MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thraway79879s8d | 2025-04-27 17:05:55+00:00
You're right, but I don't think "just go to a sex party" scales up. There is simply way more male interest in such things. (Though yes, a lot of men would chicken-out last minute too.)

A gestalt of 3rd wave feminisism is "maybe if women are liberated, they will be hornier like men", and there was a huge amount of cultural messaging in this direction. It does not work, and as the interview entails, there is a lot of resentment from the women feeling like they were being propagandized to enjoy a hookup culture that didn't not fulfill their needs.

Either

1. men need to get less sociosexual 2. women need to get more sociosexual 3. wayyy more men need to come out as bi 4. or money needs to change hands.

We've already more or less tried and failed at 2 per the above, no one has a clear proposal for 1, 3 would be great but unclear how high the ceiling is, and then there's 4.

I would love to avoid 4 if anyone could actually come up with a serious proposal on how to massively increase sex party attendance / polyamory / etc. without money changing hands, but I am not seeing it.
by jdance | 2025-04-27 17:06:31+00:00
Yeah me neither, I think the CSS being cool and hard to use was the real reason. People like being ”elite”, and tables were just dead simple.

I am surprised people here still hold on to that era of CSS. There are even people in the comments being proud of clearfix

But I should probably be thankful for CSS for getting me out of webdev early :)
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-27 17:06:38+00:00
My apologies.

I left out this bit, again from the same link I shared previously[0]:

>U.S. and British intelligence officials, having broken Japanese codes early in the war, were well aware of Japanese desperation and the effect that Soviet intervention would have. On April 11, the Joint Intelligence Staff of the Joint Chiefs predicted, "If at any time the USSR should enter the war, all Japanese will realize that absolute defeat is inevitable." Japan's Supreme War Council confirmed that conclusion, declaring in May, "At the present moment, when Japan is waging a life-or-death struggle against the U.S. and Britain, Soviet entry into the war will deal a death blow to the Empire."

[0] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-27/its-time-...
by TuxSH | 2025-04-27 17:06:47+00:00
> and finding that I could only get it to generate with a specific compiler chain on windows (ninja I think?)

Yes, you're right about that.

Basically, it boils down to "use CMake with Ninja/Makefile" (even if you don't strictly have to, you could write a script that creates the json yourself, for example). When cross-compiling, you may also have to whitelist compiler paths.

Add -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON as command-line arg during the config step, or add the equivalent "set" call to your CMakeLists.txt, restart clangd (ctrl+p, restart clangd), and you're good to go.

There are minor annoyances when cross-compiling (it using clang -- some compile options are incompatible and need to be removed in global user config, and it not extracting default compiler defines from compilers) but they are very easily worked around

I more or less use this as config: https://gist.github.com/TuxSH/0220d1235dace77f82738c96718011...
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 17:06:52+00:00
[citation needed]

And you know, I wouldn't be surprised if people hurling those accusations somehow believe that the lies and misinformation are one-sided and partisan. As if leftism has some sort of monopoly on Truth and Goodness bestowed from above.

It's really been sickening to see the media outlets just lay down thick trails of bullshit that is designed to distract us, to instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt, to make us hate one another, to keep us hanging on that channel or that subscription for the next tidbit. It's disgusting and manipulative, and the Right has absolutely no monopoly on those tactics.

Wikipedia is simply a microcosm of the prevailing zeitgeist, so they are as likely to cure systemic bias as a leopard can change its spots.
by dang | 2025-04-27 17:07:05+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It destroys what this site is for, and we've asked you many times in the past not to do this.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by pseudalopex | 2025-04-27 17:07:23+00:00
> And really, everybody should at least try a sex party (Bacchanal) once. Have to do some std checks ahead of time, but its just so liberating and freeing for everyone. It gets money, possessiveness, prudishness, and all those distorting things out of the way. And puts sex into perspective. And well, its fun.

https://xkcd.com/592/

Sex parties are liberating for some people. Not for others. People who go to sex parties are not healthier or unhealthier in my experience.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-04-27 17:08:12+00:00
How much "reverse engineering" these days really is clean room and how much of it is just ripping off proprietary software?

