MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jp1016 | 2025-11-28 08:55:18+00:00
I had some success with side projects a while back, but I haven’t been able to spend much time on them lately. The anxiety is still there, especially with the current layoffs and the state of the economy. My plan is to go indie again once I reach lean FIRE, so money isn’t something I have to worry about and I can focus on building things I enjoy.

Monetization is always the tricky part, since most of the ideas I’m drawn to aren’t things a large audience would pay for. But working on projects I’m personally interested in is what keeps me motivated long enough to actually finish them. It’s easier now too, because AI lets me go from an idea to something usable in just a few hours.
by u_sama | 2025-11-28 08:55:39+00:00
The issue lies with the fact the word "hate" is too vague. If a minority calls someone from the majority "a dirty white pig" it is not considered hate in France, if someone from the majority calls "a dirty brown pig" there is more grounds. This creates an assymetry where depending on your position in society the same action can be considered hate or not. A trans person can be hateful towards hetero-normative people and get away with it, not the other way around according to the law. Both are the same action, same spirit, same "hate" only 1 is truly protected. In this case victims are not being protected by the law and the same hate-speech laws creates an inverted hierarchy dynamic. Another funny fact is due to the anti-hate speech spirit of people like you they keep increasing in scope and purpose, and that feature (not a bug) makes it so eventually ideas you agree with will become forbidden under the banner of 'protection' and only countries who have extreme protections like the US can keep true freedom of speech.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-28 08:55:39+00:00
At a macro level, more exports and less imports mean things should be good for their trade balance. Though you might rightfully worry about e.g. debt and other misaligned things in the Chinese economy. They have poor utilization of their production capacity for e.g. batteries.

The Chinese think in terms of expensive and cheap electricity rather than dirty and clean. The reason they have so much clean energy growth is because it's saving them money.

Subsidies are a very political/ideological talking point. But the traditional fossil fuel economy isn't exactly free from subsidies, incentives, tariffs, and other government instruments. The US having a dependence on oil and gas is hard to separate from its huge budgets for incentivizing and protecting that.

The Chinese have been very strategic about their R&D in the last few decades. It's paying off though. Demand for their clean tech exports is increasing and just when oil/gas markets are becoming increasingly volatile they are managing to be less dependent on those.
by throwaway77385 | 2025-11-28 08:56:00+00:00
~7 years here. I couldn't have said it better. You summed it up perfectly. Matches my experience entirely. I haven't yet found a working environment where things don't get marred by politics and plainly rude behaviour, especially by managers. I am sort of astounded that friendlier work environments don't seem to exist. I've been in the business about 20 years and have seen better and worse examples. The best places I worked for got close to keeping me, but even those situations were temporary. Eventually, acquisitions happen, the direction of the business changes, the good people leave and then it's time to find yet another job. Between that and the solo work, I have stuck with the solo work for much longer, so despite its challenges, it still seems preferable to me. But boy do you have to take care of your mental health.
by chii | 2025-11-28 08:56:49+00:00
> rise of the Eastern economic bloc

the exact same thing was said for japan when their economy boomed. Whether china falls to the same fate, or actually sustain and overtake the west, is yet to be determined. However, trump's policies aren't really helping (but in fact, is actually enabling them). By removing the US as a large consumer, the CCP could be forced to switch to internal consumption model instead, which both increases the standard of living of the people there, as well as decrease the reliance on exporting (so lower economic leverage).

Not to mention the west's economic policies are disparate between supposed allied countries - with friends like that, who needs enemies?
by ysleepy | 2025-11-28 08:57:43+00:00
Still, why endorse and practically make everyone implement an algorithm that only the NSA wants, while there is a superset already standardised.

This is about the known bad actor NSA forcing through their own special version of a crypto building block they might downgrade-attack me to.

I pay like 1% overhead to also do ecc, and the renegotiation to the non-hybrid costs 2x and a round-trip extra. This makes no sense apart from downgrade attacks.

