MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Modified3019 | 2025-09-16 21:02:45+00:00
Yes. While direct genital contact is the highest probability way to spread it, any skin-skin, skin-mucosa, skin-object-skin contact can potentially spread it. Consider how much you trust others to wash their hands after using the restroom. Low probability, but possible.

You’ve got a low probability of getting polio, but there’s no reason not to be vaccinated if you can.

Even if you already have a strain, there are multiple types. In fact, people who got a vaccine early on, should consider an updated shot for more complete protection.
by Ethee | 2025-09-16 21:03:09+00:00
I 100% agree with you here. Which is why it's important to have the acknowledgement that this isn't an isolated situation. There is a 'one-sidedness' for Israel against the Palestinians, in the same way that there's a 'one-sidedness' for the entirety of the Arab nations against the Israeli's. For as long as Israel has existed they've been fighting against their own genocide. I haven't seen anyone acknowledging that? Or that the Arab nations were the ones to provoke the Israeli's in the first place? I find no love for Israel, but we make it waaaay too easy for them to justify these positions. Like it or not it's not as simple as everyone seems to make it out to be. The western nations and the other Arabs were the ones to give up on the Palestinians first, but now all of a sudden we care? Like I said, it's all virtue signaling.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-16 21:03:12+00:00
I'm in the same boat with BABLR, which is designed as the successor to Babel (and named with a nod to ANTLR). I think this is just part of the benefit of free software and OSS, that someone can pick up the work and start trying to innovate without being given any kind of explicit permission. If you understand the mission and are willing and able, you can pick up the flag and start trying to run with it. You might not instantly become the recognized standard bearer for the cause, but keep pushing the flag forward people will take notice (as we are doing here).
by klik99 | 2025-09-16 21:03:16+00:00
I am a big fan of keepass which I sync with dropbox, good apps exist for iphone/android/mac/windows/linux. But I don't know if that's more secure than a password provider like 1password. At least not fitting into the typical profile, and being able to control the data, open source code, and offline access feels like the optimal way for me.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-16 21:03:37+00:00
My framing seems backwards because I’m commenting on what Nate wrote, not on what Jonathan wrote. As you and I have both said, with the way the world works now Nate is within his rights not to want to found a cooperative, and Jonathan is within his rights to be surprised that none of his colleagues care about this like he does.

My point is simply this: Nate shouldn’t pretend that the model he’s proposing is or ever will become the kind of thing Jonathan is advocating for, because it’s not and will not, but I think Nate is pretending that.

From what Jonathan wrote, I also don’t think he intended to storm out. I think he intended to advocate for something, likely with enough frustration and emotion that others who disagreed with him noticed the intensity of his feelings, and they decided to exclude him from further discussions to avoid drama rather than ever engaging with him to give their firm final decision in a calm but explicit way. They weren’t willing to give him a clear final no and instead ostracized him as part of their implicitly stated no.

To be clear, I agree with your implication that Jonathan likely didn’t handle this in the way that would be best for his professional career going forward, insofar as he may not have been calm and diplomatic in his private advocacy and then went quite public with the level of venting we just read. But Nate’s response didn’t make him look good either; it felt as disingenuous as Jonathan’s earnest blog post may have been interpersonally unwise.

Personally I prefer earnest but interpersonally unwise over disingenuous, since it’s easier to fix with constructive criticism and emotional support. But I know a lot of investors and employers don’t feel that way.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-16 21:03:40+00:00
As I wrote above they did not have a long history of correspondence (previous correspondence was mainly with a Gordon Mosley).

The letter written by Russell was preceded by a letter from Mosley (maybe trying to bait BR) on "the root differences between us" in December 1961 to which BR replied with two letters before Mosley tried to invite BR for a private lunch which prompted the letter of note response. I think this makes perfect sense, he initially engaged intellectually, but when invited to associate privately he strongly refuses.
by lovich | 2025-09-16 21:04:56+00:00
That’s before getting into the jobs that are functionally not real, even if the employer in question believes they are honestly looking.

Seeing bog standard senior engineer positions still advertising for the places that ghosted me 5 months ago means the job posting is fake for one of the n-teen reasons companies paste fake postings or the company has gotten unreasonably picky with how much labor is on the market
by lazyatom | 2025-09-16 21:05:13+00:00
He links to some census statistics from Wikipedia about the demographic makeup of London over time, and then says:

> In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third

Those figures line up with the "White British" row of the table: 59.79% in 2001, 36.8% in 2021.

So it seems pretty clear his definition of "native Brit" means "White British person".
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-16 21:05:16+00:00
> criminals inherently do not care about gun laws or regulation.

The definition of a criminal is somebody who breaks the law, which means anyone who breaks any law is disregarding the existence of a law. This is not unique to gun legislation.

