MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigiain | 2025-10-12 04:29:06+00:00
Those motorcycles definitely exist, and are pretty much just as much fun to ride as the noisy ones - except for the extrovert, obnoxious, or insecure riders who _need_ noisy exhausts.

At least here in Australia, any new bike you buy off a dealership has to meet the noise regulations, and under normal use they're almost as quiet as modern cars. The noisy ones you hear are all modified or old, perhaps both (a bike needs to be pre 1972 in Australia to be completely exempt from modern noise restrictions.)

There are even fully electric motorcycles available, but they're really not prime time "just go down to a dealer and buy one, and get it serviced everywhere" ready yet.

(Full disclosure, 2 or my 5 motorcycles have noisy exhausts. Not "hear from half a kilometer away" loud, but technically illegally loud and definitely loud enough that I take extra care arriving or departing home very late or early, out of respect for my neighbors. Interestingly for this discussion, the 3 bikes with quiet, factory stock, 100% road legal exhausts are all Japanese - in fact all Hondas. The noisy bikes are both Italian - a Ducati and a Cagiva.)
by eth0up | 2025-10-12 04:29:25+00:00
Woke right. That actually makes sense. Same form of madness.

It will be interesting to see the eventually empowered Left use reflective (identical) tactics to seal the coffin of the Second Amendment. And one could almost pity the... 'woke' Right for not seeing it coming.

I lean right. But I'm getting vertigo.

I think China must have put prions in our Tupperware a long time ago. We're a dead fuckin ringer for hopeless.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-12 04:30:22+00:00
The US has an abundance of rare earth and many other metals, substantially more than all but a few other countries. Aggressive and cynical environmental activism that buries mine development in decades of lawsuits has made it financially infeasible to develop domestic resources to the point where even mineral exploration is rarely done in the US anymore. No point in exploring for minerals if you won’t be allowed to mine them.

In principle, metal refineries are not that difficult to build and operate. It isn’t rocket science and could be done relatively quickly if the US really wanted to. In practice, any attempt at doing so will be buried in decades of cynical blocking actions by political activists. It wouldn’t be surprising to find out the parties blocking this are substantially albeit indirectly supported by adversarial countries.

It is no different than why we can’t build housing. Unless the US adopts an attitude of telling the haters to go pound sand because building things is important to the furtherance of civilization, nothing will happen.

We as a culture and society give veto power over damn near everything to far too many people that couldn’t be trusted with authority over a lemonade stand.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-10-12 04:30:28+00:00
to be fair at this point it seems like outside of reenabling async control flow, and eliminating cImport, the remaining major shifts are in the stdlib and not as much the language. they have cancelled the "forcing const f = fn..." plan. i think the interesting thing that andrew hinted at was keeping the "annoying errors that should be warnjngs" (like not using consts and vars) but not letting them prevent the creation of the executable/lib.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-10-12 04:30:49+00:00
Oh no absolutely real mining.

But ultimately the transferable skills are pitch making, selling to investors, pumping and dumping.

That applies not just to some plot of land in some obscure place that has some "enormously promising" signs of valuable minerals, but also some new crytocurrency, NFTs, cannabis, VR and all sorts novel things. AI is the latest thing but it won't be the last.

When mining is hot they'll focus on mining, but when it's not they'll be looking to see how they can use their skills on other places.

(Not to say that any of these things are necessarily scams per se, I personally think there's lots of interesting things going on with AI, but this is the ocean that these guys swim in, and there'll be lots of money attaching some flimsy nothing idea to the latest hot trend)
by Aloisius | 2025-10-12 04:32:46+00:00
The US constitution limits copyright to protection for authors and inventors. I'm skeptical that a simple law could extend protection to machine generated works without being ruled unconstitutional nor does there appear to be any significant government or public support for such a thing.

And while yes, the US is just one country, but it does have a bit of an outsized software development industry. I also haven't hear of any other countries lining up to give machine-generated works copyright protection.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-12 04:33:10+00:00
> See also the dictionary fallacy, and again descriptivism vs prescriptivism

DHTML is an acronym that expands to: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language.

