MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swatcoder | 2025-12-06 23:08:08+00:00
Cool. In this case, it's a show that's very conscioisly about that.

It uses Tim Robinson's uniquely appropriate clownwork to bring a comedic hyperbole to the self-destructive obsessions that come to beguile vaguely dissatisfied middle-aged suburbanties.

It's a smart satire with kinship to Falling Down or a Mike Judge project, but with the audience-engaging emotionality and physicality of Rowan Atkinson or Sasha Baron cohen.

The audience can be tickled by the absurd scenes and overwrought performance without needing to think too much about it, but those that do think about it can uncover a very deliberate and communicative piece of art.

You're not obliged to invest your time into it, but you may not have really picked up on what it's actually doing in the time you did spend so far.
by toast0 | 2025-12-06 23:09:05+00:00
From the CDC report [1], it's pretty clear that rabies was not considered for the donor until after the donee died and rabies was confirmed. Possibly because the donor had been scratched by a skunk and not biten. The report says the scratch had been noted on the donor risk assessment interview (DRAI), but that skunks are not considered a reservoir for rabies in his area.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7439a1.htm
by ngrilly | 2025-12-06 23:10:01+00:00
I fully agree that most projects would work perfectly fine with a monolith and PostgreSQL. And yet they go with microservices, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc, making the system more complex and less available.

SQLite would be perfect if it would allow multiple concurrent writers, which would allow running database migrations without downtime. I’m looking forward to Turso for this.
by dkural | 2025-12-06 23:10:03+00:00
Look up Jevons Paradox, when something becomes more efficient, consumption can goes up, often due to price elasticity.

Think of like this: Imagine car prices go from $200,000 to $$20,000 - you wouldn't sell 10x the amount of cars, you'd sell --- In fact I just looked up the numbers - worldwide only 100K or so cars are 200K & higher, whereas roughly 80 million cars are in that affordable category.

So a price drop of 90% allowed sales to go from 0.1M to 80M!! I think this means we need more engines, tires, roads, gas, spare parts.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-06 23:10:13+00:00
But what what I'm asking for is only a small amount of engineering time to add 1 line to their gradle and change 1 line in their app's code. This isn't a deal spanning many engineering years doing on going work and having to measure how effective things are. It's a small change plus the overhead of making a deal and getting through the beurocracy.
by silisili | 2025-12-06 23:11:28+00:00
My tastes changed a lot over the years. I quit liking sweets in my early 20s, I rarely even have sugar in the house.

Sometime in my late 30s I started appreciating more nuanced flavors, including black coffee, but mostly vegetables like green beans, tomatoes, asparagus, peas, carrots. Once that happened, I started realizing how much food is blasted with so much salt that obliterates said flavors.

I assume it's mostly normal, as a kid I found my parents tastes bland...ew who could eat vegetables by themselves with no seasoning? Well, me now apparently...
by simoncion | 2025-12-06 23:11:57+00:00
This picture from the list of product pictures [0] indicates that the thing acts as an Ethernet bridge. It probably exposes itself as a USB-C gigabit Ethernet device to the machine it's plugged into.

Page four of TFM [1] supports this theory.

Also, this functionality is called out in the product listing and in the manual. I'm over here laughing my ass off because OP got so frightened by this clearly-documented feature that they immediately threw the thing in the trash, rather than first investigating to see if the source of the network traffic was the machines plugged into the device.

[0] <https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71GglDmzCYL._SL1500_.jpg> (If this direct link fails, it's the image that has the header "A Stable Gigabit Ethernet Port".

