MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nevermark | 2025-09-22 02:37:44+00:00
> there is nothing wrong with having core principles that aren’t able to be swayed

Well, yes there is.

In fact, that is the central problem of unresolvable divisions. People implicitly making themselves "the decider" by imagining their principles are so great as to preclude any need for revision. (Faith in the primacy of one's beliefs, is inherently the same as faith in one's own primacy to choose beliefs.)

There is nothing wrong with having strong core principles, because your best understanding supports them strongly. But as soon as you discount the possibility of them being wrong, even partially wrong, not the whole picture, framed within a non-tautological assumption, or not supercedable by other wiser principles, ..., you become the enemy of your own progress.

Nobody's knowledge, wisdom, or principles are complete, or have consistent primacy over all others.

Ultimately, principles, ethics and morality are a kind of economics. Decisions are tradeoffs between options. How does one make choices, so that the result is the outcome with the greatest value, and doesn't create other problems that exceed what is solved. That is a decidability problem, which will never have a complete or completely consistent answer.

The landscape for the question "What is best?" and "What is true?" is chaotic, fractal, non-Euclidean and infinitely complex.

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One of the biggest reasons to strong man the arguments of others, is the better at strong manning you become, the more likely you find something worth changing your own views over. Regardless of how explicit, implicit, or non-existent that was in their original argument.

Leveraging others disagreement, to identify misunderstandings and gaps in one's own knowledge, is the most important reason to talk to someone we disagree with.

Persuading them should be second, but is also more likely if we are clearly pushing ourselves to improve first.

There are very few cases where someone who disagrees with us doesn't see something wrong with our side. Or at a minimum, is not convinced because we are not as clear of a communicator as we think we are. Or not as good a listener as to what their question is, as we think. Even when we are "mostly right" and they are "mostly wrong", others rarely can't teach us something more about what we already know in one of those dimensions.

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Finally, don't try to persuade people in real time. Discuss, then move on. Discuss again if they want to.

People don't decide anything big in the moment.

They need time to understand an argument. Time to consider both its strengths and weaknesses. And time to consider ramifications we haven't even imagined. And the freedom to prioritize what is worth going down a rabbit hole for, in their life.

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I have been preparing to persuade a lot of people of something highly contrarian for a long time. This topic lights all the fires in me!
by eru | 2025-09-22 02:37:55+00:00
Monzo was also founded in the EU, in the UK specifically when they were still in the EU.

> The EU has recently reduced fees for one of the biggest instant payment systems of the world (SCT inst reaches the Eurozone's 350M residents).

But that was done by regulation, wasn't it? Would have been nicer to see that come as a result of competition.

> Of course, all of this doesn't mean that the average EU bank doesn't suck. But I heard worse of the US.

I don't know about the average. But I can tell you that quality varies a lot. I was generally OK with German banks (having grown up there), but UK banks before Monzo (and Revolut, Wise etc) used to be the scum of the earth. Just like their supermarkets used to feel openly hostile to me as a customer before Aldi and Lidl showed up and shook up the market.

Yes, Tesco and friends regularly get told off by the regulator before, but nothing changed until competition forced their hands, and gave customers something they preferred.
by dgacmu | 2025-09-22 02:39:28+00:00
We did a five day backpacking trip this summer (in Wyoming, with lots of sun) and the solar was great. Kept my wife's iPhone at 80-100% for the trip (some idiot left the usb-c cable for his phone in the car) with mostly only using it after we reached camp. Decided that with two phones we had enough redundancy to leave the paper maps behind. And we used the phone a -lot- for taking photos in addition to navigation.

I've had trips where solar would have mostly failed - 11 days of nonstop rain on the Continental divide trail in Canada, to be specific - but solar has worked for me really well in CA, UT, WY, CO, etc. the places where solar would have failed were pretty obvious in advance, too.

And it doesn't take much direct sun on a 15 or 20W panel to keep two phones and a steripen charged if you're not being crazy with the use.
by btilly | 2025-09-22 02:41:32+00:00
I agree.

