MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MengerSponge | 2025-10-20 00:30:27+00:00
It's also an artifact of my subfield (nEDM): A common "history of nEDM" goes Lee-Yang then skip forward to Cronin and Fitch, then sketch a picture of how nEDM violates T (and P, but that's not groundbreaking), then talk about how the French used a decommissioned naval gun turret for one of their experiments. Bless 'em.

Have you ever seen The Timetables of History? It re-syncs world events that you learned about from disparate sources. I kind of need that here!
by maldev | 2025-10-20 00:31:09+00:00
Honestly, I was working for the government and now work for a antivirus company where I work remote and make a very good wage and have an amazing WLB. Maybe once I have kids I will, but being a mid 30's bachelor where I am now is heaven.

The reason for the mismatch was the cleared positions are Azure, so was hoping for a position as a developer on the Defender product, but they don't really have that in the cleared space.
by harimau777 | 2025-10-20 00:31:39+00:00
With stuff like this, technical fabrics that manufacturers refuse to sell to anyone other than businesses, and Joann's going out of business, it almost feels like there's a push to prevent individuals from making or repairing their own clothes.

I don't necessarily think it's a conspiracy, but it does feel like the logical extension of late stage capitalism's love of planned obsolescence, vendor lock in, etc.

I despirately want off of this ride.
Ask HN: Best way to make a documentation website for an open-source project?
by mudge | 2025-10-20 00:31:44+00:00
I am looking for some good options to create a documentation website for an open source project. I am looking for something that is free or very inexpensive and that is very easy to use and setup. It could be a tool, service or hosting platform. I am not a web developer but I know markdown.

Do you know of some good options?
by novaleaf | 2025-10-20 00:32:13+00:00
Some very bad regressions recently.

the update immediately prior to this broke password protected fileshares. Had to wait weeks for a patch to be deployed.

What's worse, is that so many similar problems have occured over the last 20 years is that when you try to search for the problem, you are highly likely to not find the actual cause+workaround, but will instead find one from years before that doesn't exactly apply to the current situation.
by Animats | 2025-10-20 00:33:27+00:00
J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchley used to be considered the real fathers of computing. They were the architects of the ENIAC, which was close to being a stored-program general purpose digital computer, and, eventually, when a memory unit was bolted on, became one. When the Moore School of Electrical Engineering wanted the patent rights to any new work Eckert and Mauchley did, they quit and formed a startup - Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. That became UNIVAC.

The big question at the time was whether the sheer complexity of something like a UNIVAC would be cost-effective. Watson of IBM opined that there might be a market for six computers. IBM was building a few computers for the Atomic Energy Commission and such, and they were seen as niche products. The Turing/Von Neumann line of development all fed into that defense niche.

UNIVAC was bought by Remington Rand, which had a competing line of tabulating machines. (Entirely mechanical. Almost completely forgotten.[1]) Unlike IBM, Remington Rand saw electronic digital computers as the next step to the future.

Remington Rand not only had the UNIVAC I, the Eckert-Mauchly machine, built. They built all the peripherals for data processing - the tape drive (the UNISERVO), the line printer, the typewriter-sized printer, the card to tape converter, the tape to card converter, and the keyboard to tape device (the UNITYPER) So, while it was expensive, the UNIVAC could do routine data processing, far faster than the tabulating machines.

UNIVAC then sold the US Census Bureau two UNIVAC I computers. Census was, at the time, the largest tabulating machine customer of IBM, and rented several acres of tab machines. They were all on 30-day rental, that being what IBM insisted upon. Once the UNIVAC I machines were running, most of them became unnecessary, and the rental was cancelled. This was a huge shock to IBM as a corporation. (And the IBM salesman, paid on commission.) That's what kicked IBM into getting serious about computers.

[1] https://www.museumwaalsdorp.nl/en/museum-waalsdorp-2/history...
by WalterBright | 2025-10-20 00:34:22+00:00
Of course. And that's why one shouldn't rely on a single layer of encryption.

