MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-12 10:56:52+00:00
I mean... it is quite hard to expect to find nuanced and multifaced history of EU/ECSC and why it came into being in Schuman Declaration, for similar reasons it would to silly to expect you will know US history and process of its creation by reading US Constitution. And I would recommend to read some books on this topic, instead of relying on Wiki article, which is very short and shallow.

You couldn't prove that any of my claims are "objectively false". And that would be ridiculous, as we discussed things somewhere at intersection of history and politics, where it is immensely difficult to state anything objectively true or false.

All I did was to question popular, ideological sentiments your comments exemplify. Your reaction, as well as calling it "arguing in bad faith" proves that this ideology is indeed something that should be challenged, as it is blinding and makes you disregard some key facts apriori. Also, stating I am all over place while rambling something about US hypocrisy and its monopolies, when neither has anything to do with topics we discussed is funny. And naive.

Agree that it is pointless, but in truth I have never written with an intent of convincing you. I leave my comments for others to read and think.
by dfedbeef | 2025-10-12 10:57:02+00:00
If by lifestyle funding you mean money laundering and tax write-offs. Have a bunch of legal-or-otherwise income? You need one person in a suit who can register a company and shuffle paper around. A bunch of retirees or something somewhere paid $1 each to your company. They even paid in cash. Hooray. Now you are a successful legal business person minus the filing fee.

Now, you're so successful you don't want to pay taxes or get audited. Your business made N dollars this year. You spent it all investing in some long term investment on paper. Damn, your businesses didn't make money now. No taxes I guess, takes money to make money. Hopefully that long term investment in several shell companies in different jurisdictions works out. Hopefully law enforcement isn't resourced enough to track it down.

Who suffers? Literally everyone else who pays into a system that's supposed to be fair. There's a tipping point where no people who make money pay into it. I suspect this has kind of already occurred tbh.
by smashah | 2025-10-12 10:57:48+00:00
They know they're bad at their jobs which is why so many of them are running towards the DoD (DoW) Infinite Money Glitch Genocide/Fascism Industrial Complex teat.

The reason this acquisition is happening is to enable ICE to enforce NSPM-7.

America is no longer a free state. You cannot be free in a panopticon.
by T-A | 2025-10-12 10:58:37+00:00
Depends on how you measure it. Do you subdivide all land in 1 cm squares and only count the ones with somebody standing on them as populated? Then almost all land is unpopulated. With 8.2 billion people in the world, each one occupying a 0.5x0.5 meter square, you have 2.05e9 m^2 populated land, out of Earth's total land area ~1.5e14 m^2 [1]. That's less than 0.0014%.

As you increase the size of your subdivisions, the unpopulated fraction goes down. In the limit of all land being in just one subdivision, it's obviously 0.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density
by nozzlegear | 2025-10-12 10:58:53+00:00
> The idea that a CEO will stand up to his democratically elected dictator is absurd. Why should he, when the dictator is merely implementing the policies he said he would during the campaign and still got elected? Why should he make himself and his company and his shareholders martyrs?

This is exactly what Apple did when they stood their ground against the FBI in the case of the San Bernardino shooter though. Of course, Obama could hardly be called a dictator, and wasn't a petty, vindictive man like our current president. But it'd still be good to see Cook rediscover that "fuck you, make me" attitude from the old Apple.
by jwr | 2025-10-12 10:59:16+00:00
Perhaps. My point is that the word "engineering" describes a specific approach, based on rigor and repeatability.

If the results of your work depend on a random generator seed, it's not engineering. If you don't have established practices, it's not engineering (hence "software engineering" was always a dubious term).

Throwing new prompts at a machine with built-in randomness to see if one sticks is DEFINITELY not engineering.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-12 10:59:21+00:00
The science ecosystem is plagued with fraudulence, parasites, and entrenched haplessness (academic glut.)

I often find well intended, funded, and resourced studies absurd flatulence in conclusion, for identifying and extrapolating the wrong questions.

