MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-01 18:57:20+00:00
There should be more discussion around Canada and Russia's vast unpopulated tundra's. They don't need to accept climate refugees, but if they make it arable or industrialize it, it might help the rest of the world cope with climate change effects and enrich those countries.

Russia has geographic proximity to east china as well as Arabia (and not so far from Africa either), a direct border with close to 50% of the world's population. Canada has proximity to Russia as well as aerial proximity to Europe. It's really sad that there is an actual housing crisis in Canada. It is a failure of imagination, ambition and administration. Canada has the capability and resources to be a legitimate economic super power,similar to the US and China.

Look at Dubai in the desert, they are a mostly immigrant region and they've essentially transformed that hostile desert into an economic cash-cow. Canada is far more desirable for immigration with orders of magnitude more resources like fresh water (the most in the world!!), space and access to trade. The problem I think is that they focus on post-industrial economic development. They want IT and medical workers not factory and construction workers. Develop housing near existing cities instead of building new cities and investing in R&D make the harsh and cold areas livable. Which is more hostile? An area with excess heat, little fresh water and useless desert sand or an area with lots of cold, lots of fresh water and a diverse soil/mineral ecosystem?

In general, people don't need to go to mars or another planet. We need to conquer the cold. We literally have Antarctica waiting to be populated if nothing else pans out.

Why are climatologists not more practical I wonder (Honestly asking, not rhetorical)? We all know warning people about the impending collapse of ecosystems doesn't have enough of an effect right? Can't do much about ocean current and acidification of the ocean. But how about artificial seas/lakes in the arctic for fishing? Assuming existing sources of cash-crops fail, what are the alternative? Where can rice be grown artificially at large scale, or naturally after the world heats up a bit more?

I'm thinking a lot is possible with a nuclear power plant and proximity to enormous amounts of fresh water, wood and building space.

I'm just saying, it looks like the world is past the prevention stage for climate change, but minimizing its impact might be the best way to focus resources and efforts.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-01 18:57:32+00:00
I'm not so clear the choice was made consciously. There's a big swing away from the GPL and towards MIT/BSD around the time that Apple starts adopting a bunch of open-source projects for inclusion in MacOS X, and it accelerates when various big companies announced that they would be forbidding GPLv3 adoption. Fast forward to the cloud provider era, and basically no new software is being placed under the GPL (at least in part because Amazon/Google/Facebook/etc are predicating contributions on being GPL-free)
by jsmith45 | 2025-09-01 18:58:04+00:00
Historically from a revenue perspective essentially all the tarrif revenue came from bulk imports (trucks, ships, etc).

It is important to also capture tarrifs from high value parcels, as for small but high value items a parcel can very much be a similar bulk import. (Picture diamonds. A moderate sized parcel full of them is very much a bulk import).

But at the same time trying to collect tarrifs on every parcel was historically deemed non-viable. Way too much work for too little gain. Especially since historically, the addressee of the parcel often ends up paying the tarrif, this requiring customs to communicate this to the parcel carriers broker, who must communicate it and collect from the end customer, who finally gives the money to the broker, who submits it to the government. Meanwhile CBP needs to store this package.

This whole process ends up just annoying your countries own citizens, and generated little revenue, so a de minimis exemption of some form was highly desireable. And to most politicians there seemed like little downside to setting it fairly large. Sure $800 is probably larger than reasonable, but it certainly means the average person would rarely ever need to interact with this process, and that was good enough.
by StilesCrisis | 2025-09-01 18:59:49+00:00
You’d be surprised! “Lots of software packages work in Fil-C with zero or minimal changes, including big ones like openssl, CPython, SQLite, and many others.”

It wraps all of the typical API surface used by Linux code.

I’m told it has found real bugs in well-known packages as well, as it will trap on unsafe but otherwise benign accesses (like reading past one the end of a stack buffer).
by lazyeye | 2025-09-01 18:59:54+00:00
60% of the US population has at least one chronic disease. 60 PERCENT!

