MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-05 04:47:35+00:00
Where do people self-host these emails? When email self-hosting is talked about, my thoughts wander to Fastmail, Migadu, etcetera (I use one like these), but I quickly realise that's not it. On those lines, I do not believe these mail self-hosting folks are talking about some VPS, or server from some provider, or even AWS, et al., either — not self-hosting enough. It must be a computer/server always running at their home/basement/or so (with whatever power/Internet backup setup they have—or maybe not, as they might find it acceptable if something was missed/dropped). So is it that? And if that's what it is, then what is that mail self-hosting home setup of yours? What all have you got there? Just curious, I doubt I can go through that, as my patience gives in even trying to set up a VPS for a seedbox when it is time for the first maintenance/tweak.
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-05 04:47:47+00:00
> Multiple impacts is the standard hypothesis for a source of Earth's water.

Right, which is why it's baffling to me that everyone in this thread seems to be losing their mind over this result, thinking it affects the Drake equation and rewrites solar system dynamics. The multiple impacts thing might not have actually happened to earth, but there's still no reason to believe it wouldn't work.
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-05 04:48:04+00:00
Even outside of the highly politicized articles, the tendency for editors to claim articles as their personal fiefdoms and engage in petty edit wars is illustrative. Even if you feel that Wikipedia's stance is normative in the partisan sense, reasonable people should be able to see how the aforementioned dynamic interacts with the highly charged partisan environment we find ourselves in.

Yes, the current administration has issues. However, when we look at the numerous issues around previous administrations, such as the Disinformation Governance Board or the WH's directing social media companies to censor users, they are hardly new or distinct. Disregard for individual liberty is the norm. In fact, the opposition frequently celebrates what they dictate as "collective good" over the remaining notions of individual rights.

Partisans choose to engage in selective outrage.

The current issues are continuations of the trend. We see this in the rationalizations of the current partisans. School yard favorites, such as "They started it" and end-justify-the-means, "If we don't abandon the principles of free speech, we are at a disadvantage to our unprincipled opponents" are used to rationalize this behavior. Meanwhile, the principled remnant are castigated as weak, anti-maga turncoats.

Finally, the assertion around "objectivity" is either a misuse of language or a misunderstanding of basic premises. Objective truth may exist in nature, but we experience it subjectively. Further down the chain, we are able to use our limited facilities to describe it. We frequently make mistakes in both perception and description. In the case of Wikipedia, the results are of an even lower tier, as we can only describe what other, frequently partisan sources have previously described. Then there is the contentious issue of which sources are acceptable for Wikipedia's "Reliable Sources".
by int_19h | 2025-10-05 04:48:27+00:00
iPhones with a physical button are great for this because all you really need in iOS is to get back to the home screen - switching apps that way isn't ideal but it works. Or you can just double-click the button, which is still easier than writing bee dances with your fingers. My 85-year-old grandmother can handle that.

But a modern all-swipe iPhone? No way.
by eru | 2025-10-05 04:48:34+00:00
> Sorting a finite number of elements in a sequence, is a very narrow application of AI, [...]

Sorry, I did not suggest you should use AI to sort numbers. I was solely replying to this:

> Small steps of nondeterministic computation, checked thoroughly with deterministic computation every so often, and the sky is the limit.

You don't necessarily need your checks to be deterministic.

In fact, it's often better for them to be not deterministic.

See also https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/property-based-test...

I don't understand your claim about 'Deterministic computation is faster, cheaper and more secure.' That's not true at all.

In fact, for many problems the fastest and simplest known solutions are non-deterministic. And in eg cryptography you _need_ non-determinism to get any security at all.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-05 04:48:49+00:00
People joke about it but the injection of woke leftist politics into every sphere is how we got here. This culture started years ago though. Look at how Apple censored the gun emoji and replaced it with a squirt gun. The others spinelessly followed with the same change. In the end, these platforms are still run by a small number of humans. When they bring their personal ideology into it, they’re censoring the experience of the masses and that’s not okay.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-10-05 04:49:09+00:00
You misunderstand me: I don't advocate - I'm just expressing what I think is likely for the billion people out there who now have access to these tools. This Hackernews community is a rather rarefied atmosphere. When we step out into the broader public, there is a whole different world going on. Whether we like it or not, that world is what we have to deal with.
by jrussino | 2025-10-05 04:53:36+00:00
I stumbled into this "tales" section:

https://little-book-of.github.io/maths/books/en-US/tales.htm...

I started reading it to my elementary-aged kids as a bedtime story! We're only on part 7/100, and I suspect we'll be too deep for them before long, but at least or now they're really enjoying it.
by tonyarkles | 2025-10-05 04:55:12+00:00
Not disagreeing at all that elders are and have been important, but if it’s a benefit after reproductive age where does the selection come in?

