skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, easy things are easy to build?

It is not at all uncommon to have changes percolate out into larger impacts than you'd expect, though. Especially in projects that attempt whole program optimizations as part of the build.

Consider anything that basically builds a program that is used at build time. Which is not that uncommon when you consider that ML models have grown significantly. Change that tool, and suddenly you have to rebuild the entire project if you didn't split it out into a separate graph. (I say ML, but really any simple linter/whatever is the same here.)
yep. nextcloud and davx5 for android
There’s this one guy in Vietnam who literally doesn’t sleep ever.

https://www.news18.com/amp/buzz/meet-80-year-old-vietnamese-...

Google it. There’s a lot about him. It’s like the one thing that makes zero sense in all this research about sleep.
I believe that the biggest problem is that different "compilers" do different amount of work. In the race to win the popularity contest many, and especially newer languages offer compilers packaged with "compiler frontend", i.e. a program that discovers dependencies between files, links individual modules into the target programs or libraries, does code generation etc. This prevents creation of universal build systems.

I.e. javac can be fed inputs of individual Java source files, similar to GCC suite compilers, but Go compiler needs a configuration for the program or the library it compiles. Then there are also systems like Cargo (in Rust) that also do part of the job that the build system has to do for other languages.

From a perspective of someone who'd like to write a more universal build system, encountering stuff like Cargo is extremely disappointing: you immediately realize that you will have to either replace Cargo (and nobody will use your system because Cargo is already the most popular tool and covers the basic needs of many simple projects), or you will have to add a lot of work-arounds and integrations specific to Cargo, depend on their release cycle, patch bugs in someone else's code...

And it's very unfortunate because none of these "compiler frontends" come with support for other languages, CI, testing etc. So, eventually, you will need an extra tool, but by that time the tool that helped you to get by so far will become your worst enemy.
I don't think it's actually "flattening" the enums discriminant spaces (though maybe it is). My guess is this is just 32-bit alignment requirement (ie. bytes 1:4 are padding) + sub-byte discriminant sizes. The surprising thing here is that the ordering of Outer's variants doesn't match the ordering as defined, instead having variant D's discriminant be 0 (0 << size_of::<Inner's discriminant>). size_of::<Inner> is actually 33 bits and size_of::<Outer> is 34 bits and then you just apply alignment requirements to each field. Actual size_of calls will account for alignment and padding, but the compiler knows the truth.

What's cool about this in general is nested match statements can be flattened into a jumplist (idk if rustc does this, but it's possible in theory).
In 1hr Brightline can take you from Miami to Boca Raton, about 40 miles. In 1hr, Caltrain can take you from San Francisco to San Jose, which is also 41 miles. In 35 minutes, Amtrak Acela will take you from Boston to Providence, which is 41 miles.
I don't understand what you are objecting to. What would the causal hypothesis be, "this syndrome causes no diseases"? It's just an ordinary claim that if the syndrome is harmful, it's not as immediately apparent as something like sniffing glue. It's saying "this is harmless" can't be ruled out.
yep, same.
works great.
using that over 10 years now
Big fan of all of this except for the emojis in my console
That's the thing here. We're so used at the concept of money that you described that it's very hard to reconcile with what money really is.

You can take any introductory banking system course and it will tell the same story. (I recommend Economics of Money and Banking by Perry G Mehrling)

It's not really a finished exchange.

Money represent a debt.

It's a one sided exchange against the promise of the completion of the other side of the exchange in the future (by someone else in this case).

It's like the amount in your bank account is not really money. It's a debt from the bank: the promise that it will deliver this amount as cash if you ask. (M1)

And money is so liquid that we never think about it that way. Except during hyperinflation periods. And bank account are so solid that we think about them as cash. Except during bank runs.

As a side note, the theory that barter really meaningfully took place is being challenged as there is no real evidence of this.
Kind like how GPL 3 makes it infeasible for most companies to use/support free software. At least Stallman gets to feel morally superior though
I've seen these kinds of things more for children/family in work-from-home than coworkers. My mom used to do it primarily with door status (is the door open or shut), but I've seen families where something brighter and more obvious is helpful.
Major thanks for the clarification at the end. I was surprised to see how little discussion that white house post generated on HN, given how anything related to krebsonsecurity tends to be a hit here. Makes sense now.
This looks like a very cool and very fun tool. Perfecting its use will be a much better way to avoid real work than scrolling instagram.
It's mentioned in the README:

- If Caddy has not already generated a local root certificate:
- Generate a local root certificate to sign TLS certificates
- Install the local root certificate to the system's trust stores, and the Firefox certificate store if it exists and an be accessed.

