MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-22 12:12:37+00:00
IMO it's up to the Romani to decide not the UK census site.

But in fact it seems to be the term used by some Romani groups

> The term Gypsy, which originates in the word "Egypt", mistakenly believed to be the original homeland of the Gypsies, has been controversial.[8] Some Romani activists reject the term, but it is embraced by others.[8] Although the term "Roma" was endorsed in place of "Gypsies" at the first World Roma Congress in London,[9] many Romani people in Britain prefer to call themselves Gypsies, or names that include the term such as Romani Gypsies or Romany Gypsies.[10][11][5][12][8][13] They also commonly refer to themselves as Romani or Romanies.[14]

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy,_Roma_and_Traveller)

I believe (but can't find a clear source) that there are also Native American groups that prefer to be called Indian. This is a close analogy Egypt <-> Romani, India <-> Native Americans.

But it is true that many people only recently stopped using "gypped" as a slur. My kid was reading A Wrinkle in Time and looking for vocabulary words the other day, and I had to tell her that "gypped" was probably not appropriate for her homework and that we don't use that word anymore. So that's one reason to be aware that "Gypsy" is controversial. In my experience, many people are not aware of this fact at all because it so rarely comes up.
by ben_w | 2025-10-22 12:13:37+00:00
While I agree with anyone saying that Musk himself is "detached from reality", and also that the Superheavy/Starship timelines are unrealistically optimistic, given how bad basically everyone else in this sector is I have no specific reason to expect that Superheavy/Starship* will be what delays anything.

Not that this actually helps with any thesis of "Yee Haw, look at Us! We're America! We're number one!"

* And now I'm worrying the initials might have been deliberate on his part; hadn't even considered that before seeing your comment…
by stego-tech | 2025-10-22 12:13:47+00:00
I feel your pain. Prior to my network rebuild at home, I had splitters powering the EdgeRouter, Philips Hue Bridge v2, a Raspberry Pi, and was tempted to add more for the various small (<8-port) ethernet switches scattered about. UniFi expanding their switch lineup to include PoE-powered gigabit and 2.5G switches was a godsend, as were PoE HATs for the RPis’. Only the Hue Bridge remains on a splitter, because Signify won’t make one with native PoE.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-10-22 12:14:20+00:00
> Unless the author wanted to demonstrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.

not to be facetious but what hes doing is what most of the popular religions do - come up with your own "interpretation" or "reading" of the text. how popular would any major religion be if it was stuck with its original BCE values, ethics and beliefs? They would be dead. They must change with the times.

Why is any "reading" of the bible more valid than the next? This guy is a pastor
by sillyfluke | 2025-10-22 12:14:50+00:00
Amusingly, it's also inspired by the life of the writer's mixed race black father, who in the 1700s became the highest ranking black general in the west not to be surpassed until the American generals in the 1990s and supposedly attracted the jealousy of Napolean (See "The Black Count").

So there's something there for everyone I guess.
by nosianu | 2025-10-22 12:15:00+00:00
What makes you think this would have taken hours in Germany?

Those things are highly locality dependent, since it's the "Ordnungsamt" of the local municipality that does this. In my big Bavarian city I would expect it to be very fast, from past experiences. They definitely streamlined their processes over the last two decades. For the "Einwohnermeldeamt" 2015 and then COVID forced them to, before that waiting times there were much longer, but now it's fine.
by notahacker | 2025-10-22 12:15:40+00:00
You've also got the problem of cosmic radiation flipping bits. Your fault tolerant architecture probably mitigates this with redundancy, with the extra servers again eating into the purported advantages of extra solar power. Dealing with the PITA of single event upsets is something developers of edge data processing software in space put up with to avoid the latency issues that data clouds in space introduce
by bayindirh | 2025-10-22 12:15:57+00:00
You already maxed it from Kernel's PoV. 8GB of RAM, where 6.8GB is cache. ~700MB is resident and 459 is free because I assume Kernel wants to have some free space to allocate something quite fast.

