MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-07 22:57:02+00:00
> For another example he routinely posted screenshots of posts from people that had blocked him. Block evasion is/was against the ToS as applied to most users other than Jesse Singal.

This is an insane thing to ban in the terms of service, and it is in and of itself a good reason to avoid using BlueSky. I would not want to rely on any service to communicate that made it against the rules to post a screenshot of a public message from someone who blocked my account on their end.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-07 22:57:50+00:00
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. The best I can make out of it is: lots of criminals use cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency has been used to get around capital controls so any use of cryptocurrency is suspect. This seems deeply unserious to me and doesn't even begin to engage with stablecoins. Fiat is being used for all of those things. The trick, as always, is to observe that legitimate flows of money overwhelm illegitimate flows. Even then I'm not sure this is true of fiat but I hope it is for the big fiat regimes at least.
by dang | 2025-10-07 22:58:16+00:00
We don't ban people for criticizing moderation. It's common, though, for people to make grand claims about being banned for that reason, when in fact we banned them for breaking the site guidelines or otherwise abusing the site.

Since your account isn't banned, you must be talking about a different account. Why not link to it so readers can make up their own minds?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by toasterlovin | 2025-10-07 22:58:21+00:00
IMO it's that frontend wasn't really a separate discipline at the time. Ember came out of Sproutcore, which was a framework created by some Apple MobileMe developers. They were building something that was very much an application development framework for single page apps before the term 'SPA' even existed. And I think people doing front end just weren't ready for that level of complexity yet. Most web developers were self taught and didn't have experience with UI frameworks and "real programming". At the time, doing frontend largely meant using jQuery to do ad hoc DOM manipulation and AJAX requests. Angular and then React came out and only tried to solve a subset of the problem that Ember was trying to solve, so they were easier for people to get started with. Then as time went on, it turned out that everyone did actually need solutions for everything else, but by then React had won.
by lolc | 2025-10-07 22:58:46+00:00
If you like to nerd out on data, the GLAMOS website publishes a catalog of all glaciers in Switzerland, with measurements for the larger ones:

https://www.glamos.ch/en/factsheet#/B36-26

Some years the glacier count goes down, because a glacier disappears. Some years the glacier count goes up, when a glacier shrinks and splits in two.
by mianos | 2025-10-07 22:58:51+00:00
Yes, I am also talking about a Cardo. If it didn't used to work near 100% of the time this time last year it might not be so incredibly annoying, but to go from working to complete crap with no choice to be able to go back to the working system is bad.

It's like google staff are saying "If it means promotion, we don't give a shit about users".
by hollerith | 2025-10-07 22:59:09+00:00
OK, I now tend to believe that when the ACA capped the profit margins of insurers, their previous incentive to reduce cost of care (so they could keep the savings as profit) ended, so they stopped lobbying for restrictions on the supply of doctors. Unless I see evidence to the contrary, I will continue to tend to believe that large employers (not subject to any cap on their own profit margins) continue to lobby for restrictions.

I tend to believe this because of how strong the correlation has been in my own "career" as a patient between my ease of access to doctors' time and how much my insurance plan ends up paying for tests and treatments.
by wrp | 2025-10-07 22:59:25+00:00
I am professionally interested in the narrative structure of texts, as a teacher and researcher, so I ask this out of genuine interest. I often see posts like this in discussions of LLM use and I wonder where they are coming from. They read like ad copy from a marketing department rather than a non-professional expressing personal feelings. Are you in marketing, or perhaps was this post generated by LLM?
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-07 23:00:40+00:00
> Why would it makes sense to remove that process, while introducing an incredible opaque decision-making process in its place

For all the Canadian railing against Trump, this is an authoritarian play as much as many of Trump's actions.

Unfortunately this seems to be a growing, hypocritical trend around the world. EU's Chat Control as another example. Australia's lax control over entities able to access ISP metadata as another.

The problem is that it enables Trump further by allowing him to point at their decisions as similar examples to his own, as justification. I'm only using Trump since he seems to be the one willing to push boundaries the furthest, so if supposedly "more democratic" leaders are pushing such boundaries, then Trump will... Trump them.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-07 23:00:59+00:00
Right, we called those "mental health days".

But my point was about GP's comment, they were relating the sick call-outs to healthcare in the US. These folks are not sick in a way that any of the current healthcare debate (what's involved in this shutdown at least) would help them with at all.

