MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxdo | 2025-09-15 13:44:03+00:00
A bit of context for Americans: the Europe is under a hybrid multi-vector attack from the Evil Axis (China, Russia, Iran, Hungary, etc.).

People are too occupied with ideas of their own comfort and liberty. For everyone who thinks this is such a basic black and white question...

We are on the doorstep of WWIII. China, working through Russia, Iran, Hungary, and others, has built a network of influence proxies.

They use liberty and security as tools to conduct hybrid attacks. Their goal is to undermine the unity of the West, one by one.

Look at the recent extremely well-coordinated multi-vector hybrid attack on Poland.

Some attack vectors:

1. Military vector: They sent military drones to monitor reactions—political, military, etc. It's a milary act but not strong enough to have a military response. Drones had Polish sim cards, and used Telegram protocol to mask their traffic to a simple chat.

2. Political Vector. Vote of no confidence. Once Ursula and the EU decided to respond asymmetrically, they deployed one of their assets, Hungarian Orbán. They tried to remove Ursula, who was advocating for a firm response.

3. Informational Vector. They also started distributing false flag conspiracy theories claiming it was Ukraine, not Russia, who sent the drone. It's a tactic of small bites and proxy attacks internally, spreading propaganda and false narratives.

This is just one of such attacks. Imagine yourself a government worker, trying to fight that. Where left and right your colleagues got bribed , threatent, etc. and you can't even find proofs against them. Your enemy on contrary, knows everything about everyone in their country.
by perihelions | 2025-09-15 13:44:12+00:00
When you have a conventional gravity assist, the speed (magnitude) is unchanged in the coordinate frame of the planet that's providing the assist. All that happens is the velocity vector is rotated in that frame. Thus the usefulness hinges on arriving with a large relative velocity, to start with—a large vector to rotate, allows for a large velocity change.

There's no heliocentric velocity in a slow-moving outer planet.
by rossdavidh | 2025-09-15 13:44:25+00:00
1) The Amish do not live an 1800 lifestyle. For example, if someone is sick and needs to go to the hospital, they use a phone to call an ambulance to take them there.

2) There are a lot of things wrong with the American health care system, but a lack of care for white males is not actually one of them.
by legacynl | 2025-09-15 13:44:42+00:00
On the other hand, just because you can point to some regulations that exist, but you rather wouldn't, doesn't mean that regulation in itself is bad.

99% of cases, we started out without regulation, but then something bad happens what made us create the regulation.

In china everybody might be able to cut hair, but also anybody is able to drill water wells, and cause massive sinkholes and subsidence all across china. In china you can pollute all you want, and the citizens just have to deal with warnings about toxic air outside on the weather forecast.

Also I'm sure that if you were to ask an actual barber about that licensing they would be able to tell you plenty of good reasons for why that exists. It's not entirely impossible for a barber to screw up somebody's scalp when bleaching their hair for example.
by em500 | 2025-09-15 13:45:17+00:00
Yes, and now he's the NATO Secretary General. As PM, he employed the obvious and straighforward defense against the Dutch version of FOIA of keeping the most important communications in-person behind closed doors[1].

I'd assume many high ranking Western politicians do something similar, while paying lip service to high minded ideals about openness, transparancy and democracy.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutte-doctrine
by mindslight | 2025-09-15 13:45:17+00:00
One has to perversely love how this movement has morphed into the primary concern being negative-sum strict enforcement of broken immigration laws, including against countries we're hoping will transfer us expertise and technology. I thought the constructive goal was to restore US industrial capacity and manufacturing jobs? Maybe you should try holding this con artist to doing something positive for our country, rather than being distracted by a series of destructive spectacles.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-15 13:45:55+00:00
That's unconvincing, because there's a very clear difference between a lifestyle and a social contract.

Social contracts sketch social relationships in very broad terms. You can still have plenty of lifestyle diversity and plurality within them.

In fact you need a social contract to have any kind of diversity.

