MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theultdev | 2025-11-17 21:02:59+00:00
This is the best rendition I've seen so far.

The Bill Clinton entity is interesting.

> 2009: Bill Clinton discontinued association with Jeffrey Epstein

> 2010: Jeffrey Epstein provided flights on jets to Bill Clinton

> 2010-2011: Jeffrey Epstein traveled via private aircraft with Bill Clinton

> 2011: Ghislaine Maxwell piloted helicopter for Bill Clinton

> 2014: Bill Clinton alleged presence at sex parties

> 2015: Bill Clinton distanced relationship from Jeffrey Epstein

Wasn't very good at discontinuing the relationship it seems.

Guess there is precedent for him lying about sexual activities though.

I think a sentiment analysis between the friendliness and social meetups between Epstein and other individuals would be useful.

Who were his friends after 2008 when he was first convicted?

Those who were still friends with him after 2008 were in on it or guilty by association, if not legally, socially.

Friends like Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers...

> From: Reid Hoffman

> Sent: 7/6/2015 5:04:31 PM

> To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]

> Subject: RE: ICYMI

> slow progress.

> planning to see you in August.

> Hope you're well.

Larry Summers has too many to list. Doesn't look good though digging through them.
by garbageoverflow | 2025-11-17 21:03:03+00:00
I was wondering how feasible it would be to reuse abandoned oil pumps for geothermal energy. A closed loop system [1] would probably be the most appropriate, with energy generation by spinning of a turbine by steam that gets recycled. I don't have the expertise and was wondering if someone can share a bit of knowledge with the rest of us.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-loop_geothermal
by fjfaase | 2025-11-17 21:03:17+00:00
No you don't because the same kind of quatum randomness is also at work in all of your cells and sometimes have far reaching effects. The reason why we do not free will, at least not as it is commonly understood, is independent of whether there is true randness randomness involved or not. It is because it our decisions are the result of (unconsious) processes over which we have no control. They just happen. The idea of 'free will' is a socialogical (and thus psychological) construct to influence behaviour. It allows you to blame yourself or others for things that just happened.
by basscomm | 2025-11-17 21:03:18+00:00
> But for keeping up to date on news, people use social media. RSS isn't the missing piece of the puzzle for changing that, an app on top of RSS is. And in the absence of Reader, nothing has shown up to fill that role that can compete with just trading gossip on Facebook.

I guess if you don't use social media or facebook you're out of luck?
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-17 21:03:39+00:00
> we’re totally fine to allow their suffering to continue unabated

People aren't "fine" with it exactly, it's just that the alternative usually looks (potentially) much worse.

Regime change would mean war with North Korea, and at the very least that'd be a ton of artillery shells landing on Seoul and killing a ton of civilians at the outset of the war.

North Korea by itself would obviously be much weaker than a presumed SK+US force, but then you have to worry about China potentially getting drawn in, and now you have two nuclear superpowers fighting each other in all-out war. Nobody really wants that.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-17 21:04:11+00:00
The more relevant question is, which Israeli companies are currently not involved in covert military operations?

The difficulty in comprehending an answer to this question is precisely why allowing ones military to perform such actions using covert means is so dangerous for a civilian population to support.

War is supposed to be fought in the open in order to protect the civilians.

I suppose when the distinction between soldier and civilian is not so easy to make, the profligate mindset which allows covert, indiscriminate mass murder at scale becomes a norm.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-17 21:04:15+00:00
Sometimes my cart gets accidentally out of bounds (because I parked too close to the grocer store's property line) and the wheels lock up. Then I try to drag it somewhere out of the way at least.

When my kid was a baby, I used to worry that someone might think I'm abandoning him or leaving him in a car unattended when walking the cart back (no one else with me), but it never became a concern unless the weather was too hot. I never did figure out how "leaving kids unattended" laws worked out with returning a shopping cart where the nearest corral was half way across the parking lot.
by mattmanser | 2025-11-17 21:04:19+00:00
Ben Affleck's character says it to him too directly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_1FjDHjBM

Maybe the author's not watched the movie in a while, as it's a direct contradiction of his blog post. The entire movie is about a bunch of people desperately trying to communicate to Will he can live a much fuller life if he drops his pride or attitude or fear of failure or whatever you want to call it.
by pimeys | 2025-11-17 21:04:39+00:00
We had a Samsung dishwasher. Took exactly 5 years for it to spill water to the floor.

