MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thesumofall | 2025-11-09 07:22:24+00:00
I worked for Airbus a long time ago, and obviously I have some rose-tinted glasses, but what stands out in my memories:

- While the French and Germans love to hate each other, they culturally complement each other very well. I don’t think Airbus could have happened as a purely French or German project (and yes, the UK and Spain are also part of Airbus but are much less visible)

- Despite being a highly political entity, you wouldn’t feel any of that day to day. Even up to the highest management levels, it felt like an engineering company focused on incredibly hard engineering challenges. Every once in a while, there was fighting over which country would get which work share for a new project, but it felt more like internal teams pushing their pet peeves rather than external political influence

- It was a truly international company. My first team had eight colleagues based in four countries. To make it all work, they had some very early video conferencing systems where the equipment would take up entire side rooms.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-09 07:22:31+00:00
If 10% of your OS code is in a small piece that might be called a microkernel, and 90% is in one huge blob that implements everything else, then you don't really have a microkernel OS.

Or to phrase that more directly at the point: for monolithic kernels to be obsolete you have to break up the monolithic part, not just shim a microkernel hypervisor on top of it.
by bragr | 2025-11-09 07:23:15+00:00
The legal terms seem pretty evil for what this is. I'll allow that evil may not be the intent. Perhaps you just asked a lawyer for the most bulletproof terms possible, but what you've end up with is a very one sided set of terms. Honestly the more I read, the weirder they get. If I tell a lie to another user, them I'm liable to be banned? I see what you are going for in that section, but as written, any normal, day to day, social lubricant style lie/falsehood could get you banned? On a social network?

Edit: reading further, I suspect these were just taken from somewhere unless in 2025 they've got some Flash code to protect:

>Copy or adapt the Services' software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
by js2 | 2025-11-09 07:23:23+00:00
Merck has a promising pill (enlicitide) coming that blocks PCSK9, lowering LDL-C:

- up to a 60% reduction in LDL cholesterol, with sustained reductions at 52 weeks;

- a 53% reduction in non-HDL, a combination of all types of cholesterol except for HDL (“good cholesterol”);

- a 50% reduction in ApoB, a protein that helps carry fat and various “bad” types of cholesterol throughout the body;

- a 28% reduction in Lp(a), a different type of lipoprotein that is structurally similar to LDL, determined by genetics and a risk factor for heart disease; and

- a similar rate of serious side effects (10% in enlicitide vs. 12% in placebo), a small proportion of participants left the study early because of side effects (3% vs.4%, respectively).

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/investigational-daily-pill-l...

Blocking PCSK9 isn't new, but thus far only available as an injectable:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/22550-pcsk9-inhi...
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-09 07:23:26+00:00
> "If Parliament says smoking in Paris is illegal, it is illegal."

I'm not entirely sure if you yourself understand the context or real meaning of that phrase, but for others at least, it was NOT meant to highlight that Parliament has a burning desire or real ability to legislate outside of its jurisdiction!

Just that it has the legal authority to create any such law, and that the legitimacy of a law is not dependent on its moral content. It's merely a paraphrasing/summary of H.L.A. Hart's legal positivism.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-09 07:24:20+00:00
I managed to recreated your error.

I setup a virtual Win10 edu guest in hyper-v. I mounted a Win11 LTSC/IoT iso as a drive using hyper-v tools. When I ran the command I got the same error you did.

Next. I copied the Win11 LTSC/IoT iso to a folder in the Win10 edu guest. I mounted the ISO and ran the command and didn't get the error.

It's installing now but the setup only gave an option for saving my files, not the apps. It's not great but it makes sense.
by monerozcash | 2025-11-09 07:25:19+00:00
Yeah, I'm not sure that baby-proofing everything as proposed here is going to result in a working society.

If we expected airplanes or cars to be able to be safely operated by people with zero understanding of how such vehicles work, nobody would be getting anywhere.

