MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-11-27 10:53:57+00:00
> It is difficult to get society to accept that maybe it's time to balance the constant public and media validation of women with some public and media validation of men.

But its up to men to do the work. Women needed decades and decades to figure out what it meant to be a women and how to get what they wanted. They took the time and effort to organise, resulting in suffragettes and women's clubs and feminism and all that. Men could so far skip this all and just coast by on being the default. And now we're stuck with the situation that there are barely any male role models (except incredibly vile and toxic ones like Tate and Peterson), and trying to figure out what it means to be a man in a world that is rapidly changing, where men no longer can just be the breadwinner.

Not only that, but women are also demanding more from men (more emotional maturity, more support with chores and child raising, having a fully developed personality). And too many men seem either incapable or unwilling to change, preferring to lash out against 'woke' and voting for extreme rightwing politics that aims to put women back in the kitchen.
by close04 | 2025-11-27 10:53:57+00:00
Asahi started to be developed a couple of months after the first of what would turn out to be the very popular M-chip Macbooks was launched. Those Macbooks are still in people's hands in very large numbers.

Compare that to the number of 1st gen iPads or older iPhones and the demand might not be to the same level to justify the endless reverse engineering effort.

The solution is for the companies to have to open up the device once it's officially not supported.
by sunrunner | 2025-11-27 10:54:00+00:00
> You used probably the weakest reason to discredit the idea of men improving themselves

Those examples you posted that actually are good would also seem to me to be universally important for everyone across all genders. '80 Ways to Be Frugal and Save Money' seems useful for everyone, and while I doubt a lot of people are going to need '9 Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches' immediately, what makes that specifically 'manly' and not good for anyone either going seriously outdoors or prepping.

Yes, I picked those examples deliberately, but I don't see why any of the qualitatively good ones are 'manly'.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-27 10:54:09+00:00
Enterprise hardware is very seldom a good idea.

The hardware has different form factors (19"), two power supplies, very loud, very power hungry.

There are so many good combinations of old and still functional hardware for consumers.

My main pc 6 years ago had a powerful cpu and idle load of 15 watts due to the combination of mainboard and amount of components i had in it (one ram block instead of 2 or so).

And often enough, if you can buy enterpsire hardware, the hardware is so outdated that a current consumer system would beat it without looking at it.

If you then need to replace something, its hard to find or its differennt like the power supply.
by sylvainFR | 2025-11-27 10:54:18+00:00
You're right!

In an other article I published I wrote: When we think of 3D modeling, we imagine a user interface where we can, with a single click, stretch a 2D rectangle and then extrude it; again with a click, we can select an edge and apply a fillet.

This is typically what we do with Fusion 360 or open-source software like FreeCAD. In fact, this is parametric modeling. The graphical interface, where you can rotate or zoom in on your 3D model, is just that — an interface, as its name suggests.

However, behind the scenes, the software is managing parametric modeling. To illustrate this, it is entirely possible in these programs to edit a shape and assign a new value to a given edge or cylinder. This is possible because it’s parametric modeling.
by oersted | 2025-11-27 10:54:19+00:00
Just to clarify for others because it’s a tiny bit clickbaity:

The Patriot missile didn’t kill 28 people accidentally, it simply failed to intercept an enemy missile.

And it wasn’t launched on an incorrect trajectory either, the radar was looking at a slightly wrong distance window and lost track. Furthermore, the error only starts having an effect after 100 hours of operation, and it seems to have only been problematic with the faster missiles in Iraq that the system wasn’t designed for. They rushed the update and they did actually write a function to deal with this exact numerical issue, but during the refactor they missed one place where it should have been used.

28 lives are obviously significant, but just to note that there are many mitigating factors.
by gary_0 | 2025-11-27 10:54:30+00:00
While Wayland has kind of been a disaster I disagree with your premise.

> 1. Security

Linux (and Unix before it) has always had security mechanisms built in. File permissions, setuid bits, namespaces. Any old program shouldn't be able to access /etc/passwd, and likewise the `<input type="password">` in my browser should be protected. Wayland's problem isn't that it tried to add security, but that the design and development process went horrifically wrong so that 17 years after the first release, people still have trouble with screen sharing.

> 2. Performance

The client-server model is obsolete and unsupported by modern applications (and nowadays there are easier ways to do remote GUI access) and keeping it was just a big pile of tech debt.

