MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2025-10-23 15:14:54+00:00
"Oh, if we can be absolutely sure that Mars has no life on it"

How can we ever be, if life might be hiding deep underground in vulcanic active areas?

That would mean stopping the advance of life for academic curiosity reasons.

For me science is mainly there, to help humans understand the universe to better find a place in it.

So yes, be gentle where possible, but a planet cannot be transformed in a gentle way. Life is rough where it spreads, it doesn't conserve things.
by palmotea | 2025-10-23 15:14:54+00:00
> What Trump is doing may be too little too late but failure to assert anything would just be continuing to boil the frog. Given how pathetic the western elites are when their comeuppance arrives it will certainly be deserved.

Exactly. The globalization folks fucked this one up, and for some reason they're really set on sticking to their existing losing course. The root cause seems to be too much stale 90s ideology and short-term thinking on their part.

The problem with the "pathetic...western elites" getting their "comeuppance" is they'll actually make it out fine (they'll stay rich, but the rest of us will lose out more).
by rohil-nimo | 2025-10-23 15:15:33+00:00
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by red-iron-pine | 2025-10-23 15:16:20+00:00
80% of gub'mnt stuff is in FedRAMP so you hit the IT nerds and have them talk to you all day about how they herd some sort of VM/container solution, and then drop a USB into their laptop while sleeping.

the actual Feds gets training about this but the contractors are made of swiss cheese and have tons of holes.

get on tinder near any military base and the number of attractive women of indeterminate russian/central asian/east asian extraction are far higher than you'd think for places like Yuma or Everett or Oklahoma
by karihass | 2025-10-23 15:16:42+00:00
Nice observations

1- Hosting site on one of the service providers doesn't mean centralization, ex. these week amazon outage, if you are going to deploy to multi-providers it will costs much, in our solution we offer you freedom of hosting on whatever relays you prefer many relays are public which means 0$ cost, moreover you able to expand your deployment on more relays as you want.

2- You are definitely correct, We have just highlighted a small note in the landing page that end users need extension to access the website, to gain some trust we have published the extension to chrome and Firefox store so a code review is applied to ensure security.

Really appreciate your feedback we can add more informative details in the landing page to show why end user need an extension, also we are planning to build a gateway so end user doesn't need to install extension in order to to access nostr websites "Frankly speaking we don't prefer this way in favor of decentralization and it is planned just for demonstration purposes"
by jcranmer | 2025-10-23 15:16:56+00:00
It's been a long time since I last stared at DER, but my recollection was for the ASN.1 schema I was decoding, basically all of the tags ended up not using the universal tag information, so you just had to know what the type was supposed to be. The fact that everything was implicit was why I qualified it with "most of the time"; it was that way in my experience.
by wackget | 2025-10-23 15:16:58+00:00
How do you explain away things like lobbying money (i.e. bribery), or politicians remaining in their post despite glaringly obvious physical and cognitive decline, or insider trading, or the stacking of courts with biased judges, or total lack of enforcement of the law, or the media being so obviously controlled by state-aligned actors? To name but a few.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-23 15:17:18+00:00
> Also in the end, the actual work has nothing to do with the coding interview.

Of course, for very obvious reasons a programming interview is different from the actual work, but if the test designer did not make a serious attempt that success in the questions that are tested are is much correlated as possible to the actual work, it is in my opinion rather likely that the test should be redesigned.
by iLemming | 2025-10-23 15:18:17+00:00
> I have eshell bound to a keybind, but I've never use it

For years, I had a similar feeling about it. And then I learned that in eshell you can pipe in and out of buffers. So you can for example grep the content of one buffer and pipe results into another. Or pipe the output of a command to a buffer, and you even can chain them pipes. That often comes extremely handy.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-23 15:18:41+00:00
This is exactly right - the Trump admin claims to have a mandate to do all sorts of things, and they're just unilaterally doing so - in plain violation of the law. If they actually the mandate they say they do, they'd pass laws repealing the requirements they don't like and defunding the programs they dislike rather than illegally impounding the funds and illegally killing programs like this one. Except it turns out that "illegal" is only important if there's someone capable of enforcing the law and under this Supreme Court's clearly insane reading of our laws and constitution, there is nobody that can constrain the President.
by Joeri | 2025-10-23 15:18:52+00:00
When a different side takes control of the justice department they may choose to go after all those who broke the law by order of this president. The president might be protected from consequences according to the supreme court, but those answering to the president are not.

This administration has set the standard that the justice department can be weaponized against political enemies. The ratchet only goes one way in American politics, presidents never relinquish the powers claimed by their predecessors.
by walkabout | 2025-10-23 15:19:03+00:00
It’s not exactly working when the executive seizes two core powers of Congress (taxation and spending) and gets away with it for, so far, most of a year, with no end in sight.

