MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ak_builds | 2025-09-14 05:35:56+00:00
This article is part of our launch week and our main distribution channel is LinkedIn.

Our articles are now being read by stakeholders beyond our ICP.

I agree that LinkedIn/ChatGPT style isn't the best route. We cringe on it too. We are experimenting to find a middle ground between what gets more reach, while not giving into the trending writing styles.

Can I please get some more feedback from you?

- would you prefer more technical details in this article? - or just a change in the sentence structure that is more natural (like this response)? - or both?
by zippyman55 | 2025-09-14 05:36:07+00:00
I never minded Starbucks and considered paying for their product a tax when I spent time there, usually doing some computer work, or meeting friends. But, what was once $1.00 for a cup of coffee is $6 easy. And I'm pretty affluent, and all the sudden, I can make my own Illy espresso at home, or Kerig on the go, and spend way less than a buck. I get the order right, and there is no line. Starbucks, is in a tight spot, their product is not that good compared to the many regional coffee shops that have real espresso machines, and its too easy to find alternative options to avoid the excessive costs.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-14 05:36:17+00:00
So is China going to finally let the Yuan fully float and get rid of exchange controls? That's when you know the yuan has really come of age...when you don't need special documentation to convert your yuan into dollars or euros.

But something really needs to replace the petro dollar, especially as chinese EV and clean energy tech production reduces or eliminates the need for having a petro dollar at all in most of the world.
by Voultapher | 2025-09-14 05:36:58+00:00
> With program redesigns that Rust requires

Why does Rust sometimes require program redesigns? Because these programs are flawed at some fundamental level. D lacks the most important and hardest kind of safety and that is reference safety - curiously C++ profiles also lacks any solution to that problem. A significant amount of production C++ code is riddled with UB and will never be made safe by repainting it and bounds checking.

Claiming that not being forced to fix something fundamentally broken is an advantage when talking about safety doesn't make you look like a particularly serious advocate for the topic.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-09-14 05:37:15+00:00
Looks like a project that Adafruit Electronics would have the capacity and experience to put together a great parts kit for. Else, ouch ... power "around 5dBm"? For those of us used to thinking in watts, that's around 0.003 w. ... of UHF.

Thanks to the availability of kits (mostly Heathkit), I got my start in Ham radio (and computing). Learned a lot - and kit prices helped me to afford that.
by sabakarimmm | 2025-09-14 05:37:31+00:00
This is why we started Favs - social network for close friends only. No ads, no brands, no influencers. Of course though we’ve had the cold start problem but fundamentally it’s what you’d want if your favorite people wanted to stay connected beyond a group chat. - one to many posts - maps of which city you’re in - upcoming plans - no new inbox either

I hope it people give it a shot one day.
by th0ma5 | 2025-09-14 05:38:46+00:00
The problem is different though, the containers were able to be made by others and offered dependable success, and anything downstream of model creators is at the whim of the model creator... And so far it seems not much that one model can do that another can't, so this all doesn't bode well for a reliable footing to determine what value, if at all, can be added by anyone for very long.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-14 05:39:18+00:00
> FM broadcasters only became liable for royalties to artists this decade. Big bunch of freeloaders; but not as bad as the listeners.

Back in the 70s and 80s, I would look for the "promotional copy" of music to buy. These were specially pressed records that were free of bubbles and other defects sold to consumers. They were given away to radio DJs in the hopes that they'd get played on the radio and listeners would then buy the records.

This was viewed as an advertising expense by the record producers, not a ripoff.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-09-14 05:42:54+00:00
But these US wages aren't actually all that great anymore. The vast majority of people will have nothing to show for their decade of working in tech other than a bad back, carpal tunnel, and a neurosis.

The cost of living in the Bay Area creeps ever upward and absorbs just enough salary to keep the worker bees coming back to the office the next day. It's really not that different of a life than elsewhere in materialistic terms. Except there is also nothing to do other than work or go hiking. More and more people are cluing in.
by BigJono | 2025-09-14 05:43:33+00:00
I might be reading parts of it wrong, but I think that's a different sort of thing to the research in the article.

Sugar is a very indirect cause of heart attacks, everyone knows that most heart attacks are a culmination of decades of diet and exercise habits. It's still worth researching everything to do with that, but it's pretty low value research because it's hard to draw any actionable conclusions from it other than "eat healthier and exercise", which is already well known.

The research in the article is talking about a direct cause. Bacteria exists on arterial plaque, viral infection triggers bacteria to multiply, something about that process causes the plaque to detach and cause a heart attack. If that ends up being a rock solid cause and effect, even for a subset of heart attacks, that could lead to things like direct prevention (anti-virals before the heart attack happens) or changes in patient management (everyone with artery disease gets put far away from sick patients) that could directly and immediately save a lot of lives.

