MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AuthAuth | 2025-11-18 00:48:30+00:00
>Bloody bean counters! Mate they just need to pick up a toolbelt and do some real work all they do is fuck everything up.

A sentiment often expressed by my dad as the 'bean counters' organize 1000s of people across 100s of companies and tons and tons of materials and machinery to all arrive on site and preform specific tasks in an efficient manner.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 00:49:42+00:00
Lem looks great and I wish we all could simply move there, I personally, am not married to a concrete implementation of Emacs, I just love the idea of an editor built atop a Lisp REPL; I don't think I ever could use a computer without having it.

However, what then we'd do with nearly half-a-century history of Emacs? There are so many packages out there - it's insane to ever think we'd have to re-implement all that ginormous constellation of functionality in Common Lisp. Until we can find some quick way to translate them there, I honestly don't see any practical possibility for the migration.

Who knows, maybe agents will get so good and someone will eventually figure out a path; until then, Emacs is to remain - with all the good and bad parts.
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-18 00:49:46+00:00
> Is there some strategic sense to this that I'm missing, or is Ken Paxton...

He's trying to take John Cornyn US Senate seat by going full Trump clone. The guy is and already was about as corrupt as they come.

He was leading polls early this year until people started reflecting on how Trump tactics have been working out for them and if thats what they want to replace an actual stable guy with, a guy who already checks the very conservative box but goes about his job like professional and grown adult (ie, doesn't turn the US government into realty tv drama) -- now there is a close 3 way race for the republican ticket spot (pretty much a guaranteed win for who ever makes it out of the primaries). Paxton is really leaning into whatever gets him in the news. Expect more nonsense from him til after the March 2026 primaries
by tavavex | 2025-11-18 00:49:56+00:00
Despite its age, this encyclopedia is an amazing window into North Korea - or, at least how its government saw it. I love niche media like this.

But what I'm itching for most is to see the contents of the entire CD, rather than just a few chosen excerpts. The entire encyclopedia, all the maps, anything else that may be hidden on there. I wish the author made this find open for all to see.
by svat | 2025-11-18 00:50:11+00:00
You're right, but consider:

• Of course it's very strange; that's why he wrote about it — the point is to convey what is not obvious.

• Of course it's risky, but that's the point of much of the author's journey of social ease, at least the initial stages up to that point. If you're willing to take the risk of coming off <…>, or of an angry reaction, you open yourself up to a wider range of experiences / social interactions. Probably much of the interaction was non-verbal and even the author's paragraph cannot capture exactly what went on.

Not everyone needs to take such risks of course, but the author consciously chose to “install” social skill, and has shared their experience.
by frankfrank13 | 2025-11-18 00:52:32+00:00
I like this post, ofc we could all benefit from direct, and vulnerable, conversations. But one thing I never understood, even through Brené Brown, is that this direct and vulnerable communication style leads to its own set of baggage, its own unspoken agreements about what something meant.

> “I’ve been feeling a low-level tension between us, like maybe we’re quietly annoyed at each other but trying to stay polite. Is that just me?”

I'm sure in many cultures, and in many friend groups, this would go over fine. If I said this to someone, they would go into shock. They're unspoken thought would be "wow if he's saying that to me, I must annoy the shit out of him". Maybe not! Maybe that's my own unspoken understanding! But I do think this leaves a "scar" even a small one. "Direct" conversations are not without their own damaging effects. I think part of my social contract is to "deal" with things silently. Maybe in other cultures that's not the case.

If someone said that to me, I would be happy to have that conversation, but I would be on pins and needles around that person, and possibly overthinking how "annoying" I'm being, and I would have at least a small amount of resentment for the person saying it – "I have lots of friends I don't annoy, what's wrong with this person"
by tavavex | 2025-11-18 00:52:54+00:00
Interesting! I've seen this happen a few times, though I've never witnessed something as extreme as a 10+ minute wait just for the off-ramp. I still maintain that it seems dangerous regardless of the situation, because while someone stops and tries to cut in line, the non-off-ramp lane they're stopped on can still keep moving, creating opportunities for collisions.
by retrac | 2025-11-18 00:53:12+00:00
Robert Nordier's port of v7 to x86 probably didn't get the attention it deserves.

It's what it sounds like: v7 Unix ported to x86. Unix v7 was portable enough and the PDP-11 architecturally similar enough to x86 that almost all the code works without change. (Many of the changes from v6 to v7 were to make Unix more portable; it was already running on at least 4 different architectures by 1980.)

I wonder if the obscurity is because the x86 v7 source was an archive inside an archive? Seems a minor thing but not having it to browse online is likely to be an off-ramp for most.

https://www.nordier.com/v7x86/v7x86-0.8a-all.tar.xz has releases/v7x86-0.8a.tar.bz2 (you'll want to use a -C prefix it explodes in the current directory). Source is in usr/sys and usr/src like normal for v7 Unix.