One can easily find a bazillion of "github repos" that distribute what is evidently directly decompiled game code with minimal cleanup. Bonus points if they also claim it is OK as long as the game art is not distributed, which in addition to being wrong is disrespectful to developers as a whole.

But when the Nintendo copyright czar wakes up, they're the bad guys...
by tough | 2025-04-27 17:08:23+00:00
iOS/MacOS users are more predisposed to shell some bucks because of their walled garden upbringing.

Devs would usually prioritize iOS releases (early on, when no React Native nor Expo was as common place) only due to this fact that iOS users where much more likely to spend money than Android ones.

This might have equalized since the early days but i bet some of it still stands
by ryan-duve | 2025-04-27 17:09:32+00:00
> The current 9-series configuration, which will end with 9ZZZ999, is projected to end sometime in 2026... The next generation of license plates will flip that structure on its head, moving to a “Numeral Numeral Numeral Alpha Alpha Alpha Numeral” format — such as 000AAA0.

Does anyone know why they care about this structure? Naively, there are 36^7 (minus edge cases) combinations available, which will always be sufficient.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 17:10:11+00:00
I have found a really amazing way to block ads on websites. It's by not visiting them in the first place. Imagine how well this could work. It's sort of like abstinence and chastity rather than contraception. "Oh you know I love you, let me just have a little for free, and not worry so much about consequences, baby!"

Also I found this amazing hack for YouTube and YT Music. I am nearly hesitant to write it down here, lest everyone try it out. I figured out that if I pay them like $20/mo, all the ads disappear from both apps! Can you believe what suckers they are! I fear that this loophole may be closed soon, but for now I'm living high on the hog!
by jandrewrogers | 2025-04-27 17:10:19+00:00
Yes, in fact it should essentially be mandatory because the spatial reference system for GPS is not fixed to a point on Earth. This has become a major issue for old geospatial data sets in the US where no one remembered to record when the coordinates were collected.

To correct for these cases you need to be able to separately attribute drift vectors due to the spatial reference system, plate tectonics, and other geophysical phenomena. Without a timestamp that allows you to precisely subtract out the spatial reference system drift vector, the magnitude of the uncertainty is quite large.
by nerdjon | 2025-04-27 17:10:24+00:00
I think it is really important to take societal pressure on woman into account here. Which you kinda touch on, but not fully.

If a woman is a slut, they are shamed. If a man is a slut, they are cheered on.

Or put another way, a woman has to play "hard to get" and can't be "easy". When was the last time you heard a man called "easy"?

There is a lot more shame put on woman for having a healthy sexuality that often leads to not exploring their desires.
by _1tem | 2025-04-27 17:10:46+00:00
One curiosity I've noticed about close friendships through religious communities compared to other modern circles of "friendship": it is largely independent of age, socioeconomic status, and stage of life. In every other friendship circle I've been a part of, the basis has either been age (school/college), economics (work), extended family, or skill (sports and hobbies like motorbikes). Some friendships seem to be made through some shared interest (somebody here mentioned heavy metal, i consider you guys my friends on HN) but those tend to be heavily segmented by age/skill/socioeconomic status too. Religious communities are the only friendship circle I've ever been in where you easily connect with both young and old, regardless of skill/ability or stage of life. The unifying factor is "belief" and adherence to tradition. To this day, they remain the strongest and most stable relationships over time and space, even as we moved cities, changed jobs, and entered new stages of life.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-27 17:10:47+00:00
> How is that a "step 1" when thats describing something else entirely?

You asked "how do we change that" and I'm assuming the "that" referred to the subject of the PC: "The damage of an advertising-based internet economy" which in turn exists in the context of the linked video in the OP, which enunciates the consequences of machine learning being applied to creating hyper-addictive and extremist social media websites, in 2017 by the way, and the speakers broad hypothesis seems, in my eyes, broadly confirmed.

