MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teo_zero | 2025-04-19 09:10:46+00:00
I don't think it's fair to talk about "shortcomings" and "getting it right": it's a different approach and we must agree that personal preference will diverge.

Personally, I tend to use action-selection for small changes (1 to 3 objects), and selection-action for larger ones (as my brain, I've learned, becomes slower at counting above 3). So "delete 2 words" will be "2dw", but to delete the next 5 words I'll reach out for "v".
by seanalltogether | 2025-04-19 09:10:48+00:00
I always wondered why so many British shows were never broadcast in America. I think the most I ever saw growing up in the 80s and 90s was a bit of monty python, mr bean and fawlty towers on PBS, but otherwise nothing. Were the licensing fees so high that it just wasn't worth it? I suppose you could argue that the style wasn't a perfect fit for American audiences, but even then, having a large source of already produced tv shows must have been worth it to one of the tv stations?
by bendigedig | 2025-04-19 09:11:06+00:00
Not necessarily, it depends where you live.

Remember that market rents are higher than they need to be due to the artificial scarcity imposed by a NIMBY-friendly planning system and the inaction of successive Governments who have chosen to look the other way.

And who would do the cleaning and serve you coffee if social housing didn't exist? It might cost you a lot more.
by venamresm__ | 2025-04-19 09:11:34+00:00
Most of the open source tools need patching to properly support certain scenarios (been there done that). They also lack support for parsing ASN.1 Value Notation format (textual), which is used everywhere in specifications, OSS Nokalva offers the full set of tools to handle this even with a playground and ASN.1 editor, this is non-existent in open source right now. For now the open source tools only focus on the crypto aspect, and doesn't really dive into telco, banking, biometric, and others.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-04-19 09:12:04+00:00
The idea that Jewish students are in danger at Harvard is just as absurd as the idea that Canada is to blame for the US' fentanyl problem. Harvard is probably one of the least antisemitic places on Earth.

Scott Aaronson has perpetuated the false claims about Harvard and other university campuses being antisemitic, because he is unable to separate hatred of Jews from opposition to what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. If you've been told all your life that people hate Israel because they hate the Jews, it's very difficult to break out of that and realize that the Palestinians have been horribly mistreated and have enormous, legitimate grievances against Israel.

But now fake claims of antisemitism are being used as a cudgel to end academic freedom in the US, and suddenly Aaronson and others who share his beliefs are in a difficult situation. They helped create the conditions for Trump's assault on academia.
by brulard | 2025-04-19 09:12:22+00:00
I don't think PHP is any better in solving the backend, than JS is in solving frontend. On the Frontend the situation is not ideal, but we made big leaps every let's say 5 years, going from jQuery to React and from React to later generation frameworks like svelte / solid etc. Yes, the landscape is fragmented and there are maybe too many options, but you make it sound like PHP is universally used as the backend solution, while I see it being used little these days except for legacy systems from 15-20 years ago.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-19 09:13:44+00:00
If you're a savvy old hand, and the job has quite a few repetitive elements, then keyboard- / macro- / script-driven workflows are the obvious way to get far more stuff done. Generally with much lower error rates.

But other that occasional API access (or hacking), I'm not aware of any push toward other models. Web sites & GUI apps are too damn good at both dog & pony shows for managers, and onboarding noobs. );
by TomK32 | 2025-04-19 09:14:05+00:00
Self-diagnosis is only a first step, the more important one that has to follow it is a professional diagnosis. While those are not bullet proof or by means of biological markers, the tests we have are thorough and conclusive for a overwhelming proportion of patients. Medication is quite hard to get approved, at least here in Europe, but it shows far better and faster results than say anti-depressants do (mis-diagnosis is a huge problem, a "depression" label will do nothing for someone with ADHD).

Decades of research by Russell Barkley and others have given us a fairly deep insight into ADHD and the tests and questionnaires that have been developed over those decades is what an adult should undertake. Procrastinating, forgetting names, dates and not being able to focus (a lot of the time, not just sometimes) are the milder symptoms that will more often than not push someone with ADHD into a downward spiral of depressions and alcohol abuse.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-19 09:14:57+00:00
> Many people, myself included, have kept weight off for decades.

