MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-09-01 01:50:45+00:00
You can be as sick and infected as you want, on the property you own. On public property, it is the state's foremost priority to ensure you aren't threatening other people's lives. My taxpayer dollars go towards ensuring you aren't killing my family and friends, be it with a gun or a virus.

So yeah, your comment was completely unrelated as phones aren't public property. I don't expect to be able to control the DMV or my local Kroger, but I absolutely do expect my phone to behave as-advertised.
Show HN: WordleBot – A Wordle Toolkit with Calculator and Custom Games
by xiaoshumiao | 2025-09-01 01:50:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I just released WordleBot, a web tool for Wordle enthusiasts and puzzle lovers. It has a Wordle calculator and three different Wordle-style games you can play:

Wordle Calculator: Helps you analyze possible words and plan your guesses. https://wordlebot.net/wordle-calculator

Custom Wordle: Play Wordle with your own word list. https://wordlebot.net/custom-wordle

Betweenle: A number-based Wordle variant. https://wordlebot.net/betweenle

Phonenumble: Guess phone-number-like sequences in Wordle style. https://wordlebot.net/phonenumble

The main site: https://wordlebot.net

I built this to experiment with Wordle logic and AI-driven hints. I’d love to hear feedback from the HN community, especially on improving the solver or adding new game variants.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-01 01:50:55+00:00
Ship of Theseus it. Slowly replace the brain bit-by-bit, taking breaks in between. For each component, use three in a democratic redundancy (for future maintenance).

I wouldn't personally do that unless I was already dying. But, I see no reason believe it wouldn't preserve the soul. Your organic brain is already doing it all the time on a small scale.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-01 01:50:59+00:00
> Yet it has been 53 years since we have been able to send a manned mission to the moon

A near total lack of demand explains that impressive stall.

Even if the shuttle had worked out as well as its designers hoped, was envisioned as a major retreat, while sucking all the dollars out of the room.

And today, the market for lunar landings is still very small.

I think what it shows is that many technologies might have come earlier from a research and development standpoint, if we had enough money to burn. But that was an unusual situation.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-01 01:51:04+00:00
> With jj, I leave commits in the middle and jump to other commits (to fix a bug or make a small change I noticed I need while working on a larger change) all the time, because there's zero friction.

For git users who are wondering "What friction? I just git stash and jump to another branch":

In jj, you just jump without needing to type any command like git stash.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-01 01:51:38+00:00
Android was sold as being "open" and at first it mostly was, so the people who wanted that got an Android device and everything else disappeared. Then Google closed Android over time, at first in subtle ways that weren't immediately obvious and now they're just telling everyone to DIAF. But by then the alternatives were gone.

I mean it seems like your argument is "nobody wants this thing that people keep getting mad that nobody offers". Obviously people want it; otherwise who are all of these people?
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-01 01:52:13+00:00
You kind of can? The carrier network has no way to verify that your cellular modem is a real modem made by a real modem company, and not 3 SDRs in a trench coat standing on the top of each other.

The sheer technical difficulty is what makes this kind of thing impractical.

The network does validate that a SIM card is a real SIM card, but you can put a "real SIM card" in anything.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-01 01:52:29+00:00
well could it be argued that they are not extinct, since they interbred and live on in many populations? just like Neanderthals might be said to live on in European populations?

Is it a matter of semantics?

Will white skinned "Causasian" populations be extinct in 20,000 years when they've alö interbred? Outside the occasional albino?
by zikzak | 2025-09-01 01:52:43+00:00
I was sitting with my dog in my yard one night and a green meteor lit up the evening sky like the day. It also made a sizzling noise (or maybe crackling).

I found out that the green was probably nickle content and the sizzling sounds also has an explanation which I don't recall.

What amazed me was that until I understood what I saw was a natural phenomenon, it seemed absolutely mind blowing and still stands out as one of the coolest things I've experienced yet no one I talked to saw it, there was no mention of it on the city subreddit, etc.

This was before the age of everyone having dashcams and doorbell cameras but something that remarkable happening over a densely populated suburban area at around 9pm not even being noticed by a single person I knew or was in contact with on socials suprised me.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-01 01:54:01+00:00
All valid points, except no CA can survive when Chrome isn't supporting them. Most users won't switch browsers because one site isn't compatible with Chrome, they're more likely to just use another site. So using that CA costs site owners customers and they in turn will move away from the CA.

