MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-10 12:15:57+00:00
"Chinese ownership of corporations is entirely different in this context"

There is no difference. The US does not effectively have any law or checks on the power of the presidency at this point. Various tech companies had executives literally enlisted in the armed forces. The government has shown, repeatedly, that it will financially penalize any company that doesn't serve their agenda. It has controlled broadcasters and social media and financial organizations.

As an outsider looking in, any difference between the US and China is mostly illusory. It has all been revealed to be make believe.
by kace91 | 2025-11-10 12:16:36+00:00
Mind that the result in the paper seems to only have number for CVD, not general mortality, and most importantly, tests subjects are middle aged men with checks 5 and 10 years later.

It’s perhaps good to see if there’s a lower chance of an early stroke/heart attack, but they don’t get in the range where the loss of muscle function and bone density can truly affect you, which is where anaerobic training shines (the usual “grandma broke her hip and never recovered”).
by Benjamin_Dobell | 2025-11-10 12:17:13+00:00
I've actually just recently been through this myself. I'm also building something for kids to build games in. But much more opinionated than Easel. It's interesting to me that Easel looks declarative but is imperative.

I've actually gone with a 100% declarative approach. Basically you define effects, which are executed in response to certain interactions. There's a comprehensive targeting system. But the best part is this is all type-safe using TypeScript, the declarative structure is enforced. That means even when you chain effects, nested effects are able to access (incl. autocomplete) the targets of parent effects etc. Whilst this provides a super nice experience to consume, it's definitely non-trivial to build this system.

https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids
by ndiddy | 2025-11-10 12:17:32+00:00
Nintendo Power did an article about the Super Nintendo's design when it was new. It mentions that one of the most common service problems for the NES was spills, so a major design constraint for the Super Nintendo was that there couldn't be a flat spot on it big enough for someone to place a glass of soda or a bowl of cereal. I guess the original Super Famicom design was too flat for their liking.
by mort96 | 2025-11-10 12:19:15+00:00
PowerPC "supports" both, but I believe it's typically run in big endian mode. Same with MIPS AFAIK.

(Mini rant: CPU people seem to think that you can avoid endianness issues by just supporting both little and big endian, not realizing the mess they're creating higher up the stack. The OS's ABI needs to be either big endian or little endian. Switchable endianness at runtime solves nothing and causes a horrendous mess.)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-10 12:20:08+00:00
> “At what point does legal compliance become de facto censorship?”

I genuinely agree with this statement a lot. Also another aspect of this is that the bigger companies can somehow "legally" do things which I don't think would work but they have so many resources to strech the court case for a long time.

And the fact is that even after that, even if they are fined for some dollars. They are more than likely to just pay than try to actually fix the core issues which effects everyone harmfully except the company.

All for profit smh. I sometimes wonder if there is a word for this phenomenon for how our system has gotten into such a rotten state from lobbying to this yet at the same time genuine non profits get existential threats for the same behaviour but they simply don't have the funds...
by konart | 2025-11-10 12:20:22+00:00
Unless we are trying to do the "conspiracy theory" route: there is not "thinking" here. You can at least sniff traffic or whatever and tell if your phone is ringing back to google even when you tell it not to.

And the discussion above is about a different kind of surveillance. Notifying Google (or state) that I'm sitting in front of my PC is one thing. Sending photos of videos of me jerking off is different.
by stuxnet79 | 2025-11-10 12:20:41+00:00
As a recent Linux to MacOS convert, I have been eyeing Time Machine as a simple backup solution. From reading the comments here it sounds like this is a far-fetched idealistic goal which is disappointing.

This seems to have not always been the case so where did things go wrong with Time Machine? Was there a particular MacOS release that broke everything?

Also what is really the gold standard in terms of backups? On Linux land I never had a great system. All I did was manually copy my drive every 6 months to a few external disks using clonezilla and gparted. This was tedious and not very user friendly.

