MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petee | 2025-11-23 20:58:48+00:00
Neck-down hah

Basically setup and load the tubes with shells; lots of attention is given to safety buffers, and things like orienting the racks so they can't fall facing the audience.

Some states require electronic firing, so everything gets a squib tied into the fuse, other places you can hand-fire with a road flare, which is more reliable, but dangerous. Anything that doesn't launch needs to be re-squibbed or extracted.

Its also wicked exciting, and fireworks from directly below look entirely different. My first show hand firing 6" shells, I distinctly recall knee jerk yelling "what the fuck" over and over, grinning ear to ear; you can really feel the pressure wave from the launch. It also paid $10/hr

There is also an amateur fireworks association as a fyi; people still hand build shells :)

Edit: as for timing, they'd have patterns like, x3 3-inch shells, x2 6-inch, and 1 8-inch; color and pattern were intentional choices. For hand fire, they'd yell out the shell size to fire, one person per size
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-23 20:59:22+00:00
Beef and wheat are expensive because there is a small handful of companies who produce these for the United States, and they all sit around the same table announcing how much they're going to increase their prices every quarter. It's not collusion, you see, just a fun little coincidence. Because curiously, these particular prices have gone up way faster than inflation, despite having leveled off a year or so ago. Of course, maybe it's the arbitrary taxes the unitary executive has been adding to imports. Oh well. Becoming great again has sacrifices, I suppose, like Big Macs.
by jorl17 | 2025-11-23 20:59:34+00:00
Oh, sure!

1. The Book of Disquiet by Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa ("Livro do Desassossego" in the original Portuguese)

2. 1984 by George Orwell

3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

4. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

5. (As mentioned) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

It doesn't make much sense, but between 1. and 2. I'd put all of the currently known poetry and prose by Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis (in that order). I have a 3-book collection with this.
by ponector | 2025-11-23 20:59:46+00:00
>> door is open for the rest of the world to wage wholesale war on it.

Open by whom? And btw, it is already open, just no one wants to send troops to Ukraine except North Korea.

>> The destruction of Afghanistan.

Conveniently forgot a decade of russian occupation of Afghanistan.

>>The destruction of Libia

Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who controls east part of the country is backed up by Russia.

In other African countries multiple warlords are backed up by russia.

>> The support of Israels' genocide of Gaza.

Russia arms different forces around Israel as well.

And list goes on.

>>invasion of Iraq and the murder of 5% of its population - which still suffers, day by day

5% is another lie, not backed by data. Just one more point you may be simply a russian-backed agent tasked to share their narratives.
by godelski | 2025-11-23 20:59:54+00:00
I think the main problem is that investors are investing in the wrong thing. They invest because they believe they can make a return, not because they think a valuable product will be made.

There's a subtle difference and it shows by how we even see wealth. We associate wealth with utility to society. That is, after all, why we create economies. We want to reward those who make society better.

But that's where there's been a disconnect. We figured out we could make money without pushing society forward. We'd historically refer to those people by different names... worse than that, we are focused on the short term. Silicon Valley has perfected the hype cycle. You get in cheap, pump up the price, sell, and do it all over again. It does not matter if it is vaporware, it matters that you can make a profit.

The problem is alignment. The economy is not aligned with its intentions.

Do we see much innovation these days? Is there even an incentive? No doubt there's innovation, but people are claiming it is accelerating. I'm unconvinced we're innovating faster than we did in the 90's. That decade changed society more than the 00's and 10's, even with the advent of the smartphone.

Unlike the author, I'm actually in favor of capitalism, yet I firmly believe that an economy still needs to by well regulated. There's very few economists who believe such regulation does not need to exist (we listen to partisans more than actual economists), and I've found even the most staunch free-market believers (often not actual economists) will have concessions. It's no secret that an unregulated market is not a free market. An unregulated market is a market regulated by the largest entities of the market.

