MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RajT88 | 2025-09-30 20:56:28+00:00
This is old hat. There are many Wikipedia alternatives which are based on the idea that Wikipedia is not conservative/hilarious/libertarian enough:

Let's take a spin through what the various Wikis have written about Musk:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

https://www.conservapedia.com/Elon_Musk

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Elon_Musk

http://www.scholarpedia.org/ - no Musk article

https://citizendium.org/wiki/Elon_Musk - nothing here (yet)

... and so on.

Honorable Mention to Encyclopedia Dramatica which had some funny parody content.
by bluecalm | 2025-09-30 20:56:31+00:00
We (in most EU countries) don't have representatives. Parties have representatives. To be listed on a ballot you need to be with good standings with your party and get chosen by them. Then various method ensure that you can't be elected if you are not a member of a party (anyone from a party below 5% is not getting in for example).

This means officials only care about what their party leaders tell them to do, not what voters think because voters matter very little to them. That's why American "contact your representatives" does very little here - they are not your representatives, they are representatives of party leaders.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-30 20:56:49+00:00
That is a very dangerous step. Do you trust the military to install someone better, or at least someone more willing to live within the bounds of the constitution and the rule of law? Likely yes.

But once that precedent is set... do you trust the next military overthrow to install someone who will keep the constitution?

That's the problem with throwing out the rules to solve the current crisis (for any value of "the current crisis"). Now you have the precedent that the rules can be thrown out, and the next power-hungry wannabe will see that as a path that can be exploited.

And that's the problem with Trump. He has established the precedent that the normal rules can be run over, as long as you do it as a speedrun. That precedent - that demonstration - will remain, even after Trump is gone.

So all we have left is minimizing the damage. Does having the military overthrow him minimize the damage? It stops the damage he's doing, true, but it does its own damage.
by blktiger | 2025-09-30 20:56:56+00:00
For me I mostly use Duolingo as a mechanism to encourage myself to spend time learning each day. I find that it's helpful for reviewing a lot of basic vocabulary, but I typically supplement it with other stuff (listening to music, watching shows, youtube language channels, AI conversations, etc). I find I make the most progress when I choose to do things that are challenging which Duolingo really is not.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-09-30 20:57:05+00:00
Yes. However in the US at least, the California job case was much more popular in the 20th century and it moved the capitals to the right of the "lower case" letters rather than above them. Nevertheless during the years when I was a typesetter we still called them "upper case" and never "right case".

If you buy an old typecase at an antiques store in the US, 99% of the time it will be a California job case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_job_case
by ghaff | 2025-09-30 20:58:07+00:00
That is, in no small part, because business/first class is being subsidized by economy (and a lot of the passengers in those classes are status upgrades).

So, yes, sticker price for upper class service is pretty expensive. In a world where upper class service was the norm on certain routes on certain planes it would probably be pretty expensive but probably cheaper than the upgrade on mixed class service.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-30 20:58:20+00:00
I dont know the direct answer to your question, and am not a Doctor nor researcher... but using a generally applicable health pattern -- it's important not to equate acute anything with chronic anything. Eg: Acute fat loss via exercising while fasting does not seem to relate to body composition changes over 12 weeks. Similarly the self protective process of hormesis seems to actually create greater health - like reactions to heat from sauna usages for example.
by koverstreet | 2025-09-30 20:58:52+00:00
I need to write up a proper patreon post on all this stuff, because there's a lot of misinformation going around.

No, I was not "ignoring the merge window". Linus was trying to make and dictate calls on what is and is not a critical bugfix, and with a filesystem eating bug we needed to respond to, that was an unacceptable situation.
by ashu1461 | 2025-09-30 20:59:21+00:00
Hasn't Tim Apple done his share by releasing apple watch and airpods, which have been good successors to other ancillary products which apple had earlier (ipad / ipod).

And right now as well, no laptop comes close to the overall experience that the Mac provides so he has been able to maintain market leadership.

Far better than Zuck for whom the only source of innovation has been acquisitions rather than releasing original products.
by smitty1e | 2025-09-30 20:59:23+00:00
Stand by for Elon and Grokipedia:

"We are building Grokipedia @xAI.

Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.

Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1972992095859433671
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-30 20:59:32+00:00
Easy way to understand the code: have your AI write tests for it. Especially the gnarliest parts.

Tests prevent regressions and act as documentation. You can use them to prove any refactor is still going to have the same outcome. And you can change the production code on purpose to break the tests and thus prove that they do what they say they do.

And your AI can use them to work on the codebase too.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-30 20:59:34+00:00
Yeah, same for me using Assimil for French (along with a few other tools). Six months in I could read L'Étranger in French.

My next project once I can pass the C1 test is to use their French -> Spanish course. I kind of recommend them to anyone that will listen, as their method worked really well for me.
by kimixa | 2025-09-30 20:59:40+00:00
The US has always claimed jurisdiction on foreign-hosted but US-accessible content.

