MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fruitworks | 2025-11-10 13:59:39+00:00
I am well aware of that effect and how it does not refute my claim.

If parents have some sort of health issue after reproductive age, that diminishes their ability to help their offspring.

Not to mention that juveniles also get dental problems. We live in a society where you need to get braces in order to look attractive and get a mate. We are breeding people who do not have the features they need to survive without artifical intervention.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-10 14:00:29+00:00
Im not a teen, but when google news came out and I started using it; it was immediately obvious journalism was going to be in major crisis going forward.

I didnt predict that journalists seeing that they are all often wrong; that they'd double down on being even more wrong. Then AI came in and dropped the quality of journalism a significant amount more.

Journalists have only themselves to blame. It will be interesting to see how they improve the situation.
by Semaphor | 2025-11-10 14:00:35+00:00
> actually, which makes me wonder why I'm keeping all these FLACs around

Sometime last year, I actually redownloaded all my BC files, and reripped all my CDs (had to re-do genres, but that was fine, I wanted cleaner genres anyway). It’s simply archival. Lossless means you can convert it to whatever file you might want in the future without loss of quality.

This made extra sense for my CD rips, because many of those were from the early 2000s and I made questionable quality descisions ;)
by fainpul | 2025-11-10 14:00:39+00:00
> 6GHz barely makes it through a concrete wall, so you're only receiving your own AP, so you have the whole bandwith mostly to yourself.

I'm no expert and only speak from personal experience. When the signal is weak, you don't have the whole bandwith, you only get low throughput. Ideally you would want a strong, high penetration signal (low frequency) and all users on separate channels. It's of course impossible in densely populated areas.

Whenever I have to deal with setting up WLAN in the office or at home, I hate the experience and I try to use wired connections wherever possible.
by PonyoSunshine | 2025-11-10 14:01:03+00:00
I was excited see what this could do, but the moment I saw it was a one day trial, I was so turned off that I didn't even bother wasting my time even looking into it and just removed it.

If you want people to invest time investigating your product to see if it's a good fit, don't rush them. I know you are probably eager to turn this into a profitable product, but this is not how to approach people like me if you want to see any sort of return.

Maybe make a lite version that is free and make your paid option have all the extra bells and whistles in it, but please, don't do this.
by marcotm | 2025-11-10 14:01:21+00:00
Nice idea!

For quickly skimming the list, I think it would be useful to add a short, standardized summary for each project. These summaries should be easy to generate automatically with any LLM of your choice.

I have a similar tool for organizing the “Who Is Hiring” threads [1] that uses GPT to provide a quick overview. It’s still running on an old model version from 2023, yet it has been working surprisingly well for over two years now with basically zero maintenance.

[1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com/
by bawolff | 2025-11-10 14:01:41+00:00
Let me rephrase that, client side xslt in browser isn't underpinning much of anything. I agree there are more uses in the enterprise world, although i think most of your examples are more XML not XSLT (people really shouldn't comflate the two. XML underpins half the world). I've never heard of anyone using xslt on a microsoft office docx file.

I'd also assume the java world is using xalan-j or saxon, not libxslt.
by echelon | 2025-11-10 14:01:42+00:00
Google needs to be broken up into three or more companies. Search, Android, Chrome, and AdSense should not live together.

Lina Khan had the right idea and mandate, but she was too fucking slow.

When the Dems swing back into power, the gutting of big tech needs to be swift and thorough. The backbone needs to be severed. I'm screaming at my representatives to do this.

Google took over web tech, turned the URL bar into their Search product. They force brands to buy ads for their name brands - think about how much money they make by selling ads on the keywords "Airpods" or "Nintendo Switch". They forced removal of ad blocking tech unilaterally. They buy up all the panes of glass they don't already own. They don't allow you to install your own software on mobile anymore. And you have to buy ads for your app too, otherwise your competitor gets installed. If you develop software, you're perpetually taxed and have to do things their way. They're increasingly severing the customer relationship. They're putting themselves in as middle men in the payments industry, the automotive industry, the entertainment industry...

