MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paxys | 2025-11-04 00:56:14+00:00
The question was - I don't understand why people keep money in their old 401k accounts.

The answer is - there are situations where it is favorable to do so. It may or may not be favorable for you, and it may or may not be favorable for the median person. But these situations exist. And everyone can check for themselves and make the best decision insted of arguing over a blanket "X is better" or "Y doesn't make sense".
by thisisharsh7 | 2025-11-04 00:58:19+00:00
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by twodot | 2025-11-04 00:58:31+00:00
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by stefanha | 2025-11-04 00:58:55+00:00
In Linux (Wayland) you can copy text from the terminal without pressing Ctrl+C at all. Just select the text. To paste it in another Window, press the middle mouse button.

This is called the Primary Selection and is separate from the Clipboard (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). IMO the Primary Selection is more convenient than the Clipboard.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-04 00:59:41+00:00
The whole situation is so extreme it almost reads like sick parody. Last year there were riots in Israel when some IDF soldiers were arrested for raping prisoners. The riots were in defense of the rapists, and were attended not only by extremist Israeli civilians but also Israeli lawmakers, who stormed the military base where the rapists were being held.

The leaker releases a video of some of the abuse and is then accused of "blood libel" against the IDF by the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz. That phrase, "blood libel", is specifically intended to invoke the old medieval stories of Jewish people sacrificing and eating gentile children for their religious holidays. For leaking a video proving that the abuse is real.
by DanHulton | 2025-11-04 01:00:35+00:00
> we could probably agree that human intelligence is Turing-complete (with a slightly sloppy use of terms). > So any other Turing-complete model can emulate it

You're going off the rails IMMEDIATELY in your logic.

Sure, one Turing-complete computer language can have its logic "emulated" by another, fine. But human intelligence is not a computer language -- you're mixing up the terms "Turing complete" and "Turing test".

It's like mixing up the terms "Strawberry jam" and "traffic jam" and then going on to talk about how cars taste on toast. It's nonsensical.
by nomel | 2025-11-04 01:01:23+00:00
> The fact that the first response is immediately overwritten proves to the reader it's not important/never used, so they can forget about it, where a temp variable would add cognitive load since it might be used later.

I strive to write code that reduces cognitive load. To me, putting it in a temp variable is more of habit of old languages, mixed with a bit of cargo cult.
by yokljo | 2025-11-04 01:01:26+00:00
Agreed. It's nice to be able to just use the provided terminal when running KDE. It's very customisable and runs plenty fast. I also love being able to right click on Dolphin and tell it to open Konsole in the current folder. Also, I leave infinite scroll back turned on in Konsole and it works really well, swapping out to a file as it gets too much scroll back. Nothing worse than getting errors that I can't read because the terminal discarded them. I have Ctrl+Shift+X bound to clear everything, which I use before running just about any operation.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-11-04 01:03:13+00:00
v14-mini models has been promised for hw3 and most likely there will be upgrade retrofit to ai5.

but in reality - wait for few more years and hw3 vehicles are going to be ageing out of their prime time anyway. they already are replaced by newer models anyway.

IMO most drivers don't care about full-robotaxi mode anyway, all we want is upgrade from autopilot.
by yoshuaw | 2025-11-04 01:03:41+00:00
The differences in regional prices are interesting to me. From a recent article comparing BYD's offerings [1]:

> The BYD Dolphin EV sells for the equivalent of around $16,500 in China, while in Germany, with the same battery pack, it’s over $37,400, or more than double the price. The Seal costs around $30,300 in China, while a similar version currently on sale in Germany is over $48,000. Reuters found Dolphin prices outside China between 39% and 178% higher, while those for the Seal ranged between 30% and 130% higher.

Affordable EVs are here already, though access to them is not evenly distributed.

[1]: https://insideevs.com/news/718036/byd-major-ev-markup-prices...
by necovek | 2025-11-04 01:03:44+00:00
If you are called in to rewrite the project, I would say this signals a successful project: it was built in whatever tech stack a midling engineering team had competency in, it originally worked well but started struggling with more scale/needs/updates, and it is still worth enough to invest in rewriting it.

Yes, you may not enjoy turning a legacy system that works into a nicely architected system, but the ones that get to that phase are clear successes IMO.

Contrast this with systems which had nice, clean, maintainable architecture from day one but bit the dust two years later.

The original article is a silly shill, as engineering managers have looked at economic cost of choosing a language and other technology since... forever.

