MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberax | 2025-12-22 19:41:12+00:00
> The key thing for me here is that Yeltsin apparently falsified a lot of elections, including his own, to keep the right people in power.

No, he didn't. The 1996 elections were honest, with maybe slight irregularities in favor of his _opponent_. There is statistical analysis by a professional mathematician: https://www.electoral.graphics/en-us/Home/Articles/sergei-sh...

It _is_ correct to say that Yeltsin fought a very dirty campaign, using "dark cash" (the infamous "Xerox box") and unfair agreements with the major media owners.
by alphazard | 2025-12-22 19:41:44+00:00
> when people trust and genuinely support each other it's not zero sum

This is a clear non-sequitur.
Whether or not the situation is zero-sum is dictated by the situation not by the actions of people, or how they feel about each other.

If the situation is zero-sum, and one party doesn't realize, or is too trusting of other parties, then they just lose.
And they might not even realize that they lost, or that the situation was zero-sum to begin with.

> basically at the same level in terms of power and influence?

Obviously not true, unless you can truly ignore your manager and still be successful at the company, then they have power over you.
If they control more resources than you, or have more face time with people who do control resources, then they probably have more influence than you as well.

This whole comment reads like a sucker who doesn't know they are being scammed.
by zahlman | 2025-12-22 19:41:52+00:00
Python was batteries included, in the standard library, in an era where putting those kinds of things in the standard library made sense.

Now there's tons of stuff they're deathly afraid of removing, that they would never remotely consider adding if it weren't already there. (If you don't believe me, have a flip through proposals on discuss.python.org for new additions. People think of Python as a language that's constantly adding and changing stuff and inadvertently causing breakage as a result, but it's actually very conservative relative to the volume of proposals.)
by array_key_first | 2025-12-22 19:42:05+00:00
> But it is factually true that it’s a matter of willpower, no amount of reframing it is going to change that.

Okay... how?

You can't just make incredibly bold claims, say "it's a fact!" and then move on. No, you have to back them up otherwise you're just a bullshitter.

I don't know what other people, anyone else, is feeling. How do I know my hunger is their hunger?
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-22 19:42:06+00:00
Though, contextual keywords are a thing going back to the original design of C# 1.0 even. The nearest and most obvious example to the topic at hand is that `value` is only reserved in situations such as a property setter, and always has been. You don't need `var @value = …` in the vast majority of C# code and can just write `var value = …` just about anywhere but inside a `set { }` block.

Part of why C# has been so successful in introducing new contextual keywords is that they've been there all along. I think C# 1.0 was ahead of the game on that, and it's interesting how much contextual keywords have started being a bigger tool in language design since C# (all of ES3 of ES4 and some of ES5 were predicated on keywords are always keywords and ES6/ES2015 is where you first start to the shift in JS to a broader contextual keyword approach which seems equal parts inspired by C# as not).
by uyzstvqs | 2025-12-22 19:42:12+00:00
This article is 5-10 years late. Flatpak already won this battle. All that is still lacking is for some apps (including Steam) to ship official Flatpak packages, and properly integrate with its permissions system.

Linux is already challenging Windows. It has consistently growing adoption with gamers, more so than ever before. There won't be a "year of the Linux desktop"; this shift happens over time, not suddenly at once.
by sudobash1 | 2025-12-22 19:42:15+00:00
> Start with "anyone who poses with guns in their family Christmas photo is to be treated as if they will use them on your family or their own kids without a moment's hesitation for their own gain".

That seems hyperbolic to me. I don't understand liking "tactical" Christmas decor, but I know some people who do.

In my experience, this kind of hyperbole tends to increase polarization around an idea instead of leading to any consensus.
by dist-epoch | 2025-12-22 19:42:29+00:00
People keep saying how amazing IntelliJ is at refactoring, but then you realize the talk about "rename thing" and "extract function".

This is 5% of what refactoring is, the rest is big scale re-architecting code where these tools are useless.

The agents can do this big scale architecturing if you describe exactly what you want.