We need the troll/cannibal troll dynamic along side other vigorous debate strategies in our market place of ideas.
by lucketone | 2025-10-12 10:59:40+00:00
if developer accidentally left opening comment at the start of the html.

Rhetorical question: Should the browser display page even if it is commented out?

There is some bar for what is expected to work.

If all browsers would consistently error out on unclosed tags, then it would definitely force developers to close tags, it would force it become common knowledge, second nature.
by upofadown | 2025-10-12 10:59:43+00:00
One workaround is to just do pure VOIP. Then you can get a data only plan. Gotta watch out for 911 access though.

Yeah, what happens when you call 911 in an environment with no 3G/2G and your carrier doesn't like your VoLTE? Is there a public safety issue embedded in all this?
by marklit | 2025-10-12 10:59:44+00:00
The US has only used 25% of its land. Overture published a land use dataset a while back that could go some way to verify how much land on earth is urban, covered in forest, etc.. That might only need a single SQL statement given how they structured their data.

I have some analysis around that topic in the middle of this post: https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-land-cover.html
by risyachka | 2025-10-12 10:59:54+00:00
So 10 mil Ukrainians were forced out of the country but russians can't leave on their own?

Yeah they can.

They chose to stay and pay for the war with their taxes.

but they have families etc etc everyone does, and they still were forced to leave and manage to build a life or rebuild from scratch. So yeah you can leave with your family.

And yeah you are complicit if you don't do anything against. There is also a way even donating to Ukraine from inside russia.

Stop defending the complicit ones, the math is very simple.
by CMay | 2025-10-12 11:02:39+00:00
It's easy for people to forget that being overly emotionally invested in their argument can cloud their judgement. Most of us do it at some point, I am not immune, but if someone has any reasonability in them then it can actually help at least reflect on why they are championing their position. They may not change their position, but they might try to form a better argument that has more solid grounds.

After all, sometimes an emotional reaction comes from a logical basis, but the emotion can avalanche and then the logical underpinnings get swept away so they don't get re-evaluated the way they should.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-12 11:03:16+00:00
> XHTML died because it was too hard for people to get stuff done.

This is not true. The reason it died was because Internet Explorer 6 didn’t support it, and that hung around for about a decade and a half. There was no way for XHTML to succeed given that situation.

The syntax errors that cause XHTML to stop parsing also cause JSX to stop parsing. If this kind of thing really were a problem, it would have killed React.

People can deal with strict syntax. They can manage it with JSX, they can manage it with JSON, they can manage it with JavaScript, they can manage it with every back-end language like Python, PHP, Ruby, etc. The idea that people see XHTML being parsed strictly and give up has never had any truth to it.
by bartvk | 2025-10-12 11:03:31+00:00
I'm getting an error during compiling. I did a "brew install rust", cloned the project then did "cargo build --bins --release" and got the error

Compiling rift-wm v0.1.0 (/Users/bartvk/Developer/github.com/rift)

error[E0554]: `#![feature]` may not be used on the stable release channel

Now I get I may have to switch to some beta rust version, so I did a "brew install rustup" and tried again "cargo build --bins --release" but same error.

It'd greatly help if there was a step-by-step installation guide. I'm not into rust, so I'm getting a bit lost here.
by Pooge | 2025-10-12 11:05:25+00:00
I remember the same thing. I don't have any sources, but I've come to understand that a lot of land is on hills/mountains and is therefore an inconvenient/dangerous place to build.

I think the "overcrowded planet" scenario is not very plausible, except if we're talking about resources. There is plenty of land for everyone, especially if we start to construct efficiently.
by vindarel | 2025-10-12 11:06:34+00:00
> writing your shell scripts in Lisp instead of Bash.

in a Lisp ;)

Related, for Common Lisp:

- unix in lisp https://github.com/PuellaeMagicae/unix-in-lispMount Unix system into Common Lisp image.

