MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-05 03:24:47+00:00
> sovereignty

I truly hate how this buzzword is misused with regards to the EU. Voluntarily delegating authority is not the same as losing sovereignty. If you can un-delegate the authority at your own prerogative, you have not lost sovereignty. If the UK, for example, had genuinely lost its sovereignty, it would not have been able to voluntarily withdraw from its participation in the EU.
by tomhow | 2025-12-05 03:25:01+00:00
WTF? We can't have you sneering at/about fellow community members like this, no matter how much (or little) karma they have. This comment breaks multiple guidelines, notably:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals...

Someone doesn't get to 400k karma (almost double the second-ranked user) without contributing a lot of value to the community over a long time.

It's fine to disagree with someone, of course. There'd be nothing to discuss otherwise. But we need you to engage with the substance of the comments you're replying to, and not sneeringliy attack somone's character or motivations like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119115 and marked it off topic.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-12-05 03:26:28+00:00
> Is the helpful answer to show them how to make one, or to hint at the fact that it's called a suicide cord?

You create a false dilemma. The helpful answer is the one that answers the question, and if you also want to suggest alternatives, feel free to do more than answering the question, but don't just question their motives instead of answering, because questioning someone's motives instead of answering is an antagonistic behavior. You're basically saying "I don't also want that thing, therefore you must be an idiot." That's an obnoxious framework to operate under.
by raincom | 2025-12-05 03:26:47+00:00
Bed springs are alternative to the traditional mattresses that contain all kinds of fibers: cotton, wool, hair (horse hair, etc), feathers, hay, kapok, sea grass, etc. In fact, Bed springs are better than any natural fillings for support because these natural fillings compress quickly, some fillings shift. Tufting is a technique to fix the issue of shifting fibers. Pure wool/cotton mattresses need to be opened every year, and re-teased. Good springs (open coil or pocketed coils) are far better than any wool/cotton/hay support.

The modern mattress industry undermined this durability in pursuit of quick profit: springs became thinner and cheaper, and comfort layers were replaced with low-quality foams. That’s why today’s mattresses don’t last the way they used to.
by matrix87 | 2025-12-05 03:26:55+00:00
I remember back in the 2000s - 2012ish it used to actually mean something, if someone had autism then they were actually disabled and it was obvious.

90% of the "conversation" around autism today is a bunch of handwavey bullshit. There's no incentive for people to be intellectually honest. It's now a moral hazard because so many people are "attached" to the label and get accommodations out of it. You can pay phony therapists online to just go straight to a diagnosis so you can get accommodations. There are financial and political incentives in diagnosing more people.

People can't have an honest conversation around it either because it's such a charged issue. We either get one side that wants to expand the scope of autism to infinity or the RFK vaccine bullshit
by fragmede | 2025-12-05 03:27:16+00:00
If all you care about is looks, that is. Get out of any other car and you forget you can't just walk away from it and it'll shut itself off and lock the doors. I've had my Tesla driving friends drive my ICE car, and then not even turn off the engine when they go into the store because you don't need to do that with a Tesla.
by chii | 2025-12-05 03:27:22+00:00
Those controllers are first gen stuff - for the enthusiasts. They're expensive but not unduly so, not to mention that VR is still a niche, and is unlikely to expand the steam store. The first steam machine (steam box iirc) had both production issues and also not had much enthusiast success. Likely due to low hardware specs and not targeting the console market.

The steam deck, and now the (newer) steam machine is looking to push into the mass market of consoles, and i reckon it would be more successful. Not to mention the more mature steamOS and compatibility layer now (compared to before).

I have high hopes for it. I want PC gaming to break free of microsoft windows.
by rasz | 2025-12-05 03:28:20+00:00
Do yourself a favor and order $25 Xeon E3-1231 v3/E3-1241 v3 from China. Those work in all desktop motherboards. Used DDR3 ram is also so cheap you can bump to 32GB for another $20.

easy cheap upgrades. CPU will be noticeable straight away, ram only if you are running out.
by timschmidt | 2025-12-05 03:28:33+00:00
> Rust is a bit slower to iterate for some things due to need to provide low level details sometimes.

Sometimes specific tasks in Rust require a little extra effort - like interacting with the file picker from WASM required me to write an async function. In embedded sometimes I need to specify an allocator or executor. Sometimes I need to wrap state that's used throughout the app in an Arc(Mutex()) or the like. But I find that there are things like that in all languages around the edges. Sometimes when I'm working in Python I have to dip into C/C++ to address an issue in a library linked by the runtime. Rust has never forced me to use a different language to get a task done.