If your bar for whether or not we should have laws and restrictions is whether or not people will break them, then I don’t really know how you can square that with the necessary existence of our judicial system.

Let’s look at this another way: despite DUI laws, there are people still drinking and driving every day. Should we remove the restriction and just allow drinking and driving?
by jcranmer | 2025-09-16 21:05:26+00:00
There's definitely a generational gap going in the US. Support for Israel is not popular among the younger generation in the US, and there's a good deal of voters in their 20s and 30s for whom support for Israel a red line in candidates. But older generations tend to be staunchly in favor of Israel, and too much of the gerontocratic political class thinks that pro-Israel uber alles is the key to winning votes.

It is worth noting that Andrew Cuomo, in a desperate last-minute gamble to boost support in the NYC mayoral race, has come out against Israel. Considering that much of the attacks on Mamdani have focused on his support for Palestine (construing him as antisemitic), it's notable that other candidates also seem to think that being anti-Israel is actually the vote winner for moderates right now.
by drdaeman | 2025-09-16 21:05:28+00:00
This sounds nice in theory, but does it really solve the issue? I think that if no one's installing that package then no one is noticing the malware and no one is reporting that package either. It merely slightly improves the chances that author would notice a version they didn't release, but this doesn't work if author is not particularly actively working the compromised project.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-16 21:05:43+00:00
Tesla has 1/3rd the market cap.

If Waymo is a rounding error to GOOG, it's basically a rounding error to Tesla's implied valuation.

So what is Tesla valued in then?

Clearly not car sales, profit, and especially growth in either of those segments.

xAI is supposed to be where all the AI is.

Where is it?
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-16 21:05:58+00:00
What's even more interesting about this is that anyone flying their own personal plane would generally be expected to be listening to others on their same frequency (and sometimes this helps prevent accidents). So in that sense, the ATC messages are "meant for any member of the public who happens to be flying a plane nearby".

But apparently the government of Germany doesn't quite conclude the same thing from that which I do.

Similarly, the government of Germany (apparently?) seem to make the distinction that decoding signals from a neighbors IoT device is not restricted like other "messages not meant for the general public", so honestly there's probably a lot of nuance that a naive outsider is completely missing.
by nradov | 2025-09-16 21:05:58+00:00
I'm skeptical that SPO will be allowed for commercial airliners in our lifetimes. Pilot workloads are fairly low during most routine flights. But when an emergency occurs then the workload suddenly gets extremely high, to the extent that even two pilots are sometimes overwhelmed. This isn't a problem that current automation technology can solve. There are an infinite number of possible emergency scenarios and engineers can't possibly code for and test every one.

Cargo flights over oceans and (mostly) unpopulated areas might be a valid use case for SPO. Cargo pilots have always been considered somewhat expendable.
by wmeredith | 2025-09-16 21:06:03+00:00
I'm reminded of the "Gargoyles" in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. These are people with wearable computers that are plugged into the VR/AR internet at all times. The relevant passage...

"Gargoyles are no fun to talk to. They never finish a sentence. They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions, doing background checks on everyone within a thousand yards, seeing everything in visual light, infrared, millimeter wave radar, and ultrasound all at once. You think they're talking to you, but they're actually poring over the credit record of some stranger on the other side of the room, or identifying the make and model of airplanes flying overhead. For all he knows, Lagos is standing there measuring the length of Hiro's cock through his trousers while they pretend to make conversation."
by Illniyar | 2025-09-16 21:06:06+00:00
They were newer. I don't know if they were prescribed. It took a long time for newer frameworks to reach feature parity and even longer to get deprecated.

Microsoft would routinely suggest both, I think there were articles in MSN showing how to do stuff with each side by side. Like programming language flavors.

Linux is even more of a mess I imagine. I think Mac, and especially iOS, were the odd ones out. The Apple ecosystem is built on making sure everyone does things their way. And that translates to having one blessed framework you must use.
by xg15 | 2025-09-16 21:06:24+00:00
I can't refute all their findings, but it's still worth looking at the board of that org:

https://www.impact-se.org/about-us/impact-se-board-members/

For an organization ostensibly concerned with education to violence everywhere, that's a LOT of board members with direct connections to Israel.

I also think it's common sense that if an occupying force deliberately ensures your living conditions become ever worse, shoots your friends and family to death for throwing stones and eventually obliterates entire families, that you don't exactly need textbooks to develop hatred.

As for "from the Nile to the Euphrates", just ask Daniella Weiss: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-21/ty-article-ma...
by pitpatagain | 2025-09-16 21:06:37+00:00
https://www.hpvworld.com/articles/the-frequency-of-hpv-infec...

