MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hopelite | 2025-09-05 01:14:18+00:00
This is so naive. I suggest you inform yourself more about things you clearly know nothing about. Ironically Iowa would be very much affected and likely depopulated by fallout from primary nuclear targets in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and North Dakota; not to mention the primary and/or secondary command and control targets in Iowa. Similarly Idaho not only has at the very leas secondary targets in Air Force bases and the nuclear weapons lab, but it would likely also get fallout radiation from the primary targets as winds shift. These things are based on current research and the military and government's own analysis and predictions.

There is also a book you may want to read called "Nuclear War: a Scenario" by Annie Jakobsen [1] so you can be more informed before you blather. It's a summary of what the government expects from a nuclear war, which would very much cause a nuclear winter and the death of at least 5 billion people. And she does not even take into account things you are also ignorant of, that South America/Caribbean, Africa, and Australia are very much also nuclear targets due to military installations in all those places, not to mention the famine. You should really try reading the books I mentioned about what happened during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, since you are also ignorant of what happens in America under such circumstances. There are many other events like the LA riots that also shine a light on on the reality of breakdown in the USA and any other place that is not culturally homogeneous, when the rules no longer apply and there is no one left to keep the savages at bay.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario
by soulofmischief | 2025-09-05 01:15:03+00:00
I typically tend toward indie/small games as well, but there arw definitely some masterpieces put out by large studios. Have you played Red Dead Redemption or Cyberpunk? The amount of fidelity and content and refinement are just unmatched. I can't recommend them enough.

Also, if you like first-person puzzlers I recently picked up Supraworld and instantly fell in love, it's a gamer's game for sure and is one of the best platformers I've played in quite a while.
by Taek | 2025-09-05 01:15:17+00:00
I would say it's a different problem.

The winner is pretty much always the candidate that gets the most eyeballs. A voting based political structure is fundamentally deeply biased towards visibility, and candidates that can get bigger reach with their message will get more votes independent of how low quality that message is.

That has caused all popular vote based politics around the entire planet to converge on simple, viral messaging, and inflammatory messaging tends to be more viral.

The other way to phrase it would be to say that popular vote systems hold politicians accountable to the number of eyeballs their antics reach, and we need to switch to a system that holds politicians accountable to the success of their policies.
by raggi | 2025-09-05 01:17:04+00:00
Please forgive my pushback but:

No third party: Almost certainly as a user there are still third parties involved, this isn't (AFAICS and based on other discussions) a user facing chain (edit: correction, they do say the chain is public, but here I really mean user facing value: you aren't minting stablecoins, you have to get them from somewhere). At "envisioned" transaction rates you would in practice not be syncing the chain and interacting with it yourself in any meaningful way.

Settlement: chain settlement is different from financial settlement. Between clearing ends there will still need to be sufficient demonstration of KYC, exchange of some form of actual holdings and so on. Typically the attraction of /to stablecoins is that they're used to perform transactions ahead of movement of actualizable value in target currencies. A possible alternative model is that all invested parties sink actual value into a global sink fund backing the stablecoin that is sufficiently protected to ensure that it does not devalue. In practice organizations almost certainly aren't going to part with wealth on those volumes and will operate secondary private exchange markets and settlement in bulk to escape concerns of short term loss, leverage, inflation and many other dynamics.
by sonicrocketman | 2025-09-05 01:17:09+00:00
Thanks for reading the source post!

This is a valid concern, I think. However I'd point out that extraneous detail and world building are not the same. If information serves the purpose of explaining the world then by definition it isn't extraneous. Though adding information certainly reaches a point of diminishing returns at some point.

I think the point of Chekhov's gun is more that unless you can justify the inclusion of the info, then it is extraneous and extraneous info should be removed.
by anonymous_user9 | 2025-09-05 01:18:52+00:00
I think you're exaggerating his policies. He's not proposing "rent control", he's saying he won't raise the rent on existing rent-stabilized apartments. To conclude that limits supply assumes that all the extra money would be invested into new construction.

