MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajross | 2025-10-23 16:56:57+00:00
> Neither party has any intention of repaying any of the $38 trillion

What are you talking about here? Federal debt is repaid on bond schedules fixed by statute. You can look it all up. You can argue about whether the debt load is too high, too low, whatever. But you can't just pretend they ran away with the money like a thief. People loaned the government that money because they know the government is good for it.
by cfraenkel | 2025-10-23 16:57:04+00:00
A long time ago, worked on a comm satellite program. It used a whack of tuned cans to combine high powered transmit signals with harmonics in each others' frequency bands to feed into the antenna. I once asked how they worked. The answer was 'magic'. I mean, they were physical RF filters, but no one could explain or reproduce how they worked. There was this one guy who could tighten the screws that adjusted the inside baffles so they 'worked'. No one else could.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-23 16:57:46+00:00
The same reason you think it is absurd and fake is why others are panicking about the debt.

13% of federal taxes go to paying interest on the debt. That is 13 cents of every tax dollar paid. It is on track to hit 20% in the next 10 years, and that is assuming the US economy and tax revenue keeps growing.

Japan, UK, China, and the Cayman Islands are the largest private holders of US federal debt. [1]

What part of this seems incredible to you? It is indeed a lot of debt spending.

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...
by revision17 | 2025-10-23 16:58:09+00:00
Some cool ones do support CLAP, such as:

- Surge XT - open-source synthesizer with literally 10k presets built in: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ - TX16Wx - free for non-pro use soundfont sampler: https://www.tx16wx.com/

While they may not do everything, to me as a novice, those two do cover a lot of ground for free.
by dpifke | 2025-10-23 16:58:19+00:00
I had this same problem with my self-hosted Home Assistant deployment, where Google marked the entire domain as phishing because it contains a login page that looks like other self-hosted Home Assistant deployments.

Fortunately, I expose it to the internet on its own domain despite running through the same reverse proxy as other projects. It would have sucked if this had happened to a domain used for anything else, since the appeal process is completely opaque.
by mxek | 2025-10-23 16:58:48+00:00
Great question. We'd look at Obsidian as a reference.

We think there are a lot of value added services that can happen when you need servers, but they should be user aligned & optional (Mobile app, sync, publishing, backups, remote jobs, collab).

We want Surf's client to be independent & open, but offer some of these on top -- for people who want them!
by ianburrell | 2025-10-23 16:58:48+00:00
IP addresses change all the time. It changes when connect to WiFi, it changes when enter new country, it changes when provider gives you new address. I cant tell if changes on mobile, it looks like mobile providers hand off to next tower, but there must be a limit of how far can go before routing breaks.

Everything retries cause there isn’t difference between new address or bad connection. Most of time we don’t notice cause not using device. Or because most connections are short lived.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-23 16:59:02+00:00
> Monopolistic companies may not actively impose restrictions which harm others (includes businesses)

That's not generally how monopoly is interpreted in the US (although jurisprudence on this may be shifting). In general, the litmus test is consumer harm. A company is allowed to control 99% of the market if they do it by providing a better experience to consumers than other companies can; that's just "being successful." Microsoft ran afoul of antitrust because their browser sucked and embedding it in the OS made the OS suck too; if they hadn't tried to parlay one product into the other they would be unlikely to have run afoul of US antitrust law, and they haven't run afoul of it over the fact that 70-90% of x86 architecture PCs run Windows.

> Some restrictions are allowed, but the company must respond to an appeal of restrictions within X minutes; Appeals to the company can themselves be appealed to a governmental independent board which binds the company with no further review permitted; All delays and unreasonable responses incur punitive penalties as judged by the board; All penalties must be paid immediately

There may be meat on those bones (a general law restricting how browsers may operate in terms of rendering user content). Risky because it would codify into law a lot of ideas that are merely technical specifications (you can look to other industries to see the consequences of that, like how "five-over-ones" are cropping up in cities all over the US because they satisfy a pretty uniform fire and structural safety building code to the letter). But this could be done without invoking monopoly protection.

> If an action taken unilaterally by a company 1) harms someone AND 2) is automated: Then, that automation must be immediately, totally, and unconditionally reversed upon the unilateral request of the victim.

