MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crooked-v | 2025-12-27 22:44:12+00:00
> normal and completely natural

In Portland, where I used to live, there are more hundred-plus-degree days and heat deaths in the last decade than in the city's entire recorded history. The city has had to open cooling centers for extended periods every summer for vulnerable people, something that was never needed before outside of specific single-year exceptional heat waves.

https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2017/08/its_not_just_your...

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/08/25/extreme-heat-claims-th...
by lumost | 2025-12-27 22:44:34+00:00
My understanding is that European Air and Ground forces have been able to deter or destroy Soviet/Russian Naval operations in the North and Baltic Seas since the start of the cold war. Land based anti-ship missiles have more than enough range to cover the entire water way on their own.

This was a major reason the Soviet Union and now Russia never invested in a large navy outside of Submarines.
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-27 22:45:23+00:00
Yup, just like my dad built his own house, and I have to call a plumber/electrician.

I can do SOME things, but for more advanced, I need to call a professional.

Coincidently the plumber/electrician always complains about the work done by the person before him/her. Kinda like I do when I need to fix someone else's code.
by nostrebored | 2025-12-27 22:45:26+00:00
“Digging in on dying technologies” is an interesting framing.

There is no appetite for oil alternatives that would stop this from meaning the deaths of hundreds of thousands or more people.

The fact is there is no effective way to power a stable grid with modern renewables. Increasing the energy mix sustainably is great. But if people truly want to divest from oil and coal there number one issue right now should be how to onboard nuclear energy effectively. This has been true for decades at this point, but purist policies on the right and the left have left it completely unrealized or actively dismantled it.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-27 22:45:28+00:00
I believe you're right. From my limited memory of that period, it was a mechanical constraint.

Keycaps tended to be molded with a hollow cylinder or stalk on their base, which fitted through a snug round aperture on the keyboard base and pressed against a spring or other restraint. Pressing the key down against the spring actuated a pcb-mounted push-switch (or bridged a pair of adjacent connectors on the pcb) that provided the keypress signal. Pressing a wide key off-centre would cause the plastic stalk to bind against the enclosing aperture. Forcing the user to press direcly above the stalk mitigates this.

There is a stack exchange question about this at [1].

As to why the shift keys were wider to begin with, I'm not sure. Perhaps a consequence of the lack of the mechanical constraints that forced typewriter keyboards into a strict grid due to the interleaving of the lever arms. Some keyboards, notably the Commodore PET, didn't use wide shift keys [2].

It is worth noting that keyboards in that era were machine-specific, and often hard-wired to the main system box. Afaik standardisation and interoperability didn't happen until RS232 and, later, ps2 keyboards were introduced.

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/16471/why...

[2] and let me just say here that the PET keyboard was truly awful, even by 80s standards. Just shamefully terrible.
by saghm | 2025-12-27 22:46:12+00:00
I'm not sure I'm quite as pessimistic as you, just because I tend to treat most predictions of how society will adapt to things as a whole as fairly low confidence, but I certainly don't disagree that it at least seems hard to imagine people getting past all this quickly.

The idea of story being how people justify making their decisions is interesting. I'm reminded of a couple of anecdotes my father has repeated a few times over the years about two distinct medical circumstances he's had. When he was first diagnosed with sleep apnea, he apparently was very skeptical that he had any reason to do anything because the sleep doctor told him things like "this will help you be less sleepy during the day" and "you won't start nodding off as you drive" when he didn't feel like either of those experiences happened to him. Eventually a different sleep doctor did convince him it was worthwhile to treat, and he's used a CPAP since then, he still seems not to feel like it would have made sense for him to start when he first got the diagnosis. Through the lens you've given, the original doctor didn't give him a compelling enough story to justify the effort on his part. On the other hand, the first time he talked to a nutritionist about changing his diet, he apparently mentioned something about how he wanted to at least be able to eat ice cream occasionally, even if it was less often, rather than not ever be able to eat it again, and the nutritionist replied "Of course! that would make life not worth living". He ended up being much more open to listening to the advice of the nutritionist than I would have expected, and I think it would be reasonable to argue that was because the nutritionist was able to give him a story that seemed compelling about what his life would be like with the suggested changes.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-12-27 22:46:25+00:00
I was speaking to the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. DOGE is simply the current best example.

