MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-11-30 16:34:45+00:00
> * £11bn+ per year - Rolling back expensive "net zero" policies

These in particular are fictional. That's an obsolete (due to tech improvements) estimate of the private sector costs.

At this point, with the tech now available, almost everyone gets rich by doing net zero, almost nobody saves money by abandoning it.

> * £9bn+ per year - Alter eligibility for welfare

"Welfare" includes e.g. the child benefit cap. You can save a lot by spending less. Do you want to spend less? OK, fine. But that's the cost: a majority have to agree who gets to be the next scapegoat, and the child benefit cap was itself introduced back when parents with too many kids were the scapegoat.

> * £25bn - Scrap HS2

Scrapping a one off payment to save money in the short term, at the cost of worsening long-term economic benefits by failing to improve national logistics.

> housing illegal migrants.

Do you mean asylum seekers? Reason I ask is that people who are actually in the UK illegally (which is different), don't cost "billions". Asylum seekers are housed because they're banned from working, theory is that if they work they might stay, IMO this is BS and everyone would benefit if they were allowed to get jobs and look after themselves.

Even without that there absolutely are savings to be made on the cost of asylum seekers (who are not "illegal migrants"). They're looked after at a total cost of about £100/person/day, and obviously (even without changing the "banned by law from working" thing) they could be looked after at about half that (or less) given what UK incomes are. But that's a whole one billion per year you might save from not letting UK hotels rip you off, or two if you let these people work and support themselves.

> It's likely that pro-growth Reform policies such as lowering corporation tax to make the UK more competitive will significantly increase the corporation tax take - as was shown when the Tories entered power in 2010, lowered the corp tax rate and corp tax revenue increased significantly. In general, Reform's tax cuts are aimed at increasing the tax base.

Even with the best will in the world, this kind of thing is unlikely to make a dent in comparison to the core Reform policy of hating their nearest and biggest market. Brexit (and consider who owns Reform) has cost the economy an estimated 6-8% GDP by this point, per year, in lost growth opportunities — around £200bn/year.

The biggest thing any government could do to increase the tax base is to get a bigger workforce to tax. Which means more immigrants, which is why Lab and Con don't ever do anything about immigrant workers despite saying so. This was also one of the benefits of the UK being in the EU, in that all of labour, capital, and goods could move around more freely to meet business opportunities, help with growth.
by randerson | 2025-11-30 16:35:02+00:00
There is still $5K more _economic_ value created, in that +$5K went to people who might otherwise be jobless. They'll in turn spend that money at businesses in the private sector, reaching more people, and so on. If the man with the septic tank runs a coffee shop, he will see extra value from more coffee sales.

The extra taxes paid by all will (theoretically) improve the schools, roads, military, and services. The regulations will (theoretically) decrease the risk of poisoning ground water and injuring someone, which adds even more value to the local community.

The distinction is just that the septic tank is twice as expensive in the developed country. But that money can lift people out of poverty. The exception is when the company owner is hoarding the majority of the money tax-free instead of paying it to people who will spend it.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-30 16:35:23+00:00
Remove the antennas. Do not give in to the mirage of convenience.

Use a stand alone generic GPS. Vehicle GPS devices are anti privacy for so many reasons.

Listen to stored music from an SD card if terrestrial radio (NO SATELLITE). Did you know almost ALL late model cars can play a <128gb FAT32 USB drive with non- vbr mp3s? 64gb filled with 168kb mp3 audio would take roughly 3 years at 4 hours a day to listen to.

TURN YOUR PHONE OFF. Your phone does more than track you - the Bluetooth and wifi beacon scanners are always running. When you come across another person, most phones track the intersection of your beacon with theirs making a new data point that compromises both individuals privacy. Now consider sitting at a stoplight; you and and the 10 phones around you have now correlated the time and position you were sitting there. The person jogging by with no phone(but a set of Bluetooth headphones) is also tracked by their Bluetooth signature. Terrifying.

Disable autonomous driving hardware by unplugging the cables from the interior cameras. If your car needs to see and feel you in order to do it's job, it's co-dependent; break up with it.

