MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dented42 | 2025-09-15 01:03:30+00:00
This is blatant misinformation. Firstly this has nothing to do with the patriot act, I’m pretty sure the patriot act expired years ago.

But more importantly it doesn’t seem like the government is trying to ban anything, they’re just extending the anti-fraud / anti-money laundering measures enjoyed by the ‘traditional’ financial institutions to the world of cryptocurrency.

Those measures don’t prevent people from doing ‘suspicious’ things, they just treat certain transaction types with more care because of the increased likelihood that they are evidence of a crime.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 01:04:15+00:00
> when right wingers killed Heather Heyer, Trump called them "very fine people".

One person killed Heather Heyer.

Even Snopes doesn't endorse the "very fine people" narrative (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/). There is a single-page site dedicated to the topic: https://www.finepeoplehoax.net/. The Politifact coverage (https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trump...) makes it very clear that Trump's position was not at all consistent with the narrative you are trying to run with.
by mcphage | 2025-09-15 01:04:20+00:00
> That doesn't mean they believe it is in real life. They're talking within the context of the story.

So you read a bunch of his writings, or watched his videos, and didn’t pick up on the fact that he was a devout Christian?

> I conclude that you're wrong about him preaching hate and instead you've just been fooled by media telling you that and you never bothered to look at the evidence. Really, it's that media that's been preaching hate - hence why he was so widely hated.

It’s clear you started with your conclusion—very efficient, but a waste of my time. I’m done feeling the trolls, goodbye.
by ggm | 2025-09-15 01:04:41+00:00
They cannot be shipped to locations which grow commercial cavendish for risks of viral infection. Australia has restrictions in place on movement of all kinds of fruit and vegetables inter-state for exactly this reason.

Also, if travelling in S.E.Asia try the small "sugar bananas" and ladyfinger, commonly available in a few places alongside some of the dozens and dozens of "not-cavendish" bananas that locals eat.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-15 01:06:19+00:00
I would (no joke) appreciate any pointer the actual evidence for this. I’ve seen only extremely vague hearsay and a screencap of using a filter to look like a video-gameish woman so far.

[edit] I’m not setting a trap, I actually would like to see it if there’s more than that, I’m not prepping to pounce on anyone who tries to help me out here.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-15 01:06:51+00:00
Three browser companies on the west coast of the US effectively control all decisionmaking for WebPKI. The entire membership of the CA/B is what, a few dozen? Mostly companies which have no reason to exist except serving math equations for rent.

How many companies now run TLDs? Yeah, .com is centralized, but between ccTLDs, new TLDs, etc., tons. And domain registrars and web hosts which provide DNS services? Thousands. And importantly, hosting companies and DNS providers are trivially easy to change between.

The idea Apple or Google can unilaterally decide what the baseline requirements should be needs to be understood as an existential threat to the Internet.

And again, every single requirement CAs implement is irrelevant if someone can log into your web host. The entire thing is an emperor has no clothes thing.
by monkeyelite | 2025-09-15 01:07:12+00:00
> which is a problem if you ever want to release your game on consoles

The direction of dependency is from your program to the console specific stuff. You can write a platform library which is linked to your program without releasing that library.

> modern boomer shooters

I didn't say for boomer shooters. It's a general 3D game engine.

> just use Unity, Unreal or occasionally Godot instead of the actual Quake engine.

Because they are popular and familiar, not because they did a serious evaluation.

Also my comment was about Irrlicht/Ogre, etc.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 01:08:36+00:00
> You don't seem to understand why the "very fine people" remark was unacceptable to many of us. Like I said, he was excusing political violence.

No, he was not. That is not what the words meant in context, and he also said many other things in the same speech that directly contradict you.

> it's political violence and it's acceptable to every Republican voter.

This does not follow, and making assertions like this is entirely outside of civil discussion.
by neilv | 2025-09-15 01:08:43+00:00
Suggestion for people trying GrapheneOS...

Although GrapheneOS puts a lot of work into sandboxing and protecting against Google Play, don't assume that you have to go that direction.