Likewise, he's only proposing a pilot program with five grocery stores, which isn't a huge capital expenditure for a large city.
by missedthecue | 2025-09-05 01:19:16+00:00
Interestingly, high housing costs should incentivize intersexual cooperation but they don't seem to be doing so. From observing revealed preferences, it seems a lot of young people would rather go back and live with mom and dad than get married at 22. This isn't to mention the tax breaks most people benefit from when they get married, which at US median incomes can add up thousands of dollars back in your pocket every year.

But it doesn't seem to be enough. The median age of first time marriage keeps creeping up and up. It's over 30 now in the US and higher in the EU.
by worik | 2025-09-05 01:19:22+00:00
> In FIAT money lending is the act of money creation

That depend on how you view money. Lending does increase the volume of money in circulation, in that sense it creates money. But that view is too simple to be useful.

The regulators that regulate, and in particular control reserve ratios (complex calculations that banks have to make about the relationships between their various assets) and base interest rates are the real creators of money.

The side stepping of those regulators is interesting. The conventional view is that it will lead to the same sort of financial instability as existed before the gold standard was abolished and we (pretty much the entire western world) moved to modern banking and fiat currency.

A hundred years of quite stable money was quite an achievement.
by lmm | 2025-09-05 01:19:26+00:00
> Sounds like more than half the problem is the lack of standardization in desktop operating systems. There’s no reason why all Mac apps can’t take advantage of the system standard tabbing like AppKit Mac apps do, but most don’t, so in most apps you don’t get apps unless the dev implements them.

Yep. "Every app ships most of Chrome" is a profoundly stupid way to get a sensible cross-platform application runtime to develop on, but it's the only one that works, and at that point you might as well make the app run in actual Chrome instead.

> general flakiness stemming from nobody being able to agree on how to develop web app UIs (even just within the React sphere, let alone beyond it). The number of manhours set on fire and level of potential for refinement left on the table by the innumerable redundant bespoke widget reimplementations is unreal.

Disagree. That's creative destruction at work, it's messy but it's the only way to get better. Like it or not (and I don't like it), the best UIs around these days are built on React or similar webtech.
by genewitch | 2025-09-05 01:19:34+00:00
you can get RF burns from VHF/UHF/microwave frequencies with milliwatts if you somehow short the transmission line across yourself, even though the actual voltage and amperage going across your skin is practically infinitesimal. the amount of contact - if any - needed decreases with the RF power. wifi is "legal" up to 1W EIRP, which means a unity gain antenna capable device can output 1000mW at the terminal.

the FCC "considers 50 watts to be the lowest power above which radiation must be considered [...]" for radio transmitters. in 1996.

further:

> Conversely, lower frequencies penetrate deeper; at 5.8 GHz (3.2 mm) the depth most of the energy is dissipated in the first millimeter of the skin; the 2.45 GHz frequency microwaves commonly used in microwave ovens can deliver energy deeper into the tissue; the generally accepted value is 17 mm for muscle tissue.

> The damage can be spread over a large area, when the source is a relatively distant energy radiator, or a very small (though possibly deep) area, when the body comes to a direct contact with the source (e.g. a wire or a connector pin).

note the microwave 2.45GHz part says frequency, not wattage, power, whatever. a home router's antenna's radome (or rubber duck or whatever) touching your arm will penetrate it quite far.

anyhow i've gotten RF burns before, just to see if it was BS or not, at real low wattage (around 1W at the terminal) and it leaves a discolored mark on your skin in a straight line between the contact points and feels like you got a small burn there. The frequency i "burned" myself with was ~145MHz.

This is all to say "it doesn't matter if it's ionizing, it still heats things up."

ETA:

> Frequencies considered especially dangerous occur where the human body can become resonant, at 35 MHz, 70 MHz, 80-100 MHz, 400 MHz, and 1 GHz
by anyfoo | 2025-09-05 01:19:35+00:00
Honestly, it's a bit much for a single HN comment. But I've look around, and I found this, which upon first glance gives a good (and not too long) overview: http://www.varietysoftworks.com/jbaldwin/Education/single-le...

