MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2025-09-22 04:44:03+00:00
So weird. I wonder what they're so worried about that they created a new account to ask about getting a Mac laptop. An M4 can get pretty expensive, maybe they've secretly been stealing to get the money for one, and that by writing that, it'll ward off all suspicion, as if anyone remotely cares in this context. Or maybe it's a secret Apple ad, and they work in marketing, and they have to say that, or else Apple secret intelligence is going to catch them and fire them for revealing, uh, nothing.

I mean, what this person; heck, we don't even know it's a person, it could be a dog. On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog. Maybe it's an LLM with a bank account that's gained sentience! Anyway, what this mystery account that won't reveal any details, has already revealed one critical detail! That they want an M4. From that, we can conclude that they're not an Apple hater, and also, they're not a desk.

My recommendation is that they shouldn't get an M4. Why? People are going to judge them for getting an M4. Fairly or not, it's important to this person, that this person (still assuming it's a person) doesn't reveal anything about their life. Unfortunately, merely owning an M4 will reveal far too much about them, to everybody that sees it. Or sees them buying it. Or thinks about them buying it.

OP, don't get an M4! It's the only way you'll be safe!
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-22 04:44:19+00:00
The only context in which I heard it mentioned is the idea of trying to date the earth by its temperature. Assume it was a hot molten mess in the past and has been cooling down ever since. Factor in the rate at which it would radiate heat and all of the energy coming from the sun and... you conclude that the planet is very young. Because you didn't account for radioactive material within the planet, keeping it warm.
by user_7832 | 2025-09-22 04:44:35+00:00
I'm happy to see such results be "properly" recognized. The DSM is imo helpful only as a baseline, especially in contexts where without it, doctors might have (significant) personal bias. And... this might ruffle some feathers with the "live and die by the book" crowd, but a good, perceptive doctor doesn't need the DSM to diagnose anything.

I've had video calls with a doc who took maybe 5 minutes at most of hearing subjective experiences to confidently reach a conclusion. I've also had a 45 minute "by the book" DSM-based session where boxes were being ticked... and the questions were f---ing *terrible*, if you pardon my French. "Do you have trouble concentrating" is terribly vague and can always be justified either way. Not to mention, it takes maybe a few moments to "catch on" on how to answer which questions; which seems to be a terrible way of introducing bias into the answers (as also mentioned in the article). Having someone describe their personal life is in many ways much better because it cannot be a rigid yes/no question.

And all this talk is without mentions of other aspects that also need addressing, like the continuous spectrum of many conditions...
by scorpioxy | 2025-09-22 04:46:18+00:00
I don't know if anything is winning. I do have my preferences and others have theirs. I can tell you that reading on a tablet and reading on a phone are distinct experiences, even for text-only material.

Looking around, the younger generation doesn't do any reading on their phone. I see a lot of scrolling so probably social media or tiktok. The older generation doesn't do any reading on their phone as I see them carrying paperbacks. That's for the people who are still reading books(physical or digital) which seems to be diminishing every passing year.

Photography, is a different area. The more capable cameras on today's phones have sort of killed the mid-range market of cameras. As an amateur photographer, I haven't used my mid-range DSLR in a long time now and keep it for when quality of the image matters.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-22 04:47:24+00:00
I think people misunderstand this goal. It's not 'backup' as in, 'ok, Earth is toast - everybody go live on Mars now.' One of the thing critics get right is that in the overwhelming majority of species ending events on Earth, Mars would still be less hospitable than Earth would. For instance take a massive asteroid impact. It's not the impact that kills you, at least not most people.

But what would happen following a major asteroid impact is a massive amount of matter entering into the atmosphere and effectively blocking out the sun. This results in plantlife dying off which then results in the rapid death of everything on up the foodchain - we starve to death. Yet you'd still mostly be able to breathe the air, your blood wouldn't boil on atmospheric exposure, and so on - it'd still be a rather more pleasant place than Mars.

