MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by addandsubtract | 2025-09-22 08:56:19+00:00
> Football piracy is on the rise, because watching football has become extremely expensive in the last few years, even if you just want to watch your teams games.

It's not only become expensive, but they've also been split up by multiple providers. You want to watch the league games? That's one subscription. Champions League? That's another subscription. Chamipions League on a Tuesday? Need Prime for that. So, much like movie/series streaming has been split up between services, so have the football broadcasts. No wonder people are pirating the streams, when the availability is much better a fraction of the price.
by aa-jv | 2025-09-22 08:57:33+00:00
It is far more plausible for any state to accept refugees from a recognized state rather than an unrecognized one.

That this fact is ignored in the debate is deplorable, but fortunately there are those working in states across the world that understand that, in order for there to be reliable, official assistance granted to the people of Palestine, having their state recognized first of all, makes it far more likely to happen.

It means that the Palestinian passport can be recognized, officially, on refugee lines. It means that aid can be declared a state-to-state expenditure.

There are so many benefits to recognizing Palestinian statehood that one really must question the motives of those who do not understand why it is essential that it happen.
by physicsguy | 2025-09-22 08:57:44+00:00
I have to laugh anytime anyone talks about the students being brighter.

I went to a relatively poor state school. I did very well regardless but on average the results were not that good. I remember sitting in my history GCSE class and a teacher chasing a student around various classrooms on multiple occasions. I remember not having a permanent teacher for Year 10 English. I remember my GCSE Spanish teacher bribing everyone with chocolate when OFSTED came around because this was the third time doing the same lesson and he wanted us to look stronger than we were.
by rob_c | 2025-09-22 08:58:32+00:00
"beginner". Docs are written this was are targeted at other developers who are experienced. You know this by the fact your calling yourself beginner and this isn't a friendly coding camp where everyone is making a robotic arm go up and down in python. This is being a real world developer.

To a "non-developer", yes that's what being in _this_ industry is like/about. If like taking a random coder and expecting them to read instructions to make something using crochet. There's a learning curve...
by WastedCucumber | 2025-09-22 08:58:34+00:00
Thanks for your comment and sources. I've found similar information already. What I was really looking for was, say, an in-depth legal analysis of B1 visas and visa waivers.

But as far as I can tell now, there's not any really clear definition of what counts as work under those visa (waivers), and the ambiguity was tolerated by all parties. So, in effect, the only reasoning is (like always) "this is illegal because we say so".

Thanks again for the info.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-09-22 08:59:41+00:00
Only time I’ve used an eSIM was a potential problem with roaming on our corporate deal (was supped to be free roaming but they stop said $1.80 a meg) when I landed in New York. I was connecting before we’d finished taxiing.

I have no idea where to get a local sim from, but it would mean I wouldn’t have my normal phone number (unless I had a phone with two physical sims - very rare), and presumably would have had to find a shop at 3 am body clock time and 10pm local time. Maybe there was one post customs, I don’t know as I was autopiloting to the taxi.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-22 09:00:16+00:00
The goal is to ensure that the Binder code works not to end to end test a specific phone.

If you have shown it to work properly in an emulator and on an actual phone, it's reasonable to assume that the overall implementation is sound and can be merged to the mainline.

It's not like kernel updates were pushed directly to phones. Manufacturers will now be able to do their own test on their specific model to ensure it works fine.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-09-22 09:00:29+00:00
> "Do you have trouble concentrating" is terribly vague and can always be justified either way

To be fair, for the practitioner this shouldn't be a question about objective capital-letter Truth, it's one throw of darts representing a self-reported aspect of self-experience and self-perception.

As someone who has designed questionnaires for a public health agency, reading the article made me feel we should've fully randomized the order of appearance of individual questions, including the 'front-matter' stuff like self-reported gender, age, education, marital status.

As someone who got quite upset about a particular questionnaire's formulations at the tender age of 10, I'd now say let's not get too wrought up about this, a questionnaire can be a valid tool but it will also always be a somewhat blunt tool, so let's use it bluntly: don't fret, put your mark into one of those five boxes, move on to the next question, done, over, out. If it's about me then it's about how I feel about it, now, and I can choose to feel extremely good or bad or fairly somewhat well-nigh indifferent about sh*t, just here and now. As the one being questionnaired, I also have the right to lean into the questions and bend the outcome as I see fit. Been there, done that.
by tecleandor | 2025-09-22 09:00:52+00:00
Still false. There were already police raids for 'pirate' games in the 80s.

Example, July 1986 [0]: "Nine Madrid university students involved in a thriving pirated video game business"

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0: https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-sevilla-19860718-40.html
by spwa4 | 2025-09-22 09:01:08+00:00
Why not just replace the CEO of the electricity company with someone who has less political connections, and accept that the primary function of EDF is not accounting, but making electricity work, and pick someone who is either an engineer or just has a little bit more experience with planning instead?

