MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-11 17:45:04+00:00
It doesn’t. The right answer is that both China and the West suck and should have worked together to reduce consumption rather than accept the waste-surveillance capitalism system they both accelerated from 1970-present

It’s like trying to reduce prostitution, when society is demanding more sex, do you jail the prostitutes or the tricks?

If there’s no demand for sex workers then there’s no sex worker market. However if nobody is struggling to survive, then theres no supply.

You need to end the desire for consumption in order to eliminate authoritarianism
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-11 17:45:18+00:00
Speaking of "too late... damage done" - isn't it strange how Kimberly-Clark bought Kenvue (Tylenol) right after RFK Jr and Trump started saying Tylenol causes autism, hurting sales and dropping stock value? And now RFK Jr is saying there's no link?

I can't wait to find out how many tens of millions of Trump and Ivanka and Baron Coin they bought, and for nothing to be ever done about it.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-11 17:45:32+00:00
I don't think this is the answer you think it is. Every person that I know that knits or crochets is not doing it to make money, or even when selling items are not charging because they think that's all someone will pay. They do it because they like doing it. If they were doing it to make money, then the fun and relaxing nature of it is lost. If you've ever been to or around a stich-n-bitch, you'd understand. It's cheaper than a therapist. Plus, there's usually wine and baked goods. I'm in Texas, so it's not like the items knitted are used for more than 2 weeks out of the year. That doesn't stop them. To blame it on the "what people will pay" is grossly not understanding.
by ryan0x44 | 2025-11-11 17:45:32+00:00
Hey folks, I just published a new project designed to make it straightforward for you to set up an OIDC server for Kubernetes.

It uses Google or GitHub for auth and allows you to configure groups claim overrides for easy RBAC.

There’s also a Terraform module for deploying to AWS (takes about 90 seconds). Google Cloud and Azure support planned, though the main server is just a Go binary so easy to deploy anywhere.

Appreciate any GitHub stars and feedback! And if you’re at KubeCon NA would love to meet (join the Discord on the homepage and we can connect).
by stevekemp | 2025-11-11 17:45:42+00:00
Back in the day I knitted something similar for myself, though I don't recall if I'd seen the original product.

In fact earlier this year I bought a new kindle and knitted a little "sock" for it:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGTsi5SM9YM/

Just knit a rectangle, and sew two edges together to make a flat "sock" or "envelope". I was done in a couple of hours, but I guess I'm used to knitting in front of the TV.
by eric-burel | 2025-11-11 17:46:03+00:00
If you want to sell anything as an SME almost anywhere in the world, you have to play by Google's obscure SEO rules. It doesn't make it right. I feel the same vibe with this kind of rules. Are thise guidelines negotiated with unions or federation that includes the content producers, actors, authors? If yes, is decision power equally balanced? Who writes the rules?
by ch4s3 | 2025-11-11 17:47:38+00:00
It's a little hard to believe that people who famously don't use computers were infected by an "misinformation", a rather loathsome neologism. There was famously a really serious outbreak in the NYC Orthodox community from 1989 to about 1991. Unvaccinated communities are a sort of immunological tinder box, and you never know when a stray spark might land.

This is the result of a failure of public health to reach out to these religious communities in effective ways for decades.
by plusmax1 | 2025-11-11 17:47:44+00:00
I'm dutch as well and travel relatively frequently to the US (just came back from Washington DC). I'm not sure I see the impact of this "decline" you seem to notice. Perhaps this is also why the "media narrative" is not reporting on it, since it is not really felt that way?

Housing is expensive and we built far too little in the last decades, but this is also extremely expensive the the areas of the US where you actually want to live (The coastal cities, usually). Besides, this seems to be a global issue you read about everywhere.

I feel that, on average, most things in the Netherlands are of a higher standard — from public infrastructure and transportation to healthcare and the overall quality of everyday things, whether it’s food, trains, hotels, or even the items in your bathroom. Every time I travel back and forth I notice this.

Sure, salaries for certain jobs are much higher in the US, but I wouldn't want to switch except to begin a startup, maybe. I like doing business in the US and would visit for the amazing national parks, but prefer actually living in NL. That said, a rise in salaries and perhaps a more business and capital friendly environment are things I support.
by vablings | 2025-11-11 17:48:29+00:00
I think this is a nihilistic view. The browser ultimately sends only what the webpage requests. If we gut the ability for websites to request large swathes of information such as every supported TLS Cipher suite and also better protections such as GDPR to make it illegal for browsers to track this information unless a user signs up and also not gating information behind said sign-ups
by anonzzzies | 2025-11-11 17:48:51+00:00
I have been programming for well over 40 years (I am early 50s) and have been writing software for money for 35 of those years (first company during high school, thanks to my chemistry teacher and my uncle, who were friends). Made a bunch of millions during the the early 2000s and kept building software, which I have always loved, since then. AI (well, LLMs) caught me off guard as it did with many people but now I happily use it and create things even faster and better because of it. I guess, like some here on HN, I did not have rich parents: I was lucky enough to grow up in the netherlands, where, at least then, university was free and people generallh were never poor so there were computers around end 70s and begin 80s. My parents taught me to not become a worker drone even though they had to be. I never had a job, only companies. That keeps it going for me and I cannot see it stop. We create things, we have fun, we sell, we start again. Until I die. I cannot imagine a better life.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-11 17:49:12+00:00
Humans make meaning, as far as we have observed we are the meaning making organ of the universe in a totally literalist physicalized sense. Stars convert mass to energy, humans convert energy to semantic meaning with high syntactic complexity, density and causal leverage.