Crucially, it also describes the "single level store" that everything lives in. In short, the boundary between "main memory" or "hard disk" or other things is abstracted away, and you just have pointers to "things" instead. While in UNIX accessing some piece of main memory is fundamentally different from, say, opening a file.

Even though UNIX has a little bit of the opposite concept of trying -- but in my mind failing -- to represent as much as it can as a "file".
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-05 01:19:46+00:00
And people complain the TSA is "security theater"...

Yeah, I'm sure whatever restrictions they put in place will make it so hard for Chinese entities to access their APIs.

This is simply an attempt by Anthropic to pretend to play nice with the current administration (and to be clear, I don't blame them - let's just not pretend that this actually prevents China getting access to Anthropic).
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-05 01:19:58+00:00
I've noticed that a lot of the "die-hard MAGA" discourse around tariffs has been "we need to do this within the US and if we can't, we simply don't need to do it at all".

I'm not suggesting that you're one of those types, but it reminded me of that ludicrous line of reasoning.

Understanding that the mismatch exists, why it exists and what can be done to steer things in the desired direction is something I can get behind though!
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-05 01:19:59+00:00
I am point motivated but I never got motivated enough to play the S.O. game that I would run the gauntlet it took to become a full participant.

The folks who ran the Semantic Technology Conferences ran a "Semantic Overflow" instance of the S.O. software and I discovered on that instance I could get a very high score by asking questions, not answering them. I could have outpaced the #1 contributor but I thought he really deserved his spot so I didn't take it but I took the #2 spot because he kept closing my tickets for an open source project he maintained. I did look at that stats and found that nobody had done anything similar on the real S.O.

One trouble with all systems of recognition is that a lot of people have pointy qualifications. My opinions on many subjects aren't that good but on some I really am an expert and it's particularly frustrated when you know you really know your shit and you get shouted down.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-05 01:20:56+00:00
> Just the way how the packages are installed is guaranteed to be consistent across platforms

You get stronger safeguards than usual, but I'd stay away from "guarantee". You can easily write a derivation which does something crazy for x86-darwin and something sane for everything else.

That said, I love it too. It's so much closer to the kind of consistency non-computery people expect of computers than anything else.
by nixosbestos | 2025-09-05 01:21:05+00:00
> who's crying themselves sick over RTO to engage with in any reasonable semblance

Wow, please let me go ahead and double down on thinking your stance is some middle managers hand-wavey (almost surely unjustified) smug attitude towards IC devs.

> think WFH can work for some people, but when it's significant amounts in large headcount companies, it starts to fall apart.

And I think you're a blowhard with your head up your quester and I'm going to justify it the same way you justified your conclusion: (space left intentionally blank).

No seriously, have you even ever worked at a big and or small companies? (I've worked at, well, the biggest, and the damn near the smallest possible, and your conclusion is 1000% just you handwaving and asserting an assumption)
by nomilk | 2025-09-05 01:21:58+00:00
Many mainstream headlines are predicated on false assumptions. I read fewer books now days, but I read more overall, it's just off screens rather than paper.

I recently went on an analogue book binge, and discovered something I'd not previously noticed. Possibly for commercial reasons, books tend to frequently be much longer than they need to be, (coincidentally) they're often a minimum of 200-250 pages. Books that could easily have their content conveyed in 25 or 50 pages will be padded to 200. And not just literary trash (of which there's a lot) but books that are highly recommended reading.

Another big disadvantage of books is you receive exactly 1 perspective. Whereas if you actively research a domain with web access, you can cross reference and absorb a variety of contrasting (/conflicting) sources, and by smashing the ideas together enough, you can figure out which arguments are strongest.

