MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skmurphy | 2025-09-13 03:16:58+00:00
Conclusion:

Gall's Law: Successful complex systems evolve from successful simple systems.

"As in the years after the Second World War, the temptation will be to use this vast increase in computational power and intelligence to ‘solve’ systems design for once and for all. But the same laws that limited Forrester continue to bind: ‘NEW SYSTEMS CREATE NEW PROBLEMS’ and ‘THE SYSTEM ALWAYS KICKS BACK’. As systems become more complex, they become more chaotic, not less. The best solution remains humility, and a simple system that works."
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-13 03:17:00+00:00
>I've got a small file that's almost entirely devoted to reversing stupid things he unilaterally shoved into core

That's actually very cool. In most runtimes the "core" built-ins and standard libraries are immutable. You'd have to recompile them with your changes to get the same effect. Not so with PHP. A footgun, but in this case a useful one.
by roenxi | 2025-09-13 03:17:38+00:00
Yes, trivially. The tricky part is building a system that the median citizen (and the officers in the military) can verify has been optimised that way vs competing, poorly optimised systems that sound good. Factor in the median citizen has maybe a couple of hours to do research, isn't very principled and doesn't understand game theory well. Also consider that high status people are perfectly happy to set up an "expert" in any given field to spread propaganda favourable to them.

The problem isn't setting up a great system, the problem is what happens when charismatic leaders and people like Stalin turn up.
by 7jjjjjjj | 2025-09-13 03:19:39+00:00
This is a really bad take.

First, almost all big websites support RSS. Just because there's no giant yellow RSS icon doesn't mean it's not supported, autodiscovery is the main way people subscribe to feeds these days. YouTube supports RSS. Nearly every news site supports it. Every blog. Every podcast. Substack supports it despite launching long after RSS supposedly died.

Even when a website has no RSS support, there's often a way to subscribe anyway using a scraper tool.

There's no reason for it to be supported in browsers when third party clients work great. By this standard email would be dead since browsers don't support it anymore. Most people would rather keep their subscriptions in an online service that can synchronize between devices and has native mobile apps.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-13 03:19:48+00:00
Oh, this was very well timed, thank you. Not because I'm installing Windows 98 (over my dead body) but because I'm trying to get a little operating system I wrote in the early 90's to work in Qemu or VirtualBox. And the article contained a nice hint about the emulation hardware.

It is interesting how what worked flawlessly on the hardware of the time is almost impossible to get to work on these emulators, the fidelity is quite low. But bit by bit I'm making progress in figuring out where the differences are and how to work around them. I've got a basic self-hosted development system working now with all of the data in a ram disk. The floppy, keyboard and VGA screen all work, now I need to figure out why the harddrive controller keeps disappearing.

Oh well, the night is young ;)

Thank you for posting this! It really moved the needle in what already was a super long debug session.
by space_fountain | 2025-09-13 03:19:52+00:00
I quoted a source, can you? I did a tiny bit of research. What I can find of early censuses seems to imply that throughout the period of the British mandate their was some immigration of both Jewish and Muslim people, but the fraction of Jewish people in the region grew rapidly mostly though immigration. It seems like it would be convenient if this was true, but it doesn’t seem to be.

As to your second point, idk, it seems to me like probably the Arab side was more at fault several decades ago, but it is the documented goal of the current rulers of Israel to make sure that moderate forces in Palestine don’t come to power. They’ve done everything they can to delegitimize the Palestinian authority. Again if you were a Palestinian living in the West Bank what would you think. What has the peaceful strategy gotten you?
by TheDong | 2025-09-13 03:22:34+00:00
> Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store.

As a shining bright light of hope, I will list some apps I have installed which do not appear to me to fall into those buckets.

1. Anki - Flash cards app, I can memorize stuff. It's really good.

2. KDE Connect - Zero exploitation, open source, even sorta works

3. Peakfinder - So far this app has seemed okay. "I programmed PeakFinder during the day and danced Tango during the night" - Peakfinder's creator

Also, about 70% of the apps on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ are fine. This is what I miss most about android.

I do think that by percentage more of the iOS apps are exploitative crap or full of ads, probably because you need to pay $100/year for the app to keep existing at all.

One of tricks to get fewer exploitative apps is to avoid iPhone and never install anything that needs google play services.

Also, delete any app that has an ad instantly unless it's really important.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-13 03:23:46+00:00
The common folklore is just FUD. The main issue is deliverability to the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. You need a clean fixed IP in non-residential block and a sufficiently aged domain or your mail will be flagged as spam or rejected. Alternatively, you can use a relay service for outbound email. Besides the deliverability issue, hosting email is fairly trivial from a technical standpoint; on Linux, the standard utilities are Postfix, Dovecot and OpenDKIM. The server is for my own use, so I don't even bother with spam and AV filters.