Ignore your car's complaints and error messages. Did you know Orange dash error lights are non critical?
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 16:35:30+00:00
Is it "privilege" to study something and look at it in detail? Why would that be "privilege"?

That's not at all what I said. The privilege you seem to be reserving for the scientific establishment is that the rest of us should accept their pronouncements without question. The implication of your prior statement was that "The vaccines studies were heavily examined and critiqued inside the scientific community, and scientists found that they established safety and this should be sufficient for us to follow without challenging them."
by georgehotz | 2025-11-30 16:35:34+00:00
I support the no global leaderboard. I was in 7th place last year but quickly got bored maintaining the aggressive AI pipeline required to achieve that. If I wanted to maintain pipelines I'd just do work, and there will never be a good way to prevent people from using AI like this. Advent of Code should be fun, thank you for continuing to do it. I'm looking forward to casually playing this year!
by fredoliveira | 2025-11-30 16:35:44+00:00
Well, two things: it's the last sentence of the film; being on hour into something you're calling propaganda is brave.

Anyways. I thought the documentary was inspiring. Deepmind are the only lab that has historically prioritized science over consumer-facing product (that's changing now, however). I think their work with AlphaFold is commendable.
by mfenniak | 2025-11-30 16:35:50+00:00
> * Strange error: "Error: Open(/home/runner/.cache/actcache/bolt.db): timeout"

This will occur if you have a `forgejo-runner daemon` running while you try to use `exec` -- both are trying to open the cache database, and only the first to open it can operate. You could avoid this by changing the cache directory of the daemon by changing `cache.dir` in the config file, or run the two processes as different users.

> It's a bit strange there are two files IMHO.

The `.runner` file isn't a config file, it's a state file -- not intended for user editing. But yes, it's a bit odd.
by nkrisc | 2025-11-30 16:35:55+00:00
In the small example type checker given, would a function of type A -> B -> C be represented something like this?

{ kind: "function", arg: A, returnType: { kind: "function", arg: B, returnType: C}}

Or is that case simply not covered by this bare-bones example? I can't parse the code well enough just in my mind to tell if that would work, but I think it would work?

EDIT:

I just noticed the working demo at the bottom that includes an example of a multi-argument function so that answers whether it works.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-30 16:36:12+00:00
I feel the story is too heavy on names and personalities but light on specifics that would drive the message home. The Ayn Rand connection also polarizes people, whereas I think the basic message could have a broad appeal.

The central point seems to be where they hired consultants to get some insight into the problem of a high growth company feeling the walls of the aquarium around it.

Many high-growth companies wound up worse such as the Digital Equipment Corporation which carried The Massachusetts Miracle for two decades but went out with a whimper. HP is still here.

The best outcome I imagine is that HP created a business unit that took the place of one of today's industry titans such as Apple [1], AWS [2], Google [3], Facebook, etc.

HP did have to change direction. In the 1970s and 1980s it had designed multiple minicomputer and microcomputer architectures for all sorts of devices but realized it could not compete on its own in the "micromainframe" 1990s so it teamed up with Intel to make the ambitious but doomed Itanium which they would have shared with other server vendors but instead shared the AMD64 platform with the mass-market segment and kept alive.

Jensen Huang will likely face a crisis with NVIDIA where the explosive growth they've had in the last few years can't possibly be sustained and who is he going to call?

[1] Why couldn't HP been big in smartphones and luxury PCs?

[2] HP could have pioneered cloud computing

[3] DEC's Altavista search engine was world beating for two years until Google appeared
by don-code | 2025-11-30 16:36:18+00:00
Much like the author, I consider myself to not use my phone too much. That said, it's probably just as far from the truth for me as it is for him.

