skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but there needs to be a system to verify the a connection is associated with one human, and there needs to be a better way than the CA system to revoke access.

I am not sure that it is necessarily what is or should be the requirement, or that such a system is that helpful enough anyways.

If you are trying to do business, then you should need to verify that it is with the business that you are trying to communicate with and not a different one, so Let's Encrypt is not good enough since that only verifies the domain name. However, sometimes this is not necessary, anyways.

For revoking access, I agree that there can be other ways. For example, someone can provide revocation files and then some users might decide to trust those revocation files or not.

> I'm actually not so sure it's good to provide easy access from the normal web.

You might be right. (Scorpion file format uses TRON code rather than Unicode, which might have the side effect of making it difficult to access from the normal web, although that was not the reason for this decision. However, as you describe, this side effect may be beneficial, anyways.)

> Yes, Gemini is a little too dry.

Yes, and a few people had thought so. However, my comment is not only about what Gemini doesn't do, but also about things that WWW doesn't do, too.

> I've always found it interesting primarily because Gopher is nostalgic to me from my first few months on the internet way back in the age of the dinosaurs

Gopher is still in use, and Gemini FAQ also says it is not going to destroy Gopher either.
I like weeks. Just 52 every year. Leap year agnostic.

I have a notebook for self reflection. Week-based. Since it is not a diary I call it septimary. Unlike a diary, the septimary gives me flexibility and every week I summarize something without mentioning specific dates or days unless this level of detail is really required by the context or significance of what needs to be written down.

Week 7 of year 2025 comes to an end.
https://archive.ph/LN9Z2
Price signals.

One approach would be a revenue-neutral carbon tax on extraction of sequestered carbon. And border carbon taxes for imports from countries who don't also have an internal carbon tax.
When I was in my mid to late 20s I was at a consulting firm and later in government directly. I wasn’t assigned to anything particularly objectionable or anything, but I’ve looked back on it a lot and it’s heavily influenced how I operate in the tech industry now, 20 years later. In government and in consulting I saw a lot of misaligned incentives that led to empire building, duplicative efforts, and treatment of individuals that I didn’t really find to be effective. And today, I’m really good at spotting that and stopping it quickly, because I think much of that was not the best way to operate. But I didn’t immediately get into it and realize it wasn’t how I would run things - and experiencing being part of the machine for a bit first taught me lessons that I would not have learned as an outside observer.

If you made the same assumptions about me based on what I did in my 20s, you’d actually be assuming the direct opposite of what I believe in and how I work today. We’re all shaped by our experiences, but that shaping doesn’t always mean we grow into the behaviors that we experienced during our formative early career. Maybe this guy looks on that experience and knows exactly what he doesn’t want to see happen.
Texas energy wasn't prepared for severe freezes. You can buy the gear to run natural gas pipelines and wind turbines in arctic conditions. Natural gas has to be dried out near the source in cold climates.[1] It's water mixed with the gas that's the problem. Wind turbines with blade heaters run fine in Norway. It's a factory option. (The turbine itself provides the power to run heaters. One source says about 1/7 of output power is needed for blade heating in icing conditions.)

[1] https://idc-online.com/technical_references/pdfs/electronic_...
> But if you have some kind of agreement with an organization to develop or maintain open source software specific for that organization, that could count as commercial interaction.

I think that's the risk. It's not clear what counts as a commercial interaction. eg I built a lib used for data analysis of bio samples. I have occasionally done some consulting for users, but nothing in over a decade. Does that count as commercial interaction? It's unclear to me. I'm considering deleting the open source and/or updating the license to ban the EU.

Like obviously this is a very low probability risk, but I don't care to take any risks for something that I give away for free :shrug:

Separately, the idea that I have to have a security policy or any other thing; I decline.
That doesn't change the fact that the actual title of TFA is what the GP says it is, not the current headline here.
Agree w/the author that the concept of "unit" often hurts test quality.

You should be striving to balance the long-term usefulness of your tests with the debuggability of those tests. In my experience, those tests are what most people would call "integration tests" (although that name, like so much terminology in the testing world, is confusing and poorly defined.)

You want to get the tests up at as high a level of abstraction as possible where the API and correctness assertions are likely to survive implementation detail changes (unlike many unit tests) while at the same time avoiding the opaque and difficult to debug errors that come with end-to-end testing (again, the language here is confusing, I assume you know what I mean.)

See https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-testing
The problem with the amyloid hypothesis is most likely not that it is wrong, but that it is incomplete, and I would say that is the problem with this test as well.

I work in neurotech/sleeptech, and AD researchers are using (or want to use) slow-wave enhancement to prevent and possibly manage AD.

However, the test for AD is still a psychological tests along with neuroimaging to look for tau tangles and amyloid plaque build up.