But I'm also pointing to the fact that this is easier to change in some places than others. It doesn't just take will to change. It takes more will in some places than others. Because you have to fight against the layout and built up infrastructure of the area.

Conversely, the other person is pointing to how friendly Amsterdam is to not having a car. The fact that lots of people there have cars doesn't take away from the fact that it is easy to live there and not have a car. Just like the number of TVs in America don't take away from the fact that it is easy to live in America and not own a TV. (Case in point. I live in America, and haven't owned a TV in 20 years.)
by trjordan | 2025-09-22 02:41:36+00:00
Right -- the stereotypes of "selling" or "telling" or "persuading" are unhelpful in a lot of contexts.

Even in direct selling, many people don't want to feel they're being sold to! At a minimum, they don't want to feel out of control on decision they care about. But they're frequently open to learning, even if the constraints of how much time / credit they'll give you are extremely different.
by namibj | 2025-09-22 02:42:11+00:00
Since when are CD reader optics interferometers? The linked video shows a CW homodyne LIDAR used for measuring vibration frequency and counting vibration amplitude in fringes.

Last I looked CD readers used a 4-detector sensor's differential low-pass signals for closed-loop track-following so the rotation need not be optically centered. I also see no reason why optical disc readouts would need homodyne let alone heterodyne readout.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-22 02:43:41+00:00
I suspect there is a large class of young people that expect to continue the quality of life they had as late teens as soon as they get a place of their own in their 20s.

It’s certainly kinda hard to suddenly downshift into a quality of life they never experienced.

Newish car, nice apartment, frequently eating out, etc all isn’t going to work out on someone with an entry level job.

The difference is their parents were in their late 40s / early 50s, enjoying the benefits of being at peak earning capability with enough time to pay off cars/house, build savings, and be well past all the early expenses one has early in life.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-22 02:43:48+00:00
I think GitHub Actions is missing a distinction between builds and automation.

When I build my software I care less about eliminating security vulnerabilities (after all, I need to build while updating to fix security issues), but also don't need, or ideally don't want any external access. A vulnerability in the build toolchain should be encoded into the artifacts but shouldn't necessarily prevent artifacts being generated.

However when I automate processes, like categorising bugs etc, I care a lot about eliminating security vulnerabilities because there is necessary external access, often write access, to my sensitive data.

GitHub considers these two things the same, but they're distinct use-cases with distinct approaches to maintenance, updating, and security.
by mbesto | 2025-09-22 02:44:25+00:00
I think you're right, however, 18650 batteries do carry, on average, more energy density per volume and weight.

> but the highest capacity 18650 out there is less than 15Wh and this advertises 77Wh.

10x 2000 mAh 18650 batteries in parallel gives you 20 Ah @ 3.7V.

> So, yeah, pot, kettle, all that.

Totally unnecessary comment but thanks.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-09-22 02:44:29+00:00
Why are all of Israel's prime ministers either first or second generation immigrants of European persuasion? If so much of the population is either local to Palestine or at least the Middle East in general, shouldn't that be reflected in the highest echelons of power?

Yair Lapid might be considered third generation as both him and his mother were born in Tel Aviv, while his father is Yugoslavian.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-09-22 02:46:09+00:00
Isn't phone winning on reading and photography because that's something you always have with you?

I personally prefer reading on the phone: set a big font and there you go. Some books are terrible on it,but text only is great.

I read often in the gym between exercises and in the washroom. In both those cases I only have the phone with me,surely not a paper book
by kccoder | 2025-09-22 02:47:27+00:00
Hard to do when you’re a coward. Some things are more important in the long term for a company than the next quarter’s results.

Every person and every company which cares about democracy, freedom, … should collectively stand up to these bullies. They aren’t smart, they aren’t tough; they’re greedy, undisciplined, unethical, amoral, narcissistic, thin-skinned, unintelligent bullies. They whine and moan and will crumble if we just stood up to them. So why don’t we?
by alpb | 2025-09-22 02:49:39+00:00
It's my common code review comment to the beginners to not embed structs. There's rarely anything to be gained by doing so. The only use case I found to be useful is to embed something like:

type MockHandlers struct { UnimplementedHandlers } func (m MockServer) LoginHandler{ /* ... */ }

where I get to override only a part of a bigger interface at a time and have the embedding take care of the rest by saying panic("unimplemented") to satisfy the interface.
by talkingtab | 2025-09-22 02:50:13+00:00
The form of the question has assumptions that are broken.

