MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mycocola | 2025-10-12 08:54:32+00:00
- Mad Max is not a great example of anarchy, as the last couple of movies featured a government led by an autocrat (haven't seen the other ones)

- The Play Store being bad does not mean the App Store is not also bad

- How do you know most of the world likes the authority of the App Store? Is it not more likely that most of the world are ignorant of its rules, and assumes a free and open marketplace?
by bandrami | 2025-10-12 08:56:08+00:00
The Zoological Survey of India would like to know but hasn't figured out a good way to do a full census. If you have any ideas they would love to hear them.

Naja naja has Least Concern conservation status, so there isn't much funding in doing a full count, but there are concerns as encroachment both reduces their livable habitat and puts them into more frequent contact with humans and livestock.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-12 08:57:53+00:00
In any case, luma noise is not at all a massive issue, and it is a mistake to say that crews do their best to produce a noise-free image. They do their best to produce an image that they want to see, and some amount of luma noise is not a deal-breaker. There are routinely higher priorities that will take over using the lowest ISO possible. They can also be financial considerations, if you don’t have enough lights.

It is only an issue in content delivery.
by mettamage | 2025-10-12 08:58:07+00:00
We don't live in times where we can have a normal conversation about drugs.

Long story short: drugs have different effects on people. If one decides to try drugs, they are throwing the dice what random effects (positive or negative) they get bestowed upon them.

There are functional people that use drugs, there are dysfunctional people that use drugs. Some people stay functional because of drugs, some people stay functional despite the drugs counteracting it. Dysfunctional people were perhaps already dysfunctional or they became dysfunctional because of the drugs. There are probably a few more categories, I don't know about percentages. It differs per type of drug how these percentages shift. Anything hitting dopamine hard that also works the next day or so, will have a strong addictive tendency to it. So it shifts towards being dysfunctional.

I've met people of all kinds. I haven't met functional heroin users though. I've only met functional alcoholics or functional psychedelic users that dabbled in the dopaminergic side of drugs but never actually used (the "I used <famous addictive drug> once" crowd). I've met dysfunctional drug users for all classes of drugs, including psychedelics. It's hard to say if it was the drugs that made them dysfunctional or if it was an apriori case. Though in some cases it was easy. Here's a pro tip: don't use drugs at 14. Some people that were teenagers in the 60s and 70s had it rough. We had no clue what we were doing. I'm Dutch. People living in Amsterdam were definitely more affected than most cities during those times. Weed was the gateway drug, working in a coffeeshop opened up a world to more drugs (since wholesaling weed is still illegal, so you meet people that have access to drugs other than weed).

The people that heal from drugs certainly have it rough. Here's a thing that can heal them but everyone stutters and stammers at the illegality of it. It's such fucking bullshit. The politics of it is bullshit. Can't we just be scientific about this already? There are enough users out there to perform natural experiments. Enough countries have actual testing stations and testing labs. It's time to actually study this thing.

And I know, there are studies, but the science on it is slow due to the illegality. It's bullshit really. Just study the damn things already, especially psychedelic drugs. They don't seem to be physically addictive.

I guess given the current political climate, this is a tough ask perhaps. Forgive me for that, my perspective is inherently European.

Also, an interesting TED talk that I saw a while back about morphine addicts [1].

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...
by ben_w | 2025-10-12 08:58:25+00:00
Since shortly after I graduated, I have been surprised by quite how many trans people I have known. So for me, I do spend a decent amount of time thinking about it.

But as a deeper question: why is gender even listed on a passport in the first place? Why does it matter for the thing a passport does, letting you pass through a port?

Picture: yes, is the person standing in front of me authorised to travel in general? Name: yes, is the person standing in front of me connected to this specific non-transferable ticket with a name on it?

