MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tkel | 2025-08-26 21:37:10+00:00
I read all of Bernie's platform in 2016 when it was most thoroughly developed, and he didn't call for state ownership of companies like Intel. The closest he got to what you are thinking was calling for public ownership of utilities, which is standard in most capitalist countries, namely buying out/converting private electricity utility monopolies into either public or cooperative ownership.

Also, socialism means whatever the ruling class says it means. For example in China they've redefined socialism to just mean nationalism, which is the opposite of the original intent. Read about "Xi Jingping Thought" and "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics". It seems when ideas like socialism become popular, they are co-opted and stripped of meaning.
by rictic | 2025-08-26 21:37:29+00:00
A flake.nix file plus a direnv `.envrc` file with `use flake` has solved this for me.

When I cd into a project directory I get all of the tools that project needs, at the exact versions they were tested with. When I cd out of the directory, they go away. If the dependencies are well behaved (e.g. they don't do any self-modification, which is annoyingly common in the npm world) then it's often pretty easy to track all of your deps this way, imported from your npm package-lock.json or similar.

Ask your favorite LLM to write your flake.nix file for you, they're pretty good at it. I've been able to drop all of the bespoke language-specific tool versioning stuff `nvm`, `uv`, `rvm`, etc for all my personal projects, and it makes it easy to add deps from outside the language-specific package managers, like ffmpeg and lame.
by joezydeco | 2025-08-26 21:37:39+00:00
Meanwhile, in Chicago, station WFLD introduced a teletext service called Keyfax, built on Ceefax technology as a joint venture with Honeywell and telecom company Centel.

To try and solve the chicken-and-egg problem with the adoption of teletext decoders, Keyfax started in Chicago by broadcasting a static rotation of the data pages all through the overnight hours. It was kind of fascinating to watch back then.

https://youtu.be/Bgs0kbxo68w
by redactsure | 2025-08-26 21:37:41+00:00
I have a new browser security method. Inside this link you'll have access to a virtual browser environment. In this environment you will have the ability to control and access a plain text private bitcoin key worth 20$. There is only a single key, first one to take it ends the challenge for all.

Demo Signup: https://app.redactsure.com/ Bitcoin Checker: https://redactsure.com/bitcoinchallenge/

Limitations: - 15mins per session (why? GPU per session, limited spots) - US only is preferred (why? latency, I am streaming video to you) - No mobile, keyboard required - Requires you to verify an email

Some people were asking about implementation I'll provide a few details. - A server hosted browser - I manipulate what you are seeing on the webpage in real time - While I don't change the underlying webpage I do manipulate your actions to the webpage - A full transformer model runs in real time along side you (tries to find all sensitive words you see)

Overall the systems goals are to allow you to perform work without ever seeing the data. It's in a early prototype stage and I expect a large numbers of edge cases just from the nature of the problem. The bitcoin is a proxy to the real goal which is protecting real PII in remote work settings.

Other notes: - It would be nice if you tell me the bug. I would like to post how you broke it. - I'll post updates as well as info on bugs sessions here: https://x.com/CharlesCurt2
by lxgr | 2025-08-26 21:38:12+00:00
> It's a significant burden of proof for a cardholder to win a dispute for non-compliance with card network rules

That's true, but "fraud" and "compliance" aren't the only dispute categories, not by far.

In this case, using Mastercard as an example (as their dispute rules are public [1]), the dispute category would be "Refund not processed".

The corresponding section explicitly lists this as a valid reason: "The merchant has not responded to the return or the cancellation of goods or services."

> Again, you're not aware of the reality outside the US.

Repeating your incorrect assumption doesn't make it true.

[1] https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/n...
by gxonatano | 2025-08-26 21:38:39+00:00
As a student of Zen Buddhism, I'm always a little bothered to see yet another thing called "Zen" that has virtually nothing to do with Zen, or Buddhism. The authors seem to think that "Zen" is a synonym for "calm," even though calm abiding is only one small aspect of Zen. If you read any of the classic Zen literature, like the Gateless Gate or the Blue Cliff Record, you'd come away with the impression that Zen is very active, vital, and vigorous.

