MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swhitf | 2025-09-15 15:21:38+00:00
One of the things I was most surprised about recently is just how buggy and unpleasant to use the Cloudflare dashboard is. We only moved to them recently and I was really shocked. I had one situation where the dashboard literally showed me the wrong domain but rules for another, which I think was a session or caching bug. I really thought it would be better for a company that size!
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-15 15:21:55+00:00
> Nobody should be submitting unexpected, large, hard-to-review quantities of code in the first place,

Without LLMs, people are less likely to submit such PRs. With LLMs they're more likely to do so. This is based on recent increases in such PRs pretty much all projects have seen. Current LLMs are extremely sycophantic & encourage people to think they're brilliant revolutionary thinkers coming up with the best <ideas, code, etc> ever. Combined with the marketing of LLMs as experts it's pretty easy to see why some people fall for the hype & believe they're doing valuable work when they're really just dumping slop on the reviewers.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-15 15:22:00+00:00
> What? When did this happen?

I explained in the comment. I wasn't referring to elections, I was referring to his presidential acts and political maneuvers. Our other elected representatives have blocked his plans many times but he always forces them through via the supreme court.

Consider this relatively recent episode: his minister tried to raise taxes on all financial operations and was blocked by other elected politicians. What did his party do? They brought the issue to the supreme court which promptly "validated" the tax hike. They even applied it retroactively which is unconstitutional.

He uses the supreme court to bypass our elected representatives when they block him, thereby ruling through it. Not a single brazilian voted for those judges. This is not democratic.

> He won democratically, through the vote, all the times he became president.

Plenty of doubt can be raised regarding the trustworthiness of elections conducted via our voting machines. Especially since these exact same judges also control the electoral courts and through them the electoral process. They have rejected two proposals by our elected representatives to add a paper trail to the system for totally unconvincing reasons such as "it's too hard to implement in a timely manner".

I wasn't talking about that though. Not in this case.

> This seems some wild MAGA-like conspiracy stuff.

These are my honest opinions on what's going on in my country. I really don't care if they sound "conspiratorial", my only concern is that they are coherent and logical.

My world view can change if I'm presented with convincing evidence. Every single thread about brazilian politics, I post my views, secretly hoping that someone will show me that I'm wrong and that things are not as bad as I think they are. Nobody's done it yet.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-15 15:22:17+00:00
You're right. Not only did the first paper not imply causation, they literally did not even consider it. They didn't consider that fulfilling our most critical and primal instinct, in an activity that [generally] creates psycho-emotional bonds like no other, might have positive psychological benefits. Does not not strike you as odd?

There's a practical issue with social science. Very near to 100% of researchers (from the US at least) share a common ideology, frequently to a fairly radical degree, and it regularly leaks into their research. You can even see this in the abstract of the paper. They show data indicating that parents have dramatically lower rates of mental illness than the general population and their conclusion? "Serious psychological distress is fairly prevalent among parenting adults." So for these sort of papers, I generally find their discussion and conclusions quite irrelevant, but the data is generally sound, so long as it's not overtly cherry picked.

I'd also add that the fact that positive psychological effects (in the second study) were not observed in childless couples seems to largely falsify the hypothesis that the psychological benefits of parenting were simply an observation of people with psychological issues being unable to have children in the first place.

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And yeah, having a child can be terrifying at times. My youngest recently went through roseola and we spent days in the hospital with him after his fever briefly spiked just under 107F/41.6C. That is sheer terror - holding your child who's running so hot that he's literally uncomfortable to hold against your body. Yet they have also changed my life, worldview, and overall psychological state in an unbelievably positive way on the whole, and I would (and do) wholeheartedly recommend them to any and every person who can provide a reasonably stable household with two loving parents.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-15 15:22:28+00:00
It's notable that other attempts to develop game app stores for non-console platforms have fallen flat. If Microsoft has gotten any traction at all for game distribution on Windows it's because of the really different GAME PASS model. Blizzard, EA and such have apps to download their own games but don't challenge Steam for third parties, Good Old Games with it's anti-DRM stance is the only real competitor.

Steam is a model of integrity and it's a good thing that it's not for sale because it would be an obvious acquisition for irrelevant players like Gamestop who want be relevant today, it would have been a better acquisition for Microsoft than Activision but any acquirer would kill it one way or the other by violating its integrity.
by Tarball10 | 2025-09-15 15:22:52+00:00
Fair enough, maybe "outsourced" would be a better way to put it. Basically they want support to cost them as little as possible and do not particularly care whether it actually offers any useful help to customers.

More specifically, their support cannot actually do anything to resolve problems. They read off what their computer screen is telling them. They can't take any actions to fix things.
by worldsavior | 2025-09-15 15:22:58+00:00
Here is my 2 cents:

You can run these days macOS as a virtual machine. I have some experience reverse engineering iMessage. Here I only needed to look into the network requests with some SSL pinning removal.

