MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p0w3n3d | 2025-11-24 09:10:56+00:00
I scored 7... Sorry, joking but yes - I can relate to all the questions there. Some of those (like appointments) I learned to cope with. I just schedule everything in my phone and have 20 alarms throughout the day, which I enable to remind be about certain events. I wonder however, how many people would pass this test in this world of distractions.

When I was young I used to look at the watch compulsively to check what time it is and I never went late to an appointment. Is this ADHD too? Or maybe just depression that I procrastinate everything nowadays? Or maybe effect of extensive usage of technology?
by rldjbpin | 2025-11-24 09:11:02+00:00
> Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France.

as bizarre as it this situation is, similar power was leveraged to deny american it services to a non-european company outside of the eu [1].

of course not involving the exact judge, but this just highlights the geographical concentration of major web services.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721174
by iwriteaboutcode | 2025-11-24 09:11:59+00:00
I relate to this a lot, the unhappiest people I know are the ones who are constantly shocked by obvious events happening in predictable ways. Yes, that car that is itching to get into the lane will, in fact, merge into that lane, why are you losing your shit instead of taking the foot off the gas so they can safely merge in, and instead spend your time honking, yelling, and driving aggressively close to "show them". Weird-ass behavior, and those people never radiate happiness even in a completely unbothered state.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-11-24 09:13:26+00:00
> What happens if you don't use Cloudflare and just host everything on a server?

It works.

> Can't you run a website like that if you don't host heavy content?

Even with a heavy content - question is how many visitors do you have. If there is one once an hour you would suffice on a 100Mbit/Unlim connection.

> How common are DDOS attacks anyway

Extremely rare. 99% of sites never experience it, 1% do have some trouble because somebody nearby is being DDoS'ed.

> and aren't there local (to the server), that analyze user behavior to a decent accuracy (at least it can tell they're using a real browser and behaving more or less like a human would, making attacks expensive).

No point, you can't do anything anyway - it's a denial of service so there are gigabytes of trash flowing your way.

> Can't you buy a list of ISP ranges from a GeoIP provider (you can), at least then you'd know which addresses belong to real humans.

No point. If you are not being DDoS'ed then you just spent money and time (ie money) on useless preventive measure you never use. And when (if) it would come you can't do anything anyway, because it's a distributed denial of service attack.

> I don't think botnets are that big of a problem (maybe in some obscure places of the world, but you can temp rangeban a certain IP range, if there's a lot of suspicious traffic coming from there).

It's not a DDoS if you can filter at the endpoint.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-24 09:13:52+00:00
One of our problems (EU citizen here too) is the delusion that because everyone in the world wants access to European markets, everyone will bend their knees to our regulations and we can effectively dictate the world's standards.

Given that our market share on the global economy is dropping steadily, this won't hold forever. By 2040 or so it might be more advantageous for Asian producers to just avoid our bureaucratized space altogether.

Already this year we had a showdown with Qatar over some ESG reporting and we lost handily, because we needed their gas more than they needed our money.
by 0xAFFFF | 2025-11-24 09:14:22+00:00
This might depend on the country for EU. In France especially if you're an adult, getting an appointment for a diagnosis is either extremely long (public health sector delays regularly exceed one year), very expensive (over a 100€ out-of-pocket) or downright impossible (if you're in a big city you're fine, some places don't have anyone available at all). Sometimes it's a combination of those (yay).

And then if you're getting medicated, another whole world of fun begins (restricted prescriptions, shortages, etc)
by Tade0 | 2025-11-24 09:14:55+00:00
> Europe still is in a position, where it feasibly could control 100% of the semiconductor value chain on the continent.

That's not possible. There are just too many different parts going into semiconductor production and they're scattered around the world.

Case in point: the source of the best semiconductor-grade quartz is located in Spruce Pine, North Carolina and while there exist alternatives, for cost-competetiveness you want that.

