MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2025-10-27 08:00:55+00:00
I don't know if dolphins define their purpose or progress. More likely, we look at them in a state of equilibrium now, and think "that looks nice", but at various points over the past hundreds of millions of years, virtually every species experienced drastic shifts within a brief few millenia which also nearly wiped them out. This is not always inter-species conflict. Female dolphins have a spiral-shaped vagina for reasons you can imagine may have resembled an arms race among dolphins. We are clearly in the middle of something like that, which means we're in a poor position to make predictions. We went from something like equilibrium, more or less the same from 1M years ago to 5,000 years ago, to a radically different state. It may very well not last another 5,000 years.

I think maybe we need to see these arms races as short ramps, periods of chaos, which lead either to long plateaus or very quick collapses.

>> Universe did not favor complexity. Universe destroys order and moves towards more entropy. Life is something that goes against this. Life probably was required to trap Sun's energy so that Earth can cool itself.

I think if the Universe were not programmed to generate complexity, there would only be one or two elements. I think the tendency toward entropy is a necessary condition to force complexity and life to evolve. The Universe is slowly trading global energy everywhere for local complexity somewhere. This is how energy is turned into information. If energy at the beginning of the Universe is nearly infinite, then clearly it is cheaper and less valuable to whoever is reading the output than the valuable limited information it can produce (with tons of wasted energy). I believe this because I believe that converting energy to information is not a side-effect of the Universe, but its ultimate purpose.

So yeah, forests are beautiful. Beehives are beautiful. Colonies of fungus are beautiful. Kansas City from the air at night is... well, we shouldn't underrate ourselves.
by general1465 | 2025-10-27 08:01:05+00:00
So now hype trend in Putin's mind moved from Sarmat to Russian version of Project Pluto. Maybe it has something to do with Sarmat moonscaping the test facility...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/russias-new-sarmat-...

At this point I am only waiting on this missile to cause wide spread radioactive contamination across Russia and have Putin blame NATO for it.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-27 08:01:49+00:00
Yup, stackful fibers are an anti-pattern. Here's Gor Nishanov's review for the C++ ISO committee https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p13... linked from https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191011-00/?p=10... . Notice how it sums things up:

> DO NOT USE FIBERS!
by k9294 | 2025-10-27 08:02:22+00:00
Incentives. I use consumerlab because trust is their product, if they break their trust once - they will ruin their business.

I inclined to trust the business which earns money from me - this means they are aligned with value I get and there is little incentive to break the trust and a high stakes to keep the trust when you get paid to be trustworthy.

I trust more the greedy capitalists than politicians in this question because I don't understand incentives of the latter. At least the business model is fairly transparent - you can check the company and how it makes money, in reverse incentives of the governments and their officials is broken - to get elected, get rich, get power, not lose job and keep producing new laws and regulations because if you want to keep your job you can't say “Everything is working, the best thing I can do right now is to monitor the system, collect the data and do nothing for a few years”.
by atoav | 2025-10-27 08:03:55+00:00
Exactly. But was it really the claim parent made that they don't? I understood the claim more like: Vaccines help, but economic divides will perpetuate the problem in different ways.

And there is something to that claim. Because who doesn't get vaccinations? Because where are sanitary conditions so bad new variants develop? In places where people (and potentially animals) are crammed together without the ability of ill people to self quarantine. And those places are not typically rich and wealthy.

If you asked a top virologist if there is an socioeconomic component to virus contagion I'd expect most experts to agree that there is one.
by a_c | 2025-10-27 08:06:52+00:00
The had a currency swap. US earns interest from argentina by taking USD$20B worth of pesos. Argentina get USD$20B. By the end of the swap, Argentina "swap" the borrowed USD$20B with their pesos. Argentina has to pay interest (quick googling didn't reveal the exact terms). They both get their own currency in the end.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-27 08:07:08+00:00
Crawlers are pretty hard to build, they have an insane number of corner cases they need to deal with if you want them to perform well AND be perceived as respectful, and crawlers (if you go that route) find themselves among the harder problems in distributed computing, with a huge shared mutable state and some very complex shared timers.

