MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by serf | 2025-10-26 18:14:12+00:00
>there is an important difference between an attendee asking someone out at a conference, and an invited speaker (or organiser) asking someone out at a conference. If you're going to be in a leadership position, you need to be aware of power dynamics.

so one side of social messaging is "Don't bother trying to look for a date if you're not a CEO, worth millions, have a home, an education, a plan, a yacht and a summer home" ,

and the other side is

"If you're powerful you'd better know that any kind of question needs to be re-framed with the concept of a power dynamic involvement, and that if you're sufficiently powerful there is essentially no way to pursue a relationship with a lesser mortal without essentially raping them through the power dynamics of the question itself and the un-deniability of a question asked by such a powerful God."

... and you say birth rates are declining precipitously?

Pretty ridiculous. It used to be that we used conventions as the one and only time to flatten the social hierarchy -- it was the one moment where you could talk and have a slice of pizza with a billionaire CEO or actor or whatever.

Re-substantiating the classism within conventions just pushes them furthest into corporate product marketing and employment fairs -- in other words it turns it into shit no one wants to attend without being paid to sit in a booth.

But all of that isn't the problem : the problem lies with personal sovereignty.

If someone doesn't want to do something, they say no. If they receive retribution because of that no we then investigate the retribution and as a society we turn the ne'er-do-well into a social pariah until they have better behavior.

There is a major problem when we as a society have decided "No, the problem is with the underlying pressure of what a no 'may mean' for their future." 'May' being the operative word.

We have turned this into a witch-hunt, but for maybe-witches or those who may turn into witches without any real evidence of witch craft that prompted the chase.

'Power dynamics's is shorthand for "I was afraid i'd be fired if I denied Stallman." ; did anything resembling this ever occur?
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-26 18:14:27+00:00
What are the goals/specialization/actual use of each?

FreeBSD: I always got the impression this was trying to be full modern UNIX but non-linux

NetBSD: I guess this is for older/less powerful computers based on comments here?

OpenBSD: ???Security???

Dragonfly: a schism over threading, but FreeBSD?
by NumberCruncher | 2025-10-26 18:14:34+00:00
Once my boss told me: “You can’t force people to do something they don’t want to do.” And this guy just don’t want to work well with you. Period.

I learned one approach that sometimes works: Figure out what they want and give them what they want. But with the condition they change their behavior. From your post, it sounds like this guy wants to be promoted.

If I were you, I would talk to him like this:

“Look, you are good technically. You should be promoted. But higher levels here mean more than just code. It means mentoring, working closer with peers, hiring people, training them, helping management. We have a career path in place, let’s make a plan for you.”

In big companies it’s even easier. Use the promotion track. Show him what’s expected. If he wants the title, he has to play the role.

Three things can happen:

He rises to it: He starts acting more professional, helps others, builds trust. You win, he wins, team wins.

He tries and fails: He’s exposed higher up. He has direct reports. He’s in meetings with management. He can’t hide his behavior anymore. Eventually, they’ll act.

He says “no thanks”: Then it’s clear. He just wants to stay where he is and make your life harder. At least now everyone sees it.

This puts the pressure where it belongs. On him, to live up to what he says he wants.

[Edit]: You can also tell him that if he wants the promotion, he has to start acting like someone at that level. That means following the principle: “There are no mistakes, only lessons we learn from.”

Tell him: "There was an outage. OK. Then step up. Take the lead, organize a post-mortem, and work with others to find real measures that prevent it in the future. Not to assign blame, but to help the organization improve."

Maybe you don’t even join the post-mortem, let him own it. Just make clear: this isn’t about finger-pointing, it’s about building a culture where problems lead to better systems.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-26 18:15:23+00:00
"The Dying Earth" is an "important" book historically as it is the source inspiration for the early Dungeons and Dragons magic system (some of the spells are clearly copied from it).

