MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Gualdrapo | 2025-09-15 00:48:25+00:00
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by heavyset_go | 2025-09-15 00:48:39+00:00
These were dailies. I was either wearing an Acuvue brand or I had already switched to Daysoft, I forget.

I talked to my optometrist and they told me that most contacts are the same material, and bi-weeklies/etc are just slightly thicker for durability.

I was diligent about cleaning them, while at the same time being gentle so I didn't tear them. I was also very cautious about swimming with them, touching them or otherwise doing anything that might promote eye infections. Comfort-wise, they were fine, but it felt like they shrank slightly over time, if that makes sense.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-09-15 00:48:54+00:00
That's not actually what happened

They did a crackdown where if the name associated with the phone number on the account didn't match the name on the bank account then they froze it

Also they froze most accounts owned by foreigners with specific visas

It really had nothing at all to do with mule activity, they were using blanket heuristics
by gnabgib | 2025-09-15 00:49:41+00:00
Submitted 3 times in the last fortnight, popular in:

2017 (132 points, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14536158

2013 (160 points, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232248

2011 (198 points, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410744

2011 (157 points, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3400449
by jchw | 2025-09-15 00:49:51+00:00
I knew about the fact that bash behaves quite differently in POSIX mode, but that isn't much of a problem in most cases since nobody is forcing you to use a POSIX-compatible bourne shell as your login shell or for scripting, it's just the shell that you can guarantee will exist if something is POSIX compliant, right? If I were addressing bash, I would've said set -o posix instead of POSIXLY_CORRECT. (I didn't even realize POSIXLY_CORRECT did anything to bash.)

The GNU bash documentation covers the differences pretty well:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSI...

GNU coreutils however, the behavior differences seem rather minor, and I couldn't find exhaustive documentation. However, I may as well try to back this up with more than conjecture since we're already this deep in the thread. Let's dig into GNU coreutils and see what POSIXLY_CORRECT appears to do as of current git HEAD:

- cp: Allow the destination to be a dangling symlink when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.

- dd: Does not trap SIGINFO if it's equal to SIGUSR1 (default) and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. I guess this means that POSIXLY_CORRECT makes the `pkill -USR1 dd` thing not work?

- df: Use 512-byte block size if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, otherwise 1024.

- echo: POSIXLY_CORRECT disallows parsing options unless the first option is `-n`, and enables parsing "v9"-style interpretation of backslash escapes. Demonstration: `$(which echo) -e \\n`

- id: Will not print SELinux context even when --context is passed. Not sure why. This is the only thing I've seen that explicitly disables functionality.

- nohup: The exit code for internal failures is 127 instead of 125 when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.

- pr: Changes default date format when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.

- printf: POSIXLY_CORRECT disables a warning about ignored characters following a character constant. Demonstration: `$(which printf) %x "'xx"` - same output in both modes, but in POSIXLY_CORRECT you are not warned about the second x being ignored.

- pwd: Defaults to using -L ("logical" mode, uses $PWD value as long as it refers to the CWD) instead of -P.

- readlink: Defaults to --verbose if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.

- sort: Allow operands to be parsed after files if POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set.

- touch: Seems to disable some kind of warning when an invalid date is passed.

- uniq: Seems to be the same as sort.

- wc: Treats non breaking space characters as word delimiters, if POSIXLY_CORRECT is unset.

I believe this is an exhaustive list as of GNU coreutils f4dcc2a495c390296296ad262b5a71996d0f6a86.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-15 00:50:14+00:00
The language suggests to me that GitHub would be a covered app store and a FOSS Linux distribution without an age gate API would be illegal in California (along with all programs that don't check the age API, e.g. `grep`), so it seems quite a bit worse in terms of killing free speech and culture than requiring adult sites to check id to me.