Look at how many products they've built and thrown away in the game of trying to broker your daily life.

I could go on and on and on... They're leeches. Giant, Galactus-sized leeches.

The bulk of the money they make is from installing themselves as middlemen.

And anyone thinking they're you're friends - they conspired to suppress wages, and they're actively cutting jobs and rebuilding the teams in India. Congrats, they love you. They're gutting America and are 100% anti-American. I love India and have nothing against its people, I'm just furious that this domestic company - this giant built on the backs of American labor and its population - hates its own country so much. (You know they hate us because they're still stuffing Corporate Memphis down our throat.)

Edit: I have to say one thing positively because Google makes me so negative. This website is beautiful. I was instantly transported back in time. But it's also a nice modern reinterpretation of retro web design. I love it so much.
by lenkite | 2025-11-10 14:01:47+00:00
Reading science fiction has given me ideas that I would have never had before. I can comfortably say that it has expanded my narrow mind. Even pulp space-opera helped here!

Apart from that, taking the time to grok the architecture or top-rated issues of open source projects helps to make you a better developer - or at-least avoid obvious mistakes when coding some new feature of your own.
by satisfice | 2025-11-10 14:03:02+00:00
This change did not happen in 2014. It happened about 14 years earlier, when they began to adopt their so-called “engineering culture” that really meant “testers shut up.” It then happened at Google in the early oughts.

Testers have been under attack in big tech since 1989, within my own experience. Maybe before that, as well.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-10 14:03:11+00:00
After the Samourai case, you shouldn’t be so confident in cryptocurrency-based solutions for things like this. If devs can somehow stay anonymous and out of reach, maybe.

I’m not ideologically against cryptocurrency-based solutions, but it isn’t a magic bullet by any means. I still think that the EU in particular isn’t done making life difficult for crypto users.

Not to discourage projects like ENS, I think it’s good to have alternatives, but I do think we need noncommercial fallbacks to the current system as well. Anything involving money will always have choke points.
by galangalalgol | 2025-11-10 14:03:19+00:00
If I thought violence would fix this I would certainly advocate for it, I am not a pacifist, or anything approaching one. But all the historical examples I have looked at indicate that a domestic authoritarian takeover in a polarized society cannot be violently overthrown without the overthrowers becoming roughly as autocratic if not more so. Trump is not that popular by the standard pf authoritarian takeovers. General strikes and mass nonviolent protests worked better in these situations. Though the number of times it worked is disturbingly low.
by physicsguy | 2025-11-10 14:04:13+00:00
I'm based in the UK and have been a hiring manager pretty recently. I have seen a lot of CVs like this. This was the junior positions I was advertising two years ago, this wouldn't have made it through the filter. Because largely, we (as even a small company) would get ~250+ applicants for a single position.

My filters were roughly (in order) (a) remove anyone who didn't study their degree in the UK and didn't explicitly state their right to work / visa status (b) remove people with irrelevant/less relevant degrees e.g. people with Business Information (c) remove weaker/less well regarded Universities.

Not always, but usually even after that you'd still have 150 applicants to review, and at that point you start taking a really critical eye and anything that doesn't look quite right or isn't explained in 30 seconds of reading it gets a CV binned because you just don't have time. I would have immediately binned this one because the person has listed 4 years duration for a 3 year degree and not put an explanation of why. I don't mind what the reason is but you are splitting hairs trying to distinguish between people so stuff like this matters. Other things I would say is that the CV experience listed isn't really verifiable as the companies listed have basically no presence online. That doesn't mean it's negative, but it's not a positive - it just no bearing. The DeepMind internship appears to be an in-university internship which is nothing special.

The reality is that you get a lot of CVs like:

* 1st Class degree from University of Bristol/University of Nottingham/University of Birmingham/UCL/etc.

