MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjangkke | 2025-09-19 19:28:21+00:00
Overton Window shift basically. One side used cancel culture relentlessly for even the smallest slights. Now the other side is using the very same tactic. Many people who have kept out of the extremes have now shifted towards the right and those who ignore the shift are finding out the hard way.

I advise HN users who aren't aware of what's happening, read up on what Overton Window is and why its dangerous to continue posting the way you have without infosec.

You think you are posting only on HN but your posts are actually being distributed on other platforms by people who are very angry.

Users on Bluesky thought they were posting on Bluesky but they only found out too late, after they got fired because their political posts were being shared elsewhere.

There have already been few HN users who have been targeted for their radical views and have paid the price.

For your sake, please don't ignore this message.
by labrador | 2025-09-19 19:28:30+00:00
I served in the Navy 40 years ago on a nuclear submarine opposed to the Soviet Union so I had an interest in learning about our enemy. People like Stephen Kotkin have said Stalin and those around him were true believers in communism, while the situation in America feels like early Putinism, which was about money and power. But the suppression of those critical of the regime is the same.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-09-19 19:28:37+00:00
The issue is that scalpers can buy a significant portion of tickets at initial pricing and artificially drive up demand when the event says they're "sold out". Plus, many events like to set low initial prices to try to get money flowing in earlier, and raise prices closer to the day of the event, which makes them a potential "investment" for people who have no plans to attend.
by bobajeff | 2025-09-19 19:28:44+00:00
Well to be fair even if Android were completely open: In the US, your phone is still beholden to small number carriers. They get to decide what devices can connect to their network. This determines much of the hardware and software of the phones on their networks.

So ultimately they own the devices that connect to them. That's why I've already stopped paying for phones and just get free ones when offered. If I do pay for one again it'll just be the cheapest Chinese one available.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-19 19:28:52+00:00
If a semi-retired engineer with 2-4 decades of work experience makes a better public high school STEM teacher, then I hope a lot more engineers do it as a semi-retirement gig.

The aspiring career schoolteachers will just have to find a job in a field that is short-staffed, like registered nurses or one of the trades. I'm sure that comes across as "let them eat cake" to some Bernie moron, but going back to school for 6 months is small potatoes, and doing a little market research before making big financial decisions like choosing your college major in the first place is basic adult responsibility.

If we apply the "lump of labor" fallacy everywhere else honestly and consistently, we would have to be opposed to immigration and trade because "those damn foreigners" went and "took er jerbs".

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtkJaZ...
by KumaBear | 2025-09-19 19:29:03+00:00
Solution that might be anti user friendly. Tickets are bought and assigned to a persons name at time of purchase. They can only be refunded at cost and resold at cost to buyers. Release of tickets refunded shall be reposted for resell at a random time after attempting a refund.

This will however allow people to pay for bots that will purchase tickets on their behalf. But I believe a verification system can prevent that from happening if one would like. But the incentives aren’t there to do so.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-19 19:29:19+00:00
NO

Scalping has existed since forever.

The thing was it was local promoters + local sales (aka criminals) who would get tickets from management (yes thats the artists management) and kick the money back to the artist if they were lucky (if not the management kept it).

Now TM owns the venue, they are the promotor, they are the manager(to an extent) and have full control of the tickets, and the secondary market. The artist is now 100 percent in on the action making fans buy a fan club membership then get "face value" tickets at presale only with expensive meet and greet packages that range from a few hundred bucks to a 1000. An artist can tack on 50k to several 100k doing this at every date/venue.

As for TM's uncharges, most of that is because the artist either demands they do it (my prices are reasonable) making TM the scape goat, or they want a sum that is the total of the door and TM needs to cover venue costs and make profit so that just gets baked in as a "fee".

Just to put a fine point on this. In the old model promoters, venues all of those entities being separate and charging a markup made sense. When TM consolidated they didnt change the markup they just kept the margin...
by MandieD | 2025-09-19 19:29:28+00:00
A well-governed, democratic petro-state that has been very, very careful to keep much of anyone there from getting too high on their own supply: unlike just about any other petro-state, the state's cut of petroleum revenues do not go straight out - it all goes into a permanent fund (Government Pension Fund of Norway), with a maximum of 3% being allowed to go towards current spending. Norway's domestic fuel taxes are actually higher than their neighbors, and Norwegians still have to pay VAT and income tax like the rest of Europe... though they still haven't joined the EU (but their EEA membership means that they agreed to conform to a lot of EU laws and standards)
by thefourthchime | 2025-09-19 19:29:32+00:00
The actual quote from the FCC chair:

"When you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the FCC does have a rule called the Equal Opportunity Rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the run-up to an election and you have one partisan elected official on, you have to give equal time, equal opportunity, to the opposing partisan politician,"

This is classic Trump era politics. Bully people with a tangential connection to a obscure law. That way it has an air of legality. Well it meanders through the courts. In the end it doesn't matter if it gets ruled down or not. This gives you time to be rule as a de facto authoritarian.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-09-19 19:29:41+00:00
America's over-production of corn/maize is a direct result of Nixon. His administration knew how to deal with protesting hippies, but when farmers & housewives started protesting, the response was to heavily subsidize corn/maize production. With vast quantities of the stuff, companies looked to find uses for the stuff. Two books that describe the situation are Omnivore's Dilemma and Altered Harvest. The subsidies for growing maize/corn make it cheap, add in the tariffs on sugar imports and that explains why HFCS is ubiquitous.

