MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-10-10 16:55:40+00:00
And why should we accept this list as a definition? Like Unberto Eco's list, there does not appear to be evidence that it is broadly recognized as a definition, other than it being frequently being reposted by partisans.

In fact, a casual search suggests that the supposed author (From your link, "Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt") is neither a Ph.D nor educated in political science: https://danielmalmer.medium.com/the-long-complicated-history... so it cannot even be used as an appeal to authority. This seems to be confirmed by the publication from which the list is taken, (note the different spelling of the first name): "Laurence W. Britt is a retired international businessperson, writer, and commentator. He is the author of 'Fascism, Anyone?' (FI, Spring 2003), the most reprinted—and most pirated—article in the magazine’s history." (https://secularhumanism.org/authors/laurence-w-britt/). Interestingly, the author seems to have no footprint online other than his fame through this list, so this guy is, in a non-derogatory sense, a non-entity.

[EDIT] More searching turns up a post in which comments purportedly by Laurence Britt (#24) also deny that he has academic credentials and also provides more context (#26) about writing the list: https://www.ryananddebi.com/2004/10/16/laurence-britts-14-po...
by jmyeet | 2025-10-10 16:55:53+00:00
In 1988, Saddam Hussein dropped nerve gas on Kurds. Saddam was then a US ally and a foil against Iran. The US had propped up that war killing millions of Iraqis and Iranians for almost a decade for basically a net zero outcome. Why was Iran an enemy? Because the US deposed the democratically elected government in 1953 becasue they threatened to nationalize their own oil reserves.

Do you see a pattern here? Like at all?

The key point is that Saddam could drop nerve gas on Iraqi citizens and it still didn't change him being a US ally (and puppet). We don't care about someone being "bad". We never have. Saddam only ceased to become an ally when he invaded Kuwait and threatened our truly regional ally, Saudi Arabia.

All Castro did was overthrow Batisa, another US ally, and nationalize Cuban assets.

Hungary is a member of NATO and a US ally despite Viktor Orban essentially overthrowing democracy and genuinely being bad.

We helped overthrow Basher Al-Asaad. The al-asaads were former US allies too by the way. Why? Because now they were bad. Who is the new Syrian president? A man by the name of Ahmed al-Sharaa. Who is that you might ask? A former al-Qaeda leader, you know the guys were the Big Bad [tm] for 9/11. But that's OK, he (allegedly) cut ties with al-Aqeda in 2016 so all is forgiven. Let's not look too deeply into 15 or the 19 9/11 hijackers being Saudi.

Here's the lesson: whenever the US says someone is being punished, bombed, sanctioned, invaded or whatever because they're "bad" know that it's a lie. I mean they might be bad. But that's never the reason for whatever the latest punitive action is. Always, always, always the reason is become the interests of US foreign policy or Western companies is being threatened.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-10 16:56:15+00:00
> she actually dedicated her prize to Trump

Indeed. Juan Guaidó is yesterdays man.

According to the New York Times...

" She has expressed support for the use of force to depose the Maduro regime; one of her advisors told the New York Times that she has coordinated with the Trump administration and that she has a plan for the first hundred hours after his deposition"

Not sure what democratic mandate she has to be in charge post a foreign led military coup - though she is a graduate of the Yale World Fellows programme.

So rather than a big FU it would appear to be more likely to be an attempt to raise her profile to legitimise a US led coup.
by ro_bit | 2025-10-10 16:56:15+00:00
> The Boeing 737-800 had just 220kg of fuel left in its tanks when it finally landed, according to a picture of what appears to be a handwritten technical log. Pilots who examined the picture said this would be enough for just five or six minutes of flying.

