MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by loeg | 2025-11-17 22:02:02+00:00
It's not a "technicality!" diogenes_atx made a very specific, false claim. Don't do that!

> we all understand that "selling data" does not literally mean exchanging money for data.

You're completely wrong there. That is exactly what it means.

If what you mean is lax security practices, or collecting data in general, just say that. There's really no need to bend over backwards to defend this.
by kulahan | 2025-11-17 22:02:06+00:00
Yes - declining to accept happens at the delivery truck itself. Once you've accepted it, you have a small window of time (1-2 weeks?) to return it. To do that, they have to send a truck back out to pick it up.

I think it's because of some law in the US requiring a grace period to return cars. One of the best consumer protection laws in the US, in my experience. I saved a lot of young military guys a lot of money by forcing them to return their 22% APR, 0% equity, brand-new, street demon car and get something vaguely reasonable.
by dundarious | 2025-11-17 22:03:26+00:00
> Former CIA director Leon Panetta labeled last week’s deadly pager explosions in Lebanon a form of “terrorism.”

> “I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism,” Panetta said on “CBS News Sunday morning.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4893900-leon-panett...

I don't take anything Leon Panetta says as gospel, but the fact that someone like him says this shows how the position is not ludicrous in the way you and other similar replies are painting it.
by reify | 2025-11-17 22:03:32+00:00
Funnily enough, only yesterday I popped out for a quiet pint down my local spit and sawdust boozer. The infamous Nags Head.

I was sitting quietly in the corner. There were on a few locals propping up the pool table,

Out of the blue a whale came sailing through the door.

Flippered his way up to the bar and ordered a pint of guinness.

The whale had a quick sip of his pint and started to recite "god save the queen, by the sex pistols"

The whale was perfect, I personally could not tell the difference, he sounded exactly like johnny rotten.

Some of the drunks started to sing along with the whale.

we all had a whale of a time!!

What a sunday.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-17 22:04:24+00:00
Brian Krzanich was the primary architect of Intel's demise. A huge amount of Intel's problems stem from opting to go with DUV rather than EUV light source for lithography, and this decision was made during Krzanich's tenure. This may have stemmed from Krzanich's lack of technical expertise. Gelsinger was brought in to fix things, but the board of directors got uncomfortable with the amount of money required to fix the problem.

It's not really ambiguous at all. Tim Cook for all his faults did not torpedo the cash cow that is called Apple. For almost half a decade the market cap of AirPods alone exceeded Tesla.
by stavros | 2025-11-17 22:04:27+00:00
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957048, addisonj suggested that the problem stems from the distinction from "local" and "global", and that with IPv6, you don't need that distinction.

This helps because you don't have a NAT distinguishing between "local" and "global", all devices are in the global namespace.

All the comments after that have been about solving an arbitrary and ill-defined problem with goalposts that keep shifting from globally unique addresses to DNS hostnames to permanent addresses.
by Liquix | 2025-11-17 22:04:54+00:00
pure racemic MDMA has very little stimulant effect. street MDMA can feel stimulating because it is either intentionally mixed with caffeine/speed/meth or contains residual precursor from clandestine synthesis.

my major state was one of deep relaxation ... MDMA does not work like Dexedrine ... I feel totally peaceful.

- Alexander Shulgin, PIHKAL

https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109...
by dang | 2025-11-17 22:04:58+00:00
OK, I've swapped them back. Thanks!

The principles here are clear: we prefer the best third-party article to corporate press releases*, but at the same time we don't want blogspam (i.e. ripoffs that don't add anything interesting).

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
by mothballed | 2025-11-17 22:04:58+00:00
My kid was interrogated for walking about 50 ft 'alone' ( I was actually watching further away and intervened before the Karen got to the point of calling it in) on our own property.

In the middle of nowhere, rural desert. Random Karen drove by at the wrong place and time, saw my kid, stops and questioned. Unbelievable. Literally the second you give a child independence a Karen will appear like clockwork, it's insane.
by shkkmo | 2025-11-17 22:05:00+00:00
Your class 3 definition is inaccurate. Class 3 is limited to 28mph and cannot have a throttle, only pedal assist.

