MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YouAreMammon | 2025-11-18 04:57:32+00:00
Again, that's with the mindset that the reason to own shares is because they're an appreciating asset.

If you study the history of what investing in a company via shares has historically meant, you'll find that it's only really in the last half century that the "appreciation game" came to the forefront. Dividends yields (or equivalent) were the evaluation criteria for these investments prior to our current era.

You speak about inflation and stock as if the cause/effect relationship is crystal clear and unidirectional, I wouldn't be so confident about that.
by hkdb | 2025-11-18 04:58:55+00:00
Been looking around for a TUI that fits my perhaps quirky needs. I wanted something:

- simple (UI)

- fast (quick to launch and general responsiveness)

- portable (both binary and data)

- let's me optionally use neovim to compose more complex prompts

- let's me search through all my sessions

- capable of installing, configuring, and wiring up MCP servers to models

- supports multiple providers (ollama, openrouter, etc)

- made not just for coding but configurable enough to do much of anything I want

Maybe I just didn't look long and hard enough but I couldn't find one so I went down this rabbit hole of vibe coding my own.
by al_borland | 2025-11-18 05:00:57+00:00
Is the standard to return the cart or not? Where do you draw the line? What if it’s only raining? How hard does it need to be raining to sacrifice your principles?

On days with a strong wind it is more important to rerun the cart, because leaving it loose will mean it’s likely to hit someone’s car. This is when the golden rule comes into play.
by culi | 2025-11-18 05:01:09+00:00
Would you say India are their political masters if it was shown as being Indian? Even Google Maps in the US has dotted borders alongside both sides to show its disputed.

Historically, geographically, culturally, the area was always part of Tibet. It was the British that drew the McMahon Line and claimed it was part of India. China never once recognized the line. When Mao won the civil war in China they went on to conquer Tibet and again considered the whole of Tibet theirs.

India's claims to the area rest solely on the british-drawn lines. In reality, the whole of Tibet should be Tibet and allowed to either self-govern or choose which nation they should be a part of
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 05:01:13+00:00
There are no "Emacs experts". Bedrock of Emacs is Lisp. Lisp is the essence of computation itself. It's both simple to understand (5 basic special forms) and impossible to master at the same time - you can construct entire universes with those 5 basic building blocks - quote, if, lambda, let, and set. If someone finds something cannot be achieved in Emacs they either are wrong, or wrong at the point in time - theoretically, anything can be done in Emacs, it's just a matter of time. So, technically, it's impossible to capture all possible features of Emacs, the totality is infinite.

In comparison most other languages are 'closed' - e.g., C is a closed language. Its spec is finite and fixed (C99, C11, C17, etc.). You can genuinely master it: all keywords, all standard library functions, all undefined behaviors, all edge cases. There's a ceiling.

Lisp is unusual, The language itself is a tool for language-building. Lisp is 'open'. There's no canonical "complete" set of what exists. Thus there's never completion or "mastery"
by ChicagoDave | 2025-11-18 05:02:04+00:00
Everything before CoPilot was pretty standard CEO stuff. The real change was internally. Satya is well-known for eradicating the "Art of War" environment and bringing workers together. He also fully embraced open-source (Balmer hated OSS) and R&D has continued to innovate. (Still boggles the mind that F# exists and is awesome)

Prior to CoPilot, my only beef was that Azure needs a ground up re-architecture. They bolted products onto Active Directory which is ancient LDAP tech. It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.
by pfdietz | 2025-11-18 05:02:32+00:00
> Unfortunately geothermal does not cover this need.

Artificial geothermal could though.

https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/standard-thermal

The size is orders of magnitude smaller than the depth of natural geothermal wells, and the temperature much higher. Even so, they are aiming for heat loss of < 1%/month, entirely adequate for seasonal energy storage.
by 14 | 2025-11-18 05:02:53+00:00
Indeed. It felt like an obituary but to announce a wedding. Looking up the town Wikipedia states a population of just under 20k as of 2020 so back in 1991 when that article was written most likely less. So a very small community and I imagine that back then it was just common for people to make announcements like that.

But I also think the city did hold some old fashioned beliefs and views. 1. "In 1992, Lake Forest gained national attention when it attempted to ban the sale of offensive music to anyone under the age of 18.[15] City council members used existing ordinances against obscenity—defined in the codes as "morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion"—to buttress their campaign.[15] Mayor Charles Clarke stated, "If they sell an obscene tape to somebody underage, we will prosecute."[15] The person who came up most frequently in discussions of obscene content was Ice-T, a rapper who has since also performed as an actor."