Recently I learned of ZFS with its CoW approach and support for snapshots & it has piqued my interest. However while it may be a strictly superior way of doing backups its still not very user friendly. I have to budget time to learn it, set it up and of course its absolutely hopeless to expect my non-technical friends/family to figure it out.

Ultimately I'm seeking a tool that has good enough UI / UX that even my non-technical friends & family can use but supports incremental backups / snapshots along with detecting + auto correcting data corruption issues.

Does such a thing exist? Who are the big contenders in this space?
by jamesponddotco | 2025-11-10 12:20:55+00:00
Since I got a baby and we’re still adjusting to their schedule, I’m still working on the same project, Librario[1]. Librario is a simple book metadata aggregation API written in Go. It fetches information about books from multiple sources, merges everything intelligently, and then saves it all to a PostgreSQL database for future lookups.

You can think of it as a data source, or a knowledgeable companion that can provide comprehensive book information for online booksellers, libraries, book-related startups, bookworms, and more.

I got a pre-alpha build running for those that want to test it out[2], but the code is still not out there, as there are a few things I want to refactor. Wrote comprehensive documentation for it this weekend, now I need to refactor the merger package with some new rules, and write something to decrease the number of genres returned.

Been tough to find time to work on it because of the baby, but AI has been helping a lot to speed things up, and the work has been quite fun. Not sure if there will be interest in the idea, but it solves a problem I have, so I had to work on it anyway.

Hope to have the code on GitHub by the end of this week. AGPL licensed.

[1]: https://github.com/pagina394/librario

[2]: https://paste.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/5612eaa80fc7eee8b6180a31...
by 3oil3 | 2025-11-10 12:21:15+00:00
Ah man, this must be rethorics and you wouldn't lie to a friend close enough to do such a favour, would you? WHo the h is after you guys anyway, to want such level of degraded-internet-speed?

And about 'Warp', is it or is it not a VPN after-all? They mentionned they aren't a VPN, but that they build on wireguard ??
by graemep | 2025-11-10 12:21:31+00:00
> Either you feel this kind of construction process is national-strategic and you ignore the cost over imports, or not.

The UK does not even make any effort. Look at the level of dependency on US cloud providers to deliver basic government services. To be fair, the UK is no worse than the rest of Europe (some small gestures and exceptions aside) in this, but that only makes the overall situation worse.

Successive British governments have not really thought this through, and what dependencies are a problem. Again, not the only country that has done that, but, again, that does not help solve the problem.

> There is Autarky, and there is total dependency, and there is a massive road in-between. Right now, we're very far from Autarky and we're far too close to total dependency.

Absolutely, but people are not aware of it, politicians do not care, the the ruling class are declinist.
by fainpul | 2025-11-10 12:22:20+00:00
It sounds extreme, but the bulk cost comes from the coffee shop and those costs seem very reasonable (labour, equipment, rent, milk etc.).

On the other hand, I buy high quality, roasted coffee and prepare it myself. I pay maybe $0.30 per cup. If you compare that amount to the $0.04 the farmer gets, it seems far easier to grasp.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-10 12:22:21+00:00
I don't think Linux will ever fully take over gaming regardless of effort unless competitive multiplayer game companies decide to give up on assuming total control over your system in order to make cheaters undetectable to the average gamer*.

It would require that a Linux based OS was released which allows games companies, in a standardised way, to take full control over the system. And at this point, it won't be a Linux distro, it will instead just be like Android. I think calling that a market takeover would be similarly thin and insignificant as calling android a "Linux takeover of the mobile OS market".

But this isn't to say that Microsoft won't lose the market share to "Gamedroid" or whatever, it just won't be losing it to Linux.

* As has been demonstrated, KLA and similar technologies do help make cheating more difficult and require more resources. But, as the cheating industry's pocketbooks make clear, cheating hasn't stopped, it has just become more discreet such that most players simply don't notice when they're losing to cheaters.
by epolanski | 2025-11-10 12:22:22+00:00
Jm2c, but this sort of problems would've been smaller if the UK stayed in the EU. Then you can do this sort of strategic planning on a larger scale as the EU tends to promote economical activities that make sense for specific countries.

