MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rincebrain | 2025-09-14 18:46:37+00:00
Honestly, just steal Japan's approach and replace your aisles with vending machines at that point.

Of course, A) the density is going to be worse, particularly for awkwardly shaped objects, and B) that feels extremely unwelcoming.

But at the point that you're locking everything up and making customers show ID to get things, you're still adding friction for the consumers, this mostly reduces friction for the staff in the longer term once it's normalized - by which I mean, lets them fire more staff.

Really, at the point where you're doing this, it'd be much simpler to just have entire locked off sections of the store where you show ID once to get in, rather than individual shelves.

Of course, at that point, you'll see a drop in sales of anything in there, for everyone who didn't bring their phone or setup the app...I just suspect it'll be less than the drop for having individual shelves that require unlocking.

(I also claim that it's a lie that this is purely or even primarily theft deterrence, given the number of times I've seen stores put non-store-brand versions of things behind them and leave the store brand ones out.)
by franktankbank | 2025-09-14 18:46:55+00:00
Imagine a giant trawling net scooping up the last two-three decades undeprecated of work on the web/data/game/operating system space and cutting out the people who did all that work. What do you think is going to happen to the progression in those areas? I guess it was "done"? The LLM AI is only as good as its input, as far as I can tell there is no reason to believe any of its second order outputs. RLHF is an interesting plug for that hole but its only as good as the human feedback and even then those things taken to second order aren't going to be any good. This collapses the barrier to entry to existing products, aka those people are going to be swamped with new competition.
by hamburglar | 2025-09-14 18:47:36+00:00
The metadata doesn’t bother me at all. Anyone who wants to can read that I have a Seattle City Light account, that it’s password is v6, and that the password rules say it can have all alphanumeric characters and must have at least one of a weirdly narrow set of “special” characters. That information alone isn’t enough to get anywhere.

What could be considered more sensitive, if you cared, is usernames. Someone looking at my metadata would learn my hn username, for example. But I don’t really consider that “secret” info.
by jhp123 | 2025-09-14 18:48:22+00:00
when right wingers killed Heather Heyer, Trump called them "very fine people". When they killed Brian Sicknick, he called them heroes and pardoned them. If even 10 percent of the right had drawn a line against political violence after Jan 6 then we wouldn't be here today. They all embraced it when it was their side. Charlie himself chartered the buses and obstructed the resulting investigation.
by pythonaut_16 | 2025-09-14 18:48:48+00:00
Do you need to redeploy your service without downtime? Do you need multi-user and remote access?

Why can't you just use a copy of the database when you need to examine it or resolve issues?

None of these things have anything to do with being a "toy" app or not. They are matters of scale and business requirements. But that's the point isn't it? There are plenty of non-toy systems where none of these requirements apply.

Plenty of very successful business and applications could handle a brief downtime for deployment. Plenty don't need multiple users or remote access, plenty have reasonably small databases.
by mattlondon | 2025-09-14 18:48:52+00:00
Never ask nothing if you like them. Always have some keen-sounding questions to ask.

When it comes to hiring decisions if there are tied candidates but only one position it can often come down to candidates A was quiet and didn't ask any questions and seems disinterested, but candidate B had loads of questions to ask at the end and seemed really interested and keen and wanted to know x, y, and z.

Who do you think gets hired in those scenarios.

But yeah it is sometimes tempting to turn the tables :). So far no one has done it to me, but not sure what my response would be. "Haha nice joke! Ok we're outta time thanks for coming!" I guess!
by tpoacher | 2025-09-14 18:48:58+00:00
The Gemini protocol does not mandate lack of images. It is simply left up to the implementation to decide how (or whether) to display those.

One of the most popular Gemini browsers, Lagrange, shows images inline once downloaded. But you need to click their link to ensure you want to see the content first.

E.g., view this in lagrange to see what I mean: gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 18:49:13+00:00
> Let’s begin with concluding that you could not find a source for your claims.