If it turns out ecc is completely broken, we can add the PQ only suite then.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-28 08:58:41+00:00
> Lots of people go overboard with this, though, like taking flu reduction medicine with every single cold or using medication to go to work sick. American media seems especially accepting of people taking "flu medicine" over rest and recovery.

This is not specific to America; it's a thing in the entire Western world, and probably beyond. Because it's not like we have any other choice.

There is no slack in the system. Most people can't afford to have more than a few sick days in a year, and they prefer to save those up for when painkillers and cough medicine don't cut it anymore. Same with children, because a sick child staying home is usually equivalent to the parent taking a sick day themselves - either way, they're not at work.

We can talk about media or people going overboard once it becomes acceptable to skip work for a week because of sick kid, or in order to not get everyone in the office sick too.
by beeflet | 2025-11-28 08:58:41+00:00
I think mostly in a budgetary sense: Corruption, tax evasion. You can't just have a flow of wealth into some bureaucracy that goes unchecked, because the power the bureaucracy has to extract even more wealth increases over time. In the USA, the military industrial complex is the biggest example of this, the general self-licking ice cream cone.

I don't think it depends on hole location or rate of flooding. If the rate is greater than zero, and if the second derivative is non-negative (i.e. it isn't self regulating, the rate of loss itself does not decrease over time like a self-healing wound) then eventually it will flood. If the second derivative is zero, and the hole is very small relative to the size of the ship, it will take a while.

Our government is not well compartmentalized. The evolution of the US government has trended towards increasing federal over state power (for some good reasons). Maybe programs like social security are compartmentalized in the sense that if they collapse, they don't bring down other sectors of government.
by anonymousiam | 2025-11-28 08:59:59+00:00
It's not either or.

Meta, Microsoft, Google, & Apple have a profit motive for scooping up everything they can.

Every government in the world wants to do the same scooping, but their motive is "security."

These are not separate activities either. Governments are mandating the collection by corporations, so they can use that channel for their own purposes.
by steve_gh | 2025-11-28 09:00:00+00:00
Don't know about heavy trucks, but I can say this. I'm currently looking after a house being renovated in rural and hilly Northern England. There are a lots of trade folk coming by doing various things, all in the UK ubiquitous white vans. The decorator has an EV van. The sparky has an EV van. The groundworks folk have an EV van. When tradespeople are voting with their feet and buying EVs, then a shift is really happening.
by dosbod | 2025-11-28 09:00:24+00:00
I wonder if Tryptase affects Avian flu as well. Anyone know?

I'd also argue my partner and I got Avian flu one Xmas from eating free range eggs when there was an Avian flu pandemic up the road from them in Norfolk and the British Govt ordered culls.

Tryptase:

"A striking finding was decreased tryptase content in mast cells with copper overload, whereas copper starvation increased tryptase content." [1]

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5728160/

"Influenza A viruses are negative-stranded RNA viruses. Like many other enveloped viruses, they code for a surface glycoprotein that must be cleaved by cellular proteases for activation. HA, a major influenza surface glycoprotein, is translated as a single protein, HA0. For viral activation, HA0 (assembled as trimers) must be cleaved by a trypsin-like serine endoprotease at a specific site, normally coded for by a single basic amino acid (usually arginine) between the HA1 and HA2 domains of the protein. After cleavage, the two disulfide-bonded protein domains produce the mature form of the protein subunits as a prerequisite for the conformational change necessary for fusion and hence viral infectivity" [2]

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC33880/

I also wonder, by virtue of being a single strand of RNA, how long does it take for mutations to make the virus no longer viable in the environment it resides in?

In other words is a this a 3-4day process of replication and mutation which in effect kills itself off, rendering the need for immune system response and cough, cold, flu rememdies nothing more than containment effects?
by jve | 2025-11-28 09:00:41+00:00
Really? How do they turn it off? Where can I read about it?

I often pass the hydro bridge, so we have winters and whatnot - I didn't know they turn them off.