It has been discussed that we may be looking at multiple different diseases which have similar symptoms and without completely understanding the disease itself, we are categorizing them as AD, though they may have different pathways.

Though we can't ignore the challenges to the amyloid hypothesis, we also shouldn't completely throw it out. Most of the experts I've spoken with still believe it is the best hypothesis we have, but that we also should not ignore other possibilities.
It's certainly terrible. But I don't think lawsuits like this threaten Nintendo at all. They own the Pokemon IP and want a court to rule whether or not their gameplay patent is violated. Worst case scenario is that they lose, and Nintendo could appeal the ruling or sue Palworld for something else like character likeness. Since Nintendo has prior art, their advantage in court is pretty sizable. Since they hire lawyers on retainer, they can effectively force the Palworld devs to settle out-of-court.

While I don't necessarily consider Palworld in the wrong, they clearly knew they were flying close to the sun. Nintendo is going to burn them for that, whether it's right or wrong or even legally correct. It's just what they do.
I still expect that women will wake up to and react against the plastic in semen.
Your suspicion is that the email is fabricated?
Just glossed right over that e-waste part, eh?
I think part of the problem here is that “healthy” in a nutritional quality sense is orthogonal to “healthy” in a caloric density sense.
Yes, it is fairly obvious that he wasn't innocent based on that quote.

The high-prescribers were people operating out of strip malls, often with unclear credentials, and whose main clientele were opioid addicts. Many of these people (I am choosing not to use the word doctors) ended up in prison...consultants who were advising them, not so much.

There are a large number of people who could do this job, it is reasonable to ask whether the person you want doing this job is someone who, at best, was unaware that these people were breaking the law. And, to be clear, he was Partner of their Healthcare practice whilst this was going on...he wasn't just making Powerpoints.

The revolving door between consultancies and government must continue. No-one is more skilled than running government than lawyers and consultants who have lots of experience in...advising other people how to run things.
I agrée with this and have ripped claims about the pollution here on HN before, but there is SOME pollution, and it is necessarily worse for EVs vs ICE for the reasons above.
Young people are correct. Centrism doesn’t lead to policies that work at this point because the right wing is unwilling to come to the center. (Yes, it’s the right wing, not both sides. The left has compromised itself into having no political impact whatsoever.)
Well, because we don’t have a VAT, it is, isn’t it? The article puts the blame on the US sales tax system. But regardless, US exporters to the EU end up paying more taxes than domestic EU producers.

> Europe’s VATs are not tariffs and are not subsidizing European exports. Instead, US states’ poorly-designed sales taxes are harming their own businesses’ competitiveness—whether they’re selling down the street, across state lines, or around the world.
A Crypto Fairy Tale
I'm reading a book on McKinsey now titled "When McKinsey Comes To Town". Given the firms track record finally coming to light it's amazing that working at McKinsey is a career booster instead of a black mark. Hopefully more people start to realize that putting the most ruthless business minds in charge of public healthcare leads to poor outcomes.

I'd recommend reading the book, it is a bit of a downer though
Why the Algorithm Hates You
> AFAIK if you take open source software, provided without liability, and use it commercially then you take the liability for that product, since you can't shift it to the creator, since they're volunteering for free.

That is incorrect per my understanding. If that open source org offers eg paid support, they likely have liability, at least in the EU. Now they're probably, practically speaking, judgement proof. But they do have liability. see [1]

[1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/the-cyber-resilience-act-what-it-mea...
These are still problems that can largely be solved by applying the right economic incentives.

For example, during the 2021 winter storm and outage, a huge problem was that no power producers had any incentive to weatherize their systems, resulting in a huge chunk of them all going offline at the same time. It seems more than reasonable to require producers to have some minimal level of weatherization, and to provide incentives to producers that have better weatherization.

This is kinda my point - I'm not arguing for a totally deregulated free-for-all, as the unregulated free market is notoriously bad at dealing with "black swan" events. But that doesn't mean that sensible regulations can't be put in place that still use economic incentives to achieve their goals.
I really liked the critique of the US sales tax. I did not know such taxes still existed.
Are you gatekeeping my definition of a trip?

It was definitely a trip. We spent three days on a train and saw scenery. We saw some local sights but were relaxed about it and yes we spent a lot of time chilling in the hostel.

We couldn’t have had that experience elsewhere.

We also met other travelers.
Didn't realize circuit was used that way in genome / dna stuff
>More realistic solutions are going to include tightening up the building code to make structures more fire resistant

Problem is this makes building more expensive. A better path might be the Japan strategy. Houses are designed to last 30 years then be replaced. You often get more energy efficiency, ability to build density as-required, more efficient ability to build and recover quickly from any disaster.
Quite the irony that the thread started with reminiscing about life and purpose and needing time and valuing relationships and you guys go into the "need to make more money" spiel.