Now we have a Miele, as we do have their laundry machine and fridge already. The laundry machine is soon 20 years old, been doing laundry around 5-6 times every week and works still like new. The fridge is supposedly built by Liebherr. It feels really high quality: the door handle feels nice and locks the door properly. There are multiple different temperature areas that hold the temperature quite steady.

The dishwashers have certain tiers. I don't know if it makes sense to pay for the TwinDos detergent system: you can wash dishes without filling detergent. The detergent is proprietary and quite expensive. Sadly if you want to connect the dishwasher to your home assistant, that feature is only in the most expensive models. The door that opens automatically when the program is done is great though. You can do the eco program which is quite slow, but it spends the last hours just the door open, and in the morning you have clean and dry dishes with minimal water and energy use.
Founder Leaving Startup, How?
by burneracount_sf | 2025-11-17 21:04:47+00:00
My cofounder asked me to leave our startup.

I own around 10% (vested), the company is doing enterprise b2b. It's a venture-backed startup currently "valued" at ~$20M based on SAFEs.

Right now ARR is at around 600k. Growth was flatlining for the last 2 years. Next year it will probably double to around 1.2-1.4M ARR (got them some deals recently that will convert next year).

Company is in a market that - if they do not add additional services - is not A) very big (maybe TAM 1B max). The market has very low margins.

What is a reasonable way to part? Would you optimise on cash pay out or equity?
by gridspy | 2025-11-17 21:05:25+00:00
Horizon Zero Dawn (the PlayStation and later steam game where you're an archer in a world of robots)

There are probably a lot of open world RPGs which are all good.

The linked site lists a lot of patterns that any game with an RPG like unlock system or item collection system will contain, like (some) grinding and Endowed value. Personally I feel that this is only a dark pattern when it goes beyond motivation for fun and into "I can't stop playing" addictive qualities.
by dangus | 2025-11-17 21:06:24+00:00
It’s hard to take you seriously if you’re going to claim equivalent AMD processors cost double or more.

Your example of tossing your motherboard away is not a very good one here. That was your choice to act illogically. My AMD AM4 motherboard started with a Ryzen 1600, 3600, and now runs a 5600X3D.

Basically I’ve had this same motherboard for something like 6 or 7 years and the performance difference between a Ryzen 1600 and 5600X3D is completely wild. I’ve had no need to buy a new board for the better part of a decade. If you’re buying a new board with every processor purchase that’s a huge cost difference.

When I say that generic benchmarks are bad I mean that cpu benchmarks like the one you are just now linking are bad. You need more practical benchmarks like in-game FPS, how long a turn takes in Stellaris, how long it takes to encode a video or open an ZIP file, etc.

That is where the X3D chips play in as well. You might be able to buy an Intel chip with more cores and better productivity performance, but if you’re eyeing gaming performance like I imagine most desktop DIY builders are, you’d rather get better gaming oriented performance and sacrifice some productivity performance.

If you are gaming and buy a 9800X3D, Intel literally doesn’t not make anything faster at any price. You can offer Intel $5,000 and they won’t have anything to sell you that goes faster at playing games.

At lower price points, AMD still ends up making a lot of sense for their long-supported sockets, low cost boards, better power/heat efficiency, and X3D chips performing well in gaming applications.
by derriz | 2025-11-17 21:06:51+00:00
> Programming languages have . . . control flow

I do not want control flow of any kind in my configuration file. Nor do I want expressions or any kind of evaluation.

Greppability is a must-have feature for me. As is simplicity - I don’t want to have to deal with internalizing interpreter mechanics, rules for precedence, variable scope, etc just to figure out what config values my program is going to be provided with.

