MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-19 01:40:02+00:00
Realistically, like I said, I already doubt I will get through all of the physical books I have, so apparently I bought them as decor. I suppose deep down I knew that at the time which is why I got them for $0.50/ea at a thrift store.

So I suppose no, I can't think of any content I've thought to pay for recently, and have trouble picturing what I would pay for going forward. I already don't even take the time to read all of the writings of nobel laureates, fields medalists, etc. when they're already giving it to me for free. Not just old works but current blogs. There's more than a lifetime of the best works out there from world renowned experts. Thousands of years of the very best writing and I can't be bothered. And that's just writing. The list of things to occupy my time is endless. Acquiring something to read/watch is just not a problem I have. It doesn't make sense to pay for more. I have too much of it.

The content industry is competing with the entirety of recorded human history even before gen ai. A nearly impossible task unless someone destroys it all out of spite.
by hx8 | 2025-08-19 01:40:09+00:00
Sometimes politicians beat the drum about free markets when they want to privatize currently public services. Sometimes politicians beat the drum about free markets when they want to modify regulations to favor their favorite businesses. It's always treated as some fantastical force that will magically provide efficient solutions.

Sometimes the most efficient solution is to collaborate in the way only a government can organize. Sometimes regulations do more good than harm. If someone cannot articulate exactly why their proposal is a good idea and instead relies on repeating myths then be wary.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-19 01:40:32+00:00
Absence of work-life balance can burn you out to the point where mediocre would be a step up.

But even if it doesn't... "Money is like gasoline while driving across country on a road trip. You never want to run out, but the point of life is not to go on a tour of gas stations." - Tim O’Reilly.
by zahlman | 2025-08-19 01:40:56+00:00
> is Python picking up lots of people whose job isn't actually programming? They want to do data science, or biology, or whatever

Important figures in the community seem to believe this is the case. Which explains a lot about why the packaging discourse goes the way it does; there's a fair bit of emphasis on serving the needs of people who are just not going to be interested in contributing packages that work with the existing packaging system, and just want their friends to be able to run their code using existing third-party packages, and don't necessarily want their friends to even have to know what Python is. And then there's the concern for people who do everything in "notebooks" and have never created a .py file from scratch. And so on and so forth. And there's a looming sense that we don't even have a good idea of what the most common existing workflows look like, outside of the ones that were explicitly designed for the needs of "traditional" developers.

If you're familiar with the official Discourse forums at discuss.python.org, I recommend rummaging around the posts of Paul Moore (one of the main devs for pip) a bit. You'll get a feeling for it pretty quickly.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-08-19 01:41:12+00:00
This hits home for me.

> Then: We were the kids who saw the blinking cursor not as a barrier, but as an invitation. We typed characters into the voids and got back secrets. Our goal was not destruction, it was understanding — to understand the systems better than those who built them.

> Now: Hacking is a job title. Curiosity has been commodified. A thousand "Bug Bounty Platforms" are trying to monetize your desire for understanding, to turn it into CVEs and T-shirts.
by defrost | 2025-08-19 01:41:22+00:00
From NASA, 1963, by William C. Strack, Wilbur F. Dobson, and Vearl N. Huff

As described herein, this code is designed to operate on an IBM 704 computer that has an 8000 word (8 K) memory and at least 1 K of drum.

Even so constrained it includes means of changing coordinate base when approaching asymptotes inducing loss in numerical accuracy, variable step size control, etc.

Takes me back to when I lived and breathed such code for early geophysical and remote sensing work.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-19 01:41:46+00:00
(Haven't read the article, and probably won't given impish9208's reasoning for posting)

The terminology "Work-Life Balance" gives too much importance to work. It should be "Life Balance" in which there is at least a handful of mostly-unrelated things that should be maintained in order to achieve balance in one's life.

I've said in a past comment or two about having enough "things" going on in one's life that, if one or two are going badly, then one of the others can be 'retreated to' for comfort or solace or distraction. Decentralised happiness.