With 1940s technology, generating a practical one time pad generator would have been an interesting engineering project. I would have simply used a newspaper. Even if your enemy knew you were using Die Zeitung, with the computer technology at the time it would have been tough to brute force which date and which article was used.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-20 00:34:40+00:00
I wasn’t casting aspersions on NN, but jumping off from the allusion that was made by the user who I replied to.

I don’t know what kind of sequence of events could lead to this outcome at NN, but perhaps they were hoist by their own petard. I’m reminded of the “money on the ground” joke involving two economists, which is semi-famous in these parts.

To wit:

> Economist 1: Look, there’s $20 on the ground!

> Economist 2: No there isn’t. If there were, someone would have picked it up already.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/19/money-on-the-ground/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029044

Perhaps the folks at NN are so busy picking up (billions of) dollars that they neglect the dimes on the ground that it would cost to comply with these seemingly trivial, even menial functional requirements of keeping their money printer running.

I’m honestly as befuddled by this brouhaha as anyone. This is a monumental failure of multiple entire business units to perform the core competencies of their jobs. That said, I could honestly believe that the number of people whose job it is (or perhaps was) to worry about the patent expiry at all, let alone be aware of the repeated communiques from the Canadian patent office, is quite low. I would further believe that the accountability dodging has only just begun behind closed doors, if the internal game of megacorporate musical chairs hasn’t already concluded well before this news broke and reached the shores of HN.
by zarzavat | 2025-10-20 00:34:47+00:00
Nobody has yet identified any malicious code in the repository.

How do you prove that the person hacking the website is not an associate of (or the same as) the person running the website?

If this were proprietary software then the software would be expected to die. Since this is open source, there is the option for the original project to die and for a fork to rise form the ashes.
by ajxs | 2025-10-20 00:37:04+00:00
I've spent a lot of time reverse-engineering vintage synthesizer firmware (which is a bit simpler than modern games). I did complete end-to-end annotations of these two vintage synth ROMs:

- https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx7_rom_disassembly

- https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx9_rom_disassembly

It started because I was just curious about how these devices actually worked. In the end I learned a lot of really invaluable skills that really broadened my horizons as an engineer. I got a chance to talk to a handful of incredibly smart people too. The actual work can be a lot of fun. It's like piecing together a really large and technical jigsaw puzzle. In my case, it also led to me being able to release a fun firmware mod: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97

In case anyone is curious about how I worked, I wrote a bit of a tutorial article: https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vin...

It can be a bit analogous to archaeology too. Even though in my case the DX7 is only 42 years old, that was an aeon ago in computing terms. You gain a bit of insight into how different engineers used to design and build things. Even though development for the N64 is fairly recent, from memory the console had some interesting constraints that made development tricky.
by eek2121 | 2025-10-20 00:37:48+00:00
For me, right now, CachyOS is "more". I do run KDE, however, and I don't use a ton of 3rd party themes/plugins/stuff (which will break any install).

I've used Arch on both servers and on desktop for a few years, and the only issue I ever had was pacman breaking due to both signing and file conflicts. I also had this on Debian and Ubuntu, (apt just simply stopped working, and nothing I did would make it work), so it isn't unique to Arch.

I'm not being defensive of Arch, I just think a lot of folks think rolling release = bugs. For the ones that do have stuff break, they typically modify their environment with huge customizations that would break anything, including Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, or any other OS.

I'll report back if my CachyOS install ever breaks, however, the only reason I stopped using Arch prior to this was that I was playing a few games that didn't work. Now, they do, and I don't really play new games or games with anti-cheat, and all my other software (I'm a retired/disabled dev) works fine.
by RestlessMind | 2025-10-20 00:37:53+00:00
Mid-2000's were the pinnacle of the Western power in general and the American power in particular. First Iraq war, then the GFC punctured the halo from the 90's.