What has them sick is a president who insults them, and a legislative branch that can't do its job.
by kk3 | 2025-10-07 23:01:12+00:00
Hah I just had to chime in here, blast from the past for me as well! Dan Cederholm was my guiding light when I was learning CSS and semantic HTML. I used to View Source and study the code behind SimpleBits :)

Agree with the mass adoption part. Back then I was so hopeful for what the web might become... The days before social media blowing up.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-07 23:02:11+00:00
That and the 3-way "OpenAI pays Oracle $300B in cloud computing on their $15B of revenue", "Oracle buys $40B of NVidia chips for their new datacenter", "NVidia invests $100B in OpenAI". The money's just moving around and around, propping up revenue numbers for Wall Street, but the consumer benefits are dubious.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/openai-nvidia-amd-d...
by icedchai | 2025-10-07 23:02:33+00:00
Windows 95 was a game changer, especially for Internet connectivity. The built-in "dial up networking" / PPP was huge. I was working at an ISP at the time, and remember how difficult it was to get customers to download Trumpet winsock and set it up for Windows 3.x. It could take hours with a difficult customer.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-10-07 23:03:24+00:00
> I am going to re-insist on the idea that parental consent is going to play a big role in practice in US healthcare practices, if only for financial reasons.

Oh agreed. If, for no other reason, that is how the politics, even on the American Left, are now. A few years ago, people were talking about gender affirming care as a matter of right for the children. Singal, among others, changed that conversation.

> I have very little patience for the idea that access is easy.

Agreed, but I think you may have misconstrued Singal's point. He's not saying it's too easy, he's saying there is not enough preliminary psychiatric care like the treatment protocol dictated in the Netherlands.

> Perhaps there is a debate to be had on treatment protocols, but I generally feel like, for something that covers such a small segment of the population, the default is to err towards letting that debate happen in professional circles.

Um. Those professional circles like HN's professional circles need to be open to the air every now and then. Like -- what if we allowed Peter Thiel and his circle of founders, raised on Heinlein novels and sugary soda, to dictate tech policy in the US? Some people are just too weirdly close to a thing. We actually do need the wisdom that normies can offer.

Specifically, re: this topic, four European countries, who have a much more experience than Americans do with this care, have recently implemented more restrictive approaches to care. See: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/06/us-europe-transgend...
by pessimizer | 2025-10-07 23:03:25+00:00
Google is owned and run by oligarchs. Your theory of power is way off. You think the game show host and the wrestling valet, surrounded by the clown show of fox news blondes, financial fraudsters, and operators is the real power, and the people who run everything are the anti-fascists. Woke banks.

I know the purpose of getting you to think like that: even when you win, you'll lose. Then it will be the MAGA side thinking that the bubble-headed soulless dipshit Dem that's in the office is keeping down the poor tech industry and billionaires, and the cycle will continue.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-07 23:03:25+00:00
The issue was that the decarbonisation of electricity (and therefore society) would slow or stop before we'd decarbonise if expensive solar lost any of its market. Not cheap energy, that is a good thing.

Between batteries, wind, demand response, EVs etc. that slowdown doesn't seem likely to happen.

And the lure of cheaper energy expands solar out horizontally to new markets, speeding up global decarbonisation.
by lkey | 2025-10-07 23:03:41+00:00
Which ones? Everyone in this thread is afraid to stand on their beliefs and I find that annoying. Just say what you mean!

First though, a clarifying question, do you think the civil-rights movement, as it existed in history, was 'too passionate'?

If not, in what specific way is the current 'activist' movement worse than those movements of our recent past?

Which civil rights organization has gone too far recently and what is the preferred middle ground that you do accept?
by jancsika | 2025-10-07 23:03:46+00:00
They cover the possibility of people potentially migrating to Mastodon with this gem:

> But not everyone is looking forward to the idea: “I’d go back to Usenet before I went back to Mastodon,” wrote Bluesky user Count Von Horse Knuckler. “I do not need people yelling at me for not putting cat pictures behind trigger warnings or unwanted Linux advice.”

But I'm suspicious because:

1. That doesn't appear to be a valid Bluesky handle and,

2. Even if it's a pseudonym-- which is understandable-- how could there possibly be a former usenet graybeard who didn't love trafficking in unwanted Linux advice?

Edit: clarifications
by iamnothere | 2025-10-07 23:04:11+00:00
> What an I missing?

The contractual requirements that ICANN imposes upon registrars. They can’t just take your domain for any old reason. The rules are fairly well defined and registrars can lose their accreditation if they do not follow them.

https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/accredited-regis...
by willis936 | 2025-10-07 23:05:06+00:00
It's incredible how much money is being lit on fire without anyone having an answer to the question "how will you generate revenue". Meanwhile alternative energy discussions here are met with harsh criticisms of their bottom lines while they have some of the most firm demand of any industry. Society should be prudent with their investments, but only when it's used for R&D into essential stuff and not a bunch of toys for rich psychopaths?
by pityJuke | 2025-10-07 23:05:09+00:00
Yeah. I’m not a big short form social media person, so a world with or without Bluesky (or Twitter) changes little. Bluesky has good people and communities within it, but a lot of the people on it are just a mirror reflection of the American Right. Devoid of critical thinking, they follow whatever the left cause of the day is.

