MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjk166 | 2025-10-07 23:25:28+00:00
Why would you hire, and then knowingly continue to employ, morons? Your employees are not chosen at random, you can evaluate their skills and select the ones optimal for your organization, as demonstrated both by their prior experience and their work performance under your employment.

On the other hand, the people you get from the consulting firm, who were not hired with your particular needs in mind, and who are assigned by leaders who are both unfamiliar with what you do and have motivations which may not be perfectly aligned with yours, are normal people drawn essentially at random from a normal distribution. Maybe you don't need to have a particular skillset in house full time, but the person whose job is to do something will always outperform the person whose job is to maximize billable hours.
by evolve2k | 2025-10-07 23:25:47+00:00
I’m conflicted. Firstly really like this project and its open source and community empowerment ideals. My concern is around how these tools essentially accelerate planetary resource extraction, with from what I can see no discussion or attempt to addesss this potential impact/dynamic.

In addition to bringing about greater freedom and community empowerment the project would benefit from being explicit on how it limits or seeks (even through principals) to limit excessive plantary resource extraction.

There’s a plastics project that illustrates what I mean, they help people make machines that recover and recycle plastic. Circular resource use, make that part of your front and center.
by VariousPrograms | 2025-10-07 23:25:54+00:00
You probably won't get hacked and have your domain taken down for distributing malware. But you also probably won't be randomly banned by Google/Proton. Neither feels like "full, unbannable control of my email" to me. If anything, I'm more concerned about my little old domain getting hijacked than getting banned from a hosted email account.
by vpShane | 2025-10-07 23:26:04+00:00
This reads perfectly, and I'm happy their voice can be heard. End to end encryption is essential, it doesn't require an argument.

Security systems and the ability to transmit data transmissions securely, whether it be a 'chat' or not require this not only due to bad actors, but data integrity.

You know that your data is read only by those who are authorized. While intentions may be good (they're not), at scale it is not feasible to monitor all data, in hopes to stop something bad.

Discord just had its 'required IDs' hacked. We can sit here all day and say why encryption, and secure transmissions are beneficial, but there just isn't one argument I can possibly agree with where everybody's privacy, and ability to speak securely is infringed upon.

This effects everybody globally if you have people you speak securely with in the EU. By backdooring things by default and undermining encrypted technologies, everybody in the world then becomes at risk by whoever gets that data.

Who does actually get that data?

There's a 'dark mission' going on in the EU where data retention and backdoors are becoming a requirement, they're seeking out individuals for hire and giving them missions to compromise and/or obtain compromised systems, nobody knows who they are, what they do, or what they do with the data.

The European Digital Rights had some words on it.

Shedding Light We Address the Flawed Going Dark Report

https://edri.org/our-work/shedding-light-we-address-the-flaw...

Here's their open letter:

https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Open-Letter-on-H...
by laughing_man | 2025-10-07 23:26:24+00:00
As I understand it radio stations used to like "loud" albums because people can't hear the quiet parts in their car as a result of road and engine noise. And people bought what they heard on the radio, generally.

I'm not sure that's still true. Music fans seem to be pretty heavily siloed, so they're probably discovering music through the internet somehow and not radio.
by cyberax | 2025-10-07 23:26:27+00:00
> To me this recently popular idea that you can just point a load of cameras at the sky to beat stealth is disproved by the lack of such installations.

Russia has a 10x advantage over Ukraine in aviation, yet it only uses it to lob guided bombs from safely beyond the Russian border. The anti-air defense far outmatches the stealth of Russian airplanes.

They are not the stealthiest, sure. But there are reasons to think that NATO planes are not going to fare much better.
by didibus | 2025-10-07 23:26:29+00:00
I have to disagree a little.

You might be right simply that no one actual cares about any of this, and 99% of people don't care at all who gets banned or censored and who doesn't. And they'd all just stick around to the one place where everyone else is and that's that.

But this is an argument against the idea that people care or don't.