25MB swap use seems normal for a server which doesn't juggle much tasks, but works on one.
by hollerith | 2025-10-22 12:16:17+00:00
But there is a reason an organization might not want to maintain Manifest V2 that has nothing to do with whether they have the ability: namely, V2 has been a massive security headache: any V2 extension can totally pwn the browser. Brave and Microsoft have made changes to Chromium that they care about (i.e., not V2) and they continue to maintain those changes.

P.S. Brave has integrated ad-blocking (i.e., blocking not implemented as an extension) which some say is comparable to Ublock Origin.
by antonymoose | 2025-10-22 12:16:38+00:00
I believe Roma is a very continental European (German?) term. I’ve only ever heard it in the context of “Sinti und Roma.” In any case it A) refers to a specific subset of the broader “Gypsy” sects and B) is virtually unknown in America.

In the US there are “Gypsy” and “Irish Travellers,” with the latter being a specific subset like Roma, and even then I’ve only heard the term used regionally, e.g. in Augusta, SC where a population lives.
by acatton | 2025-10-22 12:18:06+00:00
> The wg.Go Function

> Go 1.25 introduced a waitgroup.Go function that lets you add Go routines to a waitgroup more easily. It takes the place of using the go keyword, [...]

99% of the time, you don't want to use sync.WaitGroup, but rather errgroup.Group. This is basically sync.WaitGroup with error handling. It also has optional context/cancellation support. See https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup

I know it's not part of the standard library, but it's part of the http://golang.org/x/ packages. TBH, golang.org/x/ is stuff that should be in the standard library but isn't, for some reason.
by Joker_vD | 2025-10-22 12:18:19+00:00
From [0]:

Like, I have been transformed into ChatGPT. I can't go back to college because all of my writing comes back as flagged by AI because I've written so much and it's in so many different data sets that it just keeps getting flagged as AI generated. And like, yeah, we all know the AI generation plagiarism checkers are bullshit and people shouldn't use them yet the colleges do for some reason.

I imagine it's gonna keep getting worse for tech bloggers.

[0] https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/prepare-unforeseen-consequence...
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-22 12:18:27+00:00
In my opinion, the OS should not be updated. Not if important software is running on the machine. That's why we see cash registers still using Windows XP.

Sure, if you test it and see that there is no issue with updating, then you can update if you want. But neither the OS or the hardware or anything else should get any priority over the business-crucial software you are running. Even with hardware failures, the better option is to get older hardware for replacement if newer hardware has compatibility issues.
by yuye | 2025-10-22 12:18:30+00:00
Because there's a difference between a "coder" and a software engineer.

Someone who finished a bootcamp might be able to write a simple program in Python, but that doesn't make them a software engineer.

I've said this out loud before and have gotten told I'm an elitist, that my degree doesn't make me better at software than those without one. That majoring in computer science teaches you only esoteric knowledge that can't be applied in a "real job".

On the other hand, the industry being less strict about degrees can be considered a positive. There definitely do exist extremely talented self-taught software engineers that have made a great career for themselves.

But I definitely agree with the need of some sort of standard. I don't care if some bootcamper gets a job at the latest "AI on the blockchain as a service" unicorn startup, good for them. I'd rather have people with formal degrees work on something like a Therac-25, though.
by 0xcb0 | 2025-10-22 12:19:09+00:00
They state that in 10 years all data centers will be in outer space. I state that in 10 years we will look back and think this was a ridiculous idea. The meta and maintenance costs, the pollution of sending them to space, the space pollution itself, the outer space radiation, the extra redundant error correction needed*,* and much more all speak against this. Why not throw that trillion dollars into optical computing chip research? Why not create better sustainable methods here on earth*?* We could run a single data center down here, or pay a million times moreto do this in space. The argument that we are polluting Earth down here is very weak. Yes, we do, but why on earth do we then not invest more in research for solving these problems*?* There are startups out there that will one day solve these issues. And then space data centers will be something for the Star Trek age, which humanity will probably never achieve.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-22 12:19:23+00:00
> What I'm saying is that the automation is happening, so we need to deal with that reality.

This is not a force of nature.

