MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FaridIO | 2025-09-10 23:38:33+00:00
The problem here is that everyone thinks their ideas aren't radical and that sharing them isn't indoctrination. I once left a religion, peacefully, not loudly or trying to tell anyone else how to live their life. People still in the religion thought I was radical and dangerous to the fabric of society. Charlie invited people to have a debate. Whether he was right or wrong at least to me with my lived experiences feels irrelevant, if that's dangerous to society then society is wrong.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-10 23:38:54+00:00
At some point you run into physics limitations with the camera though. Cameras are a weird bit of tech. In almost all other areas of tech, as we get more advanced, things get smaller - the opposite is true of camera sensors, they get better the larger they are. More light, less noise, better/more pleasing bokeh, etc. Same is true for lenses as well, and as the sensors get bigger, the lenses also must get bigger.

I love the idea behind the pro phone and going all out on cameras, but practically I want the air more. I wish it had an ultrawide, but it is what it is - I have and frequently carry around an actual camera with me most places I go where I'd want to take photos.
by Calavar | 2025-09-10 23:40:08+00:00
I am a physician, so I can say this with a high degree of confidence.

That snippet is referring to the circle of Willis*, which is a "backup" circuit that can route around a blockage to the blood flow to the brain on one side.

The thing is the circle of Willis is tiny and near vestigial (there is a substantial fraction of the population where it doesn't even make a full circuit), whereas the carotid is one of the largest blood vessels in the body. The circle of Willis isn't nearly large enough to reroute all that flow. It has to be made bigger over time through a process called collateralization, and that's a process that happens over months to years, not minutes or seconds.

In short, the circle of Willis will save you from years of high cholesterol that lead to a huge cholesterol plaque completely blocking off one of your carotids. It won't save you from your carotid being severed by a bullet.

*And some other tinier vessels, but mainly the circle of Willis
by willbeddow | 2025-09-10 23:40:34+00:00
have not used longhorn, but we are currently in the process of migrating off of ceph after an extremely painful relationship with it. Ceph has fundamental design flaws (like the way it handles subtree pinning) that, IMO, make more modern distributed filesystems very useful. SeaweedFS is also cool, and for high performance use cases, weka is expensive but good.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-10 23:40:41+00:00
One extreme case of this would be rustls-openssl-compat which is basically what if you take a Rust TLS implementation but you give it the same ABI as the openssl C library so (where this works, which is far from everywhere) it's a drop-in replacement.

e.g. you can run curl, and go fetch https://example.com/ but using this ersatz openssl rather than your C openssl implementation. That's a thing which works today, albeit not a supported configuration from the point of view of Curl's author.
by juhovh | 2025-09-10 23:40:59+00:00
While I have no experience of their 5G routers specifically, based on my experiences with other GL.iNet routers and the TG-Link I have, I don't disagree. The Deco they have has the benefit of easy mesh wifi setup with fast roaming, but the easier access and configurability of GL.iNet are generally nice, and they're fairly affordable.
by weddpros | 2025-09-10 23:42:44+00:00
I built https://SSLboard.com to manage your certificates at any scale and see what’s deployed, where and how. It’s using Certificate Transparency to inventory your certificates so it requires minimal input but provides a complete audit of deployed certificates.

Automation isn't enough: qualys.com (famous for SSLLabs.com) is currently serving an expired certificate (expired 8 days ago). They know their job very well, but without a tool to thoroughly and systematically inventory your certificates, you'll miss it.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-10 23:43:27+00:00
The North 'saved' the union by allowing the South to continue its brutal practices against the freedmen leading to almost a hundred years of violence, lynching and the Black Codes designed to keep control over the 'freed' slaves.

Thaddeus Stevens was proven correct in his opinion that the south should've been treated like a conquered state and the land forcibly given to the freedmen.
by ncr100 | 2025-09-10 23:43:52+00:00
I'd say we _can_ be violent / brutal / unfair. I'm e.g. not violent / brutal when putting my clean dishes away.

This may have been an offensive reply to the original comment:

It's important for Me to play Devil's Advocate, here, because the original statement overlooks the amazingly constructive qualities humanity offers.

Overlooking == under-capitalizing. Which is an error. And judgement is important to hang onto in a crisis.