It is probably no surprise that those who cannot think long term are unable to realize that the rise in popularity of socialism is due to the abuse of capitalism. Most people do not have a strong foundation in economics (why should they! They're spending years learning other skills than years reading textbooks, analyzing, and going to school). But people do know our system isn't working. Is it really more cost effective to build bunkers and buy private islands than it is to make the lives of the people better? I doubt it. But that's the same myopia I've discussed in my entire comment. The problem is how myopic we've become
by jongjong | 2025-11-23 21:00:26+00:00
When I started using Linux about 10 years ago, whenever I bought a new computer, I would keep a partition for Windows just in case for dual boot... Nowadays I just wipe it all clean.

It's weird to think I'm still paying for the Windows license because I like to buy from a physical store and they don't have alternatives.

Microsoft has become a bit like Oracle... You don't need what they make anymore but you have to keep paying for it. It's like the company has entered into retirement and society is still supporting it... But the difference is it never dies of old age to make room for new generations of companies.
by tolerance | 2025-11-23 21:00:44+00:00
There’s something eerie about this whole submission. From the preamble, the uninspired layout, the barely-functional page; all AI-tinted. It appears that the events that are displayed indeed happened but their accounts are virtually forged. Some of the details attributed to them cannot even be freely verified. [1]

The background that’s alleged to have inspired this may not have even taken place. And if it at all did then I reckon it ought to inspire further dread. You get the intellectual simulation of “Big Events” with as much fog present as is in news today! And the onset of the end begins to feel like a 40-year-long screaming halt to civilization as you knew it!

This bites!

[1]: Take this link to what I believe is the source for the story on The Order member Mark Franklin Jones’s testimony for example https://newspaperarchive.com/walla-walla-union-bulletin-nov-... (Hacker News does not allow images in comments so I can not point to the replication of the story on forty.news).
by credit_guy | 2025-11-23 21:00:46+00:00
> The real win is that thorium MSRs can eat the existing mountain of "spent" fuel rods from regular reactors

That's not true.

The spent fuel can burn in fast reactors. There are hundreds of molten salt reactor designs (see for example [1]), and some of them are fast reactors.

But thorium MSR are not fast. That's the attraction of thorium, it can undergo transmutation (into protactinium, which then decays into fissile uranium-233) using thermal neutrons. Nobody is proposing thorium MSR as a solution to burn spent nuclear fuel.

> So...Three decades? Maybe if the West keeps sitting on its hands.

The West does not keep sitting on its hands. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of nuclear startups in the West, and they are actually making progress.

However, thorium is hard. Very hard. Breeding plutonium from uranium is much easier than breeding uranium-233 from thorium.

Here's a good post [2] about the thorium myths written by a former active HN forum member, Nick Touran. It's a good read. But, now, for an even better understanding, you can just ask ChatGPT, or any other LLM, how thorium breeder reactors compare to plutonium breeder reactors, and which technology is closer to reality.

[1] https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/STI-DOC-010-4...

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-23 21:01:23+00:00
That's like saying Comcast doesn't have a monopoly because you can get crappy mobile Internet at 1Mbps speeds by tethering to your phone. Or saying DSL is "competition" at 12Mbps speeds. By your definition, there are no ISP monopolies left on Earth now that Starlink is here.

BTW according to the study I linked, less than half of Starlink customers get service that meets the anemic FCC definition of broadband.

> It's massively changed the market dynamics. And I suspect Elon will push the pricing down further and further.

This is hand-wavey conjecture, not an argument. He might lower the pricing if he gets enough welfare for his companies from the government. But only if that's a requirement, otherwise no he's not going to lower any pricing. The monthly pricing for Starlink has gone up, not down.
by loeg | 2025-11-23 21:01:52+00:00
There aren't any other ways.

There is zero evidence prison is a net negative for society. No one is running RCTs here. Progressives advocating this stuff completely ignore second order effects and we see them play out in west coast cities. The other major fallacy is that criminals can or want to be rehabilitated -- they mostly can't or won't. Prison is undoubtedly negative for the criminals, but that doesn't mean it is a net negative for society.
by aborsy | 2025-11-23 21:02:05+00:00
Why do you need cloud, if you don’t need public sharing?

