MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-02 03:13:44+00:00
I think oranges and citrus generally is a weird variable because it’s hard to grow outside of tropical climates or advanced techniques:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery

> In England, John Parkinson introduced the orangery to the readers of his Paradisus in Sole (1628), under the heading "Oranges". The trees might be planted against a brick wall and enclosed in winter with a plank shed covered with "cerecloth", a waxed precursor of tarpaulin, which must have been thought handsomer than the alternative:

> > For that purpose, some keep them in great square boxes, and lift them to and fro by iron hooks on the sides, or cause them to be rowled by trundels, or small wheeles under them, to place them in a house or close gallery.

So apples and oranges aren’t equally Veblen goods, which is another wrinkle. Apples can grow nearly anywhere, and do.

More context here:

https://www.gardenhistorygirl.co.uk/post/the-juicy-tale-of-t... | https://archive.is/l580N

Specific citrus fruits are sacred:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrog

I’ve never heard of apples being special outside of the Garden of Eden.
by danilor | 2025-08-02 03:14:47+00:00
Location: Rio, Brazil Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: c, c++, python, javascript, gcp, aws, docker/podman. currently learning: rust, commonlisp, ruby on rails Résumé/CV: https://gist.github.com/returnDanilo/bf48575234aa0a7a05f69cd1e231668a Email: returndanilo at gmail

Specially interested if you have commonlisp in your tech stack, as it's been a point of interest of mine for a while :)
by mzk_pi | 2025-08-02 03:16:22+00:00
There may be challenges unique to online communities, but in our real-world community, we’ve implemented a protocol specifically designed to address this issue— a system built to prevent the emergence of gatekeepers, and it's actually working in practice. There are small problems, sure, but they haven't disrupted or degraded the overall service.

In fact, we’ve seen people who try to assert authority join the community, but they usually don’t last long. They naturally drift away because they don’t truly understand the value of long-term commitment and authentic relationships.

If you're interested, we've written a formal proof that explains how the structure prevents gatekeeping:

https://github.com/contribution-protocol/contribution-protoc...
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-02 03:17:16+00:00
> I'd like to have a system where I can choose to give any bitmap, movie, or blank screen when an application asks me for permission to use my camera. When it asks for my microphone, I should be able to choose to make it think I allowed it microphone access with dummy audio stream with no audio or audio of my choice.

It is what I had thought too (you could also provide a filter, or the video and/or audio output of another program, or other stuff), and I have also seen others with similar ideas than that as well. (It also does not know whether or not you even have a camera or microphone; this way, you can use a program that expects a camera even if you do not have it.)

Although it could be made with Linux and existing systems, my idea was to redesign the entire operating system and computer to support this in order to work better. There is some issues which are not handled by the existing systems, including some fingerprinting, and date/time, and some others.

> When it asks me to open a file, or a directory, it should invoke a system dialog that cannot be faked, and when I pick a file/directory for it, that directory or file should be bind-mounted into its mount namespace without giving it extra information about other files beside it, or indeed what's the full path of the file.

This would be insufficient for many uses, e.g. if a file name is specified by command-line arguments or by configuration files, or if the program does care about other files with a similar name (which SQLite does, so many programs that use SQLite also will). (I had thought of how a sandbox library could be made to support some of these things could be made on Linux, although I had never actually designed or implemented it.)

> When recording a screen, I should be able to pick which regions and which applications it should be able to see, and the system should make it think it's all there is.

Yes, I agree, it is also a good idea. But, screen recording will also be video input, which the camera also is, so it might work in a similar way.

> I think the pieces to do this are mostly there already (portals, Pipewire, namespaces)

I also think there is problems with the ways some of these things are working. One is that the system will use ambient authority (which is one reason why I had suggested to make up a new operating system instead), and some of the protocols expect use of Unicode and do not support other character sets so well, and the existing sandboxing also does not work very well for user-specified commands to use with popen (many of my own programs do use user-specified commands with popen).
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-02 03:18:48+00:00
I'm curious how this works over time. I read somewhere (would have to search to find it) that after Trump became notorious for stiffing small contractors on his properties, the wisdom them became you just quoted a ~50% premium, because you knew Trump would only pay you 2/3 of what he originally said he would.

