MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101c | 2025-09-05 21:08:52+00:00
> So his background in economics probably got him into an economics PhD program.

And his thesis seems to be the only paper he has ever published (unless you count any contributions to Project 2025?). He has one citation to his name, compared to the previous BLS commissioner:

> In reality, Antoni’s “education and vast experience” boils down to one scholarly citation of his Northern Illinois University dissertation on fiscal policy—from the Texas Public Policy Foundation in 2021, during the time that Antoni worked there. McAntarfer’s own research, The Wall Street Journal found, earned 1,327 citations.

* https://archive.is/https://www.thenation.com/article/politic...
by tmp10423288442 | 2025-09-05 21:09:12+00:00
How feasible is it in practice? In the US, it's possible in practice to remove officials via impeachment as well as amend the constitution, but in practice they are almost impossible to achieve. In practice the legislature is almost deadlocked for most non-budget bills as well, so the executive ends up running the country, with an assist from the judiciary.
by IncRnd | 2025-09-05 21:09:31+00:00
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.

~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law
by Retric | 2025-09-05 21:09:31+00:00
Fads long predate social media. Instead social media and vaping came into their own on similar timelines but adoption of vaping just never saw the kind of hockey stick curve you see from a major fad.

Instead it was relatively slow taking ~10 years to hit 25 million users and ~20 years to hit 85 million users keeping it niche vs the ~1,100 million smokers.
by Farmadupe | 2025-09-05 21:10:11+00:00
Using protobuf is practical enough in embedded. This person isn't the first and won't be the last. Way faster than JSON, way slower than C structs.

However protobuf is ridiculously interchangeable and there are serializers for every language. So you can get your interfaces fleshed out early in a project without having to worry that someone will have a hard time ingesting it later on.

Yes it's a pain how an empty array is a valid instance of every message type, but at least the fields that you remember to send are strongly typed. And field optionality gives you a fighting chance that your software can still speak to the unit that hasn't been updated in the field for the last five years.

On the embedded side, nanopb has worked well for us. I'm not missing having to hand maintain ad-hoc command parsers on the embedded side, nor working around quirks and bugs of those parsers on the desktop side
by felarof | 2025-09-05 21:10:16+00:00
> One of the things I want from a browser is to fade to the background and to expose those applications as natively as possible at the OS level (e.g. I want to be able to put browser-based applications into my dock without having to download special electron wrappers for them.)

This would be awesome, thank you for sharing your feature request!

I loved the older version of Android which used to expose very single chrome tab as an app, that was a great UX as well.

Will add this to our list!
by dotancohen | 2025-09-05 21:10:30+00:00
> One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it?

In my experience, you do. I use a Boox E-ink tablet to write on, and I completely concur that just using the stylus to write things commits them to my memory. The things that I've typed, I have to go back and look at.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-05 21:10:55+00:00
how to you prosecute a company that isn't represented in your country ? and how do you get someone, I mean a person, in front of court ?

As far as I know, Nepal can't send its police to America to arrest Facebook CEO and bring him back.

Let's just pretend for a second: Meta deliberately allows pedophiles to organize themselves and abduct Nepalese kids. Nepal government can only publicly object, eventually block Facebook access and that's all ? Nepalese wouldn't be very happy about that.

I am surprised there are even countries where these big corporations don't already have legal representation. It's not like it's expensive compared to what they earn from Nepalese.
by SlowTao | 2025-09-05 21:11:01+00:00
Demand is up and supply is increasingly getting more costly. Ripe conditions for this kind of behavior.

When it comes to a lot of metals it is kind of amazing how some of the biggest mines of this stuff are some of the oldest. It makes sense as we go for the low hanging fruit first and they are the biggest deposits.

Alas, as an aggregate, the ratio of overburden on mining has been going up for almost a century now and it is starting to catch up in some materials. Copper, nickle being a big two. Iron... not so much. So far we have managed to 'Red queen' ourselves out of the situation by throwing massive amount of resources (mostly energy), but one does wonder what happens if we even hit an energy plateau. Many have speculated, most are wrong, time will tell.
by Retric | 2025-09-05 21:11:02+00:00
Juul was founded in May 22, 2015 well after Vaping was in a fairly flat growth trajectory, and afterwards there wasn’t any kind of noticeable bump in adoption from such efforts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette#/media/Fi...

All the exponential curve stuff happened early on the path from 0 to ~10 of million.
by metalman | 2025-09-05 21:11:16+00:00
your not going far enough to be cynical, the whole whole phenominon is becoming a WTF that just does not stop, and when you throw in some very serious evil stuff like the nuns in ireland filling up abandoned wells and septic systems with new borns and babys

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/tuam-mother-a...

and countless other outright horror show stuff from varios "holy" orders the question becomes, exactly what percentage of these self identified saviors are actualy sociopathic perverts.
by xdennis | 2025-09-05 21:11:35+00:00
> The standard answer is scale. “Small programs don’t need types,” the reasoning goes, “but large programs become unmaintainable without them.” This sounds reasonable until you realize what we’re actually admitting: that we’ve designed our systems to be inherently incomprehensible to human reasoning.

