MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PinkSheep | 2025-11-15 21:42:15+00:00
I trust no one, not *fact-checked facts*, nor you, nor Durov, nor any government official. There exist enough inconsistencies about Durov's/Telegram's relationship with the government of Russia that you wouldn't see surface in the anglophonic sphere. The "French situation" added yet more to the pile of doubts.

If you wanted my reply to the rest of what you wrote, it is this: if you choose to believe a single social network/app is influential enough to manipulate an election, be logically consequential to recognize that they all are and do. Whether as a first party (the company itself is involved) or as an intermediary (via third-party bots).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-15 21:42:30+00:00
> Can you imagine how reticent people would be about flying if planes start blowing up? Much more economic harm comes from a disruption of air travel than if mass transit stopped in one city.

There are more than four times more riders of the subway in NYC alone than there are plane tickets sold nationwide.

Meanwhile if you're actually worried about deterring people from flying then what does it do to force them to risk missing their flight if they don't waste two hours getting there early, or subject them to warrantless suspicion, scary radiation, uninvited groping, nude body scanners and senseless humiliation?

And all for nothing because it can't be the thing preventing people from blowing up planes when tests consistently show that they're still letting through three quarters of contraband.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 21:42:37+00:00
> You realise a deal can be both?

Realize. If you are going to pretend you are american, learn to spell like one.

> False dichotomy.

It's not a false dichotomy. Please take a few courses in philosophy and logic before throwing fancy terms around.

> Korea is not as sovereign as the US, Russia or China because it's not a global nuclear power.

"As sovereign". Sovereignty isn't a matter of degrees. It's more like being pregnant. You are or you are not.

> Whether Seoul or Tehran are functionally more sovereign is an interesting question that isn't easily answered.

It's not interesting at all because tehran isn't militarily occupied by a foreign power.

> ...do you think we don't?

"We" do? Don't think south korea has the lobbying power or influence that israel does. If it did, it'd have the enrichment facilities and nuclear weapons that israel has.
by ivankra | 2025-11-15 21:42:38+00:00
> Not seeing V8, SpiderMonkey JavaScriptCore is very strange...

They do compare with JIT-less V8 and SpiderMonkey there, just JSC is missing.

I recently did my own benchmarking with a lot more engines, including other Rust engines: https://ivankra.github.io/javascript-zoo/?v8=true

Personally, I'm more impressed with https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone - it is faster, nearly just as full featured (almost full ES2025) and last but not least, a single person project.
by dataflow | 2025-11-15 21:43:05+00:00
> its a tarpit and getting out of it without someone handing you a branch (and if you no longer have the strength to pull yourself out) then you’ll be stuck in it forever.

From your perspective/experience, what would constitute the minimum viable branch in such a situation? E.g., if you were receiving a donation, how much would it have to exceed to get you out of that situation? Or if a one-time donation wouldn't do it, what else would be needed?

Obviously not looking for exact numbers here, just wondering about the orders of magnitude.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-15 21:44:01+00:00
So what's the mvp to qualify as a copyright-infringing game? Because what I'm hearing is that we need one brave soldier to put up a unity asset swap called NOLF 3: Return of the NOLF and wait for the court documents to roll in(or not), right?

And if nobody manages to prove ownership, would the ip land in the public domain or with the asset-swapper? Because if it's the latter, that'd change the risk-reward ratio quite a bit.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-15 21:44:35+00:00
> Only because new population enters the market.

Yeah, not. I'm not saying is the same people pre-order the same games, but there is not THAT much new population influx.

> LAN gameplay is still a thing in the simracing world.

It's a niche within a niche. Also, I remember a guy named Max had a lot to say about the current state of sim-racing.
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-15 21:44:38+00:00
I used Backblaze and strongly regretted it.

Wonky bandwidth limits and throttling are my main problem, but also had some issues with login at one point which apparently wasn't unique to me. Would never trust it for anything mission critical after that.