Anything that doesn't fall in one of those classes is a motorcycle that is not street legal and can only be rudden of private property (unless you can convince your DMV to give you registration as a motor vehicle.)

This can vary somewhat from state to state, but most states have adopted or are moving to adopt these classes.
by jlarocco | 2025-11-17 22:05:33+00:00
IIRC MacRuby used to compile to native code on OSX using LLVM, and was supposed to support native OSX APIs and Objective-C frameworks. It always seemed like a neat idea, and a slick integration, but I guess Apple moved to Swift instead.

I'll have to pick up a copy of this "Ruby Under a Microscope" book when the new version comes out. I've always liked Ruby, I just haven't had much chance to use it.
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-17 22:05:55+00:00
some more after reading the source:

- JWT needs to be validated, as it is, your implementation[1] happily accepts anything, you can impersonate anyone you want. I'd argue that it's a bad default choice too [2]

- baking-in resend.com as email provider is unlikely to be useful for most people

- x-forwarded-for [3] is only added by proxy servers, and will often not be present. This means you'll be applying a shared rate limit to most of your users

- the 'ai' helper is missing from the code. If this is vibe-coded, having tests for the examples will help keep it cohesive

Sorry if this is a lot, I hope it can help.

[1] https://github.com/MatthewTheCoder1218/princejs/blob/main/sr...

[2] https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-ba...

[3] https://github.com/MatthewTheCoder1218/princejs/blob/main/sr...
by anandchowdhary | 2025-11-17 22:06:27+00:00
I don't know if this is true.

For example, you can spend a few hours writing a really good set of initial tests that cover 10% of your codebase, and another few hours with an AGENTS.md that gives the LLM enough context about the rest of the codebase. But after that, there's a free* lunch because the agent can write all the other tests for you using that initial set and the context.

This also works with "here's how I created the Slack API integration, please create the Teams integration now" because it has enough to learn from, so that's free* too. This kind of pattern recognition means that prompting is O(1) but the model can do O(n) from that (I know, terrible analogy).

*Also literally becomes free as the cost of tokens approaches zero
by kstrauser | 2025-11-17 22:07:07+00:00
I just checked and I’ve had 3 hits for my blog’s RSS feed from a legit-looking browser user agent string this year. Almost literally no one reads my site via RSS in the browser. Quite a few people fetch the feed from separate clients.

I wouldn’t spend 5 minutes making that feed look pretty for browser users because no one will ever see it. I don’t know who these mythical visitors are who 1) know what RSS is and 2) want to look at it in Chrome or Safari or Firefox.
by like_any_other | 2025-11-17 22:07:36+00:00
> US has increased manufacturing output over the last couple decades. 2019 was the highest year ever, covid interupted a bit, but levels are back there again

Terms like "highest ever" conceal that US industrial production only grew by about 13% in the last 25 years [1]. However, in that same time, the US population increased from 281 to 340 million [2]. Meaning that per capita industrial production decreased by 6.6%.

> So really your point is not about American manufacturing, but rather American labor.

No, my point is about treating markets and the economy as if they have no effect on sovereignty or independence, and about only looking at the consumer, not the worker or the citizen.

> the only real lever they have is to increase the cost of imported goods

That's sure not the only lever that Chinese politicians have, and they took full advantage of that, first to industrialize, and now to take over industries left out to dry by their home governments who think the Free Market can do no wrong. Learned helplessness at its worst.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
That feeling when the "smart" financial decision flips on its head
by Anumbia | 2025-11-17 22:07:59+00:00
New data reveals that a 3-year-old used car now costs, on average, only about 10% less than a brand-new version. With that tiny gap, the old logic of buying used to save big money is crumbling.

A media outlet is diving into this for a story. If you've shopped for a car in the last year, we want to hear from you:

Did you end up buying new because a used car didn't make financial sense?

Or did you buy used and feel like you overpaid?

What was the most shocking price you saw on a used car lot?

