MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by droopyEyelids | 2025-10-21 20:40:40+00:00
It's too big of a topic for a HN comment but do a google or LLM search and see. One widely-accepted aspect is that a child can not "self soothe" until 5-7 years. It's not developmentally possible, and using that language is a bit of a PR move to gloss over what is actually happening.

https://www.google.com/search?q=infant+co-regulation+vs+self...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_self-regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation_(communication)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-21 20:40:50+00:00
I read a quote today that was quite striking, in regards to an argument that the consumer focus stimulus was ill-advised (it was focused on Big ticket purchases like appliances, which will arguably pull forward demand and then leave a long period of reduced demand).

The air conditioning seller said that "the entire city is poor, and nobody can buy things when they don't have money."

You would think China would be a fertile ground for policies that could address this, but the party continues to essentially run a live experiment of how far a hyper-export driven economy can be pushed.

They do have initiative to address it (such as the perhaps ill-advised appliance purchase credits), but it's quite obviously nowhere near enough, and it's blind and we obvious from both boots-on-the-ground accounts and the dangerous flirting with things like factory gate deflation and involution.
by ckolkey | 2025-10-21 20:40:57+00:00
First, install doom emacs. Second, create a shell alias for "magit" that is bound to "emacs -nw -f magit". Then just run magit like any other TUI app - the fact that it's in emacs is easy to forget.

Or, if you're into neovim, there's Neogit, which is inspired by magit. And if you're not, there's https://github.com/altsem/gitu
by constantcrying | 2025-10-21 20:41:15+00:00
American elections just seem totally absurd.

Here in Germany every single vote is on paper and is counted publicly, where any citizen has the right to observe the counting process. There is a list of all people eligible to vote at a certain voting location, where all voters are crossed out when they come to vote. While errors of course happen, I have absolutely no doubt that the results are free from intentional interference and that the only people voting are those who are eligible to vote.

The idea that my vote is digitally recorded seems absurd. And I do believe that the consistent distrust of Americans in the integrity of their elections is caused by the design of the voting system. There just seem to be so many completely unaddressed flaws. Open sourcing only addresses some part of the flaws and I do not think that electronic voting should ever be trusted.

Trust in a democracy starts with trust in elections, which I do not think can be reasonably provided by electronic voting mechanisms.
by bluGill | 2025-10-21 20:41:38+00:00
You need to go back and read what I wrote originally - I thought I was clearly stating that you shouldn't be cramming algorithms/leet code. That should be a waste of your time, and even when it isn't it is a bad sign if the company asks questions where such studying would be helpful (though sometimes that might your least bad option to take a job there anyway).

Prepare for an interview means look up the company. You often can figure out what style of interview they do and prepare to answer those questions. You often can figure out if there are concerns that you want to probe in your turn to ask them questions.
by utilize1808 | 2025-10-21 20:41:38+00:00
It's different. It used to be that they don't have enough resources to "keep an eye on you" all the time. All those captured activities are only used against you when you are already on the redundancy shortlist. Now AI can watch what and how you are doing things 24/7, producing real-time reports on your productivity and performance --- a truly dystopian experience.

BTW I've already seen something like this being deployed in China. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the world gets the same treatment I am afraid.
by n8cpdx | 2025-10-21 20:42:24+00:00
> we're all issued voter IDs when we register as voters.

I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. I have never been issued a voter ID at the time of registration.

> Mail-in voting allows other people to watch you as you vote, and is the opposite of voter integrity.

Or you could just vote in person which is an option even in universal vote-by-mail states.

> hypothetical gangsters to go door to door threatening to shoot people if they don't give their ballots up.

Why make up hypothetical situations and invent a problem that doesn’t exist? You can just as easily cite made up problems for any proposed solution.

High tech electronic voting schemes and voter ID schemes solve problems that literally do not exist, and frankly do a poor job at solving even those made up problems.
by f33d5173 | 2025-10-21 20:42:49+00:00
> wouldn’t be seeking to make a quick buck selling ads against deep fake videos

This isn't a money making venture for them, and you basically admitted as much. They poured no doubt massive amounts of money into developing this and have little hope of earning it back soon. This is an attempt to keep up with other ai companies also developing video models in order to not look behind to investors. Making it available to users is similarly about increasing active user counts in order to look more successful. If people incidentally get off to it that's not their concern
by michaelcampbell | 2025-10-21 20:43:05+00:00
I've been an emacs user for 30+ years, and magit for... ~5? I've recently been on a "I need to learn vim" kick and was all in, until I realized I might have to run emacs for JUST magit which I guess is fine.

I settled for Doom emacs since it's in evil mode by default so I can still do both without running another process.
by duxup | 2025-10-21 20:43:06+00:00
Is there a reason for the "need" to move tumblr over to wordpress?

