MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pksebben | 2025-11-19 16:38:25+00:00
If all your relationships fail in the same manner, it is likely that the problem is you.

> One friend became “convinced” that every major news story was manufactured consent. Another started treating political disagreement as evidence of moral corruption. A third began using the word "liberal" as if it was a personality disorder rather than loose coalitions of sometimes contradictory beliefs.

Manufactured consent is a real thing, with mounting evidence that it's becoming increasingly prevalent. The ownership structures around major news outlets are worrisome and what many considered 'reliable' for years are now showing seriously problematic habits (like genocide erasure - lookin' at you, NYT.)

Liberalism has come under completely valid scrutiny as we've seen fiscal policies implemented by Clinton and Obama blow up in our faces. No, we don't think Reaganomics is anything but a grift, but many of us see the grift in NAFTA and the ACA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley and have begun to question the honesty of centrist liberal economic policies because we are seeing them fail catastrophically.

> The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends.

Author is doing something subtle here - without making a defense or interrogation of the statement, they are saying "Not being liberal / centrist is extremism, and thus invalid". I call bullshit.

I have not profited or benefited from my "extreme" leftist views. If anything, I take a risk every time I talk about them out in the open. My comment history is going to be visible to all future employers. Should the government continue it's rightward slide I'll have a target painted on my back that I put there. I don't believe the things I believe because it's convenient, I believe them because in my estimation, we are operating on a set of failed systems and it's important that we fix them because they present a real and present danger.

We have Trump because Biden was utterly incapable of facing the actual problems people are having with the economic prosperity gap. If you don't address the actual hardship in people's lives, you leave the door open for a huckster to make those promises for you. Most will take the unreliable promise of a better tomorrow over being lied to about whether they even have a problem. You don't need a PhD in economics to know that whatever the GDP might be you're still broke and you can't afford to feed your kids.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-19 16:38:41+00:00
Fair. I'm not a compiler developer, so I'll defer to your expertise on that front.

That being said, I suppose my ultimate wonder is how small a Zig implementation could possibly be, if code size and implementation simplicity was the priority. In other words, could a hypothetical version of the Zig language have existed in the 80's or 90's, or was such a language simply out of reach of the computers of the time.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-11-19 16:38:54+00:00
Alex Jones literally did this though starting around 2016.

This is a strong argument probably but strangely aimed here. Reading the article, it does seem like you and the author agree about everything in this regard? You are kind of just rearticulating one part of their argument as critique about them. Why?

Or where do we place the reflex here? What triggered: this author is BS, is pseudointellectual, is bad. We jump here from a small note about articulation and intelligence, to what seems like this massive opportunity to attack not only that argument, but the author, the readers, everyone. Why? Does the particular point here feel like a massive structural weakness?

What was the trigger here for you, for lack of better word? Why such a strong feeling?
by judahmeek | 2025-11-19 16:38:54+00:00
If you accept patent applications as a proxy for innovation, then https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/patent-applications-per-m... suggests that Europe lags behind both China & the U.S.

Also, China is 3rd, behind South Korea & Japan

That & the differing levels of patent application per capita across Europe suggests that patent applications are directly related to work/life balance & perhaps some sort of infonomic aggregation & doesn't seem to support any correlation with quality of life.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-19 16:39:26+00:00
So is $KKR:

> KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global private equity and investment company.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKR_%26_Co.

You can have a public company that invests in private companies, as opposed to investing in publicly listed companies (like $BRK/Buffett does (in addition to PE stuff)).
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-19 16:39:37+00:00
> Nicotine is a CNS stimulant, and cigarettes are somewhat of a fidget spinner, and social lubricant. What’s not to like.

This was a joke?

> For most people, long term nicotine use is probably less deleterious than long term amphetamine use.

