MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1oooqooq | 2025-09-21 14:44:06+00:00
you're historically wrong.

monasteries were financialy independent. when the "government changed" and the new rulers had no use for the church, all of them were raided and plundered.

it's very dangerous to have resources and not be politically positioned. you become a target more than a fortress. it's the one thing preppers don't get.

universities are facing the same problem as monasteries faced. they are huge bags of money already. excluding the UCs they are already rich and take government money more for the associations than the actual money.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-21 14:44:30+00:00
Based on history and looking long term I see three paths out:

1. South Africa / Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) where Palestine and Israel is united leading to an exodus of the former ethno-nationalist "managerial" class.

2. Two-state solution where an acceptance of each other is grown over generations.

3. Continuation of the current genocide of the Palestinian people until they are exterminated from their land. Leading to the isolation of Israel.

For Israel and the Israeli people the only palatable option should be 2, but they seem hellbent on 3 as per how Israeli people post here on HN and the actions of their democratically elected government.
by jitl | 2025-09-21 14:44:37+00:00
Let’s say we’re spending $1 million on hardware hypothetically with the swap setup.

At that price point, either we use swap and let the kernel engineers move data from RAM to disk and back, or we disable swap and need user space code to move the same data to disk and back. We’d need to price out writing & maintaining the user space implementation (mmap perhaps?) for it to be fair price comparison.

To avoid SSD wear and tear, we could spend $29 million a year more to put the data in RAM only. Not worth!

(We rent EC2 instances from AWS, so SSD wear is baked into the pricing)
by calibas | 2025-09-21 14:44:47+00:00
I had a company try to sneak in a non-disparagement clause when they were purchasing media rights from me. They immediately removed it when I said it was ridiculous and I wasn't going to sign.

If you're not allowed to criticize a person, you're in a cult. If you're not allowed to criticize the government, that's authoritarianism.

Being able to speak freely is supposed to be one of our core values, and when a business asks someone to forfeit that right, it's a sign there's something seriously wrong. You don't require someone to never speak ill of you unless you're planning on doing something they might speak ill about.

By my moral compass, the very act of requiring someone to never publicly say anything bad about you is itself unethical. It's psychopathic behavior, not something that should be normalized.
by phony-account | 2025-09-21 14:45:48+00:00
> I would also remind the short of memory that during covid, the states with the most draconian restrictions were mostly left-leaning, and many were loathe to give up that control. Control of the people comes from all sides

This depiction of Covid restrictions (restrictions that were actually relatively permissive given the seriousness of the disease and the unknown nature of the virus at the time) as though they were an authoritarian power grab by malevolent politicians instead of a health policy, is part of the problem.

Maybe if people had been willing to accept a small curtailment of their personal desires for a short time for the sake of the common good, rather than framing it as a dictatorial punishment,we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re heading into now.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-21 14:45:53+00:00
> I was also considering the way the US food standards allows a lot of insect parts in the products, but wasn't sure how to phrase it.

I don't know how the US compares to other countries in terms of "insects per pound" standards, but having some level of insects is going to be inevitable.

For example, how could you guarantee that your wheat, pre-milling, has zero insects in it, or that your honey has no bee parts in it (best you can do is strain it, then anything that gets through the straining process will be on your toast).
by giantg2 | 2025-09-21 14:46:01+00:00
"making 150k if they'd trade 10k/year to get an additional 10hrs/week of free time back, and I think a LOT would say yes."

Excluding childcare, I'm not sure people spend 10 hours per week on domestic tasks. We have dishwashers, clothes washers/dryers, plenty of options for frozen meals and meal delivery, etc. Even stuff that's often hired out like vehicle maintenance and yard work would be tough to bring that up to anyone average of 10 hours per week.

Childcare is cheaper in group settings than at a single family level, so that wouldn't make sense.
by sbrother | 2025-09-21 14:46:04+00:00
Thank you; I feel similarly and wish I could go back as an adult to take even more advantage of all the incredible opportunities. Having four years to dedicate to learning new things in depth -- with zero pressure to take shortcuts so that the lessons become economically useful sooner -- was more of a privilege than I understood at the time.

