MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-18 16:28:44+00:00
> The politicians, in this case Republicans, will continue to attempt to chip away at it, but will find little success in the long run. The First is clear on this matter and only a new Amendment can change it at this point.

Law is not self-executing, it is enforced by humans, and if you make the law very hard to change on paper, it just becomes easier to change the people enforcing it than the law on paper. All it takes is a single faction controlling the Senate and White House with sufficient commitment to an issue to make it a judicial litmus test for long enough to get a compliant majority on the Supreme Court to make the Constitution do anything they want, regardless of what it says.
by Arathorn | 2025-09-18 16:28:49+00:00
> There's only the synapse server

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/

> and there's literally no way to trim data from the db in synapse or everything breaks.

https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/purge_...

https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/message_retentio...

https://github.com/matrix-org/rust-synapse-compress-state
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-18 16:29:25+00:00
Conversations are rarely about saying truthful things, and mostly about societal theatre that is supposed to leave both parties feeling better. Nobody cares that you're deaf, what you're expected to do is to react in a way that makes the other person feel good. I don't like this either, but that's how, for the lack of better word, "normies" function.
by mjrpes | 2025-09-18 16:30:48+00:00
Is this always the case?

I prefer what Windows 11 has done with settings being a simple two panel window with categories on left and scrollable settings on the right, with a search/filter bar at top. As you drill deeper you have a breadcrumb at top allowing you to see the levels you are in and click to go back up. This also allows space for descriptions of what each setting does. It could even be improved by allowing users to pin commonly used settings.

This seems overall more simple and cohesive compared to the old Windows control panel with icons and nested settings being popups within popups within popups. It also allows easier scaling and viewing depending on DPI, screen size, resolution, etc.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-09-18 16:30:53+00:00
> When they’re procrastinating a task that is fun “my ADHD is flaring up today”.

I mean, our industry is filled with people of all ages with ADHD (arguably because it’s one of the few industries where you can succeed while having severe ADHD), GenZ folks are just more likely to admit it in public where older millennials are more likely to either be quiet about it or ignore the fact that they are subject to it.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-18 16:31:17+00:00
> when you say "them".

When I say "them" it is in reference to the statements made in the wake of political violence. You hear a lot of mentions of "them" from pundits and politicians. It's a cowardly way to let the viewer fill in whatever they want for "them", "the left", "maga", "antifa", "globalists", etc.

What were the killer's motivations? I haven't been paying close attention.
by zerkten | 2025-09-18 16:31:41+00:00
Slack has been acquired. It's the same with all of these big tech companies. There is a period after acquisition where things appear to stay the same. The reality is that the real work is now happening. Operations are being studied to understand how to fold the acquisition into the parent company.

The shadow IT model isn't the dominant one in the space where Salesforce play. They used that to a degree too when they were small, but they now lean towards enterprise sales. Shadow IT is sold as a risk by them. Want something secure, safe, and compliant? Work with us because we'll sign up to these things contractually (even if delivery is questionable.)

This means that a slack salesperson has to choose between targeting a department and pissing off IT versus working on a company-level deal. This changes behavior significantly. It also changes lots of the economic expectations. Previously, these little deals here and there could add up. On top, you might get credit from driving engagement. Now you carry a much larger quota where engagement is important in practice, but not in how sales is executed.

This drives the behavior you see here. Someone is reevaluating each of the current deals with this new lens. In practice, they can maximize revenue with these bullying tactics. Many times, in the enterprise space, it's better for a customer to be cut off, or give up, even if this is temporary. The intention is for the customer to return and agree to different terms even if the financials are adjusted to something more favorable.
by mirzap | 2025-09-18 16:31:45+00:00
I tried it multiple times and never felt it was as good as people claimed it to be. Not sure if anything changed lately, but from the screenshots, I get the same vibe. Used Ubuntu for the last 15y, but now tried Arch (omarchy) with hyprland (I never heard about hyprland before), and that one felt natural for me. Had some issues (same as on Ubuntu), but resolved them (Nvidia card). Super happy now, I barely use my Mac now.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-18 16:31:53+00:00
Not necessarily disagreeing, but I'm not sure automotive HUD technically qualifies as one.