There’s a difference between disagreement over reasonable interpretations and some of a handful of key passages in the country’s highest law simply being ignored, for months on end (this aside from entirely unambiguous ordinary laws being ignored left and right, like e.g. firing all the inspectors general without the required notice period). That’s not “democracy working”, it’s rule of law, and democracy, breaking. Democracies are routinely ended by people who were elected, the fact that people won elections doesn’t mean that the results are functioning democracy.
by bluGill | 2025-10-23 15:19:24+00:00
China is clearly aiming to take over Taiwan, and if they can't do it peacefully they are building up a military that can do it. America should be afraid of that.

China clearly support Russia in their war on Ukraine despite pretending neutrality. Europe should be afraid.

China is doing lots of other geopolitical things that you should be afraid draws you in.
by specialist | 2025-10-23 15:19:25+00:00
Just like Tesla, GM has adopted the subscription model.

GM's sub revenue is up: ~$2B YTD, ~$5B deferred to Q3. From just OnStar and Super Cruise. 11m and 100k subs, respectfully.

Barra forecasts a decade of double digit growth with 70% margins.

Of course they'll make their own entertainment stack too.

"Q3 2025 Letter to Shareholders" https://investor.gm.com/news-releases/news-release-details/q...

Page 8 in "Ongoing operational agility and strong execution, Q3 2025 Earnings" https://investor.gm.com/static-files/b55f99a7-8524-40ec-89e3...

All other manufacturers will eventually follow suit. Tragic.
by kunobi | 2025-10-23 15:19:27+00:00
Hi everyone, we just launched Kunobi — a desktop app that helps engineers understand and operate Kubernetes and GitOps without losing Git-first workflows.

We built it out of frustration with switching between Lens, K9s, Flux CLI, and Argo UI just to see what’s deployed or out of sync. Kunobi connects directly to clusters through the Kubernetes API, running locally (no data leaves your machine).

It lets you:

Explore workloads, namespaces, and clusters with full context View Flux and Argo states, check syncs, and reconcile instantly See Helm history and RBAC details to understand who changed what Manage multiple clusters from dev to production Even spin up a temporary cluster inside the app for testing GitOps safely

We’d love feedback — especially from platform engineers, SREs, and anyone scaling GitOps. This is still a beta, so the rough edges are real. Curious how this approach feels to you.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-23 15:19:29+00:00
> 2009 I could run Pidgin and load messages from AIM, FB Messages, Yahoo... Where did that go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcY3W5WgNU

But seriously; the internet is now overrun with AI Slop, Spam, and automated traffic. To try to do something about it requires curation, somebody needs to decide what is junk, which is completely antithetical to open protocols. This problem is structurally unsolvable, there is no solution, there's either a useless open internet or a useful closed one. The internet is voting with Cloudflare, Discord, Facebook, to be useful, not open. The alternative is trying to figure out how to run a decentralized dictatorship that only allows good things to happen; a delusion.

The only other solution is accountability, a presence tied to your physical identity; so that an attacker cannot just create 100,000 identities from 25,000 IP addresses and smash your small forum with them. That's an even less popular idea, even though it would make open systems actually possible. Building your own search engine or video platform would be super easy, barely an inconvenience. No need for Cloudflare if the police know who every visitor is. No need for a spam filter, if the government can enforce laws perfectly.

Take a look at email, the mother of all open protocols (older than HTTP). What happened? Radical recentralization to companies that had effective spam management, and now we on HN complain we can't break through, someone needs to do something about that centralization, so that we can go back to square one where people get spammed to death again, which will inevitably repeat the discretion required -> who has the best discretion -> flee there cycle. Go figure.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-23 15:19:30+00:00
Never gonna happen, as they outsource this certification to universities already. They're not going to stand up their own cert programs to streamline the process; the muli-stage leetcode interviews are about hazing culture and making sure employees are servile, not merit culture and making sure employees are competent and qualified.

Like you said, tech companies need candidates to feel like they barely passed a grueling interview because it makes them wary to jump ship and have to go through that again, not that they are well qualified industry professionals who have the credentials to move between jobs and work anywhere they are certified.
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-23 15:20:05+00:00
>which is why they've played the long game in Africa so well, they get resources and build a market to sell manufactured goods to at the same time - it's been masterful

There are definitely two future bad possible outcomes for the US, and one nightmare future scenario for the US.

One bad outcome scenario is that China and subsaharan Africa figure out that they're better off working in concert than working at odds with each other. (This seems to be happening.)

