MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mtrovo | 2025-11-13 14:22:02+00:00
The problem in general is consistency. Bread is very forgiving on flavour profiles so what you're saying works fine within a good threshold. For breweries it's usually not worth it as there are lots of nuances on the mutations of the harvested yeast and their effects into the flavour profile of the final product. There are some exceptions like natural fermented beers or anything related to kveik yeast, but in general people don't reuse yeast past 1-2 brews.
by _jab | 2025-11-13 14:22:21+00:00
In the US, one of the highest farebox recovery ratio transit systems has historically been BART, which is 2019 was 72%, and even today is around 50%.

Unfortunately, having a very high ratio also makes systems much more vulnerable to collapse during periods of economic downturn, which is exactly what BART has been dealing with since ridership collapsed during Covid.

I'm no expert in this topic (in other words, I just asked Claude this), but AFAICT part of the reason Japanese rail systems did better appears to be that they are owned by diversified companies that own numerous other assets, like hotels, restaurants, and office complexes.
by simoncion | 2025-11-13 14:22:24+00:00
> Windows Explorer is given special treatment by Windows with undocumented APIs.

Microsoft: "We offer GREAT backwards compatibility! The best in the business!"

Also Microsoft: "Man, doing things the old way is so hard. What if we had a clean break with the past?!?!"

Microsoft, some time later: "Man, making a clean break from the past is so hard. Let's just ship what we've done so far and think about finishing up the rest later. What? Windows Explorer is broken, and you refuse to let us ship!? *Fine*, we'll hack something in and not tell anyone."
by wongarsu | 2025-11-13 14:22:52+00:00
Unsurprisingly the results are by far the best in the area shown in the image in the prompt, and quickly deteriorate beyond it, or more than a couple meters behind the camera.

It's worlds better than just doing gaussian splats from images, but given how much the quality is influenced by images the limit to four images with text prompt or eight images without prompt is quite limiting. That's plenty to describe a chair, but almost nothing to describe a home or a space station. I hope they can extend those limits in future updates
by pm215 | 2025-11-13 14:23:22+00:00
I think there's a couple of things about typical foreign experiences of UK public transport to note (some of this may not apply to you in particular, of course):

(1) Most tourists visit largely London and its near surroundings. Public transport in (and to) London is generally much better than other parts of the country.

(2) A lot of the downsides don't manifest if you're a relatively infrequent user and you're largely travelling at off-peak times. As a UK resident who doesn't commute on the railway, this also includes me -- my experience of trains is generally good because I travel at quieter times and I don't travel so often that unreliability is a regular experience.

(3) If you ignore the costs (by not being a taxpayer or because you're less price sensitive for infrequent travel and especially for holiday travel), then you're ignoring the large part of the argument which is "this privatization had massive inefficiencies and costs".

FWIW, the UK government pays about half of the 25 billion/year cost of the "operational rail industry" (source: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/finance/rail-indust...). I couldn't find the equivalent stats for Portugal with a quick search, so I don't know how that compares.
by parliament32 | 2025-11-13 14:23:46+00:00
AOT would solve a lot of these problems if it didn't have show-stopping restrictions like "you can't use reflection" and "you can't use native sessions".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/n...
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-13 14:23:55+00:00
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted when those are legitimate problems.

I disagree that this is a failure of privatization (other than the last point) and I also disagree that Japan’s success is a vindication of privatization (although it does show that above average systems are possible through privatization) but those are reasonable discussions to have
by tart-lemonade | 2025-11-13 14:24:33+00:00
Good catch, I just saw IR tracking on the page and didn't investigate further. I can't wait to see some teardowns (physical and firmware) of the device, then we can get a better look at what it is truly capable of.

Though it wouldn't help the controllers, perhaps the expansion port on the headset could be used for a lighthouse-compatible tracker? (One can dream...)
by dns_snek | 2025-11-13 14:25:14+00:00
> I would think that's the real basis of comparison

It's not because that's not the typical case. LLMs encourage people's delusions by default, it's just a question of how receptive you are to them. Anyone who's used ChatGPT has experienced it even if they didn't realize it. It starts with "that's a really thoughtful question that not many people think to ask", and "you're absolutely right [...]".

> If AI is better at meeting human needs than actual humans are, why let perfect be the enemy of good?

There is no good that comes from having all of your perspective distortions validated as facts. They turn into outright delusions without external grounding.

Talk to ChatGPT and try to put yourself into the shoes of a hurtful person (e.g. what people would call "narcissistic") who's complaining about other people. Keep in mind that they almost always suffer from a distorted perception so they genuinely believe that they're great people.

