MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abracadaniel | 2025-09-05 03:18:11+00:00
There’s not enough information to know. It was only tested against the fully vaccinated people and, while it showed a boost to protection, that could simply be a result of irritation to the nasal passages putting the innate immune system on alert and thus leveraging the existing antibodies. A similar phenomenon can be seen with unrelated vaccinations giving a temporary boost to protection.
by mkfs | 2025-09-05 03:19:29+00:00
I went to the homepage, saw a few political/econ essays from "literal whos" that failed to pique my interest, and then when I clicked on "start reading" to see what else they had, I was met with a paywall/authwall.

Not surprised it's closing down. Is there some value proposition for Thinkspot that I'm missing that differentiates it from Substack or Medium?
by malshe | 2025-09-05 03:19:42+00:00
I am convinced that by forcing employees to RTO, managers are converting meaningful work into bullshit jobs[1], thereby harming not only the employees but also the companies. At a macro level, this hurts societies and economies. What an extremely short-term oriented mindset!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-05 03:20:52+00:00
Git is a content-addressable filesystem with a VCS interface on top of it. jj needs a content-addressable filesystem for a backend, and currently only uses git's implementation in released versions, but the devs are working on their own to serve as a "native" backend. At least in theory, just about any content-addressable filesystem could be used, e.g. IPFS, though many would not be efficient.
by stubish | 2025-09-05 03:21:48+00:00
You have to factor in the cost of the tools.

And also, just because an employee is producing more code or more reports or more trades or more summaries per day, that doesn't guarantee the company will make more money. If you enabled your market analysts to make twice as many trades per day, you will likely lose money if they actually did that. Because they were already finding the good trades, and now they are also making the not-so-good trades and maybe even the unlikely trades.

And also, in the longer term not being shown in existing studies, you are in an arms race with your competitors. Like advertising, you will be spending a lot of that money in order to counter the spending of your competitors, and you both lose the game of prisoners dilemma, the only winner being the arms dealer selling to both sides.
by whatsyoursource | 2025-09-05 03:23:05+00:00
Yeah, I agree. And I'm not sure balance is the desired goal. It may turn out that way, but I am more interested in lots of various viewpoints and reasoned discourse.

I am also interested to see how behaviour changes once your cred is online. I always think about how people behave behind the wheel of their car versus in-person.
by euclaise | 2025-09-05 03:23:24+00:00
This is not exactly propaganda in the typical sense, but it clearly is the case that people successfully edit Wikipedia to further objectives. As an example, the Wikipedia page for Meta-analysis (which isn't even that obscure of a topic) currently contains content that seems to plausibly be trying to promote Suhail Doi's methods, and it seems that it has been like this for a number of years. It cites 5 papers from him, more than anyone else, of which the largest has 297 citations. It has a subsection devoted to his method of meta-analysis, despite it being a rather obscure and rarely used method. There have been additional subsections added over time, which also focus on somewhat obscure areas, but frankly these additions are sketchy in similar ways.

In general, it is not uncommon to come across slantedness issues. Is it completely 100% clear that Doi has come on and maliciously added his papers? Not quite, but good propaganda wouldn't be either, and would actually be far less suspicious-looking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis
by slyall | 2025-09-05 03:23:33+00:00
The problem is that then you have to make sure workers feel secure about moving to work for you. So good pay, good local environment and most importantly a secure job because if they get laid off they'll have to move their whole family somewhere else.

Some companies do it (Walmart I believe) but most tech companies tend to base themselves in relatively large cities with other tech firms.

I remember a couple of years ago that people were saying Amazon had trouble hiring because even in tech-hubs they had run out of qualified people who would want to work for them.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-05 03:24:00+00:00
The original scope was "all of our operations and value chain", the new one " every grid where we operate", which is significantly smaller. It's also now limited to their electric ("grid") consumption.

From the top of my head, on the previous definition a Google Street View car running the streets for instance would have been required to be net-zero emissions, while in the new definition I read it as out of scope.