Even if you can't send email at all (unlikely if you use an outbound relay), there are very significant privacy benefits to having your own server. I send very few emails relative to the number I receive. You couldn't pay me enough to go back to one of big commercial providers.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-09-13 03:23:51+00:00
Is it wrong to say that for 95% of the internet that isn’t FAANG, bazel is a solution in search of a problem? I’ve never once seen or used a build system so unnecessarily complex. If you’re a 100k software company it makes a lot of sense to build in complexity but for the majority of the internet, why is something like Bazel any better than existing, simpler build tools?
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-13 03:24:16+00:00
> Anyway, as stupid as this is, Americans are generally literate, with access to unadulterated messages from the other side of the world. Imagine how stupid things were when 95% were illiterate and all information passed through a giant game of telephone before it arrived to you.

I agree, but the other side of this is that we're open to manipulation coming from anyone around the world, and sometimes that game of telephone can act as an effective bullshit filter.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-13 03:25:12+00:00
Something I’m coming to realize about the free press is it’s really designed to make the world make sense. To tell a narrative the fits a certain world view.

And I remember when I studied the columbine shootings; what I learned is how broken those shooters brains were. That I think on some level, I imagined a rational anger directed at their classmates, and not the bizzare rantings of a confused adolescent (which of course they were)

So we of course don’t want to introduce the concept of groypers, or 4chan meme culture or the bizarre rantings of a broken mind that probably led to this tragedy, and instead use this opportunity as to continue to perpetuate this neat story that justifies everyone’s priors.
by theendisney | 2025-09-13 03:25:23+00:00
Wondering why a rather simple form didnt work i view the console, click the error and find something querying an api with a var called neuralnetwork. I was quite satisfied with myself for finding the problem in just a few seconds. Extra points for naming the variable after the technology rather than what it contains. Imagine naming your form data not sonething boring like streetname but mysql or just database or perhaps API!?
by grep_name | 2025-09-13 03:26:33+00:00
Idk, to me you sound like you've just never engaged seriously with lifting. It is itself an activity. I have no interest in team sports, combat sports, climbing, gymnastics, etc. I'm much more interested in trying to push my body in a controlled way, in full concert with max effort, with as close to perfect form as I can muster, and use every piece of my will I can to do that. It's an incredibly difficult and multi-faceted thing to master and unbelievably engaging.

Before I started trying to get stronger I thought it was going to be very easy. I'd basically been brainwashed by media to disrespect the entire activity of lifting. When I actually started, I was shocked how hard it was to progress beyond the beginning phases. You learn a ton about your body while doing this, as well as the psychology of effort, which is just as challenging. You also learn a lot about your proprioception, as with any sport. At this point, the only thing that demands a similar amount of attention is riding a motorcycle but really it pales in comparison. If I'm trying to hit the 3rd set of five, the one that really proves if I'm going to progress that day, I can't imagine having a thought. I can't even hear what's happening around me.

Your understanding that you don't concentrate on the activity is not true if you're actually trying. You could fill a bookshelf with 400 page books about just the squat. At any given point you are evaluating a ton of variables and frequently still having to go back to the drawing board to devise new ways to progress which are never the same as the last way. Your body fights you the entire time, preferring to put out as little energy as it can, the exact opposite of what you're trying to do. You learn that actually, you weren't giving it your all before, because you didn't know how, or your subconscious was gaslighting you. But that's ok, because there was literally no way to shortcut to where you are now mentally. It's a mindfuck, and it really changes you and your relationship with yourself.

It does help that it has benefits you don't get from most other activities, and that if done right it is restorative rather than destructive to the body like higher impact hobbies. It also helps that it has an outsized physical effect for a given time commitment compared to other activities. It's also true that a lot of people at the gym are just going through the motions for an end goal. But if your goal is actually to improve, it's a wild ride.
by davidw | 2025-09-13 03:27:04+00:00
It has been really amazing to see this finally come to fruition. This has been years in the making, and is real progress in starting to fix California's massive housing shortage. I know a number of the people involved in this work and they have put so much effort into it. They are going to be in a partying mood at the YIMBYTown conference taking place shortly: https://yimby.town/ !
by andrewdug | 2025-09-13 03:28:51+00:00
Thank you for the feedback. I will check out Kagi. Ideally, I don't want my kids to have access to the links. I'd prefer if it's just the answer. Then it's easy for them to do voice only over the Apple watch. They don't really have to look through results. They are just told whether or not ladybugs have proboscises.
by mgerdts | 2025-09-13 03:29:37+00:00
I remember seeing another strategy where a remote block device was (lazily?) mirrored to a local SSD. The mirror was configured such that reads from the local device were preferred and writes would go to both devices. I think this was done by someone on GCP.