And the principle issue there is thus: an algorithm that consistently directs you to more concentrated and extreme versions of whatever you're consuming (vegetarian -> vegan, for example) can be utterly benign or perhaps annoying in that context, but gets notably darker when it's moving people from Donald Trump's rallies to The Jewish Question.

I have no issue at all with the former example, I have a LOT of issues with the latter.

> How much would you pay to own an account on social media? If your answer is $0 then you're not addressing anything, you just want someone else to subsidize your entertainment and you want to call the shots on top.

In that equation, I'm the product. I have every right to call the shots because the social media company only makes money by my participation in it, which is why I left Facebook and have only atrophied, ancient presences on most websites. I'm fine being shown ads for weird tech junk I might find cool. I'm not fine having the intricacies of my personal beliefs sanded off by weirdos trying to sell white supremacy like it's Pepsi.
by Sophira | 2025-04-27 17:11:09+00:00
One thing I've noticed is that Reddit is very, very aggressive about how it implements its telemetry.

Not only is the endpoint that it uses for collecting events randomized each time you load a page, but it also happens that every event collector URL is a valid API endpoint that is used for other things. You can't block any of them with regular ad blocking tools unless you're okay with blocking the corresponding API endpoint. And given that the website itself uses the API, this can be difficult.

It's evil and I hate it.
by end1snight | 2025-04-27 17:11:20+00:00
You all still use the web? I've been transpiling video game frame data into shader, geometry, lighting, color gradient data, and an agent system that mix-n-matches styles.

I got into software modding game engines, though. Never cared much for web apps, SaaS. Never much saw the use in paid software since it's just geometry. We made a lot of dumb busy work out of SWE with web apps.

DRY? Yes, let's not repeat ourselves still bothering with lame day jobs that obfuscate it's just physical statistics in a machine of known constraints.

Am really excited about the rest of the world flipping the US off, nVidia full-steam ahead on autonomously organizing distributed systems. Propping up SWEs props up a dangerous delusion.
by mubou | 2025-04-27 17:11:52+00:00
Is RTEMS an active project? They should file a copyright complaint and have the libogc repo taken down if this is true. If it were me, I'd lawyer up and throw the book at them.

LibOGC accepts donations via Patreon, which means -- if the allegations are true -- they're profiting off stolen code. RTEMS could and should sue for damages.

This isn't the first time I've seen an open source project stolen by someone trying to pass it off as their own work while accepting Patreon donations. I'd like to see some justice every now and then...
by akst | 2025-04-27 17:11:56+00:00
My knowledge of geospatial sets is fairly shallow, but I’ve worked a bit with Australian map data and I’m assuming are you referring to the different CRSs, GDA2020 and GDA1994?

I’d imagine older coordinates would work with the earlier CRS?

But I can understand not all coordinates specify their CRS. This have really been an issue for me personally, but I’ve mostly worked with NSW spatial and the Australian Bureau of statistics geodata.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-27 17:12:39+00:00
BLM content does not promote hate the way white nationalist content does and I'm immediately suspicious of your motives with you trying to make that equivalence. BLM is about justice and equality under the law. White supremacy is decidedly not, like, it's in the name. That's the supremacy part.

As for black supremacist content, yeah nix that shit too. It's corrosive for the exact same reasons. Was this supposed to be a hard question?
by kmmlng | 2025-04-27 17:13:26+00:00
> It seems that you're saying that a therapist will be "rubbish unless they use basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy concepts" ? i.e. that this is the only valid approach to therapy?