This is a crisis.
by kazinator | 2025-09-10 23:44:23+00:00
If you don't want there to be sides during a pandemic, you have to engineer the pathogen such that it causes every infected person to melt in a puddle of grease with near 100% probability in about a week, with near 100% probability of transmission via any casual contact with infected persons at any stage of their infection. You just watch everyone scramble to the same side!
by erikw | 2025-09-10 23:44:35+00:00
I don't know that that will happen- not even Windows is as smooth as MacOS. But that's because Microsoft and Linux developers are tackling a more difficult problem- getting an OS to work with effectively infinite hardware permutations. Apple has given themselves an easier problem to solve, with just a handful of hardware SKUs and a few external busses.

That said, Android is pretty stable, because a given Android distro typically only targets a small hardware subset. But I don't think that's the kind of Linux distro that most people contributing to FOSS want to work on.
by thangalin | 2025-09-10 23:44:43+00:00
> Arch is one of the most horrible rolling distros

We've had different experiences. I've been using Arch for about 8 years and have had to scour the forums no more than thrice to find the magic incantations to fix a broken package manager. In all cases, the system was saved without a reinstall. However, it is certainly painful when pacman breaks.

$ cat /etc/issue Antergos Linux \r (\l)

;-)
by overfeed | 2025-09-10 23:44:54+00:00
The rhetoric on Paul Pelosi's hammer attack was unhinged - it also was political violence. I don't doubt the same figures who made lurid comments, mocked or ridiculed the attack will now act more measured and asking for decorum due to the victims "team".

January 6 was mass political violence, and I my unprofessional opinion is that the pardons marked a turning point in how engaging in political violence is viewed; all is forgiven if/when your team wins.

Hyper-partisanship, and choosing not playing by the rules when it benefits you will be America's downfall. At some point, people on the other side of the political fence stopped being seen as opponents,but became "enemies", I think cable news/entertainment shoulders much blame on this, but the politicians themselves know outrage turns out the vote. I wonder if they'll attempt to lower the temperature or raise it further.
by o11c | 2025-09-10 23:45:08+00:00
I don't care about any of those things, since computers are about productivity for me.

But I'm pretty sure at least half of them actually do work under X11, it's just that some UI libraries refuse to use it on the grounds of "X11 is outdated, I won't support features even though it does".

(also, having played around with DPI stuff on Wayland, it's pretty broken there in practice)
by rsanek | 2025-09-10 23:45:10+00:00
> You can read about the 1918 'Spanish' Flu, but you think "we're smarter now". etc.

Not sure what the comparison with COVID is supposed to be. Spanish flu was not created in a lab. There was no vaccine for the Spanish flu. The only real similarity is social distancing, quarantines, and masks -- we did that back then too.
by dang | 2025-09-10 23:45:39+00:00
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by kelipso | 2025-09-10 23:45:45+00:00
> Maternal effects are well-accounted for in research.

Lol, no it's not. Genetic heritability vs other types of heritability is not accounted for in multiple areas like height and IQ and it seems you are just ignorant of it.

> weirdly fixated

> rhetorical disadvantage

Are you just playing a debate game or having a discussion?
by righthand | 2025-09-10 23:46:20+00:00
Honestly find Debian Testing good enough for latest KDE Plasma. I have never understood the need for a specific distro for your desktop software and have never found Neon useful.

The only pain point I really found even developing for KDE on Debian was the the switch from qt 5 to 6 but that is always a risk and you can just compile qt from src.

Another pain point is their dev package manager doesn’t have a way to conveniently target library/package branches. So you can spend a fair amount of time waiting for builds to fail and passing in the library or package version to the config file. Very tedious and no doubt cost me lots of time when trying to build on top of Akonadi for example.
by dang | 2025-09-10 23:46:27+00:00
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by Glyptodon | 2025-09-10 23:47:19+00:00
I'm mildly curious what the reaction to this will be compared to the reaction to other recent political murders, like the Hortmans, or of Thompson.

That said, I think people need to recognize that in many aspects what's happening is connected to societal issues that gun control and gun regulations will have very little impact on - remember, even in Japan somebody could make some kind of battery ignited home-made shotgun and kill Shinzo Abe.
by dang | 2025-09-10 23:47:42+00:00
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by NoPicklez | 2025-09-10 23:47:45+00:00
I think you're misinterpreting it and taking things to extremes. I don't think you have read it well enough as here are multiple foods you have mentioned which are absolutely not ultra-processed under the NOVA model.