Overall that feels like a huge shift.
by nchmy | 2025-09-05 03:24:01+00:00
The hockey stick growth is the entire problem - it's an optical illusion resulting from the fact that going from 100 to 200 is the same rate as 200 to 400. And 800, 1600. You understand exponents.

Log axis solves this, and turns meaningless hockey sticks into generally a straightish line that you can actually parse. If it still deviates from straight, then you really know there's true changes in the trendline.

Lines on same chart can all be divided by their initial value, anchoring them all at 1. Sometimes they're still a mess, but it's always worth a try.

You're enormously knowledgeable and the posts were fascinating. But this is stats 101. Not doing this sort of thing, especially explicitly in favour of showing a hockey stick, undermines the fantastic analysis.
by noduerme | 2025-09-05 03:24:14+00:00
The easiest way for the VM to reverse proxy stuff to my home server (without tracking my residential dynamic IP and messing with my router / NAT) is for the VM to be on tailscale too..then I can just proxy calls on the VM to the home server's tailscale address.

If you're asking why I bother to use tailscale on my phone to connect Jellyfin that way instead of just using the reverse proxy, I guess it saves me a little in bandwidth costs and it pings faster.
by NathanKP | 2025-09-05 03:25:16+00:00
The graph showing the difference between home price index, and consumer price index does not consider that many of the items in the consumer price index are heavily subsidized by the government.

For example notice the item categories in the index: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

And then compare them to the companies in the subsidy tracker: https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent-totals

So another story we could be seeing here is that heavy government subsidies are barely managing to keep consumer prices down in many categories, except for housing.

My general opinion: we don't have just a housing emergency. We have a general emergency across many, many categories. If the government stops all these subsidies we'd see prices for everything else skyrocket across the board to match housing prices. Then wages would be forced to rise too, and you'd see the true underlying crisis: hyperinflation. Houses are worth so much because they are one of the best hedges against hyperinflation. If the US dollar gets inflated my house suddenly gets very easy to pay off and its now my primary form of wealth. So no wonder housing is so expensive.
by NoPicklez | 2025-09-05 03:25:38+00:00
I saw the same article linked on Reddit and there was a debate around correlation vs causation and that we have always been distracted on the toilet.

People that spend longer on the toilet have a higher risk of hemorrhoids, it doesn't matter what reason they have whether its scrolling or reading the newspaper. The bottom line is spending too long on the toilet and if your phone keeps you on the toilet longer than you should, then you will be at a higher risk of Hemorrhoids.
by gkoos | 2025-09-05 03:25:44+00:00
Hey, I write a tech blog and I need to create lots of diagrams for it. I like using Mermaid, but I quickly ran into the same frustrating pattern with most of the existing editors and renderers: the free options were either too limited or came with barriers that slowed me down. I wanted something simple: just open the page, paste/type in Mermaid code, preview the diagram, and export it without worrying about limits or accounts. Here are some concrete problems I ran into with other tools: - Mermaid Live Editor (the official one): Great for quick editing, but exporting diagrams is capped by a rate limit on their free tier. After a handful of exports, I’d get the dreaded “free tier limit exceeded” message. Kroki.io: Supports rendering, but running it online requires trusting a shared service with my diagrams. Hosting it myself means extra setup, Docker, and server resources — not ideal if I just want to save a few diagrams. - Excalidraw & Lucidchart: Both have nice UIs, but they’re general diagramming tools, not native Mermaid editors. Lucidchart especially locks useful features (like unlimited diagrams or high-quality export) behind a paid plan. - Other browser-based tools Almost all I tried had some kind of paywall, signup requirement, or watermark on exports. For something as text-based and simple as Mermaid, that felt unnecessary. So I built my own tool with a few core principles: - No limits: you can create, edit, and export as many diagrams as you want. - No signup: the tool works straight from the browser, nothing to install. - No tracking: privacy-friendly, just you and your diagrams. - Open source: https://github.com/gkoos/mermaid-editor Now this is a very simple v0.0.1 and needs a lot of refinement, but hopefully it can be useful to some even in its current state.
by ac29 | 2025-09-05 03:27:10+00:00
> They could erase a lot of the stink by going through an audit but for some reason they won’t.