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Mea...

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Altered-Harvest-Jack-Doyle/dp/0670115... This book also explains why tea is the British beverage (and not coffee), or how the Irish potato famine happened. And it explains the source of the corn blight that caused rioting farmers & housewives - texas male-sterile cytoplasm was used by all the hybrid seed companies, so a blight that affected one plant affected 80% of the US corn/maize crop.
by username332211 | 2025-09-19 19:30:42+00:00
Worse still, they want to sell it below market value, but they want to be paid as if they were selling tickets at market value.

I remember finding some story about a contract for Ke$ha or Kathy Perry or some other pop-concoction of the previous decade getting leaked (*) , and one of the ways in which the artist got paid was trough a percentage of the tickets to distribute trough unofficial resale channels.

The issue that spawned Ticketmaster is that as a class artists are greedy, but they want to pretend they aren't. Being hated is a vital part of that company's business model.

(*) I think it must have been Ke$ha, as that one was involved in some financial dispute, but I can't find the story right now.
by globular-toast | 2025-09-19 19:30:53+00:00
I've been saying this for years. When the last Raspberry Pi shortage happened people were scrambling to get them for building these toy clusters and it's such a shame. The Pi was made for paedogogy but I feel like most of them are wasted.

I run a K8s "cluster" on a single xcp-ng instance, but you don't even really have to go that far. Docker Machine could easily spin up docker hosts with a single command, but I see that project is dead now. Docker Swarm I think still lets you scale up/down services, no hypervisor required.
by scotty79 | 2025-09-19 19:30:57+00:00
> It's funny you're so against billionaires scooping up that money but want the government to scoop it up instead.

The reason is that government is ruled democratically which makes it less likely to successfully execute terrible decisions persistently. There's also some influence of the public on those decisions. In case of billionaires there's nothing to stop them to pursue idiotic, societally and economically harmful goals on a whim. There's also difference of transparency and availability of warning signs. Not to mention that I can change which government rules me by boarding a plane but Zuckerberg is influencing my life in every place on Earth.

Leaving the money with the populace is not an option. Citizens are weak, money will get scooped. The question is by whom. I'll pick democratic government over billionaires every day of the week.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-19 19:31:21+00:00
Simple. The Republicans remember when they were cancelled for not wanting to take a vaccination that was just invented months earlier; when they were deplatformed from Twitter constantly; when Reddit rejoiced at the death of one of their heroes; when "right wing violence is more common" became a meme as Minneapolis was literally burning. They watched a kid who they believed had a legitimate self-defense case get thrown the book in Wisconsin by a prosecutor called out by even the judge for brazen unfairness; with unprecedented levels of online hate rather than openness to discussion. They watched CNN accuse right wingers of exaggerating "mostly peaceful" protests with a car literally burning in the background. They stopped caring about your feelings, because you didn't care about theirs.
by the_mungler | 2025-09-19 19:31:25+00:00
I'm not the biggest fan of the embed block syntax, for two reasons. 1. Having `%\\\%` escape to `%\\%` is confusing. Assuming you want to embed kson inside kson it would look like this:

```

%kson: level 1

%kson: level 2 %kson: level 3 - "a list" - "of values" %\\% %\%

%%

```

Note that for each level of nesting, the delimiters inside the block have to increase, instead of the ones outside. In a long embedded block you probably copied from elsewhere, you have to check every escaped delimiter to make sure it has the correct number of back slashes and update it. It would have made more sense to have a varying number of % correspond to a matching set to close it. e.g. %%%kson: foo matches %%% and closes it.

2. It's impossible to represent strings where every line has at least some leading indent, because they "always strip their minimum indent".

I think both these issues are solved by using zig's style of raw string literals. An embed block could start with %tag and each following line with % continues the block. No closing delimiter or delimiter escapes needed.

```

%kson: level 1

%%kson: level 2 % %%kson: level 3 % % % - "a list" % % % - "of values" % % % - "indented"

```

Granted, this also kind of looks ugly with percent signs. But the upside is you could paste in each sub level, and a text editor could insert the symbols for you before each line, just like they already do when highlighting text and commenting it out.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-19 19:31:27+00:00
buying an EV does not actually reduce emissions like magic, unless the owner drives that car for a looooong time. Like 10-15+ years.

