skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think as long as Java has a massive backing, more people are going to want to use Java and create a self-perpetuating cycle. Even if the frontend tech changes, like Java to Kotlin to Scala, etc, the backend will always be the same. The JVM is an amazing piece of software with a massive community behind it, and I dont see that changing anytime soon.
Most of them self harm because the removal the pain feels good - and it takes with it some emotional pain.

Though there probably are some masochists that truly enjoy the pain, but that's a different condition than the more common I-hate-myself-so-I-hurt-myself.
it applies to everything downstream from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861038
Hypothetically you could be right and I don't know if "this time will be different" nor am I trying to predict what will happen on the global economic scale. That's out of my reach.

My question is rather of much narrower scope and much more concrete and tangible - and yet I haven't been able to find any good answer for it, or strong counter-arguments if you will. If I had to guess something about it then my prediction would be that many engineers will need to readjust their skills or even requalify for some other type of work.
>I'm wondering if the plastics in modern clothing are similarly exposing our systems to microplastics

I bet we inhale a lot of it via lint.
They do have an appreciably different dopamine regulation. So they're feeling something.

(Not defending or apologizing for anyone's lifestyle here.)
Framing this as “Project 2025” makes it seem like he distanced himself from these policies. The policies in his EOs are from his own platform: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-pa.... If you listened to a couple of his long form podcasts and rallies, these things were all in there.

Obviously there’s a lot of overlap between what Trump campaigned on and Project 2025. But Trump hasn’t issued any EOs banning abortion or similar issues that were in Project 2025 but not his own platform.
China also has an order of magnitude more land available, and a fascist government. Arguing over squeezing a new runway into a built-up area is a good thing.
From the original heise.de article (https://www.heise.de/news/Betrug-mit-Seagate-Festplatten-Dut...):

> According to readers, various retailers supplied the hard drives, with Amazon, JB Computer, Mindfactory and Reichelt being mentioned in numerous cases. Others mentioned: Alternate, Böttcher, Büroshop 24, Galaxus, Jacob, Kosatec, Maingau and Proshop - some of which are on the list of official Seagate retailers.

Given the number of affected retailers, I wonder if a distributor in Germany messed up somewhere.
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Caloric density is also pretty high in traditional diets like those of the Hadza, the Inuit, the French, the Argentines, and the Italians, but those produce low levels of obesity. So that can't be it. Those diets also don't include semaglutide.

Large portion sizes are real, but they are downstream of whatever is unnaturally increasing US appetites. Restaurants, housewives, and househusbands in the US don't serve 1500-kcal meals because they're in some kind of conspiracy to fatten your kids up for slaughter. They serve them because people complain if they don't.

The "ultra-processed" meme is clearly pointing at something critical, but it can't itself be the answer, because it's ontologically incoherent. As the post I linked above says:

> I’ve previously found [this meme] frustrating – it reeks of a sort of unreflective technophobia. What part of processing makes food bad? How does mere contact with a machine turn food from healthy to unhealthy? What food counts as “processed” or “not processed”? Is ground beef processed, since you grind it? Are scrambled eggs processed, since you scramble them? Is bread processed, since wheat doesn’t grow in loaves? Is water processed, since it goes through water processing facilities? Is the Eucharist processed, even though the processing only changes its metaphysical essence and not its physical properties? Everybody I ask acts like the answers to these questions are obvious, but everyone has different answers, and nobody can tell me their decision procedure.

So, is it corn? Missing micronutrients? Industrial polysaccharide thickeners? Fungicides like propionate? Nanoparticles of titanium dioxide? Antinutrients like phytate and citrate reducing bioavailability of polyvalent-cation micronutrients? Some combination? Lots of people have promising hypotheses but nobody knows. Anybody who claims to know is either lying or insane, often both.
Austerity is not the same a misery. In some ways I live an austere life but I am happy. Misery comes from poverty not self imposed austerity; the first is often imposed by the outside world whereas your father's and my austerity are, as you say, self imposed and under our own control.
I believe that google login cookies, are persistent cookies with a longish max-age/expires value, so that is not surprising, and hence why you have to use google periodically to "refresh" the cookies.

Here is what MDN[1] says about session cookies:

> Session cookies — cookies without a Max-Age or Expires attribute – are deleted when the current session ends. The browser defines when the "current session" ends, and some browsers use session restoring when restarting. This can cause session cookies to last indefinitely.

I was unaware of the "session restoring" point. This has to be considered if wanting to "unforget" the use of session cookies.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies

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Ask HN: Do any books on OS Design cover TCP/IP stack implementations and algos
This topic seems to be cheerfully absent from most popular books on Operating Systems. Both from the USA and Europe (at least among English language publications). Is it because TCP/IP stacks are that trivial or they are that arcane and scary?