IntelliJ has no moat here, because they can do well 5% of what refactoring is.
by port11 | 2025-12-22 19:42:29+00:00
Hmm, I don't see it. The animation loads instantly for me on a cold visit. The examples were already there. I tried it in Orion and things were a bit slower, Firefox too. But still not the multi-second delay, and I'm here on a ~30Mbps copper line with some latency. (Thanks syndicus!)

That said, I've no reason to defend the page. It just didn't strike me as bad, but I can see how others are experiencing a bad page.
by motoxpro | 2025-12-22 19:42:42+00:00
Currency (or IOU's, handshakes, pieces of green paper, bits on a disc, etc) is just an abstraction allows one to have choice.

The political systems that get built on top of that are just a downstream effect of the incentives that arise. Communisim thinking it would be good to centralize the control, capitalism thinking it would be good allow the incentives to rule, marxism thinking the labor rules, etc.

What I do for work is SO far away from any sort of tangible production, it makes sense to have a way to just straight from Work -> Food, rather than 50-100 trades so I can eat everyday. Again, the choice to to have to trade at all, or to trade exactly what I want, when I want, is enable by currency.

You can make the argument things shouldn't be so easy, that I shouldn't be able to choose to go to play pinball and drink a vanilla milkshake at 11am, but if that's possible, currency (in whatever form you want) has to exist.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-22 19:43:29+00:00
"In a parting shot before her retirement, the European Commission’s top science diplomat has castigated the US for destroying its reputation as a global scientific leader.

...

Speaking at the European Science Diplomacy Conference in Copenhagen, she did not elaborate on exactly how the US was wrecking its reputation.

...

The next programme, which starts in 2028, will also be more focused on European defence technology and industrial strength, raising questions over how welcome non-European partners will be, particularly in sensitive projects."

I am inclined to agree with her conclusion. But this is a political statement by a European diplomat selling her programme and asking for funds.

We can find better sources for documenting what’s happening. There is even nascent progress in measuring the harm.
by j45 | 2025-12-22 19:43:38+00:00
Exposing ports on home ip:

- exposes the port to be available for inbound connections from anyone on the public internet. When we use a web browser, it's outbound first which initiates responses.

- with an exposed port, you are that much more at the mercy of your firewalls ability to protect and defend the open port, which becomes more of a consideration.

- some people take additional security steps to only allow certain IPs to connect to the exposed port if it works for their scenario.

Compared with the Cloudflare Tunnel:

- if it's a website, for example, nothing is open to the public at all. The CF Tunnel (or a similar tool) conencts first outbound to Cloudflare to setup a secure link between your home server.

- having this amount of security can make it harder to connect back to your own server for admin - this is where a tool like Tailscale (also free) can be handy, where you can continue to have full secured access to the server, and the public side only has whatever you want to expose to the public internet.

- if there's a port or service in specific you're looking to sort out feel free to ask.

Network design:

- keeping a server at home outside of your LAN is a good idea, it could be a perimeter router. DMZ can mean exposed to the internet without a firewall.

- if you read the guide I posted above, it's sounds like an exact match for what your'e trying to figure out - it achieves it with multiple VLANS to separate traffic rules. The PDF has some nice graphics to break it out - I wish I had somethign like this when starting out. The concepts described in the PDF should be possible on most equipment that exposes the settings, and while I don't endorse a particular product, the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X for the $50 or so is very capable as a starting point for what you are after to be the main router. In thet case of adding a dedicated router like this, you would have to switch your modem into "bridging" mode to let this be the main router for everything. Wireless access points can then be individually added to it. Alternatively if something like pfSense interests you, their parent company makes Netgate equipment that a lot of people seem to love. Both are well represented and supported on Youtube to learn from as well.
by BuildTheRobots | 2025-12-22 19:43:52+00:00
Having been brought up on pictures of Stonehenge, I felt a little twang of confused letdown the first time I visited Thornborough. This passes quickly though, and if you're vaguely near North Yorkshire it's well worth a visit. I've had the pleasure of camping at the base of it a few times with fire and mead which makes it all the more fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornborough_Henges
by mothballed | 2025-12-22 19:43:58+00:00
> You mention case developments, but as the administration has repeatedly found out recently, career staff are generally right when they identify something as a weak case the government can't possibly win.

