MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by srid | 2025-09-28 02:23:59+00:00
The remaining two are: Aleksana & lassulus

Aleksana will be "withdrawing for personal reasons." https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-th...

lassulus will "stay a moderator until at least post [SC] election" https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-th...
by louwrentius | 2025-09-28 02:24:04+00:00
The Serial Port is an awesome YT channel[0], don’t miss their second channel The Parallel port[1].

[0]: https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY?si=w4ttuV-kqoRQykmI

[1]: https://youtube.com/@theparallelport?si=Go4gTh6JKVypCx84

They have a ton of documentaries about the early internet, including interviews with people part of a particular scene at that time.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-28 02:25:03+00:00
>but the abrupt change in policy was obviously motivated by their political leanings

March - The CDC publishes Covid guidelines on mass gathering in March “Interim Guidance: Get Your Mass Gatherings or Large Community Events Ready for COVID-19”

May 26th - The George Floyd protests start

June 4th - The CDC directory tells congress he fears the protests could be a Covid seeding event [1]

June 12th - The CDC publishes new Covid guidelines on mass gatherings [2] due to the protests

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You claim the change from the CDC was abrupt.

1. The CDC already had guidelines in place for mass gatherings before the protest started so new guidelines aren't abrupt and the new guidelines came out 16 days after the protests started

2. The Floyd protests were very emotional as indicated by rioting and arson in some cities. The CDC can't stop protestors but it can attempt to reduce the spread of Covid by offering updated guidelines that take into account the protests

For example, the director brought up tear gas as it would cause more coughing [same hearing as [1]] as something specific to protests

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You also claimed there was a political aspect to it, that it was convenient the CDC issued those guidelines.

1. The director specifically stated that the protests only increased the possibility of Covid spreading. by calling them a potential seeding event.

2. The director at the time, Robert Redfield, is a Republican appointed by Trump in 2018.

[1]“I do think there is a potential, unfortunately, for this to be a seeding event" [referring to the protests] Robert Redfield, House Appropriations hearing, June 4th 2020

[2] CDC "Considerations for events and gatherings"
by danpalmer | 2025-09-28 02:25:34+00:00
How are you measuring increased productivity? Honest question, because I've seen teams claim more code, but I've also seen teams say they're seeing more unnecessary churn (which is more code).

I'm interested in business outcomes, is more code or perceived velocity translating into benefits to the business? This is really hard to measure though because in pretty much any startup or growing company you'll see better business outcomes, but it's hard to find evidence for the counterfactual.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-09-28 02:26:36+00:00
Yeah, the appetite for something iPhone like had been clear for quite some time, Apple was just the first to pull off a really solid version. Getting the touch interface right was a big factor.

But for earlier examples, I had a Palm VII back in 1999. I was working for a CRM reseller and we got one to play with as a potential solution for a client project.

It was super limited but being able to browse the web while on the go was immediately obvious as a very big deal. BlackBerries didn't get web until a couple years later but I'm sure users of that would say something similar.
by II2II | 2025-09-28 02:28:24+00:00
It was a fun experiment done by a couple of people who acquired the equipment from a defunct ISP (and likely elsewhere) to see what could be done with period equipment. It's not a question of would you do it, but could you do it. Even after considering the cost of phone lines, the modems they used would have cost a few thousand and the multiple multi-port serial adapters weren't cheap either (they were planning to use two 8 port cards, which had conflicting drivers).

As for doing it over VoIP, the box they used appeared to be the sort of thing installed in offices to support multiple phone lines. I wouldn't be surprised if they could bypass the VoIP functionality altogether since they were making internal calls.
Any thoughts about not accepting cards as payment to avoid chargebacks?
by zerp12 | 2025-09-28 02:28:27+00:00
I am currently not accepting credit or debit cards as payment for my SaaS to avoid chargeback fees.

