MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-09-17 00:04:33+00:00
This appears to be a credible source?

I cant come up with any known systems that would lead to the physics shown here. Any ideas?

Edit: unlike my initial impression, I think the appearance of motion of the object of interest is actually an effect the motion and parallax of the camera platform while keeping the object in frame… so the object in question could indeed be travelling with the airmass, making this video a complete nothing burger, instead of the first video from the alien wars lol.

TLDR: I’m pretty sure it’s an effectively static object at altitude. Not nearly as interesting as I thought.
by nornij | 2025-09-17 00:04:41+00:00
Before I disappear into the ether, I will just say its best to not engage with such diatribe on the internet. I say that for your sanity.

I've observed that discussions of foreign cultures online tend to devolve into ethnocentrism, with exchanges hinting at cultural superiority/inferiority. If I were to hazard a guess, Japan is particularly prone to this on English social media given its rising popularity and how little overlap it has with western cultures. When a culture is fundamentally different, its distinguishing features show through more on the surface, because they are naturally manifestations of the differing underlying values. Again, none of it is about good/bad, correct/wrong, superior/inferior. Just different. Like flavors of icecream.

They say outrage is addicting. These online discussions are particularly addicting in a pernicious way, probably because any feeling of threat to one's own cultural identity (i.e. one's tribe) will stoke the fires on the most basic parts of our human psychology. Engage enough times and start taking sides on cultural judgement/appraisal, and you'll probably end up feeling constantly triggered for no reason from minor instigations online (intentional or ignorant).

Now combine that feeling of outrage with scrollable access. To me, it is no wonder that there are many stories nowadays of ordinary people that become radicalized online.

I remind myself that various cultures exist worldwide that reflect different values. Comparisons and feelings of superiority/inferiority exist separately from that.

So I generally try to avoid hints of such discourse online that tend to confound these things, though I still come across it in random places when I'm not looking for it, and admittedly that urge to join in arises. In real life, I have relationships that come from a place of understanding, that are more complex than online diatribes about cultures. A far more rich set of interactions with individual personalities, both Japanese and non-Japanese. I can only hope that enough AI drivel will lead to critical mass of brainrot online and force us to engage outside more.
by mistrial9 | 2025-09-17 00:05:19+00:00
Is this a critical thinking test? All sorts of public religious figures claim all sorts of miracles as an introductory biography item. I happen to believe in miracles! but this is not one of them. Symbolic logic, and certainly math, is not inherently written in one character set or another. Dreams mean things and things could carry effects somehow but a dream of math symbols with crimson curtains is not convincing from this view.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-17 00:05:42+00:00
If we had as trivial of vaccinations for smallpox, anthrax, and rabies as we have for HPV, I'd collect them all. One fewer risk in my life, and a finite reduction in the risk of everyone around me's life, with no downside at all.

1 pin prick * 340,000,000 people > 340,000,000 people * 6.1 cases of cervical cancer * 0.9 efficacy / 100,000 people

Your world view assigns equally negative utility to at most 18,214 shots as 1 case of cervical cancer.

Put another way: If you were told you had to either take a shot every day, or you are guaranteed to get cancer, would you really choose the cancer?
by ponooqjoqo | 2025-09-17 00:05:57+00:00
It seems far more likely that we'll end up in a state where you won't be able to override CSS at all. You'll be allowed to use only the most modern version of Google Chrome because all the websites will simply require a private auth key that only Chrome possesses, and commands like cURL will no longer function properly. The devtools console will be locked behind a key that you must petition Google to get, and if you use it for anything other than what they want, your permissions will be revoked without further recourse.
by DaveExeter | 2025-09-17 00:06:01+00:00
Not sure how that's the equivalent.

Lets see if there is a pattern.

Roger Waters criticizes Israel, Roger Waters is an antisemite.

Tucker Carlson criticizes Israel, Tucker Carlson is an antisemite.

Edward Said criticizes Israel, Edward Said is an antisemite.

Even "legends" get called antisemites! [1]

Hannah Einbinder criticizes Israel, Hannah Einbinder is an antisemite? Hmmm.

According to Jerry Seinfeld, anyone who says "free palestine" is antisemitic.

Any website, or any person, that claims "antisemitism" has lost all credibility for me.

[1] https://moguldom.com/454177/silicon-valley-legend-paul-graha...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-17 00:06:22+00:00
> Surgical strikes is mostly a myth presented to make the war on terrorism look better than it is

Even if they are, which I don't grant, myths matter in the fog of war.