There is no dictionary fallacy or descriptivism vs prescriptivism or defined meaning. It was simply an industry standard way to shorten all those words.

Changing one of the letters to stand for something else reassigns the pointer to something else entirely, or is the making of a joke, which I think the above may have been.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-12 04:33:25+00:00
Functional or not it is illegal. Both functional and non functional heroine users can be put into prison for life with no parole and it will fix both the problems of dysfunctional people roaming around and people dying from it. With real consequences people will actively avoid such substances. It will clean up society and disincentivize new people from trying as they will bot want to give up their life and family for something so petty. It needs to be overwhelmingly obvious that it will mess up your life for good if you try or distribite even a little bit.
by siromega | 2025-10-12 04:33:27+00:00
> "They have argued for placing onshore utility-scale projects on previously disturbed sites and expanding the use of rooftop solar."

Thats rich.

Nevada regulators just killed rooftop solar, through a first-in-the-nation implementation of a demand charge for residential customers. People who put solar on their roofs will still get hit with demand charges when the sun goes down and in the summer it’ll be $30-70/mo. Negating a significant portion of their anticipated solar savings.
by BrouteMinou | 2025-10-12 04:33:58+00:00
Gaming on Linux is there, if you don't mind the 10-40 fps drop in most modern and demanding games...

For me that's a no go.

I can live with bash in a WSL2 though... That's about what I need of Linux anyway. I can enjoy my gaming and the remaining of the userland too.

Best of both worlds.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-12 04:35:37+00:00
I’m not so sure. I think there really are a lot of people who benefit from some kind of talk therapy and that that therapy might actually take a long time to produce results.

You have your whole life to ingrain thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses into your being. If you anre unlucky, you might be surrounded by other people who reinforce maladaptive ways of thinking and being, such that they seem 100% normal. Expecting those deeply carved neural pathways to change quickly through any intervention is ridiculous.

Think about how cult deprogramming is a specialized skill with a high failure rate. Except this cult only has a single member, your inner monologue. It can take a lot of time for a therapist to figure out what the cult is even about, and it all comes from you talking (and talking and talking…)
by throwing_away | 2025-10-12 04:36:00+00:00
Google Wallet also doesn't work on Graphene OS.

I just looked into this and in the US there's basically no technical answer that I'd expect to be reliable.

You've got a few choices:

* magsafe wallet (~$10) without nfc shield with a physical card

* "purewrist" prepaid debit card (would be good for a kid maybe)

* garmin smartwatch that gets linked properly like Google Pay would

If you're in the EU there are a ton more options, specifically "Curve Pay" and possibly "Amex UK".

Very annoying.
by zeroq | 2025-10-12 04:36:26+00:00
And the problem is - after a few screw ups I've told myself - hey, maybe you don't know it all, maybe they have some secret formula you don't know about, just take it easy, lay back, don't be a smart ass, and let them take care of you. Be open minded.

I mean, I drove a Mustang in EU, shipped from US before Ford started selling them here. Local Ford didn't even had "mustang" in their system. I kept trolling them when they were offering free service for Ford drivers. My first 6 car mechanics were either a total scam or they were genuine but had absolutely no clue what they were doing.

What was I thinking? Maybe that the trade is regulated, and people with a title are more professional? Hell no.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-12 04:37:00+00:00
In general, the Vancouver culture is very different from most places, and not recommended for small firms serious about growth (even with revenue over $4m you should talk with AMCHAM to figure out an exit-to-grow strategy.) No other "Angel Investors" typically ask people to table personal assets for deals. It is actually an absurdly risk-averse place, with predatory VC terms often far worse than simple bank loans.

