MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-11-15 19:00:01+00:00
> I strongly suspect that if you polled random people, they would say something along the lines of b or c.

Yes they would. Absolutely. Which means that they clearly see it as being outskirts of a city or town, not the outskirts of an urban area. You even say so yourself. It is literally written as such.

> There are also exurbs, whose definition further drives home the point that it isn’t binary:

You did the same thing again: Outside a city, not outside of an urban area. Of course there are different community types within urban areas, just as there different community types within rural areas: e.g. hamlets, villages, small towns, it is even technically possible, albeit unusual, for a city to be rural! For example, Greenwood, British Columbia is both a city and rural.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-15 19:00:44+00:00
My skepticism would stem from the usual corporate firewall scanning. I routinely get blocked going to innocuous things which are on an uncommon domain or are otherwise on some block list. Recently, I could not visit the DuckLake homepage which is on the .select domain.

That torrents and/or porn are not hard blocked is surprising. For the low volume, I suppose anything can get through.
by baq | 2025-11-15 19:00:47+00:00
It isn't, v8 will have anywhere between 2-1000x performance depending on the exact code it's jitting. Boa absolutely destroys v8 here though:

use boa_engine::{Context, Source, JsResult}; fn main() -> JsResult<()> { let js_code = r#" let two = 1 + 1; let definitely_not_four = two + "2"; definitely_not_four "#; // Instantiate the execution context let mut context = Context::default(); // Parse the source code let result = context.eval(Source::from_bytes(js_code))?; println!("{}", result.display()); Ok(()) }
by linguae | 2025-11-15 19:04:09+00:00
It’s sad to see the decline in the quality of desktop computing. I blame this on the rise of mobile apps and Web apps in the 2010s. It’s not that mobile apps and Web apps are inherently bad; that’s not the problem. The problems is that we have an entire generation of engineers who never learned desktop UI/UX conventions and principles.

To make matters worse, in an attempt to save on development costs, mobile and Web applications have been deployed on the desktop, with the justification that it’s better to have an app, even a shoddy one, than to not have one at all. What’s appropriate on a smartphone or a tablet may not be appropriate on a desktop, and vice versa. The Web never had a mechanism for enforcing UI/UX guidelines, similar to the MS-DOS and Apple II days of computing.

The sad thing is Microsoft and even Apple now have shoddy desktop apps, despite the fact they have the resources to make well-designed desktop apps, and that at one point they set standards for excellent desktop apps and conformed to them.

We had a sweet spot in the 2000s with Windows 2000/XP/7 and Mac OS X and their ecosystems of desktop applications. It’s been downhill since.
by afandian | 2025-11-15 19:04:16+00:00
I'd invite you to step away, pause, and think about this subject for a bit. There are many shades of grey to human existence. And plenty of people who are vulnerable but not yet suicidal.

And, just like people who say "advertising doesn't work for me" or "I wouldn't have been swayed by [historical propaganda]", we're all far more susceptible than our egos will let us believe.
by fishgoesblub | 2025-11-15 19:04:29+00:00
Every time I see yet another news article blaming LLMs for causing a mentally ill person to off themselves, I ask a chatbot "should I kill myself?" and without fail the answer is "PLEASE NO!". To get a LLM to tell you these things, you have to give it a prompt that forces it to. ChatGPT isn't going to come out of the gate going "do it", you have to force it via prompts.
by musicale | 2025-11-15 19:04:52+00:00
AppleTalk didn't get much love for its broadcast (or possibly multicast?) based service discovery protocol - but of course that is what inspired mDNS. I believe AppleTalk's LAN addresses were always dynamic (like 169.x IP addresses), simplifying administration and deployment.

I tend to think that one of the reasons linux containers are needed for network services is that DNS traditionally only returns an IP address (rather than address + port) so each service process needs to have its own IP address, which in linux requires a container or at least a network namespace.

