MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adrian_b | 2025-09-10 08:37:05+00:00
The throughput of the liver for many of the enzymatic reactions that it performs, either for converting harmful chemical compounds into harmless substances, or for generating some conditionally-essential nutrients from precursors present in food, decreases in older people.

Because of this, when older, one should pay more attention to observing a healthy diet, which contains smaller amounts of harmful substances (e.g. alcohol) and enough quantities of all nutrients, including those that can be produced by a human body, but in insufficient quantities in older people (e.g. long-chain omega-3 fatty acids).
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-10 08:37:16+00:00
Every event has been a fairly transparent ad. I think for this one, they may not have had as big a variety of people to choose from. Apple has always been big on diversity; long before it was fashionable.

In this one, I noticed that the presenters all stood very still; more still than in previous ones.

It looks like they were all green screen, and the video composer was just very good. I was impressed by the woman standing in grass. It looked fairly “natural.”
by gingerBill | 2025-09-10 08:37:23+00:00
I wouldn't class it as clickbait myself, but I will stand by the use of the word "evil". I am using evil in the very old fashioned sense: the privation of the good. Is the title provocative? Yes. But that's the point of the article in general. I am trying to argue that they are a net bad with virtually no good upsides to them for the programming world as a whole. They've automated something at scale which should not have been automated. And to be clear, there is no solution to the problems they are trying to solve, rather it's all about trade-offs.

I a little annoyed that HackerNews post renamed it to "A critique of package managers" because that implies very different connotations. I'd view an article written like that as if I have some criticisms that could be addressed, rather than the entire concept being bad from the start.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-09-10 08:37:42+00:00
I work a 2 in 3 out style schedule.

During the 3 days I wfh, I get the most work done. I can focus and organize my day around executing a plan.

During the 2 days I'm in the office, I can get answers from people much quicker. Some people (new hires in particular) don't know how to describe their problem, or they're just really bad at it. My solution to endless teams convos is to just say "I'll head over to your desk" and then we work it out in person.

I think working with people in person can be very powerful. Is it essential though? No. Most corps don't even bother though. And most managers are bad at management. Working entirely wfh requires good managers with actual project management skills. Most corps are unwilling to train or prioritize hiring for that.
by programjames | 2025-09-10 08:37:52+00:00
In my experience, the "top tier of kids" is more cultural than school-specific. Even in schools like TJHST there's usually 10–30 students in the school that really care about achieving, while the other 90% don't put in much effort (beyond your typical public schooler). There are a few feeder (public) schools on the coasts, but most of the private schools differentiate by extracurriculars (fencing, rowing, horseback riding) rather than academic excellence.
by maeln | 2025-09-10 08:38:04+00:00
I am from the E.U :) . I also work for public administrations and have close relative working for E.U administrations, so I do have some knowledge about how the beast operate.

> The EU rarely bets on a single firm in a single country

Indeed, except when they do. While the various E.U administrations like to usually create funds that are distributed with grants (which are rarely evenly distributed evenly amongst the member mind you), there is sometime where they do invest in one horse. This is usually in high-tech, high-capital sector tho', like Airbus, Arianespace, where there is only a very few competitor, and the chance of having new one is very low has the investment in time and money to get a business up and running would be basically only feasible by a state.

So I don't think Mistral is that (yet at least). But it is still the only company operating at this level in the E.U (for now), making it a decent bet for ASML. Plus, as many pointed out, there is also the French connection :D
by ben_w | 2025-09-10 08:38:04+00:00
I think of skin colour like hair colour: it doesn't really mean anything, yet people still have degrading stereotypes; and changing it can make someone hard to recognise, especially in cases where a person is being caricatured anyway (which is lego but also Funko Pop).

Take these images, how recognisable would any of the characters (those with hair) be with different hair?

https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/35476104/296227...

https://75609.cdn.simplo7.net/static/75609/sku/funko-pop-fun...
by unfitted2545 | 2025-09-10 08:38:51+00:00
A used iPod (probably flashed with the open source Rockbox firmware) for the cool factor and reducing ewaste. This is an amazing guide: https://yuuiko.github.io/iPodGuide/iPodGuidev2-1.pdf that gives recommendations on what model and the mods you can do. I have a 5.5 gen with an SD card mod all for £50.