I think you are correct here, but it still leaves the open question whether the government's case is weak because it is weak on merits or because the people in charge of defending/executing/prosecuting the case intentionally made holes in it or botched it to make it weak. I won't claim either is the case, only point out either or a mixture of both is hypothetically possible and merely making your assertion true doesn't rule out the latter being true.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-12-22 19:43:58+00:00
There’s a common theme in the US to declare the existence of gay and trans people to be child abuse. Yes, existence. Like, telling a child gay people exist if they ask.

But the whole “think of the children” schlock has always been a power grab. Otherwise we’d start by eliminating child poverty which is a huge factor in the level of actual abuse they receive.
by zephen | 2025-12-22 19:44:03+00:00
> My observation is that in both cases people were mostly wrong and required strict reviews and verification, with the exception of those who did Great Work.

Sure, but LLMs allow people to be wronger faster now, so they could conceivably inundate the reviewer with a new set of changes requiring a new two hour review, by only pressing buttons for two minutes.

> If you find yourself becoming irrationally upset by something that you're encountering that's largely outside of your control, consider going to therapy and not forming a borderline obsession with purity on something that has always been a bit slippery (creative originality ).

Maybe your take on it is slightly different because your job function is somewhat different?

I assume that many people complaining here about the LLM slop are more worried about functional correctness than creative originality.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-22 19:44:12+00:00
If you are okay with just being a ticket taker who us not aiming for a promotion to a job with more scope, responsibility and pay, there is nothing wrong with that trade off.

I’m at a point in my life where I am okay with the level of autonomy I have and have no interest in being a director or above and getting cost of living raises for the foreseeable future. But I’m 51 and an empty nester with me and my wife.

A line level manager position would be a vertical move. A director is a “manager of managers”.
by TimothyMJones | 2025-12-22 19:44:19+00:00
Howdy All,

My name is Tim Jones. I am a field botanist who always winds up as the IT guy. After rescuing too many servers and rotting projects, I wanted to build something archivally bulletproof. I welcome you to do the math on this.

I’ve spent my life documenting species that need to outlive me, sometimes with a twelve-foot alligator two feet off my nose. In botany, we value the specimen: a physical, verifiable record designed to survive centuries.

When I turned to data architecture, I found modern web tooling to be the opposite. Most systems are brittle stacks that fail when a single dependency shifts. I wanted to build what I call a Digital Paratype. In taxonomy, a paratype is a supplementary specimen supporting the primary record. This is a research paper that functions as a permanent, interactive instrument without external dependencies.

The Stack: Vanilla JS (ECMAScript) and CSS3. No frameworks, no NPM, no CDNs, no build steps. The Weight: ~40 KB for the technical methodology; ~325 KB for the live analysis. The Performance: 100/100/100/100 PageSpeed scores—standard-compliant logic.

The Features:

Instant State Toggling: Millisecond latency for complex data views.

Deep-Linkable State URLs: Share a specific analytical view without reloads.

Self-Auditing: The document resolves itself for durations, text, and metadata at load time to stay evergreen.

The Archive: A seven-year longitudinal Michigan Cannabis market study, manually transcribed for fidelity.

The Millennium Math: The limitations section surfaced a constraint that materially shaped the design: The 5MB Ceiling. By maintaining a linear growth rate of 5.3 KB per year and at the current data payload of 34 KB for seven years- I encourage anyone to do the math on this.

How to test:

Technical Methodology: https://tjid3.org/tech.html

The Artifact: https://tjid3.org/

I’m looking for feedback on UI responsiveness and whether a zero-dependency, monolithic approach like this is the only viable path forward for archival academic publishing.