The action of manipulating people is fairly obvious. It means you have a predetermined outcome that you want other people to accept The same assumption is implicit in the "How can I influence others..." Again there is the same predetermined outcome.

The answer then is obvious. You cannot. Perhaps what you are looking for is instead a way to join with other people in a participatory/collaborative fashion. You can ask what other people think, you can talk about what you think.

But as long as you have a predetermined outcome in mind, I suspect your only choices is manipulation.

You might also want to reassess what the question is. We talk about so much, but we do so little. Imagine that my car won't start and I want to fix it. The idea of influencing people here is silliness. We care very little about who thinks what, as long as the car starts. The thinking is in service of an action that produces a result.

In my opinion! :-)

[edit: fix wording, typos]
by rdtsc | 2025-09-22 02:50:31+00:00
> For a time, the mantle would get hotter, since the shell around it would trap heat generated by radioactively decaying compounds inside it. As heat accumulates in the interior, the Earth in Kane’s simulations would experience an uptick in volcanism lasting for about 15 million years.

That totally surprised to me. I had no idea radioactive decay played such a role for earth. It turns out I must have fallen sleep in one of the classes when that was explained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget

> The radioactive decay of elements in the Earth's mantle and crust results in production of daughter isotopes and release of geoneutrinos and heat energy, or radiogenic heat. About 50% of the Earth's internal heat originates from radioactive decay
by cool_dude85 | 2025-09-22 02:50:53+00:00
The biggest risk of these kind of micro reactors is what happens when they are abandoned and / or receive no investment, maintenance, repairs, etc. for years or decades. What is a catastrophic failure like in that case?

For example, a water and sewer utility near me, serving a similar scale customer base as one of these reactors (a few hundred to a thousand or so), just had to get put into receivership. All the infrastructure has been falling apart for years and the utility had not been investing anything into upkeep, putting its own customers in danger. What if they had owned one of these reactors?
by card_zero | 2025-09-22 02:51:00+00:00
The spirals from Newgrange. Those are indeed claimed to "resemble phosphenes" in Does the Nervous System Have an Intrinsic Archaic Language? which this person posted in another comment. They are neolithic, which is a very long way from paleolithic, not just in time but in development of ideas. The paper has another montage of images with the Gundestrup cauldron in it! That was made in the small hundreds AD. It's just a grab-bag of anything that looks shamanic to support the thesis "maybe they were tripping", about everybody everywhere throughout time, and yes, fair point, maybe they were tripping, it's worth bearing in mind. Also, maybe they were stupid. So what? Is this a solution to any problem?
by namibj | 2025-09-22 02:52:27+00:00
While not an integrated system itself, looking for convenient information on the matter I stumbled upon https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05313 . As for integrated electro-optical hardware that does coherent optics, I'd like to point at SFP optics; the ones that are sufficiently non-fancy with their electronics (up to 10km single-mode optics; no high-end-multimode optics; no exotic coherent optics) should not have a retimer on the RX side. Once you go to 1-Gbit/s transceivers you'll find ones with a linear RX stage; those should be suitable for rigging simple homodyne interferometry by just feeding a little TX back to the RX taking care to let the RX AGC run the RX path at high gain.
by woopsn | 2025-09-22 02:54:18+00:00
I didn't think reasonable really has a definition here. The rendezvous with these comets will take centuries or millennia even if we can get out there and kick them the right way (which is much harder than arranging a miss). Only then do we start terraforming, which takes thousands/millions of years in addition. Who/whatever we're preparing the planet for probably wouldn't be "people" anymore. :)
by duskwuff | 2025-09-22 02:56:10+00:00
Two notes for the creator:

1) The CD4000 series is about the slowest logic family that's still on the market. Switching to anything else - 74LS, 74HC, take your pick - will improve your fMax dramatically.

