skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The closer you get to any one of those systems though, the more it will become clear how dysfunctional it is, how rarely it is doing the right thing,

An alternate explanation is that you’re only acknowledging the existence of these systems in your life when something goes wrong. You don’t notice the hundreds of different things that are going right every day because it’s working well.

How often does your power go out? How often is your water undrinkable? When you go the grocery store, is there always food on the shelves? Do you keep extra money in your wallet for the specific purpose of bribing government officials and police at every encounter?

The number of things that go right like clockwork in our modern life is actually astounding, given how complex the infrastructure and supply chains are. You just don’t think about it because it’s all background to you.

To really understand a dysfunctional society, visit a country where power, infrastructure, roads, and government offices don’t actually work regularly. Where you can’t get anything done without a bribe. It’s eye opening to see how many different things in a society can fail to function when most people aren’t interested in doing their job or being just. The US, although not perfect, is far from being as universally dysfunctional as you claim.

> how much it's just luck of the draw if you end up dealing with someone competent as opposed to a vindictive bully who will do everything in their power to hurt you

When the two options are “competent” or “vindictive bully who will do everything in their power to hurt you” that’s an extreme example of a false dichotomy.

How often are you encountering these “vindictive bullies who will do everything in their power to hurt you”? Are you just assuming they might exist and be out to get you, and that’s what bothers you?

I’ve seen this mentality show up in people who do a lot of doomscrolling of Reddit, Twitter, and other social media platforms that aggregate outrage stories from around the US. After consuming a collection of outrage stories from around the country every day for years on end, those upvoted outrage stories start to become the lens through which they view the world, despite how different it is from the reality they experience. It’s easy to start to mistake the outrage news headlines as normal life in America, rather than the newsworthy stories of something going wrong that made them headlines in the first place.
Can you provide some examples? This hasn't been my experience, as a web dev who switched from PHP to such frameworks.

There's so much less complexity and maintenance overall, IMHO, but maybe we're looking at different facets of it?
Ask HN: What's up with those podcast microphones?
On podcasts and video courses it is common to see the host with a giant microphone in front of their face. What is the point with that? Is it the coolness factor or do they really provide better sound quality? And why do they have the microphone so close to the mouth? They are not outside in a tornado after all. I thought the microphones were good, but it seems they suck judging from how close to the mouth they have to be.

I doubt the audio quality is better due to the following findings. Firstly, often the host is interviewing someone and that other person often has no visible microphone (maybe a built in laptop microphone, an "airplane headset" or they use some cheap cabled microphone/earpiece), but their audio is most of the time as good as the host's. Secondly, if you look at for example news shows on TV, they often have much smaller microphones and they certainly are not straight up in the face, they are about 1 meter away on the desk or above and off-screen or this little shirt clip microphone. Thirdly, the giant boom which carries the giant microphone can make noises when they manipulate it. Fourthly, not audio related, but it distracts from the topic.

It would be nice to hear your inputs on if this is just some somewhat childish "me too" show off thing or if there is some justified technical reason for it.
Boy you need to grow up quickly if you find this hostile already
Correct - but if you're normally interacting with Linux boxes on the command line you're probably not going to be too far from home since the _programs_ behave mostly-the-same.
It's helpful to step out of the box with those kinds of questions, and consider what it is the sensor is doing. Abstraction is great for programming and reasoning about complex objects like cars (have key, insert key press pedal to move, that kind of thing), but if you're going to use something like a sensor in a way that it isn't designed, you have to go lower in your abstraction level and look at, for example, the physics of what it's doing. Often a thing that emits can receive what it outputs (if you measure how the membrane of an ultrasonic sound generator is moving, for example, although you'd also have to add additional components at which point it becomes a ping sensor), but sometimes it's not feasible. I really enjoyed Practical Electronics for Inventors for this kind of perspective.
It's a really great library, allowing you to take advantage of native mobile features while keeping the deployment model of web applications. Technically, it's a much bigger achievement than htmx, in that Adam Stepinski, the creator, had to create not only a hypermedia format but also a hypermedia client, which I've come to understand is the really hard part of creating a hypermedia system:

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-clients/
What the web looked like in 1994, the year it became the internet
I think we all agree that their lives are more valuable than whatever the cost of the recovery mission would be to bring them home safely, but isn't it disheartening that the only reason we could agree to spend that much money to save so few lives is because of the spectacle of it all?
Or JS ecosystem should drop ES modules since they have only brought pain and unnecessary complexity without real benefits for years.
I'd be nice if the WI state legislature quickly corrected their "Supreme" Count.

