MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fouc | 2025-11-24 06:35:27+00:00
Seems a bit sad/ironic that it sounds like the solution in OP's case would be to switch to Android for that exact behavior that your side didn't want. (And that switching to iPhone would bring that "feature" in)

I personally use iPhone and I do prefer to leave phone in pocket for my phone call. But it does seems like a massive oversight to not make this configurable.
by toast0 | 2025-11-24 06:36:03+00:00
Oh. Well, I've done easy fixes too. There's plenty of things that just need a couple minutes, like a copy error somewhere.

Or just an hour or two. I can't find it anymore, but I've run into libraries where simple things with months didn't work, because like May only has three letters or July and June both start with Ju. That can turn into a big deal, but often it's easy, once someone notices it.
by WTZ2025 | 2025-11-24 06:36:54+00:00
I built this tool to practice a modified version of the Box Breathing technique. While the standard technique uses a 4-second count, I found that a slower, 8-second rhythm works better for deep focus and internal energy control.

The technique (Reverse Breathing): I use this to build muscle memory for "Reverse Breathing" (a Taoist method to consolidate Qi):

First 8s (Inhale & Hold): Focus on the start. Contract your abdomen as you inhale, then hold.

Next 8s (Exhale & Hold): Let your abdomen naturally expand as you exhale.

The tool visualizes this 8-second cadence to help you internalize the rhythm without counting in your head. It's a great way to reset your nervous system after working.
by matwood | 2025-11-24 06:37:23+00:00
> financially sustainable (and without sustainability, a political shift will kill it)

Fiscally sustainable is a BS excuse often put forward by conservatives to not fund the things they don't want funded. Most things the government runs are not fiscally sustainable on their own, but they provide some sort of societal value. See things like the military, police, fire departments, etc...

A political shift could certain still kill it, but let's not pretend it has anything to do with fiscal policy.
by skylurk | 2025-11-24 06:37:56+00:00
Not GP and I don't know anything about this either, but I found this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

Anecdotally, I used to take the Greyhound a lot and everyone on them is either a student or somewhat homeless, e.g. they just lined up another friend's couch to sleep on for a little while.
by kelnos | 2025-11-24 06:38:15+00:00
As a sibling poster mentions, US universities often have a very open curriculum. At my university, I got PE credit for classical fencing!

The marching band could also count for PE credit. I believe you could only get credit for one semester for it, and my university required two semesters of PE, so I gave fencing a try, having never fenced before.
by dmoy | 2025-11-24 06:38:42+00:00
It's not insurmountable to set up initially. And when you get email denied from whatever org (your lawyer, your mom, some random business, whatever), each individual one isn't insurmountable to fix. It does get old after awhile.

It also depends on how much you are emailing, and who. If it's always the same set of known entities, you might be totally fine with self hosting. Someone else who's regularly emailing a lot of new people or businesses might incur a lot of overhead. At least worth more than their time than a fastmail or protonmail subscription or whatever.
by fakwandi_priv | 2025-11-24 06:39:25+00:00
This is very unrelated but I worry about posts like these.

HN is a great place to get genuine thoughtful discussions compared to a big portion of the rest of the internet. Reddit used to be the place for finding genuine experiences for products with subreddits like buyitforlife (or more specific) but now these and other subreddits are filled with bots and marketeers promoting what they sell and hammering their competition in the same thread.

Some bots are already here but I fear when the marketeers come.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-24 06:39:39+00:00
Client side SSL certificates with embedded user account identification are trivial, and work well for publicly exposed systems where IPsec or Dynamic frame sizes are problematic (corporate networks often mangle traffic.)

Accordingly, connections from unauthorized users is effectively restricted, but is also not necessarily pigeonholed to a single point of failure.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/ssl

Best of luck =3
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-24 06:41:10+00:00
The hardware team had some semi-custom thing from intel that spat out (no surprise) gigabytes of trace data per second. I remember much of the pain was in constructing a lab where we could drive a test system at reasonable loads to get the buggy behavior to emerge. It was intermittent so it took use a couple weeks to come up with theories, another couple days for testing and a week of analysis before we came up triggers that allowed us to capture the data that showed the bug. it was a bit of a production.
by dang | 2025-11-24 06:41:28+00:00
I hear you that there was a provocation in that bit. But it's a matter of degree. From my point of view, the GP comment may have been wrong and even bad (let's assume that's so), but by itself that doesn't break the site guidelines. People are allowed to be wrong in comments; it's up to the community to debate what's right vs. wrong and sort that out.

