MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by segfault99 | 2025-09-05 02:11:47+00:00
When I did EE, didn't have access to any kind of computer algebra system. Have 'fond' memories of taking Laplace transform transfer functions and converting to z-transform form. Expand and then re-group and factor. Used a lot of pencil, eraser and line printer fanfold paper for doing the very basic but very tedious algebra. Youngsters today don't know how lucky.. (ties onion to belt, etc., etc.)
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-05 02:12:19+00:00
A few individuals lying wouldn't fly if the general public didn't buy/turn a blind eye on it.

Apart from the few who still straight believed the bullshit while every other country involved publicly called it, I think many in the US just believed it would benefit them in the long run (cheaper oil) or just didn't care that much about war (the Gulf War didn't cause that much political trauma after all)
by bkcooper | 2025-09-05 02:13:41+00:00
Addendum: having now had the chance to start on Silksong, strongly recommend Hollow Knight first. That's not because of story, but because Silksong seems like it's geared to be noticeably more difficult than Hollow Knight was, both in platforming and in combat. (One of the things that I think Hollow Knight did really well was the spread of available difficulties. Beating the game isn't too hard; getting the true ending involves a few more specific difficult tests; and the DLC added boss gauntlets that let you go pretty crazy with how hard you want to make it.)
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-05 02:15:02+00:00
Study: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023

From the abstract:

> Consumption of aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame k, erythritol, sorbitol, and xylitol was associated with a faster decline in global cognition, particularly in memory and verbal fluency domains.

These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside.
by anonymoushn | 2025-09-05 02:15:16+00:00
If someone spends significant effort to gather documents proving that their family was forcibly relocated from Poland, they may be able to become a Polish resident and then spend a year or so doing paperwork, bringing all of the documents that are required according to the official web site for some task to the appropriate government office where they are then told that other documents are required, or that nobody in that office even knows what documents are required, and so on, and after that time they may achieve Polish citizenship. You know, in recognition of the fact that their family is in fact Polish. But during that year or so, they may have trouble using the banking system because of sanctions on Russia and because no Polish bank will serve them until they become Polish. So their employer may be on the lookout for alternative payment rails.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-05 02:15:48+00:00
You're over abstracting a very simple thing. No user can, for example, change the inflationary rate of a decentralized cryptocurrency. It requires network consensus. The party making the change would need to control the vast majority of the consensus power, whether than is ASICs for pow or base currency for pos, at which point they have massive incentive to not do that on account of the loss of power destroying all their wealth would represent.

Non-fiat currency is the most egalitarian system possible.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-05 02:17:23+00:00
> Disagree. That's creative destruction at work, it's messy but it's the only way to get better. Like it or not (and I don't like it), the best UIs around these days are built on React or similar webtech.

It may be a matter of perspective, but from where I’m standing web UIs have barely improved in the past 5-7 years. In many products they’ve gotten considerably worse. At the very least, there’s been an awful lot of tail chasing for the amount of improvement yielded.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-05 02:19:43+00:00
Phew seldom have I heard such a wrong thing. Bitcoin makes absolutely no sense as an actual transacting day to day third world currency because A) it is completely incapable of scaling to the task due to the projects allergy to sensible development hobbling it to 20 year old technology B) because of A, the transaction fees are many times the weekly salary or even yearly salary of those target users.

Bitcoin was an interesting idea. 20 years ago. It's entirely without merit now, but it will take decades to fade into obscurity, pumping out carbon the whole time.
by xyst | 2025-09-05 02:20:40+00:00
Only components I would swap out here is Cloudflare Tunnels and use of docker.

I have my own tailnet with a self hosted head coordinator (headscale). No need to expose music server to public internet or tie your setup to a service that can easily go down or suddenly find yourself paying for it. Access service from within tailnet

While docker is great for development purposes. I have found for self hosting it adds a bit of overhead (particularly memory and cpu) and complexity to installations (port forwarding between container and host, firewalling, ip discovery, cpu/gpu passthrough). Sure containerization is great if you have the funds/hardware/time and need to scale across thousands of instances/servers. But becomes overkill for these types of use cases.

I would replace with deploying on top of nixOS and manage remotely with nixos-anywhere with declarative configuration.

Going to bookmark this since I have been putting off setting up my own media server. OP tailors to music but also want to make my collection of Blu-ray, and photos accessible.
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-05 02:21:00+00:00
Immigrant who started programming in middle school, self-taught without a degree and started at a <20 person company by emailing my code samples to their support email address.