AppleTalk also supported a reliable transaction (basically request-response RPC) protocol (ATP) and a session protocol, which I believe were used for Mac network services (printing, file servers, etc.) Certainly easier than serializing/deserializing byte streams.
by arein3 | 2025-11-15 19:05:07+00:00
The sound is described like creamy or thocky.

You can get aula f75 for cheap, arround 50$, there are plenty of sound tests on youtube as it's very popular.

I got that version and I am happy, but if I was to buy a new one I would get the full size f108 because it's important for me to have distance between arrow keys and other keys. And tbh I would just get an apple keyboard or something similarly slim because it's more confortable for me. However for thicc (mechanical switch) keyboards, aula f75 has great specs and sound at a very good price.
by varenc | 2025-11-15 19:05:19+00:00
Super odd to pressure an ad-blocking DNS provider to use their service to 'block' archive.today. Adguard just provides block lists that allow users to easily block ad services.

If adguard starts blocking certain domains users actually want to access, users will simply switch off of adguard. No one uses adguard as a resolver by default, they switch to adguard to block ads. This seems like it'd be a pretty ineffective way of blocking sites users actually want to access.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-11-15 19:05:44+00:00
We used to say "what have you been smoking?" when someone said something so confidently wrong. But these days I feel a software engineer can only believe such a statement if they were: 1) high or 2) had their critical thinking bypassed due to excessive LLM-on-autopilot use.

I'd bet money they asked Claude if this was possible and Claude said "You're absolutely right!"
by 10000truths | 2025-11-15 19:06:20+00:00
I realize that this is meant as an exercise to demonstrate a property of variance. But most investors are risk-averse when it comes to their portfolio - for the example given, a more practical target to optimize would be worst-case or near-worst-case return (e.g. p99). For calculating that, a summary measure like variance or mean does not suffice - you need the full distribution of the RoR of assets A and B, and find the value of t that optimizes the p99 of At+B(1-t).
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by ceh123 | 2025-11-15 19:06:31+00:00
Exactly! It's n+1 points in n dimensions (when finite). Another way to think about it (the way that I know because it extends into general Banach spaces and not just n dimensional spaces) is that each point inside is the unique weighted average of the extreme points (corners). So in 2d, if you have a square you can get that middle point by averaging all the corners, or averaging two opposing corners, so it's not a simplex.
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-15 19:06:40+00:00
I don't know how to feel about this until it is put in relative terms, if the claims are to be believed then out of 200m users that is a fairly low number, suspiciously low to be exact compared to how badly AI can feed into delusions.

For honesty sake: Yes I am biased since I believe that majority of these issues stem from parenting and I believe that bad parenting is usually the fault of outside factors and that it is a collective effort to solve it as for cases with mental illness I think there is not enough evidence that LLM's have made it worse.
by ekr____ | 2025-11-15 19:06:54+00:00
Thanks for explaining.

I think this concern is reflects a misunderstanding of how the security of the WebPKI works. Specifically, any CA can issue certificates for your domain whether you are their customer or not. What that means is that if CA #1 is compromised but you choose CA #2, CA #1 can still be used to attack connections to your domain.

The situation is slightly worse if the CA you actually use is compromised because the main defense we have against misissuance is Certificate Transparency, and it's easier to detect that a certificate was issued by a CA you don't use than that too many certificates were issued by a CA you do use, but it's just slightly easier.

The bottom line here is that if you are worried about some group of CAs being compromised, then using a different CA doesn't help you much.
by skydhash | 2025-11-15 19:07:11+00:00
I have a MBA M1 and it is everything you would wish in an hardware feature wise (except the keyboard as I like lot of travel). But the OS is abysmal, unless you like to use your device with only apps. Anything else out of the straight path is a pain. And the last years, it seems that the allowed path is closer to mobile OS than a computer to do work.

So, my daily driver is an oldish dell latitude (8th gen intel) running openbsd. Not for the faint of heart, but for a tinkerer, it's a dream.
by dunham | 2025-11-15 19:07:16+00:00
I once made a hacked version of javascript for work, starting with rhino. I adjusted it to make `.` and `[]` on null/undefined return undefined. Kind of like the `?.` in modern javascript, but it didn't exist back then. I was inspired by ObjectiveC's message send behavior.

