MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-08-23 19:20:59+00:00
The F-16 is cheap, attritable, highly available, and occupies a similar multirole mission profile as the F-35. It should be able to launch the same standoff munitions, albeit from a slightly further distance to avoid detection. It's likely they can be bought secondhand for ~1/10th the price of an F-35 and equipped with MBDA Meteor/IRIS missiles for a mean air patrol payload.

More realistically though, I'd imagine many European nations are eying twin-engine multirole fighters like the Rafale and Eurofighter. These have a larger range and payload than the F-35, bigger radars and pylons and the all-important high top-speed (mach-2 intercepts are a must-have bordering Russia). These can be had cheaper than the F-35 and are generally better suited to a high intensity inland conflict.
by danenania | 2025-08-23 19:21:22+00:00
> It doesn't wait until all of them are done before returning a result to the consumer.

Right, but it prevents goroutine leaks. In these situations I'm usually fine with bailing on the first error, but I grant that's not always desirable. If it's not, I would collect and join errors and return those along with partial results (if those are useful).
by aquariusDue | 2025-08-23 19:21:44+00:00
Seconding Niri, it's easier to configure compared to other Tiling WMs and has good out of the box defaults.

Though you'll have to fiddle a bit with stuff like waybar, fuzzel and xwayland-satellite. But once you've configured that stuff you won't have to fiddle with it non-stop.

I'm currently running it on Fedora, to be clear.
by curmudgeon22 | 2025-08-23 19:22:57+00:00
He (RFK) didn't just critique the exclusion of children that died:

> The exclusion included all children who died before age two, those diagnosed early with respiratory conditions, and an astonishing 34,547 children — 2.8% of the study population — whose vaccination records showed the highest aluminum exposure levels.

> ... The authors, without explanation, deemed these high exposures “implausible,” even though those implausibly high exposures are routine for American children who follow the recommended immunization schedule.

I'm not arguing the study should be retracted, but asking why those high exposure children were excluded seems reasonable. Also, the children who died presumably died at some point after receiving vaccinations. Excluding them entirely seems like it could miss potential harm and seems relevant to the studies purpose of links to chronic disease.

I agree with you that vaccines are beneficial. It still makes sense to understand the tradeoffs and ask reasonable questions about potential harms.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/flawed-science-bought-conclu...
by dang | 2025-08-23 19:23:38+00:00
Related:

Show HN: Python library to add voiceovers to Manim videos programmatically - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35961318 - May 2023 (6 comments)

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31636657 - June 2022 (16 comments)

Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658390 - March 2022 (25 comments)

Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28245277 - Aug 2021 (67 comments)

Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26498527 - March 2021 (75 comments)

Show HN: I made a parser visualizer using manim - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26382729 - March 2021 (15 comments)

A Manim Code Template - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24985609 - Nov 2020 (1 comment)

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926947 - Oct 2020 (19 comments)

Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19716019 - April 2019 (80 comments)
by Igrom | 2025-08-23 19:23:53+00:00
That's exactly it. I would say that the experiment is not so novel, but non-novel experiments are good, too. We retread illuminating experiments from physics in school for good reason.

There are quite a lot of message boards and imageboards, large and small, which check the same boxes. Many of them have not gotten enough traction to catch the attention of the mainstream (e.g. lainchan), and have a distinct vibe.

I think that as soon as your userbase expands into a representative sample of the Internet user population, your platform's culture will become increasingly similar (i.e. "average out") to the largest platforms, e.g. 4chan.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-23 19:24:19+00:00
Apparently one aspect has to do with the inevitable result of a what a stealth fighter is: it can deploy weapons far further than it can see. So without comlinks with intelligence from a specific satellite system, it loses half its features.

Second for the on-board radars to evade detection they need to be reprogrammed with the latest updates regularly. Not so much because the programming has a kill switch but because otherwise "adversaries" could still turn out to have rockets that can home in on an F-35.

And even in the case of the US, you don't have to shoot down that many F-35s to get them all.
by clippy99 | 2025-08-23 19:25:42+00:00
Startup founder here -- we tried it, and it feels bloated (Java!), bureaucratic and overcomplicated for what it is. Something like Redis queues or even ZMQ probably suffices for 90% of use cases. Maybe in hyper-scaled applications that need to be ultraperformant (e.g., realtime trading, massive streaming platforms) is where Kafka comes into play.
by richardw | 2025-08-23 19:25:42+00:00
Temporarily. At some point all the allies need world class kit. They just can’t buy it from the US exclusively. But they have committed to higher defence spending. That problem solves itself over time, especially when the world’s researchers are now looking for a safer home than under this administration.