After that, the soil was fertile for the rise of populism. Bungled post-GFC recovery, algorithmic manipulations from social media, unmitigated immigration, COVID and its aftermath just fueled the fire further.
by MengerSponge | 2025-10-20 00:38:08+00:00
The problem you run into is that laypeople operate with modified Aristotelian physics. They might "know" that the speed of light is a speed limit, and they might "know" that quantum mechanics says you can't measure anything.

They also believe that objects keep moving after you push them because they retain a memory of your push, and when that force runs out the objects come to rest*

You are not, will not, cannot teach them how to do a meaningful modern calculation in a single conversation**. Hell, Feynman's lectures were a failure: they didn't serve the audience he was supposed to be teaching (first year students).

So are you talking to students? Or is this a cocktail conversation? Because those are two very different settings.

*&**) These points are extensively documented in the PER literature. SciComm is really important and really useful, but it's not the same as effective pedagogy.
by adrianmonk | 2025-10-20 00:38:16+00:00
I wonder if you could do repairs by hand stitching. Presumably the special machine does a special stitch which is lined up exactly with the teeth. A regular machine can't do that, but I bet a skilled human could.

You'd need a way to hold the zipper teeth and the fabric in place while you stitch. Maybe temporary tape or some special-purpose jig thing.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-20 00:38:33+00:00
The fridge box is fairly insulated. Temps in my home are consistent all over plus or minus a couple degrees. I think you've overstating the case a lot here. Even with the oven running it doesnt seem to affect the fridge too much. Heck in a lot of warmer climates people leave a spare fridge outside where its battling non-climate controlled air.

In the winter your fridge's waste heat is warming up your kitchen, so if anything, its a bit of a bonus those months.

The only thing I think we could do with fridges is put in a system that pulls cold air in during the winter but that's sawing holes into brick and yet another thing to worry about in regards to mold, critters, moisture, filters, fans, etc. Its just not worth the effort or cost.
by garganzol | 2025-10-20 00:38:37+00:00
My 2 cents: Proxmox is too rigid. For example:

1. Proxmox cannot even join a network using DHCP requiring manual IP configuration.

2. Disk encryption is a hell instead of checkbox in installer

3. Wi-Fi - no luck (rarely used for real servers, but frequently for r&d racks)

Of course, it is a Debian core underneath and a lot of things are possible given enough time and persistence, but other solutions have them out of the box.
by unscaled | 2025-10-20 00:39:19+00:00
The Amish approach to technology is completely different from the Luddites, and it doesn't teach us anything about whether we, as a society, should accept or reject a certain technology.

To be more exact, there is no evidence that historical Luddites were ideologically opposed to machine use in the textile industry. The Luddites seemed to have been primarily concerned with wages and labor conditions, but used machine-breaking as an effective tactic. But to the extent that Luddites did oppose to machines, and the way we did come to understand the term Luddite later, this opposition was markedly different from the way Amish oppose technology.

The Luddites who did oppose the use of industrial textile production machines were opposed to other people using these machines as it hurt their own livelihood. If it was up to them, nobody would have been allowed to use these machines. Alternatively, they would be perfectly happy if their livelihood could have been protected in some other manner, because that was their primary goal, but failing that they took action depriving other people from being able to use machines to affect their livelihood.

The Amish, on the other hand, oppose a much wider breadth of technology for purely ideological reasons. But they only oppose their own use if this technology. The key point here is that the Amish live in a world where everybody around them is using the very technologies they shun, and they do not make any attempt to isolate themselves from this world. The Amish have no qualms about using modern medicines, and although they largely avoid electricity and mechanized transportation, they still make significant use of diesel engine-based machinery, especially for business purposes and they generally don't avoid chemical fertilizers or pesticides either.

So if we want to say Amish are commercially successful and their life is pretty good, we have to keep in mind that they aren't a representation of how our society would look if we've collectively banned all the technologies they've personally avoided. Without mass industrialization, there would be no modern healthcare that would eliminate child mortality and there would be no diesel engines, chemical fertilizers and pesticides that boost crop yields and allow family farm output to shoot way past subsistence level.

