MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cess11 | 2025-09-22 08:44:10+00:00
No, it's likely a bag, a hammock, a small gas bottle with burner and pot, and perhaps sleeping bag, tarp and some gadgets and eating utensils, plus an extra set of clothes. I.e. the core equipment you're going to reuse indefinitely. Perhaps they weigh in things like reusable bottles and the like too.

Personally I'm not into paying a premium for "ultralight" and similar so I might have misinterpreted something when glancing at people that seem to be. For me part of the hiking experience is getting used to carrying weight and living off equipment that would work in a crisis or adjacent to armed conflict, i.e. my basic gear clocks in at about twenty kilos or so, though that's enough to feed and 'house' about four people. Two field kitchens, teepee-style storage tent as well as a large pyramidal tent for sleeping, field spade, handheld radio units for the family/team, fishing equipment, &c. Usually I carry ~10 liters of water, a liter of ethanol, food, spare clothes and whatnot on top of it.

I find that lowering weight into the single digits doesn't give me that much extra range consistently over several days so I'd rather set up camp close to the area where I'd need it and leave some weight behind while I take on the more demanding trail or climb. At the end of the day it's going to be an endurance activity rather than a sprint anyway, at least for a non-athletic button pusher in his forties, like me.

Clearly people that mostly roam areas close to cities or that have joint issues or similar would have reason to make other decisions.
by churchill | 2025-09-22 08:45:09+00:00
>Israel is a primarily Jewish country

How did that Jewishness result? It didn't materialize out of thin air, but as a result of the Jews expelling the Arabs from their homes at gunpoint, bulldozing their homes, and then building over the rubble. That has been the bone of contention for 70 years now.

Most of the terrorist threat in the West is a result of Israel's meddling in the region and the atrocities that have to be committed to protect them. OBL said as much in his Letter to America.
by vidarh | 2025-09-22 08:45:24+00:00
I see there's some use of it after having done some searches, so I'll concede it makes some minor sense as a means to disambiguate due to the Calorie/calorie confusion. Especially as "calorie" and "gram calorie" then means the same thing. This is actually the first time I can recall having seen anyone use it, though, and so for me at least it confused matters rather than clear it up...
by Daedren | 2025-09-22 08:45:43+00:00
I agree, but on the other hand, they may also ask less questions because they will rely more on AI, and they will not know when the AI's hallucinating until they've spent a considerable amount of time dealing with a wrong premise.

You'll have to refute a lot more bullshit AND at a later stage/time by Brandoloni's law.
by antonvs | 2025-09-22 08:45:48+00:00
The issue here was that subcontracting firms arranged to bring hundreds of people from South Korean. SK companies, including LG Energy Solution, reportedly advised workers and subcontracting firms to use the ESTA visa waiver, even after other visa applications had been repeatedly rejected.

If that’s not illegal, perhaps the legal system needs revamping. And blaming the workers in a situation like that is immoral scapegoating, pure and simple. It’s very on-brand for the US conception of labor rights, though.
by girdi | 2025-09-22 08:46:02+00:00
>It's just an industry term with a particular meaning. You don't need to rage at me about people getting paid for doing ad work because you don't like the jargon and don't like marketing.

Others are raging about your use of the (very basic) term because it's the inverse of industry jargon. Putting it bluntly: that word you're using - organic - it doesn't mean what you think it means.

There's no elitism here, just more experienced people trying to tell you that you're making a fool of yourself.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 08:46:08+00:00
> how you would launch rockets from a balloon city without disturbing the equilibrium of the balloon city because it is assumed that rocks thrusting down with great force would damage the balloon city in a way it would not easily recuperate from

It's a floating platform. Same as the ones SpaceX lands its rockets on. Same as a gunboat firing projectiles.

Will a launching rocket impart force to the platform? Yes. But unless the platform is super weirdly balanced, or the rocket absurdly oversized for the platform, it will stabilise after rocking a bit. (You'd have to design the platform to be stable in winds, anyway.)