The EU, while not subsidizing ship building per se, it did subsidize the R&D.

Ship building subsidies are banned in the EU for a very specific reasons: from the 70s to the early 90s European ship builders could not stay competitive with the asian ones.

This led France, Spain, UK, Germany into a race of subsidies that:

1. created a lot of overcapacity

2. tanked prices

3. didn't make shipyards more, but *less* competitive with their asian counterparts, as they had less reasons to invest with the guarantee of minimal effort and guaranteed money

This is really a damn if you do, damn if you don't situation for which there are no real solutions.

We lack the materials, we lack the energy, even if we stepped up to the great levels of efficiency of Japanese/Korean/Chinese ship building have (and we're unlikely to do, it's not just a technological but cultural challenge), we'd still not be able to compete on costs (energy, materials, labor) and R&D (the asian dragons produce way more engineers in the sectors than we do).
by jijijijij | 2025-11-10 12:22:27+00:00
> They’re biodegradable in an industrial composter, and similar conditions are incredibly unlikely in nature.

Thinking of PLA, for me at least, it's fine if it takes years instead of weeks, as long as it's fundamentally vulnerable to common bio-chemical attack and the monomers aren't toxic. That's not the stuff that's causing issues, I think.
by Joker_vD | 2025-11-10 12:22:39+00:00
> We’ll go into the SysV recommendation of “double forking”

SysV init can not handle daemons that double-fork. Neither could BSDs up until somewhat recently. Just let your systems "service manager" deal with that on your own, seriously: don't reimplement this functionality; one program to do one thing, etc.
by dwb | 2025-11-10 12:22:51+00:00
“Woman” is not a biological sex, it simply isn’t. You are ignoring that trans men (legally and socially not women), along with some intersex people (neither biologically male or female, by definition, and legal gender varies), and cisgender girls of a sufficient age can all get pregnant. Not to mention some non-binary people. So there are plenty of people other than women that can get pregnant.
by marrs | 2025-11-10 12:23:38+00:00
What's your definition of ethnonationalist? It surely can't be as simple as identifying with your tribe, otherwise just about every nation except America would be ethnonationalist.

For me the term has specific far-right connotations; specifically the persecution, or desire to persecute, non-nationals or non-indigenous (or whatever term you'd like to use for the most ancient and rooted culture of a nation).

Your definition is apparently different: what is it?

Btw, the Anglo Saxons did not replace the native English; they were ultimately assimilated into the tribes they conquered. Many (most?) English can trace their genes back to the earliest settlers.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-10 12:24:33+00:00
This is slowly happening for various types of plastic. We have discovered some PLA-eating bacteria in Asian forests (PLA is "biodegradable", but usually not meaningfully at room temperature), PET-eating bacteria in the ocean, and apparently some bacteria that can degrade polystyrene and polyethylene

But each of them only works in certain environments. Just like wood is very biodegradable, but if you keep it dry you can build wooden structures that last centuries
by KAMSPioneer | 2025-11-10 12:26:03+00:00
In my personal experience, people from Latin American countries will sometimes point out that they are American because they come from North or South America.

Which is, of course, true; however, in English conversation, it's often nothing more than pedantry. In Spanish it makes more sense, since there is a separate demonym for a US person that doesn't co-opt the term "American."

Outside of Romance language speakers born on the American continents, I agree that everyone seems fine calling US-born persons "Americans" without much confusion nor gnashing of teeth.
by Agraillo | 2025-11-10 12:27:10+00:00
> Scams try to catch people at their weakest. It’s not if but when.

The "weakest" probably also involves selection bias. What HN comments are really good at is triggering associations for me with things I once read. Today I finally found what recently lived in my memory as a vague "scam" that used probabilities: the "stock market newsletter scam" from John Allen Paulos's book [1]. The scam works like this: at every step, two variants with different predictions are sent out for some market characteristic. Only those who receive the correct prediction get the next newsletter, which is again split into two prediction variants. This continues, filtering down to a final, much smaller subset of receivers who have seen a series of "correct" predictions. The goal is to create an illusion of super predictive power for that final group and then charge them a premium subscription price.