Made it to FAANG within a decade of that, and worked at companies the entire range of between those two sizes across the 14? 15? years since I first got paid to code?

I left my most recent role specifically because I was getting increasing amounts of pressure to play manager vs focus on mixed TL+IC priorities (and I had already communicated I was joining on primarily as an IC vs a TL to start).

tl;dr: another swing and a miss

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It's funny that this is the 2nd comment to imply I'm not an IC because I'm bluntly stating not all ICs can handle WFH.

It's like some people can't fathom you'd be invested in how well your team or larger organization executes unless you're a manager.

Maybe I can't relate because I wouldn't have learned anything or gotten anywhere with that mentality coming from the start I had.

And frankly if others around me at the start of my career had that mentality, it would have been lethal to my own opportunity: so I certainly won't ever adopt it.

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People act like working hard at things only gets your boss a bigger boat... and for most of the population it's true.

But we're knowledge workers in one of the highest paid industries with the closest thing to a meritocracy as society/capitalism will allow: you're plain doing it wrong if you can't convert hard work into any sort of personal enrichment.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-05 02:21:06+00:00
Given n=1 https://freeiworktemplates.com/2022/05/pages-concessions-sta... seems to imply the answer is "no, it's a zip" and that seems to hold even for the interior files

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by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-05 02:21:12+00:00
SQLite can't be reliably used in networked file systems because it heavily relies on locking to be correctly implemented. I recently had to add a check for such file systems in my application [1] because I noticed a related corruption firsthand. Simpler file formats do not demand such requirements. SQLite is certainly good, but not for this use.

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/angel/commit/50a15e703ef2c1af...
by rank0 | 2025-09-05 02:21:40+00:00
Even in ANY jurisdiction you’d presumably need a contractual agreement with the issuer. IIRC only certain entities may redeem tether/USDC for cash. You at a minimum need an account! Not like I can just send those companies my tokens and get straight cash.

The whole thing is just asinine. The killer use case for crypto is dodging laws & regulation. Not even judging because that’s REAL utility!
by wardomainexpert | 2025-09-05 02:22:54+00:00
In domain-driven design (DDD), the ubiquitous language is a shared language that is used to describe the domain and the domain model. It’s a common language that is used by developers, stakeholders, and domain experts, to communicate and understand the business domain.

Domain-Driven Design explicitly emphasizes the importance of naming things properly with the notion of Ubiquitous Language. If you work in the domain of, say, invasion, killing, bombing, genocide, you probably shouldn’t name a Department of War as Defense Department. Department of War would be a more concise and specific option.
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-05 02:23:37+00:00
The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

- Xenophanes, ~500 BCE

<https://www.azquotes.com/author/38174-Xenophanes>
by Terr_ | 2025-09-05 02:24:38+00:00
> These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside

I think it's important to call out the difference between "did not find a correlation" versus "did not look".

Tagatose is listed as part of their questionnaire, but not stevia or mogroside.

> these are natural sweeteners

Xylitol is also a natural sweetener, so it is at best premature to adopt a natural-versus-unnatural framing from these results.
by inetknght | 2025-09-05 02:25:08+00:00
What issue are you having? Are you receiving an error? This is the kind of question that StackOverflow or perhaps an LLM might be able to help you with. I highly suggest reading the documentation for mmap to understand what issues could happen and/or what a given specific error code might indicate; see the NOTES section:

> Huge page (Huge TLB) mappings

> For mappings that employ huge pages, the requirements for the arguments of mmap() and munmap() differ somewhat from the requirements for mappings that use the native system page size.

> For mmap(), offset must be a multiple of the underlying huge page size. The system automatically aligns length to be a multiple of the underlying huge page size.

Ensure that the file is at least the page size, and preferably sized to align with a page boundary. Then also ensure that the length parameter (size_bytes in your example) is also aligned to a boundary.

There are also other important things to understand for these flags, which are described in the documentation, such as information available from /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-05 02:25:17+00:00
Oh, you mean the data (that Tesla chooses to release, anyway) that compares the subsets of driving on only the roads where FSD is available, active, and has not or did not turn itself off because of weather, road, traffic or any other conditions" versus "all drivers, all vehicles, all roads, all weather, all traffic, all conditions?

Or the accident stats that don't count an accident any collision without airbag deployment, regardless of injuries?
by ygouzerh | 2025-09-05 02:25:41+00:00
Indeed! After, a distributed database made for financial systems, that could prevent double spending, provide immutability of the data, includes a mechanism of authentication, with some voting power distributed between a quorum of financial of institutions... it's actually exactly what Reth is.