The source is the report by the French Cour des Comptes. I am not your research assistant.

> I find it interesting how someone so smart can just lie through their teeth.

I find it interesting that you have no arguments left and have to resort to ad-hominem attacks.

And thank you for confirming my point:

>off shore wind is right on the cusp of viability.

Meaning the very best off-shore wind projects may or may not be profitable. We don't know yet.

Whereas the worst French nuclear project in recent history (FV3) is predicted by the Cour des Comptes to have "modest" profitability in the worst case scenarios.

So once again: worst nuclear >> best intermittent renewable.

QED.
by b112 | 2025-09-14 18:49:17+00:00
No, it's correlation not causation. When you get older, you see everyone making the same damn mistakes you made, but refusing to listen to you. Various reasons are given as to "No, this is different", but it isn't.

Then, worse, you remember yourself saying "No, this is different", and how wrong you were, and it kinda bums you out a bit. You're watching a replay of yourself being a dumbass, which makes you angry at the situation.

That doesn't mean every old person is negatively inclined, because some will think "Well, this is the way of it", and take solace in that fact that it's been happening since at least the start of recorded history. You, and your ancestors are one. And you finally get your grandparents.

So even the optimists, feeling better, think "might as well play my part" then yell "get off my lawn!"
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-14 18:50:09+00:00
That’s as vague as it gets. The amount of things various Unix have in common is, well, not that much. Not that people care in any way because frankly speaking no one uses Unix.

I get that you meant is probably that MacOS is close enough to Linux that you can somehow pretend it is the same when developing things which are ultimately going to run on Linux.

To which I say, I personally think that buying Apple is wasting a lot of money for something which would work fine in a VM but well, that’s nice aluminium I guess.
by godelski | 2025-09-14 18:50:32+00:00
I think it can be an error labeling people as "fast" or "slow". I had similar self doubts to the OP during my PhD, where so many people around me would say they "got" a concept and I was just feeling behind. But a few years in, while desperately trying to "catch up" I realized a good portion of the time I was just misinterpreting. Even those tasks aren't as well defined as the OP suggests.

There's another dimension that often is not acknowledged: depth. People have different thresholds at where they're comfortable talking about a topic or saying they "understand". I also don't think there's a strong correlation with the person's intelligence, if anything, a slight bias towards "slower" people being smarter.

- Dumb people might have low thresholds as they are unaware of depth. - Smart people will have low thresholds because they do better thinking out loud or are just saying they think they have enough to launch off of. - Dumb people might be slow because they haven't thought about the thing very much. - Smart people might be slow because they are considering different depths.

You'd never judge how fast someone can run without stating the distance. Your 100m sprint time isn't going to tell us much about your 400m time nor your marathon time, and vise versa.

We all think fast and slow at times (intended), and we're all 4 people in the above list on different topics. I think we should just make sure we're judging people at the right race. The trouble is despite standing in front of you, talking face to face, you don't know if in that time they've run a few meters or a few kilometers. I think we'd all do better if we worried a little less about speed. If your destination is nowhere, you get there in the same time regardless of your speed.
by CalRobert | 2025-09-14 18:50:47+00:00
I'm an American living _in_ Europe for over a decade and I've been going crazy watching the EU willfully remain a weak and insignificant vassal to the US when it _could_ be much, much stronger. It's insane watching them go back to their abuser over and over and over and acting surprised when the abuser behaves exactly like they said they would.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-14 18:50:54+00:00
You are right. We are lucky. A company like Digital could have made the PDP-11 into 'the PC' and lock it down from the beginning. IBM could have done the same if they had not been so incompetent. In such a case you would have Intel, IBM and Microsoft being a single organization that would have become to powerful.

We still had plenty of issue with Intel and Microsoft being able to play out their monopoly.