The problem wasn't that Wayland tried to fix things, it's that the process took 17 years and still isn't finished or particularly successful. My uneducated guess at why Wayland failed to succeed is that it went for extreme modularity and refused to say (back in like 2009) "Here's the security mechanism everyone has to use to take screenshots, etc. If this breaks your spacebar heater, sucks to be you." Rather than just define a single API where 99% of graphical applications and desktop utilities can do the sorts of things they already do on Windows and MacOS, and call it 1.0, instead they built a sprawling monument to bikeshedding and over-engineering.
by kcexn | 2025-11-27 10:55:15+00:00
This is a position that seems to be as unenforceable as AI can't be trained on code whose copyright owners have not given consent.

The main reason for being unwilling to merge AI code is going to be that it sets a precedent that AI code is acceptable. Suddenly, maintainers need to be able to make judgement calls on a case-by-case basis of what constitutes an acceptable AI contribution, and AI is going to be able to generate far more slop than people will ever have the time to review and agree upon.
by StrLght | 2025-11-27 10:56:03+00:00
I did something similar last year. Market for mITX NAS boards is pretty bad. I went for ASRock N100DC-ITX – it has 2x SATA ports, but there's also PCIe 3 x4.

The main benefits of this board were:

* it's not from an obscure Chinese company

* integrated power supply – just plug in DC jack, and you're good to go

* passive cooling

Really hope they make an Intel N150 version.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-11-27 10:56:24+00:00
Well they forced a standard that anybody can use to support wirelessly sending files to nearby devices. That's a huge chain and taking a few bricks out of the garden wall.

I literally do not care about the wanky culty Android this Apple that stuff. I just want to plug my phone into my Mac and have it be able to read it, regardless of what phone that is. When someone needs to send me a document, I don't want them to have to change how they send it based on what device I have. Regulation and enforcing common interoperability standards is good for consumers; I don't care whose implementation wins out, just that all my devices support it.
by shmeeed | 2025-11-27 10:56:36+00:00
Haha, I totally forgot about that. Pretty sure mine said "Win95"/"Win98".

Sadly though, this kind of hacks doesn't satisfy me the same way it did 30 years ago, when I had all the time in the world to tinker.

It's the same story with things you can customize, today I rarely bother spending more than a few seconds on clicking around to choose the next best thing.
by jordwest | 2025-11-27 10:57:03+00:00
The tendency to push and pull on sensations has significantly fallen away for me, although I wouldn't say it's "gone" I might be able to add something here.

I would agree with Shinzen Young that almost all suffering is caused by this tendency. Not pain or emotional states, but certainly the suffering associated with them.

> I don’t think tanha has 1000 contributing factors; I think it has one crisp, isolatable factor.

I think this is a good intuition. I would suggest if you want to get to the root of it you might like to explore it experientially first. Everyone reading this has direct access to this mechanism in subjective experience, without the need for any neuroimaging equipment or meditating for lifetimes in a cave. Additionally, when you see it for what it is, it begins to unwind.

If I were to put it down to one thing, it would be the tendency to reflect on reality and then to believe that that reflection is actually reality. It sounds simple, and it is, but the tendency runs so deep and there are a multitude of beliefs that get in the way of actually seeing things clearly. If you're willing to question every single one of those beliefs right down to the places you never thought to question or that seem scary to question, then it's available to you.

Edit: A great resource for anyone interested in exploring these beliefs is Kevin Schanilec's interpretation of the 10 fetters at simplytheseen.com. Just a word of warning though, explore this only if you're willing to have your perception of reality turned upside down (and not just intellectually).
by rsynnott | 2025-11-27 10:57:34+00:00
I've been in hotels with no bathroom door, but it has pretty much always been in tiny one-person rooms, where realistically there are not going to be two people in the room because they _would not fit_. I don't have a particular problem with it there.

(In that case, the reason it's done is fairly clearly that to accommodate a door they'd have to make the room bigger.)
by sys_64738 | 2025-11-27 10:57:35+00:00
Despite the challenges with current government, the USA is still the best country in the world for most things. Some will disagree but they are in a minority. People who have never been or lived in the USA likely won't understand why this is. I stopped bothering to explain it to others a long time ago as their views are mostly influenced by biased media in their home country.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-27 10:57:41+00:00
So you buy used enterprise disks because their error detection is 'better'?

