MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nsoonhui | 2025-11-03 10:55:16+00:00
Much has been said about China’s influence on Western universities, yet Qatar’s footprint in the American higher-education system[0] should not be ignored. It is one of the five largest donors to American colleges and universities, surpassing deep-pocketed contributors such as China and Saudi Arabia[1]. Even the president of the Brookings Institution resigned amid an FBI probe into Qatar-linked lobbying[2].

Consequently, when someone attempts to publish material about Qatar, particularly regarding its role in financing Hamas, they often hit a wall. As one case illustrates, “the editorial team has an issue with the fact that they have an upcoming partnership in December with Qatar. One of the directors flagged it as problematic and felt it might put them in a delicate position, so they prefer to run another piece with a lighter touch on the subject. Sorry.”[3]

Coming from a developing country where Islamists and anti-Western propaganda are pervasive, it is surreal to witness Western institutions falling, one by one, under the influence of autocratic and religiously extremist governments. This is where Western civilization appears to be declining: not because of “America First” politics, but because of low birth rates and an education system increasingly shaped by cash-rich foreign actors whose values diverge sharply from Western liberal principles.

[0]: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/04/02/qatars-footprint-in-...

[1]: https://quincyinst.org/research/soft-power-hard-influence-ho...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brookings-president-res...

[3]: https://quillette.com/2025/10/31/the-qatar-problem-hamas-isr...
by physarum_salad | 2025-11-03 10:55:43+00:00
Don't understand the implications of this:

"And to take care of another utterly bizarre comment: Encylopedias are always, per defintion, also repositories of knowledge."

We should just accept wholescale editing and knowledge production when we personally agree with it? Otherwise its verboten? You are aware of "edit-a-thons"? Are these biased?

Why not just have an AI print all of the currently available information on a topic with minimised (not zero) biases?

If we lived in a utopia where wikipedia could randomly allocate tasks to a diverse group of expert level civilians and then aggregate these takes/edits into a full description of a topic I would agree with wikipedia maximalists. This does not happen and a bunch of bad or naive actors have reduced the quality.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-03 10:57:03+00:00
That sounds more complicated than git bisect. When I bisect I have a short test script that confirms the bug. Usually, I already have this because part of the bug report/identification. I then run "git bisect run path/to/bug.sh". That's it -- it will output which commit caused the change. Those occasional times I need to confirm the presence of actual text, I use sh -c "git grep ..." as the test command.
by eru | 2025-11-03 10:57:11+00:00
> GDP per square metre is probably the best metric, even though it's the more rarely used one. [1] has a neat map of Europe by GDP density.

Well, it would be the best metric, if your country was homogeneously populated.

If everyone lives in one big city and there's literally no one in the rest of the country, then I expect mobile reception (and every other service) to be pretty good for everyone, because they all stay in the big city.

> However Germany is still very high in both GDP per capita and GDP per land area. Roughly on par with the UK, and far higher than France which has a much better mobile network

Yes, France, Germany and UK are all equal enough in these measures (well within an order of magnitude) that the much bigger difference in mobile networks is most likely due to some other factors.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-03 10:57:23+00:00
Jesus Christ. How can you be this ill-informed about an absolutely unprecedented buildup of violent, thuggish, masked immigration enforcement?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/15/trump-immigr...

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-agents-penske-rental...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/ice-detentio...

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/ice-makes-it-imp...

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-access-to-counsel-dep...

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-in-detention-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-d...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/09/steph...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-officer-shoves-woman-...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/priv...

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ice-nebraska-immigr...

Now google "Kavanaugh stop". There has already been a Supreme Court case where ICE was challenged over their use of simple ethnicity to scoop up possible immigrants. Kavanaugh says: that's OK.

And I am done. It's really not my fault if the news you are consuming is not covering what is happening.

When I say don't be an idiot, I mean it in the sense of a useful idiot. Don't be uninformed. Don't be foolish. Don't let them get you to ignore what is happening.

(Mods, I appreciate this breaks the "long list of links" rule, probably. But it is an answer to the question from a wide variety of media sources which have documented what amounts to a slow-motion atrocity)
by marstall | 2025-11-03 10:57:27+00:00
my rules of throwing a good (house) party:

1. good music with a beat. play records if you can, it's fun.

2. no food. people already ate.

3. hit the liquor store pre-party and get a few cases of booze.

4. if there's something a girl wants to listen to, let her. she'll dance with her friends.

5. be super high energy.

6. whip-its
by mnky9800n | 2025-11-03 10:57:28+00:00
But everyone should lift weights. The benefit to strength training versus not is so substantial that there is no reason why everyone shouldn't lift weights with few exceptions.

