MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nick__m | 2025-10-07 20:41:30+00:00
I tought that the National Post was exaggerating the severity in their crusade against the Liberal like they frequently do. So I when to read the law and it's as bad as they say: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-8/first-re...

... Factor Before making the order, the Governor in Council must consider (a) its operational impact on the affected telecommunications service providers; (b) its financial impact on the affected telecommunications service providers; (c) its effect on the provision of telecommunications services in Canada; and (d) any other factor that the Governor in Council considers relevant. ... No compensation (8) No one is entitled to any compensation from His Majesty in right of Canada for any financial losses resulting from the making of an order under subsection (1).
by neom | 2025-10-07 20:41:44+00:00
Will depend heavily on how it is interpreted and exercised by Cabinet, it's ex-ante accountability - required parliamentary reporting after the fact.

Personal opinion as a Canadian, and may not be popular...but I like it's done this way to a degree, I actually have more faith in the Governor in Council than how the courts might interperate this, there is a lot of political risk to using this, and I do believe that the crown will in fact enforce parliamentary accountability. If this truly is a national security tool, these powers are less alarming than, say, those granted directly to an independent agency or to security services acting without crown/ministerial oversight.
by nevertoolate | 2025-10-07 20:41:58+00:00
You never design a solution which needs multiple architectural components which _support_ the feature? I do, and would make little sense to merge them as separate PRs most of the time as that would mean sometimes tests written on the inappropriate level, also a lot more coordination and needs a lot more elaborate description then just explain how the set of components work in tandem to provide the user value.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-07 20:42:01+00:00
Once upon a time, 1 pence was one point (I don't recall which supermarket). Now you get 2 Nectar points per pound. I do remember my parents grumbling when it went to 1 point per two pence.

The supermarkets have gotten wise to people realising points and vouchers are scams that almost never pay out substantially and have instead started punishment pricing for people who don't opt into data collection, sorry, loyalty cards.
by rixed | 2025-10-07 20:42:01+00:00
Like others I really like the idea and the realisation looks great too!

I might not be the typical user for this, because I'd prefer my data to actually stay in the cloud where it is, but I'd still like to have it indexed and timelined. Can timelinize do this? Like, instead of downloading everything from gphoto, youtube, bluesky, wtv, just index what's there and offer the same interface? And only optionnaly download the actual data in addition to the meta-data?
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-07 20:42:29+00:00
I'm in a leaky, 80 year old 3 bed 2 bath in the Midwest (that doesn't have insulation in the walls... brick and plaster). Worst in the Summer is around $100/mth, worst in the Winter $40/mth (of course gas for heat is around $80 Winter, $15 Summer for water heater, stove, etc.).
by mholt | 2025-10-07 20:42:49+00:00
> except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.

Yeah, that's the cost I'm talking about. It essentially amounts to paying an extra subscription to be able to download your data [on a regular basis].

I'm a big rclone fan btw :) I'm sure there's some future where we do something like this to automate Takeouts.
by Animats | 2025-10-07 20:42:52+00:00
The ideas were sort of there, but the hardware... Hollerith's original census machine in 1888 [1] got data processing going, but it wasn't a volume product. Bear in mind that neither low-cost steel or milling machines existed at the time. Making things with large numbers of precision parts was not yet commercially feasible. The clock industry eventually cracked that, but metal clocks and watches at low cost in high volume took until the 1890s.

Making insulated wire was really hard. Before plastics, wire insulation was varnish or fabric. I restore old Teletypes as a hobby. The oldest one I have working is from about 1926. All the wiring insulation had decayed and had to be replaced. Reliable wire is surprisingly modern. Reliable rubber (neoprene) is only from WWII. Plastics are even later.

[1] https://www.census.gov/about/history/bureau-history/census-i...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 20:43:23+00:00
> I'd imagine the California arrest restriction at it's courts is not constitutional as it conflicts with enforcement of existing federal immigration laws

Preëmption is about conflicts of laws [1]. You’d need statute giving ICE the power to enforce its will in state courthouses to preëmpt California law.

