MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-11-09 01:53:02+00:00
This is really cool. There's something very pleasing about precisely how unobtrusive it feels. You can also view the specifically serif-only and sans-serif-only versions here:

http://iotic.com/averia/preview.php

I think it would be really cool if a designer used these as a starting point for overall metrics, but then regularized and cleaned them up to exhibit consistent proportions and elements from character to character, without the wobbly parts. It really feels like it would become an ideal font family for reader mode, for journaling, just any time you want to focus on content and have a font that just "gets out of the way".
by matthewdgreen | 2025-11-09 01:53:38+00:00
I have intense anxiety attacks on atorvastatin. Rosuvastatin at the low dose (5mg) doesn’t do much, but at 10mg and 20mg it caused the same effects. It took years and multiple cycles of going on and off the drugs to become confident this was the problem. I switched to Repatha which doesn’t have this problem (it does make me a bit hungry though) but it’s expensive and it took a while for my insurance to approve it.
by troad | 2025-11-09 01:54:13+00:00
There are a thousand and one legal reasons one may wish to block a region, including Europe. From anti-gay speech laws in Hungary, through the VAT/tax obligations that kick in at one cent, to all sorts of watershed rules and disclaimers and alien and unjust laws (such as lese majeste laws, or absurd British 'online safety' laws).

Every day I see Europeans on here sharing tips how to de-cloud and de-America, bemoaning the open Internet, yearning for Balkanisation. Cool. Well, this site does it for you. You're welcome! Enjoy!
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-09 01:55:15+00:00
You can put a helluva lot of sails on a ship. The Preußen (1902) had 73,200 sqft of sail area on a ship 482 ft long. The Very Large Container (VLC) ships that hold 200,000 tons are over 1,300 ft long. And wind is a very, very strong force (it damaged these mechanical sails!). You could definitely make a VLC ship that could be powered by sails, in theory.

But wind's biggest downside, besides it sometimes being too strong, is it can completely stop. That and the complexity of sails, and its potential for failure, would probably not make it economically viable. Even if it was technically cheaper, the inconsistency and potentially poor performance would lead customers to continue chartering motorized vessels. There's a reason everyone switched from sail to steam.
by don_neufeld | 2025-11-09 01:57:04+00:00
“Does Chicago have more global business interests than Rome?”

Given that the GDP of the Chicago area is ~5x the GDP of Rome, I suspect the answer is YES!

Chicago: ~900B USD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_metropolitan_area

Rome: ~190B USD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_metropolitan_area

If you were to take exports as a good proxy for “global business interests”, then the USTR would show you that Chicago exports 57.9B in goods, making Chicago’s exports almost 1/3 of Rome’s entire GDP.

https://ustr.gov/map/state-benefits/il
by nradov | 2025-11-09 01:57:06+00:00
You're really missing the point. The volume of cargo carried by sailing vessels in the old days was orders of magnitude lower. Not even remotely comparable to the current global trading system.

Customers care about total cost, not just fuel. There is also crew wages, maintenance, insurance, capital depreciation, etc. Sailing vessels that carry useful amounts of cargo are much slower than equivalent motor vessels so all other costs go up. Fuel is cheap.
by fujigawa | 2025-11-09 01:57:27+00:00
Is it your contention that if someone was an illegal immigrant as alleged, and in doing so able to pass a local government background check without arousing suspicion, someone wouldn't be able to outsmart some 80 year old election judge who is volunteering her time that would otherwise be spent watching reruns of Judge Judy?

The system is not as airtight as you purport it to be.
by simonw | 2025-11-09 01:58:12+00:00
Charging developers $200/month for Claude Code and getting to a billion in ARR sounds like a pretty great business to be in to me, especially with this growth rate:

> Claude Code is reportedly close to generating $1 billion in annualized revenue, up from about $400 million in July.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/anthropic-expects-b2b-dema...
by kelthuzad | 2025-11-09 01:58:20+00:00
>Yeah. I worked (past tense) there so guess I’m forever not allowed to disagree with Apple?