You can connect to a 2-bay NAS with 20 TB of storage at home with a VPN. Fast, private, secure, practically unlimited storage, under your control. That much storage will be very expensive in the cloud. Proton is like 120$/year for 500GB.

You can also run unlimited applications for free on the same nas: photo management, streaming with apps like plex etc. Each of those apps is an additional cost in the cloud.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-11-23 21:02:08+00:00
> Typical russian whataboutism

Not the person you replied to, but this isn't constructive. Correctly pointing out hypocrisy/double standards is very pertinent to the discussion, and shouldn't be dismissed as "whataboutism". Making assumptions about someone who disagrees with you -- in this case, the assumption that he/she is a Kremlin sympathiser -- is irrelevant at best and insulting at worst.
Show HN: Less‑filtered LLM chat and API
by abliterationai | 2025-11-23 21:02:09+00:00
Abliteration.ai A less‑filtered LLM chat and API aimed at developers who are tired of “I’m sorry, I can’t help with that” for legitimate use cases. What’s there today: – Web chat interface – /v1/chat endpoint with simple JSON payload – Instant API keys + small free tier – Quickstart examples in curl

I’d really appreciate feedback on: – The offering - API design / DX (what feels rough?)
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-23 21:02:41+00:00
Well, you see, the entire wink-wink, nudge-nudge premise of America was this: everything is cheap, but you don't have the best safety net in the world. This sort of worked, for a while, especially because we actually DID have an okay social safety net here and there for people: Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, ACA, etc. Now, though, these programs are being gutted, AND ALSO the Big Macs are expensive. So now, the people who run this country (like the people who own McDonald's) are giving us neither our bread nor our circuses, and that makes the F150 class very angry...

But sure, I guess there's no cost of living crisis, actually, because you have the perfect shopping list. I'll inform the nation.
by mk89 | 2025-11-23 21:03:50+00:00
You have to be honest, though, and admit that ChatGPT/LLMs are usable/used by literally everyone. Crypto is still perceived as a way to fund criminality. Not comparable to be honest.

It "could be anything", but the current AI trends/updates are really impressive. This is why they are investing.

If we reach a limit in the next 5 years, so be it. But it's driving and pushing for a paradigm shift in the way things work - search, coding, tooling, etc. It touches almost anything people do, not a specific group of people, but society as a whole.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-11-23 21:03:52+00:00
My dad had fallen for two scams - one through WhatsApp, the other texts.

I’m not sure how much we can blame individual companies for this. Obviously they should be doing more - shutting down accounts that message people at random, for instance, but I feel like the scammers will find a way.

I also don’t know what else we can do. It should be easier for kids (or anyone else) to shut down their parent’s accounts at least once this happens, stop all wire and crypto transfers, etc.

Past that, I really don’t know.
by fragmede | 2025-11-23 21:04:11+00:00
because that’s how it used to be on older versions of OSX and older Macs. There’s a lot of inertia because launching a program to read files off a disk and load them into memory was more costly timewise in those days so e.g. having Photoshop open and loaded even if you didn’t have a picture open you didn’t want to have to wait for the program to open unless you really were done with photo editing.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-23 21:04:25+00:00
It's usually faster than Python for numeric stuff, and has a similar speed for strings. See for example https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

But if you run the code inside the default IDE call DrRacket, you must go to the menu Language>Choose_Language... then click "Show_Details" and disable "Debugging".

With debugging enabled, you get nicer error messages, but it blocks a lot of optimizations and the program get slow.
by Manuel_D | 2025-11-23 21:06:11+00:00
But Meta's content ranking would conform to this too: in theory a user that had the exact same friends, is a member of the exact same groups, had the exact same watch history, etc. would be served the same content. Although I'm pretty sure there's at least some degree of randomization, but putting that aside it remains unclear how you're constructing a set of criteria that does Hacker News, and plenty of other sites but not Meta.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-23 21:06:47+00:00
The bay area is more than SF. If you mean San Francisco and don't want to say the whole name, you use either 'SF' or 'the city.'

