MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by an0malous | 2025-09-23 13:42:29+00:00
“Technically you could figure out I was lying” is a great haven for liars. The whole reason this strategy works is because there are many people who won’t notice that contact name and assume it’s a real conversation, otherwise they wouldn’t have used the chat format.

It’s like saying “it’s ok to call the car ‘full self driving’ because one could figure out it’s not really full self driving.” But obviously, not everyone will realize that and you’re benefitting from the deception otherwise you wouldn’t have done it.
by ryanrasti | 2025-09-23 13:42:38+00:00
Thanks, Kenton! Really encouraging to hear you find the idea interesting.

Right now I'm focused on Postgres (biggest market-share for full-stack apps). A sqlite version is definitely possible conceptually.

You're right about the bigger picture, though: Cap'n Web + Typegres (or a "Typesqlite" :) could enable the dream dev stack: a SQL layer in the client that is both sandboxed (via capabilities) and fully-featured (via SQL composability).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 13:42:51+00:00
> by actually aligning their currency to those failed states

Argentina’s economy is the size of Michigan’s [1][2]. (14th.) Its entire dollar reserves are less than half of the budget of New York City [3][4].

The impact of many single tariffs vastly outstrips the maximum effects of a swap line with Argentina on the U.S. dollar.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Argentina

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-central-ba...

[4] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...
by twothamendment | 2025-09-23 13:42:54+00:00
I've been using the Awair Element for years. It helped me decide to install an air exchanger an to swap the gas range with induction. Bonus, it has a local API for pulling data.

I have a purple air sensor outside. One day I'll get around to making the air exchanger smart enough to turn off when the smoke from fires makes the air outside worse than inside, it turn off the air exchanger when inside air is good enough, etc.
by m0llusk | 2025-09-23 13:43:03+00:00
What gets me about all this are the odd crossovers. There is a gay man who works out and dresses in masculine drag like Levi's and flannel and ends up with his image frequently used to promote right wing messages. And hyper masculine young men playing kill sport games online don Hello Kitty outfits to demonstrate how edgy they are. The socialogical links with aesthetics are there, but the reality of how people make use of them is all over the place.
by roenxi | 2025-09-23 13:43:12+00:00
Do we have anything this century?

And frankly; we're talking about something kicked off by 60s US and UK, that map in that wiki article could be mistaken for one of the British Empire. Nothing's impossible but it'll take more than a wiki article to give me confidence that sanctions were the primary political force operative here or that the apartheid system was actually the thing at issue. I would chalk it up as unusual circumstances.
by livrem | 2025-09-23 13:43:16+00:00
I have always liked gamebooks with interesting game mechanics (not so much the traditional CYOA or Fighting Fantasy) and one great source for that in the past was the annual Windhammer Prize for Short Gamebook Fiction that ran from 2008-2015. I believe all the books are still available for download. Many interesting experiments there and I really enjoyed some books (but it was a while ago and I can't name any of my favorites now).

https://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize.html

The Lindenbaum Compatition is a newer attempt to do something similar and it has also resulted in some books that I enjoyed reading/playing several of the books from the first year (have not taken the time to look into the entries this year):

https://www.lloydofgamebooks.com/p/voting-is-open-for-202420...
by JohnKemeny | 2025-09-23 13:43:23+00:00
Regarding the Cycle Removal Problem. This problem is actually called Feedback Arc Set (it is a set that "hits" all "feedbacks" (i.e. cycles) with arcs, i.e., edges). Its undirected variant is called Feedback Edge Set and is actually simply Minimum Spanning Tree, i.e., a problem solvable in O(m log n) time, compared to the NP-completeness for the directed case.

While the cycle removal algorithm is a fine heuristic, it can perform arbitrarily bad.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-23 13:43:46+00:00
Yeah, offshoring has been going on for three decades. What could be profitably offshored has been, and then some, because some executives just like the idea a lot. There are reasons that companies have been abusing guest worker visas and clamoring for more, instead of offshoring those jobs. This may cause a bit more offshoring at the margins, but not a massive change. The fear-mongering is propaganda.
by rmu09 | 2025-09-23 13:44:07+00:00
Nobody is constantly charging their completely empty EV.

A typical commute of 50km/day at 20kWh/100km means you have to put 10kWh into you car (per day). A 230V outlet can deliver 3,7kW at 16A, so your car would be topped up again after about 3h.