I'm happily mediocre. I'm mediocre across a number of things, but the sum total of all the mediocres is, I think, great.

Focus too much on one thing, build your entire self-worth upon it, and one mistake, not even in your own control, could be like a horse breaking a leg in a race.

Life balance, work should be but one leg of four or five.

(There is more nuance to this, but I think on the whole it's more right than wrong)
by teraflop | 2025-08-19 01:41:57+00:00
Yes, partial pressure is what matters. Normal air at 1 bar (1 atmosphere) contains about 0.2 bar of O2. Pure oxygen at sea level is 1 bar of O2.

The article you linked has a graph showing that 0.5 bar of O2 can be tolerated pretty much indefinitely, and it takes hours for significant toxicity to show up at 1 bar. Higher partial pressures cause much faster symptoms.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-08-19 01:42:29+00:00
Greenfield development is infinitely easier than brownfield.

It's damn hard work to dig in, uncover what's wrong, and fix something broken - especially if someone's workflow depends on the breakage.

Flashy AI features get attention and even if they piss you off, they make you believe the thing is fresh. Sorry but you're human.
by BeauNer | 2025-08-19 01:43:02+00:00
OpenAI is making a play for affordability in India with the launch of a new subscription plan called ChatGPT Go. Announced by Nick Turley on X, the tier is priced at ₹399 and delivers a big boost over the free version.

Subscribers get ten times the message limit, ten times the image generations, and ten times the file uploads. Memory is also doubled compared to the free plan. Payments can now be made through UPI, and all subscriptions are displayed in Indian Rupees for easier checkout.

India is the first country to see ChatGPT Go, with OpenAI saying it will learn from feedback before expanding the option elsewhere. The move reflects the demand from users who have been asking for a more affordable way to use ChatGPT’s most popular features.
by k310 | 2025-08-19 01:43:59+00:00
I am only using icloud private relay, country and time zone, no more local than that. But so is the mac, and I get at worst, a checkbox there, though I use Firefox there rather than safari, and extensions vary.

OK just checked. Safari on the mac requires just the one checkbox, but Firefox gives me the stop sign puzzle. Same relay.

Retrying on the phone, this time, the checkbox suffices. So there's apparently some history.

Since I am a scout's honor non-bot, I really am fed up with cloudflare and/or Google, or any other entity making me pay the price for someone else's bad behavior.

Thanks for asking.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-19 01:44:29+00:00
"What is the measure of your success?" - Steve Taylor

In fact, because it's on topic, here's the full lyrics: https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/ucoowl/wha...

People are seeing that that version of "success" isn't worth your whole life. They're deciding to not chase it. That may not fit with the WSJ's version of the world, but from where I sit, it looks more like wisdom.
by cloud_watching | 2025-08-19 01:45:10+00:00
Obsidian is amazing because it is a notepad with pretty colors and the graph that gets everyone's attention. The graph is often the most overhyped and underused thing there. It looks complicated and that's the selling point of all that ecosystem around productivity systems and all that. The appearance of deep complexity and work.

I love how many just ended up here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134
by cj | 2025-08-19 01:47:33+00:00
That’s if you’re using Zoom’s built-in recording.

Services like Notion, Otter, Limitless, etc all provide the ability to record without having anything visible in the meeting. It doesn’t rely on Zoom’s built-in recording feature. Meaning the meeting will appear as if there’s no recording taking place.

They work via an app you install on your computer which hooks in to your computer’s audio in/out.
by firefax | 2025-08-19 01:47:44+00:00
>One alternative is to create a website that outs the company that is harming you in a way that is non-libelous and just tells your story

Ironically this HN post will probably be higher in search results for their name.

OP it looks like the company is French -- maybe try contacting their local elected representative? Open by stating you are not a constituent, but worried about the impact to their district if the dispute is not handled well.