Does this ring any bells? I’ve searched for this a time or two and can’t find it again.
by muzani | 2025-09-13 03:30:21+00:00
Yes, that is textbook sealioning. This comment is sealioning too. It's when you pick the worst possible intepretation of the comment and repeat it in the most polite way possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

It is time-consuming and pointless to answer questions that are made in bad faith. I'm happy to answer if it's an actual question with intent to understand, not undermine. The answer is there in the comment. But the majority of your post history is just bad faith political campaigning.
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by solid_fuel | 2025-09-13 03:32:12+00:00
I chuckled, at least.

Seeing the rise in the amount of bots on YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, basically all the major and a lot of minor social networks over the last ~decade has really been something, too. Tons and tons of people with account names that all follow similar regex's saying the same things around the same time.

I suppose it feels closer to Brave New World than 1984 but it's eerie, and those are just the accounts that stand out. I imagine the "premium propaganda" option from the companies and agencies providing the bot services are even harder to discern.
by muzani | 2025-09-13 03:33:39+00:00
Yes. I've got a lot of high quality connections that didn't lead to jobs too. One was actually a company I applied for elsewhere, which they ignored because it was a generic job site - the site rejected me, but they continued the process because we were interviewing thanks to HN.

It has the best effort-to-results ratio of anything so far. They'll put you into the process, but I think most have a bias towards you already, so less pointless hoops, and the requirements seem much more reasonable.
by noodletheworld | 2025-09-13 03:33:43+00:00
Oh come on.

I consider myself reasonably pro nuclear, but this is just like some developer going:

“Oh yeah, that doesn't seem that hard, I could probably implement that in a weekend”

Fact: hard complicated things are expensive.

There is no “just it’s just some concrete…”.

That is, translated “I do not know what Im talking about”.

Hard things, which require constant, high level, technical maintenance…

Are very expensive.

Theyre expensive to build. Theyre expensive to operate. Theyre expensive to decommission.

Theres no magic wand to fix this.

You can drive down the unit cost sometimes by doing things at scale, but Im not sure that like 100 units, or even say 1000 units can do that meaningfully.

…and how how are we planning on having the 100000s of reactors that you would need for that?

Micro reactors? Im not convinced.

Certainly, right now, the costs are not artificial; if you think they are, I would argue you havent done your due diligence in research.

Heres the point:

Making complicated things cheaper doesnt just magically happen by removing regulations. Thats naive.

You need a concrete plan to either a) massively simplify the technology or b) massively scale the production.

Which one? (a) and (b) both seem totally out of reach to me, without massive state sponsored funding.

…which, apparently no one likes either.

Its this frustrating dilemma where idiots (eg. former Australian government) claim they can somehow magically deliver things (multiple reactors) super cheaply.

…but there is no reality to this promise; its just morons trying to buy regional votes and preserve the status quo with coal.

Real nuclear progress needs realistic plans, not hopes and dreams.

Nuclear power is better; but it is more expensive than many other options, and probably, will continue to be if all we do is hope it somehow becomes easy and cheap by doing basically nothing.
by eclipticplane | 2025-09-13 03:33:44+00:00
> but if we end up with an abundance of just 1/2 bedroom rental apartments

That's still a massive win. To replace 10 single family homes supporting 2-3 people each with a 9 story building supporting many multiples of that is a win for society.

If the people chasing 3 and 4 bedroom apartments accepted smaller rooms, they could still be economical vs studio/1/2 BR apartments and condos.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-13 03:34:24+00:00
> If someone has made bitcoin transactions to say, donate to EFF, Planned Parenthood or ACLU, I would take a bet of 5 Bitcoin that he isn't going to be imprisoned for that fact in this country. Yes, even though Trump is President.

This is archaic thinking, today all it takes is the president tweeting about your donations for your family to have to go into hiding forever.
by nofriend | 2025-09-13 03:34:27+00:00
Matt cites three claims that are dismissed (antitrust, monopolization, and extortion), which based on my skim are really two claims. The first, as you say, is dismissed with leave to amend. The second is dismissed without leave to amend. The first is given the opportunity to be amended, but the dismissal demonstrates serious flaws in the legal argument that they will have difficulty recovering from. I think it's fair for him to celebrate this as a win.
by ozgrakkurt | 2025-09-13 03:34:53+00:00
This is a very narrow way to see it. Technological advancements can and did massively affect politics and other parts of life.

Today you get away with it, they make it harder but it would still be better than the old one.