Reasoning has nothing to do with it. If I have a `scale(x, y, z)` function in my code I can easily remember how to call it.

But with a large codebase, if my fuzzy memory tells me I should call it as `scale([x, y, z])` I don't want to find out I'm wrong at runtime.

Unit tests are good, but there's a tendency for dynamic languages to overuse them exactly because they don't have basic type safety.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-05 21:12:07+00:00
I have an ebike, it's very nice, and I live ~9 miles from my job, so it's well within range.

But I would not want to be caught in the ever changing weather here on an ebike. Maybe if it had a shell to protect the rider, but then we're getting into it being too pricey for an ebike range.
by alex1115alex | 2025-09-05 21:12:13+00:00
MentraOS is a cloud OS (there doesn't exist a good way to build this on the edge, we've tried). Users don't need our cloud service, however, as it can be self-hosted:

https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS/tree/main/cloud

https://cloud-docs.mentra.glass/
by petsfed | 2025-09-05 21:13:50+00:00
Near my home in the pacific northwest region of the US, I saw at a construction site a big spool (~1m diameter, 1+ meter tall) of cable with "Fiber, NOT copper" spray painted on its side. I cannot imagine how frustrating it would be to have a project like that delayed because some junkies stole a few hundred pounds of fiber optic cable, just to discard it when they realized that it wasn't something they could easily fence.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-05 21:14:01+00:00
They use torture on nobodies.

Let's not kid ourselves, TikTok representative or Meta ones aren't going to be treated the same way that a random Nepalese. They get the golden jails.

The reason they don't want legal representative is because they would rather avoid liability and be able to do whatever the fuck they want in other's countries.
by James8812 | 2025-09-05 21:15:33+00:00
That’s awesome! Grafana, Kibana, and Datadog already cover a lot of ground for observability. Are you planning to add alerting/incident response tools (like PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Slack integrations) as well? Those could really tie into the “wake up at 3 AM and fix it fast” use case.

BTW, besides restart, what kinds of actions do you currently support for containers/pods/services?
by tonymet | 2025-09-05 21:15:42+00:00
Even just yesterday I had a constructive reply where we were initially snarky and reconciled to a good outcome. That’s not representative, perhaps 1/3 of the outcomes when I’m commenting here, and 1/10th on broader social media.

I struggle with comments, where I try to be succinct and to the point. I’ve been soft-banned on HN – to the mods credit they worked with me to restore my account, and had good intentions.

Commenters and moderators tend to favor vague, long-winded language and double-entendre over direct & succinct comments.

Hence my frequent downvotes and soft-bans.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-05 21:15:48+00:00
Note that Solos smart glass from one of other comments might be on eBay for $49 each, but they used to be $499 new. Even Realities G1 is $599. Vufine was way cheaper at $199, but it was wired only and it came with no software whatsoever.

Smart glasses inevitably cost in those ranges because the exotic displays used on them are costly to make and/or operate. Inkjet OLED on silicon or reflexive monochrome LCD with RGB sequential front lighting combined with a prism system or things of that nature.

IOW, those excessive feature sets isn't drawn from product concepts or user stories, they're drawn backwards from cumulative parts and engineering costs to justify MSRP. Same reasons as why almost all EVs are marketed as premium products, they can't make them cheaply so they're adding extra glitters in paint to justify price tags.

If anyone could make displays smaller than a pinky fingernail at $5 that can be driven with an Arduino... then there would be lots of smart glasses that are just Bluetooth picture frames.
by zwaps | 2025-09-05 21:16:17+00:00
At this point there's about a hundred (or more) years of research, experience, law etc. in competition policy.

Competition doesn't necessarily just win in the mid-term. Competitions works - if the conditions are right, markets are anonymous and dynamic, not two-sided, not plaqued by information symmetries and - importantly - vertical entanglements. Competitions also works out in the long term. Like, take a hundred years and squint.

However, in the meantime of all this, there are many cases where the market outcome moves strikingly far away from the optimum. What that means is that the market situation destroys value (consumer welfare, societal roi, whatever)

You can scan the OP for about three sections and see that Google is violating any reasonable and established take on how market regulation, leading to an inefficient market outcome.

This is not some special European temperament. This is just standard and - just to make this clear - 100% American economic theory as previously applied and pioneered mainly in the good US of A. If this doesn't get applied in the US now, we may call this regulatory capture.

Personally, I feel it also really speaks to the situation that Google is lauded as representing the US tech scene. I disagree here. I think the US tech scene goes far beyond Google. Google ain't even a particular strength, probably more of a weakness by now.