Do you have any source for this claim? Why would be the firmware so different? Software is cheap i don't think they would be that different.

I mean a used enterprise disk gets sold after it was running on heavy load for a long time. Any consumer hdd will have a lot less runtime than enterprise disks.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-27 10:58:11+00:00
> It’s quite telling that perhaps less than a decade of taking women seriously led to a a vitriol filled backlash full of Tates, Trumps and the manosphere.

1. It's been about 30 years since the "strong independent women" meme first started in popular media.

2. Where is the vitriol and backlash in my post to which you are referring to?

Your response looks like a canned one that can be inserted into any discussion about males.
by prawn | 2025-11-27 10:58:20+00:00
(Hello, fellow South Australian!)

The painpoint for me has been the loss of information density. 99% of my use of the old BoM was the 7 day forecast showing rain and cloud: former for working outside, latter for photography jobs. Now, at about 800px or narrower the 7 day forecast loses the rain estimate, and all they manage to fit in is day, icon, min and max. The day name could be abbreviated, and the other elements are typically 30px wide. Having to expand each or all days to look for the rain estimate is thoroughly tedious.

Among the highlights of vertical space wastage are 130px for a cookie warning, 50px for "No warnings for this location" and then another 110px for heading a table with "7 day forecast" and "expand all". On a large phone screen, it leaves only about a third of the vertical spacing for starting content; the rest is site header and browser chrome!
by fmajid | 2025-11-27 10:58:23+00:00
China’s is even more stringent at 4 hours, down to 1 hour for high-severity incidents:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/china_1hour_cyber_rep...

https://privacymatters.dlapiper.com/2025/09/china-new-strict...
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-11-27 10:58:24+00:00
Between this:

> In the end I want to drop objects into context with exposed methods and it knows the type and what is callable on they type.

And this:

> I'm imagining something more like Rexx with quite high level commands. But that certainly blurs the line between programming language and shell.

It really sounds like you're trying to reinvent powershell.

A shell A Scripting language Everything is a self describing object Piped on the shell With exposed methods to call
by sylware | 2025-11-27 10:58:49+00:00
Of course, this sole HN comment is worth ten times more than a famous person making scientific videos on the internet... BTW, I wonder where is her mondo-meter at (aka "stuff" vs "model fixing").

We all know she has many enemies in the academics since targetting its funding... you are more likely to be one of them than anything else.

"Anyone who reads this will see it".

...

AI?
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-27 10:59:47+00:00
I've never seen this. But I'm kind of the opposite. When it comes to hotel rooms, I prefer function over form. A lot of hotels cover up their lack of quality with a lot of crap that serves no purpose whatsoever. Generic art reproductions on the wall. A lot of shiny chrome or bronze. A fancy looking shower that produces a luke warm mediocre flow of water that than splatters all over the bath room, etc. Or, worse, a dingy looking bath that you have to awkwardly step into and a shower head that will point anywhere except at you unless you hold it. I've seen it all. US hotels tend to be the worst on this front. It's all form over function and the amount of nonsense goes up with the number of stars.

What I want is:

- clean, comfortable bed. Preferably without pubic hairs from the previous occupant (which is what happens if the hotel cuts corners on servicing the rooms).

- a simple but functional shower with hot water

- enough toilet paper. I don't care about anyone folding the first sheet over. Who does that at home? Absolutely no-one I know.

- Power plugs next to the bed so I can charge my phone and use it while I'm on it.

- A window that can open and an AC with an off button.

- Wifi that works just like at home and doesn't kick me out every morning because some cookie expired.

- Bonus points if I don't get to listen in on the TV next door.

What I've found in some expensive premium hotels is the exact opposite of all of the above. Stuffy warm rooms. Barely functional plumbing. Windows that cannot open "for my safety", ACs that are producing noise and bad air 24x7 that are turned off at night to save energy. But the light fixtures are beautiful. And there are 20x more pillows and blankets on the bed than I need.

Some of the best hotels I've had were very affordable budget affairs aimed at return customers that are like me. Basically good management and pragmatic decoration is all you need to turn a mediocre room into a very comfortable one.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-27 11:00:55+00:00
You clearly haven't met a lot of your average PC or phone user then. Most people don't care about getting the newest and best thing. If a thing still works, they'll use it until it doesn't anymore, however long that is. You have no idea the kinds of PCs I saw people using when I worked as a technician. People just don't have an interest in getting new tech unless they're forced to, because they largely aren't interested in tech. They're interested in document processing, watching videos, listening to music and dealing with their pictures. And they don't care how old the device is they're doing it on.