I believe the parent poster is saying that CBT is the only form of therapy you can trust an LLM to pull off because it's straightforward to administer.
by julik | 2025-04-27 17:13:29+00:00
Kind of, yes. If you are going to be doing this at scale, you will either need to pin servers to shards of users, or retrieve the DB from some durable storage "just in time", or... use a network mount. Note also, that with small-enough databases you can do the same thing Apple does - fetch your entire tenant from the "big datastore", set a lock on it, do the thing that you want to do - and then write it back into the "big datastore" at the end.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-04-27 17:15:20+00:00
Pi holes don't swallow everything, in stream ads like on Youtube and Twitch and served by the domain all make it through the Pi hole approach. It also doesn't allow you to turn it off for a particular page or site either, if you want to allow ads on Phronix you can't do it without enabling that advertiser everywhere since it lacks the context of the DNS calls.

The advantage is it works with every browser on every device, its network wide and it blocks a tonne of other calls that aren't made by the browser such as telemetry.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-04-27 17:15:36+00:00
Goddang, it’s not like they’re giving medical advice or anything, it’s simply about being exposed to novel concepts and ideas, which fosters creativity. You don’t really need “evidence” for this, but even if somehow it’s wrong and reading obituaries either somehow does not increase or decreases creativity, is not like there’s harm in saying “Hey, try reading some obituaries, you might learn some interesting stuff”
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 17:16:34+00:00
I think it's causal. The cruise control on my car is busted and I don't really feel like shelling out four figures to fix it, so I drive without. I also speed probably 10-15 over pretty often when I'm on long stretches of highway. Of course, I'm also in Texas where this is fairly common and poses less of a risk than eg in Virginia.

The funny thing is I might actually be safer without it, as it's the old static-speed cruise control not adaptive. While I'm less patient to idle along at 75, I am also more attentive. Who knows.
by notpushkin | 2025-04-27 17:16:34+00:00
> you mean, like some kind of... democracy?

Yeah, I think that was the point.

And yeah, I agree, except governments are slow and, most of the time, corrupt. I really, really wish it worked! (There are counterexamples, I’m sure.)

So while I’m waiting for a GDPR 2.0 that would outlaw the bullshit data collection altogether (and not just put it behind a cookie banner), I’m still going to install an adblocker on every of my friend’s computers – because it works today.
by almosthere | 2025-04-27 17:17:48+00:00
From Newsome - "Federal law, as implemented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), already regulates vehicle safety standards, and adding California-specific requirements would create a patchwork of regulations that undermines this longstanding federal framework. NHTSA is also actively evaluating intelligent speed assistance systems, and imposing state-level mandates at this time risks disrupting these ongoing federal assessments."

Makes sense, everything else that CA does essentially causes things to cost more. This would be another thing. Not everyone has your salary. That said, I agree with you, cars going that fast are driven by idiot teenagers (or people that want to be a teen again) and are endangering people.
by eesmith | 2025-04-27 17:18:04+00:00
You sound like a 20th-century cigarette company representative using the fear of communism to keep the US government from restricting cigarette ads.

Edit: Now, I don't know if an ad exec actually said it, but I can find examples like:

> (2015) "Smoking ban is slippery slope toward communism" - https://eu.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/0...

> (1948) "Rep Flannagan told the House of Representatives that tobacco will also help in stopping communism." - https://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/tobac6.html

> (2007) "Smoking bans are an act of Communist aggression. " https://www.mesabitribune.com/news/smoking-bans-are-acts-of-...

More to the original point, Bern banned some outdoor advertising last year (!). https://www.iamexpat.ch/expat-info/swiss-news/bern-approves-... says "SVP councillor Alexander Feuz was the most strident [opponent], calling the change a “step towards Stone Age communism.”"

Looks like São Paolo has a widespread advertising ban since 2006(!!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa

Bern and São Paolo don't seem all that communist.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 17:18:35+00:00
The yankees' roads are all really bad. Old, narrow, sharp turns, and often crowded. I hate driving up there.

By comparison, Texas we have long open stretches and up to eight lanes each way, so obviously it's less of an issue.