If you are unfamiliar with strength training there are many programs you can get started with for beginners (e.g., stronglifts 5x5). Not all of these programs are optimal (e.g., stronglifts 5x5). But the important thing is to get in the gym and learn the movements just to get started. Once you have a good habit of going to the gym and doing strength training you can then work on progressive overloads, keeping one rep in reserve, program cycling, etc. For me, I do strength training 4 hours a week, its not that much of a time commitment.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/strength-training-is-key-t...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-03 10:57:31+00:00
We have web assembly and the power to run whatever you can manage to compile with that. There's no real need for "native" support.

The key issue is that the latex stack wasn't really designed to be packaged up like this. It just has a lot of moving parts that are vaguely dependent on running in a full blown unix like shell environment. So the resulting code would be a rather big blob. Running that in a browser isn't that hard if you can live with that having a fair bit of overhead. This has been done. But it's a bit overkill for publishing content on the web.

Browsers don't have native support for MathML any more for a good reason. Mozilla did support this for a while but dropped it because of limited adoption and high maintenance burden. Rendering formulas is a bit of a niche problem and the intended audience is just kind of picky when it comes to technology and generally not that into doing more advanced things with web browsers. Also, most people writing scientific articles would be writing those for publication and probably use Latex any way. So translating all their formulas to MathML is an extra step that they don't need or want.

At least that's my analysis of this. I'm not really part of the target audience here and I'm sure there are plenty of MathML fans who disagree with this.

In any case Katex makes an acceptable (to some) compromise by packaging this stuff up in a form where it can be run server side and is easy to integrate on a simple web page. A proper solution with buy-in from the scientific community (for e.g. MathML) is a much bigger/harder thing to solve.

IMHO, a light weight solution based on web assembly could be the way to go. But of course the devil is in the details because if the requirements are "do whatever latex does" it gets quite hard. And anything else might be too limited.
by gnfargbl | 2025-11-03 10:57:41+00:00
The soft power aspect of this dependency is a problem, but the bigger problem is that it has made UK universities dependent on a fundamentally unsustainable revenue stream. Chinese students come to study in the UK because British universities are perceived as better than Chinese universities, and that reputation rubs off on the students' own prospects when they return home.

But, that effect can only really last a couple of generations at most: the students go home, a proportion of them become (well-trained) academics, and the Chinese universities that those academics work at become competitive with the foreign universities. A similar thing happened with the "plate glass" universities of the 1960s UK; initially those were bootstrapped with Oxbridge academics, but within 30 years they were standing on their own feet.

As far as I can see, current UK universities have no plan to replace the revenue that will be inevitably lost when the Chinese universities also begin to stand up on their own feet.
by oggy | 2025-11-03 10:58:11+00:00
I haven't followed closely, and I'm only faintly acquainted with algebraic geometry and category theory. But the TFA links to a formalization of Grothendieck schemes, which are definitely post-WW2 material, and they rely on the Isabelle's locales feature. Are you familiar with this work? How far from the "ordinary mathematician's style" is it?
by spwa4 | 2025-11-03 10:58:26+00:00
Why blame outside powers again? There are very large differences where you have very limited differences in outside power rule, a big example being India vs Pakistan. And this is very far from the only example.

There have always been and always will be outside powers. Hell, the very first stories we have, from the Epic of Gilgamesj, the oldest stories in the Bible and Greek Legends are all about outside powers intervening, and here we are, over 4000 years later, and there's (checks wikipedia) 32 current wars (and none are "the west" doing that at the moment, China is currently the worst offender, there's of course Russia and Ukraine/Europe) where outside powers are trying to dominate someone else. At some point you have to accept outside powers trying to fuck things up as a basic part of life. So other countries will keep intervening, probably for another 4000+ years.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-03 10:59:31+00:00
I have reasons to believe current AIs are conscious & have qualia/experiences, so the moral question is relevant now as well.

EDIT: That statement probably sounds crazy. Let me clarify: I don't have an argument that current AI systems are conscious or specifically sentient. I have heard many reasonable arguments for why they are not. But the thing is, all of these arguments would, with variation, apply to the human brain as well. I think, therefore I am; I am not ready to bite the bullet that consciousness doesn't exist.

I know that I am a sentient being, and I presume that every other human is too. And there is not, as far as I know, a categorial difference between physical brains and electronic systems that is relevant to the question of whether AI systems are conscious. Ergo, I must (until shown otherwise) assume that they are.

[If you really fall down this rabbit hole, you get into areas of panpsychism and everything being conscious, but I digress.]
by hopelite | 2025-11-03 10:59:52+00:00
Also not considered is that the announcement is for 740bhp motor. The Tesla model 3 has a vehicle output of about 400 hp. I’m not sure of all the design specs, but it seems clear to me that a smaller version of these motors could suffice to drive a 3 equivalent vehicle at 1/2 the output and still be more than sufficient. So let’s say maybe 15lbs each, vs current equivalent 70lbs each. It’s not major total weight impact, but with battery advancements it will compound.