I'm not sure why it's a strange shibboleth? Not every name has to be shortened, and if you are going to shorten names, not every short form is acceptable. I don't know where "San Fran" came from, any more than "Cali", neither of which are used by locals, but it just doesn't feel respectable. It's not the name of the city.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-23 21:07:05+00:00
More than other distros, Zorin markets (and has marketed) itself as Windows-like, which probably elevates it in search rankings and LLM queries for people looking for a distro that more closely mirrors what they’re familiar with.

People really, really want a “Windows, but just the good parts” with as little deviation and required learning as possible in terms of desktop experience. A distro with a DE that nearly perfectly replicates “greatest hits” Windows versions (2K/XP/7/10) would probably be doing serious numbers right now if it existed.
by dustincoates | 2025-11-23 21:07:07+00:00
I love pseudo-documentary and pseudo-newscast movies, ever since I watched Without Warning [0] and had to sleep on my parents' floor because it felt too real for me.

Special Bulletin [1] is another good one.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_Warning_(1994_film)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Bulletin&...
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-23 21:08:14+00:00
Can't wait for the glorious day when Big Macs are $100 because the Market has willed it. Verily, I say unto thee, for mine eyes have beheld the Market's glory, thou art blessed to pay $100 for a Big Mac, and thou ought to bend thy knee and worship at the feet of the Market, for it is all-knowing, and all-powerful, and perfect. Selah.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-23 21:10:02+00:00
It does fit. There’s actually science on this.

In experiments they have found that women are much more ok with sexual infidelity than men. They aren’t fully ok with it just more ok with it than men by a huge margin. There’s a huge gender difference and given how culture doesn’t differentiate this aspect in terms of teaching, logically the only origin is biological.

It fits with evolutionary psychology as well. If a wife engages in sexual infidelity a man could end up raising a child that is not his own and that is a huge evolutionary cost so men evolved to be extremely guarded against sexual affairs while for women the cost is just a man potentially raising another child. She loses resources of the man but if the man doesn’t raise another child it’s not as huge of a deal. This isn’t stuff I’m making up… it’s academic.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151008083755.h...

For you to be in a polyamorous relationship you are definitely overriding your default biological drive and giving evolutionary advantages to your mate (if she is female and you male). Birth control largely eliminates this cost but the emotional states are the same in the sense that is a form of submission. Case in point: Most likely it is the female partner that initiated polyamory and the male partner who had to learn how to accept it.
by isege | 2025-11-23 21:10:14+00:00
I've had this exact experience. I used gnome for just one week before getting a macbook and after 3+ years of MacOS I still its find multi desktop handling absurd and unintuitive.

What makes this worse is that Apple's refusal to expose any public APIs to control workspace behavior so you can't even work around their shitty choices.

Instead of iterating on existing functionality, they launch flashy additions like Stage Manager only to abandon them immediately.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-23 21:11:11+00:00
I imagine that prosecutors don’t pierce the corporate veil for public companies often because “DA charges 87 year old grandmother with stake in Evil Corp in her pension fund with manslaughter, local union members brace for additional charges against members” doesn’t make for good headlines or good justice either.

The officers and board of the company aren’t protected by the corporate veil concerning their actions. They retain some degree of protection from actions of others within the corporation provided they did not have (or did not have a reason to suspect) knowledge of those activities. But to my knowledge that’s not special to officers, it applies to any employee which is why the rank and file Enron employees didn’t get prosecuted.
by godelski | 2025-11-23 21:11:35+00:00
> That's not defining a color palette, which would probably go in CSS.

Yes?

The css is already defined. Dark mode works!

The problem is which theme is loaded by default.

