MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rkomorn | 2025-09-09 13:54:06+00:00
Yes! I also kind of hate feeling like I have to cheese the game to make progress at a reasonable speed.

BUT, I will say I do get a kick out of seeing the strategies and workarounds other people find that I would never even have bothered to try looking for.

Maybe I'm just lazy, or maybe I just feel like there's a way the game's meant to be played, and that's what I want to play. I'm also pretty allergic to games that make extensive uses of mods for the same reason.
by dahart | 2025-09-09 13:54:55+00:00
> Reagan ushered in a decade of strong economic growth

By what measure? Can you source that claim?

“Since World War II, according to many economic metrics including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth, and corporate profits, the United States economy has performed significantly better on average under the administrations of Democratic presidents than Republican presidents.”

Reagan was the only Republican that reduced unemployment by a little bit, but he was in the lower half of presidents who did that. But he failed to increase employment significantly, he increased the deficit significantly, and he did damage with the bunk feed-the-rich “Trickle Down” theories.

Even Trump agreed. “During a March 2004 interview, Trump stated: ‘It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...
by microtonal | 2025-09-09 13:55:07+00:00
Mistral being in the EU is a feature. A lot of European companies/organizations are hesitant to use US/Chinese LLMs because of privacy reasons. For instance, the university my wife is working at are evaluating using Mistral as their default (and only reimbursed) LLM.

One or two years ago, an US solution would be completely acceptable (with promises to comply with the GDPR). But a lot of damage has been done the last 9 months or so.
by diggan | 2025-09-09 13:55:09+00:00
> It won't be a red flag for people who often see auto-complete not working for legitimate websites. The usual cause is legitimate websites not working instead of actual phishing attempts.

Yeah, that's true, I hit this all the time with 1Password+Firefox+Linux (fun combo).

Just copying-pasting the username+password because it doesn't show up is the wrong approach. It gives you a chance to pause and reflect, since it isn't working, so in that case you lookup if it's actually the right domain, and if it is, add it to the allowed domains so it works fine in the future.

Maybe best would be if password managers defaulted to not showing a "copy" thing at all for browser logins, and not letting users select the password, instead prompting them to rely on the autofill, and fix the domains if the autofill doesn't work.

Half the reason I use password manager in the first place is specifically for this issue, the other half is because I'm lazy and don't like typing. It's really weird to hear people using password managers yet do the old copy-paste dance anyways.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-09 13:55:18+00:00
But they do, because plenty of people are willing to move, especially if the compensation is good.

Caveat, my point of view is limited/blinkered, I've worked with a lot of expats / european migrants but I do think they're the more adventurous types who don't want to settle down somewhere yet. Happy to live in an apartment for a few years and take in the culture type of people.
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-09 13:55:19+00:00
What kind of regulation do you have in mind?

The government controls the algorithm? Then the government pushes propaganda.

The algorithm is public? Then what kind of public algorithm? "Sort by recency", "sort by popularity", etc. will be gamed by propaganda-pushers. "Sort by closest friends" is better, but I suspect even it will be gamed by adversaries who initially push genuine interesting content and encourage you to befriend them, then shift to propaganda.

Sorry to be cynical, but I doubt you can prevent people from being attracted to and influenced by propaganda; if necessary, well-funded organizations will hire paid actors to meet people in person. You must narrow the goal, e.g. can hinder foreign propaganda by down-weighting accounts from foreign IP addresses, detecting and down-weighting foreign accounts which use residential VPNs, and perhaps detecting and down-weighting domestic people who are especially influenced by foreign propaganda to the extent they're probably being funded (but you don't know, so then you get controversy and ambiguity...)
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-09 13:55:48+00:00
I see no benefit in ginning up tensions for myself, but I accept that there are power centers that do benefit from it. In a very practical sense, having a slightly less bad situation is better than a bad one.

I could offer a real life anecdote, but I am not certain where you are going with this conversation.
by HarshitDoshi | 2025-09-09 13:55:50+00:00
Love this! With integrations to 3rd-party data sources (like AirTable, Google Sheets, Databases, Notion, etc.), this can be a very useful product, especially for use with LLMs.

The trackpad calibration on my MacBook Air is almost okay, just a tad bit too slow/rigid to move around.
by rchaud | 2025-09-09 13:55:59+00:00
> However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a bit ugly.

No it isn't. Free websites exist: Wordpress, Blogger, Wix, Weebly etc. The only "ad" they show is a static banner for their own platform, not the giant scripts Google loads for Google Ads. Neocities and Digital Ocean are $5/mo for a custom domain and hosting, theme it anyway you like.