In parallel, reach out to a local library in Paris and state that you're looking for pro-bono trademark law assistance.

I used to work in public policy, and you'd be surprised how one or both of these methods can yield results.
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-19 01:48:22+00:00
I do agree that the _causes_ for these things happen mysteriously to some people. Or sometimes it’s just part of your family history and you’re predisposed genetically.

But if i have routine labs done and find out i’m prediabetic, i have 2 choices. I could continue eating cookies every day like my mom did and not exercise, or i could make lifestyle changes and take metformin proactively.

Similarly with high blood pressure, and more. That alone addresses like 80% of modern ailments. Things get more tricky when we consider complex conditions like migraines, etc, which you have much less agency over as a person.
by exmadscientist | 2025-08-19 01:48:41+00:00
Positing the emergence of an entirely distinct layer of processing is a pretty extreme divergence. It goes counter to a lot of established theory and, in general, seems like too big of a difference. Abstract feature determination hardly seems to be unique to neurodivergence.

I think any common neurodivergences that still result in more-or-less functioning adult brains are going to appear as different weightings or emphases, not entirely different effective structures.

One possible contribution to the behavior you are seeing is that sometimes brain behavior that is missing or ineffective gets lifted to the cognitive (conscious or semiconscious) layer. The cognitive layer of the brain can do, essentially, anything. But it has to work a lot harder than the lower layers, so you notice it a lot more. This can result in "squeaky wheel" syndrome, where one counterintuitively notices only the things that aren't working as well as they could be.
by kayfox | 2025-08-19 01:50:14+00:00
> That was the whole point of MCAS, to make the plane fly as-if it were an older model, despite the significantly different aerodynamics.

MCAS was implemented to make sure the control forces increase going into a stall, this is a requirement in the regulations. Without MCAS the control forces would drop on the way into a stall, which is an issue that would prevent certification of the aircraft.
by TylerE | 2025-08-19 01:50:25+00:00
Did you ever try wearing a pulseox and seeing what your sat looked like? As long as sats aren't ever dipping below (NOT medical advice, but I'm being conservative here), say, 90%, brain damage is very remote. Plenty of COPD patients walking around with sats in the 80s, or even 70s.

But as someone with bad lungs...yeah, you only get one set and most meds/treatments are partial symptom relief at best.
by aanet | 2025-08-19 01:50:32+00:00
This is perhaps the best articulation on the rise of certain cantankerous people... in social media / politics / <everywhere>

The metaphor of the game is a good one for general understanding (though the Signaling / Counters-signaling paper is a TIL for me)

I was hoping that there would be a "solution" of sorts to tackle / handle this issue of when EVERYBODY seems to use this strategy, but perhaps there isn't one...?

(My own way of dealing with this is to, uh, not read / watch any news / social media... but such ways are quite brittle, of course)
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-19 01:51:13+00:00
I meant forgery to obtain a student id vs a LTC.

I think you are misunderstanding my intent here.

The student ID thing is a weak argument. If they need a government issue ID/passport to get a student ID -- then so what if a student ID is not allowed? They already have a valid ID to vote with.

It's a distraction. Texas has been doing trumpism since before trump was a thing. Allowing LTC but not student ID does 2 things only and neither has to do with voting; it pisses off people not in their camp and being a valid Texas state ID keeps in line with using a valid Texas ID in places where that is used (not only voting).

A student ID is not a valid Texas state ID (voting or otherwise). Stating that LTC is okay and not a student ID specifically for voting is them trolling and you are falling right into it. It's getting people caught up on something that seems like it's done to disadvantage one side, but really a student ID is simply not a valid Texas ID, nor is it good for anything other than as a supporting identity document to go along with primary or secondary ID documents in obtaining a valid Texas ID. Note: you can't get a LTC without a valid ID.

