MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-10 20:33:52+00:00
There is probably not any large market for fusion power as we conceive of it today.

You will get a different result if you revolutionize some related area (like making an extremely capably superconductor), or if you open up some market that can't use the cheapest alternatives (like deep space asteroid mining). But neither of those options can go together with "oh, and we will achieve energy positive fusion" in a startup business plan.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-12-10 20:34:00+00:00
a) is exactly what AI is good at. b) is a waste of time: why would you waste your precious time trying to predict a result when you can just get the result and see.

You are stuck in a very low local maximum.

You are me six months ago. You don’t know how it works, so you cannot yet reason about it. Unlike me, you’ve decided “all these other people who say it’s effective are making it up”. Instead ask, how does it work? What am I missing.
by adolph | 2025-12-10 20:34:43+00:00
> Suppose a venezuelan living in America just looks up a bunch of US generals addresses online, and then sets all their houses on fire killing them in their sleep in their McMansions in suburbia.

I don't think the analogy is apt. Members of Hezbollah do not occupy a positions of similar relationship to Lebanon as US generals does to the US. As far as I've heard, flag officers and others are escorted by personal security for an attack of any sort, such as the 2009 Ft Hood shooting. [0]

Moving past that, a civilian citizen of Venezuela in the US who performed actions against US military targets would not be a valid military strike since that person would not be an identifiable member or Venezuela's military. It would more akin to a spy or assassin. Below is an excerpt from an article representing a US-centric view of history [1].

But the right to kill one’s enemy during war was not considered wholly unregulated. During the 16th century, Balthazar Ayala agreed with Saint Augustine’s contention that it “is indifferent from the standpoint of justice whether trickery be used” in killing the enemy, but then distinguished trickery from “fraud and snares” (The Law and Duties of War and Military Discipline). Similarly, Alberico Gentili, writing in the next century, found treachery “so contrary to the law of God and of Nature, that although I may kill a man, I may not do so by treachery.” He warned that treacherous killing would invite reprisal (Three Books on the Law of War). And Hugo Grotius likewise explained that “a distinction must be made between assassins who violate an express or tacit obligation of good faith, as subjects resorting to violence against a king, vassals against a lord, soldiers against him whom they serve, those also who have been received as suppliants or strangers or deserters, against those who have received them; and such as are held by no bond of good faith” (On the Law of War and Peace).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting

1. https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assassination-law-of-war/

Edit: /Hamas/Hezbollah/
by v9v | 2025-12-10 20:34:48+00:00
I'm really impressed by Factor. It has a lot of the niceties that I like about Common Lisp, like restarting on errors and the compiled-but-interactive development approach. On top of all of this the development environment is presented as a very cohesive package, including standardized project structuring styles, a documentation system and a UI library.

The last time I tried to learn it I stopped because I found the concatenative syntax even harder to parse than s-exprs when any math was involved. I'm giving it another go now.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-10 20:34:51+00:00
> That[']s a great comparison.

Thank you. I thought it was a pretty good analogy, too.

>Wonder why banning homelessness works so well[?] Oh we don[']t ban it? Must be because we don[']t care enough[.]

I do not understand what point you are trying to make about homelessness, and how that would be at all relevant to keeping teenagers from having accounts on social media.

That's not a great comparison.

I was just pointing out that the existence of ways to violate a law, does not in any way, mean that passing the law or enforcing it is a bad faith effort.
by estearum | 2025-12-10 20:35:02+00:00
> They already have sovereignty, so why don't evangelicals lobby to withhold all aid to Israel unless they get to work and rebuild the temple?

Sure: Because rebuilding the temple would trigger a regional war and evangelicals want Israel to win that war, ergo cannot withhold aid.

More generally, because despite people actually believing these things, they find it much harder to put into real logical action. Same reason people who believe the end times are fast-approaching for some reason aren't selling all their belongings and knocking off their bucket list.

> Isn't that a bit suspicious to you?

