MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ignaciovdk | 2025-10-08 01:11:56+00:00
Thanks! Let’s go by parts, as Jason would say

Schema inference: yes, Arc infers the schema automatically from incoming data (both for MessagePack and Line Protocol). Each measurement becomes a table, and fields/tags map to columns.

Schema evolution: supported. New fields can appear at any time, they’re added to the Parquet schema automatically without migration or downtime.

Custom partitions: currently partitioning is time-based (hour-level by default), but custom partitioning by tag or host or whatever is planned. The idea is to allow you to group by any tag (e.g. device, region) in the storage path for large-scale IoT data.

Roadmap: absolutely. Grafana data source, Prometheus remote write, retention policies, gRPC streaming, and distributed query execution are all in the works.

We are going to start to blogging about it, so, stay tune.

Would love any feedback on what you’d prioritize or what would make adoption easier for your use case.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-08 01:12:03+00:00
For years, the App Store was defended by one rationale; "don't like it? buy a new phone!"

One must wonder why the situation is different now. Tim Cook felt no empathy removing Fortnite, why would he start caring when it's IceBlock? This is what customers wanted - not control, not choice, but Apple's extremely luxurious discretion. If the deal changed, maybe you're not their customer anymore. No shame in admitting it - Europe has nearly kicked Apple out over this issue.
by nickelpro | 2025-10-08 01:12:18+00:00
You don't have any concrete complaint beyond the number of tools, and the nebulous idea that solving the problem each addresses within a smaller ecosystem would be somehow better.

Removing ESLint means... you don't have a linter. It doesn't have an upside. Removing Tailwind means you need to write more verbose CSS. Removing Babel means you have to use older JS idioms for browser compatibility. Etc.
by duxup | 2025-10-08 01:12:55+00:00
>"I think they're worried about something that is just not present at all."

That's what the American GOP sells basically...

I grew up in a rural area, I go back home from time to time. A pair of old friends are big time anti porn crusaders on their social media accounts and so on. They have this almost apocalyptic idea of what porn is or does to people / the world. I don't even know how to approach what they talk about when it comes up and it inevitably mixes with talk about people who are gay or trans. Other old friends have fallen into this 24 hour news cycle of fear and so on.

Same goes for their idea of what even is going on in the city I live in. I'm not at all sure how they address the fact that I seem to live in the same city, just fine, that they post fake documentaries about ... about how it's open gang warfare on the streets.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-08 01:12:58+00:00
All the evidence we have points to the vast, vast majority (>90%) of non-african human ancestry originating from hominin populations that were in Africa around 60-80k years ago, and were anatomically modern about 300k years ago. This article is about an ancestral clade of archaic hominins that contributed around 2% of modern non-african ancestry globally, that we've known about for years.

OOA (with minor admixture) is the consensus position for a lot of excellent reasons.
by ux266478 | 2025-10-08 01:13:02+00:00
If you care about high quality products we can start with the OP article and how this system, which is most definitely not capitalism as intended, has directly entailed this nosedive of enshittification for absolutely superfluous and nonsensical reasons. The Soviets succumbed to the exact same mistake, I'm not sure why you would bring them up.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-08 01:13:51+00:00
I'm so confused. This article is explaining that eliminating contrails would have a significant effect on warming.

But contrails are just the tiniest, tiniest fraction of the sky somewhere and only last over a given area for a few minutes generally. Like, sure, if you live next to a busy airport maybe you see them more often, but that's balanced out by the 99.9% of sky not next to a busy airport. Plus the many days that they just don't show up at all, because they depend on certain weather conditions.

I mean, this just doesn't pass the smell test.

But Wikipedia has an entire section [1] full of citations. But then... it sounds like maybe a lot of them aren't credible or suggest that it's not a problem? E.g.:

> However, follow-up studies found that a natural change in cloud cover can more than explain these findings. The authors of a 2008 study wrote, "The variations in high cloud cover, including contrails and contrail-induced cirrus clouds, contribute weakly to the changes in the diurnal temperature range, which is governed primarily by lower altitude clouds, winds, and humidity."

> Then, the global response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic led to a reduction in global air traffic of nearly 70% relative to 2019. Thus, it provided an extended opportunity to study the impact of contrails on regional and global temperature. Multiple studies found "no significant response of diurnal surface air temperature range" as the result of contrail changes, and either "no net significant global ERF" (effective radiative forcing) or a very small warming effect.

