MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by detaro | 2025-09-07 14:32:53+00:00
There's work and work. Most "tourist" visa will cover things like attending conferences or tradeshows, meetings with a different branch of your employer or customers etc, but on the other side more dedicated work, conference talks you are compensated for, ... can quickly be treated differently.

And if you don't come from a preferred part of the world even the former can quickly be quite a process to prove it.
by galangalalgol | 2025-09-07 14:33:13+00:00
I don't feel I was bombastic, simply ignorant. I knew there had been unsoundness bugs in the past, but I thought they had all been fixed at this point. I see why it is taking them so long to fix this one, but yes it is not 100%. I will rather say that I have had no segfaults from safe rust in the decade I've been using it, and that even after 35 years in c++ I still average a couple a month. Probably worse now because I'm rusty when I go back to use it for something. It could be argued I'm really bad at c++, and maybe that is true, but then maybe I shouldn't be using it, and should use rust instead, it allows me to get the same job done.
by vindex10 | 2025-09-07 14:33:20+00:00
Hi! That's really useful tool!

I wish it also explained the decision making process, how to understand from the picture what is the right answer.

I'm really getting lost between melanoma and seborrheic keratosis / nevus.

I went through ~120 pictures, but couldn't learn to distinguish those.

Also, the guide in the burger menu leads to a page that doesn't exist: https://molecheck.info/how-to-recognise-skin-cancer
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-07 14:33:31+00:00
I agree that there's this intense reality of powerlessness that makes wasting time on anything that isn't personally interesting pointless. And that journalists are atrocious and pushing narratives and their own careers nowadays (not that I should have expected it to ever have been different) but it's a difficult thing to unsee--that the "news" is being driven by power and agendas and is entirely unreliable. And you're right voting is all the control we ultimately have but what even is that. I live in a state that is gerrymandered to hell to ensure supermajority, where even the partisan State Supreme court has repeatedly declared the maps the Legislature and Governor approves to be un(state)constitutional and... there's nothing that anyone can do about it.

But even if that wasn't the case how can you research candidate positions without knowing the political context you want them to represent you within? And even then frankly they've all proved themselves to be spineless liars who say anything to get elected and onto the graft money train so who gives a shit. So then you're left just electing people based on character ethics optics. I really don't know what the answer is, but the nationalization of everything seems extremely disenfranchising. Every little thing becomes a referendum about some national topic and hyperpolarized purity test. Just Ugh. Throw everyone out.
by codedokode | 2025-09-07 14:33:37+00:00
If you have enough USB host controllers, you can pass one into a Windows VM and it will have direct access to the connected audio interface (no latency issues). And if on top of that you have two GPUs, you can pass one into Windows VM as well. If you have only one GPU, passing it around will be tricky (you need to terminate all apps working with GPU before taking it away).

If you plan to run a single application in VM, you can allocate just 3-4 Gb to it.
by Sharlin | 2025-09-07 14:34:33+00:00
I’m sure default effects could handle this, just as Rust has some auto traits and default trait bounds. It doesn’t even have to be the full console i/o effect, it can be a specific debug effect that outputs to console in a dev build and to a file or devnull or whatever in release builds, or you could disable it in release builds and the compiler ensures there aren’t stray debug calls left, without needing a specific lint for that.

(Rust does have a similar problem in that debug printing requires the Debug trait bound which can be really annoying when writing generic code. Would be nice if there were a sprinkle of RTTI involved.)
by Rover222 | 2025-09-07 14:34:39+00:00
What’s the thing with calling him a Nazi? Being against mass immigration? His support for the German AFD party? That’s the 2nd most popular party, hardly a fringe extremist Nazi party, despite its distant roots. Far left people are lately the most anti semitic, so it’s all ironic.

If you think he really did a Nazi salute, you’ve just drank the media kool aide.
by jodrellblank | 2025-09-07 14:34:40+00:00
The raw PM2.5 values also skyrocket with just boiling tap water, on my Ikea Vindstyrka. Which makes me question how useful it is, presumably even with "dry" cooking a lot of meats and vegetables have water in them?