There are some decompiled libraries of Apple's libraries so it helps. Many tried to reverse engineer macOS/iOS before so there is a helpful amount of knowledge out.

I think the best way is just to open up a decompiler program and just start RE. The decompiled source code contains some metadata such as function names so it is readable.
by dijit | 2025-09-15 15:23:01+00:00
I'm certain that people will take an emotional reaction to what you've written, but I just want to be the first to say that I think you're right.

"Whatsapp" is the new "talking to the person in the corridor" or "having a quick chat down the pub", it's not the new email, and having them leak is ironically the most accountability we've seen.

I'll use an example of someone I support generally now: Tony Blair was accused of having backroom discussions regarding the invasion of Iraq and secret meetings away from even his cabinet[0]. Since we only have hearsay of what went on, it's very difficult to hold him accountable for this.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-12306377
by a1371 | 2025-09-15 15:23:20+00:00
This is my cue to come and say that if you want to purify your home air, please look at the science first. Do NOT just go buy a HEPA. Chances are you'll waste your money and get little clean air.

Look for MERV and CADR ratings for filters. Then spend an afternoon building yourself a CR box with a box fan, or a narrower one with some computer fans. It'll work better than most commercial purifiers.
by codyklimdev | 2025-09-15 15:23:22+00:00
I think a lot of the reasons for this is because AI helps provide a productivity boost to non-profitable sectors of most businesses, i.e. software development, finance, HR, etc. Since these departments do not directly drive profits, there's no visible bottom line to make meaningful observations on.

I do software for a retail company now and we've been having a similar debate: AI helps me and other departments do work more efficiently, but me getting a feature out the door faster is better for the business but doesn't get more products off the shelves. So, to the shareholders and the C-suite, is AI doing anything for the company?
by this_user | 2025-09-15 15:23:35+00:00
That's not how any of this works. You may not receive any interest on your stablecoin balance, but the issuer certainly does. Why would they offer to lend money to the US government at zero when they can get the market rate and pocket it? What's more, these are mostly short-term instruments This means any increase in inflation will be reflected in their yield.
by delusional | 2025-09-15 15:23:37+00:00
> Danish dude here.

> phkamp

Hey! A lot of my views are heavily informed by your writings. I tend to agree a lot with your view of these things.

I personally extend it further by positing that the current democratic crisis, most readily seen in America, is caused by the inability of democracy to solve certain important problems, which I then again posit is at least partially caused by cyberlibertarian obstructionism. That's all just conjecture though.

It's nice to see you around here :)
by tootie | 2025-09-15 15:24:32+00:00
When Bitcoin first hit public consciousness the knock from economists was that it had a built-in deflationary spiral and that seems to be true. The price keeps going up and up with a few noted bumps. Rising value is great for speculators but it's a death knell for an actual spending currency. You'd be nuts to spend it if you expect it to appreciate. That's why central banks aim for low but positive inflation.
by TheLadyParadox | 2025-09-15 15:24:55+00:00
Lately, there’s been a lot of chatter about vibe coding. Companies are all-in, encouraging their folks to vibe code like it’s the next big productivity hack. The idea is you just sit down, type away, and let your intuition carry you through the problem. Sounds romantic, or even artistic. But should you “vibe code” if you’re a n00b without battle scars from the coding trenches?
by integralid | 2025-09-15 15:25:05+00:00
I wanted to be outraged at apple, but I really can't. Read WinAPI documentation and try to count all "reserved" parameters for example. OS developers build features just for internal use all the time.

Granted, this is just UI tweak so I'm not convinced it has to be private, but they probably just don't want to have to maintain that forever.
by sublinear | 2025-09-15 15:25:24+00:00
I think this is a bit like attempting your own plumbing. Knowledge was never the barrier to entry nor was getting your code to compile. It just means more laypeople can add "programming" to their DIY project skills.

Maybe a few of them will pursue it further, but most won't. People don't like hard labor or higher-level planning.

Long term, software engineering will have to be more tightly regulated like the rest of engineering.
by darthShadow | 2025-09-15 15:26:05+00:00
Visa/MasterCard/Amex already support such a facility in India due to RBI requirements. Doesn't seem too difficult to adapt similar functionality for other countries too, if the regulations are updated to require it.

* https://www.visa.co.in/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases/vi... * https://pgi.billdesk.com/web/sihub
by bee_rider | 2025-09-15 15:26:09+00:00
Realistically the mainstream Democratic Party is liberal in the sense that you use it; the US is a fundamentally liberal place, a lot of Republicans are as well.

