MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kopirgan | 2025-11-23 05:17:15+00:00
Think the author's case is extreme and so is his remedy.. For most that drink 3-4 cups a day or so there's no need to stop imho.

There's numerous benefits that keep appearing in medical lit, including protection vs atrial defibrillation, stomach cancer etc.

For me I stopped briefly during bad bout of gastritis with all the withdrawal symptoms listed but have resumed since. No known bad effects so far. Yes my tummy is not in ideal condition but that's due to other vices like alcohol.

Ymmv
by jh00ker | 2025-11-23 05:18:44+00:00
Everyone's sensitivity to caffeine is different. For example, if I miss my one 8 oz. cup each morning, I have a massive headache by 1:15pm.

When work picks up, like a big project, I might increase my intake to a larger 12oz or 16 oz coffee per day, but then I'll end up sustaining that too long after the project ends.

After a while, I'll do a cold turkey reset to zero caffeine. It takes 4 days and about 800mg of Ibuprofen each day to make it through the headaches. Luckily no other withdrawal symptoms.

I have friends that only drink coffee on weekdays... I don't get how that can be done! For me, coffee is preventative medicine.
by dalyons | 2025-11-23 05:21:07+00:00
doesnt make a difference to the economics of a nuke plant. Fuel consumption is a tiny fraction of the cost of nuke power, its almost all fixed cost - amortized construction costs, operations, etc. You need to run it at as close to 100% always to have any chance at payback & economical $/kw. Thats why they arent getting built.
by omikun | 2025-11-23 05:21:17+00:00
> Did you know that the Slave South was unable to supply their troops? They were largely barefoot. The reason they were in Pennsylvania was to raid a shoe factory (but got smashed at Gettysburg instead). Towns and cities and industry sprouted up all over in the free North, not so much in the South.

Guess where the north got their cotton to make those shoes? The south. The textile industries of the north would've never gotten their start without cheap cotton made possible by slavery.

> As for natural resources, why is resource-rich S. America mired in poverty? Why did the Indian nations never industrialize, and remained poor? Why did resource-poor Japan become super rich after being burned to the ground in WW2? Why did resource-rich Russia never become prosperous? Why did zero-resource Taiwan become a wealthy powerhouse? Why is resource rich Africa still stuck in poverty?

Every South American nation that tried to raise itself out of poverty had their government overthrown or their leader assassinated with the help of good ol' USA. Japan/S. Korea/Taiwan industrialized because USA decided they needed strong allies to counter Russia/China. Check out the grand area plans. Africa was colonized, exported millions of their people to slavery, and is continually destabilized by the west (corporations, world bank, IMF, etc) to perpetuate resource extraction.

The poor is kept poor so the rich can get richer. Why is food so plentiful and cheap? Slave labor. Read Tomatoland for a taste. Why are clothes so cheap? People are working for pennies to make those clothes. Why doesn't the iPhone price rise with inflation? There are millions of poor rural Chinese pounding for a chance to work at inhumane conditions for a few dollars a day. You think they make enough to pull their families out of poverty? Nope, it's mostly foreign companies that are reaping the bulk of the profit while continually pressing their costs (labor wages) down.
by BobbyJo | 2025-11-23 05:24:41+00:00
I think your mistaking the philosophical basis of parents comments. Maybe a more succinct way to illustrate what I believe was their point is to say: "no matter how complex and productive the AI, it is still operating as a form of capital, not as a capitalist." Absent being tethered to a desire (for instance, via an owner), an AI has no function to optimize, and therefore, the most optimal cost is simply shutting off.
by jackdecker | 2025-11-23 05:24:49+00:00
While I don’t feel one way or another about this w.r.t. charging this fee to people without a Real ID who show up with a normal ID, as someone who has just lost their ID entirely, or shown up accidentally to the airport without it -

This totally makes sense.

The amount of effort it takes for a TSA agent (granted, this is mostly entirely fabricated effort, this seems like a more solved problem, but I digress) to verify my identity the few times this had happened is well worth $18.