And maybe the same bill could cut the Justices' salaries, too? Doesn't sound like they have the qualifications to really justify whatever they're getting paid now...
would this imply their dns is compromised? redirecting to other places? Or is it like a 302 redirect on application layer??
I look forward to the day when Bun can run Next.js. Apparently the main showstopper is in the Next.js router.
I suppose it depends on how you define 'extreme' as a matter of boring tautological semantics. If extreme is defined as 'enough that it is worth extracting to anybody who discovers it'. Sort of like how ore is defined.

Basically there being a limit to abundance before it is too extreme to exist sustainably (without being extracted). You can have Cerro de Potosi, a very silver rich mountain sustainably exist. But a mountain made of solid gold? That would be extracted from until gold devalued itself.
she's right.
There are numerous sentences that do not make sense… including the tautology in the opening sentence. I am suspecting an LLM wrote this?
For those who aren't sure what Rotation curves are: it's the observation that the orbits of stars in galaxies around said galaxy's center do not slow down the further away from the center they are. In fact some even rotate faster the further out you get!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
No one's discussing whether he's arrogant or not, they've all made up their minds. I gave an alternate, more charitable interpretation of his words, that would offer an otherwise offended reader a way to reframe the blog, and not dismiss it out-of-hand if they took his words as a slight. I believe this interpretation.

"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, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

:)
Internet Search has become near useless of late, regardless of which Search Engine is used.

Hopefully you find it and let us know.

Forrest Mims was the first to propose using the LED as a sensor in the early 70s, not long after LEDs became common.

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/13/citizenscience/
Probably something from Forrest Mims. I have his stuff going back to the 1970s and he was using LEDs like this for all sorts of communication and environmental stuff way back.
The ops point is that after you spot them you call in old fashioned artillery.
A really interesting result. On it's own, it doesn't destroy dark matter as a theory, but it's putting quite a large dent in it.

Obviously will need additional work and review, it's only one paper. Maybe there are mistakes or factors not fully considered.

There have been a number of other papers recently on measuring wide binaries. Different papers claimed different results on these.

Still, it's certainly something that merits a lot more attention. We may be looking at needing some new theory of gravity (maybe not MOND, but something other than dark matter).
> dictated by the computationally intensive nature of certain algorithms

You mean math?
If "hallucination" refers to mistaking the product of internal processes for external perception, then generative AI can only hallucinate, as all of its output comes from inference against internal, hard-coded statistical models with zero reconciliation against external reality.

Humans sometimes hallucinate, but still have direct sensory input against which to evaluate inferential conclusions against empirical observation in real time. So we can refine ideas, whatever their origin, against external criteria of correctness -- this is something LLMs totally lack.
wouldn't a monoculture help the robots, too?
LOL, completed PhD at 20
I think - with 5G warfare being what it is - that we need to go more granular. Democracy is a given when information is a weapon [1]. What kind of democracy serves our interests best?

I like the theory behind liquid direct myself, but it would need extensive field testing before it's the de facto governance model for, say, Mars.

[1]I realize that's a strange statement - I elaborate on my reasoning here https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos/post/an-optimistic-loo...
> Or if someone slips up

You're talking about a legislative process. In the EU. This would require months if not years of repeated slipping up.
I remember the OG pebble using the backlight LEDs as ambient light sensors but I can't find where I read it.
Nobodies blaming the victim - that was the assertion of the problem by you.

If you have children you can't support, don't blame society that you're having trouble supporting them. It's callous maybe, but remember the victims are the children, not the parents. The parents created the problem
One of the tricks to Medicaid is to go to somewhere that your state govt or a hospital has someone set up to do the forms while they ask you questions. Maybe do that very soon, so, when you're trying to make a doctor appointment (which might be scheduled for months away), you can tell them you have insurance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738281
From an economic perspective, the problem with pyrolysis waste-to-energy is that it takes more energy to use the process than it produces [1].

This is a process that is harmful to communities around the plants, harmful to the environment, and does not benefit users of the process. I do not understand why organizations like Exxon-Mobil and the American Chemistry Council are promoting it.

[1] https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2019/may...
> if you lose once whoops the matter will never find its way back onto the docket and you will never get a chance to have it reversed

The same dynamics govern passage as reversal. You keep trying until they slip up.
This mechanism would be prone to abuse: a group that opposes a particular issue could effectively time that issue out to prevent a replacement group from pursuing it.

The adage about “being the worst system except for all the other ones” applies well here: your (and my) participation in democracy is a required component, not just a nice thing to have. Devising hacks around our participation will ultimately result in a system that doesn’t allow our participation.
Stem Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon over Project Nimbus
Grolar bear hybrids in NWT all traced back to same 'strange' female polar bear
That'd slow down decision making a lot. Imagine the effects this would have at the current pace climate changes are affecting the weather
It’s hard to trust the privacy guarantees of a device that tries to inject AI all over the place. Who knows when my data is being lifted into the cloud and used by random third parties in unexpected ways. I wish someone would make a AI free smartphone to avoid all this.
I'm all for the existence of fully open options for people whose opsec requires full control of the stack and/or for techies who can handle it. But there's a disturbing tendency for people to throw more shade on the people, organizations, and technologies that get things almost perfect than they do on the ones that aren't even trying.