And if you do have an absurdly oversided rocket, you don't launch it from your platform. You float it off to the side on a dedicated launch "boat" and have it ditch its floaty as an ultra-early first stage.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-09-22 08:46:28+00:00
> The only hope we have is that the current bout of madness in Washington DC is a one time aberration

It's literally the second go-around.

Trust wasn't completely lost the first time. Because of the hope that you mentioned.

But now, unlike then, the rest of world is taking note that the USA is simply going to be like this periodically, and planning accordingly.
by spookie | 2025-09-22 08:46:37+00:00
The second part highlights the fear around Hamas winning the election. Having done so, the success of the accord was no longer in the hands of both Palestine and Israel. The accord would fail, given Hamas would be in power and showed no interest in following it and violence would prevail.

Apologies for being unclear in the first part, not the intention. Just wanted to point out Egypt was also involved, not just the US. The addition of Israel was for what you said, and there to try and be as neutral as possible (albeit I should have chosen my language better).
by handsclean | 2025-09-22 08:46:51+00:00
I suggest group-commits-by-file , group-commits , or group-by-file, depending on whether you want it to make sense out of context and whether you ever group commits differently. You might then feel compelled to add a final line like “… and 12 files with 1 commit each”, or even to enumerate them, which sounds like it’d be useful anyway. “what” isn’t doing any work, there’s already an implicit “what” in the call-response paradigm. “Changed” implies you’re detecting changes, but you’re not, you’re operating on a data structure that happens to represent changes.
by ckastner | 2025-09-22 08:47:55+00:00
There is precedent: SpaceShipOne was successfully launched from an airplane [1].

The great force downward is (mostly) irrelevant if there is nothing below. Just hang the rocket between two towers over a void, with the atmosphere below.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne#Launch_aircraft
by reify | 2025-09-22 08:48:20+00:00
safety panel, SpaceX, delay?

sounds ominous. should I be worried?

I was looking forward to the mars landing, ideally in my lifetime.

Are Monsieur Musk Rat's promises turning out to be bullshit?

I watched the first moon landing back in 1969. Those were the days!

The grand kids are going to be well pissed off

what have I got to look forward to now?

electric cars and ai, fuck me! is that it?

I expected more.
by lproven | 2025-09-22 08:48:37+00:00
Ok, fair enough.

It's not something I'd deliberately get wrong as a gesture of disrespect.

But the problem is that the fans of the different sky-fairies get awfully upset over the colour of the invisible sandals. One former friend of mine complained that I called his bunch of god-botherers Roman Catholics and would I please stop that because it was the one true Catholic church. I pointed out 2 or 3 other Catholic churches and he dismissed them and demanded his was accorded appropriate respect.

I told him, and I mean it, that I accorded it 100% of the respect and deference it merited, deserved and earned over 2000 years. They're a bunch of deluded loonies telepathically telling a dead Jew on a stick that they love him because they think his dad will torture them forever if they don't. It's a death cult that worships a radical hippy who preached poverty but they're obscenely rich, and the alleged founder said no other gods, so they've invented 2 more main gods and worship gold-plated statues of made-up gods, of whom they invent more every year.

These people killed people like me when they had power.

It is our duty to society to point out how utterly ridiculous their cults are.

Lovely architecture, though.
by scorpioxy | 2025-09-22 08:49:15+00:00
Yes, a similar thing happened for the major outage prior to this. The same thing is happening for the many data breaches that are occurring. It is never the decision maker's fault, always some poor employee that doesn't get a chance to present their case.

I was in similar meetings where such decisions were made and possible consequences were brushed off with "we just need to get this done as quickly as possible".

