MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by volkk | 2025-09-10 21:51:07+00:00
honestly i feel the same way and i can't quite put into words why. I guess if I had to -- I think it's because I know not all AI generated stuff is equally created and that some people are terrible at prompting/or don't even proofread the stuff that's outputted, so I have this internal barometer that screams "you're likely wasting your time reading this" and so I just learned to avoid it entirely. Which is sad, because clearly now a ton of stuff is AI generated, so I barely read anything, _especially_ if I see any signals like "it's not just this, it's that"
by graypegg | 2025-09-10 21:51:14+00:00
I might suggest adding a list of cities you're live in. Right now I think you just have to intuit which cities work based on the address autocomplete.

Cute idea though! I'd be curious to see what your user-facing application looks like when you have an alarm set. Do you provide some sort of proof that the "alarm went off"? Package services usually take a photo of the door/porch as proof, might be a good idea in case anyone tries to dispute a charge for "not being woken up" heh.

Like another sibling comment mentioned, yeah, abuse potential is there. Could consider a snail-mail-letter-with-a-code verification method for addresses, though that's obviously rather slow.
by mhitza | 2025-09-10 21:51:17+00:00
I'm of the strong opinion that statism is the way of corrupting any ideological revolution. From communism, to democracy.

I'd be interested in hearing your opinion as to why letting the status quo be is a good thing. The path society is on is clearly towards a cyberpunk distopia, than anything that would unburden and improve the human existance of the many.
by ch4s3 | 2025-09-10 21:51:24+00:00
I really hate the use of this phrase, it lacks specificity and has a sort of unknown unknowns quality whereby we are meant to believe that some speaker utters vilification until some threshold is met and some unknowable person will be impelled to violence. It feels like one of those concepts that oozes out of intelligence connected think tanks and into the discourse. It completely lacks any predictive power and is entirely about crafting narratives around lone actors committing political violence.
by jzelinskie | 2025-09-10 21:51:33+00:00
I've seen projects like this for years and I still have the genuinely honest question: what are people doing that managing their dotfiles is significant problem for them?

I've managed my dotfiles (12 different configuration files all compatible with cygwin, wsl, linux, macOS) for the past decade in a git repo with a 50 LOC shell script that creates symlinks for me in an intelligent way. What am I missing?
by int_19h | 2025-09-10 21:52:09+00:00
Any hunting rifle round will do this as well, except the smallest calibers like .22 LR that are meant for hunting squirrels and the like.

But also, no, the smaller rounds don't have a "tendency to bounce around in the body". It sounds like you're referring to the phenomenon known as tumbling, where the wound track ends up being curved because the bullet loses stability as it hits. This happens because bullets are heavier at the base and thus unstable; while in air, they are stabilized by rotation imparted on them by the rifling, but once they hit anything dense (like, well, human body) it would take a lot more spinning to keep them stable, so all bullets do that. It does not involve any bouncing, however.

Light and fast bullets like 5.56 are particularly unstable and will do it faster, though. But even then, for 5.56, the primary damage mechanism is from bullet fragmentation: between the bullet being fairly long and thin, and high velocity of impact, the bullet literally gets torn apart, but the resulting pieces still retain most of kinetic energy. Except now, each piece, being irregular, travels on its own random trajectory, creating numerous small wound channels in strong proximity, which then collapse into one large wound cavity. But, again, this is mostly a function of bullet velocity and construction (e.g. presence or absence of cannelure), not caliber as such.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 21:52:13+00:00
We have proven that Mars used to have a magnetic field like Earth that protected it from solar radiation. We also know that it does not presently have a magnetic field. At some point in the distant past, Mars's core cooled and solidified, which removes the magnetic field.

The big problem is that the solar wind strips away the atmosphere and water, but that's (probably) not what killed all Martian life. As the magnetic field decreases, more and more harmful radiation reaches the surface. The planet was probably sterilized by radiation long before the atmosphere was lost and the oceans evaporated.

