MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by financltravsty | 2025-11-26 16:32:28+00:00
Curious on your thought to my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059074

Can you share your longitudinal anecdata? I am considering going back on AAS for the QoL benefits, but would like to create a better mental model of long-term ramifications for testicular health.

It's my understanding that 40, it simply is expected that your hormones levels will be much lower (and that is not necessarily a bad thing). However my mind is failing to grasp what long-term damage TRT can do to the HPTA when not using an obscene amount of gear and on HCG.

Trying to figure out the mechanism. Perhaps receptor desensitization and epigenetic compensatory changes?
by jimbohn | 2025-11-26 16:32:34+00:00
Couldn't you just answer those simple questions? Why is that question a meme? I've yet to find a russian that "just didn't want to get involved" able to provide me straight, simple answers to those questions. I wish other Westerners would wake up to this behaviour, because even navalny was just another russian imperialist (see his past comments about Georgians, for example).

About the "everyone", you mentioned that "I, and everyone I know of, left russia not because [...]", so I assumed you must know at least a bunch of like-minded people that share your opinion on the aforementioned facts (not that we know your opinion yet).

About the "huge chunks" on a certain spectrum, I am not sure that chunk is huge at all. It's likely a tiny minority that would very much put an asterisk next to their answers to those questions. That minority has been quite silent, regardless of their geographical location and relative safeness.
by netule | 2025-11-26 16:33:07+00:00
Right, and as a hiring manager, I'm more inclined to hire junior devs since they eventually learn the intricacies of the business, whereas LLMs are limited in that capacity.

I'd rather babysit a junior dev and give them some work to do until they can stand on their own than babysit an LLM indefinitely. That just sounds like more work for me.
by doctorleff | 2025-11-26 16:33:21+00:00
I taught these issues several times in the graduate Software Engineering Course. Good resources are the Standish Report:

https://www.csus.edu/indiv/v/velianitis/161/chaosreport.pdf

Also, anything that T. Capers Jones wrote. The most comprehensive one of these books is this:

Estimating Software Costs: Bringing Realism to Estimating Hardcover ISBN-13978-0071483001

Many believe the official recognition of the crisis in developing software were the two NATO conferences in 1968 and 1969.

See the Wikipedia article on the History of Software Engineering.

There have been two small scale experimental comparisons of the waterfall formal model (requirements, design, code, test) and the more prototyping and agile method. They seem to have the same productivity in terms of lines per programmer-month but the formal method tends to produce larger software.
by zauberberg | 2025-11-26 16:33:33+00:00
You make a fair observation: AI has not removed uncertainty. Its probabilistic nature, its opaque internals, and its capacity to generate convincing falsehoods all mean that uncertainty is not reduced, but redistributed.

What I was trying to explore is how the locus of uncertainty is shifting. Instead of confronting the unknown in the world, we now confront it inside the systems we build—systems we struggle to fully inspect or explain. The unknown hasn’t vanished; it has moved closer to us, and become harder to hold.

This is where football and religion feel relevant. They are places where uncertainty is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be shared—ritual, suspense, allegiance, the goal nobody expected. They give form to the unpredictable in a way models never quite can.

So yes, AI promulgates uncertainty. The challenge is not to abolish it, but to decide how we live with it—and where we gather around it.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-26 16:33:33+00:00
You write your comment as though I'm suggesting the HTML file is executed because it contains a script element. I'm not; an HTML file with no script tag, say just the text "Hello world!"[0], is executed by a browser as a program. Because if that HTML file instead contained something like <select><option>Hello world!</option></select>, it would know to render some kind of list to choose from.

If I put that HTML inside of a <form> element, I could even get it to send the selections to a server of my choosing using the "action" attribute on said form (I may need to further instruct the browser to render a <button> or <input type="submit> inside the form or do some other fancy shenanigans). Put more useful options in the select and maybe some other input elements with some useful <label> elements and I might just have myself a graphical interface which people can use to submit information to me. But that's not right because it's just "present[ing] info", which just happens to be useful labels and inputs to in a form that will send the user-provided information to an external program; just a regular document, nothing special or "instructive" or "do[ing] things" about it. I hope I'm not laying it on too thick.

