MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-11-09 14:07:09+00:00
"In this one specific case, convicting this one specific person didn't destroy the whole movement."

Well, no; because they haven't gotten together the political will to outlaw AfD itself as a Nazi party.

This doesn't show that banning the speech doesn't work; if anything, it shows that being overly tolerant of Nazis...lets the Nazis stay around.
by DennisP | 2025-11-09 14:07:54+00:00
What's possible depends on where you are. But for example:

> Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist who studies modern-day hunter-gatherers, says traditional diets vary widely, and the vast majority of them include a high percentage of carbohydrates.

> For instance, the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer group in northeast Tanzania that Pontzer has studied for the past ten years, spend their days walking eight to 12 kilometers, climbing trees and digging for root vegetables. Their diet consists of various meats, vegetables and fruits, as well as a significant amount of honey. In fact, they get 15 to 20 percent of their calories from honey, a simple carbohydrate.

> The Hadza tend to maintain the same healthy weight, body mass index and walking speed throughout their entire adult lives. They commonly live into their 60s or 70s, and sometimes 80s, with very little to no cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure or diabetes—conditions that are rapidly growing in prevalence in nearly every corner of the world.

https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/what-can-hunter-gatherers...

And from another source:

> Because humans initially evolved in Africa, where wild animals generally lack appreciable fat stores (2), it seems clear that they consumed a mixed diet of animal and plant foods, given the apparent limitations of human digestive physiology to secure adequate daily energy from protein sources alone (4).

> Hunter-gatherer societies in other environments were doubtless eating very different diets, depending on the season and types of resources available. Hayden (3) stated that hunter-gatherers such as the !Kung might live in conditions close to the “ideal” hunting and gathering environment. What do the !Kung eat? Animal foods are estimated to contribute 33% and plant foods 67% of their daily energy intakes (1). Fifty percent (by wt) of their plant-based diet comes from the mongongo nut, which is available throughout the year in massive quantities (1). Similarly, the hunter-gatherer Hazda of Tanzania consume “the bulk of their diet” as wild plants, although they live in an area with an exceptional abundance of game animals and refer to themselves as hunters (18). In the average collecting area of an Aka Pygmy group in the African rain forest, the permanent wild tuber biomass is >4545 kg (>5 tons) (19).

> Australian aborigines in some locales are known to have relied seasonally on seeds of native millet (2) or a few wild fruit and seed species (20) to satisfy daily energy demands. Some hunter-gatherer societies in Papua New Guinea relied heavily on starch from wild sago palms as an important source of energy (21), whereas most hunter-gatherer societies in California depended heavily on acorn foods from wild oaks (22).

> In nature, any dependable source of digestible energy is generally rare and when discovered is likely to assume great importance in the diet. Animal foods typically are hard to capture but food such as tree fruits and grass seeds are relatively reliable, predictable dietary elements.

https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)07053-3/ful...
by jijijijij | 2025-11-09 14:09:04+00:00
I shoot them with a "pea shooter", a cardboard pipe with a balloon attached to one end, loaded with dry lentils or rice. Stretching/charging and releasing the balloon makes a loud, directed thump noise, but by itself it's quickly ignored by pigeons. They need to be actually hit by the load to care. (BTW I can confirm, although quite violent, pigeons seemingly don't readily learn from this experience... They are really fucking stupid.)

They are adapted to city noise, honking, construction sites... Unless you use flash powder charges (like they do at airports), noise won't scare them reliably. And your neighbors, dogs and the cool birds won't be happy about frequent reality shattering explosions. The stuff they use at airports got enough power to blow off hands.
by K0balt | 2025-11-09 14:09:08+00:00
I love FORTH, and wrote a good bit of forth software back in the day. The main problem with FORTH is that FORTH developers are writing FORTH instead of programs. I mean, that’s kind of also how writing programs in FORTH works, TBF.

The problem is that every program is a DSL, so it’s hard to grep unless you built it. It’s a great personal hacking language though.