An alternative direction, if you wish, is to simply minimize the set of apps you use. And maybe it turns out that you don't really need anything from Google Play.

For example, I limit myself to a few open source apps (e.g., email, TOTP authenticator, maps, calendaring).

Anything else, either I don't need to do it from my phone, or I can get by with the Web site version of it in the phone's Web browser.

I also recently went through and deleted some open source apps that were a good idea to try, and which initially seemed like a good idea to keep on hand, but that I really wasn't using, and didn't expect to use without opportunity to reinstall them, so were just clutter and risk (e.g., Matrix, XMPP, Signal).
by afw333 | 2025-09-15 01:09:41+00:00
From my experience regular stoners eat less and less. Yes at first the munchies might cause issues but quickly with the developed tolerance it gets so intense that these people will barely eat without having consumed which usually causes them to loose weight.

Also someone at age 18 already being a regular stoner to age 25 being a regular stoner is vastly different.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-15 01:10:14+00:00
Something I learned a while ago that stuck with me is that it takes roughly the same electricity to refine oil to gasoline as an EV uses to drive the distance that gasoline would get you, and that only accounts for refining, not transport and storage of that gasoline, loss due to evaporation, etc.

In other words, you can pretty much ignore where the electricity comes from and EVs are still better than gas cars for the environment.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-15 01:10:28+00:00
Municipal waste has a large fraction of waste from demolished buildings which includes wood, concrete, bricks, all sorts of stuff. PVC is a significant part of that waste because it is used for siding, floors, etc.

In a consolidated municipal waste stream heavy metals are a concern because they concentrate in the ash which has to be carefully stored. This kind of system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

is supposed to encapsulate heavy metals into slag particles that aren't very mobile and can be incorporated into roads, building aggregates and such but people have struggled to make them work, part of it is that the syngas plant and whatever uses the syngas and cleans up the syngas and/or the products of using the syngas is a chemical factory that depends on the inputs having a certain composition and the composition of a municipal waste stream is not at all constant.

PET is a major thrown-out plastic that's not a hydrocarbon, it's also the most recycled. Polystyrene, funny enough, is easy to chemically recycle but not through pyrolysis, it's the sort of thing you might even demo in a high school chemistry class if styrene wasn't so carcinogenic. It's never caught on because expanded polystyrene is hard to handle, transport and bring back to a chemical factory large enough to efficiently consume.
by jsheard | 2025-09-15 01:10:33+00:00
If you know of an example of GPL code being cleared for release on consoles I'd be interested to hear it because I'm not aware of any. The game Wrath: Aeon of Ruin was built on a fork of the Quake engine, but then they had to spend years rebuilding it from scratch in Unity for the console releases because GPL was verboten.
by roughly | 2025-09-15 01:10:48+00:00
If you’re running a team, you owe it to yourself to start looking for these people. Some of the absolute best engineers I’ve ever worked with are of this sort - they get absolutely swamped in group discussions, but when you get them alone and lower the tempo so they can get done processing, they’re often two or three iterations past the group. Don’t let the showy people throw you off - the people who think before talking are worth their weight in gold.
by ggm | 2025-09-15 01:11:46+00:00
Without wanting to condemn the professional input, if they endorse product, this may have a contractual component. I'd expect a decent food journalist to ask if their conditions of payment for endorsement required their support in these times.

That said, there are also alternate non-stick formulations, which are not PFOA/PFAS based chemicals. People decry them, but they do exist. I believe I have either low or no PFOA pans, with ceramic/fused surfaces amongst my cookware. Not to mention Le Creuset and like, which are anything but non-stick once you've cleaned them too aggressively, but are a lot better than bare metal if you can't go the cast iron surface path and this sticking bothers you. Personally, I find food does what it does. I'm ok with "burned crunchy pieces" or BCPs in many things, not all. [Vimes/Pratchett]

I made a decision to stop using the dishwasher on my non-stick pans, and cook at lower temperatures now I have "hot enough" indicators in the handles and pan base and the pans, grease stains outside aside, are as good as new. I'm getting 4-5x as much lifetime from them in a domestic cooking context. I think there's both a cooking temperature, and a cleaning cycle component to what makes non-stick pans age out.