I have seen a few articles ( like https://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/1juoa18/client_issued_a_chargeback_after_over_a_year_what/ ) mention that customers issued chargebacks even after 1 year. As I understand, if I take 12 payments in a year, 1 customer can potentially chargeback all 12 payments for a total of 12*15= $180. This seems like a lot of liability for a small business.

I am only selling with UPI ( Unified Payments Interface ) or net banking with Indian banks . This may be limiting but I do not have to worry about losing $15 - $30 for every payment that I receive.

Do you have any views to share on this ?
by abustamam | 2025-09-28 02:29:06+00:00
Haven't played Obra Dinn yet (it's on my list of games to play together with my wife), but anything by its developer Lucas Pope is a masterpiece. Papers Please, while it infuriated me at times (apparently I suck at following rules and spotting differences) was just amazing. Available on mobile and PC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,_Please
by array_key_first | 2025-09-28 02:29:33+00:00
Its not fragmentation, you (and others) just do not grasp the very basics of Linux.

Its open source.

We will never, and I mean never, have one desktop to rule them all. That's impossible. Not improbable, impossible. You just can't make that happen on Linux.

What you want is a closed-down ecosystem in which one actor controls it with an iron fist. Which is fine - more power.

But we already have that. That's windows and mac os. If Linux tried that, it would destroy it.
by jlokier | 2025-09-28 02:29:34+00:00
> I think it's silly that this exists. They should just let TCP handle this.

No, unfortunately it'snecessary so that the SSH proocol can multiplex streams independently over a single established connection.

If one of the multiplexed streams stalls because its receiver is blocked or slow, and the receive buffer (for that stream) fills up, then without window-based flow control, that causes head-of-line blocking of all the other streams.

That's fine if you don't mind streams blocking each other, but it's a problem if they should flow independently. It's pretty much a requirement for opportunistic connection sharing by independent processes, as SSH does.

In some situations, this type of multiplexed stream blockiing can even result in a deadlock, depending on what's sent over the streams.

Solutions to the problem are to either use window-based flow control, separate from TCP,, or to require all stream receive buffers to expand without limit, which is normally unacceptable.

HTTP/2 does something like this.

I once designed a protocol without this, thinking multipexing was enough by itself, and found out the hard way when processes got stuck for no apparent reason.
by bombcar | 2025-09-28 02:30:21+00:00
RIP for the days of each new version of a game having significant advances and not just a reskin/rehash/new story version of the same thing on nearly the same engine.

Thinking Commander Keen → Wolfenstein 3D → Doom → Quake kind of things.

(Sure there were always expansion packs or similar, but often done by other studios and more of a primitive DLC (Doom II, etc). But Warcraft → Warcraft 2 → Starcraft → Warcraft III was way more of a jump than the various Halos, say.)
by Hercuros | 2025-09-28 02:31:35+00:00
With the way things are going with climate change, I think that assuming “extreme climate events in different geographies are independent statistical events” is an extremely flawed assumption to make. You acknowledge that it is a simplified model, but that is not some minor oversight. Any model that does not account for this is deeply flawed, and I think no insurance company would choose to model extreme event risk like that. There are common factors (e.g. global average temperature) that can cause many of these events to be triggered in a correlated way.

A “2% risk of default” on an individual bond is something a retail investor might be able to understand, but no one should be buying a “diversified” bundle of these things if they cannot form a reasonable understanding of how correlated they are. Why should understanding the correlation risk be left up to individual investors building their own portfolios?

I also think forming an intuition for these more “all-or-nothing” type events is more difficult than e.g. understanding that if GOOG goes down 10% then AAPL might do too at the same time because they are both tech stocks.
by array_key_first | 2025-09-28 02:31:55+00:00
Your identity as an asshole versus your actions as an asshole are really not too different. It doesn't matter much.

If I know you have political views X, you already fucked up. This is a tree falling in the forest problem.

You're claiming that somehow, magically, people are being discriminated by their political beliefs without ever acting on them or saying them.

Okay how? How is that possible? If I know your political beliefs, you've already taken political action.