Otherwise a culture reliably degenerates into autocracy, which isn't known for its tolerance.
by thesz | 2025-09-15 13:46:26+00:00
> Have you ever contributed to a very large project like LLVM?

Oh, I did. Here's one: https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-e...

> I would say clearly not from the comment.

Of course, you are wrong.

> It’s not so small that you can get everything in your head with only a reading.

PSP/TSP recommends writing typical mistakes into a list and use it to self-review and to fix code before sending it into review.

So, after reading code, one should write down what made him amazed and find out why it is so - whether it is a custom of a project or a peculiarity of code just read.

I actually have such a list for my work. Do you?

> You need to actually engage with the code via contributions to understand it. 100+ comments is not an exceptional amount for early contributions.

No, it is not. Dozens of comments on a PR is an exceptional amount. Early contributions should be small so that one can learn typical customs and mistakes for self review before attempting a big code change.

That PR we discuss here contains a maintainer's requirement to remove excessive commenting - PR's author definitely did not do a codebase style matching cleanup job on his code before submission.
by themgt | 2025-09-15 13:46:51+00:00
Ran across this interesting NYT article from 1908. After President McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, Teddy Roosevelt demanded action against anarchist publications being sent through the postal service. And yet he clarifies this does not apply to normal mail - "sealed documents" - explaining the government is "expressly forbidden to ascertain, what the purport of such messages may be":

The greater portion of his opinion is devoted to the question of whether, in the absence of any legislation by Congress, the Postmaster General has the right to exclude such publications. On this point his conclusion is: "The Postmaster General will be justified in excluding from the mails any issue of any periodical, otherwise entitled to the privilege of second-class mail matter, which shall contain any article constituting seditious libel, and counseling such crimes as murder, arson, riot, and treason." The Attorney General makes a clear distinction with reference to the authority of postal officials over sealed and unsealed mail matter. In conveying letters and newspapers to persons to whom they are directed, he says the United States "undertakes the business of a messenger." He adds: "In so far as it conveys sealed documents, its agents not only are not bound to know, but are expressly forbidden to ascertain, what the purport of such messages may be; therefore, neither the Government nor its officers can be held either legally or morally responsible for the nature of the letters to which they thus, in intentional ignorance, afford transportation."

https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/10/archives/roosevelt-demand...
by Gormo | 2025-09-15 13:47:14+00:00
> Huh? Apple absolutely does not want this to happen. That's why it doesn't happen.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here -- how does Apple merely not wanting a competing product ecosystem to emerge explain why it hasn't? Especially considering that it is happening, though slowly and haphazardly.

> Not really sure how you think that 2 of the most valuable companies on the planet do not have the resources.

I mean, it seems observably true that the foundation layer of both of their products comes directly from FOSS projects. Claiming that the FOSS world doesn't have the resources to develop an alternative product ecosystem, given that the proprietary solutions are already based on that ecosystem, seems a bit incorrect.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-15 13:47:22+00:00
> Compressed hydrogen with a fuel cell is the obvious solution.

To achieve volumetric energy density of hydrogen at room temperature that's on par with batteries (and that's charitably assuming you're using inefficient resistance heating with batteries) you need to store it at a pressure in the order of 100 bar.

You're better off with batteries realistically speaking.
by gyomu | 2025-09-15 13:48:17+00:00
I have a somewhat popular (yet still niche) app in the store, when I first launched it it was the only result. There are now a number of copycats. Report filed with Apple, nothing was done.

I’m considering spending the $1k or so to file a trademark on the name, maybe it’ll actually make them do something? The app isn’t making crazy amounts by far, but enough that $1k could be justifiable. If anyone has been through this I’d love to hear their thoughts.