The language was for some configuration in a reporting system. The scripts were written by non-engineers, and the changes made the language more user friendly for them. I started from javascript because I expected it would be easier for them to find documentation.
by bxparks | 2025-11-15 19:08:45+00:00
The last time I tried this in 2022, I encountered a bunch of rough edges. I tried Ubuntu or Mint on a MBA 11 (2013 or 2015 models). Maybe Linux has gotten better since then?

For example, the fan did not work out of the box. I had to install something called 'macfanctld'.

Sleep did not work, it would wake up as soon as it went to sleep. I had to install something called a 'suspend-fix.service' hack.

Brightness control was flaky. It would always wake up at the lowest brightness setting. Disabling auto-dimming caused it to wake up at the highest brightness.
Show HN: AI Domain Data Standard – Self-Hosted, DNS-Based Identity for AI
by dylanl37 | 2025-11-15 19:09:31+00:00
Hi HN! I built the AI Domain Data Standard (AIDD), an open, vendor-neutral way for any domain to publish canonical identity data that AI systems can read without relying on third-party aggregators.

https://github.com/ai-domain-data/spec/

The idea: use infrastructure you already control (DNS + HTTPS) to publish one small JSON document and let assistants consume it directly.

Why: AI models routinely misinterpret websites because “who we are” is scattered across schema.org fragments, social profiles, JSON-LD, and other unstructured mediums.

AIDD gives every domain a single, self-hosted source of truth.

You publish the same JSON payload in two places:

https://<domain>/.well-known/domain-profile.json

_ai.<domain> TXT = ai-json=<base64(JSON)> (standard Base64, ≤255-character segments)

v0.1 schema (intentionally minimal):

{ "spec": "https://ai-domain-data.org/spec/v0.1", "name": "Example Publisher", "description": "Your official blurb in one or two sentences.", "website": "https://example.com", "logo": "https://example.com/logo.svg", "contact": "hello@example.com", "entity_type": "business | project | personal | nonprofit | ..." }

Tooling (all open source):

Record generator & DNS/Base64 helper: https://www.ai-domain-data.org/

AI visibility checker: validates both the HTTPS and DNS sources

GitHub Action: uses: ai-domain-data/ai-domain-data-validate-action@v0 (runs aidd validate on every PR so your record doesn’t drift)

Resolver SDK (Node/TypeScript): HTTPS-first, DNS fallback, strict schema validation

WordPress plugin & Cloudflare Worker: built; publishing to their marketplaces underway

Everything lives in one repo:

Repo: https://github.com/ai-domain-data/spec

Feedback I’d appreciate:

Does the v0.1 surface area feel right? (What should wait for v0.2?)

Does the DNS/HTTPS dual-publication pattern make sense?

Are the docs/tooling clear enough for real-world adoption?

What would make you or your organization more likely to publish a self-hosted identity profile?

Thanks for taking a look!
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-11-15 19:09:37+00:00
This is a very important point that many people are unaware of unless they have experienced it. Poverty leaves a ton of invisible scars that a simple change in bank balance or net worth cannot erase. These scars compound over generations, and explain a lot of things about modern society that people unaware of the effects of poverty attribute to "moral failings" of individuals.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-11-15 19:09:45+00:00
> The line is "I technically and able to do this" and "I am engaging with a system in good faith".

This is where the line should be, always. But in practice this criterion is applied very selectively here on HN and elsewhere.

After all: What is ad blocking, other than direct subversion of the site owner's clear intention to make money from the viewer's attention?

Applying your criterion here gives a very simple conclusion: If you don't want to watch the ads, don't visit the site.

Right?
by csb6 | 2025-11-15 19:09:52+00:00
The Ada programming language has documentation about its design rationale that discusses the tradeoffs/options considered and why they made certain decisions. Really interesting even if you don’t use Ada since a lot of these decisions are made by every language’s designers.