I’m open to ideas. The only one I’ve been able to come up with is more second-order: the genetic benefit could come from having your children also pass on your genes, if there was a higher probability of them doing that with their parent alive past reproductive age.
by rayiner | 2025-10-05 04:55:19+00:00
Economists at the Fed skew Democrat 10 to 1. https://www.independent.org/tir/2022-fall/political-affiliat.... In a 2006 study of economists, Democrats outnumbered Republicans 2.5 to 1: https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/klein/PdfPapers/KS_PublCh06.pdf

Although it’s not really a partisan issue. Establishment republicans and establish democrats both support the central banking system.
by firasd | 2025-10-05 04:55:37+00:00
Thanks. Basically I find it useful to talk to ChatGPT or Claude after pasting this in.. by now, in comparison, Google Maps feels cumbersome to use for the Delhi metro because of all the tappity-tap-tapping required to pull up routes etc

Also for humans we kinda want to get a sense of 'lines' like how many stations remain between now and my destination, or what are the details of the interchange--the interchange is basically the 'plot' of the trip but for routing apps it's like a minor detail in the GUI.
by defanor | 2025-10-05 04:55:55+00:00
Given that we tend to pretend that our computers are Turing machines with infinite memory, while in fact they are finite-state ones, corresponding to regular expressions, and the "proper" parsers are parts of those, I am now curious whether there are projects compiling those parsers to huge regexps, in the format compatible with common regexp engines. Though perhaps there is no reason to limit such compilation to parsers.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-05 04:56:10+00:00
Intelligence agencies, and they have a legitimate edict to catch paedos or stop terrorists. Through Investigatory Powers regulation they have been granted powers to make such demands.

Australia has close legislation with the Technical Assistance and Access bills that can be used by Law Enforcement / Australian Intelligence Community, but it explicitly doesn't allow the deliberate weakening of security or backdoors, unless such a weakness is inherent in the technology.
by nurettin | 2025-10-05 04:56:59+00:00
You don't need to parse the entire xml to completion if all you are doing is looking for a pattern formed in text. You can absolutely use a regex to get your pattern. I have parsers for amazon product pages and reviews that have been in production since 2017. The html changed a few times (and it cannot be called valid xml at all), but the patterns I capture haven't changed and are still in the same order so the parser still works.
by monero-xmr | 2025-10-05 04:58:56+00:00
For those of us who exceed the AI, it raises our value enormously. You see it in the pay of the AI engineers. But in the high interest rate world, those of us who continue to be employed, are commanding higher wages, as far as I can tell. It is a culling of the lesser-than.

One unfortunate side-effect is the junior engineers who cannot immediately exceed the AI are not being hired as often. But this era echos the dotcom boom, where very low-skilled people commanded very-high wages. Universities, which have always been white collar job training but pretended they weren't, are being impacted greatly.

https://registrar.mit.edu/stats-reports/majors-count

24% of undergraduate MIT students this year have Computer Science in the title (I asked chatgpt to calculate this from the difficult-to-parse website). 1/4 of all MIT undergraduates are not being trained to be future PhD researchers - they, like all other schools, are training the vast majority of their students for private sector workforce jobs.

The culling is happening all over. We will likely go down to < 1000 colleges in America from 4000 now over the next 15 years.

This is a good thing. The cost of university degrees is far too high. We are in the midst of a vast transition. College should return to being the purview of the truly intelligent and the children of the rich, as it was for all time before WW2. This very weird experiment in human history is ending, and it cannot happen soon enough
by polartx | 2025-10-05 04:59:33+00:00
This is exactly what has happened with the same junk science tech that “Shotspotter” uses. There are recorded incidents of police leaning on support staff to alter the location of a potential detection. And their junk science software is closed source. So when they are involved in a case, the defense has subpoena their source code and voila! Shotspotter is dropped from the prosecution’s exhibit list. You see Shotspotter can’t afford to have their code scrutinized. Have you figured out why? (Junk science)
by jaggederest | 2025-10-05 05:00:20+00:00
Simulation is the answer. You just need a model that's decent at economics to independently judge the outcome, unless the model itself is smart enough. Then it becomes a self-reinforcing training environment.

Now, depending on how good your simulation is, it may or may not be useful, but still, that's how you do it. Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuZero
by commandersaki | 2025-10-05 05:01:48+00:00
Just want to elaborate on this:

If you do not have ADP enabled (which is the case in the UK as of now), device (iPhone) backups are not end to end encrypted and are stored on Apple's systems unencrypted (or encrypted with a key that Apple knows).

