MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rendaw | 2025-11-12 04:45:30+00:00
> Throughout the fossil record, evidence of decay is pervasive in all organic matter exposed subaerially during deposition, and high coal accumulation rates have continued to the present wherever environmental conditions permit.

> Rather than a consequence of a temporal decoupling of evolutionary innovations between fungi and plants, Paleozoic coal abundance was likely the result of a unique combination of everwet tropical conditions and extensive depositional systems during the assembly of Pangea.
by rramadass | 2025-11-12 04:46:28+00:00
> Why has no one put microkernels and Erlang into a blender?

Peer Stritzinger (https://stritzinger.com/) the guy behind the GRiSP project (https://www.grisp.org/) has integrated Erlang + RTEMS (https://www.rtems.org/) for the embedded GRiSP Nano HW (https://www.grisp.org/hardware#grisp-nano-details-section and https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codeb...)

His HN account with some technical comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=peerst
by godelski | 2025-11-12 04:50:03+00:00
> If you used the scan to pdf functionality of a [Xerox] like this a decade ago, your PDF likely had a JBIG2 stream in it.

That's not an obscure format, that's an old format. Meanwhile with ffmpeg we're talking about

> decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.

That's both old and obscure.

Your point is still taken, but just to clarify that these are different situations. JBIG2 is included for legacy. The Lucas art codec is included for... completion's sake(?)
by dataflow | 2025-11-12 04:50:31+00:00
> Systematic widespread slavery is obviously different from using the threat or application of violence to compel unpaid labor in smaller-scale scenarios,

Eh? Violence? For refusing mandatory upkeep around your home and neighborhood? Are you writing this from North Korea or something? How is fining you such a foreign concept where you live that your government has to resort to violence to get you to do some upkeep as a homeowner?

> but both are de facto slavery and both are direct violations of the amendment. If you wanna argue that there is a concept of a "lesser violation" and that it makes some forms of slavery OK, be my guest but even children don't buy arguments like that.

This was the "strongest plausible interpretation" of what I've been saying this whole time?

Children buy perfectly well the idea that requiring homeowners to do some upkeep around them is not even remotely "slavery". Just like how they understand perfectly well that making them clean their rooms is not "slavery" either. They understand it's not only ridiculous, but outright insulting to human dignity to suggest that these are comparable to slavery. Adults on HN are the ones who somehow struggle with this, not children.
by tomhow | 2025-11-12 04:50:39+00:00
Previously:

Keep Your Stuff, for Life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676350 - June 2020 (109 comments)

Perkeep: personal storage system for life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008240 - Sept 2018 (62 comments)

Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15928685 - Dec 2017 (105 comments)
by acheong08 | 2025-11-12 04:50:39+00:00
> Does the government turn a blind eye to most of it?

Sort of. It's difficult to track private transactions on WeChat between friends to actual goods being sold. From what I've seen, most illegal goods/services sold just have you add them as a "friend" and send the agreed upon amount. Somewhat informal but neither side tends to scam since the consequences of escalating (e.g. getting a WeChat account banned) essentially makes it impossible to live. I've also seen Taobao being used where they place an overpriced real product that you buy and the margin is what you pay for the illegal good.

I'm not sure if it's truly turning a blind eye or whether the scale is just too large for the government to do anything about it.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-12 04:51:36+00:00
> Mining, farming, forestry, fishing, things like that. Traditionally a lot of those industries have had high labor input costs too. They miraculously didn't all fall over like manufacturing though.

Mining has been dropping since the 80s [0].

Farming, forestry, fishing are estimated to decline by 3% in the next 10 years [1]. After having fallen from ~50% of the US population in 1870 already.

It's cheaper to do things where labor is cheaper, then ship them around the world by sea.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPUBN212W200000000#:~:tex...

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Farming-Fishing-and-Forestry/Agricul...
by kamranjon | 2025-11-12 04:51:47+00:00
One of the things that the Coolscan did well from a hardware perspective was that it made the transport sprocketless which allowed damaged film to be easily scanned, and it also allowed non-standard formats to be scanned easily as well. I’m curious if they have a sprocket driven system for this or if it utilizes a similar system as the Coolscan - I’ve used many scanners and the Coolscan is still the best/most convenient because of being able to just sequentially scan an entire roll of negatives.
by rekttrader | 2025-11-12 04:55:15+00:00
I built a little hosting company atop these boxes, my neighborhood was one of the first to get symmetric DSL and I could get 10 static IPs. Http 1.1 came out the year before and was upgraded to allow name based virtual hosting… I had over 40 websites running from my childhood bedroom. I bought my first qube in late 98 from an PC mall catalog and kept buying them after they moved to the raq box before they eventually sold to Sun. Good times.
Ask HN: Mac App Store worth it for a $0.99 app?
by gu009 | 2025-11-12 04:56:37+00:00
I've developed a Mac app that's a simple 1 trick pony, aimed at a niche audience (music / video / content producers). It solves a problem I couldn't find any other solution to, and I've been using it myself & have been really pleased with the results.