[1] <https://avaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/UM-_-iDock-C...> (This is the "DOWNLOAD USER MANUAL" link in the Downloads subsection of the More Information section of [2])

[2] <https://www.avaccess.com/products/idock-c20-kvm-switch-docki...>
by r1ch | 2025-12-06 23:12:02+00:00
OP mentions using "Cat 7" cables - please don't buy these. Cat 7 isn't something that exists in TIA/EIA standards, only in ISO/IEC and it requires GG45 or TERA connectors. Cat 7 with RJ45 connectors isn't standardized, so you have no idea what you're actually getting. Stick with pure copper Cat 6A.
by onetimeusename | 2025-12-06 23:12:41+00:00
I am not sure if your questions were rhetorical or not but I don't think you want them answered. I am happy to explain the situation though. She did not take a visa to circumvent the law, she has been here for years and we came up with this idea a few months ago. It's not remote applicable. So everything you said is true in a legal sense but it's unlikely any of it happens and now there is a very large fee for new applications so it's a very high risk to move back and then reapply. The reality of startups is at first they may not make enough money to support an H1-B so we're not sure how to make enough money to get her one without already having done work. I don't think this violates the intention of the H1-B it just creates a situation where starting a startup is very murky but working at a large firm is fine. I am not sure the intention of the law was meant to bias in favor of H1-B only benefitting large corporations.
by jychang | 2025-12-06 23:12:55+00:00
Or like this: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201

I don't know what's so special about this paper.

- They claim to use MLA to reduce KV cache by 90%. Yeah, Deepseek invented that for Deepseek V2 (and also V3 and Deepseek R1 etc)

- They claim to use a hybrid linear attention architecture. So does Deepseek V3.2 and that was weeks ago. Or Granite 4, if you want to go even further back. Or Kimi Linear. Or Qwen3-Next.

- They claimed to save a lot of money not doing a full pre-train run for millions of dollars. Well, so did Deepseek V3.2... Deepseek hasn't done a full $5.6mil full pretraining run since Deepseek V3 in 2024. Deepseek R1 is just a $294k post train on top of the expensive V3 pretrain run. Deepseek V3.2 is just a hybrid linear attention post-train run - i don't know the exact price, but it's probably just a few hundred thousand dollars as well.

Hell, GPT-5, o3, o4-mini, and gpt-4o are all post-trains on top of the same expensive pre-train run for gpt-4o in 2024. That's why they all have the same information cutoff date.

I don't really see anything new or interesting in this paper that isn't already something Deepseek V3.2 has already sort of done (just on a bigger scale). Not exactly the same, but is there anything amazingly new that's not in Deepseek V3.2?
by NedF | 2025-12-06 23:13:03+00:00
> within the NHS recommended limit

Over the NHS recommended limit is better than zero caffeine for everyone. If their limit is correct is in question

Whether "those with severe mental illness" get more benefit seems unlikely biologically. But like everyone coffee is good for you.

The only point of research like this, since we know coffee is good, is finding the mechanisms. But it's highly open to p-hacking/experimental error, which is how universities work now. You should default to this is citation farming.
by jltsiren | 2025-12-06 23:13:05+00:00
The two world wars were not the same. WW1 was a stupid war that happened for stupid reasons, and there were no real moral differences between the sides. Many nations tried to use the war as an opportunity for independence by collaborating with the opposing side. Some of them were successful.

In Finland, we still call infantry Jägers in honor of those who went to Germany to receive military training and to fight against Russia.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-12-06 23:13:16+00:00
This has since then been confirmed to not be true:

There has been a lot of press claiming @SpaceX is raising money at $800B, which is not accurate. SpaceX has been cash flow positive for many years and does periodic stock buybacks twice a year to provide liquidity for employees and investors. Valuation increments are a function of progress with Starship and Starlink and securing global direct-to-cell spectrum that greatly increases our addressable market. And one other thing that is arguably most significant by far. While I have great fondness for @NASA, they will constitute less than 5% of our revenue next year. Commercial Starlink is by far our largest contributor to revenue. Some people have claimed that SpaceX gets “subsidized” by NASA. This is absolutely false. The SpaceX team won the NASA contracts because we offered the best product at the lowest price. BOTH best product AND lowest cost. With regard to astronaut transport, SpaceX is currently the only option that passes NASA safety standards.

Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997399963509150089
by devilsdata | 2025-12-06 23:13:43+00:00
I've been self-medicating ADHD with multiple cups of coffee a day since I was 17. I'm in my early 30s now, and after getting on Vyvanse, have reduced then given up coffee. I realised that coffee was the reason for my anxiety which builds up towards the end of the day.

I reduced my coffee down to 1 espresso per day two months ago, and quit entirely two weeks ago. I'm still on stimulants, but Vyvanse treats ADHD much better and has fewer side-effects.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-06 23:15:17+00:00
Maybe it's different for me in the heart of LA, but I still need to plan around a movie if it's opening week. Theatres will fill up.

Home is convenient, but also small and thus limited. Having a large commons to go out to helps. But that might not be the case for Gen Z as they adjust from 200 inch screen to 7 inch ones for consuming media. Why spend 150 million on a cinematic experience when a single creator spends maybe a week planning a 30 second tiktok for engagement?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-06 23:15:26+00:00
Sodium batteries have substantially reduced thermal runaway risk compared to lithium. Worst case, the ship sinks during a fire and the batteries are flooded. Charging infra is likely similar to existing EV ferry charging infra. Ship pulls into the berth and starts soaking the battery storage up to 1C up until departure. Could probably use a heat exchange and raw water available for battery cooling to maximize charge current curve, actively cooling the battery storage during charging.

https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/2023-04/...

https://old.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1m8wlou/e...
by supportengineer | 2025-12-06 23:15:37+00:00
A great place to feel this is the USS Hornet in Alameda. This actual ship that you are on, made of steel and loaded with analog electronics, sailed to the far side of the Pacific and back. So much metal, steel, hydraulics, and electrical systems. It made it out and back. Not all the ships did. Mighty ships just like this one, with people like you, did not make it back.
by vkou | 2025-12-06 23:15:48+00:00
The wrong lesson is that while the teacher may think it's a stain, and you and I think it's a stain and how any civilized person would think it's a stain, the country doesn't think it's a stain.

What's important about it isn't that it happened, or what we think about it. What's important is how many people didn't think it was a mistake - and wouldn't when it happens again.

It reveals a major blindspot.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-06 23:16:04+00:00
I mean - to one extent, concretely in the aesthetic ways I’m talking it was technologically we just had simpler materials. Cars had knobs and levers instead of touchscreens.

Like, so much of what I do today happens online instead of the real world, so I do think you can describe ways in which life or the world really has gotten more “fake”.

Though some of this is funny too? I remember things from the say 50’s to the 80’w as being more “real” and that’s also the like rise of TV dinners and everything eaten out of a can, rather than “real” ingredients.
by Atlas667 | 2025-12-06 23:16:40+00:00
We need this for the Romephiles who definitely don't think they would have been slaves during the Roman Empire.

In the same vein, a racist meme shared around the internet is that supposedly some black people, while remembering their shattered ancestry, say "We were kings" [in Africa]. But a lot of white people will genuinely believe they were kings or at least related to kings.

And these erroneous class beliefs are very very common.

It even goes so far as to be used to widely support racism in the "my people" argument. Sir, sit down, statistically you were a illiterate or barely-literate peasant like the rest of us!

This is what happens when you use history as a political tool. This is how the powers that be erase class consciousness from peoples brains. They keep showing us a flawed history that almost always sides with the rulers and we adopt it. They make us forget what we are and where we come from so we side with the oppressors.
by Bikashhh | 2025-12-06 23:17:08+00:00
Built a Figma plugin for removing objects from images with AI. First version took 12 seconds. Nobody waited. Got it down to 2 seconds.

What was slow: - Base64 conversions (Figma's image API is clunky) - Wrong AI model (Stable Diffusion was overkill) - Waiting for complete response before showing anything

What worked: - Switched to LaMa model (faster, simpler) - Show preview immediately, refine in background - Better use of Replicate's streaming API

Figma plugin quirks: - Can't edit pixels directly - export/import only - Memory limits crash on large images - Transparent PNGs break everything

Got 105 users in a week from 2 Reddit posts. Currently averaging 1.8 seconds per removal.