What? You don't disagree with Apple anywhere in this thread; you are hellbent on defending their consumer hostile and anti-competitive business practices with the most absurd narratives and that's exactly the problem. It's a strong indicator that you're highly likely to still be an Apple shareholder since you've worked there, which perfectly explains your persistent bias in your Apple apologia.

> But I also worked at Google, so that too. Man… I’m screwed on so many topics then…

Yes imagine, but the proper terminology is "conflict of interest". It seems new to you, have a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest
by iamnothere | 2025-11-09 01:58:38+00:00
It was, and yet the current government can still choose to set internal enforcement priorities, issue memos on their current understanding of the law, suspend enforcement pending review, etc. They aren’t bound to helplessly apply terrible interpretations of the law in an aggressive manner. What’s more, they could make even a single statement that signals a lack of agreement with the law and a desire to modify or repeal it. Failure to do so is silent assent, and further evidence that New Labour is just the one-step-to-the-left wing of the Tories.
by daseiner1 | 2025-11-09 01:59:02+00:00
ok great, you made it all the way to the second article before you found something you thought you could pull a misleading quote from. Said quote is, appropriately enough, from a woman in the administration whose job is to provide "cover" for her own agency.

and you not-so-gracefully just elide key facts in the same article like: "the agents were not invited inside the building, did not have a warrant, and were armed with guns while walking into the school with children and teachers present"

&

"the woman [...] is a prekindergarten teacher at the school"

even if you think this is someone who ought to be deported, there are many less violent, less traumatic, and far more dignified ways to go about it. Or would you like to endorse masked men with military-grade equipment storming into daycares to arrest women who work with children there?
by paulryanrogers | 2025-11-09 01:59:44+00:00
Democratic representatives are speaking out almost daily. Voters are protesting in force at least monthly.

Yet too many live in filter bubbles and take the talking points they're given. My conservative parents sound very reasonable when they react to unfiltered news, at least in the moment. But then the talking points arrive and they down play or change their outlook completely. It's like a Borg mind which sometimes has high latency.

And I can relate. I lived with that mindset. Teaching myself to twist information to fit the worldview and compartmentalize to dodge the dissonance. Visiting only the safe outlets who would reinforce the comfortable and familiar perspective. Thankfully public schools, the Internet, patient coworkers, and curiosity popped my bubble.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-09 02:00:01+00:00
>It will be incredibly difficult for them to build great EVs while the bulk of the money they make is through selling ICE vehicles

Current VW Models can compete with Tesla on equal footing. By sales VW is the defacto winner of the European EV Market.

>they’re culturally ICE prioritizing companies.

VW has been developing the MEB Platform since a decade. It has not developed a new ICE Platform in that time. How are they culturally "prioritizing" ICE, when they have completely abandoned ICE development on a platform level?

Going back to ICE would be a total disaster for VW, the company is completely all in on electrification.
by genter | 2025-11-09 02:01:01+00:00
I realize that this is being translated from technical speak to layperson by someone that doesn't know anything, but sounds like a multimeter would've been useful.

I wonder if they got their phases swapped, so when they turned on the breaker, they shorted the opposite phases together. That would probably require a new breaker (as well as clean underwear for anyone near by).
by Uehreka | 2025-11-09 02:02:10+00:00
I get that you’re trying to help, but trying to find a bureaucratic/technical workaround through original research and proffering it as advice is not a super helpful thing to do right now. At this phase of the game, the best advice you can give people is to follow immigration lawyers and long-time activists on social media and do what they advise.

I know we’re all used to being the problem-solvers in the room, but this is a time where those of us without specific expertise need to take direction from those who do.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-09 02:03:21+00:00
Regarding press coverage today, and the one side says such, the other days this other thing:

> Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two "sides," or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.