We build the libraries, we deflect the asteroids for the foreseeable future (we really should check and see if dolphins would like thumbs.)

Flight existed before apes but - in a purely non-woo sense - a few of us gave the universe the how and why of it.

We haven't yet definitively ruled out the possibility of altering spacetime topology, or solving entropy, or plucking entities out of the light cone.

Humans tend to bring what they desire into the world. Wheat threshers, combines, tricorders, harry potter cloaks.

Listen to interviews of people who lived from the mid 1800's to the mid 1900's. They say the whole damn world changed, everything changed.

Now,

A large contingent of Humans want eternal life, want resurrection.

There is this kind of speculative naturalists pascals wager at play right now that we are losing at.

Where a certain contingent of the population simply refuses to believe that the earth could be destroyed by an asteroid, or if it was it will be part of the fulfillment of their wishes for a new heaven and earth.

But if they have the least doubt in the quite moments of the night they need to realize. That if only what we empirically observe is stable and true, then their only hope for their desires coming true might be humans making it happen. We don't know yet, we just don't know, it's early days yet, nothing or everything might be in the future.

So we really need to preserve humans so they can keep making meaning, make our existence more resilient and keep pushing the edge and expansion of knowledge.

At one point humans thought travel to the moon was impossible, some living people still do, but the very strange implications is that us and other meaning making agents might actually fill the universe with meaning, we might end up giving the universe meaning, as semantically less complex dna bootstrapped us we may bootstrap the whole universe.

I find it highly unlikely but I cannot rule it out and no one else can either. We really need to protect human and the life we can see.
by themgt | 2025-11-11 17:49:29+00:00
Last October, 17 Office Management Specialists (OMSs) from posts across broader China convened at U.S. Consulate General Shanghai for the third annual Greater China Office Management Specialist Workshop. Participants included OMSs from Embassy Beijing and consulates across mainland China, as well as colleagues from Consulate General Hong Kong and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Taipei. The workshop’s theme, Reenergizing Your Why, provided participants with a forum to discuss common goals, motivations, challenges and benefits of their career paths.

https://statemag.state.gov/2019/03/mission-china-strengthens...

There are approximately 50 Protestant denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Church of Christ in China, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Seventh-day Adventists. The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong recognizes the pope and maintains links to the Vatican; the Bishop of Hong Kong and his retired predecessor are the only Catholic cardinals in greater China.

https://2021-2025.state.gov/reports/2016-report-on-internati...
by mercer | 2025-11-11 17:49:57+00:00
in some ways Elixir is a child of Clojure!

> JOSE: Yeah, so what happened is that it was the old concurrency story in which the Clojure audience is going to be really, really familiar. I’ve learned a lot also from Clojure because, at the time I was thinking about Elixir, Clojure was already around. I like to say it’s one of the top three influences in Elixir, but anyway it tells this whole story about concurrency, right?

https://www.cognitect.com/cognicast/120
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 17:50:25+00:00
> but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something.

It depends on how much you earn. I don’t mind spending tens of thousands on Loro Piana cashmere because it’s really nice, but at my income level the price difference between that and Zara is pretty much immaterial.

Keep in mind that HN is packed with people with salaries above $1M/yr and entrepreneurs with way higher income levels.

A few years ago I too would’ve considered $500 for pants to be absurd, at this point I just go to a tailor and pay slightly more than that but save tons of time in the long term and always have perfect fitting pants. The time savings alone are tremendous, after getting a pair fitted properly I can just order new ones whenever I need without having to spend hours going through shops looking for the right pair of pants.
by cestith | 2025-11-11 17:50:28+00:00
For a modern Forth on a modern platform, not so much because there’s been so much work done on optimizing C compilers. You can get pretty close, though.

On some of the older platforms, certain implementations were very low level. There are Forth implementations for the 6800, 6809, 6502, 8086 (CP/M, DOS, and embedded) where all the core words are precompiled and all expansions to the library get iteratively replaced with their definitions until they’re also native code. There are probably a few for the 8080 and Z80 too.