As an aside, I've had the good fortune to play in a few "Dying Earth" roleplaying campaigns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dying_Earth_Roleplaying_Ga...) and it's one of the most fun RPGs as most of the gameplay revolves around one-upping everyone else and experience is awarded for using taglines appropriately rather than killing monsters etc.
by closeparen | 2025-10-26 18:15:27+00:00
I disagree. The point of code review (and indeed, software engineering) is to get at the difference between code that works for its intended purpose (as far its author knows) and code that it's reasonable for us to be responsible for collectively and in perpetuity. That includes things like working in the way you would expect, minimizing surprise, using names that make sense, etc. which are fundamentally subjective and human factors. It's expected that a new team member bounces off some "not the way I'd have done it" type comments for a while until they're socialized into the way that the team or project does things and can reproduce it themselves the first time. Formatters, linters, and documentation can speed up this acculturation process but there is an irreducible degree of "good taste" which you just have to cultivate over time.

That said, it's also important the reviewer feels equally responsible for getting the work done and is willing to make pragmatic tradeoffs taking into account timeline pressure, how contained something is, how likely it is to actually cause trouble, how hard it is to change later. Cross-team and cross-org reviews are more likely to involve pure gatekeeping, which is death.
by kev009 | 2025-10-26 18:15:38+00:00
It probably works as an economic argument. Readers of this site and many in first world countries have limited barriers to buy new equipment and there are low cost options. Elsewhere that may not be true, either the low cost equipment is still beyond reach, or it is simply difficult to import or completely unavailable.

It's interesting to observe that a 1990 (386) vs 2000 (Pentium III) computer is a heck of a lot different than a 2015 vs 2025 computer. We're talking about Skylake (2015) which would have no issue as a daily driver for quite a lot of people.
by jevndev | 2025-10-26 18:15:39+00:00
> the definitions are cloudy enough […]

This is one of the biggest traps I’ve seen in code review. Generally, everyone is coming from a good place of “I’m reviewing this code to maintain codebase quality. This technically could cause problems. Thus I’m obligated to mention it”. Since the line of “could cause problems (important enough to mention)” is subjective, you can (and will, in my experience) get good natured pedants. They’ll block a 100LOC patch for weeks because “well if we name this variable x that COULD cause someone to think of it like y so we can’t name it x” or “this pattern you used has <insert textbook downsides that generally aren’t relevant for the problem>. I would do it with this other pattern (which has its own downsides but i wont say them)”.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-26 18:16:01+00:00
Sure, I suppose. And I do have a separate computer for HA, because I consider it part of the house.in a way that is simply deserving of (cheap!) dedicated hardware.

But most of my multi-os stuff happens with VMs these days.

After I spent a few years successfully running Windows as my primary desktop OS, as a virtual machine (with its own dedicated CPU cores and accessories like GPU), the lines between separate computers and different operating systems permanently became very blurry to me.
by veidr | 2025-10-26 18:16:45+00:00
FWIW, this is the exact opposite of what my most important advice would be. Don't settle down in your 20s. Your life ends as soon as you have kids. You do get a new life, but it's radically different from the life you had, and not really yours.

Also, when you're 35, you will likely have a much better understanding of what really matters to you, and what kind of partner you really want for the long haul.

It's often said that "60 is the new 50" — and it is, if you do it right — the corollary is something like, "25 is the new 19". That's a gift! Take advantage.
by weinzierl | 2025-10-26 18:16:49+00:00
The reactor cavity water is usually moderately radioactive from activation and small leaks. Not life-threatening but certainly a long term health risk, especially when ingested. That is why the person was advised to seek medical attention.

Regulatory bodies have adopted the LNT (linear no threshold) model and for good reasons. Every exposure increases your likelihood to get cancer eventually. Many things do, such is life, and radiation is one of them.
by betaby | 2025-10-26 18:18:15+00:00
> That makes an entire country a no-go zone.

There are plenty of countries like that.

> but it's in the UK? Or you have friends you want to visit? Or family, or whatever.