I cannot even recall hearing mentions of any book covering that field in all may years of doing IT stuff and reading CS literature. If no typical Operating System design books cover them are they covered in any other kind of publications?
> It’s hard to say why it worked

Behaviour therapy would say that it worked because you took some action to improve your life and counter the depression. (Even cognitive therapy says that small, meaningful actions can have a dramatic impact on one's depression). The motivation and action of fasting, and the positive and noticeable / observable physical effects of fasting changed your focus from your depression, which alleviated your depressive symptoms. Once depression alleviates, you start thinking more clearly (make less cognitive distortions in your thinking) which further leads to a 'normal' mental state of well-being (in an otherwise mentally healthy individual).
Might is irrelevant and doesn't prevent any abuse, nor does it foster innovative environment. Both the EU and the US, need to pick a side. Either they should make it illegal and establish precedent, or just let go.
> multiple Chernobyl’s amount of damage every years from burning coal.

Do you have a source for that? I'd be very interested in a study that quantifies the damage of coal plants in terms of famous nuclear disasters.
> Note that this all started with all that digital coin-mining. Just more burning the Earth for fakeass money so callous bastards can get richer.

Always strikes me as interesting that "Nvidia" sounds like the syllables in the middle of "invidious"
One example: They're selling domain registration privacy, but don't sufficiently secure the private data. The entire Domains by Proxy dataset is available on the dark web.
I didn't like my first cellphone, loaned as part of working for Nokia >20ya. They are, however, excellent tools for communication and even looking something up on the web.

Other than that, my fam has stories of entire families at our local park walking, each on their own separate phone. It is not sad or pitiable, for their choices are theirs to make, but the effects on their psyches and eyesight are not positive.

As to being sexy, being able to make someone laugh and actually caring about their wellbeing such that you will actually do something to help them become happier -- those are the qualities that will attract a person to you. Everything else we do in life is mere drivel, and directing our life towards such vainglorious pursuits them will only attract other frivolous, unawake people.

Fill your heart with love for all human beings and the Earth, herself, and others will want to be around you, unless they are dark-hearted fools, but you don't want to be around them, anyway.
Any kind of funding for public television necessarily depends on political approval, regardless of whether it is formally a tax. No ordinary private media organization can go collect license fees from people who haven't subscribed to anything.
I need an AI detector which just straight up sends any generated emails to /dev/null. If you can't be arsed to write something, why should I waste my time reading the slop?

Yes yes, languages and translations are a potentially valid use case, but irrelevant for the vast majority of people I communicate with.
You did have to be more deliberate about it though. Checking socials and posting to socials required physically going to your computer, sitting down, and doing it. It wasn't something you could just to absent-mindedly with the convenience of just putting your hand in your pocket.
Cool, but git integration in the editor was also cool until SublimeHQ decided to spin out a dedicated client for it.

The only debugger I'm happy with right now (in terms of performance/features) is RemedyBG, but it's windows only and compiled languages only. In general, I mostly live with painfully slow debugging in VSCode.

I would really love to see RemedyBG's dedicated debugging UI/UX approach refined by some group like SublimeHQ. A group who knows how to turn the UX up to 11.
I don't think it's true that a significant number of people have less time available today than in the article's "late 90s and early 2000s" time frame. I'd concede that many people feel like they do (sometimes including me!), and I think it's pretty clearly because of how much time we're spending on our phones.
Show HN: A Free Online Deepseek Janus Pro Website
I modified the Janus Pro API using the source code and created this website, which is available for everyone to use for free.
The best thing I can say about OAuth is that--as an identity dude--it keeps me gainfully employed. If only because people often implement it incorrectly.
Well of course it won't get a charitable reading here. Roughly speaking HN built this monster.

On a macro level I agree that phones and connectivity have some pretty huge downsides and bad effects on society but once you drill down more than that there are serious flaws with the article and the author seems to be longing for a past that if it existed at all was never sustainable and wouldn't exist long. It falls into the same category as romanticizing commercial whaling or feeding a family of four with a know-nothing job riveting spring hangers onto Chevrolets.
The hospital, sure.

Why would Wuhan center being empty represent anything?

People don't rush to a random (unrelated) building when they get sick at the "market".

Coincidence, surely?

What are the chances of having a specialized infectious disease center next to where that type of disease spontaneously emerged?

More or less likely than a bat having sex with a panda possum?