This won't stop until there are serious consequences for the businesses.
by broken-kebab | 2025-09-22 08:49:37+00:00
>president vetoing for years a democratically elected government

I guess the president is democratically elected too. Clashing between political parties is normal, and one can argue that a system which makes them limit each other is just fine. The current layout (parliament majority belongs to A, the president is of B) may reverse in future. And then the same people who now claim that president's vetoes should be abolished may start to see it in a very different light.
by sebastiennight | 2025-09-22 08:50:01+00:00
I feel like this is blurring the lines a bit too much. The analogy in my metaphor would be that you're conflating "anyone who's stepped foot in a gym" (pedestrian/public transport users who might have ordered from Amazon a couple of times this year) with the "people who get in the octagon daily" (car drivers).

I know we're several levels of nesting deep at this point, but we were not talking about the general usefulness of roads ; we were comparing the asymmetric impact of making cars safer for the people in the car vs for other people involved (eg bikes or pedestrians).

> All the drivers/passengers are pedestrians too

This is too wild a generalization, as you could compare either the amount of "miles traveled" or "time spent" and see that there most likely is a vast gulf between:

- People who mostly do everything by car (eg the vast majority of all Americans I've met, but also true in many places including Caribbean islands with no/bad public transport)

- People who almost do nothing by car (eg the vast majority of people I've met inside the walls of Paris, although Uber has surely changed the ratio)

It feels like you're taking a group of people who might drive or be in a car 2 hours+ per day and walk a total of 150 steps to/from their car, vs. another group of people who might walk 8,000+ steps along streets/roads a day and get a cab to the airport once a quarter... and saying they're basically the same.
by roenxi | 2025-09-22 08:51:26+00:00
> I’m lying, being slimy, and [...] I think it’s time I pull the plug on this little exchange. Take care.

Well I'm glad we're ending this on common ground, but I note that you can make anyone say nearly anything when you start taking literal quotes at the start and end of their speech and ignore what they're actually saying. Phrases are only meaningful quotes when taken in context.

You claimed Kirk advocated stoning gays. You were (are) lying, he didn't. You're best follow up is quoting him "literally" saying something different, out of context and doubling down despite the fact you've been called out. Which is a pretty sure tell that you know you aren't actually representing what he meant. Particularly since the clip is long enough to make it clear that he wasn't advocating stoning anyone. He was making a logical point.

The dude just got assassinated. Don't baselessly smear the man while the dust is settling.
by jstanley | 2025-09-22 08:51:41+00:00
I've done some work for a telco and I was surprised to find that emergency calls are routed over completely different infrastructure to ordinary calls, and it is not routinely tested.

There wasn't an automated way to test it, and most people never thought at all about the emergency call routing because it was such a low number of calls (I think single digits ever).

It's easy to see how you could accidentally break emergency calling and not notice.
by sdeframond | 2025-09-22 08:51:54+00:00
> a ledger, like a spreadsheet but simpler, hasnt 'crumbled' in a hundred years despite being as basic as it gets.

Yet, for many reasons, your bank does not run your account with a spreadsheet.

> Sounds like your idea of simple is just bad code that is unfit for its purpose

Not quite. Simple is good. Do simple. But some things cannot be achieved with familiar tools. Sometime it is simpler to use an abstraction that is difficult to grasp, initially, than to write piles of code "the way we are used to" because we are afraid of "making others think".

Please make me think, but only if it is worth it.
by dminik | 2025-09-22 08:52:09+00:00
I know what you said. I just don't think it was interesting. If by idiomatic rust, you mean generic "unoptimized" Rust being slower than optimized C, then yeah. No shit.

On a similar note, I don't think it's worth talking about C as if the only C being written is highly optimized hand rolled assembly style of C. That's one in a thousand projects.

Now, as for the benchmarks game, you mean 3 of 6 comparisons in favor of Rust. Rust is winning the benchmarks against C there.

I had a look and the top Rust and C entries are using the same pcre2 library in regex-redux. Same for pidigits where both libraries are using GMP.

The only library difference I can see is that the C entries are using OpenMP and both Rust entries are using Rayon. Now, you could claim that using Rayon gives Rust an unfair advantage. But an entirely userland library beating an industry standard with support from compilers is not a good look for C.
by AndyMcConachie | 2025-09-22 08:52:39+00:00
Trump is 100% American.

