MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Pooge | 2025-10-12 07:37:08+00:00
This is my last reply to your comments.

You're putting words in my mouth and responding to arguments I have never even made.

> There have also been periods of time in US history where your equities would have lost catastrophic value

This is true, but it also is true for cash. You rarely (never?) need all the value of your portfolio at once, so I don't understand your point. Also, most investors invest throughout their lives so even dramatic losses could actually just be a breakeven due to compounding[1]. My point stands that longer-term, an index vastly outperforms cash.

> you wouldn't have been able to draw down on your retirement without a blend of income from somewhere else

Guess what? This is exactly what happens in most cases (at least in my country) anyway as the national pension doesn't give nowhere near enough to live.

[1]: I've found a simulator that goes back a very long time back (https://dqydj.com/sp-500-periodic-reinvestment-calculator-di...). I've selected a period from January 1884 to December 1932. 1932 is one of the big dips, and 1884 would be the time someone would start working if he retired in 1932 (roughly 45 years earlier). For monthly investment you can put whatever you wish, but I've set the initial investment to zero. You can see that your scare tactic doesn't work as the investor still made a huge profit despite an apocalyptic market crash.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-12 07:37:25+00:00
An issue that might not be obvious is that most of the metals in question are mined exclusively as secondary and tertiary ores. It is rarely profitable to mine them as primary ores and in some cases, like gallium, they don’t exist as primary ores. Consequently, there is a long list of metals that are mined almost entirely from the waste streams of primary metal ores with chemical processes that coincidentally have these other metals or which coincidentally partially refine other metals in the waste stream. This allows you to get a lot of work for free as a side-effect of processing the primary ore.

A canonical example of this is gallium, which famously doesn’t concentrate or form ores. However, the process of refining aluminum coincidentally partially refines gallium as a byproduct. So almost all gallium is produced by continued processing of the aluminum refinery waste stream even though aluminum ore contains no more gallium than a random rock.

China produces almost all of their REE from secondary and tertiary ores. The prerequisite to having these secondary and tertiary ore process is having a primary ore. If you are not processing primary ores, none of the secondary and tertiary ores will be available to you as an option. If you want to have a supply chain for diverse metals, you need to be processing diverse primary ores with an eye toward reprocessing the waste stream when it is chemically efficient.

The US has outsourced much of the primary ore processing that can produce a lot of metals that can only be economically produced as secondary ore products.
by ivanbelenky | 2025-10-12 07:37:27+00:00
Thanks for sharing. I did not know this law existed and had a name. I know nothing about nothing but it appears to be the case that the interpretation of metrics for policies assume implicitly the "shape" of the domain. E.g. in RL for games we see a bunch of outlier behavior for policies just gaming the signal.

There seems to be 2 types

- Specification failure: signal is bad-ish, a completely broken behavior --> local optimal points achieved for policies that phenomenologically do not represent what was expected/desired to cover --> signaling an improvable reward signal definition

- Domain constraint failure: signal is still good and optimization is "legitimate", but you are prompted with the question "do I need to constraint my domain of solutions?"

- finding a bug that reduces time to completion of a game in a speedrun setting would be a new acceptable baseline, because there are no rules to finishing the game earlier - shooting amphetamines on a 100m run would probably minimize time, but other factors will make people consider disallowing such practices.
Show HN: Zerorain – Game of binary rain for the terminal
by ugotsta | 2025-10-12 07:38:06+00:00
The game of binary rain. Totally inspired by The Matrix and cmatrix specifically. It's just a simplified typing game. Just two keys for control, 0 and 1. Type the digits in sequence within the falling strains to clear them before they reach bottom.

Made with Nim. Zero dependencies, under 200KB compiled, crazy fast compile time (under 2 seconds on my PC).
by pedro_caetano | 2025-10-12 07:38:43+00:00
Most of these e-ink solutions are great for reading (mostly static) content but still feel like a compromise for productive work.

I wish there was a bigger market and interest for 'unsexy' RLCD transflective displays, at the moment all the RLCD solutions feel very constrained for user side modding and just generally overpriced.

Something like the old Pixel Qi 10" Display modules in a bigger form factor would be ideal.
by nis0s | 2025-10-12 07:38:49+00:00
Liberals and leftists have the propensity to be sanctimonious hypocrites more so than other political types because the left side of the political spectrum operates under self-assumed universal moral superiority while espousing moral relativism.

You can see this in a lot of the pro-immigration/globalist discourse—it’s moral to help people from other nations, it’s immoral to care about effects on local communities, border integrity, or national sovereignty. There’s a complete lack of empathy for blue collar labor which suffered job losses and industry shifts due to outsourcing; they were just told to learn to code.