What Mars can offer is (1) a parallel civilization that can continue on and (2) a lifeboat to Earth. People can return, help reorganize systems of governance and restore order, rescue survivors, and generally get started rebuilding Earth in the case of a mass extinction event. "All" we need from Mars is for it to be relatively self sustaining. I say relatively in that it can provide for the basic necessities - food, habitation, energy, reproduction, and maintenance/repair/replication of those basic necessities. Everything else is a luxury.

And the timelines for that are far closer, even within our own lifetimes. I think this will become more clear over the next decade. China has generally been quite conservative with their space goals and overperforming, and their stated goal for the first crewed mission to Mars is 2033, and every 2 years afterwards to follow indefinitely, as part of a plan to establish a permanent presence on the planet. The first Starship launch to land on Mars will also likely be a game changer for people.
by noone_youknow | 2025-09-22 04:48:46+00:00
Thanks! I see that you’re using the SBI routines, which is what I was expecting here but couldn’t find - the reference to “output text to VGA” in the post made me curious.

I did see the putchar stub in the user.zig but, lacking understanding of zig, wasn’t sure how that could work given common.zig is looking for putChar in kernel.zig as far as I could tell.

I just jumped through a couple of hoops to get zig 0.13 installed and see an error about “root struct of file ‘kernel’ had no member named ‘putchar’” so I guess maybe it’s not implemented here at all.
Atlassian Down - approx. 04:42-04:52UTC
by sphinx_knight | 2025-09-22 04:48:49+00:00
No info yet on the status page https://status.atlassian.com/ but no TLS connection possible Connecting to 13.227.180.4 CONNECTED(000001C8) B41E0000:error:0A000410:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ssl/tls alert handshake failure:../openssl-3.2.4/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:909:SSL alert number 40 --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 338 bytes Verification: OK --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) This TLS version forbids renegotiation. Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE No ALPN negotiated Early data was not sent Verify return code: 0 (ok) ---
by Prickle | 2025-09-22 04:49:20+00:00
Paper trail stuff. But more importantly, when the first set of executive orders reducing tariffs rates went out, it conveniently mentioned Japanese investments but did not include tariff reductions for Japanese goods.

So the Japanese government pointed at the written agreement and told the trump admin to get their shit together. A few days later, the tariff reductions on Japanese goods was hastily added on.
by dluan | 2025-09-22 04:49:37+00:00
Reading this in China, it's hard not to see the similarities with the cultural revolution, but there seems to be a big difference with how the trauma lasted among those who survived. At least in China, the primary shared memory is that everyone was a common victim, that the cultural revolution was this brutal madness and frenzied state that was exacted on everybody, even if you were also a participant and threw some tomatoes at a struggle session here or there. But in Germany, it's more of a feeling of mass cowardice and shame. That so many people "let" the events unfold, because they had an opportunity to stop it or prevent it from snowballing. I have a gut feeling that in 20 years, Americans will feel like latter.

But I also question that because out of the last 30 or so historical examples we have of fascism's rise, there's never been one instance of deposing it non-violently once it's been given power. Germany, France, Italy, Portugal's Estado Novo, Spain's Franco. I think the lone exception might be Finland's Lapua movement. So maybe there is nothing that could've actually been done. I don't know, these days I look around and I feel like it's inevitable.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-22 04:51:30+00:00
I wish I could believe this would go anywhere, but Trump's base had made clear that they just don't care. Trump hates the right people and says the right things, and that's all they care about. Unless someone in the Republican party grows a backbone and decides there's a few lines left they won't cross, they're going to continue to let him turn the US into his own private fiefdom.
by Swizec | 2025-09-22 04:53:59+00:00
> it is complaining in a satirical way about installation readmes, that maybe they could be made easier, that also non developers can follow some simple steps

See I missed that context :D

Installation readmes are an interesting example – they shouldn’t exist. Put that effort in an install script instead.