Putting the obvious aside, sure, it’s Trump’s fault the system was so mismanaged that he’s been able to get elected. Twice. You’d think that after the first term the system would have gotten the message. It did not.

My recommendation to you is ask: How did we get here? And who is accountable for this?

There’s a very good chance those giving you your current narrative marching orders are on that list. Funny, right? Why own their failure when they can convince fools to blame a symptom?
by caseysoftware | 2025-12-27 22:46:25+00:00
> With that information, the British newspaper calculated that BEVs [battery electric vehicles] could expose roads to 2.24 times more damage than gas cars.

If that's true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car.. so "taxes equivalent to 35k miles" isn't far off.

Ref: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-ro...
by selectodude | 2025-12-27 22:46:42+00:00
The issue is that even if I win that bet, they’re paying me my winnings in USD, which is backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government, which has been irreparably destroyed.

If I can buy, say, low probability insurance that that will give me a squad of mercenaries and a jet to a bunker somewhere safe, I’d be far more apt to put my money where my mouth is.

It’s not a bad bet. It’s just a dumb bet. The payout doesn’t match the risk.
by gerdesj | 2025-12-27 22:47:02+00:00
"like another company"

What kind of org shares cabs? Monster!

Your cab's environment should be pretty thermally stable. Your switches are probably venting to the hot isle through their front ports. Thermal expansion of glass and the sleeve is going to be negligible over a metre or so.

Kinking is a possible issue. The minimum radius these days is quite tight. However, if you don't leave enough space inside the doors to allow for the terminations it will go horribly wrong. If you don't allow a gap for cable management between all switches and top and bottom, it might go wrong.
by caseysoftware | 2025-12-27 22:47:03+00:00
> With that information, the British newspaper calculated that BEVs [battery electric vehicles] could expose roads to 2.24 times more damage than gas cars.

If that's true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car.. so "taxes equivalent to 35k miles" isn't far off.

Ref: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-ro...
by lokar | 2025-12-27 22:47:58+00:00
A more charitable explanation is that people believe in a larger set of nearly equivalent outcomes that are not captured in that market.

Some possible outcomes (I personally don't believe they are very probable), but...

There is no "call" or inaugurated at all, Trump stays on via some kind of "emergency". The market will fail to resolve to an outcome (based on what it says).

Somehow (via a normal election, or the outcome being decided in the House) one of Trumps sons becomes president.

This, I think, illustrates some of the problems with far out edge cases in prediction markets. Nailing down all of the possible outcomes exactly is hard.
by RealityVoid | 2025-12-27 22:47:59+00:00
I think it's a silly conspiracy, but, even if it were, this kind of supression would not be possible to be done by the corporations themselves. They're simply too big and too incompetent because of the org overhead to orchestrate such a thing. The state being co opted on the other hand might be capable of doing this on their behalf. I could believe that. (but I don't it's just silly)
by scoofy | 2025-12-27 22:48:02+00:00
I mean, that's the de jure purpose, but that's really a nonsensical point to make here. We're not talking about one controlled access route with two lanes in both directions to move tanks around.

We're talking about 10 lane monstrosities, with 8 or more flyovers, standing 20 stories high in places like in Houston and Dallas.
by jeffbee | 2025-12-27 22:48:16+00:00
Well, if the goal is for software running on the host CPU to know the time accurately, then it does matter. The control loop for host PTP benefits from regularity. Anyway NICs that support PTP hardware timestamping may also use PCI LTR (latency tolerance reporting) to instruct the host operating system to disable high-exit-latency sleep features, and popular operating systems respect that.
by crawshaw | 2025-12-27 22:48:49+00:00
[exe.dev co-founder here] This grew out of our work on sketch. We built a container-based system for it, and found ourselves saying "I wish we just had a computer." This is our answer to that.