We're pretty sure this is what happened. We've been studying Mars's geology for a long time and we can see evidence for most of this process.
by christophilus | 2025-09-10 21:52:27+00:00
I don’t doubt you’ve heard someone argue that, but I never have. I’ve always heard it as a right to defense, generally as in a right to defend yourself from oppressive authorities. I never took that to mean assassinations as much as militia actions against militaries.

You can argue whether or not that is an effective approach to securing freedom, but that’s the argument I’m most familiar with.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-10 21:52:27+00:00
I started working on this with the Kitty image protocol, but unfortunately that protocol is really unsuited to this sort of thing. Performance will be awful.

The protocol is sort of:

1. I'd like you to display this PNG. Here's the data: ...

2. Ok I've got the data.

3. Ok now display it at this position.

4. Ok now remove it from the screen.

We're talking motion-PNG here. Just think about how awful that is.

I wish someone would add some kind of AV1-over-terminal protocol. That would be actually useful.

The other thing I was going to try was a custom GUI that used normal terminal text for the text of widgets, but Kitty images for the rest. It's quite a hard problem though.
by saltcured | 2025-09-10 21:52:45+00:00
From what I've tried to glean from patents and whitepapers, they have memory in the panel so that each sub-pixel can hold its state without being driven by the controller. The controller also can address sub-regions under the control of the application processor.

The net effect is that the app can vary refresh rate and also update a small part of the screen while leaving the rest static. In Garmin smartwatches, this is used to switch between 1 Hz, 1/60 Hz, and a hybrid mode where the overall screen is 1/60 Hz and small part is updated at 1 Hz. E.g. the seconds digits may remain active while the rest of the screen is static.

It also seems like they use more interesting sub-pixel arrangements. The limited color depth may involve different combinations of 1-bit sub-pixels rather than any cells driven into partially twisted states. I've seen diagrams claiming some white (unfiltered) and RGB filtered sub-pixels of different sizes.
by felineflock | 2025-09-10 21:52:59+00:00
Your assumptions are incorrect: felony prosecution is not outside local control, and police politics are irrelevant.

How many times a PD arrests a criminal then a judge later releases? That criminal with 30-year history would never be free if judged in a rural county instead of urban NYC or Charlotte.

The real drivers are prosecutorial policies driven by political priorities.

And we all know that who sides with criminals most of the time are the Democrats.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-10 21:53:00+00:00
I think though joked about, one of the most telling things about the NRA is their absolute militancy about gun rights... when it suits them. As you pointed out.

And as also evidenced by things like "From my cold, dead hands! ... unless you're at an NRA convention, in which case please use these lockers or leave your gun at home, and walk through this metal detector, please."
by Levitz | 2025-09-10 21:53:02+00:00
I do not condone political violence. My country has seen enough of it and still suffers from its consequences. (Spain)

That said, the assassination of Carrero Blanco, who was set to be Franco's successor, was instrumental in Spain's transition to democracy.

The difference between the murder of the planned successor of an actual, literal dictator in an actual, literal dictatorship and what happened today is, I hope, evident to everyone.
by nickdothutton | 2025-09-10 21:53:07+00:00
Just the other day I was reading about the Italian "Years Of Lead" [1] which I wasn't old enough to understand myself at the time in the UK. I was wondering if we could see something similar as various forces internal and external strained at the seams of western democracies. For context, there is quite febrile atmosphere in the UK at the moment so I feel it is useful to attempt to calibrate these things for stochastic effects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-10 21:53:12+00:00
America has had political violence for a long time. The unique combination of post-war economic prosperity and centralized mass media (radio, TV) imposed an unnatural coherence on an incoherent body of people. This was a trade-off that paid off wildly for the baby boomers, and provides most of the backdrop for American nostalgia in a way that Reconstruction, for example, does not. The advent of the personalized, always-there screen has brought viewpoint diversity back into the body politic with such ferocity that it has caused wholesale abandonment of shared reality. In 2025, most Americans are untethered to any moral framework, do not require that their leaders even appear to act in a civilized way, and are frantically grabbing at anything as a substitute.