You meant most people prescribed amphetamines for medical conditions? Or most people?Recreational nicotine use is less deleterious than recreational amphetamine use probably. Comparing therapeutic use would include sources ideally.
by realusername | 2025-11-19 16:40:11+00:00
It's not called a duopoly for no reason, both Apple and Google have very similar policies and if there's any competition, I'm not seeing it.

You can use Apple which controls everything you are allowed to see and do on your phone or you can chose Google which ... controls everything you are allowed to see and do on your phone.

And as a developer, both fees are exactly the same (what a coincidence!)
by riazrizvi | 2025-11-19 16:40:41+00:00
This is a testament to how we can get lost in the weeds with ideas. The economic reality is that there’s little money in open source, on an hourly pay basis. There’s no barrier to entry, put in the hours and you can have a reason to work in all your spare time too. It’s silly to compare how people treat positions of real economic power to them.
by cjfd | 2025-11-19 16:41:00+00:00
Nobody can vouch for their own sanity. Attempting to do so only make you sound insane. Incentives to be insane? Sure, but.... it is timing the stock market of ideas. Some will get rich but most will not. And sanity either has to return or insanity will destroy many lives and the society in which it is allowed free reign. In any case if you promoted insanity when sanity returns and people regain their ability to have a memory you may reap what you seeded.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-19 16:41:45+00:00
Car theft tends to be perpetrated by a small number of repeat offenders. Cameras would indeed have helped in your case... but only if they were installed in the last neighborhood where the thieves were active, if the police used the evidence to track them down, if the prosecutor's office used the evidence to charge them, and if the courts used the evidence to lock them up.

Admittedly those are all big leaps of faith around here, where car thieves are handled on a catch-and-release basis and where we usually don't even bother with the 'catch' part. You could argue that law enforcement doesn't need any new toys if they don't use the ones they already have, and I certainly wouldn't disagree with that.

I think a lot depends on who owns and controls the cameras. I'd object to ALPRs being installed in my rural neighborhood, certainly. But I see little other than upside in private security cameras whose footage I can choose to share with the police, or with anyone else for that matter. Which is why that's what I have.

At the same time, cameras in urban settings are much less scary and offensive to me for some reason, partially because I disagree that anyone has any expectation of privacy in such settings, and partially because I believe that ship has sailed and anyone bothering to object is just wasting their breath.

The best we can hope for is aggressive public oversight of such cameras. The company itself can't be expected to show any leadership in that area; it has to come from us.
by frankus | 2025-11-19 16:42:15+00:00
Showering in hot water is one of the more energy-intensive things people do on a daily basis. I have a 14.4 kW on-demand heater that just barely keeps up with a 1.5 gallon (~6 liter) per minute shower head with 50°F/10°C incoming water.

On a per-minute basis that's comparable to highway driving in a smallish electric car.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-19 16:43:00+00:00
The Ridgeline is closer to a 1/4 ton like a Tacoma or Ranger. I own one. It's great for what it is, fits my outdoor lifestyle well (towing a small travel trailer, a few mountain bikes, and a large cooler).

The Maverick, Santa Cruz, and the currently-vaporware Slate are much smaller.
by bashkiddie | 2025-11-19 16:43:19+00:00
I do receive occasional spam on WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. Besides the operator spam (try our shiny new AI feature!)

Tying and account to a phone number is a privacy nightmare.

I guess Facebook/Meta does it for easier social graph extraction/profiling, while Signal tried to hand of verification to precent spam. But for the sake of this argument, we may just assume all of them are evil.
by aquariusDue | 2025-11-19 16:43:23+00:00
> Do the others you mentioned provide such detailed outage reports, within 24 hours of an incident? I’ve never seen others share the actual code that related to the incident.

Azure (albeit pretty old): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devopsservice/?p=17665

AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

GCP: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

The code sample might as well be COBOL for people not familiar with Rust and its error handling semantics.

> Or the CEO or CTO replying to comments here?

I've looked around the thread and I haven't seen the CTO here nor the CEO, probably I'm not familiar with their usernames and that's on me.