It's incredibly prevalent, but most people clear it within a couple years, and won't even know that they had it. The time to clear it is just variable and depends on your body's immune response, the longer you go without clearing it the higher the cancer risk.
by Cu3PO42 | 2025-09-16 21:07:20+00:00
The game really doesn't perform great, but it's not impacting the fun I'm having with it, so I decided to stick with it.

What I don't get is why Randy Pitchford seems intent on alienating the player base further by doubling down again and again on there not being a problem. Emotionally, I understand being defensive of one's work, but at a certain point it might be financially advantageous to show some humility or simply ... not say anything. Then again, he's free to do as he pleases.
by krashidov | 2025-09-16 21:07:42+00:00
My phone is set to Do Not Disturb by default. Only 5 numbers can reach me direct to ring and that is immediate family only. I never answer calls from unsaved numbers. If they really need to reach me they can leave a voicemail.

When you answer a call your brain kinda loses its ability to step back and think. Almost like the same trick that those people who ask for directions and steal your watch do.

Security is not the main reason I do this but it has been nice knowing I can't be reached directly by scammers and hackers.
by erulabs | 2025-09-16 21:07:50+00:00
counterpoint, if the runtime itself (nodejs) has a critical issue, you haven't updated for years, you're on an end-of-life version, and you cannot upgrade because you have dependencies that do not support the new version of the runtime, you're in for a painful day. The argument for updating often is that when you -are- exposed to a vulnerability that you need a fix for, it's a much smaller project to revert or patch that single issue.

Otherwise, I agree with the sentiment that too many people try to update the world too often. Keeping up with runtime updates as often as possible (node.js is more trusted than any given NPM module) and updating only when dependencies are no longer compatible is a better middle ground.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-16 21:08:38+00:00
What seems to have happened is:

Blue Systems had a contract with Valve to work on KDE; Blue Systems no longer wanted to be in the contracting business; several Blue Systems employees (Nate and someone else) formed a company, Techpaladin, which Nate and that person own; said company bought out the Valve contract from Blue Systems.

Jonathan also worked at Blue Systems but seems to have wanted to be part of Techpaladin as an owner without putting any cash in to buy out the Valve contract from Blue Systems.

That said, leaping straight to workers rights, losing kids, and publicly mischaracterizing the events in this way... smells like crazy.
by strcat | 2025-09-16 21:08:47+00:00
This post ignored the vast majority of what was said and gave very inaccurate and misleading responses to the rest. There are even many responses in their own forum to that post and others debunking the claims. Beyond the privacy and security issues, it helps demonstrates that Murena and /e/ are not trustworthy due to covering up severe privacy and security vulnerabilities on a consistent basis.
by sedatk | 2025-09-16 21:08:52+00:00
I'm actually compiling a list of UI text mishaps, and I plan to publish it as a blog post at one point. A simple one would be to avoid using "your" in a "user -> UI" context (command), and "my" in a "UI -> user" context (message). For example, "Delete My Files" is okay on a button, but, in a message it must be "Are you sure you want to delete your files?". But, the better is to avoid generous use of "your" and "my" unless necessary to disambiguate.

For example, don't have a button that reads "Go to your profile", that screws up translations in languages like Turkish.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-16 21:08:58+00:00
I'd have to check, but I think Israel has killed more children in the past two years than Hamas killed Israelis on October 7. Israel has killed something like 30-40x the number of civilians in the same timeframe.

Hamas is a bunch of evil people. That doesn't justify descending to their level of butchery to exterminate them, especially not when you are so much more efficient at that butchery.
by user34283 | 2025-09-16 21:09:23+00:00
My mouse and keyboard are connected via the USB dock function of my monitor.

After the update, I can't even login. Great.

Not that it was working well before. To get the second monitor to even turn on, I had to first power off and then subsequently turn on again the primary monitor.

And that ritual was unique to my M2 Pro Mac mini.

On Windows, or a M1 Pro Macbook, everything just works.

And I'm not the only one with this super annoying external monitor issue. Apple apparently never fixed it. It just sucks.
by epolanski | 2025-09-16 21:09:48+00:00
> Which side do you think has an interest in shooting doctors?

The one shooting doctors.

What happened on October 7 has been a tragedy. 38 children died that day, and you know two of the mothers. I can't even relate with their suffering, in no way I can understand their pain like you do.

But I don't know either any mothers of the 32'000 killed and wounded on the other side.

"One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
by Telaneo | 2025-09-16 21:10:04+00:00
> I'm not sure what ANC is or why it's worth hundreds of dollar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

> I don't know what the h1 chip has to do with the fast switching—surely this is a bluetooth protocol detail, yea?