> Ultimately you're the one worse off for viewing people this ways. Views and beliefs don't make a person suck, actions do.

Yeah and what begets actions? Beliefs.

Theyre completely inseparable, that's just a fact of life.
by lunar-whitey | 2025-09-28 02:32:10+00:00
The talent pipeline was shut down because adtech sucked most of the oxygen out of the room, and consolidation by hyperscalers finished off what was left. Big data firms simply don’t need the same headcounts to maintain their infrastructure - it is arguably the whole point of their business.

I have spent over a decade asking myself when the systemic cost of this would be realized. Better now than in another 10 years - all of the cohort that predates this will have aged out of the workforce by then.
by ofalkaed | 2025-09-28 02:35:47+00:00
That does not seem to work with best seller lists or billboard top 100, etc, why should it work here? The consensus is just the consensus, it does not take into account my interests in gaming; granted, my interests do not really play any part into the consensus but they are my interests. I like head cheese and that is not going to change just because most people won't even try it.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-28 02:36:50+00:00
Yeah. For example I use chatgpt to refine my thoughts and dig deeper into ideas (to get my brain thinking by interacting with a machine with knowledge). But is this worthy of all the investment done? Absolutely not. Would I pay for this service? Nah. Personally I am incredibly sensitive to changes in price - I wouldnt pay a penny and thus my demand would disappear.

Im sure there are others who find more value from it, however, I dont think that group of people is enough to get OAI to be free cash flow to the firm positive any time soon. Note this is not accounting profit - FCFF takes into account reinvestment, and is the cash profits left after.
What safeguards does the US have left to protect its democracy?
by juliushuijnk | 2025-09-28 02:37:10+00:00
Seemingly, Trump can hand out orders to police, judges, army, corporations, universities, news stations. And most are carried out regardless of law.

I'm aware this post might cost me my 10 year old HN account, but am willing to offer something up for the small chance of having any influence pro democracy.

To keep it 'on topic', what will protect US startups from being taken over from the government?
by SavioMak | 2025-09-28 02:38:40+00:00
nonissue for me. This is an advantage in most cases, and the way to tell typst to just render literally is quite obvious (backslash in markup mode, quoting text in math mode). The only slightly annoying thing is that in math mode "/" becomes a binary operator for rendering like \frac, and you need to use the ugly and hard to read "\/" for an actual forward slash for tighter division.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-28 02:41:06+00:00
> This is appeal to history. We don't know if repealing the 17th Amendment would do anything at all like what happened 300 years ago.

We currently have evidence of what happened both before and after, but the before was ~100 (not 300) years ago. If you want evidence from modern day you would have to actually repeal it. Shall we give it a go?

> That state legislators wouldn't collude with the executive due to party affiliation

The required incentive is present even if the federal officials are in the same party as the state ones.

Suppose the banks are up to some shenanigans and the position of the party in power is to regulate them. Do the state-level officials want the federal government to do that, preempting them from doing it at the state level and letting the federal officials take the credit? No, they want to do it and get the credit themselves.

> That spending more money at the federal level would require them to raise taxes

In order to spend more money without raising taxes, they would have to borrow more or print more money.

The amount of money they print is essentially set by the Fed according to their inflation and economic targets and that isn't likely to change.

They already borrow about as much as they can get away with without causing major immediate problems; if they could borrow more instead of taxing more they would be doing it already. And borrowing isn't free money. It puts the taxpayers on the hook for both the principal and the interest, and the state legislators wouldn't want either of those coming from their taxpayers. Not only that, federal bonds compete with state government bonds for investment capital, so state legislators wouldn't want more federal debt either because it would make it harder for them to issue state debt.
by sema4hacker | 2025-09-28 02:41:12+00:00
You get more sales when you accept cards. Chargebacks are a cost of doing business, and your pricing has to take that into account. If you get more chargebacks than is typical, you're probably offering a product or service that attracts the wrong kind of customer, and your processor might cut you off anyway. You probably shouldn't avoid accepting cards just because you assume you'll get too many chargebacks. You can accept cards to begin with, then refuse to do so if they don't work out for you.
by LexiMax | 2025-09-28 02:41:22+00:00
Speak for yourself, but filling out a web-based form that asks for your desired username, password, and e-mail address is much easier than crafting a special registration request private message to an IRC services bot.

