MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bebeskids | 2025-08-02 17:44:21+00:00
Parks, libraries are cheap and free and they're dead where I live, a metro area of 2+ million

The only people I see out are families with grandpa in tow to pay for a mediocre overpriced wood fired pizza.

No one has analog skills. Just social analysis skills. Very briefly dated a 39 year old who admitted she had never baked, boiled, or microwaved her own potato. Already got 2 kids.

We reach endgame sooner in life. We grind all the content immediately because we aren't growing the potatoes and sewing the clothes, weaving textiles.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-02 17:44:25+00:00
Oh, that’s an interesting take. I’ve long been looking for newer developments on Awk’s clause structure, and this seems like an interesting take (though I’m unclear on whether I can have multiple begin/end clauses, which are the best thing about Awk’s version). It also finally connects this idea to something else in my mind—specifically advice[1] and CLOS’s :before/:after/:around methods[2]. (I guess Go’s defer also counts?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_(programming)

[2] https://gigamonkeys.com/book/object-reorientation-generic-fu...
by ak217 | 2025-08-02 17:44:40+00:00
Better yet, get stability/motion control shoes. Don't skimp on running shoes and be prepared to try a few different types for extended periods of time before you settle on one.

I found that there is only one type of shoe on the market that prevents me from getting injured (Asics Gel-Kayano). Everything else - low drop, high drop, HOKA, Brooks, Nike, even Asics' own GT-2000s - is a quick route to knee injury for me. And I don't need arch supports when using the Kayanos, even though I am a very clear overpronator.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-02 17:44:43+00:00
> and driving range is so big that it's not practical to drive 4 miles to my closest friend, knock on her door, hope she isn't having sex with her husband, and ask if she wants to chill

Does she not have a phone? Calling someone up and saying "hey, let's hang out" and then driving over to hang out was literally how most of suburban social interactions happened in the 90s.
by Mawr | 2025-08-02 17:45:06+00:00
$32k = 27.5k€, and if we include the insurance numbers you provided: $27.5k = 23.5k€

> waiters make more in America

By apparently 1.5k€ per year? Not a strong argument as it stands and we haven't even begun talking about the lifestyle and workplace differences between the two countries.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-02 17:45:16+00:00
I don't know about the author specifically but in many different cultures people have different understanding about what being rich means.

There are many concepts in christianity, islam etc. on it and varies a lot. In some cultures being rich is viewed as a mission given by god to do something great with it for example. In others its said that property is owned by the god and you are just given some limited time to use it for the good of humanity and preserve it, So it's not something to be proud of and you may feel sorry that others were not given such a mission.

These things not only depend on the specific religion, i.e. Christianity vs Islam but also within stuff like Protestantism and Catholicism.

Lots of stuff that the current right wing American narrative freaks out on is just a school of thought among Christians, Jews and Muslims. Many time those people are not woke or PC or whatever, just Christians that are taught by their parents to be modest and avoid bing flamboyant on their wealth. Even when people are not religious, these things run deep and defines your worldview.
by Otek | 2025-08-02 17:45:22+00:00
There are different yoga styles - there is Yin Yoga which is more still, there is Ashtanga Yoga which is more Strength-Based. Something like a Hot Vinyasa or Bikram will definitely be a great cardio workout. So telling us that you are doing yoga is like telling you've eaten pizza. There is lot of different toppings mate :P
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-02 17:46:45+00:00
My family literally died on the boat coming to the USA, leaving only a 9 year old girl orphan, another leaving a teenage girl orphan arriving alone in the USA. Luck had nothing to do with it. Some brave ass tough as nails women did though. Honor the people that put in effort/sacrifice to get your here. They were real, not some nebulous magical 'luck'.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-02 17:46:54+00:00
That's no longer a justification once you have algorithmic amplification which Substack introduced with its Twitter immitation.

At that point they ceased to just tolerate these ideas but to amplify them. At that point they carry more responsibility, and people rightly blame them for it.

