MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Yizahi | 2025-10-27 17:46:39+00:00
That's not the post I'm trying to find, unfortunately. That one was on substack I think, but I'm not sure by now.

As for good debunking - come on, it's supposedly thousands of crafts, supposedly in the same orbit (because any other orbit except for GEO would cause them to streak on the long exposure photo), in a random formation all across the sky, supposedly synchronously disappeared all at once, time synced to the photoplate change on a random Earth observatory. Pfff, just typing this out feels like a bad joke. Good proofs or even bad proofs need to be provided first by the ufology community, not vice versa.
by epistasis | 2025-10-27 17:46:58+00:00
This is one reason why I'm so frustrated by the "cancer research is not reproducible" news stories that get out.

Not because cancer studies actually are reproducible, but rather because the reason they are not so often reproducible often comes down to the high complexity of the disease.

You grow your HCC1139 cell line in your lab, with your own supply of reagents, and you might get very different gene expression profiles of a lab in a different country growing HCC1139 cell lines on their own supply of reagents. There's so many subtleties in what is going on underneath in these systems that getting them right is insanely hard.

We don't know all the inputs, all the variables, that influence results. Getting the same result in one lab three times doesn't mean that another lab will get exactly the same results. But until we publish the results, we won't know what does and doesn't reproduce, unless there's that stake in the ground and a concerted effort to spend the highly limited time focused on pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge, we won't know.

So even if a broad range of hundreds of wet lab techniques, across thousands of experimental systems, doesn't always get the same result in different hands, unless we start to push at the amount of detail going on we'll never understand how to start to treat all these things.

Anyway, that's my rant, and I can understand why outsiders are concerned about individual cancer research experiments not reproducing at a very high rate, but I think it needs to be placed in this sort of context, where we only have measurement tools for a tiny fraction of what's going on, and need to still discover all the unknown unknowns.
by varenc | 2025-10-27 17:47:26+00:00
It's true! my recent real use case:

- I'm at a small party 1 block away. Baby is sleeping in the bedroom with mama but I'm trying to protect her sleep. I listen to baby with an airpod in my ear at the party. If baby shows signs of waking I come back and either bottle him or help mama feed him.

Also just because I'm out of the house and miss my baby and want to stare at him...
by terflumble | 2025-10-27 17:47:27+00:00
Why not special voting shares or a re-structure like Alphabet/Meta have done to deliver additional votes or control? Seems like a cash grab and a bet against the US dollar. As long as Tesla continues to exist and inflation erodes enough value from the dollar Elon gets a regular infusion of additional stock to borrow against and the dollar value will just keep rising. As things get worse for the world at large they'll get better and better for Elon and only Elon.

Tesla shareholders get to lose twice, first to inflation just like the rest of us but also their share in Tesla will be regularly diluted specifically so Elon can keep borrowing on favorable terms.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-27 17:47:28+00:00
If I want to know about the law, I'll ask a lawyer (ok, not any lawyer, but it's a useful first pass filter). If I want to know about plumbing I'll ask a plumber. If I want to ask questions or learn about writing I will ask one or more writers. And so on. Experts in the field are way better at their field than 95% of the population, which you can ask but probably shouldn't.

There are many 100's of professions, and most of them take a significant fraction of a lifetime to master, and even then there usually is a daily stream of new insights. You can't just toss all of that information into a bucket and expect that to outperform the < 1% of the people that have studied the subject extensively.

When Idiocracy came out I thought it was a hilarious movie. I'm no longer laughing, we're really putting the idiots in charge now and somehow we think that quantity of output trumps quality of output. I wonder how many scientific papers published this year will contain AI generated slop complete with mistakes. I'll bet that number is >> 0.
by latchkey | 2025-10-27 17:47:29+00:00
You can tell the job when to run in UTC time and change that time depending on what the current DST rules are.

But if the job is set to run in UK time and the system clock jumps around because of TZ changes, it will run twice or not at all.

Having a stable zero based time that doesn't move around by external forces that you can't control is "the answer."
by zamadatix | 2025-10-27 17:47:35+00:00
Scale; comparing DC cooling to a large building's is like comparing street noise in a suburb to a highway.