I can see hydro pumping power for all year long and being the top source of electricity in Latvia: https://www.ast.lv/en/electricity-market-review?year=2025&mo...
by shritama_saha | 2025-11-28 09:01:30+00:00
Real-time interaction between the agent and user is the backbone of video KYC. We built this on top of a WebRTC-based communication layer, which enables real-time communication via audio/video. Our goal was to build a modern, browser-friendly, and low-latency platform, and for that, WebRTC was the best fit. We leveraged the functionalities of WebRTC to utilise it for various use cases in video KYC. Let’s walk through the multiple layers that exist and how we used each one of them for video KYC
by qhwudbebd | 2025-11-28 09:01:43+00:00
while wait && [[ $SECONDS -lt $1 ]]; do read -t $(($1 - SECONDS)) done <><(:)

although if you're not too concerned about finishing early if a signal interrupts, probably

{ wait; read -t $1; } <><(:)

would be fine. You want the wait because otherwise bash won't reap the zombie from the process substitution until after the read times out.

Interestingly, it does reap on a blocked read without -t, so potentially the behaviour on -t would be considered a bug rather than as-designed.

There's also a loadable sleep builtin supplied with bash which calls into the internal fsleep() so should be reliable and without forking.
by alentred | 2025-11-28 09:03:09+00:00
If COVID demonstrated anything it is exactly the contrary, that we should not count on readily available vaccines, and rather should have *systemic* responses ready to be implemented when needed (including vaccine development, but not only). Every new virus is a new challenge and a vaccine may take time to develop. Meanwhile isolation protocols, masks etc. are all sensible actions. Prevention and prior investments into a wide range of measures, from education, to health protocols development and to vaccine technology research are all necessary to have these systemic responses ready in place.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-11-28 09:03:31+00:00
> if you're like most developers and reused any of those passwords elsewhere

Is this true? God I hope not, if developers don't even follow basic security practices then all hope is lost.

I'd assume this is stating the obvious, but storing credentials in environment variables or files is a big no-no. Use a security key or at the very least an encrypted file, and never reuse any credential for anything.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-11-28 09:03:36+00:00
I love! how Github, as a corporate company now owned by Microsoft, is directly tied to GoLang as the main repository of the vast majority of packages/dependencies.

Imagine the number of things that can go wrong when they try to regulate or introduce restrictions for build workflows for the purpose of making some extra money... lol

The original Java platform is a good example to think about.
by arkh | 2025-11-28 09:04:19+00:00
Most of those attacks do the same kind of things.

So I'm surprised to never see something akin to "our AI systems flagged a possible attack" in those posts. Or the fact Github from AI pusher fame Microsoft does not already use their AI to find this kind of attacks before they become a problem.

Where is this miracle AI for cybersecurity when you need it?
by VBprogrammer | 2025-11-28 09:04:29+00:00
And someone else will use the idea that this is a misconception to justify putting hundreds of lines in one function.

Some junior dev will then come along with his specific user story and, not wanting to tear the whole thing up, will insert his couple of lines. Repeat over a 10 year lifecycle and it becomes completely unmanageable.

I remember trying to tease apart hundreds of lines of functions in a language which didn't have the IDE support we have these days. It was always painful.

Even the most script like functions I've ever worked with benefit from comments like:

# Validate that the payment was successfully sent.

These subheadings can just as easily become functions. If you limit the context in each function it becomes a genuine improvement.
by beeflet | 2025-11-28 09:04:32+00:00
If there is a backdoor in an open-source system, and people know about it, then they will organize independently to patch it out. So it will be ineffective to the extent that the technology allows reprogrammability.

The only way you can beat it, as a governement trying to insert a backdoor, is through use of tivoization or some other technology that clinches control during manufacturing or other centralization weak points around economies of scale that the re-programmers don't have.
by dabber21 | 2025-11-28 09:04:48+00:00
When I feel like I have a virus I usually put on my hoody which I only wear when I feel ill and a scarf and before going to bed I drink a lot of herb or ginger tea (like two cans)

this is will heat up your body and you get some night sweats, this usually helps reducing the sick time.

