MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by murat3ok | 2025-12-12 20:21:33+00:00
The Go version was my first attempt. Hit some performance walls I couldn't solve cleanly, so I rewrote the whole thing in Rust over the past 6 months. Got about 5x speedup and the concurrency story is way better with ownership.

The git history thing honestly my commits were a mess after months of work. Dead ends, experiments, "fix fix fix" commits. Figured I'd start clean for release. In hindsight, probably should have kept the ugly history looks less suspicious than one big commit.

Goal is basically SQLite but with real MVCC and analytical features (window functions, parallel queries). Something you can embed but that doesn't choke on concurrent writes or complex queries.

Community kill me here but other side thank you for the positive comment here.
by Animats | 2025-12-12 20:21:57+00:00
Ask Google about "difference between industrial and craft union".

There's US labor history involved. The AFL-CIO was formed by a 1955 merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The AFL was the umbrella organization for the craft unions - electricians, plumbers, etc. The CIO was the umbrella organization for the industrial unions - everybody non-management in an auto plant, everybody non-management in a steel mill, etc. That's what "wall to wall" means.

Agreeing on the bargaining unit is a major issue in employer-union relations. A "wall to wall" agreement avoids internal issues over who can do what job. (Is plumbing for compressed air a plumber or a steamfitter job?) That helps the employer. But it gives the union more leverage over the employer because the union has all the employees.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-12-12 20:22:14+00:00
As always, it's the intent that matters.

For the sake of argument, what if Amazon decided tomorrow that they would secure exclusive contracts with all food suppliers and then hoard all the food to starve out the people they don't want to have it? Or at least, drive up the price of food so it becomes completely unaffordable? I know people can simply grow their own food so it's a bit different, but hopefully it gets the point across. It's anti-trust on an unprecedented level.
by mandevil | 2025-12-12 20:22:22+00:00
Mostly, what you are seeing is that the half of the world living in the India-SEA-China circle [1] are living much better lives, which requires far more energy then living as subsistence farmers did. In the G7, CO2 emissions have declined (but not as fast as they need to stay below the 2C target) but the rest of the world is emitting more: during the negotiations for the Kyoto Accords in 1998 G7 countries produced about half of the world's CO2 and now they produce about a quarter. That's mostly because the rest of the world started emitting more and only a little because of drops in the amount produced by G7 countries.

There is obviously major ethical issues here. The rich, already developed world- having emitted enormous quantities of CO2 to get there- telling poor, undeveloped people living as subsistence farmers that they can't use any more energy because of all the CO2 already in the atmosphere is a really hard argument to make, locking them into being poor forever while the developed world benefits from all that CO2 consumption. But on the other hand, by skipping right to large scale solar, maybe those inside the circle can do a better job?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle
by billy99k | 2025-12-12 20:22:25+00:00
When companies aren't doing well either, demanding more money will only result in bankrupt companies and out sourcing.

It's probably the worst time to do it.

I've only seen unions work well in the long-run with government jobs. The USPS is a good example. Mostly because you really can't fire the workers and the main entity won't ever go out of business because of government bailouts.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-12 20:22:27+00:00
Yes gaming a lot. I love all the VR games there are and also some custom ports. Lately I've been playing Metro Awakening and I'm really impressed how they got a full AAA-style game completely self-contained on the quest.

Other things I do are watching content, especially VR180. Porn is also a really big added value point, I know some people have moral issues with that but I don't. It is really like you are in the scene.

I also just like to sit and relax in virtual spaces. It's something I've been doing since the pandemic, when we were all locked in our homes for months on end.
by mothballed | 2025-12-12 20:22:54+00:00
The fact that the winnings are reported is a plus, not a negative; there is no need for the casino to do anything in violation of the law. The key here is the losses often don't have to be reported but the winnings do. Thus the winnings are clean reported money, won on (what could plausibly be) a tiny amount of long-shot wagers. Justifying the small amount of income needed to win a long-shot bet is far easier than justifying a sum as large as the winnings. Having reported legal gambling income solves that problem and the criminal now has taxed, reported, legal income and all they lost was the cut to the house plus the normal taxes everyone else pays.

Illegal casinos wouldn't solve that problem as they'd be back to square one of explaining the legal source of a large amount of money.
by bena | 2025-12-12 20:23:12+00:00
No, there's no reasonable ordering going on.

If it were ordered by ordinal values, "/" is 47 and " " is 32, so "1 in" would come before "1/2 in".

It's not alphabetized by letter word. Because while "Eight" comes before "Four", "Specialty" would come before "Three".

No matter which way you attempt to order it, something is out of order.

Softtalker probably got it right. This is some default or id sort.
by prepend | 2025-12-12 20:23:16+00:00
In 1998 I worked for a small nasdaq company that had a successful software as a service product that was growing quickly.