- kiln https://github.com/ruricolist/kiln - an infrastructure (managing a hidden multicall binary) to make Lisp scripting efficient and ergonomic.

- CIEL https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ - CIEL Is an Extended Lisp is a collection of dozens of libraries useful for mundane tasks (HTTP, JSON, regexps…). It also comes as a binary that is able to run scripts from sources. Scripts that use the built-in libraries start fast without a compilation step. [project of mine]

- discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401415

- Lish https://github.com/nibbula/lish - maybe someday a Lisp shell

- SHCL https://github.com/bradleyjensen/shcl - a POSIX shell in CL (stalling)

- lserver https://notabug.org/quasus/lserver/ - live-coding remote function calls for the shell. Write a command in the REPL, and run it instantly in the shell.

I use CIEL ;)

And, built-in: use the --load flag or build a self-contained binary, compiled to machine code with SBCL. It can contain your web assets (html, js etc). A compressed binary weights ±30MB and starts fast. A stripped off binary with LispWork$ (no compiler, no debugger etc) is ±5MB. There's ECL too.
by solatic | 2025-10-12 11:07:42+00:00
> the expectation that the stock will rise in value such that you can later sell it for more than you purchased it for.

If the person who holds the share can never expect to be paid for holding the share, then you're describing a Ponzi scheme. Eventually you cannot find another sucker willing to pay in even more.

> commodities

Are used as manufacturing inputs and thus a commodity investment injects liquidity in exchange for a return, should manufacturing demand (for those inputs) rise. Their intrinsic value derives from their consummability.

Stocks/corporations do not have intrinsic value beyond the sum of the fair market prices of the assets belonging to the corporation, should they be liquidated and dispersed among shareholders... which would be a dividend. At the end of the day the only reasonable means to price a stock is a calculation of expected dividends.
by tjpnz | 2025-10-12 11:08:19+00:00
Back in the day Microsoft sent someone to our university to demo all of their new and upcoming products. I remember Vista (then named Longhorn) and Silverlight being among them. I also remember people being particularly impressed by the demo they gave of the latter, but everything swiftly falling apart when someone queried whether it worked in other browsers. This was at a time when IE was being increasingly challenged by browsers embracing open standards. So there was an element of quiet amusement/frustration in seeing them continue to not get it.
by pityJuke | 2025-10-12 11:08:26+00:00
What model(s) have Meta released since the Lab re-org?

Also, that wasn't based on purely hearsay, Zuck explicitly said:

> We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Still, we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible. [0]

[0]: https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-12 11:08:39+00:00
I wish you luck. Looks like a well-written app.

This is an area in which I have some experience (45 years clean). I've written a bunch of Recovery-assistive stuff, in my time, and continue to do so.

In my experience, if you are a true addict (as opposed to someone that has developed bad habits, but doesn't have the obsessive/compulsive disorder), then no app will work. It's a fart against a tornado. Those folks are a minority, though. I think most people could use this app.

But I feel as if everyone can benefit from self-discipline, and apps like this, work like fitness trackers. That can make major differences for many folks.

However, there's no "silver bullet." Self-Discipline is hard work. A lot of people want "easy solutions," and they don't really exist (except in fiction). Apps like this, simply help to focus and optimize that hard work.
by cess11 | 2025-10-12 11:09:03+00:00
Unless someone has already provided a library for it, write some wrappers around pipes and forks and use OCaml utop.

It's not a Lisp but close enough, I'd say. If I didn't have the rather extensive background of using Picolisp and some other REPL-like tools as a form of shell I'd probably have settled for utop, at least until I reached my iex era.
by brucehoult | 2025-10-12 11:10:19+00:00
Historically, having two instruction lengths was common or even the norm for RISC and RISC-like (before the name was made up) register-rich load/store machines including CDC6600, Cray 1, IBM 801 (original 24 bit version), Berkeley RISC-II.