In addition, they don't want to spend money on it. They'd rather spend money on things they actually care about. Festivals, clubs, vacations, a new TV, a car, restaurants, whatever. Your average non-tech person is happy if they don't have to spend anything on gadgets for 10 years.
by sys_64738 | 2025-11-27 11:01:07+00:00
That's entirely subjective for sure. The USA is a continent sized country and not a one-size-fits-all like most European countries. Each state should be viewed as its own European sized country with its own warts and all. You will have some backwater, inbred states like AL, MS and GA but places like CA or New England or NY are just eons above anything Europe has to offer. Again, it's all subjective.
by jorvi | 2025-11-27 11:01:15+00:00
> I don't think it's possible to "reduce access to the harmful thing" when that thing is "food".

If you look at obesity, it was a very stable problem until the 80s, when it suddenly skyrocketed across all age groups and both sexes. So unless we had some sort of mass infection of a discipline-destroying virus, another factor must be at work. Which, rather clearly, is food engineering.

So miss me with 'the thing you don't want me to have access to is "food"..'. No, the thing I want is for food to to back to being more natural and not tweaked to the microgram to elicit the highest hormonal response.

So no, I do not want to reduce access to "food".

> I don't understand this desire to say "people should suffer!" instead of taking something that helped them.

Cute strawman. I didn't say anywhere that people should just "tough it out". Food can be addictive just like alcohol or cocaine.

There is the nit that people using GLP drugs think those that control weight the normal way do it happily, resting on the couch or in bed smilingly as their stomach grumbles. We don't. We suffer too. It's not easy for us.
by Jgoauh | 2025-11-27 11:01:37+00:00
I think there is a big problem around "man things" and "girl things" that has cost a lot to society, the women scientists who thought it wasn't for them, the men teachers and nurses who thought the same, and all the knowledge kept from people seen as being the wrong gender for it (cooking, cleaning, car repair ...) and i think the solution and a necessary step for the advancement of humanity is the recognition that the importance of sex is overinflated in society, and that a lot of things attributed to sex are actually social constructs, like gender.

In other words i think a post gender society would allow the distribution of occupations and knowledge to better match the populations skills and interest and children having access to better mentors.
by steve_gh | 2025-11-27 11:01:40+00:00
Ruby behaves sensibly through the principle of least surprise.

But it does have extremely powerful metaprogramming capabilities which are regularly abused by those not wise enough to know that just because you could do something doesn't mean that you should.

I regularly code in a variety of languages from C / C++ through Python and Ruby through to Haskell. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. All of them are capable of abuse by the sufficiently determined. And unit tests are helpful in all of them.
by kergonath | 2025-11-27 11:03:07+00:00
> the maximum deviation between G1 and G3 is only 0.1mm. You need to exaggerate the effect much more to show the difference.

Even if the difference is small, it can be very visible because of how light is scattered on the surface. This causes visible transitions when the splines intersect the sides. Depending on what you do, it might or might not matter, but there is a visible difference.

I cannot test, but I would think that it would also be felt with the fingers. Of course, it matters only if the surface is smooth enough in the first place.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-27 11:03:12+00:00
> Those examples you posted that actually are good would also seem to me to be universally important for everyone across all genders. '80 Ways to Be Frugal and Save Money' seems useful for everyone, and while I doubt a lot of people are going to need '9 Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches' immediately, what makes that specifically 'manly' and not good for anyone either going seriously outdoors or prepping.

For the same reason "Be strong and independent" is a message targeted only at women, even though it can easily double as a universal message.
by sarymismail | 2025-11-27 11:04:06+00:00
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by spwa4 | 2025-11-27 11:04:10+00:00
What I thought was very revealing though is that Blue Origin's New Glenn mission will actually beat SpaceX to Mars. In fact no SpaceX rocket has ever done anything in relation to Mars.

And starlink is nothing but an evolution of many networks that already exist, most famously Iridium, but couldn't make it work commercially due to satellite cost.

Meanwhile the Blue Origin launched ESCAPADE satellites will establish a 24/7 telecommunications link between the Mars surface and Earth, in addition to their research goals, in September 2027.