In the end, the only lesson that the Amish teach us is that you can selectively avoid certain kinds of technologies and carve yourself a successful niche in an wider technologically advanced community.
by oefrha | 2025-10-20 00:39:59+00:00
Any time you dare to mention AI is going to replace software devs here, loads of people come out of the woodwork saying there’s zero evidence and it’s all just the end of ZIRP or whatever.

Well I know for a fact that my company’s art spending is way down, and while we haven’t fired any software engineer we also haven’t added any. I’m very conservative about the AI hype but I can’t deny a 20%-30% boost at the moment so I’m not gonna hire a junior to do the boring 25% for me, who incidentally would be more annoying to steer the way I want. And it wouldn’t surprise me if a slightly more capable model actually makes us slash headcount or at least never need a junior again, same way artists are going. It’s also likely that solopreneurs won’t need to hire in the first place, or will be able to run very lean teams a lot more easily. Many of us will be replaced sooner or later, no idea when, but burying head in the sand doesn’t help much.
by OldfieldCTO | 2025-10-20 00:41:01+00:00
#1 reason people don't wholesale move off of VMW is 1 word, RISK. Too much risk to move legacy applications of enterprises without a lengthy project to move. This that do and start to, are choosing KVM variants, RH Open shift Virt, or Hyper-V. Promos would be good if it had enterprise support.

Nutanix is just as expensive and also a locked in option.
by mlyle | 2025-10-20 00:41:59+00:00
I've done plenty of those self-actualizing things. I've learned to fly airplanes. I've done hobby projects. I've gotten into astronomy. I've learned to make things in many kinds of ways (carpentry, sheetmetal, machining, welding, 3d printing, lithography) and have overkilled so many projects. I've gone to my kids' games. I've 100%-ed a lot of RPGs. I've travelled. I've read too many books.

But I want to be -useful-, too. I enjoy helping and working with kids in my current job more than I enjoy filling my time in empty ways (well, up to a point: summer sure feels nice, too :).

Money gave me the freedom to define the relationship with work in the way that works best for me; and it turned out that's more valuable to me than the ability to escape work entirely.
by doodlebugging | 2025-10-20 00:42:06+00:00
Fortunately I'm not in SanFran. I'm up in N Texas. I worked out of Sugarland for a long time commuting to the Hwy6/IH59 area daily from Mission Bend area (west of Hwy6) and later to that area from Hempstead via Hwy290 to HWY6. I never lived in Sugarland because everything I looked at down there had issues that I couldn't ignore - poor quality lumber and materials used in construction, shoddy construction practices, access issues during high rainfall events, proximity to major freeways, etc. That's why I ended up in Hempstead. Sandy, well-drained soil on a hill. Older home constructed from old growth timber. A full city block with no neighbors. Easy highway access to the rest of Texas. To top it off, the commute from Hempstead, though it was a longer distance, could be managed in the same time period as the old commute from Mission Bend due to the new path using a relatively lower traffic path on 290 versus traversing neighborhoods and stop signs to get from Mission Bend to downtown (59 at Kirby) and then down 59 to Sugarland near Wilcrest.

I hope you work near Sugarland. The commute was pretty brutal some days.

As for the one swimming pool per child part, I have to defer to someone who knows something about constructing a swimming pool that people can use for fun stuff like swimming. The only large body of water that I constructed was a small, shallow pond where my childhood friends, my brother, and I would keep bait for our fishing trips. We dug a pit that was about 20' x 20' (~6m x 6m) and a foot or so deep (0.3m deep). We stocked it with crawdads, minnows we caught in the nearby creeks, and small perch we caught in creeks and stock tanks. It was a viable habitat for bait until the landowner destroyed our hand-built fort next to it and leveled the land while laying out lots for a new subdivision. Good times.