Manufacturing an EV car uses a lot more emissions than an ICE car initially, due to the huge battery.

If the goal is to reduce emissions overall, then target incentives appropriately:

- tax deduction at purchase

- tax deduction for drivers of old (10 yr+) EV vehicles.

This incentivizes EV purchase AND driving that vehicle for a long time. In contrast, allowing EV drivers to use a carpool lane does no such thing IMO.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-19 19:31:45+00:00
I have a SOPINE cluster board that I'd quite like to get booted up and pressed into some sort of useful service.

I think the biggest problem with cluster products is that they just don't work out of the box. Vendors haven't really done the "last 2%" of development required to make them viable - its left to us purchasers to get the final bits in place.

Still, it'll make a fun distributed computing experimental platform some day.

Just like the Inmos Transputer I've got somewhere, sitting in a box, waiting for a power supply ..
by DennisP | 2025-09-19 19:31:59+00:00
Double-blind experiments on this are probably impossible, but it's not like large population studies are totally worthless. It's probably best to go where the evidence points, and the article mentions other studies with similar conclusions, as well as work on possible biological mechanisms.

My strategy is to get short sun exposures, use sunscreen only when I'm going to be out long enough to get burnt, and also do my dermatology appointments.
by spicyusername | 2025-09-19 19:32:21+00:00
It's something that's been eroding for a long time, starting mostly with the Reagan administration in the 1980s and the political desire at the time to put an end to the New deal era style of big government from the 1930s and 40s.

There have been periods of pause, and even reverse, but two terms of the Trump administration trailing on the heels of the tea party movement in the 2010s have really done a lot of damage at all levels of US government.

By now, so many politicians, lawyers, and judges, are compromised it's going to take some pretty extreme changes to the way people are voting to make an impact.

I don't see that happening in the near future, even if I do see it happening in the long term.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-19 19:32:24+00:00
There are actually quite a few Republicans, such as Karl Rove, who are irate at the current administration for its attacks on free speech.

But broadly speaking, and this truly transcends partisan divisions, there are very many people whose commitment to free speech only extends insofar as they like the speech being protected. It is actually quite rare to find somebody who will advocate "I think the speech you are saying is reprehensible, but I will stake my life on defending the right for you to say it."
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-09-19 19:33:02+00:00
Oh dear! That's like Microsoft all over again!

I've been in IT long enough to recognize this pattern. Every "convenient" lock-in becomes an expensive problem later - something you're definitely experiencing now!

My advice: don't get locked in in the first place yesterday. Or second best, start exploring ways out today. Push back on your bank - odds are they simply haven't had enough complaints yet. Demand alternate authentication methods. Fall back to web banking or even paper banking. Shop around - banks are IT companies like any other these days, and there are definitely banks with better terms.

Fortunately I'm in the Netherlands where web banking still works fine, so that's what I'm doing. Where are you located?
by leptons | 2025-09-19 19:33:19+00:00
The last straw for me was when I received an email "from my boss" telling me of my holiday bonus with a link to click. Well I knew that was a phishing-test email right away because that cheap bastard has never given me a holiday bonus, not even once in the 10 years I've worked there. Some nerve sending out a phishing-test disguised as a bonus, fucking pour some salt into the wound why don't they.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-19 19:33:41+00:00
> Fil-C's pollchecks also support stop-the-world (via the FILC_THREAD_STATE_STOP_REQUESTED bit). This is used for:

> - Implementing fork(2), which needs all threads to stop at a known-good point before the fork child jettisons them.

Makes me wonder how it handles `vfork()`, but I think it needs just a safepoint and no stop-the-world since, after all, the child side of `vfork()` is executing in the same address space as the parent (until exec-or-exit), so it's as though it's the same thread as in the parent (which is stopped waiting for the child to exec-or-exit). All the more reasons that `fork()` is evil and `vfork()` much better.
by danielvaughn | 2025-09-19 19:34:14+00:00
We're still a stronghold of democracy and free speech. That doesn't mean threats don't occasionally present themselves. In fact, it should be welcomed, as it gives each new generation the opportunity to re-affirm their commitment to free speech.

Free speech has been under threat at the academic and cultural level for a while now, especially in the 2010's. All of that was a good thing in my opinion, because a generation of college students were able to see firsthand what happens when we try and silence dissent.

This situation is admittedly more dangerous, as the federal government is attempting to suppress speech via governmental subsidies (as far as I can tell, I don't have all the facts).