If you are interested in our work and agents, I would suggest trying Shelley, the little agent we have in exe.dev. There has been some discussion about what to do with sketch on its discord channel, but we won't be putting energy into it going forward.

(A blog post with far more details is in the works.)
by mmooss | 2025-12-27 22:49:07+00:00
Aren't they risking everyone else's lives by blocking the aisle? It could be made a serious crime - it's easy to see who keeps their bags.

Lock the overheads? Maybe that will cause delay if people who keep trying.

Also, the same people probably take their under-seat bags. I wonder if that causes delay - maybe it takes up space in the aisle, which would seem to be a bottleneck.
by immibis | 2025-12-27 22:49:32+00:00
Another hypothesis:

Also on the front page right now is something about postmodernist deconstruction, where it's asserted that decades of academics talking to academics for validation have created an inbred dialect of jargon which is incomprehensible to almost everyone and doesn't mean a whole lot (though it does have meaning). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405288

Could it not simply be that the control structures of our economy also spent too long chasing validation from each other, developing an inbred language and inbred success metrics, instead of objectively-measured value creation?

In fact globally-recognized money forces even people who recognize this is a bad system to still participate in it and chase inbred success metrics instead of actual value creation. It turns subjective metrics into actual wealth. It doesn't matter that you created a semiconductor fab in your garage - the person who convinced the right people they were about to create AGI got a lot more money - enough to buy a real semiconductor fab.
by user____name | 2025-12-27 22:49:44+00:00
They are masters of projection and compartmentalization.

These are the same people who were "being censored by the media" while going on Fox News to complain about it.

Whining about freedom of speech, or the "demise of Western values", while banning school libraries worth of classic works of western literature for being "subversive".

Their heads would probably explode reading Plato or J.S. Mill.
by arunabha | 2025-12-27 22:50:05+00:00
An imprecise, but workable start might be to count the dollar amounts in question and evidence of direct conflict of interests. In both, the current administration has far exceeded previous ones. As others have pointed out, the degree and magnitude of corruption matters. While all corruption is problematic, there is a vast difference between bribes of billions of dollars vs a few thousand.

Or, if you prefer, you can count the number of times a president has pardoned someone he openly says he doesn't know anything about. At least the previous presidents tried to make up a plausible sounding reason.
by basisword | 2025-12-27 22:50:12+00:00
I think in 12 months we're not going to know the difference unless we put in some serious effort. I use AI quite a lot and it's great, but don't like it for 'media' in general. Personally, I don't want to support AI generated audio, video, or text content. This past week I came across an Instagram account, found it interesting and followed it. Admittedly it was some high-level cookie cutter self-help stuff. Easy to catch your attention. Eventually I dug into it a bit more and it was 100% AI generated. I'd missed it completely and there were no comments suggesting it was AI content either despite over 1m followers. If you want to be sure the media you are viewing is actually created by real people, algorithmic feeds are no longer an option. It will be interesting to see over the next year or two whether there is a large backlash and people start seeking out content they are positive is created by real people, or if that becomes a subculture and the masses are happy with their circus.
by saghm | 2025-12-27 22:50:46+00:00
That's a good point; "art" might be a bit too narrow to accurately describe the type of field where people have fairly concrete concerns about how AI relates to what they produce. I'd be tempted to use the label "creative work", but even that doesn't quite feel like it's something that everyone would understand to include stuff like written journalism, which I think is likely to have pretty similar concerns.
by thot_experiment | 2025-12-27 22:51:04+00:00
I've tried to ask this before in various contexts and I've never been able to find an answer but maybe commenters on a post like this would know.

