. If you invest $20,000 in bonds at 5% for 20 years you have $53,000 -- or in the S&P 500 at 9% you have $112,000. Historically electricity prices have grown closer to 2% per year.
by ViktorRay | 2025-08-25 03:43:18+00:00
Your comment actually is racist though.

You have no idea if those Indians are here on a visa, greencard, or have American citizenship.

You just see brown people, some of whom may or may not have accents, and are angry they’re making “six figure salaries” while people you define as Americans (I wonder how your Americans look like) are “struggling to put food on the table.”

I am not one of these people who spend their lives on Twitter or Bluesky or whatever calling everything under the sun racist. But your comment here is actual racism.
by mrandish | 2025-08-25 03:45:20+00:00
There are many ways to deal with any scenario like this, all of which don't involve the device manufacturer locking ALL device owners out of ANY control over the hardware they own.

For example, you can be the administrator on Grandma's device and block access to third-party app stores which cannot be overridden by anyone (including the device manufacturer) without your credentials. Alternatively, you could delegate that authority to a provider you trust. No one is saying you can't keep choosing Apple's walled-garden app store as the only store provider or that you shouldn't be able to block any or even all app stores. Options like that can even be locked by one-time hardware fuses so they can never be changed - even by the owner. The only issue here is Apple forcing a sole monopoly on that control for themselves because it's worth billions of dollars - instead of device owners having a choice.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-25 03:45:44+00:00
std::vector<bool> is the actual biggest stl blunder fwiw.

It’s a overridden specialisation of vector that only occurs when you use bool as the type. It tries to store the bools in a bit array which completely breaks various vector and container functionality.

Universally agreed as a blunder and a great example of premature optimisation. Herbs commentary on it: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/N1185.pdf
by JimDabell | 2025-08-25 03:45:46+00:00
> Probably, mobile operating systems would work more like macOS where apps can be installed directly from websites

There’s no reason to speculate on this. We already saw Apple’s vision for an iPhone without an App Store.

When the iPhone was first launched, Apple said that if you wanted to build an app for the iPhone, you should build a web app. People hated that, so Apple launched the App Store.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-25 03:45:53+00:00
What are your thoughts on pipefail in bash? I know ysh (and maybe osh too?) are smart about a -13 result from a pipe, but I stopped using pipefail since the return value can be based on a race, causing things to randomly not work at some point in the future.

[edit]

Per the link you posted osh treats a -13 result as success with sigpipe_status_ok, but I'm still interested in your thoughts on if pipefail is better or worse to recommend as "always on" for bash.
by popopo73 | 2025-08-25 03:46:51+00:00
It's almost like an uneducated public is easier to control..

Praise anti-intellectualism, change the media landscape so that everything is either consumed through short bursts of dopamine or presented in a way to manipulate you, and you'll have a society of people who are driven by their emotions with a very short memory.

As for the UK OSA, I think people are waking up to the fact that politicians will do what they want, use the enemy of the day to justify it, and group you in with that enemy if you oppose them, but I'm afraid without significant change to the system that this will continue to occur.
by xelxebar | 2025-08-25 03:49:20+00:00
Pentation? How quaint. For other Large Number fans, David Metzler has a wonderful playlist that goes way down the rabbit hole of the fast growing hierarchy:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A50BB9C34AB36B3

Highly recommended.

Almost all of these mind-bogglingly large numbers are built around recursion, like the Ackermann function, which effectively has an argument for the number of Knuth up arrows to use. Then you can start thinking about feeding the Ackermann function into that slot and enjoy the sense of vertigo at how insane that becomes.

I find it fascinating how quickly the machinery of specifying large numbers probes the limits of what's definable within the mathematical systems we use.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-25 03:49:31+00:00
This prompt is for scientific research. In general my goal is to instruct the agent to build as much validation scaffolding as possible, so rather than holding its hand I can just give it a series of concrete hurdles and tell it not to come back until they're met. I don't want it finishing the basic tasks and coming back to me saying the app is "production ready," I want to come back after a few hours to the agent having "proven a spec" with a demo or a paper that I can iterate on.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-08-25 03:49:59+00:00
Interesting, for me it was quite poetic and a phrasing I specifically noticed and enjoyed. I guess I did know Jupiters the biggest, but wouldn't have been 100% on it, or on heaviest. Not that I'd have a better suggestion, just not something much in my mind, so the framing was nice. I didn't think of the sun at all for some reason. Guess my solar system association is with planets.
by kelnos | 2025-08-25 03:50:15+00:00
Seriously. If Apple put even half of the effort into open web standards that they've put into building their mobile SDKs and the App Store ecosystem, we'd have webapps that would be just as capable, performant, and secure as native apps can be.

