MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wongarsu | 2025-11-28 13:40:26+00:00
That people need more than food and drink, they also need entertainment? And working for that is no less valuable than farming? But how is that related to cats?

I guess cats can provide companionship, which is valuable to a nomadic society. But so can dogs, and dogs have a bunch of other benefits. Cats are more useful when mice and rats start eating your food stores, and happily that's also when humans become useful to cats
by namibj | 2025-11-28 13:41:24+00:00
You don't; you let the second one pay more than what the marginal cost was, in order to make the first one not pay so disproportionally. That only has to happen once there is a second one, though.

Punishing a mere "large enough to not worry about popping it" fuse by billing shared infrastructure based on it (not just billing the stub line from the main in the street to the fuse/meter box in one's home in relation to what wire gauge is needed based on the fuse choosen) is pretty stifling. If e.g. your furnace fails in the middle of the winter and the repair guy tells you it needs replacing, you might want to get some space heaters and run them for a few days until your actually-wanted new furnace/heatpump/whatever can get delivered, instead of having to get installed whatever the HVAC guy has in the local storage, because if you wait more than on the order of 12 hours, you'll start to get frost damage from pipes and such.

Having to be beholden to an electricity company having time to upgrade your fuses on such short notice so that you can plug in the space heaters without blowing them might be a problem. But paying say 300 bucks extra because you did that for like 3 days or so would easily be cheaper than the cost of temporarily installing an available loan furnace and then having to remove it again to make way for the actually-wanted one.

They do though bill you if you make them dig the street up to say pull a medium voltage line into your factory that previously just got low voltage from a shared street transformer, but now that you've plans to use a lot more, you'd need the higher feed. Then they bill you and if within like 10 years or so someone else orders service that can piggyback on what capex you paid for, then you'd get a proportional refund from them having to pay off part of your share. But that's not for just getting normal basic electric service to a normal residential building in a city, that's for building a new farmhouse on the other end of some field where there never was electricity, or for getting unusual service that wouldn't be in the street if you didn't request it. Merely sizing the transformers/substations to handle the aggregate current of the users attached is not typically handled by the above mechanism, especially because it only covers initial buildout.
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-28 13:41:28+00:00
Yes I believe one way to see what is happening is in fact our own mistake. We thought we could prevent those law of being signed but it was very naive.

The only way you fight this is by moving forward and faster than them. Because their eternal weakness is that they are slow and somehow stupid. But tech oriented people got pretty lazy in the last 2 decades:

- We let ISPs be the only gatekeeper of the Internet

- We let big tech dominate the mobile OS space

- We embrassed the Cloud and SaaS (not your computer)

These 3 things made us sitting duck to any authoritarian government and now we pretend to be surprised we are getting shot.

Here is what we can do before it is too late:

- Buy a $10-20 LoRa device and setup Meshtastic, Meshcore or Reticulum https://reticulum.network/

- Buy one for a friend

- Run openwrt and consider things like like B.A.T.M.A.N https://www.open-mesh.org/

- Connect and explore yggdrasil https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

- Try I2P https://geti2p.net

- Get into a protocol like NNCP https://www.complete.org/nncp/

- Self-host at least a few services you can and care about

- Setup a DNS like https://opennic.org/

- A fair amount of understanding and use of the good parts of crypto/blockchain

- Get out of GMail, Outlook, iCloud, etc.

(there are probably many more)

It is gonna take the governments time to figure out what those things are and how to block and attack them.

Plus you will get more satisfaction and knowledge than with writing HELM charts, web apps or using AI.
by Kirby64 | 2025-11-28 13:42:08+00:00
You’re optimizing for the 0.01% here. Also, cars don’t lose their charge completely just because a blackout happens. Unless you pull in to the depot/charging area low on charge and then immediately a blackout happens, and then you need to go out while it’s still happened… driving it around shouldn’t be an issue.