You eventually reach a level of stupidity and/or incompetence after which trying to alter the product to coddle those users becomes counterproductive.
by titannet | 2025-11-09 07:25:47+00:00
A "normal" ocean-going Ro Ro ship would be over 200m long and quite a bit higher. Typically only the lowest deck can carry trucks and heavy loads and the upper decks carry cars. Their solution of only having the heavy load deck is sensible since they need a low center of gravity to counteract the sails and any added deck height hurts the sailing characteristics. With all that said, there is not much to scale it up. They could make it a bit longer but probably mostly easily: risk in bad weather, structural integrity demands from the added sails and all that may quickly add up.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 07:26:20+00:00
No, your post is nonsense. You link a random article that doesn't even make the argument that you're making - that it's low cholesterol causing the memory loss - or that statins are causing the memory loss at all.

And considering serum cholesterol cannot pass the blood brain barrier and that it is all synthesized de novo in the brain makes it an even sillier claim. Your serum cholesterol level does not have impact on your brain's cholesterol levels.

Quite a few organs have the ability to synthesize cholesterol as needed and can do so just fine. Another area where we make use of cholesterol is for synthesizing hormones... but those organs can all synthesize it de novo just fine too.

The new pkcs9 inhibitors have gotten people down to extremely low levels of LDL (<30 and <10!) and found no impact to cognition, hormone production, etc. We have mendelian randomization studies looking at people that genetically do not produce pkcs9 and have basically nonexistent serum levels of LDL, no impact to cognition, hormone production, etc.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779348/

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ATV.0000000000000164

https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Clinical-Trials/201...

https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Clinical-Trials/201...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-09 07:26:47+00:00
> Can I modify the command to go from regular windows 10 to debloated windows 11?

I setup a virtual Win10 edu to try and convert to Win11 LTSC/IoT. The only option setup gave me was to wipe out my apps and keep my personal files. That's what it did.

So the command doesn't offer much improvement over a wipe and a reload. Sorry I don't have better news.
by schappim | 2025-11-09 07:27:53+00:00
I used Grok to successfully split a large 10K-line file of spaghetti code into multiple smaller well organised files. This was after giving the same task to Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini, all of which consistently failed.

Grok certainly has its uses, but I default to OpenAI for most business tasks and Claude for code.
by doganugurlu | 2025-11-09 07:28:12+00:00
Pretty obviously. In fact, you defined a pretty good standard with the exception of the snark about what the OP deems humane - not deporting to an overcrowded prison in a 3rd country can’t be that hard to agree on.

All evidenced by the fact that higher deportation numbers during Obama created no uproar. You think it’s coz Obama was handsome or smtg?
by jonway | 2025-11-09 07:28:30+00:00
I was looking at yearly immigration numbers and there is variation in the reporting, which is to be expected, but from what I can see, the census bureau sees a fairly stable number of immigrants (undocumented and otherwise) year over year from 2010-2025, and many sources agree, although CATO intstitute indicates a rather large increase (around %40) in this time period.

Can you please share some information as to why you feel the 21-3 numbers to be destabilizing?

The reason for increasing Venezuelan immigration is most likely the TPS act from 2019 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_TPS_Act_of_2019 )

I am an internet person, but I am aware of your general career and hold some personal respect for you which is why I am asking you fairly directly for your information. Correcting my knowledge is truly my goal and to be very blunt, I am sensitive to the issues of immigration (all types). Personally, my main concern with my country's treatment of this issue lies in the preservation of due process for these people who are seeking to become my countrymen. It doesn't surprise me that they might desire freedom and self-determination, which is something that I readily empathize with. It is important to me to treat people fairly and with dignity in civil society and especially regarding our government, and this includes citizens who are troubled by it. As such I am very interested in realizing an accurate portrayal.
by dangus | 2025-11-09 07:29:14+00:00
Which examples? I can’t think of any profitable companies with a profile like that. Free social media sites basically require scale.

Human moderation is going to be a huge hurdle for this. Connecting Internet users by location seems like a massive safety liability.

Making sure users are human and not just gathering locations of uses at an individual non-aggregated level also seems like a horrendous bad time.