Still grinds my gears when I see TV chef using steel, sharp-edge implements in a non-stick. Wood!

Anyway. where is the cooks treat of Umami-rich lamb fondant coming from, if not stuck to the bottom of the pan to scrape off with a fingernail? After the gravy/jus making I mean. [puts gravox box out of site]
by justsomehnguy | 2025-09-15 01:11:51+00:00
> Richard Kirkendall, founder and CEO of Namecheap, will remain with the company, retaining a significant shareholding and continuing to oversee its operations.

I hope Mr. Kirkendall would continue to oversea its operations and continue to pay its employs a good salary.

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salary/Namecheap-Ukraine-Salarie...
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 01:12:39+00:00
Even after taking the quote that far out of context, coming up with that meaning requires extensive, uncharitable interpretation.

I don't think the median person in the 50s and 60s even had any mental concept of "being transgender" in the first place. In those days, it was considered an exceptionally rare condition (I can remember seeing a figure in the ballpark of 1 in 30,000).
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-15 01:13:31+00:00
> People don't seem to realize that you can just buy those ingredients yourself. It doesn't take that much extra time to measure them out, and it's way cheaper.

Yep, box cake mixes are a scam. They don't actually add any value, but people love to buy them because they (mistakenly) believe making cake is hard. In reality, most cakes can be made by dumping the ingredients together in a bowl, mixing, and then baking.
by Reason077 | 2025-09-15 01:14:26+00:00
Sure, but our grids have plenty of existing natural gas generation, hydro generation and storage, etc. These aren't going to disappear just because we're building wind and solar. If you can go from a grid that burns natural gas 100% of the time to only 20% of the time, you've still cut carbon emissions dramatically. In the mean time, storage technologies will improve, nuclear might become cheaper, transmission grids will become better and more interconnected, etc.

The fact that wind alone can't get us to a 100% renewable grid isn't a valid argument to not build wind power. Solar and wind are the cheapest and fastest technologies available today to expand energy production while reducing carbon emissions.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-15 01:14:35+00:00
I'm not so sure. Certainly that they get publicity is something special and very recent (almost post-2000's recent).

However, by far the largest change has been the removing three or four zeros from the capital costs of recording and small scale distribution. These days you can record and do $whatever for sub-$50 (sub-$100 at worst). It used to cost a few hundred dollars just for one 60 minutes track of studio/master grade tape (aka mono)- now the storage is so cheap its de minimus. And, its hard to find something incapable of playing it back (ESPs can push mono 16bit 44.1kHz out after reading it from USB mass storage or SDIO/SPI), distributing 700meg of PCM audio via AWS might be on par with producing stamped audio CD's- but it scales from $0 to infinity. And, good news: we don't distribute PCM anymore- at worst it's half that size, at best <8%.

I can go on.

What hasn't changed are venue fees, heck, ticket fees are worse than ever. Paid advertising has gotten worse over the past 20 years for audio artists (and probably others). And I've typed too much so I'm sure theres more.
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-15 01:15:17+00:00
> As an aside, there was no need to get personal.

You've done nothing but be personal, complaining that it's being returned is hypocritical. You started making personal comments, not me.

> 2. there is an upper bound to accurate (edit: precise) weather forecasting the farther you predict into the future

Quick, everyone, halt all the research into weather prediction, we've already found all the answers. There's no need to look any further, none at all.

Actual answer: Currently we use a statistical model, that (as I previously pointed out currently degrades after about 3 days into the future)

There's absolutely nothing preventing us from making that more accurate, with better models, and algorithms (as I have been saying from the start)

I get that you don't have any understanding of the way that human knowledge is acquired, but that's no reason for you to jump on the internet and yell at people who do.

