MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gambiting | 2025-09-14 22:01:36+00:00
What are you talking about. UK is the prime example of political parties being extremely critical of the EU and eventually getting exactly what they asked for.

But even if you think UK is some kind of weird one-off example - it's not. Look at Poland - PiS has been openly critical of EU for years now and held power for years, will most likely win it again in the next elections. Konfederacja straight up calls EU facist on a daily basis and they have like 20% support for some insane reason.

>>by "independent" national (state sponsored) media.

You have to explain what you mean by this - you can't be independent and state sponsored. Or do you mean unbiasased(like what the BBC or TVP are meant to be, which they are obviously not but they are not "independent")
by dpifke | 2025-09-14 22:01:44+00:00
14 states have more than one time zone[0].

I live in South Dakota, which is one of them—the Mountain/Central timezone boundary within the state follows the Missouri river. (Locals refer to "East River" and "West River" to refer to the two halves of the state. The capital, Pierre, is technically East River, but is right on the banks, almost dead-center.)

[0]: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_te...
by userbinator | 2025-09-14 22:01:54+00:00
There are plenty of devices running older versions of Android which are not under Big G's control and won't be subjected to this authoritarianism. Coincidentally they are also likely to be easily rootable, so you can still have full freedom.

Just don't "upgrade" and ignore all the propaganda telling you bad things about that. Keep building apps that work on older, less-hostile devices and spread the word to oppose this very deliberate planned obsolescence.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-14 22:02:19+00:00
They're more than relevant. They're the central problem in nativist approaches to ML. AI is completely false technology unless it is diagnostic or specific. It has no value as text prediction, it's simply here to demonstrate language is dead technology. This is empirically valid. LLMs prove this by demonstration. Thaye cannot be trained or aligned as language cannot exclude its dark matter. I see no responses from engineers disproving this.

Clearly you're unable to debate this. Please someone who can counter this should step in here to debate how language's dark matter can be extricated to make chat viable. I've studied this since 2001 from game development, my team and I see no other way than to ban Chat or to develop a next-gen language.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-14 22:02:29+00:00
It is absurd to pay $200 a month for it when GitHub Copilot has agentic development basically for free for open source developers, including GPT/Claude/Gemini models. If you want to waste your own money, fine, but don't expect others to waste a single dollar of their money when decent options are available at no cost.

Especially Claude is well known for wasting output tokens, for maximizing output token use when fewer tokens would do just fine, although other models too have picked up this disease as of late.

Yes, better models could produce better output, especially for a large project, but in my experience, the quality of the output depends 10x more on the clarity and refinement of the input. In the real world, the bulk of engineering is incremental, not one-shot.

Also, when I see a large repo with just three commits made all at once, it tells me that the vibe-coded output hasn't really been reviewed or refined over time, that it has not withstood the test of time at all, it hasn't received the love and attention it needs to make it mature, and so it cannot be trusted in this stage of its development.
by sillywalk | 2025-09-14 22:03:23+00:00
> The Onyx2 looks like a dorm fridge that also makes espresso.

It was the Indigo that made espresso. :)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SGI_Espressigo

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconGraphics/comments/1eh9puu/sg...
by jcims | 2025-09-14 22:04:15+00:00
The home buying process seems to have been thoroughly corrupted, at least in the US. The transaction costs are high, parasitic HOAs and paying over ask have been normalized, new homes are built as cheaply as possible, investors are driving up costs, etc. etc. The investment aspect is a bit overrated. You can't get that money 'back' because you still need a place to live. Most folks just flip their equity into the next place, so it never really comes back to them until they downsize or die.

I've been a homeowner for 30 years and am now renting a temporary apartment in a new location. There's a lot of upside of renting. I don't like apartment living at all, but I don't feel anchored to the location at all and have the freedom to live wherever without a bunch of overhead. I'm definitely spending more money per square foot renting, and obviously none of this is coming back to myself or my family, but that's ok for me right now.

I think my main takeaway is that there is no rule about what is best. It's what's right for you at that time of your life. A house is nice when you have kids and want some stability. Renting is nice when you want freedom and flexibility.
by Telaneo | 2025-09-14 22:04:19+00:00
If the risk management strategy of contacts involves having a pair of glasses on hand, why not jump straight to that (unless you don't like glasses in the first place and only use them if all else fails)?

Then again, my eyesight isn't bad enough for me breaking my glasses on a holiday to be a potential problem. I've never broken any of my pairs before, and even if they were lost, I'm still able to read and get around. It's just more unpleasant to do so. But I still prefer glasses and wear them pretty much at all times.
by secondcoming | 2025-09-14 22:05:03+00:00
I wore glasses since I was maybe 10 and then contact lenses for decades.

I got sick of the daily ritual of having to clean my hands, put them in and then take them out at night.