It’s not a quick phone call to an external agency and you rattle off your social; it’s a whole shebang.

“Did you live at x? Who else lived at that address with you?” “What was your sisters last address before her current” “What was the second address you lived at in [city]”

To be entirely honest, the whole thing was super entertaining. I think part of it was just it made me feel like some super spy.

Anyway - good on them for charging a few bucks. Don’t forget your ID or get your ID updated.

(Sidenote: this line of questioning wasn’t this interesting every time. Sometimes it is more like a one and done question, but I am at my most impressed with TSA when it seems like they actually do give a fuck, and the times it’s been an in-depth line of questioning has stuck with me)
by jmyeet | 2025-11-23 05:24:57+00:00
One of the worst outcomes of the last 20 years is how Big Tech companies have successfully propagandized us that they're neutral arbiters of information, successfully blaming any issues with "The Algorithm" [tm].

Section 230 is meant to be a safe harbor for a platform not to be considered a publisher but where is the line between hosting content and choosing what third-party content people see? I would argue that if you have sufficient content, you could de facto publish any content you want by choosing what people see.

"The Algorithm" is not some magical black box. Everything it does is because some human tinkered with it to produce a certain result. The thumb is constantly being put on the scale to promote or downrank certain content. As we're seeing in recent years, this is done to cozy up to certain administrations.

The First Amendment really is a double-edged sword here because I think these companies absolutely encourage unhealthy behavior and destructive content to a wide range of people, including minors.

I can't but help consider the contrast with China who heavily regulate this sort of thing. Yes, China also suppresses any politically sensitive content but, I hate to break it to you, so does every US social media company.
by Nexxxeh | 2025-11-23 05:25:33+00:00
There's at least two in the Cardiff City Centre, one on St Mary St and one on Queen St.

Having used both at normal and at peak pisshead hours, they're both alright.

Not great, not a disaster. Slightly understaffed, and occasionally short on English language skills, but there's not an issue if you want hot food (inc vegetarian and vegan) or drinks at a daft hour.
by naishoya | 2025-11-23 05:25:42+00:00
What happens?

It seems we have entered the Find Out phase of FAFO; which FA began with a lack of preparation in US educators in the 1960's for "New Math" which focused on conceptual understanding and abstractions, such as set theory and differential number bases. This lack of preparation, especially among primary educators (who had not themselves encountered mathematical theory in their own education) led to a regression; "Back to Basics" in the mid 1970's. Those missteps; both in educator preparedness, and in systemic regression to a rote memorization approach were substantially aggravated by reduced standards testing in the 1980's to hide the resulting weaknesses resulting from this regression.

First hand experience as a student through these epochs from the late 70's through the 80's and 90's in US academia led to thinking I was 'not good at mathematics.' For me the 'breaking point' of this pattern was the discovery that even with an undergraduate STEM degree from a PAC10 university, including 'advanced' math courses available therein, I was not sufficiently mathematically educated to qualify for enrollment in a post-graduate physics program at a leading scientific institute or to participate in advanced mathematics discourse at an international mathematics symposium.

During COVID lock-down I attempted graduate level bio-molecular studies from several tier-one US and UK online university programs and ran into proctored coursework where the educators opined that "some problems are simply intractable due to scope or complexity" and I was unwilling or unable to accept that there was no approach to solutions for these systems.

The ensuing self-directed relearning from international curricula and classical resources has remedied my misconception of inability; extended my approaches to include concepts such as p-adic bases and complex topological approaches. and shows that current cohorts of US students will need to become self empowered to learn conceptual math beyond what their educators believe achievable.

Those who do not grok math will always be in the position of being taken advantage of by those who do.

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by nashashmi | 2025-11-23 05:26:49+00:00
> Techmeme has remained absurdly consistent

Everyone who talks to Gabe says bad things about Gabe, like he is stubborn, or rude, or something of that nature. I think he is cool and collected and totally not passionate about any changes. And only makes a change when there is significant pressure and a layer of obviousness.