Then, the other 99.9% of the time you get cheaper, quieter driving.
by antononcube | 2025-11-28 13:42:14+00:00
Yes, Wolfram Language (WL) -- aka Mathematica -- introduced `Tabular` in 2025. It is a new data structure with a constellation of related functions (like `ToTabular`, `PivotToColumns`, etc.) Using it is 10÷100 times faster than using WL's older `Dataset` structure. (In my experience. With both didactic and real life data of 1_000÷100_000 rows and 10÷100 columns.)
by londons_explore | 2025-11-28 13:42:16+00:00
You are assuming a molecule good at shielding against UV light is probably a poor shield against gamma rays, many orders of magnitude shorter wavelength. That sounds probable ...

But how about the theory that systems to clean up smashed up proteins from UV light is also good to clean up smashed up proteins from gamma radiation?

And one of the parts of that system, or upregulated with that system, is melanin.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-28 13:42:17+00:00
I've always advocated a proliferation of overlapping "states." Let them keep each other in check.

Instead of having a tree with a king at the top and your local police station at the bottom, be a part of the governance for the river that you live near, for the city that surrounds you, for the grocery store in your neighborhood, for your local fire department, and let all of them have codified relationships with each other that are determined by codified processes.

I believe the limitation on this was technological; that we had to get people into a room, get Robert's Rules out, and shout our way into decisions. Those limitations are gone; we all have phones. We should be able to participate in the governance of everything, or if we really don't want to think about that crap, hand our proxy to someone who does, get alerts on what they're doing with it, and revoke or transfer it instantly.

Let's see some real social networking.
by plastic-enjoyer | 2025-11-28 13:42:34+00:00
> If enough people shift then it affects jobs.

Yes, but again, the goal of automatization should be to reduce the need for people having jobs to secure their livelihood and enable a dignified life. However, what we are seeing in the Western Hemisphere is that per capita productivity is rising while the middle class is eroding and capital is accumulated by a select few in obscene amounts. 'Upskilling' does not happen out of personal motivation, but rather to meet the demands of the market so that one does not live in poverty. The idea of ‘upskilling’ to serve the market is also absurd because, in times of ever-accelerating technological development, there is no guarantee that the skills you learn today will still be relevant tomorrow. Yesterday it was “learn to code” but now many people who followed this mantra find themselves in precarious situations because they cannot find a job or are forced into the gig economy. So what do you do with people who couldn't foresee the future, or who are simply too old for the market?
by fnands | 2025-11-28 13:42:36+00:00
I was actually reading his blog again last night (after chatting with a friend about QQ), and he has a follow up post, titled: "Quantum Investment Bros: Have you no shame?"

Relevant quote:

> It’s like this: if you think quantum computers able to break 2048-bit cryptography within 3-5 years are a near-certainty, then I’d say your confidence is unwarranted. If you think such quantum computers, once built, will also quickly revolutionize optimization and machine learning and finance and countless other domains beyond quantum simulation and cryptanalysis—then I’d say that more likely than not, an unscrupulous person has lied to you about our current understanding of quantum algorithms.

And:

> In any case, the main reason I made my remark was just to tee up the wisecrack about whether I’m not sure if there’ll be a 2028 US presidential election.

So I would be careful posting those quotes without context, it makes Scott angry.
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 13:42:38+00:00
While I agree with the sentiment, you need to think like a state to stop this kind of thing.

Even without any argument about personal rights and what's totalitarian, I can't even square the circle of the unstoppable force of "the economy is dependent on encryption that can't be hacked" with the immovable object of "hostile governments and organised criminals undermine ${insert any nation here} and communicate with local agents via encryption that can't be hacked".
by Amezarak | 2025-11-28 13:43:12+00:00
This is common old wive's tale. Fever itself is not dangerous in adults or children.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/127/3/e20103...

