MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101d | 2025-11-11 16:29:16+00:00
> Many home internet connections are faster than 40Mhz can provide.

Define "many". The US average, as of 2023, seems to be ≤150Mbps:

* https://www.opensignal.com/2023/05/23/usa-fixed-broadband-ex...

Cloudflare has data of more sustained-use bandwidth that shows lower numbers:

* https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality

1x1 40Mhz = 287Mbps PHY ~ 143Mbps realistic ~ 100Mbps probable. Double that for 2x2 40Mhz: 200 Mbps.

Certainly some connections may need more, and is the reason for >40 Mhz options, but I'm not entirely convinced one of those should be the out-of-box default.

This less of a concern in 6 Ghz because there are many more channels, but this is what the story is all about: how is that frequency band going to be allocated? In US/CA all of it basically went to Wifi, and that gives folks more options, even in more densely populated areas.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-11 16:29:25+00:00
It's the link in the article. But I'm diverting the thread at this point and arguably making this a worse place by doing so. The other replies indicate that the question has been raised and is under consideration, which is all I can ask given that I'm not prepared to jump on Github and send them a PR myself. Thanks for your reply and the rest of the input people have offered!
by roughly | 2025-11-11 16:29:29+00:00
The lifespan of microorganisms is sufficiently short (in most cases) that you’re turning over the entire population regularly - the reason you see such rapid evolution in microorganisms is because they do an enormous amount of dying and procreating anyway. As such, it’s hard to really quantify what a microorganism extinction event would look like in a way that meaningfully distinguishes it from any random Tuesday.
by rekabis | 2025-11-11 16:29:37+00:00
Haven’t we seen this scenario before? As in, within the next few days - or even hours - of this site becoming widely known, griefer hackers will bring the site to its knees by leveraging critical security exploits and workflow flaws that would have never been in a product created by an experienced dev.

I mean, the fintech SaaS part is new. And it sure is purdy. I like the screenshots. But 220k LoC sounds like a lot of holsters for footguns or even legguns.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-11 16:29:43+00:00
Measles is unbelievably infectious. An unvaccinated person has a 90% chance of getting infected if exposed. The virus can survive in the air for hours. In a susceptible population, one infected person will typically infect a dozen other people or more.

Changing the rate of immigration won't make a bit of difference for a disease like this. It only takes one infection in a susceptible population, and then it's game over. Unless your controls are 100% effective (including tourists and returning citizens), the only way to prevent an outbreak is for the vast majority of your people to be uninfectable.

An insufficiently vaccinated population is like a can of food. It might take longer to spoil if there's a pinhole in the side versus if you just crack it open, but it will spoil if there's any breach whatsoever.

So unless you propose to isolate to a degree more extreme than North Korea, blaming immigrants is just bigotry.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-11-11 16:29:44+00:00
Certified Audio Engineer here. The Loudness Wars more or less ended over the last decade or so due to music streaming services using loudness normalization (they effectively measure what each recording's true average volume is and adjust them all up or down on an invisible volume knob to have the same average)

Because of this it generally makes more sense these days to just make your music have an appropriate dynamic range for the content/intended usage. Some stuff still gets slammed with compression/limiters, but it's mostly club music from what I can tell.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-11 16:29:58+00:00
Surely there’s a difference between hardware being a locked down appliance and… well, a more generic computation device.

I think the argument is that Apple or even any company that makes Android phones could choose to have an open bootloader (and maybe some driver stuff) and normally that wouldn’t really offend any government, while also giving the users more freedoms.

Otherwise, what’s next, PCs that only run Windows and only allow Edge as the browser and force the telemetry on?
by estebank | 2025-11-11 16:30:14+00:00
If the only way of triggering spatial memory unsafety in C++ was vector[i] and that operation was defined to always interrupt execution, then yes, C++ would be considered memory safe. But that is not the case.

The equivalent of vector[i] in Rust is Vex::get_unchecked, which is marked as unsafe, not the default that people reach for normally.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-11 16:30:17+00:00
Vaccination rates in immigrant populations is lower than native born children, but not significantly. As you noted in your link, they're generally willing to get vaccines, but many didn't have access before they immigrated.