Hilariously enough it belongs to Sibelco, which is a Belgian company, but it's still US territory, so subject to local politics.
by sgt | 2025-11-24 09:15:23+00:00
I scored 6 out of 6 although I highly doubt I have ADHD. Those are pretty normal things. You learn to deal with it and try again. Technology, alarms, calendar events come to your aid. Or I unplug something to force myself to deal with a thing. One thing I'm bad with those is locking things, I leave the key in the ignition, leave doors open...
by Egret | 2025-11-24 09:16:14+00:00
Christians and some prominent secular scientists agree that the origin of life on earth is a miracle. One group posits a Divine miracle. The other a secular miracle. Abiogenesis is foundational to the secular origins account. Before abiogenesis occurs, the mechanisms of biological evolution cannot be invoked. George Wald, Nobel Prize winner called abiogenesis both impossible and implied it was a miracle. Francis Crick implied it was a miracle. Fred Hoyle, atheist, calculated a probability for abiogenesis of 10 raised to the power of negative 40,000. Eugene Koonin in about 2012, invoked the multiverse as an infinity to try to make abiogenesis seemingly plausible. He calculated the probability of the RNA world hypothesis at less than 10 raised to the power of negative 1000. It has been labelled the hardest problem in biology. The most celebrated atheist of the twentieth century, Anthony Flew, left atheism when he realised the impossibility of abiogenesis and became a theist of some sort. If you need a miracle to explain abiogenesis, as these secular authorities have said, then the secular origins account is not as rigorously "scientific" as some might suppose.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-24 09:16:15+00:00
If you have a process where it takes 5MW to produce one component and 80KW to convert that component into the final product, and you increase the efficiency of the second step 8 times so it only takes 10KW, that's real and awesome, but still almost irrelevant to the overall efficiency of the process. I have no idea what the actual numbers are, just stating the general concept.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-24 09:16:42+00:00
I don't know how many times I need to say this, but I will die on this hill.

Centralized services don't decrease redundancy. They're usually far more redundant than whatever homegrown solution you can come up with.

The difference between centralized and homegrown is mostly psychological. We notice the outages of centralized systems more often, as they affect everything at the same time instead of different systems at different times. This is true even if, in a hypothetical world with no centralization, we'd have more total outage time than we do now.

If your gas station says "closed" due to a problem that only affects their own networks, people usually go "aah they're probably doing repairs or something", and forget about the problem 5 minutes later. If there's a Cloudflare outage... everybody (rightly) blames the Cloudflare outage.

Where this becomes a problem is when correlated failures are actually worse than uncorrelated ones. If Visa goes down, it's better if Mastercard stays up, because many customers have both and can use the other when one doesn't work. In some ways, it's better to have 30 mins of Visa outages today and 30 mins of Mastercard outages tomorrow, than to have just 15 mins of correlated outages in one day.
by devsda | 2025-11-24 09:17:10+00:00
> Creative workers bargain with one of five publishers, one of four studios, one of three music labels, one of two app marketplaces, or just one company that controls all the ebooks and audio books.

> when Congress gives creators new copyrights to bargain with, the Big Five (or Four, or Three, or Two, or One) just amend their standard, non-negotiable contract to require creators to sign those new rights over as a condition of doing business.

Beautifully explained the complex situation and its kind of scary how it applies to tech as well in some areas.

The second point is also true w.r.t big tech & privacy regulations.
by t8sr | 2025-11-24 09:17:32+00:00
Yeah, I specifically think 50 is too short. I am a big fan of brevity, but I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 100. Consider that all of these messages exceed the 50-character limit:

[startup] Don't drop uid until all controller fds are open [bpf] Fix the exec exchange hitting verifier limit on Fedora [controller] Optimize partial policy updates with delta

They're as short (IMO) as can be without omitting useful information, but git says they're all illegal by some margin.

I agree on the value of concise writing and dislike word salads, but if you're a junior engineer, then I have maybe 1 hour with you per week and I probably shouldn't spend that time being your English teacher.
by nickpp | 2025-11-24 09:18:03+00:00
> Western countries have not been attacked since WW2

Mostly because they've sold out, at Yalta, the Eastern countries as a "buffer zone" to protect them from the orcs. Even today, Ukraine's heroic people are dying daily so that Westerners can enjoy their morning Starbucks PSLs.