* Summer internship at <large company you have heard of> OR Placement Year at <large company you have heard of>

* A Level grades listed and are good (AAB+)

And even then, you can't interview all those people.
by ReptileMan | 2025-11-10 14:04:41+00:00
This is the fundamental thing you get wrong. The whole industrial knowledge thing was build because we were building stuff internally. When you are outsourcing assembly you are actually sending quite a lot of the knowledge and know how that went into the high value act of designing a thing. For free.

We live at a physical world - so being able to produce physical stuff both better, more, and cheaper is extremely important for continuous dominance.

The only area china is really behind seems to be commercial airlines engines. That is the only thing we never really outsourced.
by watwut | 2025-11-10 14:04:48+00:00
Yeah, but in other parts these are less tied to THE really important conservative christian values - the ones about male leadership, female submission and various nationalist projects. Christianity has some very conservative branches and those are generally consistent.

If Americans christians wanted to move to the left, they would need to give up the above in a way other christians do not have to. And it so happen the above is more important for them.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-10 14:05:17+00:00
My website is in my profile. I'll try to remember to write a blog entry in a few months. (Fair warning, I redo my website every 5-10 years to keep up to date with web technologies.)

FWIW: I was playing with an inexpensive (for me) Revo Inspire over the weekend. It feels somewhere between learning an instrument and taking a daguerreotype. There's a lot of room for improvement in the equipment for someone like me who just wants to casually scan something so I can make an attachment part. (I kind of wish there was a box that I could clamp something in, and then have it be about as easy as a flatbed scanner.)

I ended up covering my key fob with blue painter's tape, which kinda-sorta got it to scan. (I tried dry shampoo and drawing on it with marker, but I could never get a big enough area to scan.) When I imported the scanned fob into Tinkercad, it really distorted.

I ended up ordering a set of digital calipers and I'm going to try skipping the 3D scan part and go directly to CAD.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-10 14:05:33+00:00
And the Office package is a very attractive offering. $36 / user / month and they get managed emails, chat, office, SSO, cloud storage, Windows, etc - basically everything that used to be the domain of a sysadmin.

The competitors are all fragmented; Google probably gets the closest but doesn't have a chat service like Slack, Teams or Discord and doesn't do hardware management as far as I'm aware unless you use Chromebooks.
by fruitworks | 2025-11-10 14:05:40+00:00
Such policies will be popular as long as eugenics-apoligists like yourself exist. Gene editing is not slow at all compared to breeding programs of chattel slavery, and it is not subject to short-term economic and military conditions like ordinary dictatorships are. Once it is unlocked, you have a pathway to creating an underclass that can NEVER revolt.

Poor countries can just outsource the task to the first world in the same way they outsource surveilance today. Bred slaves are more subserviant and better workers, 4/5 genetic engineers agree!
by pfisherman | 2025-11-10 14:06:14+00:00
What burden of disease are we talking about here?

Ask the question would you be comfortable allowing babies to be maimed or killed in a medical experiment to develop a treatment to some malady?

Make no mistake that is what we are talking about here. You are testing a therapy. Because you are editing the genome adverse effects of the therapy are irreversible and present at birth. Those adverse effects may include maiming or death.

So now that we have established what the stakes are, I ask again, what set of diseases do you think it is worth the risk of maiming and killing babies to develop a cure?

I think fatal monogenic diseases could be justifiable. But even there a valid argument could be raised about alternative approaches - ex. Cystic fibrosis.

Once you get beyond that things start getting dicey pretty quickly. Only a hop, skip, and a jump to nazi medical experiments on the “mentally retarded”. Check out the Belmont Report for more formalized ethical framework for medical experimentation on people.
by troupo | 2025-11-10 14:06:33+00:00
While others may agree with them [1], Google are the ones immediately springing into action [2]. They only started collecting feedback on which sites may break after they already pushed "Intention to remove" and prepared a PR to remove it from Chromium.

The main guy pushing it didn't even know RSS sites as used by podcasts until after people flooded the issue with examples and requests not to remove. E.g. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315...

[1] Reaction was "cautiously agree" btw. In that same issue, https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-314... and https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-314...