Best,

Tim Jones
by overfeed | 2025-12-22 19:44:59+00:00
> pg, what happened?

Don't look to pg for anything that can be seen as "woke" - he wants that mind-virus eliminated forever[0]. Many billionaires revealed their true colors after November 2024, remember this when they adjust their public posture to follow the political winds.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780223
by array_key_first | 2025-12-22 19:45:37+00:00
> I know many ultra endurance runners and they are all in very good - healthy - shape. The only thing they all have in common is that they are very, very disciplined people.

Right, but are you not seeing that this is orthogonal?

Meaning, is it that running MAKES YOU disciplined, or rather that people who are already predisposed to being disciplined are more likely to be runners? This says nothing about the genetic component of it.

And you would have to be born yesterday to truly think there is no genetic component. Even with alcoholism, we know it's hereditary. We know when it comes to compulsions there is a genetic component. This is not opinion, this is fact. We know this.

But specifically with food habits, you truly believe this is not the case? Do you not see how incredibly bold of a claim that is? How atypical, how surprising, that would be?

I'm not saying that some people are blessed and some are not. Everyone has the power to change their lives. But I AM saying that it's not the same for everyone. From the beginning, I have known some things come easier to some people. I thought this was common knowledge, a part of the human condition we were all aware of.
by jwr | 2025-12-22 19:45:38+00:00
I must be doing something wrong, because I can't get OpenCode to actually do anything useful, and not for lack of trying. Claude code gets me great results instantly, opencode (if I can't make it talk to a model, which isn't easy for Gemini) gets me… something, but it's nowhere near as useful as claude code. I don't know why there is so much difference, because theoretically there shouldn't be. Is it the prompt that Anthropic has been polishing in Claude code for so long?
by malvim | 2025-12-22 19:45:56+00:00
Yes, such are capitalism’s incentives, I’m afraid.

But this could have been managed. FDR managed it, other governments somewhat managed it with policy in times of war, like WW2.

The US had the technology edge for DECADES. More industrialization would lead to more inovation and more jobs. They could invest in factories and the like, and even marketing, since “american made” has always been a fine talking point for companies. But it was cheaper in the short term to ship it to China and just not care about the future.

The governments didn’t care, the companies (owners, shareholders) certainly didn’t care, and as a result, decades later, they’re stuck with fascism. Which I don’t think they care about either.
by atombender | 2025-12-22 19:45:58+00:00
They've already done that. After the Junie fiasco, they pivoted to "AI Assistant", where Junie is just another provider alongside Anthropic and OpenAI. In theory, you have Claude Code inside Jetbrains IDEs now.

What's incredible is just how bad it works. I nearly always work with projects that mount multiple folders, and the IDE's MCP doesn't support that. So it doesn't understand what folders are open and can't interact with them. Junie the same issue, and the AI Assistant appears to have inherited it. The issue has been open for ages and ignored by Jetbrains.

I also tried out their full line completion, and it's incomprehensibly bad, at least for Go, even with "cloud" completion enabled. I'm back to using Augment, which is Claude-based autocompletion.
by afavour | 2025-12-22 19:46:20+00:00
It’s difficult to compete economically. If the US has welcoming immigration policies for scientists and will pay 10x what your country can afford then you’re going to end up with a brain drain.

Recent changes in the US have changed that calculus but you can’t create an entire industry in the blink of an eye (and, of course, those changes can be reversed at any point)
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-22 19:46:29+00:00
When I was in school, the administration would work itself up into fits about "gangs infiltrating the schools" because an 11 year old wore a red or blue hat to class, clearly gang colors and a sign of the times.

This was in a wealthy suburb where people like that have to make up imaginary threats in order to feel something, and what better population to fret about than the kids.
by mattmaroon | 2025-12-22 19:46:29+00:00
Estimates put the percent of Americans who actually HAVE been to Disney north of 75%. So it would seem unfair to say most find it too expensive, most have done it.