Having said that, F** you Gabe for putting the Back button on the top left on mobile view, and breaking (not reflecting) the browser back history after clicking an article's right arrow. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIXED A LONG TIME AGO.
by Nexxxeh | 2025-11-23 05:28:14+00:00
I'm in the UK and have McDonalds semi-regularly. A few times a month at least. Get a receipt, fill out the online feedback form, get a code. Put the code in the app, get an offer for £2.99 sandwhich (McPlant, Big Mac, whatever the chicken thing is) and either fries or a salad. £2.99 for a McPlant and fries at 3am is a godsend.
by tehlike | 2025-11-23 05:28:57+00:00
Renewing non-REAL ID driver's license is online. Getting a REAL ID requires a trip to DMV, and this is why I am avoiding it. Essentially for this reason, i am just choosing to renew my regular ID instead of getting a REALID one.

The good thing is I have many ids that can be used in lieu of REAL ID: - Passport card - Passport - Global entry card

So I will probably never get a REAL ID until California does away with non-REAL ID ids.
by adamanteye | 2025-11-23 05:29:31+00:00
I once almost managed to get back on the release train. I was tasked with adding new features to a piece of software originally developed years ago for internal use at a university. It was running PHP 5 on Debian Jessie. The first hurdle was that no Docker image existed for the production environment (PHP 5). After patching all the code and getting it to run on PHP 8, another issue surfaced: the MSSQL server it needed to communicate with only supported TLS 1.0, which had been removed from the OpenSSL version included in Debian 12—the base image for my PHP 8 setup.

In the end, I decided to implement a lightweight PHP 5 relay to translate SQL requests so the MSSQL server could still be accessed. The university stuffs were quite satisfied with my work. But I really felt guilty for the next guy who will touch this setup. So I still didn’t quite make it back onto the release train… as that PHP 5 relay counts.
by omikun | 2025-11-23 05:30:31+00:00
> I know that's mostly my fault for not meeting my neighbors. But also, most families aren't even home during the day anymore because they have to work.

You still can. I managed to make friends with a few neighbors just by asking a few innocuous questions every time we meet. Some are friendlier than others. I don't talk to everyone I meet, just those I think could be friendly. I'm usually wrong though and the ones I'd never think would be friendly turns out the most talkative. I met my next door neighbor on afternoon and we talked for 6 hours. Take a chance, odds are good you'll find someone who wants to reach out as much as you.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-11-23 05:32:54+00:00
This article (and it's second part) couldn't have come at a more helpful time. I have such an unhealthy relationship with caffeine (and sugary drinks in general), that I would literally go days without drinking any water. If it didn't come from a 7-11 or a coffee machine, I wasn't going to drink it.

Just this week, I decided to quit cold turkey, and drink nothing but water, and it has been eye opening. I didn't realize how much I depended on the drinks to get me through the day. But going just-water is definitely the only way I could have done this. Something about knowing I have nothing to look forward to besides water helps me just drink water, instead of waiting until I can find some energy drinks, and getting dehydrated in the process.

Not everyone is going to have as unhealthy relationship with caffeine as me, but I'm hoping my kidneys and gut will thank me. I know 22 year olds seldom suffer from heart attacks, but I'm not going to be 22 forever, so might as well start now.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-23 05:33:03+00:00
I'm curious to know which model, speed, voltage, stepping, and package writing sample(s) were evaluated because there isn't just one 386. i386DX I assume but it doesn't specify whether it was a buggy 32-bit multiply or "ΣΣ" or newer.

"Showing one's work" would need details that are verifiable and reproducible.
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by Ozzie_osman | 2025-11-23 05:33:24+00:00
At this point, I think all of the big tech companies have had some accusations of them acting unethically, but usually, the accusations are around them acting anticompetitively or issues around privacy.