Then yes, if on a individual level that affects you, you have to be careful. Like citizens of China or Russia, or Saudi Arabia. Welcome to the club, UK, I guess?
by prmph | 2025-10-26 18:18:29+00:00
Why not just say movie posters from Ghana? What is connection between these and the concept of African, I wonder?

Anyway, I'm Ghanaian, and you can AMA. There's a lot of such art, many on walls of the erstwhile movie houses. Most of them are very realistic and collectible, but I guess only the garish ones command attention and so are easier to make into a story.

As a kid I once watched an artist paint one of these on a wall in a few hours, was very cool.
by sometimes_all | 2025-10-26 18:18:39+00:00
I am fairly certain that most people in the non-English speaking world will also be able to place Canada on the map - I'd assume the French know exactly where Canada is. But I digress; it's not about placing a country on a map. It's more about we know that Canada is a separate country, and it has an identity distinct from other countries in its continent.

This goes beyond mere politeness; that you used this word is a bit suggestive. Refusing to acknowledge an identity is far more than just a lack of politeness.
by jcranmer | 2025-10-26 18:19:22+00:00
Look, I work on compilers, and I have no idea what you're even trying to refer with "planned obsolescence" here.

And 5/10 years is a very short time in compiler development planning! Prototypeless-functions in C were deprecated for longer than some committee members were alive before they removed from the standard, and they will remain supported in C compilers probably for longer than I myself will be alive.
by quantumcotton | 2025-10-26 18:19:45+00:00
As a person who knows way too much about way too many things. I am fully aware of this myself, however, the headline was shifted in a way that makes you perceive there's a problem caused by said person falling into water. So yes, logic tells you no problem but haven't recognition tells you they're trying to announce a problem. At the same time there was no problem.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-26 18:20:16+00:00
Who is worked up? You seem to be. Why?

I am just correcting misinformation and disinformation.

And no, you suppose incorrectly.

Intermittent renewables are a scam, because they get to privately reap benefits and socialize their costs, particularly their intermittency.

They can be useful, as long as they have to bear the costs of being intermittent. That means at minimum no feed-in priority and no fixed and/or guaranteed feed-in prices. Ideally, they would be required either (a) provide guaranteed power or (b) only be allowed to feed in after all the reliable plants.

Well, (b) would imply (a), so let's go with that.
by HyperLinker | 2025-10-26 18:20:21+00:00
You can determine right away whether your Country is genuinely democratic or merely pretends to be.

If your Republic (res publica in the ancient tongue) is the shared property of its citizens, who alternate as equal partners through a Public Jobs Bank, then yes! Your Country is truly democratic, and everything works wonderfully for you.

But if the Republic is held captive, possessed by a caste of Lifelong Oligarchs—hired-for-life employees, a closed congregation of bureaucrats and careerists—true monarchs, in effect—well: where is the Democracy in that? Where is the periodic renewal of personnel in public roles (as mandated by Democracy without exception) that gives rise to true citizen participation?

It remains the old monarchical state: lopsided, crooked, and rigid, where the fortunate continually prosper and the disadvantaged constantly suffer. It is the old tyrant state that has unduly persisted due to a continued abuse of power by the Republic's own jailers.

In such a Country, it doesn't matter if the governments keep changing. If the Republic (the public offices, institutions, jobs, powers, and incomes) are perpetually controlled by the same people for as long as they live, there will never be equality, justice, or freedom.

Dear Coders, Cypherpunks, Crypto-warriors, and Builders of the Future... don't you think it's time to stop ignoring all this? Can one ever truly enjoy freedom by perpetually hiding behind encryption?

Do not play solely on the defense. If our societies still suffer from the legacy of a tyrannical past, it falls to us—the zealous lovers of liberty—to conceive a new center of power that is worthy of our time, and equal to the measure of our hunger for freedom.

Then... let us begin re-coding our Republics!

D. D'Antonio, originator of Harmonic Social Rotation (HSR) Laboratorio Eudemonia
by zkmon | 2025-10-26 18:20:28+00:00
This idealistic objective is highly commendable, but the fight could be futile. As you would need AI to do the work of detection. Then there will be another movement to do "organic detection" of "organic content". And the story goes on.