Most "content"-focused websites like Buzzfeed, The Verge, Gizmodo etc simply embed third party content (Youtube, Vimeo, Giphy, random poll generators) instead of hosting them on their domain. Much of their content is rehashing news articles with a paper-thin layer of "analysis" on top. Then they add metric tons of ads, and throw in affilliate link garbage "product reviews" on top.

This is the dropship-ification of the web and it pretty much killed the free website culture of the Geocities/Anglefire era.
by Ante_max | 2025-09-09 13:56:09+00:00
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by rainsford | 2025-09-09 13:56:16+00:00
It's particularly interesting because cars are probably one of the most emotional purchases for a lot of people. Car makers know this and put a huge amount of effort into brand identity. It's also hard to think of another company of any kind where the CEO is so synonymous with the company and so public facing. Maybe Steve Jobs or Bill Gates in their heydays, but even they had a lower public profile relatively speaking. And finally, it's hard to think of another CEO of a major company who has so aggressively adopted and broadcast very polarizing political views.

Tesla is such a perfect storm that it's actually kind of amazing the stock hasn't completely tanked, which itself makes it an interesting discussion topic. They make a product where brand identity is super important, have a CEO who is unquestionably the public face of the company, and said CEO continues to go out of his way to try to alienate a significant portion of the potential customer base. I frequently see Teslas driving around with anti-Elon bumper stickers, which I've certainly never seen before for a car company. It's hard to imagine a world in which such consumer sentiment among any non-trivial percentage of your customer base isn't a death knell for the company.
by oneshtein | 2025-09-09 13:56:33+00:00
AFAIK, I have 2x DDR5 non-ECC memory (`dmidecode --type 17` says Samsung M425R1GB4BB0-CQKOL). Your command tells about SECDEC (single bit error correction, double bit error detection).

/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/ce_count:0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/ch0_dimm_label:MC#0_Chan#0_DIMM#0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/size_mb:8192 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/ch0_ce_count:0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/ue_count:0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/mem_type:Unbuffered-DDR3 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/edac_mode:SECDED /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/ch1_ce_count:0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/ch1_dimm_label:MC#0_Chan#1_DIMM#0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0/dev_type:x16

> find /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow* -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec grep --color . {} +

It looks like DDR5 supports SECDEC by default. :-/
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 13:57:10+00:00
Yes, in theory nationalized companies can set prices rationally and turn a profit. In practice they rarely manage this for long because sooner or later a populist comes along and forces them to lower prices in order to win votes. It's not just water where the UK has a problem with this. Transport for London has also been forced to underprice its services for years by London's socialist mayor, it's a big part of how he won votes, meaning they've been building up a huge tech debt backlog. He clearly expects that the rest of the country will eventually bail London out and he'll be seen as the hero.

The US is a very right wing country. It's politicians are better able to avoid populist price controls. Maybe with Mamdani that's now changing.
by Gormo | 2025-09-09 13:57:32+00:00
Reddit and HN fully support RSS.

Discord, WhatsApp, and iMessage are all messaging applications that aren't directly related to the use case for RSS.

That leaves Twitter and Instagram as the two major sites for which RSS would be applicable, but which don't natively offer RSS feeds. And a cursory web search reveals the large number of solutions people have come up with for subscribing to content from Twitter and Instagram via RSS, indicating that there's significant demand for it.

It's also worth noting that with Twitter in decline, the main competitors gaining traction, BlueSky and Mastodon, do both natively offer RSS feeds.

On top of that, the entire podcasting ecosystem is fundamentally based on RSS, and it's still the primary mechanism for syndicating blog content.

So RSS is not just alive and well, it's thriving.
by natmaka | 2025-09-09 13:58:14+00:00
Proponents of the SMR (small modular reactor) overlook the fundamental approach in industry: taking advantage of economies of scale to improve efficiency.

Financially, SMRs are efficient when they are mass-produced and then installed as is, which is difficult to imagine today given the abundance of specific requirements from national safety authorities and site-specific characteristics impacting the installation method. Reactors will therefore have to be adapted (before or, worse, after factory manufacture), which greatly reduces the value of mass production.

Furthermore, the underlying industrialization approach standardizes products and thus increases the risk associated with a generic defect: the discovery of a problem could force the rapid shutdown of a large proportion of the (identical) reactors in a fleet.

This necessary industrialization, and therefore mass production, makes it difficult to claim to only satisfy niche markets.

Even if the SMR becomes a reality, the NIMBY effect alone could wipe it out.

On the ground today, no SMR model is in operation in the West, not even at the industrial prototype stage. Russia has an old, improved military reactor used on a barge (its load factor, as well as that of a recently launched Chinese model, is very poor).

Imitating it would be risky because the total cost of a military reactor (on board a submarine, aircraft carrier, icebreaker, etc.) is much higher than that of an equivalent civilian model. The Navy is willing to pay for features that are decisive for it (long battery life, reduced need for maintenance and surfacing, silence, compactness, etc.) but of no benefit in civilian applications.