The nice thing about S3 is even if you screw up your usage patterns, you can pay/engineer your way out guaranteed. You can slurp up as much data as you want as often as you want and it may not be cheap, but it will work and it can be made extremely fast.

I'm coming to find that's not universal for these S3 compatible services. Really scary to build a business knowing that.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-11-15 21:45:37+00:00
They've discovered that eggs from women with certain medical conditions (including stress and poor diet) produce embryos with shorter telomeres, and in middle age the shorter telomeres lead to premature aging and a raft of health problems.

related: sperm from male rats who drink heavily produces children and grandchildren with reduced brain size and abnormal behavior -- there's an epigenetic male 'fetal alcohol syndrome'

But fortunately “We provide proof-of-concept that DNA resetting can be modulated in embryos where it is deficient, using currently available drugs, to influence telomere length at birth" https://www.adelaide.edu.au/robinson-research-institute/news...
by BuildTheRobots | 2025-11-15 21:46:29+00:00
> The boss doesn't see that you can't properly paste a piece of code in the chat

Of all my many gripes with Teams, it usually handles code surprisingly well. Single `inline` and triple backtick blocks usually render as you'd expect.

OneNote on the other hand doesn't support a code-block at all, and is worse (if you can believe it) than storing cli commands in Word docs.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-11-15 21:46:42+00:00
Yep. It goes back to “some things nix does are straight up exclusive to the way macOS needs things to be”, as long as that dichotomy exists nix-Darwin will always have hacky idiosyncrasies like this. It’s not an easily solved problem, and it’s not necessarily Nix’s or Apple’s problem to fix. It’s just two antithetical design philosophies. I would love to see Apple support that kind of sandboxing Nix offers here for these apps though
by mrngm | 2025-11-15 21:47:54+00:00
> Same with What's New modals, some people will benefit from learning these things (notably power users?), but they'll annoy others.

I think power users are most annoyed by those modals. It prevents them from doing the exact thing they were planning to do. Instead, they'll have to reinterpret what the application is telling them, consider it to be irrelevant (most of the times), and then pick up whatever they were planning to do. This creates friction.

I don't need the application to tell me a sidebar was introduced. I see that immediately because it differs from the layout I'm already used to. And then I'm annoyed they added the sidebar, because it takes up space without offering relevant new functionality.
by hansmayer | 2025-11-15 21:48:02+00:00
Yeah I am sorry for misusing the word "autistic" here. it was done without thinking, but it still does not make it right and I apologise to any people with such a disorder reading this. I should have said something along the lines of "world-ignorant nerds" or something to that effect. I guess I was a bit irritated by people being pedantic about classifying the topics when the topic is a literal human safari. That is a sort of thing that should interest us all, hacker or no hacker, it kinda transcends the little bubbles we wrap around our daily lives.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-15 21:49:42+00:00
> Life in many authoritarian states is fine for most people. It is what it is; if you don't make a fuss, you can live pretty comfortably. Obviously many dictatorships are not like this, but China is fairly stable.

I've always found Chinese who left are either rich or not. If they're rich, they've seen other rich suddenly fall out of grace, suddenly "relocate" or outright disappear.

If they're not rich, they've always been miserable in China, and don't want to go back.
by nekevss | 2025-11-15 21:50:04+00:00
Right now, we use a forked and modified version of the `gc`. We definitely need to update it. Admittedly, I've been hoping to work on it but got a little distracted with temporal ...

I don't think I've actually heard of rsgc before. It's definitely interesting to see playXE put it together. I know that they'd been working on starlight at one point, so it'd be interesting to see takeaways from it.

To get to your question on the existing GCs, so far the answer is we don't truly know. We really need to do some GC experiments and test different options in Boa with JavaScript. There are not really that many GC crates out there of which I'm aware. There rust-gc's `gc` crate, dumpster, and `arena-gc` (tack on rsgc). But of those, the `gc` crate truly has the best API that we've used in Boa, but the performance is not ideal amongst other optimizations. It would be nice to preserve that API while improving the performance as well. But that remains to be seen.
by mzajc | 2025-11-15 21:50:10+00:00
> They [archive.today] replied within a few hours. The response was straightforward: the illegal content would be removed (and we verified that it was), and they had never received any previous notifications about those URLs.