But with a name like Zen, I at least expected the browser to be one of those tabless ones that encourage you to focus your attention on the present task, by enforcing one web page at a time. Or a text-based one, like w3m, that removes graphics to allow you to focus on the words. While the Zen browser interface is a little cleaner, with fewer buttons and things, that doesn't necessarily translate to "calmer." Calm is what you bring to the browsing experience, not what you take away from it.
by raincole | 2025-08-26 21:38:40+00:00
> make this visual infinitely repeatable

I'm quite sure that was how people thought about record players and films themselves.

And frankly, they were correct. The recording devices did cheapen the experience (compared to the real thing). And the digitalization of the production and distribution process cheapened it even more. Being in a gallery is a very different experience than browsing the exact same paintings on instagram.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-08-26 21:38:42+00:00
Nazi had to stop several times the euthanizing of handicapped and retarded because of the public backslash.

It worked because the majority of German doctors were full on board but there were talks of that way before nazi got in power.

I believe even in the USA there was program like sterilization of « degenerates » and « negro » At these times.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-sterilisation-program-tri...

(Édit : After checking the source, these programs went on from 1929 so 4 years before nazi were elected, and lasted until 1974 !!!)

I’m not sure all of that is in any way comparable to a company abusing its monopolistic position to enforce rules that will benefit it.
by reckoner99 | 2025-08-26 21:38:56+00:00
My immediate reaction is to notice that this method is actually closely mirrors Barbara Minto’s Pyramid Principle, a go-to tool for McKinsey consultants for the last 40 years or so. One way to build so-called Pyramids is to go bottom up: gather raw facts, aggregate them into themes, themes align into arguments, and only then does the polished narrative (or the key idea) emerge. As far as I can tell, McPhee recommends a very similar approach.
by seemaze | 2025-08-26 21:39:30+00:00
As someone from the AEC industry (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) I've always maintained that there exists a scope of software engineering that meets the same criteria for the protection of life and property that 'Professional Engineers' are held to.

If writing software which carries the potential to harm the public required both a baseline assurance of competency (documented testing, experience, or education), as well as provisional restitution (insurance, licensing bond, or civil liability) administered by a neutral third party, than many less practitioners would take on the personal liability of representing themselves as such.

It's always amusing to go around the table on a call when it is attended by both the 'Digital Signage Sales Engineer' and the 'Structural Engineer of Record'. Although in reality, I doubt either of them actually care..
by ggm | 2025-08-26 21:39:35+00:00
Not to minimise modern French antisemitism, it has deep roots which transcend this immediate political crisis. I am sure you know this. Dreyfus wasn't an origin event, antisemitism had been rife in French culture for ages before. I stop at that point because there is at least some political continuity to turn of the 19th century politics, the downfall of the third Republic aside.

I see modern day French antisemitism as a bizarre union of right wing echt French, le pen-type and modern era Islamic migration from Francophone former French colonies. Former enemies united in a common hatred.
by robocat | 2025-08-26 21:40:05+00:00
Good imperial bolts.

Does the US make the machines that make the bolts any more?

And what if you needed metric bolts?

"I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment)" https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY talks about the trouble he had finding US made bolts and I seem to remember he found out he'd been scammed and was sold Chinese bolts anyway? (Edit: Skip to around 17m35s)
by Jedd | 2025-08-26 21:40:36+00:00
> with the battery weigh the same as a gas version with gas and oil in the tank.

I still marvel that the liquid I call 'petrol', is called a gas in some parts of the world.

In one of the bigger models, say the Stihl 66x series, there's 825ml of petrol, and 825ml of oil (let's call that 1.5kg) that isn't there by the end of your half hour. Whether that's meaningful I guess comes down to fitness / strength.