I often wonder, though, because of the mechanics of context with LLMs, if forth might not be the ideal language for LLMs to write simple tools for their own use?

Could we pawn off the “you should try forth” problem onto AI lol?
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-09 14:09:13+00:00
When he couldn't get women to vote for his crazy libertarian ideas he was floating the idea of taking their votes away.

Is this an attempt to build support for further extending that plan?

edit: I just looked up his response to that at the time:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/05/01/peter-thiel/suffrage...

> In America, people are imprisoned for using even very mild drugs, tortured by our own government, and forced to bail out reckless financial companies.

> I believe that politics is way too intense. That’s why I’m a libertarian. Politics gets people angry, destroys relationships, and polarizes peoples’ vision: the world is us versus them; good people versus the other. Politics is about interfering with other people’s lives without their consent. That’s probably why, in the past, libertarians have made little progress in the political sphere. Thus, I advocate focusing energy elsewhere, onto peaceful projects that some consider utopian.
by FabHK | 2025-11-09 14:10:23+00:00
And just some context on the technological side:

20 Concordes were built, 1 lost, for a 5% hull loss rate.

386 DC-10 were built, 32 hull losses, for an 8.3% hull loss rate.

561 A300 were built, 25 hull losses, for a 4.4% hull loss rate.

1574 B747 were built, 65 hull losses, for a 4.1% hull loss rate.

Now, that's not normalised by "years active", and some hull losses are not attributable to the aircraft at all (e.g. terrorist attacks), but basically the Concorde safety record was on par to jets from that generation (introduced around 1970).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-09 14:10:30+00:00
Some of the worst code (codebases) you will see is C++ code written by people who are new to the language and think that it is the right thing to do, or just cool, to use every feature of the language.

C++ is a massive language, that has really grown too big, and is fraying at the edges. This is probably the fate of any old language - it either keeps growing adding more modern features, or it stops growing and becomes obsolete. It's hard to always add new features while retaining backwards compatibility, but backwards compatibility is what users demand, so the result is languages like C++ that are screaming for the feature set to be refactored and simplified...

Using C++ well is requires knowing when it's appropriate, or not appropriate, to use the features it provides!
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-09 14:10:30+00:00
Increased suicide rates were being discussed, and there were doctors claiming they had empirical evidence (worse eyesight, loss of sense of reality, 'melancholy' (aka: depression) ...).

Of course, that was 200 years ago, so our standards of 'rigorous empiricism' can hardly be compared to what they had. But the patterns still are eerily similar.

Also, note how modern diagnostics not only concern the well-being of the media-consuming/delusional individual, but also their environment. Polemically speaking: You can be perfectly happy being weird, if your environment feels negatively affected by you, you technically still are a psychiatrical case and need 'fixing' according to the DSM.

Hell is other people, only the young can defend themselves and their interests less and are easier being picked on.
by mintflow | 2025-11-09 14:10:51+00:00
Exit node really is a handy solution for build private vpn for sharing.

I have build a vpn called Echo VPN for apple platform which actually use tailscale open source core.

Also I think there is another benefit is that wireguard can be DPIed easily now adays, but DERP leverage HTTPS and upgrade which can do some obfuscation too
by autop0ietic | 2025-11-09 14:12:06+00:00
It is interesting to me as my first acid trip was 30 years ago but I have never gained anything profound from the experience.

My best trips were at psytrance parties as peak experiences in terms of fun.

I have tripped many times alone in a dark room and basically gained nothing from the experience besides falling into an existential void.

Personally, from so much experiences, reading thousands of trip reports, most the psychedelic literature up to about 2005, I think the psychedelic experience is like a blank white canvas. Some people end up with a Monet painting experience and some people end up with a Dali painting experience. Some run into a Hieronymus Bosch the first time and never try it again. You can't really make overall statements about what the blank canvas is going to be before someone starts to paint.

For me, my best psychedelic experiences were better versions of my most fun nights drunk. Anything I have learned that is all that deep though I have learned from reading books.