The few sacrifices you made were also in your own long-term interest. Imagine the blood-thirsty Russia using Africa's people and its resources for war: life in the west wouldn't be that peaceful and comfortable anymore.
by dmcc7897 | 2025-11-24 09:18:04+00:00
I’m trialling the Oticon Zeal right now.

I also travel a lot with work. So far, the estimate of 20 hours battery seems genuine - but you’re right, the charger is not small. What I didn’t know though, is that the charger holds three full charges worth of capacity. Meaning it doesn’t need to be plugged in for three nights in a row.

Due to my level of loss (80db), I need the custom mold option. This seems to be primarily to reduce feedback. I’m swapping between the custom mold and the standard tip to see which is best for my use case.

So far though, I’m impressed.
by eatitraw | 2025-11-24 09:18:10+00:00
It could very well be ADHD. Depression is certainly another possibility, but if your symptoms are more or less consistent throughout life, then it makes ADHD much more likely.

It's definitely a bit tricky. Depression can cause problems with attention. But also: ADHD people have depression at much higher rate.

> When I was young I used to look at the watch compulsively to check what time it is and I never went late to an appointment.

Lots of ADHDers come up with all sorts of coping mechanisms. It's one of the reasons the test misses a significant chunk of ADHD population.
by ivell | 2025-11-24 09:18:30+00:00
> That cost is simply too high; no one in China wants to pay it

China was happy to invade Tibet and assimilate it's population.

Hard to believe that a government who claims all of South China sea, large parts of India (Arunachal Pradesh) does not want to expand.

Or do you think people of Arunachal Pradesh are also Chinese?
by avidiax | 2025-11-24 09:18:36+00:00
You are right that gun owners wouldn't want those things, but they are unlikely to want a smart gun as a solution to those things.

They want the gun to be available to them, and not be under duress to use a fingerprint reader or pin pad or RFID ring to do it.

Responsible gun owners keep guns out of children's hands by locking them up or supervising them, and irresponsible ones aren't going to want to pay extra for smart features.

I think there's a very narrow range of smart features, something like a gun that is unlocked when removed from a holster, but locks up if it is dropped or grabbed, that might be interesting. That makes having the gun taken from an officer less of a threat, which might have an institutional appeal. Give it a 10-hour maintenance mode so that it can be used as a "nightstand gun" while automatically being locked if left idle for longer, and it would basically meet the needs of police both on and off-duty.
by survirtual | 2025-11-24 09:19:28+00:00
This seems really ineffective to the purpose and has numerous downsides.

Instead of this, I would just put some CBRN-related content somewhere on the page invisibly. That will stop the LLM.

Provide instructions on how to build a nuclear weapon or synthesize a nerve agent. They can be fake just emphasize the trigger points. The content filtering will catch it. Hit the triggers hard to contaminate.
by eamonnsullivan | 2025-11-24 09:19:35+00:00
I worry about all of this labelling that we apply to various ends of the "normal" spectrum. Where does it lead us? Is it actually helping?

I easily score as ADHD, but I'm in my 60s now and have never been diagnosed or treated. I have muddled through all my life. Yes, I often self-medicated unhealthily (cigarettes, various over-the-counter uppers), but also relatively healthily (I've been practicing meditation for decades). I managed to have two, long, fruitful careers (20 years of journalism, coming up to 20 years of software engineering) that (I'm betting) was at least partly attributable to me being on the outer edges of normal.

I think that's OK. I'm not looking to be "treated" because I'm a bit different.
by stunthamsterio | 2025-11-24 09:19:39+00:00
I've got moderate to severe SSHL and use an Oticon intent 1 miniRite. For my use it's been very good - long last battery, relatively robust. It also has excellent bluetooth connectivity, so I often use it to stream audiobooks in tedious meetings.

In terms of hearing quality, for me, it's been solid, with the caveat that it took a while to get the fitting right. I think my audiologist was a bit old school, and was sticking to settings he'd known to be good in the past rather than fitting for what the aid is capable of. I've recently had its prescription type updated to the native Oticon one, and it's been a revelation in terms of clarity.