Gender: who cares, it's not like planes and trains have separate male and female seating and toilets.
by fodkodrasz | 2025-10-12 08:58:30+00:00
A simple UI programming pattern, with a circular, unidirectional data flow. It is very rigid by design, to be side-effect free, functional, unidirectional:

https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

I'm no frontend guy, but I think it did/was inspire(d) react (redux?) maybe. Corrections on this very welcome
by raffael_de | 2025-10-12 08:59:35+00:00
Isn't it a bit misleading to compare this to Windows or macOS, when it is actually Ubuntu with a preinstalled window manager, like Gnome or KDE, and it just looks a little like macOS out of the box? From the web-site I couldn't tell why I would consider it over established options like Linux Mint. To qualify as a replacement I would expect it to run native binaries. LibreOffice for example is a replacement for Office as it can handle xlsx and docx etc.
by klabetron | 2025-10-12 09:01:15+00:00
This.

Went to Japan for the first time in August (…don’t recommend…the heat is intense…) and instead of spending days in Kyoto and Osaka, we spent a few days in Otsu on Lake Biwa.

Highlights:

- The freshwater beach was delightful (Biwako Omi-Maiko Nakahama) - There’s a public onsen that’s not listed on the official onsen association’s site (which only lists resorts you have to book long in advance and pay lots for): Spa Resort Ogoto Agaryanse. It has strip mall vibes from the outside but is a great local onsen on the inside. - If you’re an American and want to experience cultural appropriation: take a cruise on the Michigan paddle boat

And, of course, it’s close enough to Kyoto that you can bop in and out.
by hu3 | 2025-10-12 09:01:45+00:00
> The app developer gives the system a JSON list of urls to block.

Hahaha. Nice try. Blocking URLs was never enough because websites just proxy them from their base DNS these days and the list of URLs is limited. Doesn't take much thinking to arrive to that conclusion.

That's the whole reason the internet is bitching about manifest v3 (not v2 as you said).

I guess the free version has a smaller list, that's why I see ads in that website.

And it breaks often too, as expected: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1ctepxi/1blocker_or_ad...

Just because you have a legacy version doesn't change anything. Still pay to fix. And a bad fix at it.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-12 09:02:07+00:00
This is a shockingly bad argument.

The place where your uncle in law was finding scam apps was not some obscure website where he was downloading scam APKs. It was a centralized store from Google, just a poorly managed one.

I, for that matter, use Android. Not out of love for Google (much to the opposite, I despise them and everything they do), but out of a lack of alternative. I do value the freedom to at least use an alternative store (F-Droid), and a system that is not completely hostile to a user that has at least a semblance of an idea of what he is doing.

> the alternative to authority is anarchy.

No. Anarchy always devolves into authoritarianism. Those with the bigger stick will rule over the others through strength.

The only alternative to authority is the very imperfect freedom that comes with democracy. It sort of sucks, it is full of compromises, and is something that ensures that no one will be perfectly happy. But it's so much better than your desire to have a boot on your neck.
by kcexn | 2025-10-12 09:03:53+00:00
I don't think I'm understanding the properties of a viewshed tile.

Each tile is sized so that the viewshed size (in square metres) of every point within the tile can be found just from elevation data within the tile itself?

But that doesn't seem right from the example you gave, because along the edge at the mouth of the river, the viewshed presumably includes the rest of the river outside of the tile as well?
by frm88 | 2025-10-12 09:04:13+00:00
I completely agree with what you wrote.

There is this, though:

I don't need to know shit about plumbing, about electricity, about carpentry, or any one of dozens of specializations utterly crucial to my ongoing existence in this world.

That's the crucial difference. In each of these cases you can contact a specialist to make sure your basement doesn't flood or you don't get decapitated by your roof caving in. More to the point: you know when it's time to contact a specialist and you can easily find one. With everything around consumer electronics and hostile practises neither is the case, so you somehow have to impart that information to the uninitiated with whatever means necessary, so they - at least - recognise the limitations of their knowledge. Then regulate away the extremes.

If we don't act on these practises - and soon - we'll drown.
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-12 09:04:18+00:00
A gaggle of feuding warlords a government does not make.

> The Play Store being bad

The Play Store is actually merely “slightly worse” than the App Store. The problem was that my uncle in law was using some other “alternative app store” because Android allows this and then … inevitably … some lazy or corrupt app vendors encourage their use or outright require it. Or a phone manufacturer will try to make an extra 50c per device by inserting themselves (or a “valued partner”) between users and legitimate providers.