Never having a psychedelic experience I think is like never being drunk. It is really missing out on an interesting life experience but at the same time it is not this profound loss.

Working out all these life problems like some kind of pyschotherapy session is for sure something that never happened to me. That just lead me to the existential void when attempted.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-09 14:12:16+00:00
As it stands now, I am so appalled by how much and how deep the ad-funded tracking an surveillance system is that I'd want all of it, every bit, for all media everywhere, torn down. But realistically, there probably does exist a reasonable balance between demographic data collection and use, and personal privacy that would work. We are just so far from that currently that I find it hard to imagine what it would look like.
by threetonesun | 2025-11-09 14:12:36+00:00
Maybe in some places. Growing up there was no bookstore. We had a library, and a mall far away, and there were some small book stores at the mall that continued to do just fine as B&N and Borders grew. And while everyone says Amazon killed bookstores… maybe some. But what I saw were malls dying anyway, and downtown rents growing to the point where selling just books wasn’t enough to cover costs.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-09 14:12:54+00:00
Ok, let me explain in simple words. No, you cannot reduce it to „just searching the job you want“. Information asymmetry means that:

1. not everyone is aware of all the opportunities available on the market, e.g. when skillset is matching different type of the job people have not considered

2. …or where to find them, because there are many job boards and not everything even lands on them

3. …or that they should look for them at certain moment of time

Push ads address all 3 problems, reaching e.g. those who are employed and not actively looking, but open to change. If a man gets that ad, but a woman not, it means that that man spent zero time to find that opportunity and woman may not even find it in active search. Effectively they pay different costs for getting a better job.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-09 14:13:15+00:00
> she did not have much interest in the power/freedom

The reason I started with Linux with my kids is so they were aware that that power and freedom exists. Kids that grow up in a mobile ecosystem (and increasingly both the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems) are fundamentally disempowered, just as the adults that use that ecosystem are. The goal of having my kids use Linux was to make them understand that they did have agency.

Fifteen years on, I have to say it was an excellent decision. They're light years ahead of their peers in terms of their ability to use computers.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-09 14:13:22+00:00
Its how I learned this stuff back in the days of DOS.

So then pretend its easy and get them an iphone.

I suspect the goal is you, as a parent, want to feel good to yourself that you are doing something positive for a child. If that's all this is really about then put them in a corner with some educational videos and give yourself a high-five.
by EasyMark | 2025-11-09 14:13:35+00:00
That and they don't care. I think they are selected to be robots for the regime, and their training eventually expanded for all police work as a private army for the King. I don't believe that they are just for "ICE activities". Their budget dwarfs others like the DEA and CIA now with the "big bogus bill". Reminds me of certain other historical police force origins.
by happosai | 2025-11-09 14:14:36+00:00
Solar wasn't economical until China made the strategic decision to invest into cutting solar costs and scaling production up. Putin isn't relevant, nobody really listens to him (the reason why he is so mad). It's really the American boomers who are happy the cook the planet to own the libs.

Taxing CO2 isn't regressive - poor people don't fly to vacations or commute in unnecessarily large single-occupancy trucks.
by nathanlied | 2025-11-09 14:14:56+00:00
Just the UK? Not, say, Iran? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._White_(U.S._veteran...

Or maybe China, for a US citizen who posted while on US soil, in a US website? https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-american-barred-leav...

Seems a little inconsistent, this delivery of Democracy.
by bitwize | 2025-11-09 14:15:46+00:00
Here's one of the papers concerning "averageness=attractiveness": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10905...

The trick is that there are two "averages" in play. Let's call them the "attractiveness average" and the "physical average". Your intuition concerns the attractiveness average: you know that there are beautiful people and ugly people, and "average people" must be somewhere in the middle, yes?