Perhaps what you mean to say is that certain people, heavily featured on this forum, are working on something that causes harm to many, which they are not concerned about because they get paid well, or at best because of some long-term utilitarian math—alongside those complicit in it by investing in the effort, trying to make it seem as if it’s “natural” and “inevitable” and “normal”, and so on.

If that’s what you mean—perhaps that’s true, and that’s exactly why this thread is happening.

It is man made, and unlike reality in which we’ve been living for thousands of years and which we are well adapted for this change is being forced by a wealthy minority onto the rest of humanity in the span of decades. Luckily it is far from being “reality” yet and it can well be stopped.
by Arnt | 2025-10-22 12:19:47+00:00
I'm an eco-head and not worried.

Deployment of new solar etc. is doubling very roughly every year, worldwide. In the year that solar++ deployment was 0.1% of total power use, total energy use only needed to grow by 0.11% in order for fossil to grow. In the next doubling cycle the numbers were 0.2% and 0.21%, then 0.4% and 0.41%, then 0.8% and 0.81%.

Still trivial, but then we got to then 1.6% and 1.61%, and around this time the mine operators' forecasts would look uncertain. Growth is ≥1.61% most years, but not every, and by now some forecast slides would say things like "regenerative power now took 50% of the market growth, up from 25% last year" if the market growth was about 3%.

We're now in a doubling after that: 3.2% and 3.21%, and 3.21% growth not something that happens every year, so the miners' forecast will say "regenerative power takes most of the market growth and is still increasing".

In the next doubling cycle it's 6.4% and 6.41%, and AFAICT we've never had ≥6.41% growth for any length of time. If we do have that in the coming months, it's only a year or so until we each 12.8% and 12.81%, etc, and who cares about that single year?
Ask HN: Anyone recommend a Linux AI meeting notetaker
by pacifika | 2025-10-22 12:20:38+00:00
There are plenty of AI note takers like Granola and Otter, Fathom available, but I have not found one that can transcribe and summarise on Linux.

Does anyone use something? It should be cross meeting tool, I'm aware that meeting tools have transcription features that can be enabled on the call.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-22 12:20:41+00:00
I thought so as well when USB-C was first seeing widespread adoption, but now I’m not so sure. High-end PoE deployments can reach 90W of power down the line, and even HDBASE-T can support 100W of power down the line. Combined with the 8P8C connector both use (which is easy to field repair or replace and has positive retention), and I’d much rather see more structured ethernet runs and outlets with PoE/HDBASE-T for all but the most demanding or performant kit.
by vdupras | 2025-10-22 12:20:46+00:00
Drew's moral grandstanding is at odds with HN culture, so of course it's never going to be well received here. And to a point, HN is right to reject it because it's pointless: fascism is obviously coming and nothing can stop it.

Nothing can stop it, not because those evil men are too powerful, they're clowns. Nothing can stop it because, as Orwell says, modern man is inadequate for modern times.

> Modern man is rather like a bisected wasp which goes on sucking jam and pretends that the loss of its abdomen does not matter
by throwanem | 2025-10-22 12:20:52+00:00
Your memory serves well with respect to the Shuttle. Astronaut Mike Mullane, from his autobiography Riding Rockets:

> Next [after loading the computers with on-orbit software] we opened the payload bay doors. The inside of those doors contained radiators used to dump the heat generated by our electronics into space. If they failed to open, we’d have only a couple hours to get Discovery back on Earth before she fried her brains. But both doors swung open as planned, another milestone passed.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-22 12:21:22+00:00
The book everyone recommends: https://a.co/d/hteiGmm

You need to talk to your customers. For me, I'm more passive, I have enough projects, I let the projects come to me. You have to have an ear for it, you're listening for a problem you can solve; or better yet something you can do better than anyone else offers.
by Zigurd | 2025-10-22 12:21:31+00:00
Plot twist: yes it's an insensitive term, and it appears to be gratuitously applied to Stevenson. But not without precedent. Phillip Callow wrote in an earlier book "Louis became in turn a bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy..." Notably not literally a gypsy. But an interesting convergence in choice of words.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-22 12:21:35+00:00
The issue is with the problem space - version control and reconciliation is hard. The fact we even have software to automate 99% of it is amazing.