Even the idea of “banning free speech” that you mention is implemented in a liberal fashion in the US. There are rarely calls for the government to actually ban speech via laws. The ground where that’s fought is actually “should private companies broadcast/highlight via algorithm the speech of individuals who say things I don’t like,” it is a formulation that pits the speech rights of the corporation against the self-expression of the individuals using their services.

The framing you quoted (“these liberals who want to ban free speech”) is often used by one side to pitch the other side as falling outside the traditional free-speech consensus.
by fsflover | 2025-09-15 15:26:12+00:00
>> their security model is the only reasonably secure approach in the world

>They have not said anything like that.

Quote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30769666):

> Librem 5 has incredibly poor hardware/firmware security and it isn't possible for us to work around that at a software level. It's missing the basic hardware and firmware security features that are required.

The reality is that Librem 5 is secure according to a different threat model than the one GrapheneOS follows. This doesn't make it "incredibly" insecure, unless you believe that only you can define good threat models.
by NoLinkToMe | 2025-09-15 15:26:12+00:00
Yeah seems like a relatively simple maths/econ problem to solve for, given some parameters like local solar power per m2 in the various seasons, electricity use in the various seasons and time of the day, and LCOE of solar and battery storage.

My guess is the differences in either choice aren't huge, as both solar and battery storage keeps getting cheaper.

Having an electric vehicle can really help, also. It basically soaks up excess solar power of an outsized installation during much of the year (making the payback time on the outsized installation very good), and can be charged away from the house during a few low-chance bad winter days when the outsized installation is enough to power the house but not the car. Electric cars are charged fully about 3 times per month on average in the US, so working around that with smart charging is not a complex challenge in the next decade.
by fwip | 2025-09-15 15:26:24+00:00
It might be the stupidest, but stupid in the sense of "the simplest thing that could possibly work."

When FASTA was invented, Sanger sequencing reads would be around a thousand bases in length. Even back then, disk space wasn't so precious that you couldn't spend several kilobytes on the results of your experiment. Plus, being able to view your results with `more` is a useful feature when you're working with data of that size.

And, despite its simplicity, it has worked for forty years.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-15 15:26:46+00:00
One question I have about politics and history, is does politics tend to follow short term events or long term trends. If politics tends to follow short term events then one might tend to assume that a swap of attitude from cancel culture on then left to cancel culture on the right would face immediate backlash, since a sense of cultural overreach and extremism was given as an explanation for Trump, that Trump was a moderating force in society.

I tend to think that long-term trends tends to be a better explanatory factor. There was this interview with this divorce lawyer that really helped shape my view on where we were as a society which basically said we’re in a place with too much post-modernism. The idea of how we imagine the world is just too flexible, there’s too much “freedom” and we’re on a trend back towards a more concrete view of the world. I tend to think this is correct, and that if there is backlash to Trump, or the public and popular notion of conservatism, we’re still, broadly speaking influenced by a group of folks who are ready for a more concrete or “conservative” popular culture. Gender roles, Right and wrong.

But I also think the trend sort of definitionally is already moving back in the other direction, it will just take ~ 10 years to play out as those in their formative years grow into a more liberal mindset(it’s probably just sort of barely impacting a few months of the psyche of the youngest pre-teens now and as that cohort ages they’ll influence the culture back in the other direction)
by thiago_fm | 2025-09-15 15:26:50+00:00
Literally all new products nowadays come with a great degree of software and hardware. Whether they are a SaaS or a kitchen product.

Programming will still exist, it will be just different. Programming has changed a lot of times before as well. I don't think this time is different.

If programming became suddenly too easy to iterate upon, people would be building new competitors to SAP, Salesforce, Shopify and other solutions overnight, but you rarely see any good competitor coming around.

The necessary involvement behind understanding your customers needs, iterating on it between product and tech is not to be underestimated. AI doesn't help with that at all, at maximum is a marginal iteration improvement.

Knowing what to build has been for a long time the real challenge.
by andreareina | 2025-09-15 15:27:29+00:00
Because parentheticals—as aside, explanation, enumeration—aren't taught and we are left to learn them by example, and not many people care enough about writing style to pick up on them and want to use them. Ask most people who don't deal with technical writing about the Oxford comma and they likely won't care, if they know what it is in the first place.
by iLemming | 2025-09-15 15:27:30+00:00
> I disagree with the other commenters about there being a steep learning curve

There's a "steep" learning curve with Emacs only because people constantly get focused on the wrong aspect of it - instead of trying to understand Elisp, they get sidetracked on the "editor features" and "bells and whistles". It's as if instead of learning how to drive, new car owners spend too much time trying to learn how the entertainment system works and how big of a cup each cupholder can handle.

I have managed to extract so much value from Emacs after getting some familiarity with the language - it's crazy. No other programming medium got me from point zero to hero so quickly. Simplicity of Lisp is fantastic. The language has less complexity than javascript, and maybe even lua.