Any time I’ve been forced to work with a system which used a general or restricted programming language to express configuration, it’s been a nightmare.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-17 21:07:05+00:00
To be clear, I don't really have a problem with using AIs as a possible starting point. If they have citations for example, you can check those and make sure the AI isn't making things up, or sometimes they can point you in the right general direction of things to research and verify. But using them directly as a source is just nonsensical.
by least | 2025-11-17 21:07:14+00:00
> You have a good point, but is a phone equal to your private home, or is it similar to a car (where you are required to have transparent glass windows). Is it a right or a privilege?

We regulate the operation of motor vehicles because they pose an immediate safety risk. As in, the use of one could reasonably result in injury or death. A phone is not something you could reasonably expect to be used to create immediate harm (injury, death) and you wouldn't regulate one as such. That's not to say that aspects of it can't be regulated, but the fact that it can be a tool used to generate harm does not make it itself particularly dangerous.

> But to challenge your argument further, if the majority are fine with having cameras in their homes that don't transmit unless a crime is detected, isn't that just democracy?

Yes, which is why we avoid direct democracy pretty much everywhere in the world. But rights aren't something that can be taken away by a vote. Only protections against a government violating your rights can. If you could vote away your rights then pretty much every authoritarian government would be wholly justified in their abusive actions.

> What's getting lost in this discussion might be the fact that the majority of people don't care that much about privacy, especially when heinous crimes are involved. Furthermore, the equivalent would be house builders installing cameras in homes, not home owners being required to install one. But a reasonable compromise might be scanning content being transmitted instead of stored?

Most people don't care about a lot of things. That's another reason why we don't have most people writing legislation. There are tons of things I have extremely limited knowledge about that someone else feels very strongly about and vice versa. The majority of people feeling apathetic towards something isn't an indicator that the majority is correct.
by rayiner | 2025-11-17 21:07:51+00:00
> It’s the cheapest way to build effective drama, but if you don’t fully dissolve yourself in the movie logic, the whole time you want to scream, “can’t anyone just talk about what’s happening directly?!”

People in real-world situations aren't exactly good at recognizing what's really happening, much less talking about it directly. Humans spend a lot of energy on self-deception, as well as lying to each other to reinforce everyone's respective delusions.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-17 21:08:17+00:00
> Trying to regulate prices always results in gluts, shortages

When the demand is higher than the supply and supply is inelastic (which is the case for these kind of events) then there's no difference between unaffordable prices and a shortage.

The difference only exist for the upper class who can pay the inflated price anyway.

In a society where there are significant differences in income, the price signal is meaningless and it just segregates people by revenues.
by nomel | 2025-11-17 21:08:25+00:00
No, we broke the game by domestication, where we simplified hunting to walking the animal into the slaughterhouse. Mammalian wildlife is < 5% of mammalian biomass on earth, with humans being around 30% and domesticated animals being around 60% [1].

For example, there are around 30 billion chickens in the world, butchered within 6-8 weeks. Repeat.

Domestication was partly the result of not eliminating apex predators. A shepherd would guard a flock of sheep, and farmers would historically live/sleep near/with the animals, to protect them day and night.

[1] https://wildlife.org/on-a-global-scale-livestock-outweighs-w...
by cestith | 2025-11-17 21:08:47+00:00
Primates, canids, felids, and ungulates are all subsets of mammals and all have further subsets. Mammalia is further a subset of animalia. When we’re discussing categorizations, it’s often helpful to have multiple levels of categories. I’m not sure why you seem to be calling out specificity as a gotcha, when my argument isn’t at all that we don’t need multiple terms. It’s that we should consider these things in terms of similarity and specific differences, not throw away a term as useless as the article and its headline suggest.
by blauditore | 2025-11-17 21:08:51+00:00
3-year-olds actually have quite a vocabulary, so they can certainly talk about what the knobs are doing, maybe just not as accurately as adults.

