MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-09-13 14:39:03+00:00
The differences between the different "hardware of the time" are larger than between any of the emulators you mention. This is not consoles where the hardware is exactly the same over and over. PC hardware is mostly poor clones of poor clones of the original under-specified hardware and even software emulators of such clones whose only thought of compatibility amongst each other is "does Windows boot already?" (and most specially in the 98 era) . Go and ask Linux...

In fact, (having worked for quite a while in supporting decades old enterprise software) my experience with most PC virtualizers and emulators is that they're ridiculously accepting of errors that will most definitely trigger random behavior in (at least some) real hardware.
by evanelias | 2025-09-13 14:39:16+00:00
> I don't understand what open source purism even is.

I believe GP is referring to the behavior of users, not the developer. That is, an increasingly large segment of the industry refuses to touch software using non-OSI-approved licenses. Open source purists view non-OSI "source available" licenses with the same disdain as fully proprietary closed-source software.

In turn, this situation makes it extremely hard for independent-minded developers to form businesses for any software that doesn't lend itself well to SaaS. Massive companies can afford to release things as FOSS, but smaller/bootstrapped businesses effectively cannot.

Compare this to a few decades ago: the industry used to be less dogmatic regarding licenses, and there were a lot more smaller independent software vendors.
by skyyler | 2025-09-13 14:39:16+00:00
>2. Reference to an anti-fascist song most often played by far-left figures, particularly those identifying themselves as "anti-fascist".

Bella Ciao is a groyper meme though. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ais7KJXx8Gyd0hsrbakKW

Bella Ciao added to groyper playlist over two years ago.
by dawnerd | 2025-09-13 14:41:22+00:00
When the builders treat you horribly for asking if you can have an inspector come in and then put a bunch of rules for what the inspectors can do, massive red flag.

I was interested in a Lennar community before I knew how bad they were and everything from their advisors mouth made my (new to it) real estate agent and I feel icky. They said you can inspect but can only report issues if visible from six feet away, can’t open drawers, can only test one outlet, no roof or basement access. I passed on them and a year later some of the houses flooded because of Lennars negligence when to modified a riverbank.
by WASDAai | 2025-09-13 14:41:50+00:00
TL;DR Ketamine’s NMDA antagonism drives glutamate surges, BDNF release, and neuroplasticity, rapidly correcting mood and reward circuit dysfunctions. Human studies show modulated connectivity in ACC and frontolimbic areas linked to antidepressant effects, with transient cognitive dips resolving quickly and no long-term impairment. Dissociative experiences mediate affective changes, enhancing its therapeutic potential for TRD, though safety monitoring is crucial.
by munchler | 2025-09-13 14:42:08+00:00
> I’ve also heard that functional languages lend themselves especially well to parsing tasks, and I’ve never understood why, so it’s a good opportunity to learn.

This is mainly due to a technique called "parser combinators", which can be expressed very cleanly in functional languages. The idea is to start with a standard set of primitive general-purpose parsers and combine them into more complex parsers that are specific to the task at hand. If you have an interest in either functional programming or parsing in general, parser combinators are good to have in your toolkit.

It looks like Gleam has at least two parser combinator packages that you might be able to use:

• party (https://hexdocs.pm/party/) • parser_gleam (https://hexdocs.pm/parser_gleam/)
by zahlman | 2025-09-13 14:42:16+00:00
Even if you don't know about modulo, or (floor) division, you could subtract in a loop and see if you reach zero. Obviously not a good approach, but would demonstrate the kind of basic problem solving skill and ability to "write any working code at all" that this sort of thing is supposed to screen for.

You could improve that and still avoid any division or modulus by simply keeping track of when the "next fizz" and "next buzz" should occur. (And output "fizzbuzz" when those numbers are the same and you reach them.)
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 14:42:18+00:00
> Car accidents kill 10-15 times more people every year worldwide than Chernobyl did but we don’t give up on cars either. Heck, smoking

Avoiding car accident and not smoking is way, way easier than avoiding most effects of a major nuclear accident (fine dangerous and very durable dust disseminated on a vast geographical zone, thanks to wind and rain).

The total amount of victims of the Chernobyl accident is a matter of debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...
by epistasis | 2025-09-13 14:42:27+00:00
It's typically called Wright's Law:

https://quickonomics.com/terms/wrights-law/

But it's not a law that applies to all technologies, and it will likely end at some point, but there's at least 1-2 decades of cost decrease left.

There is no law of physics that makes renewables work where there are poor renewable resources, except through transmission, which is usually engineered using several of Maxwell's laws.
by ttoinou | 2025-09-13 14:42:49+00:00
The compression effect a telephoto has can be used even more dramatically to tie together different planes in a scene

This somehow is a common misconception from non-engineers. I read and believed that when I was 14 years old, at some point I tested on photoshop to overlay pictures taken at different zooms factors and found that telephoto DO NOT compress scenes.