But agree with your statement, which is why I always gag a little when I see working class people lionize these two as "champions of the working man".
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-02 03:18:59+00:00
I see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

As the real problem. I don’t tend to believe in natural hierarchies, but I do believe in this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

That in some sense that early adopters are better than other people and that things start out cool and deteriorate and one way to counter that when the party gets too big you start a new party and get the early adopters to come along. I would point out this essay

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

And say that I think her analysis is right factually but I take the opposite position that the ‘structureless’ organization she describes is capable of activism that more sustainable groups just can’t do and say form that kind of organization when you can and know it isn’t going to last.

Sustainability is non-profit speak for ‘profitability’ and if you value that an organization because Oxfam or the ACLU or the Mozilla Foundation and suffers from the corruption of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

I’d say ‘benign despotism’ is alright for an organization where you’ve got the right to exit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

But due process, democracy and all that are necessary for when you don’t have exit.

Jurgen Habermas wrote a ponderous 2 volume book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...

which pursues the idea of a perfect deliberative process which one some hand seems closer because of widespread electronic communications yet our experience with things like Twitter makes it seem terribly naive between (1) people not acting in good faith and (2) others believing that people are not acting in good faith.
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 03:19:26+00:00
That's a really interesting distinction. You're right that tech communities operate under different social contracts than political ones.

I'm curious what you think those different "social rules and standards" should be? Like, in a political system, we accept inefficiency for legitimacy.

Do you think a proposal system where voting power is earned through contribution would create fundamentally different dynamics than traditional political voting? Would that change the types of decisions that get made?
by mrtesthah | 2025-08-02 03:19:34+00:00
Whether something is rare vs. common can only be verified with statistics, and you'll notice a trend that someone pushing a narrative will refuse to cite any published statistics, or hand-waves them away for specious reasons, because they're trying to manipulate you using an emotional gut-response of something that "feels true" and also hits a fragile part of your ego. Indulging in that fantasy soothes your wounded ego better than pure rationality and holding beliefs lightly would, so you have nothing to gain by questioning their narrative even in your own mind. It's the same process of emotional manipulation used by fascist provocateurs.
by cryptonector | 2025-08-02 03:20:44+00:00
The institutions that are not being dismantled are the ones required by the constitution. The ones being dismantled, being statutory in nature, are fair game, and if anything this shows that the constitutional institutions are in fact able to rule over the statutory ones, thus the constitutional institutions come out of this stronger, not weaker. The constitutional institutions are:

- Congress - the Executive - the Judiciary - the States and their constitutional institutions - the jury

CPB and the like are statutory institutions. Those can come and they can go. Sometimes they go. They can come back you know. The next time the Democrats are in power they can bring all those institutions back and then some, and they can tear down any institutions that Trump creates or takes over. The critical thing is that it be possible for the Democrats to win again in the future, and then that Republicans be able to win again in the future, and so on.
by currymj | 2025-08-02 03:20:54+00:00
i can understand a university administrator not feeling they can give a good educational experience to a 14 year old.

but she'd be the same age as all the first years on campus, any university must be institutionally equipped to deal with a 17/18 year old. seems like an odd choice to personally intervene to cancel an admission.

like presumably if she enrolled in a bachelor's program, and then signed up for grad math classes while doing independent research, this would be fine. but if she takes the same classes and does the same research for PhD credits instead, no good?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-02 03:21:32+00:00
Not to dismiss the issues here, but the entire American automotive sector works like this.

It's practically standard policy for OEMs to stiff smaller vendors with flagrant disregard for their obligations, because every day of delay and every dollar they don't have to pay is more margin for the OEM. In many cases it doesn't even matter if doing so it's detrimental to the long term health of the OEM, as happened during the COVID supply shocks. Finance gets their way.

As an engineer, I've found out from more than one vendor that the delivery I was expecting to start production isn't happening because finance just decided they didn't want to issue payment.
by lazyeye | 2025-08-02 03:21:50+00:00
Trump's comments on the sacking....

"I was just informed that our country's 'Jobs Numbers' are being produced by a Biden appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfar, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the jobs numbers before the election to try and boost Kamala's chances of victory.

This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the jobs growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 presidential election, in August and September, by 112,000.