2) Every IC on your board needs a decoupling capacitor as close to its power/ground pins as possible. Not having those is probably causing a lot of weird behavior, including the "interference" you're seeing from other devices.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-22 02:57:39+00:00
You're going ot keep seeing more of this. The Japanese went through multiple rounds of the WH announcing they'd reached a deal and the Japanese saying politely but firmly that negotiations were still ongoing. The Japanese insisted on having everything in writing, and if you look at the executive order that was eventually published it's full of loopholes like 'best efforts' and 'aspirations' that articulate shared goals, but little the in the way of binding commitments.
How do you store and utilize knowledge?
by Barazutti629 | 2025-09-22 02:58:18+00:00
Everyday I (and I assume most of us knowledge workers, devs, and creatives) read a bunch of articles, papers, code snippets, AI responses, newsletters...

Feel like there are so much information to consume and catchup with the world rn. But how do you actually store and make use of them? What do you use to consolidate, store and easily access them when necessary?

I’ve been trying to save all things I consider helpful into AI second brain apps and then ask AI to retrieve them when needed. I've tried tools like notion, mem, saner, but would love to hear your methods and recs
by linehedonist | 2025-09-22 02:58:26+00:00
> Which months did Gaza not receive any aid?

Zero (0) food entered Gaza from March 2, 2025 to May 19, 2025.

Two and a half months.

Barbaric.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-halts-aid-into-gaza-ove... https://aijac.org.au/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-aid-into-gaza/#f... https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/media/sftjdsg2/cogat-humanitari...
by viccis | 2025-09-22 02:58:33+00:00
>Durham University improved by 30 places year-on-year in its students’ evaluation of teaching quality, which was the main driver in securing its third place in the overall university league table.

Yeah this is worthless. "Elite" colleges in the US value student evaluations of teaching VERY VERY highly in things like tenure review. Well, guess what kind of grades professors give almost every single student at those colleges... It's a race to the bottom. Students aren't experts in teaching; they're rarely even experts in learning coming out of modern secondary education.
by sillywalk | 2025-09-22 02:58:34+00:00
"In the DOT&E’s annual report issued in January, officials reported that “soldiers assessed the usability of the XM157 [the weapon’s fire control mechanism] as below average/failing” and that rifles equipped with the mounted optic lens “demonstrated a low probability of completing one 72-hour wartime mission without incurring a critical failure.” incurring a critical failure."

I wonder if they're going to (be able) to fix it?
by free652 | 2025-09-22 02:59:23+00:00
>magnetic swipe card phaseout.

Swipe? I don't recall a time when I needed to swipe in US in the last few years. Pretty much tap, tap, tap, tap. Actually you cannot swipe a card in US that has a chip, and probably 99% of cards have chips.

>Compare the quality of that to a wire or to a ACH transfer.

Zelle? Just a qr code or a phone number? And it's free?

>Wise and Revolut

No clue. What's so special that I don't have with Chase?

>EU is also ahead with security

Um isn't that useless? As more scams are via social engineering.

>But I heard worse of the US.

I heard the same about EU, actually MUCH worse :)
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-22 03:00:28+00:00
Jewish people grew out of the Canaanites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan) who occupied the region before the Philistines, who migrated there (Greek origin). There’s a lot of religious and cultural stuff that carried over from Canaanites to Israelites (and later to “modern” Jews).
by MarkMarine | 2025-09-22 03:00:28+00:00
I just got done paying for my wedding. It was 3 years ago. Was the second one, first one was during Covid and we just went to a beach in pt. Reyes and did it for free. Having done the two, one for free w/ close friends, one w/ catering and a hotel and everything that I paid 60k for… don’t waste your money. Unless this is literally so disposable you think of the money like pocket change, it’s not worth it. My favorite photos are the beach wedding, my memories are the beach wedding. We had more fun, it was unscripted and spontaneous, I had more time with my favorite people, and I had more time with my wife to enjoy it.