Notably, a "covered app store" doesn't seem to need to be... a store. Any website or application that allows users to download software is covered. There's no exemption for non-commercial activity. So every FOSS repo and programs like apt are covered? The requirement is also that developers will request the signal. No scoping to developers that have a reason to care? So vim is covered? Sort? Uniq?

Honestly I can't believe big tech would go along with it. Most of their infrastructure seems like it would clearly be illegal under this bill. Either there's something extremely obvious I'm missing or every lawyer looking at this bill is completely asleep at the wheel.
by yardstick | 2025-09-15 00:50:51+00:00
What about paper bags? In the UK retailers have to charge for single use plastic bags. Clothes retailers hand out strong paper bags for free, and charge for plastic.

Supermarkets charge for plastic bags. Paper bags for fruit and veg work well. They also provide quality reusable bags that cost a small amount (£1 or so), and people actually reuse them.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-15 00:51:15+00:00
The overwhelming majority of American women old enough to be grandmothers use cake mixes. For that matter, professional bakers often use cake mixes, including my uncle, who insisted on Duncan Hines brand. But more importantly, this idea that grandmothers made everything from scratch is outdated at best. Making everything from scratch is like woodworking. It’s a great hobby, you get amazing products out of it, it makes for nice Instagram videos, but it only makes sense for people who enjoy the activity in itself. The rest of us are buying cake mix and premade furniture.
by Sparkle-san | 2025-09-15 00:52:36+00:00
Depending on the level of pedantry you want you could argue for either. Washington's measure went into effect first, on Dec 1st, 2013 while Colorado's went into effect on Jan 1st, 2014. Colorado opened retail shops that same day though while the first shops didn't open until July 2014 in Washington and they had a lot of initial issues around licensing leading to slower expansion.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-15 00:53:09+00:00
The carrying cost of a landlord is completely different than the carrying cost of a buyer with a mortgage. A landlord can charge a profitable rent on a property that doesn't even pay the mortgage interest if you were to buy it.

This is a common case. I recently sold a house with a mortgage where my carrying costs were far below that of any buyer of the house, meaning I could break-even renting at a rate that would leave a new buyer losing thousands of dollars per month. You'd be an idiot to not rent in that market but there is no shortage of buyers.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-15 00:53:12+00:00
She's upset that the recipes are different

If she's like my mother, she probably thinks of these recipes as a connection to her parents and grandparents. The importance is not in the finished dish, but in the history of this specific artifact, including: the hand writing, the original index cards, the references to the bowls she remembers as a little girl. I understand this. When I see my grandmother's recipes, hand-written in broken English, it makes me smile, because I can't not read it in my grandmother's voice. Ok, these aren't cakes and cookies, so there's no need to be precise, so I do the recipe updates in my head anyway.

When updating the recipe, consider this. If you're laying it out on paper, at least keep a reference to the original recipe, a photo, etc. I have a professional cookbook like this. It has excerpts from journals from the 18th or 19th century with the original recipe, and also recontexualizes them for today's ingredients, tools and techniques. You get both the history and the dish.
by latexr | 2025-09-15 00:53:57+00:00
Why don’t you bring plastic bags from home? They are very much reusable, you don’t have to throw them out. They are also quite easy to fold into small shapes and keep on you, or your car, or whatever. I have plastic bags which have endured for literal years. I also decided early on that if I forget to bring a bag, I either do without or have to go back to get one. You start remembering really fast after a few times of forcing yourself to go back.

Another thing you can do is just take a cardboard box from some product in the store. This may depend on country, but where I live the shops leave products on their transport boxes on the shelves. Walking around the store I can usually find one empty box, or maybe one almost empty that I can move the products from into another box for the same product next to it. Then I just take the box and use it to transport my groceries. Stores just throw those boxes out anyway, so they don’t care if you take them (I have asked). At this point it’s a bit of a game for me, to guarantee I always find a box. I have a personal rule never do anything that would make the lives of the workers harder in the process.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 00:54:20+00:00
The worst I could find said about TPUSA on thefire.org with a DDG search was an incident in which a professor had teaching assignments cancelled and the university later faced pressure from Senators to fire her (they allowed her contract to expire).