No not really. My theory explains both the rampant anti-semitism throughout the GOP and the extreme pro-Israel sentiment within the GOP. Your theory fails to explain half of it.

Not sure how to parse your last paragraph. Who said it's random? It's not random at all: there's a clear lineage between evangelical and Jewish belief systems. It's super not-random! Their prophesies are intertwined because they're derived from the same sources.
by smugma | 2025-12-10 20:35:05+00:00
I believe that the GPA calculation is off, maybe just for F's.

I scrolled to the bottom of the hall of fame/shame and saw that entry #1505 and 3 F's and a D, with an average grade of D+ (1.46).

No grade better than a D shouldn't average to a D+, I'd expect it to be closer to a 0.25.
by cxr | 2025-12-10 20:35:10+00:00
It seems obvious enough that parent is talking about changing the behavior of innerHTML within their own application, not for browser makers to change the implementation. It's unfair to take the most uncharitable interpretation and upbraid the other commenter for being insufficiently defensive[1] when they pressed "reply".

1. <https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...>
by redwall_hp | 2025-12-10 20:35:17+00:00
Yes, the global rise of fascism is a huge problem. Gleefully handing fascists more power over communications and a means of de-anonymizing access to information and communications is exactly what you don't want to do.

That's what this sudden movement is really about: maintaining bubbles of indoctrination to maintain the rightward slide of the Overton Window, and installing a permanent means of tying Internet activity to identity for monitoring.

It's important that things like the first amendment never be compromised precisely because that erosion becomes a tool of fascism. We're inches away from neo-McCarthyism, and this is the tool to enable it.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-10 20:35:17+00:00
They could do that now and it might be legal under international laws of war.

We've massed forces for an attack, attacked their ships, violated their airspace with combat aircraft (that's today), and extensively and publicly threatened them. They'd be in their legal rights to strike preemptively, including possibly a decapitation strike (this is why the Dubya administration kept repeating the term "preemptive strike", even though it was obviously nowhere near applying in the case of Iraq—it was a way of asserting its legal basis)

[edit] As thereisnospork points out in a sibling comment, however, this doesn't mean it'd be a good idea.
by tetha | 2025-12-10 20:35:24+00:00
Hm, we have a few very repetitive terraform projects to setup structured infrastructure clusters. For those, we just use ansible with a bunch of templating to generate a configurable, HCL-based terraform module and version that.

It's a bit of an "Caveman solve problem with rock" approach, but for very regular projects it's great. A new cluster is some group vars, larger changes to the structures can be easily reviewed - and if you really really have to, you can also just modify the generated code by hand to fix something your generation code can't deal with right now.
by Lerc | 2025-12-10 20:35:26+00:00
I remember there being an experiment where parents were placed in a room with some toys their children were allowed to play with and some toys their children weren't allowed to.

They measured the parents perceived level of control against their actual level of control by seeing if they stopped their children from playing with the researchers laptop that had been left in the corner of the room.

Part of me wonders if it was apocryphal, I'm not sure if a test like that would get past an ethics committee (at least since laptops existed)
by Manuel_D | 2025-12-10 20:35:29+00:00
It very much is. Free VPNs almost always have some sort of catch. E.g. HolaVPN users agree in the ToS to become an exit node for other VPN users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN)

If social media is so compelling, then teens almost certainly will take whatever steps are necessary to access it.
by MrJohz | 2025-12-10 20:35:34+00:00
4-5 lines can be really effective. After all, if you're at a software conference, you're probably speaking to a bunch of programmers about programming, and code is your universal language.

But already 7-10 lines is stretching it, and any more than that, and it's a lot harder to get your point across because people spend so much time trying to parse the code sample.

The problem is that cutting down the code and coming up with an example that explains everything you want in just 4-5 lines is really hard — "if I had more time, I'd have written a shorter letter" and all that.
by compiler-guy | 2025-12-10 20:35:58+00:00
The arcade classic Space Invaders had a primitive soundscape in that every time the remaining invaders advance, it plays a short bass note. As fewer and fewer invaders remain, it takes less time for them to advance, and the note repeats faster and faster, it adds a remarkable amount of increasing tension as each level progresses.