My point sort of being, there is a deeper problem where industries self-police. People complain about oligarchies, ruling classes and corporations running America but at the same time they don't push for or support governments regulating things like this. Governments should be the arbiters of which CA is legitimate, just as which appstore and which app developer. If you want to treat patients, sell drugs, build bridges, sell cars,etc.. you give your id to the government and validate your credentials. App development as well as all other public safety impacting credential validation should be the same way.

If you're in europe, your local government does the validation and OSes like Android will respect the CA's of the country they're operating under. Software should obey laws. And if governments can't be trusted, that isn't a software problem but a political one.
by Veserv | 2025-09-01 01:56:25+00:00
> First, the money you pay the copyright owner under a compulsory license is not damages. It is royalties.

The rates for compulsory licensing cap your compensation and thus provide a reasonable cap on your compensatory damages.

> Those are per copy. Statutory damages are per work.

The most infamous cases were lawsuits against individuals for their individual per-work downloads, or per-work uploads regardless of the number of copies distributed [1][2]. From the perspective of the individual who is unlikely to create more than a handful of copies per work they intend to consume, per-work is largely indistinguishable from per-copy. So, if they made a single copy of a work, which is the most likely case, they are liable for 750$ per-work, yet if musical recordings were subject to the same statutory compulsory licensing as musical compositions, they would only be liable for 0.124$ per copy, a nearly 6000x difference between compensatory and statutory damages for their single copy of a work.

Of course, it could be reasonable to have statutory damages as a punitive measure to dissuade copyright infringement, but the Supreme Court has ruled that punitive damages in excess of a 10:1 ratio with compensatory damages is almost certainly unconstitutional in a lawsuit [3]. That is not binding on Congress with respect to law, but it is certainly troubling that we have decided that music copyright infringement is so heinous as to demand a nearly 600x greater punitive damage ratio compared to what is already at the limits of what is considered constitutional when no specific ratio is specified.

[1] https://www.dcba.org/mpage/vol210209art3

[2] https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages
by riwsky | 2025-09-01 01:57:16+00:00
No. The GP making a commit off of the first non-conflict isn’t the essence of the feature he’s talking about, just an example of what he can do next.

He’d also be free to edit upstream to not commit, or split a change in two so that parts unrelated to the conflict are in their own change. The big idea is that he doesn’t need to blindly decide that before seeing what the conflict is.
by iterateoften | 2025-09-01 01:57:23+00:00
Leaky abstractions. Lots of meta programming frameworks tried to do this over the years (take out as much crud as possible) but it always ends up that there is some edge case your unique program needs that isn’t handled and then it is a mess to try to hack the meta programming aspects to add what you need. Think of all the hundreds of frameworks that try to add an automatic REST API to a database table, but then you need permissions, domain specific logic, special views, etc, etc. and it ends up just easier to write it yourself.

If you can imagine an evolutionary function of noabstraction -> total abstraction oscilating overtime, the current batch of frameworks like Django and others are roughly the local maxima that was settled on. Enough to do what you need, but doesn’t do too much so its easy to customize to your use case.
by tomhow | 2025-09-01 01:57:54+00:00
The commenter has replied and accepted that their comment could have been better with respect to the accusatory, cross-examination style, which was the main concern I had.

Regarding the age of HN users: yes I know it's not the case that 100% of participants are mature adults; when I make a comment like that I have to ask myself "do I really need to couch this with the concession that this is not a 100% watertight assumption?" Evidently yes :)

I think it's important to defend against hostile comments towards people sharing unconventional healing techniques on HN. People who share these concepts can be vulnerable to attack from people who feel very emboldened by their faith in mainstream approaches and allegiance to orthodoxy. I know it can be exasperating, trying to be heard when faced with attacks like that, no matter how well-intentioned, well-researched and conscientious you are. We don't want HN to be a place that allows hostile treatment towards marginal voices to go un-defended, because it's usually the case that transformative ideas start out as fringe ideas, and risk being lost altogether unless someone makes the effort to advocate for them, often at great personal cost.
by hruk | 2025-09-01 01:58:12+00:00
Agree on many things here, but SQLite does support WAL mode which supports 1 writer/N writer readers with snapshot isolation on reads. Writes are serialized but still quite fast.