We used Clarion and MSSQL7 on windows because it was cheap. Since we started making real money, some figured we could finally afford Oracle and Sun (back when they were different).

I was a junior so my job was to evaluate the migration of one of our sql servers to oracle to test it out. I talks with the Oracle team who helps people plan purchases. They took my transaction level (~100M/year) and size (1-2GB/year) and came back with $1M for the system. This replaced a functioning $10k server. And we had maybe a dozen that would have to eventually move.

When I told them the current server was $10k, they revised their estimate to $100k. I recommended we not move.

I left the company a little while later and I think they ended up buying lots of Oracle.

Companies have money and don’t mind spending on useless stuff.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-12 20:23:33+00:00
No but this is exactly why I don't want this to become law. However yes if it does become law I will avoid it.

It is a big slippery slope aimed at destroying anonimity on the internet. Even if first attempts are privacy-preserving, it could still break the use of double accounts for example, something which I also use widely.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-12-12 20:23:54+00:00
If you are so smug about this, answer me:

1: How man reactors were built in the 1970s and are nearing end-of-life?

2: How many reactors has Europe built since 2005?

3: What's the overrun time of reactors in Europe, compared to China?

The only reasonable conclusion to draw is that the industry has existed. It was world class, but the institutional knowledge to bring it back to this quality does not exist and would need to be rebuilt for the new generation of reactors. And we are not even talking Generation 4 here.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-12 20:24:27+00:00
> he doesn't seem to realize that intent is a thing

A bit of silver lining is that the law does require intent, which was a pleasant surprise since it reduces how easily a bad official could weaponize the law against an innocent person.

> A person who knowingly violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the second degree

[0] https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/253/?Tab=BillText
by joezydeco | 2025-12-12 20:24:46+00:00
I've worked on bootloaders for multiple ARM SoCs and each one has their own charms, their own quirks, and their own hair-pulling features. I wouldn't touch Broadcom parts with a ten-foot pole but, thankfully, they don't want to work with me either so we're cool.

TI and NXP are probably the better choices. 3358/Beagle still looks for a IBM PC/MSDOS-era Master Boot Record at the start of flash when strapped the normal way, which is charming. Most allow for UART bootstrapping when nothing else is available, which is a lifesaver. I do wish more parts picked up the USB-UF2 bootloading method that Pico has created. THAT is awesome.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-12-12 20:25:05+00:00
1. While waiting to be seated at a bistro, I grabbed a menu off a table to see what they had for food. Waiter who was ignoring me saw that and instantly scolded me in front of the entire restaurant saying that is their job.

2. An alpine train was coming by and I was doing the fist pump in the air to get them to honk the horn. A random stranger said that my actions were unwelcome and that trains are serious business.

3. When on bikes I did a skid stop to make my wife laugh, a random stranger said I shouldn’t do that.

4. At the airport, I had to pour out water before going through the security checkpoint. There was no bin to pour out water so I just poured it out in the garbage. A random stranger got quite upset and said the water does not go in the garbage.

Not to mention all of the very unfriendly interactions I had with locals. Honestly will probably never go back, people are so much more friendly and laid back elsewhere which is more my style.
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-12 20:25:26+00:00
> The default TLS Client Hello has been modified. If your app or website communicates with servers configured with strict bot-detection or security policies that only allow traffic with known TLS fingerprints, then users might be unable to login or perform other actions.

Wonder if that's what they do on their own services? Seems a little odd they'd have an outage a few days before release and then this shows up in their release notes.
by whstl | 2025-12-12 20:25:29+00:00
Nah. Fuck Apple but the only reason Microsoft isn't doing the same thing Apple does with iOS is because they don't have a mobile operating system anymore.

Even on Windows, Microsoft has very similar notarization requirements as Apple. Microsoft requires either an ~400-500$/year EV cert (if you don't want to involve Azure), or more recently a $10/month subscription to Azure, which is almost the same as Apple's $99/year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182546
by SamInTheShell | 2025-12-12 20:25:56+00:00
Seem to recall license plates are required to be illuminated as well. What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures? Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes it impossible to even see the plate clearly through cameras?

