MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoboruWataya | 2025-08-01 08:33:22+00:00
International cooperation can still work even though there is very rarely a realistic prospect of enforcement. No one is going to war to enforce WTO rulings or nuclear non-proliferation treaties, for example.

It's true that when things get really hairy international law tends to fall by the wayside, eg countries leaving the Land Mine Ban Treaty now that it seems possible they may actually have to deal with a foreign invader on their soil. But they can still be effective at regulating states' behaviour in more peaceful times, which is still useful.

But it does require the major powers to be willing (i) to talk to each other, and (ii) to think about the world beyond their own borders, which means it's unlikely to happen given the current leadership in certain of the big space-going nations.
by szszrk | 2025-08-01 08:34:10+00:00
I hope you don't think that user-to-machine means that I have to stick my finger in a network switch? :)

Machine-to-machine is usually meant as traffic where neither of the sides is the client device (desktop, mobile etc). Often not initiated by user, but that's debatable.

I would say an server making a sync of database to passive node is machine-to-machine, while a user connection from his browser to webserver is not.
by phs318u | 2025-08-01 08:34:14+00:00
No. I don’t believe most people can see “with their own eyes” anything of the sort. They definitely feel the pain. But the ability of most people to correctly ascribe their pain to a semi-reasonable, possibly-likely source is utter rubbish. Most folks do the exact opposite. They are SO incapable of seeing with clear eyes that they will happily let their abusers scapegoat utterly irrelevant groups and distract with pointless crusades. Most people let their pain get hijacked just so they can easily point the finger at anyone and feel justified that yes, someone did indeed do them over. And as a result, they will consistently vote against their own interests and join in on the gang bashing of minority groups, all the while being screwed over even more.

Perhaps next time it would be more useful to point out exactly who you’re referring to in a given discussion rather than lazily refer to “the elites”.

I’ll also add that in my view, most of what seems like the concerted actions of a global conspiracy is merely the result of very simple human heuristics. Mostly functions of greed (for money, power, or both). Just like the amazing structure in fractals arises from very simple math, so too the workings of our politics and economies through simple human heuristics played out at scale.
by 0xB31B1B | 2025-08-01 08:34:37+00:00
There is a specific group of people, matt stoller being the primary leader in the media, who are the "anti trust left". There is another specific group of people who are "abundance liberals" (dereck thompson and ezra klein being main media leaders) and there is an active competition inside the democratic/left of center politico-academic-policy-legal-media blob over prioritization of laypeoples attention and allegiance/belief which is in fact a finite resource and relatively zero sum between the two camps.
by _benedict | 2025-08-01 08:35:04+00:00
Revolutionary may be an overstatement, it just affords different system characteristics. There's plenty of literature on the topic though, starting generally with EPaxos[1]. The protocol that we are developing is for Apache Cassandra, is called Accord[2], and forms the basis of our new distributed transaction feature [3]. I will note that the whitepaper linked in [3] is a bit out of date, and there was a bug in the protocol specification at that time. We hope to publish an updated paper in a proper venue in the near future.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf [2] https://github.com/apache/cassandra-accord [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-15...
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-01 08:35:36+00:00
I don't think there's been any real progress in room temperature superconductivity. And I think neither dang's recent improvements to HN nor Bridge are that great either. (The last 2 do kinda work, but are far from perfect)

Trying to generate discussion here where there's none to be had I suppose..

Are you of German descent btw? Northern Italian? So blunt & disagreeable, but maybe there's something warm and fuzzy deep down? Not seeing it yet :)
by seanhunter | 2025-08-01 08:35:37+00:00
The phrase "highly elliptical" is one where I know exactly what they mean but the more I think about it the more wrong it seems. It should be "Highly eccentric orbit".

All shapes which satisfy {(x,y)| x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 = 1} for fixed values of a,b in R are elliptical. Something is either elliptical or not - it's not a matter of degree. A circle is just as elliptical as a more eccentric ellipse in the same way that a square is just as rectangular as a more elongated rectangle.
by reissbaker | 2025-08-01 08:36:10+00:00
I don't care about smiling. I care that when I want to leave, I can pay quickly. In Europe, it's incredibly slow, pretty much everywhere, including random rural towns in the middle of nowhere, including for random other patrons who are locals. The best service I ever witnessed in Europe was like, maybe mid-tier American fast casual level: aka, mediocre.
by om8 | 2025-08-01 08:36:32+00:00
I'm currently in Russia trying to get a US visa for my CS PhD. Because I do CS, I got into a thing called administrative processing. For 95% of people, it takes days -- weeks, tops. Because of the colour of my passport, it has already lasted for 3 months. I know people who are waiting for 2 years to pass it.

Why do you think I shouldn't have access to this website in Russia?
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-01 08:37:33+00:00
I don’t mean literal guns, I mean literary[0] guns.