You’ll see arguments for this, right here, espoused vehemently by people that must really, desperately get away from oversight.

> free and open marketplace

That’s not a good thing.
by efreak | 2025-10-12 09:04:55+00:00
Gitlab. Codeberg. Neocities. Nekoweb. Wasmer. Surge. Digital Ocean. Freehostia. Awardspace. 000webhost. Static.run. Kinsta. Cloudflare Pages. Render. Hostinger. Ionos. Bluehost. Firebase. Netlify. Orbiter. Heliohost. There's probably hundreds of services with a free tier these days (though many of them will have strict limitations on website size and traffic, and you may have to run the build step locally).
by 7bit | 2025-10-12 09:05:01+00:00
This is a great example of why the death sentence should be banned everywhere. Because the justice system is not perfect and there will always be people who this happens to. But once someone is executed, you can never make up for the mistake.

And it is a great example of why prison should not be punishment, but serve rehabilitation. Because it will punish also people mistakenly put into prison, and at least they should be able to live a decent life.

And while a punishment system is much more likely to produce released criminals that commit more crimes, rehabilitation statistically shows that people coming out of prison will integrate into society and lead a happier and more peaceful life.
by honkostani | 2025-10-12 09:05:51+00:00
It is already final. You can not be stuck in medieval times in a world with nuclear weapons and proliferation. Had Israel not taken out the reactors of Iraq and Syria, ISIS and Iraq would have nukes today. Which would result (because non-reasonable actors aka fanatics longing for the afterlife) in a regional exchange.

The middle east is already gone. They will nuke one another, rather sooner then later. And their governments know. They desperately embrace the surveillance state as stabilizer, move there centers of government out of population centers expected to implode in senseless rebellion and anarchy again and again - they want to build cities optimized to escape nuclear retribution, for the day when some of their madmen lob a device at Israel.

They celebrate right now in Ghaza and chant for more violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3yaBgGzANc

And that boiling cauldron of madness is wide spread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdlsHaRD1k
by archargelod | 2025-10-12 09:06:41+00:00
> Modula. Modula 2 and 3 were reasonably good languages. Oberon was a flop. DEC was into Modula, but Modula went down with DEC.

If you appreciate Modula's design, take a look at Nim[1].

I remember reading the Wikipedia page for Modula-3[2] and thinking "huh, that's just like Nim" in every other section.

[1] https://nim-lang.org

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3
by saaspirant | 2025-10-12 09:06:45+00:00
Somewhat related:

I could never get adb in my M1 Air (Tahoe and Sonoma too) to detect any android devices.

I have an OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite 5G.

Same cable and everything works fine on Ubuntu and Windows machines.

The phone is not getting detected in the "System Information" either.

Tried MTP, PTP, USB Debugging, OTG everything.

Anyone faced this issue?
by roughly | 2025-10-12 09:06:45+00:00
As a good general starting point, assuming other people are broadly similar to you is a pretty good starting point. It helps avoid cartoonish assumptions and provides a fairly good lens for understanding behavior - instead of seeing someone do something and thinking “I would never,” going through the process of figuring out under what conditions you would, in fact, do the thing you’re seeing that other person is doing can be a great way to enrich your understanding of the world.
by la_fayette | 2025-10-12 09:06:54+00:00
I can recommend Apache Camel (https://camel.apache.org) for similar data integration pipelines and even agentic workflows. There are even visual editors for Camel today, which IMHO make it extremely user friendly to build any kind of pipeline quickly.

Apache Karavan: https://karavan.space/ Kaoto (Red Hat): https://kaoto.io

Both are end 2 end usable within vscode.
by hirenj | 2025-10-12 09:07:12+00:00
This is great - now I can get the authentic conference experience of a disengaged speaker reading out the slides in a monotone, without all the hassle of international travel and scheduling.

