MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-05 00:16:16+00:00
> nobody with an appropriate background is going to apply

You don't need any “appropriate background” if you are going to be a one time tool to enforce an action.

And given the previous managers know that they have no power to stop the move anyway (because their replacement will comply) I doubt many would be willing to sacrifice their position just to keep the moral high ground.
by harmmonica | 2025-08-05 00:17:17+00:00
I tried to find a freemium option that didn't require me signing up or agreeing to spend $3.99 at some later date. Could be helpful to get more people deeper into the "funnel." Like maybe open up the first 1/x of one of the 22 lessons?

If that option is there I couldn't find it so consider that a single-user usability test or just user error.
by toast0 | 2025-08-05 00:17:33+00:00
Stucco itself is not conductive, but it's usually applied on a base of metal mesh (similar to chicken wire, but apparently actual chicken wire isn't appropriate). Some projects use fiberglass mesh as the lath, and some may use traditional wood lath, but my understanding is the majority of stucco for house construction uses metal wire mesh for the lath.
by Dagger2 | 2025-08-05 00:17:42+00:00
There's been endless effort into all of those things. What else are we supposed to do when people just aren't following them anyway?

It's not even double the config. For e.g. my firewall, which is a 300-line config that I've already designed and implemented, making it dual stack mostly involves writing "domain (ip ip6)" instead of "domain ip". That's simply not double.

It's not less intuitive than v4 either. That's a lack of experience talking. Meanwhile, trying to use v4 quickly devolves into needing to use NAT, which is less intuitive.

> Pure ipv6 will never happen because the weak link breaks the chain. How many people set up an ipv6 VPC with great excitement, and late in the project they deploy from github with "NS lookup failed".

My desktop is pure v6 and GitHub works fine, which I think disproves the "never" part.
by re | 2025-08-05 00:17:51+00:00
> ProtonMail, who apparently offer a FOSS mail client. They never presumed to offer mail server software

The website justifiably cites this website marketing copy as misleading: "All Proton services are open source and independently audited for security." https://proton.me/mail If that's supposed to only apply to the mail client (which isn't specifically mentioned on that page), it's incredibly unclear.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-05 00:17:55+00:00
Whenever I hear about them doing cool new things with the various space probes and rovers I can't help but think the situation was along the lines of "now that we're done with the core mission stuff and Sauron's gaze has averted (i.e. management has a new shiny to care about) we can really play cowboy putting it through its paces".
by InTheArena | 2025-08-05 00:18:06+00:00
In any moral framework that does not include perfect knowledge of the future, the nuclear bomb is morally defensible at worst, and morally required at best. Sheer number of lives saved? The Nuclear Bomb ended the war. Number of Japanese lives saved? Nuclear bomb wins. The "non-violent" option of a blockade? It would have resulted in millions dead. The Japanese farming system completely collapsed in 1944. Many still starved even after the surrender, as the allies rushed to get food and aid to Japan.

What about a pure Soviet entry into the war? You have to look at what happened to Poland and Eastern Europe when the Soviet army invaded. Once again, by any metric, this was the best possible outcome at the time.

But it was unquestionably a local maximum - the best solution at the time, with horrific consequences afterward.
by ojosilva | 2025-08-05 00:18:27+00:00
Sounds like an ad for Perplexity.

They do end up looking bad out of Cloudflare's report, who are the "good guys" in this story - btw Cloudflare's been very pushy lately with their we'll save the web, content independence day marketspeak. But deep in the back of my head, Cloudflare's goodwill elevates Perplexity cunning habilities (assuming they're the culprit since no real evidence, only heresay is in the OP), both companies look like titans fighting, which ends up being positive for Perplexity, at least in the inflated perception of their firepower... if that makes any sense.
by verdverm | 2025-08-05 00:18:38+00:00
Mumbo Jumbo built a similar concept on Hermitcraft using trap doors. There is a revolution going on called "buildstone", using redstone to create aesthetics

Mumbot 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUzU8HnjBI4&t=1108s

Grian made an animated waterfall with dispensers, snow particles, and potioned arrows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPS8hURZks
by jschveibinz | 2025-08-05 00:19:03+00:00
As an American citizen and firm capitalist, I welcome a technically strong and united European ally that contributes to a majority of its own defense and to the production of new and useful technology to the rest of the world at a fair price. The U.S. wants strong allies and trading partners.

WW2 was 80 years ago. It's time for Europe to reprioritize in favor of economic growth and development; deprioritize protectionism and bureaucracy; encourage investment in small businesses; unite politically instead of pretending to unite; and let go of the cultural past by looking to the future.

The U.S. is always changing, and will always be changing. That's the nature of the country and the source of its strength.