And then of course, the people I met there have shaped my life and career in wonderful ways ever since. The sheer level of diversity among students and faculty is unlike anything I've experienced elsewhere. Many of them are still my lifelong friends (or in one case my wife :)) and others have opened professional doors to me 15 years later and counting.

But also, I went to a very well known and respected university with sufficient endowment and financial aid that it shouldn't be functioning as a "toll gate" regardless. I know things are not this rosy at a lot of universities.
by westurner | 2025-09-21 14:46:10+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric materials enable practical solid-state refrigeration" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59698-y :

> Abstract: Refrigeration needs are increasing worldwide with a demand for alternates to bulky poorly scalable vapor compression systems. Here, we demonstrate the first proof of practical solid-state refrigeration, using nano-engineered controlled hierarchically engineered superlattice thin-film thermoelectric materials. [...] The improved efficiency and ultra-low thermoelectric materials usage herald a new beginning in solid-state refrigeration.
by amluto | 2025-09-21 14:46:59+00:00
It’s kind of tedious, but you can do it with a tool like the DMT Diafold Serrated Knife Sharpener. On most serrated knives, you will also want to lightly sharped/deburr the other face at an extremely shallow angle using a whetstone that either you don’t care about too much or that is extremely resistant to scratching (e.g. a DMT-style flat stone). If you do that part on something like a traditional Japanese stone, you will make a mess.
by microtonal | 2025-09-21 14:47:03+00:00
This. If you read Reddit, a whole lot of comments go from Nazi parallels (which is partly justified, but as another comment points out there are also a lot of parallels with Orban's Hungary, Erdogan's Turkey, Putin's Russia, etc.) to 'Luigi'.

There are so many non-violent approaches that would be effective. First, there is the 3.5% rule [1]. Second, if 10%-20% of the general population would go on a general strike, pretty much all of society would come to a standstill and it would send a heck of a powerful message. One of the issues though in the US is healthcare tied to employment, combined with fire at will. It reduces preparedness of people to protest until it's possibly too late. So, it's simultaneously important to build/strengthen unions, etc.

Aside from that, and this is true for Europe as well, we need to heal as a society. People have divided themselves in stupid 'teams', fueled by politicians, foreign interference, algorithms, etc. Not woke enough? You are cancelled. Left-wing? You are cancelled (employer contacted and fired). We have to do a little less social media and go outside and talk to other people. Even if I disagree with people politically, there often a lot of common ground (we all want food, health, to be safe, etc.), we all like to talk about some sports match, and whatnot. We don't have to agree with each other, but we can at least try to understand and care for each other. Break the stupid tribe wars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule
by mapt | 2025-09-21 14:47:35+00:00
They do not stay sharp.

On hard material and when overloaded, they will chip in large, unfixable chunks.

On softer material, they continuously sharpen their edges at a microscopic scale, fracturing away tiny chips as they're worn, to new glassy ceramic molecular edges. A well used ceramic blade becomes micro-serrated.

This sounds fantastic until you think about what is happening to the shards of hard glassy ceramic which briefly become part of your food before becoming part of your gastrointestinal tract.
by danabramov | 2025-09-21 14:47:47+00:00
Sure, which is why the words you copied are followed by these in my comment:

>… which are only uncovered when the program runs. You do have surprises with modeling (hence my caveats above)

If you already have a paper proof (which is the case in the original post), and you know it’s correct, then you already know all steps are provable — but if they aren’t translated correctly into the theorem prover’s model, or if some details don’t translate well, or if you’re missing some existing result that hasn’t been formalized, you can get stuck. AI doesn’t make that worse though.
by kelipso | 2025-09-21 14:48:14+00:00
It used to be mass media before, now it’s social media. Is that such a big jump? Social media has much more influence from unknown or foreign sources, so you could say yes.