The other bad outcome scenario is that the EU and subsaharan Afica figure out that they're better off working in concert than working at odds with each other. (This doesn't seem to be happening as far as I can tell?)

The nightmare scenario is, of course, that China, the EU, and subsaharan Africa actually figure out that they don't really even need the rest of us.
by glenstein | 2025-10-23 15:20:08+00:00
Respectfully, I don't even know if I would agree with that on a number of levels. Even the existence of one example should have stopped you in your tracks already, because that's all it takes to demonstrate as a principle that bias doesn't work that way. But I also think those are just the tip of the iceberg, and there are broad swaths of widely believed claims that are fundamental to people's sense of their own political identity also in exactly this unfortunate category.

On the left side of things some (not many but some) there's a lot of apologizing for and minimizing of the horrific human rights records of the U.S.S.R. and China, some degree of falling for present day pro-Russia misinformation, and uncomfortable truths about the party's own closing ranks around people with a history of sexual abuse. And on the right there's a lot of deep-in-the-bones denial of evolution, or historical revisionism about their ties to the "party of Lincoln", or who won the 2020 election, and it's expanding every day to include new topics like prediction of hurricane paths to provably wrong information about nutrition, and so on.

I would say it's so omnipresently pervasive in the present day that it's impossible to wave away and is increasingly fundamental to explaining and understanding polarization.
by danaris | 2025-10-23 15:20:21+00:00
It can only be "not as bad as you think" if the people currently at the top don't continue to hoard all the gains.

If the current system is maintained—the one where if you don't work, you don't earn money, and thus you can't pay for food, shelter, clothing, etc—then it doesn't matter how abundant our stuff is; most people won't have any access to it.

In order for society to reap the benefits of post-scarcity, we must destroy the idea that the people at the top of the corporate pyramid deserve astronomically more money than the people actually doing the work.
by audelair | 2025-10-23 15:20:22+00:00
I have had similarly been unable to get as much help from their Discord as I had hoped.

That said, I'd give this another shot. What I discovered is that Stalwart is incredibly flexible and designed to be used in any configuration you want, and the documentation and examples are incredible, compared to most other projects. BTW, there is no webmail yet, but you are right that there is the admin that is served over HTTP/S, as well as MTA_STS, JMAP. The default listeners get you started and it's kind of out-of-the-scope of Stalwart in terms how you want your server to interact with those listeners. But whether you containerize it or setup a reverse proxy, the documentation has a lot of examples, including how to pick up the certificates, if not managed by Stalwart itself.

I landed on a Caddy for HTTPS and haproxy for proxy protocol on just JMAP, and the remaining TCP services directly binded to the host for the main mail services.

Traefik is another example that I had initially prepped and got working that also handled TCP connections with proxy protocol where needed. The Stalwart documentation was very helpful with that.

In short, I was impressed with how easy it was to integrate Stalwart into whatever setup I wanted, and how open the developer is to different setups. For instance, mox (while awesome in its own right) considers containerized setups to be not-recommended, and generally expects it to live on its own server. Stalwart is flexible, but the side effect is that it is overwhelming at first... but becomes quite elegant once you get the hang of it.
by xeonmc | 2025-10-23 15:20:39+00:00
If growing diamonds is the thermal bottleneck of manufacturing processes, one could imagine a sci-fi future where rather than silicon wafers serving as base matrix material to grow ancillary structures upon, it would instead be diamond wafers that are used to subtractively etch structural scaffoldings, around which silicon-based structures are grown, the diamond scaffolding serving simultaneously as bone and blood vessels for thermal and power conduction as well as mechanical support.
by roguecoder | 2025-10-23 15:20:56+00:00
Most geographic clusters can be traced to environmental contamination, like lead or microplastics or car exhaust, or malnutrition, like why we have iodine in salt and add fluoride to water where it doesn't naturally occur.

You can grow whatever food you want, and if you want to drink maybe-deadly milk you can raise your own goats or cows. What you can't do is stochastically murder your customers.
by mxek | 2025-10-23 15:22:04+00:00
The big difference UX wise between chatbots and Surf is that Surf is built entirely on editable documents that you can mold / craft into an output (vs chat).

We actually had a chatbot, but our explorations showed that notes were a more effective in many cases!

An example of local data is that "Applets" made in Surf can be opened / updated from your local code editor, they're just HTML files.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-23 15:22:32+00:00
Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, I mostly work with DER in contexts that use universal tagging. From what I can tell, IMPLICIT tagging is used somewhat sparingly (but it is used) in the PKI RFCs.