To be clear, more than 80% of people eventually regain weight lost during a diet. While your statement might be factually correct: "many people" can be 20% of the millions of people who diet each year, but it overlooks the main point: Keeping off weight after a diet requires near superhuman control. Most people cannot do it. Thank god I was born with good genes that makes it easy for me to control my weight. It looks and sounds like hell trying to diet to lose weight.
by smitty1e | 2025-04-19 09:16:40+00:00
I've seen small teams run fairly large stuff because serverless offloads staffing requirements.

In particular, the whole blue/green CI/CD approach makes it both trickier to know what's going on, but harder to trigger an outage.

Thus, while the complexity complaints are largely on point, to label it all a "scam" is too strident.
by ykonstant | 2025-04-19 09:18:02+00:00
Some P&C can sustain a cozy atmosphere even with some moderately heavy themes or light comedy. However, it depends a lot on the game. For instance, I would not consider The Longest Journey cozy, even though it is one of my favorite adventure games. Nor my absolute favorite, the Blackwell series.

But I would definitely consider Monkey Island, Broken Sword and Kathy Rain cozy. Why? It is very hard for me to articulate. Besides the obvious (beautiful graphics and sound that is not too "challenging") it is something about the narrative working in a well-defined sandbox without too many surprises, but not in absolute monotony either. And the plot and story not being too heavy, while not being a complete farce either.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-04-19 09:18:24+00:00
When I had a facebook account I was in a group of there named like "steel is real - classic road bikes" where I used to post stuff. I'd bet it still exist. Most of the people on this group seemed to be what they call "baby boomers" from both Europe and the USA.

Between the funny/silly/cool stuff one day I posted a picture of a sculpture resembling a feminine silhouette made of bicycle chains (can't find the picture online, most probably it was from Seo Young-Deok). I thought it was really cool how the artist used the chains and found their "plasticity" to create surfaces.

It wasn't the first time I posted "art-sy" stuff; I recall posting a picture of Alicja Kwade's "Journey without arrival" (think a warped steel road bicycle).

This was around 10 years ago but I still can recall how some people there called me names and everything beyond because I was a "pervert" or something like that because I dared to post a picture resembling a naked woman. Mods ended locking the post but didn't removed it.

But then when that same people made mildy xenophobic/racist comments against me out of nowhere (before of after that incident), nobody bat an eye.
by darawk | 2025-04-19 09:18:25+00:00
There's no point in protecting one individual against an unconstitutional search that proves him guilty. The constitutional issue is the ability to have conducted the search in the first place. The only reason we suppress accurate, but unconstitutionally obtained evidence is to disincentivize the action in the future. This "good-faith exception" strikes that balance pretty ideally.

The defendants rights were violated, but there is no doubt about the legitimacy of the data, and what it implies. Police now know they cannot use this method in the future, so suppressing the evidence in this particular case does not disincentivize anything, as long as its made clear that it cannot be done in the future.
by class3shock | 2025-04-19 09:19:10+00:00
And that's great, lets assume that continues, which there is no guarantee of, when would batteries be in the same ballpark as jet fuel?

Lets call current batteries 300 Wh/kg and jet fuel 12,000 Wh/kg, that means, according to you, development would look something like:

Battery Density: 2035 - 600 Wh/kg 2045 - 1200 Wh/kg 2055 - 2400 Wh/kg 2065 - 4800 Wh/kg 2075 - 9600 Wh/kg

So in half a century we may see batteries approaching the power density needed.
by ithkuil | 2025-04-19 09:21:05+00:00
The problem isn't truthfulness per se but rather the judgement call of knowing that a) you haven't reached a sufficiently truthful answer and b) how to communicate that appropriately