My eyesight was pretty bad with a large prescription and keratoconus on top (that I did have C3R surgery for). I was dismayed when I found out I wasn't eligible for laser surgery so I just accepted that I'd have to deal with the inconvenience of glasses/lenses during the most active years of my life.

Then I found out that you can do Refractive Lens Exchange (same surgery that they do for people with cataracts) and went for that a few years ago. It isn't perfect but - for me at least - it was worth the risk. I do get issues with glares when it's dark but when it's bright there are no side effects. I also had to get a YAG laser treatment about a year later due to some 'clouding' but that not a big deal other than the expense.

When I last went for an eye test I was told I had 20/20 vision in one eye and I didn't believe the optician. I've long forgotten what 20/20 vision is like so maybe it's just overrated.

I can also never get cataracts!
by andy99 | 2025-09-14 22:05:22+00:00
My observation is that people mostly think at the same speed but some are happy thinking less before they draw conclusions. This often comes across as a skill or being smarter (to be fair it's a legit skill whether you agree with the results it delivers). I find a lot of business and management consulting is like this, people happily jump to the closest pattern whether or not it fits in order to avoid thinking and appear clever, and there's very little appetite to actually think deeply about something because whatever you do will need to be run by other people who don't want to think...
by hopelite | 2025-09-14 22:05:52+00:00
You are touching on a critical point that I have been amused by at times in these types of conversations; people are hating on AI for doing all the things that people have done and still do.

Poor planning, check. No/inadequate documentation, check. Sloppy and janky code, check. Poor practices and methods, check. Poor and miscommunication, check. Poor technical choices, check. What am I missing?

Maybe this is just a matter of some of the top tier 100x devs and teams clutching pearls in disgust at having to look at what goes on below Mt Olympus, but this is also not any different to how code quality cratered and is still really poor due to all the outsourcing and H-1B (sorry, all you H-1B hopefuls) insourcing of quantity over quality.

I say that without any judgement, but reality simply is that this issue has long been a quantity over quality argument even before AI, and mostly for non-dev reasons as the recent de-qualification of R&D funding revealed and had a marked impact on dev jobs because the C-suite could don't use R&D funding for financial shenanigans.

If people want to hate AI, go ahead. People hated and hate on the H-1B abuses and they hate on AI now. I would hope that we can just move beyond griping and mean-girling AI, and get to a point where proper practices and methods are developed to maybe make the outcomes and outputs better.

Because again, AI is not going anywhere less than even H-1B and I am sure the C-suite will find some new way to abuse and play financial shenanigans, but it's simply not going away and we need to learn to live with it since it will seemingly only get "better" and faster as it changes at breakneck speeds.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-14 22:06:36+00:00
A while back I was in Berlin, and got lost in Nollendorfplatz station (which is not particularly _big_) for about ten minutes. Now, for various reasons I had been awake for about 36 hours, so mostly blamed it on that, but if this site is correct it confirms my suspicion that that is a weird station. U1 and U3 are on different levels for different directions!
by ForHackernews | 2025-09-14 22:06:55+00:00
Reminds me of https://jlcollinsnh.com/2023/03/02/why-your-house-is-a-terri...

“Hey I’ve got an idea. We’re always talking about good investments. What if we came up with the worst possible investment we can construct? What might that look like?”

Well, let’s see now (pulling out our lined yellow pad), let’s make a list. To be really terrible:

- It should be not just an initial, but if we do it right, a relentlessly ongoing drain on the cash reserves of the owner.

- It should be illiquid. We’ll make it something that takes weeks, no – wait – even better, months of time and effort to buy or sell.

- It should be expensive to buy and sell. We’ll add very high transaction costs. Let’s say 5% commissions on the deal, coming and going.

- It should be complex to buy or sell. That way we can ladle on lots of extra fees and reports and documents we can charge for.

- It should generate low returns. Certainly no more than the inflation rate. Maybe a bit less.

- It should be leveraged! Oh, oh this one is great! This is how we’ll get people to swallow those low returns! If the price goes up a little bit, leverage will magnify this and people will convince themselves it’s actually a good investment! Nah, don’t worry about it. Most will never even consider that leverage is also very high risk and could just as easily wipe them out."
by tialaramex | 2025-09-14 22:07:02+00:00
That 3-8% cites two sources but...

One of those cited resources just keeps citing other people for a 5% risk, if they came up with their own number I didn't find it and I wonder why they'd cite somebody else in their own abstract without even mentioning they don't agree if somewhere in their work they do get a different number.

The other citation from the second link seems to be a paper which doesn't say 3% it says, and I'll quote: "The main explanation for HPV-negative cervical cancer was a false diagnosis, followed by cancers associated with non-HR-HPV types, and false-negative HR-HPV results. Truly HPV negative seem to be very rare in Caucasian populations".

