MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-23 07:24:13+00:00
This is an extremely shallow analysis.

The problem you (and others) raise with this point is that Americans don’t want to do those jobs. But if they paid a lot more, they would want to. Okay now the problem on your end shifts. Ohhh but the prices would go up. Okay, and? Yes, the prices go up, and we can discuss whether that is a problem, but it isn’t your original problem, you have performed a squirm maneuver (probably unknowingly since you are probably just repeating essentially a propaganda script you have unknowingly ingested).

You take it as a foregone conclusion that the price increases would be prohibitive. You have provided no basis for this assumption, and nobody ever does because it isn’t obviously true. It depends on a) what percent of the consumer price can be attributed to the artificially low wages and b) the second and third etc order effects of increasing wages on affordability across society, including the domestic workers in these areas. When you dig into it (a) isn’t generally above a few years worth of target inflation, on very specific product categories, and you simultaneously increase wages for low skill domestic workers, which sounds like a win for the left but somehow it isn’t? Pay slightly higher prices to support American workers is a pretty easy slogan.

So the proposal is basically that we knowingly abandon the rule of law in the area of immigration in exchange for 6% cheaper vegetables. Uh, no thank you, I’ll pass on that one.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-23 07:26:13+00:00
It's not difficult per se, but you can't throw anyone into a kitchen and expect food to be made as a result. You still need to be taught to some extent. The bar is a lot lower than playing an instrument or many other things, but there's still a bar below which (edible) food will not be made. If you've never been taught and never went out of your way to learn, you won't know how to.

Some people get out of school not being able to read and write, at least to any meaningful degree. The fact that some people get out of school not being able to cook thus shouldn't be surprising.
by jabl | 2025-11-23 07:26:15+00:00
Many old LWR's have had their reactor vessels heat treated during a maintenance break to undo some of that neutron radiation damage and extend the life of the reactor.

Not sure whether it would be possible to do something similar to a liquid fueled reactor, including all the hot pipework. Maybe, but yet another cost. Notably some of the recent MSR projects propose replacing the entire reactor every now and then (Terrestrial or whatever they were called, not sure if they are still around).
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-23 07:26:40+00:00
Ultimately, unions don't want to limit how many people get hired. They want to dictate how much those people have to be paid, and somehow get their cut. Businesses decide that they can't afford more people and find a way to succeed within the constraints imposed by the union. Unions can't force businesses to hire people they can't afford. They also can't stop others from being willing to work for less. That's what I mean about not beating supply and demand.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-23 07:28:05+00:00
Of course it's not. We could speculate about how to square this with reason and Meta's denial; perhaps some flag associated with sex trafficking had to be hit 17 times, and some people thought the flag was associated with too many other things to lower the threshold. But the bottom line is that hostile characterizations of undisclosed documents aren't presumptively true.
by exceptione | 2025-11-23 07:28:55+00:00
Wow, thanks for following up! Great to hear your kid did succeed. Hopefully he will be the master of his own executive control for the rest of his life.

Pretty impressive that they can get these kids to this level of awareness, making it feel like it is their own choice. When I look back at my childhood, I can't remember I had any agency like that, nor awareness that you could have one.
by geocar | 2025-11-23 07:29:10+00:00
> I want to make sure that content creators are compensated for their work. Ad firms that employ fingerprinting stand between me and the content creator.

This is false: We're the ones who pay the creator, because:

> I'm not going to pay $5/month for every blog that I occasionally read

If that upsets you, please understand it upsets me to, because

> but at the unacceptable price of privacy

I want you to consider a different toothbrush brand, or maybe a hot location for a holiday, and the idea that I am "invading" your privacy in trying to do this is disconcerting.

I understand there are actors who want to use your private personalising data to harm you. I think that is bad, but I am telling you friend, that isn't me.

> I'm not quite sure what the answer is.

Listen, as an insider I am not quite sure what the answer is either, but I'm telling you that content creators need to eat because you have threatened them with capitalism which murders you if you don't participate, and I am the one feeding them and not you.