Do people forget the owner of Megaupload being extradited? In many ways this is just catching up to the current US state.

And there's a lot of confusion here between basic consumer data protection laws and (IMHO massively overreaching) "Online Safety" laws. This isn't Imgur making a stand for free speech, this is Imgur wanting to track and sell user data - to which minors cannot consent. Putting on my tinfoil hat you could argue that many of these companies are trying to encourage this misunderstanding intentionally.
by georgeburdell | 2025-09-30 20:59:46+00:00
I was taking a lot of Ibuprofen due to frequent illnesses while simultaneously needing to be healthy. I started to get terrible heartburn that caused me to hunch over at times. Tried dietary changes. Finally, I happened to read that this and ulcers is a side effect of NSAIDs. Switched to acetaminophen, and was generally more judicious about taking fever meds, and I haven’t had heartburn in months now.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-30 21:01:30+00:00
> In fact the speed of innovation is, pretty much, equal to the speed of maintenance.

Instead, the most important innovation are the ones that reduce maintenance needs.

Automating farms, moving mechanical computation into general purpose processors, simplifying science theories so that people can learn in a semester stuff that took decades to mature... All of those have a tremendous impact. All of those speed everything up, and make room for more innovation to appear.
by stoddardj2 | 2025-09-30 21:01:32+00:00
Bills can change, Splitify tracks costs each billing cycle using your bank account and then sends out a request with latest amount via email AND text. Plus it sends reminders until you get paid. No more checking utility sites and manual split calculations. Set up once, and forget forever. Splitify also tracks payment history and alerts you when any overdue payments are detected, bringing you peace of mind.
by timr | 2025-09-30 21:01:58+00:00
> This is not a mainstream view of the science, and it's worth noting that this perspective is also not supported by the OP or by the JACC article that it's citing.

Your comment is an appeal to authority. While I have my problems with characterizing statins as dangerous drugs, the article is not particularly spicy. In particular, this part:

> Because the link between excessive LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease has been so widely accepted, the Food and Drug Administration generally has not required drug companies to prove that cholesterol medicines (such as statins) actually reduce heart attacks before approval. So drug companies have not had to track whether episodes like heart attacks are reduced.

...is true, and controversial only amongst people who don't know the evidence. Which, unfortunately, is many doctors and "experts".

In general, saying any variation on "experts disagree" is not a rebuttal to a question of medical evidence. You would perhaps be surprised to know how many practicing physicians have no idea what level of evidence backs the drugs that they prescribe.
by Root_Denied | 2025-09-30 21:02:07+00:00
"Investment" here seems to be operations and personnel, resulting in taxes going to the UK government.

They aren't making $630 billion per year in money off of those companies, but the operating income means they're getting taxes on that $630 billion (income tax from company and employees, VAT for purchases, etc.) and the personnel working in the UK are probably spending most of that money in the UK (velocity of money theory comes into play here).

The resulting economic benefit for the UK government is enough that they'd notice the drop if all that started to transition away.
by znpy | 2025-09-30 21:03:12+00:00
> I've also seen less and less passion for the career as the years go by (ie. less computer nerds).

Ah, yes, the passion thing. I'm not being sarcastic, i see this as well.

I saw the shift happening in the 2010s, and I attribute this to essentially two things:

- social media and the glamourification of computer programming (and related things)

- the startup craze of the early 2010s (everybody and their dogs wanted to develop an app or start up a company, and money was flowing left and right from more-or-less clueless investors).

In a way, I'm happy that money is tight right now, deep down I hope the computer programming/science scene goes back to people driven by passion and money rather than just money.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 21:03:21+00:00
1. Modern airliners with fly by wire have capability similar to MCAS the difference is it is not half baked but has numerous degraded states it can run in when sensors are out and pilots are trained on all that. Any new airplane will have that under the name “flight envelope protection”

2. The circular cross section is anti-human and is the reason my neck knots up when I think of getting in any plane of that class. Embraer E-Jets and the A220 are smaller but feel like riding in a wide body because the cross section is squared off, you have to fly it to believe it.

3. Airbus has a A320 replacement, they bought it from Bombardier. It’s a little told story that aviation in the US is hamstrung by union scope clauses that forbid the 70 seat airplanes that would improve service at small airports, relieve congestion at large airports, and lessen some of the painful trends in regional geography that have made politics so toxic. (a) Planes like the A220 could be part of that solution.