If they're to be taken for 3% the only way to get there is by disregarding that conclusion and deciding that false negatives count as true negatives. Reviewers should ideally catch that but didn't here.

As I said, I don't doubt it exists, but 8% seems insane and these citations did not persuade me I was wrong to say 0.3% based on the paper you don't like.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-14 22:07:30+00:00
Ugh, all my domains are with Namecheap, since Google stopped dealing with domains and CloudFlare and GoDaddy seem more evil. Also I appreciated Namecheap's support of Ukraine.

Hopefully it's not too predatory and the owner just wanted to cash out some chips; some corps do okay under private equity (Suse for example) but lots get ripped to shreds...
by upofadown | 2025-09-14 22:07:52+00:00
Yes, that is specifically what enabling signatures prevents. You would know when the stored password stopped working and the content of the rest of the file changed.

That article is fairly rough. For one thing it references "The PGP Problem":

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp

For another thing it references "the quantum threat against cryptography" as an actual argument against password store.
by TheFreim | 2025-09-14 22:08:07+00:00
You have unfortunately been misinformed about both examples that you brought up.

> when right wingers killed Heather Heyer, Trump called them "very fine people"

Trump did not call the killer a fine person, nor did he call everyone involved on the right fine people. He explicitly stated that there were, "some very bad people in that group." The "very fine people" was referencing those who were peacefully protesting both for and against the removal of historical monuments. If you watch the original video instead of the selective reporting this is all made very clear. You can watch or read the transcript of the "very fine people" press conference here: https://www.veryfinepeople.info

> When they killed Brian Sicknick, he called them heroes and pardoned them.

Brian Sicknick was not killed by anyone. The medical examiner ruled that he died of natural causes. There is no evidence that he was killed, which was reflected in the difficulty the prosecutors faced, and its why nobody was ever convicted of murder.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brian-sicknick-capitol-riot-die... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Sicknick#Misinf...
by motbus3 | 2025-09-14 22:08:07+00:00
All you say is true, except adopting green solutions is not a plan to be achieved in 4 or 5 years. I think modern politics has being more focused on the continuation of one or a group in power or reaching the power rather then advancing towards common goals. In times of hardship, people want the solution for their big problems to be easy. I can't buy something increase minimum weight (inflation) Missing health or jobs, blame immigrants not the lack of investment over the last 20 years nor the future consequences.

It anguishes people that their problems are not truly solvable but only briefly relieved until the side effects are uncovered.

And it is the same here. The advancements of politics in the development of sustainable and renewable energy was not enough. There were way too many counter incentives to actually act serious on it. The lobby of oil, etc...

Many of the politicies that were adopted post COVID could have been adopted 15y or 30y before. The lack of restructuration of the taxation over the companies exponentially increasing the usage of electricity or profit with diminishing employees is the same is another example.

For now, people are focusing on a war that will only exist because people are focusing in a war that does not exist. A trillion dollars in war insteadof towards actually solving the causes for the potential war is a slap on the faces of poor people (aka us) who will be sent to kill other ones children.

I digress
by testdelacc1 | 2025-09-14 22:08:09+00:00
In the Wire the police couldn't directly access phone conversations despite them being digital because phone companies needed to see a warrant before handing over any data. That would presumably be the case here as well, communication providers would have to service warrants.

Is it possible for this to be abused? Almost certainly.

Do I think this is a good idea? No I do not.

Despite me mentioning it 10 times, I can mention it once more. I'd prefer communications to remain private. I'm only pointing out ways it hurts society, and why police would like to return to the status quo ante where they could obtain a warrant to surveil criminals.
by freshtake | 2025-09-14 22:08:19+00:00
The TL;DR is that the value of renting vs. buying has a lot to do with being realistic and understanding real estate and investments in general.

Buying a house is often an emotionally motivated decision with many important risk factors... Were inspections comprehensive and thorough or did they overlook an issue with the foundation, wiring, plumbing, etc.? Did the buyer understand the required disclosures, and specifically understand what the seller is not obligated to disclose in their jurisdiction? (e.g., in many areas the seller is not obligated to disclose if a child sex offender lives next door). Is the neighborhood up and coming or struggling?

Getting these wrong can easily negate the potential upsides of ownership.

Renting can also be great, but as the article points out, if it mostly just results in more disposable cash, then you may be better off owning (forced savings). Rental properties often cannot be sublet and also cannot be used as collateral or passed on to family members with a step-up in basis. Rental leases also fluctuate with the market, so it's not uncommon in big cities for renters to be paying close or equal prices of their homeowners next door.

Anecdotally I know many folks who have rented their way through, invested wisely, and done well. I also know folks who have moved around the US and always purchased, did their homework, capitalized on tax incentives, and now have a stable of rental properties that helped them become FIRE.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-14 22:08:38+00:00
The project history goes back to 1982. There may have been rewrites in the later 80s, but it's some of the oldest C around, and a very conservative codebase (e.g. Linux kernel gets much more aggressive refactorings regularly).