The way to respond to wrong comments is to refute them with better arguments and better information. This can be done without breaking the site guidelines. Of course there are downsides to this approach—it's a lot more time-consuming to patiently refute wrongness than to post it in the first place. But the downsides of breaking the site guidelines are much greater—that path basically leads to conflagration, and we'd like to avoid having this place burn to a crisp. Scorched earth is not interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
by agentifysh | 2025-11-24 06:41:50+00:00
wouldn't that happen with this too if you require people to sign up with their US passport because then now everything you type is going to have much more weight I guess facebook in a sense is already like this with all the verification required.

the linkedin effect seems more due to the nature of corporate culture where everyone's profile is an extension of their persona optimized for monetary/career outcomes so you get this vapid superficial fakeness to it that turns people off.

this X feature does make it interesting like for example engaging with US politics while shouldnt stop commentary from foreigners it definitely should contain the limits of perception meddling
by drdaeman | 2025-11-24 06:43:39+00:00
> The following is a short, incomplete list of typical statements we as developers might say or hear at work. If you parse them more precisely each one is an attempt at self-justification: […]

> “We should start using this new tool in our pipeline.”

> “We should never use that new tool in our pipeline.”

I don’t get what’s “wrong” with those two. There’s no justification (self- or otherwise) whatsoever in any of those statements, not even a hint of an attempt. Justification, as I understand it, requires a “why” (possibly, only suggestively implied, but nonetheless present in some form) and I see absolutely none, just a call to action.

If someone sees it, can you please explain?
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-24 06:44:40+00:00
China routinely harasses Vietnamese/Filipino fishing boats IIRC to the point of boarding/assault, and it's expanding its territorial claims in the South China Sea illegally. It hasn't turned into a war yet because so far the other countries have just been taking it on the chin rather than more aggressively defending themselves.

There's a reason why so many countries in that region are very happy to partner with the US for military drills or support.
by joecool1029 | 2025-11-24 06:45:02+00:00
Sorta related since Disney held a share in it previously but Dick Tracy exclusive rights are still held by Warren Beatty who produced and starred in the role back in 1990. He had to fight off a challenge from Tribune Media in court decades ago but stipulation was he had to produce new Dick Tracy stuff every few years. It’s lead to a series of increasingly surreal late night specials on TCM where he appears in character and talks about random stuff and the 1990 movie, last time was in 2023: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKncYwtec4
by alisonatwork | 2025-11-24 06:45:18+00:00
That is, the constitution written by the KMT dictatorship that was awarded the island as spoils of war after the Japanese surrendered to the Allies in WW2.

In the present day, neither the Taiwanese government nor Taiwanese people are in some kind of dispute with the CCP over who owns Gansu province or whatever, they just would like recognition of their already-existing sovereignty.
by rfoo | 2025-11-24 06:47:56+00:00
China maintain the view that Tibet is part of China since the establishment of PRC, and they make this very explicit. Same for their border disputes with India. China never admitted that they believe it's not theirs. Mea while China does not ever say that Japan or Korea is part of China (and it's the only reason why they keep North Korea from collapsing despite it being super annoying).

So, again, any example of China suddenly started to claim lands?
by axiolite | 2025-11-24 06:47:58+00:00
> Japan has neither and it's dubious whether the United States would step in.

There is NO QUESTION the US would provide a full defense of Japan against any aggressive party.

The US has multiple military bases in Japan, with 35,000+ military personnel. Japan pays the US billions every year to support the US military presence there. Japan is also a too-big-to-fail economy (4th in the world) and US trading partner. And strategically, what do you think the US "pivot to Asia" means, if not defending close US allies in the Asia-Pacific from unprovoked aggression?

For over 60 years the United States-Japan Alliance has served as the cornerstone of peace, stability, and freedom in the Indo-Pacific region. The U.S. commitment to Japan’s defense under the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty of 1960 is unwavering. https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-japan/
by ashton314 | 2025-11-24 06:49:24+00:00
These are small benchmarks, so don’t over-generalize from this data point alone, but Racket absolutely crushes Python in terms of speed and goes speedily enough against other popular performance-focused languages:

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-12-20_functional_langauge_...

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-09-27_threaded_interpreter...

Matthew Flatt, the Racket lead, says that Racket’s performance should be fairly comparable to Java, much faster than Python, slower than Julia/Rust/etc. That’s been a helpful model for me: if Java is fast enough, Racket will do fine.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-11-24 06:49:31+00:00
Thank you for your lengthy reply but I still disagree. Both the technical problems and non-technical problems seem intractable to me. If cryptocurrency was going to fix this it would have done so by now.

> I think you mention in your blogpost that no one would want to support micropayments because of piracy. I consider this a massive advantage of the micropayment system. It's pro-piracy by default

If I am selling my content at 5 cents a page, what stops somebody cloning my page and selling it for 4 cents? What stops Google from summarizing my content, discouraging people from clicking through to my site? Is Google even allowed to spider my site if I charge for it, and what stops them if not?