Case in point if you search freshly baked breads and pink lady apples they aren't marked as ultra-processed under the NOVA classification. With Pink Lady apples considered a NOVA score of 1 which is "Unprocessed or minimally processed foods". It legitimately says that freshly baked bread would be considered processed but not ultra-processed, also just because it says its processed doesn't mean its unhealthy, its just classified as such.

In the case of your reconstitued meat in the way that you prepare it would not be considered ultra-processed because majority of the food still comes from Group 1, as it says.

Its not a scale of unprocessed through to ultra-processed, there's a scale here. Search a few foods in the database and have a look. There's nothing there that says your home grown cucumbers with some salt are considered ultra-processed.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-10 23:47:57+00:00
>> Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! [April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee]

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

So perhaps a better excerpt in light of recent events would be

>> And another reason that I'm happy to live in [the second half of the 20th century] is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 23:47:58+00:00
I've seen similar stuff in a couple of other places, including IT back in the 1990s (back when it wasn't nearly as glamorous as it is today).

I think some of this has to do with... resentment? You're this incredibly smart person, you worked really hard, and no one values you. No one wants to pay you big bucks, no one outside a tiny group knows your name even if you make important contributions to the field. Meanwhile, all the dumb people are getting ahead. It's easy to get depressed, and equally easy to decide that if life is unfair, it's OK to cheat to win.

Add to this the academic culture where, frankly, there are fewer incentives to address misbehavior and where many jobs are for life... and the nature of the field, which makes cheating is easy (as outlined in the article)... and you have an explosive mix.
by dang | 2025-09-10 23:48:12+00:00
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by dantiberian | 2025-09-10 23:48:13+00:00
From the article:

The intention of OrioleDB is not to compete with Postgres, but to make Postgres better. We believe the right long-term home for OrioleDB is inside Postgres itself. Our north star is to upstream what’s necessary so that OrioleDB can eventually be part of the Postgres source tree, developed and maintained in the open alongside the rest of Postgres.
by nosefurhairdo | 2025-09-10 23:49:08+00:00
A man holding open debates on college campuses, regardless of political beliefs, is categorically different to a man whose legacy was founding al-Qaeda and masterminding 9/11.

Not to mention Kirk's views were not too different from the majority of American voters who elected our current president.

Why make such a comparison? Don't you think this sort of rhetoric contributes to the toxic political landscape we find ourselves in?
by zug_zug | 2025-09-10 23:49:31+00:00
There may be no systematic way to draw the line between dangerous opinions that need to be silenced and those that do not. There may be many people who draw that line incorrectly.

But that doesn't mean there is no such line. Almost everybody agrees there should be some cost to expressing highly dangerous views -- where we disagree is what that cost needs to be for a given view (reputational, financial, capital).
by Graphon1 | 2025-09-10 23:49:50+00:00
It's not a prompt injection _in the MCP Server_. It's injection facilitated by the MCP server that pulls input from elsewhere, eg an email sent to your inbox, a webpage that the agent fetches, or in the comment on a pull request submitted to your repo. [1]

[1] https://www.thestack.technology/copilot-chat-left-vs-code-op...
by TheDong | 2025-09-10 23:49:51+00:00
I use home-manager for my dotfiles, and they manage quite a few things.

For example:

1. My editor config (neovim) including downloading and installing all my plugins, including the dependencies of the plugins (including deno, rust-analyzer, clippy, etc)

2. All the other tools I use, like ripgrep, python, and so on, including installing the same version on every machine I've got.

3. A bunch of misc programs and scripts I've written for myself, including all their dependencies

4. All the xdg configuration to open http links in the right browser profile, pdfs in evince, etc, as well as all the programs needed for that

5. systemd user units to run various daemons, like syncthing to sync some documents between computers, gpg-agent, etc etc.

And this works on all machines running any linux distro, from arch linux to nixos to ubuntu.

home-manager is just another dotfile manager, but since nix makes packages isolated, such that my user version of $pkg doesn't conflict or depend on the host version, home-manaer can also safely manage applications I run, like my editor, browser, developer tools, systemd units, etc etc etc.

I agree that most dotfile managers are weird overengineered projects that could have been a short shell script.