Vancouver has all the same problems as New York, but none of the advantages. Better options exist unless your business is rocks, logs, or crime. =3
by FullGarden_S | 2025-10-12 04:37:13+00:00
and yet it never truly became an issue at all because there is an officially maintained, high quality package collection.

https://pkg.odin-lang.org/

GingerBill and the Odin community put tremendous effort into making sure that the Odin compiler ships with "batteries included". You get base, core and vendor library collection that cover almost everything a developer would need to the point that you can argue that you don't need a package manager for Odin.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-12 04:38:08+00:00
I was thinking just today how nice it would be if I had a private AI that I could just ask "What streaming network that I already pay for can I watch Superman on without paying extra for it or watching ads?" and have it simply answer "HBO."

And now, after reading this comment, somebody is on the phone setting up a meeting with VCs for Monday morning to pitch this idea. Only the VCs are gonna insist that the AI make me listen to an ad for rainbow sparkle toothpaste before it tells me "HBO." And this is why we can't have nice things.
by Nursie | 2025-10-12 04:38:33+00:00
Sorry I didn’t mean to come across as overly critical, and connecting with your kids is always a worthwhile activity. They certainly look like they’re having fun!

I’m just wondering out loud if people aren’t sometimes teaching their kids things that they did, but aren’t really a thing in the modern world. Maybe you’re doing them a huge favour! Certainly there is a large movement to appreciate albums again, rather than consume streams, and showing them it’s good to be interested in what the music is and who made it is no bad thing.
by botanical76 | 2025-10-12 04:38:34+00:00
Note, GrapheneOS seems to have been able to secure partner access to Android early security releases, but this comes with the cost that the source used to make these special "01" builds is private until general availability. This might not be a tradeoff that LineageOS is willing to take; GrapheneOS has provided the option on a recommended opt-in basis.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-12 04:38:42+00:00
The description is clearly a joke, although they are real operators (or strange uses of other operators). For example, -=- is subtraction assignment operator and negative operator together, which results in addition. However, the description of +-0-+ is wrong; it subtracts and does not add (this is what I thought, so I tried it to see and I am right and the article there is wrong).
by shwaj | 2025-10-12 04:39:17+00:00
At some point it becomes difficult to improve the O() complexity. How do you do better that the O(n-squared) of the Transformer, with acceptable tradeoffs? Many big brains in all the big labs are very aware of the importance of algorithmic advances. There is no low hanging fruit, but they're doing their best.

Then in parallel to that looking at compiler optimizations, and other higher-level algorithmic innovations such as Flash Attention (a classic at this point) which had a drastic impact on performance due to cache awareness, without changing the O() complexity.
by EasyMark | 2025-10-12 04:39:31+00:00
Right, I despised what he stood for and his death has no impact on my life in reality. Doesn't mean I wanted him harmed in any fashion, I just didn't like him or his platform. I'm not sure why people are such simpletons that they can't distinguish the difference between that and wishing someone harm, especially on a site like HN where people should in general be aware of nuance and separation of concerns.
by zeroq | 2025-10-12 04:41:44+00:00
To be devils advocate it was an intersection point between psychotherapy being socially acceptable here in my part of EU and the start of covid where a lot of people reached a breaking point. From a business perspective it's a hunting season and it's not so different from IT where a lot of people game their way in. I was only shocked because I thought it was highly regulated system and on average you should get at least some help.
by benrutter | 2025-10-12 04:42:04+00:00
I'm so curious around what people's median experience is of AI coding tools.

I've tried agents every now and then, recently for something very simple- add an option to request csb format in a data api.

The results were, well, not good. . . I ended up undoing literally all changes because writing from scratch was a lot easier than trying to refactor the total mess it has made from what I'd have thought was a trivial feature.

I haven't done loads of prompt engineering etc, in all honesty it seems a lot of work when I haven't seen promise yet in the tool.

I see articles like this, and I always wonder, am I the outlier or is the writer? My experience of agentic AI is so hugely different to what some people are finding.
by nine_k | 2025-10-12 04:42:24+00:00
Picasa definitely went against the grain of Google, which is all about tying you to online services.