And some of that "invisible" discussion happens visibly too (I've done that a number of times: "how do we keep our engineers motivated who want to explore a new hyped tech stack vs the cost of them being slower or leaving the company").
by svat | 2025-11-04 01:04:32+00:00
It's interesting to compare that version from 2017 with the current version from 2025: https://github.com/KxSystems/javakdb/blob/9a94dc5af9288fe845... — the current one is over ten times as long in terms of number of lines, and has copious comments, but still has the short names and dense code.
by Cymen | 2025-11-04 01:04:34+00:00
Also missing solar heating from diodes:

> This topic seems to be broadly misunderstood. It is 100% verified fact by both myself and others (including university researchers) that diode strings can produce more heat (or watt-hours, BTU) from a given solar panel than a bare resistance element.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42XIbHA9Dv0
by fuzzfactor | 2025-11-04 01:06:14+00:00
Naturally as expected, language models can more strongly leverage fiction than fact quite a bit like those fluent in regular languages have done since the beginning of time.

Sometimes the more fluent, the more often the fiction may fly under the radar.

For AI this could likely be when they are as close to human as possible.

Anything less, and well the performance will be lower by some opinion or another.
by drewbug01 | 2025-11-04 01:06:23+00:00
Why do you believe DHS is speaking honestly here?

Available reporting indicates that judge ruled on Thursday, and that DHS deported on Friday. Moreover, available reporting also indicates:

> DHS and ICE did not respond to questions from The Associated Press seeking additional details on the timeline and how officials receive federal court orders.

So they aren’t clarifying anything. Odd.

And don’t forget back in March, when the administration publicly asserted that oral orders from a judge carried no authority and that they would only heed written orders.

When you put those two together, one wonders: perhaps DHS is playing fast and loose with timelines again.

Why on earth would you treat anything they say as if it were truthful or reliable? They have lost the right to be treated as trustworthy by default.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-11-04 01:06:28+00:00
Personally I use classic Windows Media Player and sync the folder between my house and my car. (Yes, my car has a Windows PC in it.)

I rip CDs I own, if you buy on Amazon you often get "autorip" when you purchase. Amazon's MP3 store is fine, I used to buy on Microsoft's back when it existed.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-04 01:07:24+00:00
I wonder if maybe it can't even use hydrants that are too near each other in the plumbing graph.

There's a lot of variables in that equation. For example, say you have a "dead end" main that ends somewhere near the fire. If you connect to the last hydrant on the main and start flowing water, there's a good chance you won't get a lot of additional water by connecting to the next hydrant up the street. But if you connect to a hydrant that's on a main that is part of a loop, there's a better chance you'll be able to get more water by doing that.

And without getting into too much detail that would be boring to non-firefighters (probably)... there's actually two big variables for a given hydrant: the maximum volume of water it can supply (in GPM) and the pressure available at the hydrant. And those two things are related. Anyway, net-net, you can have a hydrant that is capable of - in principle - flowing, let's say 2000 GPM. But the pressure at the hydrant is only, say, 40 psi. That means you only have 20 psi (approximately) available[1] to overcome the friction loss in the supply hose between the hydrant and the engine. And that friction loss in turn is a function of the hose size and the flow rate.

Anyway, that results in a situation where you might have a hydrant that could supply you 2000GPM, but if your fire is, say, 1500 feet away, you might effectively only be able to take advantage of maybe 500GPM of that.

And that in turn leads into stuff like using a "four way" or "hydrant assist" valve, or having a relay engine sitting right on the hydrant (to minimize friction loss between the hydrant and the engine) and then using its pump to boost the pressure going to the attack engine. By using multiple engines like that, you can get closer to achieving that hypothetical 2000GPM (or whatever) flow.

It gets pretty complicated, but fortunately fires in urban areas where the municipal water system is the limiting factor seem to be relatively uncommon (but not unheard of!) in this day and age.

[1]: because you don't want to pull the residual pressure down too low or it can damage the water system, supply hose or your pump.
by amanzi | 2025-11-04 01:07:36+00:00
"Moreover, am I wrong to think that if you use hx-boost to swap in fragments, then the URL that gets updated/saved in history wouldn't actually load the same page if you loaded it from a bookmark? That wouldn't happen with non-boosted anchor links."

It's a common pattern with Django and template partials that you check if the request is an AJAX request, in which case you just load a partial template to swap into the existing DOM. Or if it's not an AJAX request, your server-side logic loads the full template.