Though I'm sure then Apple would lock a lot of device access by websites behind a domain allowlist that you have to pay a bunch of money to get on.
by pkdpic | 2025-08-25 03:50:36+00:00
Agreed, sometimes it seems like there are only two types of roles. Maintaining / updating hot mess legacy code bases for an established company or work 100 hours a week building a new hot mess code base for a startup. Obviously oversimplifying but just my very limited experience scoping out postings and talking to people about current jobs.

Regardless this just made me shudder thinking about the weird little ocean of (now maybe dwindling) random underpaid contract jobs for a few hours a month maintaining ancient Wordpress sites...

Surely that can't be our fate...
by moefh | 2025-08-25 03:51:53+00:00
No, it doesn't. From that Wikipedia entry:

> A common misconception is that levies are compensation for illegal copying such as file sharing. This is incorrect, however, levies are only intended to compensate for private copying that is legally allowed in many jurisdictions. For example, uploading a purchased CD on to another personal device such as a laptop or MP3 player.

"Private copying" is generally allowed under copyright law -- except that under DMCA, it's only allowed if you're not circumventing DRM. So for example, you can legally make a private copy of a CD, but not a Blu-ray disc.
by xenotux | 2025-08-25 03:53:17+00:00
There is a downvoted comment that reads "ah yes the totally new math of exponentiation". The snark is uncalled for, but that's actually the essence of this article: it talks about repeated exponentiation as if it were some profound mathematical discovery.

It isn't. The article neglects to explain what makes busy beaver numbers interesting in the first place. And I think it's symptomatic of Quanta Magazine articles that feature on HN several times a week. A profoundly-sounding title and pleasant writing, but not much essence beyond that.
by didibus | 2025-08-25 03:54:23+00:00
It really wasn't clear to me.

My first read was that they wanted to fact check what they heard, and were not able too.

And my second read was that they were more interested in figuring out why 23 minutes and 15 seconds is the precise number being parroted.

And now on my third read, I'm still unsure what exactly they're asking for. If they knew about the study showing 25 minutes, and the interview, what more are they asking?
by Terr_ | 2025-08-25 03:55:01+00:00
> Total global debt is estimated in excess of 100trillion.

That number sounds scary, but ask yourself: Who is the debt owed to? Is it to Galactus, Eater of Worlds, who will devour our planet if we fail to pay? No, the debt is mostly owed to other people who have their own debts. Follow the flows around--instead of summing every step--and you'll see the cycles cancel out.

Imagine three people marooned on an island: They could find a shiny rock, slap a price on it, and sit down in a circle, lending it around clockwise until the Total Islandwide Debt reaches $300 trillion, where each resident has $100t in debt (to the person on their right) and $100t in credit (to the person on their left.)

Have these three castaways doomed civilization or enslaved the masses? Will countries deliberately not-rescue them to prevent an economic crisis? Nah.

TLDR: "Total" debt is not a very meaningful statistic.
by arcticbull | 2025-08-25 03:56:03+00:00
> Renewables are relevant given their trajectory

How convenient.

> Of course forgetting how France uses Russia for this reprocessing.

They do the reprocessing at the Orano La Hague site on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. They also historically reprocessed for Germany there and continue to reprocess for Japan. You can look these things up before you respond, you know. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
by foobarqux | 2025-08-25 03:56:34+00:00
I've confirmed this is false using the clapper-massive-rotten-tomatoes dataset on Kaggle which contains reviews up to 2023 (so note the scores are different than current scores): there are in fact many movies that have high hot-or-not scores but are clustered near the 6/10 threshold among top 10% of movies according to number of reviews: e.g. The Peanuts Movie, The Good Lie, Gimme Danger, Dream Horse, etc. (filtering on reviews with numeric scores)

These are all movies with (at the time) >90% "approval" rating but average score about 7/10 with most reviews around the 6/10 threshold and tapering down at 7/10,8/10 (as opposed to being multi-modal/split-opinion, e.g. many at 6/10 and many also at 10/10).
by themanmaran | 2025-08-25 03:59:43+00:00
I'm glad to see I'm not alone here! Was really excited about it, and tried pretty hard to make it through the first season but couldn't make it.

It just had too much of that early 2000's cable TV style drama. Which I understand is required since it was on network tv. I honestly think if it was made again today as a netflix/prime series it would be a lot better.