4. What I don’t get is the involution (excessive competition) over wide body airliners coupled with poor competition in the much larger narrow body market, especially when narrowbodies have been increasingly doing wide body jobs

(a) when organizations in my town do a SWOT analysis they almost always put the bad state of the local airport as a disadvantage they have relative to competitors —- the county and state would spend money to improve what they can but it comes down to out-of-town airlines that have their own priorities, a pilot shortage, etc.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-09-30 21:03:45+00:00
I agree. It will absolutely get there. Such is the trend of all scientific inventions. A breakthroughs occurs, prosperity follows in response, hedonic adaption causes satisfaction to regress to the mean, and then people squeeze every remaining drop of value out of the technology while we wait for those capable of true innovation to work their magic once more. I don't find it idyllic, but I accept it as the way the world works. It feels like a force of nature to me.

The period we're in is fleeting. I think it should be acknowledged and treasured for what it is rather than viewed with disdain because of what is inevitably to come. I stopped using Facebook and never moved to Insta/TikTok when things began to feel too extractive, but, for a good decade there, I felt so close to so many more people than I ever thought possible. It was a really nice experience that I no longer get to have. I'm not mad at social media. I'm happy I got to experience that window of time.

Right now I'm very happy to be using LLMs without feeling like I'm being preyed upon. I love that programming feels fresh and new to me after 15 years. I'm looking forward to having my ability to self-express magnified ten-fold by leveraging generative audio/visuals, and I look forward to future breakthroughs that occur once all these inventions become glorified ad-delivery mechanisms.

None of this seems bad to me. Innovation and technological progress is responsible for every creature comfort I have experienced in my entire life. People deserve to make livings off of those things even if they weren't solely responsible for the innovation.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-09-30 21:04:11+00:00
It's not though.

To get a statin you have to go to the doctor, get a blood test, get a prescription for the statin, and start taking it, get blood retested, adjust dose (possibly), etc. Then you have to go to the pharmacy, pay for it and take it every single day.

To exercise you literally have to walk for 30 minutes. That's it.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-09-30 21:04:29+00:00
CRP is a protein produced by the liver in response to inflammation. Elevated CRP levels indicate inflammation in the bodY.

High levels of CRP are associated with high levels of oxidative stress.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15585208/

Inflammation is a synonym for high levels of oxidative stress. Keep your oxidative stress low and you will not get heart disease.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-30 21:04:40+00:00
from the heartandstroke.ca

> Grains (mainly whole grains): 7-8 servings > 1 slice bread

Who the heck is eating 7-8 slices of bread -- A DAY??? (or the equivalent)... Of a healthy bread that's about 900 calories just from breads...

That's like 2 bowls of cereal for breakfast, 2 sandwiches for lunch, and 2 servings of pasta for dinner, whoa.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-30 21:04:50+00:00
I did DD on that for another group of investors and caused them to walk away. Interestingly, they too were scammers but of a completely different level.

I think the 'inventor' (loose use of the term, nothing really got invented) was a true believer, he basically thought that if only he could get his hands on some capital that he would be able to make it work. He simply did not have the background required to see that it could never work in the way that he proposed. Nicely faked demo though :)

I would do a write-up if I didn't think the case was more of a sad one than of someone trying to rip off investors, Jan Sloot just wasn't that kind of guy from my interaction with him. Maybe he did invent something: "Fake it before you make it".
by rpns | 2025-09-30 21:05:26+00:00
There is a bit more detail on these pages:

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

No full detail though. Having said that, the second link is particularly interesting as it goes though various companies with comments about each.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-30 21:05:35+00:00
That mindset is inevitably going to leave you in a ditch though. Either you run out of suppliers for the chip that are willing to produce on a shitty inefficient old node under certified conditions (mostly because it inevitably gets really expensive to keep the machines for production running!), or you run out of developers able and willing to write code for these old designs where the toolchain probably is also certified and has nowhere near close to the bells and whistles of modern IDEs or the automatic benefits from modern programming languages such as pointer safety.

Anything should have a replacement budget and timeline attached.
by iamnothere | 2025-09-30 21:06:19+00:00
> tell the site to clean up its act or it’ll get blocked from the US

Yes, that would be fine, as it would be here.

What I have a problem with is nations saying that a site built and hosted in a totally different country with a different set of laws and norms is “illegal” globally. Yes, I don’t like it when the US goes after people like The Pirate Bay abroad either, but that’s a result of the US being able to bully other countries for whatever reason it wants to. (That also needs to change.)

If Europe or the UK wants to protect its citizens, it should either block websites that it sees as a threat (as most of the EU does with RT) or it should come up with a scheme where ad networks with nexus in the EU must stop doing business with them. Attempting to reach across borders into the US to change US domestic norms is going to get them a well-deserved slap in the face.
by stackskipton | 2025-09-30 21:06:51+00:00
Uber was a Business trying to gain a market share in hopes to cement itself as competitor or even become monopoly. It's also clear Uber was building massive ride hailing network so when self-driving cars became a thing, out with human drivers, in with computer drivers. Obviously, that didn't happen.