Regarding discovering functionality: The author mentions Montessori stuff, and the philosophy there is unguided discovery, "let them figure out by themselves". Not sure if that's how the author is planning to use this too, though.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-17 21:09:03+00:00
I wish the iPad went back to being more iOS-like: something like multiple Safari windows, each with their own collection of tabs, is something I wish I could disable (both for myself, and for some of the seniors I'm tech support for).

I have iDevices because I want simplicity and single-task-ness; I have Macs for multi-tasking.

If Apple needs to satisfy both single- and multi-tasking iDevices users, there should be some kind of mode toggle.
by cstrahan | 2025-11-17 21:09:29+00:00
> but those that I have used (GitHub, [...])

> Most MCP severs don't sit in between the LLM and the API endpoints [...]

Your first example certainly isn't an example of that: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

I suppose someone could try to abuse MCP by stuffing information about REST API endpoints into a the prompt/descriptions in a small MCP "skeleton" service, but I don't know of any. Can you provide examples?

> they just teach them how to use the tools and then the LLM calls the APIs directly as any HTTP client would.

I suspect you might have some deep misunderstandings about MCP.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-17 21:09:32+00:00
I remember back when the iPhone came out, this was perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of it, at least to me. We were so used to phones coming with crap on them and tightly coupled to the carrier. If the carrier didn't want something on the phone, it never got there. So Apple comes along and says "Hey, AT&T, we will make you the exclusive carrier for the iPhone iff you leave the entire experience under our control."

There were lots of downsides to that deal, of course, but I appreciate that it broke the carriers' exclusive control over mobile phones.
by strix_varius | 2025-11-17 21:09:57+00:00
E-Bikes are sold & regulated in "classes" (at least where I live in the US).

A class 1 e-bike is pedal-assist and stops assisting beyond 20mph (mine, for instance, tapers off starting probably around 15 mph).

A class 2 is the above, plus a throttle.

A class 3 is anything that assists over 20mph. The "basically motorcycle" set exists here.
by cbmuser | 2025-11-17 21:10:24+00:00
»Enough renewables are deployed annually to replace the global nuclear fission fleet, year after year, even when accounting for capacity factor derating (to make a like for like comparison).«

Wind and solar do not replace conventional power plants and never will.

Heck, Germany tried that on the small island of Pellworm and failed and yet some people think this will work out for the whole country.

It does not work.
by elgenie | 2025-11-17 21:10:27+00:00
This working is a function of density. First, imagining a park at the corner is a huge assumption.

Second, if the park isn't within shouting distance of the necessary number of kids, half of the ones within shouting distance are at parent-scheduled activities, and half of the remainder aren't allowed to brave street crossings because of the six-foot-tall hoods and inattentive drivers of passing ChildMurker1050s, no amount of park yelling will be sufficient.
by iso1631 | 2025-11-17 21:10:40+00:00
At home I use 15,000kWh of oil for heating each year (about 10kWh per litre, 1500 litres), and 8,000kWh of electricity (we use a lot more than the average household). For driving that's another 5000kWh a year if at 4 miles per kWh.

So even in a residential context, electricity is only about 1/4 of the demand. Across the whole country it's less than 300TWh out of 1500TWh, under 20%.

That excludes "imported energy" though, as in goods which used energy to make but were then imported.
by runjake | 2025-11-17 21:10:46+00:00
> But really, imagine how much power these things have and if you could actually run a free (as in freedom, in the GNU sense) OS on them and really get access to all that power in a handheld device. Only if.

I sort of don't have to imagine, because somewhat viable options like this exist (eg. GrapheneOS). The issue there is that I'd still rather use a more polished handheld device (iOS) than jump ship and get those extra features.

And wondering what GrapheneOS would be like with all its power, plus the polish of iOS is pointless fantasy, because it likely won't ever happen.

My guess, based on experience, is that eventually, iOS's quality will degrade enough that I'll find Android or GrapheneOS more attractive.
by francescopace | 2025-11-17 21:10:53+00:00
Yes, you’re both correct:

You need one sensor for each area you want to monitor independently. With devices more capable than the ESP32‑S3, the coverage would likely be greater.