France has cheap electricity because of the nuclear buildout, in other words: because engineers saved 50% on the price, not because an MBA saved 0.1% on the price.

It's not like it took much planning to avoid that outcome, it just wasn't done. But I'm sure this saved EDF 5 bucks and the costs were carried by everyone else.
by physicsguy | 2025-09-22 09:01:15+00:00
> You also end up with a very narrow program of study

This just isn't true in my area (Physics), the courses at Oxbridge are just as broad but go much deeper than you'd study in another University.

I don't think it's true of written subjects either, from friends that studied there it sounds like the cranking out of essays is weekly or more at Oxbridge whereas my housemates at University were doing termly stuff.
by upmostly | 2025-09-22 09:02:32+00:00
Wow, that's a really nice thing to say. I personally don't think so but that means a huge amount to hear. Thank you. One thing I did before jumping into making the video was to look, like really look at other YouTuber's videos. Kind of what I assume the author of the original article did. Look at how other successful people are doing something and copy as much of the execution as possible.
by alluro2 | 2025-09-22 09:02:41+00:00
Thanks for the reply - I did not mean to rant, but, unfortunately, this is in context of a B2B service, and the other side are most commonly IT teams of customers.

There are, of course, both very capable and professional people, and also kind people who are keen to react / learn, but we've also had situations where 429s result in complaints to their management how our API "doesn't work", "is unreliable" and then demanding refunds / threatening legal action etc...

One example was sending 1.3M update requests a day to manage state of ~60 entities, that have a total of 3 possible relevant state transitions - a humble expectation would be several requests/day to update batches of entities.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 09:02:41+00:00
> Why are tides a forcing function?

"Nucleotide formation and polymerization are both more favored thermodynamically when subunit and nucleotide concentrations increase and the water concentration decreases (i.e., at low water activity)" [1].

Tide pools provide a regularly-cycling low-water and high-water environment. (And you get thermocycling, nutrient refreshment, and a path to the oceans, too.)

They're not a forcing function, generally, because we don't know how life formed. But I believe they're close to one in a RNA-first or metabolism-first origin-of-life universe.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07389-2
by Ezhik | 2025-09-22 09:02:46+00:00
(developer here)

Thanks for raising the birthday paradox problem.

The search panel should show all the notes with the same code, so hopefully even with collisions you'd still be able to tell from context which note you're looking for.

I did consider allocating IDs, but I'm a bit worried about this tying notes to a specific Obsidian vault - with the way note codes work now, there is no dependence on the vault itself, only on the note's name. Something to think about...
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-22 09:03:23+00:00
Agreed. That's what makes it so inane.

I don't generally favor Trump's policies or the opposition's. Yet it is impossible to have a discussion here without providing explicit disclaimers. Even with those disclaimers, we're constantly brigaded with red-herrings, non-sequiturs and ridiculous claims tilting at what is incorrectly perceived as Trump support.

It is difficult to even criticize Trump's policies, unless the criticism is one of the curated forms prescribed by the outrage-o-sphere.
by dotwaffle | 2025-09-22 09:03:38+00:00
> bittorrent will make best use of what bandwidth is available.

At the expense of other traffic. Do this experiment: find something large-ish to download over HTTP, perhaps an ISO or similar from Debian or FreeBSD. See what the speed is like, and try looking at a few websites.

Now have a large torrent active at the same time, and see how slow the HTTP download drops to, and how much slower the web is. Perhaps try a Twitch stream or YouTube video, and see how the quality suffers greatly and/or starts rebuffering.

Your HTTP download uses a single TCP connection, most websites will just use a single connection also (perhaps a few short-duration extra connections for js libraries on different domains etc). By comparison, BitTorrent will have dozens if not hundreds of connections open and so instead of sharing that connection in half (roughly) it is monopolising 95%+ of your connection.

The other main issue I forgot to mention is that on most cloud providers, downloading from the internet is free, uploading to the internet costs a lot... So not many on public cloud are going to want to start seeding torrents!
by forty | 2025-09-22 09:03:41+00:00
A cheaper alternative could have been solar for example. I don't mind keeping our nuclear capacity (it's certainly better than coal) while we switch to renewable and find good (eco friendly) and cheap storage but I don't really see it as a good target for producing the majority of our energy given the downsides.

On this, another funny story that pro nuclear also don't mention: this summer when it was very hot (and electricity demand for AC was high) they had to shut down several reactors because the cooling river would have been over heated too much. People criticize renewable for not being available all the time (which is indeed a problem without storage) but here thankfully solar saved the day by being available when it was needed.