But when scientists average faces to create a perceived attractive face, they're averaging together the physical characteristics of each face: distance between the eyes, position of nose and ears on the head, size of mouth, symmetry, etc. The claim is that we have an intuitive, perhaps instinctual, notion of what humans "should" look like and our perception of attractiveness is roughly a measure of conformation to that standard. So an intuitively "average-looking" person is more correctly stated as having a medium amount of deviation from the human mean.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-09 14:15:53+00:00
Oh simple. Remove the glass and I pick the lock of the front door to your home and walk in at night while you, your wife and your kids are fast asleep and I scan the book that I want with a portable scanner. Not just one book. Many book across many nights. No damage done right? Once your wife and you find out that that’s all I’m doing you guys are totally ok with this.

> Which isn't a sufficient explanation if it doesn't reveal what it would take for you to pay instead.

Easy. What causes people to not steal other than good will? What causes people to not kill other than altruism. The government and society has several methods for this. Jail time? Locks? Etc. It’s just hard to do the same for piracy.

Either way. The topic of this thread is not about what would make me pay. That’s fucking obvious. The topic is about the less obvious thing and why people like you go to elaborate lengths to side step admitting that you’re a fucking thief.

I’m a thief. I sail the high seas. Am I proud of it? No. But I’m not delusional about it like this entire thread.
by mr_toad | 2025-11-09 14:16:53+00:00
Bourgeoisie or Burgher in English, Bourgeois in French or in German Bürger, all from old Frankish burg, for town. English has both words, but they now have different meanings, and the term Burgher is mostly obsolete.

The divide (or perception of a divide) between city dwellers and the country is not something the US invented, these divisions predate the colonisation of America.
by fragmede | 2025-11-09 14:18:16+00:00
Where do you SSH to? You need to install sshd on that system somewhere, somehow? Your preferred software seems easier to install, and it is, for you. Others don't have the same experience though.

How do you configure apps on your phone to use a socks proxy?

We could rathole on what constitutes "a lot" easier, but that doesn't seem interesting so I'll just point out that there's a Tailscale app for Apple TV.
by Freak_NL | 2025-11-09 14:18:35+00:00
Yeah, Youtube for my six year old son is restricted to us looking up stuff for him to watch. Want to know how pencils are made? We'll look up a good video. Recently, that's not often either.

CocoMelon and its ilk on Youtube are abhorrent. It's digital crack tailored to absorb every little bit of attention. Avoid that shit.
by rainsford | 2025-11-09 14:20:08+00:00
Yeah I did think about that after I made the post. I agree that you and jaybrendansmith are probably right in that it should be a bigger deal for the Democrats than the Republicans. I'm not sure Congressional Republicans see it that way though and I was thinking more about how they view the standoff, since that's important in seeing how or if there is a path towards ending the shutdown.

They've made a pretty unprecedented bet on unilateral party-line action and the legislative branch significantly deferring to the executive. I'm sure they're concerned about what the party looks like trying to transition back to a more normal way of doing business, especially given what their voters are now primed to expect. I agree this should not be existential, but I also don't understand congressional Republicans putting themselves in this situation in the first place, so clearly I'm not looking at the situation the same way they are.
by eptcyka | 2025-11-09 14:20:34+00:00
When forced to use Linux at an early age, I was given the agency to be made fun of and miss out on social things, i.e. discussing currently relevant games. It got me the jobs and knowledge eventually too, but I really did not learn much from blindly running ./configure and make and make install. I shudder to think exactly how my wine installation worked. There are significant downsides to using Linux and the freedom it brings needs lots of context to appreciate. If you don’t provide the context, Linux is not empowering- it is just a windows that works less.
Show HN: Every-few-days satellite timeline for any spot, Sentinel-2 SR
by varik | 2025-11-09 14:20:48+00:00
I built anicha.earth because I kept needing a fast, no-frills way to see how a place changes over time — not once a year, but every week or so.

Recently I worked on super-resolution for Sentinel-2 (about 8–10× upscaling) for an agriculture project. Along the way I realized two things: (1) this could be useful beyond ag, and (2) I couldn’t find a tool that lets you pick any area and quickly scrub through years of imagery. So I made one that’s as simple and as fast as I can make it.