They also cut the tank dam on the best, most accessible stock tank near our homes and all the fish, turtles, frogs, etc spilled out across the landscape to an uncertain future. I'm sure most of the turtle and frogs found new spots to hang out but the fish were kinda cooked since they don't operate well in air. All of that to build cheap housing. My best friend and his Mom bought one of the houses and one day while I was visiting they showed me how you could open a cabinet door and see daylight through a crack in the corner where the cabinet had pulled apart as the house settled on a lot where we used to have a nice, well-stocked pond. Other corners in the house had similar issues where you could see daylight through cracks. My family built custom homes for decades. Those homes in that subdivision were some of the worst I had ever seen as far as quality of finish and attention to detail. Years later though I found worse places around Houston and up here in the DFW area.

To summarize what turned out to be another long-winded post, unless you want an ideal spot where your kids can get down and dirty and really enjoy all the muddy fun that kids should have, you should probably find someone else to construct swimming pools. I'm probably not the guy.
by ohdeardear | 2025-10-20 00:43:45+00:00
I hate virtualization with a passion, because it's just more crap that doesn't work written by people that shouldn't touch computers.

In theory, it's great. In practice, if you need to get "support" from someone else, it's not so great anymore, as all these companies have been discovering.

I would use VM technology if whoever wrote it would provide me with a contract saying that if anyone were to find just one program that would crash their VM (while not crashing a real machine) or miscompute, that I would get a billion dollars.

To answer your question: I was smart enough to never use it in the first place.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-20 00:44:09+00:00
As a parent the physical/mental efforts and money I'm spending raising a kid aren't reciprocal to anything I'm doing for myself. We're at a stage we can sleep, don't deal with piss poop everyday, and only focus on higher issues like education and health, but it's still a lot.

And that's fine, that's an arrangement I'm choosing, and that's what makes the most sense. We're also getting something back emotionally, but I'd never expect for the whole thing to be balanced, and it would be crazy to expect as much from my kid as we're pouring into it.

T I don't know how it works for you, that's just not what raising kids is in our society today. We'd have to get back to sending kids to work 8h a day if we stick to the simplistic "treat others like you treat yourself" view of the world.

And I think more generally, that's not how caring for loved ones work. You can't be doing mental bookkeeping, the whole concept is just weird.

> self abuse

If we remove all the emotion and human aspects of it, sleeping a total of 4h in 3 days to keep an ill small human alive is self abuse.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-10-20 00:48:22+00:00
> What you end up with is a dozen people owning all the wealth and everyone else owning nothing,

That may be where the USA ends up. We Australian's (and probably a few others, like the Swiss) have gone to some effort to ensure we don't end up there: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/1058675...
by glp1guide | 2025-10-20 00:48:32+00:00
Absolutely -- certainly in their biggest markets they'll be able to protect those patents.

Both companies have thus far been unable to really stop compounding pharmacies and/or gray market suppliers from replicating though, and price negotiation with the government is definitely going to happen (Trump recently announced wanting $150 GLP1s, Novo's lawsuit against medicare price negotiation failed)... I do not have much faith in their ability to protect their pricing power for very long, which unfortunate for them is probably what's best for humanity and is very well known at this point.
by riazrizvi | 2025-10-20 00:48:56+00:00
Grassroots politics is a superset of what I'm objecting to which is a (premature) drive to have the problem taken care of by someone in government. Before we get there, we want a healthy public dialogue where people can organize themselves into camps, using good old fashioned social media. Bring your memes, your satire, stuff like this. What's the position to take to a politician? It's unclear yet.
by myself248 | 2025-10-20 00:49:16+00:00
Ran across the name, perhaps.

If you asked me for some names in early computing, I'd come up with Babbage, Ada, Turing, Zuse, Eckert and Mauchley, perhaps Atanasoff and Berry. I don't think I'd have come up with Flowers.

I'll do my best to right that wrong, but it really takes effort to rewrite history when something's declassified. In the same way that we all celebrated the SR-71 when in fact, the A-12 flew higher and faster, earlier, but it was classified, there's a mountain of material out there still claiming the SR-71 held all those firsts, when in fact not a single one of them was true.

Until Flowers' name rolls off the tongue as easily as Turing's, we have work to do.