Furthermore, a military reactor operates at sea, thus in a huge "cold source" facilitating its cooling, and in the event of an accident, it would likely be submerged far from any populated area. This is difficult to transpose to a national electricity system.

On the ground, the most advanced offering (NuScale) in the most favorable context (the USA) is withering away. Projects in Canada, a nation with expertise in nuclear power, are struggling to get off the ground. In Europe, Naarea, Newcleo, and Jimmy are reeling.

There's nothing new here, as these vain hopes correspond to what Admiral H. Rickover described as early as 1953...
by bryanhogan | 2025-09-09 13:58:24+00:00
Do I understand correctly that this just means that military zones will be blurred?

Then how does this sentence make sense?

> Google said on Tuesday that it would comply with the South Korean government's demand to blur sensitive satellite images on its mapping services, paving the way for the US tech giant to compete better with local navigation platforms.

Anyone in South Korea will continue to use Naver Maps or Kakao Maps.
by elric | 2025-09-09 13:58:28+00:00
> 1. I genuinely don't understand why.

It's a war of attrition. You can keep bombarding developers with new and clever ways of trying to obtain their credentials or get them to click on some link while signed in. It only has to succeed once. No one is 100% vigilant all the time. If you think you're the exception, you're probably deluding yourself.

There's something broken in a system where one moment of inattention by one person can result in oodles of people ending up with compromised software, and I don't think it's the person that's broken.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-09 13:58:30+00:00
>German Autobahn is crazy and non-pleasant if you drive slow, but in Switzerland everyone follows the speed limit so it is quite relaxing

The German situation seems vastly superior on the basis that whoever is the "odd one out" or violating the norms should be the one having a bad time. Basically incentivizing homogenous and/or predictable traffic flow, which is safer.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-09 13:58:34+00:00
I think part of the issue is that "Benefit the US" heavily confuses the beneficiary. Is the the organization that identifies by the flag and holds the land? Is it its various owners? Is is the government? And if it is, which part thereof? Is the population? When? Now? In the potential future?

None of this is specified -- on purpose -- to muddle the waters, because the reader will read into it what they want to read.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-09 13:58:38+00:00
Current A.I has three fatal flaws stemming from three different fields:

1 - "the conduit metaphor paradox" from animal behavior signaling remains unsolved (2009) 2 - "the illusion of prediction, error prediction, error minimization" from spatiotemporal dynamic neuroscience (2018) 3 - "the arbitrary/spcific chasm-dichotomy" remains unresolved from coordination dynamics (1991)
by deepanwadhwa | 2025-09-09 13:58:42+00:00
The apple example seems off, but literacy is still going to be a requirement for this kind of thing to work. First, you need to be able to understand the language(grammar, vocabulary etc) to communicate with this device. The guy in the demo is literally thinking in English, Mandarin. I'd actually argue that only highly literate people will be able to use this device really well. This device is not reading thoughts, it's inferring the silently spoken words.
by mlinsey | 2025-09-09 13:59:15+00:00
I am experimenting with using freedom.to to block social media in the browser. It creates a VPN profile that blocks these sites in the browser (it also uses the Screen Time API to block specific apps). The downsides are that you can just go into iOS settings to disable the profile, and I am paying Freedom a subscription for something I could set up for free. The upside vs. managing it myself is that it's much easier to create a schedule (eg block during weekdays, instead of block 24/7).
by SQLite | 2025-09-09 13:59:29+00:00
I think (I hope!) we are probably done adding keywords to SQLite. Furthermore, all of the more recently added keywords (ex: WITHIN, RETURNING, MATERIALIZED) make use of special capabilities in SQLite's parser that allows keywords to be used as identifiers as long as the identifier usage does not occur in a context where the keyword is allowed.

So, for example, you can used MATERIALIZED as a keyword in a common-table expression ("WITH xyzzy(a,b) AS MATERIALIZED (...)") but MATERIALIZED can also be used as a column or table name. Hence, the following SQL actually works in SQLite:

WITH xyz(MATERIALIZED) AS MATERIALIZED( VALUES(1),(2),(3) ) SELECT * FROM xyz;
by natmaka | 2025-09-09 13:59:30+00:00
A typical car battery stores 60 kWh (the average capacity of models is increasing), so, charged during the day using inexpensive renewable electricity (particularly solar), it can power a household during one of the rare winter nights with insufficient wind.

Case in point: France. A household consumes an average of 14 kWh of electricity per day. The capacity of electric cars will exceed 500 GWh before 2035 and 2000 GWh between 2040 and 2050.