Its the fact that you are far away from the subject that compresses distances.

Once you have decided on the constraint to use a telephoto (to compress distances), you then move yourself away (as the article said) from the scene to be shot so that it fits the zoom factor. The relatives distances are what makes the compression, not the glass inside the lens. You could also take a wide picture and make a digital crop.
by bzzzt | 2025-09-13 14:43:46+00:00
Building Blocks was a pack-in when I bought Syntorial in last years sale. It's technically different (web-based instead of a standalone app like Syntorial), and tries to do with music theory as a whole what Syntorial does with synthesis. Since it goes through the same 'theory, practice and create' cycle every time (eg. once for every chord type) I found it getting a bit tedious after a while.
by dutchCourage | 2025-09-13 14:44:12+00:00
Indeed. Attaching the link (of the correct page) of the documentation worked in this case but I would've been faster than the AI. LLM.txt has been hit or miss. Maybe I need to adapt my workflow and have a granular plan of what needs to be done.

However the complexity is in knowing what to do and when. Actually typing the code/running commands doesn't take that much time and energy. I feel like any time gained by overusing an LLM will be offset by having to debug its code when it messes things up.
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-09-13 14:44:14+00:00
> Your proposal will mean 99% of all of the H1-B allocation will go to hedge fund quants and 1% maybe go to an AI researcher, but all of the materials science (eg. Cutting edge battery tech), semiconductor fabrication, neuroscience, pharmaceutical research etc will have to go without the skilled workers they currently get from visas. This is a recipe for the Boeingization of the US economy.

If they're that necessary, let companies hire them on green card visas.
by perihelions | 2025-09-13 14:44:33+00:00
> "This wasn't to "impose rule". It was only to select an interim leader"

They are imposing on a country who didn't vote for it a leader who will rule them.

> "It was an open discord server that anyone sufficiently motivated with an internet connection could join."

Only one political viewpoint was represented on that server—the viewpoint of people who agreed with the overthrowing-the-government politics they were organizing on it.

"Motivated" is the wrong question: people with different or opposed viewpoints, would refuse to participate in that teenager internet poll, because they would not identify it as a legitimate election. (And they'd be 100% right).
by simne | 2025-09-13 14:45:12+00:00
You may not hear, how expensive become now x-ray science, because safety regulations.

At Edison time, technologies was very unregulated, and because of this was cheap and easy achievable, but lot of people harmed, many just die.

Now you cannot just install other detector into existing (commercial) machine, because license for this machine is very strict, and don't accept any changes (or you will lost guarantee).

In developing countries, regulations usually not working so strict, but in developing countries x-ray machines are not so abundant, so they are just busy at working and have no spare time to make pictures for blog.

And if we choose scientific approach (not using commercial machine), to make x-ray machine from scratch, this is just another financial beast, magnitudes bigger.

So, when I see x-ray pictures in some "private" blog, I always wonder, if this is true private, and not another bubble, aimed to engage people and later sell them some other super-duper tech.
by jt2190 | 2025-09-13 14:45:20+00:00
> ... [M]any avoidable defects are caused by business practices that focus on building and selling quickly, with minimal concern for repeat business or quality control, according to Robert Knowles, president and founder of the National Association of Homeowners and a licensed professional engineer who said he has inspected thousands of new builds.

> “There is no bonus for building the house to code, for quality,” Knowles said, to his knowledge. “There’s only bonuses for speed … and volume.” Knowles estimated 100% of all new builds probably have multiple code violations.

This leaves the home buyer having to very quickly assess the quality of the structure and account for this in their offer price. It feels like there's a business in here somewhere... Perhaps do a video call with a home inspector while you attend an open house?
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-13 14:45:49+00:00
I'm also an independent researcher, and I just wanted to say it's exciting to see other individuals making real contributions! One thing I've noticed is that as I'm discovering some very deep stuff, the imposter syndrome is hitting me hard because I don't have a research group to vibe off of. I have scientific training and 17 years of ML experience, but I think it's still natural to question yourself when you're pushing past the SOTA and finding deep patterns that the field has missed.

If it's useful to you, I'm happy to be a sounding board/vibes partner for your research. My contact info is in my profile.
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 14:46:30+00:00
I doubt so: 416 industrial nuclear reactors are deployed in the world today. They produce 10% of the electricity, itself 20% of the final energy, so nuclear power produces at best 2% of the energy consumed.

Nuclear power would provide 10% of the energy, which would be far from sufficient since it is necessary to electrify uses (in order to reduce the quantity of fossil fuel burned) and therefore produce more electricity, if we could multiply the power of the fleet by 5, therefore building around 1500 new reactors and keeping the existing fleet active. Hoping for this before 2100 would be absurd.
by danans | 2025-09-13 14:47:38+00:00
> Japan is such a high trust society I would be shocked if this is the reason

Trust works both ways. There's also the trust that nobody will report anyone for the fraud, especially if it is widespread and normalized.