> This is not press release, they always did these outage posts from the start of the company.

My mistake calling them press releases. Newspapers and online publications also skim this outage report to inform their news stories.

I wasn't clear enough on my previous comment. I'd like all major players in the internet and web infrastructure to be held to higher standards. As it stands when it comes to them or the tech department of a retail store the retail store must answer to more laws when surface area of combined activities is took into account.

Yes, Cloudflare excels where others don't or barely bother and I too enjoyed the pretty graphs, diagrams and I've learned some nifty Rust tricks.

EDIT: I've removed some unwarranted snark from my comment which I apologize for.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-19 16:43:36+00:00
JRPG games like FF VI are far more accessible than the Ultima games. The Avatar trilogy (Ultimas IV, V, and VI) are essentially unplayable without having all the manuals and taking detailed notes[1]. Even doing that, they are quite hard. Nearly every single Final Fantasy game is easy to beat just by taking a bit of time to grind levels whenever you get stuck.

There is a blogger who teaches a class on old games (I can't remember who) and Ultima IV was one that his students bounced off of immediately because they didn't read the manual cover-to-cover, which is a prerequisite for not being totally lost.

1: Or using a walkthrough, I guess, but IMO the main point of the Ultima games of this era was the sense of discovery.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-19 16:44:34+00:00
If you want multiplatform drivers that you can use to plug your device into computers of any architecture, there are abstractions for that. IMO, it's easier to write 3 or 4 versions of your driver than to use them, but they exist and some people really like them.

If you mean standard logical interfaces, those exist. Also, hardware interfaces are highly standardized.

The problem is that the drivers are exactly the code you write to make all the abstractions fit each other. So there is very little you can do to abstract them away.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-19 16:44:41+00:00
Before it becomes anything else code is first and foremost art & personal expression.

Code is a very fun form of literature at heart.

Other attributes may be tacked on later, it may be integrated into and transform into an engine or company that has rules and regulations.

If the author treats it as only art, with license choices, etc. then they aren't entitled to treat it like anything at all, it's literally their personal expression.

And this is recognized in the physical world as well. More than people realize, some buildings that are incredibly dangerous are considered sculpture effectively. There is a rickety castle built by mostly one guy in CO that meets this criteria.
by pbiggar | 2025-11-19 16:44:51+00:00
Simple solution using modulo arithmetic and arrays. Relies on python shorthands that hides implicit branches for the number case though.

def main(): fizz_array = ["Fizz", "", ""] buzz_array = ["Buzz", "", "", "", ""] for n in range(1, 101): # Use modulo to index into arrays f = fizz_array[n % 3] b = buzz_array[n % 5] # Combine fizz and buzz result = f + b output = result + str(n)[len(result):] print(output) main()

I couldn't figure out this line and had to rely on AI for it.

output = result + str(n)[len(result):]
Show HN: ResNet-50 hits 84.35% on CIFAR-100 with heavy augmentations
by Amirali-SR | 2025-11-19 16:45:23+00:00
Achieved 84.35% test accuracy on CIFAR-100 using a standard ResNet-50. Most public implementations top out around 81%, so this result is unusually high for a classic architecture.

Key points:

Heavy augmentations: Mixup, CutMix, ColorJitter, RandomErasing, rotations, affine transforms, and Gaussian blur.

Progressive fine-tuning: ImageNet-pretrained ResNet-50 trained in stages with OneCycleLR and mixed precision.

Streamlit demo: Upload your own images and see real-time CIFAR-100 predictions with confidence scores.

Accessible hardware: Trained on a single GTX 1650 (~15 hours), no massive cluster needed.

Repo & demo: https://github.com/Amirali-SoltaniRad/cifar100-classificatio...