They can misunderstand some innocent action as a personal slight, react aggressively, and ChatGPT would tell them they were absolutely right to get angry. They could do the most abusive things and as long as they genuinely believe that they're good people (as they almost always do), ChatGPT will reassure them that other people are the problem, not them.

It's hallucinations feeding into hallucinations.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-13 14:25:52+00:00
So an interesting intellectual exercise is to try to figure out how you would create a power user toggle that is coercion resistant. The best I've been able to come up with is a timed lockout that is random in how long it takes to allow you to finally move into power user mode. So like a random value between 1 hour and 24 hours and you say I want to be a power user and then it says you have to wait 3 hours and 27 minutes before you can become a power user. Randomness because a scammer could optimize around a particular time period that was predictable.

Other thoughts on how you could make a coercion resistant power user toggle? I'm very excited that Google's thinking about offering this because it gives me faith that just because I chose to be in a minority, I won't be relegated.

On the flip side, I was so shaken by the original announcement that would kill off F-Droid that I've been very actively looking into building my own mobile device that runs Linux. I purchased the components for a Hackberry Pi that I'm hoping to build in the next couple of months, but knowing that Android won't kill off F-Droid entirely is heartening.
by wooque | 2025-11-13 14:25:56+00:00
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by exasperaited | 2025-11-13 14:26:07+00:00
> The UK refuses to accept reality, which is a poverty rate 12% higher than the US,

I'm sorry but any US figure you use to support this allegation is probably nonsense. US figures about joblessness and poverty are a joke, and typically in international comparisons they still use things like "access to air conditioning" as an indicator of poverty even though they are meaningless.
by usernamed7 | 2025-11-13 14:26:32+00:00
> As to me being a dick: I've been maintaining Homebrew for 16 years. It's used by millions of people. My full-time job has never been doing so and I've never been paid a market rate for my work on it (not that I expect or perhaps even deserve so). My primary concern with Homebrew is keeping the project actually running. This primarily requires the time, energy and work of maintainers doing so in their free time. It also requires contributors who submit pull requests.

your explanation did nothing to speak to being a dick, did not attempt to apologize, only tried to justify the poor behavior.
by n4r9 | 2025-11-13 14:26:39+00:00
It's hard to tell with counterfactuals like that. One factor to bear in mind is that BT was close to rolling out nationwide fibre in the early 90's [0]. Would it have made more sense to decouple infrastructure and service, or would that have led to a nightmare like we have with the trains?

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...
by Groxx | 2025-11-13 14:27:37+00:00
browsers are really not much better. on an absolute level, I definitely agree they're better (e.g. they have per-url and only-after-click permissions for some things), but they've all got huge gaps still once you start touching extensions. and beyond that it remains to be seen, since OS-level permissions are significantly broader-possibility than in-browser due to being able to touch far more sensitive data.
by fergie | 2025-11-13 14:27:41+00:00
> They are expensive, but that is partly because rail workers are well paid

This is in fact an interesting by-product of privatisation: train drivers became rarer due to shareholder reluctance to train and recruit them. They consequently became more expensive. A somewhat fun side effect of the free market, especially given the prevailing assumption that moving public sector employees into the private sector would drive down their pay and conditions.
by rayiner | 2025-11-13 14:27:46+00:00
> Your points were not about pasta but truly that it’s more American to not enjoy food lol.

The point to which I was replying asked: "Why not just buy the cheapest highest quality pasta, where ever it happens to be made?" My response was that developing American capacity to produce is more valuable than satiating the American appetite for consumption.

America's lost Puritan spirit is directly relevant to the demand side of that equation. It suppressed Americans' appetite for cheap Chinese goods, foreign luxuries, etc. It was a great virtue of the Republic. Among other things, it enabled America to develop its domestic industries and reinvest the profits in the country, because Americans were readily willing to forgo cheaper prices and higher quality of foreign-made goods for the benefit of developing domestic industrial capacity. (Note that Chinese industrial policy also is focused on suppressing domestic demand for imports.)

Contemporary trade policy is based on facilitating the cheap procurement of foreign products at the expense of domestic industries. That's a bad thing, and one of the forces enabling that bad thing is the loss of the Puritan spirit in America. We've become a country focused on hedonic satisfaction, and that makes us weak.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-13 14:28:11+00:00
I wish I could quote Schumer when he walked down by the river (as he does, since he's a very cool and relatable layperson) as he cursed in front of a camera to say they will not back down. Can't seem to find the video though.

