MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PAPPPmAc | 2025-11-05 19:58:01+00:00
I find hosted/hybrid machines particularly fascinating, so I have a 6100/66 DOS with a Houdini II Nubus card and a Education-market LC with the Gemini-based Apple IIe PDS card that I've collected over the years.

They are ...weird... machines.

Both have a (different) extremely bespoke Y cable that are almost required, such that if you find a card separated from the cable, you probably shouldn't pay much for it.

The IIe card has a little lag in the video circuitry compared to the real thing (at least in a first gen LC host, apparently that problem goes away if you stick it in a faster machine with a 24-bit PDS slot).

Coaxing the Houdini II to boot things that are not fundamentally MSDOS is always a good way to throw away a couple hours, but it does a great job of convincing anything up to Win95 that it's a PC. Performance is absurdly better with dedicated RAM.

There are a couple other things in the family, the MacCharlie and AST Mac86/Mac286 products for bolting PC hardware onto various Macs, and the later OrangePC cards (they ended up with the IP from both Apple and ASTs offerings). The apex of "weird hosted computers you can stick in a Mac" are probably the MacIvory (LISP machine on a NuBus card) products, but those are "costly and rare," and are infamously balky even if you do get the hardware (...and I just don't enjoy Lisp).

Sun had a SunPC/SunPCi line in the same vein that will bolt a PC-on-a-card into various SPARC hosts.

Commodore had that first-party Sidecar product with a PC-XT in a box for Amigas, and there was ShapeShifter that would let you fake a Mac semi-native on a 68k Amiga. Likewise DayDream (recently updated into DarkMatter) to run a Mac environment on a 68k NeXT host, both of which "needed" Mac ROMs attached on a dongle for license reasons.

MAE is emulation, but it was an Apple-blessed way to run MacOS hosted on contemporary Unix workstations of the early 90s, which is sort of the opposite. I've managed to prod it onto a (real) PA-RISC/HPUX host, and (emulated, because my SS20 has been super balky as long as I've had it) SPARC/Solaris host just for sport - I'm pretty sure it was built out of decapitated A/UX parts and an emulator when A/UX4 didn't happen.

I'd like to round out my set with at least a IIe with a Premium Softcard IIe at some point, but I'm not willing to pay ebay prices for any of that stuff.
by richardfeynman | 2025-11-05 19:58:02+00:00
All the claims are true.

> Obesity is common There are countless videos of obese people in Gaza today.

> Restaurats everywhere. Google it! Not restaurants under rubble, but restaurants serving faties today. Here's a short list of open restaurants: - Manaqish restaurant - Ghazetna restaurant - Hotdog restaurant - Zaitouna cam restaurant - Chef Hamada - O2 restaurant

> No pictures of starving families. Yes, of course adult bodies are more resilient, but in real famines (unlike the one in Gaza) adults die too. And the kids that look starving had preexisting conditions.

>there have been only about 200 malnutrition related deaths in two years of war in gaza A googleable claim.

>no belligerent in the history of war has ever allowed in more aid to the opposing side than Israel. It's a factual matter, nobody debates it. You can't find a country that sent more aid to a belligerent on a per capita basis.
Ask HN: Managers of HN, how do you track IC progress
by higgins | 2025-11-05 19:58:05+00:00
Hi Engineering Managers of HN!

I'm looking for tooling—systems, methodologies and software—you use to successfully manage your engineering team.

Strategies I've found helpful:

- One shared google doc per engineer - Regular, short check-ins (can be async) to track progress against team and personal goals - Nudge on opportunities for growth (budget spend, domain ownership, etc)

The wider company is encouraged to use a shared tool (https://www.small-improvements.com), so I'll need to migrate to that but I'm interested in what other tools you've found successful!
by glenstein | 2025-11-05 19:58:09+00:00
Dillo is hands down the best ultra lightweight browser ever developed in my opinion. I had a Toshiba Tecra that I got from Goodwill when I had absolutely no money whatsoever in my college days, And it was at least 15 years out of date as a laptop even when I first got it. I installed Puppy Linux on it, and I had Dillo as the browser. Its ability to bring rapid web browsing to old hardware is without equal.