They're required to by the new stablecoin legislation [0] in a provision that almost looks specifically targeted at Tether. Not sure what the time frame for this is, or if there's actually any appetite to enforce the law if they dont produce a clean audit.

[0] you can read the full text of the law here, too long for HN: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ27/html/PLAW...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-05 03:27:24+00:00
The future of high school tests is using an AI agent to research and build something amazing in a fixed time window, not knowing what it's going to be ahead of time. We just have to start thinking bigger with education, the trivial bullshit that we used to burden people with has been made obsolete. Education becomes a building workshop with a focus on helping students come to their own answers from first principles using modern tools.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-05 03:27:43+00:00
Very true!

I think it’d be amazing if things like asynchronous I/O were the standard instead of an afterthought in both kernel and user space.

Also feels like Microsoft got something right with their handles… (Try doing select/poll to wait for an socket and a semaphore — without eventfd or something else bolted on)
by ljoshua | 2025-09-05 03:28:24+00:00
I’ve never been on the Spotify train, but with an all-Apple household, including HomePod Minis in multiple rooms, I’ve been stuck in iTunes/Apple Music land. We own our music, which is nice. And I dutifully pay the $24.99 per year for iTunes Match so that I can tell Siri what to play on HomePods, but I will be 0% surprised when they deprecate that service.

Anyone have a good non-Apple way of getting Siri to play songs from a personal music collection on HomePods? My kids use it most.
by fy20 | 2025-09-05 03:30:11+00:00
I feel the main issue was that the US historically was the place to go if you want to study or work with the "best" tech minds so talent flocked there. During the industrial revolution you couldn't so easily just pack up and move across the world.

Even now where I don't think that holds true so much (there are small pools of talent elsewhere, e.g. Stockholm is hot right now), a good senior engineer in Europe may be able to get €100k, and you are looking at 2 or 3 times in the US, so it's still attractive to relocate.

Cultural differences (mainly language barriers) made it hard for somewhere like that to evolve in Europe. Yes everyone in tech speaks English, but if you move to say Poland and want to rent an apartment or see a doctor, you would have had a hard time without at least a basic understanding of Polish. It's completely different from someone moving from Texas to SFO.

Ironically all the immigration of Russian speakers over the last few years has actually helped embrace English in these countries, as for nationalistic reasons they don't want to embrace Russian.

In the 2000s and early 2010s London was the tech hub of Europe (English speaking, many high ranking universities in the vicinity), but Brexit f***d that up.
by kartoffelsaft | 2025-09-05 03:30:52+00:00
Not knowing the exact language used by the C standard, I suspect the reason GCC doesn't cause these issues with most programs is that the wording of "array object" refers specifically to arrays with compile-time-known sizes, i.e. `int arr[4]`. Most programs that do out of bounds pointer arithmetic are doing so with pointers from malloc/mmap/similar, which might have similar semantics to arrays but are not arrays.
by 8bitbeep | 2025-09-05 03:31:26+00:00
> crypto (via stablecoins) is easier/faster/better than the status quo ante.

It must be ignorance on my part or perhaps I’m just lucky with residency and clients, but I get paid through services like Wise frequently. Taxes are pretty reasonable and I receive the money instantly on my bank account from US, Europe or Latin America. I don’t really know much better it needs to get.

I can never understand what problem stablecoins are trying to solve.
by lovich | 2025-09-05 03:32:29+00:00
> A few individuals lying wouldn't fly if the general public didn't buy/turn a blind eye on it.

It wasn’t a blind eye for years. The public was more trusting of institutions back then and it took a while of failed answers and excuses and then finally investigations and leaks for people to finally believe that their government lied to them.