TL;DR: you don’t need a world class jet when you trust your partner 100%. Anything less than 100, collaborate fast to overcome the limitation.
by fooblaster | 2025-08-23 19:25:52+00:00
It actually requires substantially less maintenance time if you look at the equivalent force it replaces, for example the associated awacs capability needed for a sortie for previous gen fighters.

Honestly, it's just absurd to think that any jet fighter is somehow low maintenance. The issue here isn't the f35, it's the host country becoming a unreliable/hostile partner.
by mpyne | 2025-08-23 19:26:32+00:00
> When you're trying to represent something complex like a document, JSON is crap.

I agree, but let's be honest, how often does this actually come up for data interchange. Because the situations where you want a human-editable document that is also computer-legible are fairly few in number. Prose in office documents, human-written documentation for code, config files.

For things where computer programs are driving the show (which is most the time, today), you want interchange designed for programming languages, whether that's JSON, CSV, gRPC, or what have you.

This even applies to documents that are completely computer-generated: get the inputs into an appropriate data structure using easy interchange formats, and then render to the output document (HTML, XML, LaTeX, etc.).

> Data" lives on a spectrum of simple to complex; most is simple; JSON is great for that. But not for everything.

Fully agreed. But even where you do have documents, XML is not always the right thing either, which is why there are other markup formats in wide usage like TeX and Doxygen/Javadoc-style comments. XML seems best aligned to things like office document formats or other rich text where it makes sense to want to wrap some human text inside some computer-visible markers.
by Henchman21 | 2025-08-23 19:26:36+00:00
I’ve wondered about this many times. How much would the world cool if we turned the HVAC off for a week, a month, permanently? I mean, we watched as the natural world breathed a sigh of relief on 9/11 as all planes were grounded. We watched nature reassert itself in places humans vacated during COVID. So why not HVAC?
by schrodinger | 2025-08-23 19:26:54+00:00
I've always thought that a problem with sites like Reddit and Hacker News is that a very small percentage of users engage with "new"; most people only see the posts that have been curated by that small minority which creates _some_ sort of bias (arguably, a positive one).

I've wanted to try something like a Hacker News where your homepage shows a random smattering of posts where the probability you'll see any particular one depends on its number of likes.

In other words, rather than having a firehose of "new" posts from which a few are elevated to the home page (masses), give everyone a dynamic home page which is mostly items that have been liked by many, but includes a mix of some that haven't made that threshold yet. Maybe instead of pure likes it could be a ratio of likes to views.

But the point is some way to engage everyone in the selection of what makes the homepage. It could even be as simple as "keep HN as is, but include 5 posts randomly chosen from recent submissions and tag them as such."

Dang, has anything like this been considered?
by lithocarpus | 2025-08-23 19:27:37+00:00
Aluminum is part of natural materials, but I see no evidence that it naturally gets into a human's blood in similar levels to injected aluminum from vaccines. See my reply to the "10X more aluminum in a muffin than a vaccine" comment on this page.

(disclaimer - not anti-vax, just addressing a simplistic argument that didn't hold up to scrutiny)
by Retr0id | 2025-08-23 19:27:59+00:00
org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad accel-profile 'default' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad edge-scrolling-enabled false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad left-handed 'mouse' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad middle-click-emulation false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll true org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events 'enabled' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad speed 0.0 org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag true org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag-lock false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-button-map 'default' org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad two-finger-scrolling-enabled true

I have a feeling the magic here is happening in apple firmware, rather than driver or software.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-23 19:28:50+00:00
It is interesting how it is basically an indictment on the ability of the american people to manage their hard and soft power and military capability. That being said, populist right wing movements are taking root in europe as well. This threatens long term strategic planning in general, not just with the US, when critical positions of world power are replaced every few years by a subset of the population increasingly liable to propaganda influence granted by technology. In some ways regimes like North Korea are the most stable on earth due to careful control of the reigns of power and lack of any possibility of inroads for third party influence.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-23 19:29:03+00:00
Military procurement is not about what is the best system, it is about who gets the money.

Plus every other party has far inferior fighters to "the West" anyway. And then you calculate ... you are not going to successfully defend against the F-35 in a war with the US. Not going to happen. Against Russia/China or anyone else ... every fighter jet will do fine, so take the cheapest.

The US got guaranteed this business because of international treaties ... which Trump has abandoned. But no worries, I'm sure he'll just make a "deal" and fix things again, right? Meanwhile I suggest you invest in EU weapons manufacturers, who are a lot cheaper than the US ones.
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-23 19:29:27+00:00
Well I'd say the ecology perspective is exactly that! It's not just about partitioning the resources efficiently or creating synergistic relationships... A diverse interconnected ecosystem is a damped system capable of absorbing shocks.