Tesla Supercharger prizes at 20kWh/100km are in the same ball park as Diesel at 5l/100km. Charging at home should approach half that, and charging with PV will amount to <2€/100km.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-23 13:44:08+00:00
I agree with these points and would add another: writing code that I don't strictly need and would normally avoid writing at all simply because it's easier to take the lazy route and do without it. This morning while on the shitter, I had claude code use dbus to interface with tumbler for generating thumbnails. My application doesn't neeed thumbnails and normally my reaction would be "Dbus? Eww. I'll just do that later (never)" But five minutes of Claude Code churning got the job done.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-23 13:44:23+00:00
You're clearly not being very charitable in your interpretation of things I say so I'm just going to end the conversation here because I'm not interested in endlessly clarifying basic things like what I mean when I say "Ideally".

Obviously I'm not suggesting that it's easy or even possible. Though I also don't think we can completely rule out the possibility of a peaceful revolution. Stranger things have happened. And it certainly would be better than a violent one.

Anyway have a nice day
by seec | 2025-09-23 13:45:23+00:00
It takes a lot of engineering skills and you basically need to buy a pre-existing design because it's not something you can reverse engineer easily. Figuring things out yourself is basically too expensive for any countries that is already part of the rich few that can.

Then you have to deal with the geopolitics around nuclear material, since you could very much use it for military purpose (Iran problems, for example).

To finish, you basically need to build a specialized industry around it and it has to be very local. You would probably need to hire outside expertise for the first build to even be sure that all requirements/quality levels are met.

It's not something that you decide to buy overnight and just do. Since it benefits greatly for economies of scale (makes no sense to just build 1) you basically need to have full industrial planning for a very very long term. At the very least 15 years, but since you also need to deal with the waste and maintenance, you are basically committed for at least 50 years.

Which is exactly why once you know and can do it at the country level, it makes no sense to let go and do something else. You will have to deal with the maintenance of current reactors anyway and still have to deal with waste with no chance for potential repurpose.

But our current world is extremely dominated by neo-liberalism and that means short-term thinking and profit maximisation. This can be seen in the ever-changing political climate (at least in France).

I actually think this is the real major reason so many are infatuated with renewables: it can make money and they can profit from it. The funny thing is that this money-making is only possible thanks to the reliability of nuclear and coal/gas plants in Germany for example. From the most part this is predatory behavior, where they get to make the profits while not paying the full costs that would be necessary to be a truly equivalent solution (reliable electricity at any time/season).
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-09-23 13:45:42+00:00
Agreed. These days setups imho aren't vanilla origination and termination VoIP scratch card traffic it's more likely a distributed bot farm obfuscation as a service provider. I have seen commercially available sim bank gateways that can separate the sim from the antenna in order to change towers and simulate movement. The use of eSim adapters make it superscaleable now in terms of abstracting the numbers from the sims. Whatever the application a press release tie in to UN is a little odd.
by thrashwerk | 2025-09-23 13:45:43+00:00
I hate that.

I recently bought a G-Shock watch, it can connect to your phone via Bluetooth, it was a selling point but may be convenient to sync the time with a quick connection.

First, the G-Shock app displayed a prompt that it won't work with animations turned off which is just baffling. I have them disabled in Android settings under accessibility options because I find them frivolous.

Then with the animations enabled the G-Shock app says that it's EOL since mid 2023, now CASIO WATCHES app is for everything.

Install CASIO WATCHES, doesn't complain about animations being disabled which is an improvement but then when I want to add a watch it says I need an account.

Two local devices connecting via Bluetooth need a goddamn online account! Uninstalled that shit immediately.

I don't regret the purchase, I like the watch and it works perfectly without any connection crap but boy is all this online nonsense annoying.
by estearum | 2025-09-23 13:46:03+00:00
You actually said the opposite of that.

What you originally said is that there is little variance along any dimension.

What you're saying now is there is variance along different dimensions and different people care about different dimensions.

This is also what the original comment that you replied to said: build quality is bad (Dimension A), people were willing to accept it due to being an EV (Dimension B).
by zimpenfish | 2025-09-23 13:46:19+00:00
> there is a correlation between autism and use of Tylenol during pregnancy.

[0] (via [1]) says no - "analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use [...] a population-based sample of 2 480 797 children"

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-reveals-...
by thephyber | 2025-09-23 13:46:24+00:00
The first HN thread on the H1-B $100k fee pointed out that the $100k fee can be waived by the secretary (not sure which department). Most likely, H1-Bs won’t go away, they will just be bribe bait for the administration. Smaller companies who can’t lobby the admin or who aren’t in the good graces of the administration will have to do without H1-Bs, but all those tech titans who donated to the Trump Inauguration will magically get waivers for the fee.