Absolutely not everything needs to be as fast as C or hand-tuned assembly (which these days is also sometimes not as fast as C that’s been through an optimizer). The ratio of the difference between C and some other solution can have wildly different bounds, though, which is my main point.

There are a lot of languages that get acceptably close to C, but as you get into more demanding tasks that list gets shorter. Fortran, Pike, C++, Rust, OCaml, Ada, and a few others are in that list for a lot more scenarios than CPython or Ruby. Perl has a big startup time, but for long-running tasks is acceptably close on its opcode VM. Many Forths would be too, and many Lisps. Both of those languages have native compilers here and there, though, that get you even closer.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-11 17:50:44+00:00
When I got 35 years of experience, I started to act independently. "I'm not heavily loaded right now. Out of all the things I could do, which one is most important?" Then I'd work on that.

If you don't feel you're at that level yet, the fact that you're bored indicates that you're ready to work on bigger things. Tell your boss that. "I'm really bored doing the same old thing. Do you have anything more challenging I could work on?" If the answer is no, then you're dead-ended at that company, or at least on that team. Look around. There are places that will let you (and expect you to) do more.
by bdhe | 2025-11-11 17:50:53+00:00
> Also easy to forget how much negative sentiment, on the opposite political side, there was prior to the vaccine being approved. The NYT had an article on how it would take 10 years for the vaccine to be developed and approved!

I looked up that article. Nowhere does it indicate that papers like the NYT were opposed to speeding up the development, approval, and distribution of vaccines.

Are you implying that if it were Democrats in the white house we would've had protracted approval?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/opinion/coronavirus-vacci...

==

Vaccines often take 10 years to bring to market. We want a new vaccine as fast as possible, where each month matters.

The fact is that starting from the early stages of development, most vaccines fail. We cannot afford to fail, so we need to plan for success. To do that, we must think and invest as ambitiously as we can — and that means in a Covid vaccine advance market commitment.
by GMoromisato | 2025-11-11 17:51:25+00:00
In GridWhale I made sure the String function could handle pluralization variants:

String(0, "=0:no birds|=1:1 bird|# birds") // "no birds"

String(1, "=0:no birds|=1:1 bird|# birds") // "1 bird"

String(2, "=0:no birds|=1:1 bird|# birds") // "2 birds"

[For translation you can imagine that we replace the literal string with a string code.]

This is still more work, of course, but having it built-in to the language is super-useful.
by andrewmutz | 2025-11-11 17:51:31+00:00
If Apple didn't run such a closed ecosystem, other hardware vendors would step in and be happy to sell a form factor that 3% of the market uses.

I keep trying to use Andriod to get more choice on form factor, but one thing always brings me back to an iPhone: texting incompatibility. Apple has me locked into their ecosystem because I can't get a decent quality video texted to me.

As an Apple fan since the 90s who remembers how Microsoft abused its market dominance for decades, it's particularly ironic that Apple continues to use this technique against other companies.
by lukefleed | 2025-11-11 17:52:18+00:00
Hi there, thanks! I started doing this for a university exam and got carried away a bit.

Regarding Rust for numerical linear algebra, I kinda agree with you. I think that theoretically, its a great language for writing low-level "high-performance mathematics." That's why I chose it in the first place.

The real wall is that the past four decades of research in this area have primarily been conducted in C and Fortran, making it challenging for other languages to catch up without relying heavily on BLAS/LAPACK and similar libraries.

I'm starting to notice that more people are trying to move to Rust for this stuff, so it's worth keeping an eye open on libraries like the one that I used, faer.
by excalibur | 2025-11-11 17:52:37+00:00
We can't let Canada beat us. We need to step up our disease spreading game. I propose we look into the feasibility of developing reverse vaccines to overfit the immune system to specific measles variants that it's unlikely to encounter, thus reducing immunity to real infections in people who are already vaccinated.

Alternatively, we could ban the sale or posession of contraceptive devices, because condoms are murder. And then watch the HIV infection rate spike, weakening immune responses and paving the way for measles to flourish.
by speedgoose | 2025-11-11 17:53:01+00:00
I think I will stick with a TI-89. No RPN, but that’s not necessarily a problem. More importantly, it has a CAS (Computer Algebra System). I wonder why CAS aren’t more common on such calculators. The technology exists since decades and it’s great. I know it’s not allowed in some school exams, but calculators already have exam modes.
by WJW | 2025-11-11 17:53:32+00:00
That's mostly a type of sand needed for concrete, sand which is relatively "young" and has not yet had the sharp edges ground off by wind and water. You need sharp sand in construction, because "round" sand leads to weaker concrete.