By contrast, you could (and should) bring up about a million things the EU and the commision in particular does to stifle a EU tech scene. Bog standard application of competition policy ain't it.
by xlii | 2025-09-05 21:16:41+00:00
And I'll recommend Turing Complete game on Steam if someone wants to have full journey.

It's a puzzle focused on creating electronic components (with the goal of creating a running computer). Since it's more educational than competitive it's rather smooth journey.

But in the end there's not only assembler but there are actual electrons in the system that take time to reach CPU. It took me 2-3 days to finish during Holiday period and it made me much more aware of what is happening under the hood.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-05 21:16:42+00:00
Like Russia and the fall of the Soviet Union when people stole power lines.

Sure, big cities have problems in bad economic times with metal theft, but when every crook is out to steal catalytic converters from cars at people's homes, that's pretty bad.

Macroeconomic and microeconomic cannibalism are further signs of a trend towards decay and decline. Oh and school shootings and mass shootings. And a lack of functional, universal healthcare. It will take far more, like the garbage not being picked up, for major reforms, but it will also take a charismatic leader really on the side of the ordinary people for that to manifest. Another "FDR".
by godelski | 2025-09-05 21:17:03+00:00
I truly believe you do not know how you instigated the aggression. So allow me to clarify: people do not like to be treated like children. Even children don't like being treated like children, so regardless of if you believe we all are, you're going to get nowhere with that attitude. I also want to clarify that you aren't being arrogant, you're being pretentious.

Also, you seem to have forgotten we're having a very different conversation in another thread. Here you're acknowledging that people have desires beyond their capabilities. There you accused me of only comprehending pop philosophy for stating such inconsistency. Maybe it is you who were so focused on winning arguments that you lost what the arguments were even about.

Yes, I want to solve world hunger. I have no problem understanding that feeding children in US schools does not solve world hunger. But I also have no problem understanding the existence of time, as problems can't be solved uniformly nor instantaneously. There's no magic in the real world. Nor do I have a problem with understanding that this isn't a binary situation. Ensuring kids in the US get fed results in more kids getting fed despite there still being kids globally not being fed.

Idk man, there's no inconsistency here. Just because I'd like a billion dollars doesn't mean I won't be happy to get a million. Sure, long way to go, but it's a lot closer than I was.

It's only a line in the sand if you stop. Otherwise we call that "progress" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-09-05 21:17:25+00:00
For some reason when I charge at public chargers a very common vehicle next to me are those Chevy Bolts. If you’ve never compared them side by side you will be surprised, the Leaf is a MUCH nicer car, the Bolts just look way cheaper and lower quality vehicles.

I also don’t get this CCS drama, I have yet to come across an actual fast charger station that doesn’t have CHAdeMO in addition to the CCS connection. Maybe in my area of midwest all the charger stations were installed during the dual standard being the standard.
by tuckerman | 2025-09-05 21:17:39+00:00
> how much control does someone typically have over a surrogate during the pregnancy

Very little, ultimately the healthcare the surrogate is receiving is _her_ healthcare.

> what are you supposed to do in the event a surrogate has irreparable harm

These things are spelled out in the contract that the IPs have with their surrogate. Both things you mention are specifically called in our contract and the agency/IPs usually have insurance to cover these cases.

Source: I had my son through surrogacy
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-05 21:17:47+00:00
The charging situation is a fast moving target. Massive expansions since 2016.

Meanwhile Tesla build quality is still mixed bag in 2025. The used ones suffer from previous lapses in QA which is a darn shame. These are cars that could be usable for years but because their mentality of pushing junk out to meet end of quarter numbers, many of these cars won't be able to fulfill their true potential. They are disposable junk even if they drive well.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-05 21:18:02+00:00
At home I have an openbsd box as my network gateway running unbound and nsd. Unbound handles the caching and recursion, nsd handles the local name resolution.

I have a small utility (made up of two shell scripts and a python script) which watches /var/db/dhcpd.leases for changes and parses it to produce the zonefiles for nsd.

Edit: https://paste.rs/vgr7t.txt
by rcv | 2025-09-05 21:18:05+00:00
> I genuinely don't understand what docker brings to the table. I mean, I get the value prop. But it's really not that hard to set up http on vanilla Ubuntu (or God forbid, OpenBSD) and not really have issues.

Sounds great if you're only running a single web server or whatever. My team builds a fairly complex system that's comprised of ~45 unique services. Those services are managed by different teams with slightly different language/library/etc needs and preferences. Before we containerized everything it was a nightmare keeping everything in sync and making sure different teams didn't step on each others dependencies. Some languages have good tooling to help here (e.g. Python virtual environments) but it's not so great if two services require a different version of Boost.