> Even if it's for cheap labor, Democrats

I live in a red state. We started to see ICE enforcement and then our Senators told them to fuck off.

To the extent we have a safe zone from immigration enforcement, it's in Republican economic strongholds [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-walks-back-limits-raids...
by legitster | 2025-10-07 20:43:40+00:00
I'm still a little bit skeptical because chemical energy storage is inherently corrosive and unstable and so maintaining installed capacity is more expensive.

Unlike power generation, where you can build a facility and it can more or less run for decades with basic maintenance, batteries effectively have a limited number of cycles they can be relied on for. So you would effectively have to remanufacture your entire storage capacity every 10-15 years. So scaling up on storage would theoretically get exponentially more expensive the more of the grid you take over.

Obviously battery technology is improving and each 1% gain in improvement represents drastic savings. But I think there is still lots of reason to diversify technologically and continue to look into complementary sources of base power like nuclear.
by Kon5ole | 2025-10-07 20:44:05+00:00
Storage is not needed. You can consume solar power as it's generated, and it is as useful then as if it came from oil, gas or coal.

When the sun goes down, you have saved tons of oil, gas and goal that didn't have to burn during the day. Which is very very good. You don't have to "solve nighttime" before solar makes sense, it makes sense immediately.

Edit: And of course, nighttime is also being solved, in many ways, already.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-07 20:44:14+00:00
> Assuming perfect memory and you never make typos they are exactly the same.

You can make an alias.

> For most installs. Or distros. Probably.

Comparing https://repology.org/project/bat-cat/packages vs https://repology.org/project/highlight/packages appears to show them with approximately equal availability. (Unless you're trying some other point, in which case I don't follow.)
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-07 20:44:17+00:00
> However, as time has gone by, Bluesky’s traffic has declined (X’s has as well) and some of its users have become increasingly upset at its moderation decisions, including allowing U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and anti-trans writer Jesse Singal to remain as users of the platform.

So the expectation is that the vice president of the United States should be banned because he says stuff people don't like? What's the benefit of ignoring reality like this? He's not going to magically disappear if Bluesky bans him - indeed he'll remain VP with all the power that entails.

This is worse than performative activism, it's like some kind of political denialism. You can't change reality by pretending it doesn't exist.
by globnomulous | 2025-10-07 20:44:44+00:00
> If the model is doing meaningful research that moves along the state of the ecosystem, then we are in the outer loop of self improvement.

That's a lot of vague language. I don't really see any way to respond. I suppose I can say this much: the usefulness of a tool is not proof of the correctness of the predictions we make about it.

> And yes it will progress because thats the nature of it doing meaningful work.

This is a non sequitur. It makes no sense.

And I never said there's anything bad about or wrong with statistical models.
by hn_throw_bs | 2025-10-07 20:44:56+00:00
Posting throwaway for obvious reasons.

You’ve heard this line of thought before, and forgive me for parroting but here it goes:

Bluesky attracts the same people X attracts, they just disagree on specifics which in most cases are surface level. The fanaticism and tribalism is basically the same. There is no utopia where a community is pleasant without a lot of guarding and gatekeeping and, really, viewpoint alignment and subject matter filtering. Some topics are basically there for shitflinging, and that’s mostly the topics that seem to be a hot poker for everyone.

No one gets banned for preferring Debian over Fedora.
by solsane | 2025-10-07 20:45:02+00:00
Perspective: Former college robotics team member a while ago (2022) (IEEE SoutheastCon)

I definitely see niches for both. Even if you've got some experience an Arduino uno or mega is just an atMEGA with good software support and IO headers.

We'd usually use an RPI and Arduino - connect our 'out of the box' modules to the pi, pi to arduino via uart serial, and wire arduino to the meat and potatoes. The RPI's IO was generally not as good in terms of latency but also if the wrong wire gets crossed suddenly we'd have a dead Pi but the Arduino would shrug it off.
by kace91 | 2025-10-07 20:45:02+00:00
You can't be serious.