Also, influence of money on politics is obviously huge. You can predict the winner based on how much money they have, and the mass media blitzes they do, on a lot of local elections.

Democracy as an idea, I think people need a certain level of media literacy and the media has to be unbiased for people to make good decisions. But then, that was not a thing in the mass media era and that’s clearly not a thing in the social media era.
by CrazyStat | 2025-09-21 14:48:17+00:00
Rural areas have higher fertility rates than urban areas in the US [1], EU [2], and Japan [3].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db297.htm

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/digpub/demography_2021/b...

[3] https://www.mof.go.jp/english/pri/publication/pp_review/fy20...
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-09-21 14:48:42+00:00
If you're talking about the image, I think you need to look at the image history itself:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestine_recognit... (“File History”)

Just browsing history on MediaWiki will probably show the old tex with recenn image. If you want full article, you'd have to use web.archive.org, archive.is or somethinglike that.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-21 14:48:53+00:00
I think it worse than that because this recognition now can be directly traced to 7th October. So in effect this vindicates Hamas against partisans of a peaceful approach and in doing so sends the signal that violence and atrocities should continue since they pay. Hamas and similar organisations are not concerned about civilian deaths it that yields results, and in fact that has been their strategy.

Cynically, this recognition by the UK is domestic politicking. Starmer is at rock bottom and so he is seeking to boost support from the hard left and Muslim demographics.

Unfortunately, this is not a topic conducive to discussion, including here.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-21 14:48:54+00:00
Nope, sorry but words have actual meanings and definitions. Slavery is when a person is owned as property. Slavery still exists in the U.S. for prisoners, for example, where the U.S. Constitution explicitly carves out an exception. Now, I don't disagree with your assessment that people on H1Bs have less agency, autonomy, and rights than natives.

But you dilute the meaning of the term 'slavery' when you apply it to someone who has a 100% legally protected right to leave their place of employment and country at any time, without having to pay anything but the cost of a ticket. If an H1B employer holds a worker's passport and makes them work in slavery-like conditions, then that's illegal. If an employer treats an H1B like an indentured servant and makes them pay off the cost of their hiring and immigration, then that's illegal. It does happen in the US, which is bad. It happens far more often to immigrants in places like Dubai, whose conditions often are slavery.

Slavery is really fucking terrible. There is a reason we react so strongly against it. By saying H1B === slavery, you're being intellectually dishonest or using black-and-white thinking.
by User23 | 2025-09-21 14:49:02+00:00
This has been true in the USA since approximately 1965, at least. Analysis has shown the general public has absolutely no say in policy making; literally everything is for this or that influential “special interest.”

This is borne out in the erosion of what we now euphemistically call the middle class along basically every dimension that matters.

Some of the heat here is on account of members of this community are, or at least are used to being, special interests that have had a powerful voice in previous administrations and less of one in the current one. But let’s not pretend this is some sort of creeping fascism, it’s just a different faction of elites making their own plays.
by SkySkimmer | 2025-09-21 14:49:08+00:00
When you look at an old version of a wikipedia article it still displays the current version of images. That's why in your link the image legend has eg

>[light green] Countries that have announced their impending recognition of Palestine (Australia, France, Malta, and San Marino)

but Australia is dark green in the current image (France still light green and I can't be bothered zooming to see the small ones)
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS | 2025-09-21 14:49:40+00:00
> little evidence of the same level of systemic abuse

You not looking for it doesn't mean "little evidence."

It's well documented that the previous administration pressured social media to silence views it didn't like, as well as instances of debanking conservative organizations.

That's not to say this administration doesn't throw its weight around, too, but to think it's only one side make you complicit in the problem.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-21 14:51:10+00:00
Okay, but when I compile a Rust project and I see "0/2000" that gets pulled and built, I panic.

> You can't really count "dependencies" in the Rust ecosystem by counting the number of crates.