I think people are overlooking that the announcement is for a performance motor meant for the performance market at the moment because that is what the backers of YASA are most interested in because it has the highest margins and prestige. Also not mentioned is the efficiency from the simpler production line.

My impression from what I know is we are looking at an impact equivalent to direct injection engines; not revolutionary, but a major advancement of one component that has significant and consequential effects.
by __jonas | 2025-11-03 11:00:34+00:00
Alright, thanks for explaining your point of view, I appreciate it!

It wasn't my intention to misrepresent anything, I can see how my original comment was perhaps a bit too broad, all I meant to point out was that when building tables dynamically on the client, a declarative framework is now (I thought) a common approach, how common it really is I have no idea, and I do not mean to diminish regular imperative DOM manipulation or label it as 'legacy' by any means.
by eru | 2025-11-03 11:00:45+00:00
Yes, it's a simple enough algorithm to be a good basic exercise---most people come up with binary search on their own spontaneously when looking a word up in dictionary.

Property based testing is really useful for finding corner cases in your binary search. See eg https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/property-based-test... for one introduction.
by apple1417 | 2025-11-03 11:01:06+00:00
If you have an older game which still uses dx9, dxvk can give a decent little performance boost - even if you're running on Windows. It's kind of magical that adding a translation layer is able to improve performance.

In more modern games using dx11/12, I've always noticed a small loss like you'd expect. I haven't properly benchmarked any but I suspect a game with native Vulkan support would do pretty similarly, and might come out on top due to CPU load.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-11-03 11:01:33+00:00
One thing that's worthwhile to understand, but very difficult to mentally reconcile, is the way in which Americans have the ability to redefine words to meet the need of branding.

In a very real and genuine sense, to most Americans "democracy and freedom" is simply whatever the USA does. This sentiment is then, after the fact, stitched into acceptability by these sorts of intellectual deflections.
by arethuza | 2025-11-03 11:01:45+00:00
There have been "conversion course" MSc courses in UK universities for a long time - when I was doing a CS first degree the department ran one of these courses and, presumably to save money, the MSc folks would share some of our classes.

Usually they were completely lost but at the end of it they got a "better" degree than ours, which was annoying...
by physarum_salad | 2025-11-03 11:04:18+00:00
Great point: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/30/toxin-le...

This is, morbidly, from crematorium emissions. Now imagine if that was the output of every electronics section of the local recycling centre/dumps.

The problem is if a particular material becomes the golden goose and companies won't avoid it if there is a perceived/real advantage.
by lbreakjai | 2025-11-03 11:04:54+00:00
I live in a city of about 160k inhabitants. I live about 2 kilometers away from the hypercenter. A half-hour walk, which I wouldn't consider "walking distance".

Most of the city center is inaccessible by car. Parking your car is expensive, driving is discouraged.

Removing cars means there's more space for people. It means it's safer, quieter. I'm not in mortal panic if my 4 years old drops my hand. It means the bus isn't stuck in traffic, and is therefore really fast. It's the most vibrant place I've ever lived in. It's full of life and energy.

The city is full of small, independent shops.

A boardgames café:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Boardroom/@52.3864335,...

A guitar shop:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alphenaar+Muziekhandel/@52...

A tabletop store, hosting MTG tournaments on a regular basis:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tabletop+Kingdom+Haarlem/@...

A store fully dedicated to expensive collectibles:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Past+Joys/@52.3798456,4.63...

There's a ton of small shops, whose names I can't remember, that I only discovered because I happened to walk past them. This creates a positive feedback loop. It's rewarding to just wander about, because you may discover something.
by antonyh | 2025-11-03 11:05:01+00:00
The questions I have mostly centre around how much precision of power delivery it has - it is an all or nothing proposition, can it deliver 0.1% smoothly for real world use, and what is the MTBF / duty cycle / failure mode? I would imagine the last thing anyone would want is a locked wheel, or only one wheel delivering that much power. I know this is unlikely, but as someone with a 22-year-old ICE vehicle I do tend to take the long view on these things and want to know how they will fail as much as how they work. Same applies to the Tesla motors - is there much information on failure modes publicly available?
by b112 | 2025-11-03 11:05:39+00:00
Didn't the Spanish show up briefly, then come back in force later?

I've heard some speculate that this introduced European diseases, and unlike many Native American tribes, the Mayans lived in dense cities. Such disease would spread like wildfire.

(Certainly, some disease made it the other way too! Tuberculosis and syphilis are examples)

I've heard numbers like 95% died, and it was decades between first contact and serious conquest.

That leaves a lot of time for people to grow up with no one to teach them trades, or even how to read.

If we lost 95% of our population, so many active skills would be lost.
by latexr | 2025-11-03 11:06:32+00:00
> I genuinely don't understand why people don't get more upset over hitting refresh on a webpage and ending up in a significantly different place. It's mind-boggling and actually insulting as a user. Or grabbing a URL and sending to another person, only to find out it doesn't make sense.