A simple way to stop hallucinating would be to always state that "I don't know for sure, but my educated guess would be ..." but that's clearly not what we want.
by Sinosteelpipe | 2025-04-19 09:21:34+00:00
South Africa was once a leader in the African steel industry. In the 1980s, its crude steel production accounted for over 70% of Africa's total output. Relying on abundant iron ore and chromite resources, the country established a complete steel industry chain. According to data published by the World Steel Association (WSA), South Africa's crude steel production in 2024 reached 4.7 million tons, ranking 29th globally and second in Africa, following Egypt.
by d0mine | 2025-04-19 09:22:34+00:00
Your 2-3 points remind me of the quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”

Of course if you limit yourself only to problems that can be effectively solved by type system, then it may work. It is like limiting yourself only to those text processing tasks where regexs work. Yes, some text processing tasks may be much more effectively solved using a regex. But it is obvious that at some point in a more general case grep can’t replace python. It may be less apparent for compiler vs. python case but the general logic is the same.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-04-19 09:23:09+00:00
Napoleon is definitely remembered for his military campaigns and political actions before 1804.

Napoleon's Italian campaign of 1796-97 is one of the most brilliant campaigns in history.

Napoleon's legendary (and disastrous) Egyptian campaign took place from 1798-1801.

The 18th of Brumaire, Year VII (9 November 1799) is an extremely famous date in history, as the date that Napoleon overthrew the Directory.

Napoleon's crossing of the Alps and the crucial Battle of Marengo occurred in 1800.

If Napoleon had retired in 1803, he would still be one of the most famous figures in French history.
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-19 09:24:06+00:00
So, state is simple, stupid simple.

The way to keep it simple is to have a single state object, which is the one place where state is organized and accessed.

The way to make it scale is architecture. Architecture is a fancy word that means a repeatable pattern of instances where each instance of a thing represents a predefined structure. Those predefined structures can then optionally scale independently of the parent structure with an internal architecture, but the utility of the structure’s definitions matter more.

Boom, that’s it. Simple. I have written an OS GUI like this for the browser, in TypeScript, that scaled easily until all system memory is consumed.
by chii | 2025-04-19 09:24:17+00:00
It's not stopping the production, but changing the flow.

suppose there's a flow of nutrients of type A from area one to area two. Currently, iron is the chokepoint in nutrient consumption of A, so that A is never completely consumed while going from one to two.

By adding excess iron into area one, or in the middle of the region between this flow from area one to two, you now have the possibility to consume A completely as iron no longer limits A's consumption.

So what happens to area two's consumption of A, if it became more scarce? May be nothing - or may be you now have another choke point of resources that wasn't there previously, leading to a change. If you weren't sure if this change would occur, or dont know, perhaps adding iron to area one is not a good idea, until such outcomes have been studied and acertained first.
by philjohn | 2025-04-19 09:24:58+00:00
Yes - but Hydrogen vehicles have not proven to match or even beat EV's in a lot of key metrics that matter.

The biggest one is efficiency. 40% efficient is one figure I saw, versus 80% for EV's.

Yes, you can refill quicker, but time to "refuel" EV's is dropping precipitously as well, and it's just all around safer than tanking around highly combustible liquid gas.
by derriz | 2025-04-19 09:26:35+00:00
> Don't dodge the question like that. I said efficiency hasn't improved.

That's not what you said and to avoid confusion, as usual, I provided an exact quote of what you claimed before providing my response.

To repeat, your actual exact words:

> The technology hadn't improved not much more than a quarter's worth so far in my lifetime as far as EV is concerned.

Your attempt to twist away from your original claim while suggesting that I've acted in a shameful manner does not suggest that you're making any attempt to engage honestly or with good faith.
by wrboyce | 2025-04-19 09:26:37+00:00
Monty Python, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, League of Gentlemen, Royle Family, Phoenix Nights, Peep Show, Extras, Brass Eye, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Bang Bang It’s Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars, Spaced, Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, One Foot in the Grave, Ali G, Whose Line is it Anyway, HIGNFY, Idiot Abroad, Life’s Too Short, Fast Show, Black Books, Porridge…

We could do this forever, I’m sure there’s a load still missing!
by TomK32 | 2025-04-19 09:27:28+00:00
Spot on. I like to say that I never learned how to learn. I did and still can dig into a topic that I'm interested in, but might loose interest in it after a few months. I can see with my daughter's first years at school that the system has only slowly changed but at least it's so much easier for ADHD kids to get spotted and receive the treatment that I didn't get. My daughter (I'm a bit on the edge about whether or not she did inherit it) is allowed to put on noise cancelling head phones in class, it must be a bliss for her.

