MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intelec1 | 2025-11-22 16:05:07+00:00
A breakdown of a day that reads like a report from the front lines of an invisible war. We piece together what the news presents as disparate scandals: — the corruption explosion at Energoatom during Ukraine's existential war; — the secret US-Russian "peace plan" and a blow to allied trust; — how corruption is becoming the perfect geopolitical weapon against Kyiv; — "Anything-goes America": the blurring of boundaries between government and business under Trump; — China's economic blitzkrieg against Europe, hypercompetition, and the fear of deindustrialization in Germany; — China as an economic weapon: pressure through shortages, dumping, rare earth metals, and tourism; — state capture in Cambodia: how criminal syndicates seize the state and launder billions through cryptocurrency; — Jeffrey Epstein's files as a tool for controlling elites and the war on transparency; — the emergence of a new shadow power: hybrid networks of politicians, intelligence agencies, business, and criminals. This isn't just news, but an investigation into how: corruption is becoming a weapon, the economy is turning into a battlefield, criminal networks and closed clans control elites and states. We examine who benefits from chaos, how transnational corruption schemes operate, why Europe is squeezed between the US and China, and what will happen if shadow networks become stronger than the states themselves. If you value independent analysis without propaganda, subscribe to the channel and share this video—it helps the algorithms show investigations to those tired of superficial news. #news #analytics #investigation #corruption #Ukraine #USA #China #Europe #geopolitics #economics #crime #Epstein #shadowpower
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-22 16:05:25+00:00
one of the current approaches is to turn communities against solar and wind projects on the grounds that it's racist or disturbs plant life etc. This has advocates of environmental justice, which is an important concern on its own, weaponized against building renewable energy.

Here's one example in Florida, but it is happening around the US https://www.eenews.net/articles/fla-solar-plans-stoke-fight-...

The net effect is a win for the fossil fuel industry and a weakened environmental movement.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-22 16:05:39+00:00
What you don’t see are the 9 startups that outright fail after struggling for a few years where everyone there is making pennies. It’s kind of tautological that you only see the few successes. No one brags about their dumb idea that made no money and had no customers after a year.

If you are worried about layoffs, what do you think is going to happen when your startup statistically fails? What are you going to do about income while trying to get the company off the ground?
by alphydan | 2025-11-22 16:06:20+00:00
Funnily enough there's a different Martin (Martin Plenio) pushing the boundaries of MRI resolution using quantum effects (molecular hyperpolarization).

https://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/institut-fuer-quantenoptik/ag-pr...

For a more technical intro, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14521
by glenstein | 2025-11-22 16:06:53+00:00
Where did you get the impression that I endorsed merch sales as a major diversification of revenue? I think it is a rounding error. I was replying to someone seemingly claiming $50 keychains were the key to solving all their revenue issues as if it presented a new and untested idea.

Meanwhile, practically everyone claiming Mozilla should just start collecting donations seems like they are suggesting that it's a revenue panacea that can take the place of search. So that's the key difference.

Also, if you're following what I'm saying I'm other posts, you should note I explicitly said I have nothing against donations. I said they were likely to be a modest side hustle rather than a replacement.

Imagine what it's like from my perspective to go out of my way to say I have nothing against donations to have an internet rando claim I'm contradicting myself by not acknowledging their usefulness on the margins.
by eqvinox | 2025-11-22 16:06:58+00:00
> NAT offers pretty much the same protection as a default stateful firewall

Most NAT requires itself to include a stateful firewall; it's the same thing as the NAT flow table. This whole trope is mostly getting into people's heads to not forget about actually configuring that "free" firewall properly, since it'll just be a poor one otherwise.
by amluto | 2025-11-22 16:07:16+00:00
…so what?

There’s an interesting theory lately [0] that the antidepressant effect of SSRIs is actually unrelated to its effect on serotonin. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that this is completely true: serotonin has nothing to do with depression, increasing serotonin levels is useless for treating depression, and everything everyone has ever claimed about chemical imbalances causing depression is flat-out wrong.