[2] Same as with alert/prompt. While all browsers would want to remove them, Chrome not only immediately decided to remove them with very short notice, but literally refused to even engage with people pointing out issues until a very large public outcry: https://gomakethings.com/google-vs.-the-web/#the-chrome-team...

There's a difference between "we agree on principle" and "we don't care, remove/ship/change YOLO"
by bawolff | 2025-11-10 14:06:34+00:00
Google is still made up of people, who work a finite amount of hours in a day, and maybe have other things they want to spend their time on then maintaining legacy cruft.

There is this weird idea that wealthy people & corporations arent like the rest of us, and no rules apply to them. And to a certain extent its true that things are different if you have that type of wealth. But at the end of the day, everyone is still human, and the same restrictions still generally apply. At most they are just pushed a little further out.
by basscomm | 2025-11-10 14:06:36+00:00
> You can have a document without CSS but you can’t style it.

What? CSS didn't come around until several years after HTML did. And you can certainly style an HTML document without CSS.

> On the other hand, you can replace XSLT with server side rendering, or JavaScript.

You can also execute JavaScript on the server to make browsers more secure, but I don't see browser makers clamoring to remove JavaScript support.

> It does not serve a truly unique function.

It does, though. It lets someone do some basic programming of some web pages without having to become a developer
by tom1337 | 2025-11-10 14:06:44+00:00
interestingly, i only get one IP from each command:

$ dig -t A google.com @8.8.8.8 +short

142.250.184.206

$ dig -t A google.com @1.1.1.1 +short

216.58.206.46

$ dig -t A google.com @9.9.9.9 +short

142.250.185.238
by lazide | 2025-11-10 14:06:46+00:00
That’s not how RF works (generally). It’s about signal/noise ratio.

It gets really bad when signal is difficult to distinguish from noise because (for example!) everyone is talking at roughly the same power level. Think crowded bar with everyone yelling at each other.

When one is significantly louder than others, even if the others are not that quiet, it’s not a big deal unless at your ear/antenna they have the same loudness. Think concert with big speakers for the main act.

6ghz is better for many isolated networks right next to each other precisely because the others ‘voices’ lose power so quickly. You don’t have the competition for attention. Think ‘every couple in the bar gets their own booth’.

Wired connections are even better, because the amount of noise required to be unable to tell apart signal from noise is orders of magnitude higher - like ‘noisy welder right on top/EMP’ levels. Because the wires can actually be shielded. It’s like having your own hotel room.
by researcher-one | 2025-11-10 14:06:54+00:00
What Antheil says and what actually happened may, in reality, diverge considerably. Antheil evidently knew exactly nothing about what was going on, except for his knowledge of player-piano mechanisms. The invention is what it is -- nothing more and nothing less -- than a cumbersome mechanical mechanism that had no further influence on anyone. His autobiographical account of events is highly dubious.

The key to inventorship, as defined by a patent, is whether or not someone contributes something to the intellectual conception of at least one of the claims. Unless the "practical implementation" makes its way to the claims, the "practical implementer" is not an inventor. Note the drawings that accompany the Lamarr patent -- anything of substance was contributed by their helper (a tenured professor of RF engineering at CalTech), who is NOT listed as an inventor.

So I ask again: given that Hedy Lamarr made no pretense of knowledge of the player-piano mechanism, and that each claim is tightly interwoven with player-piano mechanisms, what, exactly, did Hedy contribute? This is, of course, a rhetorical question; we shall never know the answer.
by whoisthemachine | 2025-11-10 14:07:32+00:00
Linux manages just fine without a QC department. However, it also only takes responsibility for the "kernel". Various components around the kernel can be broken, and indeed some filesystems can cause file loss, but users full-well know of those flaws because of the transparent nature of Linux development.

Perhaps a lack of transparency and too many responsibilities under one product (something Microsoft loves to do) is the problem, not the lack of an additional process layer.
by stonecharioteer | 2025-11-10 14:07:50+00:00
Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes, any timezone will do.

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Rust (5 years), Python (12 years), PostgreSQL (7 years), Distributed Systems (5 years), Linux (19 years and counting as my daily driver) and I can learn anything I put my mind to.