As noted tumblr isn't profitable, why expend all that effort and cycles if being on a different back end doesn't change the nature of the product's profitability?

Sounds on the surface like a very engineer type decision where "it would be better on this technical X" doesn't really change the business at all...
by leptons | 2025-10-21 20:43:12+00:00
In Carl Sagan's Cosmos, he talks about how many advanced civilizations could be out there capable of radio astronomy, and how as in our own experience, we have the capability to wipe out own civilization, so that would also be a factor in other advanced civilizations and could act as a limiting factor. There are many such factors other than nuclear destruction that could impact all functioning of an advanced society, rendering it nonviable.

The idea has nothing to do with "doom scrolling". Go watch some Cosmos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsl9f83P0Ys
by fallingfrog | 2025-10-21 20:43:29+00:00
You have to keep in mind that the original google search, by summarizing search results based on links between pages, essentially destroyed the web of interconnected links that existed at that time, so that the original pagerank algorithm doesn't even really work anymore. And the search results Google returns are worse than they were years ago. And you know, I use it, it is still super convenient, and the long term effects took some time to become apparent.

Now it is again feeding on and regurgitating Wikipedia but again in a way that will end up destroying the thing it is summarizing. Aggregators are parasitic on the thing they derive information from.
by kyrra | 2025-10-21 20:43:30+00:00
The "dig" command can get them for you

$ dig ycombinator.com mx

;; ANSWER SECTION: ycombinator.com. 300 IN MX 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. ycombinator.com. 300 IN MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com. ycombinator.com. 300 IN MX 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. ycombinator.com. 300 IN MX 30 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
by ragequittah | 2025-10-21 20:43:37+00:00
My take: if you do it correctly you're a very small minority of people and most would probably be concerned at your level of paranoia if you told them every detail of your setup. Turns out opsec is pretty difficult to achieve. Also unless you're a criminal you're probably wasting a lot of time for no real gain.

I use a pihole, ublock, a vpn for some devices, and I'm using my own OPNSense router w/ very strict settings. The amount of privacy I think I have from all that is next to nothing if someone were actually interested in what I was doing. I'd probably just get one of my boxes shelled and that's the end of that. Mostly what I'm trying to do is block 1) Some for the lulz Russian teenager 2) the shady ad networks hoovering up everything all the time and 3) my IoT devices like TVs and Hue light bulbs from ever accessing any part of the rest of my network.

You'll also notice that darkweb criminals are getting caught more and more frequently these days because governments have decided to no longer tolerate it. I feel bad for you if you're in a ransomware gang these days.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-21 20:43:37+00:00
So you were just spitballing things you dont even think will work? Neither of them seem even remotely close to sufficient, either alone or in combination in preventing another Musk. 2% seems irrelevant and he would probably be even richer if prevented from buying twitter due to the ban on collateralized lending.

If we are just spitballing, I think we should charge Billionaires a nickel every time they tie their shoes, and a dime on Sunday.

One option that might actually work is following a more feudal model, where the POTUS/Trump executes or disappears any oligarch that accumulates more than X amount, as assessed by the executive.

My actually preferred option is to simply get the money out of politics.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-21 20:44:03+00:00
18 years of restaurants checking in, and we did everything we could to be respectful of allergies but the onus was always on the customer to tell us. Now when I go to places to eat they ask me, which is a different approach and like comment OP one I find much more often in more expensive restaurants. I think you're reading way too deep into this comment. What do you think, chat?
by constantcrying | 2025-10-21 20:44:20+00:00
>Humans are actually quite bad at hand-tallying hundreds of millions of datapoints.

Humans just need to be able to separate a few hundreds of ballots into a couple of piles. When introducing double checking this makes an incredibly rigorous process, which can be open to the public. This is the case here in Germany.

Everything after that can be done by computers as all the data after that is published.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-21 20:45:39+00:00
Yes, but, overwhelmingly we go where we look. Usually what is meaningful and worthwhile is hard. Also we get better at hard things when we practice doing them.

There is a concept in racing when taking a corner to "keep your eyes off the wall", and instead look where you want the car to go.

Imo the most scary part of the problems we face isn't what you or GP are talking about, it's everyone else's reactions to them. The staring at the wall while screaming or giving up, and refusing to look where you want to go.

It's harder to satisfy our wants if we cant articulate them.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-21 20:45:39+00:00
It’s also worth noting that Strauss, Howe, and Turchin all repeatedly stress in their books that firm dates aren’t a guarantee, that sometimes the cycle doesn’t line up correctly (like the Civil War cycle), and that none of their words are meant to be taken as literal predications so much as cautious warnings that history often rhymes.

Having finished both The Fourth Turning and End Times recently, Strauss and Howe’s specific guesses as to what might fuel the next crisis are laughably off track even if their broad strokes still paint a compelling (and at times, frightening) picture, while Turchin feels more prescient in his observations.