Seriously, though, if I didn't just describe a program that's executed by a browser then we have such fundamentally different ideas of what a "program" is that I might as well just concede that you're right, by whatever definition of the word you must be using.

[0] Every "Hello world!" program tutorial, which only instructs how to print that text to the screen before exiting, in every programming language ever is generally (and, IMO, reasonably) claimed to be a program, however rudimentary.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-26 16:33:41+00:00
If you haven't tried KDE on Wayland in a while, do try it. Fonts looking terrible on Wayland was a GNOME thing, and KDE/Kwin handles display scaling and mixed DPI fine, GNOME/Mutter didn't until very recently.

KDE had the setting to allow X11 apps to scale themselves (no more blurry XWayland apps) years ahead of GNOME.
by kumarvvr | 2025-11-26 16:33:43+00:00
A system similar to this can also be used for cooling rooms and buildings.

A lot of the world's population lives on the tropical belt, in hot conditions. A lot of them use air conditioning, and a lot more are going to start using it in coming decades.

A simple system, that cools a room down about 5 to 10 degrees Celsius, would be a great way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
by Ameo | 2025-11-26 16:33:55+00:00
In my experience, it's usually the database that gives out first. It's often a shared database, or one running on overprovisioned hardware.

The kinds of sites that go down when receiving unexpected traffic are usually built in such a way where they're making multiple DB requests to render each page. Or they have a dozen poorly configured perf-expensive WordPress plugins running. Or likely all of the above
by ximmer | 2025-11-26 16:34:10+00:00
Hi @anonymous908213

Your comment made me register for a HN account for the first time ever in my life (I have been lurking since 2009/2010).

I did not even think to consider that the OP's submission was AI and I felt dirty, violated and even saddened that a developer home page; something I long assumed in my 35 year old mind to be sacred, technical and a place where you could read honest thoughts about programming was now polluted with genAI.

I always treated them like open source docs or linux contribs pages or deeply technical or academic sites where you could 100% definitely trust that the developer would not waste your time or tell lies.

I think this episode has finally made me decide to go video only, f2f meetings or just zero-out reading from my life.

Just thought you should know what your comment did for me. The whole post now reads cheap, like they didn't value or care about what they said or how readers would feel.

- Ximmer
by m4rtink | 2025-11-26 16:34:45+00:00
If there is an atmosphere inside, it will presumably rotate with the structure & will start imparting the rotation velocity on you as you close to the surface from the hub.

Also the surface rotates at potentially quite a high speed compared to you, with likely various structures sticking out, that might smash to you as you get closer, so better watch for that. :)
by saberience | 2025-11-26 16:34:56+00:00
Why would I use this when polar.sh exists?

Seems like just another entry into this space. Also, you should probably change the title of this post because this isn't a payment processor, you are not processing payments in any way at all. You're just a middleman with a UI, and a nice UI can be good, but it's not more than that.
by wpm | 2025-11-26 16:35:01+00:00
I'm no fan of "AI" but I think it could be argued that if we're sticking to the metaphor, the carpenter can pick up the phone and subcontract out work to the lowest bidder, but perhaps that "work" doesn't actually require high craftsmanship. Or we could make the comparison that developers building systems of parts need to know how they all fit together, not that they built each part themselves, i.e., the carpenter can buy precut lumber rather than having to cut it all out of a huge trunk themselves.
by gusmas | 2025-11-26 16:35:03+00:00
In the days of Apache 1.3 in the early 2000s for example every client session had a memory footprint (and in the case of php processes could be in the 1-2 megabytes easy). So there you are on a dedicated piece of hardware with limited RAM and a 10,000 connections hit you at the same time. And you have no caching strategy because you're an idiot child trying your best. Boom - Slashdotted
by hearsathought | 2025-11-26 16:35:06+00:00
If interstellar travel is possible then it probably means intrastellar travel had been possible for a long time. Which means most readily accessible minerals had already been mined in the solar system. Not to mention humans probably have settled throughout the solar system. Which means solar ecological movements have gained momentum throughout the solar system. After all, who would want mining near their vacation properties on the moon or mars.

