MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tombert | 2025-10-26 01:50:10+00:00
> > Forums and communities are losing authentic voices... The comments under most tweets follow the same robotic tone, and it's obvious that a lot of them exist only to farm engagement.

I've mentioned this before, but I still think that part of the reason Something Awful was and is still fun really boils down to the fact that it cost money to join. It's not a lot of money, but enough to where it keeps bot traffic pretty low (since it would quickly get expensive to keep buying accounts as they get banned). This, in combination with the fact that there's not really a huge benefit to getting engagement other than "it's fun to be funny", and the moderators willingness to ban/probe people who make the forum un-fun, and it's become basically the only social media that I use.

I'm not quite a total boomer, I do understand the appeal of social networks like Twitter or Instagram, but I kind of think that ML recommendation systems are sort of by definition antithetical to anything good. It's not like anything a YouTube or TikTok recommendation gives me is going to meaningfully improve my life, and if these systems work as intended then all they do is make me waste more time than I would normally.
by Gigachad | 2025-10-26 01:51:02+00:00
You can't opt out. Or when you can it's increasingly difficult. The AI features on most products activate themselves automatically and shove themselves on the screen. AI slop books, art, and music are flooding platforms making it incredibly difficult to filter out. There was a case where a physical book on mushroom identification was AI generated and filled with hallucinated highly dangerous advice.

A lot of these tools are also profitable for the user while being a net negative to society. Flooding platforms with slop can make you a quick dollar while ruining the platform for everyone else.
by Aboutplants | 2025-10-26 01:51:13+00:00
My family (wife and 2nd grade daughter) have taken to coming home with numerous rocks from every vacation we have taken in the past few years. I purchased a double barrel tumbler and we have a nice little ritual each weekend of being able to move two batches of rocks at different stages along their polishing journey, admiring the changes and characteristics of the batches as they move along the process and then their ultimate result.

We now have quite the collection of wonderfully polished rocks of all kinds from the places we have been. I do the cleaning and preparing each weekend but have it down to a quick 10-15 minutes in total time. It’s simple yet magical and I’m slowly seeing how my house is going to look come retirement
by bongodongobob | 2025-10-26 01:52:16+00:00
I don't know where you guys are seeing all this AI stuff. I feel like you're going out of your way to complain about new features. Just don't fuckin use it. Even Facebook, Snapchat, insta etc, it's not in your face. You have to be very intentional to use and find it.

Edit: even on my PIXEL phone, I honestly don't know how to pull up Gemini. I also think it's ironic that on a forum for companies who are sucking on the AI teet that y'all are complaining about the world you created.

Lol awwww, AI bros are mad.
by jrmann100 | 2025-10-26 01:52:27+00:00
This doesn't really address your concern, but I feel obligated to share the Gatekeeper bypasses I know about:

Homebrew has an option which bypasses Gatekeeper when installing apps:

brew install --cask app --no-quarantine

And apparently you can have this on by default:

export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--no-quarantine"

And I have this alias for everything else:

alias unq="xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine"
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-26 01:53:33+00:00
OK so in this comment, and child comments, a number of hypotheses are mentioned for why HN is fine:

* HN is text-only

* HN lacks infinite scroll

* HN adds new content slowly

* HN is cognitively demanding

My guess is that these factors are most important. If you held them constant and added a recommendation engine in HN, I doubt HN would become considerably more addictive.
by astrange | 2025-10-26 01:53:58+00:00
I watched some of it at the time and thought it was cool, but never paid much attention. When I checked in again around the Matt Smith era it seemed to have become, um, unwatchably twee[0]. Was that on purpose or are the people who work on it just permanently like that?

[0] if you need an American English translation, maybe "theater kid energy".
by robocat | 2025-10-26 01:55:23+00:00
Too one-sided to be a useful article. Negatives need to be balanced against positives.

B2B SaaS can have some really great advantages for clients. It is best if the market is somewhat competitive (say payroll) to help prevent vendors from upping prices too much.

The vendor wants to keep clients, avoiding churn. So the vendor is incentivised to keep the product current, and often add features for free.

In a non-SaaS model, the product remains as delivered, or requires version upgrades or maintenance contracts (usually crappy).

SaaS can have cheap upfront costs especially if designed for easy onboarding, and often you can quit easily (low sunken costs).

Old-school software delivery is regularly a nightmare, and over budget because the vendor is incentivised to take money from their clients.

Tht buyer needs to choose their compromises.

I worked for a payroll software company with a product that ran on Windows, and they regularly screwed over clients because there was no alignment of incentives.
by bm3719 | 2025-10-26 01:55:54+00:00
Say you wanted to teach cultural studies. That necessarily includes politics, so you should talk about it. However, you can teach politics (or even theorize about politics), or you can do politics. I assert you can't do both, at least not in an academic setting.