> There is no evidence that children with fever, as opposed to hyperthermia, are at increased risk of adverse outcomes such as brain damage.10,12,24–26 Fever is a common and normal physiologic response that results in an increase in the hypothalamic “set point” in response to endogenous and exogenous pyrogens.12,26 In contrast, hyperthermia is a rare and pathophysiologic response with failure of normal homeostasis (no change in the hypothalamic set point) that results in heat production that exceeds the capability to dissipate heat.12,26 Characteristics of hyperthermia include hot, dry skin and central nervous system dysfunction that results in delirium, convulsions, or coma.26 Hyperthermia should be addressed promptly, because at temperatures above 41°C to 42°C, adverse physiologic effects begin to occur.10,12,27 Studies of health care workers, including physicians, have revealed that most believe that the risk of heat-related adverse outcomes is increased with temperatures above 40°C (104°F), although this belief is not justified.7,26,28–30 A child with a temperature of 40°C (104°F) attributable to a simple febrile illness is quite different from a child with a temperature of 40°C (104°F) attributable to heat stroke.

You cannot get a dangerously high fever. You can get a dangerously high body temperature from heat stroke, or I suppose you could have some rare hypothalmic disease. But fever as an immune response is not dangerous to adults or children.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-11-28 13:43:34+00:00
And while all this is happening, there are cases were peoples homes get search for comments on twitter. These are often in bad taste, but what tastes even worse is that the judiciary doesn't seem to understand proportionality anymore. Mean tweets carry higher sentences than raping someone, stern look at Germany here.

A judiciary in such a sorry state, that has not adapted to a changed reality, cannot be permitted to read private communications.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-28 13:43:45+00:00
The culprit is correct. If the EU exists for political laundering, then it is the organisation which is harmful to the people's interests. Nobody voted for any of these heads of states on a platform of enacting Chat Control. That was not on the ballot or the platform of any party in any individual EU country. If it was, they would not have voted for it. If an individual party tried to initiate a chat control bill in its own country, it would surely face a massive reckoning at the next election[1]. Therefore, an individual party would likely not undertake to enact chat control. It is the existence of the EU which is enabling politicians to force undesirable legislation on their populace. In that environment, it is entirely correct to call the EU an un-democratic process. If it exists to pass legislation nobody would vote for and take the blame, then it will in fact be rightfully at blame and provide a strong motivation for people to exit the EU.

[1] In fact, we have helpfully seen this play out with our friendly early exiter. The remarkably self-destructive Labour party has passed their own absolute nonsense "online safety" bill, and are likely to be utterly destroyed in the next election with repealing the bill being part of the platform of the party that is polling at ~twice the share of the next largest party. With the EU providing blame-as-a-service, though, it is unlikely that anybody will be able to repeal Chat Control once rammed through, without exiting the EU entirely.
Show HN: DB Pro – A Modern Desktop Client for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and LibSQL
by upmostly | 2025-11-28 13:44:08+00:00
Hi HN,

Over the past few months I've been building DB Pro with my co-founder. DB Pro is a modern desktop database GUI client designed to make working with Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, libSQL and other engines feel fast, visual, and enjoyable.

Our focus has been on the dev-experience. We wanted to absolutely nail the UX and look and feel as we believe most db clients aren't friendly to work with.

Some features:

Visual change review – See pending inserts/updates/deletes before committing them.

Inline data editing – Edit table rows directly without clunky modal dialogs.

Raw SQL editor – A focused editor for running queries with results in separate tabs.

Full activity logs – Track everything happening in your database for peace of mind.

Visual schema explorer – See tables, columns, keys, and relationships in a diagram.

Tabs & multi-window support – Keep multiple connections and queries open at once.

Custom table tagging – Organise your tables without altering the schema.

Tech stack: Electron, React, tRPC, Drizzle ORM, Postgres/MySQL/libSQL/SQLite support, and native builds for macOS at the moment with Windows, and Linux coming very soon.