The fact that interstellar mining is happening is evidence that it's cheaper than mining locally. Otherwise it wouldn't happen.

What a bizarre take. It's not a mcguffin. Both Alien and Avatar were based on economic/historical realities of their times and throughout history. Why do you think companies mine or drill for oil all over the world. Why not just stay within their national borders? You exhaust resources locally and you look for resources elsewhere. It's just common sense.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-26 16:35:11+00:00
> Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland

I suspect the original commenter had an issue with GNOME specifically, as I've noticed it too, on Wayland native apps. GNOME handled fractional scaling poorly, and fonts didn't align to the grid right and looked fuzzy at anything that's not 1x or 2x scale.

KDE got this right from day 1.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-26 16:35:12+00:00
So I don't necessarily disagree with your suggestions, but that is just not a $1T company you're describing. That's basically a X/Twitter size company, and most agree that $44B was overpaying.

It's not that OpenAI hasn't created something impressive, it just came at to high a price. We're talking space program money, but without all the neat technologies that came along as a result. OpenAI more or less develop ONE technology, no related product or technologies are spun out of the program. To top it all off, the thing they built, apparently not that hard to replicate.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-26 16:35:15+00:00
if you just want to store day's energy for night's heating a big ole tank of water is far easier solution to integrate with whatever house heating system you have (tho it performs vastly better on underfloor heating just because of the lower temperatures needed).

Just pump, mixing valve, and some heating coils. You could even just heat the water directly on the solar heat panels but frankly using electric panels is a bit more flexible as it is less plumbing, and power for the rest of the house.

Block of sand have more sense if you need to store it for longer and/or have industrial source of over 100C heat that can be used to fill it up.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-26 16:35:29+00:00
> Many people actually are becoming more productive. I know you're using quotes around productive to insulate yourself from the indignity of admitting that AI actually is useful in specific domains.

Equally, my read is you're fixating on the syntax used in their comment to insulate yourself from actually engaging with their idea and point. You refuse to try to understand the parts of the system that negate the surface level popularity, eer productivity gains.

People who enjoy the productivity boost of AI are right, you can absolutely, without question build a house faster with AI.

The people who claim there's not really any reasonable productivity gains from AI are also right, because using AI to build a multistory anything, requires you to waste all that time starting with a house, to then raze it to the ground and rebuild a usable foundation.

yes, "but its useful in specific domains" is technically correct statement, but whataboutism is rarely a useful conversational response.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-26 16:35:34+00:00
> if we really want a presence off of earth we'd be better off building larger and larger space habitats and bootstrapping a mining industry in space

This turns entirely on how human biology works in zero versus low gravity. (Same for spin versus natural, or linear, gravity.)

The experiments we need to be doing is building and launching space stations and planetary bases for mice.
by wey-gu | 2025-11-26 16:35:38+00:00
I was reading an article earlier today, and it brought me back to a question I’ve heard over and over again in real data/infra teams: Do we just accept vendor lock-in because it’s convenient, or do we take the pain and build an open, multi-engine metadata stack? For context (not my product, just what triggered the thought): https://medium.com/p/35cc5b15b24e I’m not trying to argue Gravitino vs. UC here — I’m more interested in the architectural mindset behind these two approaches. On the vendor-integrated side, the upsides are obvious: smoother UX one place for lineage/policies fewer moving parts But so are the downsides: cost keeps creeping up you end up tied to one engine/format migrations basically don’t happen in real life And on the open/composable side: Spark/Trino/Flink/Ray all first-class Iceberg/Hudi/Delta can actually coexist Metadata isn’t tied to compute But again: inconsistent metadata models everywhere no unified governance layer someone eventually owns a pile of glue code forever So I’m curious: what actually works in practice? If your company had to make this choice: Did you go all-in on a vendor, or build something open? Did the decision age well after a year or two? Has anyone actually avoided metadata sprawl without getting locked in? Where do lineage, ACLs, policies, and the “source of truth” actually live in your setup? Really interested in what folks think, especially if you're juggling multiple engines, table formats, and clouds.
by theonething | 2025-11-26 16:35:39+00:00
Your comment is hyperbolic fear mongering dressed up in a cutesie story.