So not exactly the same, but perhaps prototypical. I think Asteroids did as well.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-12-10 20:36:02+00:00
But the people complaining the most about falling prices are the sellers, of which there are necessarily many. (If there weren't, the price wouldn't be falling!)

It's not a flaw for people to think from the seller's perspective. For you to be a net buyer, someone else has to be a net seller.

Not to mention the unhappiest of all: the people who borrowed money against the value of the assets they owned.
by Sevrene | 2025-12-10 20:36:09+00:00
> 1: "I get the feeling this has nothing to do with preventing harms"

> 2: "heres the harms and why I think we should prevent them"

Not trying to be rude here colordrops but I think you're being a too obtuse here, especially when the original person's comment was basically just "I don't trust them" (which is totally fair), I would rather engage in a good faith discussion of our opinions.

> This may be true

Do you think it's true?
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-10 20:36:10+00:00
The real killer of NLEs[0] is variable framerate. Long GOPs just give you higher playhead latencies, but it's still possible[1] for the NLE to actually edit video in such a state. Your computer has to be fast enough or it'll be miserable, but in contrast, variable framerate footage will immediately cause audio desync.

Of course, this distinction is moot, since I've yet to see a (consumer) video source that provides fixed framerate footage. If anyone wants to explain why, I'm all ears. As a result, I habitually re-encode everything before taking it into a video editor as a precaution, and once you're doing that then capping the GOP length is a no-brainer.

[0] Non-linear editor. If you're wondering what a linear editor is, please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMdmnNbCZA

[1] It's actually possible to do lossless editing at GOP boundaries, though I don't know if any NLEs would try doing this.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 20:36:12+00:00
Where do you disagree? You point out that individuals are not statues and can shift between spending time in industry and in academia. You also point out that industry and academia are not confined by who owns the building that the people are occupying. But nobody was ever thinking that wasn't the case.

This is the first time anyone has even considered that someone could be forever stuck an academic or industry operative, or that industry can't take place in universities and academics in private businesses. Good on you for coming up with hypothetical alternatives suitable for a sci-fi thriller. You've clearly got a creative mind! But since they are only hypothetical, it is not clear what purpose they serve here or how it even could begin to relate to anything being discussed.
by edent | 2025-12-10 20:36:19+00:00
We appear to be in violent agreement with each other :-)

I'm not sure if my writing was unclear, but I said "Anyone who preaches the ideology of hate has no business here."

That's who my screed was against. Those who use their influence to promote hate.

I was very specific in not saying "everyone needs to agree with me" or "if you're not with me you're against me". If you took that away from my writing, I can only apologise.

I didn't mention people like you.

I said, "That's why it baffles me that some prominent technologists embrace hateful ideologies."

If you fall into that category, then, yes, I do hope you feel unwelcome.

If you don't, then I am not sure which paragraph you think applies to you.
by thijson | 2025-12-10 20:36:26+00:00
I think the Greeks called our form of government an oligarchy. Elections as popularity contests are so easily swung by money.

Instead, democracy was determined to be selecting public officials by random lots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

I guess it's a bit like the jury system.

I read an article not long ago on here about how promotions in companies should also be done by lottery in order to break up cabals.
by cholantesh | 2025-12-10 20:36:59+00:00
>It's a war, you know.

It's an occupation that has been ongoing for almost 80 years, not a 'war' that began unprovoked, along with recorded history and the universe itself, on October 7th.

>Sometimes in perfectly legal and justified strikes, sometimes in attacks that contravene the laws of war.

More than half the time, these 'perfect justifications' don't hold water and in fact rest on the hope of total impunity from IHL.

>Hamas uses the civilians under their control as both a sword and a shield

Not according to any sane definition that is internationally agreed upon. Conversely, the IDF's use of human shields - as defined in IHL and in their own propaganda - is abundantly documented.