Microsoft Authenticator is the biggest offender that comes to mind - without it, I cannot work. My company requires that we share our location to access systems (it's to enforce compliance controls that data stays in the country), so I can no longer use an offline MFA strategy like a U2F token or a TOTP key - I _have_ to use Microsoft Authenticator.
by mistrial9 | 2025-11-30 16:36:40+00:00
A 2013 Chevy Volt has a camera on the dashboard pointed at the driver. The entertainment dashboard has a dozen communication options, including those for safety? Zealots and the unhinged will quickly comment no doubt, but for the rational citizens I ask, when was this normalized? Was it automakers emboldened by the acceptance of cell phone central record keeping?
by emidln | 2025-11-30 16:37:24+00:00
My 2025 Mazda Miata has a CAN connected Telematics Control Unit that sends a bunch of data to Mazda on ignition off. Among this data is acceleration and velocity data along with coordinates sampled for where you were. It is also used as a gateway for the Mazda app to start your car, query your vehicle's tire pressure, etc. It is claimed that you can opt out of this by calling Mazda and being persistent.

The CAN traffic is unencrypted. It was pretty easy to MITM this module with a cheap arm Linux board and a can transceiver to enable writing a two way filter capable of blocking the traffic that didn't raise any DTCs (that I observed) and could be turned on/off by the user. I preferred this approach to complete disconnection of the module (which is noticeable via errors at the diagnostic port) or trying to faraday cage or disable the antennae on the TCU so it can't remotely send/receive. I can also turn off my module or completely remove it before I sell it.

I fear the next version of Miata will be an encrypted CAN like most other cars have moved to and even with my expertise I won't be able to access the latest safety features from new cars without surrendering what little privacy I've been able to claw back.
by csa | 2025-11-30 16:37:47+00:00
> Do you know any employers actively avoiding students from Ivy-league colleges?

Yes.

The Ivy grads are often considered over-qualified (rightly or wrongly). Especially for government positions that don’t normally hire elite school grads and smallish local/regional businesses.

I know plenty of people who work in different government positions (federal, state, local) who will not hire grads from an elite schools (Ivy, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.) because they think something must be wrong with them (“why would they apply for this job?”), or they think that the applicant will jump ship at the first opportunity.

I agree that those can both be issues, but I’m not sure those issues are limited to or are more likely in elite school grads.

I’ve certainly seen situations in which elite school grads have worked at an org that didn’t normally hire any of them, and the quality and quantity of work produced caused there to be some tough conversations in terms of standards and evaluations (they basically “crushed the curve”). In the two cases I’m most familiar with, the people in question were relatively non-ambitious female employees who just cranked out high quality work. They took those jobs because they were decent jobs near their respective families. In both cases, the companies had bittersweet feelings when said employees left —- they lost productivity, but they no longer had the manage outlier performers.

One of these ladies left her job to become a stay at home mom. The other joined a more prestigious privately-held company who seemed to know how to harness her abilities (she moved up quickly).

So… it happens.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-30 16:38:00+00:00
I partially agree with you: European countries other than Germany bear some responsibility for the Holocaust, to an extent greater than what many modern Europeans are willing to admit.

I don't know about Norway specifically, but certainly it's silly when some modern French people claim "well actually, Vichy was an illegal regime, so this wasn't our ancestors' fault at all".

However, whether Norway (as a state) bears responsibility for the Holocaust is a totally separate question from whether Israel's treatment of Palestinians is justifiable, and what the present-day government of Norway should do about it.
by danaris | 2025-11-30 16:38:03+00:00
> because their fundamental view of the world is not left/right, it's authority/antiauthority

Except that (given the vagaries of the English language) that sounds like they would be "anti-authoritarian", but they're exactly the people cheering on the current authoritarian government.

However, I suspect that the sense of "authority" you mean is more like "expertise", or "intellectual", with a dash of "perceived establishment" thrown in.

(No shade on you for this—like I said, English is frequently ambiguous and tricky to clearly word things in.)
by wtallis | 2025-11-30 16:38:05+00:00
It's unfair to assign that much blame to assign to any one person. I think it's more fair to say that the Meshtastic community as a whole has a problem with people making overly-narrow assumptions about the goals and what use cases Meshtastic is intended for, suitable for, or usable for. As a result, the community was able to do a lot of development work seemingly without considering that there could even be privacy concerns. And then they had to scramble to retrofit a lot of privacy controls that would have been obvious requirements all along to people coming at the project with a different mindset.