That particular git repository has history imported from 1996 onward, but Postgres was a very established project by then: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...

These days people might not blink an eye at gofmt/rustfmt rewriting the AST to clean it up, but those toolchains were built that way largley because automating anything about large C codebases is so hard.
by al_borland | 2025-09-14 22:09:00+00:00
Who are these people who can afford $6k/month for a rental? It has to be a very small percentage of the population, yet I see these kind of numbers thrown around a lot.

Statistically, I’m in the top ~5% of income earners (from the data I can find), with no debt, and I couldn’t afford $6k/month.

I bought a house because I don't understand the rental market anymore. I don’t really like being a home owner, but the rent prices these days are so out of hand. I think the most I ever paid for rent was $1,680 and I felt irresponsible doing that. I don’t know how all these rentals are full with the prices they’re charging. Does everyone have roommates?
by avtar | 2025-09-14 22:09:29+00:00
I'm not the person you replied to but their list of strategies (gratitude practice, evoking joy, exercise) pretty much mirrors what I've been trying to employ.

> Saying it every day means little even if I write it down, and the writing itself feels more like a burden than a help.

Perhaps an obvious statement but our experience with any type of practice varies in infinite ways from moment to moment. At times things just click or maybe we've built up enough momentum that it could feel effortless, but on just as many occasions it can feel like wading through sludge. When it's the latter I have to ask myself just how am I showing up for the activity. How mindful am I? What's my intention? Perhaps most importantly, is the sense of gratitude actually being felt in my body?

If you don't mind self-help type books, 'Hardwiring Happiness' by Rick Hanson is a fairly accessible resource that stresses the importance of the somatic side of this type of work. The tl;dr is that if more parts of the mind pay _sustained_ attention to the embodied experience of gratitude, compassion, joy etc. then we're increasing the chances of training our minds. So if I find myself enumerating things in a journal that I believe I'm grateful for but the exercise feels contrived or flat then that's a sign I should either tune even more into large parts of the body (can be anywhere but for me it's usually my face, chest, and arms) or just attempt to evoke warm feelings in those areas. That last part can feel fake at times but there's probably value in learning how to encourage more mind processes to sign up for the practice. The OP alluded to this bit with "sometimes it can help to simply sit up straight and smile". If the body remembers what gratitude feels like then chances are that's going to influence the mind for the next few moments.

'Awakening Joy' by James Baraz is another book in this vein. In it the author makes the case that learning how to shift our baseline towards one coloured with joy and gratitude usually requires someone repeatedly and genuinely appreciating seemingly trivial things over the course of each day (food, shelter, mobility, pet, access to nature, etc.). Whereas shifts occurring solely due to significant positive life events are potentially less common.
by ekr____ | 2025-09-14 22:10:19+00:00
The problem with requiring OCSP stapling is that it's not practically enforceable without breakage.

The underlying dynamics of any change to the Web ecosystem is that it has to be incrementally deployable, in the sense that when element A changes it doesn't experience breakage with the existing ecosystem. At present, approximately no Web servers do OCSP stapling, so any browser which requires it will just not work. In the past, when browsers want to make changes like this, they have had to give years of warning and then they can only actually make the change once nearly the entire ecosystem has switched and so you have minimal breakage. This is a huge effort an only worth doing when you have a real problem.

As a reference point, it took something like 7 years to disable SHA-1 in browsers [0], and that was an easier problem because (1) CAs were already transitioning (2) it didn't require any change to the servers, unlike OCSP stapling which requires them to regularly fetch OCSP responses [1] and (3) there was a clear security reason to make the change. By contrast, with Firefox's introduction of CRLite, all the major browsers now have some central revocation system, which works today as opposed to years from now and doesn't require any change to the servers.

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting... [1] As an aside it's not clear that OCSP stapling is better than short-lived certs.
by faangguyindia | 2025-09-14 22:10:55+00:00
Idk what most people are doing but coding with AI requires special skillset.

Here I put ClaudeCode in a while loop and clone itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/TY3SNp7eI9

After a week it was ready, you just need a good prompt.

People who say it cannot create anything beyond simple things are wrong. In my experience you can create anything provided your plan is good.
by palata | 2025-09-14 22:11:00+00:00
Just the fact that you have more control over the permissions you give to apps makes it worth it for me.

* If an app wants to access your contacts, you can choose which contacts, and you can choose to feed them a "fake" list (which is an empty list). Same for storage.

* You can choose not to give network access to an app, and the system will tell the app that there is no signal all the time.

The other very nice feature is that the Google Play Services and Play Store aren't running as system apps (i.e. they don't have root access): they just run like any other app. So you can choose not to share your contact list with them, for instance.