Anyway, I'd make them either own the shutdown or take responsibility for forcing the bill through. I'm not giving them an out, they will answer for the suffering they create by not negotiating. Negotiating, which I remind everyone, for a single clause to make sure healthcare costs don't go up $100/month or more for half of Americans.

This line of rhetoric is fascinating to me. It's as if someone locked my family in a room, lit it on fire, and is now telling me we can't leave unless we give them permission to shoot one of us in the head. And, to be clear, they very obviously have no intent of opening the door and have already shot one of us in the head.

The democrats have quite literally zero power in the federal government. They have lost every single branch in all meaningful ways. This was the only leverage that exists. And they gave it up for quite literally nothing.

I cannot fathom the line of thought that they just had sweeping election victories across the board, voters are at an all-time low WRT the Trump administration, the mask is starting to slip on MAGA - realizing that Trump and Republicans are the source of pain and that they do rely on the net, Democratic fervor is rising, and with the holidays coming it is about to cause serious pain to America that can finally snap them awake to the reality of...

Actually, you know what? Nah, they didn't fold immediately. Clearly trying to do anything doesn't work, so let's do absolutely nothing and give them everything they want! They'll surely listen to us now!

The short term pain was intended to be a cure. To show how destructive Republicans are. How much they're willing to make people suffer to avoid even a shred of assistance toward normal people's lives. That they'd rather fund Blackhawk helicopters in Chicago than food or healthcare.

But now we're back to the long term pain. Republicans have been justified - it was the Democrats fault for stopping government for no reason. And we're still losing the ACA subsidies in the short term - raising rates at least double digit percents. And Republicans are still gunning to kill SNAP and ACA in general. And progressives have just witnessed their leadership cave, killing voter momentum.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-13 14:28:27+00:00
Doesn't it make sense to use words that mean what you're using them to mean?

By your logic I could use the term "apple" to describe apples, oranges, limes, and all other fruit because they all behave in much the same ways that apples do. But that's silly because there are differences between apples and oranges [citation needed]. If you want to describe both apples and oranges, the word for that is "fruit", not "apple".

Using a touchscreen is less precise than using a mouse. If the user is using a touchscreen, buttons need to be bigger to accommodate for the user's lack of input precision. So doesn't it make sense to distinguish between mice and touchscreens? If all you care about is "thing that acts like a mouse", the word for that is "pointing device", not "mouse".
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-13 14:28:29+00:00
I think you, as you put it, rudely, patronizingly, disrespectfully responded to the wrong post: mine was a polite one about a comparison between 2 tools and your statement that the comparing posters must be acting in bad faith (whereas you, with your differing opinion, are acting in good faith).

I'm not interested in focusing on tone-policing, since it is one of the lowest forms of debate and usually avoids the substance of the matter. So, I'm happy to return to our discussion about the 2 tools anytime you want to review my previous post and respond to the substance of it. If you're not into that, have a nice day comfortable in the knowledge that I've already turned the other cheek.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-13 14:28:45+00:00
I've worked in lupus research and one of the things rheumatologists have told me is they see it frequently triggered by the most stressful events in people's lives. So a divorce, eviction, moving, death of a parent or child.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/stress-trauma-lupus/

Fortunately great steps have been taken with diagnosis and awareness (it used to not only be hard to find but very stigmatized, lumped in with psycho-somatic disorders like fibromyalgia, long COVID and chronic lyme).

Personally I think the T-cell immune balance research is promising: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lra-awards-2025-lup...

as well as PARP inhibitors for precision medicine https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05966480

Car-T for lupus thus far has been a nothingburger (Cabaletta Bio, Nkarta, Kyverna, etc).
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-13 14:29:07+00:00
The central claim of the article makes sense. Tickets are too expensive and that's all i care about as a consumer. I don't agree with many of the authors arguments and his proposed solutions.

> the case against fragmented and privatized operations focuses on three key arguments. The first is that railways are complex systems where commercial boundaries at engineering interfaces are a threat to safety and efficiency. The second is that railway operations are geographic monopolies where market conditions are — at best — contrived. The third is that railways are a public service that cannot fail — hence, introducing private interests into the railways is merely a way to sequester income into private hands while the state shoulders the financial risk. In other words, private interests’ role is simply to extract profit that could otherwise be reinvested into the system.

That is true of most infrastructure. The closest parallel i can think of is the airline industry. It may never be perfect but these problems are solveable.

Next the claim that moving decisions away from Westminster will make things better. That is highly debatable.