For what it’s worth I know my product is clearly better - my users tell me - but it’s infuriating to see a knockoff show up before my app in the search results when I tell someone to look up the app in the store.
by simonh | 2025-09-15 13:48:34+00:00
Sure, but given a universe in which Mind level AIs exist and many other civilizations have them, not having them and the attendant advantages probably just isn't viable. Human level intelligence probably just can't operate a Culture level technology base, and certainly not competitively with civs that do use Mind level AIs. So it's not a matter of whether to have them, it's how to do that.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-15 13:48:38+00:00
>Which it frequently doesn't? Nothing more fun than grabbing a pint of ice cream and then discovering it's full of ice crystals at home, because it thawed and refroze somewhere in the shipping chain or at the supermarket.

This is mostly a consumer problem.

You (or, the HN demographics being what they are, more likely your SO) toss it in a cart and then proceed to shop recreationally for some time, toss it in the back of your potentially hot car, stop to get Starbucks and then eventually sometime later it gets into a freezer. It might've been out of the freezer for over an hour. Almost certainly 15-20min

The next longest time it spends out of the freezer is the pallet jack ride from the walk in in the back of the store to the frozen food isle, typically single digit minutes, tops.

>Of course it's more of an issue with Haagen-Dazs since it doesn't use the stabilizers like guar gum.

Package size and resultant thermal mass has a big effect on it. Higher end ice creams suffer this more than cheaper ones bought in bigger sizes.

>smaller supermarkets and shops with less staff where they're more likely to leave the ice cream sitting around for hours between delivery and loading into the freezer.

This is just not how it works. The delivery person will put refrigerated goods specifically into the fridge specifically to avoid "well you left it on the dock and didn't tell us" accusations.

I'm sure somewhere there's a foodservice supplier that doesn't do this but that's a them problem and it's the exception rather than rule, their suppliers are likely wheeling the stuff right from reefer to walk in when they deliver to the supplier.
by powerapple | 2025-09-15 13:48:51+00:00
we like to simplify things for the ease of understanding. I wish everything can be attributed to one factor, the world would be so simple and easy to understand.

That said, I do have my own understanding on what has contributed to China's rise, and I agree, the engineer aspect has a big play in it: I read the Lean Startup book, while I was reading it, I realize that a lot happened in the country share similarity to startups. Chinese government is very flexible, they do A/B testing with economic policies, pivoting all the time, the measurement, it is so interesting to see how concepts are very similar in both governing and running a startup.
by yurishimo | 2025-09-15 13:48:58+00:00
It also depends somewhat on how much energy you use. I live in the Netherlands where everytime I bring it up, I'm told "that's just not possible, you will never make enough in winter", but these same people have no idea how much energy I use. On a bad day, I use maybe 10kWh and that's running the AC with the thermostat set to 19c overnight and a bit during the day at 22c. I don't have a giant fridge, I don't have any gaming PCs slurping 200W on standby, etc. My baseline usage is around 300-400W to run the old freezer that never turns off (70W), my network equipment, a fan in the garage to prevent moisture buildup, and some lights.

My 1.8kWh system at 20% output covers a great percentage of my baseline usage during the day! I'm probably going to add a small battery so I'm not penalized for sending energy back to the grid, but I'm not gonna need much until my kids get older and want new gadgets. The cool part about modern electronics is that we're generally getting more efficient too with newer tech. If I replace the old freezer, my baseline usage drops 20%+.

I don't disagree with your point that sometimes nature is simply just working too hard against your efforts, but I also wrote all this to say that some people need to really do the math and not rely on "common knowledge". Energy efficiency has come an extremely long way in the past decade and much of what was true when residential solar first started popping off is now outdated.
by codingdave | 2025-09-15 13:49:09+00:00
Why would you try to imitate a boxed cake mix?

They don't taste better than making a cake from scratch. It does take some practice baking to do so, but that is just an adulting skill like many others. Home baking doesn't need commercial chemistry. Commercial bakeries don't need to warn the kids not to jump in the house when the cake is baking. They are totally different scenarios.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-15 13:49:54+00:00
> That knowledge is not illegal, nor would it necessarily be illegal to write it down.