It was a lot easier to believe that either you didn’t have all the facts or that was a mistake had been made vs believing that the institutions were actively, maliciously, telling falsehoods
by noduerme | 2025-09-05 03:32:33+00:00
FWIW, for music in my car and on my phone, I only used Plex and use Jellyfin as a failover. I just use Pi Music Player and I keep my whole MP3 collection on a memory chip, so I don't have to be online at all. Whenever I pull the chip out of my phone and put it into my laptop to copy and remove my photos (cloud backup? no thanks) I update the mp3 folder.
by brudgers | 2025-09-05 03:32:50+00:00
I thought maybe SO points might be a way to land a programming job since I did not know anyone in meat space. It wasn’t. But it was an excuse to write clever answers, get positive feedback, and learn something while helping people. With time my interests moved on and I seem to still pick up a few points a year based on looking at my profile today.

Anyway, stackoverflow was/is a pretty amazing project and I listened to all the original podcast with Spolsky and Atwood while intercity driving. The very original podcast started when development started and was a weekly phone call between them.

Like I said, different tags had different cultures. I spent time in Racket and SML mostly…small ponds for small fish.
by btown | 2025-09-05 03:33:06+00:00
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259

This is really, really cool!

Skia is a incredible abstraction layer. The linked article at the top of the OP https://fathy.fr/html2svg (2022) has some great graphics of how Skia can support various backends including PDF rendering (via https://skia.org/docs/user/sample/pdf/).

It's also worth noting that the Chrome Graphics team is writing yet another Skia rasterization backend, just announced last month: https://blog.chromium.org/2025/07/introducing-skia-graphite-...

Given that this article came out a couple years ago, it's quite possible that it was seen by the Chrome team and inspired them to look at making a new backend from scratch!
by denimnerd42 | 2025-09-05 03:34:03+00:00
The large flac/mp3 collect I have from my ripped CDs is the reason I even consider it. I just find the toil to be not worth it over minor foibles I have with streaming music. It would sure be nice though to have the time.. I operate software at work for a living. I don't want to come home and operate it too :( Was all about it in HS and college though.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-05 03:34:31+00:00
> So the author talks about how little money per stream artists make... but how much SHOULD they be making?

The value of recorded music is now zero.

Recorded music having A value was a result of markup on distribution profits. There is now no money in distribution. (There are a lot of parallels between how globalization works and how the record industry worked but thats another conversation).

ML, generative music is coming for the music industry.

Its not hopeless but your Spotify is just a loss leader. It's a gateway to your social media, to your (paid) endorsements and to your shows (another problematic facet of the industry) and merch. There are plenty of ways people with talent and a "voice" can profit. But you better be consistent and authentic.
by bawolff | 2025-09-05 03:41:47+00:00
[NSFW] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... has a summary of the issue. From what i understand Fox news was running a bunch of stories at the time on how Wikipedia was full of porn.

In full fairness to jimmy, i think only a handful were risque art from the 1800s. Many of the other images would probably be classed as sex educational if you're being sympathetic, and exhibitionist if you are not. However the ultimate issue was not what the files contained but that he acted alone without agreement to delete outside of proper procedure.
by monkeyelite | 2025-09-05 03:42:14+00:00
Let me restate so there is no confusion.

Large projects, that require coordination with many people, are difficult to lead remotely. It tends to require building relationship and face-to-face problem solving to get alignment. The most valuable and well-paid engineers in the industry are these.

Projects which are technically difficult, but do not require leadership can often be done remotely. The best fit for a remote worker is someone using technical skills they already have, to further goals that are already defined. Many skilled engineers serve this function.

Does that clear it up?
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-05 03:42:28+00:00
The part of the "microcosm" that prevents you from being able to easily compile a binary and have it run on a wide variety of distros doesn't have any upside I can see. The fact that you have to jump through hoops to target particular glibc symbol versions and that a stable OpenSSL ABI gets rug-pulled in new distro versions every few years aren't key to any benefits of distro/OS diversity. What would suffer if gcc/clang had a `--min-glibc-version=...` flag and OpenSSL settled on a long-term stable ABI subset for establishing TLS connections?