Assuming people do care, then Bluesky is the first protocol attempt that could actually work, because it lets you move your existing account freely to any alternatives easily, and because it also allows you to control your own recommendation algorithms.

If people don't care, than, people don't care, and that's that.

But if people do care, you need to achieve the above behavior, and that becomes a technical challenge that tech can solve.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-07 23:27:04+00:00
Why wouldn't they? You join the platform, make friends with folks who say stuff like "Vance and Singal shouldn't be here but the people that give them death threats should", then they tell you to hop onto "Cleansky" which has its own Appview that filters out Vance, Singal, and platforms your buddies. You don't need to make a new account or anything.

The default experience just needs to be good enough. Beyond that folks with strong opinions will filter into moderation communities that offer them the curation they want. That's the technical side of this at least. There's larger problems around community culture but unrelated to tech.
by nine_k | 2025-10-07 23:27:11+00:00
Numbers don't add up.

If you take a 8K camera with a standard 50 mm lens, its angular resolution is about 20" / pixel.

A 50 mm lens has a FOV of about 40°. It covers a cone of about 0.38 strad. A full hemisphere has 2·pi = 6.28 strad, so we need at least 16.5 such cones to cover the whole area; actually we need likely 20-25 because of imperfect geometry and some safety margins at intersections. We can, of course, mount fewer and scan.

If we take a plane like A320 (larger than a typical fighter jet), and remove it 25 km from us, its angular size would be about about 5', or 300". Our A320 would be 15 pixels wide, assuming very good optics, and very clear skies. This is not much to determine what craft is approaching us. At the cruise speed of 800 km/h, or 220 m/s, the plane will reach us in 122 s, or less than 2 minutes. Not a lot of warning. A fighter jet making 500 m/s would be there in 50 s.

This is, of course, without any clouds. Even very light clouds or haze would conceal the aircraft at 25 km. To say nothing of the night time.

We could of course take in IR camera, but I don't remember 8K IR cameras being cheap, or even available. A stealth aircraft like B-2 does a lot to make its thermal signature very faint, including the exhaust.
by PlutoChaplin | 2025-10-07 23:27:24+00:00
> I wouldn't hand my intelligence secrets to people who resented being forced to be there; or to mouthy people I thought might blab about it after the end of their service; or to people with an anti-authority streak or at risk of a Snowden-style attack of conscience about civil liberties.

Well, I know people there from all groups you mentioned. Especially the "resented being forced to be there", which is very common in all parts of the army, with people counting down the days until their 2-3 years are over. It didn't feel like the unit selected against this, choosing to accept it because of the technical skills of who they accepted.

(And yes, this is a new account. I've been on Hacker News for years, this is just for privacy reasons.)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-07 23:27:51+00:00
Thankfully the web is quite stable generally. It would be extremely bad for a lot of people to remove webrtc & directly against the stability the web offers: I highly doubt it's gonna get removed.

That it is the only technology for p2p connection on the web is definitely a very special very different twist from everything else. Yeah that has a little more "risk" but I seriously don't see anyone trying to remove it.

Ideally webrtc wouldn't be the only way to do p2p across the web. It was super exciting when p2p webtransport showed up as an idea, but it's been inactive for a while now. Ideally we could get rid of weirdo protocols like webrtc's SCTP and focus on the new good stuff like QUIC, that webtransport uses! https://github.com/w3c/p2p-webtransport
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-07 23:28:25+00:00
What scenarios are you thinking about to lose the domain? To me, the most common would be forget the pay the bill, or your credit card on file expires.

