MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devnull3 | 2025-11-23 08:40:25+00:00
This has been an old problem with Legion laptops. All this will be available free of cost to everyone! Mad respect for people who are pledging their own money and the person who fixed it.

Also, Lenovo Legion Pro 7* are not cheap (not that this would have been justified for cheap laptops).

Shame on Lenovo/<big company> who should have fixed this years ago.
by lazide | 2025-11-23 08:40:42+00:00
Even without that, the material is just wrong. It’s strong in tension, not so much compression. Tends towards sudden brittle fractures. Doesn’t like impacts, as it tends to have issues with delaminating.

It’s just not what you ever want as a sub hull. It’s dumb.

And weight is not even a huge issue for a sub!
by 7bit | 2025-11-23 08:41:14+00:00
Fuck Vodafone Germany in particular. I had a cable-contract that was rock solid for years until it wasn't. No amount of calls and complaints was able to convince them to do anything.

First, it was clearly a problem in the house.

Weeks later it suddenly was a regional issue that needed massive infrastructure updates.

Then it became a problem caused by a single household creating massive interference, that they need to find.

Months later they went back to infrastructure updates.

After 9 months of this shit I reported the issue to Bundesnetzagentur.

My next call to Vodafone and they "suddenly" offer to reduce my monthly subscription fee. After threatening to call the BNetzA again, they also offered to payback part of the fees of the previous 9 months.

The problem was magically resolved 3 months later. I'm on the reduced monthly fee ever since. They have forgotten to raise it back to normal and I'm not reminding them about it because they have been such assholes about it.
by muzani | 2025-11-23 08:43:49+00:00
I remember someone sharing news about companies like Shell fearing boycotts. So they restructured and sold or moved the companies they had out of Israel. Turns out the news was dated several decades ago.

There were always peaks where different people held different opinions about the conflict. When they were startups, they'd be vocal about genocide or say, renting out stolen land on Airbnb. As they become bigger and raise more money, they start taking selfies with Voldemort.
by ksenzee | 2025-11-23 08:44:00+00:00
I respectfully submit you might feel differently about it if your child were suicidal. When someone has to be watching them 24/7 already for fear they'll hurt themselves, the black box warning is a lot less worrisome. SSRIs prevent more suicides by far than they cause. It's that first few weeks where they can have a paradoxical effect.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-23 08:44:39+00:00
As the reactor is operating in the Gobi desert and China claims that its main advantage for them is exactly this possibility of operating in the inland arid areas of the country, unlike their current reactors that must be installed only close to the sea, in the part of the country with abundant water, they must have a solution for the cold source that does not involve water.

Perhaps they use as a cold source the underground soil, though the soil thermal conductivity will limit the amount of power of the reactor. This reactor has a modest power, which could be explained by this constraint.

If the reactor is as safe as they claim, the moderate output power per reactor could be compensated by installing many such reactors.
by zkmon | 2025-11-23 08:44:40+00:00
There is no "reality" other than business requirements. That's the context for a workflow. You probably meant that the requirements aren't agile enough to meet the changing world outside. That's a different problem, I think. You can't bypass requirements and expect workflow to dynamically adapt to the changing reality. If that's the direction with AI-driven business re-engineering, then we are back to the chaos, exposing the business logic directly to the outside world.
by bijant | 2025-11-23 08:47:05+00:00
You write that "The olfactory bulb can vary in size by up to 3x, depending on "age and olfactory experience", so perhaps (we're making this up) with more usage your olfactory bulb might actually get bigger" which certainly does not seem out of the question. What we can assume with even greater likelihood is that the sense of smell works better when regularly stimulated. Even if your method did not have any commercial applications in entertainment it could likely (at least if this method scales beyond 4 distinct sensations) have therapeutic potential for people who suffer from blocked noses, chronic sinusitis, allergies or other conditions that block their sense of smell for physical reasons. It might even be used by Sommeliers to retain the capacity for their tradecraft while unable to use their actual nose while suffering from a cold. As we know that there is a strong association between smell and memory there are many other useful therapeutic and educational applications that come to mind if this technology can be made safe for broader consumer use. Right now, regardless of protocols used, you are somewhere on the spectrum between shining nascent lasers at your eyes to determine whether they work and emit light output (which doesn't scale with an increase in power) and the nobel prize worthy quadrant of Jonas Salk and Barry Marshall. While I do hope you succeed and I'd hate for you to be overly cautious I also hope your (olfactory) neurons survive!
by integralid | 2025-11-23 08:48:06+00:00
The sites block Tor, not fail to work with Tor browser itself. I know this is a meaningless distinction for end user.