So I think it could have been a lot worse, but it could also have been a lot better.
by comex | 2025-09-14 18:51:14+00:00
There's pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np. Looking at the implementation, pthread_cond_timedwait starts by converting the deadline to a relative timeout [1], but this is skipped if pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np is used. Then, in the kernel, the timeout is converted back to an absolute deadline by either [2] or [3], but both of those are using Mach absolute time rather than the wall clock.

Mach absolute time is monotonic. It pauses while the system is asleep, which may or may not be what you want.

If need the timer to keep incrementing while the system is asleep, there's no way to do it directly with a timed wait, but you can use kevent with EVFILT_TIMER + NOTE_MACHTIME + NOTE_MACH_CONTINUOUS_TIME.

[1] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/libpthread/blob/1...

[2] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/libpthread/blob/1...

[3] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/e3723e1f...
by m3047 | 2025-09-14 18:51:43+00:00
If the internet is in fact "the largest social media platform", then anonymity absolutely has to go as my public-facing telemetry server [0] based on DNS as a transport, and not rooted to the ICANN DNS tree, gets 1000+ abusive requests for every legitimate one. I'm supposed to return REFUSED to each and every one [1] of them (not drop them) and I'm not supposed to publish the IP addresses involved. Granted they could be spoofed, but the only way we'll ever know is to go ahead and publish so that a global picture can be developed and the owners of the addresses can tell us that they're being spoofed.

[0] One of the pieces of telemetry is the addresses abusing the server.

[1] I, and many other operators violate this stability requirement and drop traffic. [2]

[2] There are no internet police. If there were then BCP 38 would be enforced and this particular problem would largely go away.
by sieste | 2025-09-14 18:51:44+00:00
> the participants in the Q3 and Q4 groups exhibited lower cognition scores (Q3:β = -0.180, 95%CI -2.849~-0.860; Q4:β = -0.164, 95% -2.611~-0.666)

This seems wrong. If "β" is the estimate here (not sure), it should be inside the confidence interval, but is way outside...
by mantas | 2025-09-14 18:51:51+00:00
That’s what is going on here

- parties repeatedly getting 2% over 4 years get gov donations

- parties can take capped membership fees

- private citizen can forward a minuscule part of incomes tax towards a specific party, fully anonymously

- during campaigning, private people can donate to parties, capped to a small percentage of donator official incomes.

Fun thing is, this was put in place after an attempt to install a local equivalent of Orban. Bankrolled by a businessman with close ties to Russia.
by etra0 | 2025-09-14 18:52:19+00:00
I've used it for fun to analyze some data of some community in real time without having to host anything on my side.

Doing data analysis in javascript feels a bit weird at first, but it allows you to write a bit more functional code than python which I ended up liking.

I dislike the plotting api but the pro of being automatically updated without me needing to do/host anything is cool.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-09-14 18:52:49+00:00
Similar to you, based on years with databases I saw sorting as a huge advantage and often performed this step as part of optimizing any data access. I've tended to see the same pattern of problems over the last 15 years. Imagine my surprise when I read a blog post that showed not perfectly sorting your data could often result in faster overall result time for a wider range of queries. Duckdb: https://duckdb.org/2025/06/06/advanced-sorting-for-fast-sele... continues to surprise me with novel improved approaches to problems I've worked on for years.
by EPWN3D | 2025-09-14 18:53:04+00:00
There is absolutely no way that happens. Apple cares about Unix compatibility for very good business reasons. Apple gets a lot of value from being even just Unix-ish. It's the same reasons Microsoft eventually knuckled under and made WSL -- the ubiquity of Unix conventions and tooling is just too cemented in the industry.

POSIX conformance is a cherry on top, and it helps get them certain sales that require a conforming Unix. But that's not the real value to the platform.
by subscribed | 2025-09-14 18:53:25+00:00
And there's reason why normal windows / Linux laptops are less secure.

Look, if your media player or game can just steal your ssh keys, or slightly modify your changes to your code, or inject a script into your startup sequence, that's not very safe, is it?