Free speech is fine. A private company handing nazis a megaphone and not accepting criticism for it is not.
by Someone | 2025-08-02 17:47:03+00:00
> perhaps only 1 discounting symmetry as there is 1 fully solved cube

I don’t see how ”there is 1 fully solved cube” would even hint at “perhaps only 1”

Also, there isn’t only 1. https://www.cube20.org/: “Distance-20 positions are both rare and plentiful; they are rarer than one in a billion positions, yet there are probably more than one hundred million such positions. We do not yet know exactly how many there are”
by samiv | 2025-08-02 17:47:36+00:00
Actually, that's not how steroids work. It's a common misconception that one can take "roids" and just sit on the sofa while munching on potato chips and get shredded and pack on muscle but in reality what the steroids do are to move ones natural limitations further away thus enabling larger muscle mass than naturally. But this still requires one to put in the work, i.e. the stimulus to trigger the muscle growth and to rest and eat properly.
by amelius | 2025-08-02 17:47:44+00:00
I guess it is the same as taking a multiple-choice test, filling it out randomly and getting a perfect score.

Yes, you are lucky. But also: you should feel guilty about it.

Same with random things happening in your life and turning out well. If you don't know why they happened then who says you will be lucky the next time? Better feel a little guilty and try to understand how you can turn the odds your way (and perhaps also so others can benefit).
by lantry | 2025-08-02 17:47:51+00:00
It depends on what you want to do with your life, and what kind of partner you want. Most people want to date someone with their own place, because most people want their own place. If you want to live in a communal living situation, you're not going to be very happy if you partner up with someone who wants their own place. Will you sacrifice communal living in order to gain a partner? Or will you look for a partner who is interested in communal living, even if that takes longer?

These conversations about how men have to change themselves in order to find a partner are funny to me, because the subtext is that partnering up is the most important thing you can achieve, and you should sacrifice your other interests in order to make yourself marketable to the largest pool of people, so you can find a partner as soon as possible. People mock the phrase "just be yourself" because there are some things (money, physical beauty) that most people are looking for, and if you achieve them it's easier to find a partner. But the flip side is, unless you enjoy putting in all the work to be rich and beautiful, having a partner won't make you happy. The phrase "just be yourself" is really saying that you shouldn't change yourself just to find a partner, because it will be a phyrric victory. Instead, you should be yourself, do the things that make you happy, and let that filter out all the people who would only be interested in your money or your beauty. (and to be clear, this is not an argument against self improvement - you should still seek to better yourself)
by moralestapia | 2025-08-02 17:47:53+00:00
On some thread we were talking about how early diagnosis is a life saver and companies like Prenuvo are doing something nice.

He was 100% opposed, tried to be smaht by arguing something like more screening = more false positives and he came to the dumbest conclusion that no one should do tests until they have symptoms or something, lmao.

A prime example of the "expert" illusion.
by derektank | 2025-08-02 17:48:11+00:00
I think it's sort of reasonable in this case, given there's very little investment in running on 4 limbs, while nation states fund track and field programs to the tune of millions of dollars. That the small number of 4 limbed runners are making progress against 2 limbed runners does indicate it might allow higher peak performance. Of course, 4 limbed runners have probably already plucked the low hanging fruit in performance improvements, but the researchers aren't projecting linear improvement
by Joker_vD | 2025-08-02 17:48:21+00:00
> I didn’t recognize /o. It didn’t seem critically important to lookup yet.

> With nothing else to investigate, I finally looked up the docs for what the /o regex modifier does.

I'll probably never understand this mode of thinkning. But then again, Ruby programmers are, after all, people who chose to write Ruby.

> /o is referred to as “Interpolation mode”, which sounded pretty harmless.

Really? Those words sound quite alarming to me, due to personal reminiscences of eval.

Also, this whole "/o" feaure seems insane. If I have an interpolation in my regex, obviously I have to re-interpolate it every time a new value is submitted, or I'd hit this very bug. And if the value is expected to the same every time, then I can just compile it once and save the result myself, right? In which case, I probably could even do without interpolation in the first place.
by gspencley | 2025-08-02 17:48:33+00:00
You're laser focusing on MFA sniffing, specifically. The point is that malware can take screenshots to harvest information. Your banking information has a ton of sensitive information about you that could be used for a variety of different purposes, such as for identity theft. My point was that making it impossible to take screenshots is trying to protect against the possibility that there is malware harvesting anything through screenshots.
by phamilton | 2025-08-02 17:48:52+00:00
This feels similar to when I heard they use bubble sort in game development.

