MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by immibis | 2025-10-03 09:37:50+00:00
It takes a special personality to be able to see the difference between Nazis killing Jews, and Jews killing Nazis, I guess. Especially in the midst of so much propaganda. Most Germans thought they were doing the right thing to protect their country. The Nazis were all like "the Jews are killing us so this is just self-defence!" and the Jews were also like "the Nazis are killing us so this is just self-defence!". Yet, one of those statements was correct. You'd have to really pay attention to know which one was correct, because the TV (if they had TV in that era) wouldn't tell you.

Politics is a perpetual motion machine because there are always people who seek to dramatically increase their own power and will use any excuse to do so - that is a constant. What fluctuates back and forth is which excuses work - that is the apparent pendulum, but it's the same constant driving force underneath. When protecting the country is in vogue, power-seeking sociopaths will use excuses related to protecting the country. When religious freedom is in vogue, power-seeking sociopaths will use excuses related to religious freedom. When liberating the working class is in vogue, power-seeking sociopaths will use excuses related to liberating the working class. Those aren't different sides - they're just different excuses used by the same side.
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 09:37:58+00:00
In Old English it was already pronounced /j/ there, even though the spelling was still "weg". Ditto for Old Frisian, so Normans had nothing to do with it.

The process is actually fairly straightforward. First you start with a common language that has two allophones for /g/ which are ~ [g] and [ɣ], depending on context; in this case, "weg" was [weɣ].

In Old Dutch [ɣ] then becomes subject to final obstruent devoicing, giving [x] of the modern Dutch pronunciation of the same word.

Meanwhile in Old English /k/ and /g/ (in either of its incarnations) palatalized in various environments instead. For [ɣ] in particular, it became palatalized after [e] in most cases - thus we get [weʝ]. And then [ʝ] is already very similar to [j], and gradually evolved into the latter. This all has already happened by the time most Old English texts were written.
by sph | 2025-10-03 09:38:08+00:00
It's extremely easy if you're immersed in Southern European culture.

Moru -> Flag of Sardinia, whose Wikipedia page incidentally I was reading yesterday (the Four Moors, "is cuatru morus") -> Sardinian language -> grammatically still the closest language to Latin -> the everlasting glory of the Roman Empire

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Reminds me of the fantastic, unreleased Monty Python sketch about memory association: https://youtu.be/KnpY46lOTX4?si=3Yb17jvGp-1vn6de&t=2058

Also, Monty Python -> The Life of Brian -> the everlasting glory of the Roman Empire
by akk0 | 2025-10-03 09:38:39+00:00
Guidance definitely can be helpful. Of course it's important that the possibility exists; Ihhave high functioning AuDHD and without extra support I probably wouldn't have made it as far as I have, but there's shadow sides to "support" as well. From a very young age I had to constantly play manipulative games one way towards social workers to present myself as adequately dysfunctional to qualify for financial support that my (poor, single parent) family desperately needed, and on the other hand as more "normal" than I really was to counteract my elementary school that was convinced I should go to special education and went out of their way to contact my prospective middle/high school and try to talk them out of accepting me for instance (I ended up doing the honors track in secondary education and getting a BSc after).

I'm sure a lot of those shadow sides disappear in adulthood when one is more in control over one's own destiny but so do a lot of the benefits (eg workplace accommodations aren't nearly at the same level as school accommodations and unfortunately I'm convinced the vast majority of ADHDers/Aspies are better off not telling people at work).

It's hard to say what to make of the whole "trendy" thing, for every such person I know I know several others who are definitely on the spectrum but undiagnosed. I do think in our culture we have an unhealthy tendency to jump from "this is difficult for me" to "something is wrong with me" but on the other hand executive function or sensory difficulties are something many people experience from time to time and if "I'm a little bit autistic/ADHD" is people's best way of describing what they're going through then I don't want to silence them, because I know those difficulties are real and I have a lot of sympathy for that.

