MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bell-cot | 2025-10-05 08:24:50+00:00
> Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station was switched off on 30 September 2024 after generating electricity since 1968.

> The full demolition project will then be concluded in 2030 or 2031.

> East Midlands Airport, run by Manchester Airports Group (MAG), is approximately four kilometres (2.5 miles) to the south west of the site.

> The destruction of the [cooling] towers could spread dust 500 metres from the site and could disrupt the airport if not timed carefully.

> Demolition works will take place during periods of "no air traffic", the airport confirmed.

Not that they're in any sort of hurry - World War Two will probably prove quicker than knocking down this one old power plant - but at what point would it be reasonable to "contain" large demolition work inside air-inflated temporary barrier structures? Those could also be fitted with water misting systems, to minimize dust issues.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-10-05 08:24:52+00:00
Stocks do not have positive expected return. The return on the average stock is 0% in the US which is negative after fees (this is a common misconception, market returns are positive only because large companies get larger and this is contextual, when this isn't true then even the market will lose money). This is to say nothing of 0DTE options.

There is a risk premium but this premium can be positive or negative. It has been negative in many countries, do you suggest they ban stocks?

I don't think stocks are the same thing as gambling btw. But it is significantly more complex in that they overlap, some financial products clearly exist in the US because gambling was illegal. A sports bet is clearly not an investment, but neither is a ODTE option. Both are entertainment, the former probably more logically so than the latter, I am not sure what appeal that latter can have other than to gambling addicts.
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-05 08:25:26+00:00
LLMs are the air in the AI bubble.

Machine learning is a perfectly valid and useful field, traditional ML is super useful and can produce very powerful tools. LLMs are fancy word predictors that have no concept of truth.

But LLMs look and feel like they're almost "real" AI, because they talk in words instead of probabilities, and so people who can't discern the distance between and LLM and AGI assume that AGI is right around the corner.

If you believe AGI is right around the corner and skip over the bit where any mass application of AGI to replace workers for cheaper is just slavery but with extra steps, then of course it makes sense to pour money into any AI business.
by soulofmischief | 2025-10-05 08:25:38+00:00
The war on drugs should never have happened. It's been used a tool of foreign and domestic terror and control for a century. It was designed and popularized by corrupt people who stood to gain wealth from restricting the freedom of others.

To your implied point, drug addictions similarly ravish communities, destroy lives, and in the case of drugs like fentanyl, legalization effectively makes it easy to acquire extremely potent and discreet poisons, which has a huge potential impact for violence.

We can paint a similar story for gun violence. We can tie drugs, gambling and guns together even more tightly when we look into where cities approve permits for gambling centers, where most liquor stores pop up, selective enforcement and scandals like the Iran-Contra affair [0].

It's important to have a consistent position on all of these topics, so I thank you for raising this point. So all of that said, I think drug consumption/manufacturing/distribution, guns and gambling should generally all be legal at a high level, but we must dispense with the racist and classist implementations of these systems within our societies, and we should have sensible evaluation and certification programs in place for access to different stratifications.

You should be required to periodically prove medical and psychological fitness, as well as operational certification, for certain powerful substances. Similarly, we need sensible restrictions on gambling and guns [1].

The reality is that with freedom comes responsibility. Without responsibility, unrestricted freedom leads to anarchy or a post-capitalist nightmare. One of the main points of government is to balance these freedoms across individuals, communities and society at large, in order to maximize the well-being and self-determination of the people, while allowing for progress and innovation.

I'm curious to hear your own position.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

[1] To be clear, I am very pro 2nd amendment [1] and am not calling for a ban on anything or for the State to maintain a monopoly on violence and power.

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" - Karl Marx
by 0xbadc0de5 | 2025-10-05 08:25:46+00:00
Anecdotally: Many years ago, I spent several months in the hospital and trauma rehabilitation due to a spinal cord injury. Roughly half of the SCI patients were from water-related accidents (ie: diving into shallow water). The other half were from motorcycle accidents. And about 50% of the amputations were from motorcycle accidents (the other half from diabetes).

Granted, I only interacted with a small sample of patients during my stay - only a few dozen. But the staff certainly gave the impression this was business as usual for them. I had no idea until I was face to face with it. There really is no substitute for being protected by a metal shell and protective airbags.
by archi42 | 2025-10-05 08:26:05+00:00
This is what Cory writes about: We need laws and regulations if we want to prevent enshittifiaction.

In the US these laws have been dismantled since the 70s (if I get the text correctly, I'm not expert on US labor law). And in Germany there is a chancellor who is pushing to increase the 40 work week (which still meant up to 50 hours) to a 48 hour work week - that's the change necessary to have Amazon (and others) treat their drivers and warehouse workers with more dignity. /s
by b112 | 2025-10-05 08:27:34+00:00
I return all goods even slightly damaged, but take a pic, print it, and include a note.