Figma Plugin: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1576512610054427811/p...

Replicate Model: https://replicate.com/dpakkk/image-object-removal

Anyone else optimized plugins in sandboxed environments? What tricks am I missing?
by linguae | 2025-12-06 23:17:33+00:00
I’ve taken graduate-level courses in databases, including one on DBMS implementations and another on large-scale distributed systems, and I also spent two summers at Google working on Cloud SQL and Spanner. Database research goes further than DBMS implementation research. There is a lot of research on schemas, data representation, logic, type systems, and more. It’s just like how programming language research goes beyond compilers research.
by r1ch | 2025-12-06 23:17:41+00:00
The bottleneck with SFTP / SCP / SSH is usually the server software - SSH can multiplex streams, so it implements its own TCP-style sliding windows for channel data. Unfortunately OpenSSH and similar server implementations suffer from the exact same problems that TCP did, where the windows don't scale up to modern connection speeds, so the maximum data in-flight quickly gets limited at higher BDPs.

HPN-SSH[1] resolves this but isn't widely deployed.

[1] https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-06 23:18:05+00:00
And nature doesn't have infinite risk events?!

We are reasonably confident that no likely gamma ray bursters are pointed at us and within lethal range. We know dinosaur killers are out there--a failure to map every such object in the solar system is a small probability of an infinite risk. Why are there no ICBMs fitted for point defense against a city killer asteroid? You have the rocket, you have the boom. You need a seeker that can guide it to impact (there are other radars that could illuminate, it just needs to home on the reflection) and a standoff fuse that will fire it at the last possible millisecond.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-06 23:18:40+00:00
The Germans in Africa were cruel and inhumane. But the concentration camp and modern military campaigns targeting civilian populations were not something alien to the British.

Most well documented was in the Boer war:

https://theconversation.com/concentration-camps-in-the-south...

Ireland is usually underplayed and less clearly linked to government policy as much of the dirty work was done by private entities. You’re not likely familiar with Cromwell’s invasion, the Ulster Plantation or the famine… but the Irish were. Cromwell’s actions and later events resulted in the death of 10+% of the population. The famine resulted in the death of 10% and emigration of 10% of the population. That’s a lot of dead Irish and deeply affected these leaders.

I’m not defending Nazis or on some insane rant about Britain. I just think you need to judge decisions in context of the times.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-06 23:19:01+00:00
> My own version of this mistake was thinking that people’s personalities were different in the past.

It's slightly surprising to me how many people think this. Like they think that boomers are selfish because that generation are more selfish people. No, people are inherently selfish.

Or old people think young people are lazier than their generation. No, pretty much everyone is and always has been lazy.
by rgmerk | 2025-12-06 23:19:24+00:00
A quick googling suggests that unloading such a vessel takes at least a couple of days, more likely 3-4.

Assuming two days available to charge the vessel, you'd need about 100MW continuous. Not trivial, but doable.

As far as battery fires go, sure, but a) there are already a lot of electric ferries in service so designing safe maritime battery packs isn't a new challenge and b) the alternative isn't exactly risk free either; we've seen plenty of oil spills from ships.
by shoo | 2025-12-06 23:19:31+00:00
Separately from this study, here's an interesting opinion piece by John Ioannidis titled "The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research", published in JAMA 2018:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...

> Assuming the meta-analyzed evidence from cohort > studies represents life span–long causal associations, for > a baseline life expectancy of 80 years, eating 12 hazelnuts > daily (1 oz) would prolong life by 12 years (ie, 1 year per > hazelnut), drinking 3 cups of coffee daily would achieve > a similar gain of 12 extra years, and eating a single man- > darin orange daily (80 g) would add 5 years of life. Con- > versely, consuming 1 egg daily would reduce life expec- > tancy by 6 years, and eating 2 slices of bacon (30 g) daily > would shorten life by a decade, an effect worse than > smoking. Could these results possibly be true?

via Andrew Gelman's blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/26/article-po...
by modin | 2025-12-06 23:19:33+00:00
Does it handle both recurring events and recurrence?