Meta (and social media more broadly) are the only case where we have (in my opinion) substantiated allegations of a company being aware of a large, negative impact on society (mental wellness, of teens no less), and still prioritizing growth and profit. The mix is usually: grow at all costs mindset, being "data-driven", optimizing for engagement/addiction, and monetizing via ads. The center of gravity of this has all been Meta (and social media), but that thinking has permeated lots of other tech as well.
by idle_zealot | 2025-11-23 05:36:34+00:00
My view is that the corporate death penalty is either dissolution or nationalization, whichever is less disruptive. If you make your company "too big to fail" without hurting loads of people, then use it to hurt people, then the people get your company. If it's a smaller operation it can just go poof. The priority should be ensuring the bad behavior is stopped, then that harm is rectified, and finally that an example be made to anyone else with a clever new way to externalize harm as a business model.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-23 05:36:36+00:00
Personally, I think the whole C tangent was a misstep and would love to see Algo 68 turn into Algo 26 or 27. I sort of like C and C++ and many other languages which came, but they have issues. I think Algo 68 could develop into something better than C++, it has some of the pieces already in place.

Admittedly, every language I really enjoy and get along with is one of those languages that produced little compared to the likes of C (APL, Tcl/Tk, Forth), and as a hobbyist I have no real stake in the game.
by 0xpgm | 2025-11-23 05:37:11+00:00
In my mind this highlights something I've been thinking about, the differences between FOSS influenced by corporate needs vs FOSS driven by the hacker community.

FOSS driven by hackers is about increasing and maintaining support (old and new hardware, languages etc..) while FOSS influenced by corporate needs is about standardizing around 'blessed' platforms like is happening in Linux distributions with adoption of Rust (architectures unsupported by Rust lose support).
by al_borland | 2025-11-23 05:41:05+00:00
I used to get chronic headaches all through high school. I exclusively drank Mt Dew. When I got to college I was too lazy/cheap to actually go buy soda for my dorm, so I inadvertently went cold turkey. I had a headache for about a week, then after that, my years of chronic headaches were solved.

I went a good 10-15 years without a drop of soda and I’ve never had coffee. The only caffeine I got would have been a little from chocolate, which was never eaten for the caffeine. More recently I’ll have the occasional soda, typically only if I’m sick. I’ll have a Dr Pepper.
by mike_d | 2025-11-23 05:42:03+00:00
Just LA city police service an area about half the size of Rhode Island. If you count all the surrounding areas LA has mutual aid agreements with, it would be the 6th largest state by population.

LA Sheriffs are responsible for an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

They also assist in rescue operations, transporting SWAT and crisis negotiators to scenes, flying snake venom antidotes from the airport to the hospital, and dozens of other things.

I'd say 17 helicopters and 90 employees is pretty lean given that they have a crew ready to go within 5 minutes 24/7.
by WCSTombs | 2025-11-23 05:42:23+00:00
> Rust shines when memory safety is critical (OS kernels, cryptography), but in most real-world scenarios, the trade-offs don't justify the pain.

You've got to be kidding me...

Memory safety is a huge benefit in myriad scenarios. I would call it the rule, not the exception. Pair that with competitive performance and you have something really compelling. I don't know enough Rust to really speak to its tradeoffs, but the above just seems like a dumb point to try to make.

And regarding the "hype cycle," Rust is old enough now to have survived many actual software hype cycles, so this claim of us finally getting to the middle of it now, which isn't really justified in the article, also doesn't seem to stick.
by somat | 2025-11-23 05:42:27+00:00
Yes, massively influential, but was it ever used or popular?, I always think of it as sort of the poster child for the danger of "design by committee".

Sure it's ideas spawned many of today's languages, But wasn't that because at the time nobody could afford to actually implement the spec. So we ended up with a ton of "algols buts" (like algol but can actually be implemented and runs on real hardware).
by vedmed | 2025-11-23 05:42:38+00:00
I had an old 15+ year old line when I moved in. Helped my neighbor cut a few hundred of his monthly by getting xfinity and they ran a brand new drop for him. Then just recently they "upgraded" my line. But I don't have any splitter or filter its just a connector with a ground that attaches my home cable to the drop cable.
by panny | 2025-11-23 05:43:19+00:00
>Getting a REAL ID requires a trip to DMV

Getting a real id requires you to bring in paperwork that doesn't exist for me anymore. They want a utility bill? I do everything paperless. I am unable to get a real id because of their ridiculous "proof" requirements.