I like the way that the CJK fonts render without anti-aliasing on windows. I want to know why and how to cause windows to render a non-cjk font of my choosing in this aliased style. I am not opposed to hex-editing or otherwise modifying the font if that's necessary. I've never been able to find information bout the mechanism or how it's triggered.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-27 22:51:09+00:00
The usual way for this to happen doesn’t involve suspending elections. And I’d not bet on a guy that old and infirm winning again in 2028 even if he could legally run.

We’ll see how ICE at select polling places and iffy federal-run voter role purges go in 2026. Should set the tone for how far they try to go in 2028.
by cge | 2025-12-27 22:51:10+00:00
It appears that by default, gpg doesn't output the signed text at all when verifying a cleartext signature. It does not appear to check for or warn about extra content before or after the cleartext text and signature. It strictly interprets the start/end lines, and won't warn or fail for malicious ones. It does not appear to accept comment headers in the signed message, but does accept them in the signature, which means that a user might think an arbitrarily long message in the signature is actually signed.

These all seem like flaws in gpg and the standard.
by exabrial | 2025-12-27 22:51:11+00:00
You have something like 45s-90s to get off an airplane and sprint for your life, I've heard. (If anyone has a source, post it). Keep your phone, passport, and your keys in your pockets, and your shoes on your feet during taxi, takeoff, landing. Do not wear flip flops on airlines (you can't run in them) and they provide zero fire protection if you have to run across flaming ground. Everything is replaceable.

I hope it never comes to it, but I would absolutely "move" a person towards the exit, if needed, if they stopped to get their bag, only to save the lives of everyone else.
by mmooss | 2025-12-27 22:51:19+00:00
Lives are at stake; it doesn't matter if you get your bags back and that isn't hard to understand. Also, if the plane is on fire, you're probably not getting them back.

> After drilling into passengers nonstop to never leave their bags unattended is it any surprise passengers don't leave their bags unattended?

That's while going to your flight in an airport. I don't think anyone confuses the situations.
by _virtu | 2025-12-27 22:51:45+00:00
Remember this type of comment. Never let yourself fall into this type of thinking when trying to understand what your users want.

Instead of passing judgement on why someone values something, why not ask?

For example, if you were to ask me why I chose to keep using an IDE that I had spent years of my life building muscle memory using perhaps you would get a better understanding of the specific part of the lifecycle I was at when paying for software.

It's not that the git gui was the reason why I signed up for the software in the first place. The git gui was the last reason for me to not jump ship when switching to something like neovim or helix. This was during a time where LSP was becoming popular so refactoring tools and intellisense were finally getting better adoption outside of the JetBrains tooling. Most of this was achievable with editor du jour + lsp plugins, but the git ui was the one piece I hadn't personally solved outside of the JetBrains ecosystem.
by geremiiah | 2025-12-27 22:52:18+00:00
In a parallel universe RMS read Ayn Rand, joined her cult of selfish greed and the world is running a closed source UNIX clone developed by JLU (Just Like Unix), the $5T corporation funded by him.

All of this to say, it's amazing how this man's personality had such a profoundly positive effect on the computing landscape of today and how different things might have been otherwise, especially because he's more the exception than the rule in terms of personalities in the hacker space.
by johnisgood | 2025-12-27 22:52:30+00:00
You introduced "short-lived" vs "long-lived", not me. Long-lived as wall-clock time (months, years) is the default interpretation in this context.

> The "lifetime" of a key being years is less important than how many encryptions are performed with said key.

This clarifies your position but does not vindicate the original statement. If it were not misleading, the clarification would not be necessary, IMO.

As for the rest: the Alice / Bob comparison is asymmetric in a misleading way. You state Bob Ltd retains all private keys indefinitely. A Heartbleed-style attack on their key storage infrastructure still compromises 30 years of backups, not 90 days. Rotation only helps if only the current operational key is exposed, which is an optimistic threat model you did not specify.

Additionally, your symmetric key point actually supports what I said. If data is encrypted with ephemeral symmetric keys and the asymmetric key only wraps those, the long-lived asymmetric key's exposure does not enable bulk decryption without obtaining each wrapped key individually.

