MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by freedomben | 2025-11-09 16:12:18+00:00
Indeed, though it would take some coordination to actually narrow it down precisely. You'd need a few different planes/satellites to detect the signal and share their reading to allow triangulation. With only a single plane or a single satellite that is not in geosynchronous orbit, you could take multiple readings and get a rough idea of location, but the inability to turn from a straight line (not impossible for a plane of course, but it would require intentionality and willingness for the crew/commanders and typically not cheap as it disrupts whatever flight plan they previously had) would be a hindrance. That said, with how many satellites are up there I doubt it would take much extra effort to do that coordination if the satellite operators have motivation to do so.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-09 16:12:21+00:00
And to be honest, that reaction is part of the reason I keep doing it.

When people ask for my number and I say I don’t have a phone, 99% of all people say very passionately “omg, I wish I could get rid of this thing”. Most people don’t like their phone, which confirms my belief it won’t make my life better.
by jfengel | 2025-11-09 16:12:34+00:00
What drives me nuts is the way lawyers (of all stripes) keep praising "legal reasoning". None of it strikes me as even vaguely rigorous.

I'm not a lawyer so I could well be completely off base here. But if my perception is correct, I would much rather they admit that it's fundamentally up to someone's gut feeling. That's more honest than telling me that a bit of reasoning is airtight when it's not.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-09 16:13:04+00:00
New built western nuclear power contiues having lackluster performance when the fancy PowerPoints designs face reality. I keep being reminded by the old quote:

An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: - (1) It is simple. - (2) It is small. - (3) It is cheap. - (4) It is light. - (5) It can be built very quickly. - (6) It is very flexible in purpose (’omnibus reactor’). - (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly off-the-shelf components. - (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now. “On the other hand, a practical reactor plant can be distinguished by the following characteristics: - (1) It is being built now. - (2) It is behind schedule. - (3) It is requiring an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. Corrosion, in particular, is a problem. - (4) It is very expensive. - (5) It takes a long time to build because of the engineering development problems. - (6) It is large. - (7) It is heavy. - (8) It is complicated. “The tools of the academic-reactor designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone can see it. “The academic-reactor designer is a dilettante. He has not had to assume any real responsibility in connection with his projects. He is free to luxuriate in elegant ideas, the practical shortcomings of which can be relegated to the category of ‘mere technical details.’ The practical-reactor designer must live with these same technical details. Although recalcitrant and awkard, they must be solved and cannot be put off until tomorrow. Their solutions require manpower, time and money. “Unfortunately for those who must make far-reaching decisions without the benefit of an intimate knowledge of reactor technology and unfortunately for the interested public, it is much easier to get the academic side of an issue than the practical side. For a large part those involved with the academic reactors have more inclination and time to present their ideas in reports and orally to those who will listen. Since they are innocently unaware of the real but hidden difficulties of their plans, they speak with great facility and confidence. Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experience, speak less and worry more.”

https://www.powermag.com/blog/hyman-rickover-on-nuclear-desi...
by gdulli | 2025-11-09 16:13:12+00:00
I just got an S25 and having a Samsung account at all is optional. I never had one on my previous Galaxy phones either. I couldn't even accidentally use their AI or other intrusive crap with a misclick because I'd be taken to a screen where I have to sign up and agree to their privacy policy etc. Which obviously I don't.

I wouldn't consider buying a smart/Samsung refrigerator at all but I'm curious, is having blockchain, AI, and a Samsung account mandatory here? Or do they allow for discerning users who don't want that stuff? Is that market segment important to them?
by dpark | 2025-11-09 16:14:06+00:00
> 100% online in a digital scaremongered world

The irony of posting scaremongering about video calls being dangerous on a digital forum while claiming to be offline to avoid scaremongering.

> If enough pressure is applied

You cannot force the rest if your community to align with your personal viewpoints. There is no amount of “pressure” that is going to bend society to your will.
by immibis | 2025-11-09 16:15:42+00:00
Problem: the Internet is dangerous now. What you put in "your space" might get you fired, deported, etc. (Even if you think you're only posting safe things, consider the person who finds your space might not be sensible.) And not just people - everything you ever post can be assumed to be saved by countless "AI" systems by well-resourced groups, for future bad people to search through. See the imprisonment of Larry Bushart[1] over a Charlie Kirk meme. In most scenarios that's an okay thing to do, except when there are bad people in charge who are data-mining social platforms.

Posting anything is a risk. What benefit do you get from it - does it outweigh the risk? In the past, both the actual risk and the perceived risk were lower.

This concept explains the move from openly public forums and blogs to more private group chats - including Discord which is somewhat less public than the world wide web (and also feels less public because it's not random-access from a user perspective, although data slurpers will have no trouble).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/tennessee-ma...
by jfengel | 2025-11-09 16:15:46+00:00
Unless those judges themselves have a fondness for an imaginary "great" time, and will apply their reasoning in a way that just happens to fit their ideology.

