MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-01 22:08:57+00:00
No, that oppression definitely involved plenty of words before. The natives were "savages" and "in the way" and "weren't using the land" we said.

Southern preachers insisted that being enslaved was the black man's rightful place, as god intended, because they were naturally less intelligent and "savage" and needed good guidance from the white man.

I'm tired, after hundreds of years, of people still insisting "no no no, just a little more information freedom and humans will magically fix all their natural biases and magically stop acting like humans and magically stop believing what is comfortable instead of what is provably correct"

It's absolutely good to be much closer to the "Freer" side of that spectrum than the "government enforced muzzle" side, but I'm so tired of people insisting that we can't possibly wiggle around a little bit on the spectrum to find maybe a better place.

Oppression does not come from what laws you have. Oppression comes from how power works. It doesn't matter what laws you have on the books if you put people in charge who do not give a shit about them. It doesn't matter if you have the first amendment if you elect enough people to just disregard it and even change it if you want.

Rules aren't real. Rules don't matter unless you can enforce them. If you allow oppressive people into power, it doesn't matter how many times you write "don't oppress people"

What oppression has free speech demonstrably stopped?
by harleyzhl | 2025-10-01 22:09:50+00:00
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by rguldener | 2025-10-01 22:09:51+00:00
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by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-01 22:09:57+00:00
That $185k is 110% of AMI (Area Median Income) for a household of 5 people.[0] If you're a single-income household with 4 dependents then, yes, you may find it difficult to live in San Francisco.

But, again, CoL isn't relevant when we're discussing whether a particular job has 'low pay'. My point was (and is) that teachers in San Francisco are well paid compared with people with similar academic achievement and similar capabilities in the same city. Even when you don't adjust for the number of weeks they work.

[0] Here are the 2025 110% AMI caps by household size from the City’s chart (gross income, before taxes):

1 person: $120,000

2 people: $137,150

3 people: $154,300

4 people: $171,450

5 people: $185,150 ← this is the "$185k*" you saw

6 people: $198,900

https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2025_AMI-IncomeLimits-HMF...
Show HN: Rostra is a P2P (f2f) social network
by dpc_01234 | 2025-10-01 22:10:16+00:00
A public instance is available at https://rostra.me/.

It will default to showing the interface from the perspective of my own identity, in a read-only mode. Click "Logout" and then "Random" to generate your own identity to play with.
by miltonlost | 2025-10-01 22:11:08+00:00
DOGE and shutdowns also, in the end, cost tax payers more money because of what needs to be fixed after the destruction is over and we need to rebuild obviously important governmental services. To be a conservative in 2025 (or the last 40 years since Reagan blew up deficits via tax cuts) is to be fiscally irresponsible while hypocritically decrying their own mess. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5558298/doge-fiscal-yea...
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-01 22:12:09+00:00
>The only way we return to this level is de-industrialization.

Unfortunately, we will return to that level. Then 25 years later, we'll be only half that number (or worse).

>all of his predictions turned out to be dead wrong.

Hilariously wrong, you mean. I especially like the ones about how the UK would be filled with cannibal savages by the 1980s, because everyone would be starving.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-01 22:12:17+00:00
There's a small problem with the definition of "requires support", because growing up, I was smart enough, and good enough at masking, that I never "required support." Arguably, I still probably don't. But once I grew up, and started to look for ways to improve my mental health. My life very quickly shifted from, surviving ok-ish. To thriving and improving.

So many people insist that it doesn't count unless you're completely or meaningfully incapacitated. But that's stupid place to put the bar.
by pydry | 2025-10-01 22:12:34+00:00
>You need either nuclear or gas

This is straight up misinformation. Nuclear power is not a peaker.

Gas is, batteries are. Nuclear power provides baseload and must be paired with a peaker too - almost always gas (France uses epic amounts of gas when its nuke plants are down for maintenance).

The reason why we have gas as a peaker instead of batteries? Gas is cheaper, and batteries dont get lavished with subsidies like nuclear power does.