Personally, if I cared enough to obfuscate my plate info from these devices, I would just taint their data by wrapping my car in a wrap with various different "plates" themed art. I like cars and the exterior has traditionally been treated like art. Tainting data is just as effective at making the core dataset useless as omitting data in the first place.
by aruametello | 2025-12-12 20:25:58+00:00
To dial up the weirdness, sometimes the solar flare activity has spikes (https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-fla...) and these have a mild relationship with the odds of having "bitflips" in that timeframe.

we had a "historic bad solarweather" a bunch of years ago and i talked with a cyber cafe operator that "you could have more computers bluescreen on this week than usual".

to me it got really weird when he said later he really did, but honestly its 50/50 that could had been just incidental.

in another note there are some "rather intense" discussions when someone speedrunning a game gets a "unreproducible glitch" in their favor, some claim its a flaw from ageing dram hardware, but some always point that it could be a cosmic ray bitfliping the right bit. (https://tildes.net/~games/1eqq/the_biggest_myth_in_speedrunn...)
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-12 20:26:28+00:00
What gives you the right to tell someone who purchases Apple devices because of the walled garden that they should no longer have that option because YOU don't like it. What an incredibly entitled and selfish position. Have you even stopped to consider for even a second why Apple devices are so popular, especially with normal people who don't spend their time fantasizing about how they want to control other people's purchases with other sweaty nerds on the internet? Have you ever considered that other people may have different preferences and desires from yours? Jfc.
by freedomben | 2025-12-12 20:26:33+00:00
I don't love this new font as others have already pointed out, there's not enough distinction between some letters[1].

However, the general movement toward redistributable and license-friendly fonts is wonderful and I'm very happy to see it continue. As someone who has had to deal with font licensing hell in the past, having these available is a huge improvement. Even just setting up my personal linux systems and having actually usable fonts available is a massive improvement, before even getting into trying to build apps/websites/etc. Many thanks to Google and any others who are releasing these!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247559 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247693
by solarengineer | 2025-12-12 20:26:49+00:00
I am a former nuclear opponent. I used to think that nuclear waste was glowing green like they show in the Simpsons and in the Doom 1 game. Once I had access to the Internet in this century, I learned better.

Here are some sources of information that helped me understand the two oft-cited nuclear disasters better.

The World Nuclear Energy write up on the Fukushima incident: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...

Some information on the Chernobyl incident: The infographics show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJhjqBz5Tk

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...

A lecture in the MIT Courseware on the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijst4g5KFN0

This lecture is way more informative where the professor explains how the workers took the system beyond the rated capacity as part of a test.

There have been many lessons learned, and the World Nuclear article linked above shares some of these.

Here is a writeup of the Three Mile Island incident: https://world-nuclear.org/Information-Library/Safety-and-Sec...

One regular complaint is the costs of nuclear energy. This is likely true in the US due to regulations that have not been revised for newer technology, but such high costs are cited around the world.

Likewise, the amount of waste and the danger of the waste is not well understood either, and certainly lots of education is needed here. For e.g., most people do not know that the volume of waste is limited and that the same waste can be reused in reactors of other designs.

I do believe that national ego issues get in the way of fixes. I believe that such ego issues got in the way of honest repairs (Fukushima) and timely action (Chernobyl). Certainly, nuclear inspections are still treated with suspicion and hostility, but in fact full transparency and integrity should be the norm.

Corruption and profit-centric thinking are two other problems that plague the nuclear industry. South Korea has had lots of corruption and shortcuts (https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/22/136020/how-greed...). One of the accusations in India against France was that France licenses outdated nuclear reactor technology despite having newer technology. I am unable to locate a link supporting this accusation.

With thorium reactors and Small Module Reactors, there are many modern solutions to safety.

ThorCon's Thorium Converter Reactor - Lars Jorgensen in Bali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB1IrzDDI9g

Here is the full training by Thorcon on their reactors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkvEXm-rMW4&list=PLuGiwaUJYE...

We need to stop citing and quoting US-based costs and problems that are linked to outdated US regulations. There are other countries that have more modern regulations and modern technologies.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-12 20:26:52+00:00
> but not readable by a machine has the law been violated

IANAL but I think that would be a violation, since it falls under the "detectability" of a "feature" being "recorded".

> A person may not apply or attach [...] onto or around [...] which interferes with the legibility, angular visibility, or detectability of any feature or detail on the license plate or interferes with the ability to record any feature or detail on the license plate. A person who knowingly violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the second degree.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/253/?Tab=BillText
by carsoon | 2025-12-12 20:27:48+00:00
Yeah I have seen multiple people use this certainty % thing but its terrible. A percentage is something calculated mathemtatically and these models cannot do that.

Potentially they could figure it out if they looks into a comparison of next token probabilites, but this is not exposed in any modern model and especially not fed back into the chat/output.

Instead people should just ask it to explain BOTH sides of an argument or explain why something is BOTH correct and incorrect. This way you see how it can halluciate either way and get to make up your own mind about the correct outcome.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-12-12 20:28:08+00:00
Look at the boom of nuclear in the 70s. The industry wide and deep expertise from production, to planning, to logistics. Particularly the french did this par excellence. But nuclear has first languished and is now almost non-existent in Europe.