More pointedly, surgical strikes would mean serially decapitating Hamas and destroying its infrastructure from the sky. It would preclude messing with aid flows. (Even if Hamas steals all the food, you can't turn most food into weapons. And Hamas amassing fighters they have to feed isn't a strategic threat to Israel in the way their ports and tunnels are.)

> war on terror is estimated to have killed 4,5 million people

One, source? Two, the U.S. obviously didn't prosecute a surgical war on the Taliban or Al Qaeda. We invaded, occupied and attempted to rebuild two nation states.
by actionfromafar | 2025-09-17 00:07:12+00:00
I agree with most of what you said, except that I don’t think there is anything noble about Hamas. They have a cause but their methods are despicable and stupid. Let’s just entertain the idea that they would have strictly targeted only military targets in their attack. Rightly or wrongly, that would have been a huge propaganda win for them.

I also must protest the notion that I would see the whole tragedy as entertainment. I don’t.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-17 00:07:22+00:00
> In that case we could just as well omit it by default and only have users define it when they want something different.

I believe the official recommendation since hooks were announced is to omit the array unless you need it. It makes things much easier to reason about, and many effects can run on each render just fine. It's mostly[0] a performance optimization. Oftentimes you'll want to make an additional comparison between previous and current props to decide if you actually want to do something anyway.

[0] Possibly entirely. Remember that useEffect's goal is to synchronize with an outside system. Additionally, while I can't find references for a similar thing in the docs for useEffect, for useCallback and useMemo the dependency array is explicitly not supposed to give any semantic guarantees about when the value will be re-memoized. React is free to "forget" values if it wants and re-memoize when needed.
by hedora | 2025-09-17 00:07:56+00:00
I recently started using npm for an application where there’s no decent alternative ecosystem.

The signal desktop app is an electron app. Presumably it has the same problem.

Does anyone know of any reasonable approaches to using npm securely?

“Reduce your transitive dependencies” is not a reasonable suggestion. It’s similar to “rewrite all the Linux kernel modules you need from scratch” or “go write a web browser”.
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-17 00:10:16+00:00
To be clear, are we talking about agitators the likes of Martin Luther King? Or something else? Because I fail to see how anything in politics changes without agitators. Without agitators, we'd all still be living under monarchies, dictators, and who knows what else. I'm curious about what you mean.

As for taking sides, I'm not sure why taking the side of a man who was wrongfully murdered irks you. Its basic ethics. You don't have to agree with him, or even support their views, to denounce his murder.

Unless you have an issue with people like Kirk being allowed to live, I'm not sure where the conflict is.
by jsheard | 2025-09-17 00:10:48+00:00
There's a weapon in Final Fantasy 9 which can only be obtained by reaching a lategame area in less than 12 hours of play time, or 10 hours on the PAL version due to an oversight. Alternatively you can just leave the game running for two years until the timer wraps around. Slow and steady wins the race.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Excalibur_II_(Final_Fan...
by mythrwy | 2025-09-17 00:11:19+00:00
100% I love middle age (54).

It's not that things get easier, they don't and I realize I can't do what I could at 28 but my attitude about life has changed. Less chasing sex, less impulsive actions, less neuroticism. More contentment and acceptance. Also I have seen a lot of ways to be screwed over by now and zillion personality types and I can smell potential problems a mile away.

On the downside I took what would have been a very minor fall in my 20's a few weeks ago and my shoulder still hurts. I'm not "old" like fallen and broke a hip but I would have been fully recovered after a few days 20 years ago I think.

One piece of advice for young whippersnappers: Age comes up on you a lot faster than you think when you are young. Take good care of your body, your teeth, your gut and your mind and don't put off eating and sleeping right and losing those extra pounds. Solid, lasting relationships are worth more than possessions and status too in my opinion. Those are easier to build when you are young.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-17 00:11:46+00:00
> I hate this statement. I don't care if I can afford an expensive device if it doesn't provide the value over the lifetime of the product. Why do phones that only last 2-3 years cost as much as my laptop that can last longer than that and do so much more?

Hate is a strong word. Why should my opinions on iPhone upgrades provoke feelings of hatred in you?

I also disagree with the premise. My current phone is 4 years old, and as I mentioned I plan to give it to someone who will probably use it for another 3+ years. Or I could have traded it in or resold it to a someone else who can use it. So I wouldn't say modern phones last 2-3 years, more like 7+ years. The iPhone 6s, which was released 10 years ago, just got a security update from Apple this month - so someone must still be using it.

I also disagree that laptops can do more than smartphones. Smartphones have different hardware like GPS, cellular radios, and more advanced cameras. They are also more portable (and miniaturization is expensive). And recently smartphone hardware is just as powerful as can be found in many laptops. Apple is even rumored to be making a low-cost laptop powered by the same A-series chips that they use in iPhones. A smartphone is not necessarily any better or worse than a laptop, it's just a computer in a different form factor that excels in different use cases.