>I don’t understand how people seem to NOT understand that you need the ENTIRE capacity when wind and solar act up

We look at real models based upon real data, for example:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

FUD and misinformation is a bad way to approach any scientific topic, whether vaccines or energy policy. Id recommend not doing that.
by johncarlosbaez | 2025-10-01 22:12:44+00:00
I'm starting to make videos for the University of Edinburgh. My first one was about this paper saying that neutrino oscillations may increase the formation of gold and other heavy elements in neutron star mergers:

• Neutrino flavor transformation in neutron star mergers, https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11758 Here it is:
by guy_5676 | 2025-10-01 22:13:21+00:00
I'm not an expert on this tech, so I could be talking out my ass, but what you are saying here doesn't ring completely true to me. I'm an avid consumer of stable-diffusion based models. The community is very easily able to train adaptations to the network that push it in a certain direction, to the point you consistently get the model to produce specific types of output (e.g. perfectly replicating the style of a well known artist).

I have also seen people train "jailbreaks" of popular open source LLMs (e.g. Google Gemma) that remove the condescending ethical guidelines and just let you talk to the thing normally.

So all in all I am skeptical of the claim that there would be no value in having access to the training data. Clearly there is some ability to steer the direction of the output these models produce.
by crote | 2025-10-01 22:13:26+00:00
Electricity demand is elastic, and electricity is dynamically priced. Plenty of industries are able and willing to reduce their consumption to avoid paying 100x more than usual, or even get paid to reduce their consumption.

A data center with backup generators can easily switch from grid power to generator power. If you're installing those generators for redundancy reasons anyway, why not make some extra bucks by signing a first-load-to-shed contract with the power company?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 22:13:49+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-01 22:14:06+00:00
The wiki page to the Eglinton Festival notes succinctly: "Medieval culture was widely admired [in the 18th and 19th centuries] as an antidote to the modern enlightenment and industrial age."

This kicked into overdrive in the 20th, with the nascent genre of literary fantasy (and, later, video games,) showing people alternate worlds that are potent medicine against the enlightenment and industrial age -- for they contain little or nothing of the more dour aspects of 9th-17th century life.

If anything, it seems to me that most fantasy books and games like Dungeons and Dragons only make sense if you imagine they take place in the distant post-industrial future. They're too cozy; there is far too much healing magic and other tech; their economies are in many cases post-scarcity...
Show HN: AI analyst agent – Seamlessly switch between chat and build mode
by mfdupuis | 2025-10-01 22:14:27+00:00
Hey, I'm Marc one of the co-founders of Fabi!

We've all seen the "chat with your data" or the "AI-as-an-assistant" when building reports, but we felt like this wasn't quite right.

So we decided to build a system that allowed users to: * Connect any data source to the AI * Purely chat with the AI and their data (so we show the output right in the chat before you even apply the changes) * Convert that chat to a repeatable analysis with a data app or workflow * Toggle back to chat mode without missing a beat

Basically this means that if you're a data person, you don't have to go through these loops of Ask AI -> Apply the code to your report -> Look at the results -> Revert or ask for updates. You can just stay in the chat interface and ask questions until you get the result you want then "Save" it to your report.

Sharing here, because making this work required some pretty cool and difficult handling of variables between the AI chat and the report.

For example, if you have a dataframe "df1" in your report, you want the AI to be able to access that dataframe and create new ones, says "df2". But you don't want df2 available in your report until you've accepted the change from the AI, otherwise the AI would be creating tons of variables that would cause a mess.

Happy to answer any questions!
by observationist | 2025-10-01 22:14:33+00:00
Shouldn't they change it to WARPA to reflect the Dept of War name change?

or even better: WARPATH: War Advanced Research Projects Agency for Technology and Hardware

Say what you will about this administration, I do favor the more honest name. Defense carried connotations of peace and passivity that did no more than obfuscate the underlying nature of the military industrial complex. Maybe people will be more reluctant to profit from business with the Department of War, and maybe fewer individuals will benefit from spinning "Defense" industry as anything other than trade in arms and armor intended for state sanctioned violence. Something about "Defense Industry" just carried a whole lot of "ick" in modern parlance.
by disillusioned | 2025-10-01 22:14:44+00:00
Generally speaking, a lot of firms follow best practice where "issues"/"tasks"/"stories" are written (by a Product Manager, or PM) to include both a prescriptive request as well as a list of acceptance criteria that can be checked off to act as a mutually understood list of requirements for that issue to be considered complete.