Sand for glassmaking is more than abundant enough for all but the most distant futures, and even then glass is extremely recyclable.
by rafabulsing | 2025-11-11 17:54:15+00:00
Right. So what was your point when you replied to a commenter saying the US and China are equally bad, pollution wise, with

> No the chinese people, most of whom do not have a ICE car, do not produce those carbon numbers

That sounds to me like you're saying that China is not as bad as the US, because the pollution in China comes in some part from laundered pollution from the US. If that's not the case, could you explain what you meant?
by kstrauser | 2025-11-11 17:54:23+00:00
Is this the DM42n hardware with the R47 firmware preloaded? It looks identical, except for the colors of some of the keys, and I wouldn't think they'd have a separate hardware pipeline for it. I could be wrong, though! If someone were to obsess over their gear and tweak it until it was just so, this would be the company to do it.
by hamburglar | 2025-11-11 17:54:25+00:00
I’m still clinging to my 3rd gen SE. My daughter had one too, but was forced to get a new phone recently because she had destroyed the old one. Got talked into a 13 mini and now I never stop hearing about how much of a pain in the ass FaceID is compared to TouchID. When Apple finally takes my button away I’ll probably go to android.

Note: the other thing I like about the SE is it was comparatively cheap. I will never get close to spending $1000 on a phone. Apple doesn’t want me anymore.
by pron | 2025-11-11 17:54:34+00:00
> more like newcomers rediscovering the future.

I have nothing but admiration for Erlang, and it is, without a doubt, one of the most inspired languages I've encountered in my career. But when I was at university in the late-ish nineties, they taught us Haskell as "the language of the future." So I guess some languages are forever languages of the future, but they still inspire ideas that shape the actual future. For example, Erlang monitors were one inspiration for our design of Java's structured concurrency construct [1].

If you're interested in another "language of the future" that bears some superficial resemblance to Erlang, I'd invite you to take a look at Esterel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel), another language we were taught at university.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...
by Fokamul | 2025-11-11 17:54:48+00:00
I dev my private fork of browser fingerprinting bypass and I can tell, this is like 1% of what commercial tracking companies use for fingerprinting.

Unless they tackle all the hidden things, all artifacts, canvas rendering and many more.

These companies will be actually happy after this change, because even users with ublock and other plugins, will think they're not tracked. Yeah, nope.

And it's not that hard to see how they fingerprint your browser, reverse any JS tracking script yourself and see.
by jsheard | 2025-11-11 17:55:05+00:00
Nah I'll give them credit for that one, the dual knit band is what the Vision Pro should have shipped with in the first place. The original designs were the baffling ones, you had to choose between a fancy knitted band without any top support, or a cheap band with top support, but now you get the best of both in one. Which you really want for such a heavy headset.
by alexeldeib | 2025-11-11 17:55:18+00:00
“It depends”: what’s your prior experience, what kind of roles interest you, how big is the gap between what you have + a little ML knowledge/side projects?

I’d argue there’s a big need for people with solid fundamental CS, sysadmin, infra skills who can bridge the gap into ML practitioner/researcher understanding. Applications or inference generally are probably easiest to break into, especially if you already have service knowledge. If you want to work on distributed training or kernel/model optimization, you probably need to prove your chops there.

Neoclouds, startups in the AI space, maybe hw vendors are probably good places to look.
by babypuncher | 2025-11-11 17:55:21+00:00
I have blu-rays for all the movies mentioned in the article. Today, there are some very powerful tools for processing digital images to make them look like film, going as far as letting you mimic specific film stocks.

It might be a fun experiment to make custom rips of these movies that look more like their theatrical releases. I'm curious how close one can get without needing to source an actual 35mm print.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-11-11 17:55:40+00:00
Should be posted BEFORE the first conversation.

When a recruiter reaches out to me, my first response is my resume and expected hourly compensation (I primarily do consulting/contract work).

I provide different numbers based on whether WFH, Hybrid, or In-office, and for any type of commuting, I figure that out and work it into my day, so if I'm looking for $150/hr, and the commute is 1 hour each way, that is an extra 2 hours per day in the office, if I'm in the office for 3 days a week, that is 46 hours of billable time (to me), but still only 40 to the employer, so my $150/hr becomes $172.50/hr.
by James_K | 2025-11-11 17:55:41+00:00
Not every application will set these correctly. It is less reliable than simply serving a static page. And that's the core of this issue. Before XSLT was removed, your website could be a directory of static content. You can put it in a zip file and send it anywhere you want. Now, even the most basic website (blog + feed) will require some dynamic content to work properly. We go from a world where static hosting is possible to one where it's less possible, and all because some browser implementors couldn't be bothered to upgrade a library to a safe version.

This would also break the workflow I have for my site, where I build it as a static directory locally during development and point Python's trivial HTTP server at it to access the content over localhost.

And it's totally insulting because the people removing this have created a (memory safe!) browser extension that lets you view XSLT documents, and put special logic in the browser to show users a message telling them to download that extension when an XSLT-styled document is loaded. They should bundle the extension with the browser instead of breaking my website and telling users where to fix it.