If you're in a hurry to race to the market, it's very likely you'll run into these issues and find yourself tempted to cut corners, and unfortunately, with nearly unbounded cloud spend, cutting corners in a large scale crawler operation can very believably cause major disruption all over the web.
by dilyevsky | 2025-10-27 08:08:54+00:00
They're very ingest heavy compared to how much of it is actually streamed out and to a very small/local audience so probably don't even need a cdn. And ingest on aws is free.

On the other hand, S3 is kind of ridiculously expensive compared to even more expensive on-prem options like a PureStorage SSDs array. With spindles on Ceph you can probably get quite a bit lower than AWS's 2c/Gig/mo. Or you can just use R2 with colocated servers for ingest.
by diordiderot | 2025-10-27 08:10:55+00:00
yeah the 10x was just myocarditis.

I've discounted the other effects as they were generally associated with comorbidities (lung scaring was a % of hospitalized people).

I've also discounted long-covid because of comorbidities, self-reporting bias, nocebo effective, and depression/anxiety overlap. Yes I know its still real, but the true rates are difficult to know.

Edit: I should have factored clotting as well
by matsemann | 2025-10-27 08:12:18+00:00
I was one of those people, waking up a bit before 6 in the morning, sitting ready to refresh, seeing how fast I could solve it :)

As for when it's been solved a thousand times: 2022 I did part1 and part2 and was finished after 4m36seconds, and that gave me rank 1070. So don't underestimate how many who did this competitively, heh.
by orangeboats | 2025-10-27 08:12:39+00:00
>You do coverage testing, which would have found the missing date -r path.

The original coreutils test suite didn't cover the -r path. The same bug would have not been statically discovered in most programming languages, except perhaps the highly functional ones like Haskell.

>You do proper code review, which would have found the missing date -r path.

And in an ideal world there would be no bugs at all. This is pointless -- we all know that we need to do a proper code review, but humans make errors.
by p0pularopinion | 2025-10-27 08:13:08+00:00
When I was 18, I demolished an asbestos cement wall - too bad the asbestos aspect was unclear until the work was already finished.

I was only wearing a simple mask and was otherwise unprotected.

Since this event, I have developed an excruciating health anxiety/health OCD disorder that focuses around this event. Realistically I do know that while my risk is non zero, it is exceedingly low. But this non zero chance is what is so evil about OCD and this topic. It is debilitating.

At this point, I know way more about asbestos and related diseases than anyone outside the medical and construction industry should know.
by roenxi | 2025-10-27 08:13:20+00:00
If we're talking broader "sides" the mistaken one does look pretty bad. Fantasising doom based on facts someone doesn't understand while having those facts clarified is a bad look. It'd be like me going through a thread politely hyperventilating about trace dihydrogen monoxide contamination the man was exposed to after this event was all over. One hand there is no reason to be rude about that sort of mistake, but on the other it is kind of a ... why the comment based on a very terse paragraph that they have to know they don't understand? When there are a lot of comments pointing out that there is no evidence to believe this report is a problem.

The paragraph says 300 CPM and the dude took a non-emergency trip to a medical centre. If someone doesn't know what 300 CPM means or what a non-emergency trip to a medical centre from an industrial site implies, the best message to be given is "don't comment or form an opinion, leave it to the people who are happy to look up CPM on Wikipedia before deciding to panic, people who've worked on industrial sites or maybe even experts". Not encouraging them to talk more.
by jarjoura | 2025-10-27 08:13:51+00:00
The world of literature is increasingly making itself inaccessible to broad audiences by turning this into a zero-sum game.