We're super passionate about this project and we're actually documenting our journey through devlogs. The latest one is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T4GcJuV1rM

Thanks, Jay and Jack
by wongarsu | 2025-11-28 13:45:04+00:00
> I would guess that "most people" would think that cats were domesticated in Egypt because of their cat worship

Egyption cat worship is about on par with cat worship on the internet ca. 2005-2015. And most people on the internet don't even have grain stores that benefit from the protection of a cat. I certainly wouldn't have drawn a connection between "Ancient Egypt is long ago and they worshiped cats, thus they domesticated cats"
by tuetuopay | 2025-11-28 13:45:46+00:00
> It's therefore convenient for things like guest agents where you want them to "just work" without reconfiguration hassle.

This. The point of vsock is not performance, it's the zero-configuration aspect of them. No IP address plan. No firewall. No DHCP. No nothing. Just a network-like API for guest-host communication for guest agents and configuration agents. Especially useful to fetch a configuration without having a configuration.

IMHO the "fast" in the original article should be read as "quick to setup", not as "high bandwidth".
by spuz | 2025-11-28 13:46:25+00:00
The earliest use of this term I can find is here: https://andrewbrown.substack.com/p/the-inhuman-centipede

It was also used as the title for this post by Cory Doctrow discussing the same problem: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/#enshit...
by iamnothere | 2025-11-28 13:46:52+00:00
Private businesses, however, can choose to refuse service for any reason as long as it’s not discriminatory. If enough businesses collaborated to create a “no camera glasses” policy, people might be less likely to buy them. This could keep the market small.

Perhaps a good approach would be to pressure businesses about this. Frankly they probably don’t want pervasive recording of their employees anyway.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-28 13:47:01+00:00
Correct. I had used both at work up until around 2005. The idiot large companies I worked at did not believe in Source Code Control. That is the one thing I liked about RCS/SCCS, once I checked out an item, no one could check in their changes unless they contacted me. Forcing a coordinated manual merge between us.

I tried to get our org on to something for a while, but got massive push back until 5 or 6 years ago when they setup corporate wide paid githup repo.

Before that, I found a small group of developers around 2005 that used CVS and they allowed me to leverage that for my group. But of course I was the only one who used it.

Back then I guess people loved loosing source code, which happened a lot until git.
by reliablereason | 2025-11-28 13:47:17+00:00
Initially i asked a AI for standard values but here is a proper source:

- Negentropy concept revisited: Standard thermodynamic properties of 16 bacteria, fungi and algae species ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00494)

> Maybe you meant that radiation alone wouldn't be enough for that growth, so there'd be other components that it's helping with.

Yes. Clearly it grew as it grew, but the question is what drove/powered the growth.
by cachius | 2025-11-28 13:48:23+00:00
We use fewer critical raw materials for our fuel cell, unlike the lithium and cobalt typically used in batteries. Our use of these materials is considerably reduced.

Sodium batteries won't help here as they are even more heavy.

For the infrastructure, for long-distance transport, we need approximately 140 filling stations across all of Europe. That's a completely different scale than for battery-electric cars. In other words, there isn't that much to do.

In Germany alone there are about 14000 gas stations, 350 at the Autobahn; housing some of the 160000 charging points.
by squigz | 2025-11-28 13:49:01+00:00
> because the alternative is either building everything in-house or relying on local providers that frankly don't have the same feature set or reliability.

Neither of these seem like a terrible outcome. Relying on local providers would be better for privacy and would help the local economy. It would also push them to implement the remaining feature set and work on reliability - though I must sincerely question the idea that local providers cannot reach the same level of reliability - particularly when you throw in global network problems that affect the largest cloud providers but don't always affect the smaller guys.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-28 13:50:14+00:00
Maybe in principle, but neutron radiation from fallout/etc is relatively minimal and you really just have to wait out the decay of those isotopes.

The good news is radiation detectors are insanely sensitive so you can map where the hotspots are and mitigate much of the risk using exclusion zones and / or various cleanup techniques to collect the radioactive material so it can be safety stored.
by the_af | 2025-11-28 13:50:51+00:00
I don't agree.