> it doesn't provide the value over the lifetime of the product

It does provide value to me. As a photography hobbyist, I'm primarily interested in the camera updates (side note: if you compare iPhone prices to standalone camera prices like the recently-released Fujifilm X Half at $849, I think the iPhone 17 Pro is actually a pretty good value when judged solely on its merits as a tool for taking photos and video). But there are a bunch of other nice-to-have updates (wifi 7, bigger battery, brighter screen, etc). If there were no value to me in upgrading, then I wouldn't upgrade. I'm not saying that people should upgrade every few years even if there is no compelling reason, but rather that the financial burden of upgrading every few years is minimal for lots of people.

I'd also point out that the iPhone Pro line is a premium device, and very few people need one (myself included). Apple sells other iPhone models starting at $599 (iPhone 16e) and going up from there. Or you can buy a refurb iPhone 14 on Amazon for $330, and probably get several years of use out of it at least. Or you can go with Samsung or Motorola and get a brand new, totally functional smartphone for under $200 (though these budget phones will probably turn into e-waste a lot sooner than a new iPhone). If you don't see any value in shelling out $1100 for the latest and greatest iPhone, then there's no need to. When it comes time to buy a new smartphone, I'm sure there will be something out there with a price and feature set that makes sense for you.

Value is very subjective depending on personal preferences/needs and budget. I don't see any point in hating that fact.
by protocolture | 2025-09-17 00:11:55+00:00
>The problem is the only alternative solution the pro palestinian crowd is suggesting is basically that israel should lie down and die.

IIRC theres a plan among arab states that would call for a DMZ between Israel and Palestine, theres just no way that Israel would accept their troops manning that DMZ. So it would have to be the US or UN troops manning that border and they dont want to.

>It's one of the most dehumanising things ever. "stay here and become a casualty statistic because that is the most convenient way to fulfill our political agenda."

IIRC Israel tried to pay them to leave and they wouldnt. They want to be returned to their land. Your complaint here is basically "Why wont they let Israel finish their ethnic cleansing" which is more disgusting than your implication.

> Also don't deal with israel consistently in bad faith and then expect them and their supporters to care about what you think.

I have never once, in my entire life discussing this issue, going back 10-15 years seen an Israeli government supporter argue anything in good faith. Would love to see that change.

>Just for the record i think this report is a fabrication and for those that say plenty of Israelis oppose what's going on in gaza i will respond that none of them can suggest any better alternative.

Is there a single alternative to "We will slowly take their land" that Israel would accept? They certainly wouldnt be happy if a neighbor absorbed palestine. They wont ever accept Arab League soldiers manning a DMZ. They will refuse to hand back parts of the West Bank and Golan Heights that they have occupied "For Security".

That means the only viable solution is a Single State. They should rehome the refugees, return them to their land, and get over it. Deal with Hamas as the internal matter it is.
by Sparkle-san | 2025-09-17 00:12:22+00:00
That doesn't seem to check out. This isn't to say that Hamas hasn't killed doctors and there have been several notable incidents of Israel killing healthcare workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_health_workers_in_t...

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/nx-s1-5370617/israeli-probe-k...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o
by crazygringo | 2025-09-17 00:12:23+00:00
It's not going to be for everybody.

But if it's half the price over the course of a year? And you can summon it in advance cheaply? And it basically never takes more than 5 min to arrive anyways, since they're everywhere?

You might decide it's worth it to keep the stuff you really need in a messenger bag or backpack or something, the way people in NYC do. And maybe roof racks don't matter if you can just summon a second autonomous van behind you to hold whatever you were going to put on your roof.

Obviously if you're a contractor or something you'll need your own vehicle. But the point is that for most people, sure they can't keep stuff in their trunk all the time, but that's a happy tradeoff if the total cost of driving is 50% less.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-17 00:13:05+00:00
I'm not a PM, but I PMed it very aggressively. I made a Notes.app personal wiki tracking every company I spoke to, with a timeline in reverse chronological order of every contact I'd had with them, like:

Foo Corp Recruiter: [Jane Smith] * 2025-09-15 On-site prep call with [Joe Brown] * 2025-09-13 Coding screen with [Pat Doe]

I kept a "pipeline" note with companies in each stage, like:

# Leads * [Adam Albert] at [Bar Corp] # Initial Contact * [Brenda Baker] at [Qux, Inc.] # Recruiter call ... # Phone Screen # Tech screen # Onsite # Rejected * [Shifty Corp] (they gave me the heebie-jeebies)

And then there was a separate Interviews note, which was a lot of the content from the Pipeline doc, but ordered chronologically and with more detail:

# 2025-09-15 * On-site prep call with [Joe Brown] from [Foo Corp] * Recruiter screen with [Chris Carter] at [Deluxe Pinkies] # 2025-09-14 * Reference check with [Arctic Drilling and Waste]

And I replied to every recruiter I talked to, even if just to say "thanks for reaching out, but I'm looking for something more like ... right now", which often led to followups like "ooh, I have another client looking for that! Want to talk to them?"