I don't find the need to specify types to be a particular burden. If anything it speeds up my development by making it clearer throughout the code what I'm operating on. The only unsafe I've ever had to write was for interacting with a GL shader, and for binding to a C library, just the sort of thing it's meant for, and not really possible in those other languages without turning to C/C++. I've always managed to use existing datastructures or composites thereof, so that helps. But that's all you get in languages like C#/Go/Python/etc. as well.

The big change for me was just learning how to think about and structure my code around data lifetimes, and then I got the wonderful experience other folks talk about where as soon as the code compiles I'm about 95% certain it works in the way I expect it to. And the compiler helps me to get there.
by danvc | 2025-12-05 03:29:55+00:00
Hey, thank you for your questions...

Q:Isn’t my employer going to see me logging in to some random service with my work account? Will the corporate Microsoft identity provider even have you in the allowlist?

- It's like having your accounts synced into Apple Mail (or some other Google app). The difference is that it organizes your contacts and keep your data stored in the cloud;

Q: I can just connect with everyone I know from work on LinkedIn

- That's for sure, but, the idea here is more a CRM than a social network;

Q: I avoid doing personal business on my work machine so when I am terminated I don’t lose anything

- But again, the idea here is to use in many different situations. For instance: you had an old domain but instead of using the Apple Mail, you used a service that store it for you in the cloud. So, you can still have access to it because the data belongs to you... but after a while you don't have the domain anymore.

Example C: anything I know I want to keep long term I save in some way that the company can’t keep

- And this is one example of how the platform is used for.

Example D: I don’t actually want to engage in Example C because it violates company policy and nothing I do at work is worth getting sued over. - The problem doesn't happen only to company emails... that was my situation with stuffs that I saved by mistake...
by alephnerd | 2025-12-05 03:30:01+00:00
Cutting down scope doesn't necessarily reduce cooperation.

Until 2004-07, the EU was an economic and political union for Western, Northern, and parts of Southern Europe - all of whom are largely aligned from a developmental, economic, and social perspective. It was after the rapid Eastward expansion of the EU without updated checks and balances that dysfunction arose.

The EU will remain dysfunctional as long as CEE countries that are not aligned with the core mission of the original EU remain politically relevant. The only way to reduce this dysfunction is to either decouple the policy component from the economic component, or reduce the amount of nations that should have a say in policy to those that are aligned with the EU.

The fact that the government of an EU member state like Hungary still has political privileges yet is clearly preparing for some form of economic [0][1] warfare and potentially actual [2][3] warfare highlights how tenuous the project is as it stands today.

First it's Hungary, then it's Slovakia, then ...

Clearly the EU status quo is unsustainable and needs to be reformed ASAP.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-has-financial-shield-a...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/orban-is-...

[2] - https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202405/10/content_WS663d3b83...

[3] - https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...
by gaigalas | 2025-12-05 03:30:09+00:00
From the link you shared:

> the maximum amount of information that is required to perfectly describe a given physical system _down to the quantum level_

(emphasis added by me)

It looks like it makes predictions for the quantum layer and above.

--

Historically, we humans have a long proven track record of missing layers at the bottom that were unknown but now are known.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-05 03:30:58+00:00
I had forgotten about the film-grain extraction, which is a clever approach to a huge problem for compression.

But... did I miss it, or was there no mention of any tool to specify grain parameters up front? If you're shooting "clean" digital footage and you decide in post that you want to add grain, how do you convey the grain parameters to the encoder?

It would degrade your work and defeat some of the purpose of this clever scheme if you had to add fake grain to your original footage, feed the grainy footage to the encoder to have it analyzed for its characteristics and stripped out (inevitably degrading real image details at least a bit), and then have the grain re-added on delivery.

So you need a way to specify grain characteristics to the encoder directly, so clean footage can be delivered without degradation and grain applied to it upon rendering at the client.
by inkyoto | 2025-12-05 03:31:13+00:00
> I don't see any evidence Ofcom is currently asking anyone else to enforce their laws. As far as I can they're currently simply taking the steps they can themselves to enforce their laws - i.e. as far as people in the US go sending letters.

It is even more nuanced than that: whilst Ofcom absolutely has legal enforcement powers under UK law – but they are regulatory / civil powers, not criminal powers like the police.

Therefore, it probably can even be argued (by deduction as I do not have a degree in law) that particularly in the cross-jurisdictional scenario, Ofcom’s whining about the non-compliance of a website with UK law is null and void.
by gpm | 2025-12-05 03:31:22+00:00
More than that if his clients ever do end up in the UK for whatever reason his letters sent on their behalf to the UK government are going to be prime evidence that the violation of the law was wilful.

Meanwhile if his clients remain beyond the UKs reach sending these letters achieves nothing of value.

There's no world where this response convinces Ofcom to stop doing their job at enforcing (to the best of their ability) the UKs laws.