For reference, passenger airlines immediately declare emergency if their planned flight path would put them under 30 minutes of fuel (at least in the US). Landing with 5 minutes remaining of fuel is very atypical
by 29athrowaway | 2025-10-10 16:56:15+00:00
The Venezuelan regime makes money from oil. They do not need to involve the population to generate most of the GDP. To them, spending resources to have a healthy and happy populace is just a waste of money that would otherwise go to the rulers of the regime. The CGP "Rules for rulers" explains how this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

They stay in power with the help of a paramilitary group of bullies that intimidates people: colectivos. The Venezuelan colectivos are based on the Cuban CDR (committee for the defense of the revolution). And there are other elements of the Cuban "model" of staying in power that has "worked" for 66 years, that Venezuelan regime has adopted. And the CDR resembles the Nazi Sturmabteilung in their modus operandi.

So in the end what's holding the regime together is all violence, all the way down.

The history lesson is that when the most of the GDP generation doesn't need without the help of the population, the result is a regime. Scalable and cost efficient AGI will do the same to countries that do not make most of their GDP from extracting natural resources because once the citizen is not needed for wealth generation, territorial control, etc., their political representation goes away.
by MisterTea | 2025-10-10 16:56:47+00:00
> Surely it's more straightforward to buy a SBC yourself and plug that into your TV?

Of course it is. Though my point is we already have the hardware in the TV and it would be awesome to actually use it the way we want to use it. Also, I have two dumb TV's, each with a small PC hooked to it and they haven't moved in years.
by gota | 2025-10-10 16:56:53+00:00
Minor part of the article, but the thing about "tutorial Hell" is very true:

> Students would watch (or fall asleep to) 6-hour videos, code along in their own editors, feel like they got it, and then freeze up the moment they had to write anything from scratch. Classic tutorial hell.

This is why, across history, the tried and true method of learning a craft is an apprenticeship. You, the junior, tag along a senior. You work under a shop that is led by a senior-senior that is called a master. Apprentices become craftsmen, craftsmen become masters. AFAIK, the master does not 'offload' project guidance into non-craftsmen, it is an expected part of the craftsmen role to be project/product managers/owners.

I've said this a million times to close friends and at this point I'm only half joking. We, and I'm including myself in the 'developer' crowd although I may not deserve it, have really dropped the ball in not being a 'guild' since way back when. At least since the late 1980's; and certainly since before the Original Boom of software dev as a profession (I'm assuming it was late 90's? I know not)

(Although I suspect that if that were the case we'd have fewer developers throughout the 00s and 10s, which may have impacted the development of the field itself in unexpected, but likely negative, ways)
by scrumper | 2025-10-10 16:56:56+00:00
Correct, article says they landed with 220kg which is around 6 minutes of average fuel burn over an entire flight - bit less at cruise, a hell of a lot more at takeoff/climb.

So I don't think 220kg is enough to do a go-around in a 737 (well, a go-around would've been initiated with a bit more than 220kg in the tank - they burned some taxing to the gate - but you get my point.) I've read around 2,300kg for takeoff and climb on a normal flight in a 737-8. A go-around is going to use close to that, it's a full power takeoff but a much shorter climb phase up to whatever procedure is set for the airport and then what ATC tells you.

I just flew 172s but even with those little things we were told, your reserve is never to be used.

These people came very, very close to a disaster. Fortunately they had as much luck left as they did fuel.
by m-schuetz | 2025-10-10 16:57:02+00:00
I'm of course talking about WebGPU for web browsers, and I'd rather not use a graphics API like wgpu with uncertain support for the latest GPU features. Especially since wgpu went for the same paradigm as Vulkan, so it's not even that much better to use but you sacrifice lots of features. Also Vulkan seems to finally start fixing mistakes like render passes and pipelines, whereas WebGPU (and I guess wgpu?) went all in.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 16:57:17+00:00
> It quite specifically doesn’t say “the basis”

The headline quite specifically does say: "Uncovering the Molecular Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog"

The article also implies that AMPA drugs could address COVID brain fog:

> For example, drugs that suppress AMPAR activity could be a viable approach to mitigate brain fog.

This was one of the points I was trying to counter.