I'm ready for the downvotes--but I haven't said anything that is not true.
by Nathanba | 2025-08-05 00:19:28+00:00
I've been wondering for a while why society only has one word for all the different forms of lying. Lying by omission, lying intentionally, lying because you dont know, lying to save yourself, lying without thinking, lying for self benefit there are more... These should all get their own words so that we can always pinpoint exactly which version we think the other person did instead of having to shout "you lied!!111" and then nobody knows what on earth you are talking about.
by apsurd | 2025-08-05 00:19:39+00:00
I do agree there's money in discretionary learning. Music, dance, knitting, sports, you name it. In the scheme of things it seems niche. I don't intend to diminish the value of humans learning things.

My call out is when we think about changing outcomes for underserved groups of people, there's a hard reckoning that comes.

For example I dabbled in "teaching people to cook". It's one of the most transformative skills. After some months my takeaway is that people that pay for learning to cook aren't paying "to learn", they already know or want to get better or quite bluntly pay for food-porn, edutainment. There's thousands of published cook books of all forms. The barrier isn't lack of materials/content.

A person goes from zero to 1 learning to cook due to necessity, not my online saas course. Btw saas can work, people make a killing; but they're paying for network and "influencer" access, not cooking content.
by 627467 | 2025-08-05 00:20:13+00:00
I kind love this fast escalation. Clearly the web can benefit from people to start thinking for locally or narrowly instead of "global audiences". By locally I don't necessarily mean geographically local, just socially local. Build your audience then invite them into private(r) spaces. The (old) open web will be filled with machines built for machines.

We learned to dislike "bubbles" in the past decades but bubbles make sense and are natural, obviously if you're not alone in it.

When it becomes awfully busy with machines and machine content humans will learn to reconnect.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-05 00:22:17+00:00
> Sentry is marked as "NOPE" even though it is basically open source (any commit older than two years is),

In other words, current Sentry isn't Open Source, but old versions are available. I think it's a fair characterization that Sentry is not Open Source, unless there's an actual community around the Open Source version.
by sershe | 2025-08-05 00:22:19+00:00
"If extreme wealth was taxed, the debt would be zero"

Do you have numbers for that? Even ignoring the issues with lots of wealth being paper wealth that cannot be translated into any kind of realized gains, and any 2nd order effects, the wealth (stock, can be depleted once) is not even in the same ballpark esp. given the deficit (flow, keeps happening).
by InTheArena | 2025-08-05 00:22:29+00:00
Additionally, the Japanese leadership was welcoming a land invasion. They believed that a land invasion would result in unacceptable casualties, forcing the United States into a peace that would allow Japan to continue occupying China and many of the sized territories. That's how disconnected from reality the leadership was.

The sad thing is that there is a non-zero chance they where right. There was considerable concern about that from the war leadership at this point. The allies _dramatically_ underestimated the forces that the Japanese had marshalled at the two invasion sites, and it would have been not very good. The alternative that the Navy was pushing was a starvation blockade of Japan. This probably would have been succesful but led to millions more lives lost in Japan, and a almost inevitable civil war in Japan.
by dllthomas | 2025-08-05 00:22:44+00:00
I ran into a question a while ago that I couldn't find a good answer to, and while it's not exactly on topic this seems like a good place to ask it.

I was working in a detail rich context, where there were a lot of items, about which there were a lot of facts that mostly didn't change but only mostly. Getting a snapshot of these details into approximately everyone's head seemed like a job for spaced repetition, and I considered making a shared Anki deck for the company.

What wasn't clear was how to handle those updates. Just changing the deck in place feels wrong, for those who have been using it - they're remembering right, the cards have changed.

Deprecating cards that are no longer accurate but which don't have replacement information was a related question. It might be worth informing people who have been studying that card that it's wrong now, but there's no reason to surface the deprecation to a person who has never seen the card.

Is there an obvious way to use standard SRS features for this? A less obvious way? A system that provides less standard features? Is this an opportunity for a useful feature for a new or existing system? Or is this actually not an issue for some reason I've missed?
by xwolfi | 2025-08-05 00:23:39+00:00
An interface is a layer of translation between two things.

In Object oriented programming, it's a contract between two encapsulated modules: you define how one should be used, without exposing internals, and the other will have only this contract to manipulate the module.

Otherwise, for a graphical interface, it's a translation between what the machine can do and what the human can see.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-05 00:24:11+00:00
Fundamentally, there is no ceiling on the utility of "compute". There will always be some use for it, the current crop of AIs is just the first practical scalable one for this flavour of large-scale GPU clusters.

