MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-06 06:39:27+00:00
It’s not like I’m discovering the concept for the first time.

I just think when people say things like “solar is cheaper than gas” they should say for who.

Solar is cheaper than gas for the capitalist.

And there’s no guarantee the capitalists savings will ever be passed on to the consumer.

In my market, Australia, the energy retailers are regulated to increase prices once a year. Increase prices. Never a saving for the retail customer. They’ve worked out that can skip all that messy market bullshit and just regulate annual increases.

Good work if you can get it.
by toast0 | 2025-11-06 06:40:10+00:00
64k probes is a lot, but it might be reasonable if you're trying to get something like wireguard connected between locations that are behind CGNAT, send 10 probes a second for a couple hours and then remain connected for a long time. Of course, CGNAT might split your traffic over multiple IPs and then the math is terrible.

If you need to send 64k probes to get p2p and you want to make a 15 minute call, it probably doesn't make sense, but it's probably worth trying a bit in case you catch an easy case. Not that p2p is always better than going through a relay, but it's often less expensive.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-06 06:41:55+00:00
Only Intel. AMD had its own "syscall" instead of Intel's "sysenter" since the K6 CPU, so x86-64 has inherited that.

AMD's "syscall" corrects some defects of Intel's "sysenter", but unfortunately it introduces some new defects.

Details can be found in the Linux documentation, in comments by Linus Torvalds about the use of these instructions in the kernel.
by tguvot | 2025-11-06 06:42:46+00:00
anecdotal experience: my wife had somewhat botched dental filling proceedure. it probably damaged her teeth in some way and it became very sensitive for any fluids or foods. they tried to redo it, but it only increased sensitivity further.

i gave her apagard renamel (with nanohydroxyapatite ). after a few days sensitivity went down and after a few weeks it completely disappeared
by roguebloodrage | 2025-11-06 06:43:34+00:00
Who the hell has a dishwasher connected to hot water? Shit, my washing machine doesn't even have hot water. Both devices have internal heaters. Both are over 10 years old.

This guy has been incorrect in his yt posts so many times, I simply do not believe him anymore.

He is all about monetization and doesn't care about truth or accuracy.
by DavidPiper | 2025-11-06 06:44:04+00:00
Hey, we must have been in high school at the same time. I saw the same thing going through my final years. But when I went back to visit the school a few years after I left... Things were very different.

I'd say there was definitely a grace period (roughly iPhone -> iPhone 4 maybe?) where device addiction wasn't yet normalised, and the real world hadn't ceded control yet. Not sure what happened at the school level after that, but somewhere along the way phones (devices as they were called then) everywhere all the time became very normal.
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-06 06:44:29+00:00
Yeah, I have no idea what shevy-java is talking about either. I would accept “huge step too far”, but not backwards. Unless your belief is that on the 8th day God gave mankind Algol syntax and said “let all languages look like this”. I’ll give that it can feel pretty foreign, like forth, lisp, erlang also do. These languages, imo, all use syntax where the form of the syntax binds nicely, reinforces even, with their computation models.
by emodendroket | 2025-11-06 06:44:36+00:00
It's not really a "choice" to use words how they are commonly understood but a choice to do the opposite. The point of Dijkstra's example is you can slap some term on a fundamentally different phenomenon to liken it to something more familiar but it confuses rather than clarifies anything.

The point that "swim" is not very consistent with "fly" is true enough but not really helpful. It doesn't change the commonly understood meaning of "swim" to include spinning a propeller just because "fly" doesn't imply anything about the particular means used to achieve flight.
by Root_Denied | 2025-11-06 06:45:38+00:00
There used to be a website called "Translation Party" where you would input a sentence in English and it would auto-translate it to Japanese and back to English over and over until it got to some equilibrium (where the translations were effectively the same) or hit it's upper bound of like 20 ish swings back and forth.