In theory you could use Tor browser with Tor stripped (I heard this is what mullvad browser is?) or go tor-then-proxy (this is what I often do, because I sometimes use whonix at work). I don't know about libgen or Anna's archive, I don't use them.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-23 08:48:17+00:00
The outages mostly happened at very specific times during the hour (:29 and :44) for 17 months. It just doesn't add up to being RF interference, especially from a radio tower. But if OP has a radio tower 50 feet from their home, I guess we could consider it.

How did you know when the radio tower was transmitting?
by delusional | 2025-11-23 08:48:18+00:00
> than what I would naturally find worthwhile to write on my own.

I take issue with that statement. There's nothing "natural" about documentation. You're not "naturally disposed" to writing a certain level of documentation. It's a skill and a discipline. If you don't think it's worthwhile to write documentation, that's not a "natural failing". You're making a judgment, and any missing documentation is an error in judgment.
by bdavbdav | 2025-11-23 08:49:49+00:00
In the UK we are lucky to have a bit better of the system - Openreach (or Virgin) own the cables, and ISPs pay Openreach to do the transit. IP based not dark fibre unfortunately.

That said, most ISPs won’t escalate when there’s an OR problem, or at least take a long time to, and then the OR tech is usually just trained to test the cable coming in and not a lot else.

I used to be with Andrew’s and Arnold (run by @revk who surfaces around these parts sometimes!) who were fantastic, because while expensive, the first person who answered the phone understood your summary, trusted you, and would happily beat up OR on your behalf.
by cedws | 2025-11-23 08:52:22+00:00
My grandmother has been through the same thing. She was scammed out of all of her savings by accounts impersonating a particular celebrity. Thankfully the bank returned all of the money, but the perpetrators will never be caught, they operate out of Nigeria (one of them attached their phone to her Google account.)

Unfortunately these fake celebrity accounts are swarming her like locusts again. We tried to educate her about not using her real name online, not giving out information or adding unknown people as friends, but there's a very sad possibility that she doesn't fully understand what she's doing.

It was emotionally difficult going through her laptop to gather evidence for the bank. They know exactly how to romance and pull on heart strings, particularly with elderly people.

Meta's platforms are a hive of scammers and they should be held accountable.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-11-23 08:53:19+00:00
I'm sure an editor would go through and suggest tightening up some points, but I agree it's good enough as a first draft.

The problem is there are too types of writers who don't get the help of an editor, those who are too big and famous to accept one and those too poor to afford one.

I sort of feel the people who are saying it's bad aren't very able to separate their own preferences from determining quality

https://medium.com/luminasticity/to-speak-meaningfully-about...
by delusional | 2025-11-23 08:54:40+00:00
Attaching JIRA issues makes a ton of sense for features that are described in JIRA. If we're talking about a bug that was found by a developer, unmotivated by a ticket, it would generally make more sense to just describe the bug directly in the commit message. This is of course not true if the JIRA tickets are used for something else downstream, like informing users of fixed bugs, or tracking changes.