The best we can hope for is that the convulsions will be short and sharp and no foreign power takes advantage of our convalescence. In 1945 the Germans learned a hard lesson about fascism, and learned it well; we can hope that Americans will learn something too, and at less cost.
by astrange | 2025-09-10 21:53:22+00:00
Strange complaint. The guy he's chosen to use for comparisons is making a totally different face in the two photos.

And his main issue with skin undertones is because he picked a photographic style he doesn't like. The camera app both asks you to pick one the first time you use it, and lets you edit it on photos after you've taken them.

I think the color on the Sony camera is a little too cold and makes them all look unrealistically unhealthy.
by Qem | 2025-09-10 21:53:48+00:00
> Which in turn depends on the endosymbiosis of mitochondria.

Which in turn depends on existing enough atmospheric oxygen for mitochondria to make sense in first place. I believe the filter is atmospheric oxygen. If Earth had more iron in the crust, perhaps the cyanobacteria would never finish oxidizing all of it, and we would be doomed to only host microscopic life forever. Macroscopic life requires high-energy metabolism molecular oxygen allows.
by topspin | 2025-09-10 21:54:03+00:00
It's incredibly accurate as most such events go, with the grade of shooters and weapons typically seen. It's not terribly remarkable for a trained shooter with a good rifle. A 1 MOA or better rifle with a reasonable optic makes such shots highly feasible given a stationary target.

So this is a outlier only in that someone was equipped and trained to a fairly serious degree. Someone on the order of a squad designated marksman (SDM) is certainly capable of this. The US military has a few thousand active duty personal trained to that level across the several branches, and there are 10's of thousands of veterans. There are also many SWAT and other LEOs and an uncountable number of enthusiasts and serious hunters with sufficient training and weapons.
by brookst | 2025-09-10 21:54:10+00:00
No, they're the same thing from a risk management perspective. As a defender, you do not (or at least should not) care about motivations. Seatbelts protect against genuine mistakes (by you or others), mechanical failures, road rage, etc.

There's a long funnel of all the things that could happen, probability of each, and total resulting probability. That's no different for being in a car wreck or being shot at.

Now, on a moral level, sure, malice is different from negligence is different from coincidence.
by ethagknight | 2025-09-10 21:54:36+00:00
It's a byproduct of a lot of oil production while also having its own reserves. My office used to look at an oil refinery that was miles away, and they were just burning the natural gas off in a huge plume, not worth trying to capture and combust for production.

The fracking is also in Arkansas and Texas and many other states. An amazing amount of gas continues to be discovered. I am not a geologist but assume that Australia could dedicate resources to explore fracking gas reserves and would come up with quite bit.

sidebar, but I just realized that Australia doesnt really have mountains to speak of. Tallest mountain is around the elevation of the typical Colorado Rockies valley towns. Australia may not have the 'cap traps' required to retain large amounts of gas in the various layers going down under ground.
by samtheDamned | 2025-09-10 21:55:22+00:00
maybe this is a knee-jerk reaction but I don't see any good reason for this. At it's core Google's job is to take an input and list outputs. The marketshare of people using lynx is small enough that whatever advertising or ai extras they want to squeeze in won't be meaningfully impacted by not working on lynx.

Edit: corrected spelling error
by andoando | 2025-09-10 21:55:24+00:00
How do you add these to chatgpt?

Chatgpt asks for a host for the mcp server.