I feel that we agree, as I originally stated in my first reply, so I apologize if you feel that I’ve wasted your time.

My goal was to explain why I think that people leave jobs for higher pay instead of fixing things and getting promoted internally, which I believe was what you mentioned, which is party due to dysfunctional workplaces with footguns without proper safeguards, and in the context of this thread above you, people who have the context may have left the company, temporarily or otherwise, and those who remain to do the work may use LLMs to compensate.

[0]> (of language) associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect: the script was too literary.

- Oxford English Dictionary
by dannyw | 2025-08-01 08:37:51+00:00
That is pre-Apple Silicon, before together integration of software and wakeups.

I can see a continuously renewed DHCP lease — with nothing else - useful for reducing the time to reconnected to your network, esp maybe on old/slow networks or routers.

You can Touch ID and get back in a second, and maybe for 5-10% of users, it was resulting in initial network connection slowdowns or errors with buggy online-only apps.

Find My (your device wants to maintain a connection if you have it enabled) is another reason. It must regularly connect (perhaps a long running socket), and I want to be able to remotely lock and wipe my device at any time possible, for example.
by willis936 | 2025-08-01 08:38:18+00:00
If the house price goes down you don't lose the house. You just end up paying more for it than you could have if the price was lower when you bought it. You are just keeping your promise to pay your mortgage. This whole "unrealized gains need to be compensated" thing is insane. Responsible policymakers would ignore such greedy, self-centered, anti-community sentiments.
by isaacremuant | 2025-08-01 08:39:24+00:00
Because politicians are not accountable to you and are paid for by lobbyists.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is not a UK/US only problem. The EU nanny statism isn't a good thing nor is the loss of sovereignty associated with it.

But hey, the left right binary choice strawman made it so that people basically pushed for more gov power no matter what and now it's too late to stop the inertia.

The next time you need to vote against accumulation of power they'll scare you again with extremists, terrorists, drug dealers, children safety, disinformation (which is basically calling for suppression of freespeech and criminalization of wrongthink), etc.

If you're still labeling people as "disinformation spreaders" that are dangerous then you can't complain.
by grafmax | 2025-08-01 08:40:24+00:00
It’s more than just extra fixtures and interior walls but bathrooms, kitchens, plumbing, and HVAC - some of the most expensive parts of a build. For example if a developer has 4,000 square foot of land, and it costs $1.6 million to build 4 units selling at $2.4 million total - vs costing $1.2 million to build a luxury unit selling at $2.2 million, they will build the single luxury unit. The overall price for the construction is lower, the price per square foot is lower, but they make more profit.
by dmitry-vsl | 2025-08-01 08:41:40+00:00
> We had createScheduledPosts.ts that would run every 15 minutes, scan our table of scheduled posts and create any that needed to be published.

Why not set the publication_date when you create a post and have a function getPublishedPosts that fetches a list of posts, filtering out those with a publication_date earlier than the current date? With this approach, you don't need cron jobs at all.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-01 08:41:58+00:00
> working all day at 18 degrees c and constantly smelling her colleagues’ lab animal feed

That sounds more like biomedical research than chemistry? At the risk of stating the overly obvious to you do keep in mind how great the differences are between subfields. Synthetic organic versus materials science labs will look like entirely different professions from the perspective of a layman glancing in the window (which they are I suppose).
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-08-01 08:42:10+00:00
> Honestly something that was a bit galling was that the Irish would moan about Ireland morning day and night but the instant a foreigner made _any_ observation that wasn't rainbows and sunshine we were out of our lane and needed to shut up.

In Spain we tend to have a similar attitude. Not really telling people to shut up, but if foreigners criticize our country we tend to get defensive, even if they are saying things we would agree with or say in a conversation between locals.

For me it's like common sense, just like you don't acknowledge family problems when you talk to people outside close family and friends, but it's probably just the culture I've been raised in.
by isaacremuant | 2025-08-01 08:42:19+00:00
Funnily enough. Those in power will commit crimes and get away with it because the same police won't point their surveillance to their bosses or influential people, because it would negatively affect their careers.

Judges will be lenient and prosecutors find ways to give them, if at all community service and an inconsequential fine for the gravest of crimes.

But hey, we absolutely need 1984 like surveillance. A cam in every home, if it's up to these schmucks.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 08:44:17+00:00
> That is pre-Apple Silicon, before together integration of software and wakeups.

My 2014 Intel MacBook Pro has Power Nap and behaves the same when it comes to radios when compared to my M1. It's not new.

> it was resulting in initial network connection slowdowns or errors with buggy online-only apps.

Just because your radio is up, connected to the AP and keeping L2 active doesn't mean your processor/OS is keeping TCP connections up, or even talked to the hardware and updated itself. It's normal.