In Germany, it is often illegal to disseminate such material (e.g. for building bombs) by § 130a StGB:

> https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__130a.html

DeepL translation:

"§ 130a Instructions for criminal offenses

(1) Anyone who disseminates or makes publicly available content (§ 11 (3)) that is suitable for serving as instruction for an unlawful act referred to in § 126 (1) and is intended to promote or arouse the willingness of others to commit such an act shall be punished with imprisonment of up to three years or a fine.

(2) The same penalty shall apply to anyone who

1. disseminates or makes available to the public content (§ 11 (3)) that is suitable for serving as instructions for an unlawful act referred to in § 126 (1), or

2. gives instructions in public or at a meeting for an unlawful act referred to in Section 126 (1)

in order to encourage or incite others to commit such an act.

(3) § 86 (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis."

---

For reference: § 126 StGB is:

> https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__126.html

DeepL translation:

"§ 126 Disturbance of public order by threatening to commit criminal offenses

(1) Anyone who, in a manner likely to disturb the public peace,

1. commits one of the cases of breach of the peace specified in § 125a sentence 2 nos. 1 to 4,

2. commits a criminal offense against sexual self-determination in the cases specified in § 177 paragraphs 4 to 8 or § 178,

3. murder (§ 211), manslaughter (§ 212) or genocide (§ 6 of the International Criminal Code) or a crime against humanity (§ 7 of the International Criminal Code) or a war crime (§§ 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 of the International Criminal Code),

4. grievous bodily harm (§ 224) or serious bodily harm (§ 226),

5. a criminal offense against personal freedom in the cases of Section 232 (3) sentence 2, Section 232a (3), (4) or (5), Section 232b (3) or (4), Section 233a (3) or (4), in each case insofar as these are crimes, Sections 234 to 234b, § 239a or § 239b,

6. robbery or extortion (§§ 249 to 251 or § 255),

7. a crime dangerous to the public in the cases of Sections 306 to 306c or 307 (1) to (3), Section 308 (1) to (3), Section 309 (1) to (4), Sections 313, 314 or 315 (3), § 315b (3), § 316a (1) or (3), § 316c (1) or (3) or § 318 (3) or (4), or

8. a dangerous offense in the cases of § 309 (6), § 311 (1), § 316b (1), § 317 (1) or § 318 (1)

shall be punished with imprisonment of up to three years or a fine.

(2) Anyone who, in a manner likely to disturb public peace, knowingly falsely claims that one of the unlawful acts referred to in paragraph 1 is about to be committed shall also be punished.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-15 13:50:25+00:00
> pound cake

This isn't meant to reply to the rest of the comment, but as an American I don't think I've ever seen or eaten a pound cake mix?

The recipe is the name... You either make it for $1 or you go to the grocery/bakery and grab the $2 pound cake sitting on the counter.

Most mixes people buy (at least around here) are brownies, cookies, and spongecake.
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-15 13:50:41+00:00
I agree getting rid of plastic bags is a net win for the reasons discussed.

But I can't take the brown paper bag thing seriously! They are a UX nightmare in my workflows. Carry one bag per trip in multiple trips (Instead of ~4 I can do with reusable or plastic). Or try the handled ones which tear off end up with groceries all over. Reusable bags are nice though.
by 7thaccount | 2025-09-15 13:50:43+00:00
I believe the culture does allow organic life to upgrade to a culture mind. I think I read that somewhere. Of course you wouldn't be you anymore, but you have options and that always made it a pretty malleable cage you can slip out of including just leaving.

So you still have freedom of self...just not much power to shape your civilization. Most of us don't have that anyway and at some level I think I'd be ok giving that up to a group of super intelligences so I can spend more time doing the things I enjoy.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 13:51:13+00:00
I HATE Trump, and was very closely aligned with the previous administration.

Even in the Biden admin we pushed back on Taiwanese companies like TSMC attempting something similar, as well as Hyundai after they were discovered using undocumented child labor to build one of their EV factories.

This exact raid would have happened even if Harris was in the White House right now.

> I thought the constructive goal was to restore US industrial capacity and manufacturing jobs

And deciding to almost exclusively use temporary Korean labor without the correct insurance and workman's comp contributions in order to set cement and lay pipe is adding American jobs?