The "given/when/then" model is basically, "given this circumstance, when the following occurs, the following behavior is observed" as a framing device for building ACs, though not everyone uses that.
by LudwigNagasena | 2025-10-01 22:14:57+00:00
One of the biggest problems in business automation is the gaps between such low-effort “shadow” IT, low code platforms, and fully fledged out “proper” projects. The gap between “let’s make a google form” and “let’s build a react app with proper design, ci/cd, testing, cdn and so on” is too wide. There should be a bunch of intermediate steps there with a sensible migration path, but there are none, there are only walled garden alternatives that aren’t compatible with either.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-01 22:15:23+00:00
> be so completely incorrect?

Were they so completely incorrect?

> That is down from a revised loss of 3,000 in August. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected an increase of 45,000.

Sure, you might say "gosh, +45,000 is way off from -3000". But at the same time, you have to consider they are measuring the change in a population of millions of people. In that sense, the percent error is very tiny whether it's +45K or -3K.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-10-01 22:16:45+00:00
I didn't expect the direction of this article. I found notion limiting because it was (I'm not sure if this is still the case) online-only and slow. (I switched to Obsidian and have been very happy.) But I was using Notion as a personal note database. In fact your point here:

>A quick look at Notion’s architecture makes it obvious: It’s human-first, not AI-first. That’s great for writing.

sounds like praise for Notion as a note taking tool, which is exactly what it is.

I guess what I'd like to say is that your title is misleading, and maybe a better one would be "Notion is awesome until you wannt AI."
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-01 22:17:18+00:00
JetBrains is going to run themselves out of business. It's like they forgot that all their money comes from the people who have been paying them for years for software that is vital to their work and livelihood. It seems they're intentionally dumping all their old customers to focus the full might of their organization.... chasing fads.

They spent millions of dollars reworking their IDEs to look like a cheap VSCode knockoff and have become obsessed with chasing new, hip users who aren't going to pay what the old timers were because their IDEs are free now.

I genuinely cannot fathom how anyone thinks that this current obsession is a good idea. They had their corner of the market absolutely nailed down and secure. If they'd just kept on quietly making the best IDEs available while everyone else in the industry has lost their damn minds, they'd be golden. A large majority of their users simply wanted a good IDE with an easy to understand UI that just keeps working the same way it's always worked and doesn't randomly change shit and force you to stop working to figure out the new software.

JetBrains absolutely cornered the market for power users, and now they want to piss it all away. Not even for a semi-reasonable profit motive, they're just chasing fads becuase... because everyone else is, I guess.

I canceled my subscription a while ago, and I'll keep using the last version to have a sensible UI until something better comes along.
by Ygg2 | 2025-10-01 22:17:27+00:00
> They didn't like C/C++

Riiiight. You do realize they made syntax similar to C/C++ on purpose to ease Mozilla's C/C++ programmers into it.

It's not that they didn't like it; it's that C/C++ is about as disinterested in memory/thread safety as you can get. It's been what, ten years since Rust became 1.0? And the safety needle of C++ hasn't budged a femtometer.

> Quite a bit of idiomatic and safe (yes that does exist) C++

Sure, so does legible Brainfuck. However, it's extremely challenging to write it. It usually takes years and years of effort, chasing down obscure bugs.

> Like converting C++ to C#.

If you can take GC pause and not wince, sure, go for it. Not everyone can take that luxury.
by tinyplanets | 2025-10-01 22:17:45+00:00
I typically feel pretty disconnected when a major public figure passes away, but this one really got to me. Dr. Goodall was one of my heroes... I read a couple of her books when I was much younger and had dreams of being a primatologist.

It was so gratifying to see her turn into a global leader in conservation, compassion, and peace. I had a former supervisor who got to meet her personally at a conference on wildlife conservation in Africa several years ago (I was quite jealous)... I was fortunate to see her speak publicly though.

RIP Jane Goodall!
by pizlonator | 2025-10-01 22:17:48+00:00
(Sorry for talking about my personal project again y’all.)

What I want folks to get out of the Fil-C thing is that the whole notion that C is a memory unsafe language and Rust (or any other language) being safer is a subtle thought error.

The truth is: C as it is currently implemented is unsafe, and implementing it in a safe way is possible but we choose not because that would make it slower and use more memory.

The argument for using Rust instead of a memory safe implementation of C is all about performance. And that’s not a bad argument! But we should be honest about it.

