MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-17 13:28:11+00:00
I feel we need a name for this weird practice of pretending a policy was a climate change policy and then attacking it for that imagined failure:

> Well, the catch is that mining the most popular rare-earth metal, neodymium, emits miles more CO2 than any other metal (which is ironic because they’re a key ingredient to most green technologies). So, it seems Western countries are choosing to outsource this pollution to quietly keep their hands clean of carbon. This policy naturally snowballed into China having a significant market dominance, allowing it to produce even less common rare-earth elements at an unbeatable cost.

Is there any evidence at all that rare earth mining and processing is concentrated in China because the West was trying so hard to be low carbon that rather than, I dunno, build well insulated homes or smaller lighter cars, they took a hard line stance on neodymium processing?
by Terretta | 2025-10-17 13:28:30+00:00
I haven't checked recently, but previously a Lightsail account was a full AWS account. Tie route 53, app or API gateway, and some instances.

That said, for your use case, you might want the predictability and guarantee of having no "noisy neighbors" on an instance. While most VM providers don't offer that (you have to go to fully dedicated machine), AWS does, so keep that in mind as well.

For BYOL (bring your own hosting labor), Vultr is a lesser known but great choice.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-10-17 13:28:35+00:00
'bad taste'.

The world is changing a lot. It is hard to keep up with social norms.

-> A group publishes a white paper/forecast/speculation/theory

-> News article comes out with something similar, related, seemingly a direct point.

-> Making a link between the two is 'bad taste'.

I'm not sure. Seems dubious to cast a natural human tendency as 'bad taste'. I think I'll go ahead keep making connections where they fit.

To be fair, play devils advocate. I do agree this tendency can lead people to make crazy connections, and go down an internet rabbit whole of conspiracy. This just didn't seem to rise to that.
by rich_kilmer | 2025-10-17 13:29:27+00:00
They did not WRITE RubyGems, they inherited it and evolved it. Chad, David, Jim (RIP), Paul and I wrote RubyGems. I hosted RubyGems from my home in Virginia for several years before we could cover the cost of colocation and stood up RubyForge. Its nice to look at the near history and think that this is all of history but it is not. Ruby Central has always been the stewards of RubyGems and then later, Bundler.
by genmon | 2025-10-17 13:29:28+00:00
Fellow fan of the Namid Desert waterhole here!

As it happens, I made this wrapper for it

https://waterhole.genmon.partykit.dev

This single-serving waterhole:

- makes the YouTube stream fill the browser for an Immersive Experience(TM)

- shows how many people are watching in real-time

- provides ephemeral chat with other people present

I know at least one team at an unnamed big tech co who would all have it open on their second screens for shared ambience + chat...

(If anybody from YouTube is reading, I have a ton of idea about how ambient live steams are the Next Big Thing and how to lean into that.)
by reaperducer | 2025-10-17 13:29:37+00:00
if you don't think they're special human beings risking their lives every day to save you how else can you convince the general population they should venerate them?

Along those lines, I think it's weird that in some cities, a cop who dies choking on a chicken bone on his day off in his own kitchen gets the same benefits and massive traffic-clogging live-streamed publicly-funded funeral with politicians and media spectacle as a cop who gets killed by a bad guy while on duty.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-10-17 13:29:44+00:00
>By who, and for who?

ages 0-6, increased vocabulary with increased screen time https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13927

> My kids (ages 5+7) watch significantly less TV than their peers (as well as currently almost zero internet access), and are frequently complimented on their command of vocabulary and ability to express themselves.

Compliments are nice I suppose, but theyre a poor metric when regarding vocabulary size.

> By amount of time that people spend on the internet, it is mostly doomscrolling and ragebait. If only we could take that part of it away.

"most" people I assume doesnt include you? Youre too smart to fall for it, obviously.
by hopelite | 2025-10-17 13:29:57+00:00
This is just the systemization, scaling of what existed previously. It's a rather predictable pattern at this point in America. Introduction through innocuous means, expansion through a combination of convenience and fear, then systematic expansion once the slaves have become accustomed to the new state of things. It's a rather common ratcheting normalization staircase.