In all seriousness, there could be more utility in this if it helped explain the figures. I jumped ahead to one of the figures in the example video, and no real attention was given to it. In my experience, this is really where presentations live and die, in the clear presentation of datapoints, adding sufficient detail that you bring people along.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-12 09:08:08+00:00
If you want instant access to any bit of the 100 TB content, you need a wide NAS.

Otherwise, you can have a couple of HDD racks in which you can insert HDDs when needed (SATA allows live insertion and extraction, like USB).

Then you have an unlimited amount of offline storage, which can be accessed in a minute by swapping HDDs. You can keep an index of all files stored offline on the SSD of your PC, for easy searches without access to HDDs. The index should have all relevant metadata, including content hashes, for file integrity verification and for duplicate files identification.

Having 2 HDD racks instead of just 1 allows direct copies between HDDs and doubles the capacity accessible without swapping HDDs. Adding more than 2 adds little benefit. Moreover, some otherwise suitable MBs have only 2 SATA connectors.

Or else you can use an LTO drive, which is a very steep initial investment, but its cost is recovered after a few hundred TB by the much cheaper magnetic tapes.

Tapes have a worse access time, of the order of one minute after tape insertion, but they have much higher sequential transfer speeds than cheap SATA HDDs. Thus for retrieving big archive files or movies they save time. Transfers from magnetic tape must be done either directly to an NVME SSD or to an NVME SSD through Ethernet of 10 Gb/s or faster, otherwise their intrinsic transfer speed will not be reached.
Show HN: Random Country Generator – Discover any of 195 countries with one click
by Oscar_Hall | 2025-10-12 09:08:34+00:00
Hey HN!

I built a random country picker that shows flags, populations, GDP, and other stats for 195+ countries.

It's useful for: - Learning geography through randomized quizzes - Travel inspiration (let chance pick your next destination) - Games and creative projects

The interface is dead simple - just click to generate. You can also filter by continent if needed.

Free to use, no signup: https://countryrandom.com/

Curious what HN thinks - any interesting use cases I'm missing?
by danshapiro | 2025-10-12 09:09:59+00:00
Co-Author of the paper here. We don't know exactly why modern llms don't want to call you a jerk, or for that matter why persuasive techniques convince them otherwise. it's not a hard line like many of the guardrails. That said, I talked to Jesse about this, and I strongly suspect the same techniques will work for prompt conformance when the topic is something other than name calling.
by pastage | 2025-10-12 09:11:55+00:00
About:config works great. You have to run a developer build.

One could try to solve the issues with it. Honestly I think Firefox saying you could brick Firefox mobile with the wrong options is a a sign of what you call suckage. The problem is that about:config is basically useless to me on Firefox mobile so why should I bother fixing it. The real reasons is why we do not care.
by Jedd | 2025-10-12 09:12:08+00:00
We arrived in Kyoto last night, and a few hours ago (very briefly) visited the Nishiki markets the author mentions - can confirm that they were awful.

Being middle aged Australians, we are definitely part of the problem described, but taking some comfort, after reading that article through, that we're part of that first 20% cohort. Also that wandering randomly and preferring to avoid crowds makes for a better experience, in the traditional (lived), if not the insta / tik tok, sense

We're also old enough to recall travelling before 'all this', and while I'm sure that same sense of nostalgia recurs for each generation, just (like many things) it feels unnervingly like we're rapidly approaching a tipping point of sorts.

Kyoto was our nod to a 'proper city' in our itinerary, fully conscious of the warnings about crowds, but mildly optimistic about our timing. We'd originally been planning a 2020 trip, which got kiboshed, but the upside was my wife spent an additional five years collecting duolingo badges in anticipation.

We opted to eschew Osaka, and from here are heading to increasingly smaller places.

Hiroshima was one of those places I felt should be visited by everyone. Or perhaps more accurately - especially by everyone who doesn't appreciate why they should.

(The museum there - if you turn up after 9am - almost feels like it is in fact being visited by everyone.)
by Havoc | 2025-10-12 09:13:45+00:00
>flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency

Kinda, but for small writes it's still nowhere near.

