MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by igleria | 2025-10-09 10:42:36+00:00
The people with money don't care, as the very next day Vercel got a series F. That is funny tho because I remember him being pretty anti-israel back in our High school on the long defunct semi-official foropelle.com.ar he owned and managed.

He is a programming prodigy, and that's it. Not a nice person.

Nevertheless, my anecdote should only be taken with a grain of salt... After all, the only person that probably has backups of foropelle is Rauch himself. And who cares what a teenager had to say back in 2006?
by seec | 2025-10-09 10:42:51+00:00
Well if you come to France, you will find plenty of bridges that were designed before calculus was even a thing and thankfully, they are still standing. Calculus is mostly theoretical science and is not strongly related to engineering, even though nowadays engineers may start with this tool.

Education does have some value but I believe it is mostly for people looking to push the envelope and do research. For people who are going to be part of the industry/workforce it's extremely overrated, especially since all knowledge has a useful half-life that tends to be pretty short. If you pick people 20 years after their studies and ask them questions about the curriculum, they are probably going to be unable to answer much of it, outside of what they regularly use for their current or previous job.
by doom2 | 2025-10-09 10:43:04+00:00
In the large-ish East Coast city I live in, there are so many restaurants making food that a) isn't defrosted Sysco meals and b) is something that would take either a large amount of labor or specialized ingredients to make at home. My home oven is insufficient to make something like Peking duck. Even if I could source the quality of fish the fancy local sushi spot does, would my amateur preparation come close to what they're offering?

Which is all to say that this comment seems limited to people that live in places where the only choices are fast food or fast casual and excludes most everything else. I'm not arguing that restaurant food is affordable, just that there is plenty of non-Sysco food out there.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-09 10:43:11+00:00
> If this was true, it would be the strongest piece of evidence so far.

> But it’s not.

> I’m sorry to tell you this, but /u/maxwellhill did post after the 2nd of July. Just not in public. He continued to perform moderator duties, interact with staff members, and answer private messages. Here’s a conversation between /u/hasharin and /u/maxwellhill that happened on the 9th.

> Additionally, here’s evidence that /u/maxwellhill made a post inside a private subreddit, nine days after the “Tr45son” one.

> This seems pretty bad for the theory. With Ghislaine Maxwell in jail awaiting charges, /u/maxwellhill is casually swapping PMs with reddit moderators and spitballing around policy ideas. How could they be the same person?

That's from the link.

I stopped posting to Reddit in December 2015 and haven't been back since. David Bowie died a few days later 10 January 2016. Am I David Bowie?
by Emma-Suntech | 2025-10-09 10:44:36+00:00
1. When encountering “breakpoint” issues with RGB light strips, besides replacing connectors and controllers, are there other underlying causes ?

2. For 220V LED strips experiencing flickering, is upgrading to an isolated driver necessary? How much would this increase costs? Are there any compromise solutions?

3. Regarding adhesive issues with LED strip backing, do you have any reliable adhesive suppliers to recommend? Or should we adjust the installation instructions on product packaging (e.g., advising customers to wipe the mounting surface beforehand and let it rest for 24 hours)?
by iainmerrick | 2025-10-09 10:44:40+00:00
You’re getting a lot of pushback here, but I have to say, your intuition makes sense to me too.

When you’re connecting those two knots, it seems like you have the option of flipping one before you join them. It does seem very plausible that that extra choice would give you the freedom to potentially reduce the knotting number by 1 in the combined knot.

(Intuitively plausible even if the math is very, very complex and intractable, of course.)
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-09 10:45:39+00:00
This was exactly the playbook that led to the xz backdoor.

Just the quotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39909905

Very long page but a lot more in depth. Search for “Jigar Kumar pressured Lasse Collin”

https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-story-part-2-social-engin...

And an overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
by reorder9695 | 2025-10-09 10:45:52+00:00
How do we define what food is ultra processed though? Do we need "cake (commercial)" and "cake (home baked)" as I can bake a cake with all the standard stuff I have at home, but commercial cakes are usually chock full of E numbers. Another example would be like a jar of pasta sauce and a pasta sauce I've made, I don't think it's arguable that a pasta sauce I've made is ultra processed.

Like that definition doesn't seem to work when there's foods where the commercial variant is made differently to the normal version.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-09 10:46:50+00:00
But why would anyone opt-in to that? You could do what some site are doing put up a "Either pay us or opt-in to cookies and tracking". The problem is I don't think people fully understand how much tracking we're talking about.

Right now a Danish radio station is running a number of news stories about being able to track people who work for military intelligence or as police officers and prison guards. They do this using a free sample a data broker provided. Everyone act surprised when the journalists are able to show up at the home address of military personal or prison guards who have their home address protected/secret.