Interesting to think back to those days and remember how censored thing were. I was born in the 80s so nude scenes or swearing was just not a thing on standard broadcasting here in Canada. I remember hearing shit on a show at some point and it really stood out. Then channels like Showcase came along and it seemed like it was wild as a teen. Now anything ever aired back then feels tame to today. I am surprised what defines PG13 hasn't been changed because I am certain there is nothing happening in a PG13 movie up to a R rated movie that my teens don't know about. Anyways I am going on here if I continue I am going to start talking about how I am against ID to use the internet. Just found the article like you say strangely written. Cheers

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest,_Illinois
by amluto | 2025-11-18 05:03:47+00:00
Wait a sec. IANAL, but if I license something to you under the GPLv3, you may not license it to someone else under AGPLv3 or a commercial license.

That being said, libpebblecommon seems to be Apache 2.0. But this part of the diff seems questionable:

> # Copyright and Licensing

Copyright 2025 Core Devices LLC

How does Core own the copyright to this code?
by fy20 | 2025-11-18 05:04:28+00:00
The title is missing context, the full sentence would be "In his final speech, Huxley predicts Adderall". The context anchors the time frame, so "predicts" is present tense at the time of the speech.

"In his 2006 paper, Roubini sees an upcoming global financial crisis"

Journalists love to do things like this - cut out the context - as it makes the headlines seem more vivid, immediate and often alarming.

"Roubini sees an upcoming global financial crisis"
by vguiy66y | 2025-11-18 05:05:49+00:00
That's why cop30 is cutting down 100,000 trees for a climate summit

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o which says:

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.
by gblargg | 2025-11-18 05:07:29+00:00
> The biggest leap I made in social stuff is to simply stop caring what other people think.

If you do care what other think, you alter your behavior to make them think what you prefer, and it becomes inauthentic on your part and manipulation of others. That's not to say that all things for others are manipulation; if you find out that you don't listen to people well and improve that, they might like being around you more because being heard is an important core part of relating.
by oskarkk | 2025-11-18 05:07:33+00:00
I think it would be better and faster if the website calculated the positions of the nodes in the background (with a good enough limit of iterations), and then showed the result. Animating 4k nodes and 25k edges (15k by default) is a waste of CPU and is laggy even on my high-end CPU. But maybe the author was limited by the tools used.
by vkou | 2025-11-18 05:07:36+00:00
> Modifying the file system to be would be kind of like mocking to me.

Modifying the file system's implementation would be. Including a valid_testdata.txt and an invalid_testdata.txt file in your test's directory, however, is not 'modifying the file system', any more than declaring a test input variable is 'mocking memory access'.

> don't want my daemons or user-facing applications to just crash, when a file is missing

If the file is important, it's the best kind of thing you can do when implementing a non-user-facing service. The last thing you want to do is to silently and incorrectly serve traffic because you are missing configuration.

You want to crash quickly and let whatever monitoring system you have in place escalate the problem in an application-agnostic manner.
by dirkt | 2025-11-18 05:07:46+00:00
I am old enough to have lived in Germany when they were not coin operated, and most carts were returned at that time as well.

Though occasionally you saw a cart far far away from a supermarket, where someone had basically stolen it, either teenagers to have fun, or someone asocial who, I don't know, used to carry all the shopping home? I don't really know what they did with it.

And it was the cost of replacing those stolen carts that drove the adaption of the coin operation system. Not that people just left them in the parking lot. Some supermarkets also tried a system where the cart locked if you moved it out of range of some radio in the supermarket, but that one really didn't take off.

(Also, quite a few people in Germany just do shopping by walking or biking to the supermarket).
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-18 05:08:13+00:00
Are you aware that MS already sells an operating system that can install patches without rebooting? Are you also aware that Linux can do the same? Why can't a supposedly mature 40 year old operating system do the same? Do you have any concept of the number of man-hours it would save globally? The amount of lost work? The impact on patching compliance and security?

My guess is they don't actually believe they have any competition, and therefore don't care to improve anything that doesn't also improve their bottom line.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-18 05:09:03+00:00
> Plenty of cars in the 90s and we played outside all day.

Same in the 1970s/1980s. I grew up in a suburb-type neighborhood. Needed a car to go to work or to do any shopping or go basically anywhere. Rode a bus to school. The idea that car-centric development is a relatively new phenomenon is just wrong. It's been happening since the 1950s. We still played outside. We had TV but like 6 channels and nothing very interesting for a kid most of the time. Now we have ubiquitous computers and phones, and the sociopathic tech companies, which have really been just terrible for everyone except their investors.
by vee-kay | 2025-11-18 05:09:08+00:00
In my experience, the only 2 mobile phone companies whose phones drain battery too fast are Apple and Samsung. Apple does this deliberately for older phones, whereas Samsung has this problem even for new phones.

