MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greggman65 | 2025-10-07 06:40:39+00:00
I did something along these lines 12 years ago. For me it was a backpack and a suitcase but still. I traveled hotels and airbnb's for several years. I'm not unhappy I did it but I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

Things you can't do traveling long term.

● for many it means no hangout friends. Because you're not there. You move on in 1 to 8 weeks

● no shopping. Yea, I know, some people are doing it precisely because they want to avoid consumerism. But, most people are used to traveling for a few days to 1-2 weeks max, then coming home. For most of those people, shopping for trickets, clothing, in this far away place is a joy. But, that joy is much harder to come by when you can't go back and stash your loot. All you can do is replace something you have. Buy new shoes and throw away the old ones, etc..

● no crafting / diy / maker stuff - If you're into making things you need tools and storage for materials. Not going to have those living out of a backpack/suitcase. Even little things. In my apartment I have a shelf full of stationary stuff, paper clips, push pins, rubber bands, cellophane tape, masking tap, markers, glues of various kidns. All that is not something you can travel with so if that's your hobby or if inspiration strikes while living that way you're kind of out of luck. If all you make is digital and so all you need is a notebook/tablet/phone then this is less of a problem.

● no stability - it was strange knowing I'd be homeless if I didn't start planning something before the current rentle period was up. I'd arrive somewhere and immediately have to start looking for new hotels/airbnbs for the next stop or two.

It also got somewhat tiring to arrive, look up the sights, and find that to some degree they start to get too similar. Going to an art museum 2-3 times a year is fun. Going to one every week and, at least for me, it started to get repetative. Same with visiting yet another old building. They are all great. But, they're great twice a year, not twice a week.

It's definitely gotten easier though. 12 years ago I had to buy a sim in each location. They sucked and didn't have much data. That's much better today. Free-ish wifi is more ubiquitous than it was then too.

Personally I'd just recommend traveling more often but keeping a home base. I also found that throwing away all my stuff I think was a mistake. Those things I got rid of because they were on my shelves but I never picked them up, I only realized after I got rid of them was that their point was not to be used, their point was to remind me of times, places, and people at the point in my life when I acquired each one. With them gone there is nothing to trigger those memories.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-07 06:40:51+00:00
I don't get why you'd want to get your OS images over torrents. You can download Windows for free from Microsoft's website. You don't even need to buy a key if you know how to set up a KMS server on a pihole or something.

There are trusted tools out there, like Rufus, that will enable workarounds for you if you tell them to create bootable media. Tools with developers you can look up, rather than anonymous pirates.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 06:42:12+00:00
> 80% of people with NAFLD have normal enzyme markers and 92% have no cirrhosis at all

Source?

The article says “liver enzyme concentrations, such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) have been used as a proxy for NAFLD at the population level. Although not all people with elevated liver enzyme levels have or will progress to NAFLD, these clinical measures are broadly recognized as appropriate to identify and monitor those who are potentially at risk.”
by conductr | 2025-10-07 06:42:35+00:00
Most of those are politics and that’s not part of the education. You’ll learn what a textbook definition of strategic planning is, the concept behind it but every company has its own strategic planning process and it’s always evolving.

Management training would cover all this in a few weeks. He got a full undergrad degree, meaning half his courses were just core like history and English and all that stuff. It could have been much more focused is my point.
Extracted Agent Memory from OpenAI Agents into a reusable and standalone library
by Dd_nirvana | 2025-10-07 06:43:35+00:00
I extracted the memory management functionality from OpenAI's Agents framework into a standalone Python library that anyone can use in their AI projects.

Key features: • SQLite & OpenAI-based conversation storage • Proper session management • Clean API with convenience functions for quick setup • Comprehensive examples and batch processing tools • Zero dependencies on the original Agents framework

The library handles conversation history, context memory, and provides export capabilities in JSON/text formats. Perfect for chatbots, AI assistants, or any application that needs persistent conversation memory.

Originally buried inside a larger framework, this memory system is now available as a focused, well-documented library. All tests pass, examples work out of the box.

GitHub: https://github.com/LLMNativeOS/smem
by endriju | 2025-10-07 06:45:20+00:00
I think about this quite often, as 2 of my kids were born in Ireland, but grew up elsewhere (Slavic country). I speak English with them, but so do some of my friends/neighbors with their kids. The other kids would seldom speak English though, while my kids seem to default to English somehow. Btw. they left Ireland when they were 2y and 9months old (now 9 and 7), never attended daycare there, were only exposed to English at grocery stores, doctors etc. My point is, the early exposure to the language seem to make huge difference. I'm sure it's a combination of other things too but I'd say it is definitely a strong factor. [edits: grammar]
by retSava | 2025-10-07 06:45:36+00:00
You're absolutely right! (/s)

The tone of AI-written stuff sounds to me just like the soul-less SEO-optimized content marketing blog crap we saw the years before AI became a thing. Very prevalent on Linkedin too. It just sounds/reads so hopelessly artificial.