If you have ADP enabled then device backups are end to end encrypted; only you have the keys and therefore only you can decrypt the backup.
by throw_away_8080 | 2025-10-05 05:03:13+00:00
If you wanted to multiply two polynomials f and g of degree n, you could do distribution and the do n squared multiplications. Instead, evaluate the two separate polynomials at 2n special points, multiply the results pointwise, and then interpolate. The magical part is there are some specific points which speed up the evaluation and interpolation steps using a divide and conquer type algorithm.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-05 05:05:18+00:00
But we also lose opportunity.

Consider Mars. Endless probes for 50 years going to Mars looking for life. No clue of life has ever been found. At what point do we face the fact that Mars is a dead rock?

What we should be doing is collecting samples of extremophiles from the Earth, and attaching a few packets of them to every probe going to Mars, and see what happens. Probably nothing will happen, but it's worth a try.
by int_19h | 2025-10-05 05:05:33+00:00
The UI is supposed to be adaptive; that's why there's an "Accessibility" section in Settings.

But out of the box it's pretty clear that iPhone is quite a mess compared to most modern Androids. All the swiping from various non-obvious directions is just crazily non-discoverable, and on top of that it's easy to accidentally do something you didn't want - like pulling down notifications when you wanted control panel, or vice versa.

OTOH Android 2.x 4-button experience (back, home, context, search) was clean and very discoverable. Especially on devices where the buttons were separate hardware ones, like Nexus One - no swiping bullshit, you just press the button that you see, and that does the same thing every time.
by jdkgojwnfkgjf | 2025-10-05 05:08:57+00:00
We don't have an epidemic of people driving box trucks into schools to kill children, and parents don't run their children over with box trucks when they mistake them for an intruder in their home. The fact that people can still do horrible things to each other doesn't mean that we shouldn't make it harder. Also, how do you propose fixing the mental state of these people? Are you lobbying for increased funding of mental health programs in your area? Calling your senators? Volunteering your time to help those with mental health issues? Or are you just saying this problem is unsolvable despite the fact that almost every other country on earth has solved it?
by jkaplowitz | 2025-10-05 05:09:49+00:00
As I said, not every jurisdiction follows the rule you describe for all types of property and all types of illicit transfers. After all, innocent purchaser victims are just as non-culpable as innocent theft victims, and society doesn't always decide to prioritize the original owner's ease of having the maximum number of people to sue for recovery over the reliability of that jurisdiction as a place to innocently buy things without fear of unexpectedly being sued by a third party.

To be clear, I'm not expressing any kind of personal opinion here - I'm saying how the world actually works. Sometimes that matches what you are advocating, but sometimes not.

Of course, in both the mindset you advocate and in the other mindset, you have a claim against the person who stole your car, for sure, as well as anyone else who knowingly trafficked in the stolen goods.

Sometimes the relevant rules are different for real property vs personal property, and sometimes it matters whether the property's ownership has been registered in some register which the purchaser can verify before purchase. I don't think US car title records are generally publicly verifiable.

It's also usually relevant how the property was stolen - theft in the sense of actual larceny often has harsher consequences for the eventual bona fide purchaser (and more protections for the original owner) than if the property was stolen by fraudulently inducing the original owner to sign a deed of sale.

I'm avoiding giving specifics here because, again, the details vary by jurisdiction and by the particular facts and circumstances.
by ryandobby | 2025-10-05 05:11:15+00:00
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by tolciho | 2025-10-05 05:12:50+00:00
The sending IP remains very relevant; it may be in a third-party blacklist (RBL) or site local blacklist due to prior spam from said IP or even nearby IP(s). Let's have a look through /var/log/maillog... okay that didn't take long.

$ rubbled 86.54.42.238 86.54.42.238 zen.spamhaus.org. XBL (exploit) 86.54.42.238 zen.spamhaus.org. 127.0.0.9 86.54.42.238 zen.spamhaus.org. SBL (spammers)

Spammers can setup DMARC, and have too many domains, so blocking by IP or ASN remains relevant (no legit email from that spammy country? Ban the country!). Reverse DNS is also important, as spammers have sent too much spam (shocking, I know) that some users complain about, a lot, so: no valid reverse DNS, no service. IP addresses or domains that are "too new" may also be a problem, or some sites will want you to fill out random webforms or talk to their support idiots (Hi, Microsoft! No, me logging into some cloud thing of yours was utterly irrelevant to the problem), and all this and more amounts to a lot of rakes you need to not step on to get email setup right.

Yes, I self-host email. Gmail was routing OpenBSD mailing list traffic to the spam "folder", and self-hosting that email was easier than fighting with some rink-a-dink web UI.