If chatbots turn out to be pointless for anything other than translation, copy-editing, and developer assistance, then we can still use the GPUs for robotics. I.e.: Farmers could have robots in the fields with cameras and arms for picking fruit, but outsource the machine vision and motion-control tasks to a data centre. It makes a lot more sense than lugging around batteries and GPUs literally "in the field" with the mud, heat, humidity, and vibration!

PS: As far back as the early 1990s I remember reading articles about "nobody needs 'X' upgrade", which was invalidated immediately, every time. I now have more computer power in my pocket than my first six or seven computers combined. I "found a use" for that "absurd" computer power. Not to mention that 5G to my own personal phone has bandwidth exceeding the country's entire international telecommunications bandwidth in 1990!
by anonym29 | 2025-08-05 00:24:24+00:00
Obviously he isn't working 130 billion times harder, but he may be some combination of 130 billion times as much (privileged upbringing × strategically focused × economically impactful × smarter × harder working × luckier × n other relevant factors) than the typical American, that I can seriously consider.

I also figure he, like Elon Musk, pays orders of magnitude more than his fair share, if we consider the definition for "fair share" to mean everyone pays the same amount of direct cash transfer into the system and gets the same amount of direct cash receipt out of the system.
by addaon | 2025-08-05 00:24:48+00:00
> Can you tell me which car is Python, so I can add it to my shopping list?

The Hummer H3. When the Hummer came out it did a few things exceptionally well — better than anything else — although there were plenty of areas (speed, aesthetics) where it was crap. It was popular, so they made a later version riding on the name that was incompatible with the original mission, hoping that the folks who had aspired to the first version would continue along; and somehow it worked.
by hk1337 | 2025-08-05 00:26:27+00:00
> The project is licensed under an FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0 license which, for two years after release, prevents use, modification and distribution when done in a range of ways which may compete with the original project.

The current license for sentry seems to be a large part of the reason for the nope.

They give a pretty detailed explanation of the decision.

It’s still a good product.
by brudgers | 2025-08-05 00:26:49+00:00
I mentioned the continued ban on programmable calculators in many academic contexts. Those contexts still include some portions of undergraduate education. This is fifty years after the introduction of programmable calculators.

Realistically, the answers the students gave the teacher were probably motivated by the practical benefits that come with giving teachers the answers they want to hear…bullshit questions are likely to produce bullshit answers. It’s not like first year college students haven’t had twelve years of academic standards moralizing talked at them.
by akkartik | 2025-08-05 00:27:31+00:00
Ohh, I see. It wasn't just a static menu bar at the bottom, but some hotkeys were modes and the menu bar would update when you pressed them. Pico/Pine still has something like that where ^o used to stand for "other commands" and the menu would show new hotkeys when you pressed it. I don't remember if Wordstar had some escape hatch like that. It certainly had a lot of commands.
by m4rtink | 2025-08-05 00:27:38+00:00
That is easier said than done - modern reactors are in the 1000 MW+ electrical power range, which means about 3x as much heat needs to be generated to get this much electricity - say 3000 MW.

Even when you correctly shut down the chain reaction in the reactor (which correctly happened in the affected Fukushima powerplant) a significant amount of heat will still be generated in the reactor core for days or even weeks - even if it was just 1% of the 3 GW thermal load, that is still 30 MW. It will be the most intense immediately after shutdown and will then trail off slowly.

The mechanism for this is inherent to the fission reactors - you split heavier elements into lighter ones, releasing energy. But some of the new lighter elements are unstable and eventually split to something else, before finally splitting into a stable element. These decay chains can take quite some time to reach stable state for a lot of the core & will still release radiation (and a lot of heat) for the time being.

(There are IIRC also some processes where neutrons get captured by elements in the core & those get transmutated to other, possibly unstable elements, that then decay. That could also result add up the the decay heat in the core.)

And if you are not able to remove the heat quickly enough - the fuel elements do not care, they will just continue to heat up until they melt. :P

I am a bit skeptical you could have a big enough reservoir on hand to handle this in a passive manner. What on the other hand I could image could work (and what some more modern designs include IIRC) is a passive system with natural circulation. Eq. you basically have a special dry cooling tower through which you pass water from the core, it heats up air which caries the heat up, sucking in more air (chimney effect). The colder water is more dense, so it sinks down, sucking in more warm water. Old hot water heating worked like this in houses, without pumps.

If you build it just right, it should be able to handle the decay heat load without any moving parts or electricity until the core is safe.
by jrmann100 | 2025-08-05 00:27:53+00:00
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by nwallin | 2025-08-05 00:29:00+00:00
It would be a hard sell to finger Steam as being at high risk of fraud. Steam has a very generous refund policy, and if you don't consider it generous enough, and chargeback a purchase on your Steam account, they just lock it (and access to all your games) until you pay them.