Think of interview candidates rejected by AI and employees fired by AI, or that case where a snack pack was identified by AI as a weapon in a student's pocket. This will lead to "organic decision making".
Founding Delaware C-Corp as a Minor
by whitsa | 2025-10-26 18:20:35+00:00
I founded my software startup earlier this year as an LLC, not knowing that Delaware C Corp is the preferred structure for startups. I am now looking into having one of my parents create it and sign everything through Stripe Atlas, but it seems the most complicated part will be how to relate myself to the company and give myself shares without making the ownership structure too complex and scare off VCs. If anyone has experience with a situation like this, or knows someone that could provide some guidance, it would be much appreciated.
by lazide | 2025-10-26 18:22:06+00:00
It was deactivated and being refueled, so likely something leaked somewhere. But that should be a lot more than a ‘we dunno’ if so - it’s not like it’s not going to be clear from isotopic analysis eh? Or hopefully they at least have some decent spectrum on it.

And it should show up in realtime monitoring of the water, unless they just turned that off.
by fujigawa | 2025-10-26 18:22:55+00:00
You're right, the world is better off having some Asian kid taking apart your junk and breathing in solder fumes with no protection, rather than you running a legacy box in your basement that uses some extra kWh per year.

After all, he probably won't live long enough to tell his grandkids stories about power-hungry hardware.

That reminds me, my homelab could use a SPARC box just because.
by Fnoord | 2025-10-26 18:23:01+00:00
It is a logistics issue. People replace perfectly working computers all the time. Sure, if you use Skylake you list performance from Spectre and Meltdown. You may not even be able to run Windows 11 on perfectly working x86-64 machines. But for poor people, power usage may even be more important than for you or me (businesses generally don't care). That Skylake's successors were so terrible is due to Intel and thankfully it allowed AMD and ARM-based SoCs to thrive.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-26 18:23:03+00:00
This tells me you don't know how a grid works. You do know that the demand is variable right?

With the same reasoning nuclear power is a scam because it can't adapt to the grid demand and forces gas peakers to sit in standby. Socializing the losses, to use your words.

In California the grid shifts between ~15 GW at the minimum and 52 GW at the peak.

When studies have looked at the difference in dispatchable power required comparing majorly renewables or nuclear powered grids when meeting true a grid demand the difference is quite small.

It does favor nuclear power but the differences are not significant in the grand scheme of things when factoring in the absolutely stupid cost for new built western nuclear power.

These studies of course did not take into account 45% of the nuclear fleet being offline, they modeled it based on their average ~85% capacity factor.

Or are you suggesting that we should have peaking nuclear plants to match grid demand? So it isn't a scam for the ratepayers?
by cj | 2025-10-26 18:23:18+00:00
> This isn't "don't take your meds", it's "use all the available tools".

Agreed - low dose daily cialis/tadalafil (e.g. 5mg/day) is very common among elite athletes, bodybuilders, etc. As are GLP-1's despite elite athletes rarely being overweight.

Tadalafil is taken for its endothelial benefits (erections are a convenient side effect), and GLP's for its nutrient partitioning and insulin sensitization effects.

Medications are very often most effective when paired with good lifestyle habits, rather than one of the other.

It also depends on what your goals are, obviously.
by Avicebron | 2025-10-26 18:23:23+00:00
I too am open for business, for a modest fee I will arrange to meet a book publisher in nyc for a firm handshake to cement a declaration from them that they are publishing books not made with AI. I will then send a formal email saying they may publish a little gold star on their book, and my preeminence as a member of the literary elite should carry it through. I'm doing this for the people because I _care_.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-26 18:24:53+00:00
The blog post (https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/) says that gzip bombs don't work particularly well:

> Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more.

I thought a gzip bomb was crafted to explicitly be virtually unlimited in the "payload" size?
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-26 18:25:12+00:00
I doesn't have to solve the problem.

It just has to help the problem.

