MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-11-09 06:50:07+00:00
Just for comparison, here's how real tunneling companies deal with sludge.[1] There's a small portable plant that separates sludge from water. It's about the size of two shipping containers. The water usually gets re-used in the tunneling operation.

The Boring Company, on the other hand, has been dumping their wet sludge on a vacant lot near a mall and waiting for the sludge to dry out. The mall doesn't like that. Nor does the city of Las Vegas, now that they found out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCctmBUHIMo
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-09 06:50:58+00:00
> The USA does this quite regularly. Look at FATCA as one example.

The problem here is that some twits did something like this once and since then everyone is saying "but look, they're doing it, why shouldn't we?" when they ought to be saying "we're all going to be imposing sanctions on that country until they stop doing that".

If someone is doing something, that's precedent -- but the precedent can either be "someone who does that can get away with it" or "someone who does that is not going to get away with it". And when making the decision, think through the consequences of everybody doing it to you if you allow it to be the first one.
by verisimi | 2025-11-09 06:51:29+00:00
> In Kemp’s narrative, our retrograde rush toward these vicious social structures has been less about consensus than the relentless ascent of the wrong sort of people. Goliath hierarchies select for assholes — or, to use Kemp’s preferred epithet, “dark triad” personalities: people with high levels of psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism.

> In this way, humankind gravitated “from hunting and gathering to being hunted and gathered,” Kemp writes. Early states had little to distinguish them from “criminal gangs running protection rackets.”

... are fair assessments of how we got here, imo. If you have criminals in control, able to institute a self-serving brainwashing culture (education) in the populace for a few hundred years, we are where you would expect - with people demanding forcible extraction from their masters out of fear (government, taxes).
by crazylogger | 2025-11-09 06:51:54+00:00
This is just personal experience + reddit anecdotes. I've been using CC from day one (when API pricing was the only way to pay for CC), then I've been on the $20 Pro plan and am getting a solid $5+ worth of usage in each 5h session, times 5-10 sessions per week (so an overall 5-10x subsidy over one month.) And I extrapolated that $200 subscribers must be getting roughly 10x Pro's usage. I do feel the actual limit fluctuates each week as Claude Code engage in this new subsidy war with OAI Codex though.

My theory is this:

- we know from benchmarks that open-weight models like Deepseek R1 and Kimi K2's capabilities are not far behind SOTA GPT/Claude

- open-weight API pricing (e.g. on openrouter) is roughly 1/10~1/5 that of GPT/Claude

- users can more or less choose to hook their agent CLI/IDEs to either closed or open models

If these points are true, then the only reason people are primarily on CC & Codex plans is because they are subsidized by at least 5~10x. When confronted with true costs, users will quickly switch to the lowest inference cost vendor, and we get perfect competition + zero margin for all vendors.
by harddrivereque | 2025-11-09 06:52:32+00:00
I do believe that you are writing the truth, but it is extremely unbelievable to me. To be honest, I've never been pulled over for traffic violations, but bribing officers with gift cards being "common" sounds like it could lead to some really bad place. It's a good thing it hasn't yet. Bribes have many drawbacks compared to traffic tickets.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 06:55:23+00:00
Diet and exercise are hugely important to health in general, and can make a significant impact on lipids.

They are unlikely to get lipid levels down low enough to reach soft plaque regression levels. You need to get sustained levels below 50 to 70 depending on genetics, Lp(a), etc.

If you've lived a healthy life in general and don't have genetically bad Lp(a) this advice is probably enough for you staying that way. If you've spent a significant portion of it with bad lipids for whatever reason, you almost certainly need to go on a combo therapy to get to regression levels.
by drmpeg | 2025-11-09 06:55:37+00:00
A lightly coded (13/15 LDPC) 256QAM OFDM signal at 40 MHz wide could do 250 Mbps.

Or 31.25 million bytes per second if you prefer.

This would be for a point to point terrestrial link. OFDM probably wouldn't work for EME (at any power level).
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-09 06:58:42+00:00
> Think about what happens if the US decides it can enforce US law on UK soil against UK citizens.