The post you replied to was saying that the data from the study isn't as strong as the article and headline make it out to be, which is usually the case. For this one though I'm reading that less as "it's a nothingburger" and more as "it's a small interesting result that needs a lot of follow up".
by palmotea | 2025-09-14 05:43:40+00:00
>> The only thing better than a substandard, derivative, inexpertly produced product is 10x more of it by 10x more people at the same time.

> It all started going wrong with the printing press.

Nah. We hit a tipping point with social media, and it's all downhill from here, with everything tending towards slop.
by riffraff | 2025-09-14 05:44:08+00:00
Yeah that's always been the dream, but I'm afraid at this point I'm convinced noone wants that, because everyone just wants content to be consumed on their platform, not be available for everyone to reuse and remix on their own.

That's imo the real reason semweb, microformats etc.. failed. We're left with a bit of schema.org that just plays into Google's SEO tactics.
by muzani | 2025-09-14 05:44:20+00:00
I'm not sure if I'm missing the point here, but stablecoins could be exchanged for something of value at a fixed price. The USD used to be this - you could exchange it for gold. But it was more convenient to give paper money than exchange gold.

A Big Mac may cost $5 now, $10 in the future. But I would like a Big Mac Coin that lets me exchange it for one Big Mac in any time in the future. It has value as long as McDonald's exist and is willing to accept the coins, which is better than you can say of most crypto.

It may be a different sized burger, it may have somewhat different ingredients. Even our "classic coke" is nothing like the original coke. But this is what I'd expect from branded stablecoins.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-09-14 05:44:42+00:00
> My first thought was unfortunately whether the UK and other Western nations would copy this to build their own Firewalls

Various western networking companies already sell such products to authoritarian regimes, such as Nokia[1], Blue Coat Systems[2] and Siemens[3]. China, for reasons that are well documented elsewhere, has always wanted to build it with "their tech", the only thing that's new to me is their export of such tech to Chinese-allied nations.

> My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to prevent their citizens from accessing information and voicing dissent.

This is a very controversial opinion, but the overton window has shifted in this respect and many people often like censorship/DPI when done for "altruistic reasons", and it was sad to see Europeans (presumably) asking for blocking of social media sites since Nepal[4] had done the same, disregarding the second-order effects it would have.

Of course, we live in interesting times, with a major western world power embracing economic policies that prioritize government ownership of industries[5], which is typically closer to communism than anything we've seen in the past :)

[1] https://www.wired.com/2011/08/nokia-siemens-spy-systems

[2] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/about-bis/102-about-bis/ne...

[3] https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/ard-reports-si...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137363

[5] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1748/...
by Voultapher | 2025-09-14 05:45:46+00:00
I came to the same conclusion in a talk I gave to the Munich C++ Meetup [1]. There is a prevalent culture of expecting users to not make mistakes. Library constructs that could be significantly safer-to-use are kept easy-to-use incorrectly, usually with the argument of performance. The irony is that if you look closer, the performance optimization that was done is removing the seatbelts from a small hatchback to safe on weight.

[1] https://youtu.be/rZ7QQWKP8Rk or text form https://github.com/Voultapher/Presentations/blob/main/safety...
by stickfigure | 2025-09-14 05:45:59+00:00
> That is a wild claim

It is not.

The vast majority of English speakers do not live in the US or the UK. English is the most widely spoken language in the world. If you are at dinner with people from several countries, the "Lingua Franca" will almost certainly be English.

The popularity of Mandarin relies on the sheer mass of native speakers in China. That population is shrinking and that shrinking is expected to accelerate. The cultural export of China is inherently limited by its ideology - there's a reason we have (had, really) "Hong Kong Cinema" not "Peking Cinema".
by ModernMech | 2025-09-14 05:46:11+00:00
The way you would implement them in Python or C++ is using their functional facilities. Or you'd write a library that emulated them.

The key feature is first class functions, so you can have combinators like "or()", "and()", "repeat()", "optional()", etc, which take a function pointer as a parameter, as well as the input character stream; and returns the matched characters from the input stream, as well as the rest of the stream. When all combinators have this function signature, you can compose them easily, and writing the parser is becomes a matter of transcribing the ebnf grammar.
by giardini | 2025-09-14 05:46:17+00:00
"1970-01-01" stepped in it 5 hours ago by saying: >"You reap what you sew.<

"You reap what you sow" is correct. You sew cloth with a needle and thread but sow seeds by throwing them on fertile ground, hoping they will sprout, grow and you will later reap a harvest.
by mmis1000 | 2025-09-14 05:46:30+00:00
Ｉt's not really about the performance. It's about the readability. The performance don't even matter if you are just grouping dozens or hundreds items on the gui.