Please, tell me how I'm being dumb. I don't want to be. But you've given me nothing to change my mind. I'm a native English speaker, but I don't think it's English that's the problem here. I don't think you understand what I'm saying, though if you feel the same then I hope you can recognize I'm trying my best to establish an understanding. I have no idea why you're making a big fuss about the CSS definition as we're strictly talking about Wikipedia where that definition is already defined and I honestly do not know how to be any more clear that my complaint is to which template is loaded by default.
by brrNoBhmt | 2025-11-23 21:11:49+00:00
we'll milk teens like cows and we can't wait to stuff them into tiny little boxes, hooked up to and logged into our VR worlds where we serve all their needs while they serve ours. nothing sexual, there's places for that and we're not the types. we monitor our employees closely and can say that with certainty.

the current phase of social media is basically the scraping of minds. we throw hundreds of thousands of narrowly defined contexts at them, in different states and in between them. our systems learn, assimilate, adapt.

the world is going up in flames. we didn't do that. and we'd try to change it but we have a lot of data. it can't be done.

we've seen the good, the bad and the ugly. and we don't drink cheap milk. the food of the cows we get our milk from costs more than the compounded wealth of all graduates of an average European university at the end of their 30s and the health of the cows we get our milk from is better monitored, too. all for one glass of milk.

my first sentence was a provocation.

your teens will be fine. worry about their environment, not us. we know we lie in court. and you know why. because they kindly ask us to. they have friends and friends of friends who have been up our asses from day one. you think we know a lot? your intelligence services know a lot more. your local administrations and teachers conspire against your teens more often than you would like to know. some guys in your police likely know, too. as do your journalists and TV channels. it's more or less on a need to know, serve to know basis.

you think big tech is the threat? think again.

A/N: mostly gibberish, since I have no idea what I'm talking about but you're all wielding advanced tools and you're networked. you get it. I could kindly ask you to stop babbling. but without leverage nobody benefits.
by Marsymars | 2025-11-23 21:12:33+00:00
Not really trickier, but different stack - we’re a .NET stack with a pile of linters, analyzers, tests, etc. No emulation, everything run natively on both x86-64 and ARM64. (But prior to actually running/debugging it on arm64, had various hang-ups.)

Native is also much faster than qemu emulation - I have a personal (non-.NET) project where I moved the CI from docker/qemu for x86+arm builds to separate x86+arm runners, and it cut the runtime from 10 minutes in total to 2 minutes per runner.
by ianopolous | 2025-11-23 21:12:35+00:00
You might be interested in Peergos [0][1] which is E2EE, fully open source (including the server), and self hostable. We've been audited by Cure53 and Radically Open Security.

[0] https://peergos.org

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos
by more_corn | 2025-11-23 21:13:10+00:00
Happiness is fleeting and empty emotional calories. I recommend abandoning it as a goal entirely.

Satisfaction is the North Star. Difficult things don’t bring happiness but doing them well brings satisfaction. Climbing a mountain, completing a hard bike ride. Finishing a project.

In this way the optimal path through a difficult situation brings satisfaction making the whole experience worthwhile.

Satisfaction is lasting, deep and meaningful. It grants meaning even to suffering and unhappiness.

Being sore doesn’t bring happiness, but it’s a reminder of work done well. Unpleasant circumstances don’t bring happiness, but handling them well creates that other emotion.

Building something is satisfying, loving and being dependable are satisfying, being professional and doing good work… You get the idea.

You can keep your happiness. I’m taking the next level.
by Xcelerate | 2025-11-23 21:13:50+00:00
As a non-mathematician, I’m confused why so many people think the conjecture (whether true or false) is provable within PA. To me, it seems like something that would be very nicely just right outside the boundary of PA’s capability, sort of like how proving all Goodstein sequences terminate requires transfinite induction up to ε_0. Add that to the fact that the Collatz Conjecture seems to fall in the same “category” of problem as the Turing machines that the Busy Beaver project is having a hard time proving non-halting behavior of, and the heuristic arguments all seem to point to: Collatz is independent of PA.

But I’m interested in hearing the counterarguments that Collatz likely is provable within PA and why this would be the case.