Our industry is being disrupted by AI. What industry in history has not been disrupted by technological progression? It's called life. And those that can adapt to life changing will continue to thrive. And those who can't will get left behind. There is no wholesale turkey slaughter.
by firefoxd | 2025-11-26 16:35:44+00:00
Now the question is, what time is it in voyager 1? With time dilation, the "now" on Voyager is out of sync with our now. I was watching star wars recently and when Han Solo casually say "we should be in Alderaan at 0200 hours", I paused for a second. What does that even mean [0]? Traveling through space is challenging today, but after we figure that out, we will have to face the problem of time keeping across the galaxy.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/galactic-timekeeping
by octorian | 2025-11-26 16:36:18+00:00
Just seeing that sentence fragment about "structures of power and violence" told me so much about the author. Its the sort of language that brings with it a whole host of stereotypes, some of which were immediately confirmed with a little more digging (and others would require way too much effort to confirm, but likely could be).

And yes, this whole "capitalism bad" mentality I see in tech does kinda irk me. Why? Because it was capitalism that gave them the tools to be who they are and the opportunities to do what they do.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-26 16:36:35+00:00
I’ve been a “software engineer” or closely adjacent for 30 years. During that time, I’ve worked for small and medium “lifestyle companies”, startups, boring Big Enterprise, $BigTech and over the past 5 years (including my time at $BigTech) worked as a customer facing cloud consultant where I’ve seen every type of organization imaginable and how they work. No one ever gave a rip about “craftsmanship”. They hire you for one reason - to make them more money than they are paying you for or to save them more money than you are costing them. As far as me, I haven’t written a single line of code for “enjoyment” since the day I stepped into college. For the next four years it was about getting a degree and for the next 30, it was about exchanging my labor for money to support my addictions to food and shelter - that’s the transaction. I don’t dislike coding or dread my job. But at the end of the day (and at the beginning of the day) I’ve found plenty of things I enjoy that don’t involve computers - working out, teaching fitness classes part time, running, spending time with family and friends, traveling, etc. If an LLM helps me exchange my labor for money more efficiently, I’m going to use it just like I graduated from writing everything in assembly in 1987 on my Apple //e to using a C compiler or even for awhile using Visual Basic 6.
by ferguess_k | 2025-11-26 16:37:12+00:00
I have an optimistic view that building underground facilities on Mars/Lunar might not be a far-stretched idea. But I have never done any research into the idea so not whether it works or not.

Basically, reducing costs and tech requirements by going underground (since it is underground we do not need to terraform the planet, and it is less likely to leak oxygen to external environment). Digging dirts and stones is a solvable problem. So optimistically I believe this is just an engineering/cost problem.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-26 16:37:13+00:00
The top two comments mention that capturing, at minimum, 2% of the digital advertising market seems low. I disagree. I see that as an enormous hill to climb.

