MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-09-23 10:08:35+00:00
>‘It’s a shame to tear down something we worked so hard to build,’ we think, ‘It’s been 20 years, so we want the deity to move into a beautiful, fresh, new shrine.’”

Imagine how annoying that would be for an eternal being - 20 years might as well be 20 minutes. You just got settled in and the humans start moving stuff again!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 10:09:59+00:00
> You could argue the same with Boeing vs. Airbus

You couldn't. Boeing and Airbus have pursued different strategies, both in design and production. There is very little actual duplication between their work. To the extent there is, it's in each de-risking different technologies and then the other, after seeing the results, rapidly catching up.

This is partly a reflection of commercial aviation being a relatively mature market. Both in the pace of required innovation (and regulation). And the fact that the difference between branching out and marching forward is difficult to know ex ante.

Put another way, the next steps in launch vehicles are relatively constrained. The goals aren't particularly unknown, just the path. For aviation, on the other hand, the goals are quite varied.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 10:10:16+00:00
I don't even think it's that there's a conspiracy in favor of foreign energy. It's that the area is rich enough to indulge in stupidity. They can literally eat cake.

Because there's no actual impetus to "not suck" all sorts of stupid emotional "but the seagulls" arguments that would normally not stop anything resonate. And of course the foreign energy interests are happy to fan those stupid flames.

Maybe $300+ energy bills (also a result of short sighted let them eat cake policies) will be what finally does it.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-23 10:11:17+00:00
> Then show me the profit margins? If they just pocketed all the money, where did it go?

[ Insert set of news clips of various billionaires and their billions that they've gotten ever more of ]

> I'm pretty confident this is one of those situations where as soon as I start to lay out out examples, they'll immediately be dismissed

I mean, I'm going to take issue with these since they're all examples of video games which were, when I was a kid, an emerging medium. Like that's basic economies of scale, not to mention the cost of all computers have fallen substantially, why would video-games be exempt from that? And if you're anticipating that kind of response, why don't you pick more cut and dry examples? Groceries, rent, healthcare, childcare... Hell, try it with books. Books are CERTAINLY cheaper to produce today than they've ever been, and I'm not even counting e-books.

The cost of living has outpaced wages for decades, and the idea that "competition drives prices down" is a myth that only survives in Econ 101 classrooms and libertarian subreddits.
by nis0s | 2025-09-23 10:11:25+00:00
This reminds me of Orwell’s criticisms of left intellectuals, and how they’re far removed from the style of the common folk. I appreciate that one’s ideological opponent (for this writer, the far-right) is always conniving and devious, but maybe some of those far-right thinkers are Orwellian in a different sense. It’s a common criticism that some people only read Orwell up to 1984. Essentially, what Orwell was saying was that if the left is intellectually honest, then it would realize the fascist and authoritarian tendencies that it possesses itself.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 10:11:30+00:00
> Arianespace and its predecessors have never been _hugely_ competitive

Arianespace is run as a jobs programme and profit centre. It explicitly doesn't even try to compete [1].

So long as Arianespace soaks up European launch budgets, SpaceX's trans-Atlantic primacy is assured.

[1] https://illdefinedspace.substack.com/p/catching-super-heavy-...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 10:13:24+00:00
> access to space is too strategically important to ever delegate

New York isn't "delegating" its space access to California, Texas and Florida. (Same as America never saw itself delegating shipbuilding to our Japanese and Korean allies.)

I'm not arguing Europe isn't acting rationally. Just that this is the cost of strategic independence. Everyone shares a burden of duplication and diseconomies of scale. It really isn't that long ago that NATO members--America included--didn't think that way.
by diftraku | 2025-09-23 10:13:33+00:00
> One of their digital lock designs had a rather cough Pleasing vulnerability.