Big tech leftists and liberals are especially disingenuous because they know that corporations need to be taxed more, but they never actually say that, all the while making inane memes about capitalism. Socializing big tech is only going to centralize power for the government, which ever party is in power. Instead, it’s probably more advantageous to break big tech up into pieces that are still useful to the economy, but don’t allow them to offshore operations easily.

People used to just make “freeze peach” memes when conservatives were getting blacklisted from hosting sites, or were taken off Twitter. Meanwhile leftist propaganda about violence against police has always been left up without moderation, even before Trump ever became a politician. Social media in general is softly permissive towards enabling leftist extremism, and search engines used to feed into that too before conservatives cried about “alternative” viewpoints. No one took that seriously before Trump came into power in 2016.

I am well aware about how disingenuous conservatives can be, but imagine if a Democratic presidential candidate was removed off Twitter like Trump, it would have been decried as the end of democracy itself. Meanwhile leftists are left pearl-clutching if you say they’re authoritarian.

If instead everyone all along the political spectrum was less interested in tribalism, we’d all be better off for it.
by Razengan | 2025-10-12 07:40:17+00:00
This year so much has gone to shit in Apple's OSes (Tahoe and the other version 26 ones) it's unbelievable.

Did some CxO let their brother-in-law's cousin's nephew have a go at managing all the teams? I haven't felt this kind of frustration with an operating system since jumping from the Microsoft ship during Windows 8.

Some basic UI is literally unreadable on the dumbass "glass" implementation. There are blatant rendering bugs and placeholders still in the shipped version, just look at the effing Contacts app. DRM slowdowns have crippled the Music and TV apps so much I literally cancelled my subscription and went back to piracy. I'd post example screenshots but I already wasted enough time just writing this ragecomment.
by squarefoot | 2025-10-12 07:40:46+00:00
When those are needed, digital signage displays are the answer. They're more costly unfortunately but can be bought used and are guaranteed to work 12-18-24/24 in much less friendly environments than a living room. They're increasingly making use of Android or WebOS, unfortunately, but being aimed at the professional world they lack all those annoyances and the general crap the industry crams into home TVs.
by silisili | 2025-10-12 07:40:51+00:00
You can say this about most of tech. Sure, we agree spying is bad.

But, is it worse than ad tech at large? Is it worse than companies addicting people to their phones via psychological tricks at alarming rates? Or siphoning money from kids via freemium models? Or working on a chatbot that helps kids kill themselves? Or the gazillion payday loan apps? Or the gazillion prediction market/sports betting avenues?

I'm sure some work for more ethical companies, and I like to think I do.. But let's not pretend the vast majority of big money and biggest employers are doing any good in the world.

Given the choice between said evils, I'd probably rather work for a company that is at least honest about what they do.
Show HN: PNG to PDF converter that runs in the browser
by msdg2024 | 2025-10-12 07:40:55+00:00
I built a simple tool to convert PNG/JPG/WebP images to PDF without any uploads. Everything processes locally in your browser - drag to reorder pages, adjust layouts, and export instantly. No accounts, no watermarks, no file size limits beyond your device's memory.

https://pngtopdf.cc

The main benefit is privacy: your files never leave your computer. I was tired of uploading sensitive documents to random conversion sites, so I made this client-side alternative using JavaScript.

It's free and works offline once loaded. Feedback welcome!
by antonvs | 2025-10-12 07:41:15+00:00
I would guess not that much - certainly fractions of a degree - because the proportion of the planet's surface is still relatively low, and as much as 60% of that reflected light would be scattered and absorbed by the atmosphere.

It'd have a much bigger impact if all those roofs had solar panels, and the resulting electricity was used to replace carbon-emitting energy sources.
by jongjong | 2025-10-12 07:41:24+00:00
Kind of crazy to think that there are almost half as many buildings as people and yet me and my wife can't even afford the deposit to buy a single one on a mortgage after 10 years of saving, hustling hard, taught myself to code, got a university degree, worked in the tech sector, near the forefront of all the hot tech tends... Meanwhile, all this time, I'm told I'm privileged. I must be the victim of some kind of massive PsyOp conspiracy.
by zipy124 | 2025-10-12 07:41:38+00:00
The worst part of all this is even respectable news organisations like the BBC publish so many articles that are just the companies PR response verbatim. Even worse when it's like

- victim says hi, this thing is messed up and people need to know about this

-Company says "bla bla bla" legal speak we don't recognise an issue "bla bla bla"