Even public information clearly describes how it is the "CIAs" one trick pony, whether it's orchestrating a "color revolution" for "democracy", instigating conflicts and war to feign innocent self-defense, implementing social engineering and Constitutional subversion, or implementing mass surveillance specifically. It's the same wife-beater and child rapist type pattern of grooming abuse that then feigns innocence and deflects blame to anything and anyone else.

Most people are really not all that different than any run of the mill battered wife (even if only in the making), psychologically. I get it a lot when I point out what a trap and an illegitimate, enemy entity that the EU is (not to pick on the EU, because it also applies to the US and many other places, but it's far more pronounced with the "EU-cultists")... You get the constant predictable defenses of the love-bombing "abusive boyfriend"/wife beater in the making responses. "you don't understand", "the EU really loves me", "you never want anything good for me", "he showers me with all kinds of benefits and slick marketing", "we are going to be happy forever".

It's sad, and as someone that has watched that cycle unfold even in my own family, it's really kind of demoralizing and somewhat depressing to know exactly where it's heading and being unable to counter the forces that have roots a long long time ago, forces of nature. So, the US and the EU will have to suffer that which is predictable and was preventable, no matter how much they wanted to see the world through rose colored glasses.

Maybe for humanity's sake, China can free the world of the scourge of this cycle and the psychopathic, narcissistic, maniacal group of people that causes it all... if they don't just kill all life on the planet because if they can't be in control then no one can be in control.
by chubot | 2025-10-17 13:30:17+00:00
Does anyone have experience with say Linode and Digital Ocean performance versus AWS and GCE?

They still use VMs, but as far as I know they have simple reserved instances, not “cloud”-like weather?

Is the performance better and more predictable on large VPSes?

(edit: I guess a big difference is that VPS can have local NVMe that is persistent, whrereas EC2 local disk is ephemeral? )
by jimkri | 2025-10-17 13:30:29+00:00
Something that has really helped with inflammation and improved my diet is a Spirulina and Chlorella algae supplement. I take it with Metamucil to help with absorption in the intestines as well. If you use the powder version, Metamucil covers up the umami taste, but the tablets are tasteless.

Here are some studies to back it up: - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8212205/ - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3136577/ - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2025.106796

This is what I buy from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FAB10ZI?th=1
by timcobb | 2025-10-17 13:30:48+00:00
In my opinion because this is a discussion about this announcement, and it kinda feels like with not one but _two_ top-level posts, Simon is just kinda trying to hijack this conversation and turn it into a conversation about his posts. I'm not saying Simon is spamming, because there's definitely some relevance here. But I am saying Simon is attention-seeking in an unbecoming manner. Simon's posts make the homepage regularly anyway, he doesn't need to post them in other threads.
by throwway120385 | 2025-10-17 13:31:17+00:00
No I completely agree that the police need things like health care and mental health and training on dealing with crises and all of this stuff we expect. But the idea that they need better weapons to do their job or that everyone they encounter should be treated like Afghani insurgents using the cameras they've installed in their own homes is beyond dystopian. Getting shot or stabbed, in my understanding is way less likely than just getting yelled at and traumatized by someone. And so I think the things that actually would add value would be things that either help you avoid those situations in the first place or things that help you process and lay down the trauma after the fact.
by cassepipe | 2025-10-17 13:31:45+00:00
A country like the US has around 0.47 deaths in the line of duty per million per year whereas a country like Germany where people can't buy gun just like that is at 0.37 and a country like the UK where normal cops do not have guns is at 0.05

Which is easier, Wifi 7 in all homes or gun restrictions ?
by nrjames | 2025-10-17 13:31:45+00:00
There are legitimate reasons to want a camera either at your front door or surveilling your property. These can range from an increased sense of security to having documentation to support insurance claims, or even for watching wildlife. We installed our Ring camera after an ongoing string of nighttime car break-ins hit us and we had no direct proof of what happened for insurance. It was meant to be both a deterrent to that type of event and also for documentation if it happened again. There's also a pack of coyotes that lives in the woods near our house and occasionally eats our chickens. While that usage was more out of curiosity (if you have chickens, you're going to lose one from time to time), we were able to develop a sense of when that threat was higher.