Signal has managed to create a product that is so easy to use that my non-technical brother-in-law got my wife's entirely-non-technical family to choose it over various Facebook properties and other clearly-worse-than-Signal for-profit chat apps. That's extremely impressive, and part of what makes that level of ease of use possible is that there's only one Signal server.

In the absence of Signal someone like my brother-in-law wouldn't have been able to navigate Matrix himself, much less help my mother-in-law to do so—in the end he would have pointed everyone at WhatsApp. Signal isn't hurting adoption of federated tooling, Signal is stealing mindshare from for-profit data hoarders, and that's something I can wholeheartedly endorse even with their imperfections.
I'm not sure there's much hope of this based on the product's name, but something which has always frustrated me about meetup is that distance to events is calculated by radius.

I live near London, so tons of events come up in meetup searches that are close as the crow flies, but can take over an hour to reach by public transport (or sometimes are in places inaccessible except by car).

I'd love something which took into account different transport modes/routes, so I could look for e.g. events within walking/cycling distance, events with under 30 minutes of train travel time, etc. (ideally taking into account public transport timetables, but that's maybe a bit too much to expect).
Yes. We both posted that he originated the idea at the same time.
> Democracy is not all about efficiency

In that context, I meant cost and delay as a benefit.

> not being able to withdraw a proposal

This empowers anyone who can introduce proposals with fillibustering the forum.
Hanlon's Razor is for applying to single instances.

When you have a long-standing pattern of behavior, you need to start using critical thinking, instead.

Is there a benefit to Google from breaking Firefox?

Yes, clearly.

Does Google have the technical competency to avoid breaking Firefox if they want to?

I would say this is very likely.

If you misapply Hanlon's Razor where it's no longer appropriate, you're liable to cut yourself off from the truth.
seems like they are using a javascript redirect to a local php script with a cryptic HTTP-Payload which then uses another form of redirecting.

```
var destinationUrl = "/page/bouncy.php?&bpae=GbhOtycGokx7NouoZAxNQOiMIDJ9XOt%2FaJHfNyHzYqRxb3fjQafa8AJ7JN5pE7%2Fo3NVhaQVhjHtRyu6EA8%2FhONViovJ2P5Mg8ddJhyJVXClWFiQch3k6NJZHL7zrQL9j39yn7FUglnvQjCIyZRjSx8O%2B8VgA2DKtr6nzkrUu7H9JbXZL%2FXS5248sPDJBpSFl81nnDGmM3sJxHMCQ3qE9glW42uiRagbv62f51U0NnRdUCJCMw11eLIs9bFVpEe99tSM%2BClL6pbxYAkRhK801TL3%2FA%2BisFwbsBlIgj89wW9e0AO2wJZefHmweRpWC2ScpiZ4PnFsFnu6EIsd7CsjVea9N5dSRVl44AXsv%2FLgFNMAQT3oBnaObVKY12IOejGwFafju8daU&redirectType=meta";
var addDetection = true;
if (addDetection) {
var inIframe = window.self !== window.top;
forwardingUrl += "&inIframe=" + inIframe;
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
var inPopUp = (window.opener !== undefined && window.opener !== null && window.opener !== window);
forwardingUrl += "&inPopUp=" + inPopUp;
}
window.location.replace(forwardingUrl);
```
I'm convinced you can get most of htmx by extending standard attributes to other elements and using the standard on* attributes. htmx basically acts as a "universal/general event handler" that translates DOM events to requests and back to DOM events and modifications. It breaks down like this:

* use on* html attributes to delegate events to a universal event handler

* event handler pulls out the form attribute (if set), then pulls out action, method, target from element, or from the form if unset on the element (elements inherit these from the form they are tied to)

* if action is a URL, then initialize a fetch request using specified URL and method; if method is POST, then add a FormData payload for the specified form

* on fetch complete, the returned MIME type should match with the target attribute, which is extended to also accept a css selector:

target=_self|_blank|_top <=> content-type:text/html => redirect | morph/hx-boost + push-url

target=css selector <=> content-type:text/html-fragment => morph | innerHTML

So something like:

<a action="/url" method="post" onclick="universalHandler(event)" form="someForm" target="_self">click me</a>

I have ideas for extending beyond this, but this seems like the core of extending HTML to cover htmx semantics.
> I had disc herniation and my mother, who is a retired doctor, said to just do a lot of fast walking.