Law is either rigorous or it's not. When I'm told that the law is against me but gosh darn it the law is the law, I grow resentful of the "discretion" reserved for some but not others.
by agumonkey | 2025-11-09 16:18:31+00:00
I'm not sure it's entirely similar to what you mentioned, but I too remember the sensation of focus, that I'm struggling to get these days. I started to realize this after the web2.0 era.. thinking that ajax infused web apps would allow for better communication and thinking but it mostly unleashed noise, and whenever I run into old, limited forms of communication, i get the sense of value and focus back. Only the things that matter gets to your attention, and it reaches deeper and faster.
by dspillett | 2025-11-09 16:18:34+00:00
A couple of decades ago I got sent some potentially sensitive (not sure how sensitive, I read as little as possible) employment related messages intended for someone with a name very like mine (same forename and middle name, surname differed by two typos, they also had the relevant <surname>.net domain).

I replied politely saying that I wasn't who they thought I was, and that I'd deleted the messages, and the buggers threatened to sue me if I continued to receive any more messages that they sent! This was an American firm, so there was no language barrier involved, though apparently an intelligence gap.

I didn't contact the other person until that threat, but at that point I looked him up and passed on that part of the comms trail with a “just to let you know what sort of idiots and litigious fools you are dealing with…” note.
by foobarian | 2025-11-09 16:18:37+00:00
Every single Samsung appliance we had failed in sad ways. Stove knobs cracked and fell off. Fridge condensation mitigation failed leading to flooding. Fridge icemaker doesnt defrost properly and gets stuck. The worst thing is, these are not primary functions of the appliance - but as a result the whole thing gets tossed when replaced. (We inherited them from previous owners, was not by choice).
by muldvarp | 2025-11-09 16:19:07+00:00
> don't you see the futility of complaining about it?

I'm not complaining to stop this. I'm sure it won't be stopped. I'm explaining why some people who work for a living don't like this technology.

I'm honestly not sure why others do. It pretty much doesn't matter what work you do for a living. If this technology can replace a non-negligible part of the white collar workforce it will have negative consequences for you. You don't have to like that just because you can't stop it.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-09 16:19:50+00:00
I imagine it won't be long before the TVs come with eSIMs to connect directly to Tmobile/Verizon/ATT, and maybe add some cameras in the borders to track eye movement.

Then the advertisers could buy more accurate information to improve product placement in movies/tv shows.

The sci-fi version could be a TV that can recognize what kind of things are in the room or clues for the viewer's socioeconomic status and emotional state to bring up content (or even change it in real time) to maximize resonance with the viewer.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-09 16:20:10+00:00
This thesis contradicts the chart though. Why would older people be much less affected and the generation 70+ even show a negative trend if these people were far more likely to experience a more severe disease progression? You would expect them to be hit at least as hard (if not harder) as young people from those long term memory effects. The trend for the youngest age group also starts well before 2019.
by teddyh | 2025-11-09 16:20:14+00:00
Something which I occasionally link to, is this: <https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF>. It not only shows why computer languages should start their indexes at 0 (instead of 1), but also shows why intervals should be specified as lower-inclusive and upper-exclusive.
by ksajadi | 2025-11-09 16:20:27+00:00
My Samsung TV keeps blocking around 20% of the display at random times to tell me their terms and conditions have changed. Of course I have the option of checking it by reading the whole thing on my TV and then running a diff to see what’s changed but I don’t have an option to opt out of the terms.

It’s way too frequent and runs at random times in the middle of a movie so I always choose Accept.

Give me a dumb TV any time of the day now
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-09 16:21:19+00:00
I didn't think some keywords could make me have fun but they did :D

Maybe I should use macros like this for productive work to make sure programming stays engaging and entertaining!

EXPERTS CLAIM SECRET_CODE TO BE 129 DISCOVER HOW TO MESS WITH NUMBER RUMOR HAS IT EXPERTS CLAIM RESULT TO BE NUMBER MODULO 2 WHAT IF RESULT IS ACTUALLY 0 SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT NUMBER DIVIDED BY 2 LIES! SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT (NUMBER TIMES 3) PLUS 1 END OF STORY EXPERTS CLAIM ITERATION TO BE 0 DISCOVER HOW TO DEEP_RESEARCH WITH NUMBER RUMOR HAS IT EXPERTS CLAIM ITERATION TO BE ITERATION PLUS 1 EXPERTS CLAIM RESULT TO BE MESS OF NUMBER WHAT IF RESULT IS ACTUALLY 1 RUMOR HAS IT SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT ITERATION END OF STORY LIES! SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT DEEP_RESEARCH OF RESULT END OF STORY EXPERTS CLAIM RESULT TO BE DEEP_RESEARCH OF SECRET_CODE YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS (((("shocking fact about innocious number discovered: " PLUS SECRET_CODE) PLUS " takes a whopping ") PLUS RESULT) PLUS " steps to reach 1") PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE
by BergAndCo | 2025-11-09 16:22:04+00:00
I "hacked" my way in but seem to be the only drop/hub in the entire server. My feedback:

- The error message that anon users can't create hubs should happen when they click "Create", not after they go through the creation process

- 125 hectares is ridiculously small. Even in densely-populated areas, it takes 2500 hectares encompasses a neighborhood

- The chat window doesn't maximize, it's just a sidebar, and there's no emojis or GIFs or image embeds or links or markdown/richtext support or ability to edit/delete messages

- It would be cool if there was a bottom bar with a "global chat" / event log where you see people creating new hubs/drops
by naasking | 2025-11-09 16:23:49+00:00
Clearly we need tests that check for effectiveness at applying general mathematical, logical and relational operations, eg. set theory, relational algebra, first and second order logic, type theory, the lambda calculus, recurrence and induction, etc., and the ability to use these to abstract over specifics and the ability to generalize.

The upside is that these can all be generated and checked synthetically so large data sets are possible, in both formal and natural languages.
by jlokier | 2025-11-09 16:24:20+00:00
Obviously not, Fil-C doesn't prevent or claim to prevent all security issues in modern code either.

But the issues Fil-C prevents, it prevents in very old programs compiled with it , if they compile, just as much as current programs.

At compile time, certain patterns that are accepted in standard C are rejected by Fil-C, and the source code has to be changed if you still want to compile the program. At run time, Fil-C prevents memory-related security issues by reliably detecting invalid memory reads and writes that are usually part of an attack and producing deterministic behaviour, sometimes terminating the program, instead of letting the attacker take advantage of undefined behaviour that happens to compile to something the attacker can use. Both of those features work just as well with very old C programs as current ones.
by estebarb | 2025-11-09 16:24:59+00:00
The reason I started with Linux when I was 9yo (1999) is because we bought a computer and PC Magazine gave away a CD with Corel Linux. So I did what obviously must have been done... thankfully the disk came damaged, otherwise my lawyer dad would have learned the importance of making backups XD.

So, I would suggest: try to get a throwaway computer, give the kid it and an USB with Linux and let them alone. Do not force anything, just give them the tools and a gentle push. Let curiosity take the wheel and be prepared to answer a lot of questions.
by dbg31415 | 2025-11-09 16:25:14+00:00
Just a reminder that there are ongoing issues where Facebook prevents Native Americans from signing up or being allowed to use their legitimate names because their legal names are judged “inauthentic.”

This has been documented for well over a decade. Facebook has publicly promised changes, but the problem persists and support responses appear weak. Almost like they don’t care at all…

https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-is-still-making-it-...
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-09 16:25:26+00:00
It will sell very well because it a) will be cheaper than non-advertising laden fridges, b) will make more money meaning they can spend more on marketing and c) it has an air of "living in the future" about it.

Most of us here see it for what it is, because we know what happens to the data.

I think the future is going to have more of this.

But, I can also imagine people paying more for almost everything that is ad-supported today to get non-ad supported versions in the future, not because of the data concerns, but because of the opportunity for status signalling - ad-supported devices like this will be seen as something "only poor people have" within two decades. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
by gruez | 2025-11-09 16:25:39+00:00
>If instead of a username, an email address to register, that generally results in one less degree of freedom [...]

It "generally" doesn't, because the average user isn't randomly generating usernames per-site, just like they're not randomly generating passwords per-site. If they're randomly generating usernames per site, they'll need some sort of system to keep track of it, which is 90% of the way to using a password manager (and therefore randomized passwords, immune to credential stuffing). For it to practically make a difference, you'd need someone who cares about security enough to randomize usernames, but for whatever reason doesn't care enough about security to randomize passwords.
by dr_zoidberg | 2025-11-09 16:26:18+00:00
A little bit off topic: but I couldn't even start to read the article because "I reached my article limit" out of I site I never visited before... What are they using to determine how many articles I've read?

Opening in a private window solved the issue, however I'm pretty sure I don't regularly read anything on this site (maybe never was an overstatement?).
by dangus | 2025-11-09 16:26:23+00:00
Physical difficulty is not the same as training and education requirements. That’s what makes minimum wage jobs “low skill.”

If I quit my job as an office assistant or research intern, my employer has to do some decent legwork to find someone with the base education and skills that are qualified for that job. I can’t do those jobs if I don’t have college level reading and writing skills or understand basic research practices that are learned in college level courses. And this is just at the lowest intern level of the professions.

The restaurant looking for a server or dishwasher can take anyone with a GED off the street and get them productive in a matter of hours or days. The lowest level restaurant employees (dishwashers and bussers) don’t even need to know how to read.