So it sounds like this theoretical contrail warming problem possibly doesn't exist? I find it strange the article doesn't even acknowledge any discussion over whether it's actually a problem in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#Impacts_on_climate
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-08 01:14:21+00:00
I think the core Bluesky team has been discussing ways to limit toxicity so I definitely think this is on their radar. Substack also leans into the idea that their platform manages social media toxicity better than other platforms, at least in their marketing copy. I think in 2025+ toxicity is a major dimension to evaluate social platforms on.
by alextremblay | 2025-10-08 01:15:14+00:00
not sure if this is a typo or a misunderstanding, but to be clear: pdoc does not treat a comment immediately below a variable declaration as a docstring, it treats an unassigned string immediately following a variable declaration as a docstring, same as how python treats an unassigned string literal immediately following a function signature as a docstring

my_var = 5 "documentation for my_var" def my_func(): "documentation for my_func"

also worth noting, pdoc didn't invent this design pattern, sphinx did (or perhaps something preceding sphinx?)

and since sphinx is the documentation tool of choice by the python core devs to document python itself, i have to assume they've given this design pattern at least tacit approval... :shrug:
by fragmede | 2025-10-08 01:15:16+00:00
In 1998, 16 MiB of RAM was ~$200, in 2025, 16 GiB of ram is about $50. A Pentium II in 1998 at 459 MHz was $600. Today, a AMD Ryzen 7 9800X can be had for $500. That Ryzen is maybe 100 times as powerful as the Pentium II. What's available at what price point has changed, but it's ridiculous how much computing I can get for $150 at Best Buy, and it's also ridiculous how little I can do with that much computing power. Wirth’s law still holds: software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is getting faster.
by 12907835202 | 2025-10-08 01:16:21+00:00
Sort It Out SI | Unity Consultant | Remote | Short Term | $50 p/h

Dates: October 21st - November 18th.

We're looking for an expert in Unity who can help in one or more of the following areas: - Harmony / Melon Loader / IL Injection to hook into game code - Cheat Engine tools for modifying and exporting the games database - Replacing / exporting 3D meshes, textures and animations - Unpacking / repacking AssetBundles/Addressables

We make mods for the video game Football Manager which has just been rewritten in Unity after using a proprietary engine for the past 20 years.

We're looking for someone (or multiple people) to help explore the game upon release and identity new modding opportunities.

This is short term work and would be most suitable for students, hobbyists or temporarily unemployed looking to pick up a few extra hours work.

It is possible it could extend longer term if the right opportunity is identified however we are primarily a fansite for the game and do not have a history of making permanent hires.

The main duties would be answering basic Unity questions from web developers who have never touched Unity, free exploring the games code and writing very basic documentation and proof of concepts.

We are totally flexible on anything from 5-40 hours per week.

Please email: footygamer@sortitoutsi.net
by JodieBenitez | 2025-10-08 01:16:24+00:00
I fail to see the connection with jquery. Anyway brittle and hard to maintain is what we experience now with frontend stacks and codebases with very short lifespan. I can't keep track of components libs du jour that come and go and keep being reinvented with very little value added on each iteration, along with constant api breakage. Brittle, indeed. Meanwhile, Rails and Django have been rock solid.
by Devasta | 2025-10-08 01:16:35+00:00
Why wouldn't it be successful? Truth Social seems to be doing pretty well, and no one on the left pretends that they should be allowed post there, the left is happy for those people to fuck off and leave them alone.

Not everyone wants to debate politics all the time. Sometimes they just want to exist as trans people, share posts with their other queer friends and enjoy their day.
by Detrytus | 2025-10-08 01:16:35+00:00
Call me old fashioned but I distrust any form of authentication that is tied to a specific device.

I might be getting older but my memory is still good enough to remember a couple of secure passwords (secure, as in: 20+ chars long random strings), one of them being a password to my KeePass database, and the other to the email account where I keep a backup copy of it.

I would hate to be locked out of my accounts only because I lost my phone or Yubikey.
by Manuel_D | 2025-10-08 01:16:46+00:00
Couldn't it be possible that chemically altering minors isn't be best course of treatment? The UK, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have all stopped routine prescription of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria on the grounds that their efficacy is not clear but the negative side effects are. It's extremely hard to claim the science is settled at this point.

The allegations of harm seem to come from an a priori conclusion that these treatments are beneficial.
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by jjj_throw | 2025-10-08 01:17:03+00:00
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That led me to building trustdog. We charge 2% transaction fee and do automated escrow (payout and refund) through VL models and playwright scrapers. I've open sourced my platform code (which can be found in the about section of my site), you can also test our verification method against a post of your choosing at https://trustdog.co/test (or the try live demo button from the homepage). Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
by resters | 2025-10-08 01:17:52+00:00
Someday we will realize that using the term vibe before coding is like someone saying that today when we use GCC we are "vibe compiling" because we didn't compile the code manually.