Absolutely totally a context-less plague. Leaving only doubt and disbelief surviving, leaving us all morally weaker & adrift. Its enormously relieving to see this criticism homed in on, identified. The piece is worth it for this alone.
by ubercow13 | 2025-11-09 02:04:19+00:00
He is not claiming being blocked from one IP proves the geoblock is complete, he is claiming it shows that the geoblock in place is also active for the mirror site.

>What appears to have happened is that SaSu had a site mirror and that someone figured out a way to hit the mirror – which was also subject to the geoblock, something which took me under a minute to personally confirm – without using a VPN.
by jchw | 2025-11-09 02:05:31+00:00
While it may not look flattering, it is absolutely a correct usage of the 451 status code. From the standard itself[1]:

This status code can be used to provide transparency in circumstances where issues of law or public policy affect server operations. This transparency may be beneficial both to these operators and to end users. ... This status code indicates that the server is denying access to the resource as a consequence of a legal demand.

You could get pedantic over whether or not this counts as a legal demand, but the example makes it relatively clear that "legal demand" here is fairly broad.

GDPR law does indeed make it illegal to serve certain web pages to EU visitors. If the operators are not willing to make amendments to comply with the law, then responding with HTTP 451 is the most correct thing to do. It doesn't mean the law is inherently bad, but it does mean that serving the request would be illegal, because that is how the law is written.

If this feels "completely inappropriate", then maybe it's because the modern web platform is completely ass-backwards in the first place. One must wonder why we're continuing to tolerate giving effectively static web pages so many privileges on our computers passively. I think browsers should flat-out start removing said privileges from websites that abuse them.

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725
by drdaeman | 2025-11-09 02:06:11+00:00
It is incredible, because a lot of people dismiss it so eagerly.

Let me try to phrase it differently: ostracization rarely yields positive results, and is more likely to lead to opposite of desired course of action through future radicalization.

In other words, saying that bad people are bad is - as paradoxical as it might be - less likely to making anyone better than make bad people even worse.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-09 02:07:23+00:00
We live in a time when you can't even work for an hour and afford to eat a hamburger. You having the liquid cash to spend $200 a month on a digital assistant is the height of privilege, and that's the whole problem the AI industry has.

The pool of people willing to pay for these premium services for their own sake is not big. You've got your power users and your institutional users like universities, but that's it. No one else is willing to shell out that kind of cash for what it is. You keep pointing to how far it's come but that's not really the problem, and in fact that makes everything worse for OpenAI et al. Because, as they don't have a moat, they don't have customer lock-in, and they also soon will not have technological barriers either. The models are not getting good enough to be what they promise, but they are getting good enough to put themselves out of business. Once this version of ChatGPT gets small enough to fit on commodity hardware, OpenAI et al will have a very hard time offering a value proposition.

Basically, if OpenAI can't achieve AGI before ChatGPT4-type LLM can fit on desktop hardware, they are toast. I don't like those odds for them.
by api | 2025-11-09 02:09:01+00:00
Modern middle class people in any developed nation would experience the life of an ancient or medieval king or noble as misery: totally awful sanitation, no modern medicine, limited food options, lack of access to information, slow travel, etc.

The same goes for the life of any hunter gatherer. Lack of modern medicine alone is huge. Living as a hunter gatherer might be okay if you were healthy. Get injured or sick and there’s nothing to be done. Infant and maternal mortality were also high.

The wealth of the present age is utterly unprecedented. If it collapses the fall will not be like other falls. I am skeptical about the value of any comparison with any historical example. This is too different in too many ways.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-09 02:09:24+00:00
So Misanthropic claims that 416666.66 software developers have bought their expensive $200 subscription when there are 4.4 million software developers in the US.

That sounds reasonable given that 10% of software developers are talkers that need someone to output something that looks like a deliverable.