I don't think there's a safe way to opt-in to selling your data, because most people cannot comprehend how much data, what type or the ramifications.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 10:47:02+00:00
If someone is habitually consuming sugar sweetened beverages, replacing those with ASBs will, the evidence strongly suggests, reduce your risk of obesity and various chronic diseases. We can say "just don't consume either" but we have decades of attempting such policies that shows people don't work that way.

Someone who wants to drink a can of coke will drink a can of coke, why would we ban the healthier option?
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 10:48:24+00:00
Shit happens. I wrote the firmware for a multi-link HDLC card which earned vast amounts of money for the company that commissioned it. I was quite aware of my responsibility and so was the hardware team. We stress tested the crap out of it before releasing to production and fortunately it never locked up when it was in actual use but we had some pretty wild and very rare (so hard to trigger and reproduce) bugs which delayed deployment considerably. But none of this gave me the kind of feeling that working on fuel estimation software for aircraft gave. That's when there are in the most literal sense lives on the line, and that's a completely different kind of pressure. You simply can not fuck up. It also really rammed home the value of code review and having a good specification so that you can ensure that within the envelope of input parameters your software does what it is supposed to do.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 10:48:38+00:00
As I wrote elsewhere:

If someone is habitually consuming sugar sweetened beverages, replacing those with ASBs will, the evidence strongly suggests, reduce your risk of obesity and various chronic diseases.

We can say "just don't consume either" but we have decades of attempting such policies that shows people don't work that way. Someone who wants to drink a can of coke will drink a can of coke, why would we ban the healthier option?
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-09 10:48:46+00:00
Guacamole would count as Group 3 I believe. You use Group 1 and Group 2 ingredients to create it unless you're just grinding up avocados, in which case that's not a guacamole. If you really want to get interesting, you could even say homemade guacamole uses citric acid (from limes) to extend shelf life and enhance the flavor, which is on top of the sodium chloride (salt) that you use to do the same.
by Mylinux-os | 2025-10-09 10:48:54+00:00
Thanks again for the feedback—it really means a lot!

You're absolutely right: transparency is key, especially when it comes to operating systems. I'm currently working on documenting the build process and will be releasing:

The full package list

The kernel configuration

The ISO build scripts

I’ll also include notes on how the system is assembled from scratch, since Mylinux isn’t based on Debian, Arch, or any other distro—it’s a ground-up build. I want to make it easy for anyone to inspect, replicate, or modify it.

Appreciate your patience and encouragement. This kind of input helps me improve and stay focused on what matters most: trust and usability.
by krapp | 2025-10-09 10:48:54+00:00
I think a lot of people are too wrapped up in nostalgia for science fiction to realize VR and AR aren't as objectively superior to the paradigm of screen and input as they assume, and that these technologies will only ever be niche. And that's fine. I have an Oculus Go collecting dust and an Oculus Quest I only use one app for and I doubt I'd ever be willing to get a third headset. The gimmick of being able to turn my head in a virtual space just isn't worth it.

VR probably hit its peak with VR Chat, and AR probably hit it with Pokemon Go. Just as we're never getting the Jetson's future with Rosie the Robot, but we do get roombas, we're never getting the cyberpunk future where everything happens in VR, but we do get furries hanging out in digital Taco Bells.
by Havoc | 2025-10-09 10:49:15+00:00
Used to moderator a decent sized sub for a decent stint. Learned a fair bit from it. Eventually decided to step back because it’s a raw deal - all interactions are antagonistic, the torrent of confrontations is essentially endless, it’s not seen or appreciated by users and obviously not paid.

So not much of a personal payoff, right? UNLESS you’re the kind of person that thrives on drama, conflict and power trips.

Meaning this actively filters for people that are radioactively toxic
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by r_singh | 2025-10-09 10:50:23+00:00
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by LaurensBER | 2025-10-09 10:50:30+00:00
No worries.

While Twitter has many issues, I still find value in it and I figured that a counter point to the common narrative would add value to the discussion.

I would love a LLM curated social network where I can drive the content that I see by adjusting the prompt to ensure that only high quality, fact based content is presented to me.

While no doubt not perfect and accounting for LLM biases (at scale) is not trivial this seems doable on a small (personal or small community) scale. Given the low cost of LLMs these days (queries on Flash 2.5 Lite or QWEN usually cost me a fraction of a cent), this might actually be a pretty cool weekend project!
by kevincox | 2025-10-09 10:50:32+00:00
It sounds like a large part of the problem is how important a subreddit name is to popularity. If a subreddit has a good obvious name it is going to collect members and activity even if the mods are awful. Competing subreddits will struggle to attract new users as they need some different less-obvious name.

I wonder if this could be approached in a way that new subreddits didn't have this disadvantage so that they could compete on mod quality and slowly grow / migrate the community.