Some people want Meshtastic to be rock-solid communication infrastructure for use in a doomsday or disaster scenario. Some people want to use it to undermine the importance of cellular communications networks. Some people want it to be used much like CB radio as a local public conversation channel. Some people envision it used mostly with stationary transmitters, while other people want to use it entirely with mobile nodes. I use it primarily for group location sharing (many to many), since the location sharing capabilities Apple and Google provide for their smartphone platforms only easily support one-to-one or one-to-several location sharing.
by josephcsible | 2025-11-30 16:38:49+00:00
> Looking closer at the Steam Machine's specs, one will see that the HDMI 2.0 port delivers up to 4K/120Hz and supports HDR, FreeSync, and CEC. Those are all HDMI 2.1 specs — which technically means the Steam PC is HDMI 2.1-compatible. The only reason the new hardware can't boast the official 2.1 classification is that the HDMI Forum will not allow HDMI 2.1 on Linux devices, the OS that powers all Steam hardware.

(emphasis mine)

Microsoft is a member of the HDMI Forum. In a just world, those two things together would be grounds for legal action.
by runako | 2025-11-30 16:38:55+00:00
Starlink solves for a problem where there is not a good alternative: high-speed Internet access for rural environments. Land-based solutions for this are potentially even more expensive than putting satellites in space.

But clearly Starlink is not competitive with widely-available residential Internet access offerings, and nowhere near what is expected of terrestrial data centers. People use Starlink when there are no other good options. In the urban areas where most people live, people use land-based ISPs because they are cheaper and better.

An example, by contrast: Trammell Crow is planning a 12 million square foot data center campus in Georgia that will be infinitely more maintainable and have access to better Internet connections than anything space bound. At $8.4B, it will be significantly less expensive than space bound alternatives.

There are better options than space for data centers, so space data centers are unlikely to be a thing. (Someone will probably do a trial for PR though.)
by ryandrake | 2025-11-30 16:39:31+00:00
What would you have said, in the CDC's position, with a country full of scared people who want to survive and do what's best for the community, but also with a sizable number of selfish, greedy assholes, hoarding groceries to make a buck off their neighbor, and coughing on people for the lulz, who were unfortunately capable of ruining it for everyone?

You're Fauci, trying to convince assholes to do the right thing. Go:
by Aboutplants | 2025-11-30 16:39:38+00:00
I call Anker the Oxo (kitchen gadget company) of the tech world. Does Oxo make the absolute best gadgets or tools? Nope. But they are among the best designed and made and typically the best bang for your buck hitting above its weight. Anker is similar, it may not be the absolute best of the best but for the money you get solid design and build and rarely would you purchase something you need and be disappointed.
by blandflakes | 2025-11-30 16:39:49+00:00
I'm not advocating for Gradle either, but you already pointed out why the build tool being bad is relevant for Scala and not for Kotlin - Android developers have enough other reasons that they're going to use Kotlin, even though Gradle sucks. Scala developers... don't, and so just another straw stacked on a camel's back, so to speak.
by hengheng | 2025-11-30 16:39:58+00:00
Depending on how you build it, you could run homeassistant next to your smb, which lends itself to all sorts of add-ons such as calibre-web for displaying eBooks and synchronizing progress.

Of course, gitea and surroundings, or similar ci/cd can be a fun thing to dabble with if you aren't totally over that from work.

Another fun idea is to run the rapidly developing immich as a photo storage solution. But in general, the best inspiration is the awesome-selfhosted list.
by kergonath | 2025-11-30 16:39:59+00:00
> A 1 m^2 radiator in space can eliminate almost a kilowatt of heat.

Assuming that this is the right order of magnitude, a 8MW datacenter discussed upthread would require ~8000 m^2, plus a fancy way of getting the heat there.

A kilowatt is nothing. The workstation on my desk can sustain 1 kW.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-30 16:40:17+00:00
I'd be interested to know if a headphone battery can suffer thermal runaway.