If I were to begin using AI to write stuff for me (comments or articles or whatever), I'd at least begin with having it train on the collection of everything I've written so far.
by goffi | 2025-10-07 06:46:23+00:00
Indeed, Jingle is for establishing connections, P2P when possible, but there are lot of extensions around it.

I've proposed a specification for SFU hosting (check https://bloggeek.me/webrtcglossary/sfu/ if you don't know what's a SFU), and wrote a component based on the excellent Galène SFU, as well as client implementation (in Libervia) as part of a NLNet/NGI grant (https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia-AV/).

XMPP council (disclaimer: I'm a council member for the current term) asked me to some modifications and to re-propose, which I'm about to do. I couldn't find the time so far (cause I'm working on ton on stuffs), but will go back to it very soon.

To sum-up: this is very much worked on.
by procinct | 2025-10-07 06:47:59+00:00
Just in case you weren’t aware, you can’t use enzymatic laundry powder with merino because it will dissolve it and cause those holes. For years I thought I was going too hard on them or the holes were coming from moths, but then I read about it online. My merino gear now lasts a lot longer now that I wash it separately and with non-enzymatic powder.
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-07 06:48:00+00:00
Technically there are no "precompiled shaders" in any 3D API (outside game consoles). Even in D3D/Vulkan/Metal, shaders are passed into the API as an intermediate bytecode format, which is then compiled to the actual native instructions in the GPU driver, and that's why you get the infamous 'shader compilation stutter' even in the latest AAA PC games.

The expensive part isn't parsing text into an intermediate bytecode format like SPIRV (especially for WGSL which mostly just maps SPIRV-semantics to text), but what happens after that.

And specifically in WebGPU, even when it takes SPIRV as input, that SPIRV is taken apart, validated and then translated into bytecode formats for D3D, Metal or reassembled into another SPIRV blob for Vulkan.

From what I'm understanding from lurking in the WebGPU discussion group, the current main problem with shader compilation is that some innocent looking shaders may unexpectedly 'explode' due to loop unrolling down in the backend 3D API and a few lines of input may take seconds to compile in the worst case - and for that problem, WGSL vs SPIRV input would be irrelevant.
by balamatom | 2025-10-07 06:48:02+00:00
I think it's your kid who should be worried.

SCP-035 is not a story about a mask's color, shape, or material.

The premise is instead simple enough to be understood by a 7 year old with learning disabilities (but, curiously, not by you, the person responsible for that child):

- a magical, talking, mask

- that is supernaturally good at convincing people

- to wear/become it and thus come to harm.

Remind you of anyone? Well of course it doesn't, lmao
by zevon | 2025-10-07 06:48:25+00:00
I'm not as current as I used to be with my military trivia (I blame getting older and getting to know more refugees, veterans and families who lost people in wars) but I'll have a go:

A tank weighs like 60 tons or so. The engine and transmission alone are heavier and bulkier than whole cars, so basically none of the infrastructure you have available in many car factories is dimensioned correctly. Modern armor is composite and includes stuff like ceramic components which you would not have the machines, processes and knowledge for. "Gigacasting" sounds impressive but it's "just" aluminium injection molding that can do relatively big and integrated parts and you can't just fill in some steel-composite armor material mix in the hopper and have a fully formed Abrams fall out the other end of the machine. Things like barrels are forged (I think), which you again would not have the right infrastructure for. And so on and so forth.

My guess would be: It would be more sensible to apply division of labor and - for example - have many of the car factories spit out CNC and cast parts that fit into their usual production envelope and are then integrated into other/bigger systems at your friendly neighborhood US armory (Krauss-Maffei or wherever, more likely), specalized stuff like aircraft parts from their Gigapresses, have them do electrical work for other systems, produce lighter (support-)vehicles, use their skills and infrastructure in quick mass production for things you really need a lot of (shells, basic supplies for your war-torn population's needs, and so on), have their prototyping labs work on more cutting-edge/improvised stuff like the Drones we see in Ukraine and Russia. I'm sure there are plenty more good (terrible) ideas to be had.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 06:48:29+00:00
> in the Romance languages the name for liver comes from figs, replacing the original Indo-European name, which was still used in Classic Latin

Liver comes “from Proto-Germanic librn” [1]. Meanwhile, “the Ancient Greek and Latin words for liver (hepar and iecur) always referred to ‘liver’ directly” [2]. (“The original PIE word would have sounded something like yoqur or yequr.”) None of which sounds like the Latin ficus for fig. (EDIT: Oh, that’s the point.)