In an ideal world we'd be able to talk about the symptoms without having to reach for the syndromes, but that requires a level of experiential insight and standardized nomenclature and especially sympathy on a population level that's just not really there yet.

If you just tell people you struggle with procrastination or have analysis paralysis or get too sensorily overwhelmed by sounds or smells or the office environment to function people do still often treat each other like they're snowflake wusses that need to grit their teeth and pull their bootstraps or whatever.

The fact that this is all just part of "the human condition" often just hardens people more ("I had to grit my teeth and bear it's only fair you do the same"). Putting people in an exceptional "disease" bucket gives some respite from that, would that it be otherwise.

Better to acknowledge that there's nothing special about being diseased, there's nothing wrong with being diseased. We are all diseased and we all deserve and benefit from care. Those that don't think so should try talking to an older person ;-).
by igleria | 2025-10-03 09:39:04+00:00
> China is superlative in every way possible and Americans don't really seem to get it.

A a latino it's amusing to watch. After the soviet union failed, Americans thought they had won the civilization game forever.

I would never move to China due to political concerns, but at the game of empire they are kicking butt, and that unnerves some Americans.

Must be odd being born and raised in a first world country (?)
by unethical_ban | 2025-10-03 09:40:18+00:00
Why is Waze allowed since it let's you report speed traps?

Probably because it doesn't technically advertise it as such, just "hey something requiring police presence is around".

ICEBlock should rebrand as a generic "police activity" app and have a category "other" that everyone understands is ICE but isn't labelled as such.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 09:40:38+00:00
It's always the same complaints and they are trivial. Phone numbers, onboarding is hard because capatcha (wtf?!), signal is pwned because they got money from a government grant, moxie did some weekend hacking to integrate a cryptocurrency and so it's all shit.

I've never understood these. Even the non conspiracy stuff is just... nothing. Like do what? That's a roadblock for you? Then you shouldn't be on HN or be using a phone in the first place. Best to get off the internet all together.

I just don't understand why there's so much passionate hate. It feels like bots and trolls running a disinformation campaign but I actually think it's real people
by lxgr | 2025-10-03 09:40:42+00:00
> As soon as the bot is polite enough to identify as some kind of a bot, the problem's gone, as you can apply your regular measures for rate limiting and access control now.

Very interesting, so we're about to come full circle?

Can't wait to have to mask myself as a (paying?) AI scraper to bypass annoying captchas when accessing "bot protected" websites...
by inkyoto | 2025-10-03 09:40:52+00:00
Indian languages, yes, but the story is more complicated with languages that use Indic scripts.

Tibetan, Mon-Burmese and Thai scripts, as an example, all derive from the Brahmi script (through a long and sometimes windy ancestry), but neither reflects the modern pronunciation, hence mind numbing transcription systems.

Tibetan and Burmese languages are particularly notorious for codifying the archaic pronunciation of respective languages that has been frozen in time for centuries. It is a treasure trove for linguists that have got a time machine for free, but I don't think that the same can't be said modern speakers of both languages.
by bamboozled | 2025-10-03 09:41:22+00:00
While I personally condemn Hamas's tactics and don't recognize their political legitimacy, Ukraine has billions in modern military equipment, including tanks and fighter planes. They have conventional military options Palestinians could only dream of.

It's funny because until they started winning, it was basically, "they're done in 3 days", now it's, oh they have billions in equipment etc.

Here's a question for you, why didn't Hamas have that? Why didn't the rest of the world send them more aid and weapons aid? Hmm strange.
by lqet | 2025-10-03 09:42:43+00:00
Great post. I have been intrigued by the life in Antarctica (especially the people living this life) ever since watching Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World. This place seems to attract a fascinating variety of characters, many of which seem to have sprung from a 19th-century adventure novel (or even from one of the expeditions of the Heroic Age).
by preinheimer | 2025-10-03 09:42:44+00:00
Love it, I'm still often surprised by how long a hop can be. e.g. I'm looking at one from France to Singapore.