That is the type of piracy I was talking about and I think it is just one of the many serious fundamental problems micropayments have.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-11-24 06:49:51+00:00
>Simply mashing a few letters together can be empowering for ourselves while being exclusionary for others. It’s an artifact—albeit a small one—of our egos. We know what the technobabble means. Our justified place in the universe is maintained.

Your Oh So Humble Ego has you thinking there's some ulterior motive to me typing 3 letters instead of 20.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-24 06:53:11+00:00
If anything, centralisation shields companies using a hyperscaler from criticism. You’ll see downtime no matter where you host. If you self host and go down for a few hours, customers blame you. If you host on AWS and “the internet goes down”, then customers treat it akin to an act of God, like a natural disaster that affects everyone.

It’s not great being down for hours, but that will happen regardless. Most companies prefer the option that helps them avoid the ire of their customers.

Where it’s a bigger problem is when a critical industry like retail banking in a country all choose AWS. When AWS goes down all citizens lose access to their money. They can’t pay for groceries or transport. They’re stranded and starving, life grinds to a halt. But even then, this is not the bank’s problem because they’re not doing worse than their competitors. It’s something for the banking regulator and government to worry about. I’m not saying the bank shouldn’t worry about it, I’m saying in practice they don’t worry about it unless the regulator makes them worry.

I completely empathise with people frustrated with this status quo. It’s not great that we’ve normalised a few large outages a year. But for most companies, this is the rational thing to do. And barring a few critical industries like banking, it’s also rational for governments to not intervene.
by DeathArrow | 2025-11-24 06:53:30+00:00
Centralization means having a single point of failure for everything. If your government, mobile phone or car stops working, it doesn't mean all governments, all cars and all mobile phones stop working.

Centralization makes mass surveillance easier, makes selectively denying of service easier. Centralization also means that once someone hacks into the system, he gains access to all data, not just a part of it.
by xixixao | 2025-11-24 06:53:31+00:00
I could not locate credible evidence of a major firearm manufacturer that completely refrains from selling into the U.S. civilian market. (ChatGPT)

Glock, Koch, Taurus, even Czech Zbrojovka all sell to US.

Kalashnikov can’t atm, but also probably doesn’t share the safety concern.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-24 06:53:59+00:00
To profit, they would first have to sell the goods. Who is actually in the market for a smart gun? Consumers aren't, surely. There is virtually no upside to your gun tracking you, at your own expense of buying a more complex piece of tech to boot. So that leaves something like (apparently) New Jersey where the government would compel purchases of smart guns because they were interested in the tracking. But eg. China simply don't allow citizens to purchase guns period. There may be some application to applying it to state-owned firearms to track military and police usage, but deploying that at Chinese scale would be an extremely expensive endeavour for what appears to be a solution in search of a problem. Not to mention the biometric lock concept, if implemented, is introducing an entire new axis of unreliability to a life-or-death tool.
by 1116574 | 2025-11-24 06:54:09+00:00
I went into a slight hunt for more knowledge after reading this, and long story short you need to search NFMI (near field magnetic induction)[1]. As far as I can see from my limited reading the main use case of the tech is nfc (near field comm) and true wireless earbuds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_magnetic_induction_...
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-24 06:54:12+00:00
> The thing about tools is that if they don't work people won't use them.

My bad. I meant won't keep using them.

> History tells us that lies work in the short term, and that is sufficient to force bad decisions that have long shadows.

What do you mean by "work"?

It sounds like you are implying that a lie "works" by convincing people to believe it?

I meant a lie doesn't work in that if you follow the lie you will make incorrect predictions about the future.

If someone acts on a lie which results in a bad decision with a "long shadow" then wouldn't that mean acting out the lie didn't work?
by axiolite | 2025-11-24 06:55:20+00:00
> What's the point of buying something if the other person is allowed to steal it back.

If you can't make a profit off of a licensed property after 35 years of exclusive control, you've done something horribly wrong. If you sit on a licensed property and do nothing with it for decades, it should be allowed to revert to someone else, or better yet go into public domain.
by rramadass | 2025-11-24 06:55:23+00:00
You might want to checkout the books by Timothy Masters - http://www.timothymasters.info/

I had come across his books when searching for ML books in C++. He has applied ML/Statistical/Deep Learning/etc. techniques to Market Trading Systems and other domains. Generally all his books contain implementations in C/C++.

The reviews of his books on Amazon gives you confidence that he really knows his stuff from a practical/industry pov.
by eru | 2025-11-24 06:55:32+00:00
Roads are also not public goods in the economic sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good

> In economics, a public good (also referred to as a social good or collective good)[1] is a commodity, product or service that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous [...]