European, Japanese, and Taiwanese projects of similar scope haven't done similar shenanigans.

> We understand bending of the rules to build things...

That'll hold up in court when an employee is crushed by falling steel while building a battery plant, like what happened at this Hyundai plant right before the raid (which the Guardian reports seems to have been done by OSHA inspectors annoyed at Hyundai's relative impunity) [0]

> I thought the constructive goal was to restore US industrial capacity and manufacturing jobs

"The children yearn for the mines"

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/immigration-...
by epolanski | 2025-09-15 13:51:37+00:00
> In my experience, Page Objects sound neat in theory but end up as a leaky abstraction: they mix UI details with test logic, duplicate flows,

You might be asking too much of them to the point they become a burden.

1. Page Object Model should not contain any test-related stuff. It should abstract common page interactions:

registerUser({ email: string, password: string, displayName: string }) findProduct(name: string) addProductToCart(id: string, quantity: number)

etc

Then what you do in your tests is:

registerUser("abc@foo.net", "passw0rd", "foo name") login("abc@foo.net", "passw0rd")' // now you test expect(page).findByText("Welcome back foo name").toBeVisible()

> and make even trivial UI changes ripple through dozens of files.

2. Given my previous example, if you changed the login or registration form you'd only update the implementation of `registerUser`.

In any case I also want to emphasize: POMs are very useful when collecting and reusing the data (e.g. in the previous example `login()` would take no params and reuse those declared before), you can achieve 95% of their functionality with plain simple helper functions.
by Rooster61 | 2025-09-15 13:52:00+00:00
This. While it wasn't Celestia (I was playing around with Orbiter), I ran into a very similar, very specific scenario. In Orbiter, you can fly to planets using orbital mechanics a la KSP but on a true scale. Frustrated that I was having trouble getting to Saturn using a Hohmann transfer, I eventually said fuck it and just input coordinates that put me just a little ways outside of Saturn's atmosphere.

Upon hitting the button to warp to the coordinates, I was presented with an entirely flat, beige plane. Thinking I had screwed up the coordinates, I began zooming out. Since Orbiter renders to scale rather than the scaled down planets in KSP, I began to realize that there was no mistake, and just how small my ship was relative to Saturn. It literally gave me a shiver. It's so hard for us humans to really perceive how mindbendingly big things are in space in a direct sense.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-15 13:52:31+00:00
It's not a really a choice in the Culture. There is zero chance of the Minds abdicating and submitting to human-only rule.

I doubt it would be a choice with AGI, and certainly not with ASI. It might seem like a choice, because true ASI would be persuasive enough to make it appear that way.
by jerf | 2025-09-15 13:52:47+00:00
It is a social signal of not really caring about the content, just like people who post in large swathes of bad grammar and spelling (relative to the local environment).

It is completely reasonable to read that signal, and completely reasonable to conclude that you shouldn't ask me to care more about your content than you did as the "creator".

Moreover, it suggests that your "content" may just be a prompt to an AI, and there is no great value to caching the output of an AI on the web, or asking me to read it. In six months I could take the same prompt and get something better.

Finally, if your article looks like it was generated by AI, AI is still frankly not really at the point where long form output of it on a technical concept is quite a safe thing to consume for deep understanding. It still makes a lot of little errors fairly pervasively, and significant errors not only still occur often, but when they do they tend to corrupt the entire rest of the output as the attention mechanism basically causes the AI to justify its errors with additional correct-sounding output. And if your article sounds like it was generated with AI, am I justified in assuming that you've prevented this from happening with your own expertise? Statistically, probably not.

Disliking the "default tone" of the AI may seem irrational but there are perfectly rational reasons to develop that distaste. I suppose we should be grateful that LLM's "default voice" has been developed into something that wasn't used by many humans prior to them staking a claim on it. I've heard a few people complain about getting tagged as AIs for using emdashes or bullet points prior to AIs, but it's not a terribly common complaint.