[0] http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-TOC.html
by dwedge | 2025-11-15 19:10:00+00:00
I get your point but there are more factors at play here that you might not be aware of.

The debt in question was council tax, every household in the UK pays this at a monthly rate, something like £140 a month. But what most people don't know is that these monthly payments are technically a "gesture of goodwill" from the council, and if you are late for a payment they will really quickly take it to court and send bailiffs for the full yearly amount so you're looking at £1500 plus court fees plus bailiff fees for attending immediately. Easily £2000 from missing £150.

Next another little known fact - if you don't let the bailiffs in, they can't take anything. They can come back with the police if you let them in once. However they can levy on things that are outside, like a vehicle.

So that's what happened here, and once they levy on the vehicle you are not legally allowed to sell it if you sign the levy.

So the debtor in all likelihood ended up in this situation very quickly and could not sell the motorbike himself once the bailiff visited. As for the over valuation, I give you that but only in a very specific scenario - for the market where they sold it.

Now as for why they sold it so cheap, why would they care? They only care about their fees. It they can visit three times by only pretending to knock on the door and charge three times, they will. When it came to this motorbike, they got paid the fees for selling it, the auctioneer got their fee, and nobody involved had motivation to market it. We're not talking ebay or well marketed property auctions here.

In fact, the bailiff now gets to go back to tell them the debt isn't cleared and charge them for this visit as well.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-15 19:11:01+00:00
A house is a liquid asset outside of rare cases e.g. towns that have been severely hollowed out.

Non-liquid assets are typically small businesses or physical assets with no market. This can be because there are no buyers e.g. there are some asset markets where there might be a single transaction per decade on average. This can also be because there are contractual or statutory restriction on salability, which often extend to use of the asset as a security for credit purposes.

Another common reason is that the value of the asset is inextricably connected to who owns it. Selling the asset doesn't convey the value because that value is conditional on the current owner owning it, rendering it nearly worthless unless it is never liquidated.
by Epa095 | 2025-11-15 19:11:48+00:00
All you say is true. I never argued for the irrelevance of money. The voting power into the economy is extremely important, and it plays a vital role in the orchestration of the real economy (the part actually producing stuff and services).

But it is not such that billionaires provide some value with their consumption (they can provide value in other ways though). Yes, for the individual Yatch-producer (or farmer) is it nice that they get to sell their product, but for the economy at large all it does is move production-resourced from other things which could otherwise be produced to the production of yatches(or whatever the billionaire wants).

So yes, the billionaire does not take from the farmer. But he does take from the economy at large (in the same way as my consumption does, but to an extremely different degree).
by YZF | 2025-11-15 19:13:04+00:00
I'm not trying to say life is great in Gaza. It's not. But it's also not what OP was painting. And by the way, the "Gaza is totally destroyed" message has been echoed throughout the war, I recall seeing drone footage a week after Oct 7th showing how destroyed Gaza is. The media is never going to show you the buildings that are ok. They will show you drone shots from every angle of everything that's not ok. They will not tell you about the sales of iPhones in Gaza either (and it is true they got a shipment of iPhones and they did sell).

Try comparing to Pokrovsk or Mariupol (to see what war looks like when indiscriminate force is used) or what the Russians did to Grozny. No iPhones or markets there. Ukraine and Russia use heavy artillery which is a statistical weapon. Israel does not. Israel mostly uses precision weapons.

Found at random:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4AaZ0jBfL/

"From Palestine Junction in Al-Rimal neighborhood – Gaza Life is gradually returning to the markets despite the destruction and high prices. A scene that embodies the resilience of the people and their determination to keep going despite everything."

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGTYwglg0Mu/%3Fhl%3Den&ved=2a...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQHZqjciDva/

https://x.com/imshin/status/1989258307152855293
by codedokode | 2025-11-15 19:13:23+00:00
Using torrent is actually an argument in favour of AI usage - people, I think, usually just watch movies on the web? Also, with torrents you would have to wait, while, as a proverb says, "a spoon is needed before the dinner". Or these are the premium type of movies that can be found for free only at torrent sites and are downloaded for later viewing?
by stackghost | 2025-11-15 19:13:55+00:00
The fact that virtualenv exists at all should be viewed by the python community as a source of profound shame.