I don't have insider information about how often Steam gets hit with fraud alleged chargebacks, but I can't imagine it's a significant percentage.

> Don’t get me wrong: it’s progress. But it’s far from a panacea.

Progress in this day and age is great. Progress right now is at least 2 orders of magnitude better than patiently waiting for a panacea.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 00:29:06+00:00
I have used both free and paid Google Gemini. I'm as cheap as can be. Im back to the free because it's good enough, and presumably getting better.

If they took away the free, I'd pay $20 and be thankful they kept it at $20.

I love doing things myself.. I mow my lawn, change my oil, change my water heater, and try to never use frameworks or libraries. But not using LLMs seems insane. If they weren't free, you wouldn't use them?
by Quarrelsome | 2025-08-05 00:29:19+00:00
I heard that the WPF code under the hood was jank, which might be part of why MS never went forward with it. From a developer perspective it was quite nice. I started in winform and I miss UI frameworks being obvious and straight forward. I have a rant about how to darken an image using HTML + css that despairs in how unintuitable and bodge-job the solution ends up being. WPF and WinForm were not like that, you draw what someone sees, inline, as they see it and that's quite nice.
by chaps | 2025-08-05 00:29:20+00:00
If a cell has an injury that impacts its mobility but not its ability to survive because it can adapt -- is that a memory? Are nutrients within a cell? How about its current position in relationship to a food source? Or a buildup of some molecule in response to environmental factors? If not to any of these, why not? Because it's not neuronal by-nature?

The past dictates the future and there are many, many, many, many, MANY ways to encode the past for future self-preservation.

You're doing yourself an intellectual disservice by sticking to one form of "memory". I'd even argue that you're the one anthropomorphizing the hardest by limiting "memory" to an idealized human form of memory.
by karlgkk | 2025-08-05 00:29:36+00:00
The atrocities that the Japanese military committed, consistently and repeatedly and combined with their attack on pearl harbor, meant that Americans of the time on the front lines had few qualms or issues with dropping the bomb.

Truman famously called Oppenheimer a "cry baby" when Oppenheimer expressed doubt. Truman had spent the past decade dealing with the war in his capacity as senator and vice president - seeing the effects it was having first (or second) hand.

Now, this isn't to say that America was right or not right to drop one or both bombs. It may "feel" like I'm saying "the Japanese deserved it for their behavior" - that's not a belief I hold, either.

I just want to provide color for why American leadership seemed so relatively unconcerned with the lives of Japanese civilians in 1945.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-08-05 00:30:08+00:00
But now the war has lasted for nearly four years. Despite the best that has been done by everyone — the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of our servants of the state, and the devoted service of our one hundred million people — the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-05 00:30:12+00:00
I was sure your numbers were wrong but if we assume $200,000 in your sleep means $600,000 a day, that’s $219,000,000 per year.

Bezos has an estimated 220,000,000,000 dollars as of May 2025. $220,000,000,000 per year / $219,000,000 per year = 1004.6 years. Wild.
by King-Aaron | 2025-08-05 00:30:37+00:00
A lot of people are viewing this through the lens of LLM/AI technology being used to do consumer facing things, and are wondering where the cost/benefit is. But this technology race feels like the Manhattan project, and should be viewed through the lens of a technology that will be used to fight the next war. That's why limitless resources are being thrown at it. He who controls the spice etc.
by frfl | 2025-08-05 00:30:45+00:00
And who will buy the products and serivces of these "employers" when nobody has a job?

See you can keep adding middle layers, but eventually you'll find there's no one with any money at the bottom of this pyramid to prop this whole thing up.

When the consumer driven economy has no critical mass of consumers, the whole model kinda goes belly up, no?
by Merrill | 2025-08-05 00:31:05+00:00
Due to chromosome crossover, you do not inherit genes individually from ancestors, but instead you inherit segments of chromosomes containing many genes.

However, the randomness is great enough that first cousins do share approximately 1/8 of their genes, second cousins 1/32, third cousins 1/128 and so on. The rapid decrease of shared genes among relatives in successive generations also means that if mating in a population is really random, the population rapidly becomes homogeneous.

It is only assortative mating which generates and maintains distinctive subpopulations.
by skydhash | 2025-08-05 00:31:31+00:00
> I'm aware of foot, and it works fine, but it doesn't correctly display the fancy icons used by foot (and other programs).

These are icon glyphes. You have to set the font setting for the terminal to have them. By default, foot uses whatever you set for the monospace family (you can use the command `fc-match monospace` to find out which font). You may want to use a Nerd Font instead.

[0]: https://www.nerdfonts.com/