If so, pharma companies should probably try to develop different drugs instead of new SSRIs. But it does not follow that a patient with depression ought not to take an SSRI. That would be like saying that taking aspirin for aches has been completely debunked because there is no connection between aches and aspirin’s anticoagulant effect.

[0] See, for example, https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/trkb-bdnf-and-depr...
by simonw | 2025-11-22 16:07:22+00:00
The solution to that problem is to boost the people who write the most useful stuff. Blogging is a great way to do that!

Here's a few of my recent link blog posts that exist purely to boost great writing about technology:

- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/21/dependency-cooldowns/

- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/nano-banana-can-be-pro...

- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/11/scaling-hnsws/
by biff1 | 2025-11-22 16:08:48+00:00
Since the 60’s people have wanted to revise the nurture side of psychology to downplay the role of mothers, but the reality is as everyone has always known, it is the mothers. Sure, there’s also biology and trauma. But Iften the trauma is related to interaction with the parents. Also, biology is shared most of the time by the parent, so bipolar mothers tend to have bipolar children.

Anyway, people have mothers before they have friends. Our first relationships become a template for subsequent ones. I feel embarrassed for the authors and the field more generally that such an obvious fact is not obvious enough to prevent absurd claims. As with most things in our society, blame the 60’s and all that came from it.
by hu3 | 2025-11-22 16:08:50+00:00
not your parent commenter and I have yet to have a problem with the branch name change but I could see it taking a long time to figure out. It's perfectly normal to assume branch names don't change often, specially master/main.

Abd if it took Cloudflare 3 hours to find out that a rust process was panicing and crashing, a branch name change in someone's ci/cd is less expected in the chain of probable causes and could take more time to detect.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-22 16:08:53+00:00
> EU waking hours have comments that seem disconnected from genAI. And, while the US hours show a lot of resistance, it's more fear than a feeling that the tools are worthless.

I don't think it's because the audience is different but because the moderators are asleep when Europeans are up. There are certain topics which don't really survive on the frontpage when moderators are active.
by everyone | 2025-11-22 16:09:23+00:00
Currently working on a new game and it was hard for me to decide between unity and Godot.. I ended up going with Unity cus..

* I have 10+ years experience with it.

* C# integration in Godot is not great

* Cant build to webGL with C# in latest version of Godot

* gdscript is not a serious option imo (stupid whitespace language..They need to drop it and focus on C# like Unity did years back with UnityScript.. Seriously XNA and then Unity have cemented C# as the other language of game devs alongside C++. Even KSA's custom new engine is C# for example)

* With Unity I have access to the asset store, which has a massive amount of content, some very high quality stuff also that's much better then Unity's built in features (eg. Rewired)

I feel dirty using Unity vs Godot, but I primarily want to get my game done, and it will be faster with a better result using Unity, its just superior from an engineering point of view right now imo.
by gethly | 2025-11-22 16:10:38+00:00
I currently run gethly.com - paywalled hosting platform for digital content creators. I spent 2.5 years coding it, 3 years in total, over 10k€ in expenses(mostly administrative stuff like lawyers, accountants, contractors, VAT, EU compliance and other stuff - servers cost me the least). No employees, just contractors as needed, as I can handle most of things due to my, by now, multi-decade experience. This is not my first project but it might be my last.

I have been online since very late 90s and I saw the internet transform through the years. 2000s and 2010s were the best. For users and for businesses. Then big tech came up and it slowly killed everything. Mostly monopolisation, buyouts and exits, userbase saturation, extreme commercialisation of everything, tracking, privacy etc...