I can't say if it actually helps, but its become a ritual for that occasion
by ammo1662 | 2025-11-28 09:05:06+00:00
Those BEV trucks come in both swappable battery and fast-charging models. Most support dual chargers for simultaneous charging. A 600kWh battery can be fully charged in about an hour with two 350kW chargers. Two more common 180kW charger takes around two hours. Some trucks even support four chargers at once. But for the small and cheap trucks used in city, they may take 4 hours for charging to run 200km.

I've also know some trucks used in mines that don't even need charging. The electricity generated when descending with a full load is enough to power the empty truck back uphill.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-28 09:05:10+00:00
> How many deaths are you willing to sacrifice on the altar of capitalism?

Zero. But I also don’t understand why you conflate “logistics” with capitalism.

For reference, about 50–70 pedestrians a year in Amsterdam are injured badly enough by cyclists to need ambulance or hospital treatment.

> in some European cities, there are zero pedestrian/cyclist traffic deaths yearly

What European city has zero pedestrian deaths?
by vlorr | 2025-11-28 09:05:38+00:00
The negativity doesn’t make much sense. The specs are strong, and the chip already taped out in October that’s a concrete milestone, not vaporware. Hardware of this class always takes months between tape-out and dev boards. Official announcement: https://vsora.com/vsora-announces-tape-out-of-game-changing-...

Multiple independent sources confirmed the tape-out: EE Times: https://www.eetimes.eu/vsora-tapes-out-ai-inference-chip-for...

L’Informaticien: https://www.linformaticien.com/magazine/infra/64028-vsora-me...

Solutions Numériques: https://www.solutions-numeriques.com/vsora-franchit-un-cap-a...

There’s also an industrial manufacturing partnership with GUC: https://www.design-reuse.com/news/202529700-vsora-and-guc-pa...

Strategically, having a European AI inference chip matters. The US has already threatened export limits to Europe, and China has shown similar behavior (e.g., Nexperia). Building local supply is important.

Calling this vaporware makes no sense: tape-out + published roadmap = real, not slides.
by foul | 2025-11-28 09:06:11+00:00
In the last years a market for "no code" software has sprawled, just etch the interface on a tables SPA, plug Okta, plug your backend or Firebase to their apis and you should be set.

You can also find dozens of drag n drop builders and block editors working for modern frontend dev, there are a lot for React for example, just vibe code the components.
by jval43 | 2025-11-28 09:06:14+00:00
Yes and it was BS in Clean Code too, not a fan.

Don't get me wrong, I often apply it myself and refactor code into smaller functions. But readability, understandability and ease of maintenance comes first.

Especially juniors will apply such rules overzealously, bending over backwards to stay within an arbitrary limit while at the same time not really understanding why.

Frustratingly, their lack of experience makes it impossible to discuss such dogmatic rules in any kind of nuanced way, while they energetically push for stricter linter rules etc.

I've tried, and one even argued there's never ever a reason to go over N lines because their book is "best-practice" and said so. And you should not deviate from "best-practice" so that's it. I'm not making this up!

That said, I'm always open to discuss the pros and cons for specific cases, and I do agree the default should be to lean towards smaller functions in 90% of cases.
by stevekemp | 2025-11-28 09:06:48+00:00
I have approximately one meter of snoopy books - collections of the comic strip - dating from the 70s and 80s. Now and again I read a few strips, but at least once every month I wear my snoopy watch, and seeing Snoopy on the dial makes me smile every time.

I've had more comments on the snoopy dial, and my casio terrorist watch, than any high-end piece in my rotation/collection. I struggle to think of other snoopy merchandise which is common-place, outside watches.

(I asked my eight year old son a while back if he knew the names of some characters from Peanuts, while showing him a couple of the cartoon strips, the only one he knew was Snoopy. I was sad to learn he didn't know the name of either Charlie Brown or Woodstock.)
by adrian_b | 2025-11-28 09:07:10+00:00
The elements heavier than iron are not formed by fusion because of the asymmetry in the initial conditions.