The US has asserted that right globally for quite some time, and literally threatened force against other countries to get them to actively support (not merely tacitly permit) such enforcement, even when it directly violated the constitutions of the countries involved (as well as simply doing armed enforcement without consent of the government iinvolved in other cases.)

This has been particularly notable since the outset of the “Global War on Terror”, but didn’t start there (it was a big part of US counter-narcotics policy long before the GWoT.)
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 06:59:03+00:00
> While statins have some significant side effects in many patients

Some statins have significant side effect in some patients.

We have many "new" statins that the overwhelming majority of people have no side effects on. Exceedingly small amounts of people have issues with things like rosuvastatin and pitavastatin, and for people that do, repatha and other pcsk9 inhibitors often work fine.

> no downside to a better diet and frequent hard exercise (assuming proper technique). So it usually makes sense to at least try lifestyle modification as the initial therapy.

There is a downside to delaying treatment, and particularly so when they are far out of range, or have spent an extended amount of time out of range.
by cloverich | 2025-11-09 07:00:09+00:00
I don't think that's true. It was easy to call in Trumps first loss, i remember telling my dad: Economy goes bad, he'll be right back. Immigration may have mattered enough, and likewise Bidens cognitive decline. Lastly people didn't like Kamala in the primary, and they dont like candidates forced on them. That was many things stacked against a dem victory, and it was still close.

The dems main ongoing weakness as an extreme generalization, is choosing marginal hills to die on, and using hyperbole for everything.
by doganugurlu | 2025-11-09 07:00:33+00:00
Not sure I follow or maybe you skipped typing a word.

You listed the risks and concluded “all generally minor.” The benefit is absolutely nonzero. So, what’s the hold up?

And how have the data not caught up? People outside the US are getting the CT scans, while US doctors prefer to lick their finger to guess the weather.

My wife’s last interaction with a doctor: patient presents with back and chest pain accompanied by occasional shortness of breath at the age of 39, doctor reluctantly asks for a EKG - which takes 5-10 minutes and is done in the next room, right away and covered by insurance with a small copay - and has the gall to be surprised when EKG showed subtle abnormalities. If she hadn’t advocated for herself, as the OP argues, doctor would just skip the EKG.

This experience left me thinking maybe doctors are discouraged from asking for imaging and guidelines are there to protect their criminally negligent behavior. I have no proof or even proxy data for the claim about doctors being discouraged from asking for imaging. But it is objectively criminally negligent to not ask for imaging in a case like this.
by scott_w | 2025-11-09 07:01:11+00:00
This post is really mixed up which, for a lawyer, is really disappointing to read.

He can’t seem to decide if Ofcom’s position is that the geo blocking was disabled or that it’s not sufficient. He seems to flip flop between the two positions throughout the post.

This is really strange because he cites Ofcom’s statement! How can he not know what they’re investigating after he’s been told!

In addition, he seems under the impression that Samaritans (a suicide prevention charity) are either a part of Ofcom or if they’re a pro censorship pressure group.

Lesser issues are that he doesn’t understand the government operates out of Whitehall, not Westminster (which is Parliament) and that Parliament can put pressure on government organisations but ultimately it’s independent so Parliament and the government can only ask Ofcom to investigate (outside of passing legislation).
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-09 07:01:37+00:00
> actually, in some cases, it outperforms C -> https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/

Bit of a clarification after reading the article - that article demonstrates a pure-Ruby implementation [0] outperforming a C extension [1], which is not what I had originally expected when first clicking on the link.

[0]: https://github.com/tenderlove/tinygql

[1]: https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/tree/master/graphql...
Show HN: Fast Wishes – A shareable wishlist built to avoid unwanted gifts
by lsmael | 2025-11-09 07:02:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I made a small wishlist tool to avoid duplicate gifts and awkward coordination.

You create a list and share a link. Friends can reserve an item so others don’t buy it. The list owner doesn’t see what’s reserved, so the surprise stays.