I do so l, so that returns can see it arrrived in poor shape, not from it being returned.

But... saving 3 cents per package on a box, may be cheaper that an extra return out of 1000?

I imagine the original seller doesn't know (when only shipped but not sold by amazon), so too bad for them, and Amazon even removed the return option "box ok but product damaged".

So I guess much of the cost is born by others.
by tux3 | 2025-10-05 08:27:45+00:00
>So why is it fundamentally and obviously true for PQC? This isn't actually an engineering hill I'd die on, if more people I trust made clear arguments for why this is dangerous I'd take it very seriously, but right now we basically have djb against the entire world writing a blogpost that makes ludicrous insinuations and fails to actually engage with any of the counterarguments, and look just no.

As a response to this only, while djb's recent blog posts have adopted a slightly crackpotish writing style, PQC hybridization is not a fringe idea, and is not deployed because of djb's rants.

Over in Europe, German BSI and French ANSSI both strongly recommend hybrid schemes. As noted in the blog, previous Google and Cloudflare experiments have deployed hybrids. This was at an earlier stage in the process, but the long history of lattices that is sometimes being used as a (reasonable) argument against hybrids applied equally when those experiments were deployed, so here I'm arguing that the choice made at the time is still reasonably today, since the history hasn't changed.

Yes, there is also a more general "lots of PQC fell quite dramatically" sentiment at play that doesn't attempt to separate SIKE and MLKEM. That part I'm happy to see criticized, but I think the broader point stands. Hybrids are a reasonable position, actually. It's fine.
by rcarmo | 2025-10-05 08:27:46+00:00
The difference is that Copilot will have access to your calendar _and_ associated resources (messages, meeting transcripts, etc.) and be able to relate them to files you have access to. It’s become quite useful in telling me which of the action points for a specific meeting are being handled by whom _now_ and where the resulting documents are even if the meeting was weeks ago.
by aborsy | 2025-10-05 08:27:56+00:00
Never had issues with Amazon, frequently shop.

Local shops are scams in my area: expensive, don’t take back items, limited selections, don’t have the right items and have to settle for less, time consuming, bad customer service, can have language requirements for some people at the time of disputes (but not when selling), the reviews of items are not available and a lot of them turn out to be bad, long waiting lines … Your complaints about online shopping remain with local shopping.

The benefits of online shopping for consumers are plenty and evident. The majority of products I bought online that I researched carefully have been solid.
by soulofmischief | 2025-10-05 08:28:09+00:00
The emotional manipulation of paid celebrity endorsement of harmful, engagement-hacking products and services is downright sickening, just the thought of how normalized it's become makes me sick to the stomach.

I'm very pro gun, pro freedom of consumption, pro crypto, etc. but once emotional manipulation comes into play, self-determinism goes out the window and people are no longer making free choices.
Show HN: ImplicitPlotter – Plot graph of any binary implicit function
by byx | 2025-10-05 08:29:22+00:00
ImplicitPlotter is a command-line tool that can plot graph of any binary implicit function equation or inequality, supporting both Cartesian and polar coordinates.

The plotting algorithm is based on interval arithmetic.

Related paper link: https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/public_user/mooncake/papers/SIGG...
by ezst | 2025-10-05 08:29:22+00:00
> Qt might have at least led to some good results

You seem to focus on the outcome while what interests me is the programming model. Say what you want about object-oriented programming, the problem-space lends itself very well to it. In Qt/Swing/… components are just classes whose behaviour and appearance are determined by function overrides, taking as parameter event or graphics objects. Just like that, you cleanly solve everything that "webcomponents" stands for: interface contracts are determined by class constructors/parameters, customisation is just class inheritance with member override, look&feel customisation is plain calls into the graphics API primitives, layouting/responsive-design is taken care of at the just level of abstraction, and all of it takes place in the same language and ecosystem/stdlib (no HTML to CSS to JS references to keep in sync and mental overhead).

React reproduces some of this model, but with much more technical and mental complexity, bringing trade-offs of its own. I'm not calling this easier to work with, simpler, or easier to debug. It certainly gives more creative options, but only because the ecosystem is broader (and full of supply-chain risks).
by roenxi | 2025-10-05 08:29:25+00:00
Sure, seems likely in a lot of cases. But if the starting point is talking about someone who makes chronically irrational decisions then life is going to seem a bit hopeless. The issue isn't as much they're giving up as it is that they aren't making rational decisions.