Once tooling becomes reliable and predictable enough, and the quality of the output consistent enough, using it is not a leap. Early compilers had skeptics, and GCC still has some bugs [1]

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-8/+bug/2101084
by powerhouse007 | 2025-10-08 01:18:04+00:00
Anyone who researched this topic knows one thing about cp: it's not made by predators, it's made by children. Overwhelmingly.

It's a lame excuse.

They are using the A word exactly like they used the self-A word for self-pleasure a few decades earlier.

Raise your hand who's never used your phone to create some A word material as a child.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-10-08 01:18:29+00:00
I see your example as a positive in favor of mastodon over other social networks.

When the one responsible for running the site can not run it anymore, it effects everyone on that website.

Examples:

- Digg (killed by owners removing their own product)

- Myspace (killed by new ownership leaving site to rot)

- Google+ (killed by Google)

- Facebook (killed by enshitification)

- Tumblr (killed by new ownership's rules)

- Twitter (killed by unhinged new ownership)

But mastodon is actually decentralised by design and implementation.

Mastodon as a whole isn't a single website, but instead is a whole collection of groups each running on their own server that can interact with each other as if they were one large site.

So with mastodon: when a site runner loses their ability to keep a site running (e.g. your example), only the single mastodon server/group is affected, the users move to a different group, and the rest of mastodon keeps running as if nothing has changed (because in the grand scheme of things, nothing has).
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-08 01:19:25+00:00
I’m not sure what accusation you’re referring to? I think you may have read me inversely from how I intended to be read. Based on what the poster is saying, I assume he would disagree with my statement strongly, but at the same time what he says seems to imply it. I find that seeming contradiction interesting. I think it is interesting to me because in the past I had similar opinions to the poster but I eventually noticed the contradictions and updated my worldview, as perhaps he could consider as well. Non-contradictory world views seem to make better future predictions.
by duxup | 2025-10-08 01:19:30+00:00
I remember even during the Clinton and Gingrich era, Gingrich noted that no matter how bad things got his people always could call the Clinton people at the White House, they'd answer and could have a reasonable conversation like adults.

It was also noted that the conversations were private and always remained that way.

Newt Gingrich has always been a little half crazy to me so I'm not saying I agree with much of anything he says, but in a moment of clarity he did once note that a lot of the gridlock and such issues was because you had politicians come into power who didn't respect the old system. So those conversations simply can't happen anymore.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-08 01:19:41+00:00
This declaration by multiple USSG is clear, factual and accurate — qualities that have recently become more of a memory than a reality from US Gov officials.

This statement unabashedly calls out actual and historical ongoing harm by a top US Gov official. I can't recall it's like, from any time in my longish life.

HHS requires steady, ethical leadership grounded in science. By contrast, [RF] Kennedy has spent decades advancing dangerous and discredited claims about vaccines — most notoriously, the thoroughly discredited theory that childhood vaccines cause autism. He has promoted misinformation about the HPV vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer, and he has repeatedly misrepresented the risks of mRNA technology and coronavirus vaccines, despite their lifesaving impact during the pandemic. This year, as the United States faced its worst measles outbreak in more than 30 years, Kennedy de-emphasized vaccination and directed agency resources toward unproven vitamin therapies. The result: months-long outbreak, three preventable deaths and the first measles-related child death in the U.S. in over two decades. Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity and can restore morale and trust in our public health agencies.

ed: That secretary is not, in any way, RFK Jr.
by crabmusket | 2025-10-08 01:19:45+00:00
I agree with both of you. Some coding is part of a real engineering process. That's why I don't like using "engineering" to refer to coding broadly - because it loses that specificity and connotation.

As "coders" or "programmers", some of us should answer the question "are you an engineer?" with a proud "of course not!" (That's me.) And some of us should answer, equally proudly, "of course I am!"

Hillel Wayne's series is great.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-08 01:20:00+00:00
Limiting the supply of doctors will increase costs in the long run because it reduces access to preventive care. Residency caps disproportionately impact PCPs.

It might reduce the costs they pay for preventive care or non-urgent care, but serious issues will progress.

You might not have to pay for metformin to treat diabetes, but you’ll eventually end up paying for a hospital stay and amputation.
by fragmede | 2025-10-08 01:20:29+00:00
It doesn't seems unreasonable for them to want an email address before giving you PDFs of their stuff. They do want additional verification to get more detailed docs, but on the spectrum between available on the open Internet to all as a 1, vs only available on a hardwired line on a LAN on a military base at a 10, I'd give Qualcomm, I dunno, maybe 4?
by aeternum | 2025-10-08 01:20:59+00:00
Most camera sensors already detect in the IR range, you just need to remove the filter. I've done it, works great and pretty fun to convert some old webcams, robot vacuums lidar scanners look especially cool.