A light Google search tells me that it is possible with several different providers to pay for up to 10 years in advance. Still, the exact same issues can happen at the 10 years and 1 day mark! How do large corporations handle this problem? Do they have a special contract where the domain register will always keep the domain registered, then bill the corporation directly? That seems like a business venture with juicy margins.
by lkey | 2025-10-07 23:28:26+00:00
4chan has changed the way that discourse happens online, and it has definitely leaked to X at the very least. Incel lingo especially, you might even use it yourself being completely unaware. I'd call it as a style of reactionary discourse, where the most 'controversial/engaging' thing is elevated and 'ironic' nihilism is the default viewpoint. This is now fully automated, but it needn't be forever so. These companies would do well to learn how to enter the post-exponential phase of their life-cycle.

crypto (and gambling I suppose these days) is a barometer of the advertising/fake user space. There's a fundamentally different vibe to a site trying to trick the gullible into getting 'free' crypto from musk and a site trying to sell you 75% off crocs at Target. You are free to disagree.

AI is the source of a huge wave deeply inauthentic and frankly boring/weird content. This reduces the signal/noise ratio, and thus the perceived value of any website. Again, your are free to disagree, but to me this is all symptomatic of cyclical autophagy.
by dang | 2025-10-07 23:28:50+00:00
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-07 23:28:51+00:00
Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers on a whim himself.

Regardless, it's too late now, you just can't deny that the threat of permanent discharge is now so moronic that nothing has come close in the entire history of aviation. I would imagine that many of those worried about their career have to put income above fealty to a ship being scuttled.

It was a very sound ship a year ago, completely solid for decades by comparison, now it's more full of holes than anybody could have imagined.

That was quick.

The smart move might just be to start delivering packages for Amazon on the first sick day, so you can get a head start without all the competition if everybody gets kicked out at once.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-07 23:29:38+00:00
I remember paging through the IKEA catalog and OTTO clothing catalog at my grandparents house in the summer. We were bored. I think this is just nostalgia. Today even if there was a print version, it wouldn't mean the same to people as it did back then. There's so much more stuff competing for your attention online all the time.
by sdenton4 | 2025-10-07 23:30:04+00:00
Yeaaaaaah, I kinda doubt there's much coming from evolutionary biases.

If it's a matter of clever initialization bias, it's gotta be pretty simple to survive the replication via DNA and procedural generative process in the meat itself, alongside all of the other stuff which /doesn't/ differentiate us from chimpanzees. Likely simple enough that we would just find something similar ourselves through experimentation. There's also plenty of examples of people learning Interesting Unnatural Stuff using their existing hardware (eg, echolocation, haptic vision, ...) which suggests generality of learning mechanisms in the brain.
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-07 23:30:22+00:00
The main difference between Delphi/Lazarus and classic VB is that in classic VB you can pause the program and run commands in the paused program - i.e. running it in a "half-alive" state, though it wasn't fully editable as many changes requiring restarting.

On the other hand Delphi/Lazarus has a much more capable language and richer set of components (and in Lazarus' case much better support for automatic layouts), which IMO is better overall.

But yeah, in the 90s Lazarus didn't exist (Delphi did though) - IIRC it was made around 2000 or so but it was really janky for most of the 2000s.

Note that Delphi (and Lazarus) is used for a lot more than LoB apps. It was used a lot by shareware developers for example (and some still use it, e.g. IIRC both Beyond Compare and Total Commander still use Delphi - with Lazarus for crossplatform and/or 64bit builds).
by SrslyJosh | 2025-10-07 23:30:41+00:00
> And to understand that while Apple's mission is to provide a walled garden, Windows has been and is used in a million different scenarios.

You're conflating the vertical integration of hardware and software (Apple's walled garden) with Microsoft's current direction (you can't use Windows without MS online services).

Microsoft has never given a damn about customers being free to use the software the way they want to. In light of how the company is behaving today, the "openness" of Windows WRT to hardware was clearly only about market share.
by Demiurge | 2025-10-07 23:30:43+00:00
New features

* PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported

* PEP 649: The evaluation of annotations is now deferred, improving the semantics of using annotations.

* PEP 750: Template string literals (t-strings) for custom string processing, using the familiar syntax of f-strings.

* PEP 734: Multiple interpreters in the stdlib.

* PEP 784: A new module compression.zstd providing support for the Zstandard compression algorithm.