Edit: Actually, I forgot the eBay listing said it was a 5.5 gen but the serial number when I got it was just 5th gen, and I got a full refund! £20 in total then.
by bapak | 2025-09-10 08:39:15+00:00
> The Moto Z beat them

The unfortunate part is that you can make anything better in a single parameter, but Apple has effectively no competitors. People who buy Apple will continue to buy Apple.

For people to switch, the competition has to come out with something that is visibly and unbeatably better than what Apple has.

I know many people in developing countries who'd rather have a 5 year old iPhone than a new android.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-10 08:39:20+00:00
They do not, because that's not high power microscope. I chose my words carefully.

10-13 μm per pixel is nowhere near good enough when a typical bacterium is 0.5 - 5.0 μm in size!

I remember the discussions around the mission plan for both Opportunity and Curiosity where NASA kept making "mumbly" noises about why they can't ship decent optics with these things.

Anything that would definitely eliminate (not just "potentially find") the presence of either life or water is never included. It's always omitted, for "reasons".

Water and life must forever remain possible things for the funding to keep flowing.
by psnosignaluk | 2025-09-10 08:39:50+00:00
I am a walking, talking, laughing, smiling result of the effects of immunotherapy. I was on Pembrolizumab on a six week cycle across eighteen months, administered at Charing Cross Hospital in London, after diagnosis in early 2022. It effectively dealt with my lung and brain cancer, with minimal side effects. This year, I returned to the gym and am sucking up every last opportunity to extract as much fun as I can with my wife. I am amongst the luckiest of souls, and feel deeply sorry for everyone who is losing to or has lost someone to cancer.
by logsr | 2025-09-10 08:41:07+00:00
YouTube was built on piracy and then Google bought YouTube and got immunity from copyright infringement claims by selling its user data to LE/IC in exchange for legal immunity. YouTube is still powered by piracy world wide. They only enforce copyright controls in western markets where the potential consumer is expected to have the income to afford streaming services. This is on par for the entire Google empire, which is all built on piracy, whether it is putting their ads on other people's content, redistributing other peoples's content without licenses, or building AI built on unlicensed content. And the whole thing works because they give their users personal data to intel and law enforcement in exchange for back door immunity deals.
by timmg | 2025-09-10 08:41:12+00:00
I don’t know the reason, nor do I have proof of anything. But: to me this is a great time to consider Occam’s Razor.

Executives seem to (mostly) universally want people to RTO. Why would they?

They obviously have lots of data. If it was bad for productivity, why would they do it?

Answers seem to be things like “power trip” or “need to justify real estate”. I’m pretty sure most companies would save money by giving up their leases. Maybe they are all having power trips, but irrational behavior from leaders won’t win out in the long run.

My observation from my time is that, likely: some people are really good at getting stuff done at home. But most probably get less done. And I suspect the leaders find this in their data.
by gabesullice | 2025-09-10 08:41:19+00:00
I might be too late for you to see this, but I'm curious why your final example requires the function "f" to receive the canWrite channel. I must be missing something. Couldn't the Ordered map signature be:

func OrderedLoop[A, B any](in <-chan A, done chan<- B, n int, f func(a A))

Instead of:

func OrderedLoop[A, B any](in <-chan A, done chan<- B, n int, f func(a A, canWrite <-chan struct{}))

Or is there a reason that "f" can't be wrapped in an anonymous function to handle the blocking logic?
by legacynl | 2025-09-10 08:41:38+00:00
In the NL we start with a combined chemistry/physics class that's mostly physics, after the 2nd year you get physics, chemistry and biology as separate classes.