Note how the author can't help but take sides on every political signifier he references. He supposedly wanted to write about the Sokal affair from his side, but the essay ends up being a polemic deeply in the now, to the degree that the documentary effort is substantively diminished. That's what papers in his field read like in the 1990s, and still do to this day.
by benzible | 2025-10-26 01:56:24+00:00
I'm hungry for good news about technical solutions working - especially right now when Trump just killed the US's largest solar project (6.2 GW in Nevada), ended USDA solar support for farms, and posted "We will not approve...Solar". So I wanted to check if California's battery story holds up.

The data is actually encouraging. Peak demand hit 48,323 MW in 2024 - higher than the 2020 blackout year's 47,121 MW [1]. Weather was severe: 2023 broke 358 California temperature records, 2024 saw valleys top 110°F during multiple heat waves [2][3]. Battery discharge reached 5-7 GW during Sept 2024 peaks, offsetting ~16% of demand [4]. That's real.

Fair caveat: 2020 had compounding failures (imports fell 3,000 MW short, gas plants failed, planning issues [5]), and recent years benefited from better coordination and wet winters. But batteries were clearly the biggest new factor - going from 500 MW in 2020 to 15,700 MW today is massive buildout, and it performed when tested.

Nice to see an existence proof that we can make progress on adapting to climate change's second-order effects, maybe even progress on root causes - through technology, at scale, in the United States of 2025.

[1] https://www.caiso.com/Documents/CaliforniaISOPeakLoadHistory...

[2] https://news.caloes.ca.gov/extreme-heat-breaking-records-at-...

[3] https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/california-...

[4] https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-beats-the-heat/

[5] https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-2020-r...
by jcrawfordor | 2025-10-26 01:58:01+00:00
I'm not an expert in this topic but I've been working on a book in a related area and had to learn a lot. Here's what I can figure.

Unfortunately radiation medicine is pretty complicated and the report gives us very little info, presumably mostly because they don't have very much info. It will take some time and effort to establish more.

What we do know is that they measured 300 CPM at the person's hair, which was probably where they expected the highest count due to absorbed water (likely clothing was already stripped at this point). CPM is a tricky unit because it is something like the "raw" value from the instrument, the literal number of counts from the tube, and determining more absolute metrics like activity and dose requires knowing the calibration of the meter. The annoying thing here is that radiation protection professionals will still sometimes just write CPM because for a lot of applications there's only one or a handful of instruments approved and they tend to figure the reader knows which instrument they have. Frustrating. Still, for the common LND7311 tube and Cs137, 300CPM is a little below 1 uSv/hr. That wouldn't equate to any meaningful risk (a common rule of thumb is that a couple mSv is typical annual background exposure). However, for a less sensitive detector, the dose could be much higher (LND7311 is often used in pancake probes for frisking because it is very sensitive and just background is often hundreds of CPM). Someone who knows NRC practices better might know what detector would be used here.

That said the field dose here is really not the concern, committed dose from ingesting the water is. Ingesting radioactive material is extremely dangerous because, depending on the specific isotopes involved, it can persist in the body for a very long time and accumulate in specific organs. Unfortunately it is also difficult to assess. This person will likely go to a hospital with a specialty center equipped with a full body counter, and counts will also be taken on blood samples. These are ways of estimating the amount of radioactive isotopes in the body. In some cases tissue samples of specific organs may be taken.

I believe that the cavity pool water would be "clean" other than induced radioactivity (activation products from being bombarded by radiation). Because water shields so well the pool should not be that "hot" from this process. Most of those products have short half-lives which, on the one hand, means that they deliver a higher dose over a shorter period of time---but also means they will not longer forever and are less likely to be a chronic problem if they are not an acute one.

I suspect this will get some press coverage and we will perhaps learn more about the patient's state.

Another way we can get at this question is by the bureaucracy of the notification. An 8-hour notification as done here is required in relatively minor cases. Usually for a "big deal emergency" a one-hour notification is required. The definition of such an emergency depends on the site emergency plan but I think acute radiation exposure to a worker would generally qualify.
by cal_dent | 2025-10-26 01:58:09+00:00
Agreed. It seems inevitable to me that the only valid social networks (social media or forum) will be some sort of semi-locked/curated kingdoms. As bot traffic and engagement increases on the Web the appeal surely starts to decline? Especially as users become better as spotting the less sophisticated bots seem to increasingly dominate a lot of activity.

Is the Internet still fun/addictive if you're not actually engaging with people anymore?
by Ygg2 | 2025-10-26 01:59:00+00:00
> rusties don't want to succumb and use a standard tar library because of performance (self inflicted performance hit from creating an incompatible ecosystem) or pride (we need a version written in rust).