I do dislike those cases. But I also dislike being two-thirds through a video or page, thinking “I’ve got to share this with <friend>, it’s right up their alley”, then hitting my fast combination of keys to share a URL and realising the link shared my exact place, which will make the person think I’m sharing a snippet and not the whole thing, so now I need to send another message to clarify.

I like being able to have URLs reproduce a specific state, but I also want that to be a specific decision and not something I can share or save to a bookmark by mistake.
by Razengan | 2025-11-03 11:07:36+00:00
> You can write the "prompt tuning" down in AGENTS.md and then you only need to do it once.

Yeah, I just mean: I know how to "fix" the AI for things that I already know about.

But how would I know if it's wrong or right about the stuff I DON"T know?? I'd have to go Google shit anyway to verify it.

This is me asking ChatGPT 5 about ChatGPT 5: https://i.imgur.com/aT8C3qs.png

Asking about Nintendo Switch 2: https://i.imgur.com/OqmB9jG.png

Imagine if AI was somebody's first stop for asking about those things. They'd be led to believe they weren't out when they in fact were!
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-03 11:07:46+00:00
> Okay very clear! I was saying that because your post example is just a kind of basic "tool use" example which is already implemented by MCP/OpenAI tool use, but obviously I guess your code can be suited to more complex scenarios

That's mostly just because I found that to be the easiest way to use any existing AI API to work. There are things like vercel's AI SDK which internally runs the agentic loop in generateText, but then there is no way to checkpoint that.

> I was just wondering, how does it work? I was more expecting a generator with a `yield` statement to run "long-running tasks" in the background... otherwise is the node runtime keeping the thread running with the await? doesn't this "pile up"?

When you `awaitEvent` or `sleepUntil`/`sleepFor` it sets a wake point or sets a re-schedule on the database. Then it raises `SuspendTask` and ends the execution of the task temporarily until it's rescheduled.

As for your IOT case: yes, you should be able to do that.
by krowek | 2025-11-03 11:08:53+00:00
I was in the same boat until a couple of months ago.

Long time vim/neovim user, used fennel to configure it lastly, but I wanted to see what Emacs has to offer to compare.

I started by reading Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen and from there start adding things that I felt I needed (configure key bindings, project.el, eglot, LSP things, helm, corfu, vterm, flycheck, etc)

I still have things to do, but I'm not in a hurry, I'm quite comfortable with Emacs right now, so will approach them shortly.

There's also Protesilaos' Stavrou channel on YouTube with a good amount of videos covering Emacs' topics in depth. I highly recommend them.

(Btw, I still don't know what Vertigo and Consult provide, but I can navigate through files, text search and replacement, functions and all with comfort, so not sure if I'm missing something.)
by Iridiumkoivu | 2025-11-03 11:10:00+00:00
To me this seems to be true. From what I’ve seen CoCs are overwhelmingly used as a tool to enforce and reinforce a certain kind of ideological point of view.

As a result of this typically CoCs are used to block contributions or block contributors from projects where the people enforcing the CoC they wrote wield it as a weapon against men whose perceived personal politics they disagree with. And typically rumours are enough to trigger CoC proceedings against them.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-03 11:10:54+00:00
I wonder if Americans don't have a mental image for measurement units so that they alway use some physical object as a reference. Sure, its useful to use a common object as a reference but I don't see that much often in other places.

Most people usually understand what it means something to be 20 meters, 5kg or 2 liters intuitively. Like, when I hear that something is 60m tall I intuitively think if it as 20 story apartment building and don't benefit from the extra info about how this is like 18 elephants stacked on each other.
by harambae | 2025-11-03 11:11:04+00:00
They also have a tv show dedicated to selling off storage units that are unpaid, but my friend whose family owns a large chain of storage units has told me that it’s basically fake. (He said usually the unpaid units are filled with something worthless and on the off chance they’re not, it’s donated to charity)

So now I question all these shows a bit.
by KwanEsq | 2025-11-03 11:11:12+00:00
>Browsers don't have native support for MathML any more for a good reason. Mozilla did support this for a while but dropped it because of limited adoption and high maintenance burden.

This seems to just be entirely untrue? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML shows wide support (For Chromium/Blink-based since version 109) and if I open the example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/P... in Firefox and Edge both seem to render it correctly.
by toyg | 2025-11-03 11:12:26+00:00
> our endless appeal system

Mr Naylor's clearly never got involved with Italian justice, where the average criminal trial takes 4 and a half years as it goes through 3 judgement levels (the first sentence alone is likely to take more than a year). By law, a "reasonable" process is expected to take up to 6 years.

As far as I can see, most criminal cases in the US are completed in less than a year.