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/vindstyrka-air-quality-sensor-s...
by lazide | 2025-09-07 14:34:43+00:00
That is using the earth as a source of thermal inertia, not producing power off earths heat - unless you're going down pretty deep. Again, not power generation.

The different between these two ideas, is that a heat pump is not producing heat (as it's primary goal). It's concentrating and moving heat from point A to point B. The amount of heat moved may exceed the amount of raw energy used to perform this process (and should, in most situations), HOWEVER, it can not exceed the amount of energy you would get back by trying to reverse the process to extract energy. It is still a net energy consuming process.

This is important, because if it wasn't - you could power the heat pumps off their own output, and you'd literally have infinite energy/perpetual motion machine. Which would be awesome. It is also impossible, near as we can tell.

What actually happens is everything grinds to a halt, because the useful (Actual) energy output from the heat pump is lower than the energy required to run it.

Chances are, that system isn't even really geothermal (as in using latent heat of the planet) - any large enough mass would do the same thing. People just like to say the word because it sounds 'green'. If the ground was hot enough (for instance) to provide actual heat itself, a heatpump would be a waste for heating the building - and extremely inefficient for cooling it. It would be better to just pipe water straight out of the ground to heat, and use air based HVAC to cool.

Geothermal power generation does produce power - by tapping into a source of heat so hot that the difference between normal atmospheric temperatures and that heat source allows us to generate useful power. A heat pump gets in the way and causes losses in these situations.

Unless you're sitting (quite literally) on a hotspring, this requires going VERY deep into the ground. Which is what this article is about.
by lvl155 | 2025-09-07 14:35:07+00:00
If US invested in training and education, we might have the necessary labor to lead manufacturing. Sadly, that’s not the case. However, this country loves to give out jobs to immigrants even in cases where you’re looking at equal talent. Look at all the jobs handed out to the Chinese and Indians (as well as Canadians) over the past three decades. On Wall Street, they blatantly favored Chinese-speaking talent because they wanted to attract businesses in China. Same goes for graduate schools. They all wanted that Chinese money. I am not saying it’s right but this country says one thing and does another. No one told Walmart to destroy retail/manufacturing in the US and ship them out to China. No one. Meanwhile, Walmart heirs are on and on about some “environmental” values while flaunting their art collection on national TV.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-07 14:35:08+00:00
> But I regularly feel guilty about not being keyed in to the flirtations with/forays into authoritarianism in my country.

This really highlights that the threat of authoritarianism is really only a threat to certain people, which frankly is why authoritarianism happens.

Because if authoritarianism were an issue for you, you'd be reading the news. If POTUS were threatening to send troops into your streets to arrest people who look like you, that'd be something you'd want to be aware of yes? If he had a policy to detain people who look like you, and if he doesn't like your tattoos he'll send you to a foreign torture prison, you'd probably be very keen on paying attention to that kind of thing.

But since he's not threating you and yours specifically, you have the luxury of tuning out for your mental health while all that goes on. Until of course he comes for your ethnicity/religion/politics/profession. Although, I guess you won't know until that happens because you won't be reading the news.

Yeah, you know what I think I would have better mental health too if I could just tune out the daily missives from the abyss, but I need to stay on top of what words I'm not allowed to say at my job or else the government will target us for research defunding. Words like "equity" and anything that starts with the prefix "trans".
by pmarreck | 2025-09-07 14:35:16+00:00
> If craftsmanship is measured by the long tail of good choices that give something a polished and pristine feel, then SQLite was built with none of it.

It apparently has an extensive and thorough test suite. That's an excellent design choice that tons of other projects could learn from, and is probably a key element of its success.

Sometimes a poorly-designed thing that is excellently-documented and thoroughly-tested is better than a brilliantly-designed thing that is lacking in those. In fact, unless the number of users of the thing is 1 (the creator), the former is likely a better option across all possible use-cases.

Perhaps we could generalize this by stating that determinism > pareto-optimality.
by mrangle | 2025-09-07 14:35:17+00:00
Reads like the very news feeds have been giving people mental health issues for decades and decades.