The LLMs will create new content, but they aren't creating new business channels in the advertising industry. As an example even once Google achieved search domination they still didn't have this. They had purchase a lot of things to make that happen like Urchin, Adscape, DoubleClick, YouTube, and a lot more.
by S0y | 2025-11-26 16:37:45+00:00
If you use Ublock you can add this to your filters to restore a sane number of videos per row:

---

! YouTube 7 Videos Per Row Fix (Home and Channel Pages)

youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)

youtube.com###contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)

youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 7 !important;)

! YouTube 7 Videos Per Row Fix (Channel Page margin fix)

youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(margin-right: calc(var(--ytd-rich-grid-item-margin)/2) !important; margin-left: calc(var(--ytd-rich-grid-item-margin)/2) !important;)

! YouTube 7 Videos Per Row Fix (Font Size fix)

youtube.com###video-title.ytd-rich-grid-media:style(font-size: 1.4rem !important; line-height: 2rem !important;)

youtube.com###metadata-line.ytd-video-meta-block:style(font-size: 1.2rem !important; line-height: 1.8rem !important;)

youtube.com###video-title.ytd-rich-grid-slim-media:style(font-size: 1.4rem !important; line-height: 2rem !important;)
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-26 16:37:52+00:00
> Can someone with some more experience explain why this happens? The most basic webserver, like a TCP socket served from a C program, serving some files etc. can take tens of thousands of requests per second, per core, on reasonably recent hardware.

At that time, it was quite common to start a new thread or even fork a new process per request/connection. Apache was prone to this:

> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/apache-vs-n...

"mpm_prefork: This processing module spawns processes with a single thread each to handle requests. Each child can handle a single connection at a time. [...]

mpm_worker: This module spawns processes that can each manage multiple threads. Each of these threads can handle a single connection. [...]"

(this website also mentions the mpm_event MPM).

So, if you have ten thousands of processes or threads on some web server, this can easily overstrain the resources of the web server. Additionally keep in mind that at that time servers were a lot less beefy than today.
by panzi | 2025-11-26 16:37:53+00:00
My problems with Wayland are KDE specific. I tired it, but there where so many window management regressions and sometimes graphical glitches that I switched back. But that was under plasma 6.4. Have to try again now on 6.5 to see if these issues are fixed. If not I should write a bug report, I guess.

Also there needs to be an alternative for (or patch to) simplescreenrecorder that works under Wayland. I don't want use a complex thing like OBS to make a quick demo video to demonstrate something for a co-worker and stuff.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-26 16:37:55+00:00
There's a new fdo project called Wayback, which is a stub Wayland compositor that runs a rootful Xwayland that then acts as a full X server to host your X11 window manager/DE. Long-term, this will allow people who rely on X11 sessions to continue to run them indefinitely, while also providing better support for modern display hardware than Xorg's native KMS backend. https://wayback.freedesktop.org/
by tshaddox | 2025-11-26 16:37:58+00:00
Are there any animals which don’t need components from another organism? Isn’t heterotrophy one of the notable attributes of Animalia? There are the infamous sea slugs which eat algae then use the algae’s photosynthetic chloroplasts to photosynthesize the chemical energy they need, but they still need the algae to make those chloroplasts.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-26 16:38:06+00:00
There's a surprising amount of earth architecture in Germany. The walls are your storage ... not enough to last all winter, and not enough to make your house actually "warm", but enough to provide a baseline that smooths over energy availability issues.

Of course, it works even better with higher levels of insolation, since the exterior surfaces of the walls receive more energy during the day.
by observationist | 2025-11-26 16:38:27+00:00
"Those poor people have no agency and their behaviors are outside their control!" Well, I guess we have no choice but to affirm and reinforce their lack of agency and ensure we put them on drugs for the rest of their lives!

It's ironic that one of the effects of this drug seems to be reducing the impact of impulsive behaviors, reducing cravings from other drugs and alcohol and cigarette addictions.

The hat trick for someone might be to get on one of these GLP-1 regimens, wean themselves out of whatever crisis/crises they are in, end their GLP-1 regimen with a heroic mushroom trip, and physically move to a new environment, where they don't have any of the default triggers or patterns to fall back on, and everything is fresh and can be built up from scratch.

I think the medicalization of human agency is one of the great evils of our time. The implication and impact of doctors, bureaucrats, and bean counters making sweeping policy, regulation, and legal decisions on behalf of the peasants and peons who just don't know better. The casual dismissal of fundamental basic principles is outrageous, especially in service to the politics and idiotic tribalism.