MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninkendo | 2025-10-24 23:42:10+00:00
I think the answers pretty obvious?

A product is free. Then it isn’t free.

You can argue all day whether it’s ok to do this, and I’d absolutely say it’s fine, even laudable that they’re trying to make a real business where you have to pay for a product. Great for them!

But “rug pull” is absolutely still a correct description of what’s happening, because it was free, and now it’s not. Here’s a nice rug, but you have to get off of it by $DATE because we’re going to pull it. It’s a rug pull.

If it wasn’t a rug pull, I’d be able to keep standing on the rug (the free version.)
by rendx | 2025-10-24 23:42:26+00:00
I get the feeling we're completely talking past each other. I never claimed that psychological disorders cannot have different causes. They may mostly be variants of a living organism's spectrum of maladaptive reactions to various adverse circumstances, yes.

You seem to read what I write, then make assumptions what I might be saying, and then reply to your assumptions, and ignore most of what I write (e.g. about your claims of "heritability"), which makes this a very weird interaction overall.

I agree with your idea of just letting this be, as I don't find it a very productive exchange.

I don't know why you keep coming back to fMRI and genetic markers, because, again, nothing of what I was trying to say has anything to do with whether there are measurable differences on that level or not. You seem to think that "symptoms" are described in the disorder definitions, and anything you measure is the "cause". Again: To me, it is similarly possible that both are symptoms. You can use that for diagnosis if you feel like you need to make this discrimination, but that doesn't say anything about treatment or etiology.

> psychotherapy doesn't have anything to do with "attempting to remove internalized violence against self/other."

I take it you do not consider the EMDR protocol, ACT, CBT, IFS, ego state, Schema, CFT, EFT, SE, DBT, MBSR, DBT, IPT, systemic therapy, gestalt, to be "psychotherapy" then. All of them work with and address internalized violence against self ("inner critic", self-worth, other negative thinking patterns; chronic often suppressed feelings of shame, anger, grief).
by MaysonL | 2025-10-24 23:42:51+00:00
I recently found my ipad mini 2 (released in 2013) that had been boxed up when I moved a few years ago. After charging up the battery and booting it up, I checked for system updates. The latest system available for it was ios 12.5.7, released in 2023. It loaded fine, and I’ve been using the mini as an ereader ever since – the screen is fine, and wifi works.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-24 23:43:08+00:00
What advantages does that provide over using more OS threads. Ultimately this model is based on the idea that we want our programming runtimes to become increasingly responsible for low level scheduling concerns that have traditionally been handled by the OS scheduler.

I can broadly understand why there may be a desire to go down that path. But I’m not convinced that it would produce meaningful better performance than the current abstractions. Especially if you take a step back as ask the question: is mmap is the right tool to be using in these situations, rather using other tools like io_uring?

To be clear I don’t know the answer to this question. But the complexity of the solutions being suggested to potentially improve the mmap API really make me question if they’re capable of producing meaningful improvements.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-24 23:43:45+00:00
You're just in attack mode now.

I listed a specific thing -- that Rust's ecosystem grinds people towards newness, even if goes so far to actually break things. It's baked into the design.

I don't care that it's hypothetically possible for that to happen with C, I care that practically, I've never seen it happen.

Whereas, the single piece of software I build that uses Rust, _without changing anything_ (already built before, no source changes, no compiler changes, no system changes) -- cargo install goes off to the fucking internet, finds newer packages, downloads them, and tells me the software it could build last week can't be build any more. What. The. Fuck. Cargo, I didn't ask you to fuck up my shit - but you did it anyway. Make has never done that to me, nor has autoconf.

Show me a C environment that does that, and I'll advise you to throw it out the window and get something better.

There have been about 100 language versions of Rust in the past 10 years. There have been 7 language versions of C in the past 40. They are a world apart, and I far prefer the C world. C programmers see very little reason to adopt "newer" C language editions.

It's like a Python programmer, on a permanent rewrite treadmill because the Python team regularly abandon Python 3.<early version> and introduce Python 3.<new version> with new features that you can't use on earlier Python versions, asking how a Perl programmer copes. The Perl programmer reminds them that the one Perl binary supports and runs every version of Perl from 5.8 onwards, simultaneously, and the idea of making all the developers churn their code over and over again to keep up with latest versions is madness, the most important thing is to make sure old code keeps running without a single change, forever. The two people are simply on different planets.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-24 23:43:45+00:00
It just means that there's at least one aspect of music that everyone agrees on. Harmony might be favored more by some people than others, but they're all hearing harmony. And not everyone developed scales, but all the ones who did agreed on octave equivalence.