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/liver

[2] https://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(24)0...
by renegat0x0 | 2025-10-07 06:48:38+00:00
Two things:

- I wanted to install minecraft for my boy. I couldn't just start a game. It required me to tie in account to the system. First I don't like that. Second is that we have lost pin, and could not remember password or something, so we have gone through maze of xbox, microsoft online settings and whatnots. On Linux? Pass account, and password, we are set to go

- The second encounter was with playing a older FIFA game. After launching it complained about some dll file. Turned out it was missing VC redistributable. You had to manually find, and visit, Microsoft page, download old type installer, which my kid was not familiar with (Next, Next, C: program files, I accept).

After so many occasions I see that linux is even easier than Windows. I use bottles to play Warhammer Boltgun. Sure it stutters some times, but not that much. The pros and cons of having Linux looks better every day.
by fresh_broccoli | 2025-10-07 06:49:10+00:00
But to my eyes, this PR does look like spam. It has no description, its title and commit messages are meaningless. Changing random auxiliary files is also a common sign of PR spam. This PR really looks no different from other spam PRs that popular GH repos have to deal with all the time.

This is not the right way to contribute to a project. If I were the maintainer, I wouldn't engage with it either, just like I don't reply to spam emails.
by conductr | 2025-10-07 06:49:52+00:00
He’s been with the company for 20 years and they basically thought he was management material but just needed to check this box and they were willing to pay for him to do it. Strong signals that this situation specifically he was already well vetted and most of this wasn’t their concern.

For people starting their career with no experience and no network, yes the undergrad signals everything you mentioned.
by Player6225 | 2025-10-07 06:51:14+00:00
This has been my bag, more or less, for the past 3 years, moving around to different cities a few months at a time:

https://bpev.me/notes/how-i-travel-packing

It changes your relationship to objects for sure. I see something cool in a store and my first thought is "ooof but that looks heavy".
by onetom | 2025-10-07 06:51:33+00:00
> I feel like my Forth-like compiler and VM capture enough of the spirit of Forth!

Being interactive is core to the spirit of Forth, so I think your feeling is off.

The fact that editing, compilation and execution is folded into single, comprehensive workflow, makes it possible for a Forth system to be situated in very resource constrained environments and evolve while it's running, potentially without any dependence on some other, beefier computer somewhere else.

There are tons of problems avoided with bundling all these capabilities together. There is no question of "which version of the compiler to use?", since it's part of your program, because it's so small (few hundred bytes probably), it can be part of it.

It also has the D-lang, Rust or Zig style `comptime` feature via the immediate mode words.

And the list goes on an on...

Here is a starting point for understanding more of these principles: https://www.ultratechnology.com/lowfat.htm

Chuck Moore's ColorForth (https://colorforth.github.io/cf.htm) takes these ideals to some extremes, allowing an ATA IDE disk driver to be a few words of code only: https://colorforth.github.io/ide.html
by IshKebab | 2025-10-07 06:52:55+00:00
Oh sorry I thought you were talking about DHH. I've been trying to find a link to something awful that he's said but nobody has one.

And as for that incident, "spreading lies" is clearly an exaggeration. That boxers gender is at best debatable. She's clearly on the awkward boundary between genders that sport (and society in general) doesn't really know how to deal with.

> literally equating trans women with sexual predators

Not what she was saying. She was calling out an only-true-scotsmen argument.
by dcanelhas | 2025-10-07 06:53:47+00:00
It's an interesting read. I guess the difference between this situation and the ideal case is that he would have been admitted for observation as a precaution in a world where there was plenty of room and staff to take care of even the less obvious emergency cases.

Even in a very well functioning system similar cases might happen eventually, anyway (but at a much lower frequency). ROC plots come to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
by bitwize | 2025-10-07 06:54:00+00:00
Drama and forking aren't going to kill Ruby. This is a move like the one from Freenode to LiberaChat: hostile entities take over $thing, sensible people move on to $newthing, the new normal settles around $newthing.

As for DHH, he's a far-right racist.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

Silencing and excluding such people from open source is the right thing to do because failure to do so means forcing others to interact with people who are hostile to their very existence.
by 0rdinal | 2025-10-07 06:54:19+00:00
I daily drive Ubuntu, the user experience is comparable (in many cases better) to Windows 11. The only sticking point for me is display drivers. HDR on Wayland is barely functional (in my experience), and getting things like hardware accelerated AV1 encoding, full Vulkan API support etc to work has been extremely difficult. Every time I login using a Wayland desktop, only my main monitor is detected and it defaults to 60hz. I have to go through a whole process of unplugging the "undetected" monitors and plugging them back in. X11 doesn't suffer from this, but of course does not support HDR.

Yes, this is almost entirely Nvidia's fault, and yes I should know better than to use NV graphics cards on Linux distros; but frankly, the barrier to entry should not be having to replace an expensive piece of hardware to achieve feature parity. (Obligatory "Nvidia, f*k you!")
by cess11 | 2025-10-07 06:54:54+00:00
They hide who they are. If you look at their privacy policy:

https://trust.zone/privacy

Then you'll notice that it does not tell you what entity they are or where it is incorporated.