Hyperorganization is one of my superpowers, and I leaned into it. Every morning I'd review the pipeline and timeline docs and ping every recruiter or company who I should've heard from but hadn't yet: "hey, it's me! Thanks for the chat the other day. Hope your Maltese, Mr. Pickles, feels better! Here's a picture of my cat waving to Mr. Pickles!" A lot of times that'd nudge them to respond and move things along.

I'm looking at my timeline right now and seeing the day where I had 2 recruiter screens, a tech screen, and an onsite. It was busy. But I was ready and willing to work, and at the end I turned down 3 pending offers to accept the one I most wanted.

Again, I count myself as exceptionally lucky. That said, half of "luck" is putting yourself in the right place, in the right condition, to jump on a good opportunity.
by jongjong | 2025-09-17 00:13:16+00:00
Yes, this is what I meant. Because you want to listen to attribute changes. Anyway, I was saying it's a good thing. I've built entire complex apps where I pass everything via HTML element attributes; it has made me think about architecture and separation-of-concerns in a specific way which has been really good in terms of increasing transparancy/observability and keeping the code simple.

Simple interfaces are critical for good architecture. Forcing everything to be a string, forces pass-by-value and forces minimal communication between components. You get maximum separation of concerns; high cohesion, loose coupling.

I know exactly what inputs each component is dealing with by just looking at the HTML. This is incredibly useful... And components can output stuff by dispatching events on themselves (with bubbling for important events which may potentially affect higher level components).
by andirk | 2025-09-17 00:14:36+00:00
Bitcoin may be better compared to gold bars: I give someone a couple gold bars and then realize it was a mistake. Those gold bars are gone unless the other party is willing to return them.

Credit cards have a 3% charge on everything. That is a LOT of money but we allow it partially because of the insurance attached to it.

We pay for title companies for property exchanging partially because of the insurance.

We pay for insurance for the insurance.
by mauvehaus | 2025-09-17 00:15:03+00:00
Probably? I mean, I knew I could get the jointer moved cheaper myself, because I have an idea what a competent rigger costs[0]. I just couldn't do it myself with that level of skill. Watch some YouTube videos of people doing rigging. The good ones are very good.

For the record, I didn't want to do the job myself because 1700 pounds moving in the wrong direction didn't sound like a bad time. I tried getting a quote to see if it was within the range I was willing to pay to not have to do it myself. When it came back at the cost of my truck rental, I couldn't see any way they could be charging enough to be good. Like, you wouldn't pay $15 to get a cavity filled. I would've tried getting more quotes, but the seller had a deadline.

[0] I went to an auction at a defunct furniture company. As the bids were finalized, a rigging company went around leaving quotes on the heavier machines for how much it would cost to move them. $700 doesn't move a lot of cast iron, and it certainly doesn't get it moved 4 hours away.
by dlahoda | 2025-09-17 00:15:12+00:00
1. many things antithesis finds in go, kotling, cpp just do not exist in rust. that i less needed case. these people like antithesis.

2. i mentioned tooling, also in other thread i mentioned ecosystem

- https://github.com/BurtonQin/Awesome-Rust-Checker

- add link for dozen of tools for cfg feature(product lines) eng here (compile time conditional composeability) and const expressions

- add link to dozen of tools to audit deps and decide on panic safety and first class crash hooks crates

- mix with nix which many (way many compared to go, kotlin, cpp) rust projects use (and sri cargo.lock out box)

- and qemu/mozilla/no rr tools (no determinism to get seed, and run slower hosts things w that seed)

- and add here clusterfuzz eco (supports all oss fuzzers, and these do proper search https://camshaft.github.io/bolero/features/unified-interface..., and rust adapters allow for manual macro based fuzz narrowing in rust)

- https://quint-lang.org/docs/model-checkers

- several ongoing projects formalizing rust std and lang

SO, why i need antithesis?

To get Raft, will do sans-io with full typed rust covered by proofs for state(machine) and macro generator for glue(from state machine).

I need only prop/fuzz test to test small integration sans-io part. I do not need antithesis.