I think though, it probably takes the form of better laws that prevent people from using personalised data to harm you without public (judicial) review, and I think that is going to require people like you thinking of the outcome that you want, instead of foolishly trying the impossible to conserve your personal privacy.
Show HN: better-env – A Secure, Developer-Friendly Alternative to .env
by harish3304 | 2025-11-23 07:31:00+00:00
I’ve always hated how archaic .env files feel. Plaintext, easy to leak, and once they hit git history… you’re cooked. After accidentally committing secrets a few too many times, I finally asked myself: why don't we encrypt secrets just like passwords?

So I built better-env: a local, encrypted way to manage secrets without exposing plaintext all over your machine. One place for secrets, nothing sensitive in git, your secrets get directly loaded at runtime, project-wise.

It’s early, local-first, and still rough around the edges, but it already removed a whole category of stress from my workflow. I’d love feedback on whether this feels useful beyond solo devs, and what you’d want for team/CI setups.

It's open source too! (https://github.com/HarishChandran3304/better-env)
by Defletter | 2025-11-23 07:33:24+00:00
Isn't that not necessarily out of the ordinary though? What if there's a cosmic ray that change's the value to something not expected by the exhaustive switch? Or more likely, what if an update to a dynamic library adds another value to that enum (or whatever)? What some languages do is add an implicit default case. It's what Java does, at least: https://openjdk.org/jeps/361
by hurricanepootis | 2025-11-23 07:34:03+00:00
Ok, thank you! I'm gonna gather as much documentation as I can.

Considering the fact that I get full speeds everywhere whenever I'm using a VPN, am I right to assume that there is an issue with AT&T's internal routing? And, that issue doesn't effect every path? I'm not really an expert at doing networking stuff, but I wanna gather as much empirical data to construct a report and do statistical tests n stuff.
by exr0n | 2025-11-23 07:34:36+00:00
This is the coolest part! Turns out, the powers you need are actually lower than what is used for imaging babies :) We measured our probe with a hydrophone on a computer-controlled scanner to get the pressure field, and made sure that it's below diagnostic levels (the generally accepted mechanical index limit is 1.9 and ours was 0.4 peak). We also made sure to avoid the eyes and keep thermals in check.
by djmips | 2025-11-23 07:34:41+00:00
I just saw a picture of Maren Jensen, Athena in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica posing in costume with a Tektronix 4051 (1975) - I guess a very up to date piece of equipment at the time.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-battlestar-galactica-1979-...
by thomassmith65 | 2025-11-23 07:36:08+00:00
Re: the civil war, here's a letter Garibaldi wrote to Lincoln, congratulating him on the Emancipation Proclamation

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/giuseppe-...

"If an entire race of human beings, subjugated into slavery by human egoism, has been restored to human dignity, to civilization and human love, this is by your doing and at the price of the most noble lives in America."
by anon291 | 2025-11-23 07:37:45+00:00
Fast food is an addiction not nutrition. Some people develop the addiction and the restaurants feed it.

Normal food behavior is to eat until satiated. We've pretended it's normal to gorge yourself at McDonald's and such because saying otherwise makes some people feel bad.

People adopting normal food behavior aren't going to be drawn to eating at such a restaurant. The food that's been mentioned is trivial to make at home and requires less time than going out.

In places where there's enough mass of people to actually make this worthwhile (mainly Asia), there's tons of options, but no large ones.
by jackhuman | 2025-11-23 07:39:05+00:00
I’ve recently had to deal with my father cognitive decline & falling for scams left & right using Meta’s apps. This has been so hard on our family. I did a search the other day on marketplace and 100% of all sellers were scams, 20-30 of them.