SQLite (actually SQL-ite, like a mineral) maybe be light, but so are many workloads these days. Even 1000 queries per second is quite doable with SQLite and modest hardware, and I've worked at billion dollar businesses handling fewer queries than that.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-01 01:58:17+00:00
The design choices that make it slower can’t be mitigated either in theory or practice. C++ competes against other languages that make virtually identical tradeoffs that are far more mature and which have never closed that performance gap in a meaningful way.

For the high-end performance-engineered cases that C++ is famously used for, the performance loss may be understated since it actively interferes with standard performance-engineer techniques.

It may have a role in boring utilities and such but those are legacy roles for C++. That might be a good use case! Most new C++ code is used in applications where something like Fil-C would be an unacceptable tradeoff.
by fellowmartian | 2025-09-01 02:01:10+00:00
I think this is a false dichotomy. Open hardware with open source software would be more protected simply by being more stress tested and vetted by more people. If you need even more protection you can employ zero-knowledge proofs and other trustless technologies. I have long been dreaming about some kind of hardware/software co-op creating non-enshittifying versions of thermostats, electric kettles, EV chargers, solar inverters, etc, etc. Hackable for people who want it, simply non-rent-seeking for everyone else.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-01 02:01:36+00:00
I had a craniotomy in 1996. Similar thing. The back of my head looked a bit like his, except the scar looked more like a Blue Oyster Cult symbol (backwards question mark). I know they left a piece of the skull out, so I do have a hole in the head.

Took me a couple months to learn to walk and chew gum at the same time, but I ended up making a full recovery.

I remember being wheeled into the OR. It was odd, because there was a damn good chance I wouldn’t wake up. Or I’d spend my life in a wheelchair. The cerebellum is a bad place to have problems. I was actually pretty chill. Maybe they gave me Valium.

The recovery sucked. I spent a week in ICU (basically no sleep).
by 7373737373 | 2025-09-01 02:01:44+00:00
It's obvious you don't understand what is written in those links. The capability security architecture breaks the false dichotomy of either having to have a fully locked down or open operating system, it provides the technical foundation to grant individual programs, and even parts of these programs, recursively, only the (data, filesystem, network) access and resource consumption (cpu, memory) rights that they need. This is not an opinion, this is a decades old technical solution that humanity ignores at its own peril. While I wouldn't argue that it completely solves computer security, it allows programmers and users to minimize the attack surface of their systems.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-01 02:02:14+00:00
> Google and Apple have more power than most nations.

And that is what is wrong here. Even the smallest nation should be far more powerful than the largest corporation. But corporations are now more powerful than most nations, including some really big ones. So the only way to solve this is to for an umbrella for nations that offsets the power that these corporations have.

The first thing you notice when you arrive at Brussels airport is the absolute barrage of Google advertising that tries to convince you that Google is doing everything they can to play by the rules. When it is of course doing the exact opposite. So at least Google seems to realize that smaller nations banding together wield power. But they will never wield it as effectively as a company can, so we still have many problems.
by k310 | 2025-09-01 02:03:29+00:00
The company is named Tensor, something very familiar to physicists and mathematicians. But with a CBO named Hugo Fozzati, why isn't this car a Fozzati?

I saw plenty of Maseratis and Lamboghinis in my commute through Los Altos. [0]

No tensors, quaternions or eigenvalues, thank you.

[0] My Silicon Valley days! When I worked in Sunnyvale, I lived in Redwood City. When I worked in Palo Alto, I lived in Sunnyvale.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-01 02:04:14+00:00
Tradeoffs aren't real. Your human brain expects them to be, but they aren't. Life isn't fair, and you can get all downsides with no upsides, or the other way around.

There is no Authority on Biology that says "if you want good X, you'll have to take bad Y to keep things fair for everyone". It's just hard to get "good X, good Y, good Z" at once, and nature never really tried. That's up to us then.

That little "cancer" metaphor of yours is a worthless fluff piece meant to make you feel better about dying a protracted, miserable death before you hit the age of 100.

Personally, I think we should be coping less, and doing more about the problems we're facing - of which aging is one.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-01 02:04:49+00:00
Sometimes it is best to remember that you are a person and are not in competition with algorithms.

The author labels the first riddle thusly:

Intelligence test

And reinforces this with the first sentence:

Test your intelligence with the following widget!

If trying to solve it is fun and the faux implication immaterial, awesome. However, if the expressed characterization of:

Don't feel bad if a machine beats you ...