Also, the current outbreak was incubated in Mennonite communities before spreading wider. Despite living in Canada for over 100 years Mennonites are still considered immigrants by many because they are insular and different.

In other words, it's a racist talking point that has enough truth to make it non-trivial to challenge, but has no actual basis.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-11 16:30:31+00:00
> Not quite sure what you are meaning there, but wrt ads and bloatware that boat has already sailed and MS is actively doing it, not just allowing it.

Exactly the opposite. A standalone Windows company wouldn't have a reason to force Copilot, Cortana, a Microsoft account, etc., since their only objective is to develop an OS. "But why would Microsoft allow that?" = "Why would give up that power over the OS?"

> That, and loss of face.

Right now. But when people got used to the OS being shitty, nobody would be sad if it's gone. Maybe that's the plot with Windows 11 and why they already partially have given up with backwards compatibility. :-)
by yesfitz | 2025-11-11 16:30:56+00:00
Video, roughly 2.5 minutes long.

Summarized for those already familiar with al-Shara: "He disavowed Al-Qaeda in 2016".

The video itself is propaganda because the West wants new Syria to align with them instead of Russia and Iran. (Putin's also met with al-Shara.) You can tell because it's free, edited for mass distribution via TikTok and Instagram, and the controversies/ongoing criticism is vastly understated, while still being present. A kind of innoculation of the mind to soften the blow of future, harder criticism.

Even the long(er)-form article from yesterday is outside of the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/middleeast/syria-al...

This is not to say that al-Shara is worse than al-Assad, but this video is shockingly reductive.
by monoidist | 2025-11-11 16:30:59+00:00
I think the =f at the end is a possessive, because r ḏr=f is an idiomatic phrase literally meaning “to its limit”.

𓇍𓇋𓏭𓂻𓍘𓇋𓇾𓂋𓇥𓂋𓈐𓆑

jy.tj t3 r ḏr=f

come [STATIVE] land [VOCATIVE] to limit its

“Welcome, entire land”

(I’m not an Egyptologist either.)
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-11 16:30:59+00:00
> $500 for something [...] run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive.

To be honest, I did abandoned school as quickly as I could and my math skills aren't that of my peers, but 5x times as much is pretty "much more expensive" for most people out there, not sure how someone can say else with a straight face. $100 vs $500 would easily be a "Can I eat properly the entire month?" decision for a lot of the population.
by simoncion | 2025-11-11 16:31:21+00:00
> TP-Link models with this "feature" hard-coded into the GUI would enable a VLAN on all physical ports with VLAN enabled.

That's a slightly strange feature. I guess it was to cope with downstream switches (or administrators(!)) that refused to assign an administrator-assigned VLAN tag to untagged traffic?

> I don't like the terms "dumb" or "smart" when discussing switches, because it isn't very useful.

In the lore that I'm familiar with, there are three general categories, "dumb", "smart", and "managed". The boundaries between the latter two categories are fuzzy... with "smart" switches tending to offer you very little configurability, and "managed" switches offering you nearly everything you'd expect from an Enterprise switch.

It's true that the difference between "dumb" and "not dumb" switches are that the former offers no end-user configuration, but how do you succinctly distinguish between a switch that offers -say- only the ability to force link speeds on specific ports, and a switch that offers link bonding and IGMP snooping and VLANs, and etc., etc., etc.? Use the terms "Prosumer" and "Enterprise"? [0]

But yeah, naming is hard... case in point:

> vs. non-configurable switches that may also be "smart", i.e., a "dumb" switch is really just a hub

Perhaps this was a brain fart on your part, because that's completely incorrect. An Ethernet hub does absolutely no filtering... all traffic that enters on one port is flooded to all other ports on the device. This means that Ethernet collision detection is essential for operation when attached to a hub, and total throughput decreases sharply when one has many chatty stations on one's LAN. The feature that distinguishes a switch from a hub is that a switch doesn't flood unicast traffic because it learns which ports have which MAC addresses behind them and routes traffic based on that information.