40% has 2 or more. In any other sector would this be an acceptable outcome?

https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-disease/about/index.html

The old establishment health bureacracy should not be taken seriously. By any measure they are corrupt and incompetent fools.
Show HN: StripeMeter – Open-Source Usage Metering for Stripe Billing
by geminimir | 2025-09-01 19:00:15+00:00
We built StripeMeter, an open-source usage metering platform that plugs directly into Stripe. It solves the classic SaaS pain of “why is my bill higher than expected?” by giving both developers and customers real-time usage tracking with live cost projections. Why it matters:

- Transparency: Customers see exactly what Stripe will bill them (within 0.5% parity).

- Exactly-once guarantee: No double billing, ever.

- Fast & scalable: Sub-minute freshness with Redis + Postgres counters.

We’d love feedback from SaaS builders, especially if you’ve struggled with Stripe’s metered billing. Does this solve a real pain for you? What would you need before trusting it in production?
by card_zero | 2025-09-01 19:00:51+00:00
I tried making spherical grid planets before, and keep on wondering about the best compromises. Looking at the description, your version presumably has:

Certain blocks corresponding to the corners of the cube, where despite anti-distortion efforts the blocks will have one corner at 120° instead of 90°,

Triplets of blocks at these locations, where turning twice gets you back to the first block,

Blocks that get smaller as you mine down, and then suddenly double in size,

Somewhere, down at the core, a regular polyhedron (what shape is it? Must be a cube) made of pyramid blocks that all come to a point in the center.

OK who's fucking downvoting me for thinking about geometry? If one of these assumptions isn't true, go ahead and tell me.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-01 19:00:52+00:00
There's some similarities with the FDA, but quite a lot of important differences. NHTSA doesn't approve vehicles, for example. Manufacturers can sell whatever they want. NHTSA simply has the power to issue recalls (preventing further sales) if those vehicles don't comply with FMVSS.

NHTSA also doesn't incorporate standards like the FDA does, so while they're aware of industry standards and employ a number of relevant experts for various purposes, you're under no obligation to follow them. Tesla is actually an example here. Their development processes don't follow ISO-26262 (the automotive equivalent of IEC-62304), though stating this properly would need a lot of asterisks I don't want to get into.

The EU does both of these things for vehicles, though it's a bit more complicated than a flat approval or rejection and it's handled by a designated third party that also does medical device testing like TÜV SÜD. Other countries like the UK have a dedicated agency to handle type approvals.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-01 19:01:00+00:00
A key assumption behind property tax is that land in a given location increases in value because that location has become more popular, and thus the owner of popular land is likely in one of two boats: - utilizing the land more intensely thus easily able to pay tax based on value - rich enough not to care

North American zoning breaks this assumption since no matter how popular a given location becomes, it remains illegal to do anything on it except teardown & 1:1 replacement of existing houses. This guarantees that all land rises in value due to scarce floorspace, while simultaneously guaranteeing that most owners of the land won't have the cash to pay property tax.

If you had the freedom to build on your land, this would solve property tax 2 ways: - if you want to build, you can, and in doing so, property tax ceases to be a significant expense - if you don't want to build but others do, their doing so eases the floorspace shortage, so that land doesn't become so expensive

For bonus points, property tax should exempt the value of the structure. There's some logic to the idea that since we cannot directly manufacture land, there's always some public stake in it. But we can directly manufacture floorspace, just like we can manufacture tv's and shoes. We don't tax ownership of tv's & shoes, so it makes sense to exclude floorspace as well.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-01 19:01:35+00:00
Amazon offers lots of AGPL software, and they fully respect the license in all cases. Ultimately the GPL is about protecting users' rights at the expense of developers' rights. So as long as AWS can offer a better/cheaper managed version of a software service, while still giving the users all details on how to run the same service if they chose to, then the AGPL is completely achieving its aims, even if the original company goes out of business.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-01 19:01:36+00:00
You’re blaming the medical establishment for Western disease? Maybe blame a car centric, carbohydrate rich ultra processed food incentivized system? Read the risk factors on the page you cited. It’s smoking, alcohol consumption, poor diet, and lack of exercise. Everyone gets cancer when we live longer and improve detection.