The other issue with tagging JIRA tickets is that junior developers will believe that to be enough (you can just read the ticket) and wont understand why they need to describe the change from a technical angle, when it's already described in JIRA.
by ljsocal | 2025-11-23 08:55:06+00:00
In 1999, Jobs received an award from the Silicon Valley Alum of Harvard Business School for his Pixar work. In his thank you remarks, he said he had no illusions about there being many people who’d be booting up their Power Mac G4 in 50 years but he was dead certain that millions would still be watching Toy Story. Twenty five years in, his prediction holds.
by thombles | 2025-11-23 08:55:26+00:00
Out of all bugs and feature requests, this one is an outlier in that it requires specific hardware to work on and has an obvious success condition. This means that every man and his dog is not going to be throwing an LLM at this to see if their particular slop wins the prize. People get weird when money is on the line and managing a bounty is a job for which I would never volunteer.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-23 08:55:57+00:00
Maybe I'm the odd one out but I love doing stuff that has long term stability written all over it. In fact the IT world moving as fast as it does is one of my major frustrations. Professionally I have to keep up so I'm reading myself absolutely silly but it is getting to the point where I expect that one of these days I'll end up being surprised because a now 'well known technique' was completely unknown to me.
by skinkestek | 2025-11-23 08:57:35+00:00
Joking here since it would be impractical, but I guess you can bury it under my house. I'd not be bothered at all to live on top of a modern nuclear waste deposit like Finlands.

Waste from modern nuclear power plants seems to be a giant nothingburger. And yes, I came from the other side but flipped as I learned more about the technicalities, how Finland has solved it and how near you need to get hurt.
by mavamaarten | 2025-11-23 08:57:43+00:00
That's the problem in my country. They're not afraid of anyone. It's a true duopoly here. There's no FCC to complain to, I guess the most you can do is weasel your way out of your contract but that leaves you with no internet. Local politicians don't give two shits (nor do they have any power). You could switch to a different provider, but their network is either copper (aka low speeds and unstable) or fiber (which is a hollow promise right now - there just isn't any fiber in my area).
by Chilinot | 2025-11-23 08:57:52+00:00
> I also think “3 out of 3” is not a good idea, as it allows any single key holder to prevent election outcomes that they don’t like (something that may have happened here, too. I don’t think cryptography experts often lose such keys by accident)

It's also important to factor in the case of "a key holder was hit by a bus, and now we can no longer access their private key".
by cookiengineer | 2025-11-23 08:58:00+00:00
This is a good thing, despite my own concerns.

The major argument you get from "why are you using Windows 7" is exactly this, companies in infrastructure argue that they still get a supported operating system in return (despite the facts, despite EOL, despite reality of MS not patching actually, and just disclosing new vulnerabilities).

And currently there's a huge migration problem because Microsoft Windows 11 is a non-deterministic operating system, and you can't risk a core meltdown because of a popup ad in explorer.exe.

I have no idea why Microsoft is sleeping at the wheel so much, literally every big industry customer I've been at in Europe tells me the exact same thing, and almost all of them were Windows customers, and are now migrating to Debian because of those reasons.

(I'm proponent of Linux, but if I were a proponent of Windows I'd ask myself wtf Microsoft is doing for the last 10 years since Windows 7)
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-23 08:58:33+00:00
It's not the only mechanism for CO2 removal. There is also a geo cycle. I've forgotten the exact details, but it involves the acidity created by CO2 increasing the speed of rock weathering, and the result sediments being incorporated into the plates, plate tectonics removing the carbon from the upper crust and volcanoes re-introducing it. It's self regulating but very slow, taking millions of years.

Granted, biological removal is much faster, now. But during snowball earth in particular there was so little biological activity the geo cycles dominated CO2 regulation.

Neither of those two mechanisms are relevant right now, as mankind's production of CO2 has swamped both mechanisms. That will stop one way or another of course.
by bambax | 2025-11-23 08:59:56+00:00
Yes, using carbon fiber was also a very bad decision; it was known for a very long time that it was only good for single-use sub, because after the first dive it was too damaged to continue. In 2014, Virgin Oceanic, which had similar plans with similar technology, closed shop because it didn't make economic sense to build a new sub for each dive.

But weight is absolutely an issue; the basic and tried-and-true metal sphere design allows for only three people. Since size and thickness grow exponentially, making a sphere for more than three people becomes more and more difficult. And it should also be possible to lift the vehicle with a crane.