Trucks, utility vehicles, and stationary batteries (domestic and industrial) will add to this. Batteries from retired vehicles will increasingly be converted into static batteries before being recycled (see "Redwood Materials" in the US).

In California, when the sun is at its peak (midday), solar power produces up to three-quarters of the electricity. Batteries are charged in the afternoon, when solar electricity is cheap, and released in the evening, when Californians return home. At their peak consumption, around 8 p.m., batteries can supply up to 30% of the state's electricity.
by kragen | 2025-09-09 13:59:33+00:00
Right. You're not a native English speaker, I guess, so I'll offer some advice on how you could have read this correctly.

You can tell that "the original French" is a noun phrase, because it's the object of the preposition "in", and prepositional objects are always noun phrases in English. Given that, there are two possible parses: either "original" is an adjective and "French" is a noun, or "original" is a noun and "French" is an adjective. In English, adjectives nearly always precede nouns, so the second possibility is very weak.

The noun "French" in English can refer either to the French language or (always with "the") the French people. But interpreting the phrase as meaning "in the original French people" is clearly incorrect, because a museum is too large to fit inside a person, and even a somehow miniaturized museum could only be inserted into one person, not many people.

So the phrase unambiguously means "in the original French language", that is, "in the French-language text originally written".

I hope this helps!
by ehnto | 2025-09-09 13:59:58+00:00
It is a disservice to yourself and family to not block ads. You shouldn't let these companies have a conduit into your life.

I don't think it's amorale to use the service for which you are blocking the ads for either. If they don't like it, they can try a new business model. They don't protect you, why should you protect them.
by mjr00 | 2025-09-09 14:00:21+00:00
It's the sequel to a game (Hollow Knight) which is widely regarded as one of the best of all time. It had a long seven-year development cycle, with "Silksong release announcement at (upcoming event)" becoming a meme, leaving people wondering if it would ever come out. Last month the developers randomly dropped a release trailer with "by the way it's coming out in 3 weeks". It came out and has been a hot topic because, while an excellent game, it's significantly harder than the original, causing a lot of debate.
by amiga386 | 2025-09-09 14:00:39+00:00
The format itself is an act of sabotage. The format is basically Microsoft's internal formats for Office, with all their bugs and flags and features, for which Microsoft already owned the only working implementation that works correctly.

They completely rejected what standardisation processes _do_, which is to subject the format to scrutiny, criticism and change, to make it universally useful and implementable.

Microsoft absolutely did not do that. They rammed through their proprietary bullshit and slapped an "open standards!" label on it.

https://www.consortiuminfo.org/opendocument-and-ooxml/the-co...

> 2.15.3.26 footnoteLayoutLikeWW8 (Emulate Word 6.x/95/97 Footnote Placement)

> This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 6.x/95/97) when determining the placement of the contents of footnotes relative to the page on which the footnote reference occurs. This emulation typically involves some and/or all of the footnote being inappropriately placed on the page following the footnote reference.

> [Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. It is recommended that applications not intentionally replicate this behavior as it was deprecated due to issues with its output, and is maintained only for compatibility with existing documents from that application. end guidance]

> Typically, applications shall not perform this compatibility. This element, when present with a val attribute value of true (or equivalent), specifies that applications shall attempt to mimic that existing word processing application in this regard.

The format was _written_ to include specifics that only matter for one product - Microsoft Office - and don't even reveal in that format how those specifics should be interpreted faithfully. This is of ZERO use to anyone looking to make interoperable software that can make use of this standard. And that's the point - it's NOT an open standard, it's quite deliberately Microsoft's proprietary and closed bullshit with "open" shat on top of it, and a paid-for endorsement by a standards body that completely detonated its own credibility by approving it.
by mediumsmart | 2025-09-09 14:00:39+00:00
First of all I have a theory that nothing can be proven but I can't prove it.

Second - an example for a javascript heavy npm utilizing tracking heavy / low content site has not much weight in proving me right - my view is an assumption - 2 examples of shitty tracking SEO AI garbage content blubber sites not using npm would substantially question my assumption... I am genuinely interested in the tech those sites would use instead.
by mdemare | 2025-09-09 14:00:53+00:00
Whatever the economic merits and demerits of this deal, politically it's a disaster, as this article indicates. There wasn't even an attempt to sell this to the public. But as there are no elections until 2028, I expect major changes in strategy in a year or so, otherwise the center-right parties in charge now will be wiped out in favor of the anti-American factions of the far right and far left.

My suspicion is that there's a quid-pro-quo regarding Ukraine. Economically, the EU is in a strong position, but militarily, a mercurial US has the EU over the barrel due to the Ukraine war.

I predict that Europe's notoriously hard-nosed negotiators (Brexit) will ramp up the pressure as the midterms get closer and if the situation in Ukraine improves.