I'd actually assume it's due to proximity to DC, which would tend to massively increase the population of "but the data say"-type technocrats.
by thraway79879s8d | 2025-04-27 17:19:00+00:00
Absolutely that exists, and I used to be more optimistic that with enough cultural shift that would go away and the problem would be solved, but now I am skeptical.

There's just tons of writing on women against frustration with changing cultural norms around casual sex that doesn't mention stigma at all, and I just can't hand-wave all that away as "subliminated stigma", as convenient as that would be!
by hnlmorg | 2025-04-27 17:19:01+00:00
It doesn’t matter if it’s a technical acronym or not.

You’re making a lot of effort here to claim that people should already know this when the evidence here (of people asking what it means) demonstrates that it’s not universal.

For the record, I don’t actually mind people not spelling it out on first use if the acronym is guessable from the context of the comment (which, ironically, a lot of technical acronyms are). But in the case of the OP, you wouldn’t know what SJW was u less you already knew what a SJW was. So it’s not an unreasonable request from the GP. And frankly, the comments criticising them for asking is really unfair. They have just as much right to ask as you do to say “it’s common” and the OP had to use that acronym in the first place. Let’s all just be nice rather than moaning that someone didn’t memorise some specific piece of tribalism before coming to HN.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-27 17:19:15+00:00
Being active doesn't matter, the copyright holders still hold the copyright.

How much they profit off the stolen portion is also questionable, and open source licenses weren't meant to extort money but to grant us rights to the code. What they should do is add attributions and fix their licensing (libogc needs to be GPLv2), or remove the code. Willingly, yesterday.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 17:19:52+00:00
Because engines aren't designed to be run at max output. The fact that an engine can do 150 means it's a lot nicer to drive at 75. I've driven a car that has a top speed of 85 on a good day, with a tailwind and going downhill, and it sucked. Fine for city streets but in my state we have bits of highway that have posted speeds as high as 85 and realistically most people do 9-10 over on long roads outside cities.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 17:21:37+00:00
This would be incredibly annoying. You what, have to tow your car to a track if you want to race? So now you need two vehicles?

Given that outright street racing is common amongst blue-collar or inner-city demographics, this is an unrealistic expectation that will just push more people away from legal venues. It's a policy that says "you can't enjoy your hobby" in disguise that shows disregard for others' preferences, plus it's practically difficult.
by glenstein | 2025-04-27 17:21:48+00:00
Seconded. Sometimes when someone says XYZ was likely used it's because they've read something from a credible source, or maybe are a subject matter expert, or have grasped some other similarly solid chain of evidence.

But sometimes, they mean "likely" in the more colloquial sense of a guesstimation, which can range anywhere from informed guess to low effort fan-fiction. I default toward the latter unless otherwise specified.
by olalonde | 2025-04-27 17:21:51+00:00
Suppose China and the U.S. each produce 10 tons of steel. GDP PPP would consider both economies equally sized (and they arguably are), but nominal GDP would favor the U.S. because steel costs more there. GDP PPP is more useful if you want to compare standards of living or consider consider a country's ability to sustain a war for example.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-27 17:22:22+00:00
Even a license suspension doesn’t necessarily change behavior: A federally funded study found that 75% of people with suspended licenses continued to drive.

I know part of this is related to sociopathic behavior, but the bigger part of it is probably that we really need better public transit and should design walkable cities instead of cities based around cars.

People still have to get to work, to the doctor, pick up their kids from practice, etc.
by billfruit | 2025-04-27 17:22:33+00:00
I think its hardly that much of an interesting idea. Reading wide ofcourse is useful and interesting. But I doubt reading obituaries are the best way to go about that.

One approach that I often do, is to go to fivebooks.com when an any random subject or topic strikes me and then try to read the books their interviewees have recommended on that topic. I have found many interesting books in this way.

Like their lists about the Spanish Civil war lead me to 'Forging of a Rebel' by Arturo Barea.

Another source is to look into famous/interesting peoples reading lists. Many famous people including Gandhi, Tolstoy and others kept lists of all books that they read.