A detail apparently no-one else bothers to deal with. The amount of hardware out there that does bluetooth the worst way possible is horrendous, and I will gladly pay extra to not have those in my life.
by wren6991 | 2025-09-16 21:10:21+00:00
> It must be noted that customer safety and EMC requirements for the mini PC, a standalone electrical item, differ from those for hardware components (such as the PSU) designed to be inside a PC case. The safety standard suggests that ventilation openings on case side panels need to be less than 5mm in diameter.

...but it's a plastic panel? I don't understand how this helps with EMC.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-16 21:10:43+00:00
This is a great lesson on 2FA fundamentals. Picking time-based codes for 2FA is equal to picking something you know twice. That isn't strong 2FA. That is 1FA with an extra step (1.5FA). To make it all the way to 2.0FA, you must pick something you know (password) and a private key (Yubikey, smart card, etc.) that does operations in-situ, that cannot be computed anywhere else, to then match to an expected value on the server. It therefore isn't something you know twice. It is something you know + something you have uniquely generated.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-09-16 21:10:44+00:00
The core for a good experience is a good structure.

In many regions of the U.S. people live too far apart, shops and businesses are zoned apart into wide spread business areas. Public transport won't provide a good experience.

In a notable part of European cities people live in denser quarters, where a "third place" is reachable in walking distance, some degree of shipping, doctor visits, work are close by. There public transport can fill the gaps for the remaining trips in an (space) efficient way. Self driving cars however would clog the area.

Adapting US settlement structure to allow public transport won't happen. However a self-driving car can turn the dial for individuals to move out of the urban European area into more rural areas. Question is how big that group is.
by mxfh | 2025-09-16 21:10:51+00:00
The desireable thing here is that they can fly, not that it's optimal.

also you could just drive, lol this thing:

https://mitxela.com/projects/turbine_transport_transformer

the bigger questing is anyway where this could safely land and start, when it's of no need for sea transport to begin with.

Same question remains for that plane. How to do the last miles from the airport. If the route is long enough you can usually find an autobahn and a river wide enough to get 100m blades around.

There seem little use for planes in that size class that doesn't add costs.
by beeflet | 2025-09-16 21:11:04+00:00
In cryptocurrency, you can use a multi-signature account to define your own security setup.

For example, even a 2-of-2 setup with a trusted authority like a bank is straight-forward improvement in security over the conventional bank system.

You can go further, for example consider a 3-of-5 setup with 2 keys in security deposit boxes, 1 key on a laptop, 1 key on a phone, and 1 key on a hardware token. You can set the hardware token to erase its keys when the wrong pin is entered, making it pretty rubber hose proof.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-16 21:11:45+00:00
Diplomats - who don't even live in the strip - were recently (unsuccessfully) bombed.

If Hamas wants to end the war (or supposed genocide) then they can release the hostages with no additional demands. The fact that the supposed genocide victims choose to continue the war is quite the sign that this is not genocide, in what other situation would a victim choose to continue a war that is a genocide against his people?
by lovich | 2025-09-16 21:12:23+00:00
Referrals by hiring managers who I have previously worked with and want to hire me aren’t even getting me a phone screen from their recruiters.

The majority of employment in tech is with large, corporate firms, and unless you are in the executive tier they all have implemented a massive amount of process to prevent bias in hiring which means that even networking has low impact on getting a job, beyond letting you know the positions even exist
by crq-yml | 2025-09-16 21:12:23+00:00
It took me decades to find a "learning routine", but it now looks like this:

1. Imitate. Find a way to boil down what I'm looking at to "monkey see, monkey do". Kindergarten songs and projects. Tracing the letters. Making the same poses as the athletes.

2. Isolate. Look for the drills that simplify the goal to particular success benchmarks. E.g. "drawing" -> "draw the outline without looking at your paper(blind contour)". Turn the isolation into a primary warmup for the activity.

3. Improvise. Now it's time to actually start making new things and integrating the concepts, using the structure from the previous practice. Improvisation can be practiced with games and challenges that are loosely structured(see: actual short-form improv games like "Five Things")

The learning in tech always tends to have either a "hardware up" approach(computer engineering, operating systems, low-level protocols) or a "abstraction down" approach(problem domain languages and application interfaces). The parts in between get swept up and rearranged with great frequency; they are the implementation detail, and may have some incidental automation, but usually they just reflect Conway's law in some form - they become standard because the situation asks for a standard, and then politicking proceeds to take over as career-minded individuals jump on board and try to steer the technical conversation their way, to their standard, where they will receive credit. We also keep coming up with new things to automate, motivating new problem domain abstractions.

Thus: you stand to gain a ton by closely examining the roots of the systems you work with, just sitting there with a pen and a notebook doing the earliest imitation processes on their code and documentation. Proceeding to the more isolated parts of building an actual project with the system is often superfluous, if you've encountered the main concepts before.