I don't use neither X nor bluesky, but I did get an X account for a while so I could check the links in random news or conversations, and half the posts had unrelated Nazi messages just below.

Not 'oh that's right wing so he's a Nazi' comments, I mean literal swastikas and kkk uniforms.
by jochalek | 2025-10-07 20:45:16+00:00
Few ideas related to healthcare

- AI assistants for smaller practices without enterprise EHR. Epic at the moment integrates 3rd party AI assistants, but those are of course cloud services and are aimed at contracts with large hospital systems. They're a great step forward, but leave much to be desired by doctors in actual usefulness.

- Consumer/patient facing products to help people synthesize all of their health information and understand what their healthcare providers are doing. Think of a n on device assistant that can connect with something like https://www.fastenhealth.com/ to make local RAG of their health history.

Overall, users can feel more confident they know where their PHI is, and potentially easier for smaller companies/start-ups to get into the healthcare space without having to move/store people's PHI.
by jart | 2025-10-07 20:45:32+00:00
It's disturbing that the dollar has lost 51% of its value in the past 12 months. The smart thing to do if you want to hedge is divide the amount of money you have by 100*4000 and buy that many gold futures. So if you have $400k in your broker account, then you get 1x /GC futures. That way if the value of your $400k USD goes down 15%, your future will give you $60k to replace it. If the value of gold goes down 15% then you'll have to pay $60k which isn't so bad because it means the value of your $400k went up 15% since we're assuming gold is inversely correlated to the US dollar. History is on my side. For thousands of years, gold has been used as the benchmark of benchmarks when it comes to measuring abstract value.

You only need about $16k of margin to own a gold futures contract. That can come from the stocks you're already holding, which act as collateral. In practice gold goes up a lot of the time because M3 goes up, which causes stocks to go up too. So there's potentially a lot of upside. At least in terms of USD. Especially if the dollar goes Weimar and Indian women end up owning the world.

The funny thing about gold is it actually loses about 2% of its value each year, due to more of it being mined. I think that's the 2% the fed is talking about when they claim inflation is that low. They're only talking about their own supply. Not the paper money they give you. So the fact that the USD, bolstered by the hard daily work of millions of people, has lost 50.1% of its value in 12 months compared to a falling rock dug out of the ground that doesn't do anything, just goes to show how bad things really are.

It's because the USD is no longer a means of exploiting American labor. It's a pension for a continental retirement home. The world is waking up to this fact. They thought they were gaining wealth by owning USD. Now they're scrambling to not lose it. It's why everyone is gaga for gold. At least for now, until a currency comes along that has a positive value proposition.
by zahlman | 2025-10-07 20:46:03+00:00
This is a cute promotion, but I would have preferred either a Show HN with a link to the repo instead of a blog writeup, or a blog post with more detail about how the library actually works. In particular, how specific is it to the ETree representation of XML? Because there are a lot of ways to create human-readable data with tree-structure semantics, and XML is about my absolute last choice.
by derbOac | 2025-10-07 20:46:16+00:00
I much prefer Bluesky to X but have had a hunch this was coming due to everything I've read about the practicality of running a Bluesky protocol service.

I still think there's room for something better technically. Mastodon seems more true to the decentralized ethos but I've never quite gotten used to the server dependency experience.

Nostr appeals to me technically but every time I'm on it seems swamped completely by discussion of cryptocurrency.

I guess to me it feels like one of these catch 22 (necessary but not sufficient?) problems where you have to have the right technical base for a platform, which seems doable, but even then you have to have the right userbase also.
by whizzter | 2025-10-07 20:46:46+00:00
This article doesn't seem to be for any disk based structure but rather in-memory, in an in-memory scenario with order requirements some users have reported B-tree's as being quite competitive in mostly-read scenarios.

"Write-heavy" scenarios will probably be just fine with std::map (backed by an RB-tree) since the main downside of B-tree's is write amplification that isn't an issue since memory doesn't really have any block granularity.

