MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ziotom78 | 2025-09-10 20:16:27+00:00
They are so safe that nobody has ever attempted a terrorist attack against them since the first fission reactor (1941). Terrorists have targeted the Twin towers, the Pentagon, the White House, the Bataclan, Nice, but no fission reactors nor waste deposits. (If terrorists are reading this, I suggest them to plan an attack to the Baogang Lake [1], which is considerably less guarded and potentially more effective in terms of people killed.)

And if reactors are really so expensive (5 G€/reactor, while Italy spends 10 G€ per year in subsidies for renewables), why are Italians like me paying twice as much for electricity as the French, even though 70% of their energy comes from uranium and 0% of ours?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baogang_Tailings_Dam
by colinmorelli | 2025-09-10 20:16:35+00:00
This narrative isn't helpful. Even in this specific case, it's extremely unlikely anyone would have been able to get close enough to him with a knife to kill him without someone noticing.

Guns allow you to kill 1) multiple people, 2) from a distance, and 3) with nobody aware of the imminent threat.

Of course other weapons can also be used to harm people. Of course no solution is perfect. But it's absolutely incorrect to say "the problem isn't so much the tools." The tools undeniably and irrefutably play a role in every study that has ever been conducted on this topic.

See here for the impact of Australia's gun buyback program, which saw zero mass shootings in a decade after their removal, after 13 mass shootings in the 18 years prior the removal, as well as an accelerated decline in firearm deaths and suicides: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/12/6/365
by kevincox | 2025-09-10 20:16:39+00:00
> it is overly strict to require your main branch to be fast forwarded

But merge queues (talking in general, IDK about the mergify.com product specifically) don't require fast-forwarding as far as the developer is aware. In the simplest case it looks like merging (non-fast-forward) to a temporary branch, then only updating the main branch after tests pass. This is very similar to your auto-revert except the main branch is never broken, so no wasted developer time and confusion when they pull a bad commit to start their PR.

IMHO it is a real shame that all CI doesn't work like this. It should be the default. Just this basic delay and auto-revert is already a nice boost to developer productivity. Not to mention that blocking a merge in the original PR is much less confusing than reverting and requiring a fresh PR to make the change. It adds basically no complexity other than the fact that our tools aren't set up to work this way by default which ends up requiring extra tools which are not as well integrated.

On top of this you can add batching which can be incredibly useful when your CI is slow (including things like deploying to a staging environment and letting it soak for a few hours) which isn't feasible to do per-PR even for fairly small teams.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-10 20:16:52+00:00
"objectively the best place to live in the world rn"

I feel like you were just patronizing the crowd and this is pablum, but the US is one of the angriest, most dissatisfied countries on the planet. It always does poorly on happiness metrics, doesn't do great on corruption indexes, and has a median lifespan and child mortality rate more in the developing country range.

In no universe is there an objective reality where it's the best place to live.

But too much is made about deadly weapons. Every one of us has access to knives. Most of us drive 5000lb vehicles, with which a flick of the wrist could kill many. We all have infinite choices in our life that could take lives.

But we don't, because ultimately there are social issues at play that are simply more important than access to weapons. Loads of countries have access to weapons and it doesn't translate in murder rate at all.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 20:16:54+00:00
Since these towel dispensers are all over schools and other locations that likely get more traffic than that museum, either they are buying the good models which everyone in the business knows about, or they are choosing to buy the cheap ones because it is a better value despite having to replace them all the time. I don't buy such things so I'm not able to tell you which. I know that there are enough of them in the world that anything not robust would be well known quickly. (there is a possibility they bought something new that turned out bad, but then replace it once and done)
by panarky | 2025-09-10 20:17:27+00:00
Same here, but for API access to the big three instead of their web/app products, and Gemini also shows greater uptime.

But even when the API is up, all three have quite high API failure rates, such as tool calls not responding with valid JSON, or API calls timing out after five minutes with no response.

Definitely need robust error handling and retries with exponential backoff because maybe one in twenty-five calls fails and then succeeds on retry.
by klabb3 | 2025-09-10 20:17:31+00:00
Yeah, idk. That seems like an awful idea to me. I’m not sure why she would shoot with an iPhone for such a job unless she got paid by Apple. Some practical reasons:

- Such an important moment is something you often wanna blow up in a large/hi-res print.

- An ultrawide lens is suboptimal for portraits and usually makes the face look puffy from the perspective.

- Unless you know the exact color & aesthetic for the cover you want to preserve the raw capture for changes in post to match the vibe.