Meta is a cancer on our society, I’m shutting down all my accounts. Back when TV/Radio/News paper were how you consumed news, you couldn’t get scams this bad at this scale. Our parents dealt with their parents so much easier as they cognitively declined. We need legal protections for elders and youth online more than ever. Companies need to be liable for their ads and scam accounts. Then you’d see a better internet.
by rocqua | 2025-11-23 07:39:10+00:00
This is line coding, often used on wired connections. But reading a hard drive trace isn't quite a wired connection, so the trade-offs are different.

Most notably with line coding when using positive and negative voltages it is quite important for the average voltage to be zero to avoid building up a charge difference. Whitening can often be used if the downside to an imbalance or long runs is much lower. Notably in RF this is often about avoid harmonics with a little bit of symbol timing advantage thrown in.

Whitening doesn't really require encryption though. Weak cypher streams xored into the data work fine. Even a repeated 256 bit string is quite alright.

Whitening using any non trivial encryption key seems weird to me. AES with a key equal to the current offset in ECB mode already feels over-engineerd.
by mmooss | 2025-11-23 07:40:23+00:00
Data connected to your loan might be included, though the article doesn't say how many people are affected:

> “If you go down the top 20 banks, if you make commercial real estate and residential loans, you probably have a relationship with Situs,” said Jon Winick, the chief executive of Clark Street Capital

And notice that the data is market-moving - someone could make a lot of money by trading on this information.

> Among the services SitusAMC offers is regulatory compliance — the boring but essential work of making sure its customers’ loans comply with a plethora of state and federal regulations.

> That means it has extensive nonpublic information on the banks’ internal workings. For instance, it could have information on the risks in lenders’ real estate holdings, said Jason E. Kuwayama, a lawyer who specializes in regulatory issues for banks.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-23 07:40:48+00:00
1. Starlink is not an alternative for 1Gbps cable. It's slower with higher latency. It uses CGNAT which limits what you can do with it.

2. Can you provide a source for that?

3. According to the article, the neighbor has the same issue with the same timing. So it's not the modem or inside wiring.
by ornornor | 2025-11-23 07:42:41+00:00
A while ago, I wrote a ruby gem to convert my banks’ csv export to the format ynab4 expects to import all transactions automatically. It even does currency conversion using the rate at the time of transaction (I have accounts in several currencies).

It uses a plugin structure so if your bank is missing you can contribute your parser.

https://rubygems.org/gems/ynab_convert/versions/2.0.6
by abustamam | 2025-11-23 07:43:27+00:00
I'd be on board with that. That was Andrew Yangs whole proposition with UBI. https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/

Sure it goes to everyone, but I think that's okay. Some parents would still choose to both work, and use their monthly check to pay for daycare. I think the important thing is freedom to choose.
by firtoz | 2025-11-23 07:43:59+00:00
Yeah... caused me to read up on the cold war and Mutually Assured Destruction, and it was just plainly insane. Something like, "If you built missile defenses then that would mean that you could be more motivated to attack first so if we even think that you're building missile defenses then we will have to build more nukes to compensate and that'll be worse for both so please stop researching how to defend yourself for both of our sakes"
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-23 07:45:20+00:00
> while FOSS influenced by corporate needs is about standardizing around 'blessed' platforms like is happening in Linux distributions with adoption of Rust

Rust's target tier support policies aren't based on "corporate needs". They're based, primarily, on having people willing to do the work to support the target on an ongoing basis, and provide the logistics needed to make sure it works.

The main difference, I would say, is that many projects essentially provide the equivalent of Rust's "tier 3" ("the code is there, it might even work") without documenting it as such.
by altairprime | 2025-11-23 07:45:22+00:00
In my case, one of the main loops had a cable break under a roadway, in a place on the loop that was wholly Comcast infra rather than subscriber. You’re not wrong about the general case! But for that reason, they basically stopped acknowledging the issue to me at all, never followed up on support calls ever again, and it took them maybe three years to close that roadway overnight and fix their cable. (I was able to manifest the issue at a service speed of 125mbps when capacity up to 1+ gbps was available, but of course that low limit didn’t stop the modems from negotiating whatever full-width max-QAM links they could.)