(It’s also annoying that this DARPA page mentions some kind of consensus. There’s no consensus on Rust being the safe bet. Lots of orgs are going with alternatives, like Swift, Zig, C++-with-changes, or other things.)
by gwd | 2025-10-01 22:17:49+00:00
> Connolly, from Northampton, ...urged her followers on X to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers.

This isn't an opinion, it's incitement to a crime.

> Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk / Mahmoud Khalil

These clearly are for opinion, and are widely criticized as being vindictive and unconstitutional.
by mynameisash | 2025-10-01 22:18:11+00:00
> just ones that are so intentionally cryptic so as to invent needless specific sigils that you need to memorize.

Can you back up this claim that the language is intentionally cryptic?

Ignoring that: other languages have sigils (Perl's @, $, %, etc.; PHP has always used $; Java uses @ annotations, and so on) or their own quirky syntax (C#'s custom attributes before a class, Python's @ decorators, etc.). What is it about Rust that is particularly confusing?
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-01 22:19:10+00:00
I usually regret reading Dan Meyer's articles, but this one I really enjoyed. It pointed at a couple of sources that led me down a rabbit hole back when I encountered it.

I don't know whether Dan Meyer is in favour of delaying math education. I do know he favours delivering education in a school setting with in-person human teachers, but the latter doesn't imply the former.

And he works on making really nice tools for exploring math: https://www.desmos.com/
by ggm | 2025-10-01 22:19:58+00:00
Wish somebody packaged a non-docker approach. I've seen write-ups for BSD and I've asked if the various OCI respecting "almost docker" tools would work, but people are loathe to invest. I totally get why immich devs themselves don't need to carry this burden btw.

"Just run a Linux docker vm in bhyve" is a low bar get out of jail path. I would far rather have a mapping to jails which did what was needed.
by Symbiote | 2025-10-01 22:20:12+00:00
It's really not necessary.

I have four racks rather than ten, and less storage but more compute. All purchased new from HP with warranties.

Ordering each year takes a couple of days work. Racking that takes one or two.

Initial setup (seeing differences with a new generation of server etc and customizing Ubuntu autoinstallation) is done in a day.

So that's a week per year for setup.

If we are really unlucky, add another week for a strange failure. (This happened once in the 10 years I've been doing this, a CPU needed replacement by the HP engineer.)

I replaced a couple of drives in July, and a network fibre transceiver in May.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-01 22:20:50+00:00
Rust does not safely support all of the things folks do in C++ (complex cyclic object graphs with inscrutable logic deciding lifetimes, intentional races, etc).

The whole problem is that C++ doesn't support them safely either. The committee has no interest in fixing C++, so what's the alternative that doesn't involve a new language? DARPA already considered and rejected things like sandboxed runtimes and rewrites from scratch because they don't fully solve the issues.
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-01 22:20:56+00:00
Unfortunately, I don't think that's avoidable. This is equivalent to lamenting not being able to use Haskell-style pure FP, nor object inheritance. There are C++ (and C) design patterns that will just not work in rust, or won't work in an ergonomic way. The solution is to solve the problem in a different way.

I will add a #3 to your list: Make an all-around nice language I think playing up rust as the memory-safe language underplays its value.
by jborden13 | 2025-10-01 22:21:00+00:00
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by MangoToupe | 2025-10-01 22:21:14+00:00
I'm all in favor for releasing them, but do people really think this document will change much? Distraction, projection, and denial are so effective it's not clear what impact people would imagine it has.

If you frequent conservative forums you'll notice people are more committed to the fascist project than they are to Trump. He may in the end be disposable to them.
by jborden13 | 2025-10-01 22:21:34+00:00
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by IceHegel | 2025-10-01 22:21:40+00:00
I don’t think Rust syntax and patterns (no classes) are especially elegant for many tasks. I can’t express the behavior of a system as cleanly in Rust as TypeScript, C#, go or Python. I know that’s not what it was designed for, but a guy can dream.

But what Rust has is the best tooling bar none(cargo, build system, compile time checks, ease of first use). The tooling is actually more important than the borrow checker and memory safety in my opinion.

If I clone a Rust repo, it’s actually easier to compile, test, and run the code than any other language. It avoided the fragmentation of JS/TS (npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, deno) and dep hell of Python (which was a nightmare until uv).

If Rust didn’t have the syntax warts (macros), it would be eating the world.