MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pastel8739 | 2025-10-11 01:37:03+00:00
I am nearly sure that you are not arguing in good faith, but just the fact that you think all elite school grads make $500k shows that you have not talked to a nearly representative sample. I went to an elite school and have friends that make much less even than $150k. Are you aware that there is an entire parallel world beneath you with zero privilege or respect that make $40k instead of $150k?

I’m not sure why you think anyone is targeting you specifically. The vast majority of students at elite schools, in my experience, know that we got lucky in addition to all the other things that we did well to get admitted.

A couple people in this thread now have told you that they don’t match your description of “every” and “all” graduates of elite schools, and the nice thing about using such strong descriptors is that a single counterexample disproves them.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-11 01:37:11+00:00
Even during the worst collapses, massive species extinctions took centuries or milleniums. Doing it in a couple of decades instead is unprecedented.

Species extinctions are insignificant if evolution and migration can allow other species to fill niches left behind. This is the first time extinctions are happening faster than evolution. And while migration is significantly disrupted by infrastructure.

As to your second comment, solar is the cheapest energy.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-10-11 01:37:42+00:00
A households bandwidth use is quite a bit different to a business. While a household may have a lot of devices most of them are doing very little at any given time, but the primary device in use requires the best speed possible. In a business however there are a lot of primary devices and not a lot of idle little devices and as such fairness and reliability dominate the needs as does getting the frequencies maxed out for coverage and total bandwidth available.

Wifi 8 will probably be another standard homes can skip. Like wifi 6 it is going to bring little that they need to utilise their fibre home connnections well across their home.
by sampo | 2025-10-11 01:38:14+00:00
As of past 1.5 years, the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation in China seems to have reached a plateau. They are building new coal plants, more new plants than they are retiring old plants. But even with new coal plants, they have not been burning more coal.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-bu...
by resters | 2025-10-11 01:38:22+00:00
Have you ever used TikTok? It responds rapidly to your engagement (likes, skips, etc.) and very quickly starts showing you mostly the kind of content you enjoy.

Not sure what you mean about it not being relatable to a worldwide audience. I see mostly US content in English and a bit in Spanish, but the algorithm will quickly adapt to show the user content from whatever regions they are interested in.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-11 01:39:30+00:00
A developer in the Bay Area just spent 10 years litigating for the right to build a coal terminal at the Port of Oakland, and having won the suit now intends to go ahead and build it, aiming to go into operation by 2028. So clearly some people with sizable capex at their disposal disagree with you.

https://oaklandside.org/2025/09/22/oakland-coal-terminal-leg...
by dsp_person | 2025-10-11 01:39:33+00:00
https://cani.rootmy.tv/?q=OLED42C2PUA at least here the one listed method for webOS 24 is patched.

What is the method you mention? A top google result seems to be [1], which says

> All release versions of webOS 9 ("webOS 24") are patched. This means 2024 models and older TVs that have been upgraded to webOS 9 will require another exploit such as faultmanager-autoroot [2].

and [2] says

> As of 2025-08-24, the latest firmware for essentially all LG models running webOS 5, 6, 7, and 9 is patched.

[1] https://github.com/throwaway96/dejavuln-autoroot

[2] https://github.com/throwaway96/faultmanager-autoroot
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-11 01:40:24+00:00
No. Brightness and contrast are maxed out but it's not bad with a cheaper model.

My opinion --- in some cases, the difference between expensive and cheap boils down to the picture controls being intentionally limited for marketing effect.

So the cheap model maxed out looks like the more expensive model at medium. People can recognize the difference in the store so they opt for the more expensive one. But the actual displays themselves are virtually identical.

It may actually be cheaper to make one grade of display and differentiate using the controls.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-10-11 01:41:16+00:00
> if a foreign power can buy the platforms and adjust information flows to "shift" public opinion their way.

NO.

I will never accept this premise and nor should any American. The people ARE the government and they can be influenced any which way they want to be. There shouldn't ever be any such thing as the government "protecting" people from influence. If the people want to all tune into some foreign broadcaster all day and love everything he's saying. That's how the country will be.

The second you accept "oh foreign influence is manipulating our voters to X or Y so it has to be stopped" you are signing the death warrant for free speech. This is EXACTLY the justification used in all sorts of authoritarian garbage places to suppress information and restrict speech
by p4ul | 2025-10-11 01:41:33+00:00
I wish this was better understood more broadly. Grants aren't no-strings-attached gifts—far from it; they are contracts.