While I can certainly appreciate the casual and intimate vibe she’s going for, as a pro she could have brought any decent camera with a portrait lens and keeping the shoots equally short without compromising quality and adding risk for the poor layout person who has to work with it later.
by n8m8 | 2025-09-10 20:17:32+00:00
+1, I have a c4ai docker container + brave search MCP (2000 queries/mo free!) running on my laptop so I can ask claude code to do research similar to GPT deep research, but I config to ignore robots.txt since it's a one-off instance collecting data on my personal behalf, not a service (At least that's how I justify it)
by ray__ | 2025-09-10 20:18:04+00:00
Not parent, but in my opinion the answer here is yes. I agree that there is a real need here and a potentially solid value proposition (which is not the case with a lot of vscode-fork+LLM-based starups) but the whole point should be to combat the verbosity and featurelessness of LLM-generated code and text. Using an LLM on the backend to discover meaningful connections in the codebase may sometimes be the right call but the output of that analysis should be some simple visual indication of control flow or dependency like you mention. At a first look the output in the editor looks more like an expansion rather than a distillation.

Unrelated, but I don't know why I expected the website and editor theme to be hay-yellow and or hay-yellow and black instead of the classic purple on black :)
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-10 20:18:05+00:00
Helsinki in Finland proves Vision Zero be possible [1] and a number of European countries have gun policies [2] that basically restrict carrying guns to hunters, people in proven danger of life, police officers and special security guards, in addition to gun sports who can own, but can't carry outside of dedicated venues.

Objectively, my position is both serious and not just realistic, but actually lived reality here in Europe. You are free to visit our continent whenever you want, I can only recommend it.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/no-traffic-deaths-in-helsinki-finland-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation
by mrtksn | 2025-09-10 20:18:08+00:00
That's something I wonder about. Wouldn't people who believe in this stuff demand punishment for the publication and the witches?

Let's say it wasn't witchcraft thing but something more widely accepted like prayer session at mainstream church/mosque or something of this sort. Wouldn't the devout people see this as a contract killing? What if the soother says he felt possessed? Shouldn't then he be let go in a religious society?
by gaweringo | 2025-09-10 20:18:11+00:00
I found it quite useful. My main use case for it is managing the same dotfiles for Windows and Linux. Specifically that neovim uses different folders and I can set that per OS in dotter.

It also allows for including our not including a config based on an executable being available which can be useful. It requires some configuration, depending on how many of its features you use but I think it's worth it.
by GTP | 2025-09-10 20:18:11+00:00
Well, not 100% useless: I can see its use for applications running inside Docker containers. Yes, there are ways to have GUI applications rendered from the inside of a container, but maybe this is easier than getting the Dockerfile right.

EDIT: nevermind, doing this with Docker seems much easier than I expected [0]. I'll try it tomorrow, I'm curious to see if the proposed solution works on Windows as well.

[0] https://medium.com/@priyamsanodiya340/running-gui-applicatio...
by dylan604 | 2025-09-10 20:19:17+00:00
> If we can't see it why are we keeping it?

Does one get any better sense of something from seeing the original something vs a replica of the something? Does looking at the "original" copy of the constitution under all that glass do anything different than a replica under all of that glass? Would seeing the actual David statue impart any more anything than seeing a replica of it? If you say yes, why do you think any of that is the actual thing and not a replica? Just because they say so?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-10 20:19:38+00:00
Certainly I love CSV, too and agree with most of the reasons put forth in the blog post

But I tried the group's "CSV magician" program and was not impressed

https://github.com/medialab/xan

The table output seems very similar to sqlite3

It's a 20MB musl dynamically-linked executable (cf. 1.7MB statically-linked sqlite3 executable)

Most of the "suite" of subcommands seemed to be aimed at accomplishing the same stuff I can do with sqlite3, and, if necessary, flex

There seemed no obvious way too disable color

The last straw was it messed up the console

First freezing it and the pid was not visible with ps so I had to kill the shell

Then leaving me with no up/down or tab action

Yes I can fix this but I should not have to

I really want to keep an open mind and to believe in these rust console programs

But every time I try one it is a huge executable, an assault of superfluous color and generally no functionality that cannot be achieved with existing non-rust software

Even assuming I could get used to the annoying design, I like software that is reliable

Compared to the software I normally use, I cannot say these rust programs are equally as reliable

I also like software where I can easily edit the source to change what I do not like

These rust programs would require more resources and time to compile, messing around with a package manager and heaps of dependencies, plus a new language, with no clear benefit... b/c TBH I am not losing any sleep worrying that the small text processing programs I use are written in C; after all, the operating systems I use are written in C and that is not changing anytime soon
by afavour | 2025-09-10 20:19:53+00:00
Don't want to talk in bad taste by going to this so early, but... this extremely unfortunate event is going to be a very telling test for the media and society at large.

A Democratic state representative in Minnesota was brutally murdered and another attacked by the same man only a couple of months ago, back in June. How many can name them? How long did their deaths stay in the headlines? How much coverage were they given, and how much coverage will Kirk be given?