If the surface area to volume ratio is high enough, however badly it is made doesn't matter - it's not gonna catch fire anyway.

If that's the case, there is no safety issue with the headphones - a 0.5mm safety margin either end of a battery which is only 6mm long is insane anyway - and I don't fault the engineers for looking for other ways to get equivalent safety without compromising in capacity.
by datavirtue | 2025-11-30 16:40:42+00:00
Really? Logic wouldn't dictate that if I'm up 300% or more over two years and everyone is starting to get jittery about an AI bubble that perhaps I should pull out now and await the pullback? If it happens in a year, and I can buy back in at a 15-20% discount, that is also a return!! Do you hold for possibly another 5%? That doesn't make any sense. Your cash gets 4% a year just waiting--paid monthly.
by spiffytech | 2025-11-30 16:41:13+00:00
People want all kinds of things besides literal SMB shares:

- Other network protocols (NFS, ftp, sftp, S3)

- Apps that need bulk storage (e.g., Plex, Immich)

- Syncthing node

- SSH support (for some backup tools, for rsync, etc)

- You're already running a tiny Linux box in your home, so maybe also Pihole / VPN server / host your blog?

You've got compute attached to storage, and people find lots of ways to use that. Synology even has an app store.
by GMoromisato | 2025-11-30 16:41:37+00:00
I'm sympathetic to the thesis, but I wish there were more details. For example, what could HP have done differently? Buying Compaq seems like "trying to win" to me--it was trying to expand its PC market share. Was that the wrong acquisition? What would have been better instead?

Fundamentally, however, we know that the markets HP was in were not growth markets: PCs, printers, enterprise consulting, etc. The growth markets at the time were phones (Apple), software (Microsoft), and cloud services (Amazon, Google, etc.) Could HP have succeeded in any of those businesses?
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 16:42:17+00:00
If my car is broken, I'm going to ask a mechanic to take a look and diagnose it, not a gardener or librarian.

Sure. but when your mechanic tells you that the cost of fixing it is going to be astronomical, you don't just believe him and go into debt to fix it. You're going to consider your own common sense, you're going to read and ask in reddit subs where people who own and have experience with that car gather, and so forth. And given the reputation of many mechanics, you may challenge them; when (true story!) they say I need to let them take apart my engine to clean the fuel injectors, I ask them to show me where in the manufacturer's spec does it list that as normal maintenance.

My point is that, annoying and time-consuming as it might be for the mechanics/scientists, we should not just accept whatever they say without question. It's proper to challenge them. Neither scientists nor mechanics are entitled to unquestioning devotion, especially given their actual observed behavior in the past.
by mhitza | 2025-11-30 16:42:19+00:00
That's a hard agree and a reason why anyone trying to learn Haskell, OCaml, or other language with minimal/"batteries depleted" stdlib will suffer.

Sure Haskell comes packaged with parser combinators, but a new user having to juggle immutability, IO and monads all at once at the same time will be almost certainly impossible.
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-30 16:42:31+00:00
Agency will emerge from exceeding the bottleneck of evolution's hand-me-down tools: binary, symbols, metaphors. As long as these unconscious sportscasters for thought "explain" to us what thought "is", we are trapped. DeepMind is simply another circular hamster wheel of evolution. Just look at the status-propaganda the film heightens in order to justify the magic.
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-30 16:42:36+00:00
The problem is that violation of preconditions being UB in a hardened implementation sort of defeats the purpose of using the hardened implementation in the first place!

This was acknowledge as a bug [0] and fixed in the draft C++26 standard pretty recently.

[0]: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P3878R1.html
by wat10000 | 2025-11-30 16:42:49+00:00
When something has been known for millennia and hasn’t been put to a particular use even after decades where it could have been used, that is pretty good evidence that this use isn’t a good idea. Especially when it’s something really simple.

Radiative cooling is great for achieving temperature a bit below ambient at night when you don’t have any modern refrigeration equipment. That’s about all. It’s used in space applications because it’s literally the only option.