It was a fun little tool, but I think that really drove home for me how different Japanese is from English in how it structures itself.
by defrost | 2025-11-06 06:45:52+00:00
> In my market, Australia, the energy retailers are regulated to increase prices once a year. Increase prices. Never a saving for the retail customer. They’ve worked out that can skip all that messy market bullshit and just regulate annual increases.

Have you actually read the regulation?

The AEMC said the new rules were in response to requests from Australia's energy minsters. They will: * prevent retailers from increasing prices more than once a year * ban excessive charges like late-payment fees for all retail contracts * ensure all consumers are entitled to a fee-free payment method * prohibit retail fees for vulnerable consumers * ensure vulnerable Australians are receiving their retailer’s best offer * prevent retailers from charging more than the standing offer price if the customer's initial offer changes or expires. This will protect customers from paying higher prices for their loyalty. The rules to improve consumer confidence in retail energy plans will come into effect on 1 July 2026. Those that assist hardship customers take effect from 30 December 2026.

There is a difference between

A) regulation that forces a price rise once a year.

and

B) regulation that stops more than one price rise (if any) in any year.
by kilibe | 2025-11-06 06:47:02+00:00
Congrats to RISC-V International on this pivotal milestone—being granted JTC 1 PAS Submitter status feels like the open ISA's official "welcome to the global stage." What strikes me most is how this isn't just procedural rubber-stamping; it's a deliberate reinforcement of RISC-V's ethos of transparency and collaboration, ensuring derivatives stay true while unlocking easier market access worldwide. In an era where AI and edge computing demand interoperable, royalty-free foundations, this could accelerate adoption in ways we've only dreamed of—imagine seamless RISC-V ecosystems spanning from Tokyo fabs to Silicon Valley startups.
by willmadden | 2025-11-06 06:48:12+00:00
If you're going to use nHAP, get Apaguard from Japan. Their nHAP is rod shaped, not jagged. They were the first to make rod shaped nHAP and have been doing it for decades. It's not a great idea to introduce cheap/jagged nHAP into your mouth. Sharp nanoparticles tend to cause cancer.
by businessmate | 2025-11-06 06:48:41+00:00
This week, three visible advocates in the emerging LLM-optimization space—Graphite, AthenaHQ, and Surfer—each published their argument for naming the new discipline of optimizing for large language models. Graphite’s Ethan Smith promoted AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), AthenaHQ’s Alan Yao argued for GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and Surfer’s Tomasz Niezgoda defended AI SEO. Even ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini were asked to weigh in as synthetic referees.
by mattclarkdotnet | 2025-11-06 06:48:44+00:00
The context for the 13th amendment was that slavery was legal in the US then. It mostly wasn’t in other countries, so they never had to try to find the language to allow judicial punishments while disallowing private slavery. If you are given a community service orders without labelling in the UK for example, nobody thinks it’s slavery or servitude, they just think it’s a valid sentence under the law. The grey area is probably around profiting off such work?
by gaudystead | 2025-11-06 06:48:48+00:00
I don't disagree with you, but if I prompted an LLM to ask me questions like a doctor would for a non-invasive assessment, would it ask me better or worse questions than an actual doctor?

I ask (somewhat rhetorically) to get the mind thinking, but I'm legitimately curious whether - just from a verbal survey - whether the AI doctor would ask me about things more directly related to any illness it might suspect, versus a human who might narrow factors down similar to a 90s TV "ghost speaker" type of person; one fishing for matches amongst a fairly large dataset.
by ajb | 2025-11-06 06:49:33+00:00
They are the person who announced the bot would be rolled out. If the person who announced the rollout isn't either the leader of the project or someone who can push for changes to it, then that's already totally against the community.

Second, this "community support forum" isn't just a corporate help desk. It's a forum for community supporters of Mozilla, an open source organisation for which community contributions are hugely important. Mozilla can't just fuck over parts of it's community and expect that to be business as usual.
by Hasnep | 2025-11-06 06:50:41+00:00
A language can be suitable for writing a compiler, but if there is another language that's 10x faster that's also suitable, then you're losing out on a lot of compilation speed for no reason.