Bubble sort seems pretty terrible, until you realize that it's interruptible. The set is always a little more sorted than before. So if you have realtime requirements and best-effort sorting, you can sort things between renders and live with the possibility of two things relative close to each other appearing a little glitched for a frame.
by eastbound | 2025-08-02 17:49:03+00:00
True, but if you can afford to hike in the mountains, you can then brag about seeing a groundhog, a chamois, a valley, joining paths, waking up with the sun (never hike in afternoons because storms and night approaching).

Which is the best of both worlds: You don’t index yourself against an herculean performance, and yet you still do exercise. And walking 8hrs in the mountains actually does wonders to weight, MUCH better than my herculean 1000m-in-70-minutes climb.
by null0ranje | 2025-08-02 17:49:14+00:00
I'm pretty skeptical of the safety as well. It's also pretty hard to judge where there don't seem to be any actual photographs of the vehicle, only computer renderings.

I would love a small truck like this, but I would honestly buy an old Tacoma or Ranger before even considering buying this on spec.

*edit: digging around I did find some footage on YouTube with actual vehicles. I'm definitely skeptical on the safety now.
by handwarmers | 2025-08-02 17:49:31+00:00
There is nothing wrong with being dramatic occasionally! I wish there were a real science to help us understand ourselves more reliably too - but there isn't. But maybe we are slowly entering the enlightenment after the dark ages of psychology?

I think in today's world it is easy to become a cynic, and being a cynic is one way to feel safe. Depending on what your utility function about the world is, being a cynic might actually be the most "rational" approach to life - new things are more likely to fail, and if you always bet that something will fail, or is flawed, or worthless, or a scam, you will be right more often that you will be wrong. In the right circles you might be considered a wholesome, grounded, put together person if you are like that.

But perhaps we could get the best of both worlds? Have a little corner of your garden that is entirely dedicated to experimentation with ideas - keep them there, see how they interact with a sampling of your actual garden, and after you feel confident enough, promote them to the real garden, and let them nudge your life a little. If it turns out for the worse, tear them out and throw them,
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2025-08-02 17:49:44+00:00
It's good that you are quantifying what is good enough. I wish that job posting specified that[1]. This will allow candidates to know upfront if they need to apply or not. It goes without saying that this will help only a potential candidate not the employer who still has to deal with several applications.

[1]=The FAANG recruiters do specify it: each medium leetcode problem has to be solved in 15 min, but that's an absurdly high bar which most jobs do not require it.)
by bookofjoe | 2025-08-02 17:50:25+00:00
hokum?

https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.endres

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i_y_mxoAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.amazon.com/Physical-Principles-Sensing-Signaling...

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Robert...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-02 17:50:36+00:00
I mean, my interests are just really niche in the sense that I like to glue projects and one of my favourite hobbies is to search if there is an open source replacement to something or if I can use open source things to do stuff

So there is intel tiber cloud and it gave me a free jupyter and I wanted to play minecraft server, so I went to something which is a fork of it and I saw that there was a guy who had created rootless patch of ssh but it wasn't working for me so I kindly asked them and they were really kind enough to help me and then I used something like pinggy or the thousand other cloudflare tunnel-esque solutions which work without any problem whatsoever directly through ssh

Earlier I used to use junest to then get something like ssh working.

Can I be honest? I am so proud of myself because I guess I did all this stuff an year ago but I still remember the day I asked my friend to join the mc server and I joined too, the ping sucked but 8 gigs ram or even more and no storage limits and complete freedom... and I thought of such stuff after almost 2 weeks of trying different things and learned a lot about nat punching etc.