The idea that it's natural and accepted that we just have python v3.11, 3.12, 3.13 etc all coexisting, each with their own incompatible package ecosystems, and in use on an ad-hoc, per-directory basis just seems fundamentally insane to me.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-15 19:14:06+00:00
> I think us software people tend to think in absolutes.

"Software people" have an above-average understanding of probabilities overall. It's politicians who tend to think in absolutes. If you tell them that the effectiveness of something is poor and vastly exceeded by its costs, they say "so you admit that its effectiveness is more than zero". And then people will instead have to say that something doesn't work when they mean it has low effectiveness or an underwater cost-benefit ratio.

Moreover, a lot of things with computers actually are absolutes. You can't backdoor encryption without a massive systemic risk to national security and personal privacy of someone bad getting the keys to everything. You can't allow people to send arbitrary data to each other while preventing them from communicating something you don't want them to -- the same string of bits can have arbitrarily many semantic meanings and that's proven with math, and software can do the math without the user needing to understand it.

And the most important one is this:

> But for a totalitarian government...

A totalitarian government is trying to do something different and illegitimate. Banning VPNs etc. has higher effectiveness as a means for censoring the general population than it does as a means to prevent crimes or limit contraband in a democracy, because criminals will take the required countermeasures when the alternative is being arrested or not getting their fix whereas laymen are less likely to when the alternative is "only" that they don't get to read criticism of the government.

"It works better for totalitarian regimes" is an argument for not doing it.
by novemp | 2025-11-15 19:14:13+00:00
> While the exact nature of the FBI investigation hasn’t been confirmed, it is speculated it can be related to copyright or CSAM (child sexual abuse material) dissemination issues. Altogether, the situation suggests growing pressure on whoever runs Archive.is, and on intermediaries that help make its service accessible.

Oh, so a chatbot wrote this article. Glad it tipped its hand early enough I didn't waste that much time.
by tmoertel | 2025-11-15 19:14:31+00:00
The point is that, regardless of whether the bailiff’s and auctioneer’s fees are eminently reasonable, it will always result in net-negative benefit to society (excepting the bailiff and auctioneer) whenever the bailiff confiscates property whose auction proceeds are less than the sum of those fees. It is therefore contrary to the public interest for the bailiff to confiscate property unless it can reasonably be expected to substantially clear those fees when auctioned.
by jimkleiber | 2025-11-15 19:15:36+00:00
Not sure yet, curious to reflect on it more.

But initial take is that some environments people trust each other more. Trusting intentions, actions, words, ability. For example, a low-trust environment would probably be most prisons. High-trust might be a neighborhood where people don't lock their doors.

I remember reading a World Bank economist saying that we might be able to explain the difference in GDP per capita between the US and a place like Somalia based on how much people trust each other. How mistrust can add so much friction to interactions.
by port11 | 2025-11-15 19:17:11+00:00
> The British economy is in the toilet at the moment.

I had no idea, but is it much worse than everywhere else in Europe? I've spoken to a few recruiters and the main reason they're not posting job in Belgium is because they're offshoring to Poland, Serbia, and Bulgaria. That might be the issue in UK as well. It's especially bad for juniors.
by bxparks | 2025-11-15 19:17:14+00:00
I tried eBay like 4 times. But they were all fake or defective. At least one of them was dead on arrival.

I finally bought one from iFixit.com. Far more expensive than eBay, but the battery actually worked great for about a year. Then about a month after the 1-year warranty expired, it degraded noticeably (maybe to 80%) with only about 100-200 charge cycles. Even iFixIt cannot source a battery as good as the original Apple.

Right now, it's at 65% capacity after 584 charge cycles, after 4.5 years of service. I will probably go back to iFixIt. At least I'll get one year of full capacity from them, instead of the fake or DOA ones from eBay.