However, it would not surprise me if Japan actually did have high life expectancy rates because several other statistics seem to correlate with that, including low obesity, and universal access to healthcare.
by goobatrooba | 2025-09-13 14:48:13+00:00
I don't doubt your experience but this is not at all mine. I live by, cycle by, and work by windmills and there is no notable noise from any of them, even the older ones don't make a noise that I'd hear through a wall.

And the argument you make against PV is absurd, no one suggests that that's the way to use PV. Where I live everyone has PV on their roofs to produce mostly for own consumption. There are also many concepts to use it on otherwise unused spaces more at scale (office buildings and train stations for example, but also in combination with greenhouses, as roof for farm areas, ...

Yes you can do both of them badly but nuclear takes a huge space and makes it unusable for generations, and in addition requires vast infrastructure to actually get the energy safely into the grid. I'm a fan of nuclear power, but the arguments you make renewables are neither actual arguments pro nuclear nor do they seem to me to hold much water.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-13 14:48:18+00:00
This is "news" from the beginning of 2025. The "next administration" in question is Trump administration.

MSR is still in a limbo though, which isn't too surprising - between how much of a disaster was JPL's original MSR proposal, how much of a mess NASA is right now, and how much of a battleground NASA's budget has devolved into.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-13 14:48:19+00:00
Have him publish his full name, date of birth, social security number, mother's maiden name, bank checking and routing numbers, credit card numbers + expiration dates + cvv numbers, nude photos of his wife, nude photos of himself, all of the search history from all of his browsers online, all visible to the public.

Surely he doesn't see any point in keeping any of that information private, he's a good guy and not doing anything wrong, therefore he has nothing to hide and no use for privacy.
by me-vs-cat | 2025-09-13 14:48:23+00:00
I'm glad you can't. Unverified comments would be such a nightmare that potential buyers should ignore them while not really being able to (not to mention sellers), while I distrust both the competency and alignment of Zillow or similar to have verified comments that are more beneficial than unverified comments.

I would like a way for serious problems to not be covered up, but I believe you're going to need to do this by tying it to a home inspector's license, such as obligating "severe problem" reports to a registry which anyone could query for a fee that would be nominal for any serious potential buyer. Perhaps 0.05% of the property's highest-ever sale price, or $100, whichever is higher? Maybe some of that fee goes to the home inspectors who did the reports, to encourage severe-problem-free reports. Still lots of problems and abuses to mitigate, the least of which is how to define "severe problem", but that has the potential to provide a net benefit, unlike comments on Zillow.

I would also not expect buyers to normally avoid their own home inspection by using such a report, it would simply be another fee -- which I dislike -- though as a nearly-instantaneous result, I see a way to structure it to fit after the contingent offer is accepted (or perhaps just before submitting the offer) and before hiring their own inspection. The buyers now have a chance to address their specific concerns about the severe-problem report by what they ask from their inspector.

You could provide aggregate statistics on home inspectors to show competency. "Within the past 5 years, Harry the Home Inspector has submitted [X] reports. Of those, [X] were also reported by other inspectors within [12 months] of Harry's reports, and Harry is [in the top third / above average / below average] when ranking for not missing severe problems that were reported by other inspectors." But now you have to track repairs that explain why one inspector didn't report what another did, have some way of vetting severe problems for being correctly reporting (or setup an appeal system...), you have to track the scope of inspections to know if a severe problem would have been expected to have been found, and it continues.

From my armchair continuing to think this through, I don't see how to control the complexity on any of this in a feasible way for what would need to be run by a government licensing agency so that society has a net benefit.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-13 14:48:24+00:00
There isn't such thing, if you mean Rust, affine types systems require tree structures and have issues with multiple scopes, hence the memes with borrow checker.

Which I would refer as compiler assisted, although not really a proper term.

There is a reason outside Rust, everyone else is string to combine GC alongside affine/linear/effects/dependent types instead of one solution for everything.

The productivity of having a GC, with the type system capabilities to go lower level, when the profiler says so.

Although I have to conceded, Rust made a great job bringing ATS and Cyclone ideas into mainstream.

Additionally with AI powered languages, naturally most of this will be automated anyway.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-09-13 14:48:28+00:00
Like most stories from Raymond there is quite a lot of exaggeration. I really cannot imagine any hardware that would "lock itself unrecoverably" after running a HLT, mostly because such hardware would have burn even harder if you disabled interrupts and entered a infinite loop, which would have been likely an almost once per year event for most users running random programs.