Airplane HUDs occupy center of the vision, literally showing where you're going. Car HUDs don't, and instead stay out of sight, as it's illegal to do in cars what they do in planes. That makes car HUDs just heads down display that happens to be transparent.
by mikulas_florek | 2025-09-18 16:32:03+00:00
I used to use Lua and later LuaJIT in Lumix Engine. I switched to Luau because of its type system. However, it's apparent it was not meant to be used outside Roblox, as it has many rough corners. The documentation is not great, and the community is basically nonexistent - I got zero results when searching for any issues I encountered. Also, it's huge compared to Lua or LuaJIT, causing my project to compile 7x slower. The API is not great (e.g., an async API that blocks, using STL in the API, leaking STL headers). I encounter bugs with analysis/LSP often. Overall, I consider moving away from it.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-18 16:32:32+00:00
The maintainer's leverage is severely diminished due to the fact MIT licensed versions of the software exist. Only new code will be copylefted so it will be easier to cut him out of the picture.

This is why developers should AGPLv3 their personal projects from day one. Then others can't fork it under another license.

Even if they choose AGPLv3, the creator still maintains full freedom since they own the copyrights. They can make a commercial version if they want to. They can even relicense it under favorable terms to companies for a licensing fee. Everyone else must abide by the copyleft rules.

If they don't like it, let them pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for their own developers to make their own in house proprietary version.
by HaroldCindy | 2025-09-18 16:33:10+00:00
To be fair, both `Analysis` (the type-checker, not necessary at runtime or compile time) and `CodeGen` (the optional JIT engine) have no equivalent in PUC-Rio Lua.

If you look purely at the VM and things necessary to compile bytecode (AST, Compiler and VM) then the difference in code size isn't as stark.

Having worked with both Lua 5.1 and Luau VM code, Luau's codebase is a heck of a lot nicer to work on than the official Lua implementation even if it is more complex in performance-sensitive places. I have mixed feelings on the structural typing implementation, but the VM itself is quite good.
by kwillets | 2025-09-18 16:33:10+00:00
The SIMD string matching optimization unfortunately missed a trick -- it's more selective to match the first and last characters of a pattern than the first two, and it's the same cost.

Credit to Muła for this one: http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html#generic-... .
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-18 16:33:21+00:00
Saying that only the 50 workers need to pay $100 a year, and not all the program participants, is a perfectly reasonable amount of money to pay for a chat server.

It doesn't matter that an alternate method of counting would be a lot more. They paid a reasonable amount for what they got.

$200k for this service is a joke, not the 'real' price.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-18 16:33:54+00:00
Find people who will donate their land to conservation trusts, whether out of the goodness of their heart or a tax donation. As an owner, you can even keep the land with a conservation easement if you prefer (this is ideal if you're not near end of life, where you might want to continue to enjoy the land versus transfer it to a conservation steward org); you get the tax deduction and continue to own the land, but you cannot develop it. Buying it, imho, is a last resort, because of the legwork to put the funds together. This buy was $35M, for example (or rather, this announcement indicates that was the listing price; the transaction price might be lower, would have to look at property records to confirm).

(i work with a land conservation trust in the midwest)
by anonymousiam | 2025-09-18 16:34:24+00:00
I bought a few Geiger tubes about 10 years ago. The larger one is more sensitive, but doesn't detect beta radiation. The smaller one does alpha/beta/gamma, but it's less sensitive. When you buy the tubes, you don't get the benefit of a calibrated measurement device, so I also bought a few Cesium 137 calibration sources. (No idea what sort of government watch lists I ended up on after placing that order.)