Elsewhere they claim to be incorporated as Trusted Solutions Ltd in Mahé in the Seychelles.

https://trust.zone/tr/post/trust.zone-vpn-reviewed-by-the-to...

And this review claims they are an LLC.

https://thebestvpn.com/reviews/trust-zone/

But when I search for this name in the local registry I get no results.

https://www.registry.gov.sc/BizRegistration/WebSearchBusines...

The Seychelles kind of belong to the 'non-aligned' group of countries, and maintains decent relations with Russia, India, China and so on. They also advocate for a diminished US presence in the Indian Ocean. On the other hand, they're a member of the british Commonwealth and only got independence in 1976.

Trust.Zone sure looks fishy but I can't tell from this whether they are surveillance for the UK, traffic to hide in for russian authorities and cyber crime groups or something else entirely. I'd avoid them unless I was already into grey or directly criminal activities and already had layers of protection and indirection in place.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-07 06:55:05+00:00
> A less rigorous example I like to use: it's far easier, and unequal, to kill a person than revive a person.

People's intuitions aren't going to work right for situations that are impossible. I don't think you should use that example. (Or if you mean medical revival from the edge of death, then it's very difficult to visualize a "kill" that's actually an equal amount of damage.)

And things you own are fungible while people are not, which is itself enough to ruin the analogy.
by ivell | 2025-10-07 06:55:22+00:00
I doubt if the ads are working better. I suspect their measurement approaches related to ads effectiveness is wrong.

If we are just measuring viewing of an ad as positive, then obnoxious ads will be viewed and thought to be effective. But the emotional response would be the opposite (getting annoyed instead of getting interested). I think for the company placing the ad it is a net negative.
by selvan | 2025-10-07 06:55:41+00:00
An MCP server exposes tools that a model can call during a conversation and returns results according to the tool contracts. Those results can include extra metadata—such as inline HTML—that the Apps SDK uses to render rich UI components (widgets) alongside assistant messages.

More: https://github.com/openai/openai-apps-sdk-examples?tab=readm...
by thayne | 2025-10-07 06:55:45+00:00
> It’s modeled off a federal law passed in 2010 that caps ad volumes on cable and broadcast TV, but doesn’t apply to streaming services.

Why did that law not apply to streaming services in the first place? The internet was very much alive and kicking in 2010. Sure, streaming wasn't as prevalent as it is today, but it wouldn't have taken a lot of imagination to see the same problem would become an issue on the internet as well.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-07 06:56:08+00:00
I'm not asking to hear anything more and I'm quite astonished that you feel the need to continue this. I read a point, and I made my counter-point and the response was "well you could just not bother." Why are we still bothering to talk about any of it?

All of this "surely you can see" that you're saying is presumptuous and a strawman. Of course I understand not everyone feels the same as me, should I just shut up because my experience isn't universally transferable? Why aren't you telling the people who find it draining that not everyone finds it draining?
by archerabi | 2025-10-07 06:56:19+00:00
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by nullify88 | 2025-10-07 06:57:04+00:00
We do apply the same measure, adblocking. Except since companies base their businesses on ads theres a cat and mouse game at play to ensure you pay them with your attention. I'm reminded of the scene in "Airplane" where the captain is fighting off sales people in the airport. I feel the same way about the Internet.

My earliest memory of adblocking is the VHS recorder or player skipping commercials similar today to SponsorBlock and other autoskipping methods.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 06:57:58+00:00
> Could it be because HFCS, like Sucrose is about half Fructose and that Fructose is only metabolized by the liver

The study “defined” soft drinks “as the intake of carbonated drinks such as cola or other flavors,” and excluded “diet/zero calories” soft drinks. (Frustratingly, they don’t mention if unflavored soda counted.)

So unclear from these data, from what I can tell.
by lxgr | 2025-10-07 06:58:22+00:00
Inter-satellite links simply provide additional (time-variant) paths, which doesn't inherently relate to shared state.

You seem to be under the impression that inter-satellite links somehow imply a self-organizing mesh topology that preserves terminal-to-gateway associations at any cost (including that of extra in-space hops), but that does not necessarily follow from the existence of ISLs.

In other words, your observation of occasional routing instability causing higher-layer issues is perfectly compatible with working ISLs.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-07 06:58:23+00:00
The Romance languages did not inherit the Latin word "iecur", which is cognate with the Greek "hepar", both being inherited from PIE.

Portuguese: figado

Spanish: higado

Catalan: fetge

French: foie

Italian: fegato

Romanian: ficat

all being derived from Late Latin "ficatum", which comes from "ficus", Latin for "fig".