But this is also an opportunity. It's a moment for those on the political left to see clearly why protecting speech is, in fact, a very good thing. So hopefully the sane people on both sides of the aisle can reflect on where we're at, how we got here, and how we get out of this situation. To me it's clear - we reject both explicit and implicit attempts to suppress speech we don't like, full stop. We don't kill people, we don't get people fired, we don't threaten to withhold funding. We need to collectively agree to do this across the board, for everyone in this country.
by sieep | 2025-09-19 19:34:15+00:00
Hello, I'm someone who does not have a background in CS, so my apologies for not being able to read the paper in-full. Is there any clear-cut strategy you would recommend to model developers so they can improve in not just correctness, but in quality & efficiency? I'm sure it's in the paper & I wish I could understand it in-depth.

If you don't mind me asking a more personal question, I would love to go back to uni for a master's in computer science & hopefully assist with papers like this one day. Do you have any advice for someone with industry CS experience (SWE) vs. academic to make the leap to the academic side? I genuinely love this kind of stuff and already make a decent living so it's not for money.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-19 19:34:20+00:00
Probably - keep your costs low and try to sell a bunch before these features are baked into the OS, which is almost certainly coming soon with the current "AI in everything".

For example, if you're old enough, do you remember those devices that were all about getting your phone/ipod with a 3.5mm jack to interface with your car audio system? There were 3.5mm -> cassette adapters, and bluetooth -> 3.5mm dongles abound before bluetooth became commonplace in cars and phones.
by 1attice | 2025-09-19 19:34:34+00:00
It's not great, IMO.

I'm a Librem 5 owner, but I haven't really been able to use it, due to the atrocious (unusable) battery life, and broad incompatibility with most of the things that I need to do with a phone.

I've been a proud Linux user since the 90s, so by rights I should be exactly the market they're trying to capture -- slightly paranoid, FOSS-idealogue, willing to trade off some (or even a lot of) usability for freedom (and these days, a degree of protection from that thing that is happening in the USA and elsewhere, which is no longer safe to call by its name).

Yet here are the things that I cannot do on my Librem 5 that I basically need to be able to do in order to subsist:

- Go for more than 5h without charging

- Google Maps. I know -- on my GrapheneOS handset, I have OSMAnd+ and OrganicMaps (installed via F-droid no less) but as it happens, I live in a city with a lot of bridges and even more traffic, and if I want to get anywhere without a +/- 1h variance due to traffic, I depend on live-traffic-informed maps.

- Signal. (note: It's been a year or two since I checked in -- is this available yet on Librem 5?)

- Parking apps. My city has invested heavily in integration against just one of these apps, and it happens not to run on Librem 5 (or, for that matter, GrapheneOS -- why does a _parking app_ want attestation? smh). This is becoming increasingly inconvenient as competing apps seem to be in retreat and I am getting used to circling, waiting for spaces that I can successfully pay for.

- Ability to run local government app, which is available for both Android and iPhone, but obviously not Librem. This was more urgent during the pandemic, when it was required for various things like crossing borders and proving Covid status, but it's still hard(er) to get service from some agencies without it.

I have my Librem 5 in a drawer with my other fun tinkering toys, like my Raspberry Pi collection and 5" touchscreen modules (and breakout boards etc.) I still have plans to install it in my car at some point (it would be a good fit for an always-charging scenario.) Every once in a while I take it out and admire it and dream about the possibility of a future without domination. Then I put it away again.
by strangattractor | 2025-09-19 19:34:37+00:00
The Archive purchased 78s likely destined to be destroyed. These where digitized. [0]

"The focus of the lawsuit was the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project, which officially started in 2017 and aimed to digitize the shellac discs that were the dominant medium for recorded music from the 1890s until the 1940s and 1950s, when vinyl arrived. With the help of audio preservationist George Blood (who was also named as a defendant in the suit), the Archive said it has digitized more than 400,000 of these old recordings." [1]

Benn Jordan discussion of piracy in general. [2]

[0] https://great78.archive.org/

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/internet-archi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EHRpnJICQ&t=952s
by dragontamer | 2025-09-19 19:34:41+00:00
Why build a cluster?

I believe the Rasp Pi cluster is one of the cheapest multi node / MPI machines you can buy. That's useful even if it is t fast. You need to practice the programming interfaces, not necessarily make a fast computer.

However, NUMA is also a big deal. The various AMD Threadrippers with multi-die memory controllers are better on this regards. Maybe the aging Threadrippers 1950x, yes it's much slower than modern chips but the NUMA issues are exaggerated (especially poor) on this old architecture.

That exaggerates the effects of good NUMA and now you as a programmer can get more NUMA skills.

Of course, the best plan is to spend $20,000,000++ on your own custom NUMA nodes cluster out of EPYCs or something.

-------

But no. The best supercomputers are your local supercomputers that you should rent some time from. You need a local box to see various issues and learn to practice programming.