You solve the problem of multiple servers on Mastodon the same way you do on IRC - with a Mastodon client. If anything, it's _much_ easier to keep track of multiple accounts on Mastodon than it is on IRC.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-28 02:41:27+00:00
I bought my Kia EV6 at probably the worst time (fall 2022). EVs were in high demand, dealers were adding markups, and my credit was still reeling from just buying a house. As a result, I owe way more than I could buy it used lol. Not that I would (and ignoring the ramifications), but it would cost me less money to just let it get repossessed and go hunt it down and buy it from the used dealer that buys it at auction.
by ProfessorLayton | 2025-09-28 02:43:19+00:00
That’s really neat, I just wish Apple would go all-in on monitor support.

There’s no good reason I shouldn’t be able to plug my phone into my Studio Display when I need a bit more room to work on a task I started on my phone. Yes, there’s handoff between iOS & macOS, but it’s very tied to specific apps, and requires another Mac that may not really be necessary.
by teraflop | 2025-09-28 02:44:38+00:00
It's not exactly the same as a biological heart transplant (I assume), but you might be interested in reading the surgical instruction manual for a SynCardia artificial heart: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030011c.pdf

For instance, there's a fun diagram on page 11.

There's also an operator's manual for the "driver" that powers the heart: https://www.vumc.org/cvicu/sites/default/files/2020-03/Opera... Which includes all kinds of (appropriately!) paranoid warnings such as:

> To avoid accidentally switching off the AC power to a docked Driver, do not plug the Driver into any electrical outlet controlled by a wall switch.
by pests | 2025-09-28 02:45:01+00:00
Having the source code and understanding how it works is two different things, especially when running on state of the art hardware. If I had just read the source I would not have gained as much knowledge as this article taught me. Where did this extra info come from? They read the source too, but then they did something more. I wouldn’t call it summarization either, as again any summary I wrote about the code would pale in comparison.
by phire | 2025-09-28 02:45:21+00:00
They are using VoIP hardware, but it's not actually VoIP (which would be limited to 33kbps, they are connecting at 44kbps).

The 56k modem standard actually abuses the T1 digital voice signalling that telephone exchanges were using in the 90s/2000s. It only works when the ISP modems are connected via digital T1 lines, and the telephone connection remains digital right up until your local exchange before being converted to analog.

56k modems only work if one side of the link is digital, a pure analog connection, or any digital signalling that didn't match the exact standard telecommunication companies were using back then simply wouldn't work. So they have set up their VoIP hardware to convert directly from analog telephone lines to a bundled T1 PRI connection, which is fed into the ISP's modem bank.

They go into a lot of detail on this setup in "DIAL-UP goes DIGITAL: Setting up PRI for the TOTAL CONTROL - ISP Ep 7" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ0KTtMQ_8s

The earlier episodes are good too, but that one covers getting 56k modems working.
by sgnelson | 2025-09-28 02:45:37+00:00
This article (or rather the NBC article) has all the tell tales of an intentional leak, which this administration has used time after time. One thing Trump does know how to do well is play the media.

This is a not so subtle "warning" to Venezuela: "Do what we want or else..."

Like so many other cases of intentional leaks from the administration, it's likely meant as a deniable bluff. If someone criticizes the fact this militry planning is ongoing and it gets heat from Trump's own supporters, the adminstration can just blame it as "fake news anonymous sources." If Venzuela actually submits, then it's a win. If nothing at all happens, nothing lost.