Next, I built a simple Geiger counter based upon a Raspberry Pi (Model B) and a Piface LCD display. I wanted to increase dynamic range of the measurements, so I did some circuit modifications to recharge the Geiger tube faster after an event. This allowed for higher counts, but consumes more power and lowers sensitivity. Also, getting the Pi to interrupt on each event for efficient counting has its limitations. A separate digital counter that is reset upon each read sample is better.

Anyway, it's a rabbit hole that ended up taking a lot more time and effort than I expected, but I was happy with the results.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-18 16:34:54+00:00
see Amazon's Sidewalk™ (e.g. essentially every Siri, echo, and internet doorbell)

A few larger retails participate in beacon tracking patrons (i.e. tracking their mobile devices' bluetooth/WiFi pings). This requires no active participation/agreement from the users/devices — if you have those services' antennae `ON`, they are constantly `announcing`.

There is even a massive network of crypto currency nodes, which uses geoscarcity to award tokens by relaying LoRa traffic (e.g. Helium [0]). A popular current use of this is for inventory tracking in-transit as well as stolen tool monitoring (e.g. Bosch).

It's not far-fetched that these technologies will continue their un-opt-out-able expansion (e.g. all the roadway vehicle scanners, which track you even if you don't have a license plate visible and don't carry a cell phone).

[0] https://world.helium.com/en/network/iot
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-18 16:35:40+00:00
KDE defaults used to be pretty ugly, but it has gotten quite a bit better.

Still a little on the ugly side to me, but KDE is really what you make it. Quite literally everything about its UI and behavior is tweak able in settings (and unlike gnome, KDE provides a GUI for all of these settings...no hunting around in dconf).

I used to prefer macOS, and still do to an extent, but Tahoe does not give me hope and I'm using my Linux laptop more and more. UI inconsistencies bug me, but Tahoe is full of them, so if I'm going to have to deal with it either way, might as well go Linux.
by k33n | 2025-09-18 16:35:41+00:00
There's so much biased journalism that you really have to read things twice before using words like "evil".

> locked out of ONE OF THE ONLY western access roads

So not locked out. And accessible from all 4 orientations.

(edit: lol, break the rules and downvote all you want. this site loves dishonest journalism if it confirms their wrong biases)
Show HN: dk, a Windows-friendly, Nix-like build system
by beckford | 2025-09-18 16:35:41+00:00
Today there is no nix for Windows, and Docker with Windows containers hasn't had real adoption.

dk is both a build system and a scripting language. This Show HN is about dk's new build system which builds packages declared in JSON files. You can write the JSON files by hand or use your favorite language to generate them.

dk has some unusual differences from other build and package managers: Windows, macOS and Linux are supported equally. Minimizing supply chain security risk is a focus. Packages can be based on binary assets. Incremental adoption by language communities is a goal.

There is a reference implementation written in OCaml, a from-scratch walkthrough the writes the JSON build files for the somewhat random package (7zip), some security principles, and a specification document. The reference implementation and the spec are primarily to help port the dk build tool to other languages for incremental adoption.

I'd like to get feedback before I launch a community package registry. There are two feedback areas in particular:

1. I suspect there will be some controversy about asking package authors to use their real names and/or pay a micropayment to validate their identities (ex. $1 a year), even though I think controls like these are required for any semblance of supply chain security.

2. I have heard complaints about nix's lack of static typing. A JSON-based build system suffers from the same issue. One possibility is to add JSON schema. Another is to couple the build system with the OCaml-based scripting system in dk, like how the nix functional language is coupled to nix derivations. But I have been hesitant to do that coupling since it would be harder for language communities to incrementally adopt the build system.
by Bender | 2025-09-18 16:35:47+00:00
Indeed. Anything that allows users to add their own text links or multimedia content can go from rate-g to rated-xxx in hot second or until a moderator maybe removes something. That's why I have been pushing people to use RTA [1] headers on sites instead of the silly privacy invading 3rd party verification sites. With RTA headers one could add a single header on any adult or user-content driven URL. A MitM proxy could block any URL that contains that header.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single
by rescbr | 2025-09-18 16:36:16+00:00
Yeah, and while 3D printing a gun is cool and all, you can’t print bullets, so the person who is interested in printing guns is at the intersection of two hobbies: 3D printing and gun ownership. It’s a niche.