He is just hurting his own clients by sending letters back to them.
by dangus | 2025-12-05 03:31:33+00:00
While you’re right on paper, the incentive plan (the PDF I linked further up) discloses that the a good chunk of executive compensation is based on performance metrics that would essentially mimic stock incentives for any other company.

50% of the executive incentive is based on membership targets and operating income.

Blue shield discloses that their CEO pay is about 70x their median employee. This is less than the for-profit organizations’ 250x ratio but that only serves to distort the spectrum of ethics.

We can call these organizations non-profits all day long because they fit our secular corporate law definitions but I’m not sure how a company that pays an employee enough money to own multiple homes with a Ferrari parked at each one would be considered non-profit in the eyes of God. [1]

[1] Not claiming the dude exists but you get the point I am making here.
by kamaal | 2025-12-05 03:31:49+00:00
>>In tech a customer with an annual contact value of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars will get a dedicated team of sales reps

In many Indian outsourcing firms, they permanently place a 'program manager' at big client's offices. Like for eg- Bank of America.

These managers also get a unlimited American express card, to spend on lunches, outings etc. You are expected to build 'relationships' so that when a project is needed to be won, you are just a call away from making it happen.

This is because a good percentage of the sales, projects, staffing, profits come from these big clients.
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-05 03:32:50+00:00
Looks like the part was advertised as ABS-CF, but may have actually been PLA-CF, which makes a big difference.

There are plenty of even higher temperature materials that can be 3d-printed. PAHT-CF is fine at fairly high temperatures (the nozzle temperature needs to be over 260C), and SLS printers can print things like aluminum.
by bubblethink | 2025-12-05 03:33:23+00:00
HW support for av1 is still behind h265. There's a lot of 5-10 year old hw that can play h265 but not av1. Second, there is also a split bw Dovi and HDR(+). Is av1 + Dovi a thing? Blu rays are obviously h265. Overall, h265 is the common denominator for all UHD content.
by worik | 2025-12-05 03:33:24+00:00
> Even BMW can't make something that is practical.

Hyperbole, but essentially true

The Japanese beat everybody when ICE ruled. Their cars were miles ahead on every measure except snob value.

In the the of EV it will be the Chinese. Tesla has no hope of keeping up, they are already fallen behind on snob value, their cars have none now.

I think the comment about BYD drivers preferring Tesla is out of date now. Ti e will tell, but my money is on China
by Hobadee | 2025-12-05 03:33:28+00:00
My dad likely had Asperger's. (Undiagnosed, but pretty much 100% he did). I have close friends with children who are very autistic. (Not completely non-verbel, but they say very few words and are still more likely to have a screeching meltdown than talk.)

My dad was highly successful; a leader in his industry and did a great job supporting us. His life was relatively easy (as easy as life can be in general) and he was a contributing member of society.

We love my friends kids to death and they do have many positive things going for them, but they will likely never be able to live on their own. Even if they do, they are in for a very hard life. They will likely always need to be supported by family and will likely never be contributing members of society.

To lump both those together is insane. It drives me crazy when people who are functional members of society run around laughing about how they are "autistic". I can't think of anything more disrespectful to those who can never have a "normal" life.

With that being said, I do recognize that medically there is a spectrum. I, as someone with ADHD am likely on that spectrum somewhere as well, from how the science is sounding these days. We need to make this spectrum obvious and respectful though. Why can't we classify a level or something? For example "Autistic level 1" for Asperger's, "Autistic level 2" for barely verbal, "Autistic level 3" for non-verbel... Something like that, so we can unite the cause, but still differentiate the effects and potential outcomes.
by buildsjets | 2025-12-05 03:34:23+00:00
Flea markets at US airshows are not under FAA jurisdiction.

I have attended said airshow for decades and occasionally buy stuff in the flea market myself. Old used scrapyard parts, next to some inventor’s homemade jet engine, next to tons of raw materials of unknown provenance, next to ginsu knives and miracle frying pans. Here’s what it looks like on video. Wow, I missed those hand grenades for only $10 each, what a bargain.

https://youtu.be/kKZ8Omj5cNA?si=bMQGS3VxN6ljyW19

https://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=cf1c...
by gpm | 2025-12-05 03:34:29+00:00
> Therefore, it probably can even be argued (by deduction as I do not have a degree in law) that particularly in the cross-jurisdictional scenario, Ofcom’s whining about the non-compliance of a website with UK law is null and void.