If you're looking to trace to something far away when doing a demo we've got servers in ~280 cities around the world so <random large city>.wonderproxy.com works. e.g. taipei.wonderproxy.com or santiago.wonderproxy.com, berlin, newyork, etc.
by rashunain | 2025-10-03 09:43:00+00:00
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by int_19h | 2025-10-03 09:43:22+00:00
What you described did take place as Old English evolved, except it happened not just before front vowels but also sometimes after. However at some point late in Old English the palatalized allophones "broke off" and became phonemes in their own right, and most Old English texts are already at that stage, so it really was pronounced like modern "y" at that point, usually. What they got instead is "y" and "j" as allophones, which is partly why modern English pronunciations of most Biblical names are so weird.
by smoghat | 2025-10-03 09:43:22+00:00
6 an hour isn’t unusual at a dedicated center in the US.

I had early cataract surgery at a “mill” here in NJ. There are similar centers all over. In talking both with my eye doctor and my cousin who is an eye surgeon in on the other side of the country, I was told it was better to go with a doctor who specialized in this surgery at a dedicated center (common called a mill). The rate of complications is less because they have really dialed in the procedure and have seen everything. The first day I saw him, I was literally the last patient. He said he had operated on 80 eyeballs that day. I think it was a long day, with more than eight hours but he does a few of those days a week at different centers. He has a large crew of support staff and multiple rooms to achieve this throughput. He did a good job. It was not inexpensive. He was driving a nice Porsche. He didn’t have time for a pleasant bedside chat.

I still don’t know why I had to get the surgery at 50. I haven’t had any other weird health issues like that. The one odd thing is that my grandfather was the first person to do cataract surgery in Lithuania, back in the 1920s. I always wonder if there was a link.
by LightBug1 | 2025-10-03 09:43:37+00:00
Yes, I tend to agree. I get the feeling of an undertone of antisemitism and America First rather than any sympathy for the Palestinian people.

And the more I've read into Kirk, the more disgusted I've been.

Obviously, that doesn't justify what happened to him, but he definitely isn't some kind of saviour and hero he's been made out to be after his death.

Watching him effectively being made into a saint has been mildly nauseating.
by michelrotaru | 2025-10-03 09:44:35+00:00
Kafkorama exposes real-time data from Apache Kafka as Streaming APIs for web, mobile, and IoT apps.

We just benchmarked it:

- 1M messages/second delivered to 1M concurrent WebSocket clients

- Mean end-to-end latency <5 ms (30-minute runs, >1B messages each)

- 609 MB/s outgoing throughput using 512-byte messages

- Achieved both on a single node (vertical) and across a cluster (horizontal) with linear scalability

Blog post: https://kafkorama.com/blog/benchmarking-kafkorama.html
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 09:45:36+00:00
This has nothing to do with passport applications. He is talking about right to work checks. There is nothing excessive about them and they does not require even photo-card ID e.g. driving license / passport.

Also you don't have to insert your personal brand of politics into every discussion. There is nothing outrageous about the list of professions of counter signers. All they are wanting is someone that can be identified easily in a community.
by djtango | 2025-10-03 09:45:56+00:00
The thing is that when I listen to things like the Goldberg variations and Preludes and Fugues I'm quickly saturated. But if I sit down and play them, and study them their acclaim and brilliance becomes apparent.

So the problem isn't the music or my taste but more that I'm unable to hear their brilliance in the space of one or two listens.
by zwnow | 2025-10-03 09:46:29+00:00
Germany as a whole has become a total disaster sadly. From public transportation to schools over retirement homes to rent prices. Everything is crumbling and its depressing. I wished we could at least have good technical infrastructure, as its relatively cost efficient, but no, we lack competence and old people are blocking every modernization there is (in public offices). Its honestly extremely frustrating.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 09:46:54+00:00
The leaders of Hamas have stated the the Jewish state is to destroyed and the Jewish residents exterminated.

The PA leaders have stated that the German genocide of Jews never occurred.

And Egyptian, Jordanian, Palestinian, Libyan, and Iraqi leaders have all stated the the idea of a Palestinian People was invented in the 1960s. No joke.