I'm assuming you're referring to the VingCard vulnerability from 2018? (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43896360)

Digital locks aside, this is more applicable to any lock you buy and rely on (substitute US with your local region):

> lack of availability in the US

I wouldn't go out of my way to find something like Schlage here, when Abloy (Assa Abloy) locks are available in abundance with locksmiths able to duplicate usually all the key variants.
by port11 | 2025-09-23 10:13:35+00:00
While I'm partial to your cynic interpretation — after all Cloudlfare is a for-profit US business —, the model isn't that far from what Jaron Lanier had proposed in ’Who Owns The Future?‘ (2010).

In the book he explains how these micropayments would be sent out to all the websites you visit, etc. And you can have a built-in mechanism to combat the "star system" that tech automatically enables, where a few people get the most money.

Lanier's proposal was that ISPs take charge of this issue, but perhaps Cloudflare can make it work. The less cynical interpretation would be that later they federate the system or even turn into a non-profit.
by squigz | 2025-09-23 10:13:47+00:00
A couple years ago I was hanging out in a Discord server for a jigsaw puzzling site. They made a policy change to remove all pictures from Russia and ban further submissions of Russian photos. I tried to convince them that this was probably counter-productive, but apparently that means I support Russia's actions.

There are valid ways to punish a country for aggressive or oppressive actions - like sanctions - and there are non-valid ways - inherently blaming and then ostracizing every member of the country, for example. And when you take the position that, "If you don't agree with my actions, you're also part of the problem" you are not doing anything but causing people to get annoyed with you and your position, and reducing credibility for the groups you're trying to advocate for. In other words, you're doing more harm than good.
by croes | 2025-09-23 10:14:02+00:00
Oh I found the lie

>"a new low"

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/20/politics/fact-check-charl...

And if you think "MAGA gang" is an deliberately insulting term then I want to know what you call all the insaults of the president. MAGA gang is pretty harmless. At Kimmel is right, they try to score political points from it. If you don't see that you shpuld reflect on your own denial.

Maybe you should start check how often the MAGA site called the other side evil, enemy of the state, abomination to god and even wished for the death penalty for Biden and then compare that to what Kimmel said. Ridicilous in taking offense in that but not all what happenend before.

>The killer did it for their beliefs, motivated by their hatreds, encouraged by their celebrations of people like Mangione and Crooks. Instead of taking the high road and being the bearer of bad news, they've doubled down on manipulating their audience.

So you know more about the killer's motives than the authorities or you are just plain wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/charlie-kirk...
by wnscooke | 2025-09-23 10:14:15+00:00
EP did not say he achieved #1; about #2, "I spent much of my life in this state, and I know all about it."; "I first considered what seemed to be in my best interest, or, more often, gave no thought to the matter at all." is his take on #3; "my normal slouch" in #4; he makes no claim to have gained an eternal perspective, merely quoting others in #5; that "cloud of uncertainty" gives little confidence in #6; being 90, he had little to say about #7 sadly; the reader has to guess whether he was lucky or not in #8; and finally #9 is likewise devoid of actual personal recounting of what he has.

All in all, I find "advice" and "what I've learned" tomes by *older* people to be unhelpful. When someone has spent much other their life living contrary to the advice they are now dishing out, I question it. I prefer advice from someone currently living life, learning and adjusting and growing now... not at the end when it doesn't matter.
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-23 10:14:40+00:00
Mmh, that's kinda... Exactly what `source` is.

It's just rarely used beyond dotfiles because... Well.. it inherits all variables etc

https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-use-the-source-command-in-bash

If you want to make the transition explicit at the end of the script, you can do what the sister comment did, essentially

"source <(bash the-script|grep -Pom "xx inherited variables\n(.*?)\n yy inherited variables")"
by Xelbair | 2025-09-23 10:15:20+00:00
Honestly, their effect is diminished. After speaking with Russians living in there, day to day life hasn't been affected that much, after initial shock.

Trying to use sanctions against another major power isn't guaranteed to work as they can take the hit and pivot to internal industry(which happened), or trading with other major powers that do not sanction them(China).

Or some countries get around sanctions - like buying Russian gas/petroleum products through India - in a way this bypasses sanctions making them worthless.