There's so much more that the individual can do, but they need a group around them for support and, to be blunt, monitoring. The system needs to improve (I refuse to use "change") and with how this whole manosphere shit is influencing our boys and teens, it needs some fixing fast. Am I the only one missing stoicism and clemency as I currently watch Adolescence?
by bravetraveler | 2025-04-19 09:28:10+00:00
Found the German, can vs. should matters.

Save this criticism for the people who aren't nuanced, they left avenues. Mitigation, not eradication.

Before you take this personally, I'm talking about the quotes. Not history.

edit: downvoters and I would also disagree RE: Sisyphus. The punishment is worth it, bro. /s
by smeeger | 2025-04-19 09:30:03+00:00
i have always kind of thought that videogames are bad for young adults but the other day i realized that people exposed to certain videogames growing up are much more sophisticated. same with movies. if we could take the violence out of games and movies then they would be a very useful way to supercharge the education and development of young people. if we had movies that werent filled with harmful misinformation… its a great way to augment life experience. a lot of kids would have trouble sitting down to read for two unbroken hours… and the bitrate of movies is much higher
by transpute | 2025-04-19 09:30:03+00:00
There's also a QNAP 1U for $600, which adds M.2 NVME and optional 32GB ECC RAM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868855

We need more Thunderbolt/USB4-to-JBOD 40Gbps storage enclosure options, for use with Ryzen mini PC or Lenovo Tiny.
by whoistraitor | 2025-04-19 09:30:43+00:00
Yeh it’s strange it includes cockney so prominently. It isn’t really very present unless you spend time around the various gentlemen frequenting sports pubs and pie and mash shops in east London, or if you take a black cab very often. I’d say the “roadman” dialect, mixing cockney and Jamaican patois, plus grime vibes, is FAR more common. I’ll hear it everyday wandering around South and east London. I guess it’s a London dialect so it’s in that umbrella,… but how come cockney gets such a fat slab of land?
by KaiserPro | 2025-04-19 09:32:05+00:00
> Do people really speak Kentish in most of Kent? Or is it a mix of Modern Estuary,

Yes, ish

For example Bermondsey(a former borough in southwark, london) is a weird mix of kent and cockney, but it is still, just about distinct. if you move more into kent, I sounds get longer. from I to Aye, to Aye-eh

In the 80s-2000s half of central london moved to the suburbs, taking the accent with them.

However the south london accent still exists in younguns, depending on parents of course. If you're second generation, and depending on which school you go to, you might get a hybrid accent. (my daughter got a proper bermondsey accent, but I suspect now she'd get, posher accent.)

but, those accents are well away from these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S8JR4eJAXA which sounds more related to broads norfolk when I was growing up. (but 1950s broads was different to 80s)

I think the biggest issue is trying to pin down the hard accent changes vs the gradual.

For example somewhere in Lincolnshire it goes from rural burble to hard yorkshire-eqse stops. I suspect its something to do with the fens.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-19 09:33:54+00:00
[edit - Corby is on the map! It refers to the accent as "Corbyite" in the middle of "Northants".]