That's because roads are rather excludable (see toll roads), and if you've ever been in a traffic jam, you'll notice that road use is rivalrous.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-24 06:55:49+00:00
Tributary networks were a system of trade and diplomacy. It'd be like saying the Philippines belongs to Indonesia because they're in ASEAN. And saying Okinawa doesn't belong to Japan is the exact, 100% identical argument Russia used and continues to use to justify its brutal invasions of Georgia, Ukraine, and more and more countries. It's kind of bizarre how anyone who speaks English could assume this propaganda works, though I am making the giant leap in assuming I'm not talking to Deepseek right now.
by yardstick | 2025-11-24 06:55:49+00:00
In practice, many gas stations have VPNs to various services, typically via multiple VPN links for redundancy. There’s no reason why this couldn’t be yet another service going over a VPN.

Gas stations didn’t stop selling gas during this outage. They have planned for a high degree of network availability for their core services. My guess is this particular station is an independent or the air pumping solution not on anyone’s high risk list.
by labcomputer | 2025-11-24 06:55:55+00:00
> And why is this a good thing?

Ok, well, I personally really like driving a car with zero tailpipe emissions, and the cleaner air that comes from it (Tesla).

I think it’s awesome having a little rectangle in my pocket that sends text messages from anywhere on earth and summons an encyclopedia (Apple, Google, Starlink, Intel).

I enjoy talking to (and seeing) my friends and family while they are thousands of miles away (Cisco, Apple, and many others).

I think it is fantastic that we continue to find new labor-saving methods of farming so that fewer people need toil in the fields (the current batch of ag-drone and ag-AI startups).

This is like asking “well, why do we need that science mumbo jumbo anyhow?”
by rob74 | 2025-11-24 06:56:25+00:00
Interesting! Since Ansaldo Breda is an Italian company, I would have thought that the signs were European as well. Similar LCD "mosaic" displays were pretty widespread over here until a few years ago (e.g. in some platform signs on the Munich U-Bahn: https://www.u-bahn-muenchen.de/betrieb/zugzielanzeiger/, scroll to "LCD-Digitalanzeiger'), but they have all been replaced with standard TFT flat screens (or in the case of line displays on vehicles, LED based dot matrix displays) since...
by rand17 | 2025-11-24 06:56:53+00:00
I respect China (in fact, in this stupid timeline more than the U.S.) but China is already huge. The whole world would be a much better place if China just chilled the fuck out and would just stop harassing border countries (I know, I know, this is true for at least two quarters of planet Earth). Let them have Taiwan if that would make them shut up, but it won't. Tributary system? Allowed to keep? Pressure Japan? How much more do you want and how long will you go back in history to justify your greed for power and territory? China is trying to look nice and they succeed in many places, they are very close to something of a heavenly kingdom in my book, but this behavior always makes me ask which face is real. The power hungry bully, or the wise emperor?
by eru | 2025-11-24 06:58:31+00:00
> In Singapore there is no MRT congestion prices only for private cars, right?

Singapore charges for MRT rides, but it's not explicitly a congestion charge. Every once in a while they experiment with discounts for off-peak train usage, which can sort-of be interpreted as a congestion charge.

> Trains get crowded but still workable.

At the peak of rush hour you sometimes have to wait three or four trains before one comes that still has standing room. (It's not as bad as it sounds, because during rush hour trains come every three minutes or so.)

IMHO, varying train charges more with congestion would make a lot of sense; but the system as it is works well enough that it's probably not worth for any technocrat to spend the political capital to seriously do anything about it.
by moseszhu | 2025-11-24 06:58:40+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a former Tech Director who left the industry to pursue independent research in foundational physics. I've been modeling the vacuum not as empty space, but as a saturated Born-Infeld superfluid (BEC).

This repo contains the Python simulations backing my recent papers.

THE CODE: vacuum_sim.py uses a binary search to find the critical vacuum non-linearity parameter (b) that results in a stable vortex. The result? It naturally converges to a geometric impedance of alpha ~= 1/137.036.

KEY RESULTS: 1. Alpha Origin: Derived from the impedance mismatch between a topological vortex and the discrete vacuum grid. 2. LHC Anomaly: The model also explains the CDF II W-mass tension (7-sigma) as a hydrodynamic shockwave, fitting the data where the Standard Model fails.

PAPERS (ZENODO): - Code: https://github.com/moseszhu999/geometric-vacuum-sim - LHC Shockwaves: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17695129 - Alpha Derivation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17695341 - Whitepaper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17695422

I'm looking for feedback on the simulation logic. Thanks!
by baq | 2025-11-24 06:58:41+00:00
ROI is in reduced backlog, reduced duplicate reports and most importantly mitigation of risk of phase transition between good enough and crap. This transition is not linear, it’s a step function when the amount of individually small and mildly annoying at worst issues is big enough to make the experience of using the whole product frustrating. I’m sure you can think of very popular examples of such software.