When a researcher at a university gets a grant, that's the federal government hiring that researcher and their team to complete a specific research project. The research team has a particular research question that the federal government has deemed important enough that U.S. tax payers would benefit from getting an answer.
by bicx | 2025-10-11 01:42:40+00:00
That’s a pretty bold statement. Look at the most popular apps, and you will see across Android and iOS that the designs across platforms are more similar than they are different. We only have 2 engineers right now, but we still maintain clean native implementations for navigation, interactions, and areas where native UI excels. Neither our Android or iOS apps appear as if we just copy-pasted from one platform to the other. Both Android and iOS had been leaning into flat design for years, so it was easy to adapt the same design language for our brand across both. Not so with this return of skeuomorphic design.
by westurner | 2025-10-11 01:42:41+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744417 :

> Though it may be more efficient to grow without soil; soil depletion isn't prevented by production processes that do not generate topsoil

> Where do soil amendments come from, and what would deplete those stocks?

> [JNF, KNF, JADAM], No-Till, Mini-forest, avoid compaction and allow diverse roots to break up the soil and hold moisture

"Inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase plant yield: study" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527264 :

> [...]

> Soil fertility > Soil depletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_fertility#Soil_depletion
by Gathering6678 | 2025-10-11 01:43:01+00:00
Not sure about the true/false of your premise, but a potential conflict between US and China will adversely affect all risk assets, which include US equity and crypto (unless you are one of those who equate crypto to gold). However, I don't think you could reverse the thinking and try to associate US-China conflict with a market disturbance solely based on the previous observation.
by pastel8739 | 2025-10-11 01:44:07+00:00
> My net worth isn't $12m at 29, it's a tenth that

This honestly reads like you are just bragging about how successful you are. I think you know this, but if you made $150k at 22 and have a net worth of $1M at 29, you are far more monetarily successful than the vast, vast majority of the country. I’m pretty sure you are rage baiting, which doesn’t belong on HN, but if not you are seriously out of touch and not grateful enough for your luck or proud enough of the work you have put in to get there.
by hmry | 2025-10-11 01:44:45+00:00
> Women prisoners have been sexually assaulted, raped and impregnated by males who were transferred in to the female prison estate

Those occurrences are terrible, no doubt about it.

When designing policy, we need to look at both directions: How many trans people get raped because they don't get transferred? So far all the data I have seen indicates that trans people are far more likely to be assaulted than to assault.

It seems to me that we should choose the option that results in the fewest assaults.
by gruez | 2025-10-11 01:45:24+00:00
Exactly. The whole "this might be the last election we have!" messaging has been going on for at least the past decade. Maybe 2024 was actually the last one, but people are tired of it, and have tuned out accordingly. Of course, the politics/news junkies think otherwise, and would rather that their message be shoved down people's throats.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-10-11 01:45:46+00:00
I agree. I think that the criticisms on legibility are extremely biased. In my experience, the real issues with Liquid Glass are in terms of decreased usable space, less discoverability of actions that were previously top-level, and most importantly (and rather objectively), battery life.

I started off thinking that the design was ugly (the reflections made it look kinda plastic) but came to like the fluidity after about a month. And I like the push away from custom fonts and colors, which software designers obsess way too much upon.
by zenmac | 2025-10-11 01:45:52+00:00
Can someone here on hn with more in deepth knowelege about ZFS commenting on why it is superior to EXT4 for example for file storage? Does each dir handle more children for example?

Last time I read here HN ZFS still seem have edge case bugs. Has it matured now? Why don't distro such as debian etc just ship ZFS as the default instead of ext4?
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-11 01:45:53+00:00
> Many times I've worked with or even hired people who are brilliant developers and praised as being very smart, yet they didn't deliver results as well as the average developer on the team who diligently gets their work done.

Very smart programmers often have a very different way of thinking about programming problems. If the project structure does not accommodate for this way of thinking, brillant programmers can barely use their "superpower".

Also, great programmers often have a deep love for their craft, and thus be very opinionated about the best possible way of solving the programming problem at hand.

So my bet is:

- you don't have software problems that "need" superpowers (otherwise the average developer on the team would be of little use)

- you don't have a project structure that enables exceptional programmers to actually use their superpowers

- you already admitted that you are rather looking for people "who diligently get their work done"

Exaggeratedly: you hired a Fields medalist to fix your clogged toilet, and you are now complaining that the average plumber is much better at fixing it.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-11 01:45:55+00:00
>as much as a cell needs a membrane.

Then maybe it's time to move beyond the membrane and start thinking about evolutionary corrections to the membrane :)

E.g ion-channel-, purine-/aromatic-heterocycle- based signalling systems, all of which are subject to (epi-)genetic control

(bearing in mind that eukaryotes have an extra-- nuclear -- membrane)

>"Anti-fascism" as it as practiced today ticks at least eight of the boxes.

This is why I consider antifa & other forms of representative identarianism (a mediocre implementation of eukaryotism, imho), including democratic socialism as promoted by Orwell*, as being right-wing.

*who has been equivocal about any non-emotivist definition of fascism:

https://archive.today/latest/https://msteenhagen.medium.com/...