Is it better than doing nothing? yes, of course. But Russia unfortunately is a major power - just due to sheer access to natural resources - and you can't just bully it into submission with weak sanctions that some EU countries ignore(petroleum case).
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-23 10:15:24+00:00
https://archive.ph/MqxJk

> A year after Mario Draghi’s doorstop-sized report urged the EU to improve its competitiveness, the former Italian prime minister warned instead last week that the bloc was falling further behind its global rivals. For all the efforts to bolster resilience in the face of Trump’s tariffs and demands for Europe to fund more of its own defence, Draghi warned that “inaction” on structural reforms by Brussels and EU states “threatens not only our competitiveness but our sovereignty itself”.

> It was a damning verdict, but not unfair. Of Draghi’s 383 recommendations, including integrating capital markets, strengthening supply chains and aligning business regulations, an audit by the European Policy Innovation Council found only 11 per cent had been adopted. Deutsche Bank analysts found most progress had been in scaling up the defence industry, where the urgency was felt most strongly, and in areas of least resistance such as cutting red tape — though this had sometimes been done in ham-fisted ways.
by coldtea | 2025-09-23 10:15:26+00:00
>I have read psychologists saying that "happiness as default state" is a social construct myth of modern times.

Psychologists are what's the actual social construct myth of modern times.

>You cannot be happy all the time

That's not what "happiness as default state" implies though. It's about happiness being the disposition you opt for, as opposed to wallowing in misery and seeing fault in everything as your baseline.

"Default state" precisely conveys that it's not about "all the time". Just what you should strive to start from and return to.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 10:15:27+00:00
> For the time being, Ariane 6 isn't drastically more expensive than the list price for the competition

That's because SpaceX is soaking up its spare capacity with Starlink. I expect once that market is saturated SpaceX's launch prices will begin plummeting, as it seeks to maximise volume through market share.

More critically: SpaceX discounts for volume contracts. And it's the only launch company offering the kind of cadence populating a LEO constellation requires.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-23 10:17:16+00:00
Weird flex about the income, but the answer is: You don't have to read the whole thing. You can just dip in and if the first 2, 5, 10 minutes hook you, you read the rest.

You could also skim, that's a practice that has really done a lot for me when it comes to not-so-information-dense literature that might still have worthwhile nuggets in it, like a good chunk of nonfiction.
by palata | 2025-09-23 10:17:29+00:00
> but writing build configs should not be a skill issue

I think it shouldn't be a skill issue because a true professional should learn how to do it :-).

My build configs are systematically shorter than the bad ones.

Also I feel like many people really try to have CMake do everything, and as soon as you add custom functions in CMake, IMO you're doing it wrong. I have seen this pattern many times where people wrap CMake behind a Makefile, presumably because they hate having to run two commands (configure/build) instead of one (make). And then instead of having to deal with a terrible CMakeLists, they have to deal with a terrible CMakeLists and a terrible Makefile.

It's okay for the build instructions to say: "first you build the dependencies (or use a package manager for that), second you run this command to generate the protobuf files, and third you build the project". IMO if a developer cannot run 3 commands instead of one, they have to reflect on their own skills instead of blaming the tools :-).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 10:17:36+00:00
> It is good to have more than one design

SpaceX has multiple designs generations ahead of anything in Europe in this category. (China is catching up, but it too is retracing Hawthorne's path.)

Themis is cool. But it's duplicating what SpaceX did fifteen to twenty years ago and what China has been working on for ten. Methalox, open cycle gas generator, steel tanks...there aren't any daring design decisions here. And there shouldn't be. This is a solved problem. (Again, that doesn't mean Europe shouldn't be solving it independently. But it's not innovating anything here.)

Consider an alternate universe where NATO isn't in shambles. Europe can use SpaceX for LEO. And in the meantime, it can focus on other designs, other categories. Maybe a different fuel. Maybe a novel engine. Maybe something entirely extra-atmospheric. Maybe it's a breakthrough in satellite design, or habitat science. Instead of replicating Falcon 1/9 and Raptor, there could be a genuinely new design.