To have deployed some blockchain layer 1 nodes, it's actually quite similar than deploying a distributed database.

Nowadays, it's actually just easier to fork geth/reth or other engine, and just deploy it. There are so many doc and tooling that can then be reused.
by xyst | 2025-09-05 02:25:46+00:00
It’s always been pretty terrible.

When I was in college, Apple gave it to students for free (or at a steep discount, maybe $2.99/mo?). The 2015 client was god awful but I honestly couldn’t complain since it was just a few bucks.

But once I graduated and the university locked me out of the .edu account. I didn’t feel it was worth keeping anymore and dropped them for Spotify or Pandora.
by raincole | 2025-09-05 02:25:47+00:00
Yeah. Take this very article for example. The title:

> Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?

And the only parts where the author justified the title are:

> At its simplest, Athenians in the fifth century BC could begin to practise “ostracism”—voting to banish people by writing their name on ostraka, scraps of pots—because, as William Harris, an academic, points out, they had achieved “a certain amount of literacy”.

And:

> We also analysed almost 250 years of inaugural presidential addresses using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. George Washington’s scored 28.7, denoting postgraduate level, while Donald Trump’s came in at 9.4, the reading level of a high-schooler.

I don't know, man. I found this super unconvincing. Were Athenians reading more than modern citizens in developed countries? Is "ostracism" even a good way to run a country? Do we want presidential addresses to be harder to read? Especially when we're comparing to Washington, who came to power in an era when the general population didn't vote for president?

It's almost like the author is appealing to confirmation bias. Surely we intuitively think the decline of reading makes politics dumber. So the author doesn't even bother to support their claim. Just throw in some random examples off the top of their head and call it a day.

Our knee-jerk reaction is Tiktok = information junk food. But isn't this article, printed on The Economists, simply less-digestible junk food?
by opello | 2025-09-05 02:26:30+00:00
> Implying that driving just based on visual input is unsafe, when that is how all humans drive.

Except that's not at all how humans drive. Sure, there's visual input, but human vision is largely based on expectations. You see what you expect and ignore a lot of things. The predictive engine of the brain does a lot more than evaluate the present environment. This is both good and bad insofar as safety is concerned.
by kerkeslager | 2025-09-05 02:26:53+00:00
I'm not sure I understand all of what they're doing there, but I did read the referenced Doligez-Leroy-Gonthier paper a while back and I am glad someone is doing something with that in a non-academic (maybe?) context. That paper looked promising to me when I read it, but I basically had no faith that it would ever make it out of academia because the algorithm is so complex. It took me a really long time to think I understood it, and it's one of those things I actually am not confident I could implement even when I understood it (I certainly don't understand it now).
by hoshi73 | 2025-09-05 02:28:17+00:00
Many call Wikipedia "the last good place on the internet", but that's really only true of the English edition. Non-English versions are generally filled with political misinformation and propaganda from people trying to politicize a nation's history, which, frankly, makes them not worth bothering with:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/japanese-wikipedia-misi...
by charcircuit | 2025-09-05 02:28:23+00:00
This logic fails to account for priorities changing. If priorities change Friday morning it could mean all the work you did that week was worthless. Should one spend their whole weekend working to finish some deliverance or should it be limited by the expected hours? Similarly if someone front loaded 40 hours Monday through Friday and priorities change on Friday or a critical bug comes in people will have to wait until Monday.
by sfRattan | 2025-09-05 02:28:48+00:00
Megacorporate propaganda conflating copyright infringement with violent raiders on the high seas is both decades old and completely ridiculous.

> But that doesn't mean it's a victimless crime to just take it.

Please reply to what I wrote, not what you imagine I implied. Nowhere have I suggested copyright infringement is victimless. I have suggested it is more like a tort than a crime, but civil wrongs are wrongs against someone (i.e. a victim).

> When you just take it without paying (thus violating the social contract), you are in a very real sense stealing that person's time.

Please don't twist and abuse language in lieu of a sound argument. Stealing a person's time is already a specific thing: wage theft. It doesn't involve a nebulous social contract; it involves an actual contract between employer and employee for scarce time.

> So while it might not be the case that a digital copy taken does not cause the original to go missing, [copyright infringement] is very much theft in the moral sense. And that is why people get upset about it.