As sibling commenter noted, electric chainsaws are hugely compelling for intermittent / infrequent use. Here in AU the pricing isn't compelling yet, though.
by simne | 2025-08-26 21:40:44+00:00
I really wonder, why so much noise about this case. I agree, semiconductors are extremely important in current world, but did you know, Volkswagen AG is partially owned by State of Lower Saxony (~ 11.8%)?

Also worth to remember cases of Rolls-Royce, Ericsson, and some other unfortunate Western companies, important for many humans, but once became unable to stay economically viable. (BTW it make me laugh, when I got info, Bentley now under WAG, when RR under BMW, as technically, they many decades was one entity)

WAG case is different from Intel case (and other I mention), but there are also many similarities, because of which I think, Intel case may be special for US, but is not too special for West.

And I think, such cases are bad, they are great shame, but also they are signs, we must do something, to make Western produced semiconductors more competitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group
by Noumenon72 | 2025-08-26 21:41:31+00:00
These kind of takes often place a higher value on people's life than they would place on their own. We should let people choose MAID if that's the best outcome for their lives, and we should let them risk their health for science. It's up to them whether they feel they have anything left to lose.

This is aside from the harm it does to the rest of us to prevent experimentation by willing participants, such as barring human challenge trials to quickly test Covid vaccines.
by znpy | 2025-08-26 21:41:46+00:00
> How do you do this on a proprietary device from the late 90s that runs a WindRiver VXWorks RTOS with 1 MB of SRAM?

You weight the cost of incurring in that thing getting hacked against the cost of that thing being rebuilt on modern hardware with modern technologies and enough processing power to do TLS.

Then you pick the "rebuild route". Easy.

Anyway, it's crazy how on this forum it goes from "REWRITE EVERYTHING IN RUST!!! ANYTHING THAT'S NOT RUST IS INHERENTLY UNSAFE" to the complete opposite of "why doesn't anybody think of the poor WindRiver VXWorks RTOS!!".

> Sure, adding a cert to the SCADA server is trivial, it runs Windows Server and has a NIC that can access the Internet, but on the other NIC...there's a menagerie of 30 years of industrial oddities.

Not gonna lie, all i hear is "i'm annoyed i was able to ignore the problem for 30 years but now i have to actually fix it".
by Animats | 2025-08-26 21:42:26+00:00
No, the US didn't recall its ambassador to Brazil. The acting US ambassador there was summoned to the foreign ministry of Brazil. The US has some disagreements with Brazil (or, rather, Trump does, because they're putting a former national leader on trial). Here's a view from Rio.[1]

Recalling an ambassador to their home country (the traditional phrase is "recalled for consultations with their government") in modern times usually means they're being replaced.

[1] https://www.riotimesonline.com/lulas-brazil-at-a-crossroads-...
by disposition2 | 2025-08-26 21:43:08+00:00
The actual complaint (PDF)

https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2...

From the article (emphasis is mine):

> According to Borges' complaint, on June 10, days after the Supreme Court ruling, a former DOGE employee at the SSA named John Solly requested that the agency make a copy of its Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) database to a private cloud that would be located within the SSA's Amazon Web Services — Agency Cloud Infrastructure.

> *The NUMIDENT database is the master file for all information submitted in applications for Social Security cards. The database includes applicant names, place and date of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents' names — along with the Social Security numbers.*
by reorder9695 | 2025-08-26 21:43:58+00:00
How else would you do it? Unlike an e.g. viral infection there is no positive test you can look at. Generally a disorder is considered something that significantly impacts someone's life, getting in the way of things like working, social life, life enjoyment. I don't think you can be totally objective about this, and you get into things like if i.e. autism is mild is it a disorder? It's pretty clear to me it should be considered as such after a certain level of severity, but maybe it shouldn't always be if it has minimal impact on the person
by Grimblewald | 2025-08-26 21:44:08+00:00
Maybe just holding themsleves accountable when no one else will? We're barreling towards a dark age and its driven by unchecked individualism and acting in blind service to money, rather than acting with money in service to you.