It's not about identifying people. I have a passport and can show that to them. I have a global entry card. Both qualify as a substitute for a real id. But I cannot use the global entry card as a form of proof of identity. No, please bring a landline telephone bill to us.

It's just another humiliation ritual.
by nagaiaida | 2025-11-23 05:45:08+00:00
they're talking about nargeolet

> Wreck expert Paul-Henri "P.H." Nargeolet, who was also onboard, told me he wasn't worried about what would happen if the structure of the Titan itself were damaged when at the bottom of the ocean. "Under that pressure, you'd be dead before you knew there was a problem." He said it with a smile.

(as recounted by Arnie Weissmann, in Travel Weekly article published June 22, 2023)
by anovikov | 2025-11-23 05:45:09+00:00
I'm sure they will have a chance and drug-based solution does that too. People on Ozempic are not attracted by junk food. Given how many obese people are out there, when Ozempic becomes cheap AND becomes mandatory for overweight people (or they lose health insurance coverage - which makes total sense, or they will look like someone who deliberately wastes insurance companies' money by harming their health on purpose), market for this trash will shrink, and obesity will be denormalised forcing people to keep their food habits in check as fat-shaming will reach epic scale. When there is a sure fix but someone isn't taking it, they will come across as irresponsible, short-term thinking beyond belief, and will surely be rejected by everyone from sex partners to employers, and justifiably so. If someone can fix their health radically and cheaply but won't do it because they just don't care, will they care about me? Will they care about my company? Sure not. It will create enough pressure both of junk food eaters, and on junk food companies (because their market opportunity will be massively squeezed), to solve the problem.
by samschooler | 2025-11-23 05:45:42+00:00
So if you read the book: this is from a chapter talking about humans introducing phosphorus fertilizers to the soil has long term impacts on the types of species living in an area. Generally moving in the direction of more aggressive plants that can take advantage of the phosphorus. Many endemic species can’t, therefore are crowded out by faster growing species. The key phrase from your quote is: “neutrophilous and nitrogen-demanding species”. The phosphorus helps in the nitrogen fixation.
by razingeden | 2025-11-23 05:47:27+00:00
i touched on this in a longer comment in this thread because i think that docsis 3.0 goes up to 900-1002mhz

if downgrading to docsis 3.0 (or downgrading to 500/700mb) “fixed” your issue, you probably have a 5-1000mhz splitter thats not just a rf splitter but also, a filter and its JUST leaky enough to allow 1002mhz through.

or maybe the modems happy negotiating down to 900mhz.

but maybe not quite enough for 1008-1100+ required by docsis 3.1

there will be anecdotal reports of a 5-1000mhz splitter “working just fine” maybe that ones a REALLY leaky filter thats also allowing 1008mhz.

or also a case of negotiating a lower channel…

gigabit speed and docsis 3.0 are about the threshold for the 5-1000mhz

problems would manifest with docsis 3.1, gigabit speed(maybe) and then almost guaranteed at 1.2 gig service+

this idea of “sensitive channels” is extremely close to nailing it

splitters fail as well. they’ll bleed through AND filter bands theyre not supposed to. but i didnt seize on that or inside wiring for OP because “the neighbor gets it too”

im on a gigabit implementation that has to have +/- 1100mhz , and my own woes uncovered an 800mhz splitter inside a wallplate. it would lock. it would even run at gig somehow. just not very well. its a 5-2500mhz splitter now. a 5-1200mhz would also do (for now)

everyone on your tap should be using multiplexed signals, and you should have a good 300mhz or so to play with and lock onto. but if every single one of you gets kneecapped at +/- 1000mhz, then theres a really congested 100mhz band and another 100-200mhz thats open for everyone but you cant lock on to it.