Hangouts had trouble scaling to many participants. Google Meet is fine, and better than e.g. MS Teams.

Legacy suite, free forever? Did they also promise a pony?..

Play Music: music is a legal minefield. Don't trust anybody commercial who suggests you upload music you did not write yourself.

Finance: IDK, I still get notifications about the stocks I'm interested in.

NFC Wallet: alive and kicking, I use it literally every day to pay for subway.

Can't say anything about Chromecast. I have a handful of ancient Chromecasts that work. I don't want any updates for them.
by ksec | 2025-10-12 04:42:42+00:00
Wondering if anyone with knowledge can explain a little more.

We know Rare Earth are not rare. But do high concentration of Rare Earth exist? i.e larger total number of Kg per tonne extracted. Or is the number so small it is negligible? How big of a site would be needed if US were to be self sufficient? What is the highest cost of extraction? Electricity? Are extraction automated? Could it be automated? They say environmental issues, what exactly are those issues? Metallic or chemical contamination? How much more expensive would it be in the US if the initial Capex were not needed for ROI?

I mean I could ask those questions for every other industry that has China as supply Chain chock point but most post or articles seems to ignore it.
by bigiain | 2025-10-12 04:44:03+00:00
Yeah, Amazon jumped too early. The real business model that's winning the "made-up numbers inputted into a financial model on a spreadsheet" is LLMs marketed as "Just about to turn into Artificial General Intelligence and turn the world into a post scarcity utopia" with the widely known but unacknowledged understanding that what they really mean is post scarcity for people who are already billionaires, not for the people we intend to put out of work -and that they don't need to create AGI for that, just to win the extractive rentseeker race to own the entire economy's productive labour.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-12 04:45:08+00:00
This!

Looks like LineageOS supports various iterations of the Nvidia Shield device. What I'm wondering is whether this new Catapult launcher is compatible with Android TV that comes with off the shelf Smart TVs. I've grown accustomed to the default screen on my current TV's in-built Google TV (not Android TV, although I'm not totally sure of the difference), but it does enforce at least one additional click to get to the actual functions I, and the family, use it for.

Gonna check out Catapult right now.

Edited to add note: It looks as if the latest Nvidia Shield device requires soldering a USB port onto the mainboard of the device[0]. That probably excludes a decent percentage of people who may otherwise be happy software hacking a device.

[0]: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sif/install/#usb-port-ins...
by lazyasciiart | 2025-10-12 04:45:43+00:00
This is an important topic, because people spend time and money pushing for social policies based on their belief that all opioid users are the homeless, dysfunctional people they see living on the street. Washington state has had republicans pushing for laws that would allow CPS to remove kids from a parent based entirely on the information that the parent uses illegal opioids [0]. If you think all of those parents are living in tents and motels and begging for food while spending the day high, this might sound reasonable. Putting kids in foster care is better than letting them die, is the argument.

But it isn’t reasonable, partly because there are so many opioid addicts that don’t show up in measures of homelessness etc. These laws would involve putting 10,000 kids into foster care so that maybe 10 deaths are prevented - and this would overwhelm the foster system entirely, tripling the size in an instant, so you’d almost certainly see ten children die because they were put into the system.

[0] As an example of the level of thought and knowledge going into these attempts, one legislator wrote a bill that said any opioid use meant CPS should remove your child. Don’t know if they didn’t know it could be a prescribed medication or what.
by shoobiedoo | 2025-10-12 04:46:06+00:00
It's just "one of those things about Japan" that, since citizens don't bring it up, foreigners aren't really allowed to either.

I'm just a little salty because I just went to two baseball games in kumamoto where my son was playing, and there were motorbikes somewhere, just doing laps I guess, for four hours straight. Everyone had to raise their voices when talking. I couldn't see any bikes, or even any well paved roads around the park. Just four hours straight of noise.