Under the hood it uses Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (10 m/pixel). With S2A+B the nominal revisit is ~5 days (depends on clouds; with Sentinel-2C the cadence is tighten further). For any area you select, the app gathers all available scenes since 2018 and shows them on the map and in a time strip for easy scrubbing.

There’s AI-Enhanced view: a super-resolution model that makes it toward ~1–2 m. The model was trained on millions of satellite/aerial images, primarily open NAIP data.

This is an early beta and a bit rough.

I’m most curious about now is where this is actually useful?

https://anicha.earth
by kjellsbells | 2025-11-09 14:20:57+00:00
There are both practical and philosophical aspects to this. Practically, you might want a somewhat locked down solution with the root account locked and the ability to wipe and reinstall remotely. Are you and your friend up for that? If kiddo barfs the system (they're kids, they will, and it's ok!) your friend is gonna need to be up and running quick. PXE boot, kickstart, recovery USB stick, etc.

Before investing time you might also get a several distros on live USB sticks, boot each one up with the kid and parent, and see which one they like best before you install it. Make the kid part of the process.

Depending on the age of the child, make the computer discoverable. The full app store might be too much for younger children (mummy what's a flatpak?) But you might preload a "basic" and an "intermediate" app, eg Minecraft and scratch and then a (simple!!) Python IDE. And put them in discoverable, kid friendly places on the start menu.

Games. Lots of games. Both for their fun value and for teaching the motor skills of mouse and keyboard. Curiosity apps like Google earth.

For older kids, compatibility with their friends is important so make sure that things like LibreOffice, chat etc Just Work. No 13 year old wants to be the Odd Kid with the Bizarro Parent Computer. You can involve them in thinking about what it means to have choice in computing and to not just be a consumer, but they're still kids facing natural social pressures.

I could go on all day. One last point. After the thing is all set up and has been running for a few weeks, check in with the child and parent. What do they like? What do they not? And fix those issues.
by timeserieslover | 2025-11-09 14:21:32+00:00
Hello, I made this application to give me a good idea on what I should sell my pokemon cards for that I have lying around. Take a front and back picture to get an idea of the costs from ebay. TGCplayers API is very flaky so I opted to use pricecharting and its curated list of ebay links to get a market price for your card based on the estimated card grade.

Some cards might be hard to match which is why I link the data behind the range. (Base, Unlimited, 1st edition charizard is not as easy to match as other cards.) It worked well for the lions share of my cards but some that are very similar to each other have issues getting exact matches everytime. Enjoy!
by kevindamm | 2025-11-09 14:22:05+00:00
We're told not to feed the wildlife at parks and beaches because of the dangers when they become dependent on visitors for their food source. It changes their natural behavior to the extent that it becomes difficult to revert to natural food sources in the absence of visitors.

(there are other behavioral and disease-related dangers but they're not as appropriate to this metaphor)

I think the more alarmed voices in this comment thread are not reacting to the change or "exponential progress" but are instead concerned about the impact of becoming reliant on something else to do our remembering.

This last part is anecdata (but no worse than the survey data in TFA), I think smartphone users have not really lost the ability to memorize, in general, but that the things being memorized are different. If the memory test (mentioned in a cousin-comment) had a set of 20 memes instead of 20 words, I expect most study participants would be a lot better at recall.

I suppose the question of "is this like junk food, though?" may be relevant.
Ask HN: Can we talk about Google Search et al.'s planned obsolescence?
by frmersdog | 2025-11-09 14:23:25+00:00
Specifically, the way that both "backbone" search engines seem to have been degraded in order to push users towards AI offerings. Queries that used to reliably find useful links, now don't. But Gemini and ChatGPT find them (after a much longer "thinking" process). It's like they've hidden the older, actually effective functions behind the LLM chatbot interfaces.

No one else is alarmed by this?