* PEP 758: except and except* expressions may now omit the brackets.

Syntax highlighting in PyREPL, and support for color in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs.

* PEP 768: A zero-overhead external debugger interface for CPython.

UUID versions 6-8 are now supported by the uuid module, and generation of versions 3-5 are up to 40% faster.

* PEP 765: Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block.

* PEP 741: An improved C API for configuring Python.

A new type of interpreter. For certain newer compilers, this interpreter provides significantly better performance. Opt-in for now, requires building from source.

Improved error messages.

Builtin implementation of HMAC with formally verified code from the HACL* project.

A new command-line interface to inspect running Python processes using asynchronous tasks.

The pdb module now supports remote attaching to a running Python process.

More details: https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html
by aetherspawn | 2025-10-07 23:31:30+00:00
This seems like the perfect thing to mix with financial records (ie bank feeds) and a local LLM.

I’m not sure what you’d use it for … exactly … but it could probably reconcile and figure out all your credit card charges based on your message history and location, allocate charges to budgets, and show more analytics than you’re probably interested in knowing.

People with a cloud connected car such as a Tesla could probably get some real “personal assistant” type use cases out of this, such as automatically sorting your personal and business travel kms, expenses and such for tax purposes.

There’s probably other use cases like suggesting local experiences you haven’t done before, and helping you with time management.
by maxglute | 2025-10-07 23:32:06+00:00
Because it's not uniformly developed, there's still 100s of millions who are underdeveloped. If we're sensible we'll cap a limit on what first place should emit per capita and that will be the benchmark everyone targets / settles at. Right now that's high income per capita emissions. Realistically, it doesn't stop until some agreed/enforced per capital emission ceiling and if that agreed ceiling takes us to 4/5/6 degrees then that's where we're going to settle. Ultimately the fair requirement is suggest countries have X historic per captia emissions adjustment to unfuck themselves / prepare for climate change. If wealthy countries are generous they can subsidize the transition, but we know that's unlikely so really it's about how (or whether) to mitigate the free for all.

In an even fairer world, huge renewable exporters would get credit / per capita adjustments for exporting net renewable and fossil exporers would get opposite. Oh and countries with high TFR or advanced economies with high immigration that multiplies an immigrant's emission (i.e. poor -> rich flow) would get penalized. But that's even less likely to happen because it's obvious whose interest these sensible proposals undermine, because climate change isn't a scientific of enviromental problem, it's a geopolitcal one.
by strenholme | 2025-10-07 23:32:41+00:00
Yes, he did:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191024193930/https://twitter.c...

“Lua in 1995 was very different, no coros e.g., and no one would be happy if it flash-froze and then slow-forked on a different path from Lua's. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905155 and yes, wasm is the right long-term plan. In 1995 it was supposed to be Java, but that didn't pan out!”
by bjourne | 2025-10-07 23:34:17+00:00
Right, but email is really not all that great, neither on a practical nor technical level. 99.99% of all users doesn't run their own mail server so in practice it is not decentralized. I would guesstimate that 50% or more of all mail traffic is handled by Google, MS, Apple, and a few outer mega corps. And for most people Facebook, Slack, and WhatsApp are way more convenient communication methods than email.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-07 23:34:33+00:00
From 2008 to about 2011: Neo Freerunner, first on Om2007.2, then on SHR.

Then Nokia N900 with Maemo 5, in 2017-2019 augmented by Samsung Galaxy S3 with LineageOS as a secondary device since N900 was getting unusable for the Web by then.

And finally since 2020 up to now, Librem 5 with PureOS, which removed the need to carry an Android device again.
by cyberax | 2025-10-07 23:34:34+00:00
N2O formation enthalpy is just 82kJ/mol. For comparison, water is 240kJ/mol.

It doesn't sound so bad, but when translated into grams, it's 1.86kJ/g for N2O and 13.3kJ/g for water.