No login required. Fast input

Example: https://fast-wishes.com/l/ismael

Built with Supabase and Next.js. Feedback welcome.
by krustyburger | 2025-11-09 07:02:43+00:00
I remember gift cards originally being novel in the early 2000’s because they could be swiped like a credit card for purchases, unlike gift certificates, which they replaced.

If you had a girlfriend in the late 80s, I don’t see how police could have been bribed with gift cards as long as you can remember.

I should also add that I myself have never heard of it being common to bribe SF cops with gift cards, in any decade.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-09 07:03:40+00:00
It's hard to help GP but I'm gonna try (pls forgive me):

I believe that the masses don't have a deep understanding of Schemes because of enemy action by the sufficiently advanced stupidity (aka loneliness) of the intelligent :)

Some (ex-)academics get triggered by the so-thought foolhardy Buzzard & his undergrads, but B+Co are, at least, not being that kind of imbecile https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/012...

https://github.com/ramonfmir/lean-scheme

Their interest is "pro" and they are not a hypothesis

(& I'd NOT bet against that they understand deeper than Sturmfels and his students)

Schemes (like cat theory) have become a sort of religion-- it's sad because Grothendieck himself might not have understood them intuitively.. and it won't be the first time.. Feynman didn't understand Path Integrals, nor Archimedes integration!! BECAUSE they were all loners whose first resort was WRITING LETTERS

Ps: as with Jobs.. I hesitate to call Buzzard a full-time salesman

If you want to hang out in meatspace: do you have a public key?
by coffeebeqn | 2025-11-09 07:08:59+00:00
Depends what you’re writing I guess. I experimented with a TUI word processor before on a very low powered machine and it was quite an experience to not be able to multitask. I just used it for personal notes / diary but it was really a revelation how often my attention slips in a modern OS. Oh let me do some searches on this topic I mentioned, let’s check mail and messages and refresh this page I had open.. and the writing mode is gone. I still prefer a notebook and a pen though and sitting outside
by Animats | 2025-11-09 07:08:59+00:00
The US has a large cobalt mine in Idaho. It's closed.[1] They got all the way to startup, and then the price of cobalt dropped.[2] Peaked at $37, dropped to $10. Right now about $22, but that's a recent spike. Break-even for that mine is around $20.

Similar to the rare earths situation, which I've mentioned before.

This is why we have raw material shortages. The materials exist, but prices are too volatile for the capital required.

[1] https://jervoisglobal.com/projects/idaho-cobalt-operations/

[1] https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=co&u=...
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 07:09:05+00:00
https://www.lipidjournal.com/article/S1933-2874(25)00317-4/f...

Guidance from the National Lipid Association, based on a review of the current understanding of the science across quite a few different meta-studies, analysis, etc. Many of the referenced studies are meta-studies significantly larger than the one here.

We have mountains of studies showing the negative impact of LDL-C (and inflammation! Which statins also reduce) on health. We have mountains of studies showing positive impact from statins. We have specific mechanistic understanding of how LDL-C and other atherogenic particles cause heart disease. We have mountains of studies show that statins directly lower the amount of atherogenic particles you have.

This has been studied enough and sliced enough ways that yeah, there is evidence on both sides. But one side is effectively a mountain range, and the other is a small hill. I know which way I'm going to land on it.
by heddycrow | 2025-11-09 07:09:08+00:00
Depends on the observer and your definition of "bad".

The police are happy they are paid. The victims are sad they are hurt. Is society better as a whole because it can handle crime? I'm not sure.

What does bad mean? Seems like an overloaded concept, ask around and good luck.

You can have a lot more fun by completely reducing the original question and plugging in different values for "strictly awful" and "AI content" and "it forces us to..."

How can eating be good if we just get hungry again? Implies eating is bad despite the value we derive from it.

How can hard work be bad if it produces meaningful results? Implies hard work is good despite the pains we take on from it.