Here comes a secret: It will never be enough for you. It's not the money that counts. It's the ratio of income versus expenses, if anything. And if you grow one and don't stop the other one from growing in unison, then you have gained nothing.

I know lots of people with 5x the income of me, but their expenses and lifestyle overcompensate, so they are much deeper into the hamster wheel than me.

I could retire any day (late 30s). I currently don't do it cause my work is fun and I like the people, and the more I keep going the higher my expenses could become if needed. But the finances don't keep me in my job. And if anything comes along that looks sustainably more fun I will quit in a heartbeat.
Conclusion: sorry, but you all seem to be a gang of miserable, jaded, nihilistic, incurious, what's-in-it-for-me bastards. I hope aspiring PhD students don't take any of this nonsense too seriously.

I don't think I read a single first-hand account in this whole thread; just a lot of whining, hearsay, entirely made up bollocks, and a hell of a lot of chips on shoulders.
Watt The Fox?
Would high property taxes really be a good thing for a state that has the highest income tax in the country?

Texas has no income tax which is why they have high property taxes.
A far bigger issue with our society is our willingness to brand someone forever based on what they did decades prior—we (as a society) pay lip service to the idea that people change, but we don't truly believe it.

It's the same punitive impulse that causes the permanent second-class citizenship bestowed upon anyone who finishes a prison term.
It blows my mind how quickly everything even remotely critical of the trump administration gets flagged since they've taken office.
While I'd expect some to get flagged, the speed and throughoutness of it is really unusual for HN.

I'm not American so the discussions were always interesting to read for me - but this time around, every thread I click on is dead by the time I see it. Never been like that since I've started frequenting HN in 2012
llama.cpp runs great with Vulkan, so no ROCm magic required!
I'd like my KPI metrics etched on my gravestone
Squirrels in Sichuan: yesssir more spicy bird food plz!!! XD
Energy companies are reporting that the cost situation for renewables is terrible. The thin margins continue to get thinner. They cannot justify pursuing new green projects to shareholders. We will hear a lot more about carbon capture in the years to come. It's the only way they can meet their climate obligations — which are also being "adjusted" these days.
I can't remember the exact stats but something like 5% of doctors were writing 75% of the sales for these products.

It isn't that they lead to abuse, it is that people who are using heroin will abuse them, and will go to doctors who facilitate that.
None. From their ebook FAQ page - https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

> Do l own the ebooks I purchase outright?

> The publishers of our ebooks require that the ebooks you “purchase” from Bookshop.org are only licensed to you. Even DRM-free books are subject to some restrictions and may not be owned outright. However, even in the case of an ebook being removed from Bookshop.org by the publisher, users who purchased the ebook previously will continue to have access to the ebook file. Depending on the circumstances, in the unlikely event an ebook is removed from your library because of a rights issue or otherwise, Bookshop.org will refund the purchase price you paid.
(Oops saw other comment linked, but I’ll leave this comment in case summary is helpful)

Check out the SO100 arm, being supported by Huggingface and others. Only 4 axis, but cheap AF (<$250/arm) and using ML to make it more capable than 4 axis would seem. Also using identical arms for mirror teleportation/training.

https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100
Sounds like emission standards need to be updated to include everything coming off a vehicle, not just out of the tail pipe.

It would incentivise clean disk materials and regenerative braking.
Thank you for your detailed assessment. I have updated the script to fill the directories with random data (to match original size) at the end to help prevent recovery further.
There are multiple pharmaceuticals which are used to slow the progression of the disease.

We're in the neurotech/sleeptech space and have been developing slow-wave enhancement tech for the last few years, our technology is beginning to be used in clinical studies.

These studies (using other less effective devices) have shown promise
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10758173/
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10778
Sorry I don’t follow - how does VAT make US exporters pay more than domestic EU manufacturers? They are both subject to the same VAT, or?
You may be right, and I think jujutsu or a fork of it is the most likely contender.
Rows: The spreadsheet where data comes to life
Engineering management is likened to carpentry, where the true resource is people whose needs must be understood through Maslow’s hierarchy—from basic physiological and safety needs to the pursuit of self-actualization—ensuring that every strategy is supported by a healthy, cohesive team. By recognizing cultural differences, employing practical tools like the "5 Whys" and Likert scales, and promoting personal growth through feedback and development plans, managers can transform a group of skilled engineers into a supportive, innovative community. Yet, as one navigates these human intricacies and adapts to constant changes in both personal and professional landscapes, one must ask: what unforeseen challenge will next put this delicate balance to the ultimate test?
So you're comparing Kubernetes to what? Not running services at all? In that case I agree, you're going to have to set up Linux, find a storage solution, etc as part as your setup. Then write your app. It's a lot of work.