Prescribe and subsidize exercise and GLP-1s, ban cigarettes, and you solve a lot of this. The medical establishment did not make the system humans exist in the US in, they simply try to treat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_affluence
by EbNar | 2025-09-01 19:01:55+00:00
I meant that only starting from 10 $. You get unlimited searches. I'd burn these in a few days, as I rely heavily on my search engine.

Fortunately, I have been able to join a family on sharesub and get "unlimited" for basically half the price. Actually, it's a great search engines, with lots of goodies. I really hope it gets more adoption.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-01 19:02:01+00:00
There's a subreddit called "NissanDrivers" that studies and proliferates the notion that drivers of Nissan's are uniquely bad, regardless of age, citing numerous data points. Namely:

* It's common to see Nissans in the wild with body damage

* It's culturally known or at least assumed that Nissan will finance a vehicle for basically anyone, no matter how bad their credit is

* Nissans regularly engage in aggressive driver behaviors and driving patterns

Why it is so many problematic drivers are attracted to Nissans (and other "budget" brands, like Kia and Hyundai which also feature regularly on the sub) seems to come down largely to... well, people who make good choices in life don't generally sign an 84-month loan that will end with them having spent $70,000 on a car that costed $27,000. There's an air of classism to the entire thing, however it's difficult to disagree with based on what's shown.

Obviously that's all extremely prone to confirmation bias and all manner of prejudices so to be clear, I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying it's interesting how Nissan as a brand is so widely associated with poor people who allegedly make bad decisions, financial, and in their driving. It's also worth noting (and probably what's anchoring this impression is) that Nissans are, in spite of their awful financing, cheap. As are Kias and Hyandais, so more people own them at scale, and therefore more bad drivers also own them at scale. Once the narrative is in the wild, there's little that will arrest it from being "confirmed" by people and passed along as understood fact.

They also have a ton of bumper stickers, too.
by poulpy123 | 2025-09-01 19:03:33+00:00
Even in Europe as soon as you spend time outside the big cities and that you don't have heavy/bug stuff to move around, the car is pretty much mandatory (except maybe the Netherlands/Belgium?).

I also noticed that the gen z is less interested in having a car, but as far as I can see it's more a shift of attitude about independence and a lot also because it's more expensive now to have a car.
by Rochus | 2025-09-01 19:04:01+00:00
You can select the model. I very much appreciate the Claude Sonnet models which are very good and rational discussion partners, responding to arguments in detail and critically, allowing for the dialectical exploration of complex topics. I have also experimented with other models including ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, but the resulting discussions were only a fraction as useful (i.e. more optimized towards affirmative feel-good small talk, from my humble point of view).
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-09-01 19:04:18+00:00
I completely agree with you that if I had wanted to I could have put in the effort to decipher the meaning of the post. However, the post left me with absolutely no desire to decipher it's meaning, so I did not. If instead the author had written simply "I use tuist for that" the meaning would have been immediately clear for someone like me, and I would have been much more likely to look up the product.

I don't mean to imply that there is some sort of "should" to this. The author is not required to want their meaning to be understood, even though I'm not really sure what other purpose they would have for posting. But I do think that this class of miscommunication is both common and reasonably avoidable by building up a bit of a mental model of the intended audience. I was trying to provide anecdotal evidence to build up that mental model.
by renatko | 2025-09-01 19:04:29+00:00
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by whycome | 2025-09-01 19:05:04+00:00
So much of the research and the general understanding is just conflated with cigarettes as the delivery type. They present a bunch of problems: the smoke and other chemicals makes it damaging in a lot of ways. People sometimes swap the terms “nicotine” and “cigarettes”. Cigarettes (and presumably vaping) have one of the highest and fastest nicotine deliveries — this is critical in creating the physical/chemical (dopamine) response that your brain and body use in addiction formation.