I wish people who said things like this, or who believed that Trump is/was a Russian agent could see how silly and racist they look. America's problems are not caused by foreigners. They're caused by Americans.

The xenophobia exhibited by sentiments such as this simply demonstrate hatred and ignorance of the world outside of the USA, and demonstrate an incapacity to critically evaluate American culture and history.
by maplethorpe | 2025-09-22 08:53:19+00:00
Ok, my turn now. Let's build the project 'msdfgen' using cmake.

First step is cloning the 'msdfgen' repo. Done. Next step is reading the readme, which states "to build the project from source, you may use the included CMake script. In its default configuration, it requires vcpkg as the provider for third-party library dependencies. If you set the environment variable VCPKG_ROOT to the vcpkg directory, the CMake configuration will take care of fetching all required packages from vcpkg."

Google 'vcpkg' and end up at the vcpkg website. Click 'get started'. Land on a documentation page. This doesn't look like the right place. Click back and select 'browse packages' instead. This doesn't look like the right place either. Google 'install vcpkg windows'. Find a microsft site saying I need to clone the vcpkg repo. Ok. Clone vcpkg repo. Next step is running the vcpkg bootstrap script. Cd into the directory. Run '.\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat'. Next step is setting the environment variable. Open powershell. Add vcpkg to my path environment variable by copy pasting what the website tells me. Cd back into the original repo. Google how to build using cmake. It looks like I need to install cmake by first downloading the executable from the cmake website. Download cmake 4.1.1. Install.

Ok, it's time to run cmake. Navigate to the guide on the cmake website. It looks like I need to first create a build directory alongside my source directory. Open terminal and navigate to the folder just above the msdfgen-master folder. Run mkdir msdfgen-build in powershell. It looks like I now need to cd into this folder and run 'cmake ..\msdfgen-master'. Run it. It fails with three errors. "Vcpkg triplet not explicitly specified and could not be deduced. Recommend using -A to explicitly select platform (Win32 or x64)". Google what this means. Confusing. Look at the second error "CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:70 (project): Running 'nmake' '-?' failed with: no such file or directory". Hmm, what is 'nmake'? Google it. It looks like I might need to install 'nmake' and add it to my path environment variable as well. Google it. It looks like I need to install "Visual C++ Development Tools". Google it. It looks like I need to install Visual Studio, and choose "desktop development with c++". Total space required: 10gb. Install this. Restart powershell and cd back into the build directory. Run 'cmake ..\msdfgen-master' again. Same errors.

If I had time, I'd continue down this path, but I know from experience that it will require another day or two of tooling around to get it working. I know I probably look like an idiot who doesn't understand cmake, but that's my whole point: it's a very confusing process for anyone who's unfamiliar.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-22 08:54:43+00:00
Ironic for the WSJ to be complaining that China is going to dominate economically by fixing a problem the WSJ said didn't exist, and if it did exist there was no solution, and if there was a solution that it wasn't economic.

Though traditionally it's the editorial side that is insane and wants to destroy the US so their oligarchic funders can rule over the ashes. This isn't marked as an opinion piece despite the headline sounding opinion-y.

But maybe headlines like this have passed from subjective opinions into the arena of widely accepted facts. A small sign of progress.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-22 08:55:17+00:00
Yes. But what happens in practice, both in actual rape trials and the court of public opinion, is a battery of arguments to say that it wasn't "really" rape. Disbelief at the woman's version of events. (Or, for other cases, the socially subordinate person in the interaction). Arguments that various sorts of actions or forms of dress constitute consent. Introducing the victim's previous sexual history to discredit them. And so on.

This is why "#metoo" was so controversial.
by blueflow | 2025-09-22 08:55:21+00:00
Nuclear-level containment on geological timescales is potentially impossible.

Its not like you can put it into a dump and its "gone" like household trash. Radioactivity is ionizing, so it corrodes all materials and cannot be physically contained. The earth's crust is to porous (i mentioned the radon problem in another post) to keep it underground.
by Y_Y | 2025-09-22 08:55:26+00:00
They have a lot of obnoxious advertising which makes me not trust them.