I agree that minimum wage should be a living wage that ensures a decent life in the context of a country with excessive wealth that is concentrated among the few.

But I think it’s something of a denial of reality to claim that minimum wage jobs aren’t low skill, because they generally are low skill as far as your skill requirements to get a foot in the door. Most of the skills involved are learned within hours or days not weeks or months.

There are high skill jobs that are similarly or more physically difficult than a server or a dishwasher and require long apprenticeships, education, and/or training: jobs like professional sports athletes, deep sea welders, Hollywood stunt professionals, many performing arts jobs like the people backstage at a theater production or the musicians in a touring band.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-09 16:26:36+00:00
> they believed that a government of only enumerated powers was enough.

That's a perspective, but it seems to me that the Federalists didn't believe that government should be limited at all. The Constitution is a genie granting three wishes, and explaining beforehand that one of your wishes can be to wish for three more wishes.

Personally, it's always seemed obvious that the Federalists and their children have been the worst intellectual current in US government. They never had popular support at any time, and relied on the manipulation of power and position to accomplish personal goals (which is really their only ideology.) It began with a betrayal of the French Revolution, setting the US on a dirty path (and leaving the Revolution to be taken over by the insane.) The Bill of Rights is the only worthwhile part of the US Constitution; the rest of it is a bunch of slop meant to placate and protect local warlords and slaveholders. The Bill of Rights is the only part that acknowledges that individual people exist other than the preamble.

The Anti-Federalists were always right.

I agree with you that what we should be working on is specifying, codifying and expanding the Bill of Rights, rather than the courts continually trying to come up with new ways to subvert it. New ways that are never codified firmly, that always exist as vibes and penumbras. Rights shouldn't have anything to do with what a judge knows when he sees. If we want to abridge or expand the Bill of Rights, a new amendment should be written and passed; the Supreme Court is overloaded because 1) Congress has ceased to function and 2) the Senate is still an assembly of local warlords.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-09 16:26:46+00:00
There's pros and cons to that decision.

At the very least, it's not great to send an ex-president who still has substantial support to prison while same ex-president is also spouting conspiracy theories about election fraud and deep state. That doesn't end well.

On the other hand, a strong executive is a feature of the American political system and has its benefits.

Imho, my hope is that the Supreme Court punted on that one by deliberately leaving "official acts of office" vague. And that if push came to shove, election related activities would be defined as not part of presidential duties.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-09 16:27:17+00:00
Modern PHP is a strongly typed language, still dynamically typed, but in a way that feels more like static typing. Better than TypeScript for sure if you're not into PhD-level typing hacks, and light years ahead of Ruby, Python, JS, and their ilk.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-system.php

As for "wat videos", you'll find that about anything.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-09 16:28:11+00:00
Pet rat owners will fall over themselves to throw money at anyone offering a longer-lived and healthier breed. I would pay more money than I care to admit for a rat that lived just a few years longer.

There's actually a huge problem with pet rats in that they're all remarkably inbred. If you don't get your rats from a dedicated professional breeder who's been at it for decades, your pet is likely going to get really sick at the end of their life. Females tend to get catastrophic tumors, and all have extremely delicate respiratory systems. Out of the dozens of rats I've kept, only one died quietly in her sleep of old age. The rest were horrific and gruesome.

Yeah, there'd be a good amount of money in it for whoever can fix rats' genetics.
by speckx | 2025-11-09 16:28:18+00:00
I have a similar username on a "social media" site as the founder's username. I would get hateful personal messages, requests for favors, begging for money, etc., constantly. At first I would respond to correct people, but after years and years I stopped. I just disable notifications for that site and never read my mailbox, personal messages, etc. This has been going on for about 19 years now.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-09 16:28:18+00:00
I didn't see any discussion on your page of the retroreflectors the Apollo astronauts left on the moon. These were put there for distance measuring but they might be useful for laser-based communication too.

Caveat: Retroreflectors only reflect in the same direction as the incoming beam. But I'd guess that imperfections in their construction together with the roughly 1 degree of arc spanned by 2 stations on opposite sides of the earth might make this idea practical with a better S/N than using only the lunar surface as a reflector. But I don't know. They might be a lot more precise than 1 degree.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-09 16:28:40+00:00
If you approximate the youngest age group's data points as a linear trend, it starts well before 2019. After all, they originally were at the same level as the next two higher age groups. So even if you assume that the entire rise after 2020 was due to this cause, it would only explain ~50% of the total effect. And it would not explain at all how older people who were most likely to experience a severe disease (particularly before vaccines) actually show a slight inverse trend, while the age groups in between show barely any statistically significant effect. If you really want to blame covid, I would assume closing schools and mass remote-schooling to protect old people is a much more likely explanation for the trend among the youngest people post 2020. This is the one thing that truly sets them apart from all the other age groups.