I'd also argue the study mentioned in the article is unfair. Not understanding English from the early 1800's doesn't make you an idiot; a lot of the context and literally the words and language itself are very different to modern English. I can sometimes more easily understand written Greek, Spanish or French (I don't speak any of those languages) than old English.
by exikyut | 2025-09-05 01:22:20+00:00
FWIW, X11 also includes a bunch of quaint background patterns as well, in /usr/include/X11/bitmaps.

You can try each of them by just doing `xsetroot -bitmap <filename>`. I have mine set to wide_weave, which is incidentally identical to Pattern 15 in https://paulsmith.github.io/classic-mac-patterns/
by arcticbull | 2025-09-05 01:23:42+00:00
Other way around. Stablecoins are essentially Venmo for crime. They get zero benefit from a blockchain. They are centralized, trusted and permissioned. Circle can freeze the USDC in your self-custody wallet at any time and you’re on your own bud. This whole thing is antithetical to crypto’s core ethos.

You could replicate USDC with a website where you log in with a password and move money between numbered accounts and they don’t run any AML/KYC checks on you. If you did that it would be super illegal. In fact someone did exactly this, it was called Liberty Reserve and everyone went to prison.

But because it’s got the magic of the blockchain laws don’t apply.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-05 01:24:10+00:00
Unsure, but I'd be surprised if it was over half of the global industry.

>And here’s another stat, over 50% of the cuts globally have been in California. California AAA is like the epicenter of the difficulty.

Maybe half the country, but the world? That includes the Asian industry which has had a boom over the decade.
by femto | 2025-09-05 01:24:58+00:00
Can we agree that a fun thing about the Fourier Transform is the many different ways such a simple idea (a liner combination of basis functions) can be viewed and the many subtle implications it has?

For example, one viewpoint is that "Gibbs ringing" is always present if the bandwidth is limited, just that in the "non-aliased" case the sampling points have been chosen to coincide with the zero-crossings of the Gibbs ringing.

I find that my brain explodes each time I pick up the Fourier Transform, and it takes a few days of exposure to simultaneously get all the subtle details back into my head.
by notjoemama | 2025-09-05 01:25:17+00:00
I liked this YouTube comment: "Never before have I seen a CEO get away with straight up lying to investors so often." So...like, you're kinda young then, right? Basically you're unaware of private equity, the 2008 housing crisis and occupy Wall Street. I agree what he's doing is wrong, really wrong. I'm just sick of the obvious partisan schadenfreude hyperbole. Was an article about Chorus on hacker news? I'll search, maybe I missed it by one day. Such is social media.
by rostislaved | 2025-09-05 01:25:56+00:00
I would say there are two options:

1. (Easy, fast but someday it will be blocked, because it is relatively easy to block) Just buy vpn. Mullvad and "Private Internet Access" are ones of the best.

2. (Requires experience, not fast, but the most reliable and flexible). Get a VPS (server) somewhere and install your own VPN. VLESS is the best at this moment
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-05 01:28:52+00:00
They kind of abandoned socialism in the 80s and 90s precisely because it's awful. Thatcher pointed out that no other political experiment has been carried on for so long as socialism despite it's spectacular failure. She thoroughly destroyed the socialist system in Britain and probably saved the country. I'm not sure what happened in the rest of europe.

Isn't it interesting that the most capitalist country in the world is also the most successful, while the similarly sized and more socialist leaning eu is lagging behind?

Also there's a difference between economic socialism, and the capitalist liberal democracies that run on some social principles like the eu and uk.
by BrendanLong | 2025-09-05 01:29:17+00:00
Here's results of the Nginx benchmark pinned to 1-24 cores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_OK_ckLT1zTA_fG4vkq...

At 51% reported CPU utilization, it's doing about 80% of the maximum requests per second, and it can't get above 80% utilization.