(Someone should tell Edison to stop at the 90th attempt of his lightbulb, it's clear that there are no answers to the problem he is faced with)
by tptacek | 2025-09-15 01:16:03+00:00
Incoherent. Browser vendors exert control by dint of controlling the browsers themselves, and are in the picture regardless of the trust system used for TLS. The question is, which is more centralized: the current WebPKI, which you say is also completely dependent on the DNS but involves more companies, or the DNS itself, which is axiomatically fewer companies?

I always love when people bring the ccTLDs into these discussions, as if Google could leave .COM when .COM's utterly unaccountable ownership manipulates the DNS to intercept Google Mail.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-15 01:16:13+00:00
China isn’t doing one single thing… they’re rolling out more wind and solar than anywhere else on earth. They’re investing heavily in nuclear. They’re building massive banks of batteries and new hydro dams to store power. Pretending like they don’t have faith in renewables being a massive part of their future energy generation is just silly. They have multiple GWH+ battery projects under construction right now.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/07/21/china-switches-on-its...

https://www.energy-storage.news/powerchina-begins-constructi...
by crmd | 2025-09-15 01:17:26+00:00
By far, my priority for energy policy, in the US where I live, is to lower the cost of energy.

After reading Claim 11, starting on page 29, where the authors state that:

>unsubsidized solar energy is now generally cheaper than fossil fuels; and

> solar energy compares favorably in terms of levelized cost (total lifetime energy production / total lifetime cost)

The authors build this argument over three pages, including several charts, citing a Lazard paper that prices solar at $60/Mwh vs gas combined cycle at $70/MWh. But only in the last paragraph do they concede that when you include the cost of intermittency (firming), solar is only cheaper than gas peaking plant cost ($168/MWh).

As someone who lives in New York City and is drowning in inflated energy bills, lacking any engineering explanation why my residential electricity $/MWh is triple that of Beijing, I am sick and tired of phony academic papers such as this that begin with a conclusion and work backward to fabricate extremely misleading arguments.

I don’t care how my energy is generated. I strongly prefer it comes from sources that pollute less. But that preference is miles behind the priority for cheaper energy.

Bullshit research like this, written by attorneys, including arguments like claim 11 which tries to hide the fact that solar only produces energy during daylight, annd does not account for storage/firming costs are not helping move our national energy dialog forward.
by corytheboyd | 2025-09-15 01:18:03+00:00
It wasn’t mid-question, but I once left an interview loop after the worst 1hr session of my life. The interviewer put some React question in front of me then said “okay I’m going to go work now.” ???? I was already there and it was an easy question so I just did it, but after that I emailed the recruiter to say “no thanks” and moved on with my day. Still felt pretty good!
by defrost | 2025-09-15 01:18:25+00:00
> That’s why China is betting on nuclear hard ..

Relative to the US, sure, call it 'hard' if you like.

Relative to China's total energy demand and current supply build out, coal still dominates (albeit near peak use in China and predicted to fall within a decade), renewables are where the bulk of growth and new generation is at, nuclear following a post Fukishima 'stumble' is planned to expand over the next decade, by 2035, to account for 10% of electricity generation (up from sub 2% now).

10%, perhaps even 15%, of total generation leaves a lot of slack that china plans to address with solar, wind, storage, HVDC transmission, etc.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-15 01:19:09+00:00
>You call 60 years of racial segregation that affected an entire race of people in several states “cherry picking”?

Why are people who call themselves "progressive" so obsessed with events from half a century ago?

>The racists have always been in power.

It amazes me how quickly people forgot that we had 8 years of Obama. That was a lot more recent than racial segregation.

>the disparity between sentencing for the same crimes

The vast majority of this disparity seems to go away when you control for arrest offense, criminal history, etc.: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1985377

>The Supreme Court said you can’t use race as a basis for college admissions. But you can use it as a basis for arresting someone.

Well yeah, if someone fits the description of a criminal suspect, why not?

>Fox News is the most popular news network and isn’t part of social media.

When's the last time Fox News advocated for segregation or laws against interracial marriage?

IMO you've been making some very handwavey arguments which are collapsing important distinctions.