I will never understand why that is perfectly okay but talking loud in a restaurant will get you fired and ostracized. shrug cultural stuff I guess
by bxparks | 2025-10-12 04:48:03+00:00
I'm not going to write things like Django, flask, requests, urllib3, numpy, scipy, mathplotlib, dateutils, and psycopg2 on my own. That would take multiple lifetimes.

Sure, you can choose to write everything yourself, but you are limiting the size, scope, and complexity of the problems that you can solve. We have to stand upon the shoulders of others to get stuff done.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-12 04:48:54+00:00
As I said the bar is the person making an intentional threat, which is what's going to make this an interesting case. Most people in this thread have no clue what they're discussing, as is typical in political adjacent threads, because it's very easy to see what he did as a threat.

You have a former police officer (in other words: armed) who was obviously rather unhinged, a political extremist, lived near a Perry High School, and then posts an image that shows Trump saying "We have to get over it." with the subtext being "Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after." All under the title, "This seems relevant today..."

That's obviously very easy to interpret as a threat. Imagine some unhinged nearby former police officer or military posted something similar about a school where e.g. your kids happened to go to. My kid's not going to school that day! So the case is going to revolve around whether he intended it to be a threat. He will claim he did not, and assumed people would understand his post had nothing to do with the nearby Perry High School. The prosecution will argue that he knew this would be interpreted as a threat on said high school.

He will likely be convicted.
by martin-t | 2025-10-12 04:48:58+00:00
My country has a law which says that rape and murder will not be punished if the perpetrator has managed to evade getting caught for 20 years. Recently, a case which involved both offenses passed the 20 years mark.

So I can totally imagine somebody bragging about crimes he has committed 20+ years ago, especially on the internet where reasonable anonymity can be achieved quite easily.
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-12 04:49:20+00:00
> On economics and foreign policy there's almost no daylight between the major parties in the US

This is, and the rudeness is warranted here, a breathtakingly stupid thing to claim. Are you just not looking at what the Republican party has become, or do you think the full-throated support of Trump's policies by the Republican party doesn't imply the Republican party's policies are Trump's policies?

The idea that the Democratic Party and Trump Party's economic and foreign policies have no daylight between them is laughable.

From the 100% tariffs, the plans to pave over Gaza and build hotels, slashing and burning social safety nets, threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, canceling chip fab plans in the US, the list goes on forever.
by ggm | 2025-10-12 04:51:25+00:00
Summer is an overloaded word. The solstice doesn't change. What changes, is the temperature and thus climate, out of sync with the longer baseline. Lunar calendars don't generally inform plant behaviour as strongly as temperature but day/night cycle time isn't changing while temperature is, and that may play havoc with wildlife and plants which depend on aspects of day/night cycle for best breeding outcomes.
by bjornsing | 2025-10-12 04:52:21+00:00
Yeah I think this is a general principle. Just look at the quality of US presidents over time, or generations of top physicists. I guess it’s just a numbers game: the number of genuinely interested people is relatively constant while the number of gamers grows with the compensation and perceived status of the activity. So when compensation and perceived status skyrockets the ratio between those numbers changes drastically.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-12 04:52:47+00:00
Vector embeddings are so overhyped. They're decent as a secondary signal, but they're expensive to compute and fragile. BM25 based solutions are more robust and WAY lower latency, at the cost of some accuracy loss vs hybrid solutions. You can get the majority of the lift from hybrid solutions with ingest time semantic expansion/reverse hyde type input annotation with a sparse embedding BM25 at a fraction of the computational cost.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-12 04:54:16+00:00
I pay for 1Blocker and saw no ads on tvline.

It is strange that you accuse someone else of having a “reality distortion field” yet it took you five replies and still couldn’t come up with an example…

For proof

https://imgur.com/a/ZWA7qwn

And with “content blockers” turned off.

https://imgur.com/a/b1hDNdp

Did you actually go into settings and enable 1Blocker after you installed it?

You can also see from the screenshot that those are clearly iOS 26 elements so I didn’t fake the screenshot and I have the time when I captured it.

Care to try again?