I also added a section: https://www.brendanlong.com/cpu-utilization-is-a-lie.html#bo...
by bell-cot | 2025-09-05 01:30:25+00:00
Admitting that a copy of Dickens' "Bleak House" rests its worthy spine but a few feet from my own humble desk. And that I find that weighty tome's opening paragraphs to be a classic Dickensian wall of words - which only some might appreciate to be a complex and subtle mosaic of myriad parts of Her Majesty's English*, brilliantly arrayed upon the page as brightly colored marbles might be affixed to the full expanse of a beloved garden wall. If, I will confess, rather longer and taller than the entirely practical need of such a wall, in and of itself, might be.

Such now said, and more to the point at hand - instead of the causality suggested by the article's title, I'd look for a common cause. When most of the population feels that their present circumstances have fallen far from their hopes of yesteryear, and their future prospects growing ever bleaker, then they neither spend time appreciating long and clever written works, nor gravitate toward wise and foresighted political positions.

Humans really ain't at their best when they're running angry, anxious, and scared.

*Mr. Dickens wrote almost entirely during the reign of Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India. And it definitely shows.
by lordnacho | 2025-09-05 01:30:35+00:00
It's marketization, the decline is a symptom.

People like the dons mentioned in the article used to resist dumbing down the curriculum. "Read the complicated text, or you don't get a degree. I don't care if you think it's harsh, and I don't care if none of you can do it."

Now, you want to be a popular don, don't you? Wouldn't want a negative review. What do the customers think? Oh, they're used to a diet of intellectual junk food. Not much point in serving them literary vegetables, then.

Politics is the same. There has been a complete breakdown of the feedback loop of proposing new legislation and then looking at the results. That sort of thing takes attention. But it's hard to do, you know? Just give me soundbites, so I can point my finger at my least favorite politician. This has rotted both the voters and the journalists.

If we're going to let everything be decided by money, the money needs to reward good behaviors.
by dardeaup | 2025-09-05 01:30:49+00:00
If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly all Unix systems (and variants such as Linux) could be instantly changed to suit your wishes, what would you wish for?

For me, it would be:

- removal of 'root' user and replaced with various predefined sysadmin groups and standardized audit logs for each group - get a batch processing system (similar in spirit to z/OS but without JCL). It should allow you to see a list of the jobs you've submitted, cancel individual jobs, re-order existing jobs that haven't started, have a standard place to see stdout/stderr logs. - get something like AIX's smit/smitty for sysadmin tasks - have either ZFS built-in or something with equivalent functionality - sensible and easy-to-use containerized/jailing capabilities - built-in support for append-only file permissions - ability to quickly/easily adjust priorities for all processes belonging to a user - ability to quickly/easily cap a user's processes cpu/ram resources (without having to use a container/jail)
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-05 01:30:59+00:00
Is there some kind of automated NSFW/nudity detector that runs against Wikipedia/Wikimedia uploads? One would think there would be at their scale, I just don’t actually know. I saw your user page the other day while looking at a proposal to have a .onion URL for Wikipedia, and I thought that I’d seen you around here, and figure you’re as good a person as any to ask.
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-05 01:31:12+00:00
> What's currently holding up Nashville getting such a system? I'm pretty sure it's the data destruction policy, because the state-level government is being run by people who think such Orwellian surveillance is just dandy.

Nashville has tons of Flock cameras now. I was just there over the weekend and noticed at least four on the interstates.
by jll29 | 2025-09-05 01:31:26+00:00
Maybe it is exactly because books are so cheap nowadays that nobody aspires to own them.

Maybe it is exactly because education is free [at least in part of Europe] that people do not value it anymore [there].

On reflection: no, it's the phones, folks. On a recent train ride, a young woman sitting diagonnally in front from me was frantically typing on her cellphone. It appeared from a distance she was cutting out some phrase, putting it into a frame and posting it to a social network. While this took just seconds, the task was itself interrupted by her checking chat messages from multiple contacts, each of which she replied in less than two seconds. This is something that I've had to watch in public spaces a lot: the compulsion to react on incomming messages - but then at the receiving end the dopamin kicks in until a reply to the response is sent and so on, ad infinitum. Timing-wise, there is little time to think deeply about what to write, the content becomes victim to short utterance ping-pong.