Rooftop home solar+storage also doesn't have to SOLVE THE PROBLEM IN TOTALITY. It just has to help.

Energy is a cornucopia of solutions, which is a good thing. We aren't going to get everything from nuclear, it is far too expensive and can't function as a peaker (unless we had LFTR but oh well). Geothermal has a lot of potential, but it isn't perfect and probably investment heavy. Gas peaking is regrettable, but necessary currently. Solar and wind are by far the cheapest, but intermittent.

The goal should be stable, available, cheap energy. The path to that is solar + wind + battery + peaking + home solar/storage, but the grid monopolists aren't interested in cheap energy or the loss of control that home solar/storage comes with.

The fact that wind and solar are so cheap but grid prices are so expensive is an absolute SCANDAL.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-26 18:25:45+00:00
What is the point of this? Any publishing house can just "self certify" that no AI was used. Why would it be necessary to have an outside organization, who can not validate AI use anyway and just has to rely on the publisher.

Writing a book is, in most cases, something which happens between the author and their writing medium, how could any publisher verify anything about AI use, except in the most obvious cases?

The one thing which matters here is honesty and trust and I do not see how an outside organization could help in creating that honesty and maintaining that trust.
by pstuart | 2025-10-26 18:26:06+00:00
FFS, algo tweaking is not censorship. Censorship would be prohibiting the speech at all.

And what is the political part of this? That "illegal immigrants" are coming in to your country? To amp up anger and fear over that?

This is what I detest about "politics" -- when it is just emotional manipulation via hate and fear to cow people into voting for whoever claims title to that hate and fear.

Immigration has challenges but humanity is defined by immigration -- we're all immigrants either directly or indirectly. We have arrived at what could be a post-scarcity world and need to start acting like it.
by raddan | 2025-10-26 18:26:42+00:00
I too would like to see a side-by-side comparison but if we assume that the claim is true, one reason might be that NetBSD runs very few daemons after a default install. I run NetBSD on a handful of Raspberry Pi Zero machines, and it is really quite a surprise that they run as well as they do for a $5 computer. Your typical Raspbian install has a lot more going on after the default install.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-26 18:27:50+00:00
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to argue at this point. What, if anything, and please be specific, do you even disagree with that I've said?

Basically you linked to a paper showing high rates of myocarditis following injection in the US and claimed it had a net benefit because the paper claimed so. It turns out the papers claimed benefits were based on the early exaggerated claims of vaccine efficacy, and now you're linking to something from Europe that indeed shows dramatically lower benefits than the original paper assumed.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-26 18:27:54+00:00
Hydro is the best renewable at meeting demand peaks. Concentrated solar with molten salt storage could theoretically be just as good, but it isn't cost effective and the only large one, in Ivanpah California, is shutting down.

Nuclear is great at base power, but cannot quickly react to changes in demand. Wind and photovoltaic solar give power whenever it's available, but without storage, they also can't help with peak demands.
by kmbfjr | 2025-10-26 18:28:49+00:00
(Tired quip “you must be new here”)

Yes, it is tiring. In this case, not really because it is at least for me, humorous in a Doc Martin sort of way. But elsewhere and on places like Reddit where the pedantry is often at best unjustified and at worst, wrong, it has made me spend less time on the sites.
by A_No_Name_Mouse | 2025-10-26 18:29:07+00:00
Listen To the Baz Luhmann song "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)". A lot of it is pretty good advice. I regret not having invested in index funds at that age. I'm very happy I backpacked the earth for 1.5 years as soon as I could afford it. When looking for a job: do the things you enjoy most, aim high and go for it. Do not try to find your calling: try different things and your calling will find you.
by kelnos | 2025-10-26 18:29:09+00:00
I think both "sides" aren't looking great here. On one side you have someone quoting the article with a fact that doesn't mean what they think it means (the level of radiation reported is safe; the person in question is being sent for medical attention more for process's sake and an overabundance of caution), and the other side is being incredibly uncharitable and rude when it comes to calling people out for being ignorant of how this stuff works.