When we talk about failure of the media, I believe part of that failure has become their own lack of introspection to see how they are being used by the administration. While it's been discussed time after time, there is still seemingly no solution, as competion for the next hot news story by up and coming journalists makes it all too easy to ignore that you're being used.
by mpalmer | 2025-09-28 02:45:54+00:00
It's unfortunate. I was willing to look past the clumsy, braggart clickbait title because there might actually be something behind the bluster.

I was ready to learn something, and instead I found that the "author" doesn't actually respect their reader's time, because the substance of the piece - the part where they're supposed to be schooling us - is clearly unedited LLM output.

Lorrrrrd but I'm fed up with this particular flavor of submission. I want to see it and its kind die hard every time it hits HN. It's a waste of human energy to produce them, and doubly so to read them.

The people who make these use LLMs enough to understand that they're offering us nothing except the service of writing prompts for us. And it's not even to share their own knowledge, or their unique perspective. The author fails to mention that using SIMD for CSV parsing has been a thing for years. They say that they are "pioneering" these techniques.

Why should serious people entertain this misrepresentation?

It's not to illuminate others, it's to masquerade as someone who knows or has learned better. Not a lot offends me, but this clears the bar easy.

Congrats on publishing.
by webnrrd2k | 2025-09-28 02:46:57+00:00
Re: “how do we handle how this changes what it is like to be human today?” part of your post... I think that came to prominence when cheap, effective birth control became available. I think it was about the first time that the common people could decide to make major alterations in how their bodies function. That debate continue in the current fight about trans rights.

As science and medicine progress, what was once considered solely god-given, or exclusively biologically determined, will be for people to decide for themselves, the decision made between them and their doctors.
by esjeon | 2025-09-28 02:49:40+00:00
An interesting contradiction is that, in Summer Afternoon, you are in a wide empty town, but, in Messenger, you're stuck in a small planet AND limited vision. You can only see near-by stuffs and never the whole town.

The design of the latter allows packing more details in a smaller space. Also, players are forced to face a lot of unexpectedness, as navigation becomes a natural challenge (which isn't difficult to overcome, which is exactly the point). It's like the blind men and the elephant, and can feel very limited, but you end up using your brain, and, in that process, you fully embrace the world details.
by naveen99 | 2025-09-28 02:50:04+00:00
Yikes. Oracle just issued 40 year mortgages , I mean bonds. Ok, you can be a little worried now. There balance sheet looks a lot like Coreweave or mstr. I guess the market will allow it for some more time. Nvidia gpu treasury companies can sell a dollar worth of future gpu for $2 for some time I guess. Of course I won’t be buying oracle or mstr… but bitcoin and gpu’s are still fine.
by lunar-whitey | 2025-09-28 02:51:09+00:00
ECE is a compromise track that limits how far one can progress on hard systems design problems. An ECE’s principal strength is that they tend to manage long term software projects better than EEs.

EEs lead in anything that is limited by physics because that is how the discipline is oriented. The bleeding edge of compute has been like this since the first microprocessors were created, at the very latest.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-28 02:51:14+00:00
The alternative is dialysis, which isn't a good patient experience at all. And this is an experimental procedure, testing an early version of the xenotransplant technology. A bad long term outcome would be "the organ ends up rejected within two weeks, and does some damage to the patient while at it".

In a perfect world, this tech would work first try, and the xenotransplant would last for decades. We don't live in a perfect world.

If this proves a workable stopgap, bridging the wait time for the people waiting for donor organs, extending lives of those who don't qualify for organ donations? It might be worth using on those grounds alone. And it's likely that organ longevity could be improved iteratively.

I.e. use an organ to failure, figure out what went wrong and what the host immune system has reacted to, find a way to gene edit around that, get another 6 months of transplant longevity in the next version. Rinse and repeat.

Yes, we don't know what the true limits are - "universal and permanent organ replacement" is very much on the table with this tech. But it's pretty clear: getting all the way there wouldn't be quick or easy. A year of organ lifetime is a damn good start.