[0] Though, if I were king of the world, every consumer-grade switch would have the features of a low-to-mid-range managed switch. While I understand why things are the way they are, it's a crying shame that dumbswitches are the norm.
by craftkiller | 2025-11-11 16:31:22+00:00
That's the one that I use now! I'm weary of the spinny kind because with other brands/models the outer spinner has ripped off the flash drive, but at least so far I haven't had that issue with the "SanDisk ultra dual drive go". The only modification I've had to do to it so far is lubricating the spinny bit because it was all grindy and rough.
by bikotreats | 2025-11-11 16:31:26+00:00
long time lurker but created an account to reply here. i've taken plenty of psychedelics from around 18 y/o on a regular basis (once or twice every other month with frequent breaks of several months and then more intense periods of heavier usage) until i was about 29 and lost interest. i've tried DMT, LSD (my favorite. have done large doses of 800 microgram), different kind of shrooms...

drugs have repeatedly given me profound and connected experiences. it makes you feel connected with people and the world because your ego is reduced and you let everything in your surroundings fill you up instead. your mental barriers and preconcieved notions fall apart and you just accept what is happening around you.

I know several people with hereditary mental health disorders who's ailments have been trigger by drug use but i don't think you can blame the drugs here. a traumatic experience could trigger it too.

while i would not call my self and addict, i was a thrill seeker in my younger years for sure. today i'm a successful SWE, homeowner in a major western city and have a loving partner. plenty of my friends who were with me doing these drugs have similar lives today.
by xp84 | 2025-11-11 16:31:37+00:00
I don’t know about Spain, but when I did some brief research it looks like senior software engineers in the UK make often substantially under £100,000. Away from London even £60,000. Most seniors at my company in the US make about £150,000. £50-70k of incremental salary pays for a hell of a lot of health insurance premiums and retirement contributions.
by raffael_de | 2025-11-11 16:31:39+00:00
I don't understand why Palantir is always thrown in with the AI bunch. Yes, they market products using AI. But their core business is products and consulting for surveillance. I'm bullish for Palantir because I'm bearish on freedom. All major democracies are turning into surveillance states. And von der Leyen is making sure EU does as well.
by port11 | 2025-11-11 16:31:45+00:00
My theory is that Reddit as a community-builder died when their moderator crisis started, prompted by the API pricing issue. I swear I haven't seen a funny, Redditesque thread since then. No copypastas, none of the old memes. It's all slop, meaningless comments, and generic content these days. Endless reposts. I don't know what happened to Reddit…
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-11 16:32:00+00:00
I think in all of those other examples you provide, a person still had to do something.

- take a photo of a subject

- paint something

- pick up a guitar

Whereas asking the computer in the lowest effort possible to do said thing for you “draw me this”, “make a song that sounds like this”, requires zero effort/skill and results in no improvement of your own ability.
by ferguess_k | 2025-11-11 16:32:05+00:00
I think most big tech companies started with a tech centered culture and gradually moved towards a finance/PM centered culture, which makes sense, especially after they went IPO.

From what I recall, David Cutler was quoted in "Showstoppers" about DEC having an engineering culture when he joined but he got discontented after a few years (when his team shipped VMS) because it was too bloated.

Microsoft could be a bit different though. I remember reading from a book that Bill Gates wanted to have PMs control projects, which caused a lot of conflict. I do not remember the timeline, but it must be before Win NT.

So the best bet is to go in early, stay for 5-10 years until the environment starts to rot and you can exercise all of your options, profit, and then jump to the next. The more senior you are, the more control you have, the happier you are. David Cutler is a great example. He did stay in Microsoft but he managed to be a hand-on.
by MentatOnMelange | 2025-11-11 16:32:28+00:00
I'm struggling to find an academic source to provide any level of detail beyond confirming this basic fact, but Germany and Britain's economic ties before WW1 were actually not too different. They were rivals but also major trading partners.