It'd be nice to have some hard data on it though. Sometimes the hum is "god damn, that is annoying!" and other times it's someone saying "20 miles that way they built a DC and now it makes the cell phone tower effects twice as bad in this area" when reality was it doesn't show up as audible a half mile away.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-27 17:48:29+00:00
My point was pretty clear.

Bad people aren't limited to one race or anything. But far end politicians love propping up a minority on TV because then they can have an excuse whenever they're compared to historically bad political movements.

You're the only one bringing up white Christian males here, which kind of proves my point. You seem to think that for some reason I care if a politician is white or Christian. Extremist Islamic parties love propping up Christian minorities on TV and saying they'll defend them (they won't). Right wing western parties really, really love propping up a Jewish party member because they can say "we're not Nazis!!! All Nazis hated Jews and we love them!!!" Because the average person really thinks nazism was really only about killing Jewish people, when the reality was they only got around to that after several years of other awful stuff.

The LDP is propping up their 100% foreign born, foreign citizenship politician so they can say "see? We can't be anti-foreigner because the lady controlling this is a foreigner." The optics are transparent and it's even what they're astroturfing their message on social media as. Japanese politics are all about image. They don't pick a foreigner who illegally held dual citizenship to head anti-foreigner policies by accident.
by directmusic | 2025-10-27 17:49:03+00:00
As others have said, a full size HDMI port would be nice. However, I've been very satisfied with my JetKVM. I was about to order the GL.iNet KVM they just launched, but I ended up picking up another JetKVM now that sales are open.

My use-case is that I have it connected to an Raspberry Pi which I use to test the RPi builds of my application. I just ordered a second to connect to a mini-PC which is the minimum spec supported by my application. It has made my testing experience very smooth.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-27 17:49:11+00:00
Thank you. This workflow worked for my US account just fine, though my account just said "Subscriptions" rather "Services & Subscriptions".

My plan renewed back in May at the new rate. Microsoft did not advertise that there was any way to remain with the "Classic" plan. I've also never used the Copilot "features". I'd absolutely sign-on to a class action suit to get some money back. Even if it ends up just enriching the attorneys (which class actions inevitably do) Microsoft needs as much "correction" about this behavior as possible.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-27 17:49:16+00:00
I have never visited datacenters that large, but transformer substations can have an audible hum to them. Tests of diesel generators can also produce a bit of noise.

I'm fairly surprised that there aren't zoning laws that prevents datacenters from being built where people live. When we built a fairly small datacenter we had to place it in an industrial area with no housing and no offices.
by npteljes | 2025-10-27 17:49:29+00:00
I agree with the author. If I detect that the article is written by an AI, I bounce off.

I similarly dislike other trickery as well, like ghostwriters, PR articles in journalism, lip-syncing at concerts, and so on. Fuck off, be genuine.

The thing why people are upset about AI is because AI can be used to easily generate a lot of text, but its usage is rarely disclosed. So then when someone discovers AI usage, there is no telling for the reader of how much of the article is signal, and how much is noise. Without AI, it would hinge on the expertise or experience of the author, but now with AI involved, the bets are off.

The other thing is that reading someone's text involves a little bit of forming a connection with them. But then discovering that AI (or someone else) have written the text, it feels like they betrayed that connection.
by 9029 | 2025-10-27 17:49:52+00:00
> a parser may reject the document entirely if it occurs

Ah, that's what I was missing. Thanks! The relevant part of the spec:

> user agents, while parsing an HTML document, may abort the parser at the first parse error that they encounter for which they do not wish to apply the rules described in this specification.

(https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parse-er...)
by Xemplolo | 2025-10-27 17:51:10+00:00
maybe? come on why so negative?

Voltfang has a few already in Germany.

The Deutsche Bahn (german train system) also does that across its own grid.

Batteries from EVs charging and discharging in stable environments are a lot saver (and they are save anyway) and do not degrade anymore.

Why would that even be green washing? Where is this coming from? Those batteries are doing exactly what they should do and saved already co2 in their first lifetime.

And what has this to do with data centers? All of these battery grid systems have veen started before the AI boom.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-27 17:51:28+00:00
>It excludes the many, many more people just don't care about diversity and want the best people in a role regardless of ethnicity or sex or anything else.