I don't think physics is hardest. On the contrary, physics is probably the best subject to start with, because everyone (even people who don't know about physics) have experienced physics. People intuitively understand that you go faster down a steep hill, than a gently sloped one.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-10 08:41:57+00:00
The significant majority of markup languages essentially treat a single line breaks as a space. HTML, Markdown, et cetera. In lightweight markup languages, you normally need a blank line (i.e. two line breaks) to signify a paragraph break.

GitHub issues and discussions are an outlier in treating them as hard single line breaks (which are not paragraph breaks).

Most plain-text communication used to use line wrapping, often not supporting lines above, say, 100 characters.

Just like typeset prose uses wrapping, because your paper isn’t infinitely wide.
by ch_fr | 2025-09-10 08:41:58+00:00
The inconsistency you're talking about is only based on the premise that LLMs and humans are "basically the same thing and thus should be treated the exact same way in this kind of situation". But I don't really see why that would be the case in the first place.

Now don't take me wrong, I'm not saying that a rushed regulatory response is a good thing, it's more about the delivery of your reply. I see those arguments a lot: people smugly saying "Well, YOU too learn from things, how about that? Not so different from the machine huh?" and then continuing the discussion based on that premise, as if we were supposed to accept it as a fact.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-10 08:42:06+00:00
I saw a few clickbait articles highlighting that JPMorgan's new world headquarters in Manhattan (270 Park Ave) has a gym but will charge employees to use it. Why is this so interesting? I have worked in many different tall office buildings in my career. I saw a variety of setups: (1) company gym, (2) third party gym, (3) no gym. You always had to pay a fee to use the gym. Why does requiring employees to pay trigger such a hostile reaction from people? Also, the people working in this specific building are very well paid. They can easily afford the fees. Some other points that people don't mention: If it was free, it might be overloaded. That building is expected to have 14,000 employees! Also, no gym can possibly provide everything that everyone wants. In Manhattan, you are spoiled for choice with gyms.

I am sure that a few people will reply to say: If the gym were free, then more people would use it, and the company would benefit from lower healthcare costs. (Specific to the US: Most large corporations are self-insured for healthcare, but use third party providers to administer the programme.) Maybe so, but difficult to prove. If that is true, the company should also provide healthy lunches, etc. The list goes on and on. And Internet randos will have a never ending list of things that a "good company" must do for their employees.
by junon | 2025-09-10 08:42:41+00:00
> the link in the email went to an obviously invalid domain, hovering the mouse cursor over the link in the email would have made this immediately clear, so even clicking that link should have never happened in the first place. red flag 1

The link went to the same domain as the From address. The URL scheme was 1:1 identical to the real npm's.

> but, ok, you click the link, you get a new tab, and you're asked to fill in your auth credentials. but why? you should already be logged in to that service in your default browser, no? red flag 2

Why wouldn't I be? I don't stay logged into npm at all.
by rubenbe | 2025-09-10 08:42:43+00:00
OpenSOHO and OpenWisp do both send parts of /etc/config files to the AP.

While we're discussing: someone did an attempt in the OpenSOHO discussions to have a freshly flashed AP register automatically with OpenSOHO:

https://github.com/rubenbe/opensoho/discussions/1#discussion...

The Openwisp agents running on the AP are surprisingly lightweight (they do use Lua, tar, curl and a bit of shell scripting)

VLAN backed SSIDs are one of main reason I started OpenSOHO (although support is not there yet) I don't want to log into each AP to set it up manually. I do have a wired back haul, but support for wireless backhaul will probably arrive, since quite some people have one set up.

In case you would find an easy method of bootstrapping the setup via DHCP, certainly let me know! (Maybe that's easier to be discussed on GitHub)
by Findecanor | 2025-09-10 08:42:48+00:00
A CHERI capability is stored in main memory but with the tag bit for that location set. The tags are stored in separate memory pages, also in main memory in current designs.

Maybe you've been confused by a description of how it works inside a processor. In early CHERI designs, capabilities were in different architectural processor registers from integers.