I live on a bucolic cul-de-sac in a house that I've lived in since the mid 1970s. Most of the neighbors are the same. I never in my life expected a random person to drive down the street, drag a lady out of his trunk, chase her around the cul-de-sac, and stab her to death in front of my house. I never expected to find the body in the woods 40' from my side door. This is when I also learned that nobody comes to clean up after a crime like that and that if I didn't want pools of blood in front of my house and a 50' streak of it crossing the circle or the splatters all over the mailboxes that I was going to have to go out there and clean it up myself. I was in PTSD therapy for a while after that. I'm glad the Ring camera caught some of the activity.

After an event like that, it's easy to lose a sense of security in your home. How are you supposed to sleep the night after that happens, when the perpetrator remains at large? You can't lock your doors hard enough or do anything at all to feel secure. That lack of sense of security does not go away in a day or a week or a month. It goes away when you can find "normal" again. It helped us to find normal by installing other cameras around the house.

I don't want Ring or Arlo or anybody to be automatically sharing my camera footage with anybody. Even with the murder event, it was my choice to go through the footage and share it with the authorities. I don't support authoritarian "law enforcement" activities, I don't want anybody tapping into my camera feed to find lost pets or for any other reason. They shouldn't be allowed to do it. Like many other services we all use, we're more of the product than the customer, as our data is harvested and used for other purposes.

Personal security is different than targeted advertising. Most people won't know they need or want a camera until after they have experienced something that makes them feel less secure in their home. I just hope they have the wits to read the Terms and understand what they're opting into before automatically accepting all of the opt-in-by-default data sharing.
by simonw | 2025-10-17 13:33:19+00:00
This is definitely a problem. Skills require a very strong model - one with a longer context (32,000 tokens minimum at a guess) that can reliably drive Unix CLI tools over a multiple step conversation.

I haven't yet run a local model that feels strong enough at these things for skills to make sense. Really I think the unlock for skills was o3/Claude 4/GPT-5 - prior to those the models weren't capable enough for something like skills to work well.

That said, the rate of improvement of local models has been impressive over the past 18 months. It's possible we have a 70B local model that's capable enough to run skills now and I've not yet used it with the right harness.
by efortis | 2025-10-17 13:33:31+00:00
Thank you for checking it out. In the past it had an auto-layout and app mode, but I removed all the graphic and layout design features in favor of "Copy for AI".

Your "Driving Game" mockup got me thinking about indicating proportions on the drafts. I don't have a good answer to that, except that Cards can be resized in width. At any rate, to answer "perhaps it is slightly too high fidelity", I would say it's the opposite, too low since there's no layout design involved.

I'm aware it‘s confusing because Cards look like a mobile layout. I tried doing the pencil sketch style but it also gave the impression of a layout design tool.
by alganet | 2025-10-17 13:33:32+00:00
The word intuition here have power. Surely you must have noticed that vibe coding and intuition have a strong connection.

There are people (definitely not me) who buy 100% of anything AI they read. To that beginner enthusiastic audience, your text looks like "regular software is old and unintuitive, AI is better because you can just vibe", and the text reinforces that sentiment.
by cestith | 2025-10-17 13:33:51+00:00
The main concern to me of topical collagen for an open wound is that you probably don’t have good access to a medically sterile source of collagen. That’s probably safe enough to try on your own if you’re smart and careful, but the wrong brand or poor handling could add to the risk of infection or even toxicity. There may be a chicken-and-egg issue that there’s no source or no approved method a clinician would trust for that. Especially in the US, land of the lawsuit, it would probably take years of studies to come up with a protocol before it became moderately widespread.
by Jensson | 2025-10-17 13:33:54+00:00
> You can find your interests, talents, and such more easily if you have the luck to have the smörgåsbord of cool things in life presented to you at a young age.