So yeah, in that instance you do need a schema to make progress beyond "an object of some size is here in the stream."
by speakfreely | 2025-10-23 15:22:56+00:00
> Trump truly has no vision for anything we do on the world stage

It confuses me how anyone could look at what's happening in the world and see a lack of a plan. Trump administration seems to actually be unusually focused on foreign policy in this term and using geopolitical statecraft to upend the arrangements that were not working in favor of the US. The tariffs to force countries to choose US or China, putting the fear of Russia in Europe to pump up their defense spending, and the peacemaker strategy in the Middle East to force oil prices down to reduce inflation. It seems to be a very comprehensive strategy.
by ks2048 | 2025-10-23 15:23:33+00:00
Districts are gerrymandered and the voters are split and hardened into camps.

You can say all is going according to the law (I would say no), but it seems most people think the country is going down the tubes - they just disagree with who is at fault - and it seems the right is just happy as long as the libs are crying about it.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-23 15:24:11+00:00
> We have a sample size of one, when it comes to self-aware sentient species, so I'm not sure we can draw any reasonable conclusions about likelihood of empathy between two such species

I'm not; I'm only pointing out that the conclusions I see ITT expressing the notion that a more intelligent species would necessarily be more compassionate is more unlikely than the converse, because from our one and only sample of life, we don't see it often.

IOW, I am replying "We don't know that" to the assertion "They will be compassionate.".
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-23 15:24:26+00:00
I mean your example is a classic case.

And there are different algos, for diamondtypes:

Once a character is seen by clients any delete of it wins, algos like diamond types reconstruct each clients stream.

So in the case of DT, effect is absolutely gone, two clients deleting the e and one client deleted the ffects, and they both started at the same causal slice, but the A is a good question. You might just end up with an A.

In the case of multiple inserts in the same position dt uses the client ids lexical sort for ordering to reduce text interleaving.

Other crdt approaches may be positional or last write wins, in which case you may end up with nothing.

Besides being an amazing project loro crdts documentation and blog covers a lot of this stuff and names the specific algos they use.
by diego_moita | 2025-10-23 15:24:53+00:00
> it put too many legal obstacles regarding ecology,

The biggest problem isn't ecology. It is labor regulation.

One example: Apple handled all its manufacturing to FoxCon because workers committing suicide in their factories is a FoxCon's problem hidden in Shenzhen, it isn't Apple's problem.

Another example: you can't have German companies starting huge projects because in Germany you just can't do the massive firings that Microsoft, Meta and AWS do when these projects fail.

And the list goes on to infrastructure and land rights. Building a pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, passing through farm land? Even Republicans would get scared of that.

The truth is that building physical stuff is very hard on the people that do it and sometimes even dangerous.
by actionfromafar | 2025-10-23 15:24:54+00:00
Unless the reason is that there will be no election, or only elections in red states, or you will need a special travel passport for going to Washington DC, which magically won't be issued to new Democrats, or any number of possible obstructions are possible.

Why would the House get back in session at all, for that matter? House leader Mike Johnson might enjoy vacation too much.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-23 15:25:23+00:00
It sounds like this was mainly being used to report abuses by US allies, ie “US armed IDF forces” according to the article. Obviously there is something more to this than the headline and tone of the piece indicate. For one thing, the law written by Leahy was passed in 2011, but this website went online in 2022, so how can removing the site make it impossible to abide by the law? What was going on between 2011 and 2022 than is different from now?

I’m concerned about human rights, but I’m equally concerned about yellow journalism or coordinated media bias.

From a practical standpoint, this is why Wikileaks matters. Rather than count on the State department to serve that role, we should count on independent journalists like Glen Greenwald and outlets like Wikileaks who are reliably independent.
by lb1lf | 2025-10-23 15:26:04+00:00
After the small-ish company I worked for was bought by $ENGINEERING_MEGACORP, an integration program was promptly launched, during which numerous committees were formed to evaluate all business processes and take the best parts of both companies' DNA.

After thorough evaluation, it so happened that the existing practices of the megacorp was adopted without any modifications.

The next day, the office shredder had been labelled 'Suggestion box'.

Poor sods from head office tried to remove the sign, only to find some miscreant had mixed glass dust in the glue used to affix the nicely engraved sign onto the shredder, making removing it kind of difficult. End result being we got a new shredder.

The spare sign which was engraved just in case now adorns the outhouse at my cottage in the woods.
by d4mi3n | 2025-10-23 15:26:31+00:00
It’s not an unreasonable take given historic behavior. Rather than decrying the cynicism, what steps can we take to ensure companies like Tesla/Waymo/etc are held accountable and incentivized to prioritize safety?

Do we need hasher fines? Give auto regulators as much teeth as the FAA used to have during accident investigations?

Genuinely curious to see how addressing reasonable concerns in these areas can be done.