A simple example would be a to-do list at http://example.com/todo/. Clicking on a task item would swap it into the DOM without a full page load, and then you'd update the URL and browser history to http://example.com/todo/my-task/. Then if you open that URL in a new session, your server side logic would render your page with the "my-task" already selected.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-04 01:08:15+00:00
If you have customized your fediverse experience to avoid big social themes, you are arguably using it wrong. Several major founding figures of the fediverse have stated that they want trans and disabled advocacy to always remain central in the fediverse even as it grows larger. If people are able to use the fediverse without seeing issues of political concern to their community, then that represents a failure or abuse of what they created.
by Lammy | 2025-11-04 01:09:18+00:00
> modern equivalent of the classic WinAmp that runs on Windows

WACUP — originally Win Amp Community Update Project, although they have distanced themselves from any mention of the original for legal reasons. It's literally Winamp, and it rules: https://getwacup.com/

Get the 32-bit version for now if you want to use the “Modern” (Winamp 3 & 5) skinning engine that has not yet been ported to the 64-bit ver. Worth it because I really really love the “Classic Modern” theme it includes: https://www.deviantart.com/victhor/art/Winamp-Classic-Modern...

Here it is on Windows 11 on my Framework 12 :D https://i.imgur.com/teYadOi.jpeg

> modern equivalent of the classic WinAmp that runs on Linux

Probably Audacious. Its modern defaults don't look very Winamp-ish, but it's a descendant of XMMS (a straight-up WinAmp clone from back in the '90s) by way of Beep-Media-Player: https://audacious-media-player.org/

> modern equivalent of the classic WinAmp that runs on macOS

No idea :)
by water-data-dude | 2025-11-04 01:10:40+00:00
No, it's a very specific thing and not at all applicable here. Blood libel was something along the lines of "the Jewish people are murdering children to use their blood for secret ceremonies"[0]. The "libel" part should give it away - it doesn't apply to someone revealing true facts.

The people calling it blood libel because the facts are inconvenient and make Israel look bad are being disingenuous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
by shagie | 2025-11-04 01:11:58+00:00
https://news.mit.edu/2017/analyzing-language-color-0918 and also https://theconversation.com/languages-dont-all-have-the-same...

VOX : The surprising pattern behind color names around the world https://youtu.be/gMqZR3pqMjg

If you're interested in this is as a board game - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302520/hues-and-cues
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-04 01:12:11+00:00
> I have never met a normie whose insurance covers more than 1 million in yearly benefits. So no, they aren't covering millions of dollar claims.

Legally, an ACA compliant plan has to cover healthcare expenses more than the out of pocket maximum. “Benefit maximums” are not allowed under the ACA.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/lifet...

> Lifetime limits

>Insurance companies can’t set a dollar limit on what they spend on essential health benefits for your care during the entire time you’re enrolled in that plan. Yearly limits

>Insurance companies can’t set a yearly dollar limit on what they spend for your coverage.

Here is a famous example of a single healthcare recipient causing an insurer to stop selling insurance in a state:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2017/05/...
by Supercompressor | 2025-11-04 01:12:35+00:00
I'm in the same boat as you, even with a botched migration about 12-14 years ago and am really passionate about this stance. I've lately been getting further enjoyment from thrifting CDs and ripping FLAC upgraded tracks to my library, overwriting old 128kb/s fuzz. Actually have been at this for about 3 years now and around 1200 ripped. I try now to only listen to those albums + bandcamp, etc purchases where possible.
by Lammy | 2025-11-04 01:13:15+00:00
Strawberry can do this and was already my favorite music player on Linux/BSD systems even without that: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#features

It's a maintained Qt6 fork of Clementine, which was a port of the amazing Amarok 1.4 to Qt4, which is all that Amarok 2 should have been in the first place.
by bloomingeek | 2025-11-04 01:13:59+00:00
< As a musician, it is the only platform where I have seen any money – albeit, still not much :P>

Which is why my wife and I still buy albums and CDs, to support the artists. For us, music is a type of therapy, live concerts are being in the same room with people who perform real-time sound paintings. In today's political landscape, arts are denigrated, just look at how funds have been slashed at all levels of education. By building up a decent music library we can, in a small way, support the arts.
by AlekTurkmen | 2025-11-04 01:14:10+00:00
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by ryandrake | 2025-11-04 01:14:17+00:00
This is a cool perspective. I never really considered that there were that many people for whom there's no difference between Internet Life and Real Life. We used to call these people "chronically online." To me, Internet is still something I sit down to deliberately do. I don't carry my phone around with me unless I plan to use it for something. Otherwise it sits in a drawer (and often has no battery left by the time I get around to needing it for something).

Nothing that happens on the Internet really affects my life. Someone could be flaming me on Twitter right now, and I don't know and don't care, and it will never reach into my real life. When I log off for the day and someone replies to this thread telling me I'm wrong, I won't know it until tomorrow morning when I log back in, and it won't have affected my sleep or anything. You can still keep Internet and IRL separate.
by riffraff | 2025-11-04 01:14:17+00:00
About LLMs: I did last year's advent or code with Elixir and when I forgot to turn off copilot it had no trouble writing whole implementations of functions, even if I had a very idiosyncratic style.