The Universe that we can see has started from a mixture of equal amounts of free neutrons and protons (at a temperature of a few tens of MeV, matter has the simplest possible structure, consisting of free neutrons, free protons, free electrons, free positrons, photons and various kinds of neutrinos; upon cooling, nuclei form, then positrons annihilate, then atoms form), which have formed in the beginning hydrogen, helium and some lithium. Then, through fusion, the next elements until iron have been generated.

Iron is not the last element generated, a few elements after it have also been generated by fusion, because while they have lower binding energies than iron, their binding energies are still greater than of the lighter elements that can fuse into them.

However after the peak of the iron, the abundance of the following elements generated by fusion drops very quickly, e.g. down to germanium that is about 8 thousand times less abundant than iron.

The elements heavier than germanium are produced only in negligible amounts by fusion. They are produced mostly by neutron capture and sometimes by proton capture, and such events happen mostly during supernova explosions or neutron star collisions, because only then high concentrations of neutrons with high energies are present.

Neutron capture produces elements with Z until 100, i.e. until fermium (after that, spontaneous fission happens too fast, before beta-decay can raise the Z and enough extra neutrons can be captured to form a nucleus with long enough half-life). However the half-life of the heaviest elements decreases very quickly with Z, so the elements heavier than plutonium usually decay before reaching a stellar system from the explosion that has generated them. At its formation, it is likely that Earth also contained plutonium (244Pu has a half-life of over 80 million years, enough to survive an interstellar journey), but it has completely decayed until now, leaving uranium as the heaviest primordial element on Earth.
by blitzar | 2025-11-28 09:08:01+00:00
Same as the rest of the corporate world. LinkedIn sloppers hire LinkedIn sloppers until the only way to get into <insert high paying company / industry> is to post about your "experiences" like - "I was late for the interview because I saw a homeless dog outside and went to get it some food and sit to ask about its day [more bullshit] Half way through the interview the dog came in - turns out they were the CEO."
by yardstick | 2025-11-28 09:08:51+00:00
Note: Java compiler versions from 9 onwards have lost the ability to -target 1.5 and earlier.

Sometimes you still need Java 8 to compile for super old programs — think decades old IoT devices too small to handle newer JVMs that you still need to do the occasional minor update for.

But really sdkman is just nice to be able to quickly install and quickly switch jvms without worrying about any opinions the os package manager may have. If I want an old jre8, do I need to fuss around with finding the right package repo for my arch etc, or should I just use sdkman and be done with it.
by nirui | 2025-11-28 09:09:45+00:00
You know, there's prison and capital punishment, and yet people still commit crimes. There's a point you have just give up protecting, otherwise you're hurting yourself, just like an over-reacting immune system killing the host.

What if the kid just rent a foreign VPS, put Windows on it, enable RDP, and then just "gooning" away on that? UK is going to ban all VPS providers too?

Then what if it's "just a foreign friend's computer"? Ban all foreign IPs?

Beside that, I never believed that what UK's doing is for protecting the children, otherwise where are so many other more important things to do, for example, UK can support low income families so their kids won't go hunger, UK can also provide social housings for young people so they know they have a roof to safely sleep under.

None of that, but porn and VPN, wow, that's the enemy number one, kids must be protected from those things.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-28 09:09:56+00:00
You are looking through the eyes of an individual contributor, but it is not a social network for individuals and job search is a side effect. The main audience is marketing and sales services and executives, to advertise and network in their niche. The generic posts are equivalent to billboard ads, made by people literally paid to spend their day doing marketing (and so post generic things on LinkedIn). What might be confusing is there is also a huge wannabe/aspirational individual entrepreneurs and marketers crowd that are LARPing being successful on it, and as an individual you might only see this surface.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-11-28 09:10:42+00:00
There are contexts where quick and dirty and (hopefully) come back later are warranted. Far more often it is just an excuse for shoddy work. You used the word “perfection” as the contrast to “technical debt”. Granted, technical debt is not a well defined term, but I am simply highlighting that “free from technical debt” in no way implies anything like perfect. It just implies well made.