Tell us your story in the comments. What was your breaking point?

NB: We may request your name and location if we decide to cite your story.
by mullingitover | 2025-11-17 22:08:02+00:00
> Instagram made $69 billion from us last year. We made nothing.

I don't love Meta, but clearly if no value was received from using IG then people wouldn't be using it.

People are getting access to an instantaneous global publishing platform with hundreds of millions of eyeballs at zero cost to themselves. Fortunes and careers are made on it every single day.
by denkmoon | 2025-11-17 22:08:06+00:00
Mad salt. Imagine a fully grown man having a toddler tantrum. "If I can't play/win/get my way, nobody can" type mentality. It's also a method of coercion. Give me mod status or I'll DDOS your server and destroy your community.

The other half comes from sever operators ddosing their competition. There is a lot of money to be made from paid cosmetics, ranks, moderator (demi-tyrant) status, etc on custom servers.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-11-17 22:08:45+00:00
This is of course nonsense.

Ticketmaster is of course only doing what the artists want. They want to look like they sell tickets at reasonable prices that young fans could afford but really want to sell tickets for as much as possible - hence ticketmaster sells a fraction at face value, then basically hands the rest to touts who sell them for 2 grand a pop and give ticketmaster a cut which goes right back to the artist

So banning selling above face value just kicks that whole industry to the grass - and people either put prices at market value or more likely stop touring

(Ok so there is a third option, that fake classes of tickets will be created - it’s happening now as you get “meet the artist tickets” or “tickets with an ice cream” going for twice the price.

But this will rebound on the artist - will Taylor Swift want to be seen as gouging 13 yo fans - or will she just tour less, or put on kids nights and so on.

Anyway it’s probably just going to die a death and not get to law.
by beeflet | 2025-11-17 22:09:14+00:00
>The internet already is p2p infrastructure.

No, it really isn't. Unless you mean like on the BGP level. But it's p2p in the sense where you have to trust every party not to break the system. It's like email or mastodon, it doesn't solve the fundamental sybil problem at hand.

>BitTorrent is just as susceptible to this,

In bittorrent things are hosted by adhoc users are that are roughly proportional to the number of downloaders. It is not unimaginable that you could staple a reputation system on top of it like PTs already do.
by anotherevan | 2025-11-17 22:09:28+00:00
Purely as an aside, I had the pleasure of visiting Iceland in August and it was great. Truly beautiful, rugged land.

Another way they've utilised geothermal energy is with large, sophisticated greenhouses which allow growing of many produce they would otherwise import. I only had the opportunity for a brief visit but a lot of it looked hydroponic with really interesting monitoring and control technology. (Plus the biggest bees this Antipodean has ever seen! These suckers were so big they didn't buzz, they rang the doorbell.)
by Beijinger | 2025-11-17 22:09:54+00:00
Not sure man. The closest relative to the dog is the likely extinct, Japanese Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_wolf

Maybe they were very tame to begin with? Like the extinct Falkland wolf:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_wolf

"There were no forests for the animal to hide in, and it had no fear of humans;[citation needed] it was possible to lure the animal with a chunk of meat held in one hand, and kill it with a knife held in the other"
by mindwok | 2025-11-17 22:10:12+00:00
There's a lot of wisdom in this post and it resonates with my experience, great write up OP.

I'd add one thing though: OP's ability to observe and imitate these kinds of social dynamics he was seeing suggests he's already coming from a solid foundation of EQ and also feeling secure enough to try on these different personas. Often there's a lot of work to be done to even get to that place!
by mattvr | 2025-11-17 22:10:57+00:00
In a nutshell, ideally `peer.connect(remoteId)`. An API like peer-js/simple-peer. And symmetric negotiation would be great as well.

WebRTC should be the universal networking primitive for the next phase of the web, but the API exposes too many implementation details – its abstractions leak.

This plus the overall weight of integrations limit mass adoption by developers.
by skunkworker | 2025-11-17 22:11:04+00:00
After working with the Postgres WAL through logical replication in the last few months on a work project. My largest gripe is that some specific behaviors (like how a WAL receiver process should respond to a fast-shutdown on the database backend), aren't well documented outside of asking questions on the postgres discord.