With Docker, each team is just responsible for making sure their own containers build and run. Use whatever you need to get your job done. Our containers get built in CI, so there is basically a zero percent chance I'll come in in the morning and not be able to run the latest head of develop because someone else's dev machine is slightly different from mine. And if it runs on my machine, I have very good confidence it will run on production.
by tshaddox | 2025-09-05 21:18:31+00:00
This might be the worst argument against type checking I've ever heard, in a strong field!

This author would apparently also argue that, because I rely on handwritten labels for the dozen or so storage bins in my garage, I must have created a system so intricate and interconnected that human reasoning fails, then declared the tools that help me navigate this complexity to be essential.

The author would surely make similar arguments against clocks, calendars, and calculators.

Of course, what's actually happening in all of these situations is that humans are relying on tools to handle tasks which the tools are designed to handle, so that the humans can focus on other things.
by neko_ranger | 2025-09-05 21:18:53+00:00
I find typing the comment out, then deleting it and not submitting kinda gives my brain the 90% feeling of needing to say something. Only place I don't have to do this is 4chan, where the worst thing to happen is that your comment gets ignored or something mean is said to me (oh dear!)

I unironically just closed this tab before submitting out of habit and reopened it to submit this
by roscas | 2025-09-05 21:19:20+00:00
Oh no, someone from the Commission just down voted me.

Bet it was those who were asked about corruption and cut the microphone to those who really care.

We do deserve better in Europe.

This one is for Google. But Facebook and others do the same. How can we let them do this.

If you have responsability and let this happen, you just allow it.
by novok | 2025-09-05 21:19:29+00:00
Yeah I second this. You need a social media structure that follows this. HN doesn't build for it because there is no private message or comment reply notification infra. Other news websites and youtube comments are even worse. Reddit also is a bit like HN in that regard where the main unit of social media is the community / news post, but you could make it work to make internet friends because it has PMs and focused communities.

Instagram, X, & old school forums etc lend themselves to it a bit more, but it's probably the chat / watering hole ones like discord and IRC that lend themselves the most to making internet friends. All the other ones you need to reach out specifically and it can be difficult.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-05 21:19:45+00:00
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optische_Anschlussleitung was not a thing of the GDR. Though one could think so, because of the ...errm... let's say 'mismanagement' :-)

That's what you get with arrogant and ignorant large bureaucracies, anywhere, anytime :-)
by alephnerd | 2025-09-05 21:19:59+00:00
> while countries like the US as democratic

America is ranked as a flawed democracy within the EIU - just like Israel, South Korea, and Italy - which I would say is a fairly accurate take about the state of American democracy.

> When most people in China

It's hard to tell whether Chinese think one way or the other, as these kinds of polls are tightly held. That said, protests are fairly common in China, and the rate of labor unrest within China has risen dramatically compared to the past 10 years [0]

[0] - https://labourreview.org/strike-wave-china/
by krapp | 2025-09-05 21:20:12+00:00
One of the books I was obsessed with from my small town public library was simply titled "Robots" and it had some of these, including Odex1[0] which I still think is one of the cooler old-style robot designs, and AROK[1] which is the best, objectively, suck it Boston Dynamics and Elon. Unfortunately it's impossible to Google that book now.

I was obsessed with the Omnibot 2000, and for the brief and terrible time I was a Scout, I wanted to build the Gizmo robot in Boy's Life[2] but it was just a trash can with a motor. It bothered me to no end that Androbot[3,4] had no arms. The only real robot-type thing I actually had was an Armatron (the grey version.)

[0]https://www.theoldrobots.com/odex.html

[1]https://www.blackgate.com/2019/07/31/arok-the-robot/

[2]https://www.theoldrobots.com/GismoRobot.html

[3]https://www.theoldrobots.com/bob.html

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topo_%28robot%29

I miss when the future was fun. Now we're going to get robots but they'll be designed to put us out of work or shoot us dead in the streets, and none of them will look nearly as interesting.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-05 21:20:39+00:00
You have a strange way of looking at this. From those doing the theft, it is pennies from nothing. It's not like they are spending money on anything. The tools being used are at best borrowed, but most likely stolen. So they only expense would be their time, and that's nothing especially if it's going to get them medicine so they aren't sick for however short time those pennies earned gets them.
by mkckto | 2025-09-05 21:21:05+00:00
I think this article highlights a misconception that type skeptics often have, which is that type systems are some sort of enterprise solution that cargo-cultists have come to embrace as "best practices". Either that, or that type enthusiasts are just people that love wearing hairshirts.

Maybe there are some people like that, but for many, types simply are the best way to think about and structure code. They provide a sort of interactive feedback loop that actually makes the development process more pleasant. And these skeptics seem entirely incapable of conceiving that people pick types not because they were looking for some sort of organizational "solution" but because they genuinely prefer the mode of code-writing that type systems enable.