Contrary to capitalist believe you cannot solve all issues fast by throwing unreasonable amounts of money at it. You must built industries that synergies with each other, have deep institutional knowledge and capable workers that can deliver the tiny tolerances required to make nuclear safe and effective.

We simply do not have the (intellectual) capacity for this anymore and the effort is better spent on battery technology if Europe actually wants to have any stake in future of EV and renewables. It is significantly less capital intense too.
by jsheard | 2025-12-12 20:28:24+00:00
Leaving aside whether AI translation is up to human level, particularly in a visual medium where important context isn't present anywhere in the text, that was about dub voice acting, not translation.

And leaving aside any ethical debates, the rightsholders may object to their content being presented this poorly just so the distributor can save a buck:

https://bsky.app/profile/littlekuriboh.bsky.social/post/3m6p...

https://bsky.app/profile/brainchild129.bsky.social/post/3m6r...

The humans who do anime/manga translation and dub voices were already paid a pittance for their work, so trying to replace them with AI is really scraping the enshittification barrel.
by vincent-manis | 2025-12-12 20:28:35+00:00
I am very fond of Merriweather (which I recently saw on a list of over-used fonts, for those who believe that you should use a different obscure and, hopefully, hard to read font in every document). It pairs nicely with Merriweather Sans, Cascadia Code, and for math Libertinus Modern, though I do have to tweak ex-heights to match.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-12 20:28:37+00:00
Why would it be an embarassment? I don't understand that. It's not like my profile is 'recommended' to others, that is not something that happens. They only promote 'influencer' content with tons of followers. Also, I have of course different accounts for different communities because they don't all intermix. Not because I care about that but because others do. I am not embarassed at all about what I do.

It's just that it is harder to follow the people and organisations/parties I want now because there's other crap in between that I didn't ask for. Same thing that facebook did decades ago but instagram held off on for much longer.
by l-albertovich | 2025-12-12 20:28:39+00:00
I felt the same way when I read the bold part that says "But that C codebase is an issue" so I quickly checked out the public databases and couldn't find a single serious vulnerability in the past 7 years.

Admittedly I stopped after going through a bunch of useless stuff related to CVE-2017-8823 (which was initially reported as remotely exploitable with no proof at all).

I went through the tor repository (not vidalia though) and read a bunch of conversations about some of the memory related bugs but none of those were exploitable either (exploitable as in remote execution, not a DoS) and most of the (not so many) bugs were actually logical bugs.

I really don't care what they decide to do with their project and honestly anything that can potentially improve the security of such a system is fine by me but I really think they're doing themselves and the language a disservice by communicating the way they do.

Also, as a side note, even with a C codebase there is SO MUCH you could (and should) do to minimize the impact of a vulnerability that the fact that some choose to present just rewriting code in a different language is not even funny.
by autoexec | 2025-12-12 20:28:53+00:00
It's not just about dollar amounts, it's about security and consequences. If a developer finds out that he got laid off his life is completely upended. If the CEO of microsoft finds out that the subsidiary of a subsidiary goes under, his life doesn't change. One of those two people is in a position of power so much greater than the other that they have absolutely nothing to fear from having to treat a small number of twice removed employees a little more fairly.

The whole point of the union is to have any power at all and to try to improve their working conditions, not to overpower the giants who rule over them. No one joins a union because they want to put themselves out of a job.
by nix0n | 2025-12-12 20:29:13+00:00
> We used to have 12-16+ hour workdays, no days off, etc. None of that is true anymore - the great battles have been fought and won, and nobody is going back.

The 8 hour workday is not guaranteed to office workers anymore.

See HN discussion of 996: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149049
by runarberg | 2025-12-12 20:29:38+00:00
Mining asteroids is a goal that makes sense. I can picture a future where spacecrafts are regularly sent to the asteroid belt and come back to earth with some minerals. Living on the moon does not make sense. There is nothing to be gained from humans living in a future moon base. Not any more than cities built in Antarctica, or in orbit with a constellation of ISS like satellites.

We won’t build a city on the Moon, nor Mars, nor any of Jupiter’s moons, nor anywhere outside of Earth, and we won‘t do this even if engineeringly possible, for the exact same reason we won’t build a bubble city inside the Mariana Trench.
by jjice | 2025-12-12 20:29:43+00:00
I'd expect nothing less from them. The right thing to do here is to implement a sorting key for different categories here. Since McMaster-Carr seems to be going to a category when you search, they seem to have better control over the available filters.

I've found that on a site like Amazon or Walmart that'll let you do a more freeform sort, the filter options becomes absolutely god awful.

Well done by McMaster-Carr. I assume they control their inventory a bit more than a marketplace like Home Depot, Walmart, or Amazon, so that's also an advantage.