So yes. I had written about how I do this directly with Caddy over here: https://automagic.blog/posts/custom-domains-with-https-for-y...
Yes I know - but this has nothing to do with the topic at hand (about playing clever trying to hide/smuggle stuff through the border)

The source is here: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie...
Not for me, MacOS 15.4:

$ ping hello.localhost
ping: cannot resolve hello.localhost: Unknown host
It doesn't seem expensive to me at all. It does a huge amount.
I’m on board with your caveat. I have no issues with using AI to analyze the writing to identify potential issues. I currently use spell/grammar checking and I have no qualms about that. A more robust proofreader does seem useful.

To your point, I’d want to constrain such a review to identifying structural or consistency issues vs. the AI getting involved with the subject matter itself.

The issue I ran into the few times I wrote something and asked ChatGPT to read it and identify any issues was that it was all too eager to tell me how to massively restructure things. The result read like typical AI slop. This was a prompting issue on my part because I gave it instructions that were too open ended. Careful/restrictive prompting is definitely necessary to make this viable.
I don't make judgement. I just read the link, and the source seemed reputable.

But all I hear is "we want factory work back to Pennsylvania".

If the jobs pay too low, why would you want even more low paying jobs back to USA, sewing t-shirts, making sneakers, working in a factory?

And - specifically - why do the people that want that get so much influence?
This is honestly just a dumb urban legend. SNCF wanted to run a route down I-5 which is highly problematic and would not have accomplished the goals of the project. After tossing around their politically impossible ideas for a few minutes, they went and did something else. CAHSR engaged Spanish civil engineering firms Dragados and Ferrovial instead.

There is only one skill that is important for building CAHSR and that is navigating the multiplicity of overlapping governments at the federal, state, county, and city levels and plotting a course through CEQA and America's ridiculous common law system to reach the end of the project. SNCF might have experience building railroads but honestly anyone can build a railroad and SNCF brings nothing relevant to such a project.
Some of us have partially evolved for that environment. My ancestors eyes turned blue to see in the dim light and their hair and skin changed from Ethiopian Black to pale and blonde af.

Seems reasonable to expect some degree of genetic drift in sleep regulation as well, but I know of no data on this.
They weren’t. They were using approved software preinstalled on the phones given to them by their IT departments. Signal was approved during the Biden administration.
Colossus: The secret ingredient behind Google Cloud's Rapid Storage
>Wait, why do you need a shop to cash a cheque? Isnt that one of the last few things you go to a bank for?

In the US, a lot of poor people (and illegal immigrants) are unbanked. But also check cashing places also tend to do title loans (turn over your car title for a temporary loan) and other sorts of "fast cash" loans with usurious rates. They and pawn shops are they type of businesses that show up in areas of town where the cost of retail spaces drop.
> the parts that need rebuilding are the parts that read those files when they were last built...

...and the transitive closure of those parts, which is where things get complicated. It may be that the output didn't actually change, so you can prune the graph there with some smarts. It may be that the thing changed was a tool used in many other rules.

And you have to know the complete set of outputs and inputs of every action.

And on and on.
I just wish it was not, as usual, the people with the most money benefiting first and most
When I take a supplement with sulforaphane, I feel like I need less sleep.

I feel refreshed in the morning. Strange.
I have spent months at a time getting 7-8 (amid years of 5-6). I never notice any difference and am actually surprised my body can do 7-8 to no purpose.
PHP Core Security Audit Results
- "For all their expertise, I am sure a technical solution would also easily be able to detect what they are looking for: voids within the cheese, or lack of uniform density..."

Out of pure curiosity, how would an industrial process engineer approach this problem, de novo?
They could have had a mini primary leading to the Democrat convention in August and let the voters in the convention (electors?) decide from multiple candidates while taking polls into account, for example. Having a memory, I do remember people discussing the option of mini primaries. Harris wasn’t pre-ordained, she was just a bad decision that Democrat insiders made without input from the outside.
Maybe that would help, but the claim is that mitochondrial dysfunction is the source of every "literally, the entire DSM" mental disorder, and that is an unbelievable claim, especially when the DSM runs the gamut from PTSD to Erectile Dysfunction to Caffeine Withdrawal. It says to me that it's a poorly considered claim.
Ask HN: Dealing with SPAM emails after you unsubscribed?
I unsubscribed from a marketing email list over a month ago. This is from a large pharmacy chain in the US that I suspect I got enrolled into during a medication purchase.

I keep receiving marketing emails from them, and when I click "unsubscribe", the backend keeps telling me "There are no email subscriptions associated with *@*". That means it did take into account my unsubscribe request the first time around, as it doesn't find me in the DB.

So their DB doesn't have me in there, but I still get emails.

I understand the challenges of distributed systems, eventual consistency, etc... and so it appears the entity sending the email is using an "old" DB with my email address in it, that isn't sync'd yet with my removal update, but after waiting for over a month, I'm beginning to think this will never stop.