I wish OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini would all figure out how to pay royalties to copyright holders anytime their content is used. I see absolutely no reason why they can't do this. It would really take all the steam out of these hardline anti-AI positions.
by deaux | 2025-10-27 08:14:56+00:00
A MAGA state first and foremost. The hierarchy is "white MAGA > non-white MAGA > white silent > non-white silent > white anti-MAGA > non-white anti-MAGA". Will they eventually come for everyone but the first group? Very likely, but there's always a priority ordering. I'll leave it to the proper historians to decide how similar this is to the state they're using as their main inspiration.
by trhway | 2025-10-27 08:15:29+00:00
>Additionally, by not getting a vaccine, you potentially put people at risk who cannot get a vaccine -- immunocompromised folks, etc. Vaccinating your child also protects everyone in their communities.

No. You probably thinking some other vaccine and infection, not covid. For covid once infected, vaccinated people express similar number of virus in their saliva as unvaccinated (see for example [1]). Additionally, infected vaccinated people have lower intensity symptoms or now symptoms at all, and thus more likely to go about their business as usual (and thus spread the virus) than to stay home like unvaccinated. As a result the vaccinated people do possibly spread more infection than unvaccinated. The obviously propagandistic and using government force push "do it for the good of the community" (very USSR style) for covid vaccinations against the science - as those results were already known at the end of 2021 - drove a lot of new people into vaccine-sceptic crowd.

[1] https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...

"new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who tested positive for the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. It also found no significant difference between infected people with or without symptoms.

...

Although vaccinated people with a breakthrough infection are much less likely to become severely ill than unvaccinated, the new study shows that they can be carrying similar amounts of virus and could potentially spread the virus to other people."
Killer WiFi cards can block VPNs
by willprice89 | 2025-10-27 08:17:35+00:00
tl;dr If your VPN isn't working and your computer has an Intel Killer series wi-fi adapter, try disabling the Killer software add-ons (https://wallpunch.net/windows-killer-troubleshooting/)

Occasionally I receive a support request from a user where Wallpunch is working great on their phone, but their Windows PC cannot connect at all. Standard troubleshooting steps yield no clues:

- The Windows app is able to complete the pre-connection authentication step with our servers

- The Windows app doesn't work on different Wi-Fi networks, or when connected to the phone hotspot

- The phone app works fine when connected to the same network as the Windows PC

- The network configuration shown by the "ipconfig" and "route" commands looks normal

- Wallpunch debug logging shows that the PC's traffic is being captured by the VPN tunnel correctly

Everything appears to be functioning completely as expected - except the critical VPN tunnel connections to our servers fail to connect (client records a TCP connection timeout, servers never see any handshake packets).

The first couple times, after exhausting all the debugging options I could think of, I had no choice but to apologize to the user, refund their subscription, and move on. But eventually I noticed a pattern: all of the affected computers had an Intel Killer wi-fi adapter!

Some searching revealed this has been a known problem for a while, with several threads discussing the issue on Reddit as well as the Intel and Microsoft support forums.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/meraki/comments/8638kv/client_vpn_with_killer_network_service/

- https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Smart-AP-disabled-due-to-VPN-Killer-Intelligence-Center/td-p/1513415/page/4

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4173090/killer-intelligence-centre-causing-a-problem

Nord even has a page on it in their troubleshooting docs: https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/20226287150609-Intel-Killer-Wi-Fi-adapter-not-working-with-NordVPN

Basically the Killer adapters come with a bunch of software add-ons that are intended to speed up your internet connection but can end up causing problems with VPNs. So far disabling these add-ons has solved the issue for all of my affected users. For detailed steps on how to do so you can check out the threads linked above or this summary page I made: https://wallpunch.net/windows-killer-troubleshooting/

I'm happy to have fixed things for my users but I'd love to get to the bottom of this and figure out how exactly the Killer is blocking VPN connections and if there is a way to get around that blocking without requiring manual user actions. If you know of any good sources of additional information, or if you have an Intel Killer card and would be interested in helping me with further testing, please let me know!
by noduerme | 2025-10-27 08:17:36+00:00
>> Again, if you have $10,000 you can just withdraw today and give away, last dollar or not, the vast majority of people on this planet would call you wealthy. You have to understand that this is just not something most humans can actually do, even on their deathbed.