Too broad. It harms me when Google blocks my malware distribution service because I'm interested in getting malware on your machine; I really want your Bitcoin wallet passwords, you see. ;)

Most importantly: this whole topic is independent of monopolies. We could cut Chrome out of Google tomorrow and the exact same issues with safe browsing impeding new sites with malware-ish shapes would exist (with the only change probably being the false positive rate would go up, since a Chrome cut off from Google would have to build out its detection and reporting logic from scratch without relying on the search crawler DB). More importantly, a user can install another browser that doesn't have site protection today (or, if I understand correctly, switch it off). The reason this is an issue is that users like Chrome and are free to use it and tend to find site protection useful (or at least "not a burden to them") and that's not something Google imposed on the industry, it's a consequence of free user choice.
by Borg3 | 2025-10-23 16:59:17+00:00
If there is indeed a lot of people using VPNs then way not to form darknet already? Ask interested site to peer with you. Peer with others, from overlay network, where you and interested parties will be in control. Its the only way imo. We need to build new net from the scratch, using current Internet as transport. VPNs is so easy to use these days, that even no-tech people can use it. All what is need to be done is to provide service by more technical people.
by mrbungie | 2025-10-23 16:59:21+00:00
I don't know if not getting the idea right, but I'm pretty sure people refer to AI outputs as "slop" not due to (only) repetitiveness. According to some sources:

[1] Wikipedia

> AI slop is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence, specifically when perceived to show a lack of effort, quality or deeper meaning, and an overwhelming volume of production.[1][4][5] Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to spam.[4]

[2] Urban dictionary

> Low-quality randomly generated AI content (images, accounts, text, etc) that has been flooding social media sites among other pages.

Yes, I know those may not be the best primary sources, but I'd say the main shared meaning of the word is lack of quality and effort, not repetitiveness itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

[2] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AI+slop
by jacquesm | 2025-10-23 16:59:49+00:00
I think there is something beyond that, but possibly not for you.

Just like philosophy possibly isn't directly useful to you or men on the moon or a thousand other things that other people find fascinating, and useful to them.

What is useful to you is entirely yours, it is informed by your past and it is shaping your outlook of the future. So in that sense you could write that comment about anything that you find interesting but are not actually interested in, in the sense that you would pursue the thing for its own sake. It is probably better to approach such things in the same way that you would approach art: it may not be useful to you but if it is just interesting then that's enough.

The utility of a statue is very limited, though I guess technically you can hit someone over the head with a stone arm as a stand-in club. But that's not why statues are made. Sometimes the ability to wonder or observe is the utility and if you don't want to end up in a nihilistic place (nothing has ultimate utility on account of the heat death of the universe) then that may help you to appreciate the journey and the views rather than just the 'what's in it for me angle'.

For me the utility of these really low level computing abstractions lies in the fact that I have been wondering for a long time how I could compile a piece of software into a generic piece of hardware. These combinators are simple enough that they can be expressed with a gatecount that is low enough that I can make something more than just a counter (which I could do directly with fewer gates).

This is in turn related to cellular automata, computing fabrics and so on. If you aren't interested in any of those then there is zero utility here.
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by ladybro | 2025-10-23 16:59:55+00:00
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At my SaaS company, we spend hours every week teaching customers to record their screen to show us support issues.

They have to sign up for a new tool, download and install it, create the recording, and then upload it somewhere to send it over…

Most of the time spent on support wasn't fixing the issue but rather understanding it.

I built ScreenAsk to solve this exact problem, making it simple to see what your customers see:

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- Show / hide it when you want

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Launch tweet + demos + discussion: https://x.com/balindenberg/status/1981394673173205418
by 47282847 | 2025-10-23 17:00:11+00:00
“Cord wrapped around you” can be seen in ultrasound and you can deduce level of stress from amount of movement/lack of movement of fetus. They can be seen to react to outside stimuli from very early on. Agree that it sounds questionable at first to come from symptoms 30 years later to some prebirth trauma situation but it’s a large field of study and not unheard of that in treatment symptoms find relief once a plausible story has been identified. The goal of therapy is not to hunt for historical facts but to find relief. Maybe it’s a made up story, but if it works, who cares? That being said it’s a large and interesting field of serious study, and “trauma from cord wrapped around neck” a real thing that ideally receives treatment closely after birth.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-23 17:00:48+00:00
George Carlin said it best:

“Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.’”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/78321-now-there-s-one-thing...