Pure BS. If I wrote something in Rust rather than a binding it was because using often Linux based C libs on all Tier 1 platform is as smooth of a process as swimming in shards of glass.
by zug_zug | 2025-10-26 01:59:59+00:00
So since this study is just mechanical Turk it’s entirely possible that this is nothing.

Supposed x% of participants are bots or answer randomly — if we’re measuring a trait that isn’t significantly more common than x% then s big portion of answers for any atypical response (eg I hate other people, I prefer taste of straight coffee beans) will both be random bots and correlate
by Animats | 2025-10-26 02:00:04+00:00
Palisades MI reactor. Currently shut down and de-fueled but a restart of this reactor is apparently underway, with new fuel assemblies being delivered.[1]

Worker was wearing a life vest.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_Nuclear_Generating_S...

[2] https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/10/michigan-nuclear-plant-wo...
by dlubarov | 2025-10-26 02:00:18+00:00
> It does have jurisdiction.

Under its own rules and its own interpretation of Gaza governance. That doesn't make it some sort of legal or practical reality - I can make up a set of rules under which I'm the world leader, but it would have no effect.

> It definitely does exist.

This is a bit of a semantic question, but it doesn't really meet the criteria set out in the Montevideo Convention.

> Yes, it joined the ICC in 2015.

Not Hamas, which is the actual government of the territory in question (Gaza). The idea that an entity which never governed a territory, and has never been popular there, can grant a foreign court jurisdiction there is a bit absurd.
by pndy | 2025-10-26 02:00:38+00:00
Bad Wolf-Disney co-op was seen by some people as salvation which would bring new fresh approach but in the end they just speed up the decline of this franchise. And that started most likely somewhere around Capaldi's time - with prolonged focus on Clara.

BBC should back then pause everything and let fans take a break but instead they decided to continue with new companion. When that didn't go as expected they tried with new showrunner and Doctor; Moffat knew how to run this playground, Chibnall despite earlier good contributions did not. Then pandemics happen which resulted in delays - they tried with shorter series a'la classic show format of story split into parts but it was already too late. Not mention the stinking bomb Chibnall decided to launch to get few minutes of cheap thrills, nullifying over 50 years of creative contributions to this franchise.

Then there are socio-political elements but that just a minuscule of the whole problem.
by ruslan | 2025-10-26 02:01:14+00:00
Get two FTDI FT232RL chips, connect them together on serial side (RXD->TXD, TXD->RXD, GND<->GND). Plug into USB ports of your computers, run terminals (or any other software that supports serial I/O), send/receive data. Can use XYZModem to send files, PPP for TCP/IP networking, etc. No programming involved. Cheap as hell.
by grogenaut | 2025-10-26 02:02:19+00:00
numbers matter. A human naturally gives off 0.2mSv/year. so basically you are emitting radiation right now, just very slowly. They had 300 counts per minute which would e around 6200 mSv year. But how much is that? the limit in a year for some body parts goes up to 500mSv year for workers. But that's if their body are getting that much radiation for the whole year.

TL;DR you're always getting some ionizing radiation, how much matters.
by tombert | 2025-10-26 02:02:51+00:00
I have been trying for about a month to get my parents to move to Linux, after my mom got an automatic update that bricked her computer [1]. I've tried very hard to explain to them that their computers would likely run faster if they moved to Linux Mint or something, with the added bonus that you won't have stuff constantly monitoring everything you're doing and and spitting ads at you.

Sadly, this has been in vain; my parents are convinced that it will be "too hard" and I guess that having to call me and have me walk them through wiping their hard drive whenever Windows Update [2] decides that they'd prefer my mom buy a new laptop is somehow "easier". A part of me wants to create an ultimatum and say "I will not play tech support anymore unless you move to Linux or macOS", but I know they would call my bluff and ultimately I would end up caving.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601144

[2] If anyone here works on Windows Update, please consider a career in literally anything else. Software development clearly isn't for you. There are many other positions out there and I suspect you'd be better at nearly any of them than you are at writing software.
by nowittyusername | 2025-10-26 02:03:43+00:00
People will not get true benefits of these technologies until they own the hardware that the LLMS and its other various systems run on. Also until they are the ones to actually build the AI system or at the least had a community verify it thoroughly. Corporations are only interested in monetizing their products swaying the public and reducing litigation. You will not get a useful AI system from them, you will get corporate slop that is lobotomized and is neutered in every useful way. That's why I started working on my own fully uncensored no bullshit AI system that has the ability to use other AI systems. The regular folk will be in a HUGE disadvantage using the corporate owned AI systems compared to people who have fully capable systems that are not restricted in any of their intellectual thought traces or abilities. If you don't want to be the one left behind I strongly recommend you start thinking on how to either build such a system yourself or get something like that from an open source project.
by astrange | 2025-10-26 02:03:45+00:00
Lacan was also abusive to his students and clients, charged them incredible amounts of money, and eventually his psychiatry sessions devolved into being about five minutes long.