You will not find this quick battery drain problem in Motorola, Nokia, Oppo, Sony, etc. Their phones last several years even with ageing batteries. An 10+ years old Oppo phone I have, still holds almost full charge at idle, throughout the day.

As batteries get older, their capacity to hold charge reduces, but if a phone battery is draining too fast even in idle mode, it is likely due to software, not hardware. And if it is due to software, then the manufacturer company is to blame.
by al_borland | 2025-11-18 05:09:18+00:00
I don’t go to Aldi because of the coin thing in the shopping carts. I went there once, didn’t have at change, and had to carry everything until my arms got full, then just left. I’m not going to carry change with me all the time on the off chance I decide to go to Aldi. Every other store lets me take a cart for free, and I return it because it’s the right thing to do and I want them to remain free.
by skybrian | 2025-11-18 05:09:52+00:00
The book is titled "Death in a Shallow Pond" and seems to be all about Peter Singer. (I don't see a table of contents online.)

The way I first heard of Effective Altruism, I think before it was called that, took a rather different approach. It was from a talk given by the founders of GiveWell at Google. (This is going off of memory so this is approximate.)

Their background was people working for a hedge fund who were interested in charity. They had formed a committee to decide where best to donate their money.

The way they explained it was that there are lots of rigorous approaches to finding and evaluating for-profit investments. At least in hindsight, you can say which investments earned the most. But there's very little for charities, so they wanted to figure out a rigorous way to evaluate charities so they could pick the best ones to donate to. And unlike what most charitable foundations do, they wanted to publish their recommendations and reasoning.

There are philosophical issues involved, but they are inherent in the problem. You have some money and you want to donate it, but don't know which charity to give it to. What do you mean by the best charity? What's a good metric for that?

"Lives saved" is a pretty crude metric, but it's better than nothing. "Quality-adjusted life years" is another common one.

Unfortunately, when you make a spreadsheet to try to determine these things, there are a lot of uncertain inputs, so doing numeric calculations only provides rough estimates. GiveWell readily admits that, but they still do a lot of research along these lines to determine which charities are the best.

There's been a lot of philosophical nonsense associated with Effective Altruism since then, but I think the basic approach still makes sense. Deciding where to donate money is a decision many people have! It doesn't require much in the way of philosophical commitments to decide that it's helpful to do what you can to optimize it. Why wouldn't you want to do a better job of it?

GiveWell's approach has evolved quite a bit since then, but it's still about optimizing charitable donations. Here's recent blog post that goes into their decision-making:

https://blog.givewell.org/2025/07/17/apples-oranges-and-outc...
by proofofconcept | 2025-11-18 05:09:53+00:00
Reminds me of this vid by a guy who did a romhack of Chrono Trigger to propose to his then-gf who was playing through it for the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0 "I proposed by hacking Chrono Trigger (Oct 24, 2008, 6m 57s)"

He writes in the description about what he was going for as far as making it seem like part of the actual game while still referencing their romantic history, and how well it worked (good for them!).
by bbminner | 2025-11-18 05:11:06+00:00
But the same applies to the person you are talking to - it is their job to reach out to you if they need help. It is not your job to prove anything to them by reaching out when (your heightened vigilance picks up that) something is off.

I am never buying the story of "i did not reach out / i betrayed you / i treated you poorly, and you deserved this treatment, because you failed to know me well enough to know what i needed (even if i didn't know that myself)" ever again.

There's no failure in asking. But there's no failure in not asking either - because you might be dealing with your own shit, as a responsible adult does.

One school of phenomenology of empathy makes an interesting point that empathy is an aesthetic category, not a moral one - you don't really choose to feel it. But you can choose to show up for someone. You can choose to show up for yourself as well.

I have been dancing lately, and i think it's helping a little. Our tango teacher says semi-jokingly to followers (usually women, although i find occasionally following quite fun as a man) "if you teach men that you will do everything yourself, they will learn that" - meaning that they should not anticipate a move - if it is not being communicated clearly, it is not your job to guess it. On the other hand, leader's job is to very clearly suggest a move with a gentle push or a shift in their pose, but not force it. Ideally, that's a fun exchange of clearly expressed and contextually relevant suggestions and responses.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-18 05:11:09+00:00
I don't know or care about the LLM use, but you are spot on about the egotism. This person is just like every other "i'm smarter than you and I have to show you that, see me, appreciate my intelligence! reward me for knowing things!" insufferable goon I've ever encountered, myself included. One day the author might realize that healthy, social relationships, "connection", stem from actually giving a shit about people who aren't me myself and I, but some people never get there.
Ask HN: Does It Still Make Sense to Buy a New Car?
by Anumbia | 2025-11-18 05:11:25+00:00
New data reveals that a 3-year-old used car now costs, on average, only about 10% less than a brand-new version. With that tiny gap, the old logic of buying used to save big money is crumbling.