Video version: https://youtu.be/rVXekzwkz10?si=90VqlzOLiUS_7yFx
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-23 17:01:35+00:00
Coq is also named after the creator Coquand. It’s a shame that his work is being minimized because the English-speaking majority is sensitive and can’t hear a homonym for the slang for a male body part.

I wish we sometimes lived in a world where people wouldn’t be afraid at work to discuss why they like or dislike Coq or whether it meets their needs or if it’s too much for them. A man can dream though, a man can dream.
by cuu508 | 2025-10-23 17:01:35+00:00
Under GDPR, sites need your consent (or some other valid legal basis) before they can set the non-required cookies. They are not allowed to first set the cookies, and then let you opt out. Instead, they first need your opt-in, and then they can set the cookies. No banner, no opt-in.

There are sites that ignore this requirement – they set tracking cookies on the first visit, before you've even seen the dialog. Consent-O-Matic could potentially be better in those cases, assuming the "Reject All" button actually works. There are also sites where the "Reject" option is intentionally or unintentionally broken.

PS. One of my hobbies is to track sites in my country that set non-required cookies on first visit, and contact them asking to fix it. And escalate to the local DPA if they refuse or don't respond. I made a little script that checks a list of sites nightly: https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party One reason for re-checking regularly is regressions – somebody fixes their site, then two months later the problem is back... Over a year, the list of problematic sites has shrunk from 300-400-something to ~100, so there's progress :-)
by hermitcrab | 2025-10-23 17:01:40+00:00
Have you come across the Mancala family of board games? I learned to play the Hus variation in Namibia:

https://mancala.fandom.com/wiki/Hus

It is fun how it is deterministic in theory, but it is hard to predict more than a few moves ahead - so seems random in practice. Also that you can go from being way ahead to losing, very quickly. I implemented a game engine for it. Can discuss if you are interested.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-23 17:01:55+00:00
I agree, but its much more complex than just forcing companies' books to be open to the public. There are all kinds of accounting tricks you can pull with complex constellations of "entities" (the jargon used by tax dodge experts for the fake companies they set up). IMO we have to retreat away from a world where anyone with a couple hundred dollars can create a corporation by filing a form. Corporate personhood should be a privilege that is granted specifically by a democratically-elected government for well-delineated purposes and subject to revocation if the public trust is betrayed. This in turn obviously means that we need to establish (or re-establish, in places) democratic control of the government and, unless we do this all at once everywhere (very tricky) also massively reduce the amount of cross-border capital flows to the point where they can be reasonably understood and regulated by these domestic democratic governments.

All of this is a tall order, but there's no shortcut to establishing, re-establishing, or maintaining a democracy.
by the_gastropod | 2025-10-23 17:02:07+00:00
The House is not as skewed as the Senate. But it still has a "rural" bias through two mechanisms: 1. gerrymandering, and 2. the 435 cap on the number of representatives.

Both parties do gerrymander. But there are more "red" states than blue, so it systemically favors one party.

The cap on reps also skews things. Nebraska, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont all have less than 1/435th of the U.S. population, so they're over-represented in the House. That over-representation comes at the expense of big states like California being under-represented.

You can see this effect by looking at the popular vote vs the representation in The House. In the 2016 election, Trump won the election with just 46.1% of the popular vote. Republicans maintained control of The House with 55.4% control. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won 51.3% of the popular vote. And Democrats gained control with slightly less than that, 51.03% of The House. In the 2024 election, Trump won 49.81% of the popular vote, Republicans won 50.8% of seats in The House.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-23 17:02:15+00:00
The people that put effort into anti-abortion laws are usually trying to force their view of how other people should live onto those other people.

I block ads out of my life because I am easily distracted and have seen the internet go from a great place to a billboard that continuously screams at me for my attention. It's pure self-preservation, I don't begrudge you your 45 minutes of advertising time per day at all.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-23 17:02:43+00:00
To be fair (ignoring whether Hegseth really deserves that), what he describes is a very common view of military leadership during war time.