I see absolutely no argument for this. The UKs regulations here that Ofcom is the enforcement agency for are explicitly extra-territorial in nature. That doesn't mean that Ofcom can successfully get other countries to help them enforce their laws (or can invade other countries to enforce them themselves) but they clearly have the power to act within the UK to enforce their laws against people in other jurisdictions. For instance to levy fines that will be on the books should those people come to the UK in the future.
by sidibe | 2025-12-05 03:34:44+00:00
A lot of ram and disk companies have played this game before and gotten burned so they are more conservative than you'd expect. The problem in the past is shortages cause the customers to invest in efficiency or new tech pops up, it's really hard to predict whether to jump in because of the time it takes to get production going

if it gets really bad though the superscalers will guarantee them enough business years out to make the investment worth it
by joezydeco | 2025-12-05 03:35:04+00:00
I worked McD in the 80s and the Coke syrup was in gallon jugs at ambient temp, then dumped into a large stainless steel holding tank at pressure. This was before bag-in-box. I've never heard of the cold temperature thing before.

My belief is that they just consume so much of it so fast that there's no time for the syrup to alter.
by eru | 2025-12-05 03:35:15+00:00
Yes. Basically the streaming services started using a decent model of perceived loudness, and normalise tracks to roughly the same perceived level. I seem to remember that Apple (the computer company, not the music company) was involved as well, but I need to re-read the history here. Their music service and mp3 players were popular back in the day.

So all music producers got out of compressing their music was clipping, and not extra loudness when played back.
by theshackleford | 2025-12-05 03:35:48+00:00
The HDR implementation in Windows 11 is fine. And it's not even that bad in 11 in terms of titles and content officially supporting HDR. Most of the ideas that it's "bad" comes from the "cheap monitor" part, not windows.

I have zero issues and only an exceptional image on W11 with a PG32UQX.
by bawolff | 2025-12-05 03:35:48+00:00
The problem with batch semantics is you do have to know everything up front. You cant just do one request and then 20 ms later another.

For DNS this might come up in format parsing. E.g. in html, First you see <script> tag, fire off the DNS request for that, and go back to parsing. Before you get the DNS result you see an <img> tag for a different domain and want to fire off the DNS result for that. With a batch method you would have to wait until you have all the domain names before sending off the request (this might get more important if you are recieving the file you are patsing over the network and you dont know if the next packet containing the next part of the file is 1ms away or 2000ms).
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-05 03:36:05+00:00
This whole bill is about increasing government control. Now the civil servants get to geoblock our internet. Something they've been desperate to do. I feel it's part of a wider pattern along with the police deciding recently that the law allows them to police social media like the stasi. Not a new law, just a creative interpretation of one that has been around for a while. Then you have that horrible idea with mandatory digital id. I'm not sure what exactly is going on because we are still a democracy. I think it's just a lot of people living in an ivory tower.

It's not about child safety at all. If anything our government has shown time and again that that is simply not a priority for them.
by KPGv2 | 2025-12-05 03:37:54+00:00
Also studying for eight months is not useful. Loads of traders do this well for eight months and then do shit for the next five years. And tellingly, they didn't beat the S&P 500. They invested in something else that beat the S&P 500. And the one that didn't invest in that something did worse than the S&P 500.

What this tells me is they were lucky to have picked something that would beat the market for now.
by aetherspawn | 2025-12-05 03:38:07+00:00
Teslas are dead simple, to the point where people are putting Tesla anything in virtually anything you can think of - classic cars, random sedans, you name it.

There’s also that guy on YouTube who updated the electricals in his original Model S with electricals from a 10 years later Model 3 Highland just by buying spare parts, and it was pretty doable with fairly basic and limited tools/public information.

So the complexity in this article is just a BMW/PHEV thing, not an EV thing.
by zb3 | 2025-12-05 03:38:59+00:00
> And the other browser vendors with conflicitng interests just go along with it?

When there's a conflict of interest they don't (Apple refuses to implement some APIs that would help making their walled garden app store more obsolete). But just maintaining a duopoly (Mozilla is funded by Google) is not a conflicting interest itself.

> Did you come to that opinion after engaging in the discussions with them?

With employees? There's no point. If you have a well paid job you will never accept the fact that what you're doing might not be so good after all..
by dmitrygr | 2025-12-05 03:39:03+00:00
If you needed to ask the permission of every apparatchik in the world before you said anything online, you wouldn't even be allowed to say "no comment". Glad someone is fighting this and doing so publicly. And the GRANITE act looks interesting: https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/10/18/the-granite-act-how-cong...
by lurking_swe | 2025-12-05 03:40:09+00:00
from my understanding of educational outcomes, the BIGGEST factor in a child’s success in school is their home life. At least for K-12. Multiple studies come to this conclusion.

Obviously “home life” encompasses many things like parental involvement, stability of family relationships, socioeconomic status, etc. And it’s not the only factor of course.

So the question is hardly uncalled for IMO. Could have been worded in a less accusatory tone though! The person was pretty rude.