So such stuff always makes really sense to me, just tinkering with software. But I feel like I need to create some professional software too in order to leave a legacy or just, I feel like, if I am being honest, that the things that I am doing aren't that valuable. Anybody can learn such stuff from me from some blog post I write but there is nothing that I can ever monetize.

I don't know why I am seeking monetization that much but its just that, I see all these kids hustling my age too and I feel like everyone's doing everything for the money... so why should I be any different. I get a lot of ideas but I feel like I can never earn a single cent out of it and I find it a little frustating. I feel less confident myself regarding if I will ever earn decent money or will just be a low level cog of this whole system.

Found it https://github.com/mkj/dropbear I really love this project so much, it really helped me do something really wonderful.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-08-02 17:51:11+00:00
Are you OK knowing how much it costs taxpayers for him to stay at his own golf course? It's corruption at its core. He's robbing taxpayers. It comes to around 10 million per trip of the taxpayer dollars.

He gives smoke and mirrors with "I don't take salary" but it's in plain sight he's profiting from his seat, which no other president did at this magnitude in recent times. They made Jimmy sell his peanut farm.
by gspencley | 2025-08-02 17:51:22+00:00
I replied to someone else with the same response. I'll repeat it here. The point of my reply wasn't to do with MFA codes, specifically, but the fact that MALWARE can take screenshots in order to harvest things, such as MFA codes or anything else. Preventing screenshots is likely, in my opinion, a defence against malware harvesting anything that way. Your online banking can present a lot of sensitive information visually that could be used for things like identity theft etc.

And yes, there are other ways that malware can harvest information and if your device has been root-kitted you're screwed no matter what. But the fact that there are 100 ways to attack you doesn't mean the banks don't see value in trying to prevent 50 of them.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-02 17:51:39+00:00
Might be interesting if you are a high-value individual. Maybe in the future we will see a secret service member shining a light on the POTUS at all times to ensure that no fake video of the President can be circulated. Maybe with a scheme where they publish the keys used after each day, to build trust and make sure anyone can verify the authenticity of any video containing the President

Or anyone else who cares enough about deepfakes and can afford the effort
by maven29 | 2025-08-02 17:52:25+00:00
It's mostly the US and a few other small markets that even have millimeter wave 5G NR. This is mostly due to the fact that FCC had not wound down analog broadcasts in time, and mmWave/FR2 was the only way to do 5G in the US initially, as lower C-band were not freed up until 2021. Deployments of mmWave exist solely due to the sunk cost of existing equipment and narrow use-cases like stadiums and concerts.

The article predates our current reality where C-band (3.5GHz) is available for 5G
by achierius | 2025-08-02 17:52:49+00:00
Sure, "when they inject", but the rest of the time? Generally no, they are not. This is why people DO try, if unsuccessfully, to get off of their addictions -- you don't like waking up in an alley, you don't like how broke you are, you don't like how you feel when you come down from the high, you don't like how you're hurting your family.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-02 17:53:10+00:00
A more accessible thing that protects against fake videos, at least in the short term, is multiple cameras and a complicated background.

Maybe eventually we get a model that can take a video and "rotate" it, or generate a 3D scene that can be recorded at multiple angles. But maybe eventually we may get a model that can generate anything. For now, 4o can't maintain obvious consistency with so many details, and I imagine it's orders of magnitude harder to replicate spatial/lighting differences accurately enough to pass expert inspection.

If you want solid evidence that a video is real, ask for another angle. Meanwhile, anything that needs to be covered with a camera (security or witness) should have at least two.
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-02 17:53:32+00:00
If you exercise a lot, be sure to fuel your workouts. Eat a healthy calories surplus so your body doesn’t go into panic mode and sacrifice muscle and bone tissue.

I’m in my 40s and have exercised my whole life. But still did intermittent fasting (skipped breakfast). I’m a standard deviation below average bone density and have lost some cartilage in my knee from underfueled long runs (I was diagnosed with RED-S). Now I work with a sports nutritionist, and do a mix of strength, running, cycling with good rest days.