We were however talking profits here, not revenue.
by tptacek | 2025-11-09 02:09:24+00:00
From this I can infer your answer to "have you ever been an EJ" is no.

As a starting point, citizenship is not in fact a state requirement for service as a sworn police officer. In my muni, it's explicitly not: all that's required is authorization to work.

Second, it's not the job of EJs to judge whether people are citizens or not. The median EJ in Cook County, for what it's worth, is 45 years old.
by enslavedrobot | 2025-11-09 02:09:33+00:00
The market will tell. My cost basis for Tesla is $16.96 because instead of not renewing my driver's license I bought a bunch of shares in the company in 2018. My decision wasn't based on "believing Elon" it was based on analysis.

The argument that Tesla sucks because they haven't delivered on their promises is kinda illogical. Tesla is closer to a viable robotaxi, and grid scale energy arbitrage business than they ever have been and the share price reflects it.

With a P/E ~250+ Tesla should be an automatic short if your analysis is correct. I have $2 million long in the company. In 2035 it will be >$8 million. In 2035 Waymo will be a footnote.
by kace91 | 2025-11-09 02:09:39+00:00
>you'd have to be stupid not to evaluate decisions with an eye towards "Will I be prosecuted at a future date for this?" in this administration.

Stupid or placing their bet in a future where they never lose power.

From ICE agents and DOGE members to higher office, there’s a lot of people who know their lives will be destroyed the very moment the wind blows the other way. It is a sobering thought.
by mellosouls | 2025-11-09 02:16:20+00:00
A quote from Preston Byrne today on X:

I do not give a single solitary fuck what any Briton thinks of any American exercising their constitutional rights

If the American is lawfully exercising their rights, and the Briton has a reason to censor them, the American is right and the Briton is wrong

No exceptions

This probably sounds "cool" and correct to his supporters but this gung-ho black-and-white approach is hiding an important nuance:

The framing above (UK undermining US law) can immediately be reversed. The UK has laws (that we may disagree with) that are being undermined by US actors.

That's the nature of the internet, and the reason this is a complicated issue to resolve, not helped by showboating lawyers.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 02:16:38+00:00
As someone whose goal in life is to be blown about the oceans by the wind, I have mixed feelings about this. With the "traditional" freighter I would have the right of way, my being a sailboat under the wisdom of the wind, they have to make allowances for me and change course, but things are different when that freighter is also under the wisdom of the wind. The same goes for things like offshore wind power, my life is made more difficult because most people expect their home to be 70F when it is 60F outside and 60F when it is 70F outside, anything else would incur undue hardship.

It is a complex situation, should I be penalized for wanting to live a life that has little or no environmental impact at cost of those who want to live in reasonable comfort while being a part of/contributing to, society? Probably not but I can't help but wonder about what happened to the first 'R' of the three R's (reduce, reuse and recycle), no one seems to reduce anymore unless technology gives them a way to do it without any inconvenience no matter how small that inconvenience is.
by snickerbockers | 2025-11-09 02:16:41+00:00
EU and/or Britain has been telegraphing they want to have some limited jurisdiction over the United States for a few years now. GDPR also claims to be able to charge you for a crime even if you've never been to Europe (FWIW its mostly aimed at large corporations and I don't believe I've heard of them using it for anything other than civil fines but on paper they claim to have that authority even outside of their own borders) and during the big riots in UK last year there were law enforcement agencies threatening to prosecute Americans for inciting the riots remotely over the internet (once again they didn't actually do it but they do claim to have that authority and have threatened to use it).
by mikeocool | 2025-11-09 02:16:44+00:00
The majority gets to block any bill they want by not bringing it to the floor. The minority can only block bills by not allowing them to get to 60 votes.

Budgets are a little different, since you kind of have to pass one to have a functioning government — so you need to build a 60 vote coalition, and since the majority proposes the bill it’s up to them to offer a budget that builds that coalition.
by krisoft | 2025-11-09 02:16:58+00:00
> The difference here is that everyone needs air traffic control

This is very much not true. People who don’t own or operate aircraft don’t need air traffic control.