It was only RISC ISAs introduced between 1985 (Arm, MIPS, SPARC) and 1992 (DEC Alpha) that had fixed-length 4 byte instructions -- a mere eight years out of the 60 year history of RISC designs.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-10-12 11:11:20+00:00
Food is cheap, but skilled labor is expensive. In the US, it's common to go out to eat because the reputation and wages of labor for food service have been crushed, but in Japan, asking another human to pour your beers and make you food and then clean up in an izakaya carries an appropriate cost. A friend who'd never left the US was shocked to learn going to teppanyaki cost almost $200/person... and the chef didn't even do any tricks!

The minimum wage seems impossibly low, but there's a human economy - no one who works doesn't eat. You can have fresh, nutritious meals and ingredients right from the field for pennies on the dollar practically wherever you go. The variety is mind boggling, as is the convenience.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-12 11:12:34+00:00
Despite people yelling, vibe coding isn’t going away.

Developers whining that they can do it better and that it will ruin software forget that business always goes with the “good enough” option.

Human receptionists were far better than IVRs and “press 3 for” automation, but it was cheaper and good enough. Now very few companies have human phone operators.

SDEs need to come to terms with the fact that the value associated with human coding has been degraded. Salaries don’t just go up forever. Human SDEs aren’t going away, and 10x engineers will still be very valuable, but overall the perceived value of SDEs and their comp as a job family will likely start slide rapidly from this point forward.
by tsoukase | 2025-10-12 11:12:45+00:00
It's another thing to not give palliative treatment to prolong life for a little more and another to provide poison to accelerate death. My opinion is to continue palliative care when the benefit outweighs the harm in the QUALITY of life (not necessarily quantity) and infuse some morphine 1 or 2 days before death in order to skip the last stage.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-12 11:12:59+00:00
I think the change has been the general user doing many aspects of their real-life interactions (money, government, housing, travel, work, etc) easily and at speed via computing device compared to slower offline or face-to-face, and there's huge consequences if that gets screwed up if it can't be isolated from interference.

What I find interesting is that there's been little interesting making something like QubesOS for as many consumer devices (portables as well as desktop) as possible with an interface as painless as possible so people actually use it, and then the blast radius from any problem is smaller. There's also the hosted services side of computing where isolation on the same host is an expected feature and vulnerabilities like meltdown/spectre are such a big deal over the past 8 years, but it only gets seen as a curiosity on consumer devices.
by drdeadringer | 2025-10-12 11:13:05+00:00
It started, funny enough, out of seeing the very first Doctor who episode from the 1960s, where the doctor and crew land on prehistoric Earth and primitive man is having trouble making fire, and the doctor has to figure a way on how to encourage humans to create fire on their own.

My own deal evolved from there into I should always probably have a lighter in case I need to light something of flame, not in a pyromaniac way, but in the way of, "does anybody have a lighter?" Type of way. Somebody leaving to light a candle, start a campfire, need to light a smoke, whatever.

Or even to melt the ends of a nylon rope to hedge against unraveling.

This has oddly come in handy more often than one would think.
by petesergeant | 2025-10-12 11:13:22+00:00
> Built on top of Together Turbo Speculator, ATLAS reaches up to 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1 and up to 460 TPS on Kimi-K2 in a fully adapted scenario — 2.65x faster than standard decoding, outperforming even specialized hardware like Groq

and yet, if you click on: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-0905

You'll see Groq averaging 1,086tps vs Together doing 59tps. Groq and Cerebras often feel like the only games in town. I'd love that to be different (because I'd like more models!), but nobody else is coming close right now.

Comparing how quickly gpt-oss-120b runs gives a broader picture: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b -- Vertex (Google) and SambaNova do pretty good on it too, but still, the difference between a top provider and an also-ran is giant.

God I love OpenRouter.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-12 11:14:53+00:00
> People being too lazy to close the <br /> tag was apparently a gateway drug into absolute mayhem.