LSM tree's in-memory will probably not be that useful as scanning becomes much more complicates (it's an interesting structure though if you have append-only workloads and want to implement dictionary for size-coded projects on top of a list).
by hn_throw_bs | 2025-10-07 20:47:28+00:00
I don’t like these examples because IRL nobody does things this way.

Try actual problems that require you to use these tools and the inter-relationships between them, where it becomes blindingly obvious why they exist. Calculus is a prime example and it’s comical most students find Calculus hard because their LA is weak. But Calculus has extensive uses, just not for doing basic carb counting.
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-07 20:47:49+00:00
The big example that comes to my mind is Matrix, where most homeservers use Mjolnir to apply centralized public blocklists of other servers/people they don't like.

So if for example #archlinux disagrees with your opinion and they decide to ban you for it, you are now banned from many other unrelated channels.

I have also seen subreddits that auto-ban users that have ever posted in specific other (unrelated) subreddits.
by dude250711 | 2025-10-07 20:48:05+00:00
Yeah, he kind of lied about the length.

I would let it slip, but it's obvious that the content is optimised for smartphones/tablets too, so kind of painful to scroll on a computer.

As such, I sentence this post to be ignored (by me).

The irony is that an AI would do a great job summarising it too...
by queenkjuul | 2025-10-07 20:48:10+00:00
Foreign PRs with malicious GitHub Actions attached are a common vector for the very supply chain attacks OP was trying to mitigate, from what i understand. At first glance a PR like that is incredibly suspicious.

I sympathize with the OP, GitHub makes it outrageously easy to accidentally open an upstream PR when you meant to open one on your own fork, it's happened to me twice. But i don't blame lodash for blocking them.

Regardless, opening an issue about their release process obviously should have been done first.
by slipheen | 2025-10-07 20:48:18+00:00
Just one point of view- but I have used both a decent amount and I drastically prefer CarPlay.

The native apps are … fine?

Again, it’s just my particular perspective, but I really appreciate that any CarPlay vehicle has the exact apps that I set up on my phone, already configured, etc.

There’s nothing Tesla could ever really do to compete with the convenience of already having all of my accounts set up and already having exactly the apps installed that I know I want.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-07 20:48:36+00:00
These are fundamentally feel good policies that have little basis in reality. The people supporting this are doing their best to make it seem academically rigorous. But they’re lacking perspective and would be laughed out of any serious conversation in other countries, where it just wouldn’t make sense to enable undisciplined students or inflate grades with unlimited retakes of tests.

That said - I do think homework need to be rethought. It’s not appropriate for schools to take up hours of the day and then for them to take away the remaining limited time with their parents and family at home. Schools need to do the job of educating students during school hours. Children need family time and play time too.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-07 20:48:44+00:00
I think you underestimate the potential physiological effects of a traumatic experience, which is why I asked for the specific symptoms you experienced. If they're limited to those known to be caused by trauma, then that might be the mechanism by which the drug caused the problems (and it might be treatable). I do not believe that finasteride would cause permanent, untreatable problems – but if it does, then it does so by a completely unknown mechanism, and investigating that mechanism is extremely important to our understanding of the human body.

If you would be willing to contact me privately about this, there are various ways for you to do so.
by ngriffiths | 2025-10-07 20:48:49+00:00
I feel like it's obligatory to also drop a link to the 3blue1brown series on linear algebra, for anyone interested in learning - it is a step up from what's in this post, but these videos are brilliant and still super accessible:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...
by mikestorrent | 2025-10-07 20:48:59+00:00
The problem is:

- How do I know Rick down the street, anymore, if I'm inside consuming perfectly addicting slop all day?

- How do I ensure that I am also consuming content that has artistic merit that is outside my pure-slop comfort zone?

- Why would I notice or care about a local artist when they can't produce something half as perfect "for me" as a recommendation algorithm trained on all human artistic output?