Most code is boilerplate and that's where LLMs shine, I don't think this specific issue is very important.
by drewbug01 | 2025-11-04 01:14:24+00:00
> The chances of a citizen being targeted by ICE is low.

You can’t start with this premise, though. Recent rulings allow stops based on “probable cause” such as a combination of “speaks Spanish”, “is brown”, and “is in a place where we think illegal immigrants might be”.

So like: any Latino US citizen, who happens to be working someplace like a landscaping company. Or a kitchen.

The idea that citizens aren’t likely to be targets is now laughable. And we have ample reporting indicating that in fact, citizens are being detained, for hours and hours (if not longer).
by tkgally | 2025-11-04 01:15:08+00:00
I’m similar to you. I started ripping my CD collection to mp3s around 2002, and I have them all on my boot disk and synced to both Dropbox and an external drive for backup.

Many of those CDs, which I started buying in 1986, are not available on streaming services. Over the years I have accumulated a lot of other nonstreamed music, including radio programs I’ve recorded, live music downloaded from the Internet Archive, purchased music from Bandcamp and elsewhere, and music I composed and performed myself for my own enjoyment.

It’s a bit obsessive, I admit, and the chances that my heirs will find the files and want to preserve them after I’m gone are slim. But I am happy I have them now.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-11-04 01:15:29+00:00
I have seen a very similar example with someone who quit their tech job to pursue th solution to quantum gravity with bizarre likely Ai generated mathematical work, and posted to HN about it. They also lived out of a car, and it sounds like OP is also homeless and could better use their elsewhere to improve their life.

I don't know what to say other than I truly hope OP can get help. If you are stuck in some sort of mental AI vortex, at least converse with some Ai about how this is an abysmal waste of time and poorly thought out. I also work in a field where I do idea generation, and most of the time is spent steel manning why I shouldn't do something. This AI slop should have never passed the filter. It really sounds like you are lacking this key step of the process.

Making a pizza out of food paste and flavor blocks and then showing AI screenshots is quite honestly meme tier, to the extent I was tempted to post these images with the descriptions as a gallery on something like /r/whatsfordinner as a joke, but I feel too bad about this to actually do it...
by tony | 2025-11-04 01:15:44+00:00
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by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-04 01:17:17+00:00
A backdoor Roth isn’t the be all end all people think it is. It only matters if you think your tax rates will be higher in retirement than they are now for most people that won’t be the case.

The other case is when you are trying to manage IRMAA in retirement and it helps that you can withdraw from Roth accounts. But you can also just contribute to a Roth 401K or a Roth. Yes I know Roth limits for married and single.
by bix6 | 2025-11-04 01:17:17+00:00
I feel like you’re focused on the cost but not the other aspects eg do you really want to constantly spend 2 weeks in a hotel away from your wife? Or is someone you train for 2 weeks really going to give you the characteristics you desire for your team? Or is a part time adviser in another place really going to give you the credibility you desire?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-04 01:17:54+00:00
This is common for mortages, too. Mine has been sold a handful of times (as are most peoples') and more than once I've had to triple-verify that the dashboard website the new servicer is telling me to go to is legit. They often have extremely dodgy URLs like "mymortgagedash.com" that have no obvious association with the loan servicer whatsoever.
by dietrichepp | 2025-11-04 01:18:20+00:00
It would be like this either way.

The N side has negative charge carriers. It has a positive charge in the depletion region because the charge carriers are missing. Likewise, the P side has positive charge carriers, and when they’re missing, you get a negative charge.

This is true whether we live in the current universe or live in an alternate universe where we say that electrons have positive charge. The depletion region is where the charge carriers are missing (depleted), so you get the opposite charge of whatever the charge carriers are.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-04 01:19:30+00:00
> Why would companies sell you the golden goose when they can instead sell you an egg every day?

Because someone else can sell the goose and take your market.

Apple is best aligned to be the disruptor. But I wouldn’t underestimate the Chinese government dumping top-tier open-source models on the internet to take our tech companies down a notch or ten.
by dgl | 2025-11-04 01:19:39+00:00
If MAME could support the VT525 (nearly the last terminal DEC made and unlike the previous DEC models it supports ANSI color) people might use it a bit more. It would be very useful for compatibility testing as there aren't many people with a real VT525! Last I looked someone had dumped the ROMs but there wasn't any support code.