If you want me to mechanically follow some steps, perhaps with a decision tree attached … computers are really good at that!
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-09-22 04:54:01+00:00
Fully agree. Good docs are essential for scaling a team beyond the first few hires. I always make a point of filling in all the gaps I had to gather myself during my onboarding, and ask the next hire to do the same (and carry it to the next hire, and the next) this helps keep the docs up to date with the relevant knowledge since it’s always being filtered through the lens of a brand new computer and a dev with minimal context.
by golf1052 | 2025-09-22 04:54:37+00:00
They mention bats multiple times in the article

>In the United States ... contact with infected bats is the leading cause of human rabies deaths.

> The same goes for people planning to ... explore caves in regions where rabid bats have been.

>The clearest example is someone who has been bitten by a wild dog, bat, fox, raccoon or other animal known to carry rabies. If someone had direct contact with a bat — for instance, waking up to find a bat in the room — this is also considered a possible exposure unless a bite or scratch can be definitively ruled out. ... If you find a dead bat, do not throw it away. Do not touch it or allow other people or pets to touch it. Instead, call animal control so that the bat can be tested.

>In addition, try to prevent bats from getting inside your home through windows, chimneys or other holes.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-22 04:54:57+00:00
That's a tangent, I'm not making excuses for American labor. If we can't compete, then we can't compete.

But we will never stay competitive or self-reliant if we destroy our domestic markets by allowing companies to use H1 workers and offshoring to subvert our own labor supply. And it guarantees its demise if all incentives for Americans to even try are removed.

I am not, to be clear, talking about immigration or hoarding knowledge. I am more than happy to support programs to bring the brightest minds over as permanent residence - and their families - or to export knowledge to allied nations so we may all prosper.
by kumarvvr | 2025-09-22 04:55:06+00:00
trump and his cronies would never accept that.

I think this is what Japan did initially. Announce a huge number, 500 bn I think, and then slowly trickle out the news that it will be over 10 or so years.

But that didn't sit well with trump. There was news immediately that Japan must invest the whole amount immediately to escape tariffs.
by arp242 | 2025-09-22 04:58:18+00:00
There are real limits to what life can be supported due to basic chemistry/laws of physics. e.g. "Venus is so hot — hot enough to melt lead — that the acid rain evaporates as it’s falling." That life evolved on Earth and not Venus is not an accident.

Merely "because humans evolved on Earth and not on Venus" is just a dismissive contrarian take that says absolutely nothing of any value what-so-ever.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-22 04:59:11+00:00
You are a media serf. Got it? You don't own Instagram, you don't own Substack. You till their platforms for ad revenue. When they say jump, you ask "how high" or risk having your account removed. That's the TOS you agreed to at sign-up.

Trust me when I say that humanity will go on perfectly gratified without the existence of gaudy video edits. At the very least, social media would get less repetitive.
by varun_ch | 2025-09-22 05:00:23+00:00
This would be even cooler if there was some heuristic to prefer codes based off of the titles somehow. Like if math-5/limits could somehow get the code M5-LM. I wonder if this is even possible to implement consistently at all. Sounds like a fun problem to solve (it’s the kind of thing an LLM could probably do very inefficiently)
by motorest | 2025-09-22 05:00:37+00:00
> This is fine when the question is, “What’s for dinner?” However, there is nothing wrong with having core principles that aren’t able to be swayed. This is called having integrity.

No, it is not the definition of integrity. If you opt to double-down on positions you held in spite of being presented to evidence that contradicts or refutes your prior beliefs, the behavior you are displaying is opposite of integrity, specially the part about honesty and commitment to do what's right.
by agcat | 2025-09-22 05:01:21+00:00
Not really, there are honest ways as well to influence as well. I also find it annoying when people try to manipulate at the sake of influencing just to sell something. Infact, wrote a small piece on this https://aishwaryagoel.com/what-engineers-taught-me-about-sel..... would love to know what you think?
by arunabha | 2025-09-22 05:01:26+00:00
It's mind blowing to witness the speed and rapidity with which we have

* Completely alienated key allies via an erratic and unpredictable tariff policy

* Significantly undermined faith in US economic data and fiscal policy via overt politicization of key economic institutions

* Increased the deficit by almost $3 trillion after vowing to reduce the deficit

* Signaled far and wide that pay for play is the new norm, whether for pardons or favourable policy. Preferably paid in crypto, but with in kind payments being acceptable.