On top of that, anonymous mode is going to be removed in the future, so you literally just have to tell other users your seemingly somewhat precise location, tied to your real persona.

Who wants this?

It’s also crazy that this site asks for location before even telling us what it is. On mobile it’s especially bad because the site isn’t even loaded or visible before the OS prompt covers basically the whole screen.

The service does need your location on the marketing page, collect that when users actually start using it.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-09 07:29:52+00:00
Some may argue the collected public driving information is too dangerous/sensitive to be available under the PRA... But in that case it's ALSO too dangerous/sensitive for them to be aggregating it uncontrolled in the first place.

So I see this as a good ruling: While I don't want my driving data public, I'd rather everyone's be equally public, rather than allowing shady and unaccountable forces to decide who "deserves" privacy and who doesn't.

In other words, if Elon Musk or Local Town Mayor can surveil my daily drives, I should be able to see theirs too.

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Aside: Imagine a journalistic cooperative that uses similar cameras to record all traffic at the driveways of the rich/politicians, airports, luxury hotels and resorts, etc.

Magically, legislators will acquire opinions against such systems... though not necessarily honest or evenhanded ones, that'll still be a problem.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-09 07:32:11+00:00
Your note on politics is interesting because my anecdotal experience was quite different.

I worked at an Airbus offshoot in Silicon Valley and my visit to Toulouse for a bunch of meetings with the teams working on new tech and AI things were somewhat shocking.

The amount of sniping in meetings, and the amount of post-meeting behind the back sniping was somewhat shocking.

This was somewhat mirrored to a lesser extent even in our videoconf meetings and other collaborations.

It left me wondering how a group of people who seem to think so poorly of each other and work so dysfunctionally could actually come together to build some of the most amazing machines on earth (because modern airliners truly are such things).

The best take I could come up with was "Maybe all the adversity and mistrust means the end up building things that survive intense scrutiny."
by Too | 2025-11-09 07:33:06+00:00
Let’s not pretend that useState() is plain TypeScript either. It’s a DSL in disguise.

JSX is amazing for stateless rendering of templates. Not so much for state management. That should really have been given a dedicated DSL. Here I think Marko did the right thing, why they then made even for-loops a dsl is more questionable.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 07:33:37+00:00
A single study showed a single statin reducing GLP-1 levels and ascribed it to gut microbiome changes that could be totally resolved with UDCA supplementation.

If this even ends up being reproduced it at most says there is an easy fix for people taking atorvostatin and that it might be a concern with other statins, but this should be treated with the same health skepticism of any other single study finding.

Not all statins raise blood sugar either - pitavastatin usually shows an improvement in insulin sensitivity.
by dugite-code | 2025-11-09 07:35:03+00:00
Calendar and tasks uses CalDav and contacts are CardDav. Very similar to WebDAV but have their own idiosyncrasies.

The biggest issue is the web interfaces, there are a ton of edge cases that has taken Nextcloud years to work through.

Not to mention the exploration of wedav push by the Davx5 team https://manual.davx5.com/webdav_push.html.

For notes I currently use obsidian with the remotely-save plugin https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save
by ETH_start | 2025-11-09 07:36:01+00:00
Of course not. But there are a myriad of wrong-doings from all sectors of the economy. Choosing to focus exclusively on the wrongdoings of interests that are obstacles to the coalition of unions, bureaucracies, and allied media that economically benefit from ever-increasing public spending (from 20% of GDP in 1950 to 38% today) is a case of shaping public opinion by selection.
by notpushkin | 2025-11-09 07:36:39+00:00
Agreed on the syntax part. We’ve had good syntax for templates before:

<ul> {% for user in users %} <li>{{ user.firstName }}</li> {% endfor %} </ul>

And we have good syntax for templates now:

<ul> {#each users as user} <li>{user.firstName}</li> {/each} </ul>

Why do we have to squish everything into HTML-like-but-not-quite blocks?

But no, JSX isn’t that great either:

<ul> {users.map(user => ( <li>{user.firstName}</li> ))} </ul>
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 07:37:07+00:00
Was it a CAC or CTA?