Oh, one time about half the customers were in Google and the other half in Microsoft and Google and Microsoft were having some mail snit so yeah good luck getting some of those mails through. That took a while to clear up, and what can you do?
by runarberg | 2025-10-05 05:13:48+00:00
Yes, I think that will never happen. My prediction is that generational ships are super rare in the universe, and may only happen ones or twice in the entire history of a civilization, and for a tiny portion of civilizations. Meaning by far majority of all civilization will have zero generational ships. Maybe a single civilization somewhere in a distant galaxy will have hundreds, but nowhere near enough to cover an entire galaxy, not even if we count decedent civilizations.

I also think fast space travel (like 0.1c) is rare among civilizations, and may only happen in the order of hundreds of time in the history of some civilizations. And most of these fast space travel will scientific instruments for curiosity and exploration, not for colonization. And that a technologically advanced civilization would favor doing their explorations with telescopes, not probes. So probes would only be sent long distance for rare occasions.

This would mean that almost no civilizations will be expand beyond their solar system, and those that do, will only do it a handful of times, and the expansion will finally stop.
by gritzko | 2025-10-05 05:15:25+00:00
I recall a WWII sabotage manual that recommends it as a very effective sabotage technique: “let relevant authorities handle it”. Then everyone waits as the relevant authorities have being inquired through proper channels.

You can’t even hire a competent person unless you have a bit of expertise yourself. You wouldn’t know the difference.

There is some productive Middle Way here.
by Too | 2025-10-05 05:18:56+00:00
In true Microsoft spirit, they completely tanked the name. This was launched just shortly after GitHub Copilot was the hottest trend. Everyone associates Copilot with GitHub and think it's a developer-product, not an office-product.

Changing the name of the entire Office suite into Copilot didn't make things better. Now you have no idea of knowing what you are really getting. Is Office Copilot? Is Copilot Office? Is Office AI? Is AI Copilot? Is time real or just a concept? Who knows? The strongest product in Microsoft's portfolio with an established name is now gone.

Give it a year and it will be renamed again to Microsoft Teams 365 Copilot Enterprise with Office subsystem for Windows Business. Just to cover all bases.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-05 05:19:25+00:00
I think this is a good question, I’m sorry you’re being downvoted.

I think the difference is that buying/betting on a house or stocks are not a zero-sum game. It is feasible for everyone to buy a house, all the houses to increase in real-world value, and everyone benefit. Likewise with stocks. And on top of that effect, the bets being made are useful for society at large to make better plans, because they are a measure of society’s best predictions. Sports betting on the other hand, is truly zero-sum (although I think you could make an argument that it's actually worse than zero sum). Additionally, it is not useful for society to predict which team will win some set of games. This is just wasted effort on a curiosity. There’s nothing wrong with that effort as entertainment, but it is bad to incentivize our minds to take up sports betting, as opposed to say finance, engineering, art, or anything productive.
by Gud | 2025-10-05 05:20:50+00:00
I have a VPS at Hetzner. I pay 4 euro per month. It's inside a FreeBSD jail for separation.

Keeping FreeBSD up to date is extremely simple. run pkg update && pkg upgrade. It rarely breaks. Can't remember it ever breaking.

The main reason I prefer FreeBSD over Linux distros are the far superior package managers(pkg for binaries and ports for source code).

I also host my own web server using nginx, and sometimes other stuff. All in separate jails.

Back when I was a kid, I used to have my own servers.
by Scoundreller | 2025-10-05 05:21:49+00:00
> A 3kW inverter powering a fridge through extension cords (fridges/compressors can have serious inrush current). You can't just snake "yolo" cables through a house for anything drawing serious amps (say, more than 5).

Definitely on his fridge, but many newer ones are inverter drive themselves and effectively soft-start. Just 100w or whatever around the clock.

Maybe in 50 years they’ll relax my local electric code and stop requiring them to be on their own circuit. Or at least tie them with lighting so I’ll know at 8PM if the fridge has gone out for the night because the 50w of LEDs on the same branch don’t work.
by LikeBeans | 2025-10-05 05:22:24+00:00
We get 2-3 power outages every year where I live. Mainly due to trees with ice/snow/wind. My solution was to buy three power banks. A 500Wh, and a couple of 300Wh. I have a pluggable camp fridge too and a gas fireplace. So one battery powers the fan in the fireplace, another for the cooler to keep the food from spoiling. And the third one for a couple of the lights (with LED bulbs). Works great and we can handle an outage that lasts about 4-5 days. Also we got 4 of these rechargeable lanterns for lights around the house. I just keep the batteries and lanterns charged. Really easy and my investment is about $1000.
by altfredd | 2025-10-05 05:22:37+00:00
Android used to have lighting-fast builds even when accounting for Google's quirky tooling, R.java generation and binary XML processing. After introduction of Gradle build system and Kotlin Android build times have become laughingstock of entire programming world.

This however has nothing to do with Java — Kotlin compiler is written Kotlin, and Gradle is written in unholy mix of Kotlin, Java and Groovy (with later being especially notorious for being slow).