No human being has ever objectively evaluated a candidate on their "merits" and ignored their ethnicity, sex, etc.

That's not how the human brain can work.

That does not mean I support the "if you aren't with us, you're against us" ideology, but this absurdist belief that the majority of humans do a good job of avoiding prejudice has never ever been supported by reality.

If that were true, American race based slavery would not have been controversial, it would have been utterly undoable. It was possible because it is trivial for the human brain to dehumanize others. It's an integral part of our brain that was used for generations to maintain social alignment. It doesn't go away just because we banned slavery.

Human biases are so bad, most of the point of science is to stop trusting human reasoning at all.

We have to triple blind studies with medicine, because despite everyone involved being fairly educated in the domain, they will still fuck up data with their biases. Doctors will accidentally fuck up a drug trial because they are human. They don't want to, because they know that would be a huge waste of resources and time and human labor, but they do because the brain doesn't care what you think you want. It isn't constructed to.

And I'm not talking bias as some political bullshit. I'm talking bias as in, human beings will reliably make the same statistical mistakes because our brains overfit a few data points all the damn time, and only attempt to even fit data points after we've already made up our mind.

Statisticians will still experience gambling fallacies.
by deepspace | 2025-10-27 17:51:32+00:00
Ah, that brings back memories. I was using Intel iRMX on a commercial system in the mid 80s, and wanted to write a multitasking program on my IBM XT.

So I wrote a pre-emptive multitasking iRMX clone in C and a bit of assembler. Ended up using it to develop a mildly successful POS system running on a single PC with several VT100 terminals attached.
by nrds | 2025-10-27 17:52:04+00:00
I have long felt the killer feature of QUIC is its ability to encapsulate _both_ reliable in-order delivery and unreliable datagram delivery in the same opaque-to-middleboxes container. Whereas HTTP becoming the everything-protocol is debatable, if QUIC becomes the everything-protocol we will be a lot better off. QUIC is the middlebox and censorship killer. Unfortunately that last point is its greatest weakness: censors can currently get away with blocking it.
by bradgranath | 2025-10-27 17:53:42+00:00
1) what is this doing on hackernews?

2) Vice filed for backruptcy in 2023 and shuttered vice.com in 2024. Who the hell is running this?

3) Whoever it is, is just ripping off rando Polish local news sites?

I have no idea what’s going on here, but maaaaaybe this should not be here.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-27 17:53:44+00:00
So I have to manually update the job

How about I use some form of library to do it. I tell it I want to run at 0800 London time, and it runs at 0800 London time

If I tell it I want to run at 0130 London time (or 0330 Athens time) I still have a problem -- do I run it twice when the clocks go back, do I skip it when clocks go forward?

But that's a business logic problem, and defining it as UTC and having another job to update the time twice a year doesn't actually solve the question of "what do I do at this point".
by WillNickols | 2025-10-27 17:54:00+00:00
FWIW there's a bunch of stuff Erdos has that Positron doesn't (including having solved Positron's top 5 open GitHub issues):

1. Remote development via SSH or containers

2. AI that can connect to ChatGPT, local models, or our backend

3. In-line code execution for Qmd/Rmd files

4. Julia as a first class citizen

5. Multi-agent chats: as many AI sessions as you want and they’ll all run in parallel

6. Windows ARM64 builds

7. Open source AGPLv3 license

8. A bunch of other misc items including read-write data explorer for CSVs and TSVs, plots history sorted by file and time, searchable help, a command history tab, etc

Maybe the biggest difference going forward is that Positron was a ~2 year dev project, whereas Erdos reached feature parity (plus or minus some features) in about ~2 months and is now adding substantial brand new functionality every week.
by zackmorris | 2025-10-27 17:54:14+00:00
It bugged me that lithium-ion battery listings only state 300-500 charge cycles, so I did a deeper dive with AI and found these batteries for a better comparison:

O($/Wh) D(Wh/kg) D(Wh/L) P($) E(Wh) M(kg) Vol(L) V(V) C S URL(Lithium-ion) 0.31 236.17 671.08 3.4 11.1 0.047 0.017 3.7 1000 18650 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Wholesale-18650-Lithium-Battery-INR18650-3_1601503766893.html 0.36 222.00 671.08 3.99 11.1 0.05 0.017 3.7 800 18650 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hot-Selling-Factory-Price-INR18650-30Q_1601159662361.html 0.83 160.00 290.20 4 4.8 0.03 0.017 3.2 2000 18650 https://www.batteryspace.com/LiFePO4-18650-Rechargeable-Cell-3.2V-1500-mAh-4.8Wh-7.5A-Rate.aspx 0.36 227.85 1088.24 6.4 18 0.079 0.017 3.2 3000 18650 https://www.goldencellpower.com/product-item/18650-1100mah-3-2v-lifepo4-cells/ 0.36 222.78 1064.06 6.4 17.6 0.079 0.017 3.2 3000 18650 https://www.batteryspace.com/LiFePO4-18650-Rechargeable-Cell-3.2V-2000-mAh-6.4Wh-6A-Rate.aspx 0.80 134.74 365.71 10.18 12.8 0.095 0.035 3.2 4000 26650 https://www.batteryspace.com/LiFePO4-26650-Rechargeable-Cell-3.2V-4000-mAh-12.8Wh-12A-Rate.aspx 0.24 184.00 396.07 3.5 14.72 0.08 0.037 3.2 3000 26700 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/lithium-ion-battery-cell-26700-3_1601277009356.html 0.31 240.00 413.29 4.8 15.36 0.064 0.037 3.2 4000 26700 https://www.sunpowernewenergy.com/product/26700-high-rate-lifepo4-battery-45e/ 0.31 160.00 128.28 4.8 15.36 0.096 0.120 3.2 4000 33140 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Quality-LMFP-5AH-Cell-Lithium_1601161018743.html 0.28 256.41 167.03 5.6 20 0.078 0.120 3.2 5000 33140 https://www.evlithium.com/LiFePO4-Battery/33140-20ah-lifepo4-battery-cell.html Edit: dangit, I made a mistake in my previous post. A($/Wh) and C($/Wh) were supposed to be O($/Wh) for outlay. I fixed this one to provide context.
by DAlperin | 2025-10-27 17:54:14+00:00
(I used to work at fly on networking)

Fly has a lot of interesting networking issues but I don't know that like, the actual routing of packets is the big one? And even in the places where there is bottlenecks in the overlay mesh I'm not sure that custom FPGAs are going to be the solution for now.

But also this blog post isn't about routing packets, it's about state tracking so we know _where_ to even send our packets in the first place.
by torstenvl | 2025-10-27 17:54:28+00:00
Which of the following elements of what he said is "vile" or "offens[ive]"?

- The author was infatuated with London.

- The time period when he was infatuated with London was the late '90s/early 2000s.

- London is no longer the same city; it's changed a lot.

- One of the major changes is demographic in nature.

- The major demographic shift is in the proportions of native Brits (presumably compared to recent immigrants).
by yoyohello13 | 2025-10-27 17:54:39+00:00
I’ve been learning piano and I’ve noticed a similar thing with music. You can listen to perfect machine generated performances of songs and there is just something missing. A live performance even of a master pianist will have little ‘mistakes’ or interpretations that make the whole performance so much more enjoyable. Not only that, but just knowing that a person spent months drilling a song adds something.
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-10-27 17:54:57+00:00
I live close to a hospital and they make a generator test run once a month. That's an ultra deep sinus (~30Hz) that's humming along - you can hear it everywhere within the city.

It's was super easy to measure using a Sensirion Differential Pressure sensor. They have a few extremely sensitive models that have a 100Hz sampling rate (50Hz useable after Nyquist) - also: you can sense washing machines (from vibrating buildings) with it 2 blocks away.
by Xemplolo | 2025-10-27 17:55:03+00:00
You learn to act by doing it.

The more you do it, the more automatic it is.

For example: I took ritalin on and off but with long enough phases, that I do have behavour patterns were i act like i was on ritalin (cleaning stuff etc.)

I also thought about people who drunk a lot more alcohol when they were younger: they learned how to be a certain way because they were able to act like this by drinking alcohol.