Find My doesn't keep a connection open 24/7. It pulls the commands the moment system wakes up. I have it enabled and check my devices sometimes, and it's not extraordinary to see "15 minutes ago" or "2 hours ago" for a laptop sitting on the table, not connected to power and its lid closed.
by xg15 | 2025-08-01 08:44:46+00:00
> So, uh, what's the story here? Why is there any engineering effort going on at all? [...] Microsoft will shortly start signing things with a new certificate that chains to a new root, and most systems don't trust that new root. [...] If something is signed purely with the new certificate then it won't boot on something that only trusts the old certificate (which shouldn't be a realistic scenario due to the above), but if something is signed purely with the old certificate then it won't boot on something that only trusts the new certificate.

So, dumb question: If the expiry dates are not enforced, why rotate the certificates at all? The only consequences of Microsoft introducing new keys seems to be that compatibility with old software and systems will over time become worse. But what's the upside - or the actual threat model this is defending against?
by immibis | 2025-08-01 08:44:51+00:00
But the buyer probably didn't think it was actually worth $400k intrinsically. They were bullied into paying $400k because (1) they need a house no matter what and (2) at least the government guarantees that there will be a bigger sucker down the line who will pay $500k.

It's the government's fault that this bigger-fool game even exists, because the buck always stops there. They might want to consider compensating people for the misery they caused.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-01 08:46:57+00:00
"Looking like sh/awk/sed" is not the big win Perl evangelists thought it was. Quite the opposite!

People who have actually used sh/awk/sed know quite well how terrible they are.

I remember Perl evangelists bragging about "associative arrays" as if they were God's Gift to Humanity that no other language could touch, only because they knew no other language. Not even realizing how much more limited Perl's associative arrays were because of its complete lack of reasonable reference semantics.
by isaacremuant | 2025-08-01 08:47:00+00:00
You're a piece of human garbage and call me morally detached. Go f yourself.

Techno libertarian fantasy? Dude. You don't know anything about history. Get some life experience. Fight real injustice some day and come back to me. Have you ever engaged in politics or been at a protest?

> Inaction has had and will continue to have real world consequences that you refuse to address.

Inaction is better than action when the action is harmful theater.

> Don't complain about how bad the world is if you wont give up a single inch of your life to accomodate others and made their childhood in this sociopathic modern hellscape any easier

You're a predator. See how easy it is to paint scary pictures? Modern hellscape? Lol

> Have you even seen how much more stunted this generation is in ideology, emotion and idealism. If a non regulated internet worked for children we wouldn't be here.

You're a zealot. Really. You've made no arguments but appeals to emotions and attacks. We're done. We're not scared of you, your accusations or your fake morals. You're exactly like a religious zealot coming to oppress us for our greater good. No one asked you. Our speech, bodies and mind, our choice. Over my fucking dead body, authoritarian parasite.
by radu_floricica | 2025-08-01 08:47:06+00:00
That's... good? In more ways than one.

The most obvious is that any international body would be easily controlled by the big players, so you'd end up with more centralized control by the same national entities, but now they'd be controlling other countries launches as well.

The other problem is that lately international organizations have a pretty bad track record. Two examples, which I've chosen because they are actually both very important incidents and also squarely in the domain of the respective orgs: WHO with Covid with a mostly useless and visibly politicized reaction; and UN with Gaza, with a large block of Arab voters who are basically stuck at condemning Israel, but systematically refuse to actually step up and help with the problem. Both incidents are literally what those orgs were created to handle, and yet they don't.

Also space launches have a military component, not always public. I doubt many would agree to let an international body poke their nose in that.
by throwanem | 2025-08-01 08:48:25+00:00
More like going to a massage parlor. I used to work opposite one of those. Believe me, whatever you think you can imagine on the faces of men as they walked out that door, you really have to have seen it. Even I couldn't find the heart to catcall abuse, not even at the men who'd already put back on or never taken off their rings.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-01 08:49:16+00:00
I tried tipping with card, and they told me that they can't "bump it up" (as in, they will get in trouble if they do). I suppose it depends on the place. I know for a fact that you can't tip with a credit card for parcel couriers. What I do not know for a fact is restaurants. So I suppose it varies. You tip doctors with cash, too. It is illegal to do so, but people do it and doctors expect it, it is just done more discretely.

I was not referring to Poland, but Hungary. What gave you the idea that I was referring to Poland? :P FWIW, I do speak Polish though, and I have many Polish friends.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-01 08:50:43+00:00
> resource allocation performed democratically instead of by markets

The economy is too complex to be planned in details and such attempts at control have failed again and again.

I think some people also miss that, crucially, the market is not an external force, it is just the aggregate of each individual's need, decision, and desires. SO in a way a working market is as free and democratic as can be.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-01 08:53:00+00:00
I have nothing but bad things to say about my shitty UDM from Ubiquiti.