It won’t be a matter of “outsource to India or hire locally”, it will be “what is the ROI of the bribe compared to having to hire locally when the labor market gets tighter?”
by wyldfire | 2025-09-23 13:46:29+00:00
Poe's law....? I honestly can't tell if you're joking.

US Customs interdiction on those ssh/https-transported "git clone" sessions you use as an importer, then. "Please first fill out CBP Form 5106 to identify yourself as an Importer and get in that line over there to get your git license."
by stingraycharles | 2025-09-23 13:46:30+00:00
Somewhat yes, but as soon as you enter the world of multi-threading (which Go does a lot), the abstraction doesn’t work anymore: as I understand it (or rather, understood: last time I really spent a lot of time digging into it with C++ code was a while ago) it uses its own scheduler, and as such, a lot of subtle real world issues that would arise due to concurrency / race conditions / etc do not pop up in valgrind. And the performance penalty in general is very heavy.

Having said that, it saved my ass a lot of times, and I’m very grateful that it exists.
by jf22 | 2025-09-23 13:46:36+00:00
I don't. I gave up.

In my 20+ years nobody has ever maintained the docs and we all somehow made it.

Businesses and careers don't rise and fall based on whether or not a readme file is up to date.

Also, in the age of AI producing an explainer takes minutes. I've delivered full reports on how a system feature everyone forgot about works in about 15 minutes.

Before LLMs it would have taken me weeks to produce the same document.
by musha68k | 2025-09-23 13:46:38+00:00
This is also one of the saddest aspects of retro computing.

Most listings fail to mention whether previous owners were smokers, and most sellers either aren't sensitive to and/or haven't experienced the off-gassing that occurs once devices warm up through actual use.

So this is actually the main reason I'm thrilled about the MiSTer project and the growing number and variety of FPGA-based clones being released today.
by naikrovek | 2025-09-23 13:46:46+00:00
are you saying that such understanding isn't enough or that every C programmer who said that didn't understand those things?

C and Zig aren't the same. I would wager that syntax differences between languages can help you see things in one language that are much harder to see in another. I'm not saying that Zig or C are good or bad for this, or that one is better than the other in terms of the ease of seeing memory problems with your eyes, I'm just saying that I would bet that there's some syntax that could be employed which make memory usage much more clear to the developer, instead of requiring that the developer keep track of these things in their mind.

Even if you must manually annotate each function so that some metaprogram that runs at compile time can check that nothing is out of place could help detect memory leaks, I would think. or something; that's just an idea. There's a whole metaprogramming world of possibilities here that Zig allows that C simply doesn't. I think there's a lot of room for tooling like this to detect problems without forcing you to contort yourself into strange shapes simply to make the compiler happy.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-23 13:47:49+00:00
Is that actually an "issue"?

Most of the time when I talk to FOSS developers and say things like "if you do X, you will get a lot more users", their response is usually "popularity is not a project goal."

I feel like there's probably a reason that it should be, due to some unintentional positive side-effects, but I'm not clever enough to come up with any convincing reasons to tell them they're "wrong."
by Daneel_ | 2025-09-23 13:48:04+00:00
The gen 3 hand from Optimus (Tesla) has 22 degrees of freedom in the hand and 3 in the wrist - it's more than capable of twisting a screwdriver or holding a knife well enough to cut a tomato. Like I said, it's a software problem - there's a reason the optimus robots are being tele-operated at their demos. The hardware is capable enough, it's just that the control software isn't up to the task yet.
by Bender | 2025-09-23 13:48:29+00:00
According to the Reddit threads they are accepting spoofed emails. This is expected in the current dmarc/spf config. Ask them to change their SPF record from

"v=spf1 include:spf.messagingengine.com ~all

to

v=spf1 ip4:103.168.172.128/27 ip4:202.12.124.128/27 -all

They have no need for a soft fail and no need for the extra lookup as their record is tiny.

------

Also change the _dmarc record from

v=DMARC1; p=none; sp=none; rua=mailto:e3936a44@inbox.ondmarc.com

to something like:

v=DMARC1;p=reject;sp=reject;np=reject;psd=n;aspf=s;adkim=s;rua=mailto:e3936a44@inbox.ondmarc.com;

after reading up on the options, understanding the implications and setting the TXT record TTL's to something like 5 mins until it has been in place for a month, then putting it back to 1 hour or longer. The rua has been in place long enough to know what problems it will cause. Be fearless and cause some problems then fix the problems. psd= may have to be different but only fastmail staff would know for sure.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-23 13:48:30+00:00
It's not for fun. It's that politicians are largely impotent in many situations, but refuse to accept this. I mean they're the leader of entire countries after all, and in the case of the US you're the leader of ostensibly the strongest military in the world, with enough nukes to end the world at your finger tips 24/7. How can you not be omnipotent, the most powerful person alive!?