I still use a modern version of it now on a Pine Tab 2 tablet, which has slow enough hardware that you want something like Dillo to make it feel snappy. I just make sure to bookmark lightweight websites that are most agreeable to Dillo's strip down versions of web pages.

It's one of the reasons I feel like Linux on the desktop in the 00s and 2010s had the superpower of making ancient hardware nearly up to par with modern hardware or at least meaningfully closing the gap.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-11-05 19:58:20+00:00
Actually the comment collection process has in fact caused changes in policy over many administrations, largely because the policy makers were interested in achieving some goal aligned to their function and believed in our system. When commentary went strongly against their policy there was often a step back and reassessment. This administration appears to have two goals: maximally hurt people who hurt Trumps feelings and create the deep state they lamented but never really existed until now to continue to maximally hurt people similar to those who hurt trumps feels in perpetuity.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-11-05 19:58:25+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto hacker manifesto written by Loyd "The Mentor" Blankenship in 1986

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/7426/loyd-blanke... Loyd Blankenship born 1965
by ninalanyon | 2025-11-05 20:00:05+00:00
I overstayed my visa by a week in Thailand couple of decades ago because the task I was sent out to perform took longer than expected. I just had to pay a reasonable fine on exit that I then claimed back on my expenses. There was certainly not even a suggestion that I would be unwelcome in Thailand in the future.

Why is the US so awkward?
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-05 20:00:08+00:00
Germany has never had much of a culture of free speech.

The intelligence agencies in charge of monitoring extremists have long had their own problems with extremism. The former head of the agency for "Protection of the Constitution" ("Verfassungsschutz") himself turned out to be a xenophobic right-wing extremist.[0] They have wide authority to spy on citizens based purely on their political views. Unless you really, really trust the agency doing that, this is not a good thing for society.

During the war in Gaza, the various restrictions on free speech were used to crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters. For many months after October 7th, many cities (such as Hamburg) issued blanket bans of pro-Palestinian protests. A Jewish German woman was even arrested for standing alone in a public square and holding up a sign about Gaza, because that was supposedly a violation of the ban on protests about Gaza.[1] All sorts of people have been banned from entering the country (including an elected member of the European Parliament, Yannis Varoufakis [2]), purely because of their views on Gaza. A major conference in Berlin was broken up by police because they allowed "banned" individuals to speak over Zoom (banned explicitly for their views on Gaza) [3]. When there's a major event going on in the world (which your government is involved in), and the government tells you you're not allowed to demonstrate about it, that's not a good thing.

These supposed protections have not done much of anything to prevent the rise of the far right in Germany. The "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) is a right-wing extremist party filled with "former" neo-Nazis (such as the leader of the party in the state of Thuringia, who used to write neo-Nazi articles under a pseudonym [4]). The AfD is now polling at 25%, making it tied for the most popular party in Germany. Even if the AfD doesn't get into government, the conservatives are imitating them more and more. The Chancellor recently said that German cities no longer look right (because you see too many foreigners). When asked what he meant, he responded, "Ask your daughter" (with the obvious implication). And no, the agency for protection of the constitution is obviously not going to tell him to stop saying things like this.

The German system of political censorship is not something that other countries should be imitating.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg_Maa%C3%9Fen

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/we-jews-are-just-arr...

2. https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2024/04/cancelled-germany...

3. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A4stina-Kongress_in_Ber...

4. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_H%C3%B6cke#Pseudony...
by jmward01 | 2025-11-05 20:01:19+00:00
Anyone know of reviewers that do this for cars? I just don't see privacy focused reviews on basically anything. We have reviews about how reparable things are and how good/bad the features are but rarely do I see privacy mentioned or in-depth analysis of TOS and the like to give buyers a sense of how good/bad cars and other devices are. Does everyone just assume it is terrible and go on or is there some reason this isn't a top level item for journalists to evaluate?
by thot_experiment | 2025-11-05 20:01:25+00:00
Glad I'm not imagining it, I'll be cancelling my sub. Paying for things only for them to get worse and the provider hoping I don't notice is such a fucking vile tactic.