I won't try to shoehorn the past into the present, but for the very specific point about intertwined economies, it has in fact happened before.
by rootbear | 2025-11-11 16:32:29+00:00
Film weave is also the bane of the VFX world. If a shot is going to have, say, a matte painting added in post, then a pin registered camera must be used. These cameras have a precisely machined pin that centers the film stock in the gate after the pull down claw retracts. Later post processing stages also use pin registered movements, so each frame is in exactly the same place every time it's used. Otherwise, the separate elements would weave against each other and give away the effect.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 16:33:04+00:00
This is a point that I don't see discussed enough. I think anthropic decided to purchase books in bulk, tear them apart to scan them, and then destroy those copies. And that's the only source of copyrighted material I've ever heard of that is actually legal to use for training LLMs.

Most LLMs were trained on vast troves of pirated copyrighted material. Folks point this out, but they don't ever talk about what the alternative was. The content industries, like music, movies, and books, have done nothing to research or make their works available for analysis and innovation, and have in fact fought industries that seek to do so tooth and nail.

Further, they use the narrative that people that pirate works are stealing from the artists, where the vast majority of money that a customer pays for a piece of copyrighted content goes to the publishing industry. This is essentially the definition of rent seeking.

Those industries essentially tried to stop innovation entirely, and they tried to use the law to do that (and still do). So, other companies innovated over the copyright holder's objections, and now we have to sort it out in the courts.
by DepthSight | 2025-11-11 16:33:20+00:00
You've perfectly described my biggest nightmare, and also the reason I'm here! I'm well aware the codebase is likely a "footgun" factory. That's why the beta is completely sandboxed (no real funds), and I'm hoping to crowdsource the "gun safety" inspection from experienced devs like you. Consider this a public bug bounty invitation.
by moralestapia | 2025-11-11 16:33:20+00:00
100% agree.

I don't blame anyone for not trusting the government. Anyone who's read (or lived) history and with a rational mind would scrutinize every single thing coming from them, particularly if their health is involved.

Another thing that doesn't help, but this is almost exclusively a memerican problem, is that people enjoy polarizing these issues to their absolute extremes. Things are either vantablack or HDR-white. And if you happen to be on the other end "you should die or go to prison".

Chill. It's OK to question things.
by rdtsc | 2025-11-11 16:33:33+00:00
That's wild they have a high speed 8K photon counting device for x-rays now. It's not the one he tested but it's the latest one the company has https://www.dectris.com/en/detectors/x-ray-detectors/eiger2/

It's also neat how he describes how the acquisition works: 32bit tiffs, pci card, real-time linux, and a special rack-mounted server.
by 1121redblackgo | 2025-11-11 16:33:54+00:00
I'd rather we drop the pretense or expectations that corporations have anything but one goal. That will help us direct our energy to where it can actually be productive.

If the marketplace demands better corporate stewardship, and people vote with their wallet, and companies decides to change then great, but the corporate ship is only ever getting steered in one direction and it's not for noble reasons.
by spencerflem | 2025-11-11 16:34:15+00:00
Haha no clue, I was shocked as well. First time being uninsured. According to other commenters maybe there’s other stores that offer it for less.

Funny thing is, same day I didn’t get the vaccine the grocery store receipt starting offering a free shot and $10 store credit with “most insurances” so I didn’t qualify lol.

This sorta thing that keeps Everyone safe with herd immunity you’d really think they’d want to make as easy as possible
by sentrysapper | 2025-11-11 16:34:20+00:00
> You must ask candidates to solve problems directly related to the role. If you’re hiring a game programmer, knowing how to detect fraud in bank transactions is irrelevant knowledge if that task never appears on the job.

I wish more companies understood this. In all my years of interviews I never got a coding interview or take home programming assignment that even remotely resembled the work they needed.
by jwgarber | 2025-11-11 16:34:58+00:00
Here's the origin of the outbreak:

> Public health officials say it started when an international traveller attended a wedding in New Brunswick last October. New Brunswick's outbreak ended in January, but guests at that wedding had already brought the virus to southwestern Ontario, where that province's outbreak was concentrated among closely knit Mennonite communities.