How would you deal with that?
Not even an AI, there are simpler ways. But as an italian, I will be in the pitchforks-armed horrified mob if this will be proposed. Not a chance.
TLDR: The Italian way of doing acoustic, non-destructive testing of a material. This is also done in many other things such as pipelines, chairlifts, and welded metals or machines that have pre-recorded acoustic signatures or sound recordings. Hit it with a hammer, listen to the tone. If it sounds very different, inspect or reject.
We have no understanding of medicine.
Oh, this will be nice. I've had a home-grown (rotate-windows) function in my config for a long time. I love it when I can shrink my config because core now has an equivalent.
Quiet, so as not to attract predators.
I have not seen evidence that the methodology of science is applied routinely in sociological research.
I still see many people here who, even now, still do not grasp that the country they're living in, on the government level, has joined the group of "China and Russia". It is no longer "China and Russia's imperialist authoritarianism are a danger to democracy across the globe, and we need to decouple from them.". It is now "China, Russia's, and the USA are a danger to democracy across the globe, and we need to decouple from them". For the first time in more than a century, we now have all of the geopolitical superpowers (of which there are currently 3), have very similar governments, based on a single paramount leader who holds in effect complete power and demands unconditional fealty from every single person in a position of power, subject to career-ending or soon much worse punishment. Not just to them, but to anyone in their vicinity, e.g. family or colleagues, to strike proper fear into them. See: non-Krebs SentinelOne employees having their security clearances revoked.

Let's take a look at this whitehouse.gov statement from the US.

> Yet in recent years, elitist leaders in Government have unlawfully censored speech and weaponized their undeserved influence to silence perceived political opponents and advance their preferred

For those desensitized, replace "elitist" in that sentence by "reactionary", "capitalist", "anti-revolutionist" or "intellectual", and re-read.

The earlier everyone faces the reality, the quicker something can be done about it. I propose at the very least, everyone starts saying "the USA" instead of "the US government" when talking about these topics, in line with how the overwhelming majority of the time, the actions of the Russian and Chinese governments are simply denoted by "Russia" and "China".

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr...
Well you probably have some national suppliers like Verizon or Xfinity but I’d mostly have to login and print out a bill assuming it had my address.
Mean People Suck, Folks
Seems like a simpler version could be sold for well under $50
Blue Shield Data Breach (Google Ads)
Disappointing behavior to say the least.

"On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google’s advertising product, Google Ads, that likely included protected health information. Google may have used this data to conduct focused ad campaigns back to those individual members. We want to reassure our members that no bad actor was involved, and, to our knowledge, Google has not used the information for any purpose other than these ads or shared the protected information with anyone."
> Your local web gangster

> My name is Pranshu, I'm currently an highschool student, on the way to become a proffesional freerider. I am ethniclly Indian(half Bihari and half Punjabi, for my brown brothers), you can find me in Brisbane, Australia, probably bathing in a public fountain.

Haha, so lovely. Reminds me of older times when the internet was cool and weird.
Interesting -- you can keep mitochondria alive outside of cells? Are there papers on what they need for that?
I added a fake .com record in my internal DNS that resolves to my development server. All development clients within that network have an mkcert-generated CA installed.

Not so different from you, but without even registering the vanity domain. Why is this such a bad idea?
"everyone is smart enough to not be fooled by a firehose of addictive misinformation"

You can tell how smart everyone is by looking at our excellent voter turnout, especially in local elections
Woo this is cool! I hope they start hosting public datasets like Google does for BigQuery, such as (wink wink) Hacker News archive.
I think the choice they made, combined with some great software and hardware engineering, allows them to continue to innovate at the highest level of ML research regardless of their specific choice within a reasonable dollar and complexity budget.
Or you could have /etc/hosts resolve them to other addresses in the 127.0/8 block.
I agree with sibling post saying both but with a note.

(Most)Shitty job conditions can only exist if there is an abundance of labor; why can fast food joints get away with irregular scheduling? If the supply of labor is tight, jobs have to add bonuses to keep workers.

Why is health insurance tied to jobs in the US? Because during WWII, the government set limits on wages so companies started adding insurance and other items to attract workers.

During the GFC, what did companies do after cutting workers? Start cutting benefits, the workers couldn't walk since no one was hiring.

Look at pensions, they went away in the 80's. If you google why they went away, the answer is 401k became availible, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession

> Even the “father of the 401(k),” Ted Benna, tells The Journal with some regret that he “helped open the door for Wall Street to make even more money than they were already making.”
>Other experts agree: On its blog, the Economic Policy Institute recently declared 401(k)s “a poor substitute” for the defined benefit pension plans many workers primarily relied on, which provide a fixed payout for employees at retirement, and which have now become increasingly rare. Nowadays, “just 13% of all private-sector workers have a traditional pension, compared with 38% in 1979,” reports The Journal.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/04/a-brief-history-of-the-401k-...

https://time.com/archive/6686654/a-brief-history-of-the-401k...
Technically? Not long. Socially and politically? My money’s on the battitore.
Chris Krebs' key offense: "falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen".