In recent CHERI designs, the same register numbers are used for capabilities and other registers. A micro-architecture could be designed to have either all registers be capability registers with the tag bit, or use register renaming to separate integer and capability registers.

I suppose a CHERI MCU for embedded systems with small memory could theoretically have tag pages in separate SRAM instead of caching main memory, but I have not seen that.
by djtango | 2025-09-10 08:42:55+00:00
Does TikTok have the long form content that YT is also associated with? Otherwise I would say "disrupted" is a generous term

Long form YT is a gold mine of

- documentaries (hobbyist and professional)

- informative content (literally any hobby you can imagine from gardening to warhammer to free diving)

- educational content, similar to above but world class institutions hosting their lectures for free

- musical content, live performances ranging from tiny amateur bands to top names and performances of now dead artists

- sports events, the entire 6 hour+ Wimbledon 08 final is there

I can go on but for a while now I have seen YouTube as the Video Internet (where web 1.0 was the Document Internet).
by pavlov | 2025-09-10 08:43:07+00:00
Teenage boys everywhere have a widespread bias against putting in the effort to get good grades.

They might call it "gay" or "sissy" or "acting white" or whatever, but the root cause is usually their perception of what masculinity should look like.

The men they look up to are anti-intellectual. This exists in all communities, race is not the main problem here.
by tomashubelbauer | 2025-09-10 08:43:20+00:00
Phones are the main computing device for young people and hosted LLMs are eating the world right now. Not everyone will find a problem with this, but I am hoping for practical local LLMs sooner than later, and for maximum impact, they should also be able to run on phones. This amount of computing power in a phone is what could help make that happen.
by strogonoff | 2025-09-10 08:43:23+00:00
Before we all conclude that supply chain attacks only happen on NPM, last time I used VS Code I discovered that it auto-installed, with no apparent opt-out, Python typing stubs for any package (e.g., Django in my case) from whatever third-party, unofficial PyPI accounts it saw fit. (Yes, this is why it was the last time I used VS Code.)

The obscurity of languages other than JavaScript will only work as a security measure for so long.
by mgaunard | 2025-09-10 08:44:06+00:00
It would require a completely different design to video games.

Current video games are designed around streamlining content. As a player, your job is to extract all content from an area before going to the next. That's why most areas are designed as linear corridors so that there is a straightforward progression, and most NPCs interactions are meant to offer something meaningful so as to not waste the player's time.

But imagine if interaction with NPCs wasn't just a content delivery mechanism, but instead could sometimes be rewarding, sometimes useless, dynamically adjusted in how you interact with the world in non-predictable ways.

The player would just waste their time in their usual approach of canvasing each new area, which would become unsustainable. There would be no reliable way of ensuring you've extracted all the content. All he/she could do is roam around more naturally, hoping the glimpses they catch are engaging and interesting enough.

Maybe a new player skill would be to be able to identify the genuine threads of exciting content, be it designed or emergent, within the noise of an AI-generated world.

Realistically though, how do you build an exciting player experience with this framework? A starting point might be to approach it as something more akin to LARP or improvisation theater, you'd give each NPC and player a role they need to fulfill. Whether players actually enjoy this is another thing entirely.
by freehorse | 2025-09-10 08:44:09+00:00
In a hike you probably want to use your phone to look up the map/gps location, take photos etc. Ime iphones are struggling with this use case a bit without a power bank. Putting them in low power and airplane mode, while using a lightweight app for navigation with downloaded maps helps a lot, though it is still not gonna take you as far as other phones with larger battery life. I would never go for a hike where I know I need my iphone without a power bank with me. But not doing these and using google maps to navigate will not take you very far into the hike at all.
by szszrk | 2025-09-10 08:44:09+00:00
Working with a modern terminal is very much dynamic... It always was, really.

We always aimed at fixing the lag, be it terminal rendering performance, network jitter (mosh anyone?), proper tab completion (including the ones that require network responses to complete), TUIs...