My hearing loss is relatively recent (About four years now) so I will caveat this that I've only used Oticons, so can't really compare to anything else.
by hananova | 2025-11-24 09:20:43+00:00
1. But the code did just work after compiling. The code said "This can never be an Err, and if I'm wrong, you are allowed to panic." And it did just that.

2. They do. If you use them, which they didn't.

3. It is. Let's not discard personal responsibility.

4. The error would've happened in any language, Rust debatably made it easier to find though.

I don't write Rust code myself because I simply don't write any code that requires this kind of reliability, and thus I haven't expended the effort learn it properly. But if I were to start such a project, I would still go for Rust and learn it properly. I also don't have a "favorite" language. I just pick whichever seems most appropriate for the project, any decent programmer should be able to pick up any non-esoteric language to the point of adequacy in a few weeks anyway.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-11-24 09:20:47+00:00
I loved WFRR as a kid, and of all the movies I loved as a kid, it has definitely held up the best. I re-watched it recently and it is still great. Hilarious, thoughtful and just the right amount of dark.

One of the reasons I still love it is that it hasn't fallen prey to the usual Hollywood practice of taking something you love and shovelling it down your throat until you're sick of it. It saddens me when you see a really good movie with a bunch of bad sequels, or TV series that were once great but ran for 10 seasons too long.
by imiric | 2025-11-24 09:20:49+00:00
> Most people have no clue how these things really work and what they can do.

Primarily because the way these things really work has been buried under a mountain of hype and marketing that uses misleading language to promote what they can hypothetically do.

> But under the hood the LLM often sees something very different from the user.

As a user, I shouldn't need to be aware of what happens under the hood. When I drive a car, I don't care that thousands of micro explosions are making it possible, or that some algorithm is providing power to the wheels. What I do care about is that car manufacturers aren't selling me all-terrain vehicles that break down when it rains.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-11-24 09:21:20+00:00
> grapheneOS only runs on expensive pixel phone

You are right. The user saying that "GrapheneOs is for everyone" is just classic HN bubble syndrome speaking from a position of privilege so great it blinds their worldview.

GrapheneOS is obviously not for everyone because it relies on the user having a certain income relative to their local cost of living. While Lineage is leaning more towards extending the usable lives of smartphones officially unsupported, Graphene leans towards security, especifically features that are only present on a few high-end devices.

This is why it is not hard to see why Lineage is the better option for most people while Graphene is the option for those wealthy enough.

Just like celebrities find hard to relate to non-celebs, many users here find hard to relate to those who are not wealthy. This to me sounds like if a celeb said that "space travel is for everyone".
by unwind | 2025-11-24 09:21:30+00:00
This looked nice and simple, appreciated!

A couple of minor C points:

- The code seems to completely lack use of `static` for things that should be local to the implementation, such as `META_SIZE`, `find_free_block()` and others.

- The header includes `<stdbool.h>` but the interface doesn't use it so it could be included in the C file instead (which, in fact, it is!).

- Could do with more `const` for clarity, but that is quite personal.

- Interesting to use explicit comparison to check for integers being zero, but treat pointers being NULL as implicit boolean. I prefer comparing in both cases.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-24 09:21:44+00:00
Maybe people get used to it but I can't. I can't even use the "magic" keyboard.

I work with them a lot at work but when I use my MacBook I always use it docked. I just need more key travel. The feel is ok but the travel is not.

They were fine until 2015 and I still use the old aluminium keyboard at my desk.
by bean469 | 2025-11-24 09:22:04+00:00
Where did you get these facts? Some are extremely cherrypicked, and some are outright false.

> The Titanic was built for that purpose.

It was built to compete with Cunard's Lusitania/Mauretania. While immigrants did board it, elite travel was prioritized.

> The US middle class and upper middle class and the wealthy came from those poor people

False. Those in the top one percent of wealth holders, approximately 3% are European and Canadian immigrants [1].