Your chronology is waaaaaaaaaaaay off.

<BR> came years before XML was invented. It was a tag that didn’t permit children, so writing it <BR></BR> would have been crazy, and inventing a new syntax like <BR// or <BR/> would have been crazy too. Spelling it <BR> was the obvious and reasonable choice.

The <br /> or <br/> spelling was added to HTML after XHTML had already basically lost, as a compatibility measure for porting back to HTML, since those enthusiastic about XHTML had taken to writing it and it was nice having a compatible spelling that did the same in both. (In XHTML you could also write <br></br>, but that was incorrect in HTML; and if you wrote <br /> in HTML it was equivalent to <br /="">, giving you one attribute with name "/" and value "". There were a few growing pains there, such as how <input checked> used to mean <input checked="checked">—it was actually the attribute name that was being omitted, not the value!—except… oh why am I even writing this, messy messy history stuff, engines doing their own thing blah blah blah, these days it’s <input checked="">.

Really, the whole <… /> thing is more an artefact of an arguably-misguided idea after a failed reform. The absolute mayhem came first, not last.

> I would hate to have to write a parser that's tolerant enough to deal with all the garbage people throw at it.

The HTML parser is magnificent, by far the best spec for something reasonably-sized that I know of. It’s exhaustively defined in terms of state machines. It’s huge, far larger than one would like it to be because of all this compatibility stuff, but genuinely easy to implement if you have the patience. Seriously, go read it some time, it’s really quite approachable.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-12 11:15:23+00:00
You can have catastrophic parsing errors with the “lax” HTML too. For instance:

<!doctype html> <title>…</title> <p>Important: Do <strongNOT</strong> come into the office tomorrow!

Or:

<!doctype html> <title>…<title> <p>Important: Do <strong>NOT</strong> come into the office tomorrow!
by bradley13 | 2025-10-12 11:15:48+00:00
Crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside?

Interesting that this primary appears to be juveniles, and they primarily attack the rudder. Motivation for the Orcas is unclear, because they apparently don't do anything else. In particular, they don't attack the lifeboat with the people in it, after sinking the sailboat.
by rester324 | 2025-10-12 11:16:21+00:00
I wouldn't say it's the worst part, but it's definitely a common disturbance in japan that these idiots called bousouzoku ride around in quiet neighborhoods with their mufflers modified that they are screaming as loud or exceeding 110 but sometimes even 110 db.

And they really look like idiots when for example I easily pass them on my road bike in the Shonan area on road 134 because the roads are too narrow there to pass any cars even on a motorbike (mostly just the roadbikes are able to pass there), and they are just inching forward in the traffic with 2 km/h while revving their engines. Absolute losers.

And the longer summer definitely encourages these idiots to be a nuisance longer
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-10-12 11:16:33+00:00
There are actually a lot of other amazing temples, gardens, and shrines, they're just not as well known. And there's a healthy industry of traditional craftsmen who still build and maintain shrines, temples, and other buildings the traditional way. Kyoto will continue gobbling up the crowds no matter how many other alternatives there are because that's the nature of tourism, but it's not for a shortage of other beautiful places.

It is sad for the people of Kyoto though, because over tourism can really rip the heart out of a city for the locals.
by bilalshemsu | 2025-10-12 11:17:10+00:00
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by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-12 11:19:38+00:00
Well Trump has just declared an energy emergency and allowed the government to override many planning rules with emergency overrides.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/decl...

But they don't believe in solar which means they accidentally are making their claimed emergency worse and helping their fossil donors to make more money. Like Trump expressly promised to do in return for their donations.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-12 11:19:46+00:00
> The <br /> or <br/> spelling was added to HTML after XHTML had already basically lost

This is untrue. This is the first public draft of XHTML from 1998:

> Include a space before the trailing / and > of empty elements, e.g. <br />, <hr /> and <img src="karen.jpg" alt="Karen" />.

— https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-html-in-xml-19981205/#guidelin...