So, most people can't get $1 Trillion to build a machine that fools people into thinking it's intelligent. That's probably also not a trick that will ever be repeated.
by atoav | 2025-10-27 08:17:54+00:00
Yes, but as the pandemic has shown people are phenomenally bad at guesstimating the risk of vaccinations.

The cool thing about medicine is that we get pretty good numbers pretty fast for everything. So in the end that choice would just be about knowing the numbers and picking your poison.

But that isn't how people make these choices. They will say "it is unnatural to stick a needle into a child" and then have their child infect half of their school plus the parents with measels.

The cost/benefit analysis of that hypothetical case is a damn no-brainer for the vaccination, yet that isn't how people act. Meaning if we talk about regular vaccinations (flu, corona, measels, tetanus) just getting all of them is the better choice for the society and yourself.

Unless those are crazy expensive for some reason in your place. Where I live all of those are free and take at max 20 minutes for me to get including the walk to the doctor's office. Not having the flu in the winter season is cool, because lying in bed for a week sucks more than a little sting of the needle with no noticable side effects.
by DNF2 | 2025-10-27 08:18:10+00:00
Interesting. I have not experienced that, except when trying out the pre-release version of tinymist, and did some messy multiple view+cropping into a big pdf (testing out the new pdf-image stuff.) I chalked it up to it being new and beta.

Admittedly, I have still not created large documents in Typst.
Show HN: I built a tool to score and analyze GitHub profiles
by Tejas1233 | 2025-10-27 08:18:25+00:00
Hi , I built en-git to get deeper analytics from GitHub profiles. The main app gives you a profile score (0-100), actionable tips to improve, analytics (heatmaps, language stats), and achievements. The Chrome extension adds in-browser code quality analysis for files and PRs, plus some productivity tools (bookmarks, shortcuts). I'm looking for any and all constructive feedback. Thanks!
by codethief | 2025-10-27 08:20:31+00:00
> Variant of this I've hit is the phone number validation rules at signup differs from the actual API call to send 2FA texts

Yeah, this is incredibly annoying, though to be fair, this can be a hard problem to solve. 3rd-party systems often don't tell you what their exact phone number validation rules are or silently update them, and then, to top it off, don't throw errors when validation fails. And more often than not, the 3rd-party system's developers also must have never heard of the Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers[0].

Source: I was responsible for adjusting phone number validation for a major ecommerce site in the past.

[0]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/libphonenumber/+/...
by jychang | 2025-10-27 08:21:02+00:00
> My feeling is that devs in general are not into the "learning how to use tools" idea

Well, the devs learnt how to use Github, didn't they? Seems like people CAN learn things that are useful. I can also make the argument that Github pull requests are actually more powerful than git request-pull in addition to having a nicer UI/UX.

Being upset that people aren't using git request-pull is like the creator of Brainfuck being upset that scientists aren't using Brainfuck instead of something more powerful and has a better UI/UX like Python. It's kinda obvious which one is better to use...
by otherme123 | 2025-10-27 08:21:47+00:00
> Your child gets measles, is probably OK, but if not, goes to an expensive hospital and will probably be fine. Even without vaccinations, it's probably not a life or death scenario. I'm not saying it's good, only that the price tag is likely low.

I don't understand this take, if you are a parent. For example, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), rarely causes death in developed countries. But 1) like SARS-CoV-2, almost every children will get infected at least once in their first two years of age and 2) a respectable number of non-deadly consequences come from this virus, some of them long term.