Maybe this kind of scam is too sophisticated or not as effective today (due to modern anti-spam measures), but I wonder what other kinds of "selection bias" scams exist today

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)
by peterspath | 2025-11-10 12:27:39+00:00
https://peterspath.net

My own blog, which I mainly write for myself. But it is getting steadily more readers. Last week I wrote some scripts to help me with creating OG images quicker.

Tech:

- Zola, static site generator made in Rust

- Swift, writing scripts for custom generating stuff

- HTML and CSS

- Cloudflare Pages
by awesan | 2025-11-10 12:27:50+00:00
The quality of Office is very rapidly declining; it seems that the entire team has moved to forcing AI into every feature instead of fixing any issues. The web version is barely usable (esp compared to Google's versions) and the desktop is quickly getting worse seemingly every day.

I have not used Azure for a few years now; back when I did use it, it seemed pretty good.
by kuschku | 2025-11-10 12:28:01+00:00
You're just clinging to definition while missing the actual issue.

For the 737 to compete with the A320neo, it required much larger engines.

For those engines to fit, they'd either have to raise the landing gear and redesign the airframe to accommodate the changes (which would be a very different airframe), or they'd have to offset the engines (which massively increases the stall risk and lead to the MAX disaster).

This is not an integration issue. There is no possible way for the 737 to fulfill the needs of the 21st century without becoming an entirely different plane.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-10 12:29:02+00:00
It's better for me not to go insane. Gambling at least makes this sounds like greed, and greedy companies fit in my world view.

Does it disgust me? Sure. In the same way casinos disgust me because they know how to reprogram people and they do it. They're the reason my dad became estranged from his father and I never met my grandfather.

I think software is a tool to emplower people. These youngsters are selling the idea that it can be a tool to enslave.

But here's the thing. They have to go against me and I still believe in empowering people with software and I spend all my time working on IDEs, not as a joke but to free people from, well, the kind of betting-illiteracy slavery this startup proposes to foster
by zamalek | 2025-11-10 12:29:09+00:00
While I largely agree, I do think a more significant portion of the problems are caused by Nadella's claims of 30% ML-generated code. If true (as a peddler of ML, there are many reasons for him not to be truthful) the is a rather strong inverse correlation of quality with these announcements and layoffs.

Furthermore, with modern MBAs at the helm, the concern is only pumping figures for the next quarter - five years be damned.

It's also completely possible to do agile with QA. One place I worked had 1 QA per 3 devs, and they were able to maintain a single (2 week) sprint behind cadence.

Scrum was always how Agile was sold to behemoths. It necessarily makes several compromises that deeply undermine it.
by graemep | 2025-11-10 12:29:23+00:00
> The biggest problem with this thinking is that nationally mandated production is fundamentally unable to reduce dependency because national economic policy cannot increase aggregate output. That's to say when you politically prioritize to build ships the question always is what you aren't building instead, because all allocation consists of trade-offs.

The trade off is worth making. It gives you the ability to survive if things go wrong in return for being slightly worse off in the meantime.

> It's actually worrying me quite a bit that people seem to have completely forgotten what a comparative advantage is. Free trade is good because it gets you more stuff

It can also mean very little more stuff. Part of the problem with our current system is that we will import rather than produce because its very slightly cheaper.

It would be ridiculous for the UK to grow its own tea, however it would be perfectly reasonable for it to aim to produce more of its own basic foodstuffs.
by martin-adams | 2025-11-10 12:29:41+00:00
Thanks. I’m based in the UK so have a good grasp on that, but I’ve reviewed someone’s resume from the US just as easily. Generally, English speaking and preferably in a digital related field, but a lot of the common pain points seem to be universal. It’s only difficult when it’s a field that’s highly niche as hard to know what’s common knowledge.