And that's even without having access to root (imagine if someone had written a malware like Heartbleed or Shellshock, which then could quietly persist, patch your firmware, or actually do anything it wants?)

I hope you're at least running your laptop with selinux in enforcing mode :)
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 18:53:55+00:00
By "it", I mean the things that you are referring to, which people including yourself claim to be such rhetoric.

I have been shown countless examples, and done my own evaluation, and concluded that the people showing them were frankly incorrect in a large majority of cases. The words, commonly, simply do not mean what they are represented as meaning. They are only understood as having that meaning because they are processed by ideological opponents with unwarranted priors, in some cases seemingly resulting from psychological projection. (The pithy statement of this notion is "if you hear dog whistles all the time, maybe you're the dog".)

This is mediated by attempts to listen to the other side in their own words, and ask them pointed questions. I have used these to build a coherent model of several "right-wing" or "conservative" belief systems which I have found in the past to be consistent; new observations rarely give any rational reason to doubt my previous conclusions.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-14 18:54:10+00:00
The sine qua non of “groyperism” as it’s come to be known is total ineffectuality if not self defeatism as a political stance. How many groyper shootings have we had now? Fuentes is permitted to do his thing, unlike others who have been taken down (thank goodness!) for what seem to me to be very clear reasons.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-14 18:54:26+00:00
The problem is identifying what is your gut vs what your brain was wired for over years and decades. It echoes, and this is an abstraction, consumption and how consumption made those crowds and individuals feel, that appeared as having the most fun.

a) you don't see the doses of amphetamines and other drugs these people have consumed or are consuming regularly

but more importantly:

b) your gut is disturbed by what you eat and your brain by what you perceive, which is filtered by your personality and current/past state of mind. just a little of x and it's hard to trust a feeling that comes from a place of mixed feelings, some of which are more obviously bad than others, some of the time.

c) your peripheral gets your subconscious goat all the time.

people are bad at trusting their gut. highly intelligent and or educated people have especially grand issues with that because intuitive heuristics and intuitive cognitive logic get such a bad reputation while nobody ever (I'm exaggerating) speaks or writes about exceptions to common fallacies and bias, which are usually only presented to justify gears of economic rationales that tend to completely ignore side-effects (because "long-termisms", even before the term was coined), often enough due to irrationally high thresholds of relativity aka p-values.

And you start of with

> There’s so much “trust your gut!!” advice when the gut can be deeply wrong

and end on

> This results in anything like saying someone has “bad vibes” to be a reason to exclude them, to actively covering for someone with a known pattern of harming people simply because they are charming.

on purpose. Please, at least try to sound non-manipulative.

PS: clattering teeth
by panick21_ | 2025-09-14 18:55:07+00:00
I do not think that is true. Lets remember that still in 1990 IBM alone was about 50% of the whole market. Even without clones IBM PC would have won.

Had IBM made clones impossible they could likely have captured far more of the market.

It certainly wasn't IBM ability to produce PC that prevented them selling more.

Likely eventually they would have licensed the architecture to AT&T and the like.

Vertical integration could have worked, we are just lucky it didn't.
by sunaookami | 2025-09-14 18:55:16+00:00
>I guess if you take a long time to do something, people kind of forget that you're there.

This is so true sadly, group conversations are very exhausting to me. It is a constant back-and-forth and if you want to say something you need to do it "quick" or the topic shifts.

>Also, my ‘processing time’ in conversation is slow. So I’ve realised that I’m better off focusing on writing as a way to communicate. Writing to me feels more suited towards slow, patient thinkers.

I feel the same way, I try to avoid arguments (like something political with friends (harmless, don't worry)) because it takes me too long to say what I want to say, and my sentences jump around awkwardly trying to express the point I want to make. I was also made fun of in school due to that... Also I tend to mispronounce some words then which makes it even more awkward. People often think that if you don't respond to an argument in two seconds you "lose"...