Also, idk who finds consistent rhythm completely wrong. Some music breaks it more than others. Is there some culture that will hear Mozart and think "what, this isn't even music"?
by FlameRobot | 2025-10-24 23:44:16+00:00
It is similar enough. People would just find the first thing in a disagreement that had headline that corroborated their opinion, this was often Wikipedia or the Summary on google.

People did this with code as well. DDG used to show you the first Stackoverflow post that was close to what you searched. However sometimes this was obviously wrong, people have just copied and pasted that wholesale.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-24 23:44:38+00:00
If you use a non-Latin alphabet, Microsoft Word’s RTF output is a horrific mess of encoding switches everywhere that makes manual text extraction pretty much untenable (and while RTF can use both UCS-2 and Windows codepages, Word seems to stick to—potentially multiple—codepages if it can, presumably for compatibility). That said, Microsoft always intended RTF to be Word’s exchange and archival format (unlike DOC, which was a mess they did not want to document), so it has enough of an official spec that extracting text, at least, is very possible.
by ericd | 2025-10-24 23:44:47+00:00
I guess, but single full size panels generally put out 30-50v, and efficient batteries are usually 48V, so you’d need transformers at least, and the strings coming to our house are generally 350-500V. Newer high voltage battery packs operate at 400V+.

Not to say it’s impossible to run a DC circuit at 12V or less, but wire is expensive, and lower voltage means thicker wire.
by thevillagechief | 2025-10-24 23:45:35+00:00
I got a heat pump with a backup gas furnace this year. A heat pump just felt like a no-brainer of I was going to get an AC anyway. But gas in PA tends to be cheaper, so the system will use gas at a certain point. The problem is I couldn't have picked a whose installer if I was throwing darts at the wall, but that's another story.
Show HN: Wsgrok – one of many ngrok alternatives
by hussachai | 2025-10-24 23:46:24+00:00
I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares.

I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.
by ac29 | 2025-10-24 23:47:16+00:00
DHH made a blog post in which he implied (but did not state) that the UK isnt white enough anymore. Its gross and racist, but as far as I know this is all there is to the current controversy around him.

If you want to read the post, its here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey...
by bdzr | 2025-10-24 23:48:04+00:00
> I agree. Expecting perfection from humans, even experts, is not reasonable and is frankly counterproductive.

There's a big difference between perfection and "Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance"[1]. I don't think their intentions are bad, but they are woefully incompetent at many basic things.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/17/statistical-literacy-a...
by RhysU | 2025-10-24 23:48:50+00:00
> The effective history of computing spans a lifetime or three.

"Computer" goes back to 1613 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm was 300 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation has algorithms back to 2000 BC.
by rustystump | 2025-10-24 23:48:57+00:00
Very unpopular opinion but i like apps that ashew looking “native” for an original ux. Maybe it is my love for gamedev and all the crazy designs they come up with but i personally loath boring uninspired native apps esp when the native ux is terrible.

Apple wants everyone to conform because historically their ux is on point but the last update really reinforces my view.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-24 23:49:07+00:00
The screen repair was like $150. I've had framebooks and they broke within 3 years from hardware failures. macbooks going strong a decade+. You can repair framework, you usually don't have to with a mac. Plus, for people who can't repair their own pc, apple's support is better than framework,dell,etc.

and please ffs, stop misusing the term "gaslight". someone having a different opinion and experience than you is not the same gaslighting you. gaslighting is when someone blames you for a harm they themselves caused. it isn't even possible for me to gaslight you in this context since the harm caused can only come from apple or someone making you use apple products.

> And this idea that no other competitor makes hardware in a similar class of quality is extremely outdated.

You might be right, but framework isn't it. We're having this discussion to better inform each other, so what laptop do you recommend that has a similar build quality as an MBP?
by phkahler | 2025-10-24 23:49:12+00:00
>> because it accorded a benefit to the students who were able to take advantage of it, with no commensurate compensation for those who were not

I came to comment (without reading it) that the study results are probably not universal. The programs are self selecting because kids not suited for it won't stay. This is not a critique of the program or the kids who dont fit it. Just an observation that its so "extreme" that only kids who benefit will stay.
by tonyspiff | 2025-10-24 23:50:11+00:00
Indeed. On the other hand, there's a difference between "I one-prompted some mini LLM" and "A deep-thinking LLM aided me through research with fact-checking, agents, tools and lots of input from me." While both can be phrased with “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” or “According to AI…”, the latter would not annoy me.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-24 23:50:41+00:00
> So now, if a website leaks its private key, attackers can exfiltrate cookies from all of its users just by making them open an attacker-controlled link

This attack already exists in several forms (leaking a TLS private key, DNS hijack, CA validation attack, etc). You could tack a DNS name onto the crypto-cookies if you wanted to, but DNS is trivial to attack.

> This adds a round-trip, which slows down the website on slow connections.