I’ve learned I’d rather have a bit of a belly now but very strong than underfueled and lost muscle/bone mass
by alexjplant | 2025-08-02 17:53:35+00:00
OP said of the author:

> Why in the world does the author have to feel so bad about beibg lucky in some way? How does luck deserve the feeling of guilt?

The author themselves said:

> That I was born in the capital of the world’s richest country is one of the greatest strokes of luck in my life—a pure accident of timing and gametes. There is no way to pay back this good fortune, and wallowing in guilt over it would do nothing, either.

You mentioned "noblesse oblige" which is

> a French expression that means that nobility extends beyond mere entitlement, requiring people who hold such status to fulfill social responsibilities

It seems that everybody is talking past one another in this exchange. The author acknowledges that guilt over this is unproductive and implicitly admonishes readers of means to help those less fortunate in the same paragraph:

> The quiet miracle of charity and global aid is that the uneven distribution of global wealth creates an asymmetry by which relatively trivial amounts of money from the rich can prevent immense suffering and death among the poor.

One can simultaneously shed feelings of guilt over their fortunate socioeconomic position and give to those less fortunate. These two things are not mutually exclusive. To say that somebody should feel bad over something over which they had no control is nothing more than a secular version of original sin. I know I'd prefer to have a privileged class that pays it forward out of an intrinsic motivation to do good instead of a negative one like guilt... seems more stable and less prone to class warfare, but then again I'm no historian or anthropologist.
by Consumer9366 | 2025-08-02 17:53:39+00:00
Combined with disable wake for maintenance, I also disable wifi and bluetooth on sleep using sleepwatcher. The tradeoff is a couple of seconds for wifi to start up and find my Mac not being tracked before waking the machine again. But battery lasts forever in sleep, so I find it well worth it.

Install sleepwatcher and blueutil using brew, add these two files:

~/.sleep

#!/bin/sh networksetup -setairportpower en0 off 2>&1 | tee /tmp/sleep_logs /run/current-system/sw/bin/blueutil -p off 2>&1 | tee /tmp/sleep_logs

~/.wakeup

#!/bin/sh networksetup -setairportpower en0 on 2>&1 | tee /tmp/sleep_logs /run/current-system/sw/bin/blueutil -p on 2>&1 | tee /tmp/sleep_logs
by daveguy | 2025-08-02 17:53:47+00:00
They were advocating for it before Obama tried to get it done. It was implemented in Massachusetts and termed "Romneycare" as Mitt Romney was the governor. Once Obama tried to implement it, it was government overreach and had to be watered down to get consensus. Personally I think we should have a govt option along side others, but all healthcare should be nonprofit (as in the Swiss model). Profit extraction is antithetical to healthcare.
by mystraline | 2025-08-02 17:54:15+00:00
Seconded.

And our community routinely clears out encampments every 4-6 months. Makes a big production about it as well.

Sometimes they're on private property, and sometimes they're on public property. Either way, their belongings are confiscated and hailed away to the city garage miles away, with the full intent to destroy. Not like homeless can get transportation there.

The craziest part? 60% of the homeless have actual jobs. These aren't 'lazy' people. In fact, society has slowly priced people out of even living, and criminalized homelessness.

Its bad enough that on sidewalks, they're pitching nylon tents. Its starting to look like LA in some aspects.

There's also state laws felonizing having needles on you. Naturally, they get disposed by being dropped wherever. Bad drug laws created this hazard.

Its just one thing after another. And any community that tries to help gets flooded. Greyhound Therapy is a real thing.

Its bad enough, that sometimes I just want to shut down and just shield myself from the suffering, since I'm damn near powerless in fixing it. Its an abject system failure, and needs systematic changes. And realistically, we're not going to see anything get better for the next 3.5 years at absolute minimum.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-02 17:54:41+00:00
It seems not:

Given:

function Fred { begin { echo "hello from begin1" } begin { echo "hello from begin2" } process { echo "does the magic" } } $bob = @("alpha" "beta") $bob | Fred

Then

$ pwsh fred.ps1 ParserError: /Users/mdaniel/fred.ps1:5 Line | 5 | begin { | ~~~~~~~ | Script command clause 'begin' has already been defined.