I've been thinking about putting it up for sale, and given it's a simple app for a niche audience, $0.99 seems like the the reasonable price point. It feels like it wouldn't be good value at a higher price, I don't know if I'd buy it for more than that myself.

At this price point, I'm wondering whether the Mac App Store is worth the cost of admission. I'm not a "proper" developer, I'm just dipping my toe into making apps and want to share 1 simple tool I've made at a price that feels reasonable. I'm questioning whether this app would make back the $99 per year fee.

This is small potatoes for many on HN I know, but I'm interested in any advice anyone might have. Thanks!
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-12 04:56:50+00:00
Okay. Were you hoping I would address this scenario of your own fabrication, or are you able to make your point using this actual situation right in front of us that we are discussing?

People self-expressing dislike for some content under a link on public forum that explicitly invites comment is not hostility. Making comments and disagreement about politics is not hostility (particularly in response to political content being posted). It just isn't.

If you posted up a page of pictures of "Lifted trucks of West Virginia adorned with creative bumper stickers" here you would get a lot of negative opinions and politcial commentary. That also would not be "weird hostility", it would be completely obvious and understandable preferences and opinions ranging from people who don't like the trucks or covering them with stickers, to those who feel strongly about politics.

Again, you're allowed to discuss things and disagree with them. People aren't assholes or hostile for doing it. Learn to live and let live, no need to try to guilt people about it.
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-12 04:58:39+00:00
A lot of these seem to be from the German left-wing hacker culture (e.g. the recurring yellow CYBER-Stickers are a dead giveaway) from about 5 years ago (considering the mix of stickers presented). Think ccc-adjacent.

Considering that background, expect them to look more like a random Berlin lightpost than a conversation piece.
by consumer451 | 2025-11-12 04:58:44+00:00
My personal theories as far the current grounding of all MD-11s:

1. Boeing wants no more responsibility for these airframes. Good call by the Board.

2. MD-11 style engine arrangement is an entire design flaw in itself. You can only recover from an uncontained engine failure at V1 if two engines remain. Good luck with that since on the MD-11, engine #2's intake is in the debris field of the other two turbines.
by powersnail | 2025-11-12 04:58:47+00:00
> in traditional rich desktop applications, I can't say I have ever missed the ability to select and copy text from the UI chrome

I forgot what desktop application it was, but there was a time that I repeatedly needed to copy texts from a dialog, which didn't support text selection. It frustrated me so much, that I put together a script to do OCR on the dialog.

Supporting complex data types for copy & paste is good; but it is almost trivial to also support plain text copying as a fallback when it already supports copying of other mimetypes. The problem is that some UI has no support of copying in any format at all.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-12 04:59:19+00:00
Oh yes, the great old "works for me". On a yesterday's supercomputer, I presume? I live in a "developing" (have doubts it's really developing) country, most people are running laptops with no more than 8 GiB of RAM (sometimes it's 4 or less), and all this Electron nonsense is running like molasses, especially if you're trying to use a computer like a proper computer and do multitasking.

And most of the world is like that, very few of us (speaking globally) have $2k to drop on a new supercomputer every few years to run our chat applications.
by taneq | 2025-11-12 05:00:48+00:00
I probably have this, I've had several specialists take my blood pressure during consultations and express concern. I was prescribed a 24 hour ABMS (ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system, ie. wearable monitor) test, and came back with normal (if slightly high) readings.

This prompted me to do some research, and it turns out there's very strict guidelines for how to 'accurately' measure blood pressure, almost none of which were followed by most specialists. There's a laundry list of things that can each increase your blood pressure by 10-15mmHg (eg. drinking water, sitting cross legged, recent physical exercise, not sitting with the right posture, not sitting for at least 15 minutes).

Given this lackadaisical approach to measurement, I seriously question the diagnostic validity of blood pressure tests 'in the wild'.
by jader201 | 2025-11-12 05:01:23+00:00
I mean, some of these stickers could just represent self expression of anger.

It’s interesting the top comment is a self expression against people’s self expression against the self expression of the stickers.

Everything here seems to boil down to self expression. Even the flags and downvotes of the content at the bottom is a form of self expression.

This comment is my self expression about all the inception of self expression.

And now my brain hurts.
by mgh2 | 2025-11-12 05:01:26+00:00
You are not alone, as an outsider who moved 20+ in the last 15yrs, the Bay Area seems to attract a high concentration of awkward and arrogant people. Introverts who focus all their time in computers and careers, so other parts of their lives suffer - dare to point this out, their fragile egos will slash you back, blinding themselves in the process.