Can you elaborate as to why? I have much less packages (many of them are not even C libraries) installed by my operating system than what a typical Rust project pulls and builds.
by throw0101c | 2025-09-21 14:51:46+00:00
> Similar to calling everyone Nazi’s and fascists who has an opposing point of view?

Well, the actual neo-Nazis do support one particular party (and it's not the Democrats); see (e.g.) Charlottesville, 2017:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally

And it was (is?) official Republican strategy to court racists:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

As The Simpsons once joked “Fox News: Not Racist, But #1 With Racists”:

* https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/07/24/simpsons-creator-matt...
by basisword | 2025-09-21 14:52:15+00:00
You point out the 'terrorist government' in Gaza. The 'corrupt' government in the West Bank. Why should we look at these as less legitimate that the government that the UN has concluded has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law?

And what hope does the Palestinian Authority really have in the West Bank when they continue to be under occupation and the Israeli govern covertly and overtly supports illegal settlements?

Finally - how can you look down on Gaza/West Bank as 'not legitimate' states when large parts of the state of Israel were taken through their own terrorism and invasion of their neighbours. That seems to be easily forgotten. They're 'legitimate' only because they've been backed by a superpower.
by stouset | 2025-09-21 14:52:32+00:00
American suburbs feature poorly interconnected residential-only areas that sprawl endlessly. You can easily be a ten minute walk from a friend (through yards and across fences, not over a walking path) but a ten or fifteen minute drive away due to the Byzantine road layout.

Commercial zones that have groceries, restaurants, shops, and entertainment are almost always several kilometers away. You could technically bike there, but there are rarely bike lanes. And due to serving the needs of a large, low-density area, you’d have to bike on multi-lane high-speed thoroughfares which is far less safe than being able to use small local streets. Where there are sidewalks, they often end abruptly and don’t actually connect to anywhere or anything.

It is truly hell.
by mothballed | 2025-09-21 14:53:06+00:00
Netanyahu/Israel implemented policies that strengthened up Hamas after the PA started to become more amenable to peaceful agreements that would better secure their future. Whether that was just to keep both sides fighting or a desire to Hamas to actually win out is up for debate.

"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas ... This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."[50][51] -- B Netanyahu
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-21 14:53:22+00:00
Using AI doesn't necessitate "vibe coding" - there are smart ways to use AI, where you are managing and structuring the process, as well "vibe coding".

I guess the problem is that AI now allows non-programmers to program. It would be a bit like giving everyone a scalpel and they now either consider themselves to be surgeons, or give it a go regardless since now they can.

I'm not sure where you are getting software engineers that are "bastardising" your ideas?! You may want to look elsewhere, or pay for someone better !
by throw0101c | 2025-09-21 14:53:25+00:00
> It is western propaganda. Germans were simply supportive of Hitler and, for the most part, Hitler did well by the Germans.

It's not like they had much of a choice after ~1933:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

And Adam Tooze, who wrote an entire book examining Nazi economic policy, would disagree on the 'doing well by' part:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction
by Hnrobert42 | 2025-09-21 14:53:29+00:00
The title sounds sinister.

Sure, there are abuses of power. You can disagree with policy of prohibition.

The DEA also has important job to do combatting really bad people. Because there is due process and because they don't just disappear people, they need to collect evidence. They can't walk in with a mic strapped to their lapel. A credit card mic seems pretty clever.
by inkyoto | 2025-09-21 14:53:51+00:00
Swapping (or, rather, paging – I don't think there is an operating system in existence today that swaps out entire processes) does not make modern systems slower – it is a delusion and an urban legend that originated in the sewers of the intertubes and is based on an uninformed opinion rather than the understanding and knowledge of how virtual memory systems work. It has been regurgitated to death, and the article explains it really well why it is a delusion.