That is called school, everyone goes there. Before school was mandatory and most kids didn't go there was little opportunity to discover your talents, but today most kids gets to try crafting stuff and reading about a wide range of subjects and doing a wide range of physical sports and learning basic music in school.

There might still be some undiscovered talents after all that, but most do get in contact with something that relates to their talent if they have one.
by V__ | 2025-10-17 13:34:08+00:00
This sound really intriguing, and I am really curious. What kind of service do you run where you need a 100s of VMs? Was there a reason for not going dedicated? Looking at their offering their biggest VM is (48 CPU, 192 GB RAM, 960 GB SSD). I can't even imagine using that much. Again, I'm really curious.
by kreetx | 2025-10-17 13:34:28+00:00
While I don't dispute EV depreciation (it's a fact, no matter the explanation), then I don't think depreciation is as "huge" of a factor as you make it out to be. People buy new cars all the time, while the added utility over a used car is negligible.

I.e, I've only bought cars that are 10+ years (exactly due to the depreciation factor!), but most other people buy or lease as new of a car as they possibly can afford. Doesn't make financial sense to me, yet it's done so very often.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-17 13:34:29+00:00
And nurses have even a more dangerous job.

I'm not convinced that being a cop is such a tough job. Most of it is sitting in your car waiting for speeders, or to warn traffic about road construction, or driving around looking for something unusual happening.

US courts have determined they don't even have a duty to risk their own lives to save civilians. Kinda the entire purpose of their job's existence, removed.

There's a lot of aggrandizement by and for cops; it's completely parallel to the worship of the military.
by stevenwoo | 2025-10-17 13:34:36+00:00
Somewhat coincidentally I am reading "The Language Puzzle" and the author puts forward the theory that based on the tool evidence left behind that the language development of Neanderthals was as much as they could do with their brain physiology and environment, i.e. there was no improvement in stone tools over their entire history versus the other human population evidence we have at close to the same time and that the improvement in stone tools in other populations had to be verbally communicated. There of course is the bias in the evidence we have may not be fully representative and this theory is not mutually exclusive with the genetic argument in the article.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-17 13:34:45+00:00
No additional comment on the male vs female thing, just want to say that the "proof by emotion" described in the article is something to watch out for in universities.

One example of many I remember was a social/music class where the prof asked the lecture if there are any innate, non-culture-specific features that make music enjoyable. I raised my hand to say I think so, because octave equivalence seems pretty universal, but the right answer was no. Suggesting that there's anything innate about music means you can't chalk everything up to cultural difference, leading to the possibility that some cultures have better music than others, which needless to say would be very offensive. So I learned something valuable.
by harimau777 | 2025-10-17 13:35:00+00:00
Not the OP, but:

I try to minimize the amount of meat that I eat; however, at this time I don't think that veganism is a viable strategy for optimal health for most Americans. That's particularly the case for athletes. It's simply too difficult to get enough protein and minimize carbs on a plant based diet.

That's not to say that it's impossible. I have a friend who is a vegan bodybuilder but it requires a lot of extra work on her part. That extra work is a big ask for people who are just trying to hold their lives together.

Zooming out from food, there isn't a widely available alternative to leather or wool if you care about the textile's performance (strength, durability, insulation when wet, flame retardation, etc.). That's particularly true if you care about avoiding petrochemicals.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-17 13:35:01+00:00
>but pretending it’s all over and all gone is absurd

Exactly, that was the point of my original post. I am not saying that it is over (which was the claim of the article). I am saying the US is not even competing. The delusion I was talking about is that people either believe that China is a magical place where everything is made and which is unbeatable in every way OR that American manufacturing has no problems, that it is actually superior and that China only produces low quality trash which nobody needs. Bother beliefs directly lead to the same conclusion, namely that nothing should change. Either because it is futile or because doing so is a waste of resources.