In other words, when burning a gram of hydrogen, you get about 120kJ of energy. When decomposing a gram of N2O, you barely get 2kJ.
by atrettel | 2025-10-07 23:34:56+00:00
Your strategy seems good to me. The primary reference that I use for this kind of stuff is Michael Bazzell's book "Extreme Privacy". It goes into some detail about his strategy for using custom domains to compartmentalize things. That's what I base my own strategy on.

The only thing that I would add is that I prefer to "salt" my single-purpose email addresses with a bunch of random characters to prevent enumeration attacks, since it would be trivial to figure out the email address that I use for different services by just guessing. If I used amazon@domain.net, I might also use uber@domain.net, etc. Adding a salt prevents this from happening.
by combyn8tor | 2025-10-07 23:35:29+00:00
Tasmania has 38 sheep per square kilometer and is only surpassed by Victoria with 60 sheep km2. WA has 4 sheep per km2, QLD 1.44, SA 10, NSW 3.

In population terms, Tasmania has 4.5 sheep per person, whereas Victoria has 1.9 sheep per person. NSW 0.28, SA 5.2, WA 3.3, QLD 0.4

[1] https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-in... [2] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national... [3] https://www.wool.com/market-intelligence/sheep-numbers-by-st...

* Population numbers are one head per person, so actual numbers may vary for Tasmania ;-)
by hk1337 | 2025-10-07 23:35:30+00:00
I am actually working on doing the opposite and getting rid of my custom domains. I’m not really doing anything with them except spending money to have them. Working on getting all my socials to basically match with a similar username and just go from there.

If I host my blog, assuming I actually start making posts, on GitHub with a custom domain, when I die then the domain will likely expire and the blog is no longer accessible. If I keep it with my GitHub .io url, it’ll be there for as long as the account is there.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-07 23:35:41+00:00
Super resolution is a thing but I think they mean to just take the differences and track based on the motions in that data directly. Any deltas which appear to move in a certain way are likely to be aircraft, especially if the same deltas show up on a 2nd camera, even if they aren't clear enough to directly identify. Basically the motion vector estimation step of video encode but tuned really tight and ignoring motions that don't look like aircraft motions.

I'm not sure this is really all that perfect/foolproof though, especially with 8k visible light cameras. For one, clouds can be quite the problem (even at non-visible wavelengths). Atmospheric turbulence can also be annoying and the air can be plain hazy depending on the day - both limit detection accuracy at a given range. When night comes the detection ability is greatly hampered even with additional wavelengths (and IR has lower resolution anyways).

It worked well enough in a weekend project many years back to use computer vision (the craze at the time) and compare to an ADS-B make by using a 4k 1 FPS image feed in a weekend project to mess with computer vision a decade back. I definitely see it as a valid addition to a detection system... but I would stop short of writing a "Military Dumbfounded at This One Simple Trick" article about it.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-07 23:35:46+00:00
Lots of link rot in their list of stuff. Starting at the top of the list for the 3D printer goes to an Amazon 404. The John Deere twine baler redirects to Deere's home page.

Is this something that has since been abandoned and being shown here for historical purposes? An example of another panacea idea that just lost internet steam?
by vkou | 2025-10-07 23:35:50+00:00
> My concern is around how these tools essentially accelerate planetary resource extraction, with from what I can see no discussion or attempt to addesss this potential impact/dynamic.

You can't meaningfully address that at a grassroots level because of the tragedy of the commons.

You have to engage with that problem at a higher level of organization. (National/Transnational).
by tejasvi88 | 2025-10-07 23:36:11+00:00
> decide to continue doing dangerous GoF research in metropolises, that is bad.

How do you know GoF research is bad? By analysing the consequences of previous GoF research.

If lab origin is confirmed, it adds support to GoF research being bad hypothesis helps creating relevant regulations. If zoonotic origin is confirmed, it adds another data point of naturally created dangerous pathogens and weakens the argument of banning GoF research.

There are no _a priori_ truths, only approximations at a time based on past statistics.

Let me know if you are convinced, either way :)