Requests are already slowed down by the gigantic amount of cookies constantly being pushed by default. The server can send a reply-header once which will tell the client which URLs need cookies perpetually, and the client can store that and choose whether it sends the cookies repeatedly or just when requested. This gives the client much more control over when it leaks users' data.

> This requires significantly overhauling HTTP and load-balancers

No change is needed. Web applications already do all of this all the time. (example: the Location: header is frequently sent by web apps in response to specific requests, to say nothing of REST and its many different request and return methods/statuses/headers).

> The public-suffix list exists because it's an easy workaround

So the engine of modern commerce is just a collection of easy hacks. Fantastic.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-10-24 23:50:53+00:00
(It 's TextMate. RIP)

This is a case of "everything old is new again".

A lot of this is new to the open source world. Proprietary systems have had this for decades. In a lot of ways, the stuff we use for things like javascript are a huge step downwards from the tooling available for Java, C#, and Visual Basic.

Visual Studio is an absolutely incredible piece of software. Two decades ago, you could drag and drop GUIs. You could write callback functions on buttons and never see the any of the code around that. You could write entire programs this way.

Vibe coding has existed since visual basic for applications escaped from the deep dark depths were it was wrought. If we want to go back further, look at fourth generation languages–the unholy realm where SQL came from. ;)

What we are seeing is wider adoption of old ideas. That wider adoption may be sufficient to cause a new era of engineering.
by II2II | 2025-10-24 23:51:10+00:00
> Because that is ultimately what makes Windows games run on Linux, and represents Valve's failure to change the culture of game studios to consider GNU/Linux worth targeting

Unfortunately, eliminating the diversity of the Linux ecosystem would also be eliminating one of its strengths. Proton covers up that diversity, making it easier for game developers to target Linux (whether they do so intentionally or incidentally). While a few Linux gamers may be bothered by the Windows API providing that abstraction layer, I doubt that many are.

> I still cannot buy a GNU/Linux powered desktop at the shopping mall, with 100% everything working

If you tried installing Windows from official media on one of those shopping mall computers, you would likely find that significant pieces of hardware would not work. Sometimes, it is difficult to proceed through the install process due to this. (I have a laptop where neither the trackpad nor touch screen will work until drivers are installed, so you have to navigate through the installer with a keyboard or attach a mouse). Other times, it is theoretically impossible to complete the install process unless drivers are installed during the installation process or you temporarily add supported hardware to the machine. (Windows does not support the network adapter out of the box on the aforementioned laptop, so you theoretically get stuck at the network connection screen of the OOBE.) Do the same with Linux, and the only unsupported piece of hardware out of the box is the fingerprint reader. Heck, even the printer and scanner works out of the box. I haven't managed to get the printer or scanner working consistently under Windows even with the vendor's software installed. It's also worth mentioning that none of this hardware is obscure. (Lenovo Yoga laptop, Epson printer.)

I realize that this is misinterpreting your point, that you can walk into a store and buy a Windows laptop and you cannot do the same with Linux. At least from a major retailer. Yes, that is a valid point. On the other hand, the infrastructure is already in place. The thing that is missing is consumer demand.

> lets not forget current Valve's management won't live forever

I'm not even sure how that's relevant here. You could easily argue the same thing about Microsoft. If anything, the situation for Microsoft is worse since Linux, WINE, etc. isn't controlled by a single entity. Valve is, so the convenience of Steam could vanish. On the other hand, there are open source projects that aim to create Windows game launchers that are not tied to Valve.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-10-24 23:51:14+00:00
One thing I really didn’t like about the last remake was the new visuals were way too bright and many areas had a totally different vibe from the original. Same with the Halo 2 remake in MCC. Hopefully they’re more faithful to the original tone this time.

Also wild to see Halo on PlayStation! Though I think we all knew it was coming eventually.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-24 23:51:25+00:00
I've got one about 8 years old, and it does just fine down to 0°F (it hasn't gotten colder than that here). It doesn't even have any kind of auxiliary heat.

It's fine. The only difference when it's super-cold is that the air coming out of it isn't as warm, so the heating cycle stays on for a longer proportion of the time. But it keeps it 70°F inside no problem at all.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-24 23:51:26+00:00
Unlikely. Private equity is swooping in, especially in places like New York that have taken bizarre regulatory stances against gas.

In my area, about 75% of the HVAC companies have been swept up. Prices are up 75-150%. I got my gas furnace replaced to to beat the ban, and had a fireman who works a side gig do the job for $15k. The bids from the companies ranged from $25-85k
by IanCal | 2025-10-24 23:51:33+00:00
I think we disagree on the problem.

The thing you want to avoid is this:

a.scamsite.com gets blocked so they just put their phishing pages on b.scamsite.com

The psl or your solution isn’t a “don’t trust subdomains” notification it’s “if one subdomain is bad, you should still trust the others” and the problem there is you can’t trust them.