I think it's very telling that the WAAD people don't mention that last bit in their response[0] - unless archive.today rotates their DKIM records, the messages would be verifiably signed. This of course means you can't just make stuff up, which is likely what they did.

[0] https://archive.ph/MCt4g
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-15 21:50:41+00:00
There's some truth here, but it seems to be missin occum's razor. Homes got more expensive, income did not increase as fast.

You can say two things are happening at once. The line for minorities is moving up and the housing market is moving up faster (much faster). White people, moving up not as fast as either of the two. I still blame housing the most here, though.
by gf000 | 2025-11-15 21:51:24+00:00
Memory is the most common tradeoff engineers make for better performance. You can trivially do so yourself with java, feel free to cut down the heap size and Java's GC will happily chug along 10-100 times as often without a second thought, they are beasts. The important metric is that Java's GC will be able to keep up with most workloads, and it won't needlessly block user threads from doing their work. Also, not running the GC as often makes Java use surprisingly small amounts of energy.

As for the stdlib, Go's is certainly impressive but come on, I wouldn't even say that in general case Java's standard library is smaller. It just so happens that Go was developed with the web in mind almost exclusively, while Java has a wider scope. Nonetheless, the Java standard library is certainly among the bests in richness.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-15 21:51:38+00:00
In general AMD seems to not want anything to do with down-market parts.

They still have great laptop & desktop parts, in fact they're essentially the same parts as servers (with less Core Complex Die (CCD) chiplets and simpler IO Die)! Their embedded chips, mobile chips are all the same chiplets too!!

And there's some APU parts that are more consumer focused, which have been quite solid. And now Strix Halo, which were it not for DDR5 prices shooting to the moon, would be incredible prosumer APU.

Where AMD is just totally missing is low end. There's nothing like the Intel N100/N97/N150, which is a super ragingly popular chip for consumer appliances like NAS. I'm hoping their Sound Wave design is real, materializes, offers something a bit more affordable than their usual.

The news at the end of October was that their new low end line up is going to be old Zen2 & Zen3 chips. That's mostly fine, still an amazing chip, just not quite as fast & efficient. But not a lot no small AMD parts. https://wccftech.com/amd-prepares-rebadged-zen-2-ryzen-10-an...

It's crazy how AMD has innovated by building far far less designs than the past. There's not a bunch of different chips designed for different price points, the whole range across all markets (for cpus) is the same core, the same ~3 designs, variously built out.

I do wish AMD would have a better low end story. The Steam Deck is such a killer machine and no one else can make anything with such a clear value, because no one else can buy a bunch of slightly weird old chips for cheap, have to buy much more expensive mainline chips. I really wish there were some smaller interesting APUs available.
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 21:53:00+00:00
> Especially with this strongly pro-American, strongly pro-privacy admin

lol

"pro-privacy" and "pro-cop" are diametrically opposed, and Republicans pick "pro-cop" every time. And "pro-American" doesn't mean anything; it's a marketing term.

> Supreme Justices on the watch.

Have you been keeping up with their rulings? The Roberts court is completely spineless. They do whatever the administration wants and justify it post-hoc. In their shadow docket rulings, they don't even bother with justifications.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-11-15 21:53:23+00:00
What he is doing in there is kinda cool but the trampoline app solution is quite similar and unfortunately does not fix this problem. Fundamentally the problem is that when you install stuff with nix it gets a folder that is unique to that nix generation. That is by design nix, because you want to be able to go back and forth between generations etc. Apple does not think of things the same way. Applications is a single folder that you can’t subdivide with iterations and it’s “speshul”. These core philosophies are antithetical to each other. This is fine for Most applications who don’t need to be in Applications. You let Nix install into its own little /nix/ generation folder and then create a “trampoline” in applications which is basically like a symlink. Then your app shows up in spotlight etc. where this falls apart is applications like 1Password that MUST boot from the speshul Applications folder