If you want to start pulling out quotes to judge merit in the Middle East, there's enough material to hang anybody.
by phatfish | 2025-10-03 09:47:53+00:00
Agreed, all the scaremongering is hilarious. As if a digital ID is what is going to be used to repress the common (wo)man.

News flash, if your "liberal western government" wanted to they have more than enough tools to do it already. See all the repressive governments with institutions stuck in the 60s.

- Don't trust corporations that you have no control over. - Vote wisely for the government you do have some control over. - Accept compromises are needed in a society of millions rather than constant political conflict.

Start with the above for a better life.
by sph | 2025-10-03 09:47:57+00:00
> https://hnrss.github.io/ lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points, or other metrics.

Yes, that's the one I used, but I feel it's still too much noise. You don't want a firehose in your RSS feeds.

Just open https://news.ycombinator.com when you want to doomscroll through an almost endless stream of information. RSS doesn't work well with social media, and that's a feature.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-03 09:48:01+00:00
> Yes, converting the debt more or less equals a default.

It's not technically a default but it would definitely have a negative impact on France ability to borrow after so I get your point.

> I don't see French economy being very dynamic without the euro.

The French economy dynamism was doing mostly ok before the current wave of political instability. France still has great infrastructures, a highly educated population and cheap energy if we exit the european energy market which is artificially tying our energy price to gaz thanks to the shortsightedness of our neighboors. Plenty of advantages we could leverage.

Devaluation would solve the issue of the population being politicaly unready to lower its standard of living to lower labour costs on top of helping with the debt burden.

Then, there is the obvious political benefit of untying us from people we share neither the culture nor the vision. The argument that pulling sovereignity to gain power is a charade. The utter failure of the commission negotiation with the US revealed what should have been apparent from the start: the emperor has no cloth. Why agree to be in an union which only apparently serves to prop up Germany?
by stoneman24 | 2025-10-03 09:48:08+00:00
<Making skyscraper owner pay the same tax as the next door owner of a small bodega just doesn't make sense>

I kind of agree, just tax the land as to the utility value of the land (not what is built on it). If you want to tax what’s on the land (or what it’s being used for) then that’s a different tax basis (perhaps more of a wealth tax or social benefit tax)

Both a farmer and I have 500 acres (his farm, my golf course). There is a basic land tax perhaps but I might get taxed for the golf course but he might get benefits for the socially beneficial food production.
by mrb | 2025-10-03 09:48:27+00:00
"There’s ways to get around TLS signatures but it’s much harder and requires a lot more legwork to get working"

I wouldn't call it "much harder". All you need to bypass the signature is to choose random ciphers (list at https://curl.se/docs/ssl-ciphers.html) and you mash them up in a random order separated by colons in curl's --ciphers option. If you pick 15 different ciphers in a random order, there are over a trillion signatures possible, which he couldn't block. For example this works:

$ curl --ciphers AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-SHA:... https://foxmoss.com/blog/packet-filtering/

But, yes, most bots don't bother randomizing ciphers so most will be blocked.
by dspillett | 2025-10-03 09:48:30+00:00
> yet from pure curiosity I picked up 6502 CPU(Apple 2, Commodore 64, NES) assembly as a hobby project.

I cut my programming teeth on an Acorn Electron (a somewhat cut-down BBC Micro) then later a Master128. The fact that the BASIC ROM included a decent multi-pass assembler was great for learning the deeper workings of the machine and such things in general. Being able to easily mix BASIC and assembly provided good lessons wrt choosing where optimisations were worth bothering with and where you should just stick with BASIC to save dev time. Those machines were also based around variants of the 6502.
by openmarkand | 2025-10-03 09:48:34+00:00
Hmm, why not.

Though most of the software do the right thing by checking if the standard output is an actual tty (isatty) to avoid colors when redirecting to something else (e.g. socket, fifo, etc).

The name NO_COLOR suggests a really binary choice which may be okay. Though GNU coreutils usually have a more selective option like --color=always|auto|never.