Lawyers spend literally hundreds of hours doing just that. Well, their paralegals do.

Git is a legitimately amazing tool, but it can't magically make version control free. You still have to think because ultimately software can't decide which stuff is right and which is wrong.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-22 12:21:59+00:00
> So that 2M of used swap is completely irrelevant.

As I noted somewhere, my other system has 2,5GB of SWAP allocated over 13 days. That system is a desktop system and juggles tons of things everyday.

I have another server with tons of RAM, and the Kernel decided not to evict anything to SWAP (yet).

> If I were to increase this to 8G of ram instead of 2G, but for arguments sake had to have no swap as the tradeoff, would that be better or worse. Swap fans say worse.

I'm not a SWAP fan, but I support its use. On the other hand I won't say it'd be worse, but it'd be overkill for that server. Maybe I can try 4, but that doesn't seem to be necessary if these numbers are stable over time.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-22 12:22:23+00:00
> Like what places, and how are they pretty easy to screw up on? I'm genuinely curious, as to me it's the cleanest and most straight-forward console installer I've ever experienced.

To you it is. I installed on 3.8 and it was not straightforward. I used to go to university with a guy that used OpenBSD and he even said the installation at the time was straight forward. So it isn't just me.

I can't remember specifics as it was about 4-6 months. It was something to do with drive labelling IIRC, it was super confusing and I think I just ended up removing drives temporarily.

> you can always exit the installer and restart the process.

Nope. I tried that. It did not work.

> You're not "screwed" unless you reboot at the end without having reflected over your instructions.

Again it wasn't that straight forward.
by ben_w | 2025-10-22 12:22:25+00:00
Lots of things limit the benefit of putting PV in space. UV damages the semiconductors faster, ditto micrometeoroids, it's just plain expensive to put stuff up there in the first place…

It's not a slam-dunk "no", we are seeing developments on all metrics. It's just that right now, I wouldn't be surprised if the claim of x10 improvement was anywhere from correct to x100 over-optimistic.
by tsoukase | 2025-10-22 12:22:41+00:00
A former Prime Minister of a first world country in jail is insane. He must have made a crime without the help of others because in political scandals usually a whole gang of public people is liable. Then you have to convict the monkey with the bananas and the whole tree.

If we follow the French justice, in my country (Greece) about 10% of people including almost all the politicians of the last decades should be in jail.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-10-22 12:23:31+00:00
We also have no problem with government redistribution in practice as long as it goes to the market.

We pretend the government buying a stake in Intel is not redistribution.

It is the perfect example of how we "believe" in markets unless we believe an entity is too important to be left to the market.

INTC stock price is up so that is used "proof" this was the right thing to do because "the market is always right".
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-22 12:23:49+00:00
New Glenn at least claims to eventually be able to put 45,000kg to LEO. Once in orbit, refueling or docking boost stages can come into play. With Vulcan, I have mainly heard of proposals involving modifying Orion to dock the service module in orbit after separate launches.

Supposedly, as of a week ago, LM sees at least some possible routes to having Orion without SLS to not outright give up on the idea, but doesn't have specifics for now: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/once-unthinkable-nasa-...
by mambacodes | 2025-10-22 12:24:11+00:00
Stop copy-pasting context or re-explaining your project every time you switch tools. Work in Claude Desktop for brainstorming, jump to Cursor for coding, and pick up exactly where you left off - with full memory of what you discussed and decided. The first MCP server to enable true multi-platform AI collaboration. Your context follows you, not the other way around.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-22 12:24:39+00:00
> Whether a donor's politics are red or blue, their dollar bills are still green.

So morality doesn't factor into it for you? You'd take anyone's money, regardless of how dirty the source?

Where's the line for you? The Irish Republican Army? Hamas?

> Turning money down, especially when no strings are attached, is just self sabotage.