It also claims to have "resolved key uncertainties":

> In summary, the team’s findings resolve key uncertainties about the biological basis of Long COVID brain fog

Which is obviously not true. This is only one biomarker, not the resolution to a key uncertainty.

I disagree that I'm reading too much into it. These are direct quotes from the article I was responding to.
by nchmy | 2025-10-10 16:57:27+00:00
some quibbles

D* doesnt only use SSE. It can do normal http request-response as well. Though, SSE can also do 0, 1 or infinite responses too.

Calling datastar's pro features "necessary" is a bit disingenuous - they literally tell people not to buy it because those features, themselves, are not actually necessary. Theyre just bells and whistles, and some are actually a bad idea (in their own words).

Datastar is 11kb and that includes all of the htmx plugins you mentioned (sse, idiomorph) and much more (all of alpine js, essentially).
by Razengan | 2025-10-10 16:57:37+00:00
> This is such a breath of fresh air in a world where everything is considered obsolete after like 3 years.

I dunno man, there's an equal amount of bullshit that still exists only because that's how it was before we were born.

> Code is just math.

What?? No. If it was there'd never be any bugs.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-10 16:57:51+00:00
Of course it can be solved using the proper tools by a domain expert/practitioner (even with chatGPT since the expert will know what to ask).

But why didn't the AI expert solve it using chatGPT? If it has to land to an expert for reimplementation from scratch after wasting a day on reviewing slop, did we gain productivity?
by riedel | 2025-10-10 16:57:53+00:00
While the new ministry still has to deliver, the idea of creating a ministry with a dedicated budget is not that bad of an idea. Before often money was diverted in other places, ministries failed to synchronizes. Digitalization itself was part of the traffic ministry (as digital infrastructure, the ministry also has many agencies below such as the weather service, so it made sense a bit), however, most administrative procedures were part of the ministry of interior and citizen data often handled by the finance ministry. I am not a fan of the new government either, but I still hope that a bit of digitalization will finally land in Germany. Beyond sovereign tech fund, IMHO, the previous government failed to deliver regarding digitalization. To be fair the big problem in Germany remains the federal structure with tons of stuff implemented differently at state level and even worse at each municipality.
by schmookeeg | 2025-10-10 16:57:56+00:00
I'm good at ignoring these "deals" but oh man my kryptonite remains "spend X more to get free shipping" -- Prime has ruined me for valuing shipping cost.

Literally in buyer remorse right now because I overbought about $80 worth of very lightweight aircraft parts from Wichita to score the free shipping. Shipping of a few ounces of aluminum.

I'm a gullible idiot :D
by AceyMan | 2025-10-10 16:58:24+00:00
I realize this is a UK carrier and was operating in the EU/UK, but for the most part, the rest of the world uses the US legal framework for aviation as a boilerplate for their own civil code. Yes, there are some differences, but these are usually minor and more of "differences in quantity" rather than "differences in kind". [Since the airplane was invented here the US had a head start on regulating civil aviation.]
by mattwiese | 2025-10-10 16:58:25+00:00
That's true, the existing power infra (substation, etc) is big and would cost a pretty penny to build greenfield.

But the water is also right there and more than plentiful. In this case it pays to step back and look at the wider strategic value.

If anything, I want to inspire in people's minds a more thoughtful approach to locating techno-industrial infrastructure. To take a page from permaculture, we can work with the landscape instead of against it.

All that being said, I wish this was something other than a data center. Nuclear power, a second Micron plant, please anything but this!
by 20after4 | 2025-10-10 16:58:28+00:00
Walmart:

rollbacks = raise the price then reduce it and pretend you lowered prices.

clearance = stuff that's been on the shelf for years for barely discounted prices.