Ultimately, though, Turchin has the better message: even when a crisis destroys an empire, the world continues onward. That gave me some bleak hope to hang onto.
by jandrese | 2025-10-21 20:45:45+00:00
Electrification of transportation is already well underway. Obviously ships and planes will lag behind, and may even be forced to use biofuels if we run out of fossil fuels, but the idea that the world will stop when we run out is outdated.

Green power generation is also making huge strides forward, and battery technology is improving enough to make fully green grids a reality. We already see articles about how some countries are managing to go entire days without burning any fossil fuels for power generation. This will increase over time despite what the doomsayers predict. We aren't there yet, but the progress is almost inevitable.

The bigger problem is that we've already burned so much fossil fuel that we are noticeably altering the climate. This is going to cause a lot of stresses in the future, especially in a post-collapse scenario.
Ask HN: What's holding back industrial robot automation in America?
by NewUser76312 | 2025-10-21 20:46:25+00:00
It surprised me to learn that 'China's industrial robotics market holds approximately 40% of the global market share and accounted for 54% of all new industrial robot installations worldwide in 2024.'

We understand that China's (and other countries) low wages and high population lead to the US losing large portions of its manufacturing base, starting in the early 2000s.

But with robotics and engineering expertise, which the US definitely has, or can afford to have, why isn't more 'reshoring' happening via industrial robotics? Shouldn't this be our way "back into the game" vis-a-vis manufacturing? How is China outpacing us so much? Do we not care, are there technical barriers, lack of skilled workers in automation, too much of a head start with our competitors?

Curious to hear your thoughts.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-21 20:46:42+00:00
You are right.

That wouldn't require a Blu-ray.

The ISO expands quite a bit after it is installed to your SSD.

Maybe they are backing up their whole systems to the Blu-rays?

Or have big movie collections which some comments indicated was expected.

I've used USB for a while, don't think I've even used a DVD to install Windows.

Did use them to back up years ago, but now a HDD for that.
by 9dev | 2025-10-21 20:46:51+00:00
Note that I didn’t refer to religion as a whole, but the combination of Catholicism and sentient alien life in particular. I am definitely able to sympathise with believing in a kind of architect giving it all a sense of meaning, even if I don’t share that notion. But desperate attempts of wringing a somewhat coherent argument out of texts written for a feudal society millennia ago? That’s just coping.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-21 20:46:57+00:00
>X also has a history of commandeering desirable handles from users that were actively using them. The company took the @X handle from a San Francisco photographer in 2023 without compensating him, though he was offered "merch" and a tour of X's headquarters. That same year, it also took the @music handle from a longtime user with more than a half million followers. Last year, the company swiped the @America handle from a reported Donald Trump critic. The handle is now used by Musk's super PAC.
by srcreigh | 2025-10-21 20:46:58+00:00
name: project-build image: alpine:latest namespace: default egress_whitelist: - "1.1.1.1/32" # Cloudflare DNS - "8.8.8.8/32" # Google DNS

This is basically a wide-open network policy as far as data exfiltration goes, right?

Malicious code just has to resolve <secret>.evil.com and Google/CF will forward that query to evil resolver.
by mastax | 2025-10-21 20:47:58+00:00
> While that provides a plausible origin story, it doesn't stand to reason why the 2.4 GHz carrier frequency has been sustained for so long. For toy or prototype purposes, sure, the FCC could say "put them next to the microwave ovens." But Wi-Fi is, at this point, a critical national security utility, or even as you put it yourself, "serious business."

Yes, but it started out as a little experiment using the scraps of free spectrum available while wireless carriers were paying billions for spectrum licenses. As WiFi has gotten more and more critical, the FCC and industry have worked to overcome many different technical and regulatory challenges to make more and more spectrum available to WiFi notably the 5GHz, 6GHz, 45GHz, and 60GHz bands. The FCC has a financial incentive to not make more unlicensed spectrum available (when they could charge license fees for it instead) and under your theory they'd have national security incentives to keep everything on 2.4GHz as well. Yet they keep making more and more spectrum available unlicensed to WiFi anyway because it's just that important now.

> Logically, that's one of the most energy-inefficient frequencies one could choose, and a terrible design choice for personal wireless communication technology.

That is just not true. 2.4GHz works great for WiFi, that's why it's still being used. It penetrates walls pretty well while still being able to handle a decent data rate. Furthermore, all radio frequencies are absorbed by the body, and 2.4 GHz does not have any special higher absorption rate from what I can see. The actual resonance is at about 80MHz: http://niremf.ifac.cnr.it/docs/HANDBOOK/chp3-3-1.htm#336

I don't find it hard to believe that the government has an interest in using radios for through wall imaging/surveillance purposes but the idea that that had some influence on the decision to use 2.4GHz radio for wifi in 2025 doesn't fit the evidence. Additionally, they'd need to have receivers spread around to be able to capture this surveillance data so they could also spread transmitters around at whatever frequency suits their fancy. They don't need to use WiFi for that.
by AaronAPU | 2025-10-21 20:49:25+00:00
I did mass scale performance benchmarking on highly optimized workloads using lockfree queues and fibers, and locking to a core almost never was faster. There were a few topologies where it was, but they were outliers.