Anecdotally slow walking makes my sciatica worse and fast walking alleviates any pain in minutes.

Did your mother, or your research, point to any reasons why fast walking in particular?

My working theory for my body in particular is that I'm more on my toes with less heel impact but I couldn't find anything other than anecdotes here. Also light skipping on my toes helps in a similar matter in a pinch.
At my bank you have to talk to tellers only over a video screen, which annoys me. But the pneumatic tubes you use to exchange checks, slips, cash, and other materiel makes up for it, they are so fun to use. (The system is presumably for teller safety)
The effects of prop 13 are overstated. The problem is California didn't build enough where people want to live. Many states have laws restricting property tax growth, my own state limits it to the lesser of inflation or 5%. It's the lack of building that pushed prices so high that selling only makes sense to leave the state.
The point is that people in the left lane should not need to be "kicked out" because they should always be looking for the first opportunity to get out of the left lane, not travelling there
Can Oracle Save MySQL?
What is your single favorite carabiner - like if all others were going to be destroyed and you could only use one for the rest of your life?
> This will never, ever happen.

I hope for the sake of the nodjs ecosystem, you are wrong.

Fragmentation issues are one of the many reasons that nodejs struggle with adoption.
The speaker is Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency.

Is the full stream available? First, the audience is laughing with her about something we don’t hear. Then she says, “under their Cloud Act they have the possibility to take the data from Europe, we need the same thing, we need the reciprocity.”

This is said in a tone as if it’s obvious/uncontroversial.

So indeed, the topic of the summit is relevant. What IS “data protection” protecting? We’re far from EU citizen privacy here if we’ve made it to the concept of taking data from the US.
And yet approximately 100% of js/ts devs are using ES module syntax and don’t write blog posts about it. Magic.
It will only be brought up again if there's a chance that the representatives you vote for will back it.
James Hawkins on running PostHog [audio]
The tools that maintain democracy, such as media and communication, should not be vulnerable to undermining, even through democratic processes.
Have you talked with the average voter? Most don't even know (or care) who their representatives are. Direct democracy works for small countries with high education and social cohesion, like Switzerland. And even there it's only used for specific hot issues like pensions.
"Users on HN are outraged over suggested positive feedback manual".
It's still disappointing that after all this time, nobody's been able to implement a less bad option.
Much less oneself's own position on any curve.
Yeah but the exponential growth of computer power thing https://x.com/josephluria/status/1653711127287611392

I think AGI in the near future is pretty much inevitable. I mean you need the algos as well as the compute but there are so many of the best and brightest trying to do that just now.
The average user doesn't care about the underlying browser engine. Why should Mozilla add that to their advertising when no other browser maker on iOS is?
The bit about investing in iterative startups who just bolt a few new features on an existing idea, or aggregate other existing stuff together without really innovating is interesting...

Feels like that was one of the defining characteristics of the VC-backed B2B SaaS era (that is still ongoing)..
Living here in Kansas, we have a lot of natural beauty as a plains state. It's not all flat either. We have badlands, Zion-like rocks, hills to hike on, and minimal intrusion to nature.

When it snows, all you see is a sea of snow everywhere, and in the spring it's a sea of prairie grass in the rural areas.

The cities are like Chicago and San Francisco had a baby in terms of the architecture and layout.

Our taxes are also higher than California if you are going by percentage (for property taxes and sales taxes, but not income taxes, except for food). California is "okay" I guess. They could do some tax reform, but it's a large state with some large programs and initiatives, so considering that, it's not bad. Additionally, Alabama has less than stellar in person services, but great online services. Mississippi is often troped as having not the greatest economy, but their economy is based on oil, and chemical processing, and fishing. They are also located in a hurricane zone. That means that they get hit hard all the time, and have to keep rebuilding infrastructure. That's not easy. They also get hit economically every time there is a chemical spill or an oil spill, cause the plant will shut down, and they cannot fish there either. We should probably open datacenters there.
Just use JSR[0] and only deal with npm when a project forces you to do things backwards. Since JSR packages are available on npm, there's nothing lost.

[0]https://jsr.io/
this is brilliant, the questions are hilarious, didn't beat the game yet
JSX components (.tsx) are rendered server-side, it's all just GET/POST with optional HTMX
> What really gets me with these types of "safety" proposals is that we already have quite some ways to get someone's private information and communication if they are being investigated

How does that work if I'm using an E2E encrypted messaging app?
That's how you can weaken a country, create a movement with the media that calls for the destruction of their own energy production. Try that in Russia...
It is editorialized, but I would agree with the sentiment expressed - the clip does make it sound like the US law directly motivated the EU proposal.
> We are in 2025