I took MDMA a lot later in life and when i was, i definitly had like a 'MDMA dance echo' in my brain after.
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-27 17:55:12+00:00
Change the domain (before ##) to match your instance:

your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="issue-smart-request-summary.ui.ai-container"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="issue.views.issue-base.foundation.status.improve-issue"] your_co.atlassian.net##[aria-label="Summarize"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="atlassian-navigation.ui.conversation-assistant.app-navigation-ai-mate"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="highlight-actions.ui.popup-target.popup-dialog.action-items.define-button.define-button"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="context-menu-rovo-chat-button"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="context-menu-rovo-chat-more-options"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="atlassian-intelligence-toolbar-button"] your_co.atlassian.net##[data-testid*="placeholder-test-id"]

Surely some repeats/inefficiency: barely know what I'm doing :)
by abhishaike | 2025-10-27 17:55:21+00:00
I completely agree, but I also think there is some truth to the related statement: 'cancer research often isn't conducted in a way that is actually useful'!

For example, in-vivo tumor experiments in mice can yield completely different results depending on exactly where the tumor was implanted. E.g. a 'lung cancer mouse model' may have the lung cancer injected just under the skin, also known as subcutaneous tumor models, instead of in the lung! Entirely because it's a lot more efficient + yields more trustable data, but the results are often deeply disconnected from how the tumor would naturally grow + respond to drugs within its host organ.
by ahepp | 2025-10-27 17:55:37+00:00
It's difficult for me to tell how many of the issues in that thread are serious, because there also seem to be a surprising number of people who come back to say "I solved it by enabling h264 in my browser".

On the other hand there are people who say "I ordered three, two work and one doesn't" which seems like pretty good evidence there can be real issues with the hardware.
by StellaMary | 2025-10-27 17:56:04+00:00
Here you go https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?f=hono-d...

Also regarding the performance its written using Rust and raw Hyper library unlike deno runtime no overhead coz I just build a complex rust native addon for node js that allows every one to harness the true power of Rust's Tokio and hyper.

Regarding hono it's my fav and edge based. The Framework I created allows you to run true multi thread Fullstack app on a instance like running raw c++ or golang frameworks. My framework gives you true parallelism without Node.js cluster. Just give a try.
by nzach | 2025-10-27 17:56:17+00:00
What I'm trying to say is that everything we build has positive and negative effects in our society. And if we want to create a better society we need to have a good understanding of these effects.

I think your article about 'Lack of water, unclean water due to data centers' is a good example of bad faith arguments. It start the article talking about someone that lost access to their private well after a datacenter was constructed. This article don't do it, but I've se people go from arguments like this (a specific water-related disruption) to 'thousands of residencies will loose access to water'.

What strikes me as odd is the fact that datacenters aren't all that special when compared to other infrastructure projects(roads, warehouses, hospitals, power plants, garbage disposal, water dams, ...) but the way we are discussing it seems unique. For every other infrastructure project the discussion seems to be 'how do we make sure that X, Y and Z won't be a problem for the society?'. But when it comes to datacenters it becomes 'datacenters are bad and we should not build them', which seems bad way to approach this issue.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-27 17:56:18+00:00
> All of the glass examples in TFA are borosilicate all-caps PYREX, while most of what you can buy today in the store is lowercase pyrex (Europe is an exception where the all-caps variety can be found).

Using all-lower or all-upper case is not a good indication of the type of glass used.

A recent video (Sep 2025) from the I Want to Cook channel, "PYREX vs pyrex -- What's The Difference & Why It Matters", went into the history of this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DKasz4xFC0

Specifically, he found the following at the Corning Museum of Glass site:

> The short answer is that the change from Pyrex trademark upper to lower case signified a re-branding of the trademark Pyrex® in the late 1970s but is not a conclusive way to determine, historically, what type of glass formulation the product is made from.

* https://libanswers.cmog.org/faq/398431

So if someone goes to thrift stores looking for borosilicate via the 'old way' of spelling the name, there is no guarantee it will be borosilicate.

See 16m11 of the video for advice if you want borosilicate glass: in Europe, it is all borosilicate; in US, import it yourself, look for "Made in France", or use another manufacturer (e.g., Oxo names the glass they use).