I would argue that this kind of reduction and replacement significantly changes the original question, but it is a fun thing to explore. I'm not sure we'll get closer to an answer to the original, though. And I'm not sure it's safe to take the answer from one of the derived questions and use it for the original.

But don't take my word for it, I'm mostly restating one of the key points from Thinking Fast and Slow.

Can I safely assume that what you were implying is that AI content is undesirable because it is a strain on human systems? I think that's the point the article was trying to make.
by cloverich | 2025-11-09 07:09:38+00:00
Only that first stat aligns with what you are claiming. Wanting more border / deportations is fully inline with wanting to control immigration. Likewise cutting funds to states not supporting federal law isn't fringe. And asylum applications are clearly broken.

You can want all of those things and still be against eg ice agents raiding a school. It would be more accurate if it focused exclusively on the more egregious ICE activities.
by anonymousiam | 2025-11-09 07:10:04+00:00
Just a nit, but aircraft/airport communications use AM not FM. This is deliberate, because FM's "capture effect" would mask other transmissions that inevitably occur when two parties randomly press PTT at the same time. With AM, you'll hear a tone, which is the difference frequency between the two transmitters, so you'll know that somebody missed something, and it will probably be repeated. If it were FM only, it would be less obvious that some communications were missed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_effect
Ask HN: Hiring engineers through GitHub contributions – show me your workflow
by cat-whisperer | 2025-11-09 07:10:16+00:00
Exploring how technical hiring happens in practice vs how we talk about it happening.

If you've hired engineers where GitHub was part of your evaluation:

- What specifically did you look at?

- How much time did you spend per candidate?

- Did it change your hiring decision, or just confirm what you already thought?

If you're an engineer who's been contacted because of GitHub activity:

- What do you think caught their attention?

- Was it your own projects, contributions to others, or something else?

I've seen everything from "starred repos tell me their interests" to "I read through their last 6 months of commits". Personally found it useful to look at contributions across multiple repos in a domain, but curious what signals others actually rely on vs what's just hiring theater.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-09 07:10:34+00:00
You can already do that through the config file, you can define custom endpoints for any openai compatible API. So you can get openrouter, or even local models via vLLM or alternatives. I think someone even tried to get cheaper API pay-as-you-go usage by hitting their "bulk" API, for tasks that run over night (so no need for immediate responses).
by Svip | 2025-11-09 07:11:26+00:00
With the invention of steam ships, railways, aeroplanes and the automobile; travel became almost trivial. In conjunction with those inventions, states also became a lot more involved in people's lives; culminating in large welfare states. 3-4 centuries ago, a state did not care much about who lived in in their territory; these days, they are likely to provide them benefits, and have certain obligations according to international treaties about how to treat people within their own borders. These state operations, along with obligations, makes states care a great deal about who enters or leave their territory.
by Animats | 2025-11-09 07:13:00+00:00
> With all the advantages, it is unfortunate that Forth lost out to C language over the years and have been reduced to a niche. Per ChatGPT: due to C's broader appeal, standardization, and support ecosystem likely contributed to its greater adoption and use in mainstream computing.

Oh, please. I've written in Forth. It's useful when you have to do a cram job to fit in a really tiny machine. Otherwise, no.
by dangus | 2025-11-09 07:13:12+00:00
Which makes it an inaccurate and incorrect point.

I’m not using docker to deploy things because the things I’m deploying need a complicated environment, I’m using it because it’s an incredibly easy and consistent way to deploy things. It’s an immutable image that is highly convenient to distribute, update, and manage, which is pretty much the opposite experience of installing software on virtual machines.

Dropping a docker compose file into Portainer and I’m up and running with a new service in a few seconds. I’ve removed the overhead and spin up time of VMs, there’s no more running Chef/Ansible to do basic VM management for every single service I’m running, no more cookbooks/playbooks or manual SSHing to get software updated, no more minutes to hours of fixing configuration management that never seems to work the first time, no more bad in-place upgrade states, etc.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-09 07:13:20+00:00
We have checked to see if they are addressing the problem more than probably any drug in history. The idea that we haven't is the result of skeptics cherry picking results that back up their point while ignoring the huge quantities of evidence supporting the efficacy of statins and other LDL lowering medications like ezetimibe, pcks9 inhibitors, etc.