I think nix+home-manager is a weird overengineered project that could not have been a shell script.
by dang | 2025-09-10 23:50:04+00:00
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by LastTrain | 2025-09-10 23:50:04+00:00
I believe his point is something like this: entrepreneurs used to look for ideas on how to create something of value that people want, and then create a sustainable business model out of it, in order to turn a profit. There was some pride in pleasing customers. Now they look for ideas to make a profit, whether or not something of actual value is created or if people actually want it.
by tomrod | 2025-09-10 23:50:16+00:00
> This is the kind of rhetoric which seriously undermines the history of American philosophical thought.

Hard disagree. Ignoring it is what allows systemic injustice to persist -- why do we care, today, what Eugenicists in the early 1900s had to say? Jim Crow implementers and supporters? Daughters of the Confederacy?

If the reality of history undermines your respect for American philosophical thought, then perhaps the American philosophical thought is not quite worthy of the pedestal it was placed on.
by yawaramin | 2025-09-10 23:51:25+00:00
With passkeys there is nothing to check manually. If it works, you know it's the domain you registered on. If it doesn't work, you log in with a non-phishable auth method like emailed magic link, then register a new passkey.

You could claim that a phishing site could set up their own passkey registration system–but that still wouldn't give them access to the target's real account.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-10 23:51:32+00:00
There was an idea that the key to the nuclear launch codes should be surgically implanted adjacent to the heart of the president’s assistant. If the president should desire to launch the nukes, they would have to personally cut down a man and pull the key from the man’s entrails.

It was essentially not done because it would be too effective.
Ask HN: New FB account insta-banned, no appeal; why? help?
by jen729w | 2025-09-10 23:52:06+00:00
I just created an account on the Facebook using the address fb@johnnydec!mal.com (obfuscated here; not there). I'd like to spend some money on advertising. I used my real name and DOB.

The account was instantly banned for 'violating community guidelines'. On the iOS app I could submit my video-face-ID, which I did. An hour later, notice: rejected.

The help articles say that you can appeal this using a button when you log in. This button does not exist.

What the heck? What did I do? Here's what I can think:

1. fb@... email address is suspicious?

2. Is it possible that in the past my real name & DOB has been flagged? I've had various fb accounts on and off since it launched but cancelled my OG account way back in the day.

3. I'm in Thailand? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can anyone help?
by tomrod | 2025-09-10 23:52:43+00:00
> Fascism has never in history been stopped by scholars. It is uncomfortable to directly acknowledge "what worked well."

Your comment maps precisely to: we've had zero network intrusions, why are we paying these cybersecurity professionals?

So much fascism and authoritarianism was blocked since WW2 because scholars called it out early.

Guess what scholars called out in the US in 2016, but most politicians put party over country? "We scaled back our cybersecurity professionals and saved a ton of budget! On an unrelated note, do we have data breach insurance?"

There is certainly room to punch fascists in the face when hostilities are hot. We can't start there and remain a tolerant society dealing with the paradox of tolerance. The first steps are shunning and ceasing support, isolating the infected into appropriately deprived states of resource loss, and not political violence.

There is a great case study in Daryl Davis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
by DFHippie | 2025-09-10 23:53:35+00:00
The majority of what I see on Bluesky is people saying that political violence is unacceptable. There are a good number juxtaposing Kirk's saying mass school killings are an acceptable price to pay for the right to bear arms. They are not, however, saying that political violence is acceptable. I haven't seen anyone say that.

I have seen right-wing commenters say that the left was saying this. When I asked for examples I got nothing. I got responses, but the left-of-center commenters they pointed to were in the two categories I describe above: those saying the event is terrible and those saying it's ironic.

Now, I'm sure you can find people saying political violence is okay. I'm just saying I haven't seen it at all and therefore it isn't the central tendency in my feed.
by _alternator_ | 2025-09-10 23:54:10+00:00
TLDR: The publication culture of mathematics (with relatively few papers per researcher, few authors per paper, and few citations per paper) makes abuse of bibliometrics easier. The evidence suggests widespread abuse.

My take: I’ve published in well-regarded mathematical journals and the culture is definitely hard to explain to people outside of math. For example, it took more than two years to get my key graduate paper published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics, a highly regarded journal. The paper currently has over 100 citations, which (last I checked) is a couple times higher than the average citation count for the journal. In short, it’s a great, impactful work for a graduate student. But in a field like cell biology, this would be considered a pretty weak showing.

Given the long timelines and low citation counts, it’s not surprising that it’s so easy to manipulate the numbers. It is kinda ironic that mathematicians have this issue with numbers though.