Perhaps fewer and fewer people believe let alone like to have your patter as their internal monologue.

Which amounts to an agreement to have your extremist / alarmist voice forever in their heads lest climate change leads to the H word. I think that I have that about right, if your post is to be believed.
by mherkender | 2025-09-07 14:35:18+00:00
Somewhere in the 2010s, social media turned news into spam. I guess it was a long time coming, I remember news commercials in the 90s fear-baiting constantly, demanding you tune in at 11pm to find out more.

I recommend Wikipedia frontpage, maybe Wikinews. It has to come from a nonprofit at this point.
by actuallyalys | 2025-09-07 14:36:06+00:00
It seems situational. Someone with your skin at noon absolutely benefits from a higher SPF. Someone with even slightly darker skin [0] going out a few hours before sunset might still want to wear sunscreen, especially if they’re going to be in direct sun the whole time, but a high SPF doesn’t seem very critical.

That being said, I am not a dermatologist, and it’s easy to underapply sunscreen so erring on the side of higher SPFs probably makes sense.

[0]: Note that even people with a lot of melanin still need sunscreen: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/why-its-important-ev...
by Schnitz | 2025-09-07 14:37:11+00:00
Technically almost every white collar business traveler is working in the US illegally if you strictly apply the letter of the law. Let’s say you come here for two days of meetings and you are coding or doing some analysis on the third day before you fly home. You’ve now violated your business visa. The Trump administration can start enforcing the law like that and we’ll be even more screwed, because absolutely no non-US company will build anything if business travel to help spin up the office or plant is practically impossible.
by ajross | 2025-09-07 14:37:42+00:00
It was a factory under construction. While, sure, the law is ambiguous (which is the whole point of having "norms" like this in the first place), surely you'd agree that their work falls under "persons installing, servicing and repairing commercial or industrial equipment or machinery pursuant to a contract of sale."

I just can't understand how anyone thinks that a "Surprise! You're in jail now!" change of enforcement norms like this is a good thing.
by throw0101c | 2025-09-07 14:38:04+00:00
> There was plenty of fight left in Japan.

After the first dropping, the War Cabinet met on August 9th and concluded in the morning that the US probably did not have the resources to build more than one bomb, and it was decided to keep fighting.

Then in the early afternoon they learned of the second dropping. After further debate the War Cabinet voted 3-3 on whether to continue fighting.

It took two bombing to get to a tied vote (both of the War Cabinet, and the full cabinet): the Emperor had to be called to break the stalemate. I do not understand how anyone could believe zero bombings would result in a cessation of hostilities.

And even after the decision was made, there were still attempts to prevent surrender:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-07 14:38:05+00:00
You can remove the ads from Android in a similar fashion to how you'd remove ads in Windows (e.g. DNS blocking). However, if you've got root access to Android, then there's other methods available to you. Some phones don't allow you access to root mode, but presumably a Windows version of Linux wouldn't be running on locked hardware (or at least I wouldn't buy something like that).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-07 14:38:06+00:00
OK, maybe a bit like BBC TV News used to be years ago (no idea what it is like today), but presumably it's still disaster-orientated (earthquakes, fires, wars, etc), even if it cuts out the news of what Trump tweeted last night, or what the Hollywood starlets are wearing (which frankly is one of the less psychologically damaging things to be reading/seeing on a daily basis!)
by toss1 | 2025-09-07 14:38:11+00:00
^^^ THIS! ^^^

The explicit goal of dezinformatsiya (coined by Stalin) is not to get people to believe the lies (an occasional bonus) —— the goal is to get people to GIVE UP on finding the truth.

Once people give up on finding the truth, dictators and despots can get away with anything because people literally do not even have the knowledge prerequisite to any opposing action; the people become a mere mass of compliant NPCs in the despot's regime.

OFC, if the news is genuinely crippling in a way that renders you incapable of any action, then by all means take care of that first.

But especially in these times of serious real threats, anxiety in response to those real threats is the exact expected healthy response!