Of course there are advantages to short unique names like readable links. But it seems that this false authority may not be worth the downsides.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 10:50:53+00:00
Yep, this seems like quackery.

Wholemeal bread with soya lecithins? Evil UPF, ban it.

Artisinally produced sourdough using refined flour with tons of salt but no lecithins? Delightful, fill your boots.

We've let nutrition policy become controlled by fad diet book authors and the results aren't pretty...
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 10:51:28+00:00
It's a bit more complicated than that. Loopback implies that the data went off the wire and was sent back. That puts some serious constraints on the process that deals with that data, how it is stored and how it is fed back into the system. You can't just compare that with naked pass-through latency (which is what a switch would do), because the signal is already on the way out before it has even fully been received.

Essentially a few ns after the header is received it will already be passed on to the output port after some signal conditioning, which happens almost without latency. A typical 'high speed' switch will have 800 ns round trip, so that 60 ns quoted here is actually quite impressive.
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-09 10:51:48+00:00
The boundary is "arbitrary", but clearly there has to be one, otherwise we're all nodding in agreement as trading speed heads inexorably towards Plank time units.

We have some convenient "lines in the sand" that we can use as a guide:

- To make trading fair globally, the round-trip time for light around the planet could be multiplied a couple of times. That's about a second.

- The fastest possible time a human can parse the meaning of a long headline (not the full news article!) is... about a second.

- Nobody in their right mind should be buying any significant volume of shares without double-checking their order. There's no way to do this even vaguely carefully in under... a second.

Etc...

Bots trading faster than a second are trading with each other, and the only signals they have are each other.

Humans are what markets are for, not bots.

This reminds me of a story from WWII where a bunch of generals took a holiday at the same time, leaving a junior general in charge. He was in a bit of a panic because he was expecting to be overloaded with work... but found it easy. The generals were making work for each other by requesting reports, organising meetings with each other, etc...

Bots make work for bots, they generate signals for bots ever faster, to be processed by faster bots still, etc...

It's just... nonsense. Zero real information is being generated, they're just "riffing" off of the much less frequent human-initiated trades, all of which take minutes to organise and execute with due diligence.

It's like being asked to write a 10-page essay on a three-line poem.
by cs702 | 2025-10-09 10:52:00+00:00
Anecdotally, many people at OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle, etc., sincerely believe their company's own hype.

They remind me of the story about the oil prospector in Warren Buffett's year-end 1985 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders:

> An oil prospector, moving to his heavenly reward, was met by St. Peter with bad news. “You’re qualified for residence”, said St. Peter, “but, as you can see, the compound reserved for oil men is packed. There’s no way to squeeze you in.” After thinking a moment, the prospector asked if he might say just four words to the present occupants. That seemed harmless to St. Peter, so the prospector cupped his hands and yelled, “Oil discovered in hell.” Immediately the gate to the compound opened and all of the oil men marched out to head for the nether regions. Impressed, St. Peter invited the prospector to move in and make himself comfortable. The prospector paused. “No,” he said, “I think I’ll go along with the rest of the boys. There might be some truth to that rumor after all.”

Source: https://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1985.html
by redeux | 2025-10-09 10:52:16+00:00
It’s actually pretty simple. Despite what you’re calling unhealthy foods (I’d argue kimchi has health benefits from the fermentation), they have a lower overall caloric intake and societal pressure to conform to a thin appearance. If you want to be skinny eat less calories. If you want to be healthy, eat highly nutritious foods and the right amount of calories for your lifestyle.
by chithanh | 2025-10-09 10:52:26+00:00
I think the reference was maybe about the butter vs. margarine controversy? That margarine was lauded as more healthy, but turned out to be actually less healthy than butter, due to hydrogenation producing trans fats which elevated cardiovascular risk.

Since mid-1990s, margarine no longer contains appreciable amounts of trans fats.

Butter also contains trans fats but these are ruminant TFAs which I understand are not so bad.

This is why despite butter composition being worse "on paper" there is no empirical observation that it is less healthy than plant margarine.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-10-09 10:52:39+00:00
Statistically, pretty much all batteries are safe. Millions and millions of batteries pass through airports, train stations, shopping centers, etc. daily, and nothing happens. And then one of them catches fire, and it's in all the media.

Compare this to eg. car crashes,... you probably know more people who've been in a car crash compared to people who've had batteries explode.

...on the other hand, we've banned liquids on planes because of an even rarer event.
by rk06 | 2025-10-09 10:52:46+00:00
that is your opinion, and is irrelevant to the choice. practically, vercel is a company which is heavily invested in react and react's future, so, they need to be present.

moreover, this entire initiative looks like a way to reduce vercel's influence, so if you want to be mad, then be mad in 5 yrs, not now.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-09 10:53:40+00:00
You mean the gains from SIMD on the CPU, because all GPU programs use even wider SIMD than the CPUs, with width of 1024 bits or 2048 bits, for even greater die area and power consumption savings in comparison with non-SIMD.