We don't get that, because Europe has to secure its launch sovereignty. That is the cost.

> We could maximise economies of scale by having one car manufacturer that made a small number of models

Mature market. Multiple optima. See my comment on Airbus and Boeing. When you're pathfinding, you want multiple bets. When you're pursuing, R&D benefits from scale.
by nabla9 | 2025-09-23 10:17:54+00:00
The obvious regulatory improvement is that reject-all is default and all other options must be harder to get.

ps. Current solution is use browser extension to automate rejection.

Consent-O-Matic

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/consent-o-matic/mdj...

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/consent-o-matic/id1606897889
by al_borland | 2025-09-23 10:18:10+00:00
I am only tracking two things these days. I mostly gave up on all other habit tracking for similar reasons to what the article mentions. For those things I did naturally, the tracker wasn’t needed and it was a silly extra step. For those things I wasn’t doing, the tracker didn’t motivate me, it was just one more step. I’d also forget to check things off, so it wasn’t an accurate representation of reality.

One of the things I still track is how often I drive my car, but I was able to automate the tracking, so it’s passive. Whenever my phone connects to CarPlay, that item gets checked off in my habit tracker. I’ve needed a new battery in my car every 10 months for the past several years. I’m told everything seems fine, so I’m curious if I simply don’t drive it enough, hence the tracking. Trying to remember to go into an app every time I drove wasn’t working, so the Shortcuts automation with CarPlay has worked perfectly to capture this data without effort.
by benrutter | 2025-09-23 10:18:27+00:00
I've always stayed clear of it because I don't like the idea of merging shell langauges with terminal interfaces, and also I'm not really a big fan of tools that inject AI into my workflow when I don't want them too. So I don't really have a take on it at all.

My whole experience of it is just seeing it's advertisements on every CLI tool page. Someone else here probably has something more meaningful to say about it though.
by amiga386 | 2025-09-23 10:18:54+00:00
> I plan to expand support to additional targets such as Windows, embedded devices, and the web via WASM.

Great! iTerm2's embedded web browser (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298793) could then run it, and iTerm2 would then have full and accurate terminal emulation.

I jest, but it sounds very interesting that not even libc is needed. Will it be all caller-allocated structs for storing state?
by mdtrooper | 2025-09-23 10:18:58+00:00
Sorry I only know the spanish community. But the last years, the gamebooks (spanish) have been revival with a lot complex and interesting things.

For example loops, like as Groundhog Day (film), the book is https://www.puntodeheroe.com/elbucle.html

Or open worlds, like as modern RPG or GTA, the book is https://jose-tamayo.itch.io/la-leyenda-okiri .

Or Elite like gamebooks, the book https://sites.google.com/view/spacegom/inicio .

Plus, there are other new mechanics in other gamebooks.
by internet_points | 2025-09-23 10:19:06+00:00
This is more or less what I do too. I sync my whole /storage/emulated/0 on Android, which gives me Photos and Downloads etc. to my laptop. I also put Syncthing on an always-on tiny computer at home so if either laptop or phone is off, I can still sync from the other one (so that little home computer is my "cloud", didn't require anything more than plugging in eth and running syncthing).

Syncthing uses "disovery servers" so no need for public IP's or wireguard or anything like that (you can set up your own if you don't trust syncthing https://docs.syncthing.net/users/stdiscosrv.html but they're only used for that discovery part, which is one of the main hurdles when you start thinking about peer-to-peer systems).

(However, I use Fastmail's calendar, for handling invites and since it keeps my subscriptions up-to-date. Considering the move from bitwarden to keepassxc.)
by rkomorn | 2025-09-23 10:19:15+00:00
Runners? Yes. There are definitely some compute/resource heavy things that are more efficient to self host. Until you run out of capacity and getting more capacity involves something like having go buy more hardware and data center space (which I've had to do, though not for CI reasons specifically).