20-30 years ago, heavy paging often crippled consumer Intel based PC's[0] because paging went to slow mechanical hard disks on PATA/IDE, a parallel device bus (until 2005 circa), which had little parallelism and initially no native command queuing; SCSI drives did offer features such as tagged command queuing and efficient scatter-gather but were uncommon on desktops leave alone laptops. Today the bottlenecks are largely gone – abundant RAM, switched interconnects such as PCIe, SATA with NCQ/AHCI, and solid-state storage, especially NVMe, provide low-latency, highly parallel I/O – so paging still signals memory pressure yet is far less punishing on modern laptops and desktops.

Swap space today has a quieter benefit: lower energy use. On systems with LPDDR4/LPDDR5, the memory controller can place inactive banks into low-power or deep power-down states; by compressing memory and paging out cold, dirty pages to swap, the OS reduces the number of banks that must stay active, cutting DRAM refresh and background power. macOS on Apple Silicon is notably aggressive with memory compression and swap and works closely with the SoC power manager, which can contribute to the strong battery life of Apple laptops compared with competitors, albeit this is only one factor amongst several.

[0] RISC workstations and servers have had switched interconnects since day 1.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-09-21 14:53:58+00:00
IR is more complex. They know very well what it's leading to, since it's part of their founding history. Half the population do go out on streets to rotest, while the other half go out to protest the protests. So it is the opposite of the lack of awareness/too busy with life and changes etc the article talks about.

meanwhile, this is very pertinent to USA current climate. But interestingly, people will repost this, comment, vote, but nobody will ever think of discussing impeachment.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-21 14:54:12+00:00
Nitecore is somewhat accepted as the best lightweight battery, but they aren't cheap.

10Ah battery is $60, 5.9oz. the 20Ah is 10.2oz and $100. Unlike the Hasbro, it comes close to its rated specification.

My backpacking trips have definitely not needed 20Ah. For two or three nights I can usually get by with a 5000mah, if I shutdown at night and frequently use airplane mode. And my phones are usually getting on, don't have Greta battery life.
by somelamer567 | 2025-09-21 14:54:15+00:00
I had suspended judgement about Meta in the past; but every revelation in their media about their toxic behaviour makes me thankful I never seriously considering taking a job with them.

The clincher was when a colleague I worked with in a previous job joined Meta, and went from a fun and interesting person, to creepy and weird. As if he has joined a cult. Then a family member did the same -- the effect was subtle... their political opinions turned distinctly sinister -- like they'd downloaded the inherently un-egalitarian, anti-Western and anti-progress ideology of the founder into their own heads.

I've seen the same cult-like effect of Amazon on people. Literally 'selling' the idea of Jeff Bezos, and flogging his book like their company were some kind of dark techno Amway.

The FAANGs are NOT nice people, and I want nothing to do with them.
by blincoln | 2025-09-21 14:54:21+00:00
Yeah, I'm already somewhat skeptical of the whole concept, having DIY'd a vibroblade out of an X-acto knife and a SonicCare toothbrush and finding it to be completely ineffective.[1]

I think trying to make an ultrasonic vibration add-on for regular knives would be even harder to make into a useful product than an integrated knife/transducer.

If the handle is rigidly fixed to the blade, there would be very little vibration. So it seems like the only way to make an add-on would be as a sleeve over the regular handle. That would make for a bulky handle, and it seems like it would need a counterbalancing weight at the back. So the result would be very unwieldy, like one of those electric turkey-carving knives that are basically kitchen hedge-trimmers.

I'm waiting to see what skilled chefs think of this knife. The idea of an ultrasonic vibroblade has always seemed like a neat one to me, and I'd be happy to hear that someone managed to make one that was genuinely useful.

[1] https://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/SonicCarereg_Lock_P...
by whycombinetor | 2025-09-21 14:54:33+00:00
Rule number one when you get fired is don't sign anything on your way out the door. Crazy that a Facebook exec wouldn't be aware of that advice or ignored it.

I got offered a small severance after a recent layoff. Severance agreement contained a non-disparagement clause. I didn't sign. You don't get corporate goons coming to your house to threaten you if you don't sign your severance/termination agreement.