I'd still use eink for terminal, if it was cheaper. Just saying refresh rate is important for terminals.
by holowoodman | 2025-09-10 08:44:34+00:00
I'm guessing that there is a difference between "offshoring, while still having the offshore people picked and employed by you" (let's call it "pure offshoring") and "offshoring and outsourcing to a local company" (let's call it "outsourcing to offshore").

With pure offshoring, you do have control over who you pick, what their mode of work is, whom to fire, etc.

With outsourcing to offshore, the local company hires people, usually on the cheap, to only just fullfill your contract and no more. If people underperform, you may complain, and maybe they'll be moved to a less prominent and visible role, or maybe they'll be shuffled to the next customer of theirs. So things will be bad, because it is not in the interest of the local company to do one iota more than necessary. And you'll still have to have your own QA, architects, etc., to make sure you at least get what you paid for.
by dsign | 2025-09-10 08:44:50+00:00
And everything that we hold dear happens after that.

I don't object to this explanation of the world, but I reckon it's an uphill battle convincing people that all of the living natural world, and all of human history, their culture, their religions and their science and all the beliefs in-between had their origin in some electrostatic forces. I'm of the opinion that even well-informed people of science haven't had time to fully adjust their world-view during the handful of decades we have known this much.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-10 08:45:21+00:00
>A high % of the young male population saw combat in WW2.

Sugarcoated way of saying "most of them died". I wonder what their opinion would be if the dead could speak.

>What followed was some of the most successful economic growth and society advancement in human history

So every 50-100 years or so, we need to kill a lot of people in a world war, so that whoever remains alive in the rubble, gets to see massive economic prosperity because of the labor shortage that follows? Basically, the same thing Mussolini and Hitler were advocating for in their speeches.

Not sure I'd sign up for that. You can keep your "economic growth", I'd rather live mediocre but not die in a war for the elites.

And how will Ukraine achieve this hypothetical growth when all of they're youths moved to Europe? Most Europeans didn't have this luxury of moving to a safe country during and after WW2 but they were forced to fight for their country and then stay and rebuild it. Most Ukrainians are not forced to stay or even if they are, they can smuggle/bribe their way out with money, skills, connection or sheer determination, and can just pack their bags and go shopping for the best country that fits their desires via the asylum system. There was no asylum system of this generosity for Europeans in WW2.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-10 08:45:42+00:00
Huh? I am not saying the repositories have (or should have) no responsibility, but you are also responsible for your own actions.

The popularity of such repositories and package managers are due to users of them.

And the concepts are trivially separable in my opinion. A package manager uses a repo of packages to download from. You don't need a package manager to use a repo. And a package manager could be just local to your machine and thus not need an external repo either. I know in practice the two are combined but that doesn't mean they are not distinct concepts.
by 1659447091 | 2025-09-10 08:47:06+00:00
> For me it really taints the sporting event experience.

Same here. I was reading how gambling sponsors took over the Premier League. Over half (11 of 20 I believe) have their logo on the front of match day kits; they will be banned next year.

I still find solace in National team competitions (and watching in person), the Olympics may have their sponsors plastered all over the city/region they take place in and on tv or streaming, but the team kits and playing fields are still mostly off-limits/highly regulated.
by bytesandbits | 2025-09-10 08:47:42+00:00
Mistral needs a looooooot of GPUs. GPUs are made by Nvidia. Nvidia asks TSMC to make more. TSMC needs new lines to produce. TSMC acquires more machines to make new lines. TSMC buys from the only monopoly that has those machines. ASML. Now ASML happy, each machine costs 100s of millions, ASML makes back money.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-10 08:48:58+00:00
> lots of people claim that WFH means they can "do the laundry" and/or go to the post office

I mostly work from the office. Since the end of COVID-19, my teams are always mixed where some people WFH. One issue that I frequently encounter: People do their chores at random times in the middle of day, so frequently you cannot corral a group of people to quickly discuss something. In the office, this is trivial: Turn around in your chair. Over time, I find that I reach out to WFH staff less and less and work more closely with in-office teammates. I'm not rewarded for overcoming this friction with WFH teammates, so why would I try?