He was basically a cult leader. There seemed to be something going on where people are infinitely forgiving of French intellectuals (and other continental philosophers) because they are the most skilled people in the world at having infinitely complicated writing styles.

Other episodes in this series include "Althusser kills his wife and communists keep admiringly quoting him", "every 70s French intellectual signs an open letter endorsing pedophilia", and "every department at Cambridge endorses giving Derrida an honorary philosophy degree /except/ the philosophers".
by mpyne | 2025-10-26 02:04:35+00:00
Bananas emit detectable radiation, so you should probably choose different thresholds of what causes you to consider something dangerous.

They will still try to decontaminate you of any radioactive materials they can scrub off as a matter of course, but 300 counts per minute, while noticeably higher than background radiation levels, is pretty benign in the grand scheme of things. The fact that you can still count individual radioactive emissions is incredibly good news compared to how bad things could be.

Especially since the reactor will have been shutdown for some time by definition, if the reactor cavity is open enough to fall into. Hopefully the low rate of radioactivity evidenced by the counts on the person's hair is matched by the level of radioactivity in the water.

And on that note, medical attention would also be provided as a matter of course after a fall like this, but it seems to me that the physical injury of falling some distance and possibly hitting metal on the way down is going to be more of a danger than the radiation, especially compared to the sources of radiation people naturally run into (especially cigarette smoke, whether primary or secondhand).
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-26 02:05:39+00:00
"[The Dawn of Everything] suffers from serious shortcomings: the authors’ commitment to an excessively idealist view of historical dynamics, their use of rhetorical strategies that misguide their audience, and their resultant inability to account for broad trajectories of human development."

Source: https://zenodo.org/records/5907061

>the notes section

Why not just browse Wikipedia if notes are what you're after?
by Ygg2 | 2025-10-26 02:06:27+00:00
> I don't want tools to bug me EVER. This includes when I make a mistake.

If that is your true wish, may I recommend JavaScript? It's a language famous for not complaining about errors.

Or WASM/ASM if you want something closer to the metal.

I personally, want the undefined behaviour Chernobyl to beep before it melts.

> And how long had Djikstra worked as a professional programmer?

According to his wiki if you disregard his tenure at University of Austin, between years 1952 to 1984. So around 32 years.

He's literally first Dutch programmer. Yes. He was a programmer before it was a recognised job.
by vincent-manis | 2025-10-26 02:06:46+00:00
I once proposed a similar course at a major CS department where I was a junior faculty member. The response was “This is a university, we don't do things like this.” Result: students who couldn't use a debugger, did not know how to use source control systems, did not know how or why to write a shell script. Mostly, students didn't know how to use online help and documentation, leading to superstitious behaviour when doing lab work: “My friend told me to do this, I don't know why it works.” Yes, some of this can come in other course, but it's the first part to be dropped if time runs out. Even though a course like this should count for few if any credits, it is essential: helping students get more out of their other courses should be what is done at a university.
by tombert | 2025-10-26 02:06:52+00:00
Yeah, there's a bit of brilliance in the $10 fee for SA. It's not really enough to "exclude" anyone; virtually anyone can afford to pay a one-time fee, but if they keep getting banned and having to buy accounts, then it becomes untenable to create spam. The genius is that this didn't require teams of PhDs coming up with an elaborate Machine Learning system, it exploited the most basic of human instincts: loss aversion.

SA is just about perfect for me, since it has enough users to avoid the "dead mall" vibe, but it's still a relatively small community.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-26 02:06:53+00:00
"count" is that classical Geiger click, so 300 per minute is constant 5/sec gggggggg going on, which sounds bad but we don't know. They're boolean and also equipment dependent.

As others had said, more alarming part is that they ingested the water, which could go like defected Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. But it could also be like man eating few bananas seasoned with expired Himalayan salt. The report just doesn't say how much of what was ingested.
by lelandbatey | 2025-10-26 02:06:57+00:00
I think you're softly implying things are more dangerous than they actually are, possibly due to not understanding just how insanely risk averse the nuclear industry is in the US. You could jog around a reactor chamber every morning and under a "normal person's" risk tolerance, you would never, ever be exposed to any danger. That worker who fell in the reactor pool seems like they got a radiation exposure equal to approximately a dozen chest x-rays (it's ambiguous though because they don't specify what tool was yeilding 300 counts per minute, nor do they give the total mSv).

The NRC would make you attend training and get decontaminated if you had to cross a street if they operated the roads.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-26 02:07:08+00:00
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