No one, not even the cowardly academics, believed it.
Cache Conscious Hash Maps
A little trip down performance testing lane as a way to get familiar with the tooling around profiling and performance testing.

Led to a few happy discoveries of compiler optimizations in Rust.
I think the amount of different activities you can do in a day is a personality thing.

I work 9-10 hours a day. Could I physically squeeze in an Another hour and half of chores or socializing than I do now? Sure. Is that going to make my life better and more fulfilling? No.

But for many people I know, the answer would be yes. They want to do PTA or whatever.
Just added a second news source, more to come!
While not as longstanding as, say, Lileks, thebloggess is someone from the blog era of the Internet, and publishes an RSS feed. She's well known in other internet communities.
I'm also interested to know.

My contribution to the discussion:

Something you could use to debug issues / detect weak points is a tracer.

This book by Dick Sites (Early Google Engineer) goes over the design and use of such a tracer: Understanding Software Dynamics
(review: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/understandin...)
Tensor Cores accelerate inference...
If they continue they might get a strongly worded letter.
There was a movie about that from last year - The Beekeeper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
"Clean" is arguable for fusion.

A fusion reactor is going to create and consume large quantities of tritium, which is difficult to control because it is an isotope of hydrogen and hydrogen can go right through metals. It might not really be a problem but it is always going to be in the paper that somebody detected tritium around a reactor.

Also, because fusion reactors produce large quantities of neutrons, you could put U238 or Th232 into the blanket and breed either Pu239 or U233. Back in the 1980s some engineers thought that a hybrid fusion-fission system could have better economics that either alone if you used the bred fuel in thermal reactors. Those materials could just as well be used to make bombs, although, unlike a fast breeder cycle, a fusion reactor doesn't require plutonium processing technology in order to work.

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As for solar and wind being "cheap" don't believe the hype. I mean, it is cheap if you don't mind that it is only available when the sun shines and when the wind blows. You see estimates for solar + storage that are deceptive and thought-stopping like Case 17 of [1] (an hour and a half of storage is significant, but it is not comparable to the 24 hour service that fossil fuels and nuclear can provide.)

I haven't seen a detailed analysis of the generation + transmission + storage costs of a 100% renewable system published in the last decade. If you try a back of the envelope calculation it usually winds up worse than Case 9 from that report, except that Case 9 is optimistic because (so far) it always costs a lot more than you estimate to build a nuclear plant. [2]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...

[2] to get some sense of how bad the problem is you need: (a) to get through the night (12 hours of storage? still might beat AP1000...) and (b) get through extended periods of bad weather (2 weeks of storage?) and (c) get through the winter (overbuild solar 2-3x? otherwise 6 months of storage?)
Is there anyway to get hands on it right now? We have a requirement and seems like perfect for testing. We can give out amazing feedback
I mean yeah, but perhaps going after the provable and wholesale abuse of copyright laws might be a more fruitful approach.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-used-copyrighted-boo...

After all its actually documented. Its also not likely to be fair use.

The proving now harm bit is going to be difficult, and bad on the old trumpian optics.

copyright at least forces some of his billionaires to fight with other billionares to come to a conclusion as to "what is good for America"
> how will the local community help, if the war is coming?

That's the only thing left.

Switzerland won't help when the top 30%+ of every EU country flees there
Iceland is also interesting because they don't have over the counter drugs (iirc not even acetaminophen). But anyone can walk into a clinic, tell them what's wrong and if they think it appropriate they'll give you whatever drug they think you need.
Parkinsons involves dopamine, which is very amenable to placebo. Surgery and devices like dbs are very effective placebos.
> Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.

> All over the world, an entire generation of young men, often referred to as “NEETs,” are robbing themselves of agency, drive, and romantic relationships through their addiction to video games and pornography. Video games allow a young man to experience a sort of pseudo-achievement, while pornography masquerades as love. Some of these men have seen more naked women than any king who has ever lived.

> Many will mock their pain and their addiction, but it’s heartbreaking to think that they’ll never experience true risk, true reward, or true romance.

This post acknowledges that NEETs are living better than ancient Roman emperors, but laments they're missing out on "risk, reward, and romance" that these ancient Romans had. What exactly is so great about risking death on the battlefield or risking food poisoning at a bad restaurant? Why would an average man in his early 20s want to take a risk by approaching women at one's job or in public? Especially when you go on Tinder/Hinge and realize just how worthless you actually are.

The article argues that:

> Thoroughly exhausting ourselves intellectually and physically through productive work brings fulfillment, and with fulfillment comes peace.