Reputation is the most valuable currency you have, but it's easy to get it dirty and very hard to clean it up again.
by tzahifadida | 2025-10-22 12:25:44+00:00
This reminds me about the bitnami containers. They pulled the docker images so everyone migrated away because they fear they will also pull the artifacts building the project. They never said that. They seem to be continuing to updating the projects and providing access to the artifacts. It is very easy to build the dockers... it is just a dockerfile really... There is really no upside to stop updating the projects, it is free marketing...
by sph | 2025-10-22 12:25:47+00:00
Erowid facilitated my deep dive into psychedelics in 2010 or so. Such a treasure trove on information about harm reduction, dosage, etc.

My old bad trip was meticulously documented and is published on the site (don’t mix cannabis with psychedelics, yo! You don’t wanna get paranoid as the walls are melting)

Funny aside: I think I spent 13 BTC to buy some LSD on the dark web at the time. Years later, the change from that transaction was enough to pay a month’s rent in London. Not only I spent what is a small fortune today, but the parcel was seized by the authorities so I never had the pleasure of trying LSD. Maybe one day…
by IcePic | 2025-10-22 12:25:56+00:00
> Currently with an SSD, when there’s a power cut, there’s about a 20% chance my router will require me to walk downstairs and plug in a keyboard, type “fsck” manually and press y at all the prompts.

> I’d settle for a default “boot anyway, press y for all fsck questions” mode on boot. I just don’t want to have to physically touch the thing.

Look up where fsck is run in /etc/rc and add the -y there.
by jhbadger | 2025-10-22 12:25:59+00:00
Calling Gosling "the father of Emacs" is pretty inaccurate. What Gosling did was create the first UNIX version of Emacs, and while that predates RMS' GNU Emacs, Emacs was originally a series of macros created by RMS for the TECO editor running on ITS (Emacs originally meant "editor macros"), so RMS is clearly the father of Emacs.
by perihelions | 2025-10-22 12:26:03+00:00
> "the energy costs of manufacturing and sending a rocket to outer space versus putting that fuel into a generator"

I believe it's on the order of magnitude of 100x return (for a low-orbit space photovoltiac panel that's (almost) always facing direct sun).

(/ (* ([W (kg -1)] 200) ;; reasonable space PV power/mass ratio ([year] 10) ;; guess at lifespan ([ton] 100)) ;; Starship payload (* ([ton] 1000) ;; tons of liquid methane in Starsihp ([J (kg -1)] 5e7))) ;; specific energy density of CH₄ ;; => 126.226944
by ben_w | 2025-10-22 12:26:04+00:00
Round-trip to GEO will add 238.7 milliseconds to whatever other infra you have over the last 200 km vertically* and whatever along the ground. It's probably fine for some things, but not for everything.

* while there could, in principle, be no extra infra in the last 200 km vertically, that means someone on the ground is talking directly to GEO. As per similar discussion about big PV space stations beaming power to the ground, your minimum ground spot size for a transmitter this big and this far away is still tens of km, which limits the other parts of your overall system design.
by Eisenstein | 2025-10-22 12:26:13+00:00
I think you are digging in a little too hard here. If someone offers a capability that you don't have, and you build that into something you use, then saying that they should be ready for it to go away at any time and be happy to have had it, seems a little too much.

If there had never been an offer, they would not have built around it, and would have found another solution and, even if harder or more inconvenient, learned how to use that and built around that. Sure, no one is obligated to continue to provide them with the product, but saying that they are being unreasonable for expecting a little bit of warning time before having support pulled is a bit unrealistic.

I know we have done the metaphors to death already, but let's try another one: imagine if someone gave you a ride to work every day for years and one morning they didn't show up and you couldn't get in touch with them. You should have had a backup plan, and you shouldn't have depended on them, but it will take you a while to find a car and rearrange your schedule and learn how to drive or whatever you have to do, and all they had to do was notify you a month or two earlier that they wouldn't be able to do it anymore.
by varispeed | 2025-10-22 12:26:36+00:00
Most people miss that the Cookie Law was essentially the training phase for GDPR. It conditioned users to reflexively click “Agree” just to make popups disappear. Once that behaviour was normalised, GDPR arrived - now those same clicks legally authorise data collection and trade that used to exist in a grey area.

That's why the more logical and simpler ideas were never on the table.