But if you want to carry paying passengers (like Oceangate did), having only two per dive is very limiting. That's why they went with a tube design, and carbon fiber to limit weight. But it couldn't work, and it didn't.
by cyber_kinetist | 2025-11-23 09:00:31+00:00
If you really want to read how horrible and scary the idea of geo-engineering can get, read these two papers:

https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p3_1.xml?l...

https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/31/1/article-p3_1.xml?l...

It's a wild read, that not only explains how this idea is technically horrible - he also analyzes the social and psychological effects this would have on humanity, and it's harrowing:

- We will be unable to see blue skies anymore, it will simply become white. This will be a traumatic event for humanity, and would have consequences beyond our understanding. Also, sunsets will be much more bloody-red, and we wouldn't be able to see the stars as clearly as before.

- The nature of aerosol deployments is that once we start this to combat global warming, corporations and governments will just rely on this instead of also reducing CO2 emissions. So as time passes, an exponentially larger amount of aerosols would be needed to block out the sun at every year, which makes the side-effects of geo-engineering grow immensely over time.

- Once aerosols hit a limit, then there lies the termination shock - once we "give" up on emitting aerosols due to it becoming exponentially expensive to maintain over time, the Earth's temperature will suddenly shoot up at unprecedented rates, quick rendering the planet inhabitable for humanity. His analogies to Freud's theory of repression is apt - we constantly repress our traumatic thoughts with stopgap measures, until the fantasy becomes too expensive to maintain and enter into the fully destructive phase.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-23 09:00:57+00:00
2026 is nearly upon us, and Google, Microsoft, and Apple remain steadfast in the refusal to ever allow anyone to share wide-gamut or HDR images.

Every year, I go on a rant about how my camera can take HDR images natively, but the only way to share these with a wider audience is to convert them to a slideshow and make a Rec.2020 HDR movie that I upload to YouTube.

It's absolutely bonkers to me that we've all collectively figured out how to stream a Hollywood movie to a pocket device over radio with a quality exceeding that of a typical cinema theatre, but these multi-trillion market cap corporations have all utterly failed to allow users to reliably send a still image with the same quality to each other!

Any year now, maybe in 2030s, someone will get around to a ticket that is currently at position 11,372 down the list below thousands of internal bullshit that nobody needed done, rearranging a dashboard nobody has ever opened, or whatever, and get around to letting computers be used for images. You know, utilising the screen, the only part billions of users ever look at, with their human eyes.

I can't politely express my disgust at the ineptitude, the sloth, the foot dragging, the uncaring unprofessionalism of people that get paid more annually then I get in a decade who are all too distracted making Clippy 2.0 instead of getting right the most utterly fundamental aspect of consumer computing.

If I could wave a magic wand, I would force a dev team from each of these companies to remain locked in a room until this was sorted out.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-23 09:02:08+00:00
This.

If someone can afford fast food, they can afford enough utensils or equipments, too.

As I said, I come from a poor family and we only went to the McDonalds to get fast food when I was sick (because I craved it), so very rarely. Fast food was for special occasions due to its high price as opposed to cooking at home, as a poor family.
by metalman | 2025-11-23 09:06:05+00:00
baby theft was documented in chimpansies by Jane Goodall, which is still with us, "social services", are know as baby snatchers, everywhere that they exist,to funnel babys to the wealthy ,powerfull, and childless. in the past higher fertility and infant mortality resulted in more babys availible for legitimate adoption but now it's outright theft, gussied up a bit like it or not danes are just making excuses for the very worst of human/chimpansie behaviors
by goku12 | 2025-11-23 09:06:51+00:00
Volcanic sulfuric acid in the upper atmosphere is not the only known factor that can reduce global average temperatures. Another well known phenomenon is that during the ice ages, the sprawling white ice sheets tended to reflect a lot of the solar radiation back into space, causing a positive feedback loop that cooled the planet down even further. The fundamental idea here in both cases, is that the global warming is caused by the blocking of the warm Earth's long-wavelength black body radiation by the greenhouse gases. But the same greenhouse gases aren't as effective at blocking the short-wavelength radiations coming off of the reflective surfaces.