Government does not really have that. All their businesses have 100% market share so to run it profitable, they would have to stop doing unprofitable thing. Like providing healthcare to poor people or delivering from Hawaii to some rural area.
by prats226 | 2025-09-30 21:07:21+00:00
Reason I felt like they are closely connected are because for designing tools for lets say coding agents, you have to be thoughful of context engineering.

Eg linear MCP is notorious for giving large JSONs which quickly fill up context and hard for model to understand. So tools need to be designed slightly differently for agents keeping context engineering in mind compared to how you design them for humans.

Context engineering feels like more central and first-principle approach of designing tools, agent loops.
by ripley12 | 2025-09-30 21:07:26+00:00
Similar approach as MCPCat (telling agents to specify context about why a tool was called in special tool arguments): https://mcpcat.io/

I don't love it (potential privacy issues, and it makes the user's agent spend more tokens), but I don't think there's a better approach right now. Would be great if someone took the time to add an observability mechanism to the MCP spec itself.
by mcv | 2025-09-30 21:07:38+00:00
> It was supposed to be an encyclopedia, not an activist manual or propaganda organ but in many ways it has turned into the latter.

Can you give examples where it's an activist manual or a propaganda organ? My impression is that everything is well-sourced and fairly reliable. At least, more so than the vast majority of information sources on the Web.

Although I suppose on some level, there is something inherently left-wing about a free, common, public source of information that's accessible and editable by anyone, whereas conservatives would probably prefer to privatize and commercialize it.

But I guess it's good that conservatives also see the value it in.
by burkaman | 2025-09-30 21:07:45+00:00
Brought to you by the same guy that eliminated all non-English content from the HUD website (https://x.com/SecretaryTurner/status/1961153998330695765). Shortsighted thinking, he could have lied to a lot more people if he hadn't done that.

Also, is the main image on the front page (https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Main/images/headerheadernew...) AI-generated? It's very strange-looking.
by timr | 2025-09-30 21:08:10+00:00
> appeals to authority have some merit, you know.

No, they don't. If you don't know enough to argue on the merits, don't argue. A count of opinions is not an argument.

> sneaking a random controversial take into a comment thread as if it was fact without noting that it's contentious is disingenuous.

And again, you're justifying your judgment and dismissal based on hearsay. Saying "I refuse to believe it because experts disagree" is fine if you're unable or unwilling to look into an issue yourself, but in that case you have to realize you're basically ignorant.

I realize that we all go through life taking most things on faith, but that also means that you should not cling to the opinions of others as a substitute for thought.
by nemomarx | 2025-09-30 21:08:17+00:00
That's part of immersion or comprehensible input, yeah.

Watching lots of hours of something in a language works so long as you know at least enough vocab and grammar to mostly understand it. To get there stuff like spaced repetition seems good

but the "hack" comes down to putting in hours doing all that and doing the groundwork too, essentially. you can only speed it up so much
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-30 21:08:47+00:00
> Whose laws need to be followed?

The ones where you reasonably believe your customers are based, and where your employees are based.

Lets be honest, 1% of your customer base using a VPN is not going to cause you issues, unless those people are uploading something that would cause the state to act (ie CSAM, fraud, drugs, terrorism, you know the big four.) Given that this is the ICO, and nor OFCOM, we know its to do with GDPR violations, not moderation.

its not like the ICO just sent an email saying "lol you're being fined, bye". They will have had a series of communications, warnings asking for reasonable changes, time lines for change.

The ICO has discovered that Imgur are breaking GDPR in a fairly big way and in a way that can be easily detected by an understaffed and over worked semi-independent organisation.

moreover breaking GDPR in a way that is obvious enough in a court of law[1], bearing in mind that the UK, just about has a working independent and largely neutral judiciary that isn't easily intimated into doing the governments whipping.

[1] the ICO doesn't tend to be showy.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-30 21:08:54+00:00
Man this is really a great comment that I just read and I agree soo much about the maybe a rebirth of Foss that targets our base instincts can arise.

I think that a very solid (energetic) discussion can take place on that too and its just a pleasure that even now, to me, this is full of energy and maybe mimics a sense of spirit of that energy the parent comment was referring to.

I actually wanted to share that energy and I really read this comment and recorded myself a video of reading this whole text from start just to reach your post which I know isn't going to get anywhere but I just wanted this message to be beyond this thread. It definitely gave me some new insights and was a fun exercise in making me less shy around the camera. I want to create memes like burialgoods/anything to really spread this message in sorts and other messages too regarding open source. There is so much to be done :)

But I also want to do it in a hopeful way, we can come with terms on things, we should and try to advocate for the rebirth of Foss as you say.

It genuinely makes one feel a bit hopeless but I think that the approach of looking at the uncomfortable and then still wanting a rebirth/fighting for it is something worth looking for in our lifetimes.