Last thing that people tend to forget when they criticize ecologists views on nuclear: part of many ecologist program is to make it so that we use less energy. Heating and cooling poorly insulated housing is wasteful and stupid. Having everyone having their own transportation mean rather than having collective and energy efficient transportation system or having housing too far from commodities such that people can't walk or bike to them is also wasteful. And AI... Bref, let's fix that then maybe we won't need that much nuclear power in the end.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-22 09:03:52+00:00
Physically I am (although not at the moment). Psychologically, I am not. I just have an aversion to pain, depression, anxiety, and incontinence. If you love any of these things, you do you.

If you are asking because I mentioned lack of euphoria, then no. I NEVER experienced euphoria from opiates, ever. Not even the first time I have taken it, and I did take enough of a dose that should have given me euphoria or the feeling of warmth and bliss which I have never experienced.

Why? There could be many reasons, but I suspect it has to do a lot with how psychiatric medications have messed with my brain AND I have brain lesions due to MS.
by simonask | 2025-09-22 09:04:48+00:00
The thing about this particular topic is that humanity has known this fact for millennia, not because we flew or went to space, but because we sailed. Any human who has watched ships come in to a harbor would be able to trivially tell you: We see the masts before the ship.

Where I grew up you can stand by the shore on a clear day and see the tree tops on the neighboring island, but not the beach. Sailing there, the beach emerges from the horizon.

The only way anybody can come up with "Flat Earth" is by living in the middle of a continental landmass.
by MezzoDelCammin | 2025-09-22 09:05:06+00:00
true. My original was just a quick jote on a phone sipping a coffee on Sunday. I admit I simply didn't want to go into the whole "square FOV for the sensor vs. one detector / diode and that combined with the time of flight loss over distance", so I just used "exponential" to mean "it loses power pretty quickly". Apologies for the sloppiness on my part.

Second part of the comment I omitted is was what You mentioned in the beginning. Those 20-30 meters of practical range is why we keep seeing small LIDAR sensors on things like iPhones / iPads (though there I believe the range is even a bit shorter due to the size / power constraints), but not really much beyond that.

For practical demo of what's currently available at the high end of solid state LIDAR (albeit at 40k+ USD), I'd suggest looking at Leica and their BLK2GO PULSE (solid state) vs the rest of the BLK line (rotating laser spot).
by progbits | 2025-09-22 09:05:30+00:00
> Slap a 429 [...] will soon learn what they're doing wrong.

Oh how I wish this was true. We have customers sending 10-100s requests per second and they will complain if even just one gets 429. As in, they escalate to their enterprise account rep. I always tell them to buy the customer a "error handling for dummies" book but they never learn.
by vkou | 2025-09-22 09:05:36+00:00
International law, basic common sense, and basic human decency recognizes that the welfare of people within the territory invaded by Israel is Israel's, not Egypt's responsibility.

Driving civilian populations out at gunpoint into neighboring countries is called a genocide.

(If I remember my history, there used to be a German word for that sort of thing, I think it started with an L...)
by CalRobert | 2025-09-22 09:05:38+00:00
If your point is on the semantics regarding the word “murder”, I’ll concede the point (though I still think driving dangerously, looking at a phone, etc where there are people walking and cycling is up there with “well I was bird hunting in downtown manhattan, I didn’t -mean- to hit anybody with buckshot!”).

But measures that separate kids from cars seem to be why kids are only a fifth as likely to be killed walking (and only a quarter as likely to be killed cycling) in 2003 vs in 1985 in the Netherlands. Do you propose an alternate causality?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1533510/
by Ezhik | 2025-09-22 09:05:46+00:00
(developer here)

Interesting to hear that you think this is the opposite of how Obsidian works. I specifically opted for this approach so that these note codes are entirely independent of Obsidian itself and can be ported over to other solutions.

The other way to do it would be to store note codes in some vault-specific storage, but then those codes would be tied to Obsidian, which worries me a bit.

That said, I do want to figure out a nice way to improve it. One idea I've had was to introduce a cache of sorts, so that the plugin will remember all the older codes a note previously had. Do you think this would help your use case?
by detaro | 2025-09-22 09:06:08+00:00
Led by the same party who when not in power cried loudly about how important it is to keep nuclear running, but in the 16 years it was in power before, when there would've actually been time to change things, didn't actually do anything except a small flip-flop once that cost the state billions in damages to the energy companies. It's just deeply unserious. They'll talk about how we should be open to nuclear, cut funding for renewables, give some money to some startups or consultancy firms and nothing will actually be built.
by arethuza | 2025-09-22 09:06:16+00:00
I had to use a Burroughs mainframe for development during the first year of my CS course in 1983 - might have been interesting hardware but the user experience was ghastly - some awful thing called CANDE = although I did get a laugh out of all of the references to the MCP.

In retrospect I do wonder if they did that so that when we moved to Unix machines later in the course we'd really appreciate them!
by lelanthran | 2025-09-22 09:06:42+00:00
> Do you only find it worthwhile to engage with unbiased content?