All the MCPS I find give a config like

```{ "mcpServers": { "sequential-thinking": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking" ] } } }```
by pella | 2025-09-10 21:56:02+00:00
As far as I know, you can run heap and orioledb tables side by side in the same system, so I don’t see a problem using heap-based extensions like timescale together with orioledb. ( of course timescale doesn’t support OrioleDB storage yet, but they can run in parallel. )

and many extensions (e.g. postgis) already work fine with OrioleDB storage.
by throw0101a | 2025-09-10 21:56:06+00:00
PSA: the "No Tax On Tips" provision expires:

> New deduction: Effective for 2025 through 2028, employees and self-employed individuals may deduct qualified tips received in occupations that are listed by the IRS as customarily and regularly receiving tips on or before December 31, 2024, and that are reported on a Form W-2, Form 1099, or other specified statement furnished to the individual or reported directly by the individual on Form 4137.

* https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/one-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-...

There's also a maximum of $25k/year (~$2k/mo).
by gretch | 2025-09-10 21:56:22+00:00
> As a defender, you do not (or at least should not) care about motivations

The motivation is not the important part. Sentience is. This person is playing a chess match trying to defeat you.

Consider biology. Cancer is a hard problem to solve, but it's not scheming against you with an intelligence. What about someone in a lab engineering bioweapons?
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 21:56:25+00:00
The story wasn't actually about the trucker being hard working (or not), though I'm sure he was. He wasn't actually trying to make people believe he literally was the hardest working.

The joke is that everyone else he went to war with was claiming to be something else, so he must have delivered all the supplies himself.

The response is interesting to me, because having fought in a war, though I am not a US veteran -- I instantly got it. And the place I heard it from was more veteran dominated, and everyone instantly understood/appreciated the joke.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-10 21:56:42+00:00
I have a backup/restore set of scripts that copies my dot files over as well as a few directories as a whole via rsync.

My only big issue is how big ~/.config/ gets as a directory compared to how much I really want to keep/need in terms of a fresh setup. Similar for my ~/src/ directory, with all the ./.git/ files. I kind of wish there were a "smarter" backup/restore tool that could handle a few of these things better than ham-fisting and rsyncing all the things.. I was more selective in my restore when configuring my new computer earlier in the year.
by agwp | 2025-09-10 21:57:00+00:00
Have you explored using speaker diarization and speaker identification, given that pyannote etc. takes this approach?

I'm curious given your decision to capture speaker names from the screen. I see the merits during desktop recording, but I can also see how this limits utility when trying to offer the same functionality across desktop and other scenarios (e.g. in-person meetings, audio uploads etc.)
by Whoppertime | 2025-09-10 21:57:27+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States) After the Civil War many Democrat dominated Southern state governments enacted Black Codes that regulated virtually every aspect of freed people’s lives. A common element was restricting possession and carrying of firearms by Black people (or by anyone without a license), often implemented through local ordinances, licensing requirements, or explicit prohibitions. The Black Codes precede the Mulford Act by a hundred years.
by gond | 2025-09-10 21:58:00+00:00
Yes. Danny Hillis’ Thinking Machines Corporation, an AI company which created its own massive parallel processing supercomputer hardware.

“We are building a machine that will be proud of us” was their corporate motto. And that was in 1983.

One of those Machines is on view at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Back then, they could be ordered in “Darth Vader Black”, no kidding here. You can also see a couple of them (the CM-5) as the stereotypical supercomputer in the original Jurassic Park.

More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporatio...
by kyrra | 2025-09-10 21:58:01+00:00
My point was replying to the OP who said:

> I dont get how you US guys can live in an environment were your next door neighbor, the person beside you in the supermarket etc can carry a lethal weapon that can end your life.

Knife killing can happen for the every-day citizen that doesn't have a security detail. The OP is scared about the neighbor having a weapon to kill them with... and every household already has one in the kitchen.

If you are scared about being killed in a given society, it's more likely a cultural problem rather than a tool problem. Yes, guns make it easier to do. The question is, why are more people doing it now adays? What changed?