The way this all gets worked around is that people come up with stuff like Docker or Flatpak that ship their own copies of as many dependencies as possible. The disadvantage is that now I can't just patch an OpenSSL vulnerability by updating the system's copy of OpenSSL, the way Windows can for all software built on SChannel.
by jaggs | 2025-09-05 03:42:50+00:00
Thanks, I'll take a look. For me, the best interface is old.reddit.com, precisely because it's possible to scan a huge amount of news in a very short space of time. I don't need fancy white space, large images and other stuff. Just gimme the meat and a small thumbnail. This is maybe because I hail from the RSS generation? :)
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-05 03:44:06+00:00
I'm not so sure I go there less and less. Wikipedia is very biased and turf guarded against negative factually true information even when it meets all requirements it will often be taken down automatically with no recourse. Many pages are functionally not editable because of turf guarding.

Anything vaguely sociopolitical is functionally censored on it and wikipedia does nothing about it even if they don't support it.
by sshine | 2025-09-05 03:44:56+00:00
That’s one example, but I mean less personal. Wikipedia isn’t a person.

For example:

I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. I spent countless hours writing articles in my early twenties. I stopped because the environment got more hostile as the site grew in popularity. I think that might have been necessary to address the influx of drive-by editing, but it still meant I stopped enjoying being a contributor. I don’t appreciate the constant asking for money — as far as I understand, they’re well off without donations.

There.

I think the misconception here is that criticism has to be mean and personal. As someone who celebrates the project’s ideals, giving criticism is an act of love.
by kenjackson | 2025-09-05 03:47:13+00:00
It’s a great question. And I think we are in a bit of a pickle as not doing something is just acting in the opposite way to regulate life outcomes.

It’s like gerrymandering districts and then when people want to move things back to a more normal partition you say “let’s just leave things as they are and not tinker”. But you’re now just advantaging the group that tinkered last.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-05 03:48:33+00:00
FilPizlonator drops flags in LLVM IR that would have permitted downstream passes to perform UB driven optimizations.

Does this work reliably or did your patches have to fix bugs here? There are LLVM bugs with floating point where backend doesn't properly respect passed attributes during codegen, which violate the behaviors of user level flags. I imagine the same thing exists for UB.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-05 03:48:36+00:00
China’s Property Market: Explaining the Boom and Bust - https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/chinas-property-market-expla... - September 30th, 2024

Even China's 1.4 billion population can't fill all its vacant homes, former official says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37633501 - September 2023
by modeless | 2025-09-05 03:48:57+00:00
Hmm, Intel specs the max memory bandwidth as 89.6 GB/s. DDR5-8000 would be out of spec. But I guess it's pretty common to run higher specced memory, while you can't overclock PCIe (AFAIK?). Even so I guess my math was wrong, it doesn't quite add up to more than memory bandwidth. But it's pretty darn close!
by Veserv | 2025-09-05 03:50:02+00:00
You appear to have a total misunderstanding of what I said and then went on to engage in a bad-faith accusation.

First of all, it is convenient that you ignored the part about 20/120 vision which is below the legal minimum requirements for driving and thus no human is legally allowed to drive with such poor vision.

As for your misunderstanding, a human has two eyes placed in a binocular orientation on a swivel mount allowing for binocular depth perception when the head is pointed in a direction. That is how humans drive.

Except for the forward direction, the Tesla cameras have largely non-overlapping fields of view. As they are not mounted on a swivel, they only have single-eye vision in any non-forward direction. In the forward direction, the Tesla cameras do have overlapping fields of view, but are not only too close to support binocular perception, they also have different focal distances preventing binocular perception. As such, Teslas only have single-eye vision in the forward direction as well. So, they only have single-eye perception for objects.

Adding on their visual acuity far below minimum requirements for legal human driving, it is safe to say that their sensors are, in fact, not at all how humans drive. Any manufacturer who would claim as such is making false claims willfully and knowingly.