Thread ancestor was saying "Gambling thrives in contexts where a ladder to success doesn’t exist or is perceived as not existing". And I think that the problem here is that the people involved couldn't climb the ladder if you put their hands on it. To climb the ladder of success requires the grip of a rational actor. If someone is gambling then the #1 problem is not the system in itself, but the fact that for whatever reason they don't understand the concept of investment at a fundamental level. Can't help that person by changing gambling policies around. If they aren't going to invest themselves, then at the end of the day they are always going to be dependent on the charity of someone who will, whether they irrationally waste their money on gambling or some other vice.
by atombender | 2025-10-05 08:29:32+00:00
I'm a big fan of sqlc (which this is essentially a port of), so this is great to see.

I think the sqlc approach is ultimately the right one for integrating SQL into code because it allows queries to be expressed using the full syntax of native SQL, and only needs to handle the input/output glue. So you get the best of both worlds: Pure SQL unencumbered by non-SQL code, and type safety. ORMs will always struggle to catch up with SQL's richness and expressiveness.

I've not used Gleam for anything yet, but this makes me more excited to try it out.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-10-05 08:29:37+00:00
>this mess of a blog post

It's that. Just one more in a long line of wild-eyed 'the Earth collided with' theories.

> Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years ...

They haven't 'shown' anything. They may have evidence to support part of one model ... if they can demonstrate that a Theia probably existed in the first place.

Try to read it? Thick going. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1280. Quoting from that:

"Today’s element abundances of the BSE and isotope constraints strongly suggest that the bulk Earth comprises ~90% PE, ~10% Theia, and ~0.4% late veneer material... Other models suggest that Earth formed from ~60% PE and ~40% Theia ..."

>a later collision with Theia likely delivered the water

Etc. If water was so hard to get ... where in the hell did this hypothetical, no evidence 'likely' get the water it 'delivered'?
by shakna | 2025-10-05 08:30:09+00:00
The TRS 80 Model 100 is regularly called "the first laptop". You'd disagree with that.

Where's the line? Is a CHIP or M5 Cardputer portable or laptop?

Is it the hinge needed? In which case is a folding phone, a phone, laptop, or tablet?

(Not meaning to be aggressive. Curious about the fuzzy definition. Wanting to be convinced.)
by anaisbetts | 2025-10-05 08:31:01+00:00
Despite Microsoft making a bunch of different versions of pens, they mostly all just work. This post is trying to be exhaustive but the vast majority of people who aren't extremely Deep into the Photoshop game will not need or care about any of this.

Basically, "If the pen fits in the keyboard slot, it just works". I'm currently using a pen from a Surface Pro 7 on my new Surface Pro 12" and it was trivial to connect it and it works great
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-05 08:31:04+00:00
I seem to vaguely recall such a thing from way back in the early days, but the only copy[1] of the .Net Framework EULA I could readily find says it's OK as long as you publish all the details.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/food-beverage/micros-w...
by cyberax | 2025-10-05 08:34:09+00:00
> If type "Charles dickens" in search, there should be a way to get works by Dickens exclusively

Tried it. I got 100% Charles Dickens, with a clearly marked "Recently bought and rated" sponsored section in the middle.

Now, I did see Amazon completely hallucinating authors' names, but that mostly happened with small no-name authors or with translated names.
by nomnomshark41 | 2025-10-05 08:34:35+00:00
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by afdbcreid | 2025-10-05 08:34:49+00:00
The Rust for Linux project has designed safe intrusive linked lists for use in the kernel, and while they're inconvenient to use, this and other things have led to the push to creating language features to improve the scenario.

As for the C camp, I agree it's different. The problem is that we don't know a way to design memory safe GC-free language without it being big and complex. Maybe it is possible. But until we figure out how, projects that need to be memory safe (which I believe is the vast majority of projects, although not all of them) will probably use Rust (and probably should use Rust), even if they would prefer to be pure C, because memory safety is just more important.
by keiferski | 2025-10-05 08:36:34+00:00
Your opinion seems to be that poor people are poor because they're irrational, and that systemic things like billion-dollar corporations deliberately feeding them addictive behaviors in order to extract as much money from them as possible, is not actually a factor at all.

I'm sorry but this comment is so out of touch with how poor people (or even people in general) actually function, I don't know what else to say.
by rapnie | 2025-10-05 08:37:19+00:00
I find that awareness of the deep rabbit hole of surveillance capitalism, and how it increasingly extends into political and ideological realms to wield power and influence, makes me feel uneasy on all the physical gadgets I see all around me. And also the pervasive use of camera's everywhere, that send video streams into the cloud where numerous AI applications do who knows what with the data.

Like in the Netherlands in the Jumbo supermarket chain, which is the first to introduce an AI glaring at you through the camera while you walk through the store, and at the checkout self-scan, doing sentiment analysis to see if you are suspicious. It feels outright dystopic, and I avoid the Jumbo if I can. Also it is crazy how Tesla camera platforms are surveilling the streets of the world for the richest man in the world.