It has issues with 2.4Ghz speeds, it randomly restarts because their software is buggy as hell. Their Apple style UI sucks ass and they have a mobile app that you can barely do anything in so you may as well just go to the web interface.

They have no features like proper QoS (smart queueing does NOT count) and even just little things, like not being able to search clients by IP, or ordering by current speed never working quite properly.

It's a fancy UI over crappy code that's been duct taped together. As soon as I move house I'm moving to Mikrotik again. For APs I may keep unifi, as they're very good at that one thing, but their routers/switches suck imo.
by seanhunter | 2025-08-01 08:53:21+00:00
Yes. This is the idea behind Kessler Syndrome - that the accumulation of clutter in Earth orbit could lead to an "ablation cascade" as more and more things collide and more and more debris is created from those collisions leading to Earth orbit becoming too hazardous to traverse.

"A 1 kg object impacting at 10 km/s, for example, is probably capable of catastrophically breaking up a 1,000 kg spacecraft if it strikes a high-density element in the spacecraft. In such a breakup, numerous fragments larger than 1 kg would be created." https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/library/a-technical-asses...
by maxbond | 2025-08-01 08:53:44+00:00
I think the US bombing China would have a big impact on the oil market. I think the better argument is that the pizza index doesn't matter because a.) people in the Pentagon might order pizza for all sorts of reasons, they might be behind on paperwork or monitoring a conflict they're not participating in and b.) the Pentagon is in the middle of a metropolitan area, there's no reason to attribute a spike in pizza sales near the Pentagon to the Pentagon. The headquarters for the DEA and Boeing are both down the street; do they never have to work late?
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-01 08:54:03+00:00
> we never seeked to destroy anyone

Mmmm, maybe you should read the Bible? Lots of violence committed by the Israelis there.

> comparing it to the holocaust is quite different

Sorry, it's mostly the same (and incredibly similar to Irish history between Catholics and Protestants). Both sides dehumanise each other, and that leads to violence and suffering. How often does Israeli media cover the bombing of Gaza? Like, a lot of the footage didn't appear on most Western media until 12months + into the conflict.

One could also make the argument that what's happening in the West bank/Gaza is basically ghettoization, which was something that happened to the Jews a lot in Western Europe. It's profoundly depressing that all the Jewish people have learned is to inflict this kind of suffering on other people.

And the current plans to basically force all of the Gazans out is again, incredibly similar to historical pogroms and treatment meted out to the Jewish people.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-01 08:55:29+00:00
RouterOS does feel a little clunky for sure, but you can configure _everything_. And once it's set up, it works beautifully and consistently.

Ubiquiti's routers to me just seem to be prosumer routers with an "enterprise" UI on top. Whereas Mikrotik genuinely offer an enterprise experience (also still great for home) with the boring, drab, absurdly functional UI to back it up.

Ubiquiti looks beautiful; but you can't do anything with it.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-01 08:55:50+00:00
At least Ada has a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFnHPHBcb4

Did you know Ada and Linda were both named after unrelated people with the same last name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace
by codeflo | 2025-08-01 08:56:10+00:00
Raspberry Pi gets a lot of negative comments these days, with unfavorable comparisons to mini PCs at similar price points, which is certainly justified. But I don't know, it's not completely rational, I still love my Raspberry Pis. Especially a Pi 5 with an NVME SSD is a beast in terms of performance. They use very little power, they are tiny, the programmable GPIO pins are awesome. There's still a sense of magic, which for hobby use, is more important than the raw numbers. I just don't get the same "sense of tinkering" when booting a PC.
by Yokolos | 2025-08-01 08:56:31+00:00
Somebody has never heard of the tragedy of the commons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

> The tragedy of the commons is the concept that, if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource, such as a pasture, they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether. Even if some users exercised voluntary restraint, the other users would merely replace them, the predictable result being a "tragedy" for all.

There is no right of absolute freedom, because at some point that freedom affects other people who also have rights. So we're always limited explicitly and implicitly in what we can do. Free, unfettered access just means taking something away from somebody else.
by voigt | 2025-08-01 09:00:12+00:00
Is there something like https://www.flightradar24.com for satellites?

Would be kind of interesting to build a “live” visualization of objects in earths orbit. But this would require accurate live data of those objects. Probably nothing that companies would publish.

On the other hand side: once the object and its orbit is identified, positions could be calculated…

Does anyone know more?
by itake | 2025-08-01 09:00:26+00:00
What do you think about the tip-free section in: https://www.mollymoon.com/icecreamforeveryone

Quick summary:

- Tipping results in lower pay for certain genders and races.

- laws that protect employees don't apply to customers. Your boss can't make inappropriate comments and pay you less if you complain. But if a customer makes inappropriate comments, its perfectly legal for the customer to pay you less if you reject their advances.