Question for the community: Has anyone pushed ResNet-50 beyond 85% on CIFAR-100? What tricks worked for you?
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-11-19 16:45:47+00:00
Meh. This opinion highlights the fact that availability is the least understood pillar in security. The Right Way to Think About It is having good security analysis and doing proper Risk Management. This means it is their job to do business impact analysis, 3rd party assessments, and run tabletop exercises on all your critical systems to tell you what is rock solid and what is a house of cards.
by laszlokorte | 2025-11-19 16:45:53+00:00
My favorite Bret Victor talk ever is „Drawing dynamic visualizations“ [1] that made me try to reverse engineer [2] the demonstrated tool that he sadly never released.

[1]: https://youtu.be/ef2jpjTEB5U?si=S7sYRIDJKbdiwYml

[2]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfGbKGqfmpEJofmpKra57N0FT...
by shkkmo | 2025-11-19 16:45:58+00:00
> As one of them I want to state that others, including you, are not entitled to decide how I run my project.

If that is the attitude that you take towards everyone who contributes to your project, then you probably aren't a very good leader. That is, of course, your right.

But if you were interested in the long term survival of your project and attracting other developers to contribute, then it behooves you to consider the desires and needs of the community of contributors.

> But I utterly reject that open source project is substantially similar to governing a country in responsibility and preferred setup.

"Consent of the governed" is about countries, it is about leadership and where the privilege of leadership comes from. If you are leading a software project, does your authority come from god? Or does it come from the willingness of the people working on that project to listen to you? That is "consent of the governed".
by Satisfy4400 | 2025-11-19 16:46:01+00:00
The defendant could raise an "ineffective assistance of counsel" argument, asserting his counsel was incompetent and it prejudiced him. You can make that claim in your direct appeal, but for procedural reasons, defendants usually make them in separate petitions for writs of habeas corpus. That's not a lawsuit against the lawyer, though. Instead, it's a lawsuit seeking your freedom from the state.
by dzonga | 2025-11-19 16:46:09+00:00
bingo!! web apps solve most of these issues.

let's say for the ICEblock or whatever - pull up a map pin (geotag), that can be done in a web app.

the things most people advocate apps for e.g notifications are nuisances that some of us permanently turned off. My phone is always on do not disturb, I get 0 notifications. The only time I prefer notifications is something actionable - I pay online then the bank says open app to approve in-app notification (pop up) not those things (notifications) that just come to your phone asynchronously and bother you.

I have a smartwatch (if at all) garmin it's not hooked up to my phone for notifications.

unless you're making games / hell now games can leverage webgpu - no reason to make native apps at all for 96% of things. just make a web app - service workers enable offline access for some things.

- my simple take -> do what the porno companies do in regards to tech. simple & effective. but please don't copy their ads thing.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-19 16:46:28+00:00
One property Debian has, which most projects don't have, is a very clearly established electorate to enfranchise.

A few projects have a clear set of members. Most projects don't; they have contributors of code/documentation/triage/community/etc, but no clear delineation of who is or should be an enfranchised member of the project. Often, projects don't end up defining this until they need it as part of establishing some preferred form of governance.
by keymon-o | 2025-11-19 16:46:41+00:00
I'd never suggest anyone to try a cigarette, but from my experience being addicted to nicotine is not easily translated to being addicted to cigarettes.

It takes a really different state of mind to start a cigarette habit especially due to awful taste and effect of ingesting a strong concentration of chemicals on your body that has nothing to do with dosed concentration of 'mostly just' nicotine.

It may be anecdotal and subjective reasoning, but I battled vape addiction differently than cigarette addiction. I'd classify tobacco addiction more of an emotional addiction, while vaping was more based on nicotine addiction which was more mechanical and predictable than the former.
by ge96 | 2025-11-19 16:46:47+00:00
Oh one question I have, when I messed around with ThreeJS line width was a problem, these curves look pretty nice/thick on mac, maybe that was updated recently. (lines as in orbit path)

ThreeJS is awesome btw, I exported a GDB file I think from a CAD program and imported it into ThreeJS/able to animate each part pretty cool.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-19 16:47:04+00:00
Sure, but who cares? Unless you're a contractor/tradesperson, that's a fairly rare edge case.