If you're going take the absurd route of a planet-wide ecosystem engineering project, why not increase the albedo of the planet instead by covering a portion of its surface with thin, light, semi-transparent, semi-reflective films that we already know how to make? We already cover huge areas with artificial materials like cement, asphalt and paints. Since they just lie around motionless on the ground, they're easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to modify or remove if something doesn't go according to plans. Why instead throw aerosols at huge logistic costs into the stratosphere where the air currents and aerosol dispersion patterns are difficult to predict and even more difficult to manage if something goes wrong?

Why do people promote these sorts of unwieldy sci-fi fantasies (high-speed rail vs hyperloop, anyone?), instead of addressing the fundamental cause at the least cost possible? You know, may be convince everyone that dumping so much CO2 into the atmosphere is not a good idea? Climate change is primarily rooted in politics and greed. That would be a good place to start. And if possible at all, find a way to absorb some of the CO2 back? Nature actually has some mechanisms that can absorb and sink CO2 in huge quantities. Getting them to work for us is a challenge. But I don't think it's worse than the hubris of imagining being powerful enough to control the planet altogether.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-11-23 09:06:57+00:00
We don’t know. But as you read from the article, Meta’s own employees were concerned about it (and many other things). For Zuck it was not a priority, as he said himself.

We can speculate. I think they just did not give a fuck. Usually limiting grooming and abuse of minors requires limiting the access of those minors to various activities on the platform, which means those kids go somewhere else. Meta specifically wanted to promote it’s use among children below 13 to stimulate growth, that often resulting in the platform becoming dangerous for minors was not seen as their problem.

If your company is driven by growth über alles à la venture capitalism, it will mean the growth goes before everything else. Including child safety.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-23 09:07:19+00:00
C had 3 major sources, B (derived from BCPL, which had been derived from CPL, which had been derived from ALGOL 60), IBM PL/I and ALGOL 68.

Structs come from PL/I, not from ALGOL 68, together with the postfix operators "." and "->". The term "pointer" also comes from PL/I, the corresponding term in ALGOL 68 was "reference". The prefix operator "*" is a mistake peculiar to C, acknowledged later by the C language designers, it should have been a postfix operator, like in Euler and Pascal.

Examples of things that come from ALGOL 68 are unions (unfortunately C unions lack most useful features of the ALGOL 68 unions. which are implicitly tagged unions) and the combined operation-assignment operators, e.g. "+=" or "*=".

The Bourne shell scripting language, inherited by ksh, bash, zsh etc., also has many features taken from ALGOL 68.

The explicit "malloc" and "free" also come from PL/I. ALGOL 68 is normally implemented with a garbage collector.
by joelreymont | 2025-11-23 09:07:28+00:00
This blog post provides a detailed guide to building standalone binaries with Julia, e.g. for microcontrollers and embedded.

I used ChatGPT and Claude to modify to the stock version of StaticCompiler.jl and bring it up to Julia 1.12.

I didn't write a single line of code but carefully shepherded the project to completion.
by aaplok | 2025-11-23 09:07:58+00:00
Here is a quote from your original message which I have read and suspect others have too:

> In general coops are not good at tough decisions and innovation.

> Duralex already went bankrupt several times and they are heading for it again. What's in the article is nice but it's charity not business so unfortunately I am not optimistic.

These two paragraphs following each other do make it seem like you are making a connection between the two, coops being unpropitious for hard decisions and this particular coop heading for bankruptcy.

That original comment was primarily made up of three paragraphs criticising coops, and readers naturally assume that the final concluding paragraph (this place is likely going bankrupt) is linked to the first three.

> just rush to condemn me for blaspheming.

Nobody has accused you of blasphemy. They just disagree with you. You are not being victimised, and nobody has pretended you were not allowed to think as you think. There is just a discussion taking place between disagreeing people.