And yes, your modern Linux system's GNU tar is reading the ancient v7 tar format just fine. Neat, eh?

You might find the modern "file" command can still recognize the v7 a.out binary format too:

$ file usr/bin/compress usr/bin/compress: a.out little-endian 32-bit executable not stripped

Unix version 7 remains a sort of lowest common denominator almost half a century later.
by a2128 | 2025-11-18 00:54:22+00:00
Apple's self service repair is an absolute joke and its only purpose is to exist on paper while deterring everybody away. They will ship a pelican case of factory level equipment to your house, which you need to rent ($49/week) and pay a massive deposit for ($1200). Companies that actually want users to be able to repair their stuff will write at-home repair guides and sell minimal kits similar to what's on iFixit (e.g. tell the user to heat adhesive with their hair dryer rather than a $500 piece of commercial repair equipment)
by consumer451 | 2025-11-18 00:54:27+00:00
> Yeah, for code I'll often start an entirely new chat and paste in just the bits I liked from the previous attempt.

Hi Simon, it is very likely that I am misunderstanding your comment, however:

Do you use chatbot UIs like chatgtp.com, claudi.ai, LibreChat for coding, instead of something Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, etc?

If that is the case, I am really curious about this. Or, did you just mean for benchmarking various models via simple chat UIs?
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-11-18 00:55:00+00:00
This article praises mobile housing too much. For a lot of people, this is substandard living conditions. Yes, there are nicer parks, but that’s not the norm across the country.

In my opinion, states should convert the zoning for all mobile home parks to multifamily (apartment complexes), and require developers to give each of the residents their own paid for unit. Then the land is more productive and the previous owners are upgraded to a higher quality living experience.

(I live in southern CA and many parks are located on land that would be very very well suited for large apartment complexes)
by frankfrank13 | 2025-11-18 00:56:01+00:00
Just to be pretentious, this also reminds me of a conversation in Infinite Jest, where the canadian and the american spy argue about whether its right to teach their young what right and wrong is, or whether its right to discover it. The example is eating candy.

I think in the US, if you tell a kid not to eat candy, they will eat candy as soon as their guardian isn't watching. I'm not sure that's true elsewhere, for a myriad of reasons. By extension, if you tell me I'm annoying you, I might go through the motions of "repairing" the relationship, while I actually just distance myself. Ofc, that depends on who says it
by dpark | 2025-11-18 00:56:26+00:00
In the last thread about this, I tried to have a constructive conversation with you, and you jumped to ad hominem attacks multiple times and then when I tried to actually get clarity on what it means to be part of the “open web”, you explicitly said you didn’t want to engage anymore (and then continued your accusations elsewhere in the thread). Now you’ve chimed in here to essentially call me a paid shill and to repeat your baseless “killing the open web” soundbite.

Your definition of “open web“ appears to be “never deprecating a feature ever”. And it’s fine that you want browsers to support features forever. I don’t think that has anything to do with the open web though. Exactly like the author of this blog post, you believe things that were never even part of the “web”, such as gopher, should be supported in the name of an “open web”.

> Not only does it not break the web, they are flat out lying about that being the reason they’re doing it.

The library is known to have multiple security vulnerabilities. They have declared that it is not sustainable to maintain this dependency. And they have also declared that it’s not worth replacing it. I don’t see the lie in that. I don’t think anyone is claiming that they actually cannot support xslt. They are saying that it requires more investment to support, and the ROI is too low.

I also clarified this exact point last time. You are willfully misunderstanding the messaging because acknowledging the engineering trade offs here would force you to consider that this isn’t just an issue of lazy developers or evil PMs as you also claimed.

> please state if you work for any of these companies

I work for Microsoft who I don’t believe has chimed in on this conversation, though if Chromium removes it, Edge presumably will too. I have no visibility into the Edge position on this feature, though.
by stockresearcher | 2025-11-18 00:56:32+00:00
I thought that this was going to be a discussion about this old HN classic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420060

PS - don’t click the smashcompany link!!! The essay appears to have been replicated here:

https://medium.com/@jacobfriedman/object-oriented-programmin...
by amluto | 2025-11-18 00:56:41+00:00
I gave you the benefit of the doubt for a moment, but as far as I can tell, you are incorrect for practical purposes. I went ahead and re-checked everything to make sure. Let's see:

1. I have a cloudflare domain with a working tunnel (managed through Access). In DNS Records, it shows as a CNAME to [redacted].cfargotunnel.com. But:

$ dig [redacted].cfargotunnel.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> [redacted].cfargotunnel.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5851 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

and no records are returned. Interestingly, it's an empty result, no NXDOMAIN.