"War time" is the key there though. The US is not a nation at war. We have allies at war and the executive branch has taken it upon itself to take warlike actions without Congress, but we aren't st war - especially not a war the scale of which is seen as existential and leads to these kind of views on conduct and policy.

Hegseth seems to be playing out what Eisenhower tried to warn us about decades ago. When a wartime general turned President leaves office with a final warning of the dangers of the new military industrial complex, everyone should listen.
by Gormo | 2025-10-23 17:02:45+00:00
"Modern" in my mind has come to mean:

* Designed at the highest possible level, on top of multiple layers of frameworks, libraries, and dependencies that the developers do not fully understand.

* Full of anti-patterns that implicate privacy and security in a variety of ways.

* Designed as a walled garden, offering hobbled interoperability with other solutions, while attempting to vertically integrate features better implemented elsewhere -- or, in some cases, the exact opposite: designed as an excessively minimal solution, leaving concerns that should be addressed within its own scope unhandled.

* Unlikely to be viable for long-term deployment due to high time sensitivity in its dependencies; correspondingly fragile in ways that aren't fully accounted for.

* Built with a UI adhering to no coherent design patterns, targeting the presumed ability limits of people who will never likely use the product, while being wholly insufficient for those who actually do.

* Released prematurely with half-implemented features, unmitigated bugs, and incomplete documentation.

* Overhyped to the point that the majority of public discussion about the project consists of vague, unverifiable bullshit.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-23 17:02:46+00:00
If you have a database of atoms and plans, the V is a row in a plan table, and you reconstruct history using plan edit distance, which is more robust than manually assigned provenance anyhow (it will retain some history for cherry picked changes, for instance).

I'm sure there would be new issues, but I think they'd be at the management/ops level rather than the individual dev level, which is a win since you can concentrate specialization and let your average devs have better DX.

Is it a weird use case? Imagine you refactor some code, but then you realize that a function was being called in a slightly incorrect way after a change (prior to the refactor so the revert isn't trivial) and you have to go back and revert that change, let's say over 100 files to be fun, and let's say that the code isn't perfectly identical. With git you probably have to do surgery to create a patch, with an atomic system you can easily macro this change, or you could even expose a UI to browse different revisions of a piece of code cleanly (which would blow up with git).
by kragen | 2025-10-23 17:03:22+00:00
This is a video about the diode, in this case a Schottky diode made with a coil of copper wire filed to a fine point touching a piece of galena sitting loose in a bottlecap found by the side of the road.

The video is notable for demonstrating the original "breadboard" technique, where you connect your wires and components by clamping them to a wooden board with the head of a wood screw. The book I learned the technique from recommended using a dished washer under the head of the screw so that the screw head doesn't push the wires sideways as you tighten it.
by jsheard | 2025-10-23 17:03:25+00:00
Yeah, what this actually achieves if anything is making it harder to quickly recognize slop for what it is, so readers are more likely to give it the benefit of the doubt and keep their eyeballs on it for longer. Which I suppose is desirable if you're in the slop-mongering business (e.g. doing SEO spam or other such methods of flooding the commons with sewage for the sake of profit).
by baruchel | 2025-10-23 17:03:27+00:00
May I suggest the Greenchess website? https://greenchess.net/ It certainly has some huge potential: nice minimalist interface and probably about 50 or 60 chess variants for all tastes. Some of them are obviously more or less "recent". You can easily start a new game or accept a pending invitation. I would call the set of players quite "active" and certainly motivated. But it is true that the pool of players remains small and you generally play against the same players again and again.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-23 17:03:28+00:00
The President is currently rocking about a 39% approval rating and 56% disapproval.

The numbers suggest that he is not doing what the electorate elected him to do, in general.

(In addition, the Legislature and Executive are designed and intended to be functionally independent, and regardless of the preference the electorate expressed via simple majority, to the extent that independence is threatened by executive action, it's unconstitutional. The President doesn't have a mandate to interfere with that indepdendence for the same reason his election didn't give him a mandate to institute non-carceral slavery).
by 1313ed01 | 2025-10-23 17:03:35+00:00
I like my old ACE, but people with better ears than me say that the sound engine is not as good as some other U-He synths but it was more in my price range and I wanted something good enough but without DRM. U-He was (is?) one of the few makers of audio software that did not rely on some online registration or USB dongles (plus Linux support as a bonus).