The same search found me multiple stories about universities denying recognition to TPUSA chapters.

FIRE is quintessentially liberal. Freedom of speech is the most fundamental liberal value there is, and education is where the free exchange of ideas is most values. American left-wingers (as judged by American standards) not liking that doesn't change what liberalism is; it informs what they are. There is absolutely a bias in FIRE coverage towards conservative and Republican organizations and ideas being suppressed. I have every reason to believe that this is because that's actually representative of what happens on American college campuses.
by LeonardoTolstoy | 2025-09-15 00:55:38+00:00
Maybe a nonsequitur but in grad school I was in a study group which naturally split into two. In one group (mine) we'd read a problem and immediately charge in, sometimes have to backtrack, and meander around until the answer revealed itself. In the other they would plan everything out, and figure out what they needed to do, and from that the answer would reveal itself and they would write it all down.

The interesting part is neither group really finished the problem sets faster than the other. Individual problems my group could, if we knew or guessed the right path immediately, be faster. But over the span of a 10 question p-set it would mostly come out in the wash and both groups would finish in roughly the same amount of time.

I often think back on that when reflecting on how I still work that way years later.
by Bender | 2025-09-15 00:55:43+00:00
The goverment agrees with you. They may soon be adding rules to permit data and GPS, as well as a new set of frequencies in the lower end of VHF for slightly longer range. There is also talk of allowing 100 watts on those lower previous cordless phone frequencies in addition to the existing 50 watts for UHF GMRS channels. Curious to see how this pans out when the dust settles.
by sgfhjdk | 2025-09-15 00:55:46+00:00
Dr. Amen has identified at least seven types of ADHD. I have three of them. I’m a slow thinker, but despite being detail-oriented, am not well-organized, make mistakes, am erratic, fairly unpredictable (if anyone needs me as an entropy source for a TRNG?), procrastinate, am on the autism spectrum, have OCD tendencies, have paranoia (also had hallucinations as side-effect of stimulants), am uncoordinated, have treatment-resistant depression, etc.

So, these “you are X, therefore Y” don’t work for me. A lot of people don’t fall into buckets well.
by pama | 2025-09-15 00:56:15+00:00
(Nearly) not concerned at all.

“Printing proteins” is a routine procedure since the late 70s and it included novel proteins or variations of existing proteins since the early days of recombinant synthesis. Insulin and growth hormones were some of the first practical applications.

Modern techniques mess with the print system of some cells to generate huge variability for specialized experiments. These proteins themselves are largely harmless or only viable in controlled conditions.

The type of research you can be a bit worried about is the one that involves designing entirely new contageous and airborne-transmissible viruses or perhaps other designer pathogens. If you only ever built a super hazardous protein, you would still need to find a virus to deliver it somewhere practical (or inject it, like insulin, if it works outside of cells) and then it falls to a different type of problem anyways. Viruses often only need to multiply to cause harm, so the dangerous parts of them are their injection, attachment, replication, or immune evation pieces and there is enough examples of these known from the study of existing viruses, so you dont really have much need of this type of computational tool.
by al_borland | 2025-09-15 00:56:20+00:00
How is dumping a cup of Krusteaz and water into a bowl producing more dirty dishes than adding flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt to the same bowl? A couple measuring spoons?

The upside of having the ingredients is that you don’t need to specifically plan for pancakes. You can make them at the drop of a hat, along with many other things, as long as you keep the staples on hand.

My mom always makes pancakes from scratch, and she seems to have them together in just a few minutes as well. Last time when she asked if I wanted some, I said I didn’t want to be a bother, and she went on about how easy they are.
by jongjong | 2025-09-15 00:57:07+00:00
I'm a decently fast thinker but a relatively slow learner. I'm good at synthesizing information. It's because I tend to naturally doubt/resist new information and I need to see some proof or utility value before I can fully absorb it. Once I've absorbed information, I can recall it years in the future and can synthesize it with different related information.