Today, as I am looking at the internet as a business owner from the European Union, trying to run an online service business is a DOA idea. Europe lacks everything and USA runs and owns everything. I cannot speak from outside point of view but by sheer luck I just wrote a post on linkedin exactly on this topic so I will merely summarise what I said there - problem in EU are languages, anglification and westward-looking user base. Customers in Europe see everything made at home or not in the western bloc(actually more likely just UK and USA) as not good enough, untrustworthy, unimportant, small and insignificant. If you try to compete digitally in English, you are competing with the whole world that is owned by USA and its endless flow of cheap capital. If you try to compete domestically in non-english language, your users won't take you seriously because you're nobody, you lack international users and recognition and capital backing you up and they do not care about you.

Europe has no infrastructure of its own for online businesses, startups, whatever. There are no or very limited supportive services(cloud, payment processing, cdn, accounting,..) and financing options(venture capital, incubators...). This is why USA is eating Europe's launch.

So the main struggle is not the business itself, it is getting customers. If you have money, you can waste it on advertising but it will be just that - a waste. And you will fill pockets of yet another USA company.

I might sound sour, but this is not just me. I see it everywhere. I am merely summarising the real world experiences here.

I have an idea, that many will find unpleasant, that could make EU competitive and am forming a plan on how to word it properly and get in touch with my EP representative to maybe get some things done in this regard. But I have little faith in the EU being able to turn this around. Especially as Ukraine is still an ongoing issue and the focus is mostly there instead of on domestic issues, like economy, energy and whatnot.
by shagie | 2025-11-22 16:11:13+00:00
It does seem a little bit high... but "two (large) coffees" comes in at $5.20 each and a large soda is $3.20 https://www.mac-menus.com/#McCafé-Coffees - that's not California prices though. Without additional costs (and how much more is it in CA) we're at $13.60 there. Add another $1 to each item for a guess of pricing and sales tax and round and you're at $20.
by GiorgioG | 2025-11-22 16:11:29+00:00
Despite the latest and greatest models…I still see glaring logic errors in the code produced in anything beyond basic CRUD apps. They still make up fields that don’t exist, assign a value to a variable that is nonsensical. I’ll give you an example, in the code in question, Codex assigned a required field LoanAmount to a value from a variable called assessedFeeAmount…simply because as far as I can tell, it had no idea how to get the correct value from the current function/class.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-22 16:11:29+00:00
> The second driver is habitat loss — the inexorable creep of urbanization, deforestation and sterile suburban lawns, which host fewer and less-diverse ranges of insects.

I don't buy this as a cause of a global decline, though. In many areas things have gone in the opposite direction. The Appalachian mountains were clear cut in the 1800s and now are back to forest. If this theory is correct, I would expect there to have been a massive increase in insect populations on the east coast.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-11-22 16:12:10+00:00
Tell it like it is!

Here in the netherlands as soon as you try to do something, the farmers start flyingh upside down flags. I call them the 'head in the sand' flags since they stand for ignoring the problems.

I fear the problem is just that the earth suffers from an infestation of humans and the equilibrium will be restored in the same way all infestations end. It won't be pretty (already isn't in lots of places).
by zahlman | 2025-11-22 16:12:12+00:00
I read through an entire article about progress in computing this "g-2" value (and defining and introducing that concept), how we were able to do a bunch of math to predict a g-2 value for the electron that turned out amazingly accurate, how the experimental measurement of g-2 for the muon is getting narrowed down, and how the observed value is anomalous and hard to explain.

But I didn't see a claim as to what the value is. I saw a graph with very fuzzy lines and print and a notation on the x-axis that gives me basically no idea of what that 20 point something value means or how it compares to the electron result.

Actually, I guess it didn't give a value for the electron, either:

> The g-2 factor for the electron has now been calculated up to a tiny corrective factor

I interpret that as meaning that the "tiny value" is uncertainty in the electron g-2... ?
by stego-tech | 2025-11-22 16:12:42+00:00
Or you could not jump to completely inaccurate conclusions about someone’s viewpoints, movement participation, and policy positions based solely on one comment on a single post. You could ask questions for clarity, or challenge specific assertions, instead of leaping directly to bad faith arguments (“why don’t YOU take a pay cut?” maybe because I’m not a CEO with a compensation package in the millions of dollars a year?) to support a pre-supposed conclusion you refuse to waver from.