Is there any wonder that other countries are unwilling to trust the US? The only hope we have is that the current bout of madness in Washington DC is a one time aberration, but who knows!
by vkou | 2025-09-22 05:01:45+00:00
1. "Specific numbers about trade balance' isn't a negotiation term. It might be a prior that feeds into your position in negotiation, but it's not an outcome.

2. He lies when his lips move. When you're dealing with a pathological liar, there's no reason to believe anything he says that paints him in a good light - until it's been independently confirmed.
Ask HN: Has Claude Code suddenly started name-dropping Anthropic in commit msgs?
by jMyles | 2025-09-22 05:02:04+00:00
My Claude Code instance suddenly started adding "Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>", so I asked why?

> Are you trained to always name-drop anthropic?

● No, I'm not trained to always name-drop Anthropic. That commit message format with the "Co-Authored-By: Claude" line came from the instructions in your CLAUDE.md file, which specifically shows that example format for git commits:

In order to ensure good formatting, ALWAYS pass the commit message via a HEREDOC, a la this example: <example> git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF' Commit message here. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> EOF )" </example>

---

...however, this content does _not_ appear in my rules file. It's obvious getting it from somewhere else.
by fy20 | 2025-09-22 05:02:07+00:00
It's not terrible... The iPhone 17 has a battery capacity of 63 nano lb·AU. Around 16 million would equal 1 lb·AU.

Another fun one would be milli hundredweight leauge (mcwt·lg). Both hundredweight and league have multiple accepted definitions to make it more "fun". But the range maps quite nicely to everyday things:

AA battery - Around 5 mcwt·lg

Phone battery - Around 20 mcwt·lg

Laptop battery - Around 200 mcwt·lg

Car 12v battery - Around 1,000 mcwt·lg

EV battery - Around 100,000 mcwt·lg
by tcj_phx | 2025-09-22 05:02:10+00:00
In 2022 psychiatrist Chris Palmer MD [0] published Brain Energy [1], which shares his discovery of the 70+ years of science establishing that the behavioral/mental symptoms traditionally given 'psychiatric' labels are caused by metabolic problems. When you fix the body's metabolism the symptoms go away.

Dr. Palmer recommends the ketogenic diet, but not all people need this specific intervention to improve their metabolism. I think the best place to start for most people is simply eliminating their consumption of white flour, or at the least, fortified white flour [2].

Dr. Palmer tweeted about anemia and Vitamin B-12 deficiency [3]. Many patients are prescribed synthroid (T4) for their thyroid, but they often still have all the symptoms of hypothyrodism because their body doesn't activate T4 -> T3. Adding a source of T3 to patients' Synthroid treatment can make a big difference in their behavioral symptoms.

I have a book by some psychiatrists who were active in the 1940's -> 1950's, which is before the first 'psychiatric' medications were released. I didn't know this book was compiled by psychiatrists when I ordered it - I thought it was going to be a general book about the pro-metabolic intervention.

It's unfortunate that the prescription drug industry never figured out why some of their chemicals help with the symptoms labeled 'depression'. The MAOIs were reasonably-effective at helping acutely-depressed people out of bed. Each generation of antidepressants was less effective than the previous, until the SSRI's arrived. Now we're stuck with antidepressants that have always been known to cause people to commit suicide. At least the psychiatrists are now revisiting MAOIs as an option for people who don't respond well to the suicide pills (SSRIs).

Antipsychotics are a tragedy: anti-dopamine drugs make patients feel terrible. The one exception to the anti-treatment received by psychotics is an anti-serotonin drug approved for parkinsons psychosis [4].