2. I have multiple subdomains that appear to be CNAMEs to the same [redacted].cfargotunnel.net. And yet they are entirely different sites that just happen to share an instance of cloudflared at the origin. The sites aren't even served at the same origin address!

They are different "Published Application Routes". They don't even have the same protocol!

2. The tunnel above is on a domain with "Full (strict)" TLS. But traffic to the origin emerges from cloudflared in cleartext.

This whole configuration schema is nonsense. What should happen if a CNAME points at a tunnel that doesn't have a route for that application? What if a tunnel has a route for an application that is CNAMEd somewhere else?

I imagine that what's going on is that Cloudflare internally has a rule that traffic with a cfargotunnel.com origin goes out their Tunnel infrastructure instead of out to the normal Internet. And Cloudflare applies the same JWT that it would apply if the request went out via the normal Internet, and cloudflared verifies that JWT if "Enforce Access JSON Web Token (JWT) validation" is on (maybe the request is literally TLS wrapped inside the cloudflared tunnel? I've never tried to inspect what's going on inside). And then cloudflared unwraps everything? And if you configure cloudflared wrong, then it's totally insecure?
by bad_haircut72 | 2025-11-18 00:56:52+00:00
"we are nice to people to get what we want" is flat out not true. We are nice to people because cooperative societies out performed the non-cooperative ones on the macro level. On a micro level this kind of attitude sometimes/often prevails, we call the people who act like this "jerks", and the people who try to justify it with these kinds of rationale "sociopaths", because to the group as a whole its so incredibly damaging, and to the individuals on the other side of it, insufferable.
by hansvm | 2025-11-18 00:57:30+00:00
TCP/IP is, in theory (AFAIK all experiments related to this fizzled out a decade or two ago), a global resource when you start factoring in congestion control. TLS is less obviously something you would want kernel involvement from, give or take the idea of outsourcing crypto to the kernel or some small efficiency gains for some workloads by skipping userspace handoffs, with more gains possible with NIC support.
by k310 | 2025-11-18 00:59:43+00:00
I pay about $2000 a year for property tax (It's in the boondocks). That's it. A land rent may be a big chunk of that every month. It varies a lot, so run the numbers.

A Condo owner owns the land and pays property tax and HOA fees, which can be steep, so there's land appreciation.

Why pay so much every month to get zero land equity and zero home maintenance?

Run some numbers. I did sometime back. And don't forget, these are microscopic lots. Barely room for a couple of storage shelves under a car awning.

The references say that the mobile homes depreciate, so they're not even worth moving, and landlords charge anyway. I linked to very short ones that bring up key issues.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 01:00:17+00:00
Emacs can't do that for historic reasons. It just can't distinguish between keypress and keyup events. It receives input events from the terminal/OS. Terminals are text-oriented: They evolved to transmit characters, not hardware events.

It's not some technical impossibility - I think it would make sense to make this possible, at least in GUI Emacs. I suppose there was never a strong incentive to tackle this problem.
by acaloiar | 2025-11-18 01:00:21+00:00
It's interesting that even people who are anti-Flock have been convinced to refer to Flock's camera products as automatic license plate readers (ALPRs).

This is similar to how Google has convinced Android users to refer to installing apps from stores other than the Play Store as "side-loading". It's a distraction.

Make no mistake -- Flock cameras are mass-surveillance tools with the ancillary use case of automatic license plate reading. I encourage anyone discussing these products not to refer to them as ALPRs, unless specifically discussing their license plate reading functionality.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-18 01:00:52+00:00
Long term storage is definitely the weak point of moving to 100% carbon free electricity. Unfortunately geothermal does not cover this need. If we want to cover a dankelflaute with geothermal, we basically need enough geothermal to cover ~100% of our power needs. Pumped hydro is the best answer we have at the moment, even if it isn't a great answer.

What will likely happen is that people will decide that "99% is good enough", and use fossil generators to cover dankelflautes,
by jasonmarks_ | 2025-11-18 01:02:21+00:00
> Im pretty deep into this topic and what might be interesting to an outsider is that the leading models like neuralgcm/weathernext 1 before as well as this model now are all trained with a "crps" objective which I haven't seen at all outside of ml weather prediction.

You are a bit misleading here. The model is trained on historical data but each run off of new instrument readings will be generated a few times in an ensemble.
by mmooss | 2025-11-18 01:03:24+00:00
> The international organisation for stopping wars, human trafficking, money laundering, drug distribution etc. however capable they might be, haven't managed to stamp out any of those things.