>Someone who felt and expressed this fascistic feeling, according to Orwell, was the Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing A Vision in 1925 Yeats described his idea of utopia: "every detail of life hierarchical, every great man’s door crowded at dawn by petitioners, great wealth everywhere in a few men’s hands, all dependent upon a few"

Ironically.. meritocracy (which one can argue IngSoc is..) seems left-wing to me. This suggests that we should distinguish meritocracy from "meritocratic feelings"

The (political) "great man" is a paradox: he apparently overcomes (vertical) evolution but is a slave to emotivist realities. This paradoxical messianism appeals to identarians of all stripes-- vestigial in 1984 as a semi-nonymous BigBro--

The nonpolitical great man is a more subtle paradox: the great wealth supposedly concentrates unbelievable agency, but history has shown that this kind of agency is negative-sum-- if the wealth acquisition was not a pure side-effect of the agency. (Will SamA be great because he is rich or rich because he is great? News in 2 decades' time!)

"We" require open-ended or at least higher-order paradoxes to bypass "stasis of the meritocratic dead-center" .

https://youtube.com/shorts/SRp6MKh-_ZM
by kragen | 2025-10-11 01:46:47+00:00
Did letting politics go unchecked turn the telephone system into a "cesspool"? How about the newspapers? The bookstores? Videotape rental stores? The public library?

Maybe censorship is the problem, not the solution. The fact that people are allowed to use a medium to talk about things you aren't interested in doesn't imply that you can't use it to talk about the things you are.
by gruez | 2025-10-11 01:47:50+00:00
>Was never a problem on TT to date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok#LGBTQ+_an...

They went out of their way to pick on disabled people, out of all groups. I don't even think there's a party on either side of the spectrum that's like "fuck disabled people". It's pretty obvious that even before the recent acquisition they were trying to cater to a specific type of content.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-10-11 01:48:36+00:00
What's more devastating is that the CX and C1 actually had pause buttons, then they took them away around 2021/2022. It kills me that they have a dedicated button for Alexa and another for Sling (whatever that is) but none for pause.

You can disable most of the WebOS trashiness by Googling and digging through the settings. Once you get all the ads fully disabled, the OS is extremely clean and snappy.

And FYI Sony's OLED panels are made by LG. The Sonys are a bit better because of the software, but they're almost always more expensive, but if you can score a good deal they're definitely the way to go.
by shoo | 2025-10-11 01:48:57+00:00
Anchoring against the cumulative number of species that have ever existed is a strange baseline, that's a metric that will emphasise "hey, life on earth is old" but makes it very hard to say if there's anything unusual or not about the current period.

The more common baseline I've come across is comparing the estimated rate of species extinction from the last century or so versus the baseline historical extinction rate.

To pick an arbitrary article about extinction rates with citations to published research:

> But this estimated [background extinction] rate is highly uncertain, ranging between 0.1 and 2.0 extinctions per million species-years. Whether we are now indeed in a sixth mass extinction depends to some extent on the true value of this rate. Otherwise, it’s difficult to compare Earth’s situation today with the past.

> In contrast to the the Big Five [mass extinction events], today’s species losses are driven by a mix of direct and indirect human activities, such as the destruction and fragmentation of habitats, direct exploitation like fishing and hunting, chemical pollution, invasive species, and human-caused global warming.

> If we use the same approach to estimate today’s extinctions per million species-years, we come up with a rate that is between ten and 10,000 times higher than the background rate.

https://theconversation.com/what-is-a-mass-extinction-and-ar...
by kazinator | 2025-10-11 01:49:00+00:00
> Because consumers have been conditioned to understand only raw speed as a metric of Wi-Fi quality and not more important indicators of internet experience such as responsiveness and reliability.

Whie the two are not the same, they are not exactly separable.

You will not get good Internet speed out of a flaky network, because the interrupted flow of acknowledgements, and the need to retransmit lost segments, will not only itself impact the performance directly, but also trigger congestion-reducing algorithms.

Most users are not aware whether they are getting good speed most of the time, if they are only browsing the web, because of the latencies of the load times of complex pages. Individual video streams are not enough to stress the system either. You have to be running downloads (e.g. torrents) to have a better sense of that.

The flakiness of web page loads and insufficient load caused by streams can conceal both: some good amount of unreliability and poor throughput.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-11 01:49:38+00:00
>unless you are one of those who equate crypto to gold

There are cryptocurrencies which are equal to gold (paxg)

Those and some good stablecoin like USDC are all that I trust.

I literally have all my money that I ever got somehow from people with whom I worked/coded as a teen but couldn't get a bank account.

https://justforhn.mataroa.blog/blog/most-crypto-is-doomed-to...