In addition, MS was quite happy to ship advanced but dangerous features to customers only hidden behind user-accessible plain checkboxes. One example that comes to mind is the "DMA" checkbox in the IDE controller settings page. Guaranteed to corrupt your data and render your system unbootable on certain hardware (likely a worse scenario than anything HLT could potentially do to you), and at most you get a warning box claiming this may happen when you enable the checkbox.

Most likely, MS knew it was trivial (due to the design of DOS-based 9x/ME) for a 3rd party to ship either a utility or even a BIOS addition to do HLT-on-idle (and in fact, most laptops would do so in their APM BIOSes), so the problem didn't appear to them to be significant at all (and, frankly, really wasn't a significant problem at all). Not so much for e.g. DMA which would require a new driver replacement.
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 14:49:35+00:00
At least 5 times, indeed: it was due to cost 3.3 billion euros, its cost to date is 23.7, it it not running at full power and a major update (reactor cover) is already planned.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/01/14/epr-de-fl...
by bell-cot | 2025-09-13 14:50:19+00:00
If you look at history, that's really not how elites react to violence (or its threat) from the 99%. Regicide is a Crime against God - meaning the social order which puts the elites on top. Vs. peasants are expendable at scale if the elites feel that they need to violently defend their elite status.

And this ain't chess, where Pawn x King is just another move. Nor 1960's America, where Mr. Oswald could buy a rifle and 4X scope by mail order, then get a job in a convenient book depository. If an assassin manages to kill a king, then 100:1 that it's an inside job - the perp is either another one of the elite, or acting his behalf.
by realusername | 2025-09-13 14:50:19+00:00
It seems you are pointing to the 2022 incident which is the only time it happened in 40 years (so clearly not random!). At the time the nuclear plants had unplanned maintenance, the wind power didn't produce much (bad luck) and the solar production wasn't producing (winter). The combination of all these factors made it an exceptional outlier.

Any other time it's France which supported it's neighboring grids.

> Have you heard of this thing called wind power? Have you heard of the demand curve not being flat throughout the day?

Nobody cares about the daily demand curve, it's a solved problem, even my parents had a hourly contract since the 80s (!).

The current problem in the EU is the winter load.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-13 14:50:22+00:00
>Store of Value.

LOL. You're about seven years behind on the narrative. Nobody "stores value" in Bitcoin by deliberate choice. Anyone who does either doesn't know what they're doing or can't sell off their holdings. Volatility is an awful property for a store of value.

>being able to plug directly into the next wave of smart contracts and decentralized securitization

That's just meaningless drivel.
by timr | 2025-09-13 14:50:52+00:00
> I have only watched this from afar (Sweden), but it seems weird that the people that are the loudest about their outrage are the same people that mocked Nancy Pelosi after the attack on her husband (she wasn't at home).

I don't think that's true. I think you're getting a biased sample.

It's certainly true that the right is being loud, but that is to be expected. What is different, this time, is that this man was assassinated while engaged in an almost platonically pure act of free speech. He was literally killed for expressing an opinion in a public square, and it happened from the left, so there's broad-based recognition that something is wrong. Right now, the only faction that isn't being loudly critical of this act is the extreme (mostly younger, online) left.

That is not to say that the other incidents you're citing are any less wrong, or that you won't find crass commentary about poltical violence on all sides of the political spectrum. No political party is above the fray, but Caesar's wife must be above reproach. The left has made an identity out of being liberal, and being liberal, originally, means being broad-minded and tolerant [1]. This is a fundamental violation of that principle. I think it's easy to over-generalize from the actions of a single individual, but when you add in the fact that the assassin was quoting reddit memes, and couple the giddy celebration on bluesky...it's hard to ignore the cultural trend.

I personally identify as classically liberal, I have very little in common with Kirk's politics, and I'm horrified by the assassination. This is a throwback to a form of violent reactionary protest that the US hasn't really had to deal with since the 1960s, and for the first time in my recollection, it's coming from "my side" of the political spectrum. We need to exorcise this demon.

[1] To be completely clear and pedantic: I am not suggesting that the right is not liberal in the classical sense, nor am I implying that they should strive for anything less. I'm just making an argument about perception and self-identity. For better or worse, the US political left has self-labeled as "liberal", and dresses up and cosplays in the image of an educated, erudite elite. To have members of that tribe resort to violence to suppress speech -- to celebrate that violence -- is a wholesale rejection of the fundamental tenets of the identity itself.
by void-star | 2025-09-13 14:50:55+00:00
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by goobatrooba | 2025-09-13 14:51:11+00:00
Seems like an economics problem? Is farmland cheaper than buying some otherwise less usable land? Or is there now much land available and a huge unmet energy need? And there are also models to use solar that still allow some farming below (e.g. strawberry, beans, greenhouses, ... But maybe not cost effective in this case, or the incentives don't align well.

Have you looked into why this model is chosen?