But I get your point. This was of course obvious to any subsistence farmer in history. Without long-distance trade and perfectly reliable preservation, you had better be harvesting food as close to year-round and possible, which means lots of different crops (in different microclimates if possible, to spread out their season.)

There were layers and layers of fallbacks, down to "famine foods" like wild roots or acorns. They also invested in social relationships by banqueting each other in productive times.
by abletonlive | 2025-08-23 19:29:30+00:00
It's crazy that you're acting like this is some kind of policy failure for the US, when this administration has been telling Europe it shouldn't rely on the United States at this level. This isn't some "gotcha" that you're describing, it's exactly what the administration wanted europe to do. Wake up and start innovating instead of being the Disneyland for American tourists.
by mehrant | 2025-08-23 19:29:30+00:00
When operations complete in 200ns instead of blocking for microseconds/milliseconds on fsync, you avoid thread pool exhaustion and connection queueing. Each sync operation blocks that thread until disk confirms - tying up memory, connection slots, and causing tail latency spikes.

With FeOxDB's write-behind approach:

- Operations return immediately, threads stay available - Background workers batch writes, amortizing sync costs across many operations - Same hardware can handle 100x more concurrent requests - Lower cloud bills from needing fewer instances

For desktop apps, this means your KV store doesn't tie up threads that the UI needs. For servers, it means handling more users without scaling up.

The durability tradeoff makes sense when you realize most KV workloads are derived data that can be rebuilt. Why block threads and exhaust IOPS for fsync-level durability on data that doesn't need it?
by tialaramex | 2025-08-23 19:29:47+00:00
You don't ever have placebo groups where we are confident that not intervening is unethical.

Because he had the same cancer I think Hank Green might have a video about this, but years ago when I got diagnosed with Hodgkins I read the data and there's no placebo trials because scientific medicine (and thus placebo trials) was invented after they had some initial working cures for Hodgkins. So any fool can see a "placebo" trial is just arbitrarily killing a bunch of people to check a box which is awful and they never performed one.

We still have excellent reason to believe Hodgkins would kill you because some people, despite being told what's wrong and that we can cure it, will say "No". Crazy, religious, I guess maybe in the US too poor (?) doesn't matter, they decline the cure and those people die, because cancer is bad for you.

But they're self-selecting and so do not constitute a placebo trial. It seems ludicrous, but in theory maybe they only die because they're crazy or poor or they believe God will cure them or something. We can't prove it ain't so.

We do still run trials, but they're not A vs Placebo, they take the existing "gold standard" treatment you would get if there wasn't a trial and they compare something they think could be better against that.
by martin-t | 2025-08-23 19:30:49+00:00
Nobody has an obligation to assume competence. Incompetence is very common on both sides. It is reasonable to assume incompetence. Given it's such common criticism and refuting it is simple, yes, the author should pre-respond. Otherwise everyone else has to look at the study which costs more time in total and also allows incompetent scientists to get away with it because unless people investigate further, both look the same on the surface.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-23 19:31:28+00:00
This doesn't apply to just teenagers. Anyone younger than 30 has probably noticed this trend by now.

The only people I answer the phone to are people I know who prefer that mode of communication. That list mostly consists of people older than me, with a few exceptions. For everyone else, whatever textual mode of communication is my preferred way to talk, since then I have a record to go back to, time to think to respond, no social pressure to talk right now, and no worries about actually being able to hear the person.

Spam calls probably accelerated this cultural phenomenon, but I've atleast been this way before spam calls were as bad as they are now.

It's always funny to me how not answering the phone is presented as rude by some people, when calling someone is essentially just shouting 'talk to me, now!' at them.

This[1] comment from a while back also resonates with me a lot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976815
by LeftHandPath | 2025-08-23 19:31:31+00:00
"Networking" makes it sound more active than it really is. It's just who they are meeting over those four years. The friends they make, the professors they meet and perhaps work with, the guest lecturers they're able to talk to, the parents of friends that they meet on the holidays who make calls to help land internships. The companies that show up to the career fair.

Over four years, there's a big difference in your future prospects if you were meeting people with ties to Google, Berkshire, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Meta, et al., vs meeting people from Garmin (<$100k/year for fresh CS grads, when I graduated) and small local midwestern companies. Even if you don't get direct referrals to those big-name places, you're talking to people who know what a resume that can get in there looks like, rather than having to blindly follow whatever advice you can find online.

Harvard has a page about it: https://careerservices.fas.harvard.edu/blog/2025/04/04/how-t...
by bigyabai | 2025-08-23 19:31:40+00:00
This is closer to how things worked in WWII, but not the Cold War or especially modern (eg. India vs. Pakistan) air combat. The ground attack role has largely shifted towards precision artillery and guided standoff-range munitions. You don't need a jet to attack ground assets, and you most definitely can't rely on a jet to defend against rocket artillery or FPV drones.