End of article, instead of saying

"This comment doesn't seem to reflect the situation" or other pointing out that anybody with a brain can see the two statements are not equal in evidence nor truth
by addaon | 2025-10-12 07:42:41+00:00
The Lockheed D-21 drone. Supersonic ramjet without the complexity of scramjet or the cost of turbojet, hamstrung by the need for a manned launch platform (making operations safety-critical… with predictable results) and recovery to get data off it. Twenty or forty years later it would have been paired by a small number of high-cost launcher UAVs and had its cost driven down to disposable, with data recovery over radio comms… but twenty to forty years later there’s nothing like it, and the maturation of satellites means there almost certainly never will be.
by edent | 2025-10-12 07:42:53+00:00
BQ tried that with Cyanogen (the precursor to Lineage) https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/bq-aquaris-x5

As did WileyFox - https://www.xda-developers.com/wileyfox-to-issue-update-to-m...

They were both budget brands with niche offerings. For most people, the source of the OS is immaterial. There's very little competitive advantage to selling a forked OS, and a rather large downside in terms of support costs.

I'm mostly happy with my GrapheneOS device - but it is absolutely not suitable for mass market.
by eastbound | 2025-10-12 07:43:41+00:00
> look myself in the mirror

Outcasts. You know, some people aren’t gratified by society. Even well-inserted people.

I’ve always wondered why people had ethical questions as soldiers dropping Little Boy. Imagine being a soldier at war, of course you hate your enemies. Now imagine being bullied at school and later. Some criminals even literally do crime for the thrills.

Life isn’t generally rewarding, except for a few lucky with a nice social fabric.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-12 07:43:56+00:00
> This is an extremely clear signal of how they think of the user --- as sheep to be corralled and controlled, not as individuals who have control over the devices they bought. The "security" propaganda they continue to spew has been going on for a while, long enough that increasingly more users are now aware of the truth.

While labeling this a security vulnerability is a little weird, it is nevertheless a serious problem for Google, and potentially for the carriers which would allow Google phones. In general, carrier settings have to be enforced by phone manufacturers without relying on the good behavior of phone users, as otherwise the whole cell network can be affected. Now, in this particular case, the impact seems pretty small - though even here this is not 100% clear. For example, if enabling these settings could allow a phone to appear to work for normal use, while actually having major missing functionality such as not being able to receive national alerts or not being able to issue emergency calls, then this is a real risk to the consumer, and shouldn't be allowed.
by lenkite | 2025-10-12 07:44:20+00:00
Sorry, but several of these ratings are just plain wrong. I am not even a Java developer these days, but it is extremely clear that author did not work in a domain that rightfully leveraged the Java features he rates as of little use.

He would have been better served by opening a poll - that would have opened his eyes to the use of these features.

Its like giving operator overload a rating of 1 in C++/Python. Sure, if you don't find any need for it in your domain, it would look stupid to you.
by fmajid | 2025-10-12 07:44:25+00:00
I recently upgraded to a Minisforum N5 Pro DIY NAS (I run Alpine Linux with ZFS on it), and it's been great running backups and Immich in Docker. ECC RAM and 10G Ethernet are must haves as far as I am concerned, as is the freedom to use your distro of choice.

https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-n5-pro-review-an-awe...
by SirHumphrey | 2025-10-12 07:44:34+00:00
I used to use tiling window managers on macOS and in the end it got a bit tiring that after every update something broke. It seems like all of them are fighting the system in some very brittle ways.

In the end I just learned some shortcuts that Apple provides for moving windows around. I still much prefer working on Linux, but this is at least usable and i do not have to fix it that often.
by zem | 2025-10-12 07:44:35+00:00
their operator precedence system was one of my favourite pieces of language design. the tl;dr was that you could group operators into precedence sets, and an expression involving operators that all came from the same set would have that set's precedence rules applied, but if you had an expression involving mixed sets you needed to add the parentheses. crucially, they also supported operator overloading, and the same operator could be used in a different set as long as everything could be parsed unambiguously. (caveat, I never used the language, I just read about the operator design in the docs and it was very eye opening in the sense that every other language's operator precedence system suddenly felt crude and haphazard)
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-12 07:45:04+00:00
The transmission mechanism, the socket, doesn’t care what data traverses it. Whether the incoming data is a stream or chunks is up to how the receiving end wishes to intercept the data until message completion. The receiver can store incoming packets as an array of chunks or pipe the incoming into a buffer. The former allows for more convenient segment inspection while the later allows for immediate execution on message fragments.
by Pooge | 2025-10-12 07:45:14+00:00
> it's worth holding only cash for 10 years if you're sure there will definitely be a crash some time in that 10 years

Oh, because you know for sure that there will be a crash in the next 10 years? A prediction like that alone is worth billions, and I honestly doubt that you're different from the thousands of other who advocated for the same thing since the last 50 years.