In my experience sonnet 4.5 is basically pointless, it often gets non-trivial tasks wrong, and for trivial tasks I can use a local model or one of the myriad of providers that give free inference.

EDIT: Holy shit I read the github issue, fuck these people.

> We highly recommend Sonnet 4.5 -- Opus uses rate limits faster, and is not as capable for coding tasks.

They're just straight gaslighting us now lmao.
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-05 20:01:36+00:00
You are not spouting any fringe consipracy theory. Videos commenting on Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza ( see https://genocide.live/locations ) on TikTok played a huge role in publicising the genocide to the world. And it is also the primary reason why the western backers of Israel were so hell bent on acquiring TikTok - an IDF soldier, who is a "proud American Jew" and Zionist, already oversees "hate speech" and "antisemitism" policies on TikTok ( see https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/tiktok-hires-former-idf-reservi... ). And Netanyahu also publicly affirmed that social media was Israel’s new ‘weapon’ after the TikTok acquisition ( see https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-says-social-media-isr... ).
by floxy | 2025-11-05 20:01:56+00:00
Has anyone ever deployed a heat pump in orbit to increase the radiator temperature? T^4 is a pretty steep curve. If your usual rejection temperature was 77 C / 350 K, and you could bump that up to 227 C / 500K, your radiator goes down to ~1/4 of the required area. But then you need more solar panel area to power the heat pump. And 1/4 of the area is only ~50% smaller in linear dimensions. Maybe it doesn't pencil out. Maybe instead of powering the heat pump with PV panel electricity, it is mechanically driven by a heat engine driven by concentrated sunlight. 1000 K warm end, and 500K cold end. But then you need to dissipate the waste heat from the engine as well. Fun to think about anyway.
by agumonkey | 2025-11-05 20:02:19+00:00
even though my above message wasn't much about the corporate leeches, i did experience the fun of being my own boss in a way during covid doing mini gigs directly with people

there's a blend of "i'm my own man": i get the money and handle the responsibility on my own and it's thrilling feeling

i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut, but there's a kind of pleasure to also do your own business for a while
by cultofmetatron | 2025-11-05 20:02:28+00:00
its almost like there a special interest group working behind the scenes that has been simultaneously developing expertise in maintaining surveillance state technology and is motivated to maintain strict control over american public opinion to manage those resistant to their manufactured consent mechanism.

Of course that would require decades of testing and refining the technology on a people so conditioned for us to malign that our mainstream shows can make jokes about their dead babies and only be met with applause.
by paulpauper | 2025-11-05 20:02:50+00:00
yup here is one from 2007

https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/02/22/272845/regrowing...

As it turns out, this is really hard to do. There are a lot required of teeth: they have to be extremely durable to resist repeated strain of chewing ,stay in the gums, not be rejected by body, etc. It's little surprise progress has been so slow.
by josefx | 2025-11-05 20:04:00+00:00
Were you born before or after heartbleed uncovered the sorry state of OpenSSL and the complete absence of funding it was maintained under?

So to answer your question: Every single one of them, from Google with its billions, to Mozilla with Googles billions, none of them would spend even a cent on critical open source projects they relied on as long as they could get away with it.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-11-05 20:04:22+00:00
I just started it up and it turned out to be Dillo 3.0 from 2011. I do not know if it was using FLTK back then, but a quick search says that FLTK has been ported to DOS so that might not be an obstacle for the current developers to keep FreeDOS support if they wanted to.
by Waterluvian | 2025-11-05 20:04:33+00:00
If anyone's a dentist or is close to one, I'd love to know something I haven't found a satisfactory answer for online: if the vast majority of cavities were "magically" cured over the next few years, what impact would that have on the finances of your practice?