My vote for largest voter fraud was 2000, of course no one would call it that.
by levocardia | 2025-08-19 01:51:25+00:00
The pipe operator in R (really, tidyverse R, which might as well be its own language) is one of its "killer apps" for me. Working with data is so, so pleasant and easy. I remember a textbook that showed two ways of "coding" a cookie recipe:

bake(divide(add(knead(mix(flour, water, sugar, butter)),eggs),12),450,12)

versus

mix(flour, water, sugar, butter) %>% knead() %>% add(eggs) %>% divide(12) %>% bake(temp=450, minutes=12)

So much easier!
by pandaman | 2025-08-19 01:51:32+00:00
If you have a landlord, you are paying rent and not condo fees. If you are paying condo fees then it goes to maintenance and utilities. As for maintenance - you have many residents but also more property to maintain so how would it turn "trivial"? You also have maintenance costs that you usually don't get in a SFH - elevators, trash chutes, pools, parking structures etc. You only save on roof and siding and not even that much as a condo building usually has more expensive roof and siding (both in materials and labor) than a SFH.
by acdha | 2025-08-19 01:51:39+00:00
Citation needed on both points. The LED bulbs I'm using right now were less than double the price when I bought my house 15 years ago and while every incandescent and CFL bulb in the house has failed and been replaced since then, the LED bulbs I bought are still going strong and have paid for themselves many times over with 90% reduction in electricity usage.
by simplisticelk | 2025-08-19 01:52:26+00:00
This is actually very regressive policy because it only rewards people who 1) own their own home and 2) can afford a significant capital investment. And under current retail rate structures it shifts the burden of maintaining the grid onto those who can't afford to make these investments and who will end up seeing there rates rise unless the cost of grid connectivity is increased.

It's also economically questionable because it's simply much cheaper to build and manage a smaller number of large batteries then thousands of home batteries.

I understand why these schemes are politically attractive; people like to own their own stuff. But there is a very real chance this increases the cost of energy here.
by roxolotl | 2025-08-19 01:53:25+00:00
As a vegetarian I have strong opinions on this sort of thing. Everyone at Anthropic better be ethical vegans if they are claiming to give a shit about “model welfare”. It’s hard enough right now to make people care about the welfare of trans people and immigrants let alone animals _let alone_ math.

Yea I know it’s a way to save money and drive hype but like this tweet is saying this very clearly shows all of the big AI groups are all as irresponsible as each other.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-19 01:53:28+00:00
Idle question: in the days before TeX, when manuscripts like this were hammered out on Remington office typewriters, how did authors handle symbols?

In this manuscript for example you can see that power superscripts are really just regular numbers typed at an offset (perhaps rotating the paper around the platen one notch instead of the two that would be a whole line feed). But what about the vectors and the giant sigma? All hand drawn over the top of a typed manuscript?
by nunez | 2025-08-19 01:53:28+00:00
I was bored on a flight with crap Internet and, like everyone else on that flight, entertained myself by reading random manpages on my Mac. I think I read the one for finger, and I think it's still from BSD4.4, as its last updated date is from 1993!

In other news, I was born too young to use finger, but I definitely used Hyper terminal on Windows which had a chat like console app that worked with it. (I think it's called CHAT.EXE; I wonder if Windows still includes it in their production images.)

I also still use w to see who's logged into stuff (useless on containers...but sometimes useful!) and the type command to print out definitions of functions from the absolute disaster that are my dotfiles (someday I'll clean them up!)
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-19 01:53:52+00:00
When I was doing my stuff at my former stint as a hatrack, I made the choice to ban Docker from anywhere inside the company.

_Docker_ is a security hazard, and anything it touches is toxic.

Every single package, every single dependency, that has an actively exploited security flaw is being exploited in the Docker images you're using, unless you built them yourself, with brand new binaries. Do not trust anyone except official distro packages (unless you're on Ubuntu, then don't trust them either).