Statins are so good at what they do they even reduce the risk in people who are already at low risk for heart disease.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
by tombert | 2025-11-09 07:13:30+00:00
I was born in 1990 with two geeky parents who always had a printer and at least one computer available, so I didn’t get to grow up using one, but my brain always sort of romanticized typewriters. I eventually bought a used Brother typewriter, and also one of those “word processors” that was basically a crappy computer that uses a typewriter as a printer.

They were fun to play with, but ultimately I don’t really write fiction, and pretty much anything I do write about would necessitate internet access to research weird math or tech stuff. I could of course use my phone for that, and I tried that for a bit, but I found that even more distracting than a regular laptop would be. This, in combination of the lack of spelling and grammar checks made made made it so that it was never more than a toy for me, and I eventually gave it away.

It made an extremely loud and satisfying “thunk” noise whenever it typed or printed and I admittedly do miss that sometimes. Maybe I should buy one of those color dotmatrix printers.
by simonw | 2025-11-09 07:13:39+00:00
The README files that it looked at, and the directory structure it explored.

It now knows what the project is, what dependencies it uses, how it's laid out and the set of binaries that it generates.

Even more importantly: it knows that the project can be built without errors. If it tries a build later and sees an error it will know that the error was caused by code it had modified.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-11-09 07:14:03+00:00
This is really great, the only problem for me is that there is nobody around me! I can see it working way better for stuff like universities though.

I wonder if there could be a variant for Drop which is world wide - imagine being able to join a chat in a foreign country (hopefully you speak the language!) and chat with the locals. I imagine moderation would be a big pain but I could see it being fun and sort of in the spirit of the old web.
by debugnik | 2025-11-09 07:16:23+00:00
Many learning materials will push you that way, but the vast majority of FOSS packages don't use it.

There's nothing inherently wrong with using Jane Street's stdlibs if you miss the goodies they provide, but be aware the API suffers breaking changes from time to time and they support less targets than regular OCaml. I personally stopped using them, and use a few libraries from dbunzli and c-cube instead to fill the gaps.
by AYBABTME | 2025-11-09 07:17:14+00:00
But aren't the terms of a SAFE that you'll get the same terms as the best terms (MFN) offered to investors in the next round, up to a cap?

Seems like you get just as diluted by future rounds as the professional VCs that will make up the next round, if you get the same terms?

FWIW I don't think angel investments make any financial sense but see them as a minor chance of upside and a significant way to help and connect with people.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-09 07:20:11+00:00
> Bill Gates’ mantra that “innovation is the real driver of progress,” are merely a secular iteration of the divine mandates that Goliaths once used to legitimize their rule.

I'd like to point that that mantra on its own can go in two wildly-different directions, depending on whether you believe "innovation" comes from:

1. An incremental process of millions of contributors doing small unsung pieces of work until eventually some threshold of opportunity, motive, preliminary ideas, and luck is reached which makes for a visible shift and simple story.

2. A magical threshold only broken through by Great Men, who were not lucky at all and deserve Great Wealth for their Greatness.

As you might guess, I subscribe to (1). Humans are wired to dislike randomness and broad causes, so we dramatically underestimate (and undervalue) all the people making innovations of higher-precision parts, or a chemical reaction that can use a cheaper reagent that's also waste from another process, or basic research like "these proteins are highly conserved in the virus."
by dlcarrier | 2025-11-09 07:20:43+00:00
It wasn't confusing enough that Intel named their CPU core 'Core' or that they put 'Duo' after it if there wre two 'Core' cores packaged together, but they also put a '2' after it if it was the second generation, then they dropped the generation number from the name in the third generation, making that the first generation of their new numbering scheme of which you're discussing the second generation.

The only clear option is to use the internal code name, but that's technically not valid once it's released so "Products formerly Sandy Bridge" is the best Intel can come up with. (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...)