But you can, as the article acknowledges, thoroughly exhaust yourself through video games and online vices. Achievement no longer requires risk. And the article is unable to quantify what value that risk brings beyond being inherently exciting. If this was true, why aren't more people taking risks? It should be more fun than sitting at home all day.

"NEET" is an economic term that stands for "not in education, employment, or training", because unemployment doesn't include people that have left the labour force entirely. Self-description as a NEET is a proud admission that one does not contribute to the economy or work force; it's a valuation of the individual over the community.

This article accepts that premise and argues in futility that NEETs don't really want the lifestyle they chose. I disagree, and I'd rather we make it an explicit value of our society to reject individual freedoms that cause broader social harms.

If smartphone addiction is legitimately destroying society by acting as a sinkhole for human potential, we should apply legal restrictions or taxes on screen time. That would be more effective than telling someone who's doomscrolling how they're actually hurting themselves.
Human evolution in the USA: Education-linked genes being selected against
Multiple factors contribute, but they don’t lessen the impact of people’s choices.

We can list extrinsic factors that influence things for hours, but nothing changes the fact that using your phone for hours per day is a choice that people make.

The external factors are brought up as a way to distract from that choice or shift blame, but you can’t make progress until you realize that it’s your choice to pick up the phone and use that app for hours every day.
Open source has been looking better and better lately because it's not in a mad rush to bolt "AI" features onto it (an LLM will do something) and then shove a huge amount of interface in your face to try to get you to use it.

On some level it's enormously baffling that this was the thing they decided they needed to do...conversely Adobe Reader on my phone won't shutup about liquid mode either (which uploads to Adobe servers) and Microsoft and Google's solution to "people don't want to use our AI assistants" was to ensure they literally can't be disabled or removed.
Do you have a link for CSTML, please? Googling is showing a bunch of possibilities none of which look quite relevant enough to be right...
I also recently came across some of these fake company campaigns with attached employee profiles. It's very hard to distinguish them from legitimate companies.

It's especially hard now that many legitimate companies use a lot of generic sounding AI-generated content, which seems to be same approach the spam/phish/malware teams are using.

IMO we need some kind of zero-knowledge proof system that can be checked to verify if a message sender is a US citizen, employed by who they say they are employed by etc.

I don't see how we can trust anything in a post-generative AI world any other way.
"Essentially"

This is the #1 pedantic thing HN frequenters flail over.

Turing built a limited machine, bound to a finite tape.

Bravo.
Not sure what you’re referring to here. You may have clicked on the wrong link somewhere.
Not all, and many smart humans are prevented from doing what they want to do for all sorts of reasons. One reason being others feel threatened by them, but those same people will feel threatened by AI, probably more so.
This presentation has some useful illustrations about the ART:

https://indico.iter.org/event/45/contributions/1090/attachme...
Astronauts are fine and do not need saving by Musk
I think the advice for that situation would be to "sit with it"; through exposure gradually reduce your automatic response to that situation and become calmer about it. Easier said than done of course.
Meanwhile… DeepSeek
Every word of this is true and if we were talking about GM it would all be sensible. But we're talking about a meme stock with an expired set of memes. What levitates the share price to maintain a PE ratio of 107?
I was vaccinated and boosted, ended up catching covid 3x so far.
For how long, is the question though? Depression and anxiety are like the "common cold" of mental health suffering, and everyone endures it a few times in their life.
There have been plenty of subsidies for solar.

The government spent money researching it early on, such as for the space program. Then the government has outright subsidized solar installations on roofs, etc. Part of the solar miracle of the last 15 years have been huge demand-side subsidies by China because they want to corner the market.
But we are spending more than ever before. I don't see why you think being unable to spend infinity dollars matters here. There are a lot of numbers between larger than current spend between where we are and infinity.
Oh, come on. They lied through their teeth.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-i-have-nothing-t...

> Former President Donald Trump denied any connection to Project 2025, the handbook for a new conservative government written by the Heritage Foundation and several right-wing think tanks, in his Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

> “I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said in the ABC News Presidential Debate. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.”

Then they hired/appointed its people and implemented their policies.
What we really need are low-capex thermal power plants with high efficiency so we can turn the gas or kerosene or whatever into electricity in the rare case that we need to, without losing money on having massive amounts of capital investment sitting around idle 95% of the time.
I implemented the Python Debugger plugin for ST
There's this...

https://sublimetutor.com

But for v3.

See also on Package Control...

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Sublime%20Tutor
Tried few times, nothing beats TextMate ergonomics. It's just a small things like the cursor will be in a place where it should be after autocompletions or closing brackets will align where they belongs to, but it makes huge difference for me
Mark Zuckerberg explores purchase of Washington DC property