These were records – no one can be that wrong?"
by floren | 2025-08-02 03:21:51+00:00
I used a split tenting ortholinear keyboard (ergodox) for a long time but oddly when I built my own custom old-fashioned keyboard (staggered keys, not split, tons of keys based on a Lisp machine keyboard) it basically eliminated all hand pain. I don't know if I found the perfect key switch for my hand or what but it's better than my ergodox ever was.
by Art9681 | 2025-08-02 03:22:40+00:00
None of the major players have ever been quiet. DeepSeek enjoyed about a week or two's worth of press before its spotlight was stolent from the next great model. It never held the top spot, ever, mind you. So I don't understand why you think major players had to say anything about it, when the model was neither first, second or third in real world capability, and why they would have to say anything about it when DeepSeek service processes maybe an 1/8 of what OpenAI, Google or Claude in any given span of time.

I applaud their open efforts. But being "altruistic" and being best are two different things.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-02 03:23:42+00:00
Of the world's power 35% is coal (solid oil), 20% Gas/Natural Gas (gaseous oil), 3% oil (Wikipedia def'n).. 58% of our power is oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

Are you being particular about your definition of oil?

Light Oil (C4-C12 aka "Gasoline"(NA) "Petrol"(EU)) is used for personal generation and backup power systems.

Heavy oil (C9-C25 aka "Diesel") is regularly used for electricity, extensively used for backup power systems.
by huan23 | 2025-08-02 03:23:51+00:00
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by bruce511 | 2025-08-02 03:24:13+00:00
I've been watching this space for some time, and seeing this sort of commercial production (even as a pilot) is very encouraging. We see a lot of reports of new stuff, a lot of which doesn't make it to market.

The price of the battery (compared to the price of Lithium) is not mention, nor is relative size (and weight). However, once in production it's expected to be cheaper to produce, albeit requiring more space / weight per Kwh.

So it may not replace car batteries, but for residential or grid-based solutions it should move the needle. Personally I'd love a cheap 100Kwh battery at home, and I don't care about size or weight...
by rahimnathwani | 2025-08-02 03:24:29+00:00
Under pressure, UCLA commissioned a UCLA professor (Robert Mare) to study the data and prepare a report.

You can read the full report here: https://sard.law/static/sard/pdf/Mare%20Report%202012.pdf#pa...

If you don't want to read the full report, one of the most interesting things is on page 67. It says that North Asians receive lower holistic scores, and African Americans receive higher holistic scores, than similarly situated applicants from other ethnic groups. And this when comparing like with like because (i) it's during 'Final Review' and (ii) Mare's model compared students who were otherwise alike (including on socioeconomic and hardship indicators).

He did a follow up a couple of years later, with newer data, and his findings were the same (although the numbers shifted a bit).

How did UCLA respond to this report? By issuing a press release saying all was good:

The report confirms that the admissions process at UCLA honors academic achievement and prioritizes acceptance to applicants of exceptional academic accomplishment. Further, data suggest a full range of applicant academic and personal achievements are evaluated by the Comprehensive Review procedure. Professor Mare concludes that the Comprehensive Review ranking for UCLA freshman admissions functions in the manner intended by the faculty and the University. CUAS ...is satisfied with the quality, focus, and rigor of the study.

Sure, the ranking functioned in the manner intended, but that manner was illegal!
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-02 03:24:52+00:00
RETE family algorithms did turn out to be somewhat parallelizable, enough to get a real speed-up on ordinary multicore CPUs. There was an idea in the 1980s that symbolic AI would be massively parallelizable that turned out to be a disappointment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...
by unknown_user_84 | 2025-08-02 03:25:58+00:00
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by armchairhacker | 2025-08-02 03:26:26+00:00
Not tips for a "democracy" but a "good, tolerant community":

- Use a boilerplate rules list like "no spam, no personal attacks, no hate speech, don't be obnoxious, etc." (but more specific, e.g https://www.statsoc.org.au/Forum-rules or https://macrumors.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201265337-Fo...). Have a "no politics" rule unless you want culture warring on your platform for whatever reason.