Diagnostics mastery note: logically ruling out a readily testable possibility is only (somewhat) logical when one hasn’t exhausted all other possibilities. Displeasing and successful diagnostic tests that ought not to differentiate but do are how one exposes issues hiding in the blind spots of other experts. (If they hadn’t explicitly said ‘I have no ideas left’ in as many words, I probably wouldn’t have posted at all.) Here is an idea they hadn’t openly said they considered. The reasons this idea might or might not pan out are still interesting to me! TIL! But it was a beautiful and consumer-accessible scalpel of diagnostic and earned me a walkthrough of the signal contamination specifics by the senior truck tech who showed up to help the lesser truck tech, so perhaps it’ll help another.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-11-23 07:45:28+00:00
Example: I want to explain the role of various files in the development directory. I start with a couple files; then I describe a command that creates a third file. And then I do this several more times, filling up the directory.

It wold be nice to show the starting list of files, a command, and the resulting list of files. It would also be nice to maybe color-code source and target files for each step, both in the command and in the listing. It may also help to typographically distinquish base files that are written by hand and generated ones. A few pictograms to tell apart files and directories would also be useful.

And it would be nice to somehow keep this a single process so that a command references a source state and produces the target state and the list of files is computed automatically.

(Doing this right now with XML and XSLT, targeting PDF via XSL-FO. Drew pictograms in SVG right in the XSLT. Haven't got to the automatic part yet, just got an idea that this is a natural way to go.)
by imiric | 2025-11-23 07:46:17+00:00
I wasn't aware of Blendle, but I'm not surprised that it failed.

Advertising is ubiquitous on the web. Integrating it into web sites is simple, it works well for generating revenue at scale, and users have been conditioned from every other media industry to accessing content for "free". There is practically no friction for users, save for the degraded user experience, which most people have learned to live with or ignore.

So right off the bat, anyone trying to deploy alternative business models is going against the current of a trillion-dollar industry, and well established consumer expectations.

> readers and publishers both hate it.

Why do you think that is? Is it because the micropayment model is inherently bad, or because implementing it is difficult for website owners, it is annoying to use for users, and ultimately brings little revenue?

What if implementing it were as easy and convenient as advertising is today? What if users had an easy and convenient way to link their payment method into their browser, and from then on it required no maintenance? What if they understood that the web is not "free", but someone on the other end should be paid for their work if they find it valuable? What if this model actually generated significant revenue for publishers? What if all this was simply the way the web operated from the start?

Clearly this model hinges on a bunch of hypotheticals, but hopefully you get the point. There's nothing fundamentally wrong about users paying for consuming content. This is the way business transactions work in most respectable industries. You want something, you pay for it directly. You don't ask a third party to step in between you and the seller, to show you manipulative content that directly benefits them and their associates, while indirectly paying for the thing you actually want to buy. The fact we've accepted this corrupt business model as normal in many facets of life is absolutely insane. Never mind the fact that it's being used to manipulate us into thinking and acting in ways which corrupt democratic processes and cause sociopolitical instability, or that it's abusing our right to privacy and exploiting our data. To hell with all of that.
by xquce | 2025-11-23 07:46:20+00:00
As a dane, this is horrible, and a racist colonial thing that needs to be gotten rid of. However the US is on a systematic mission to tear up Greenland in a attempt to aquire it, even as the people there voted to stay with Denmark. Remember the US president actually threaten a small EU and NATO country to give him their land? For this none technews to hit HN seems like a further attempt of that propaganda campaign.
by rmoriz | 2025-11-23 07:48:46+00:00
Germany/Vodafone: A couple of years ago my DOCSIS connection that worked flawlessly for years started to fail in almost the same pattern. All reporting and support communication went nowhere, had to use the procedure by German IT/Telco regulator to cancel my contract early. It sucked because VDSL is slower but Vodafone wasn’t interested in fixing.