I've used Airalo without much hassle, but I can't say that they're any better. I did have an incident where the phone I was using broke, and I was unpleasantly surprised to find that I couldn't just load the eSIM onto the replacement phone, seems like you only get one shot at downloading it.

(Dragonpass is pretty good though, I recommend getting that through a credit card or whatever if you spend a lot of time habging around airports.)
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by reeredfdfdf | 2025-09-22 08:55:33+00:00
I think it's been pretty obvious for decades already that something like solution 3 is what will eventually happen. First two solutions would require compromise and sanity from both sides, which they are clearly not capable of. If roles were reversed, Palestinians would treat Israelis just as bad as Israelis are treating them now.

It's a sad conflict that can't be solved without some kind of superior external force, that would use extreme economic and military measures to make two sides tolerate each other. America is closest to that force, and they've chosen their side. Best Palestinians can hope for is a peaceful relocation somewhere else I'm afraid.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 08:55:35+00:00
> To float in a fluid, one must maintain precise neutral buoyancy, which is an entirely different animal

You're right, I was oversimplifying. An aerial or submerged launch platform, then.

> the tendency is for a vessel to contract as it sinks and expand as it rises, leading to a runaway buoyancy shift (increasingly negative with depth, increasingly positive with height)

This is inherent to the cloud city design. Rockets would be a subclass of buoyancy risks, eclipsed entirely by atmospherics.

> Rocket launch from an inhabited floating atmospheric platform would require accumulation of large stores of fuel (the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation also works against you), as well as presenting various risks associated with enormous barely-contained explosions

This is a fair criticism. It's also solved by having offboard propellant storage and launch platforms.

> risks are immense, and hand-waving them away is disingenuous to the extreme

Didn't mean to suggest it isn't risky. Just that the risks from the rocket launch component are dwarfed by many, many others, and to the extent there are risks here, they are ones we've already solved on Earth in analogous contexts. (Maintaining buoyancy isn't remotely the main problem with launching rockets from high-altitude blimps.)
by zkmon | 2025-09-22 08:55:57+00:00
Let's go back in history of influencing. How did the Egyptian workers were influenced to build pyramids? How did the leaders influence populations to be part of revolutions? How did the kings influence armies to engage in battles? Slavery apart, but there is something else.

You need to realize that people are not inherently individual beings. In some cultures, individuals hardly have any identity of their own. The identify themselves with a larger creature and they become part of that creature. They play a role assigned to them.

So, influencing involves making an individual to lose their individuality to some extent and become a part of the larger interest group. From that point, it is a matter of telling them what to do for the larger community.

This was easier in the old times when social bonds were stronger in families, tribes, villages etc. Individuals hardly had any privacy. Everyone in the village knows what's going on in every home in that village.

Getting these bonds back is the first step. When you try to influence someone, your need to make them understand who you are, to them. And why it is beneficial to have that bond. Once you have that "we" between you two, there is no explicit influencing required.
by jjevanoorschot | 2025-09-22 08:55:59+00:00
I'm sorry to hear about your illness, I hope you're doing better now.

Personally I have found the market to be quite good recently, at least based on my LinkedIn inbound.

Something that might help is to condense your resume to 1-2 pages. There's a lot of detail in your resume and it's quite difficult to understand it at a glance.

Other than that it can help to reach out directly to people at a company your interested in working through LinkedIn rather than applying through forms. Having a coffee or online chat can open doors.

Based on your experience I'm also assuming that you've got a considerable network. Can you reach out to people you've enjoyed working with in the past?
by lukan | 2025-09-22 08:56:09+00:00
Well, the main thing I learned in such debates is, you are free to believe what you want

I don't feel responsible for grounding the facts you somehow believe in.

But in another mood, I might have shared links to certain Telegram groups, or connect you with some people I know personally. They would be eager to enlighten you, if you are in for that.