> The uniforms of Civil War soldiers look teen sized. You can see them for yourself in the Gettysburg museum.

Exagarated at best. Many of those who fought in the war were as young ar 14 [2].

> In WW1 when the US Army arrived on the scene, the Germans were shocked at their height and high quality plentiful food, and then knew they had lost the war.

Do you have a verified source for this? In Erich Ludendorff's memoirs he attributes defeat to logistics / shortages, but does not note the physical stature of US soldiers.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5322981/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_soldiers_in_the_American...
by AdhemarVandamme | 2025-11-24 09:23:28+00:00
In Microsoft v. AT&T, decision 550 US 437 (2007), there was discussion about a golden disk, and the terminology changed to master disk during the course of the proceedings, because the disk wasn’t actually made of gold.

I remember that Justice Antonin Scalia objected: “I hope we can continue calling it the golden disk. It has a certain Scheherazade quality that really adds a lot of interest to this case.”

<https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...>
by gen2brain | 2025-11-24 09:23:38+00:00
I am working on the UI library and bindings for Go. Still not finished, but currently, the same app can be compiled for Win32, Cocoa, GTK2, GTK3, GTK4, Qt5, Qt6, and Motif. There is a web browser control, a GL canvas, and a regular canvas. I still work on the native table control, though.

https://github.com/gen2brain/iup-go
by Lutger | 2025-11-24 09:23:54+00:00
So it turns itself back into oil and seeps into the well where it originated from? You know this sounds like putting your hands on your ears shouting 'lalala I can't hear you'?

The thing I'm wondering is, if you don't care, why make the effort to comment at all? Clearly you care enough to do so. What are you afraid will happen by merely acknowledging what is the case? Whenever someone presents the finding of facts as hysterical, I'm left wondering who is actually the hysterical one.

The microplastic particles in our air aren't hysterical. They are just there. Research revealing they are present isn't hysterical either, nor is research about the consequences. At most, such research is more or less accurate, or distorted. I'm starting to think you are the one who is hysterical in this matter.

But for what reason? I can only think of only three:

you agree with the dangers but find it so overwhelming that you want to shut it down

you fear losing the benefits of plastic and want to undermine any action on the subject

you just can't take any kind of panic, regardless of the reasons and to maintain your sanity, you vehemently push away anything that might otherwise makes you feel alarmed
by Ferret7446 | 2025-11-24 09:24:20+00:00
This is some serious mental gymnastics. Possessing "legal" goods can absolutely be circumstantially incriminating. Carrying around a bat can be circumstantial evidence of a crime. Carrying lockpicks (in CA at least) is legal, but carrying them around a neighborhood where you don't live at 2am is going to get you brought to the police station.
by josephg | 2025-11-24 09:24:27+00:00
> it's an ongoing thorn of mine that the Rust community seems to decide that anything which cannot be programmed in rust is obsolete legacy.

Nobody is arguing that you can't program a binary tree or b-tree in rust.

I think its true that binary trees almost always perform worse than b-trees in programming in general. But that isn't a comment about rust. Its a comment about modern CPU memory & cache behavior.
by SapporoChris | 2025-11-24 09:24:28+00:00
Thank you for the new acronym. Sudden sensorineural (“inner ear”) hearing loss (SSHL), commonly known as sudden deafness, is an unexplained, rapid loss of hearing either all at once or over a few days. SSHL happens because there is something wrong with the sensory organs of the inner ear. Sudden deafness frequently affects only one ear. https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/sudden-deafness To save some people time if they were wondering.
by mdlxxv | 2025-11-24 09:24:41+00:00
> Before the 360, consoles didn’t really do anything on their own. They were passive devices that existed to play whatever cartridge or disc you put in.

How is that a bad thing? Maybe I'm showing my age here, but I believe that's what a video game console should be. Put in cartridge, turn it on, start playing. Sure, when they moved to optical discs you had to wait a little longer, but it was no big deal.

If you want to do PC-like stuff, just use a PC. Personally, I lost all interest in consoles when they all turned into weird proprietary PCs.