We can have two companies release the same code, but the ui/UX of the users interaction with it can make all the difference.
by marssaxman | 2025-09-01 19:05:10+00:00
I imagine that it depends on the kind of software you are working on. I found debuggers helpful back when I was working on interactive GUI programs which had a lot of complex state, built in classic OOP style with lots of objects pointing at each other, but I have not done that sort of thing in a long time. In part, that's because I got seriously into functional programming, which left me with a much more rigorous approach to state transitions; but then I shifted from conventional software into embedded firmware, where you can sometimes stop the microcontroller and use a debugger via JTAG, but it's usually easier to just stream data out over a serial port, or hook an LED up to a spare pin and make it blink. The world doesn't stop even if you want the software to stop, so the utility of a debugger is limited.

After that I went to work for Google, building distributed software running across many machines in a datacenter, and I have no idea how you would hook up a debugger even if you wanted to. It's all logs all the time, there.

By the time that was over, I was thoroughly accustomed to logging, and attaching a debugger had come to seem like a nuisance. Since then I've mostly worked on compilers, or ML pipelines, or both: pure data-processing engines, with no interactivity. If I'm fixing a bug, I'm certainly also writing a regression test about it, which lends itself to a logging-based workflow. I don't mind popping into gdb if that's what would most directly answer my question, but that only happens a couple of times a year.
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by zimpenfish | 2025-09-01 19:05:39+00:00
> The original stance of the open source crowd was more along the lines of the GPL -> GPLv3 -> AGPL, which expressly prevents this kind of thing.

Not wanting to further widen the schism but wasn't that the free software people rather than the open source people? cf [0], particularly the "not as strict" part.

> In the late 1990's Eric Raymond and others developed the term "open source" as a more business friendly term than "free software", with a more inclusive meaning where licenses that were not as strict about the passing on of modifications would also quality for the term.

[0] https://www.freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?title=Eric_...
by somenameforme | 2025-09-01 19:06:05+00:00
Yeah but in this position Qh7# was literally the main idea in the position. It wasn't like some surprising idea. But I think it's logically explainable. When you're playing the game, each move you're considering what changed with your opponent's move, and after black plays h6 your mind naturally considers the pawn rather than the square. So it's easier to miss that h7 has become weaker.

If Magnus, or probably any player over ~2300, saw this position in a vacuum, they'd all literally instantly see Qh7#. It's basically impossible to miss, except for this weird nuance!
by bluGill | 2025-09-01 19:06:43+00:00
No disclaimer is allowed. They can link to the misleading/wrong site only in the case that it is obviously a link.

you cannot make a safe lawnmower. However lawnmoser makers can't just put a danger label on and get by with something dangerious - they have to put on every guard they can first. Even then they often have to show in court that the mower couldn't work as a mower if they put in a guard to prevent some specific injury and thus they added the warning.

which is to say that so long as they can do something and still work as a search engine they are not allowed to use a disclaimer anyway. The disclaimer is only for when they wouldn't be a search engine.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-01 19:06:51+00:00
That article is about the same Benn Jordan in the Bluesky post. The photo in the article is not of Benn Jordan.

Benn Jordan has several videos and projects devoted to "digital sabotage", e.g. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=benn%20jordan%20data%2...

So this all kind of looks on its face like it's just him trolling. There may be ore than just what's on the face of course. For example, it could be someone else trolling him with his own methods.
by Tetraslam | 2025-09-01 19:07:18+00:00
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by loganfrederick | 2025-09-01 19:07:23+00:00
The "Short Story" section definitely matches my experience at most companies, startups and bigger non-tech companies alike: They already have more data than they're aware of and know what to do with, and understanding what they have is the starting point before most analysis can be done.

Glad I read the post as I hadn't heard of Malloy before. Excuse me if I missed the answer to this, but: How much do you as Findly/Conversion Pattern implement the Semantic Layer on behalf of your users (and if so, I assume you have some process for auto-generating the Malloy models), or do your users have to do something to input the semantics themselves?
by lemonberry | 2025-09-01 19:08:08+00:00
Not sure if this will help (or if it's even correct), but Wilfrid Sellars in his essay "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" talks about the difference between "knowing that" to ride a bike one needs to put pressure on the pedals to rotate the tire and move the bicycle and rider forward and "knowing how" to ride a bike. To me the latter is indicative of understanding and the former is information or knowledge.