The ESP32‑C6, in particular, offers significantly better performance. Check out this comparison video from Espressif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjdpzM6zVJ8
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-17 21:11:05+00:00
It's derived from the "how do you treat the waiter" test in first dates, so it's not like this came from nowhere. Your small actions where "it doesn't matter" can have surprising revelations on your overall disposition in life. e.g., if you're reaction to being asked about a shopping cart is violence, that says a lot about how you treat many confrontations in your life.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-17 21:11:35+00:00
I've think they're also much better at creating useful end to end UI tests than unit or integration tests, but unfortunately those are hard to create self contained environments for without bringing a lot of baggage and docker containers, which not all agent VMs might support yet. Getting headless QT running was a pain too, but now ChatGPT Codex can see screenshots and show them in chat (Claude Code can't show them in the chat for some reason) and it's been generating much better end to end tests than I've seen for unit/integration.
by duderific | 2025-11-17 21:11:36+00:00
As another data point, my son was 5 when the lockdowns hit and missed the end of his kindergarten year and the entirety of first grade. He's doing fine.

My daughter was 18 months and went back to preschool at age three. She's also doing fine.

In fact I don't know any of their peer group who I would consider to be "having a terrible time adjusting to school and normal social interaction" which could be directly tied to Covid. There were some kids who had already been identified as having developmental challenges, and that hasn't changed.
by glenstein | 2025-11-17 21:11:38+00:00
A lot of the governance structures with "foundation" in their name, e.g. Apache Foundation, Linux Foundation, Rust Foundation, involve some combination of corporate parties, maintainers, independent contributors without any singularly corporate heavy hand responsible for their momentum.

I don't know that road maps are any more or less "community driven" than anything else given the nature of their structures, but one can draw a distinction between them and the degree of corporate alignment like React (Facebook), Swift (Apple).

I'm agreeable enough to your characterization of open source projects. It's broad but, I think, charitably interpreted, true enough. But I think you can look at the range of projects and see ones that are multi stakeholder vs those with consolidated control and their degree of alignment with specific corporate missions.

When Google tries to, or is able to, muscle through Manifest v3, or FLoC or AMP, it's not trying to model benevolent actor standing on open source principles.
by cryptonector | 2025-11-17 21:12:09+00:00
See u/cyberax's comment below. It would be nice to be able to create scalar (as opposed to table-valued) bindings that can be referred to in a WHERE (or JOIN) clause. Currently it's SELECT that establishes such bindings, and... well, it's not terribly clear where they can be used (certainly in HAVING, but first you have to GROUP BY, no?). u/cyberax's idea is to have a LET for this that can come before WHERE and before SELECT.
by toast0 | 2025-11-17 21:13:08+00:00
The Microsoft blog suggests there was miminal source spoofing (although I don't know how they determine that). But if you can't trust the IP source, packet samples from your border router should indicate which upstream is sending those packets ... then you ask them to find the source... eventually you'll get somewhere ... but when the sources are distributed, it's not so helpful to find the source, unless there's a mechanism to stop the source from sending it.

When I was running servers that would routinely attract DDoSed at ~ 10 Gbps, I ended up always running a low sample rate packet capture. Anytime I noticed a DDoS, I could go and look at the packets. If you've got connectivity to sink and measure 15 Tbps of DDoS, you can probably influence your providers to take some sampled packet captures and look at them too.

Even without clear information from packet captures, 15 Tbps is going to make an impact on traffic graphs, and you can figure out sources from those, although it might be a bit tricky because the attack duration was reported at only 40 seconds, so if someone only has hourly stats, it might be too small to be noticed; but once a minute stats are pretty common.
by iso1631 | 2025-11-17 21:13:32+00:00
That's about here, although the town is only a 10 minute drive.

And people moan that some kids get taxis to school, because the government has decided that it's not worth operating a school closer than 5 miles, but when you need to shift 2 people you don't put on a minibus.

There's only two primary schools within 10 miles which have fewer than 50 pupils on the (7 year) roll though, it's not an overly rural area. I suspect townies would have palpitations when they find out about state boarding schools, because if you live on Tresco you can't commute to the high school every day