Even the US suffers (their veterans do, anyway) but that's the country that in general least suffers from their constant involvement in warfare. They have this industry down to a "T". However, you cannot generalize from a nation that can project military force almost anywhere in the globe, with little fear of repercussion back home; most countries cannot afford this. China certainly cannot.

So what about the rest? Internecine conflicts are outrageously wasteful, and sadly common in the modern age. Russia's war with Ukraine has turned incredibly wasteful and costly, and Russians are suffering (and dying) regardless of whatever Putin says.

I think China is not generally oriented towards waging war. They do have their military, military projects, and their nationalistic things (what I learn from Wikipedia is called "irredentism"), but generally they seem to be trying to become an economic world power. War would mess and interfere with that. War is too fucking risky.
by ghaff | 2025-11-28 13:52:29+00:00
My neighbor had a barn cat that would come up to you and start head butting you and trying to take your food if we were eating on the deck. I'd have to periodically pick him up and take him to the other side of the house which would buy us about 10 minutes.

Another time I had summer company over and he must have sneaked in with doors opening and so forth because I found him later very comfortably situated in my bed.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-28 13:52:31+00:00
If the company is working in isolation (this company is not), the company is continuously pushing back on time frames (they haven't, at least yet), the company never enter actual fabrication/production (which they just did) or if the company never release any details what so ever (they have), then it looks more like vaporware than just "It'll be coming soon".

If those things are true in ~6 months, then I'll join the crowd here who are overly pessimistic at this moment, but until then, as most of the time, I'll give them benefit of the doubt.
by lenkite | 2025-11-28 13:52:43+00:00
> Education, financial security, and personal liberty are actually proven to work

When numbers are being added at the rate of several hundred million in a decade, none of those can work and most especially when your religion is a major impediment.

How do you plan on "educating, providing financial security and personal liberty" for multi-billion people in Africa yearly ? The rest of the world is not going to sign up for that.
by sschueller | 2025-11-28 13:52:52+00:00
A lot of Swiss government services do not need to be available 247 outside of the country.

There is no need for the SBB (Swiss national railway) to use cloudflare or AWS when the same can be provided by a local provider that also has the ability to deal with large DDOS and cap off the outside when it comes down to the wire. It is more important for someone in Switzerland to be able to purchase a ticket than someone planning a trip from abroad.
by NoraCodes | 2025-11-28 13:52:52+00:00
Right, that's exactly my point; Bluesky provides a centralized alternative to using your own domain name. (And moving from a did:plc to something decentralized is no easier than moving from mastodon.social or similar large instance to a smaller one!)

To be clear, I actually think it's a good idea to let people associate their own domains with their accounts, but I find it frustrating that people act like ATProto is the only or first example of open social protocols, as this TFA does.
by josephg | 2025-11-28 13:53:36+00:00
I’ve been enjoying the rust compio library lately which abstracts over io_uring on Linux. And IOCP and friends on windows. And it falls back to kqueue on macOS and presumably FreeBSD.

It’s wonderful being able to write straightforward code that works fast on every platform with no code changes.

I guess the strength of rust (and zig for now) is that the community has a chance to explore lots of different ways to solve these problems. And the corresponding weakness is that everyone uses different libraries, so it’s a fragmented ecosystem full of libraries that may or may not work together properly.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-28 13:54:12+00:00
Apple doesn't actively lock and act hostile towards the reverse engineering folks. They just do their thing and sometimes do small jests to allow these folks to boot anything they want and play with the hardware.

...and while they're standing away from GPL stuff, they do have a dedicated site for Open Source software: https://opensource.apple.com/

Go to releases, and see what they do there.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-28 13:56:02+00:00
IN 1995, I think there were some proprietary offerings, one company in Massachusetts was purchased by IBM back then.

But on the minis (non-DEC) I worked on back then, there was nothing. We kept a specific drive that had source current source, but once in production you just copied the change version to that drive, replacing what was already there. As you can guess, changes disappeared often :) And there was no change history, but we would tag each line changed with our 3 character ID.