In real life, an investor starts to keep assets that aren't as volatile but still aren't cash (e.g. bonds) as he approaches retirement. But even then, if they retire officially (i.e. at 65) then they probably have a national pension to draw from anyway.

> also, is Bitcoin a currency?

I don't care about cryptocurrencies at all, but it is the same classification as gold. People use it to speculate and reassure themselves thinking that "if it goes bad, it will preserve my wealth" and it doesn't have any value except when you trade it with someone for a usable currency.
by teekert | 2025-10-12 07:47:03+00:00
"It's not your data citizen, you should be happy we made this OS for you. You are not smart enough to do it your self, we know what is best."

I can never help myself from hearing this inside, and am just incredibly thankful that we have Linux and FOSS in general. That really gives me hope for humanity at this point.

I type this in FireFox, on NixOS, with all my pics open in another tab, in Immich. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
by eviks | 2025-10-12 07:47:20+00:00
> The vast majority of the debate was dominated by how people imagined it worked, which was very different to how it actually worked.

But not very different to how it was actually going to work, as you say:

> If you change parts of it, sure.

Now try to reason your way out of the obvious "parts of it will definitely change" knee-jerk.
by sfn42 | 2025-10-12 07:47:25+00:00
I've been saying the same thing for years. Everything should be legal, prohibition just causes more problems. We learned this lesson with alcohol already.

Making it legal we could have things sold over the counter in pharmacies with proper age checks, we could even require further checks like before you can purchase heroin you need to go through a process where it is explained how it works, what a reasonable dose is, what side effects are, how addictive it is etc.

Same with other stuff. Most drugs are quite safe and harmless if done by people who know what they're doing. Of course self destructive people and morons would still harm themselves but honestly I'm not too worried about that. They will always find ways to harm themselves.

At least drug users wouldn't be funding cartels and warlords etc.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-12 07:47:28+00:00
Haven't been there since before the pandemic but it was lovely. I think travel bloggers always act like everyone who goes there after them is some kind of idiot without taste.

When I travel I get a lot of enjoyment from slice of life kind of experiences - watching people on the bus or by the river or a bunch of school kids going to lunch with their teacher. And if you just wander around Kyoto you'll get a lot of that with a lot of historic beauty.

My friends are there right now and they seem to be having a great time.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-10-12 07:49:27+00:00
> Their disclaimer already suggests they don't train on your photos.

We know all major GenAI companies trained extensively on illegally acquired material, and they were hiding this fact. Even the engineers felt this isn't right, but there were no whistleblowers. I don't believe for a second it would be different with Microsoft. Maybe they'd introduce the plan internally as a kind of CSAM, but, as opposed to Apple, they wouldn't inform users. The history of their attitude towards users is very consistent.
by nmadden | 2025-10-12 07:49:34+00:00
Do you really think that in 26 years of professional Java programming I’d have never touched Spring? I’ve been using Spring since it was first released. I’ve found CVEs in Spring (https://spring.io/security/cve-2020-5408). Trust me when I say that my dislike for Spring (and annotations) is not based on ignorance.
by throw83749499 | 2025-10-12 07:49:51+00:00
It kind of proves it is a scam. You tried it, it did not work. But for some reason you lived experience is invalid, and you should keep trying again and again!

I know a few people, who import and run vintage american cars in EU. They do all servicing themselves, buy spare parts from american ebay. They totaly think modern car industry is a scam. They would never allow some "professional" mechanic into their beloved car.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-12 07:50:47+00:00
Phones, just like cars, are only allowed to be manufactured and sold to the extent that the manufacturer takes reasonable efforts to prevent end-user misuse of the devices they are selling. This is because phones, just like cars, use and can greatly affect shared public infrastructure - the radio spectrum for phones, public roads for cars. As such, it is natural that there are manufacturer enforced restrictions on end user's use of these devices. Whether this particular case is an overreach of this, or whether there is a real risk to the network from allowing this, I'm not sure.
by bitwize | 2025-10-12 07:51:51+00:00
I don't think Google has handled Android particularly well, but you have to be on some 1990s Netscape kool-aid to think that the web is or should be "the primary way for users to experience computing". Computing is just one kind of online service, and despite decades of effort to attempt to force-fit all applications into a browser, sometimes just a damn program that runs natively on the CPU is a much better fit for the task. Computing through the use of such programs is not a bad thing. Providing a central distribution point for such programs is not a bad thing—Linux distros do it all the time. Some of the fuckery-duckery Google has tried to pull with Android should be criticized, but it's not as cut and dry as "the web is open, everything else is proprietary vendor lock".