International travel + spread among low-vaccination communities.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elim...
by fragmede | 2025-11-11 16:35:05+00:00
The lack of PPE manufacturing in the US after 2021 is a travesty that does not simplify to LEAN is why we didn't. Dismantling the pandemic response unit didn't help. Not replenishing a stockpile of masks that existed for that specific reason didn't help. A lack of tooling supply base didn't help, Straight up corruption; no bid government contracts going to friends of the administration with no. proven capability to deliver (and they didn't). By the time this was discovered, months that could have been used to build and certify actual factories had been wasted.

Worse though, is 3M and Honeywell built factories to make masks, only to get fucked on it. Factories (must grow but also) take time to build. In the 6-9 months it took for them to build those factories after the initial delay, China started allowing exports again, and those factories folded basically before we got any use out of them. I wouldn't expect 3M to build needed factories a second time we need them to save our asses.
by ks2048 | 2025-11-11 16:35:15+00:00
That's a dumb joke. Yes, I hope to look in detail at their performance on a couple of low-resource languages. Without lots of speakers and data, I think good metrics are hard to come by. I've found that in Meta's massively-multilingual TTS - what looks impressive at first glance, you can see performance is quite bad on smaller languages.
by throwforfeds | 2025-11-11 16:35:19+00:00
For sure, I had that thought as well, that clothing is evolving alongside the things people are needing to carry.

But, for me, it does seem like we're going in a functionally poorer direction. Just a few years ago I could have a computer I could fit in my pocket. I can't buy that anymore. The fact that people are selling modifications to these devices (cross body slings, cases with those weird pop up things on the back so you can hold it one handed) to me means we've missed the mark on design. For more than a decade we had a great one handed computer that'd disappear into my pocket. No longer.
by leetharris | 2025-11-11 16:35:34+00:00
> I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

Too hard to ignore the benefits of cross-stack gains in Typescript/Python. The C# native phone, Blazor, etc just isn't quite there yet. Tried it at the last company, and full stack TS was just so much easier to do.

The reality is that the vast majority of startups don't make it. The #1 thing startups should be focusing on is hiring the right people and product velocity. TS just makes that easier in my experience.
by Brendinooo | 2025-11-11 16:35:46+00:00
> A brand-new pair of Levis at JC Penny is gonna run you like $90 anyways

I'm seeing a range of around $33 to $60 at the moment, with other brands dipping under $30.

https://www.jcpenney.com/g/men/jeans?id=cat100250010
by port11 | 2025-11-11 16:35:59+00:00
I noticed this in myself and had a pang of disgust at myself. I used to write almost daily, but with the baby we've had there hasn't been time. So recently when I was thinking of getting back on it, I went testing several writing helpers that are LLM-powered. I think it took me a few days to realise I was only doing it because it's easier and “everyone is doing it”. Like, I write for pleasure, why the hell do I need to automate part of the process?
by rdtsc | 2025-11-11 16:35:59+00:00
> He didn't mention how much X-ray radiation this puts out in the first half or so of the video. I worry it's more than a medical photograph as it's continuous high sample rate video, but I'm not an expert. Would be curious to know.

> Also curious about the shielding and leaking.

If you'd watch the video the last part explains exactly that. The energy levels involved, how the beam is stopped, how backscatter is checked. He is definitely no dummy who just found an x-ray machine in a dump and just powered it up for clicks and giggles.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-11 16:36:04+00:00
That's the problem with effective measures -- if they're effective, you won't notice them working at all. It's only apparent they are effective when they reduce the disease, or their removal causes the disease to surge. But when the disease is eradicated, "vaccines are effective at stopping the spread of measles" is just as apparent to regular people as "vaccines don't do anything, measles just aren't a big deal to begin with, actually, they've been lying to you this whole time."

One position asks you to get jabbed with a needle, the other asks you to do nothing. So people are very happy to do nothing if they're not forced to get jabbed.