People aren't entitled to whatever returns they fantasize about for a given business model. If technology obsoletes a competitive strategy, we all have to live in that new world. People are understandably upset, and understandably refer to a wrong (theft) that is familiar, sympathetic, and yet factually not the case.

Copyright infringement need not be understood as theft to be understood as wrong. Treating it as theft mischaracterizes the wrong and sets society on a path to criminal enforcement against civil violations, creeping restrictions on general purpose computing, and the growth of the surveillance state.
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-05 02:31:01+00:00
for thoroughness, from https://www.pagetable.com/?p=43#comment-1033 (comment supposedly by Bill Gates)

Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC. I put the WAIT command in. Mark Chamberlin and I wrote the 6800 BASIC.

Earlier in that blog post:

Now who wrote the 6502 version? The KIM-1 BASIC manual credits Gates, Allen and Davidoff, the original authors of the 8080 version, but it might only be left over from the manual for the 8080 version. Davidoff, who worked for Microsoft in the summers of 1975 and 1977, had not been there when BASIC 6502 was written in the summer of 1976, but he probably changed the 6 digit floating point code into the 9 digit version that is first found in BASIC 6502 1.1 (KIM-1, 1977). The ROM of the 1977/1978 Ohio Superboard II Model 500/600 (6 digit BASIC 1.0) credits RICHARD W. WEILAND, and the 1977 9 digit KIM-1 BASIC 1.1 as well as the 1981 Atari Microsoft BASIC 2.7 credit “WEILAND & GATES”. Ric Weiland was the second Microsoft employee. These credits, again, were easter eggs: While they were clearly visible when looking at the ROM dump, they were only printed when the user entered “A” when BASIC asked for the memory size. According to apple2history.org, Marc McDonald (employee number 1) wrote the 6502 version, but it is more likely that McDonald wrote the 6800 simulator and Weiland ported 8080 BASIC to the 6800 and then McDonald adapted the 6800 simulator to the 6502 and Weiland wrote the 6502 BASIC. This and the hidden credits in version 1.0 of 6502 BASIC suggest that Weiland was the main author of 6502 BASIC. Gates is added to the hidden credits in the 1.1 version, so Gates probably contributed to the 1.1 update..
by yunwal | 2025-09-05 02:31:48+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitget-lawyer-letters-account... https://bitnewsbot.com/us-judge-unfreezes-57-6m-usdc-tied-to... https://ambcrypto.com/avalanche-based-protocol-reportedly-ru... https://cointelegraph.com/news/polymarket-trump-ukraine-bet-... https://x.com/BinanceWallet/status/1904352541615554611 https://x.com/JMilei/status/1890606683291779195

I could pretty much go on forever…
by peterldowns | 2025-09-05 02:32:03+00:00
Just to pile on the terrible Apple Music UI — it's so unnatural and baffling to me. One example that really takes the cake is that there is no ability to set a sleep timer in the app. After having to google it, the only way I've found is to set a timer in the Clock app and change its ringtone to be an "action" of stopping all playing audio. WHY???
Show HN: A credibility-based social platform (no Likes) to fight misinformation
by whatsyoursource | 2025-09-05 02:32:21+00:00
Most people now get their news from social feeds — but those feeds reward popularity, not accuracy. Misinformation spreads fast, and even well-intentioned users often can’t tell what’s reliable.

I’ve been working on a different approach: a social/news platform where every post carries a credibility score. Instead of likes or shares, users assess posts by linking to supporting or refuting sources. Credibility then updates across posts, users, and domains in real time.

A few things that might interest HN:

- Anonymous/pseudonymous accounts (no personal brands driving popularity).

- Credibility > virality: feeds are sorted by time & trustworthiness, not engagement.

- URL and domain-level scoring: credibility of sources builds over time.

- Four feeds: Front Page, Bullpen, Cred Desk, and Subscriptions (you can filter by credibility percentile).

It’s in public beta here: https://noblenews.io

Curious what HN thinks:

- How might this system be gamed or abused? - What are your thoughts on pseudonymous usernames? - What would make it more useful for people who actually want reliable news?
by whatsyoursource | 2025-09-05 02:33:16+00:00
One thing I’m especially interested in feedback on: bias and clustering.

If higher-credibility users end up concentrated in one ideological group, and lower-credibility in another, how should a system like this handle it?

Right now the design doesn’t attempt to enforce “balance.” Instead, it exposes the credibility scores transparently, lets users set their own filters, and tracks credibility at multiple levels (user, post, and domain). But I’d love thoughts from this community on whether that’s enough — or if more guardrails are needed.