My cynical side suspects we are about to hear a lot about "violence from the left" in a way we did not about the right back in June.
by wizardforhire | 2025-09-10 20:19:53+00:00
I guess so, but thats the problem with language that isnt specific enough. What I feel people are discussing and what I was referring too was more properly called an illegal monopoly… technically having market domination is also a monopoly, but thats not a crime.

The Hypothetical Monopolist Test is a primary method used to define relevant markets in antitrust cases. It assesses whether a hypothetical monopolist could profitably impose a small but significant and non-transitory increase in price (SSNIP).

Steps in the Test Market Definition: Identify the relevant product and geographic market.

Price Increase Assessment: Determine if a hypothetical monopolist could raise prices without losing too many customers.

Iterative Process: If the price increase is profitable, the market is correctly defined. If not, the market definition is expanded to include substitutes.

To establish a monopolization claim, two main elements must be proven:

Possession of Monopoly Power: The firm must have significant and durable market power.

Willful Acquisition or Maintenance: The firm must have obtained or maintained this power through improper means, rather than through competition on the merits.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-10 20:20:32+00:00
Not necessarily.

A confounding factor is that construction and materials have gotten much more expensive. You aren't insured for what your house cost to build 20 years ago, you are insured for what it would cost to rebuild it after a disaster.|

The price of construction lumber quadrupled during COVID (it has since receded some), so all of a sudden the cost to frame a house went up by a significant margin, which means that the cost to insure against the future possibility of framing a house goes up too.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-09-10 20:21:34+00:00
I have become something of a statist over the years and I apparently annoy a whole lot of people, when I argue for not upsetting the status quo much further. Needless to say, this obviously is not a good thing if you share that perspective with me. This is actual political violence. And it has little to do with guns. If someone really wanted to get to the guy, one would. The issue is further societal deterioration in basic standards.

Let me reiterate. Violence is not the answer for one reason and one reason only. Once it starts and everyone joins, it will be very, very hard to stop.

edit: be
by samuel | 2025-09-10 20:21:34+00:00
GPT actions allowed mostly the same functionality, I don't get the sudden scare about the security implications. We are in the same place, good or bad.

Btw it was already possible (but inelegant) to forward Gpt actions requests to MCP servers, I documented it here

https://harmlesshacks.blogspot.com/2025/05/using-mcp-servers...
by paxys | 2025-09-10 20:21:42+00:00
The biggest barrier today would be that most people stream their music. So the new iPod would need 5G, which means increased price, carrier contracts etc. At that point it is close enough to a phone that it doesn't make sense as a standalone device.

And also, for people who really want to get away from their phone the Apple Watch is already a standalone music player.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-10 20:21:43+00:00
I took my 6 and 9 year olds to SFMOMA and they played along for about 20 minutes and then started rolling all over the furniture and complaining about being bored, despite my best efforts to engage them in discussions about the art pieces. I got them to settle for a while by playing pencil-and-paper games with them, but then I couldn't look at the art either.

A more extensive talk about ground rules wouldn't have helped. Kids aren't all the same, and most art museums aren't really designed to meet their needs.

(By comparison, they would be happy to spend all day every day at the Exploratorium, and the hardest part there is occasionally pulling one away from some exhibit so that the next kid can get a turn.)
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-10 20:22:04+00:00
Re: another of my comments it is that bit about the stock market which got me to think that this is about psychiatry instead of technology.

I can't entirely discount even the most egregious possibilities of backdoors in software and hardware constrained by: (1) the difficulty of maintaining a conspiracy with a large number of conspirators (the number of people who know about it must be small) and (2) almost a physical law that any device which falls into the hands of the enemy will give up any secrets it has, especially if many instances of that device are available. Granted, in many cases you can make a back door look like an accident, if it is a C program for instance you are going to make a "careless" mistake that introduces a stack or heap overflow.

The thing is that if the US chip industry is caught doing something like than then you will see Europe wake out of its slumber and create an Airbus of chipmaking, that kind of thing has consequences.

That bit about the stock market is a "tell"

Paranoia though is a thought process and it is not going to stop with one idea which may or may not be true but it just runs continously and I suspect if you interviewed this person for an hour you'd see this thought process go through multiple times. My experience with psychosis is that delusions run on rails and you rarely see new or creative delusions but rather a fascination with perpetual motion machines, cures for cancer, unified field theories and the stock market (not like... shitcoins, swaps, options, other derivatives) It's always the same thing and there's barely a pause where one of them ends and something else from the standard playbook begins. Had he not said that about the stock market I might have engaged with it at face value.

The OP really should seek medical help —- a person in this condition who doesn’t have good social support could easily lose their housing.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-10 20:22:07+00:00
> His intentions were good, thinking he was saving people from someone else who had bad intentions.