In any case... you can see from Table 13 in this PDF (page 13) that the rate of black-on-white crime is over 3x the rate of white-on-black crime: https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv23.pdf

This isn't something which happened 60 years ago. This is data from 2023. It's more recent / greater in magnitude than most of the points you've been making. So, would it be fair to conclude that black people in the US are hostile to the "other", akin to the conclusion you made in your original comment?
by serf | 2025-09-15 01:19:11+00:00
OK.

Here's an easy explanation.

Someone you don't like somehow gets voted into power and begins trying to enact changes towards a social group you belong to.

Building anonymous systems is one way to avoid Bad Actor X from having Big List Y, leading to Atrocity Z.

Having a really successful social network isn't a goal post, it's just a result.

Great -- it made a zillion dollars, meanwhile we've built the biggest leakiest information trove on individuals, for individuals to be exploited, ever imagined.
by sren | 2025-09-15 01:20:01+00:00
If anyone likes data visualization. Australia are betting heavily on renewables for their 2030 targets (despite some State Govt's opposition ahem Qld) and it's pretty magical see this in action day-to-day:

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&...

I'd also reccomend having a look at David Osmond's projections, where he looks at if we scaled up storage, wind and solar, by a few factors how close we would get to 100% stable and renewable.

https://bsky.app/profile/davidosmond.bsky.social/post/3lyhcq...
by tpmoney | 2025-09-15 01:20:50+00:00
Because they're not actually "overpriced"? A BC chocolate cake mix costs $2 at my local store. Let's compare to a cake recipe using ingredients from the same store and using this recipe [1] and this weight conversion chart from the recipe authors [2]. For grocery prices, I'll be picking the "normal" size item as if you were stocking a kitchen pantry (e.g. the 5lb bags of flour and the 4lb bags of sugar, not smaller "half the amount for twice the price" packs, but also not bulk packs).

* 270g flour: 65¢

* 6g baking powder: 10¢

* 3g baking soda: 1¢

* 4.5g salt: 1¢

* 64g cocoa: $1.15

* 354g sugar: 90¢

* 113g butter: $1.42

We'll skip the vanilla, milk and coffee in the KA recipe on the view that we're substituting for Betty Crocker cakes here, which aren't likely to have coffee and vanilla extract in them.

Both recipes require the baker to supply eggs and oil. KA wants less oil but one additional egg, the BC box mix wants more oil but one less egg. Calling it a wash here.

So the total cost for our home made cake, using just the portion of the ingredients that you (should) already have at home is: $4.24, over 2x the box mix. Even if you take out the chocolate and go for a plain vanilla cake, you're still taking $3.09. That KA recipe might taste better (in fact, it probably does based on my experience with KA recipes). But I'm not sure it tastes so much better that I wouldn't rather save the time and dishes.

[1]: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/chocolate-cake-reci... [2]: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-cha...
by Reason077 | 2025-09-15 01:20:51+00:00
Yep. China installed 256 GW of new solar capacity in the first 6 months of 2025 (out of 380 GW globally).

To further put this into perspective, the United States had 239 GW of total installed PV capacity at the end of 2024. China is now adding more solar every 6 months than the US has installed ever.
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-15 01:20:58+00:00
No, you're conflating something provable with something that isn't.

Chaos theory only describes difficulties, in no circumstance does it describe things as "impossible"

If you don't understand the difference between the two terms, that would explain a lot.

What it means is that it takes more work (Computational Power) to properly model what's happening.

Just because you don't know the answer, doesn't mean there isn't one (as I have repeatedly pointed out).

I get it, you think that you already know everything that is to be known, but, the fact of the matter is you don't, nobody does, and pretending that you do is the real problem.
by zhainya | 2025-09-15 01:21:33+00:00
Articles like this make me feel bad. Many articles on HN do this to me, but ones like this in particular. I can sense the author's excitement, and everything sounds so profound, yet I have no clue what any of it actually means. The worst part is, even if it was ELI5, I'm fairly sure I'd still be lost. I guess I'll just go eat more Pop Tarts.