It was almost certainly the former, and the former is is basically an indicator that the damage is already done.

Soft plaque takes a long time to calcify. But soft plaque is the stuff that ruptures, and will clog up your arteries just as much.

Statins are best used as a preventative measure - once the plaque is there it's difficult to regress it even while soft, and as far as we know effectively impossible once it is calcified.
by dangus | 2025-11-09 07:37:39+00:00
The whole thing is a bad idea.

You’re looking to replicate a college campus experience but for the general public. That’s your first yellow flag so to speak.

The problem is that adults don’t live on college campuses and don’t really have the same socialization patterns. They’re not in a “safe” bubble where everyone they encounter has the commonality of attending the same admission-required school, where they have a baseline level of trust for random people like a college student has for the other people in their bubble. College students can get physically kicked off of campus for doing things against school policy that aren’t even at the level of being illegal. In real life I can be living next to a convicted sex offender and there’s nothing I can do about it besides move.

Your competitor is Facebook Groups, which is an absolute elephant in the space.

Your implementation so far feels creepy. You’re asking for location immediately on the marketing page (why?).

The marketing page seems to indicate that users are just going to disclose their exact current location and not be anonymous after the beta. The screenshots look like I’m going to reveal my location to strangers as a dot on a map. I don’t know if you’re really disclosing your users’ exact locations to each other or if they’re made more generalized but that seems like an immediate no thanks for just about anyone with any reasonable sense of threat evaluation.

I don’t mean this in a discriminatory way, but your founder profile seems to be “two nerdy male college students.”

Can I ask you: do you think women would want to disclose their semi-precise location to strangers on the Internet? What’s the male to female ratio on this campus discord server you’re looking to capture the vibe from?

You also say this experience is trying to replicate the close community you have on discord. Why am I not just using discord? Spoiler alert: I’m already using discord with local people in my area.

Amazing portfolio project, I’m just not vibing with it as a business idea.
by lielvilla | 2025-11-09 07:38:15+00:00
I’m working a lot with TTS (Text-to-Speach), and it’s also a total wild west - even worse than LLMs in some ways. The demos are always perfect, but once you generate hundreds of minutes you start seeing volume drift, pacing changes, random artifacts, and occasional mispronunciations that never show up in the curated clips.

The big difference from LLMs is that we don’t really have production-grade, standardized benchmarks for long-form TTS. We need things like volume-stability across segments, speech-rate consistency, and pronunciation accuracy over a hard corpus.

I wrote up what this could look like here: https://lielvilla.com/blog/death-of-demo/
by js2 | 2025-11-09 07:38:30+00:00
> This isn’t actually a “time” as implied by a name — it’s a countdown! Every time a router forwards an ICMP packet along, it’s supposed to decrement the TTL number.

No, it's actually a time, it's just that it has a precision of 1 second.

RFC 791: "The time is measured in units of seconds, but since every module that processes a datagram must decrease the TTL by at least one even if it process the datagram in less than a second, the TTL must be thought of only as an upper bound on the time a datagram may exist."
by tombert | 2025-11-09 07:38:48+00:00
To be fair, they are always extremely thankful when I help them out with stuff.

It didn’t bother me that much until a few months ago when an auto update to Windows 11 bricked my mom’s computer, and since Windows won’t support filesystem that didn’t coexist with dinosaurs and because System Restore doesn’t work, and because the automatic repair tools never work, I ended up having to walk them through flashing a drive with a fresh copy of Windows 11 to get it working.

Oh, also, the diagnostic tools don’t appear to work, and they don’t really have “live USB” support for anything anymore, so I actually had to first walk my dad through flashing Ubuntu to a drive so I could tmate in, mount the NTFS drive and rsync all the files to my server. The only way to save Windows and NTFS is to use Linux, apparently:

If they were running Linux, I would have them set up with automatic system snapshots with ZFS and since ZFS is actually a competently built filesystem the snapshots would actually work.