In any case, you're really just proving my point. Yes, an F-35 can "win" a conflict in a day by flying into enemy airspace undetected and bombing their presidential convoy. That's the sort of interventionist politicking that sickens everyone who isn't American or Israeli.
by mistrial9 | 2025-08-23 19:32:34+00:00
years ago I had no interest in this old football rivalry stuff.. very, very smart people work&play hard individually at both places. However once things get more organized, the differences are indeed profound for example, the rise and concentration of capital on the one hand, and the Nobel prizes and social contracts on the other. Agree that both places are large enough, active enough, stable enough such that simple comparisons are certainly refutable. However the raw number of graduates is not at all comparable between the two. The inward and enduring commitment to certain (polarized) politics, in both cases, is evident to me. Both institutions can claim societal-level accomplishments in the pure sciences..
by majormajor | 2025-08-23 19:33:00+00:00
If you are using this sort of redis queue (https://redis.io/glossary/redis-queue/) with PUSH/POP vs fan-out you're working on a very different sort of problem than what Kafka is built for.

Like the article says, fan-out is a key design characteristic. There are "redis streams" now but they didn't exist back then. The durability story and cluster stories aren't as good either, I believe, so they can probably take you so far but won't be as generally suitable depending on where your system goes in the future. There are also things like RedPanda that speak Kafka w/o the Java.

However, if you CAN run on a single node w/o worrying about partitioning, you should do that as long as you can get away with it. Once you add multiple partitions ordering becomes hard to reason about and while there are things like message keys to address that, they have limitations and can lead to hotspotting and scaling bottlenecks.

But the push/pop based systems also aren't going to give you at-least-once guarantees (looks like Redis at least has a "pop+push" thing to move to a DIFFERENT list that a single consumer would manage but that seems like it gets hairy for scaling out even a little bit...).
by stoltzmann | 2025-08-23 19:33:14+00:00
By for example destroying the enemy launch platforms. By intercepting enemy flights that would deploy those weapons. And specifically in case of F-35s, also by providing ELINT.

"Hypersonic" weapons used in current conflicts are nothing more than a glorified long range missiles that are useless if you can't launch them from the air. They're also currently statistically not significant due to their low amounts.
by dang | 2025-08-23 19:33:39+00:00
If you mean to convey something deeper than a snarky one-liner, you need to make that explicit. Your GP comment didn't do that.

Intent doesn't communicate itself, especially in internet comments. The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by estimator7292 | 2025-08-23 19:34:29+00:00
When the alternative is completely free and fully functional, yes.

If you're using proxmox in an environment where it provides value to your business, yes you should pay.

For home-gamers? Who the hell is even paying for a subscription? Why would you? As the OP points out, the only real benefit is the "production" package repos. You get the same or better support for free on forums and social media from the community of homelabbers who also aren't paying.

They can charge whatever they want for entry level support. It's still not for you, the free tier is.
by cortesoft | 2025-08-23 19:35:02+00:00
Most skill ranking systems actually don’t show the rating they use for matchmaking. There is usually a separate level that is shown rather than what is used for matchmaking.

This is because many people get really upset when their displayed rating doesn’t go up after playing a lot of games, but with a skill level that is the expected result when you finally reach your true skill rating. Players won’t constant progression, so they will show a separate score that keeps going up while they use a hidden true rating for matchmaking.
by dingnuts | 2025-08-23 19:35:27+00:00
I don't know why Europe wants so badly to be reliant on the US. It's bad for them, it's bad for us. It's embarrassing for Europe that Ukraine is relying on the US instead of Europe for defense. It's embarrassing for Europe how little they contribute to NATO. The US isn't a partner, it's a caretaker. And as they say, if someone provides what you need, they also have the power to take it away.

Outsourcing your defense is stuupiiid.

Europe should be thanking Trump for waking them up to the reality that has always been the case through his boorish negotiation.
by doganugurlu | 2025-08-23 19:35:44+00:00
Thanks for explaining.

> High expectations, high trust, big support, a ton of agency, and really high standards on deliverables and transparency.

This sounds like a utopia to me to be honest. I am not sure if I agree with your assessment about how many here would not be able to handle it. My concern is many here won’t be able to offer it. I would love this type of management.
by jimnotgym | 2025-08-23 19:35:44+00:00
I always thought Trump missed an important concept with his 'who pays for NATO' rhetoric. A huge amount of NATO spending from Europe was going to US arms companies, so the US benefited massively. Now the US is an unreliable ally, that money will go back into Europe. And even when Trump is gone, governments will still remember that their sovereignty can't depend on the whims of the US. This damage will last a generation. Personally I think this will be an eventual benefit for Europe, who seem quite capable of making advanced weapons when they have to.