They claim something/someone in the curb is interfering but neither trace it down nor fix it.
by benjojo12 | 2025-11-23 07:49:28+00:00
100Mbit seems fine? I obviously don't have the full picture for what the OP is doing with their line on a day-to-day basis, but, saying that you're entirely out of options when there is an option that is just slower is a little odd

(I do get that Starlink is also quite expensive if it is not your only serious choice)
by ahmaliic | 2025-11-23 07:49:42+00:00
So app to app calls are different thing. Both parties needs to have same app installed. https://callspark.app let's you call any number without an app, imagine international student wants to call a university and universities do not have their number on wahtsapp. Imagine you have to call IRS or something like your bank support number they sure don't have whatsapp. Landline is not disappearing.
by roenxi | 2025-11-23 07:49:58+00:00
This seems a bit confusing and their documentation page was out of action when I tried it - why do the results need to be decrypted by trustees after the election? Is the concern that Helios itself isn't trustworthy to hold a key? And why do they need all trustees instead of a quorum of trustees by default? Not using a secret share for the real key seems like it is setting people up for this to happen and it sets up an odd dynamic where the more election trustees there are the less likely it is that the vote will be readable (in this case, if they'd only had one trustee they'd probably be in a position to read the results). In even a small group of people it is possible that one has a moderate-to-severe personal emergency in any week.

It'd be more robust in my opinion to have 4 mostly trustworthy people and a 3-in-4 secret share. That seems as good as 3 trusted people.
by g7r | 2025-11-23 07:50:25+00:00
Ah, nice story!

This reminds me of another story with FPU involved. I was a game developer once. We were making a game that consistently triggered assertion failures related to FPU calculations, but only on a single PC in the whole office. The game was explicitly setting FPU precision to 32 bits at the start to make all calculations more consistent. However, on that particular PC, there was a fancy hand writing input software that injected its DLL into every process. As you've probably already guessed, that DLL did FPU mode reset to the default in the event handling loop (i.e., main thread). I had to shift FPU mode setting code from process initialization to the event handling loop to be able to deal with the damage that third party DLLs could inflict.
by nis0s | 2025-11-23 07:51:51+00:00
I don’t have an answer for your question but I’ll just say that when someone feels like the way you do, it’s very easy for them to walk into an exploitative trap. Don’t get used by someone just because you’re lonely or lost. There are any number of healthier and safer alternatives, usually around community building activities, like volunteering, taking classes, playing sports, etc. Good luck
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-23 07:52:02+00:00
GP said laptop 4070. The laptop variants are typically much slower than the desktop variants of the same name.

It's not just power budget, the desktop part has more of everything, and in this case the 4070 mobile vs desktop turns out to be a 30-40% difference[1] in games.

Now I don't have a mac so if you meant "2-5x" when you said "much faster" well thdn yea, that 40% difference isn't enough to overcome that.

[1]: https://nanoreview.net/en/gpu-compare/geforce-rtx-4070-mobil...
by procaryote | 2025-11-23 07:52:14+00:00
I use markdown because it's easy to read without rendering. All of the alternatives in the article seem worse

If I wanted more structure, I'd just write html; or mix html into the markdown.

Pandoc lets me do things like generate libreoffice or microsoft word documents from the markdown, using a reference document for styling of headings etc. This also gives me good enough control to generate OK looking pdfs. It's not LaTeX levels of control, but it's much easier

I don't want to do extra work to hypothetically make things easier for an LLM.
by geocar | 2025-11-23 07:52:32+00:00
> writing a blog post every once in a while will not provide meaningful income

Should people receive meaningful income for writing a blog post every once in a while?

I feel like that's the real question and not everyone agrees on the answer

> we would be better off with free content like on the internet of old

Well as someone who was there you used to need meaningful income to use the Internet of old. Nowadays everyone needs the Internet and it's a pretty big expense in most peoples' budget, and I think that's why so many people are willing to try something at it,

I figure if you just gave everyone meaningful income we could have that again