I like to play the role of the person doing the hiring, hence why the form asks for an example job description.
by radicalbyte | 2025-11-10 12:30:40+00:00
The amount of damage done in the 15 years of successively worse leaders requires not only time to fix but also incredible political bravery.

That in the backdrop of a press who are actively working against the best interests of the country (they serve their often foreign billionaire owners).

I would give us a chance if we had an extremely charismatic and rational progressive in charge but we don't. Starmer is an admirable person but he doesn't have the charisma or the vision needed to get us out of this mess. Thirty years ago he would have been a "One Britain" Tory.

The UK progressives - the Lib Dems and the Greens - have absolutely no chance electorally and the media is pushing the far-right Russian-funded Reform Party as a "solution" and I'm worried that enough low-information voters will fall for it.
by rswail | 2025-11-10 12:30:54+00:00
Voted up just for the reference to Yes Prime Minister, one of the UK's best contributions to political education and entertainment.

On the other hand, there's Sir Humphrey's opinion on Trident.

"It's the nuclear deterrent Harrods would sell."

https://youtu.be/XyJh3qKjSMk?si=S8wpuTSnFsRUZGrf&t=87
by sfoley | 2025-11-10 12:31:16+00:00
Near the end of the article, under Motivation:

> The BASIC language eliminated much of the complexity of FORTRAN by having a single number type. This simplified the programming model and avoided a class of errors caused by selection of the wrong type. The efficiencies that could have gained from having numerous number types proved to be insignificant.

DEC64 was specifically designed to be the only number type a language uses (not saying I agree, just explaining the rationale).
by metalman | 2025-11-10 12:32:01+00:00
I have spent a huge amount of time walking and hiking shore lines, and there is a huge problem with plastic in the ocean. The long term impacts to our food chain are going to be bad for us. Plastic is a cheat, and has no place in a sustainable economy or ecosystem, though as it has become embeded as the prime material in consumerism, effecting a switch to biologicaly benign alternatives is essentialy impossible and the catestrophic outcomes of a worldwide layer of plastic, are inevitable. The very hard part for people here to imagine is that it is China is the only one that can take complete controll and institute a switch to a bio inert alternative, the EU, will of course, build out another whole new regulatory beurocracy to puff and thump on cue.
by aster0id | 2025-11-10 12:32:13+00:00
Dog enrichment calendar - I have a lot of different types of treats, toys and activities that I'd like to do with my dog but I fell into routines and just gave him two or three toys and treats on repeat. So I'm building an app where I'd be able to configure an inventory of all the treats and toys I own and the app would remind me to use a new toy or treat every day, to minimize repetition. You'll also be reminded ahead of time for toys and treats that require preparation
by jbs789 | 2025-11-10 12:32:29+00:00
After a ~20 year break from first person shooters I’ve recently played Call of Duty Multiplayer and what struck me was how many superficial skins or various rewards were visible to others - it seems to steer the player to accumulate these things (through play or $), to show others in the game.

And the odd pumpkin heads (literally players with pumpkins as heads) running around coinciding with Halloween.

Very different than Counter Strike circa 2005.

Roughly the same mechanics but much more commercialised, playing to the psychological weaknesses of players.
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-11-10 12:32:30+00:00
One more thing to note about TP-Link today is that they don't just abandon firmware updates but also switch chips and hardware.

For example, They will call some device Deco / Archer ABC with a Qualcomm chip that's latest and greatest. They might sell it for 499$ for example and then let reviewers do their thing to review these products everywhere with 5 stars. Great!

Six months or maybe a year down the road when the product starts getting traction as people start buying new WiFi standards like 6/6E/7 etc. they will swap out the chips inside and launch a v2 of that same product with either mediatek chips or a slower Qualcomm SOC. This affects performance and stability and it also drives down the pricing with cheaper hardware.

This has been done a lot with Deco units. Reviews are for original v1 hardware but what's being sold is a different hardware completely. Not only is this a firmware problem but keep in mind such practices really show lack of trust.

Great example of how to lose trust in a brand.