I'd prefer supporting a more general COLORS=on|off|compatible|...

Meaning:

- on: always on even when redirecting

- off: fully off

- compatible: maybe something like on by default and off if redirecting to a non-tty

- ...: add more choices
by noelwelsh | 2025-10-03 09:49:22+00:00
That's just clearly not true. Look at the high end of any sport and you see obvious genetic advantages. Basketball is particularly obvious, because height is so important. Nate Robinson could jump just as high at LeBron James, but at 1.75m (5'9") he was never going to be as successful at basketball as the 2.06m (6'9") LeBron. There are plenty of basketball players who would have never got on the court if they weren't as tall as they are. No amount of passion is going to make you taller.
by Saigonautica | 2025-10-03 09:49:38+00:00
When I first visited Asia 13 years ago, this is the feeling I got too. It's wonderful and intoxicating and new.

It spoke to me so strongly, that I immigrated and started my first business. Not to China, but nearby (Viet Nam). It was a very tough road, I never ended up particularly wealthy, but I have no regrets.
by fakedang | 2025-10-03 09:49:56+00:00
You mean the really small minority of orthodox Jews who live outside Israel and oppose Zionism because they believe the coming of the Messiah should not be driven by humans (or something like that)? Or the ones who oppose the current Gaza conflict because of the recent push to conscript them into the armed forces, when they previously enjoyed the exemption?

Trust me, no orthodox Jews are opposing the Gaza conflict on humanitarian grounds. On the contrary, there is a STRONG orthodox faction in Netanyahu's government (of which Smotrich is a member).
by skydhash | 2025-10-03 09:50:26+00:00
The thing is, i love doing both. But there’s an actual rush of enjoyment when I finally figure one of the tenets of a system. It’s like solving a puzzle for me.

After that, it’s all became routine work as easy as drinking water. You explain the problem and I can quicly find the solution. Using AI at this point would be like herding cats. I already know what code to write, having a handful being suggested is distracting. Like feeling a a tune, and someone playing another melody other than the one you know.
by sylware | 2025-10-03 09:50:51+00:00
What??

Ofc, if your program uses floating point calculations you will want to use the hardware machine instructions for that.

Here, we were talking about about all those machine instructions which do not bring much more on top of the core ISA. Those would be implemented using fusion, appropriate for R(educed)ISC silicon. The trade-off is code density, and code density on modern silicon, probably in very specific niches, but there, program machine instructions would be generated (BTW, probably written instead of generated for those niches...) with those very specific niches in mind.

And RISC-V hardware implementations, with proper publishing of most common, and pertinent, machine instruction fusion patterns, will be able to "improve" step by step, targetting what they actually run and what would make real difference. Sure, this will require a bit of coordination to agree on machine instruction fusion patterns.
by scott_w | 2025-10-03 09:51:13+00:00
A driving license isn’t sufficient for right to work checks because you can have a driving license without being able to work.

For shits and giggles, I just looked up the checker on the UK Gov website and… if you don’t have a passport or easy access to your birth certificate, you don’t have enough evidence of right to work.

Is this possible for most people? Yes. Does it leave groups excluded? Absolutely!

https://www.gov.uk/check-job-applicant-right-to-work
by pantulis | 2025-10-03 09:51:23+00:00
The key with RSS is curation, otherwise it stops being your "controlled feed". FOMO can make you add noisy feeds that basically are putting too much information that will dwarf the relevant feeds. In my case, I follow Hacker News and Slashdot which are ok but also thought it was a good idea to add "The Verge | All posts" to my feed reader and I find myself hitting "Mark all as read" continuosly. It's not The Verge's fault of course, it's my lack of strategy.
by threeducks | 2025-10-03 09:52:04+00:00
@dang Looks like astroturfing. There are several comments by users with very little history, all mentioning that they took the course before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456502 (0 karma)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45460800 (1 karma)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456941 (4 karma)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45459683 (3 karma)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45460321 (1 karma)