While that’s much preferable to Twitter in 2025 (and the right)… it’s not encouraging as for the future of, frankly everything.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-07 23:05:10+00:00
> More impressive is the fact you can upgrade from Windows 1.0 all the way to the latest one.

That's no longer true since Windows 11 went 64 bit only (with no in place upgrade path as 16->32 bit had). E.g. the linked video starts a clean slate at XP in order to switch to 64 bit from that point on.

Still damn impressive one can make it all the way to Windows 10 (32 bit), but equally crazy IMO the upgrade story finally ended with 11.
by gonzo41 | 2025-10-07 23:06:14+00:00
So the real risk with that data center is the fact that Tasmania is a culdesac on the internet. We have three fiber cables coming to the island, all from Victoria (directly to the north). The whole state has lost internet before due to someone in Victoria digging a trench through the cable (yes a silly mistake but we're all humans).

It's not a bad idea to put data centers here, but we really need a few more links out to the world from here.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-07 23:06:33+00:00
Indeed. I think the issue is so much of what people see is just the 'slop', which can be produced in such volume by people who really don't care much for the outcome. It distorts the perception of it a lot.

(similarly with the comment about 'it's about as hard as using google'. Yeah, if you're trying about as hard as googling something then the result is probably not going to be very interesting, but that's more effort than went into most AI generated images that you'll see on the internet)
by hackingonempty | 2025-10-07 23:06:35+00:00
Could you post some links to papers comparing the clustering of this "earlier data set from a radio phone in" to the "WHO location data" I couldn't find anything about it with Google Scholar.

I'm skeptical, because Holmes points out that the Huanan market origin is supported by molecular evidence:

>Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences also points to the Huanan market being the epicenter of the pandemic, with the Huanan market sequences falling at the root of the SARS-CoV-2 tree. The earliest split in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny, which seemingly occurred in Wuhan, is between the A and B lineages that differ by two nucleotide substitutions (45) yet gave rise to many descendent lineages. Remarkably, despite its relatively low number of visitors, both these lineages were present at the Huanan market (44, 46, 47). The odds of this co-occurrence without the market being the global epicenter are extremely low. Molecular clock studies of SARS-CoV-2 evolution also point to a market origin. Estimates of the time to the most recent common ancestor (tMRCA) for the epidemic as a whole, of the specific outbreak in Wuhan, and of the sequences from the Huanan market overlap with a time span encompassing November and December 2019, again suggestive of an outbreak that started at the Huanan market (47). This timescale also means that the virus was circulating for only a short interval before it was first detected by physicians in Wuhan. Additionally, these observations fit the available epidemiological and serological data from Wuhan, which provide no evidence for SARS-CoV-2 in that city prior to December 2019 (44, 48).
by mohsen1 | 2025-10-07 23:07:22+00:00
> Solve today's Wordle

Stucks with:

> ...the task is just to "solve today's Wordle", and as a web browsing robot, I cannot actually see the colors of the letters after a guess to make subsequent guesses. I can enter a word, but I cannot interpret the feedback (green, yellow, gray letters) to solve the puzzle.
by slg | 2025-10-07 23:07:28+00:00
It always comes back to the userbase. I don't know how many times technologists need to learn the lesson that normal people simply don't care about ideological technical principles like decentralization and often actually prefer the benefits of centralized systems like ease of use and typically stronger moderation. And when it comes to social media, businesses are naturally going to end up prioritizing the desires of the majority of their userbase.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-10-07 23:09:07+00:00
N2O (laughing gas) is not combustible, but autodecomposes into a mixture composed of 1 part oxygen gas and 2 parts nitrogen gas, which happens to be the approximate composition of the atmosphere.

In theory we could design and use N2O engines and airplanes etc, and their exhaust could be a gas that is nearly equivalent to atmospheric composition.

One important issue is making sure all the N2O has decomposed because it is a very potent GHG.

Would N2 and O2 create contrails? in what sense is it distinct from atmosphere?
by smileybarry | 2025-10-07 23:10:04+00:00
> I work for a fully remote company with employees from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, and we didn't need to partner with any local company

Because your company already has considerable experience in working remotely in another territory, of course they didn't need any help. Or potentially, they were already contracting a firm for local bureaucratic matters.

> Plus it was never mentioned what these "local partners" get in return

Money? They could sell these bureaucratic services at a markup, where they have experience with the paperwork etc. part of expanding internationally.