I find the characterization of the shooter having good intentions to be a bit too generous; the person he intended to shoot wasn't doing anything more threatening than just carrying a gun (as the shooter was also doing): https://bsky.app/profile/seananigans.bsky.social/post/3lrp66... . It wasn't being "brandished" or pointed at anyone.

I can't imagine any justifiable reason to fire a gun in such a thick crowd, when no one else has fired their weapon.
by threeducks | 2025-09-10 20:22:17+00:00
It should also be noted that PyTorch has a page about reproducibility: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html

TL;DR

Seed your PRNGs and call torch.use_deterministic_algorithms(True) to get the deterministic kernels. They may be slightly slower, but in practice, you probably will not notice.

Note that results will still differ between different drivers and GPUs. It would be great if NVIDIA tried harder in that regard.
by perihelions | 2025-09-10 20:22:41+00:00
Here's a mirror as that one has gotten moderated,

(Very, very graphic death) https://x.com/_geopolitic_/status/1965851790714482943 (not safe for life / NSFL)

[Graphic description] What kind of gun could that have been? Incredible amount of kinetic energy—you can actually see a hydraulic pressure wave oscillating through his entire chest. This was obviously fatal, if anyone wasn't sure. Probably died instantly, given the neurological "fencing" response (suggests spinal cord was hit—never mind the artery, he was already dead).
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-10 20:23:13+00:00
> It's hard for me to imagine what a good guy with a gun actually does in practice.

Something like this?

> A brutal stabbing at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, left 11 people injured on Sunday, but a much larger tragedy was averted thanks to the courage of two bystanders. Leading the charge was former Marine Derrick Perry, now hailed as a hero across social media.

Verified video shows the suspect cornered in the store’s parking lot, motionless as Perry kept him pinned at gunpoint until police moved in.

https://www.news18.com/world/hero-ex-marine-stops-walmart-st...
by hinkley | 2025-09-10 20:23:20+00:00
Those tend to be the ones that “get you” at an older age.

I’m sure there are going to be a lot of retired athletes interested in the metastatic melanoma results here of course, but bone or testicular/ovarian cancer hitting 25 year olds (eg, Lance Armstrong) is just kinda brutal.

And childhood leukemia is the biggest dick of them all.
by ALittleLight | 2025-09-10 20:23:32+00:00
First, just from a "danger" standpoint - more people in the EU die from heat than from guns in the US. And roughly 8 times more people die from cold than heat in Europe. So, I would say, that we live in an environment where our neighbors are armed the same way you live in an environment where you're often dangerously hot or cold - i.e. we get used to it.

Second, you can walk or drive on a street. Every passerby in a car could kill you if they wanted to by colliding with you. It rarely happens. Stand next to a tall ledge or overpass with crowds walking by and watch the teeming masses - you're unlikely to see any of the thousands of people walking by leap off to their end. Similarly, in life, even though basically anyone could kill you, it's very rare to encounter someone who is in the process of ending their own life, and killing you would basically end, or severely degrade, their own life. Almost nobody wants to do it.

Charlie Kirk is/was kind of an extreme example. He said many things that severely angered hostile people. He went into big crowds and said provocative things many times before being shot. I think in most situations you have to push pretty hard to get to the point where people are angry enough to shoot at you. If you can avoid dangerous neighborhoods and dangerous professions (drugs and gangs) and dangerous people (especially boyfriends/husbands) then you are pretty unlikely to be shot and you benefit from being able to carry guns or keep guns in your home to protect yourself and your family.

For one example, consider the "Grooming gangs" in the UK, where thousands of men raped thousands of girls for decades with the tacit knowledge/permission of authorities - and despite the pleas of the girls and parents for help. Such a thing could be handled quite differently in a society that was well armed. If the police wouldn't help you, you might settle the matter yourself.
by comprev | 2025-09-10 20:23:38+00:00
To clarify, I'm not working "crazy hours". I don't have a huge backlog of work that needs to finished.

I enjoy researching, building and solving interesting problems out of personal curiosity. There has never been any pressure on me to find a solution - many of the challenges are sometimes years old and teams just lived with the discomfort.

Sharing a possible way to remove this discomfort is often welcomed by the long-timer engineers out of curiosity to learn more - it's been a thorn in their side for ages!
by xwowsersx | 2025-09-10 20:23:45+00:00
Really dislike this. It risks sounding like a justification, because even if it only means someone will inevitably react violently, its vagueness makes it read as though violence is excusable or natural.

Not so. People can and should endure rudeness, even disgusting behavior, without throwing so much as a punch.

Our entire legal system is built on the premise that violence is not the natural/inevitable outcome of incivility. Courts, contracts, and laws exist precisely to channel disputes, insults, etc. into nonviolent processes.

If violence were the automatic consequence of rudeness, there'd be no point in having civil courts/workplace dispute procedures/defamation law... or even law enforcement protocols in general. The system assumes that people can and must respond to incivility without physical aggression and it punishes those who don't.