GPU-heavy tasks were also heavily in favor of buying hardware and self-hosting at the time I was making purchasing decisions at my job.

Not everything falls in that bucket and the examples in my comment don't (GitHub isn't just runners).

Edit: I'll also add a question: what part of "unless there's a very big financial cost difference that more than offsets my time and hardware investment" did you think would not cover "have you checked the cost of GitHub runners?"
by ajuc | 2025-09-23 10:19:46+00:00
When alcoholic husband beats his wife so they put him in prison and the wife starves - is it the fault of the people who put the husband in prison?

Or the fault of the husband for beating his wife and the fault of the wife for staying in that relationship?

I get it - it's hard. But you cannot expect the whole world to enable your alcoholic husband/militaristic dictator.
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-09-23 10:20:54+00:00
Do not assume that the rest of the world follows the US view of ethnic identity. Groups that would all be classified under “Asian” in the US would be considered different races in China. Regardless it is true that the PRC, even despite political differences, would be more in tune with the ROK culturally due to the long history of Korea falling under the influence of the Sinosphere which is something the United States should be more wary of as a competitive disadvantage when trying to maintain influence over the region.
by tryauuum | 2025-09-23 10:20:57+00:00
I don't know. If I would run "docker run hello-world" and got and error "403" because I'm from Iran, I would be more pissed at US for making my life harder.

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unrelated but jesus christ I'm so pissed at west as a russian. For years London was welcoming russian oligarhs with their stolen money. Putin was invited to Finland even after 2014 invasion of Crimea. But you fuckers decided to ipmlement sanctions only after the 2022. So if I sell my appartment in Russia and want to transfer money to Europe now I would need to prove this is not money I pillaged from Ukraine. Absolutely disgusting. Supposedly Finland continues to buy russian minerals still, but as a russian I cannot cross the border with Finland, even if I have a visa.
by kelnos | 2025-09-23 10:20:59+00:00
> I've seen this sentiment so many times from westerners. You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries...

"You all" is a weird way of putting it. I don't support my government levying sanctions on these countries, but I have zero power to change it.

It's funny, as the gist author points out that he doesn't support the actions of the Islamic Republic, and has no power to change it because it's minority rule by a theocratic dictatorship.

But even in the US, no one I've ever had the option to vote for (and who had even a remote chance of winning) would ever consider lifting these sanctions. So I am similarly powerless to change this situation.

I think sanctions are largely pointless if their stated goal is to get citizens to rise up and change their governments. Asking people to risk their lives (when you're not risking anything at all) is an awful thing to do, and this sort of thing isn't likely to work.

But it's probably not really that; the idea is to choke the economies of these countries so they can't do whatever Bad Thing the sanction-leviers are worried about (like developing nuclear weapons). How effective sanctions are at achieving that goal is an exercise left to the reader. And even if they are effective, there's a lot of collateral damage that hurts people who have no say in the matter.
by glax | 2025-09-23 10:21:40+00:00
Sorry for going off topic. But your insight will be helpful on my build

I'm thinking about a low budget system, which will be using

1.X99 D8 MAX LGA2011-3 Motherboard - It has 4 pcie 3.0 x16 slots, dual cpu socket. They are priced around $260 with both the cpu

2. 4X AMD MI50 32G cards - They are old now, but they have 32 gigs of vram and also can be sources at $110 each

The whole setup would not cost more than $1000, is it a right build ? or something more performant can be built within this budget ?
by miningape | 2025-09-23 10:21:50+00:00
Dress it up however you like, the fact remains that countries can choose to not provide goods and services to whomever they want for whatever reason they want.

There's absolutely no moral obligation on an individual in any country to defy these laws and risk prison time - if they want change they can petition, vote and protest.

Beyond that the West is not responsible for any deaths caused by governments that refuse to cooperate with us (and therefore had sanctions placed on them) - that responsibility lies solely with the people and governments of sanctioned nations. We shouldn't be forced into supporting those who seek to destroy us based on HuMAnITaRiaN grounds.