Go back a few decades, and you can find plenty of kids in highschool in the US that would keep rifles in the back of their truck in the school parking lot. They would use those guns to go hunting after school. They weren't being used to shoot eachother.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 21:58:16+00:00
There is absolutely zero evidence for this either way. We assume this is the case, but there's actually no way to ever know for sure. It's completely possible that life emerged and went extinct on this planet many times. Problem is it was so long ago that any fossil evidence has been either buried so far that we can never reach it, or subducted into the mantle and melted down. Absolutely no way to tell.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-09-10 21:58:20+00:00
Yes, PG in political science and I have worked in policy research. How about you?

The probability of committing a crime is significantly higher if you have committed a crime before. This is constant in every society that doesn't put criminals in jail. You seem to be suggesting some interesting new theory that not having a leg is really what everyone should care about...if you were reading someone else say this would you take this seriously? No, a tiny proportion commit the majority of crime, serious crime in countries like the US is almost all committed by 1% of the population. The solution is simple: put them in jail, crime disappears.

Violent crime is a choice.
by int_19h | 2025-09-10 21:58:34+00:00
Aiming for the head is most likely. For reference, a military M16 is considered within spec if it can produce a 4 minute-of-angle group from a prone supported position (but aimed and fired by a human, not fixed in a gun sled). At 200 yards, that would be a circle of around 8 inches. However pretty much any hit with a rifle bullet within that circle is likely to be lethal if it's centered on the head...

Anyway, the point is that it's really not a difficult shot at all, and only requires very rudimentary training that is readily available to anyone who can make a few trips to the range.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-10 21:58:58+00:00
Separating across what lines? Within group difference might be more severe than between group differences even. Most people identify as independents, there are more than two sides, and even if there were two sides, we're geographically intertwined. Conservatives threaten conservatives and liberals threaten liberals all the time, maybe even moreso! and that's not to mention religious conservatives vs libertarian conservatives, lefists, centrists, etc et. al.

I actually think it’s possible a national divorce makes the problem worse. Lots of these killers have not had clear motives or “sides”
by akshaysg | 2025-09-10 21:59:13+00:00
Interesting. At my previous company there was a debate about smaller PRs vs bigger PRs and the end conclusion was that there are tradeoffs in being able to deal with 2-5 bite-sized PRs vs one large PR. The largest one being that it's hard to grasp the totality of the pull request and how the different PRs work together.

> companies don't want to invest in slowing down, only going faster.

I do think this is the way things are going to go moving forward, for better or for worse!
by reenorap | 2025-09-10 21:59:19+00:00
Everything you said above is false.

What exactly is a religion fundamentalist? He was a Christian, but what makes him a "fundamentalist"?

What exactly did he do that wasn't in good faith? All he did was talk to people respectfully and engage in open dialogue. He had no notes with him ever, and he just talked with people. And for that he got murdered.
by commandlinefan | 2025-09-10 21:59:56+00:00
I remember talking to a guy I worked with, years ago, who had kids in college who got admitted to schools that had a "free tuition for < $x/year". He said he had to fill out a 20-page form including what year and model car(s) he drove to try to qualify for it (he didn't, even though his actual salary was under the limit).
by stevenjgarner | 2025-09-10 22:00:10+00:00
I think the notable thing this time is Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy referring to the (current) Sep 10th Nature paper by summarizing that “After a year of review, they have come back and they said, listen, we can’t find another explanation, so this very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting.”
by boppo1 | 2025-09-10 22:00:12+00:00
What does it say about me that I've seen so much stuff like this that it barely affects me? I'm in my 30s and have had unfiltered internet access since I was about 8.

Gore definitely made me a depressed person in grade school, but the only reaction I'm having to this is concern about: - conservatives getting ready for violence - the state getting ready to use this to further erode civil liberties - the left fanning the flames for conservatives
by salted-fry | 2025-09-10 22:00:21+00:00
I just tested changing user agents in Chrome - setting UA to a random string like "fff" gets a search page, but setting it to "Links" or "Lynx" gets "Your browser isn't supported anymore" - which is to say, this doesn't look accidental, but more like these UAs are specifically being blocked.

EDIT: Forging user agent in Links (with links -http.fake-user-agent) gets a usable homepage, but the results page just sends you to a turn-on-your-javascript page.