C’mon, ya’ll, I expected better from HN commenters. This is arguably the worst thread I’ve been in with regards to the quality of discourse.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-22 16:12:59+00:00
You can use a traditional recipe, e.g. wheat flour + 75% water by mass + salt + either yeast or baking powder (e.g. for 500 grams of flour either 7 grams of instant dry yeast or 10 grams of baking powder), then you knead the dough for a few minutes (until the dough becomes homogeneous, elastic and sticky; after you do it a few times it becomes very easy to recognize the moment when you have kneaded enough) and when using yeast you leave it for an hour to grow.

Then you bake for a time depending on the oven and on the amount of bread. I normally make breads from 500 grams of flour, which need about 13 minutes @ 1000 W. The advantage of a microwave oven, besides the short time, is that after you have determined the right time through experiments it will be always correct.

For baking you must use a glass vessel with lid, to prevent the bread from being too dry. The vessel must be much bigger than the dough, at least twice bigger, because the bread will grow tremendously and it will be very fluffy.

The alternative to traditional bread is to make unleavened bread, which can be made even faster and I actually like its taste more.

Even with a traditional recipe, unleavened bread will grow a lot at microwaves, due to the expansion of embedded air and water. It can be made to grow more, almost like traditional leavened bread baked in a traditional oven, by increasing the amount of water in the dough. Instead of using 75% water as in traditional bread, you can increase the amount of water to around 120% by weight. With so much water, there is the additional advantage that the dough becomes very thin, so there is no need to knead it, you just have to mix it very thoroughly for a few minutes with a spoon or with an electric mixer.

Such an unleavened dough with excess water can then be baked in a glass vessel without lid, also for 10 to 15 minutes. With unleavened bread, you can have delicious bread in less than 20 minutes from start to finish.

For improved taste, you can add to the dough various spices or seeds, either whole or ground. You can also add a sweet filling when you desire it.

Microwave-baked bread normally does not have the burned crust, but if you desire it many ovens have an infrared lamp that can be used for this purpose.
by hopelite | 2025-11-22 16:13:11+00:00
Are you familiar with what the understanding is that differentiates/causes (very) sensitive vs (very) resilient kids, and whether and how that can be modulated in children or even the effects of it overcome in adults?

I believe this is and will continue to be a growing issue as things like helicopter parenting and extremely anxious social dynamics, which were only exacerbated through the psychological abuse of the pandemic, starts becoming ever more dominant in society. I myself am a bit taken aback sometimes when taking to younger people and people who grew up in America specifically, and their expressed disbelief and exacerbation about totally normal things like, e.g., children walking to and from school or playing outdoors unsupervised until dusk.

I don’t know if there is a short term solution outside of individual or small group choice as long as our societies are being ravaged by a ruling class that is making everything worse and more dangerous by the day, but I find the topic both intriguing as well as sad and foreboding.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-22 16:13:17+00:00
I think you are excited about the skill level thing because you only want to work with skilled individuals, but you're looking at it wrong. That only works BEFORE you are hired. After hiring, really lame workers become harder to get rid of if they are in a union.

You remember the writer's strike right? The lesser paid writers were all over the internet complaining about their union, saying it was dominated by big name people who can afford to be on strike while the lesser paid people were becoming destitute. The same thing happens in other unions too, no doubt.

Suppose you wanted to work in a different technology stack and would perhaps be 75% as productive as more experienced people in the first year. According to union rules, based on your experience level, you might be shoehorned into a role where they would have to pay you more than you're worth. The same kind of shit happens to less specialized workers. If the minimum salary is higher than your expected productivity, and you can't adjust it according to market conditions, you will be unhireable. However, that is only in an honest system. Nepotism and bribery would be easier to justify when you don't let people get a fair shake.
by coldtea | 2025-11-22 16:13:47+00:00
Recent research suggests the opposite: ADHD made for better hunters which was a valuable asset to the rest of the group.