>Egypt simply refuses their obligation under IHL to allow refugees to flee, collateral damage is an unfortunate inevitability.

Rather odd that rendering Palestinians stateless is just a law of nature in your books, and that Israel's obligations as an occupying power and the agent that created a refugee crisis - ie, prosecuted a campaign of human cleansing - is not part of your calculus at all.
by eimrine | 2025-12-10 20:37:04+00:00
There is no way of getting not worse battery than the original one, manufactures try really hard to earn the best lithium possible for their new releases. Today I have a big problem to buy a very very popular BL-5C but having at least 50% of original capacity. Niche batteries typically impossible to find at all.

Messing with iShit can be very exhausting because everything is locked, you are got to have some really expencive programmators from your local wizards to move towards repairing those.

I am amused of why are you opening the thread with expressing your love to smaller phones, not your love to soldering under microscope and messing with BGAs and repairing all neighbours' Nokias after your school classes, so I am almost sure you are a wrong person to do this kind of job no matter how hard you will try.

Don't afraid of leaving your phone into hands of professionals, they typically have too grinding schedule to read your iCloud files or harm you using the hardware vector.
by tw04 | 2025-12-10 20:37:16+00:00
>42 people were killed total, but that does not mean that there were 42 targets.

So they only managed to hit 30 targets with 12 misfires… that makes it even worse.

> In any case, if Hezbollah themselves admit that 1500 of their fighters were injured by the attack (according to your own source)

That’s 1500 in addition to the 4,000 civilians. The fact they managed to wound 2.5x+ as many civilians as targets isn’t exactly making them look better…
by rKarpinski | 2025-12-10 20:37:18+00:00
> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one"

This probably has more to do with the type of content you are consuming. If you watch things for young adults, it will probably follow "the Heroes Journey" - wether it is LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars etc. (the West) or Naruto, Pokemon, Dragon Ball/Journey to the West (the East)
by anonymous_sorry | 2025-12-10 20:37:34+00:00
In the same way it's better that adults are the recipients of the harms of smoking, drinking or gambling. It's still not desirable, but societies have settled upon thresholds for when people have some capacity to take responsibility for their choices.

Not saying those thresholds are always right and should definitely apply in this case, but it surely isn't an alien or non-obvious concept.
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-10 20:37:36+00:00
I don't want Mark Zuckerberg, or the government, deciding what's garbage. If they can empower the user to filter this stuff out on their own accord, that's great.

The second problem is that the medium itself is garbage. Algorithmic feeds strongly encourage clickbait and sensationalism. Removing content does nothing to change the dynamic.
by impossiblefork | 2025-12-10 20:38:12+00:00
I don't whether something is terrorism as something that's relevant for whether it's allowed by the laws of war.

Instead what we have is IHL, i.e. the Geneva and Hague conventions etc., and if you are targeting military personnel or other targets of military importance, without any extra cruelty or attacks on civilians, what does it matter if it looks like terror-bombing?

If it's allowed by IHL but is terrorism by British or French of German law or whatever, it's allowed. IHL is the actual binding thing.
by htek | 2025-12-10 20:38:24+00:00
That's Corporatism. It's from the fascist playbook where the state takes partial or complete ownership of private companies. Where does that money go, to some slush fund for the president? The reason for the export controls is to keep our potential adversaries from being on the bleeding edge of frontier AI. It goes against the US's interests to give China a leg up with advanced chips. It's almost laughable, of course, as the Nvidia chips are already manufactured in a country that China claims as their own. If they ever pressed the issue, we could find ourselves without the most advanced chips.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-12-10 20:39:12+00:00
I actually feel that teens shouldn't be on social media at all. But I also don't think I should be able to lord that opinion over other people via fiat.

Sugar is pretty bad for teens as well but I don't think banning that will solve health issues anymore than this will help teens.