More broadly, as a society in the US and EU, the threats have outpaced the speed of anxiety growth, a delay which allowed them to gain power. Anxiety overall is only now growing to the point where a backlash is forming that may restore small-d democratic norms and overtake a rapidly growing authoritarian regime.

Remaining ignorant is personally easier in the short term, but definitely helps an authoritarian regime gain and cement its power, so is likely to be regretted in the long term. Many under Hitler's regime lived out their lives in shame they had not done more to stop him when they could have.
by zakokor | 2025-09-07 14:39:00+00:00
I think the concern about forming bad habits is real, but avoiding any writing until you’re “ready” can delay fluency.

Something that worked for me was limiting it: just 65 words a day in the target language. It forces you to think, but the risk of fossilizing mistakes is low because it’s short.

I even built a little site for this (65words.com) and it’s been fun seeing others use it. Curious if Japanese learners here think this approach makes sense.
by petesergeant | 2025-09-07 14:39:01+00:00
> But don't come and pull off the "we didn't know anything" excuse that the Germans used in droves after 1945.

I have met quite a large number of people who seem to think living in a state of constant outrage is somehow making a difference. I give the money I can to the charities and causes I care about, and I’m entirely unclear on how being perpetually hyper-fixated on the latest horrors would add to that. Either do something, or don’t, but obsessively reading the news doesn’t cause any change to occur.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-07 14:39:12+00:00
That's just 10 30TB HDDs. Throw in two more for redundancy and mount them in a single zfs raidz2 (a fancy RAID6). At about $600 per drive that's just $7200. Half that if you go with 28TB refurbished drives (throw in another drive to make up for lost capacity). That is in the realm of lots of people's hobby projects (mostly people who end up on /r/datahoarder). If you aren't into home-built NAS hardware you can even do this with stock Synology or QNAP devices

The limit is more about how much data you want to keep in sqlite before switching to a "proper" DBMS.

Also the limit above is for someone with the foresight that their database will be huge. In practice most sqlite files use the default page size of 4096, or 1024 if you created the file before the 2016 version. That limits your file to 17.6TB or 4.4TB respectively.
by kbolino | 2025-09-07 14:39:26+00:00
Then it's not money and so it's not really relevant. It has little to no bearing on the money supply or the value of money.

The issue is not double taxation per se, it is the inability to pay taxes at all. In order to pay the tax you incur by actually putting the gold/BTC/etc to use, you must liquidate some more of the thing to turn it into something the government will accept. That is what makes fiat real money, and everything else not.
by jpc0 | 2025-09-07 14:39:35+00:00
Once you stray out of 2.4GHz there are a lot of restrictions on wireless communication. In many countries, I would even suspect the US, there are restrictions on which 5GHz channels are allowed to be used outside, how certain channels may be used even indoors etc. usually your consumer router/AP handles this for you but if you purchase an item in a different jurisdiction and then travel with it you may in reality not be compliant with local laws even with wifi.

Satellite/UHF etc has even more restrictions.

Disclaimer there is actually limits on 2.4GHz as well but I’m generally referring to wifi where the conventional channels are pretty universal
by philistine | 2025-09-07 14:39:43+00:00
I'd bet you don't care that it's attached to a Mac. I bet you don't want to switch OS. Which is understandable. In a couple of years, when Microsoft finally offers Windows as an ARM purchase, Linux is finally full-fledged done implementing support, and Apple resuscitates Boot Camp, I think a lot of people like you will look at Macs like the Mac Mini differently.
by bakugo | 2025-09-07 14:39:48+00:00
> This stateless nature isn’t a bug - it’s a feature

> This isn’t just about keeping a chat history - it’s about building and maintaining a model

> Understanding this distinction isn’t just about getting the terminology right. It’s about understanding the future of human-computer interaction

> When we say “ChatGPT” when we mean “LLM,” we’re not just being sloppy - we’re obscuring fundamental architectural and strategic decisions

> when you interact with modern ChatGPT, you’re not just talking to a language model - you’re collaborating with an intelligent agent

No comment.
by throw0101c | 2025-09-07 14:40:20+00:00
> Didn't the Soviet invasion of Manchuria also boxed them in? Some Historians(Paul Hamn for once) have said that was the primary reason for the surrender.