Dog-fooding a language by writing a compiler in it can lead to the designers adding language features to make compiler development easier, even if they detract from the design of the language for the 99% of users who aren't writing a compiler.
by kilibe | 2025-11-06 06:51:18+00:00
Impressive takedown in Operation Chargeback—dismantling networks that preyed on 4.3 million victims across 193 countries is a stark reminder of how cyber fraud's reach knows no borders, yet neither does justice when agencies sync up like this. Kudos to Europol, Eurojust, and the global partners for turning years of intel into swift action; securing €35M in assets is no small win against laundered shadows. De Bolle's words ring true—this is the blueprint for outpacing evolving threats. How might we see AI or blockchain forensics supercharge these ops next? Grateful for the transparency; onward to safer digital lanes.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-06 06:51:34+00:00
> But that will not work as expected if you have more than one profile (which is the whole point). At present the only workable solution is to fiddle with a GUI thru `about:profiles` (or `firefox --ProfileManager`) in order to create the profiles and give them all-important UIDs.

FWIW, that's only true if you care about it having those IDs and being exposed to the graphical interface. If you don't, then you can just run `firefox --profile $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/whatever` and it works. I use a small shell script™ wrapper to run firefox this way and it's quite nice. Also helpful: If you run firefox like that, you can just point it at a new empty directory and it'll populate it as a profile, so it's easy to make new ones too.
by godelski | 2025-11-06 06:51:45+00:00
> not a US citizen ***on US soil*** US law does not apply.

1) these strikes are happening in international waters

2) US law definitely applies to non citizens on US soil.

Like that's such a ridiculous statement. Even if the law was "we can do whatever if you're not a citizen", that's still law...

You think non citizens are all sovereign citizens bound to no law? To be able to do whatever they want? I didn't know my neighbor was a diplomat.

I think you mean rights. Which this is much more dubious. The constitution definitely interchanges the use of "citizens" and "people". Notably the 11th amendment uses citizens, specifying belonging to states foreign or domestic. It was ratified only a few years after the Bill of rights, so not like a drastic language change happened.

There are people who will argue "the people" means "citizens" but I find that a difficult interpretation if you read the constitution or federalist papers.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-11-06 06:52:13+00:00
I nominate this work for a Fields Medal! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal)

It's seriously that good!

Also, related to the idea of visualizing old equations in new ways:

YT Video: "Putting Algebraic Curves in Perspective":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXzhqStLG-4

>"Ever wonder what happens when you combine graphing algebraic curves with drawing in perspective? The result uncovers some beautiful relationships between seemingly different shapes, and all because of what happens when you

include infinity through projective geometry ."

...and the following might be of interest as well:

https://pointatinfinityblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/points-...

https://pointatinfinityblog.wordpress.com/
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-06 06:52:18+00:00
if it's a proper news source they (and every other paper) already reported it who knows how many times. "city is about to ban phones in schools" "city is banning phones in schools" "the phones in schools were banned". everybody who needs to know already knows

This is not intended to be a news piece. It's a story. But whoever is in charge of CMS messed up categories. It should not be labeled news
by rf15 | 2025-11-06 06:53:11+00:00
That sounds strange, but please drill some holes into my argument.

I would expect that unhappiness stems from the negative mismatch of one's expectation vs experienced reality. This, to me, implies that they had an unnaturally (and unjustifiably) high expectation of what reality has to offer. Additionally, it implies lack of understanding of WHY things are "bad" in the way they are.

You might argue, oh, they are smart only in a very narrow field, but then that sounds like learned helplessness for everything else, something a smart person should easily escape from.

None of this sounds like these people are actually particularly smart, or rather, it seems poor choices have been made in the beliefs they themselves or others apply to them, and now the consequences come back to bite them.
by runako | 2025-11-06 06:54:10+00:00
Back pay isn’t guaranteed, and Congressional leadership has gone back and forth about whether back pay is owed. I would put money on any back pay being partial at best. (I understand that this is waste, fraud, and abuse that is being cut?)