So objectively speaking, there is some truth to this concern. Women often complain of tech bros: "the odds are good, but the goods are odd" https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/18uxyd7/is_it_me_o...
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-12 05:01:36+00:00
In a way. Basically yes any totalitarian regime will want to create a system where the people in charge have total control over everyone and everything. But my point is that Stalin was able to exert control over all parts of the Soviet Union without the internet, Facebook, WhatsApp, backdoored E2E messaging systems, email and email spying, parallel construction, etc.

The comment I was replying to is not wrong exactly but the better way to phrase that is that any unrelated but centralized system can and probably will be co-opted by a totalitarian regime and in the long run only helps the oppressor and not the oppressed.
by rjbaj | 2025-11-12 05:01:40+00:00
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by porridgeraisin | 2025-11-12 05:01:43+00:00
> access they shouldn't have

It does, quotes from https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/a... below:

> A highly-privileged user (able to run commands as other users, or as root, through sudo) who knows one password of an account they are allowed to run commands as, would be able to run commands as any other account the policy permits them to run commands for, even if they don't know the password for those accounts.

> A common instance of this would be that a user can still use their own password to run commands as root (the default behaviour of sudo), effectively negating the intended behaviour of the targetpw or rootpw options.
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-12 05:02:41+00:00
> Obviously, gay or trans stickers are not in the category of offensive things.

It's at least plausible to taxonomize them under either politics or sexuality. Either of which larger categories some might consider categorically offensive or inappropriate.

Yes, I'm also saying that "vote for $PARTY" (categorically; regardless of which party) and anime catgirls are both potentially offensive or inappropriate. Depending on how much of a stick-in-the-mud people in your local environs are.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-11-12 05:03:24+00:00
In my teams, I try to pre-empt as much as possible by getting feedback from users on mockups. And then the item is "done", only when product verifies the core flows before it goes to production. I don't do Scrum/sprints (I think it puts artificial timelines and unnatural item splits) , but more aligned with Kanban (this gives me never-ending grief about quarterly releases, QBRs etc, but thats another story). So we try to make what's "done" fairly well defined. Does this slow down shipping? A little bit. But in practice, we end up shipping something at least a couple times a week.

We used to play a bit fast-and-loose with what's defined as "done", and that allowed us to ship everyday, but the loose part of that invariably came back from our customers, at a much higher cost. So we went back to being a little more rigorous.
by pinkgolem | 2025-11-12 05:04:22+00:00
Is ram and SSD and CPU all you care about?

I mean yeah, you will get a PC a bit cheaper..

But then you just ignored everything else, build quality, webcam, speakers, sound, SSD speed, keyboard, battery runtime, screen quality..

With business line for comparable build quality/durability you are not getting half price anymore, and I have not yet seen any laptop speaker/webcam not on a MacBook with comparable quality.

I do not have access to bulk discounts, but you are more then invited to post some samples.
by matdehaast | 2025-11-12 05:05:11+00:00
Thanks for the code and clarification. I'm surprised the TB team didn't pick it up, but your individual transfer test is a pretty poor representation. All you are testing there is how many batches you can complete per second, giving no time for the actual client to batch the transfers. This is because when you call createTransfer in GO, that will synchronously block.

For example, it is as if you created an HTTP server that only allows one concurrent request. Or having a queue where only 1 worker will ever do work. Is that your workload? Because I'm not sure I know of many workloads that are completely sync with only 1 worker.

To get a better representation for individual_transfers, I would use a waitgroup

var wg sync.WaitGroup var mu sync.Mutex completedCount := 0 for i := 0; i < len(transfers); i++ { wg.Add(1) go func(index int, transfer Transfer) { defer wg.Done() res, _ := client.CreateTransfers([]Transfer{transfer}) for _, err := range res { if err.Result != 0 { log.Printf("Error creating transfer %d: %s", err.Index, err.Result) } } mu.Lock() completedCount++ if completedCount%100 == 0 { fmt.Printf("%d\n", completedCount) } mu.Unlock() }(i, transfers[i]) } wg.Wait() fmt.Printf("All %d transfers completed\n", len(transfers))

This will actually allow the client to batch the request internally and be more representative of the workloads you would get. Note, the above is not the same as doing the batching manually yourself. You could call createTransfer concurrently the client in multiple call sites. That would still auto batch them
by squigz | 2025-11-12 05:05:40+00:00
> Okay. Were you hoping I would address this scenario of your own fabrication, or are you able to make your point using this actual situation right in front of us that we are discussing?

It's not a "scenario" - it's a comparison, an example. It's no different to this forum - people choose to come here. Someone chose to share TFA. People chose to enter these comments and shit on people's design choices and take weird stands about political balance.