They've never been expected to "stamp out" those things, any more than a city police department is expected to stamp out all crime and doctors are expected to stamp out all illness. Their mission is to reduce those things:

For warfare, they have been extremely successful relative to human history. War has actually become taboo and illegal, and very few happen. Look at history before the UN - it's a miracle. Think of the vision and confidence of people who, looking at 10,000 years of human history, immediately after two world wars, thought it was even possible, came up with effective strategy, did the hard work, and accomplished it.

I don't know the details of the other fields.

> I'd say a putative UN NetWatch would suffer from the same issues of funding and corruption and politics, but still we might have something better than this wild west lawlessness.

Politics and funding, and corruption, come with every human institution over a certain size, and especially with governments which can't exclude undesireable people: Democratic governments are the least corrupt, but if the people elect a corrupt representative or executive, then nobody can kick them out (unless they commit prosecutable crimes). And now imagine an association or confederation of governments, which is what the UN is.

So yes, the goal is to make something better. Otherwise, we might as well quit on everything.
by youngbum | 2025-11-18 01:04:41+00:00
Big fan of Cloudflare Tunnel here, too.

We use our Windows workstations as WSL SSH tunnels, protected with email verification (only for our domain), and it’s been working perfectly.

I’m curious, though, about how we can expose Docker services. It would be fantastic to have a remote build server set up with Cloudflare Tunnel.
by ggm | 2025-11-18 01:04:43+00:00
Plant with deep timeline of domestication turns out to have complex un-explored (or at least under-explored) genomics.

Just when I think a Fukayama "end of science" moment is around the corner, science does what it does. Which goes to the Feynman "plenty of room at the bottom" quote.

I love oats. They rescue my gut, they are slow release, they are tasty and they are culturally appropriate food for me, raised in Scotland. Sam Johnson was wrong, they are not just food for horses.

Without over egging the intentionality language, selecting complex repeat-rich genomics which can then express and survive across the domestication breeding cycle is a pretty good strategy for the blind watchmaker. I think if Oats had bred true and been boring genes, they wouldn't have been an early choice for domestication.

Is Corn (the US corn, not the english Corn. English: why can't we use two words for two plants instead of one word for two plants?) the same in its genetics complexity? Is wheat/emmer? Is rye?
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-18 01:05:22+00:00
That's not my experience at all - every time (possibly literally every single time) I have heard a liberal say that we don't need guns to protect government tyranny, the argument is that you could not protect yourself from the government, not that you would not need to. That seems obvious to me, so I'm a little astonished at what you're saying.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-11-18 01:05:24+00:00
Not true. As an overly simple thought experiment consider what happens to the market if a government were to dictate the construction of two units of housing per capita.

The issue is lack of supply. That is enforced by zoning, which is ultimately dictated by politicians, who know they won't get reelected if they make policy changes that gut a significant portion of their constituents' savings.

It's a fairly straightforward example of systemic dysfunction with no obvious solution.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-18 01:06:34+00:00
> We're concerned with society's safety, not just that of the user.

Preventing censorship is important to keeping society safe from authoritarians who want to influence public opinion.

> We deliberately shape the information environment all the time for different reasons. It can be done.

That's why we need to put in the work to inhibit people from doing that.

> But the media generally does not report suicides because of the copycat effect.

Yet they consistently fail to follow the same logic with respect to things like school shootings, implying that whoever is at the helm can't be trusted to make sound decisions, and then we certainly don't want anyone like that having the power to censor.

> Governments implement elaborate systems to guard sensitive national security information including the workings of certain advanced technologies.

These systems are notorious for over-classifying information that it would be in the public interest to release or being used to cover up misconduct.

> Criminal records can be expunged.

That means the government stops officially claiming you're a criminal and stops caring about it for a certain set of purposes. It doesn't mean nobody can tell you what happened.

> The sharing of health and education records are restricted.

Those rules are generally about securing information that neither the patient nor the medical provider have any desire to make public. Notice that if the medical provider actually wants to publish them they can often put it in the agreement as a condition of accepting their services and the patient can pretty much publish them whenever they want.
by bb88 | 2025-11-18 01:06:55+00:00
> Next on the list of worst things to happen to programming is Python's popularity as a CSC101 language

My school kept track of computer science graduates, and the numbers dropped sharply after copying MIT's example for their intro course. And predictably it was 4 years after the change.

Some might call that "Gatekeeping" (though that's a more recent word in the vernacular), but I think it's more 90% of the jobs were C/C++/Java back then, and a BS degree was meant to get a graduate in a job in the real world.

Also students dropping out of the computer science program wasn't a great look when requesting funds for servers and stuff.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 01:07:15+00:00
> VS code users don't really care about Vim

I disagree. vim-navigation is imperative for a huge number of devs. It's an amazing, practical, beautiful model. I would've never tried emacs if Evil-mode wasn't so fantastic. And that yet another reason for why vscode never is appealing to me - every one and each vim extension for it has tons of glaring deficiencies.