Email: You'll find it on my about page, along with a meeting link.

I build a lot of my own tools using Rust and Python, I'd love to talk about homelabbing, I run openwrt, adguard, unbound, proxmox, jellyfin, samba, qbittorrent and syncthing on a 48TB Raid 6 Server in my house and I'd also love to talk about how "everything is a file" on Linux.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-10 14:08:17+00:00
zipy214 below has given much more eloquent explanations about the non-applicability of the EMH than I can. For me, the vast majority of my personal savings are in index funds. The reading list above, even if the methods are outdated (the broad details still apply even though many ways of analyses no longer apply especially to tech stocks), are mainly to get the curious started on one principled path to investing with the caveat that, if they do experiment, they should do so with amounts they are willing to lose.

Just one more comment to what you said below:

"If you personally believe markets are not efficient, and prices are not accurate, then perhaps you should take up day trading."

Value investors famously oppose any kind of day trading or "in and out" trading. People like Phil Fisher used to advocate never selling unless the fundamentals change drastically (change of management, new technological developments that make a company's products obsolete etc.). Of course, one doesn't have to be that extreme but equating value investing with day trading is misleading.
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-10 14:08:19+00:00
A structural biology viewer/editor/CAD-style application. Combines functionality similar to PyMol, Coot, VMD, and GROMACs. Open-source, standalone executable. Built in Rust and CUDA.

And the host of bio libs required to do it. The sort of thing that are mature in Python, for example, but I needed to build for Rust.

https://www.athanorlab.com/daedalus
by ErikBjare | 2025-11-10 14:08:40+00:00
In the case of BBs they need to withstand a fair bit of force, so I don't think it's about money. The biodegradable ones (PLA) on the market I've tried perform less well than their non-biodegradable alternatives and can shatter on impact, cause jams, etc.

I doubt you could make a hard enough cellulose pellet, maybe it's possible but costly, idk.
by lettereddays | 2025-11-10 14:09:24+00:00
Chipping away at trying to bring a total reform of American English.

https://reformeuropa.net/raea.html

Currently its at like 90% completion but there are some subtleties that probably need to be worked out a bit more. The PDF linked from that page explains all the details (although for reading just peeking at the charts on Page 4, 5, & 7 should get someone to reading it fine enough). Currently both Alice In Wonderland and Dr Jekyll are fully transcribed into the reform if someone wants to jump into seeing it in action. Certainly interested in thoughts and complaints of the system.

Also looking here sometime soon to playing around with an improved SI unit system. So if anyone has any new ideas here too I'd be very interested.

Examples of things to be touched upon would be like: - Make g (not kg) the base mass unit. Making 1 m^3 of water = 1 g - Bring commas to be the universal decimal point separator.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-10 14:09:49+00:00
This is a great thing to put next to e.g. voting maps, language, religion, etc - https://www.reddit.com/r/phantomborders/ is fascinating sometimes.

For my part, the Romans never went more than halfway up the Netherlands, meaning the north ("above the rivers") is culturally somewhat different from the south, although the cultures did converge over time. But "below" the rivers is still generally Catholic wheras "above" is Protestant. For example.
by researcher-one | 2025-11-10 14:11:24+00:00
One of the key requirements for getting a patent is that the invention must be novel. So indeed, their work is novel; it's just not of any importance at all. It is a Rub Goldberg mechanical mechanism. To understand this, you need to focus on the invention as defined by the granted claims, not on whatever prior art may be disclosed in the patent's specification (the wordy bulk of most patents).
by bluedino | 2025-11-10 14:11:34+00:00
One thing to remember was that (in the USA, at least) the NES came out in 1985, Super Mario 3 came out in 1988, while Commander Keen (generally regarded as one of the first console-quality side scrollers on the PC) didn't come out until 1990-1991, meanwhile the SNES was released in 1991.

The NES was a huge improvement over the previous console, which was basically the Atari 2600, and then you had all the other gaming options like a Colecovision, C64, etc.