Additionally, another commenter said they offloaded some worse talent on them[1], so that's another possible benefit to them.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500737

And to cover the astroturfing allegations in this thread: no, I don't work for or have any relationship with ProtonVPN, other than being a user.
by adrianmonk | 2025-10-07 23:10:08+00:00
You can view this as a natural or even beneficial feedback mechanism that keeps solar generation and battery storage on par with each other.

Too much solar leads to crashing prices which leads to more battery investment. Once the batteries are built, solar prices recover somewhat and solar investment starts to make sense again.

Ideally you wouldn't overshoot too much on the solar and have big price crashes. But if you do overshoot dramatically, the incentive to build batteries increases, so maybe you recover faster.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-07 23:10:27+00:00
As a clinician, I wholeheartedly agree that adapting myself to the software is usually better than spending tons of money to try to make the software fit me, but at the same time the software really should fit the general norm of practice style.

This is more about unnecessary complexity. Medicine is hierarchical and like any hierarchy those at the top should be giving orders that leave lots of leeway for those who have to make them happen. EHRs often push all that onto the physician who never learned how to do that and really shouldn’t.

It’s like the old story about a green lieutenant in the army. Commander says, Lieutenant Smith, I want a flagpole on our parade ground. The dumb lieutenant tells their sergeant precisely how to do it. The smart lieutenant says, “Sergeant, the commander wants a flagpole right here. Make it happen.”

Whenever a question arises (and it will), the sergeant with a dumb lieutenant has to go back and clear every step. The smart lieutenant’s sergeant doesn’t have to call until they encounter something they don’t know how to do or can’t approve on their own authority.
by bks | 2025-10-07 23:10:55+00:00
Forwarding emails is problematic especially if your provider for the primary mx does not have great spam filtering and then you end up sending spam to your backup account.

It certainly does not get around the ...if your account gets banned maybe the forwards will still work... concept but in general something like https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to backup your email and then add them to a typical backup process with your other files works well.
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-07 23:10:57+00:00
>The people at Deloitte are not generally dumb unmotivated people.

You end up consulting at Deloitte when you can't get into MBB, any of the smaller boutique firms, strategy at big corporations etc. Accountants are an exception but they're only there to pad their resume before exiting to corporate in-house finance roles that lead to CFO positions.

Deloitte is to outsourced business consulting what Infosys is to outsourced software development.
by marcinzm | 2025-10-07 23:11:45+00:00
And Trump isn't the first person to push for hiring in America or other such things. Under both Obama and Biden companies, government and academia significantly increased DEI spending. Multiple executive orders were signed by both to promoted DEI.

Fun fact, my comment said nothing against DEI and you assuming I did more or less summarizes modern political discourse on both sides. Even implying something isn't 200% amazing means you must be utterly opposed to it's very concept.
by Keegs12 | 2025-10-07 23:12:20+00:00
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by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-07 23:12:38+00:00
> How can people laugh and make meme at someone else murder ? Like the guy, hate him, but there is something that used to be shared amongst humans, it's that you respect the dead.

This is extremely wrong. Humans do have an impulse to show respect to the dead, even in some cases dead members of some kind of enemy community. But it is also extremely common and extremely widespread for people to celebrate the deaths of their enemies, from leftists making jokes about the death of Margaret Thatcher, to British people continuing to burn Guy Fawkes in effigy for his centuries-old act of unsuccessful terrorism, to Jews continuing to disparage Haman, some 2500 years after the events that formed the basis for the Purim festival.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-07 23:12:40+00:00
If you can't trust your people, why are they your people? The consultants are going to get the story from your people anyways (even if they do their own data collection, your people are going to tell them where to look), so it's not like you're actually eliminating the bias, you're just obfuscating it.

You hire consultants when obfuscation is the point - it's not Jim from down the hall saying this, its the consultants. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for obfuscation, but it's always some variation on "so and so needs to hear this, just not from me."
by teleforce | 2025-10-07 23:12:43+00:00
The gold price drastic increase and USD worst decline is to be be expected, and it's mainly due to the end of petrodollar agreement discussed on HN last year [1]. Somehow the Nasdaq news link is dead now but the Firstpost news is a similar one [2].

The top comment is a golden example of denial (pardon the pun), "This is itself inconsequential" [3]. This can be another Dropbox comment moment of HN. The comment also predicted that "Things will keep running as today probably for the next 20 years", and here we are in just after a year.

The negative effect to USD due to the end of petrodollar is imminent and the writing is on the wall.

[1] U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years (325 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673567

[2] What was the US-Saudi petrodollar deal that lapsed after 50 years?

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-was-the-us-saudi-p...

[3] U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years (top comment):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674911