> and there's zero choices

Probably what you are saying here is that air traffic control is a natural monopoly. You can’t have two (or more) paralel systems issuing clearances at the same time in the same airspace. That would be madness.

But what I’m saying is not that we should have some crazy capitalist system where rival air traffic controllers compete with each other in the same airspace. What I’m talking about is a system where air traffic control services are provided by a private company. A private company which is funded by service charges to aircraft operators, and one whose operations are regulated by the government.

You can argue why that is not possible, but this is exactly how Canada’s air traffic control is organised. There the air traffic controllers are employed by a non-profit corporation which is funded by service charges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nav_Canada

Similarly air traffic controllers in the UK are employed by the NATS which is a public-private partnership.

Germany has a similar structure with Deutsche Flugsicherung, or switzerland with Skyguide (formerly known as Swisscontrol).

When you are arguing why it cannot work, you are arguing against all these examples.
by nine_k | 2025-11-09 02:17:41+00:00
If you operate a website outside UK and that's it, you may not care. But if you offer paid servies, collect money from UK citizens, you must have a business representation in the UK, which is bound by UK laws, can be fined, dragged to a court, etc. If you have this vulnerability, or you don't but your holding company has other web properties that do, the UK government has a way to make you listen and comply.
by josephcsible | 2025-11-09 02:17:42+00:00
> I would lump these people into the same place we put child molesters and murderers.

So would I, but freedom of speech doesn't have an exception for bad people, no matter how bad they are. Remember the Skokie affair, where a Jewish lawyer defended the Nazi Party's right to free speech? That's what really believing in free speech looks like.
by ETH_start | 2025-11-09 02:18:21+00:00
All of this advice seems really good. The only one I am reluctant to follow is getting a CT or CTA scan.

For reference, radiation levels:

Chest X-ray: ~0.1 mSv (millisieverts)

Head CT: ~2 mSv

Chest CT: ~7 mSv

Abdomen–pelvis CT: ~10 mSv

CTA (angiography): often 10–20 mSv

Are there non X-ray diagnostic imaging scans that can detect arterial plaque?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-09 02:18:39+00:00
Yes, they are owed these jobs. But even if you reject that, the practical argument is that if we conduct society/civilization in a manner in which there are not enough jobs to go around, then they have no disincentive from burning it all down with the rest of us chained inside the building. This is the price of us building our civilization such that we left nothing for anyone to live without civilization... everyone has to get a livelihood or at least the potential for one, and we refuse to pay that price at our own peril.

This should be plainly obvious to anyone who bothers to think about it for even two minutes. I don't claim that they're "owed living wages", or "good jobs" or even "non-awful jobs". All those details can be hashed out later, no need to force them from the top down. But the "everyone working age gets a job if they want it" is extraordinarily non-negotiable.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-09 02:19:14+00:00
Why Stellantis? They are in far worse shape than the competition, their strategy of having one car which is available as ICE and EV seems doomed to failure and their ties to the US will greatly weaken them, as the markets seem to diverge rapidly. Developing ICE only for the US with no ability to sell them in Europe seems dubious, at the same time they can not abandon the US or only sell EVs there.

Renault has actually better products than Stellantis and far fewer of the problems.
by jmpman | 2025-11-09 02:19:43+00:00
My good friend just died from a heart attack at 60. 90% blockage in 2 arteries, even though he exercised regularly and appeared perfectly healthy. This triggered my exploration of my own risk and I came to the realization that although my lipid panels were ok, I could also have a 90% blockage and be completely unaware. I ended up getting a Calcium CT scan which showed no blockages, but I realized that without my friends death, I’d have no idea of my score. In the US, insurance doesn’t cover the screening. I’m now a believer of all people having a scan at 50, and likely every 5 or 10 years afterwards.