Personal decisions > a government trying to be mom

Governments always end up doing the most damage when their control is "for the good of their constituents."

This might seem like a good thing while they're parenting for you on things you agree with, however, there will likely come a time when they do something you don't and by then it will be too late.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-10 20:39:13+00:00
I never got "deep" into it but everybody told me that breath holding diving can be really dangerous.

I know part of the SCUBA story is that phenomena like nitrogen narcosis are particularly dangerous because you need your cognitive capacity to survive in the underwater environment.

In the surface world I can go to a party and drink eight beers and maybe throw up and act like a dumbass and embarrass myself and then wake up with a headache the next morning. That level of incapacitation under water would likely be fatal.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-12-10 20:40:12+00:00
Probably not too many! Chronotrigger would be one.

But it is remarkable that Warcraft 2 would have been considered a game of the year contender for PC in that year, with similar acclaim to Chronotrigger, but these games have taken very, very different paths.

No doubt a part of it is that interest in RPGs has largely persisted with only minor declines, while RTS games spiked in popularity and then severely receded.

But stewardship from their owners likely played a role as well. Square has seen fit to keep Chronotrigger in the public eye a lot more often.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-10 20:40:12+00:00
No. That problem is bigger than the Trump administrations, focusing on him is lazy.

It's absurd to say that without elaborating on how anyone else was "just as bad," which I expect will be a key part of your next reply.

Trump is fucking bad, and if you disagree after all we've seen, you're either arguing in bad faith, or you're not such a great person yourself. He is costing us every jot and tittle of soft power we ever wielded as a nation.

Trump is the living embodiment of the old cliché about how in the Chinese language, the words for "threat" and "opportunity" are similar. His actions have comforted Russia, alienated Europe, and galvanized China.
by sefrost | 2025-12-10 20:40:32+00:00
I would be interested in a web series (podcast or video) where people who do not know a language create something with AI. Then somebody with experience building in that technology reviews the code and gives feedback on it.

I am personally progressing to a point where I wonder if it even matters what the code looks like if it passes functional and unit tests. Do patterns matter if humans are not going to write and edit the code? Maybe sometimes. Maybe not other times.
by theshackleford | 2025-12-10 20:41:26+00:00
> but I've not heard of any other adults being adversely affected by this

I’m a 40 year old man and I’ve been impacted. A huge circle of people I know have been impacted. A number of companies now want to scan my license or my face, which will be fantastic when they keep it (despite saying they don’t) and then get breached in 6 months.
by knowitnone3 | 2025-12-10 20:41:27+00:00
China certainly does export their ideologies by telling the world Taiwan is part of China and telling others to not recognize Taiwan as a country. They also have major if not direct influence on Myanmar's civil war. North Korea. Let's not forget the taking land(India, tibet) and extending their borders with man-made islands so they can extend their fishing territories. that's a great track record. you're not biased at all.
by kgeist | 2025-12-10 20:41:28+00:00
>Instead of asking the runtime for memory object-by-object, an Arena lets you allocate a large pool of memory upfront. You fill that pool with objects using a simple bump pointer (which is CPU cache-friendly), and when you are done, you free the entire pool at once

>They have been trying to prove they can achieve Arena-like benefits with, for example, improved GC algorithms, but all have failed to land

The new Green Tea GC from Go 1.25 [0]:

Instead of scanning objects we scan whole pages. Instead of tracking objects on our work list, we track whole pages. We still need to mark objects at the end of the day, but we’ll track marked objects locally to each page, rather than across the whole heap.

Sounds like a similar direction: "let's work with many objects at once". They mention better cache-friendliness and all.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc
by rvz | 2025-12-10 20:42:23+00:00
That is like telling others who experience natural disasters to wait until it happens and then ask themselves "How much damage will it bring" and then someone else tells them that it costed them everything.

Anyone who has lived through the dotcom bubble knows that this AI mania is a obvious bubble and the whole point is you have to prepare before it eventually pops, not after someone tells you that it is too late when it pops.