I hold hope that this is just an expression of humanity in a world where this seems to have become somewhat unfashionable.
by neom | 2025-08-26 21:44:16+00:00
I've been thinking recently there should probably be a pretty stringent onboarding assessment for these things, something you have to sit through and something that both fully explains what they are and how they work, but also provides an experience that removes the magic from them. I also wish they would deprecate 4o, I know 2 people right now who are currently reliant on it, when they paste me some of the stuff it says... sweeping agreement of wildly inappropriate generalization, I'm sure it's about to end a friends marriage.
by gruez | 2025-08-26 21:44:32+00:00
>What counts as a “disorder” is often not based on empirical evidence but on what is determined as undesirable, maladaptive, or outside the social norm

What's the alternative then? What would "empirically" determining what a "disorder" is look like?

>…by Americans

Most of the world outside of the US uses the ICD, not the DSM.
by rolandog | 2025-08-26 21:46:17+00:00
Beautiful and clean website (loads well without JS and fonts); not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... I swear, HN crowd can be often worse than Mean Girls.

About Artanis itself... It looks really cool! Scheme is such a nice language to code and hack with; but, how safe would it be to expose it directly?

I see they are dogfooding on the Guix packages website, so... I'm guessing it's pretty well tested.
by dvt | 2025-08-26 21:46:19+00:00
> That is basically the textbook definition of unethical medical practice

This is an extremely uncharitable interpretation of what was said. First of all, it's really hard to get malpractice here, as consent is implied (unless you'd think he'd purposefully do a bad or sloppy job). You could say it's irresponsible, and that argument holds more water, but when folks are in these terrible situations (i.e. terminally ill, etc.), a strong argument could also be that it's morally impermissible to disallow them to partake in such experimental treatments.

In any case, it's an interesting moral conundrum, akin to abortion or euthanasia.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-08-26 21:47:04+00:00
well, it may be one thing when we're talking about functional adults deciding for themselves to opt-in to experimental treatment.

i would guess that these protections exist to cover a broader group including children or those who are in the care of others and aren't necessarily capable of making their own decisions about experimental treatment... to say nothing of other forms of coercion otherwise-capable adults may face when it comes to stuff like this.

it's tricky! and it doesn't seem like there's a one-size-fits-all approach that offers protection for those who need it.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-26 21:47:08+00:00
It’s even more horrifying than only sharing his feelings with ChatGPT would imply.

It basically said: your brother doesn’t know you; I’m the only person you can trust.

This is absolutely criminal. I don’t even think you can claim negligence. And there is no amount of money that will deter any AI company from doing it again.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-26 21:47:16+00:00
> Are you claiming MAID does not save money and decrease usage by ending expensive care earlier than it would otherwise be ended?

No, I'm saying it reduces suffering and it also saves money and resources. It's the first part that is the most important and where the political pressure came from. You seem to missing that point. That it reduces suffering and that people want suffering reduced!

End of life care is expensive regardless of whether it is publicly or privately funded. And in either cases there will be people in situations where extending life via medical means just isn't worth it because the extra time would just be an extension of torment. If private insurance was an option, then it would be the private company that would incentivized to get people to end life early. The private/public part is irrelevant to the discussion if you only look at it through a financial lens. Both ways would have the same incentive monetarily.

> You trust the government to do the right

In this case the right thing is to allow people to choose for themselves, and that it what's happening. I don't even know what you want instead, do you want MAID eliminated?
by buildsjets | 2025-08-26 21:47:21+00:00
Terence McKenna makes the argument that spoken language is a form of bandwidth-limited telepathy in which thoughts are processed by a dictionary, encoded into variations of strength of an acoustical pressure wave which transmitted by mechanical means, detected at a distance, and re-encoded to be compared against the dictionary of a second user.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPBGiHGmYI
by mathiaspoint | 2025-08-26 21:47:31+00:00
There isn't even anyone here competing with eg JLCPCB just for PCBs let alone all the other prototyping stuff. It makes sense, somehow China is able to do it for less than the materials cost.