But would I say that your entire Linux installation and the cloud it runs on is part of Kubernetes? No.
For a VAT to work they have to levy the tax at each stage. Import is a stage...

But regardless, US exporters to the EU end up paying more taxes than domestic EU producers.

No, because the domestic EU producers are paying VAT at each stage of their production process. The US manufacturers need to catch up!
> But regardless, US exporters to the EU end up paying more taxes than domestic EU producers.

but only because of tariffs, not VAT system. we pay VAT regardless from where the good came from.
Not really the point.

Musk names his ships after the Culture, but the author was an avowed left-wing socialist who'd probably see Musk as our version of Veppers. He was... not a huge fan of billionaire oligarchs.
In the case of Common Lisp, yes. Other lisps (e.g. Clojure) don't really have interactive debugging, value inspection, live disassembly, or anything like the condition system (which allows programmatic access to the debugger and automatically recovering from certain conditions).

The compiler, debugger, and runtime are always present. When optimizing Common Lisp code, I found it very useful to add types, refactor structs, recompile functions, then disassemble the functions and see if the compiler generated efficient machine code. This is all natively supported by the runtime. Editor tooling does little more than create a nice-looking UI. Doing this in Clojure is not really possible, since it's hard to guess what HotSpot will do with a given sequence of JVM bytecode.
People don't typically set plastic on fire to inhale the smoke. But leaving a water bottle in a car, where there are often significant thermal changes, results in a leaching of some of those chemicals into the water.

Because it's often clear, folks often think that plastic is inert like glass. It is far from it.
As an American I don't really deeply understand VAT but I don't get why an American car would pay more overall VAT than a domestically produced car. My impression is that VAT will be the same for items that cost the same, no matter where they are produced.
And the number one problem that any method of carbon capture that involves moving things around, is that you have to add the carbon expenditure of that transportation into the mix. You wanna create charcoal and spread it over crop fields? You then have to transfer that charcoal. You want to embed CO2 in concrete and bury the concrete? You have to move the concrete. (You can use it for building, but there's additional infrastructure for transporting the CO2 to the concrete or vice-versa there as well.)

So many of the "barely break even" concepts don't even come close due to this transportation factor. Even if you use solar to generate electricity to power this transportation, we don't have excess solar yet - that's capacity that's being used for this new expense, not being used to offset existing expenses.

That said, I'm hopeful that research, refinement, and excess renewable grid capacity will eventually make it worthwhile to do this in addition to reducing our fossil fuel usage, but we just _gotta_ reduce our fossil fuel usage. It's not negotiable anymore, and heck, never was.
doing fine @ 45°north thank you, and know people living and making all of there income from solar
even further north, with I might add equipment that is now outdated, but was much more expensive
than what is availible now, which has almost doubled in efficiency, and is less than half the price, retail, with palet loads becoming bizarly
cheap.
When combined with a new build semi passive solar house, conventional heating systems can be omited
entirely.
There is a comming "solar divide" ....those who pay energy bills, and those that dont.
VAT applies equally to imported goods and locally produced goods.
Thank you for your review. I have updated the script to mention running as the user with sudo.
Some people use the root user for administration.
VAT is applied on every good sold. So no. If you are able to produce cheaper and shipped cheaper than your EU competitor it will be cheaper when a consumer buys it.

The consumer pays the VAT, not the producer.
> Note that, while a VAT is imposed at every stage of the process, the net effect is to apply the rate one time to the final sales price. The tax is collected in increments (on the “value added” at each stage), but unlike with a pyramiding sales tax, it does not double tax inputs. The VAT and ideal sales tax share an identical tax base and, if imposed at the same rates, yield identical collections.

The VAT is important in Europe, because if a product is manufactured in many countries, each of those countries gets a share of the tax revenue.
“religious level of faith” implies there is not a mountain of publicly accessible evidence showing vaccines are safe and effective, and that instead these people’s beliefs are neither provable nor refutable.

I know of no other reasonable definition of religious beliefs.
I made a shortcut for iPad to do more or less the same thing and promised myself to keep “engineering” the prompt but work pretty well as it is.

Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fbb5a315cb354fbf903bcfa4f40...

What the shortcut does is taking the transcript of the video and asking your ChatGPT app to extract main ideas, quotes, and facts.

The prompt comes originally from fabric CLI tool https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story
Based on what?

Do you have PhD? Have you any insight at all into what it might be like, or is this all just based on recycled tropes?

> needless proliferation of education.

Almost sounds Trumpian, except the word 'proliferation' is probably several syllables too long.
I don't see why abolishing capitalism would weaken the social and economic incentives to drill for natural gas either. Would a post-capitalist society no longer require electricity or heating?