However, you are right, it definitely makes some other pieces of this cleaner. In particular, if you just use homebrew directly with nix, you aren't deterministic or reproducible. You have an impure setup because if you remove a cask from the list, it doesn't actually delete it from homebrew, and you can't go back and forth with generations because homebrew is stuffing things in /applications. The project you linked forces brew stuff to behave like Nix applications and go in /nix instead, which allows it to be able to walk between generations. So it solves most of the issues with brew and nix but not all of them.
by simondotau | 2025-11-15 21:53:51+00:00
It’s both a destruction of signal and an injection of noise. Imagine you worked for Adidas and you started getting a stream of notifications about your brand, and they were all nonsense. This would be an annoyance and harm the reputation of that monitoring service.

They would have received multiple complaints about it from customers, performed an investigation, and ultimately perform a manual excision of the junk data from their system; both the raw scrapes and anywhere it was ingested and processed. This was probably a simple operation, but might not have been if their architecture didn’t account for this vulnerability.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-15 21:53:54+00:00
You realize every single country has similar procedures? The only difference in my experience flying out of LHR (London) this year and flying out of ATL is that you don’t have to remove your shoes and they allow liquids to pass through security after a secondary screening. SJO (Costa Rica) was about the same earlier this year except they also don’t aloud liquids.

You also have to go through screening and metal detectors to get on the train between London and France (the “Chunnel”)

If NY gets disrupted - no one cares outside of New York. Do you remember how people were stuck after 911 or more recently when a bad software update took out airlines nationwide?

There is a reason that the government set up a fund to protect the entire airline industry from collapse from liability after 911.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-11-15 21:54:18+00:00
> I know for a fact that planes work, because I've been on a plane and observed it lifting me high off the ground and rapidly transporting me to a distant location. The fact that planes typically emit CO2 doesn't make their existence and utility some kind of mass hallucination.

You're arguing with an imaginary person. Read what I wrote. I didn't call AI vaporware, I said we shouldn't consider its integration into society purely on technical merits, ignoring the cost, which I think could be big if OpenAI's very public plans are made reality. You're making a strawman.

The mass hallucination is not that plane's are useful, it's that a plane is the only reasonable solution to human communication.

Honestly, you're just further illustrating the complete erosion of nuance that comes when you paint people with concerns about AI as frivolous.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-11-15 21:55:29+00:00
Yeah, but that's my point. Planes go missing somewhat regularly, and sometimes even get blown out of the sky intentionally. It's news for a week or two. So why go through the trouble of getting on a plane and blow it up in the sky (and kill yourself in the process) when you can just blow up something like a music star's concert and get more media attention, and even survive the whole thing.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-11-15 21:56:18+00:00
> Even if you're worried about other people sniffing network traffic, the hostname you're visiting still gets revealed in plaintext during the SNI handshake

Many sites now support Encypted Client Hello. This makes it possible to send the hostname after the connection has been encrypted. This is enabled by default on cloudflare hosted domains (when cloudflare also manages DNS).
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-15 21:56:58+00:00
I've been doing my own personal experiments on myself trying to reduce caffeine intake to help with stress and anxiety. I've felt much better with just a small cutting back of my caffeine intake by taking my "main" cup of coffee (12oz cup) in the morning like I usually do and then just drinking 1/3 caffeinated, 2/3 decaf the rest of the day and going full decaf after 2pm if I have any at all.

I used to drink minimum 36oz (~150mg of caffeine per cup) of coffee per day and it was just turning me into an absolute wreck and just cutting back that little bit has made a huge difference. So instead of 450mg of caffeine, I'm getting ~270mg, so just a little above half the intake and it's made a huge difference.