I'm not suggesting there's a conscious conspiracy or anything malicious. But I observe that incentives are weirdly aligned. I wonder what this kind of thing would do to a very large industry if all of a sudden some percentage of business disappeared. Is it a large percentage? Would they pivot to more preventative medicine? Would patients adopt a longer duration between checkups?
by brudgers | 2025-11-05 20:04:34+00:00
[random remarks from the internet]

I think maybe having one ideal customer might be a useful a place to start. But probably it isn't a good idea to invest a lot of time in tailoring experiences/services/products to that ideal customer until you have actual customers.

Because without a lot of relevant experience, the ideal customers in your imagination don't correspond to actual ideal customers in the real world:

+ People do what they do for a lot of reasons. Some walk tightropes, others wear belts and suspenders.

+ People view money in a lot of different ways. $1000 is unrealistic for many people and pocket change for others. $10/year is great for people who don't care if you stay in business and a red flag for people who do care.

+ In general we tend to imagine people are similar to us (mostly because it is easier that way). But selling to people who are not like you is what selling to strangers consists of.
by byearthithatius | 2025-11-05 20:05:05+00:00
Poorly designed studies, materials proposed without insight into ramifications and manufacturing, and P-Hacking has ruined the publics trust in science. I blatantly just ignore any headline like this now. Can't trust science anymore.... sad. How many new "cancer cures" have been posted to Reddit and HN over the last decade that never came to fruition.

Not to say doing the science and studying to find new approaches is not beneficial. I just think we need to reconsider how we communicate new research. Its like how CEOs hype up AI products at this point. "This will change everything ..... potentially maybe in twenty years (omitted)"
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-11-05 20:05:14+00:00
You are, of course, referring to Alstom and Siemens.

"A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly." —Leopold van Sacher-Masoch

Siemens received the slap in the form of Stuxnet. Industrial controls and transport are not the same business unit, but enough of the message got around internally.

I firmly believe Alstom would not be making such garbage today, at least not from a cybersecurity perspective, had this merger gone ahead. And, let's say, I know quite well exactly what type of hot garbage they unfortunately continue to make.

It's a shame.
by vixen99 | 2025-11-05 20:05:15+00:00
Where is the evidence for this assumption, either way? There isn't any unless you generalize from some selected group to millions of people across the world. Terman 2021 - gifted children had similar life satisfaction to norms. Li looked at 23 studies & 30,000 people- 0.10 correlation. Veenhoven 100,000 correlation for IQ and happiness was 0.05. Not a smart question.
by crote | 2025-11-05 20:05:36+00:00
Why not? Doesn't it depend on the type of NAT used?

As I understand it, most consumer devices will set up a port mapping which is completely independent of the destination's IP and port. It's just "incoming packet for $wanip:567 goes to $internal:123, outgoing packet from $internal:123 get rewritten to appear from $wanip:567". This allows any packet towards $wanip:567 to reach the internal host - both the original server the client initiated the connection to, and any other random host on the internet. Do this on two clients, have the server tell them each other's mappings, and they can do P2P comms: basic hole punching. I believe this is usually called "Full Cone NAT".

However, nothing is stopping you from setting up destination-dependent mapping, where it becomes "incoming packet from $server:443 to $wanip:456 goes to $internal:123, outgoing packet from $internal:123 to $server:443 gets rewritten to appear from $wanip:567". This would still work totally fine for regular client-to-server communication, but that mapping would only work for that specific server. A packet heading towards $wanip:456 would get dropped because the source isn't $server:443 - or it could even get forwarded to another host on the NATed network. This would block traditional hole punching. I believe this is called "Address Restricted Cone NAT" if it filters only on source IP, or "Port Restricted Cone NAT" if it filters on both source IP and source port.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-11-05 20:05:53+00:00
Or, you could just ask "Why aren't people happy?". I don't see how IQ could make you happier. Smart people are not as smart as they think, they usually perform better because they're overspecialized.