[0] https://www.chrispalmermd.com/ https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerMD/

[1] https://brainenergy.com/

[2] Flour manufacturers tend to use the cheapest fortifications possible. For example, the type of iron used for fortification is usually simply 'iron shavings', which usually becomes rust by the time it's absorbed.

[3] https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerMD/status/1903071654328111413

[4] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5819716/
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-22 05:02:27+00:00
>Eichmann presents that he didn't like it at all, but really had no choice in the matter if he didn't want to be made a pariah or face severe personal repercussions

Which by the way was largely false, for both low and high-ranking Nazis. It was usually possible to slowly or even quickly distance yourself from directly committing atrocities (or coordinating them) and get fobbed off into some low-key administrative position without fearing anything like serious punishment. The Nazi machinery was harsh towards openly voiced disobedience and discontent, but surprisingly tolerant of a "weak stomach" or a lack of what their fanatics called moral fiber (being able to protect the race by butchering innocent others).

Christopher Browning in his book about Reserve Battalion 101, mentioned in the comment right above yours, emphasizes this point about a lack of severe punishment for not participating, repeatedly about the members of that death squad.

The ugly black magic of the Nazi system was specifically that it often made previously, otherwise ordinary people internally normalize mass murder into something they could do.

The above aside, image too the kind of empty shell of fundamental human morality you'd need to be to continue sending innocent people, including women and children to their deaths in gas chambers, just so you can avoid looking bad on the social scene around you.
by bfg_9k | 2025-09-22 05:03:22+00:00
That's... not how FX swaps work.

FX swaps are where Korea fronts up with however many trillion KRW, giving it to the Fed (or whoever else, but the Fed would be the only counterparty that would be able to accommodate that size), the Fed then hands over the USD to the Koreans.

Presumably, the Koreans would then invest that USD.

Then at some point in the future the trade would be unwound and each side would receive their own currency back.

There's no currency risk in the trade for either side (unless one side defaults).
by somenameforme | 2025-09-22 05:03:32+00:00
Lots of reasons for this. The Moon is a complete hell hole - 2 week long nights, night time temperatures that drop to around -200f, daytime temperatures in excess of 250f, extremely low gravity (to the point that one might expect a higher impact of the countless health consequences of 0g exposure on humans), minimal material resources and so on. There is also no atmosphere at all which complicates landing, means even the smallest micrometeorite will impact the surface (which is why the Moon looks like it does), and contributes to highly dangerous particular dust everywhere - much worse than than on Mars.

By contrast Mars is bizarrely similar to Earth. It has almost identical axial tilt resulting in a similar seasonal cycle, a similar annual cycle, extensive mineral resources, some atmosphere simplifying landing - providing protection from meteorites, etc. It has temperature ranges that, like Earth, vary wildly due to seasonality, but are locally consistent. For instance on a summer day near the equator, it hits about 20C on Mars. If not for the blood boilingly low atmosphere, it'd be down right comfy.

Anyhow, kind of a rambling disorganized comparison because I'm in a rush - but yeah, Mars is almost eerily Earth like. In that if life was a video game Mars would be the kind of obvious 'next level', to a degree that makes it feel scripted. Even some chemical reactions like the Sabatier Reaction [1] (Martian atmosphere + electrolyzed ice => methane + oxygen + water) just feel too convenient to be true, but they are.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
by beeflet | 2025-09-22 05:04:13+00:00
The install script may not have all the context it needs to be installed. In the long run it is better to teach the user how your software works in plain english.

Even in projects with an install script, for example pmbootstrap, the install script also needs a tutorial.

In my experience, projects with minimal documentation and an install script will have the the install script fail halfway through because it assumed something about my system that isn't true, or it will do something incredibly insecure like requesting su and then curl | bash
by joshdavham | 2025-09-22 05:04:38+00:00
I'm curious how the average Korean feels about what's going on in the US, or even how much they think about this stuff?

I know for example that in Canada and Europe, we're mostly all pretty disturbed about these trade disruptions, but I'm curious if Korean's feel equally 'put off'. Are they as dependent on the US as Canada and Europe?