People manage to corrupt and hack things inevitably as long as it is static, changing systems can obviously be good just for this reason only. It also brings questions about why the current system is the way it is.
by conductr | 2025-09-13 03:35:29+00:00
Admittedly, it's because my day job isn't very stressful/taxing at all. I'm in an executive leadership position, so I mostly just have a few meetings a day and make sure my teams are all moving things along/help block and tackle within the organization. There's certain times of they year I know I will be fully consumed by the day job and I just plan the house stuff around it. For example, I've poured a slab foundation before a busy season at work and just didn't come back to the slab for about 6 weeks to start the framing, I'm in no huge hurry.
by gpm | 2025-09-13 03:35:42+00:00
Just the claims where dismissal was outright denied are also potentially (up to judge and jury at later stages) enough for some pretty devastating damages... I second that this was a loss for Matt. It wasn't even "a draw" where the plaintiffs have to try again with an amended complaint (not that they will necessarily not bother to amend).

> I have no connection to either side here, nor am I a lawyer, but I do know how to read a legal opinion.

Describes me as well.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-13 03:35:48+00:00
Is 21 bits really a sacrifice. It is 2 million codepoints, we currently use about a tenth of that.

Even with all Chinese characters, de-unified, all the notable historical and constructed scripts, technical symbols, and all the submitted emoji, including rejections, you are still way short of a million.

We are probably never need more than 21 bits unless we start stretching the definition of what text is.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-13 03:35:53+00:00
My comment was in response to your claim that EB system was created for people with rare skills, which it clearly isn’t. You were in a job that only 1000 people were able to do, you being one of them. And yet you suggested that EB1 would more laborious and not fit for you.

> You may be eligible for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are an alien of extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a certain multinational executive or manager.

Yet you went for EB2, which is designed for a different set of immigrants where the proof of exceptional ability is a lot more lax

> You may be eligible for an employment-based, second preference visa if you are a member of the professions holding an advanced degree or its equivalent, or a person who has exceptional ability.

And you’re concerned about gaming the system? And you’re also claiming that EB system was designed to work for exactly the scenario that you fit?
by dataflow | 2025-09-13 03:36:12+00:00
I'm not sure what you're saying "no" to. Nothing you wrote contradicts what I wrote. Anything that was recorded was fair game. The whole point here is that you're arguing reality has changed and thus so should the legal rights people are granted, whereas this person's father is simply saying that our current legal rights imply a different conclusion. These two sides are not contradictory; they're just talking past each other.
by ideasman42 | 2025-09-13 03:38:17+00:00
Had a similar experience, tried to switch to Meow twice, it's really nice in most ways. But I found lack of vim-style repeat and accidental "dropping" the selection to be so unwieldy that I couldn't stick to using it.

Ended up writing an alternative to Meow which addresses the issues I had.

It's currently in review for Melpa, see:

- https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-meep

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqX8Z64k0c
by sparkie | 2025-09-13 03:38:56+00:00
Decoding into integers may be faster, but it's kind of missing the point why I suggested VLQs as opposed to EBML's variable length integers - they're not a good fit for string handling. In particular, if we wanted to search for a character or substring we'd have to start from the beginning of the stream and traverse linearly, because there's no synchronization - the payload bytes are indistinguishable from header bytes, making a parallel search not practical.

While you might be able to have some heuristic to determine whether a character is a valid match, it may give false positives and it's unlikely to be as efficient as "test if the previous byte's MSB is zero". We can implement parallel search with VLQs because we can trivially synchronize the stream to next nearest character in either direction - it's partially-synchronizing.

Obviously not as good as UTF-8 or UTF-16 which are self-synchronizing, but it can be implemented efficiently and cut encoding size.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-13 03:38:58+00:00
As far as I can remember, you don't even get IMAP access on the Proton free tier. For me, that's a non-starter. The privacy claims are also mostly marketing, as it is basically impossible to verify what Proton actually does when approached by a three-letter agency. I wouldn't use email anyway if I had something to hide, the email protocol wasn't designed with secrecy of communications in mind. For that, Signal seems far better, or perhaps a self-hosted, encrypted Matrix room.
by marky1991 | 2025-09-13 03:39:38+00:00
"The same way that a speed limit, age of consent, or drinking age doesn't get reduced to nobody can drive, have sex, or drink."

I really don't understand your logic here. Are you not saying "Steam shouldn't be allowed to sell pornographic games to adults"? Or are you saying it's ok for steam to sell them to adults, but not children? (But that was already the case, even before all of this). If you are saying "steam shouldn't sell pornographic games", how is that like any of the things you said?
by mallowdram | 2025-09-13 03:40:10+00:00
From 27 studies with 2,334 samples and 19 natural extract treatments, RPTW showed the greatest improvement in overall cognition (SUCRA: 95.9%). No extracts significantly outperformed placebo for attention. CG (Cistanche + Ginkgo biloba) was most effective for memory (SUCRA: 89.3%), executive function (SUCRA: 96.9%), and cognitive flexibility (SUCRA: 98.0%).