But yes, this is bullshit. We also should not have active duty military using soup kitchens abroad. But on these matters, my opinion is obviously different from that of most voters. Hopefully, voters will change their minds.
by davydm | 2025-11-06 06:54:35+00:00
There's "flow" and there's FLOW. Even at minor levels of "flow", when you're still trying to "get in", you're building large mental models of the domain you're working in. If you don't have to build large mental models, then you can deal with interruptions easier - but if you spent the last 1/2 an hour getting your head into something and then some muppet interrupts you - poof - it starts crumbling, and if it's an interruption that lasts more than a few seconds, it quickly tumbles down into dust, to be rebuilt later.

There's a theory about mental exhaustion vs interruptions that I've definitely experienced - interrupt me or another dev enough and you can forget anything useful coming out today. Every time is harder to get back into after an interruption on a day, as your brain is getting primed to respond to external stimulus over internal thought.

Perhaps OP hasn't been challenged with a gnarly enough domain. Perhaps OP is lucky enough to have a well-defined domain they can TDD out every time (I found TDD to be a great remedy against distraction, because I can always write the name of the next test before leaving my desk to jolt me back to where I was when I get back - it's not perfect, but it's a vast improvement). But saying that flow state is overrated clearly indicates that they haven't experienced the smooth glide that is proper flow, getting shit done bit by bit, the right way, being able to effectively use multiple levels of "zoom" to look at the problem at different levels (which all rely on models built in your head).

I'll take a flowful day over "personal connection" with people who aren't actually my friends - they're just acquaintances: how much do you actually befriend people at your place of work (ie, actually do stuff with them outside of work, actively care about them like your long-standing friends, would take personal advice from them? On a regular basis? Tell them personal stuff? Who at your work really knows you?)? It was quite the eye-opener for me to realise that I'd been over-investing in work "friendships" with shitty people I don't care about and that I was just harming myself caring about them. You may be in the same boat and not even realise it until you think it over. Now I try to float above their turmoil, make things, do the best I can, and let their bullshit flow elsewhere.
by rand17 | 2025-11-06 06:56:07+00:00
I call this the AI theater. If a company can (still) look good AND decrease dealing with pesky flesh and bone humans, that's not collateral, that's a win. On the surface you act caring, concerned, rendering investors and HR both happy while you decrease "human complexity" - then you are winning the AI game. Mozilla always wanted to join the big boys, but while yearning for their soft power status the yearn bore the fruits of a rotten soul they will also have to embrace. There is no light without shadows and AI's shadows are drawn long and deep.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-06 06:57:01+00:00
During a recent interview with podcaster and OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner, Altman lost his cool when he was asked outright how it all adds up.

“How can a company with $13 billion in revenues make $1.4 trillion of spend commitments?” Gerstner asked him. “You’ve heard the criticism, Sam.”

“If you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer,” a taken-aback Altman replied curtly. “Enough.”

Surprised by the confrontation, Gerstner let out a laugh in response.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-lose...
by mmooss | 2025-11-06 06:57:48+00:00
> this is one of the worst issues about the development of long range weapons. 'We droned this guy.' 'We bombed this area.' 'We destroyed this boat.'

The US administration uses the long range to argue that the War Powers Act doesn't apply: They aruge that the Act applies to 'hostilities', and US soldiers are too far from the targets to be exposed to danger, therefore they aren't 'hostilities'.
by krige | 2025-11-06 06:59:26+00:00
Reminds me of the first time I heard youtube's forced AI translation to my native language. It's just wrong, the same male voice is used for everything, the delivery is grating, the intonation is off, the translation is very MTL in the bad sense.