I'm grateful for my slow learning because if I had just absorbed everything I was ever told on the first go, I would probably be crazy right now because of how many contradictions I've encountered in the information I've been presented with and how often I've had to re-evaluate my worldview...

You don't want to learn stuff based on what you learned first; what information you retain and decide to build upon should be about what best fits into your existing (hopefully gradually improving) world model.
by archagon | 2025-09-15 00:57:15+00:00
The comments here are making some odd assumptions:

1) That buying implies owning your own top-to-bottom house, with no adjacent neighbors.

2) That renting necessarily comes with arbitrary rent increases and risks of eviction.

3) That mixed communities of buyers and renters are uncommon.

None of these is necessarily true if you live in a city, depending on the city. It sounds like a lot of people are actually comparing “living in an apartment/condo” to “moving out to the suburbs,” not renting vs. owning.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-09-15 00:57:54+00:00
Following CT (without relying on a third party service) right now is a scale problem, and increasing scale by at least another order of magnitude will make it worse.

I was trying to process CT logs locally. I gave up when I realized that I'd be looking at over a week even if I optimized my software to the point that it could process the data at 1 Gbps (and the logs were providing the data at that rate), and that was a while ago.

With the current issuance rate, it's barely feasible to locally scan the CT logs with a lot of patience if you have a 1 Gbps line.

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/14/rfc-6962-logs-eol states "The current storage size of a CT log shard is between 7 and 10 terabytes". So that's a day at 1 Gbps for one single log shard of one operator, ignoring overhead.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-15 00:58:39+00:00
This is almost an amazing thing. Some common top-level way to set parental controls across systems would be a godsend. That’s all a giant pile of time-wasting shit right now.

However, any system that just uses age is useless. They’re always excessively cautious, so you may as well just not provide access at all for kids between the ages of 6 and 12 or so, if that’s all you have.

No, block all + allow lists are still where it’s at. Please make those work better.

(If anyone knows the magic to make Minecraft [java] work with macOS allowlist-only network access, I’d love to know what it is. The fucking launcher wants to talk to a half-dozen bare IP addresses to work, and the addresses change seemingly every single launch, from a pool of what must be many hundreds, at least, it’s completely unusable)
by yellowapple | 2025-09-15 00:59:17+00:00
> It's one of those environmental slam dunks with zero downsides

In relation to directly burning oil for fuel, yeah. In relation to other disposal methods, there's still the pretty major downside of being dependent on a non-renewable resource, in addition to…

> (Before you ask: Modern incinerators do not release any toxins from burning plastic, none.)

Greenhouse gas emissions are still an issue, though, no? Or do the incinerators capture that?
by aaronbrethorst | 2025-09-15 01:00:08+00:00
False Claim 28: Wind energy is unreliable

As with solar energy, complete reliance on wind energy would pose intermittency challenges. However, wind, solar, and storage together can provide the majority of the country’s electricity without compromising reliability

The false claim they're rebutting is that because wind is unreliable, we shouldn't deploy wind turbines for clean energy generation. They stipulate that it is a great part of a package of renewables.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-09-15 01:00:56+00:00
Good for you? Most flatware is sold in a set for four seats and not with 4 different kinds of forks and spoons. One fork, two kinds of spoons, and a blunt knife times 4 seats is 16 pieces. Steak knives are sold separate, and those are almost never silver.