The TV programme "Toxin Town" is set in Corby, about birth defects caused by mishandled environmental waste.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg7pvl59wxo
by bsenftner | 2025-04-19 09:34:24+00:00
Harvard University used to teach an assembly language class back in the 80's, taught on a mainframe - a VAX 11/780 or similar I seem to recall. This was an open enrollment class, available to evening and summer students. That class was, well it as Assembly, so it was difficult. The homework assignments were odd, seemingly unrelated. At the midterm, the professor handed out a makefile that combined every assignment to date, and if you did your homework correctly, a mini version of Vi was produced. The rest of the class with polishing that version of Vi, all in assembly 11/780. Taught me one hell of a lot!
by molf | 2025-04-19 09:34:34+00:00
This seems like a business problem more than a design issue. Systems need to evolve alongside the business they support. Starting out with a simple design and evolving it over time to something more nuanced is a feature. Your colleague was right, and you were also right; except for the part where all nuances of the ideal solution need to be present on day 1.

The clients you have on day one are often very different from the ones you’ll have a few years in. Even if they’re the same organisations, their business, expectations, and tolerance for complexity likely have changed. And the volume of historical data can also be a factor.

A pattern I’ve seen repeatedly in practice: 1. A new system that addresses an urgent need feels refreshing, especially if it’s simple. 2. Over time (1, 3, 10 years? depending on industry), edge cases and gaps start appearing. Workarounds begin to pile up for scenarios the original system wasn’t built to handle. 3. Existing customers start expecting these workarounds to be replaced with proper solutions. Meanwhile, new customers (no longer the early adopter type) have less patience for rough edges.

The result is increasing complexity. If that complexity is handled well, the business scales and can support growing product demands.

If not… I'm sure many around here have experiences where that leads (to borrow Tolstoy: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”).

At the same time a market niche may open for a competitor that uses a simpler approach; goto step 1.

The flip side, and this is key: capturing all nuances on day 1 will cause complexity issues that most businesses at this stage are not equipped to handle yet. And this is why I believe it is mostly a business problem.
by Turneyboy | 2025-04-19 09:35:29+00:00
I absolutely agree. Not re-running the computation for the first 4*10^18 and claiming a new record is absolutely disingenuous. I could verify just a single example that hasn't been covered before and claim a new record with this logic.

That is not to say that this is not a cool project. The distributed nature and running so seamlessly directly in the browser is definitely cool and allows people to contribute compute easily.

It may be that grandiose claims of new records are needed to make people donate their computational resources but I am not a fan of deceptive claims like this.
by _fw | 2025-04-19 09:36:44+00:00
This is good but it’s not diverse enough for North West England. In ‘Wigan’ (as shown on the map) you’ve got the Oldham/Bolton accents (book - bewk; first - fussed) which are similar but as distinct as Brummie/Black Country.

In Merseyside you’ve also got Wools/Scousers, each with different patter and pronunciation. Not to mention Warrington and its accent further East.
by smarkov | 2025-04-19 09:36:58+00:00
I never said that PHP was universally used, just that it has answers to most problems.

jQuery has become obsolete these days because the problems it solves have largely been solved by additions to JS, but the interactivity of websites has continued to increase and browsers have yet to catch up to that. Frameworks like React actively fight against the browser rather than work with it by maintaining its own DOM state and constantly creating copies of state for every re-render of a component, along with a bunch of other magic. That's a lot of unnecessary loopholes just to make up for JS's lack of features when it comes to writing reactive UI.
by kuberwastaken | 2025-04-19 09:37:03+00:00
Heyo! Thanks for checking it out! "On Firefox mobile I got a black screen" - Yup I broke it while trying to add mobile controls earlier, but it works well now!

"the keyboard doesn't work until after I click to fire, and this state resets itself every time I press f5 to restart the game" yes- this is actually something for starting the game music and some other processes
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by Timwi | 2025-04-19 09:38:19+00:00
> Probably because English is written left to right and doesn't work so well top to bottom.

My browser tabs are on the left side of the screen and they are all written left to right. There is ample space on the sides of websites to fit this and show the entire tab title. Meanwhile, other people have tabs along the top of the screen that all show one or two letters followed by “...”.

My taskbar is on the right and consists entirely of icons. The only text on it is the date/time and that is also written normally and not rotated.

This is the setup that I was saying I don't understand the resistance against — not 90° rotated text. When people say “vertical tabs”, they are not talking about rotating the text.