My point is death is not the only consequence you should weight. Just having your baby a couple of weeks in "expensive hospital" (i.e. ICU), with a chance short term consequences like respiratory problems and secondary infections, or long term non-deathly consequences like asthma and alergies, sounds like a danger serious enough to me. It seems like a very poor parent decision to not vaccinate your children against RSV, even if it's almost impossible for RSV to kill your baby.
by MathiasPius | 2025-10-27 08:22:59+00:00
Technically there are two clients: The camera and whatever device is used to access the feed.

I can absolutely imagine an architecture where video can be streamed in an encrypted manner, or stored in encrypted time-stamped blobs, allowing the server to provide rough searching, and then the client can perform fine-grained scanning.

This obviously doesn't enable any kind of processing of the video data on the server side, and doing it on the receiving client would require the feed to be active This means that any kind of processing would almost necessarily have to happen on the sending device, which would probably increase the power and compute requirements by a lot.
by deadbabe | 2025-10-27 08:23:11+00:00
Why go after the AI company? If someone is using the AI generated content for commercial purposes and it’s based of a copyrighted work, they are the ones who should be paying the royalty.

The AI company is really more like a vector search company that brings you relevant content, kind of like Google, but that does not mean the user will use those results for commercial purposes. Google doesn’t pay royalties for displaying your website in search results.
by orangeboats | 2025-10-27 08:23:26+00:00
Congratulations to you on being the 10000th? person [0] to miss the point of unsafe/safe.

1. Unsafe doesn't mean the code is actually unsafe. It only tells you that the compiler itself cannot guarantee the correctness of it.

2. Unsafetiness tells the code reviewers to give a specific section of code more scrunity. Clippy also has an option that requires the programmer to put a comment to explain how the unsafe code is actually safe in the context.

3. And IF a bug does occur, it minimizes the amount of code you need to audit.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-27 08:23:29+00:00
I'm down for this, but only if the people who are getting paid by OpenAI/etc also turn around and pay any inspiration they've had, any artist they've copied from, etc over their entire life. If we're going to do this, we need to do it in a logically consistent way; anyone who's derived art from pre-existing art needs to pay the pre-existing artist, and I mean ALL of it, for anything derivative.

Good luck with that.
by oersted | 2025-10-27 08:23:39+00:00
> Thompson remembers designing the Unix filesystem on a blackboard in an office with Rudd Canaday — using a special Bell Labs phone number that took dictation and delivered a typed-up transcript the next day.

Fancy :), this just became normal for the general public in the last couple of years. I assume of course that there was a secretary at the end of the line, not AI. But it's not completely unthinkable, Bell Labs did do very impressive things in text-to-speech at least.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-27 08:23:57+00:00
Also, it is about time to let go with GC-phobia.

https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

Note the

> This video illustrates the use case of Perc within the Aegis Combat System, a digital command and control system capable of identifying and tracking incoming threats and providing the war fighter with a solution to address threats. Aegis, developed by Lockheed Martin, is critical to the operation of the DDG-51, and Lockheed Martin has selected Perc as the operating platform for Aegis to address real-time requirements and response times.

Not all GCs are born alike.
by throw234234234 | 2025-10-27 08:24:10+00:00
Sure but what actually matters is the consumer's value received vs value earned. In the end it isn't "who" pays, but who gains and who loses value in the net. NOTE: This includes government spending from the tariff.

If the foreign supplier pays the tariff the country COULD be better off in net terms when you add the consumer + government together assuming the government spends all it takes which in a deficit situation is a reasonable assumption.
by pm215 | 2025-10-27 08:24:50+00:00
In practice it seems like it's not as simple as that; see this lkml post from a few years back pointing out some of the weird x32 specific syscall stuff they ended up with: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/1145

But my main point is that the complexity is not in the one-off "here's a patch to the kernel/compiler to add this", but in the way you now have an entire extra config that needs to be maintained and tested all the way through the software stack by the kernel, toolchain, distros and potentially random other software with inline asm or target specific ifdefs. That's ongoing work for decades for many groups of people.