30 million uniques at one Disney location (there are two in the country, I think the other one increases that to at least 40 million, or roughly 12% of the entire population) per year is pretty high so that stat isn’t unbelievable. I’m sure not everybody can afford to go there every year.
by mrisoli | 2025-12-22 19:47:28+00:00
I feel the same way, if all one is doing is feeding stuff into AI without doing any actual work themselves, just include your prompt and workflow into how you got AI to spit this content out, it might be useful for others to learn how to use these LLMs and shows train of thought.

I had a coworker schedule a meeting to discuss a technical design of an upcoming feature, I didn't have much time so I only checked the research doc moments before the meeting, it was 26 pages long with over 70 references, of which about 30+ were reddit links. This wasn't a huge architectural decision so I was dumbfounded, seemed he barely edited the document to his own preferences, the actual meeting was maybe my most awkward meeting I've ever attended as we were expected to weigh in on the options presented but no one had opinions, not even the author, on the whole thing. It was just too much of an AI document to even process.
by Veen | 2025-12-22 19:47:35+00:00
Yes, I write everything in Obsidian and use "Paste from Markdown" in Google Docs. It's a habit I picked up years ago when Docs was much less reliable and lost work.

Plus, I want to deliver the completed document, not my edit history. Even on the occasions that I have written directly in Google Docs, I've copied the doc to obliterate the version history.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-22 19:47:39+00:00
Not entirely baseless though :

> the US government has cut scientific grants to academics working on diversity-related topics, halted biomedical grants to international partners, and demanded universities shut down academic units that “belittle” conservative ideas, or risk losing federal funding.

> These efforts have in some cases been overturned by courts or faced opposition from universities. And huge proposed cuts in federal research funding may be blunted by Congress. But still, the reputational damage has led Europe to attempt a poaching spree of disillusioned US academics.
by Hikikomori | 2025-12-22 19:48:18+00:00
Flock does ai enabled mass surveillance.

Palantir uses such information, feds and local governments are already customers.

The CEO of ycombinator is part of the same weird church as Peter Thiel, acts 17.

Then look up the other SV tech billionaires that are on board with network states and other Curtis Yarvin nonsense.
by tsunamifury | 2025-12-22 19:48:30+00:00
While America is appearing to be the abject fool here, it’s hard to take any of Europe’s criticisms like this seriously when even in the best of times they have constantly castigated us as fools.

They were calling us fools when we were inventing AI in 2015 too.

I think what we are doing today is horribly executed, but likely motivated by a farsightedness Europe can’t believe is there since we are all just dumb fools. (Collapse of globalism as a sustainable system)
by bgwalter | 2025-12-22 19:48:35+00:00
If you need links for the "substance" part. Investments of Sacks:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/cannabis-logistics-startup...

https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/13/telemedicine-adderall-vyva...

Trump relaxes cannabis classification:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/trump-cannab...
by lysace | 2025-12-22 19:48:51+00:00
> Signe Ratso, who is in charge of negotiating global access to the EU’s €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme

My thoughts after witnessing Horizon Europe in action when I worked at a hardware/materials research-ish company in Sweden:

- So much pork, so much product concept cosplay.

- All of these grandiose pointless abstract "projects".

- Gotta have like 10+ institutions/companies from lots of different countries involved in each grandiose project, leading to insane overheads.

Just give the institutions/companies (demand equity?) funds instead - stop with the stupid cosplay.

Europe needs to be smarter than the US in how to make this more efficient. Right now that shouldn't that hard.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-22 19:48:55+00:00
Are you not listening or...?

I took chemotherapy for cancer treatment, and it was very effective. Chemo is not a root-cause solution. It's a shotgun solution, a hammer even. It just kills cells that look like cancer. It doesn't stop cells from being cancerous, or turn cancerous cells back into normal cells. It's also carcinogenic, meaning it actually causes cancer. I am now much more likely than the general population to develop another cancer.

But it also saved my life. We do not measure effectiveness of medicine by if you think it's morally just. Nobody cares what you think, actually. We measure it in the real world, by if it works.