And it cannot be disabled on mobile. The numbers must go up, I guess, but in my case it greatly reduced my usage of the app.
by zamalek | 2025-11-06 06:59:29+00:00
I inferred a trick from his original video. Dish soap and dishwasher detergent are not the same; the latter contains an enzyme that breaks food down. If you have something that is completely wrecked, fill it with piping hot water and put a dose of dishwasher detergent in it. Leave it overnight.

I strongly doubt the stuff is good for your skin, so I've only done this a few times.
by Munksgaard | 2025-11-06 06:59:30+00:00
To be clear, you can express workgroup parallelism in Futhark, or rather, if the compiler sees that you've programmed your problem in such a way that it can take advantage of workgroup parallelism, it will.

But you're right, it would be interesting to see how the different approaches stack up to each other. The Pareas project linked above also includes an implementation using radix sort.
by hitekker | 2025-11-06 06:59:35+00:00
I used the "lets jump on a quick call" tactic once at work. Other party rejected it; they said they've made their position clear and didn't need to say anything more.

I was impressed. They actually did make their position clear, and in public, whereas I was trying to smooth things over in private. Me trying to influence and cajole behind the scenes was insult to the risk they took by putting themselves out there.

A good lesson in respect.
by nhatcher | 2025-11-06 07:02:05+00:00
(shameless plug) I don't know if anyone would be interested in taking this but I have what I think is a really nice project. Integrating this;

https://github.com/ironcalc/TironCalc

Into the main repo :

https://github.com/ironcalc/ironcalc

Now, I'm not 100% convinced ratatui is the way to go after seeing what the folks of Microsoft did with edit.

Anyhow, I think TironCalc is a great open source project to work with Rust and Ratatui.
by tomhow | 2025-11-06 07:02:49+00:00
It's never been the case that an HN title like this is assumed to be a statement by the submitter.

We always match the HN title to the original post's title, unless it's misleading or linkbait, as per the guidelines. Quotation marks are generally superfluous except, I think, if the article is about a quote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by kilibe | 2025-11-06 07:03:18+00:00
Norris's dodge on iPhone scanning is telling—processing on-device keeps it secure and magical, but imagine Personas popping up in FaceTime cameos or ARKit bridges to iPads. How soon until we see cross-device ecosystems like Microsoft's Mesh, but with Apple's polish? Eager for that affordability leap; until then, thanks for the vivid demo, Scott—now I need a Vision Pro buddy just to test this out.
by padolsey | 2025-11-06 07:05:02+00:00
I mean, almost anything would be better. But here's my swing:

> I'm so sorry about this. We definitely screwed up here and want to > fix things. We want to chat to you in a call if you're able? > We will stop changing things, issue a moratorium on AI while we > figure things out. You and communities like yours are central to > our entire existence and purpose at Mozilla.
by dyauspitr | 2025-11-06 07:05:41+00:00
Pleasure is happiness. If you could afford it you can have great food, unlimited sex, free time to pursue passions and interests and most importantly endless, unrestricted power over people all the time. The above, combined with no stressors will pretty much guarantee life long happiness.

The only caveats are drugs (generally destructive) and clinical depression caused by hormonal imbalances.
by toast0 | 2025-11-06 07:05:55+00:00
> Once you learn that you can pop into a quick order menu with this specific sequence of five keys, you just automatically open the right menu the moment a customer walks up. No thought, just pure reflex.

This works because you can 'buffer inputs' as the gaming crowd says. You can hit the keys and the computer reads them one at a time and does what you asked at its pace. Often these kinds of systems do run faster than the input, but when they don't, it still works.

It's hard to do that with a GUI, you usually can't click (or tap) the button before it shows up and expect it to work... and when it does work like that, it's often undesirable.
by dwattttt | 2025-11-06 07:06:18+00:00
If you have the Rust toolchain installed, installing is as simple as e.g.:

cargo install ripgrep

which will result in ripgrep being downloaded, compiled, and copied to a per user directory that's included on PATH as part of the toolchain.

EDIT: Which is what I'm doing right now for a few of these that caught my eye.