This also got waaay worse when I first drifted into burnout two years ago (still have, not recovered).
by truelson | 2025-09-14 18:55:49+00:00
A key part of breaking cycles for me has been noticing when my default mode network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network) or DMN is being activated, being able to stop, do a series of 4-2-6 breaths to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and focus on what I'm doing in the present. The DMN is the little chatterbox "daemon" always talking in the background. Learning to consistently notice it and handle it is liberating.

This is not easy, but I've found working on this every day is better than any form of traditional meditation or "mindfulness" work. It truly is work, like exercise, and the point is not how long you do it, but noticing more and more when my DMN engages and I can return to breathing and reactivating my parasympathetic nervous system.

I can't stress enough what a change occurs after two months of focusing on this.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-14 18:55:58+00:00
Hydrogen or heat. The former would be stored like natural gas currently is stored, underground. We store months of natural gas consumption.

Heat (at 600 C) is potentially even cheaper to store, with a cost of storage capacity as low as $0.10/kWh(th) of capacity. This could yield 365/24/7 heat for $3/GJ, competitive even with cheap natural gas.

https://austinvernon.substack.com/p/building-ultra-cheap-ene...

https://standardthermal.com/

Round trip efficiency if you go back to electricity is nothing great, but this is not important for very long term storage, where capex is king, not RTE.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-14 18:56:32+00:00
> By "it", I mean the things that you are referring to, which people including yourself claim to be such rhetoric.

Right. Those things are misrepresented.

> I have been shown countless examples, and done my own evaluation

I do not doubt this at all. You are surely aware that the best lies are coated in the truth.
by nilamo | 2025-09-14 18:56:49+00:00
I look out for books that have been annotated by one of your kin whenever I'm in a used book store. It's fun to see what other people think is interesting or memorable (or unhinged... Why are you highlighting every occurance of the word "earth"?)

Little notes in the margin can also be a fun plot device, used to great effect in one of the Harry Potter books, (I think?) The Chamber of Secrets.
by 0fflineuser | 2025-09-14 18:57:06+00:00
I love it. It is so simple and flexible.

But a life saver is using it with <https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp>.

This means we don't need to move gpg/ssh keys we can just recreate them by remembering their passphrase (and other stuff like the date if we want).

# gpg key for the encryption of the password-store passphrase2pgp --subkey --protect=2 --uid "helloworld" | gpg --import #for access to the git remote repo add to it this public key : passphrase2pgp -u emergency -f ssh -p > ~/.ssh/emergency.pub #only use it to install a non-emergency key as a new authorized key : passphrase2pgp -u emergency -f ssh | ssh-add -

I read a blog post for the above but can't remember what it was, but it's amazing now It's very easy to download and access the password-store from any devices, I use it in window, linux and termux.

Funnily enough I never used `pass generate` once, even tough I have more than 3700 passwords. I always used the `pwgen` command, I don't know if there really is a big difference between the 2 (except pass generate being already in pass).

As for how to structure, here are some example of how I do it :

<service>/email <service>/otp work/<service>/password homelab/<service>/username

They are all only one line except some backup codes which use multiline.

Then it's very easy to get the password or the otp, just bind `passmenu`, `passmenu-otp` in your window manager or directly use the command line for multiline stuff.
by andrewflnr | 2025-09-14 18:57:10+00:00
The math relevant to OP is accessible via the second link in the text: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21748 I guess you might have to follow some citations too. But we were on a tangent about white holes, which would be unreasonable to expect in the article. I and the other reply have already told you where to find that math.
by crgk | 2025-09-14 18:57:17+00:00
I’ve recently started hosting a Gemini capsule for myself, and I’m having a lot of fun with it. Browsing Geminispace has been very refreshing.

Kinda bummed that other threads here are focusing on how Gemini does not replace certain things we can do on the web like it’s a failure. I’d say it’s fine and good that the two have different capabilities!

In my experience, Gemini does not aspire to replace the web, but just to add a different internet experience for those who want the option.

(As you can tell, I still browse the web.)