> "There is no way to securely satisfy your use case"

No need to be so dismissive. Personal backup encryption with a long-lived key, passphrase-protected private key, and offline storage is a legitimate threat model. Real-world systems validate this: SSH host keys, KMS master keys, and yes, even PGP, all use long-lived asymmetric keys for confidentiality in non-ephemeral contexts.

Your point about high-fan-out keys with large blast radius is correct. That is different from "long-lived keys are bad for confidentiality".

Edit: FWIW, incidentally, age was designed with long-lived recipient keys as the expected use case. There is no built-in key rotation or expiry mechanism because the authors considered it unnecessary for file encryption. If long-lived keys for confidentiality were inherently problematic, age would be a flawed design (so you might want to take it up with them, too).
by beeburrt | 2025-12-27 22:52:43+00:00
It evolved into gangstalking via fusion centers contrary to Wikipedia's claim that it's mAsS dElUsIoN which is obviously false to anyone who's done more than a cursory look into it. Look up NSA whistleblower Karen Stewart and also watch the tragic video of Myron May who gives an accurate description of their tactics. Ask me how I know.
by vel0city | 2025-12-27 22:52:53+00:00
> Link me so I can draw some circles for you.

https://www.ntta.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/06-27-2025_...

> then regulates a consumption tax on the road

Yeah, the toll. One assumes you're not talking about the toll but other tax revenues when you're complaining about tax payers paying for the road. Obviously the tolls go to pay for the toll road, so what's the point otherwise about talking about the taxpayers paying for it?

Buddy it's really exhausting ngl having people always assume every toll organization is a private enterprise. It's not just a 3 step accounting trick, please don't presume you know how every toll arrangement is made.

And if your point is the idea of government bonds going to private investors, well, how do you think the freeways are financed? How does it make a difference then if it's a freeway or a toll road or a library or a playground? It's all financed in largely the same way. Government bonds issues to selected investors.
by danpalmer | 2025-12-27 22:52:54+00:00
Very much agree. I would have no expectation of getting anything back, and people travel with some of their most important items: passports, visas, credit cards, laptops, phones.

Unless I actually think I'm going to die, i.e. if it feels like it's more cautionary, I'd be very tempted to grab my essentials.

Trust is absolutely the thing that needs to be built. Trust that I'm going to be taken care of, trust that I'm not going to have visa issues without any ID, trust that I'm going to be compensated, fast, if I don't get my expensive possessions back.
by cryptica | 2025-12-27 22:53:18+00:00
This is part of the reason why I never worked for big tech. I always have a side project going. I cannot function without a side project.

I don't believe that any corporation would ever reward me for any reason; so without a side project, I wouldn't have hope... How would I get out of bed in the morning to go to work, without hope?

For me; day job is survival, that's it. I do it well because I'm well practiced and I need good output to provide me narrative cover but I don't trust any of it. I'm not invested in my day job at all. I assume it's all a PsyOp and I could lose the job any day for any weird reason. I act and pretend constantly and I care about nothing and no one and I trust no one.
by NeutralCrane | 2025-12-27 22:53:22+00:00
Property ownership is ultimately based on scarcity. If I using a thing prevents others from using that thing, there is scarcity, and there should be laws protecting it.

There is no scarcity with intellectual property. My ability to have or act on an idea is in no way affected by someone else having the same idea. The entire concept of ownership of an idea is dystopian and moronic.

I also strongly disagree with the notion that it inspires creativity. Can you imagine where we would be if IP laws existed when we first discovered agriculture, or writing, or art? IP law doesn’t stimulate creation, it stifles it.
by rekttrader | 2025-12-27 22:53:51+00:00
It is a fair assumption that they do this regularly, politics aside one should ask why were there so many FBI agents at the Jan 6 debacle and why didn’t they do more to quell the violence. The origins of Ruby Ridge and Waco are fine examples of insanity. Nevertheless inciting crime and capturing bad guys seems like a game they like playing.