TLDR: I repeatedly mention that crypto doesn't make sense but the tech behind it could enable things like stablecoins but they won't make anyone 100x money but that is the point of them and I love them for it

Here is the last paragraph which I wrote which might be apt right now

> The tech is cool, but it is doomed to fall and if it doesn't, then I am fine too, I don't care. I am happy with my index funds and gold and even basic stablecoins. I am content. I don't want 100x returns.

Also fun fact: This article That I wrote repeatedly urged stripe to create a stable cryptocurrency themselves and few months after this article stripe released a collaborated stable cryptocurrency or something which was super nice to me as that's what I wanted. Not sure what the progress is on it but I saw it on HN and it looked super dope and exactly what I wanted if they integrate it into stripe nicely.

Edit: https://tempo.xyz/ is what I was talking about
by nomel | 2025-10-11 01:49:43+00:00
This is, fundamentally, what made TikTok a success.

This is why TikTok is not a lens you should perceive the world through, or get "controversial" news from. It's a highly curated feed to maximize long term engagement and profits. Cortisol, the stress hormone, is the "situational avoidance" hormone [1].

> High glucocorticoid stress-responses are associated with prolonged freezing reactions and decreased active approach and avoidance behavior in animals.

Increasing a chemical that is tied to avoiding an activity is in complete odds with the goals of TikTok.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15854783/
by gonzobonzo | 2025-10-11 01:49:57+00:00
And Reddit's far more tightly censored than Tik Tok. Most subs won't even allow open discussion of certain hotly debated topics because the Reddit admins have threatened to shut them down (and shut down subs that didn't tightly censor discussion in the past). Twitter used to be pretty tightly censored as well. Right now there's a huge drama on Bluesky because many people want those that don't agree with them politically banned.

That's one of the things that's tiring about these debates. Too many people only view "free speech" as a rhetorical cudgel, using it to hit "the other side" when it's convenient, then immediately discarding it and going back to "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences!" when it's not.
by jrowen | 2025-10-11 01:50:41+00:00
It's not clear to me how any of these lead to civilizational collapse. That's equally unhinged doom fetishization. There is an incredible amount of resiliency baked into our society, and resourcefulness baked into our biology. Pick any one of those and explain the steps to, and what exactly is meant by, "collapse."

I'm not arguing against environmentalism. I'm arguing for humanity and against doom prophesies. We are the descendants of the survivors of the last cataclysmic instant-hellfire-and-brimstone extinction event, and we've only gotten more robust since.
by andwur | 2025-10-11 01:50:43+00:00
You likely ran into anti-fraud provisions with that scenario, specifically identity theft prevention. Having worked at a similar business for years, a trend for high fraud occurrence is squeaky clean credit file-high income applying for low value credit.

These have a well above average occurrence of identity theft cases, presumably because the guaranteed affordability test pass combined with low value makes it easy to get the loan and subsequently unlikely anyone will bother to chase it when they identify it as fraudulent.

It's easier, and cheaper, as a provider to just reject all originating accounts in this scenario. Similar to applying for a mortgage: if your credit parameters vastly mismatch your affordability you will get a LOT more questions asked.
by stordoff | 2025-10-11 01:50:59+00:00
Reduce Transparency helps in some ways, but also introduces its own issues. A couple I noticed in the brief time I used it:

* My home screen wallpaper is a blurred version of the astronomy lock screen. After enabling Reduce Transparency, it remains working for ten minutes or so, then gets replaced with a plain black background.

* Websites have a large bottom margin (usually white, sometimes site specific colours) where the toolbar appears if you scroll up. It feels like a complete waste of screen space if you're scrolling down a webpage to read it.

Tested on an iPhone 16 Pro Max 256GB.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-11 01:51:23+00:00
¹ Gmail became a minefield of Gemini elements to dodge, especially when they appeared where needed buttons used to be. Google, Brave and DDG all hijacked search-result space to launch into officious diatribes like your drunk and suddenly expert thanksgiving-uncle.

Elsewhere, CoPilot appears around every 3rd corner, ceaselessly trying to insert itself between you and your family pics or work docs. I think this is why MS CP has such a low adoption rate.

At some point you might notice that AI pushers and predator boyfriends are driven by the same compulsions - domination and control.
by gruez | 2025-10-11 01:51:50+00:00
>Did letting politics go unchecked turn the telephone system into a "cesspool"?

No, because it does a poor job at disseminating information. The best you can do is robocall, and that quickly gets hung up on/ignored.

> How about the newspapers? The printing press?

The second half of the 20th century was more or less a golden age of objective journalism, but it wasn't always that way. Newspapers used to explicitly partisan and had poor journalistic standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Moreover in the 2000s 24/7 cable TV channels were widely criticized for sensationalism to drive viewership. That's the closest analog to /r/all, where there's always some sort of political crisis happening every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_news_cycle#Critical_as...