I think that's why most people just aren't that upset about tariffs. It would be nice to be able to participate in our own economy other than by grifting off real estate or software.
by greycol | 2025-08-26 21:47:34+00:00
It's generally not like a store, it's charged at time of import not at time of sale. The seller can choose to pre-pay for the importer (the customer) but they'll only do that if they know what to pay. If they don't know what to pay (i.e. if the tariffs change randomly with no notice) they'll tick the box that says importer pays and the buyer gets a call from customs when it arrives in the country saying pay the tariff or we impound/destroy your goods.
by djmips | 2025-08-26 21:47:38+00:00
Viruses have had a lot to do with the evolution of life and specifically us, where perhaps our distant ancestors were bestowed with a system of transcribing short term memory into long term memory via the hijacked machinery from a virus. This is only one example that I could remember off the top of my head, there are surely many more. Would that matter going forward? I feel like we'd better be sure that we aren't causing more problems than we are solving.
by kube-system | 2025-08-26 21:47:44+00:00
It would be kind of an awkward to adapt a new and fast NVME drive to a clunky old SATA controller. M.2 conversions would typically not have the physical space required for any active conversion circuitry, and it would be more expensive than buying a SATA drive. If you've got a full 2.5" bay, you can get native 2.5" consumer SATA SSDs up to 16TB... which is more than I want to read/write at SATA3 speeds. And if you want to take advantage of fast storage, you can just skip the whole SATA controller and use PCIE.

In an enterprise environment, nobody is really hooking up fast new storage to old slow storage controllers. They are either maintaining old systems, where they will use the legacy storage technologies, or they are deploying entirely new systems.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-26 21:48:00+00:00
I think the primary reason why DSM is so important in the United States is medical billing.

By providing a billing code to the insurance company, it implies that there is a medically necessary reason for treatment and what that implied reason is that the insurance company would need to impeach. Many therapists use super general codes.

By linking a treatment code back to the DSM, it implies that the psychological profession as a whole agrees that there is something wrong with that person.
by anigbrowl | 2025-08-26 21:48:01+00:00
I don't think that's the case. Rather, GP argues that the policy is rationally corrupt. I tend to agree. Many people in the political center would rather believe that terrible policies are the product of stupidity than malice. I too am a fan of Hanlon's razor, but if stupidity were controlling you would expect occasional stupidly good outcomes as well as stupidly bad ones. When you have a decade-long pattern of evidence that decision-making is driven by animus and greed, blaming all the bad outcomes on stupidity or insanity devolves into hand-wringing helplessness instead of a willingness to take the necessary action. Hence the current Congressional Democratic non-policy of condemning Trump but also just waiting for him to die rather than trying to mount any serious effort to remove him.
by charlie-83 | 2025-08-26 21:48:38+00:00
Surely the e-waste from discarding an x86 Windows computer you could have put Linux on out-weighs the power benefit of Arm/RISC-V. Also seems like you would discourage people who cannot afford new hardware from moving from a closed system to an open one; most PCs and laptops are still x86 except for the newest models.
by blix | 2025-08-26 21:48:57+00:00
Fukuoka's desalination plant treats about 16400 m^3 of water per day. Assuming 3kWh per m^3 of water, this works out to a time-averaged power consuption of ~2000kW.

The osmotic power plant generates about 100kW, so it's about 5% of the total desalination energy requirement.
by podgietaru | 2025-08-26 21:49:01+00:00
If I google something about suicide, I get an immediate notification telling me that life is worth living, and giving me information about my local suicide prevention hotline.

If I ask certain AI models about controversial topics, it'll stop responding.

AI models can easily detect topics, and it could have easily responded with generic advice about contacting people close to them, or ringing one of these hotlines.

This is by design. They want to be able to have the "AI as my therapist" use-case in their back pocket.

This was easily preventable. They looked away on purpose.