Finally the main point. The nationalised railway worked well in the 90s so it would work well today. That is such an obviously flawed argument i won't even bother discussing it. I think the local government in London has far more direct control of local transport and it is horribly inefficient and expensive. Finally look at the ongoing, slow motion train wreck which is the hs2 rail project. At this stage it's just a government employment program for labourers. It's way, way too expensive and they should have pulled the plug on it years ago or drastically deregulated idk. As it is we have the worst of both worlds.

However, it is interesting that Thatcher didn't want to privatise the rails. Does anyone know what her opinion on it was?
by komali2 | 2025-11-13 14:29:10+00:00
I believe the public transit systems in most countries are so bad and underfunded that Japan's seems holy in comparison. And don't get me wrong, it's one of the best.

For transit nerds like me though, it's frustrating when all the evidence points to the same conclusion: more trains, more pedestrian throughput, no cars, and yet no city has gone this route full throated.

I was genuinely shocked on at the amount of space given to cars on my first trip to Copenhagen last month. I was promised bicyclist utopia, instead I was presented with massive lanes for cars, confusing intersections, and in a construction area being forced onto a narrow sidewalk full of pedestrians.

Frankly I don't know any city on earth getting it right. I've heard maybe Shanghai but from videos I've seen of car culture in the PRC, I doubt it.

The bar is just very low in this world right now.
by oersted | 2025-11-13 14:29:44+00:00
Of course I'm aware of this, I've written some assembly too, most definitions are leaky. And if GNU assembly had wide adoption among programmers right now and an ecosystem around it, then some people might also call GCC a transpiler (in that specific mode, which is not the default), if they care about the fact that it outputs in a language that they may read or write by hand comfortably.

They also called C a high-level language at that time. There was also more emphasis on the distinction between assemblers and compilers. Indeed, they may have used the word compiler more in the sense we use transpiler now, I'm sure people were also saying that it was just a fancy assembler. Terminology shifts.
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-13 14:30:04+00:00
They've been doing that here in Norway as well for regular trains.

The result is that the train operators get f'ed in the a by poor track maintenance and old trains. It has been so bad that when the trains run people joke it's "train for bus".

Also us customers can no longer buy one ticket that gets us from A to B but often have to contend with 2-3 different operators.
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 14:31:09+00:00
By very small niche group, you mean every maintainer of every widely used production linux distribution and most of the core packages that form the supply train trust layer for the entire internet? Or every reasonably competent security vulnerability disclosure team? (Even Google and Apple!)

PGP is the only standardized cryptographic online identity layer we have and still very heavily used by anyone working on security critical software for signed commits, signed reviews, system administration, etc.

Honestly I find it hard to take anyone seriously who works in any engineering role where security matters that is -not- using PGP smartcards to sign and push their commits, sign code reviews, sign build reproductions of container images, encrypt their passwords, etc.
by sgarland | 2025-11-13 14:31:24+00:00
> I think we have arrived at abstraction over abstraction over abstraction.

> The thing is, kubernetes resources are already an abstraction.

Your first comment was more accurate - they’re heavily nested abstractions.

A container represents a namespace with a limited set of capabilities, resources, and a predefined root.

A Pod represents one of more containers, and pulls the aforementioned limitations up to that level.

A ReplicaSet represents a given generation of a set amount of Pods.

A Deployment represents a desired number of Pods, and pulls the ReplicaSet abstraction up to its level to manage the stated end state (and also manages their lifecycle).

I think most infra-adjacent people I’ve worked with who use K8s could accurately describe these abstractions to the level of a Pod, but few could describe what a container actually is.

> It makes the bar for entry into the kubernetes ecosystem lower but is that actually a good thing for the people who then fall into it without the experience to solve the problems they inevitably encounter?

It is not a good thing, no. There is an entire generation of infra folk who have absolutely no clue how computers actually work, and if given an empty bare metal server connected to a LAN with running servers, would be unable to get Linux up and running on the empty server.

I am not against K8s, nor am I against the cloud - I am against people using abstractions without understanding the underlying fundamentals.

The counter to this argument is always something along the lines of, “we build on abstractions to move faster, and build more powerful applications - you don’t need to understand electron flow to use EC2.” And yes, of course there’s a limit; it’s probably somewhere around understanding different CPU cache levels to be well-rounded. However, IME at the lower levels, the assumption that you don’t need to understand something to use it doesn’t hold true. For example, if you don’t understand PN junctions, you’re probably going to struggle to effectively use transistors. Sure, you could know that to turn a silicon BJT transistor on, you need to establish approximately 0.7 VDC between its base and emitter, but you wouldn’t understand why it’s much slower to turn off than to turn on, or why thermal runaway happens, etc.