It seems these tech developments have cooling effects on society in the physical space. Cooling effects that serve the ones in power, I suppose.
by afdbcreid | 2025-10-05 08:37:48+00:00
First, there are external crates offering safe self-referential structs.

A builtin language feature will for sure be more convenient (and also probably more performant, as most of those crates require an allocation) but it's just really hard to design. Even in very old self-referential crates soundness issues are still being discovered to this day. So it will need to a lot of time and care to design.
by rnentjes | 2025-10-05 08:38:03+00:00
Seem to me that whether or not people will be asked to "come out of retirement" will completely depend on how good the LLM's will be in 20 years.

This seems to happen a lot in the discussions around LLM's. Some people discuss it like LLM's will not get any better, others discuss it as if LLM's will continue to get better forever. But only time will tell.
by jabl | 2025-10-05 08:39:47+00:00
Needs a [1991] tag.

Needless to say, in the 34 years since that article was published, a lot has changed. Thanks to massively increased transistor budgets, a more complex decoder with accompanying microcode ROM that might have been a big detriment in 1991 would today be a small speck of dust on the processor floor plan. At the same time, memory access performance hasn't increased to the same extent as compute performance, thus putting a relatively bigger emphasis on code density.

All this being said, RISC "won" in the sense that many RISC principles have become the "standard" principles of designing an ISA. Still, choosing "RISC purity" over code density is arguably the wrong choice. Contemporary high performance RISC architectures (ARMv9, say) are very un-RISC in the sense of having a zillion different instructions, somewhat complex addressing modes, and so forth.
by keiferski | 2025-10-05 08:39:50+00:00
Sure, we could get into a discussion on the morality of gambling itself, but if we look at pretty much every global ethical tradition (Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.) it is frowned upon strongly. It seems to me like widespread gambling = negative social effects is a pretty widespread, obvious conclusion that most civilizations have reached.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling#Religious_views
by jen729w | 2025-10-05 08:40:41+00:00
Oh wow, my bad. I saw 2024 as the disclosure and thought, well obviously 1Password have fixed that by now. Huh. Unflagged.

So, as someone who literally last month moved all of his .env in to 1Password and was feeling pretty, pretty smart about it: what now?

(Did that, by the way, on the advice of a comment here in response to the previous npm hack, whatever that was, where that commenter said 'you're a fool if you don't have your keys in a password manager' and so on and so forth. Security is hard?)
by jfyi | 2025-10-05 08:41:14+00:00
https://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/visual%20s...

It's because you aren't looking at 20 year old EULA's

>3.4 Benchmark Testing. The Software may contain the Microsoft .NET Framework. You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the .NET Framework component of the Software to any third party without Microsoft’s prior written approval.

This person is not likely familiar with the history of the .net framework and .net core because they decided a long time ago they were never going to use it.
by microtonal | 2025-10-05 08:42:19+00:00
I think their specific get out is that they’re Amazon Spain,

IANAL, but I don't think it matters. Any webshop in the EU must sell to all EU customers and they should provide the same warranty, etc. to all EU customers as if you were buying it in the country they are selling from (Spain in this case). The EU is a single market.

https://www.eccnet.eu/consumer-rights/what-are-my-consumer-r...

Amazon is violating EU consumer protection law here, but they probably do it because most customers will feel helpless and not sue them. If you do not want to sue them, the best thing is probably to file a complaint with the Portuguese consumer authority. It's really important to do this, because only when enough people do such a thing, a pattern can be established and they can warn or sue Amazon.
by general1465 | 2025-10-05 08:42:49+00:00
I see it the same way. It is like automotive manufacturer who is using bigger engines with more and more pistons and wondering how much bigger engine next model iteration will need to make it go faster and how many iterations until they will finally break the sound barrier. However their product is looking like a school-bus box on wheels which is going to rip itself apart long before even reaching the sound barrier.
by sandreas | 2025-10-05 08:43:54+00:00
ElasticSearch is a known term and good for marketing purposes. So in enterprise context it is hard to Argument against it despite having a very specific use case.

Other projects claiming ElasticSearch API compatibility just don't work that good (e.g. zincsearch). Using plain lucene is also not that easy because the defaults are way less intuitive (e.g searching for terms with dashes, like click-bait).

Unfortunately DB fulltext indexes (mysql, SQL server, Oracle and PostgreSQL) tend to get HUGE over time and if there is anything you're trying to prevent it is filling the fast expensive database SSDs.

However, if you're just starting out, I'd recommend having a look at Meilisearch[1], with is way LEDs Resource hungry compared to elastic and offers similar features.

1: https://www.meilisearch.com