I've owned a few pickups over the years, owned my house much of that time, and can probably county the times I've needed to move plywood or other oversized lumber on one hand. Add a second hand for times I've moved long pipes or other oversized stuff that required flagging.
by nirav72 | 2025-11-19 16:47:18+00:00
>It's a relatively involved process

No its not. It's a 3-step process with only one in person interview involved. I've helped 2 people go through that process in the last 2 years.

1) Submit an application and fee. Along with additional documentation (if any). Then wait for biometrics appointment notification.

2) Go to appointed date for biometrics. (Finger printing, photos). Takes about 30 minutes. No different than appointment for TSA Pre-check or Global entry.

3) Go for naturalization interview. If accepted, then usually interviewer will let the person know that they've been approved for naturalization. They'll receive an email/letter indicating date , time and location of the naturalization ceremony/oath.

Of course, depending on the area of the country you live in , the time between the above 3 steps varies. From 90 days to upwards of a year or more. Also, the above is for most people. But there could be some complicated cases where a person has to make multiple in-person visits. But regarding interview, there is only one.
by tacon | 2025-11-19 16:47:21+00:00
I have found Claude Code is a great help to me. Yes, I can and have tinkered a lot over the decades, but I am perfectly happy letting Claude drive the system administration, and advise on best practices. Certainly for prototype configurations. I can install CC on all VPSes and local machines. NixOS sounds great, but the learning curve is not fun. I installed the CC package from the NixOS unstable channel and I don't have to learn the funky NixOS packaging language. I do have to intervene sometimes as the commands go by, as I know how to drive, so maybe not a solution for true newbies. I can spend a few hours learning how to click around in one of the cloud consoles, or I can let CC install the command line interfaces and do it for me. The $20/mo plan is plenty for system administration and if I pick the haiku model, then CC runs twice as fast on trivial stuff like system administration.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-11-19 16:47:24+00:00
> We still see this technically myopic approach with things like age verification; it’s insane to ask websites to collect Gov ID to age verify kids (or prove adulthood for porn), rather than having an OS feature that can do so in a privacy-preserving way. Now these sites have a copy of your ID! You know they are going to get hacked and leak it!

An OS feature is also a terrible option - remember when South Korean banks forced the country to use ActiveX and Internet Explorer?

The government should offer some open digital ID service where you can verify yourself with 2FA online, after registering your device and setting credentials when you get your ID card + residence registration in person.
by gruez | 2025-11-19 16:47:36+00:00
>What about when Google pushed Android Safety Core to all Android devices out there?

You mean the package that apps have to opt in to use? I guess that's technically counts as "unwanted apps/services", but that's like complaining about firefox "pushing unwanted apps/services", because they added some javascript function to every firefox installation out there.

>And you also realize they can push modified build of any apps, now that they also own the keys to sign the apps?

If you read my original comment more carefully, you'll notice I'm not denying they have the capability to do so, only that there's no precedence of them doing so.
by lysace | 2025-11-19 16:47:46+00:00
It would have been cool to get some subset of the dotnet runtime running on the C64.

This is not it. It's a desktop IDE built using dotnet that just assembles 6502 instructions with some extra awkward syntax.

Many more elaborate projects exist. My favorite is the one that compiles something similar to Turbo Pascal to C64 6502. It's implemented in C++/Qt, but noone ever tried to market it that way, because why would they?

https://github.com/leuat/TRSE

Turbo Rascal Syntax Error
by newscracker | 2025-11-19 16:47:50+00:00
Never on iOS or any other Apple platform. Signal is designed not to be able to backup to iCloud either. The only option iOS users have had over the last few years is to do a device to device transfer where both phones are expected to be in physical proximity and it takes hours to transfer the data. Lost phone has meant losing all chats.

WhatsApp, which is infamous by association with Meta, backs up to Google Drive or wherever.