I wish people curious about Emacs, instead of fixating on modal and non-modal editing, theming, or a single facet of features like Magit, Org-mode, or language-specific setups, tried instead developing inner curiosity about how Lisp shapes and drives Emacs. What happens when I press a key? What command does Emacs call, how does that happen, what's the event loop? How can I call the same command programmatically? How can I debug a given function? How does it look when profiled, etc.?
by cluckindan | 2025-09-15 15:27:49+00:00
Probably not, unless there are very specific substances in the liquid being vaped.

There are two known culprits: diacetyl is/was used in some flavorings for its buttery taste, and liquid Vitamin E oil was used in clandestinely produced THC vape cartridges (which are really not relevant for the topic at hand). Both of those have largely disappeared from the market.

Sure, some cheap components can in theory leach heavy metals into liquids. The amounts are insignificant compared to what you will be breathing in just by walking on city streets, even outside rush hour.

And at least vapes don’t contain polonium-210 like cigarettes do.
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-15 15:28:08+00:00
> Islam is in fact the largest religion (by worshippers) in the world today, so Frank Herbert's assumption that a culture derived from it would be dominant in a future society is just extrapolation

Fyi,

> Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herber

The distinction you're making wrt Jihad is also super modern and did not apply back then
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-15 15:28:22+00:00
Do they?

From documentaries I've seen of Christian monks, there is no talk of personal benefits and emotions like a self-help book, instead it's spiritual motivations about being compelled to follow a path of devotion in service to their faith.

I get the impression that it's a hard life as such orders are dwindling and they report the deprivation of things they did since joining that we might find mundane like "going to buy music" (you can tell they joined pre '80s).

I recall reading the rules of a Buddhist monastery and it was basically a compendium of all the bad things monks have done, written down to make it ambiguous it's off-limits. It did not give the suggestion of fulfilled people. It had a lengthy chapter of all the things you can't put your penis in: people, children, animals, dead things, clay vessels, fabric dolls, trees, holes in the wall, holes in the ground etc. Feels like some desperate rules-lawyering had happened over the years.
by taylodl | 2025-09-15 15:28:40+00:00
Investing in Tesla is investing in Elon Musk, and Elon Musk is too unstable to invest in. I didn't even realize he threatens his investors. From what I've seen of FSD I would never get in a Robotaxi, so I'm not confident that business will yield big dividends, their robots are a gimmick and lacking function it's hard to tell what market they'd serve, and their AI is still on the starting line while all their competitors have taken off. Meanwhile, their bread-and-butter EV business is in a state of collapse.

Why are people still investing in this?
by dabeeeenster | 2025-09-15 15:28:53+00:00
From what I read, huge decisions were taken over whatsapp, particularly with regard to Covid policy. This wasn't "go for a pint, have a chat" type work.

If it was up to me, using whatsapp for ANY govt business should be an instant sackable offence. I don't conduct my company business on whatsapp. I conduct it on mainly slack and email. Its not hard.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-15 15:29:13+00:00
I tried building a zstd dictionary for something(compressing many instances of the same Mono(.net) binary serialized class, mostly identical), and in this case it provided no real advantage. Honestly, I didn't dig into it too much, but will give --long a try shortly.

PS: what the author implicitly suggests cannot be replaced with zstd tweaks. It'll be interesting to look at the file in imhex- especially if I can find an existing Pattern File.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-15 15:29:23+00:00
> IMO, the current US administration seems to be the most left-wing in my lifetime

Can you name even a single left-wing policy or rhetorical position of this administration?

> but contrived cultural wedge issues seem to have eclipsed actual policy positions in most public discourse,

“Cultural wedge issues” are about actual policy domains, and have a real left-right valence.

> gets called "conservative" despite its policies being almost the diametric opposite of what was called "conservative" 30 years ago.

30 years ago? The height of the neoliberal consensus when the Right leaned heavily on the cultural wedge issues of opposition to abortion, homosexuality, and affirmative action?

(I guess it was also just after a midterm election where the Republican Party, being out of the White House for the first time in a while and having just taken a Congressional majority after mostly being in the minority for a generation was also emphasizing restraining government and elected officials more than the Right normally has before or since, but that was pretty obviously a tactical adaptation to the immediate circumstances, not the essence of conservatism.)
by jjk166 | 2025-09-15 15:29:24+00:00
Workouts are a chore, like washing clothes, it's something you need to do whether you like it or not. There are things you can do to make it better, but it's not a leisure activity you can just stop doing (at least not for extended periods without replacing it with something equivalent).

For journaling, the benefit is the enjoyment you derive from doing it. If you don't like doing it, you're not going to get anything out of it, at least not more than you would spending that time on a hobby you actually like.