The Japanese were already expecting a Soviet attack: the only 'unexpected' thing about what the Soviets did was make a move in Summer 1945 instead of Spring 1946.

But the Japanese knew what was going to happen eventually.
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-07 14:40:59+00:00
Hoping to do this in 2026.

https://portfoliocharts.com/2021/12/16/three-secret-ingredie...

Something like the Frontier-3. Small cap value, long term treasuries, and gold. That portfolio does amazing at all time periods and still hit 10% a year in the lost decade after the 2000 crash.
by xyst | 2025-09-07 14:41:05+00:00
demented don and pedophile of the united states strikes again.

This administration continues to find new ways to make this country shittier for the common man. Lower courts recently found his tariffs to be illegal but given the corrupt state of the SCOTUS. It’s only a matter of time until it’s overturned.

It’s sad that the best we can do is _delay_ the damage this demented fool is doing to this country.
by abcd_f | 2025-09-07 14:41:38+00:00
> Like, have you every flown somewhere to attend a conference and a meeting? Same thing.

I flew to an expo where our company had a booth and the US border patrol took me aside and started asking if I'd be selling things there or working at the booth in some other form. I told them that I am a tech going to see other companies' stuff. They then discussed something between themselves for 10 minutes and let me pass. This was 20 years ago, so them being picky is certainly not a new thing.
by hvb2 | 2025-09-07 14:42:08+00:00
> The entire service with it's horrifically complicated click through dashboard (but you can get a certification! It's so complicated they invented a fake degree for it!) just to confuse the customer into losing money.

By that logic, any technology that you can get certified in is too complicated?

Most systems are now distributed and presenting a holistic view of how it was designed to work can be useful to prevent simple mistakes.

Traffic requires a certification (license) too. Must be a fake degree as well because they made it too complicated
by djoldman | 2025-09-07 14:42:50+00:00
News is entertainment.

The vast majority of news consumption is for feeling amusement, outrage, tribal-solidarity, etc. It almost never leads to a change in action by the consumer.

Non-entertainment news: articles that change future actions, e.g. trade publications related to one's career/job.

Need information to vote? Wait 4 weeks before the election and then go to one of the many websites that track candidates' quotes to determine as best one can what their positions are on the issues you care about. For example: https://www.ontheissues.org/

Entertainment is fine and dandy! But don't make the mistake of thinking it's productive or better/nobler than alternatives just because "journalism."
by api | 2025-09-07 14:43:13+00:00
There should also be a general category for "cloud horrors" for things that cost $50k/month to host that would be $1500/month on a bare metal provider like Datapacket or Hetzner.

I'm old enough to remember when cloud was pitched as a big cost saving move. I knew it was bullshit then. Told you so.
by prisenco | 2025-09-07 14:43:18+00:00
This is why when I contract for an early stage startup, I pose the question:

"What if your app went viral and you woke to a $20k cloud bill? $50k? $80k?"

If the answer is anything less than "Hell yeah, we'll throw it on a credit card and hit up investors with a growth chart" then I suggest a basic vps setup with a fixed cost that simply stops responding instead.

There is such a thing as getting killed by success and while it's possible to negotiate with AWS or Google to reduce a surprise bill, there's no guarantee and it's a lot to throw on a startup's already overwhelming plate.

The cloud made scaling easier in ways, but a simple vps is so wildly overpowered compared to 15 years ago, a lot of startups can go far with a handful of digitalocean droplets.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-07 14:43:36+00:00
Being complacent also won't lead to any change. People need to be outraged but they also have to do something about it. You have to pick a lane -- if you're going to not do anything about it, then commit to not doing anything and bury your head. If you're going to get outraged, you can't just go into work every day like everything is normal, the cognitive dissonance will get you. Outrage needs an outlet.