I am ragging on filesystems but it’s not even inherent to filesystems. I run NixOS on my laptop and every time I do a rebuild it takes a snapshot, so if I break something I can just reboot and choose an older generation, and this works even on ext4. I think this is how Windows System Restore is supposed to work but it has the slight disadvantage of not actually working, or it is so limited so as to be useless (e.g. you apparently cannot restore a Windows 10 restore point from a Windows 11 install, a big problem if the auto update to Windows 11 was the actual problem).

I have debated giving the ultimatum, and I haven’t ruled it out, but in order for it to work I need to be willing to stick to my guns if they call my bluff, and I don’t know that I am there yet. I have been trying to plant the seed though it has not been successful.
by mkl | 2025-11-09 07:39:25+00:00
> And 30+ years later I'm still waiting for a word processor with a decent Reveal Codes.

Have you tried... WordPerfect? It still exists: https://www.wordperfect.com/en/product/wordperfect/

The first feature they list is Reveal Codes.

Personally I like Latex as it reveals all the codes and lets you type them, change them, find-and-replace them, define new ones, etc. But then, I'm a mathematician, so it's designed for my stuff.
by throwa567543 | 2025-11-09 07:39:26+00:00
I get that, which is why I said it is important for some people depending on the domain and I meant in general language communities. Python is different at least to me given AI and being the first target for not just software improvements but hardware usage (e.g. GPU accelerated specialised libs) and training materials/examples. It is the AI community not the Python community per se; the AI community just targets Python. JS is also a little different given browsers are so ubiquitous and their own target with JS being the main language that works there.

Otherwise in most mainstream platforms there is enough libraries for most things already; which includes .NET. It's rare not to find a well maintained lib for the majority of use cases in general whether it is .NET, Java, Go, etc which is why w.r.t long term risk a used platform is more important than the syntax of a language and its abstractions. Web frameworks, SDK's, DB drivers, etc etc are all there and generally well tested so you won't be stuck if you adopt F#. I evaluate on more objective metrics like performance, platform improvements, compatibility with other software/hardware, etc etc. It isn't that risky to adopt F# IMO (similar risk to .NET in general) - to me its just another syntax/tool in my toolbelt with some extra features than usual if I'm developing things typical in that .NET/Java/Go abstraction level.
by RASBR89 | 2025-11-09 07:39:30+00:00
In the EU beams cast light off to the side of the road and not into incoming traffic.

When we go from uk to Europe for example we have to fit deflector stickers to the headlights to alter the beam so we don’t dazzle drivers on the other side of the road.

In the us I don’t think you have this. Driving at night in the USA is horribl, like a thousands subs beaming directly into your eyes.

It isn’t THAT bad here here. It’s getting worse with bright lights and tall cars sure but it’s not on the same level of the USA due to the beam shape
by LeFantome | 2025-11-09 07:43:13+00:00
You are of course correct. I also use XFS and not on Red Hat distros. That said, XFS is the default filesystem on RHEL since RHEL7 and I think it was the first major distribution to make that choice. Even today, both ext4 and btrfs are far more common choices.

Red Hat is probably the biggest contributor to XFS at this point as well.

So, I kind of get the comment.
by bsder | 2025-11-09 07:43:52+00:00
> All rational people agree that Obamacare sucks.

Um, no, we don't.

Remember recission panels? Remember not being able to get insurance if you had sleep apnea (aka pre-existing condition)? I can go on and on about exactly how insurance sucked shit before the ACA.

The ACA could be better, and it was supposed to be adjusted over time. The problem is that we've got an entire party in the US who sole solution to the problems in the ACA is "Destroy it all" without providing a single alternative or improvement.
by Towaway69 | 2025-11-09 07:45:01+00:00
It’s probably one of the best understood methods of crossing oceans, just that all the knowledge has been forgotten.

Recall how slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas.

How gold was transported from the South America to Europe and sugar from the Caribbean.

And not forgetting how opium was transported to China by the Europeans from India.

So transporting stuff by sail is definitely not “unresearched” rather it is a forgotten technology.