> Global figures are generated

This I agree with. Ian Macdonald wrote about "aeai" characters in his early 2000s novel River of Gods, where a subplot concerns people who watch TV shows starring AI characters (as actors, who also have an outside-of-the show life). The thing is, right now we see Lebron in the ad and it's an endorsement - how can an AI character of no provenance endorse anything?
by GhosT078 | 2025-10-07 20:50:15+00:00
I'm a long term Ada developer who has also used SPARK in the past (SPARK was/is great). I've been looking into Rust out of curiosity. I will dispute that "Rust brings superior language ergonomics". To me, Rust's syntax is unnecessarily cryptic and ugly. In particular, Ada's syntax and semantics for exact, low-level data representation and hardware interfacing is much more ergonomic than Rust's.
by gruez | 2025-10-07 20:50:18+00:00
>The supermarkets have gotten wise to people realising points and vouchers are scams that almost never pay out substantially for loyalty

It's called a "loyalty" program but there was hardly any "loyalty" to begin with. The points basically translate into a discount of <1%, and you get them whether you hop between stores for the best deal, or only shop at their place. The best way of thinking of them is a price discrimination scheme to rope in price-conscious shoppers.

>and have instead started punishment pricing for people who don't opt into data collection, sorry, loyalty cards.

From a numeric perspective the two are identical.
by thinkingkong | 2025-10-07 20:50:33+00:00
The argument made here seems to be that the power to prevent unlawful access or threats is somehow required to keep us all safe. But if someone was an actual threat, do we really think they’d be using the internet with their own identity? Like if someone is willing to hack into a power station or some other critical infrastructure, they’ll be simultaneously stupid enough to use their own credit card?

Illegal things are already illegal. Safety and security mechanisms already exist. We dont need additional, punitive, and opaque laws that can be abused.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-07 20:50:45+00:00
Unfortunately it's never going to happen.

Also, things like TPMs, Secure Boot, etc, are good security tools which can be used by an end user to get security guarantees over their device.

I use Secure Boot with Linux because, when done right, it means you can get full disk encryption without gaps (at best, without secure boot, you have an un-encrypted bootloader on a flash drive which decrypts your disk and boots your machine, and this is a clunky setup).

I use GrapheneOS's hardware attestation to alert me if something compromises my android phone's operating system.

Now it's true that these features are abused by companies like Google to force you to run a blessed Android build if you want to use e.g. Google Pay (which is the only mobile payment option in e.g. the UK). But it's important to separate the technology from the bad actors abusing it.
by kop316 | 2025-10-07 20:51:38+00:00
I am trying out a Oneplus 6 on Mobian, and I got 29 hours of battery life on idle, and it is looking to be around 15 hours with light usage.

With a Librem 5, its 12ish hours on idle, 20 hours on suspend, and 4-5 hours light usage.
by combyn8tor | 2025-10-07 20:51:48+00:00
Meanwhile in Australia we have a "AI data centre" startup being valued at $1.9 billion and given $330 million to play with, having not built anything yet. It's co-founded by a guy that went to prison for insider trading. His wife is also an investor, who happens to be a prominent Australian influencer. The company previously focused on Bitcoin mining but have pivoted to the AI boom, claiming their cooling systems to be 60% better than competitors. Their first project will kick off soon in the Australian state of Tasmania, where there is nothing much more than sheep and tourists.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/firmus-raises-3...
by Covzire | 2025-10-07 20:51:51+00:00
I call it the "unaccounted-for activist problem". Certain people will, without fail, like clockwork, if given the chance, ban or "silence" a LOT of other people from anywhere and everywhere that they can whether a bus, a playground, a public or private space, or a social media site. You have to account for these kinds of people, and you have to see through their bullshit of "speech is violence", no violence is violence and speech is speech and any platform that confuses the two will either fail or enslave everyone to many other lies.
by huhkerrf | 2025-10-07 20:51:53+00:00
It's worse than that, as the linked TC article links to an explanation of his ban-worthy views that, if applied to everyone, would lean to a ban of probably 85% of the US. (Purposefully not referencing them here. The question is not whether those views are right, it's whether those are mainstream.)

Bluesky has a problem of its user base demanding purity, and it will 100% be the death of it.