Now, emotional intelligence, that would greatly influece your happiness. The hurdles you're talking about are emotional, not intellectual.
by wholinator2 | 2025-11-05 20:06:05+00:00
There's an equal sign in the equation. That means it is true when y = x + 1. There's no filter we're applying, that's literally what the equation says. What you plot is f(x,y) = (y-x-1)/(x^2+y^2). The line plot is when that equals zero, the fuzzinss of it is when it doesnt. But notice that f(x,y)=0 is exactly equivalent to y=x+1. They're exactly the same. Thus, when you're plotting the fuzzy graph it is definitively _not_ a plot of y=x+1, it's a plot of z=(y-x-1)/(x^2+y^2) and those are not the same thing.

We'd only need to "apply a filter" to get the line graph if we started with z(x,y), but that's not what you wrote
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-05 20:06:16+00:00
It's a double-edged sword.

A properly disciplined person is capable of great things according to the measure of his intellectual power and his discipline. However, without discipline, that extra horsepower can be a force multiplier for error, and more intricate rationalizations can make it easy to lodge yourself in a web of false justifications.

This is one reason why the ancients and the medievals always emphasized the importance of the virtues. Intelligence is just potential. What we want is knowledge and ultimately wisdom. But there is no wisdom without virtue. Without virtue, a man is deficient and corrupt. His intellect is darkened. His mental operations dishonest. His hold on reality deformed. Virtue is freedom; a man of vice is not free, but lorded over by each vice that wounds him and holds him hostage. His intellect is not free to operate properly. Good actions are strangled and stifled, because his intentions are corrupt, because his impure will cripples and twists the operations of his intellect, because his vices dominate him and cause disintegration.

Without virtue, we are but savages and scum.
by mtrovo | 2025-11-05 20:06:24+00:00
As someone who barely interacts with the people that care about tenders, my impression is that people that usually win are the ones better at playing the game rather than better at the job. The job later is potentially repackaged in chunks and offered to other players that in turn will do the same downstream. Something like Romania gets EU fund money to build roads in Romania with a German engineering project, German contractors, German supplied materials, but Romanian workers. Or in a more particular case part of recycling trash in Germany is basically being dumped illegally in Poland for a while and the same companies keep operating and winning contracts because why not.

You create a political class full of lawyers, and you get a country where lawyers thrive, who would have thought?
by PaulKeeble | 2025-11-05 20:06:39+00:00
Just 7% of studies that do a preliminary study on humans actually get through phase 3 and get approved for use. This is before even the preliminary point, its a tooth (or even a tooth analogue) in a petri dish. No idea if the material will be safe in a human mouth yet.

There is a lot of hyping of results in medicine papers in general but its not really their fault. The entire academic world is being forced to publish or die as governments look to measure results from the science they instead get what is measured and everyone has to embellish the importance of what they found and always find positive results.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-05 20:06:58+00:00
I think the parent basically sensed that you're not a trained mathematician and is trying to throw their middle-school math textbook at you.

The simplest definition of a "graph of a function" is that it's a representation of the points satisfying some underlying equality. Your plot isn't that. A more conventional name would be a heatmap: a plot of a function that takes two parameters - x and y coordinates - and then assigns a third value (color) to each.

I don't think the distinction is all that interesting. They're both function plots.
by paulorlando | 2025-11-05 20:07:00+00:00
While Bannister’s 4-minute mile record is used as an example of a psychological barrier, there’s also a reinterpretation of the meaning behind his record. Before his 1954 race, the record for the mile stood at just over 4 minutes (4:01.4) for 9 years. While speed records were set during WWII, they were all set by Swedish runners (Sweden being neutral in the war). The record today, which has stood since 1999, is 3:43.13. It's not a round number, so as a result gets less attention. Maybe that's why we don't think of it as a psychological barrier.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-05 20:07:32+00:00
What Jimmy Kimmel said was:

1. The right was making all sorts of claims about the killer before they knew anything about him (this is a true statement).

2. Donald Trump is not acting at all like someone who's in mourning (this is also a true statement).

Neither of those statements is inflammatory or ignorant. They're both objectively true statements that pretty much everyone who follows the news is aware of.

Beyond that, you're ignoring the fact that ABC only "chose" to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show after they were publicly threatened by Trump's FCC chair.