E.g. move the lawn every other week vs pay rent on the 17th every month. If I go a week overdue on rent I still need to pay the next on the 17th. If I go a week overdue on the lawn I don't need to mow again for two weeks, not one.
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by ggprgrkjh | 2025-12-06 23:19:59+00:00
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by Nortca | 2025-12-06 23:20:12+00:00
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by fulafel | 2025-12-06 23:20:18+00:00
Yes, but it would move very slowly compared to current freight ships, think an order of magnitude lower average speed. (You can compromise on the freight features to get some more speed of course, but it's still going to be slower unless you do something dramatic like fly a huge PV array as a kite or something)

Besides PV, there's a long history of wind powered ships of course.
by nixpulvis | 2025-12-06 23:20:23+00:00
Why is there a component on the board that isn't used in the product for any official purpose then? Even if you believe it was an accident and an oversight (which it could have been), you should be upset because it's something that could be pretty serious if you used in your home.

Just because you might claim it's not malicious, doesn't make it not negligence.
by eks391 | 2025-12-06 23:20:30+00:00
The OS is not very relevant to the Pixel. Compare the Pixels you like that are new (GrapheneOS drops support as models become older flagships, I think for security reasons) and get that one. IIRC, currently only Pixel is allowed, because the bootloader can be opened without rooting the device.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support
by bethekidyouwant | 2025-12-06 23:21:47+00:00
“The change means that all 18-year-olds in Germany will be sent a questionnaire from January 2026 asking if they are interested and willing to join the armed forces. The form will be mandatory for men and voluntary for women.“ - all men have to fill out and return a form, I suppose this will work to increase recruitment. Doesn’t seem very controversial.
by troad | 2025-12-06 23:21:57+00:00
I thought it was really perceptive. Look at what JS was designed to do cf. what it's actually doing these days.

Turns out it doesn't really matter what domain you were originally trying to tackle. If you've stumbled upon a low friction way of achieving other things, people are going to use your tool for those things, even if it's not the optimal tool for those domains.

I dread the JS/TS future, but it's obviously coming.
by andrewvc | 2025-12-06 23:22:36+00:00
Maybe, but really consumerism wasn’t a thing for most of history because almost no one had the money to decorate intentionally in the way we do today. The very wealthy did to varying extents. When we look at the past we always imagine ourselves to be the ones in Downton Abbey, but most people were lucky to inherit some furniture.

I would argue that the reverence for real wood and craft you espoused (and I share) is in part possible due to living in a consumerist society. For what it’s worth it is still possible to buy those same quality goods today, and certainly at lower cost . However, I would balk at paying the historical fraction of my income (or multiple if we go back to the 1700s), for a new bed.

In short cheap dishonest crap is what we ultimately want. It lets us focus our time and resources elsewhere
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-06 23:23:01+00:00
It's also become quite fashionable to pathologize oneself and make it a kind of marker of identity. "I'm neurodivergent!" they declare, even though the concept is dubious as a bona fide category. It's a weird phenomenon; a disease or disorder is not an identity, but a defect. But people in general seem to be starving for identity - hence the popularity of odd subcultures and ideologies - but too weak to forge their own.

Part of the motivation also seems to be that we've fetishized disorders; having or claiming to have disorder X is a weird way to feel "special" or exceptional. Another part of it is that it functions as a kind of instrument for uptight people to gain a sense of exemption from social norms - real or merely perceived - that they feel burdened by or live in terror of "violating", but who are incapable of or unwilling to ignore them, because what would people say! "Oh, I'm weird, because I have disorder X. Can't help it, sorry! Can't judge me, because then you, not me, are the asshole!"

Needless to say, it's not very rational.

Which is not to say various disordered conditions don't exist.