Trump has asked the Department of Justice to investigate him [1]. Trump is actively weaponizing the DOJ... while saying he is ending the weaponization of Federal Government.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justic...
Research Explores How to Boost Large Language Models' Multilingual Performance
I enjoy this flipped perspective.

The default and optimal state of a life form is waiting and efficiently using resources.

Moving around, socializing and reproducing,
killing and eating, are all energy expenditures or necessary to be able to prolong the sleep-life. Annoyances, from the POV of the sleep-being.
Food: If you can afford it freeze dried foods last 25+ years (much longer if stored right). They maintain 97+% of their flavor and nutritional value. They can also be bartered with neighbors. Dehydrated foods are also an option, not quite as good as freeze-dried and then finally canned and foods with long shelf life like the ones you describe. Work on getting super healthy and fit now to reduce the impact of eating less than healthy foods in a crisis. There are also videos that show how the Amish prepare and preserve foods though I would avoid most of their unhealthy food selections.

Water: Numerous 5-gallon BPA free containers with water (5 are easier to carry) and a small amount of peroxide to keep anything from growing in it. Read up on water treatment as there are several options and one must get measurements right or the water will be unsafe to drink in a year. Avoid streams and filters. They do not work as advertised and getting diarrhea will deplete you of water. Those are absolutely last resort. Filtering rain water if the system is set up to do a first-flush of bird poop is a little safer but still requires chemical treatment. Research how deep the water table is at your location. If shallow enough you may be able to make your own DIY hand-pumped solution. That will also need basic filtration to remove large minerals and dirt.

Heat: Wood stove and a lot of seasoned wood can last a long time. One can usually find more wood. Propane services, deliveries, trucks will not be available. Use it while you can but then consider the multiple uses of a wood stove. If your country bans wood stoves then just don't tell them you have one. If you have time to build it, you can make an insulated green-house with large black containers of water essentially heat batteries that can store heat from the sun using water. Some people use clay-filled boxes that face the sun with tubing in them. You can use filters and vents with solar powered low speed fans to peel some of that heat off the green-house for your home. Compost can also produce heat.

Communication: Weather band emergency radios today are multipurpose. Some have very large batteries and solar that can charge themselves and your phone assuming cell sites are still working. A combination of FRS (UHF) and CB radio (HF) are great if your neighbors have them. FRS radios are cheap and easy to charge with solar. Many models of FRS radios also have built in weather-bands. Get a set of 12 or 24 of them so you can share with neighbors and have spare units. Coordinate channels and CTSS codes for different purposes in your neighborhood.

For DIY solar solutions check out Will Prowse [1]. He has an account on HN but no idea if he still comes here.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse/videos
I'm interested that their conclusion -- that Saturn could only support tiny life forms such as bacteria -- is not dependent in any way on the distance from Titan to the Sun.

Am I wrong in thinking that any life must require a steady input of energy, and that this must come from either solar energy or geothermal energy? Quick Googling says that Titan's core isn't known for sure, but probably isn't very hot.

If Titan's life were dependent of solar energy, wouldn't it's distance from the Sun imply very little energy to go around, and so very unlikely to have large organisms?
I feel like that article wants to have its cake and eat it too.

It's using an example where ... Signal shouldn't have even been used. That's not a good gateway to talk about Signal.
I might use it to keep the kids out when I'm on a Zoom call in the home office. It looks fun.
People made the same argument about Cameras vs Painting. "Humans are no longer creating the art!"

But I doubt most people would subscribe to that view now and would say Photography is an entirely new art form.
This is how Apple’s big Siri shake-up happened, per report
What kind of sleep are you having that is more entropic than your waking?
These aren't the leaders leaving. They're the rank-and-file.

We're seeing right now that a change to the status quo is at least as likely to be worse, not better. It's very easy to call for things to be different; it's very hard to come up with something different that gets wide approval.

So I get nervous when people call for "change", without specifying what change. And especially when they cite their inexperience as a virtue. (That applies to 80-year-olds as well as 30-year-olds.)

I do wonder if these Senators are missing an opportunity. The status quo gets to be the way it is because people fear the alternative will be worse. But we're rapidly reaching a point where the alternative cannot be worse.
It's been possible to automate this job away for decades, with no AI necessary. You could image these cheese wheels with ultrasound or X-rays and establish thresholds for the size of voids which are tolerable. This must be a concern wherever parts are cast, so surely there are off the shelf solutions. Presumably this isn't news to the relevant parties and they value having human battitores over the savings.
Bausch+Lomb doesn't know what went wrong, recalls intraocular lenses over TASS [pdf]