Abuse Lodash or Underscore everywhere means the code is not readable unless you know what is every used lodash function intended to do. Combing with weak type and undocumented business logic (and api types), it's a true nightmare experience to work with.

It's probably irrelevant in a personal project. But it's a headache if you are collaborating.

Sometimes it got even worse that original user don't know the exact specification of the utility function either. And the code works just by pure luck. (something like, the method work if all keys are numeric) It will give you a hard time to troubleshoot the problem if it happens.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-14 05:47:18+00:00
> Why does Rust sometimes require program redesigns? Because these programs are flawed at some fundamental level.

I'm familiar with borrow checkers, as I wrote one for D.

Not following the rules of the borrow checker does not mean the program is flawed or incorrect. It just means the borrow checker is unable to prove it correct.

> D lacks the most important and hardest kind of safety and that is reference safety

I look at compilations of programming safety errors in shipped code now and then. Far and away the #1 bug is out-of-bounds array access. D has solved that problem.

BTW, if you use the optional GC in D, the program will be memory safe. No borrow checker needed.
by exoverito | 2025-09-14 05:47:22+00:00
The teachers were all highly motivated and skilled, with a great interest in each student on a personal level. This was the Dunn Middle School, located in the Santa Ynez Valley. The classrooms were repurposed bungalows on a large ranch. I remember my history class was taught by a recent Stanford graduate, and we took notes on couches in a living room. A few times she had brought her hippie dad to teach us how to make bagels from scratch, and shared various musings about how without bacteria / fungi all the dead organic matter would keep piling up forever. The student teacher ratio was about 10:1, and there were lots of character building activities like week long backpacking trips near Joshua Tree, mandatory triathlons, hobby classes on Fridays like woodworking / cycling / hiking. There were about 20 students per grade, and it skewed high income as you can imagine. None of the students were really toxic or a problem, I remember one kid was either autistic / severely introverted, but otherwise a nice dude.
by laurencerowe | 2025-09-14 05:48:02+00:00
> Obviously even UTC for a location varies depending on the time of year.

The offset from UTC for a location varies depending on time of year but UTC definitionally has a zero offset throughout the year.

If you’re in the Europe/London time zone your time is equal to GMT/UTC (offset zero) for half the year and BST (offset +1) for the other half.

In other words we have two different types here: Timezones based on location where the UTC offset varies, and the UTC offset itself (like +0100/BST or +0000/GMT/Z.)
by lxxxvi | 2025-09-14 05:48:03+00:00
Slovenia has been running a reactor for a good long while without any problems and it's extremely safe. So from our POV, it's much more likely that Austria would prefer everyone around them to import Austrian energy instead of producing their own.

Also, Austria makes no sense. It opposes a new reactor in Slo being built but that means that the current one will just keep getting its life extended. Clearly it's not about safety.
by krrishd | 2025-09-14 05:48:16+00:00
I think you have a much cooler, futuristic vision of a "branded stablecoin" than what I'm talking about :) Almost like a more practical/feasible version of the "flatcoin" concept Balaji Srinivasan (of Coinbase/a16z/etc) had a while ago: https://x.com/balajis/status/1422993084002934788.

Frankly also my initial source of disappointment when I found out what this _actually_ is.

But yeah - in the case of this post / Bridge's offering, "branded" stablecoins are still redeemable for 1 USD, the only point of the "branding" is who is entitled to the yield and for how much "program management" around the stored value (relative to eg. a "stored value" program at a partner bank).
by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 05:48:23+00:00
As discussed multiple times, I agree with the sentiment.

I think we are reaching a phase where C++ won't be going away, as it is quite relevant in many fields, however the two languages approach will keep increasing, and many will consider C++26 good enough for such scenarios.

C++26 and not lower, due to reflection.

I am certain anything else beyond C++26 will only be considered by hardcore C++ shops that culturally won't ever use anything else, besides scripting for builds and OS automation tasks.
by ksec | 2025-09-14 05:49:38+00:00
Mac mini is probably the highest value for money Mac have ever existed in history of Apple. It really should have taken enterprise world by storm.

Except macOS and Apple's team doesn't seems to care about Mac anymore. They could have worked hard and attack the 1.5B Windows PC market and the few hundred millions of Chromebook market.

Instead it was all iPhone and Services.
by jychang | 2025-09-14 05:50:52+00:00
> My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to prevent their citizens from accessing information and voicing dissent.

Well, OpenAI and other companies training AI models have shown that the architecture of the model matters less than the quality of data fed into it. Same applies for humans.

I understand that the Great Firewall is mostly about censoring dissent, but it's also to keep Chinese citizens away from junk food media sources. The type of videos you see on Douyin vs Tiktok is a great example of the difference.