A-fib just seemed like a natural consequence of the "caffeine peak" and reducing my consumption helped quite a bit.
by dash2 | 2025-11-15 21:57:57+00:00
1. Pretty obviously, epigenetics in bacteria provides only very weak support for epigenetics in humans.

2. The case against epigenetics in humans is laid out nicely by Razib Khan: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/you-cant-take-it-with-you-straig...

3. I've been to a few conferences which mixed geneticists with (human) epigenetics guys, and I have never been impressed with the quality of their work. Lots of different measures of "biological clocks". Lots of multiple hypotheses without much correcting for them. No clear theory. I ended up being very skeptical.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-15 21:58:29+00:00
If it's just a preference, then why mention the trauma at all? What bearing does it have, if not to try to give your "preference" the weight of a harm to justify getting your way when otherwise there would be no reason you should get your way?

"I can't control my reaction to someone else's body because trauma." has an awful lot in common with "I can't control my reaction to someone else's body because male biology."

This trauma argument is the same as dudes that claim breastfeeding is vulgar and intolerable because they just can't be expected to control themselves in the presense of an uncovered breast.

And of course, this is also not just a preference. It's an attempt to justify something by having a stronger argument than a mere preference, namely a trauma.

But let's just pretend you didn't try to wield trauma as a club. It's bad faith argument forgiveness day.

No few people have a "preference" that babies should not exist on planes or in restaurants because they don't like the sound of them crying or their smells.

All the men of whole countries have a preference that women just shouldn't exist anywhere out in public.

And of course the breastfeeding already mentioned.

I would call all of those invalid but hey I'm just a "cowboy".
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 21:58:43+00:00
> If I give a random person off the street a nail gun, circular saw and a stack of wood

If this is meant to be an analogy for AI, it doesn't make sense. We've seen what happens when random people off the street try to vibe-code applications. They consistently get hacked.

> Yes, and so does a JR engineer

Any junior dev who consistently wrote code like an AI model and did not improve with feedback would get fired.
by gf000 | 2025-11-15 21:59:26+00:00
"x: int p: pointer to int a: array[3] of int These declarations are clear, if verbose - you just read them left to right. Go takes its cue from here, but in the interests of brevity it drops the colon and removes some of the keywords "

And in the process makes it significantly harder for human eyes to find the boundary between identifier and type.
by porphyra | 2025-11-15 21:59:27+00:00
I don't expect this unit to be much more efficient than a $1800 home depot heat pump water heater. On the other hand, installation seems to include a hot water return line and return pump (the pump itself would be another $300 on home depot), and I've been quoted around $1000-2000 in labor to install plumbing like that.
by SaerosSecurity | 2025-11-15 22:00:21+00:00
Saeros is an HIDS that scans Windows event logs in real-time. The purpose is to detect suspicious activities including password-guessing attempts, data exfiltration, ...

As of today it relies on 2000+ Sigma rules and uses ETW for event subscription. It is relatively comparable to Chainsaw, SilkETW and Hayabusa.
by inejge | 2025-11-15 22:00:26+00:00
Your post is flippant, or you forgot the /s (Poe's law strikes again), but in case anyone took this seriously: using the subs to provide energy would be grossly uneconomical even by current nuclear power standards. Naval reactors are comparatively puny and optimized for compactness and long periods between refueling, which means using highly enriched fuels: very expensive and a proliferation concern.
by cschep | 2025-11-15 22:00:41+00:00
I think we are having a fundamental disagreement about "being tricked" happening at all. I'm intelligent enough to follow the argument.

I see that, in the hyperbolic case, you are actively tricking your wife. I just don't agree that you are actively tricking randomly public visitors of a blog in any real way? there is no agreement in place such that you can "trick" them. Presumably you made commitments in your marriage. No commitments were made to the public when a blog got posted.

It's equally baffling to me that you would use one case to make the point of the other. It doesn't make any fucking sense.
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