And even later on, community life, with fewer distractions, less sedentary boredom (like in a modern office job) and fewer demands for precise timing and continuous focus, also made it easier. Even school either didn't exist or was a much loser affair than the institution we know for the past 2 centuries.

I'd prepare for winter 10x more easily than focus on some boring ass corporate task in a world filled with bullshit distractions and endless structured and strict time demands. And I'd have an extended family plus community to help with things.

Consider how people think it's rude if you're somewhat late on a rendezvous or meeting etc. Then consider how clocks and precise timekeeping weren't a thing for most of history, nor was reliable transit, cars, roads, and stuff. You got there, when you got there - even today in more rural countries.
by DANmode | 2025-11-22 16:14:26+00:00
> we have no evidence depression is caused by infection

Besides talking to patients and reading case files.

You can wait another decade or three for someone to spend the money on a specific study that meets your individual criteria (I'm sure very high), for doing obvious things like:

1.) Treating known infections, testing for others,

and

2.) Addressing nutritional gaps, as well as tracking circadian/endocrine, and nervous symptoms (which often intertwine with depression symptoms!)

but I will not wait.

I'd prefer to no longer be depressed, and/or unwell.

So I'll do the obvious things – even if they're not obvious to you, yet.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-11-22 16:15:16+00:00
Likewise, I find active complacency to be fascinating in a democratic institution.

To paraphrase Ben Franklin: We have a republic, if we can keep it.

Being vigilant and on guard is a feature of the US and demanded of its citizens.

Of course, my family escaped a dictatorship and made our home in the US. So we have a better sense of these things.

The methods like ignoring the rule of law to grab people off the streets is a huge red flag.
by eqvinox | 2025-11-22 16:15:27+00:00
> i don't want to deal with all that

The market will provide. In this case by increasing prices to the point of maximum value extraction from people who don't want to deal with all that. There's a high initial cost to moving to something else here, with a lot of people dragging along paying more than what the market would otherwise equalize to, out of avoiding that initial hurdle. (And long term commitment of a resource, of course, one with low average but indeterminate excursion cost.)
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-22 16:15:31+00:00
Working well for device manufacturers who want users to forklift out gear every few years?

I have been avoiding "IoT" in my home because I want stable 20+ year lifetimes for protocols and standards. I want to know that the outlets I hard-wire today will be controllable with whatever software I choose in 5, 10, 15 years. I want my thermostat to continue to have all its "smart" features for the lifetime of my HVAC system. I don't want separate "apps" for my washer, dishwasher, automatic water shut off, etc. I don't want Internet connectivity to servers that may be turned off at a manufacturer's whim to gatekeep features (or worse, basic functionality). The market is dysfunctional.
by nis0s | 2025-11-22 16:16:10+00:00
The act of people forming groups and carrying out coordinated actions against an individual is the core of social comparison. If the threat of other people’s coordinated group activity against you didn’t exist, no one would care about comparing themselves against others (to accumulate wealth or status symbols for protection). There’s no internal impetus to improve if survival is guaranteed, regardless. On average, people seek low energy and least resistant paths, unless there’s a pressing concern not to do so. I guess it depends on the individual, neurodivergent people don’t follow the same set of cognitive rules.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 16:16:11+00:00
I think you just re-formulated what I said, in a more intellectuallish and dismissive way.

People will now turn out for a funeral in a tracksuit. Yes, previously dominant culture frowned upon such things. Yes, the culture has obviously changed.

Our main disagreement seems to be whether such change is good, bad, or irrelevant.

I could live with people dressing in a disgusting way, but I really dislike the death of book reading. That will make us all worse at thinking.