If America wanted to compete it could. But that would mean massive onshoring efforts and training millions of people to work in factories. This is not an option it is a necessity to bring back manufacturing, because it would need to be brought back.
by BoxOfRain | 2025-10-17 13:35:01+00:00
Is it even worth it to pirate on FM these days? People don't really scan the band looking for new stations, I know the aim is often to provide for an underserved audience but anyone can set up a web stream for this purpose now and avoid the complexity of having to work in a clandestine way.

I like listening to pirate radio but it's mostly shortwave and mediumwave via an SDR, more or less anoraks broadcasting to other anoraks. I know FM pirates are still operating in London but I've never heard any in my current city.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-17 13:35:29+00:00
I think those narratives aren’t really correct either. At a 50,000 foot level, yes those numbers work out. But occupational numbers look at all sworn officers and don’t necessarily tell the story about the line police on the street. That said, the harrowing tales weaved by the unions in their negotiations or in TV don’t tell it either.

Highway patrol officers have a similar risk profile to construction workers. Mostly car accidents. Patrolmen in cities or towns get hurt in town or in altercations all of the time.

Court officers do not. Detectives largely do not. Police are more likely to get shot at, but way more likely to get hurt in a bunch of acute and long term ways. The nature of the stress that many police experience measurably shortens their lives.

The biggest issues with police with regard to officer and public safety are poor governance and macho culture. I live in New York so I’ll use them as an example. NY State Police are highway patrol focused - they wear grey and black uniforms and Stetson hats. NYPD Highway patrol units wear black leather jackets and cavalry breeches. It looks cool and has a certain elan — but officers would be safer in more functional dayglo attire.

In terms of governance, like many areas of American governance, checks and balances are weak. Example: Cozy relationships between various departments, prosecutors, and perhaps elected judges mean that many NY police avoid prosecution or and sanction for DWI.
by rkangel | 2025-10-17 13:35:33+00:00
When talking about Elixir (or Erlang) you are actually talking about two things that give you the value:

- A language (Elixir/Erlang) and runtime (BEAM) - The concurrency standard library (OTP)

The language and runtime give you the low level concurrency primitives - spawn a process, send a message etc. But to build actual applications, you rarely use those primitives directly - instead you use GenServers and supervisors. That gives yo a way to manage state, turns message passing into function calls, restarts things when they crash etc.

Gleam compiles to the same runtime, but doesn't provide OTP in the same way - static types aren't easy to make work with the freely message passing world of OTP. They are implementing a lot of the same concepts, but that's work that Gleam has to do.

(Elixir provides some thin API wrappers over the Erlang OTP APIs, and then also provides some additional capabilities like Tasks).
by noelwelsh | 2025-10-17 13:36:02+00:00
I think of this as a Midwestern thing, where land is cheap and one can afford to devote a lot of space to hobbies. It seems to be the same thing in fabric arts, where people will have sewing rooms larger than the footprint of many UK houses. I could be totally be off base here. Maybe some actual Midwesterners can weigh in.
by esskay | 2025-10-17 13:36:18+00:00
Hetzner is very cautious who they accept as a customer these days as the downside of being a low-cost hosting provider is you get a ton of signups from people looking to use it for seed boxes and other illegal activities.

It sucks for legitimate customers, but you can sometimes plead your case directly as long as you are willing to provide id and such, but ultimately like you say, it's their business.
by demarq | 2025-10-17 13:36:31+00:00
Absolute decentralization is difficult or maybe impossible.

But you don’t need absolute decentralization to achieve sovereignty. For example a small group of certificate authorities are trusted by all of us for privacy, however these CA’s are unable influence what we encrypt since they can’t see what we encrypt. So relying on a provider doesn’t always have to equal control. Decentralization does not equal Sovereignty. But it helps.