Their tech clearances are often ridiculous. Things like 2GB sd cards for $25, marked down from $30 but that $30 price was from 10 years ago when 2GB was considered a large sd card.
by nz3000 | 2025-10-10 16:59:09+00:00
I've been using datastar for the last year to much success. The core library is fantastic. I use Go as my backend language of choice, and have a boilerplate project built from examples that were in the original datastar site code. I've also added some extra examples to show how one can build web components that work seamlessly to integrate with JS libs that exist today and drive them from a backend server.

If you are looking to understand what's possible when you use datastar and you have some familiarity with Go, I hope this is a solid starting point for you.

- https://github.com/zangster300/northstar
by raffael_de | 2025-10-10 16:59:37+00:00
"This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

https://xcancel.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1976642376119549990
by fgonzag | 2025-10-10 16:59:53+00:00
I was going to because I like the architecture, but then I saw the fact that licensing changes are going to be frequent, and that the developers seem a bit aggressive on another thread, and I've decided to skip it.

Datastar developers are free to do what they want with their code, but as someone who releases open source software, I'm tired of projects using open source simply to create a moat or user base then switch to a proprietary model.
by debazel | 2025-10-10 17:00:13+00:00
Rome was going to be a whole toolchain built completely in Javascript. That was why they started with linting and formatting because they first had to implement the Javascript language parser and AST that was going to be the core of Rome. Linting and formatting was two easy things to start with while the ironed out the parser and AST implementation.

But when SWC/Esbuild came around to prove how much faster and efficient the compilation can be when written in a more performant language like Rust or Go, all hype around Rome died because no one wanted another Javascript toolchain.

Turbopack is backed by Vercel who obviously have a lot more capital behind them, but it's also built on Rust and at least has the potential to compete.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-10 17:00:13+00:00
You say "we" like it is the population of internet users. They have no choice in this other than to use whatever sites are available. It is the megaEvilCorps that are doing it to us. They start with a novel idea that is rewarded by lots of users. They then decide to weaponize their site against us to become money printing machines. They then use that money to buy up any competition which artificially limits the end user's choices. WE aren't doing shit to ourselves. Profit seeking megaEvilCorps are doing it to us.

On top of the megaEvilCorps are evilScammyHackers that have made the internet a dangerous place. So entrepreneurial minded folks came up with some cool things to help protect users and site owners from these evilScammyHackers. Problem is, it takes scaled services to do it which again takes money which naturally limits those that are able to provide those services. This is again not we doing anything to ourselves.

If you mean we has a species, then sure, but that's a really stretched definition of we
by Redster | 2025-10-10 17:00:20+00:00
There are many misleading buttons on the homepage. From the first button that says "Explore Marketplaces", but takes you to a very odd set of cards that are instructions for how to set up plugins with images of random plugins or websites. And when you scroll to the bottom, the button saying "Browse Claude Code Plugins" takes you to back up a heading to a feature list of plugins.

On the whole, this seems rather misleading. I would much rather just have a Github page with a list of links to actual plugins people found that were cool.

Instead, this doesn't look like a site that a human put together to actually help other humans, and so I found it more frustrating than helpful in it's current state.

Assuming there's a real human behind this: Get some plugins on it or something and test it, please!
by paulgerhardt | 2025-10-10 17:00:26+00:00
Do recommend the LG C series (C5 or C4 are new or the C1 series if you want a deal on classifieds - same hardware as the higher end models but needs a firmware bit flip). The OS is very rootable and it makes a great TV that doubles as a monitor. Supports free sync / g-sync. OLED is nice at this scale.

Text is very readable, refresh rate is good. It uses the same panels as the fancier G series in the larger sizes. One can root the firmware to make it go brighter. (Though this is screen works well in medium or dimly lit rooms. It does not shine in very bright rooms).

Plenty of YouTube videos singing the C series praises as a TV / Monitor.[1] LG webOS is also trivial/friendly to root in developer mode and network control of the tv is a nice to have.

Would avoid Samsung. I love the matte on the Frame and the design of the Serif but the OS is frustrating / impractical to root.