- Then you enforce the rules as you see fit. The final rule should be "moderators have discretion" and if someone is pushing against the rules and/or irritating others, ban them. At the same time, be lenient and give second and third chances at least for non-blatant offenses; escalate, first with a warning, then with a temp ban, then a longer temp ban, etc. It's a careful balance, but if done correctly, your form will be both tolerant and not dominated by assholes.

- To prevent spam and banned users opening new accounts, either: make the form invite-only (where users can invite others) and screen applicants; charge a small fee for signing up; require flexible proof of identity (e.g. one of: phone #, Google account, GitHub account, Facebook account, etc.); require new user posts to be approved by moderators before they show up; or something else. This will make it significantly harder for your userbase to grow, and many people will refuse to sign up, but it will be hard and some people won't sign up anyways.

- If your forum grows enough, you can recruit moderators. You need enough people and activity to select moderators who you trust, because every time you override their moderation or kick them beyond "very rarely", you look worse (more incompetent, power-tripping, incoherent) and the overall community "vibes" become slightly more toxic.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-02 03:28:44+00:00
Pretty cool. Generally, drones for last mile front line resupply makes a lot of sense. I'm just wondering about the mobility challenges of charging points to keep drones going because bigger and more numerous drones will rapidly require more electricity.

Also, China recently used drones to haul 180 tonnes of construction gear up a mountain. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319460/chi...
by pogue | 2025-08-02 03:31:13+00:00
The Brave browser on iOS has the bypass-paywalls-chrome filter list installed as an option under shields. It's not perfect, but it gets past quite a few. On the project site (now hosted on a Russian github clone called gitflic, after being kicked off github & gitlab for DMCA claims) they mention using it on iOS with a Shortcut app and Unpaywall, or Adblock/Adlock. I don't use iOS so, hopefully some other issues can chime in to expand on that. But, I recently installed Brave browser on my father's iPhone so he could sync his profile and use the paywall bypass option.

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clea...

They also mention in the BPC repo, using a browser called Orion, but it apparently doesn't support 100% of the extension's functionality.

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chro...

Another helpful list, while not bypassing paywalls explicitly, serves somewhat of a similar purpose, is Browse Websites Without Logging In from DandelionSprout.

https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/Browse...

I have quite a few other bookmarked sites that claim to bypass paywalls in a variety of different ways if you'd like to look them over, but I can't speak on their quality or functionality.

There was also a great thread on Reddit titled How to (Really) Bypass Paywalls in Safari on iOS in 2023, which got deleted, but luckily got saved on IA. The scripting seems to be acting a bit strange when I try to load the site through there, but that might be on my end, not sure.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240716231923/https://www.reddi...

12ft dot io was shut down recently, so that's no longer usable, the links for the BPC extension has changed, but it's linked above. And finally, the gold (if not silver) standard is to always pass the links through archive.today and it will get you past the paywall probably 8 times out of 10.
by cryptonector | 2025-08-02 03:31:59+00:00
> While I sympathize with the feeling, it’s a stretch to say “obligated by law”. You pay taxes, which your legally-elected representatives decide how to spend.

Without limit? If Trump and the Congressional GOP force a bunch of tax-funded in-your-face right-wing propaganda that would be ok with you because "[y]ou pay taxes, which your legally-elected representatives decide how to spend"?
by JeremyNT | 2025-08-02 03:32:22+00:00
But both things are true, and it's openly weaponized now in new ways.

The Zionists pushed a narrative that criticizing Israel was antisemitic, and center right publications like the NYT pushed the narrative that free speech for conservatives was under attack at college campuses.

Now the forces of conservatism and Zionism have made common cause to destroy higher education using the full force of the federal government, and the mainstream media is complicit in it all.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-02 03:33:39+00:00
China’s implementation has some pricing info.

https://www.ess-news.com/2025/06/03/china-launches-worlds-fi...

> With a total investment of over CNY 460 million ($63.8 million) and occupying 34,000 square metres, the Baochi plant is designed for an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh.
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 03:33:50+00:00
Great example! The Discourse trust levels are exactly what I've been thinking about.

We're experimenting with something similar - a "Star" system where users earn influence through contributions and can spend it on governance decisions. Early results suggest contribution-based voting leads to much more thoughtful decisions.

How well does Discourse handle controversial governance choices? I'm curious if trust levels work when communities face difficult decisions.