Is bothersome, remember that all of this is just one person's way of shaping your experience such that continued engagement is likely.
by nicodjimenez | 2025-09-01 02:05:58+00:00
What kind of codebases do you work on if you don't mind me asking?

I've found a huge boost from using AI to deal with APIs (databases, k8s, aws, ...) but less so on large codebases that needed conceptual improvements. But at worst, i'm getting more than 10% benefit, just cause the AI's can read files so quickly and answer questions and propose reasonable ideas.
by ath3nd | 2025-09-01 02:07:04+00:00
> Not that ‘novel’ then, is it?

Your point is that only novel data can be sensitive?

You know what else is not novel? Yeast infections.

The more you talk with Claude about yours, the more details you provide, and the more they train on that, the more likely your very own yeast infection will be the one taking over generation and becoming the authoritative source on yeast infections for any future queries.

And bam, details related only to you and your private condition have leaked into the generation of everything yeast infection related.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-01 02:09:02+00:00
> Google and Apple have more power than most nations.

Yep. They control our information - how we make it, what we are allowed to find, and what we can say. And they are large enough to not face real competition. So let’s treat them like the state owned corporations they are and regulate heavily. Smaller companies can be left unregulated. But not companies worth 500 billion or more.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-09-01 02:09:40+00:00
IMO its inspired by the best parts of git, hg, and darcs. jj split alone is worth the price of admission IMO

I haven't done a TON of scripted use of jj, but when I have the built in templating has come in clutch. If you want a command to return in a certain format (or include/exclude certain metadata) it's usually easier- and probably more future proof- to tweak the jj command's template than to parse the string in your script.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-01 02:09:58+00:00
The right tool for the right job. If someone gets the job done with printf() then that would be good enough for me.

Interactive debuggers are a great way to waste a ton of time and get absolutely nowhere. They do have their uses but those are not all that common. The biggest usecase for me for GDB has been to inspect stacktraces, having a good mental model of the software you are working on is usually enough to tell you exactly what went wrong if you know where it went wrong.

Lots of people spend way too much time debugging code instead of thinking about it before writing.

Oh, and testing >> debugging.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-01 02:10:17+00:00
Would you like to draw on your vast field experience to refute anything in my comment? Palmer Luckey spent more than a decade cultivating his down-to-earth weaboo persona, if that was all a lie then you need to tell us! It's a matter of national security, nowadays.

Though, just judging from the comment you left, you seem more upset with Anduril's reputation than any of what I said. Or your own karma, one of the two.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-01 02:10:29+00:00
"This makes the point that the real battle we should be fighting is not for control of Android/iOS, but the ability to run other operating systems on phones."

Sometimes owner control, cf. corporate control, can be had by sacrificing hardware functionality, i.e., features, closed source drivers. Choice between particular hardware feature(s) working and control over the hardware in general.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-01 02:10:30+00:00
Some absolute political genius sometime in the 4th century worked out that Rome could not survive as a military power, but could survive as a church.

For the next thousand years, Rome effectively controlled much of Europe.

Today, 1500 years later, billions of people all over the world look to Rome for guidance, and Rome still has political sway over large areas of the world.
by whartung | 2025-09-01 02:10:32+00:00
Being as I love minor disaster anecdotes where doing all the "right things" seem to not make any difference :).

We had a rack in data center, and we wanted to put local UPS on critical machines in the rack.

But the data center went on and on about their awesome power grid (shared with a fire station, so no administrative power loss), on site generators, etc., and wouldn't let us.

Sure enough, one day the entire rack went dark.

It was the power strip on the data centers rack that failed. All the backups grids in the world can't get through a dead power strip.

(FYI, family member lost their home due to a power strip, so, again, anecdotally, if you have any older power strips (5-7+ years) sitting under your desk at home, you may want to consider swapping it out for a new one.)
by tomhow | 2025-09-01 02:10:41+00:00
> Such dribble.

Please avoid swipes like this on HN. Your comment makes good points but is spoiled by this opening and the fulminating tone. Please take care to observe the guidelines, particularly these ones:

Be kind. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by BirAdam | 2025-09-01 02:14:22+00:00
If we define a country as distinct from a nation, we can certainly say that Rome ceased to be with taking of Constantinople by the Ottomans. For the Western Empire, this would be the overthrow of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer. A nation would be an identity shared by a people, while a country would be a geographic territory in which a ruling body has a monopoly on the use of force. If we do away with definitions this all gets quite messy.