But then it turns out that war is too dirty, cyber stuff isn't dirty enough. So what's left? Economics - sanctions. We've carried out 374 ultra important meetings, and traveled to 73 different countries, to prepare this critical 974th package of sanctions. This time it'll actually do something and be totally more effective than other 973, in spite of the fact that obviously the most impactful things are the first to be sanctioned.

It's obviously little more than theatrics, but it lets politicians feel powerful and like they're exerting influence on their enemies. And indeed, they may be responsible, at least in poorer countries for some people starving, which is then mental gymnasticed into 'Ah hah! They'll blame their government, overthrow them and become our ally, the people making them starve.'

It's really a shock that seems to basically never come to fruition. Well except when you're sanctioning a third of the planet [1], including many of the most unstable places in the world, and any time there's a regime change in these places - 'Ah hah! See? Sanctions work!' The fact that said change would often have happened in any case is kindly swept aside. It's akin to the joke that Zerohedge has successfully predicted 53 of the last 3 economic recessions.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanct...
by notmyjob | 2025-09-23 13:48:36+00:00
It’s not just cheaper. Think of the several extremely costly lawsuits filed against Tesla for racial discrimination over the years. You know who won’t sue a racist and sbusive employer? An H1b. While local nurses at Kaiser picket, Kaiser claims they need more h1b nurses because of a shortage, while offloading doctor work onto those nurses. You know who won’t go on strike for being overworked and doing the work of actual physicians? Yes, imported workers.
by rytisg | 2025-09-23 13:48:44+00:00
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by Zagorath | 2025-09-23 13:48:52+00:00
I don't think a trust should be necessary. A plan for longterm sustainability should be.

The streaming video service Nebula, for example, has a lifetime membership. The company was very straightforward with potential customers: this is not their best deal, it's explicitly meant for people who want to help support the company (or who prefer not to have ongoing subscription costs), and they are doing it as an alternative to seeking outside investment money. The money they raise won't go into a trust, but into expanding the business in the same way a company might if it went to seek venture capital.

At the time I signed up for it, it cost roughly 10 years' worth of subscriptions.
by bottlepalm | 2025-09-23 13:48:57+00:00
No, mention of OPT in this thread so here it goes. I’m directly observing OPT candidates crowding out American workers from getting jobs.

Foreign students pay large sums of money for advanced American STEM degrees and then flood the market for the same jobs American tech workers are trying to get. Americans in debt from undergrad degrees that foreign nationals were able to obtain a lot cheaper.

The ratios I’m seeing are insane, like 90% OPT candidates. You can’t discriminate against them, have advanced degrees and accept lower salaries and out number domestic applicants - so we reluctantly hire them. Even though their technical communication and English skills are abysmal.
by Galanwe | 2025-09-23 13:49:31+00:00
> Seasoned Rust coders don’t spend time fighting the borrow checker

My experience is that what makes your statement true, is that _seasoned_ Rust developers just sprinkle `Arc` all over the place, thus effectively switching to automatic garbage collection. Because 1) statically checked memory management is too restrictive for most kinds of non trivial data structures, and 2) the hoops of lifetimes you have to go to to please the static checker whenever you start doing anything non trivial are just above human comprehension level.
by commakozzi | 2025-09-23 13:49:33+00:00
I really don't understand the hallucination problem now in 2025. If you know what you're doing and you know what you need to get from the LLM and you can describe it well enough that it would be hard to screw up, LLMs are incredibly useful. They can nearly one shot an entire (edited here) skeleton architecture that I only need to nudge into the right place before adding what I want on top of it. Yes, i run into code from LLMs that i have to tweak, but it has been incredibly helpful for me. I haven't had hallucination problems in a couple of years now...
by sfilmeyer | 2025-09-23 13:49:45+00:00
Can you link an example of a window unit ERV? I tried searching briefly, and came across some folks hacking together units to make them work with windows or adding their own ducting, but nothing analogous to a simple window air conditioning unit. As a renter of an apartment in a very much not modern home, I don't really see anything that seems like it would work.