This was on a wide variety of intel, AMD, NUMA, ARM processors with different architectures, OSes and memory configurations.

Part of the reason is hyper threading (or threadripper type archs) but even locking to groups wasn’t usually faster.

This was even moreso the case when you had competing workloads stealing cores from the OS scheduler.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-21 20:49:34+00:00
> 400 columns all of which are nullable screams "dynamic field set" to me

Could have been, but no. And doing it like you suggest would mean overview grids would have to do 50+ subqueries for each row, and loading a record would mean hundreds of queries.

And insertion performance would crater I assume, since the DB now needs to do hundreds of inserts per record rather than a single row. We do have some cases where we get 100k inserts per hour once a day or so. And this is just the main table, we have many child tables already, though they're not nearly as wide.

I think a more realistic split would have been to split the main table into maybe 10 tables or so at most. Still would result in a fair bit of subqueries for grids and such, but not that bad.
by vladpowerman | 2025-10-21 20:49:48+00:00
Great point, that’s definitely one of the biggest limitations right now. GitCruiter only sees public repos, so it naturally misses the context of people’s real work.

I’m exploring ways to let developers optionally connect private repos or upload anonymized activity snapshots, if there’s enough community interest to make privacy and consent solid.

Totally agree this would make the results far more representative. Thanks for raising it.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-21 20:49:51+00:00
The best theory into why Musk was so gung-ho about DOGE was specifically to shut down any government agency that was out to keep him from continuing to increase his wealth. By that measurement, he was in charge of the most successful government agency. Whether or not that had any positive/negative affect for Trump was merely an irrelevant by product of the actual mission.
by theletterf | 2025-10-21 20:50:09+00:00
For a somber, deeply intellectual view of what could happen, I can't recommend enough Stanislaw Lem's His Master's Voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_%28novel%...

"Given that our civilization is unable to assimilate well even those concepts that originate in human heads when they appear outside its main current, although the creators of those concepts are, after all, children of the same age—how could we have assumed that we would be capable of understanding a civilization totally unlike ours, if it addressed us across the cosmic gulf?"
by voxleone | 2025-10-21 20:50:36+00:00
Quaternion libraries have work to do now.

Positive potential:

Simplified “undo” mechanism: this result suggests that a given traversal (sequence of rotations) might be “reset” (i.e., returned to origin) using a simpler method than computing a full inverse sequence. That could simplify any functionality in libraries, like SpinStep[0], that deal with “returning to base orientation” or “undoing steps.”

The libraries could include a method: given a sequence of quaternion steps that moved from orientation A to orientation B, compute a scale factor λ and then apply that scaled sequence twice to go from B back to A (or A to A). This offers a deterministic “reset” style operation which may be efficient.

Orientation‐graph algorithms: in libraries used in robotics/spatial AI, the ability to reliably reset orientation (even after complex sequences) might enhance reliability of traversal or recovery in systems that might drift or go off‐course.

[0] https://github.com/VoxleOne/SpinStep
by jandrese | 2025-10-21 20:50:39+00:00
It would depend a lot on what the alien species was like.

If they go "oh yeah Religion, that's a quirk of your biology, don't worry you will outgrow it in time" then yeah, that's problematic.

If they go "Oh, you say that the savior Jesus Christ was a human? That answers one of our biggest questions. The story never made much sense before. Boy, those Angels must be pretty freaky looking for you then." then that's entirely different.
by okanat | 2025-10-21 20:50:47+00:00
It is not the paper ballots that's taken advantage of. They have no general public participation and opposition. The public simply do not give a damn about polling stations in places where Carousel voting is possible. There is no opposition observers or they cannot be because the examples in the Wikipedia page are dictatorships, not democracies. You cannot turn a dictatorship into democracy by voting.

Every single vote must be checked against publicly available lists of voters. Every ballot can only be given somebody whose identification is checked against this publicly available list and marked. The lists must have multiple copies some in the hands of opposition observers. They need to be published.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-21 20:50:56+00:00
Humans have demonstrably known the world is round since at least ancient Greece.

Columbus claimed it was radically smaller in diameter than previous calculations, and was begging for funding to go around the other side of the world to get a good trade route to India and China for trade goods. He was following some bad math, and adding his own worse math to the mix.

People were sure he was going to die, because they did not bring enough provisions to actually go around the world.