Yes, the videos on Douyin are politically censored, but they're also a lot less brainrot than Tiktok videos. The Tiktok algo is optimized for ad impressions and profit, whereas the Douyin algo is more tuned to some nebulous concept of Confucian social harmony, for better or worse.

A more nuanced take is that I don't think it's useful to measure Chinese govt behavior just mapped to "amount of suppressing political dissent". I actually think the level of censorship is above the level required for that. It's more useful to recognize that "suppressing political dissent" is actually a subset of Confucian "promote social harmony"- which is not strongly valued in the USA but is at least important enough to be paid lip service in China- and I suspect a big chunk of educated members of government may truly believe in that ideal. It explains behaviors like "why the Douyin algo is so different from Tiktok" and other overreaches of the Chinese govt, because it's not solely about suppressing dissent.
by jchw | 2025-09-14 05:51:07+00:00
> That's still worse than what X.org provides. "You can maybe do it" is worse than "You can definitely do it".

That's not worse, that's different. The positive side is that applications can't silently snoop around keylogging the system, transparently capturing things or using XTEST to bypass authorization.

Worse would be if you couldn't do it. On the contrary Wayland gives users more control over their machine than previously at least in principle (and application developers lose some control, which is obviously where a lot of frustration comes from.)

> What's not fine is then insisting that this new thing that has spent 17 years to get to a point of not being able to provide an equivalent experience to X11 should be the default and/or should replace X11.

> No one should even think about deprecating X11 until functionality under Wayland is a strict superset of functionality under X11.

X11 is mainly deprecated because nobody is really willing to work on it. The one person who wanted to work on X.org kept breaking shit. None of the desktops want to, or even can afford to, maintain X.org and Wayland paths forever. If people are upset they can get a full refund, at least.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-09-14 05:52:26+00:00
This is how I understand the uprising of stablecoins, let me know if I am wrong:

One of the best businesses is to offer this service:

Give me your money, I'll give it back to you later.

Because then you can lend out that money to someone who offers this service:

Give me your money, I'll give it back to you later. Plus some interest.

You now have a business which, at almost no cost, generates money. The interest offered by the latter service.

Doing so is regulated. You need to jump through a lot of hoops and you are very limited in whom you can lend out your customers' money to.

But you can design the same type of business with stablecoins. By offering:

Hello! I have two offerings: 1: I sell someNiceCoin for a dollar. 2: I buy someNiceCoin for a dollar.

For your customer it is the same. They give you money and get it back later.

But now you are not a "money holder". You are a trader. A trader of some coin you invented. You don't need to jump through so many hoops and you can lend out the money you earn from selling someNiceCoin to services with higher yields.
by Panzerschrek | 2025-09-14 05:53:19+00:00
The problem, mentioned in this article, is systematic one, not specific for this particular mission. Nowadays NASA operates in a mode, where failure is not an option. Any mission should be successful, which leads to costs explosion. But this wasn't always the case. Earlier failure rate was high and thus missions were duplicated, just in case if one vehicle crashes/malfunctions. A good example for this were Viking landers and 2004 rovers.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-09-14 05:53:29+00:00
> For all of its current very high profile issues of uncertainty in the US, who would actually trust China in any way shape or form as an alternative?

People would trust China for the same reason people still trust the US after it invaded 2 countries in the middle east for no reason whatsoever and decided to imprison 2 million of it's citizens at any given time.

If tomorrow there are better prospects of making money in China, then people will go to China and use the yuan to store their wealth. It's that simple. Morals have nothing to do in this equation.
by ksec | 2025-09-14 05:54:56+00:00
I believe it could come back in the form of MacBook 11". It is now clear the direction Apple wants to move to, is Product, Product Air, and Product Pro. So iPhone, iPhone Air and iPhone Pro.

I suspect Apple as rumoured will introduce a low cost, $699 MacBook 11" M4, and have the MacBook Air as a more premium option. Likely thinner.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-14 05:56:00+00:00
Wikipedia lists some limitations of the Wiedemann–Franz law[1], and also some previous violations in other materials.

Reading the Wikipedia page I don't get the sense the law is quite as fundamental as the headline and summary make it sound like.

Here's one of the previous violations:

In 2011, N. Wakeham et al. found that the ratio of the thermal and electrical Hall conductivities in the metallic phase of quasi-one-dimensional lithium molybdenum purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17 diverges with decreasing temperature, reaching a value five orders of magnitude larger than that found in conventional metals obeying the Wiedemann–Franz law. This due to spin-charge separation and it behaving as a Luttinger liquid.

Still, graphene is cool and seems to be the gift that keeps on giving in terms of surprising results in solid state physics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedemann%E2%80%93Franz_law#Li...