And if you're going to do that... just go to _actual_ orchestration. And if you're not going to do that, because orchestration is too big for your use case, then just roll normal actual long lived VMs the way we've done it for the past 15 years.
by lovich | 2025-08-19 01:56:08+00:00
> I was hoping that there would be a "solution" of sorts to tackle / handle this issue of when EVERYBODY seems to use this strategy, but perhaps there isn't one...?

It’s called government regulation. There’s whole fields of research on how to solve an arbitrarily complicated Prisoner’s Dilemma. A lot of people are allergic to the idea because they don’t want to have limits on their behavior, only on others or on no one at all.

So we get everyone picking the bad square in the Dilemma
by p_j_w | 2025-08-19 01:56:41+00:00
>LED bulbs are about 10x the price and don’t last any longer.

Every bit of research I've ever seen shows LEDs DO last substantially longer. 5-50x longer, depending on which kinda light you'd like to compare to [1]. They're also much cheaper over the long run when you factor in the cost of electricity.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-19 01:56:48+00:00
>much like any cult or counterculture, that person’s goal was to attract a following, regardless of who the members are. The disgust of one’s peers doesn’t matter anymore, because that disgust forms the basis for an entirely new community.

Well that's an unfortunately dangerous effect. But thinking about it, it really only takes a few dozen active members to kindle a community, and then they use that to grab in any vulnerable people who they pitch their scam to.

>The concept of a “genius mastermind” is itself outdated, because it assumes that someone needs to be in control. The shameless person is simply a host for a set of ideas, which, like any virus, will continue to propagate as long as there are willing hosts to receive it.

Yeah, fair enough. People just see a catalyst and it will attract a whole swarm of people who will use it to fit their agenda. I suppose it explains a lot of the clshing reports within the US administration this year. Lots of sabetours all trying to do their thing, but they are wrangling a mascot around who they need to keep pleased.

----

As usual, I don't even know how to start to address this. This article was in 2019, and for my country it definitely torpedoed down this decade. It just feels like the few powers left to check it are ransacking the country, and some part of the country is cheering on the destruction of everything. You can't really fight that kind of nihilism.
by zw123456 | 2025-08-19 01:57:19+00:00
I am writing a book about this topic. I started my career in 1978 at Bell Labs and worked in 3 different startups after that. After 45 years in R&D, I have recently retired. So many times, the inspiration for new inventions we worked on came from unexpected sources; the arts, culture, music, history and many other sources. And I said we on purpose because rarely did a new invention come from one person, it was almost always from collaboration on a team. My conclusion is that invention so often comes from a team of well rounded people with knowledge in many areas and the ability to work in a team. I wonder if the decline in the productivity in R&D comes from a decline in these attributes?
by borroka | 2025-08-19 01:57:32+00:00
It's all about the situation and depends a lot on personality, the real one, not the facade, on intangibles (“aura”) and on never showing any weakness or offering apologies.

Trump's strategy works because it/he has all the elements to do so. Has he ever offered apologies? Never. He always moves forward: the past is the past. From an appearance standpoint, he offers an easy target for his rivals. But why hasn't anyone hit him, or when they have, why have they missed the mark? Because it's not in their nature, it is not them, they would not be consistent, it would be a one-off, not a strategy, but just an expedient tactic.
by westurner | 2025-08-19 01:57:40+00:00
Because they/we don't have sufficient integration tests to verify that the core system services are working after tightening down each parameter.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995566 :

> Which distro has the best out-of-the-box output for?:

systemd-analyze security

desbma/shh generates SyscallFilter and other systems unit rules from straces similar to how audit2allow generates SELinux policies by grepping for AVC denials in permissive mode (given kernel parameters `enforcing=0 selinux=1`), but should strace be installed in production?:

desbma/shh: https://github.com/desbma/shh
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-19 01:58:36+00:00
>A lot of people are allergic to the idea because they don’t want to have limits on their behavior, only on others or on no one at all.

So are we doomed? if we don't vote in people who can properly regulate this, it seems the dilemma continues. But how does one convince an entire society to stop being so selfish and myopic?