Of course not, but there's a huge difference between:

1. Pointing someone at (for example) a church's website when you are trying to support an argument against pro-choice, and

2. Pointing someone at the relevant wikipedia page

Both are biased in some way, but one of them is so biased that it is effectively useless unless you are already on board and in agreement with the argument.

> Having said that, what a strange question.

It's only a strange question to the people who are already ideologically aligned in that direction.
by trhway | 2025-09-22 09:07:35+00:00
>It committed to a $368 billion ($1 billion per month for 30 years) submarine deal with the US. This program will never deliver any perceivable value to Australian people

Ukrainians thought the same giving up nuclear weapons, and getting rid of a lot of other weapons, including old 300km range ballistic missiles, and selling off new missile development to Saudis or something like this - the kind of weapons mere presence of which would have affected the Russia's invasion calculations.

May be Australia would be better served by strategic weapons other than the submarines, yet i don't think Australia can avoid getting such strategic weapons or can get similar level of strategic defense cheaper.
Ask HN: Feedback on My Kubernetes/Cloud Native YouTube Channel (Kubesimplify)
by saiyampathak | 2025-09-22 09:07:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been running a YouTube channel called Kubesimplify(https://www.youtube.com/@Kubesimplify) where I try to simplify Kubernetes and Cloud Native concepts.

What started as small explainers for my smaller meetup group members which has now grown into ~42K subscribers and ~4M views. The focus is on:

- Breaking down Kubernetes fundamentals - Covering CNCF projects with practical demos - Sharing certification prep (CKA/CKS/CKS) - Exploring newer areas like running LLMs on Kubernetes

Here are a couple of example videos:

- Master SBOM Creation & Image Scanning for CKS Certification(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtP-opKqDRw) - Kubernetes course - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV47Oxwet6Y&t=1976s

I’d love feedback from this community:

- What topics in Kubernetes/Cloud Native are still confusing or underexplained? - How would you improve such a channel to be more useful for developers?

Thanks in advance, open to all criticism and ideas.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-22 09:08:46+00:00
> "illegally crossed the U.S. border"

What, precisely, does this mean? I don't think it means "crossed from Mexico or arrived on a small boat". I think it might actually mean "at the border interview, they said the purpose of their visit to the facility was 'business meetings' rather than 'work'", and the legality hinges on the precise knife edge of the W word.

It would be really, really useful to clarify exactly what the rules are for someone entering the US under a visa waiver for business purposes are, because I don't want to see my co-workers thrown in a gulag.
by wheybags | 2025-09-22 09:09:11+00:00
Maybe I should have made it more clear in the post itself but, what I was getting at is that windows is the last mainstream OS that is reasonably permissive. MacOS has gone too far down the walled garden road already, and besides, they never had decent backwards compatibility. And phones have just been dead from the start. Linux is too obscure, normal people never encounter in their daily lives unless they're already into tech. So, by process of elimination, there is only windows.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-22 09:09:22+00:00
It's simply a flyby, not a landing, which will likely happen in 2035 for them. NASA was laying out various plans for exactly this in the 60s, with a timeline of the first crewed flight to Mars somewhere between the mid 70s and early 80s. And it was completely viable. The only reason this didn't happen is because Nixon defacto cancelled human spaceflight in 1972, in part because he was worried that a loss of life in space would imperil his reelection chances. So we get to live in the timeline where space stagnated for decades.

The only fundamental tech we're missing is a heavier launch vessel, which we've already developed in the past - and have actively in development in the present via Starship. China is also developing their own super heavy vessels. But these developments taking 8 years is quite conservative. We went from practically nothing in 1962 (having only just put a man into orbit, and barely at that) when Kennedy gave his to the Moon speech. 7 years later in 1969 - we'd be landing on the Moon. And that landing posed far greater difficulties than just an extended flight, let alone when they were building from nothing, and we have all of this knowledge and prior experience to build from.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-22 09:10:21+00:00
this comment cracks me up because i’m the suburban kid who moved to NYC, loved it, had a kid, and continue to tease my parents for “ruining” my childhood.

Being trapped in your suburban neighborhood without access to a car is a special kind of hell. During the week mom and dad were too tired to drive me anywhere after work, unless it was urgent. Long commutes. Weekends were fun - sometimes.

There were SOME really awesome things about suburbia though. Snow days were the best.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-22 09:10:53+00:00
1. They don't.

2. As usual, the question doesn't really make sense in the context of the UK. The UK is far less diverse than the USA as a country: 80% of the population is ethnically white followed by 9% of Asian from former colonies.

3. Without affirmative action, Oxford is already noticably more diverse than the UK overall because it attracts applicant from all over the world. It's mostly true for Asian students but remains true for black students.