Blurry video is fine when using techniques like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE

Clouds also don't save you (unless you have two thick layers to fly through) because this technique is even easier with satellites. Stealth effectively no longer exists for most nation-state level tech. The B-2 is a very cool plane but is unfortunately obsolete. Still great for when you want to put on more of a show than an attack.
by hibikir | 2025-10-08 01:21:16+00:00
It's more common than you think in queen and pawn endgames. It might even end in a dear with two queens in one side: It wasn't on the board because there were other fighting alternatives, but it was pretty close to happening just last week in the Grand Chess Tour finals, where Caruana saw that a second queen wouldn't stop MVL from getting a perpetual.

I'd not say it happens in every tournament, but many active tournament players will see it every year or two. It just happens that at the higher levels, chances are the set came with two queens, as upside down rooks are not great indicators for DGT boards.

The stubborn player situation will happen in real tournaments too, just not those full of GMs. It will happen in your typical rated weekly tournament in the St Louis chess club, where your top tables might not be IMs, or in scholastic tournaments.
by milesrout | 2025-10-08 01:21:20+00:00
It is also the consensus position for a lot of bad reasons though.

There is an assumption that belief in, or even reasonable agnosticism towards, any other theory can only be motivated by racism.

There are many people that believe OOA because they want to believe it, because they want to believe we are all more similar than we are different, etc.

Multiregional hypotheses are perfectly plausible. We have very limited information one way or another. Out of Africa may be more likely but it is far from certain.
by tdb7893 | 2025-10-08 01:21:30+00:00
So it has been on the upswing recently but my understanding is that in the US we have been doing pretty much as much surveillance as technology (and also generally the 4th amendment) practically allows since at least WWII, and especially during the Cold War. Many law abiding people opposed to government policy (e.g. civil rights leaders or anti-war activists) have always been surveilled with dubious cause.

This isn't the best wiki article I've ever seen but it has some examples of the US surveillance over the last century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
by andai | 2025-10-08 01:21:52+00:00
I guess? I haven't used Busybox on Windows directly. This is a more complete environment for C/C++ development, which is what I used it for -- i.e. a lightweight alternative to Visual Studio / figuring out how to setup MSYS/mingw and going thru its package manager.

(As for MSYS, I somehow ended up with 4 separate installs of it due to each programming language bundling its own version!)
by bobthepanda | 2025-10-08 01:21:53+00:00
One thing to note is that the setting of a furniture catalog is meant to establish emotional connection to a setting which could cause you buy furniture.

Midcentury stuff like record players came back into vogue in the 2010s and 2020s; a typewriter would be one extension of such a retro fashion. Even today a vinyl is a common item in the merch shops of modern artists and bands. https://a.co/d/9FFBuEF
by simonw | 2025-10-08 01:22:08+00:00
That's only true if you don't put effort into figuring out how best to use them.

If using LLMs makes you slower or reduces the quality of your output, your professional obligation is to notice that and change how you use them.

If you can't figure out how to have them increase both the speed and the quality of your work, you should either drop them or try and figure out why they aren't working by talking to people who are getting better results.
by k310 | 2025-10-08 01:22:45+00:00
Posted yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486872

My response:

Do not obey in advance [0]

> Historian Timothy Snyder’s first lesson in his book On Tyranny is “Do not obey in advance.” To obey a tyrant before you are compelled to do so teaches them what they will be able to get you to do, easily, without even needing to expend the resources and energy it takes to carry out that part of their agenda.

And I emailed that to Tim Cook.

[0] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/11/09/do-not-...
by tsoj | 2025-10-08 01:23:16+00:00
The TRM paper addresses this blog post. I don't think you need to read the HRM analysis very carefully, the TRM has the advantage of being disentangled compared to the HRM, making ablations easier. I think the real value of the arcprize HRM blog post is to highlight the importance of ablation testing.

I think ARC-AGI was supposed to be a challenge for any model. The assumption being that you'd need the reasoning abilities of large language models to solve it. It turns out that this assumption is somewhat wrong. Do you mean that HRM and TRM are specifically trained on a small dataset of ARC-AGI samples, while LLMs are not? Or which difference exactly do hint at?
by bobxmax | 2025-10-08 01:24:11+00:00
I'm not going to debate someone who compares Tibetan political opression with a million dead Iraqis and the brutal carpet bombing and turning an ancient country and people into a failed state. Or who thinks the Uyghur re-education camps, however terrible, are in any way comparable to 20,000 dead Gazan children.

You have psychological problems and are beyond reasoning with. Like I said, brainwashed.