You might say that porcelain made earthenware obsolete, cheap glass makes porcelain obsolete, or plastic makes everything obsolete, or stainless is chemically better than everything else. People like what they like. I think you all have a pathological obsession with this issue and telling people that their choices suck lol.
by al_borland | 2025-09-15 01:01:51+00:00
Shrinkflation has been a thing for a long time. It goes in cycles. They shrink everything to preserve their profits in lean times, then in a few years they will compete with each other by adding the product back. You’ll see boxes with labels like, “now with 20% more ______!” All they’re doing is giving back the product they took during the shrinkflation era and acting like they’re doing you a favor.
by DimmieMan | 2025-09-15 01:01:56+00:00
Leavener example might be genuine tweak because they thought it would be better but it could easily be cheapening of ingredients which is a problem with premade mixes too.

The box might be the same volume but i'd expect most mixes wouldn't taste the same these days either. Any mix with chocolate in particular has had the cocoa quantity + quality reduced to the point I can often barely taste it because it's such a comparatively expensive ingredient.

Who else has family recipes with "can of X"? that can of soup from 50 years ago is not the same as today for the worse. I know one of my parents recipes will be gone forever if the creamed corn they use is discontinued or changes to be like every other brand.
by shoo | 2025-09-15 01:02:56+00:00
Also: Taxation and government subsidies.

Many countries tax systems give home owners preferential tax treatment for the primary home. I'll give an example from Australia:

The Australian age pension is means tested - there's a test of both income and assets. If your income and/or assets are too high, you get no age pension. But homeowners benefit from special treatment: A retired couple who own a home are eligible for the full aged pension if their assets excluding the value of their home are worth at most AUD 481.5k. A retired couple who are not homeowners are eligible for the full aged pension if their assets are worth at most AUD 749.5k.

For the purposes of getting a public funded aged pension or not, the value of the home is deemed to be about AUD 270k regardless of its actual market value -- contrast that with the median price of a home in Sydney being about AUD 1.6m!

Back of the envelope comparison:

Retired couple with paid off house worth $1.6m in Sydney, budget of $5k / yr for council rates and insurance + $16k/yr (1% of $1.6m median home value, say) as budget for home maintenance. Suppose our couple also have $481.5k in financial assets outside of the home generating a 4% real return, the max amount they can have as homeowners for the full age pension. Gross income from financial assets and full aged pension is $60,470. Housing costs are 35% of gross income, leaving 65% of gross income -- $39,470 to pay non housing living expenses.

Compare with a retired couple in Sydney who have the same net worth -- $2081.5k -- except all in financial assets, not home owners. Suppose they rent a 2 bed apartment in Sydney at $900 / week. They are not eligible for any age pension as their non-home financial assets exceed the means-tested assets cap of $1.37m for a part pension for a couple who don't own a home. Their gross income from financial assets, assuming a 4% real return, is $83.26k. Their housing costs from renting are $46.8k / yr, leaving them with $36,460 to pay non housing living expenses.

So, of the two couples with identical net worths, the couple with most of their wealth concentrated in the $1.6m sydney house has about 8% extra cash to spend on non housing living expenses, and gets to enjoy the benefit of living in a house vs a 2 bed apartment, and also enjoys the additional stability in their retirement years with no way a landlord can suddenly force them to move.

The calculation above ignores income tax. But - if we assume both couples have their financial assets parked in tax advantaged retirement accounts (Australia's superannuation system), then their retirement income streams from these financial assets is tax free, and although the age pension is taxable income, the couple receiving the age pension wouldn't expect to pay any income tax, due to the tiered progressive tax rates and additional tax offsets for seniors and pensioners.
by sealeck | 2025-09-15 01:03:00+00:00
If you read the claim they are addressing, it is specifically that

> Because of the wind’s intermittency and high variability, they do next to nothing to reduce the need for other fuels.

They then (correctly) point out that while wind on its own obviously doesn't work, it is still valuable as part of a grid system (with other sources of power).

Note that what they say (i.e. "as with solar energy, complete reliance on wind energy would pose intermittency challenges") is not agreeing with the statement, as the statement is that it does "next to nothing" and their argument is that it does a lot, when combined with other power sources.