Everybody else who needs a gun for lawful purposes (i.e. self defense) is simply going to purchase one from a reputable manufacturer.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-09-18 16:36:52+00:00
My best friend of 25 years died 4 years ago and I still think of him at least once a week, wishing I could talk to him. It was almost a year before I could even talk about him without completely breaking down. I never once thought: "oh, this is a medical issue". It was just me having the same problems processing my grief that American men have because we're not raised to talk stuff out. Once I did start talking about it, it got easier and easier to deal with.

I still miss that guy, though.
by strogonoff | 2025-09-18 16:37:35+00:00
I somewhat dread code reviews. In order to properly evaluate the solution, you must first know what is the right solution to begin with. You must analyse the problem and arrive at it yourself. This is the brunt of the work, and yet you are not allowed the pleasant part of it: knowing that your work is shipped and feeling pride in it.

Working with LLM-generated code is mostly the same. The more sophisticated the autocomplete, the more mental overhead spent on understanding its output. There is an advantage: you are spared having to argue with a possibly defensive peer about what you believe is best. There is also a disadvantage: you do not feel like you are helping someone grow, and instead you are an unpaid (you are not paid for that in particular) contributor to a product by Microsoft (or similar) intended generally in longer term to push you and/or your peers out of the job. Additionally, there is no single mind that you can build rapport with and learn to understand the approaches and vibes of after a while.
by octopoc | 2025-09-18 16:37:40+00:00
The proper way to solve this would be to have a cloud provider (possibly based on AWS or Azure) whose UI simply edits an auto-generated IaaC script. That way ALL changes go through the code. And if there's a need to do a 3-way merge, it's obvious, because you're having to do a 3-way merge in git.
by malthaus | 2025-09-18 16:37:54+00:00
sorry, but while it definitely looks better than it did in the 90s, it's neither a professional level design nor better than mac os. and you don't need to be a designer to see it.

those misleading hype statements are the reason why stuff like "this is the year of the linux desktop!" is a meme because anybody outside of your nerd/tech bubble will just look at you like you're insane.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-09-18 16:38:29+00:00
>Basically if you like using a medical term to describe your experience ("I'm being really OCD today") I don't think there's much harm in it and you may find coping mechanisms for people with ODC helpful as a bonus.

I was with you up until this point. My wife has C-PTSD, Bipolar type 2 and ADHD, along with what her psychologist describes as "Social OCD". I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain to other people that her mental illnesses are real and some days she and I just can't hang out because she smelled a smell that gave her flashbacks. Because people have normalized the language, they think "triggered" just means upset. For someone with real PTSD, it doesn't mean upset, it means their mind has come unstuck in time and they don't know who to trust or sometimes even what is real. Sometimes this lasts 5 minutes, sometimes it lasts almost all day. She just loses that time, and all I can do is try to calm her down and try to get her to take medication to re-stabilize her.

My wife has been in therapy with a PhD psychologist for 11 years, and only just this year has gotten to the point where it seems like she could probably hold down a job and keep her trauma compartmentalized like most people do all the time. People normalize the language for these debilitating full-blown disabilities and then don't understand the gravity of the situation when somebody with a legitimate mental illness of that sort of degree comes along.

Co-opting medical language for sub-disorder level dysfunctions is bullshit. And that's fine, when you're just bullshitting with your friends or whatever, but how is someone like my wife supposed to be seen or understood, let alone properly accommodated for when everybody thinks they know what a panic attack is but has never in their adult life been so panicked they became nonverbal?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-18 16:38:48+00:00
> An investigation by Bloomberg found 140 incidents of people being trapped in their Teslas due to problems with the door handles, including several that resulted in horrific injuries.

The above is from CNN, but in the original bloomberg article, I don’t see any specifics. If I was a writer, and the number of incidents was high, I would want to specify it to maximize engagement.