A media outlet is diving into this for a story. If you've shopped for a car in the last year, we want to hear from you:

Did you end up buying new because a used car didn't make financial sense?

Or did you buy used and feel like you overpaid?

What was the most shocking price you saw on a used car lot?

(Please note we may request your name and location if we decide to cite your story)
by shkkmo | 2025-11-18 05:12:24+00:00
> They were originally scraped by Rebble from Pebble, which makes the accusation of scraping here ironic.

Scraping data because the original publisher is going under to prevent the data from being lost is very different from scraping data from someone who you are actively trying negotiate with over use of that data.

> It's also strange to me that the Bluetooth commit they point to before claiming "Rebble paid for the work" was actually written by Liam McLoughlin, a Google and former Fitbit engineer. Was Rebble paying a Google engineer?

The claim was that Rebble paid the developers of NimBLE, Codecoup, to assist with integration of NimBLE into RebbleOS
by vguiy66y | 2025-11-18 05:12:25+00:00
"the rulers and their families."

Fixed that for you.

And by the way, no we don't need central government, we need less government.

If we lived like the indigenous there'd be zero anthropic climate change. We will burn all the petroleum until there is no more.

While ignoring those who know how to live without it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/nov/14/cop...

It's all a fraud.
by mgh95 | 2025-11-18 05:13:41+00:00
> Governments can issue muni bonds to build housing if private developers will not or cannot, and use eminent domain to acquire rental real estate not being maintained to living standards codified in statue.

With what money? LA was recently downgraded [1] and adding poor people who need social care harms not helps the city budget.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-26/city-of-...
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-18 05:14:17+00:00
I read parent's wording of "manipulation" as not in the usual negative connotation, and more as making the other person do something specific.

For instance if you wanted a security guard to help you find your way in a shopping mall, there would be approaches that are more effective than others. For instance making it sound more like you have something important to do and they'd save your day by helping isn't specially abusing the person. They might feel pretty good about helping you, it's still somewhat part of their job so you're not tricking them either.
by robocat | 2025-11-18 05:14:31+00:00
See report and first comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358668

It looked to me that regulators wanted to make solar the scapegoat for political reasons.

The report indicates to me that different operators were using a random monkey theory to make changes until the grid stabilised (they clearly didn't have a handle on the root cause of the instabilities). The regulator screwed up: they are supposed to engineer the network so it can be stable (even in the face of political pressure).
by 14 | 2025-11-18 05:15:09+00:00
Lots one could say here. First it kind of feels like the old saying

"you won't always have a calculator in your pocket so learn the math" we all heard. And now we all have a calculator. This seems like the next moment similar to the calculator saying. Kids using Ai to help with papers and "cheat". Teachers trying to detect Ai usage and punish kids. I imagine there will one day be a shift and instead of punishing kids will instead be taught how to use Ai to help with papers but also shown how to also verify the information and possibly tested if they remember any of the information.

The goal of teaching should be to help students gain knowledge. Ai in my opinion has potential to be a great tool for learning. Not just writing complete papers, that isn't great. But tasks like summarizing articles to more quickly determine if they are relevant. Or to read articles to students as many struggle to read well no matter how much they try.

I know there are some cons to Ai and learning but I think with the right attitude it could be a powerful tool for students.
by al_borland | 2025-11-18 05:15:19+00:00
I liked getting carts too, but I return mine, because no one else I worked with liked doing it. I’m not going to force someone to do work they might not want to do. I don’t know them, and statistically (from my n of probably 50), most people don’t want to do it… especially in the winter.

Most of the time I will leave my cart inside and carry my bags to the car. I use the small carts and they run out a lot, so I like to leave it there for other people who like the small carts.
by gblargg | 2025-11-18 05:16:11+00:00
What comes across as creepy about the techniques is that the approach doesn't seem to involve personal consequences; it seems to be sterile, like a game with no negative effects if it goes wrong. Normal people have all sorts of anxiety and potential hurt if they do these things, since they know how they affect others.

Personally I'd prefer that "spectrum" individuals just be themselves. I take it as my own shortcoming if I can't establish a dialog. I like the challenge of interacting with someone who does things very differently. This of course assumes there's a genuine desire to connect. I knew someone who had some techniques like this, and it was weird interacting with him. The techniques put up a barrier and it didn't feel authentic.

Maybe I'm jaded but I see it as a failure of the "normal" person if they can't deal with someone who communicates differently. All their issues just get triggered, not the fault of the spectrum individual, and not their responsibility to overcome. As a practical measure for just dealing with these people, I could see using techniques. But not when you actually want to relate with someone.