If I could go back, I would save the 60k and just invest it in our home, our retirement, our savings. You don’t need a lavish party to show off, your friends don’t care. You won’t care. Skip it
by red369 | 2025-09-22 03:01:44+00:00
My favourite so far is Level 38: Tough Decisions. I like the solution, but I also liked the dumbness it brought out in me along the way.

When there's no limit to tries, and iteration is quick, it seems I revert to "I'll just quickly try this dumb approach, and if that doesn't work then I'll use my brain...". Was that only me?

I've tried to be a bit vague in my example thought process below, to not ruin it for anyone who hasn't tried this particular captcha yet. It's probably (even more) unrelatable if you haven't tried this one yet.

"Perhaps I chose the wrong option at the beginning - I'll try the other..."

And then, even worse: "Maybe I need to back into the parking spot - that's dumb, but I'll try it first and then think afterwards. Oh, it's easiest to back into the spot if I go around the centre bush, but that means basically choosing both options. Anyway, I'll quickly try that first..."
by xyzelement | 2025-09-22 03:02:41+00:00
I think you and I can both recognize that the east Hamptons are a car oriented place even if you got there from the city on the jitney.

The point I was making w that one is - lower density is what allows us a back yard while higher density is what supports walk-ability and transit. So maybe I can make the point in a cheekier way - your Hamptons weekend is closer to my every-day life than to your city life :)
by zahlman | 2025-09-22 03:02:45+00:00
When I make Bash aliases or functions for Git functionality, I always name them as `git-something-or-other`. That way they're namespaced in a way that I find pleasant both for tab completion and for easy of memory. I think that should apply to more complex utilities, too.

By my usual naming conventions, this one would be `git-repeatedly-changed`.
by ShroudedNight | 2025-09-22 03:06:24+00:00
I agree that software engineering isn't exempt from warranting serious introspection as to the world that a given project is enabling. I do not agree that we should simply throw up our collective hands and say "Oh well, everyone is complicit." Professional endeavours causing interpersonal harm and enabling exploitative behaviour should be called out and forced to bare the reputational cost wherever and whenever they occur.
by rando001111 | 2025-09-22 03:06:34+00:00
My counterpoint is that those companies you listed do more harm than good anyhow. Advertising and data gathering, helping LLM companies train models that use more electricity than many countries, and charging outrageous interest and practicing usury.

Why would you want to work for those places?

Infrastructure projects are where it's at. Pays well and you're using your technical skills to do some good for the country for a change.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-22 03:07:20+00:00
Jewish people are Canaanites. Things about them have evolved over time - language, culture, etc - so they don’t call themselves that today. But they still share lots of commonalities with ancient Canaanites. And also they’re literally descendants of the Canaanites since Israelites were directly from the Canaanite population.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-22 03:07:54+00:00
What does Find My have to do with MDM?

I have Find My running on this computer (which is unlocked) now. I've upgraded from Monterey to Tahoe without issue (startup that went AWOL).

However, you touch on two things - 1) I have no idea (and doubt) that this would bypass a device that has been locked, and 2) newer versions may not be as vulnerable. This computer is an M1, and Monterey can be made to go through a full install process without internet access, as described, but newer versions will not (or they may, but I couldn't find a way to force it with Sonoma or later). That means if I do an erase, I have to do a new Monterey install, and then upgrade (but nothing untoward there, don't have to do iterative updates).
by nine_k | 2025-09-22 03:08:19+00:00
I think that using embedding for discriminating unions if a good idea. It would work, but it does not force the user to do the discrimination. I would say that explicit typecasting at the point of discrimination is safer. Without it, nothing prevents you from using one field from one variant of the union, and another from a different variant.

Introduction of proper discriminated unions would be great.
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-09-22 03:09:19+00:00
This is a good step. The notoriously malicious actors should not have access to last piece of data they do not have which is the most sensitive data you can acquire.

EU should also take a look at Visa and Mastercard. Skimming fraction of most retail payments in Europe for an obsolete service that adds little real value is crazy. With the digital euro ecosystem, Europe has a unique chance in the coming years to build its own payment rails and end this dependency.