The width of the SIMD instructions is not visible when programming with NVIDIA CUDA or with the similar compilers for Intel CPUs (ispc or oneAPI with SYCL targeting CPUs or OpenMP with appropriate pragmas), but only because the compiler takes care of that.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-09 10:53:53+00:00
Sounds similar to my personal history of adopting StandardJS (https://github.com/standard/standard) as soon as it appeared, doing the same at the org I was at the time. Based on memory, seems StandardJS appeared before Prettier in the ecosystem?

It seems weird that StandardJS wasn't mentioned in this article, as surely the author must have known about it before starting Prettier.

Still to this day I just use StandardJS when starting a new project, not even sure what the difference against Prettier is, it's more or less the same as far as I can tell but maybe faster?
by mr_mitm | 2025-10-09 10:54:42+00:00
A meticulous coder probably wouldn't have typed out 40 URLs just because they want to move them from one file to another. They would copy-past them and run some sed-like commands. You could instruct an LLM agent to do something similar. For modifying a lot of files or a lot of lines, I instruct them to write a script that does what I need instead of telling them to do it themselves.
by throw-10-8 | 2025-10-09 10:55:10+00:00
The 3D printer analogy doesn't hold up though, that implies design, engineer, and knowledge of your constraints.

It's more like a pachinko machine that rewards the user with house like objects that may or may not work.

If the user builds their house with it and it collapses and kills their family fine, but you can't use a system like that to build anything where you might have external liability because fundamentally you don't understand the problem domain and an ai model cannot hold a civil engineering license and be held liable for structural collapse.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-10-09 10:55:34+00:00
1. Delete your accounts, if possible. Maybe not YouTube though if you rely on Google for Android or email [1].

2. Install the LeechBlock extension [2] in the browser on all your devices. Lock out the sites you want to lose from your life. You can add a time-limited override for some, if you want. Dont feel bad or weak about yourself for doing this: these sites are largely designed with psychological input to be addictive.

3. Find something else to do. If its reading, always have a book in progress and one that you'll read next. Or cooking, exercise, sex, study, whatever.

4. Exercise anyway. Hydrate, sleep well.

[1] Don't use gmail - google are not on your side. Get a domain and use a proper email service like fastmail or protonmail. Sign up for kagi and dump google search.

[2] Available for Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc. via the browser extension stores.
by hotpotat | 2025-10-09 10:56:03+00:00
Lol this person talks about easing into LLMs again two weeks after quitting cold turkey. The addiction is real. I laugh because I’m in the same situation, and see no way out other than to switch professions and/or take up programming as a hobby in which I purposefully subject myself to hard mode. I’m too productive with it in my profession to scale back and do things by hand — the cat is out of the bag and I’ve set a race pace at work that I can’t reasonably retract from without raising eyebrows. So I agree with the author’s referenced post that finding ways to still utilize it while maintaining a mental map of the code base and limiting its blast radius is a good middle ground, but damn it requires a lot of discipline.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-09 10:56:47+00:00
By default, yes, but they can all be supported, with some manual work, depending on your exact scenario. Check r/vfio if you're interested.

Anti-cheat can be a hit-or-miss depending on the game, but for many games you can edit the VM XML to simulate real hardware. But of course you may not want to do that if you don't want to risk getting banned. Personally I don't play such user-hostile games that employ malware-like anticheat (and neither should you, if you care about privacy and security), but that's a whole other debate.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-09 10:56:54+00:00
Too late to edit: More feature requests:

From some TrackMania videos, you can play against with your own last/beast ghost.

I guess you are picking the 7 fastest car or the last 7 cars (that are mostly hardcore users), so they are quite fast. Is it possible to add a few slow cars, perhaps select a mix of times?

Bonus imaginary points for:

* my car obliviously :)

* the fastest/last 7 cars

* 6 cars selected with an even distribution. If the fastest is 1 minute and the slowest 4 minutes, let's say approximately 1:15, 1:45, 2:15, 2:45, 3:15, 3:45

* 2 cars with a time close to the expected time of the player. If in the last round the player got 2:17, let's pick an old car with 2:07 and another with 2:27, so the player has two ghost nearby.
by pastage | 2025-10-09 10:57:14+00:00
Any project written in a language with big user base java, C#, C++, perl, rust even fortran has this problem. The only thing that helps is experience with the language. I very seldom see code that survives ten years, even no deps things fail because your compiler interpreter changes.

It is just part of the job. Sure I am not a big fan of C# or PowerShell but a big part is just that I have no experience.