So I prone to assume when they don’t share data and instead use vague descriptions, it is probably because the data is not compelling enough to present.

> Complaints about Tesla’s electrically powered doors also pervade NHTSA’s database that the agency uses to identify potential defects. Bloomberg identified more than 140 consumer complaints related to Tesla’s doors getting stuck, not opening or otherwise malfunctioning since 2018. While it’s difficult to assess how that compares with other models with similar doors, the regulator has taken notice.

https://archive.is/2025.09.18-161757/https://www.bloomberg.c...
by eduardojr | 2025-09-18 16:38:52+00:00
It's really encouraging to see so many people connecting with the idea of emotional intelligence, and these comments truly highlight its impact. The stories about recognizing burnout and having deeper conversations really resonate. It makes me think about how often we overlook our emotional well-being until it becomes a problem. Tools like Equanima seem to offer a practical way to build those crucial skills, making EQ less of an abstract concept and more of a daily practice. It's a positive step towards a more self-aware and resilient community, both personally and professionally
by theossuary | 2025-09-18 16:39:13+00:00
Honestly I have so many issues getting notifications on Slack. Messages go completely missed even when I have the user VIP'd, starred, notifications on, everything. I don't know what else I can do to make sure I get messages, to the point I ask people to reach out on Signal if I don't get back to them on Slack and it's at all urgent.
by gizmo686 | 2025-09-18 16:39:31+00:00
And our ability to detect exoplanets is both highly limited, and biased to large planets orbiting close to their sun.

Using our current technology to look at our solar system, we probably wouldn't see a habitable planet either.

Looking at https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/discoveries-dashboard/ , a planet with one earth mass and a 300 day year is simply outside of our ability to detect. Not to say that those are requirements for habitability; but they are requirements to detect the one habitable planet we know about.
by imiric | 2025-09-18 16:39:46+00:00
The B580 was released in December 2024, and the 4060 in May 2023. So not quite a two year difference.

While it doesn't quite compete at performance and power consumption, it does at price/performance and overall value. It is a $250 card, compared to the $300 of the 4060 at launch. You can still get it at that price, if there's stock, while the 4060 hovers around $400 now. It's also a 12GB card vs the 8GB of the 4060.

So, sure, this is not competitive at the high-end segment, but it's remarkable what they've accomplished in just a few years, compared to the decades that AMD and NVIDIA have on them. It's definitely not far fetched to assume that the gap would only continue to close.

Besides, Intel is not only competing at GPUs, but APUs, and CPUs. Their APU products are more performant and efficient than AMD's (e.g. 140V vs 890M).
by dogman144 | 2025-09-18 16:40:14+00:00
Still going, and we can call the guy keeping it going by his public records name - Fred Eshelman, pharma wealthy North Carolinian owns the notoriously checkerboarded Elk Mountain in Wy, which if you ever drive I80 past Laramie Wy it’s the big mountain on the south side going west.

owns 6000 acres of checkerboard land that’s effectively 20,000 acres with a notorious ranch manager.

Lost his case in Fed courts in Wyoming and on appeal, trying to do Supreme Court now.

Wyofile has consistently good coverage on this.
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-18 16:40:58+00:00
You probably mean tablets/touch input, not mobile. There was a time when things like iPad and Surface were going to dominate. iOS won that space with Android still limping along. Windows devices haven't managed to survive really and Surface seems to be retreating to laptop form. Frankly the SOC hardware universe seems to be a real technical challenge. Frankly, even Microsoft gave up trying to improve the phone hardware situation.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-18 16:42:05+00:00
It's been a long time coming, but wild bison are being reintroduced to Britain right now:

https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/projects/wilder-blean

https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild/reintroductio...

This is mirrored by reintroduction schemes of red kites and beavers in the UK, as well as similar projects with bison, wolves and other species on the European mainland.

That's not to mention deer, which are both wild and doing really well - partly because of the lack of wolves, ironically!