Samsung 990 Pro - IOPS 4KQD1 113 MBytes/Sec

P4800X optane - IOPS 4KQD1 206 MBytes/Sec

And that's a device 5 years newer and on a faster pcie generation.

It disappeared because the market that values above attribute is too small and its hard to market because at first glance they look about the same on a lot of metrics as you say
by davidsainez | 2025-10-12 09:14:48+00:00
IMO this seems like exactly the use cases where AI fails consistently: engaging storytelling and finding the simplest solution to a problem. For example, LLMs are really good at generating walls of code that will run but don't really have good taste in architecting a solution. When I use them for coding I will spend time thinking of a good high-level approach and then use LLMs to fill in the more boilerplate style code
by fragmede | 2025-10-12 09:15:27+00:00
> But anytime I looked for instructions or objectives on how to improve my life they would basically say “I can’t tell you exactly what to do, you need to come to that conclusion for yourself.”

It comes down to this. I can meet and talk with you and pronounce judgement on your life, but me telling you what to do isn't the same as you figuring it out for yourself. You have to do that hard work. you have to sit there until you're past bored and reflect on the things you've done. and it sucks, and it's boring, and why can't you just give me the answer. But human psychology is what it is. me telling you just isn't going to be internalized the same way. One external entity has has better questions that others. some of the deepest and best insights have come from random strangers I don't know and have little connection to, in random and serendipitous moments. Watching TV, your not going up find that, imo. you've got to go out there to find yourself, as hokey as that sounds.
by bowsamic | 2025-10-12 09:15:34+00:00
I’m often surprised at how strong these things run. And while I would prefer to use a mac than anything else for a few reasons, I find it very strange when my boss praises me for being the only one who is happy making sure our software works on Windows mac and Debian, as if it’s some kind of superpower to not throw a tantrum for having to use a different computer
by aftergibson | 2025-10-12 09:17:53+00:00
I managed trips with friends and it was a great form factor for ad-hoc discussions with docs and links included. I thought it was the future and in my very early programming days wrote probably the most insecure plugin ever to manage your servers.

https://github.com/shano/Wave-ServerAdmin

It's been 16 years. I should probably archive this..
by harvey9 | 2025-10-12 09:19:00+00:00
To preface: I would be happy to see open source adoption in healthcare.

This is presented as an open source software project but it should also make a pitch to managers and doctors - the decision-makers. I put "GNU Health" into YouTube and the first few pages of results were very old and mostly amateur screencasts showing installation while one was an animated presentation with an awful robo voice. I should add none were official videos from the project team.

Then on the official site it says there's a laboratory information management component, but that is not apparent on the documentation page. This is not reassuring if I'm tasked with evaluating for potential adoption.

Next I tried looking up how the Jamaican Health Ministry is using it. The page seems to be over 10 years old: https://www.moh.gov.jm/technical-services-division/health-in... but again this is not under the control of the project team. The main team should help successful users write up their projects (the one page version) and then link to those write ups.
by Fargren | 2025-10-12 09:20:42+00:00
> It makes some sense for an AI trained on human persuasion

Why?

> However, results will vary.

Like in voodoo?

I'm sorry to be dismissive, but your comment is entirely dismissing the point it's replying to, without any explanation as to why it's wrong. "You are holding it wrong" is not a cogent (or respectful) response to "we need to understand how our tools work to do engineering".
by ValveFan6969 | 2025-10-12 09:20:43+00:00
To me, Apple has BEEN far behind. It's been far behind since the removal of the headphone jack. It's been far behind in the lack of USB integration. It's been way, way far behind the standard of technology, yet people are so pseudo-intellectual about it, to cope for the fact that they spent a ridiculous amount of cash on what is basically mainstream Linux. You can't do anything really interesting with it. You can barely game. It's simply for the mind-numbing office work, and nothing else. You're stuck in this room - this office work Eco system - and you don't know how to leave, and it's all Apple's fault you fell for the bait. You just want to open a window (pun intended) and let fresh air in, but there are no windows, and it's all Apple's fault.