Specifically: If the server requests a reply on a heartbeat, the status update should include the heartbeat's LSN on the next loop. But a standby status update includes the LSN values + 1.

I was able to get it working and properly disconnecting to a fast shutdown, but when you get into the internals of the logical WAL receiver loop, it can get nuanced.

And my largest compliment is that the Postgres discord is filled with some extremely knowledgeable and helpful people. I was able to figure out some really specific and nuanced behavior around the different status messages being sent to the primary server, thanks to the in-depth responses there.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-11-17 22:11:11+00:00
I don't think that much will change regarding to Replicate's API because of Cloudflare. It's specifically mentioned in Replicate's blog post and it's also not in their best interest.

What's important to know ( I think). Recently, Cloudflare released a blog post of Omni for AI inference. I think they performance tuned it better than other providers. So their costs per inference drops down a lot ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-runs-more-ai-mode... ). Since the performance is OK, they now want to expand usage and their model catalog.

Replicate is a perfect fit. Model catalog, infrastructure for larger models, more specialised tools for fine-tuning, ...

Eg. For inference, Replicate is basically just a Worker AI endpoint and easy to maintain. Fine-tuning could probably be something similar.

But then again, that's my 2 cents. It was already mentioned that Replicate will stay as a distinct brand.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-17 22:11:12+00:00
>What if you had to clean your own table at Applebees?

Halve the price, don't force a tip, and give me some cleaner. I'll do it.

by the way, I do try to do my best to wipe off excess sauce and put large crumbs onto the plates. I'm not going to leave my table oozing with ketchup. It's the same logic of cleaning up before professional cleaners come in.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-17 22:11:32+00:00
I think this is quite obviously a Yes And situation.

We've broken the game so many damn times, humans are awesome and we need to keep being awesome.

Somebodies gotta prevent an asteroid from killing the earth over these next 100 years.

It ain't gonna be the dolphins.

Speaking of which, we really need to ask the dolphins if they'd like some thumbs.
by mort96 | 2025-11-17 22:11:56+00:00
How does getting a temporary globally unique IPv6 address from DHCPv6 solve any of the issues surrounding how new web technologies aren't available in "insecure contexts"?

I assumed that the suggestion was that you could assign a device a permanent IPv6 address, because I can easily imagine that as a part of a solution to the HTTPS issue. When every device has a permanent IPv6 address, and if every device is reachable through said IPv6 address, you could, in principle, also automate assigning each device a DNS record and set up SSL that way. It would be a pretty terrible solution that's way more complicated than just using a local address over HTTP, but it makes sense.

I have no idea how to even begin translating maybe getting temporary unique addresses through DHCPv6 into a solution to the HTTPS issue.
by troupo | 2025-11-17 22:12:39+00:00
> Furthermore, you can’t polyfill USB support.

You can't polyfill many things. Should we just dump everything into the browser? Well, Google certainly thinks so. But that makes the question about "but this feature is unused, why support it" moot.

And Google has no intention to support a polyfill, or ship it with the browser. The same person who didn't even know that XSLT is used on podcast sites scribbled together some code, said "here, it's easy", and that's it.

And the main metric they use for deprecations is the number of sites/page uses. So even that doesn't work in favor of all the hardware APIs (and a few hundred others) that Google just shoved into the browser.

At least there's consensus on removing XSLT, right? But there are many, many objections about USB, HID, etc. And still that doesn't stop Google from developing, shipping and maintaining them.

Basically, the entire discussion around XSLT struck a nerve partly because all of the arguments can immediately be applied to any number of APIs that browsers, and especially Chrome, have no trouble shipping. And that comes on top of the mismanaged disaster that was the attempt to remove alert/confirm several years ago (also, "used on few sites", "security risk", "simpler code", "full browser consensus" etc.)
by troupo | 2025-11-17 22:12:43+00:00
> What, to you, would constitute sufficient proof? Is it feasible to gather the evidence your suggestion would require?