[1] https://youtu.be/Qtve0u3GJ9Y
by dang | 2025-10-10 17:00:58+00:00
I tried to find a representative phrase in the article that would make a good replacement for the baity title*, but I didn't find one, so I did a best guess. If anyone can suggest a better (i.e. accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.

* in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-10 17:01:08+00:00
> What’s the evidence for this? Exactly what I paraphrased from the study - they chose three biomarkers that correlate with CVD - A increased 19%, B decreased 9%, C stayed the same. If they had chosen some other biomarker D instead of A, that increased say 5% or less, it would give an equally strong but opposite result as the result from the study.

Meta analysis is only as strong as the studies it's based on. I looked at quite a few studies before that purport to show sodium causing CVD, and none of them strongly support their conclusion - they all had significant flaws, not that they're not useful research just that they don't show what they are used to say they show.

For example, there were studies showing that increased salt increased blood pressure by ~5 mm Hg over long term. I understand that blood pressure can be affected very slightly by salt intake, I would guess because the body is holding more water or some other normal mechanism like that, but this does not suggest it's the long term cause of blood pressures going up from a normal 120 to a chronic 160 or 200 as we're seeing in tons of people. There could be any number of adjustments that would increase blood pressure slightly WHILE the change is in effect and then go back to baseline afterward. The chronic high blood pressure is a disease that doesn't just go back to normal immediately after a change.

Anyway, I don't have time at the moment to look through the 11 studies cited in that meta analysis, but if you pick the one or two that give the strongest evidence for salt causing CVD I'd look at them.

I'm genuinely trying to figure this out myself as best I can, because I know way too many people close to me dealing with early stage CVD and diabetes. And a lot of them say they're working on it by avoiding meat and dairy and eggs and salt, and instead of that they end up eating more refined oils and refined flour and sugar. It doesn't seem to be helping them any after years of this, and I think this is backwards advice. I'm not saying we need to eat tons of salt, maybe it does have a minor effect, just that it's not the real culprit.
by celrod | 2025-10-10 17:01:19+00:00
I use kakoune, and don't understand why helix seems to be taking off while kakoune (which predated and inspired helix) remains niche.

Kakoune fully embraces the unix philosophy, even going so far as relying on OS (or terminal-multiplexer, e.g. kitty or tmux) for window management (via client/sever, so each kakoune instance can still share state like open buffers).

A comparison going into the differences (and embracing of the unix philosophy by kakoune) by someone who uses both kakoune and helix: https://phaazon.net/blog/more-hindsight-vim-helix-kakoune

Sensible defaults and easy setup are a big deal. No one wants to fiddle with setting up their lsp and tree-sitter. There's probably more to their differences in popularity than just this, though.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 17:01:19+00:00
The test suite was much larger than the code. It took ages to get it certified, the calculations had to be correct to the last significant digit on reference problems to prove that the algorithms had been implemented correctly. This caused a bit of a headache because the floating point library that I used turned out to be slightly different than the one from the benchmark.

There are three different kinds of jet fuel and all are produced to strict standards, and then there are allowances for ppm water contamination (very low, to ensure the fuel system will never freeze at altitude or in freezing weather on the ground or at lower altitude).
by rmonvfer | 2025-10-10 17:01:29+00:00
The only way this might work (IMO) is writing the tests yourself (but of course, this requires you to plan and design very meticulously in advance) and doing some kind of “blind TDD” where the LLM is not able to see the tests, only run them and act on the results. Even then, I’ve had Claude (Opus 4.1) bypass tests by hardcoding conditions as it found them so I’d say reliability for this method is not 100%.

Having the LLM write the tests is… well, a recipe for destruction unless you babysit it and give it extremely specific restrictions (again, I’ve done this in mid to large sized projects with fairly comprehensive documentation on testing conventions and results have been mixed: sometimes the LLM does an okay job but tests obvious things, sometimes it ignores the instructions, sometimes it hardcodes or disables conditions…)