> If you posted up a page of pictures of "Lifted trucks of West Virginia adorned with creative bumper stickers" here you would get a lot of negative opinions and politcial commentary. That also would not be "weird hostility", it would be completely obvious and understandable preferences and opinions ranging from people who don't like the trucks or covering them with stickers, to those who feel strongly about politics.

Sure, these are obviously the same...

> Again, you're allowed to discuss things and disagree with them. People aren't assholes or hostile for doing it. Learn to live and let live, no need to try to guilt people about it.

Those people could "learn to live and let live" with regards to people harmlessly putting stickers on their laptops.
by lynx97 | 2025-11-12 05:05:44+00:00
At first glance, this looks like way too much to trust in the long run. I use git-annex since roughly 10 years to archive files I don't want to loose again. Does everything I want, and is pretty simple for what it gives me. A checksum for every file, replication on a file-basis, does not dictate the underlying filesystem I use. Full syncs are rather slow, but in reality, it doesn't really matter if I have to wait 3 hours or 2 days, just let it run in the background and do its thing.
by apparent | 2025-11-12 05:06:46+00:00
UCSD Faculty senate report here: https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...

Shocking to see that 1/8 of the incoming class needs remedial math, and that remedial math includes basic elementary school skills.

UCSD is a very hard school to get into, and there should be precisely zero kids at this level.
by vali128 | 2025-11-12 05:08:46+00:00
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by msabalau | 2025-11-12 05:09:01+00:00
We have scaled artillery shell production, it's about 3 times what production was prior to the conflict in Ukraine. And the Pentagon claims they'll double that again by next Spring.

Given that the actual peer conflict that matters to the US will almost certainly be decided by air and sea power, this all seems very much like pointless distraction.

But evidently it can be done, because it is being done. I suppose we are now more ready for some weird anti-matter goldilocks outcome where the PRC can somehow land and supply forces in Taiwan, while still somehow also being incapable of preventing the US from sending forces and supplies to the island. Seems like a weird fixation, but hey, it doesn't cost that many billions of dollars to accommodate Elbridge Colby.

Of course, our ally who actually needs artillery shells for counter battery fire, South Korea, can produce them in vast quantities. They are also conveniently located in the Pacific. It is one thing for them to be wary about doing too much help Ukraine. Russian can complicate their life quite a bit.It would be quite another thing if the US actually asked for shells in the middle of a war with China.
by specproc | 2025-11-12 05:09:06+00:00
I dunno about you lot, but I actually really like Stable Diffusion 1.5.

I like giving it weird, non-prompts, like lines from songs or novels. I then run it for a few hundred generations locally and doing stuff with the malformed shit it comes out with. I have a few art projects like this.

Aphex Twin vibes.
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-12 05:09:27+00:00
It's funny how crypto became branded as "decentralized" when actually it's the exact opposite. Every single transaction ever made is recorded onto a single central ledger. It's not even anonymous; pseudonymity (your wallet address) is not anonymity.

It is in fact cash that is decentralized and anonymous. If I go into a dark alley and give you a $100 bill, there is not a single soul other than you and me who knows about the transaction that took place.
by rk06 | 2025-11-12 05:10:03+00:00
the drop of .NET core branding definitely makes it worse. as the other projects(like asp.netcore, efcore) just can't drop "core" from their names on a whim.

in my opinion, they should have kept "core" branding, but shortened it to ".NET" for marketing and only for marketing.

in a better world, Microsoft would ditch the name ".NET" altogether and invent a new one. like LVM (lightweight virtual machine)
by hamasho | 2025-11-12 05:12:24+00:00
It's sad that many nihilists think like that life is meaningless, there's no point in trying. Nihilism suggests our lives don't have inherent purposes defined by religion or culture. That means we can define our own purposes and values of lives, not by following a god packaged with harmful commandments. Many people feel fulfilled when they notice small improvements or helping others for tiny things, and they're grateful for that. You can simply appreciate those feelings instead of being sarcastic.

Younger people tend to have nihilistic ideas like this. And it's understandable, because it's true that the reward for being hard working, loyal, or honest is decreasing, so we think why bother trying? But the decrease of those values is just a small amount at a time. It doesn't suddenly change life from are full of joy and meaning to a complete waste of air. You can still improve a lot of things by taking small effort. Not much as it was in many ways, and yes, definitely there are someone who are born lucky or can improve a lot with far less effort than you put in. But it's still possible.

I spent a lot of time thinking like this, but slowly realized I can make my life better just by trying. That time wasn't a waste cause it made me a little bit more sympathetic to others, but some people spend their entire lives in that way. It hurts them, and it's sad they miss the chance to improve a bit. It accumulates over years and decades, and ending in an unhappy and regretful life. We can't be the full potential version of ourselves without huge effort, but can still be much happier by a small, consistent effort over time.