Let me quote from my comment, again:

--- start quote ---

The guy pushing "intent to deprecate" didn't even know about the most popular current usage (displaying podcast RSS feeds) until after posting the issue and until after people started posting examples

--- end quote ---

I would like to see more evidence than "we couldn't care less, remove it" before a consensus on removal, before an "intent to deprecate" and before opening a PR to Chrome removing the feature.

Funnily enough, even the "browser consensus" looks like this: "WebKit is cautiously supportive. We'd probably wait for one implementation to fully remove support": https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-314...

BTW. Literally the only "evidence" originally presented was "nearly 100% of sites use JS, while 1/10000 of those use XSLT.": https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315... which was immediately called into question: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315... and https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315... and that's before we account for google's own docs saying they have a blind spot in the enterprise/corporate setting where people suspect the usage may be higher.

Also, as I say. I think the main issue isn't XSLT itself. XSLT is a symptom.
by Onawa | 2025-11-17 22:12:44+00:00
It depends on the game, but for those with some kind of marketplace or transferable currency, I'm guessing market manipulation is one possible reason.

For other games, maybe trying to interrupt some time limited event or tournament. Going all the way down the rabbit hole, if you're not already familiar take a look at how crazy things get in a game like EVE: Online.

Then of course there are the bored trolls and/or people who feel wronged by the game's developers or other players.
by zokier | 2025-11-17 22:12:52+00:00
> Not going to lie, sometimes it feels that some of the Westerners act like that they don't even think of the remote possibility that they might not be the center of the world…?

> South Korean maps do this, China maps do this, Japanese maps do this, I'm pretty sure South East Asia countries also do this, it's a normal thing to do. There's nothing special about having the Pacific Ocean centered.

Worth noting that florence meridian (11E) is somewhat special because centering map on it avoids cutting any major land masses. The best pacific option (148E) still needs to deal with greenland somehow. Of course Korea is quite off from 148E, so the map here ends up bit wonky (Greenland is duplicated, but Nunavut is not?).
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-17 22:13:12+00:00
>sabotage is legitimate warfare

Show me the Article in the CCW which supports this claim. And do you mean sabotage against civilian infrastructure, or military materials? Again, show the Article, either way.

>If hezbollah are legitimate combatants, then they have to wear a uniform

Yes, true. Just as those responsible for the pager attacks had to identify themselves as combatants, also.

> If China puts backdoors in all the chips we buy from them, and we build weapons with those chips, and China pressed a button that self destructs all things made with those chips, that is also not a warcrime.

If this were to occur, it would be considered a war crime under one or more of the following articles:

- Perfidy (Art. 37 AP I)

- Indiscriminate attack (Art. 51(4) AP I)

- Excessive incidental civilian harm / disproportionality (Art. 51(5)(b) AP I)

- Treachery (broader Hague prohibition)

- Superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering (Art. 35(2) AP I)

- Failure to take feasible precautions (Art. 57 AP I)

Any of these 6 violations can constitute war crimes.

>“War crimes are pretty much only treating POWs incorrectly by doing medical "experiments" on them or genociding them.”

Okay, this is just plain, ignorant, crazy talk.

>”Please quote the part where blowing up a civilian with your target is called a war crime,”

Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and from the Rome Statute of the ICC.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-11-17 22:14:06+00:00
IMO Pulumi and CDK are an opportunity to simplify your infra by capturing what you’re working with using higher-level abstractions and by allowing you to refactor and extract reusable pieces at any level. You can drive infra definitions easily from typed data structures, you can add conditionals using natural language syntax, and stop trying to program in a configuration language (Terraform HCL with surprises like non-short-circuited AND evaluation).

You still end up having IaaC. You can still have a declarative infrastructure.
by crabmusket | 2025-11-17 22:14:37+00:00
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890

> The Internet is for End Users

> This document explains why the IAB believes that, when there is a conflict between the interests of end users of the Internet and other parties, IETF decisions should favor end users. It also explores how the IETF can more effectively achieve this.