You could combine the two, but you still need the suffix list or similar curation.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-24 23:51:57+00:00
> although most CPU instructions may look synchronous they really aren't, the memory controller is quite sophisticated

I was eliding at lot of details. But my broader point is that from the perspective of the thread being interpreted, the paging process is completely synchronous. Sure advanced x86 CPU maybe be tracking data dependencies between instructions and actively reordering instructions to reduce the impact of the pipeline stalling caused by the page fault. But that’s all low level optimisation that are (or should be) completely invisible to the executing thread.

> there are many, many other architectures that are possible...

I would be curious to see any examples of those alternatives. Demand paging provides a powerful abstraction, and it’s not clear to me how you can sensibly move page management into applications. At a very minimum that would suggest that every programming language would need a memory management runtime capable to predicting possible memory reads ahead of time in a sensible fashion, and triggering its own paging logic.
by tzs | 2025-10-24 23:52:08+00:00
That's one of the older style units. Starting in 2007 when Mitsubishi introduced their "Hyper-Heating Inverter" heat pumps, and continuing with Fujitsu and Daikin following with similar technology in the 2010-12 timeframe, and others a few years later, heat pumps got way better in the cold.

Mitsubishi's maintain 200%+ efficiency down to -4℉ (-20℃) and 150% down to -22℉ (-30℃) [1]. Only a few towns in the continental US get below that, and even those aren't going to get cold enough long enough to make it worth it an an all electric home to switch to your emergency electrical resistance heating.

Their capacity doesn't start dropping until you get down to 23℉ (-5℃), dropping to 76% at -13℉ (-25℃).

[1] https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/study-proves-heat-pum...
by rowanG077 | 2025-10-24 23:53:20+00:00
Not really, price is still extremely important and doesn't really factor into the definition of the best product. Taken to the extreme, Imagine a laptop a thousand times faster then the best there is now, with an extremely bright HDR screen with perfect blacks and a 1000hz refresh rate. It has a battery life of years, It's made of an unscratchable metal alloy and is fanless. It runs windows, linux and macos flawlessly. It's CPU can natively executable all major instruction sets. It's extremely light. Yet it costs 50 million USD. Sure there will be some super rich who may buy it. But never will the majority of the world use it.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-24 23:53:30+00:00
> Right conclusion, wrong argument. Brains are also predictive models based on patterns they've already seen.

Human brains are more than just predictive models, as far as we can tell.

The brain also performs a wide range of other processes, including:

- Perception

- Attention

- Memory

- Decision-Making and Planning

- Emotion & Motivation

- Language and Communication

- Social Cognition

- Motor Control

- Imagination & Creativity

- Self-Awareness and Metacognition

Prediction is one mechanism that supports perception, action, and learning, but the brain also feels, remembers, plans, imagines, and relates.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-24 23:53:55+00:00
The SL-1 Nuclear Reactor Accident - https://lflank.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/the-sl-1-nuclear-rea... - March 18th, 2024

Our Stories: SL-1 – A Story from Inside a Destroyed Nuclear Reactor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWjfUQiJcU - March 10th, 2022

SL-1: The only fatal nuclear reactor accident in US history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934113 - July 2015

NASA System Failure Case Studies: Supercritical - https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/saf... - February 2007 (Volume 1 Issue 4)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_criticality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program
by somat | 2025-10-24 23:54:19+00:00
Does it have to be straight through? I can imagine a scenario where the moving shape has to be rotated as it passes through. sort of analogous to some of those block puzzles or getting a sofa around a corner.

The article does say straight through and most analyses has been done with variation of the shadow technique, which has to be straight through. But the original bet. The thing that started this whole line of thought just said you had to get one through its copy, I think rotating is is an acceptable technique in this problem.
by beej71 | 2025-10-24 23:54:20+00:00
The US has been a top, if not the top, producer and exporter of oil for some time. Trump's not particularly involved in that above and beyond using it as a campaign slogan.

The problem is that the rest of the world is very actively moving on, led by China. A great many oil importing countries reduced their imports last year. China deploys more solar in 6 months than the US has deployed ever and is distributing this technology to the rest of the world far cheaper than they can bring it here. The US had a program to get 1000 new auto chargers installed. China installed 100,000. People are simply unaware of the sheer scale of the Chinese juggernaut. They think that since we're ahead now (questionable) and we're going 95 MPH, we'll always be ahead. They don't realize that China is going 250 and we're getting passed.

Trump would do well for the country to plan ahead JUST A LITTLE BIT.

But as Bolton said, it's unclear if Trump knows the difference between his personal interest and the national interest, or if he's even aware there is a national interest.