MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjulius | 2025-04-26 16:27:49+00:00
I'm similar to the person you are directly applying to. I also have a 5 and 3yo.

Unlike the first OP, I don't get involved with the PTA and we don't really email with the school at all. I don't understand the emailing constantly with school thing, but to each their own and I'm sure there's a valid reason for those that do.

We, like the person you're replying to, also pay for a cleaner, but that's for deep cleaning and only happens once every two weeks. I've somehow settled into a routine that has me doing basic cleaning right after dinner.

My wife and I share chores and swap out tasks evenly. This allows one of us to clean and have some "me" time while the other bathes the kids/does bedtime, before we meet together and hang out for a bit in the evening before bed. Sometimes during the week we'll have a friend over during this time. Our weekend hours are limited in the evenings, because I have to get up early for work, but we make it work.

On the weekends, we are good about balancing our fun time. Grandparents come over and watch the kids as we go out together, or, just for one example, my wife will handle dinner/bedtime (or breakfast, if I go to something dance-musicy that runs late) while I go out to a show. I'll do likewise for her if she wants to go out with friends.

Also on the weekends, we often meet up during the day with friends of ours who also have kids. We get to hang out with our friends while our kids play together.

Additionally, my work has a gym and my work schedule is earlier than most - 6 to 3PM. I work out before and after work, and then go pick my kiddos up, make dinner and play with them after cleaning. I also chose a job that insisted they prioritize family and work/life balance and I leaned into that, and they leaned back! No notifications hit my phone after 4PM and in the four years I've worked here, I have never had to work a weekend nor been pressured to do any work outside of when I'm at the office.

My wife is also super nice about letting me go on 3-4 day backpacking trips multiple times through the summer.

We prioritized finding some time for us for our own sanity, and kinda naturally settled into this schedule. It might not work for everyone, and I feel very fortunate to have space for us.

Edit: Don't get it twisted, though... I'm tired. I can't get a full 8 hours of sleep on a regular basis, closer to 7, sometimes a bit less. The daytimes are also constant in order to ensure we get time at the end. It's hard.

Edit 2: We also prioritized ensuring our kids were great sleepers from day one. They go down for bed anywhere between 7 and 8, and don't wake up until ~7AM. We're also very lucky in that they've never really come into our bedrooms in the middle of the night and stay in their beds until we get them in the mornings. I don't know how we got fortunate there, but /shrug.
by IceHegel | 2025-04-26 16:27:57+00:00
I would push on how well GDP measures "economic might".

If I were to tell you a country over five years grew its GDP 5% in 1900, that would mean houses and roads and factories and mines and a whole range of things were built.

In 2020, 5% real GDP growth could be an increase in the value of various services. In fact, you might not need to change the physical world at all to achieve that growth.
by p_ing | 2025-04-26 16:28:34+00:00
Collation in a database determines case sensitivity in MSSQL. If the collation has "cs", it's case-sensitive. If it has "ci", it is case-insensitive.

Collation is configurable at the server level, but usually one goes for a _CI_ collation there (not much reason for master to be _CS_). Each user database can have it's own collation/case-sensitivity.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-26 16:28:37+00:00
If something is controversial to an insignificantly small number of people, is it by definition a controversy?

Hypothetically speaking, let's say you were a famous or notable person. Your Wikipedia article would probably have a controversy section with a vague statement like, "Some people find crazygringo's feet objectionable."

The citation would be a podcast where a guest told the host in an offhand comment, "I went on a date with crazygringo once and thought he had oddly-shaped feet."

Any attempt to delete this statement, even by you with full knowledge of your own feet, would be reverted as 'vandalism'.

This is Wikipedia in a nutshell.

Articles for celebrities and political figures are full of this garbage, which merely 10 years ago we would consider exclusively tabloid fodder.

I've read articles on complete nobody actresses with a controversy section that listed any and every political opinion she's ever said. It's a lame attempt to extrapolate (or reimagine) someone's entire personality from a few offhand statements made once in her life.

It's low quality content like this that undermines Wikipedia. Unfortunately it's all over the site and growing by the day.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-26 16:29:12+00:00
> I was under the impression that state governors could refuse to federalize their National Guards.

They cannot, under the Constitution. Of course, at the point the National Guard is being mobilized to prevent actions of the federal government, we are deep into a constitutional crisis and a short distance from a (possibly very brief) active civil war.

> A quick read on Wikipedia points to the Constitution saying it would take Congress for the federal government to take command unilaterally.

Congress has already done so , setting rules which require only a Presidential determination to invoke [0], and Presidents have used the authority so granted specifically to deal with very much the same state rebellion scenario you suggest, notably Eisenhower in 1957 when the Arkansas National Guard was deployed to prevent the implementation of a federal court order integrating Central High School in Little Rock: Eisenhower did the one-two punch of federalizing the entire Arkansas National Guard, ordered them away, and also deployed the Army (101st Airborne) to enforce the order. [1]

[0] in the Insurrection Act; the specific relevant provision is at 10 USC § 252: “Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.” (emphasis added)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
by n8cpdx | 2025-04-26 16:29:13+00:00
My problem is I initially had a trade in by mail in process. But since I have to walk by the apple store daily on my way to work, it was one of those rare moments where mail was actually less convenient. And I was concerned about the mail in return contractor deciding the phone is worthless (it happens).

Apple made me call to cancel the trade in, then said they could do it in store. They could not, not then, not an hour later, not days later.

Internet and apple store employees said it should be fine. I guess they don't make geniuses like they used to.
by tianqi | 2025-04-26 16:29:18+00:00
My answer is yes — at least for now. People tend to believe AI gives the great answers until it touches a field they actually have real expertise in. If you talk to true experts in humanities, you’ll find their depth of insight is on a totally different level compared to AI's surface-level summaries. AI mostly stitches together some published cliche like Max Planck’s driver in the old story.
by nico | 2025-04-26 16:29:39+00:00
To people curious or skeptical if this could be called “seeing” or “hearing”, I recommend listening to the Batman podcast episode on NPR (https://www.npr.org/2015/01/23/379134306/batman-pt-1)

Through the story and experience of a blind man, they end up getting into the question of what does it mean to see

The podcast is pretty straightforward, but it does end up showing that defining “seeing” is a philosophical question, rather than a simple obvious answer
by x0x0 | 2025-04-26 16:30:43+00:00
Pre-Bukele, El Salvador had a breakdown in civil society. Focusing just on homicide, it peaked at 106.3 homicides per 100k in 2015. For context, the "crime wave" America experienced in the 90s peaked at 9.82.

The April 24-27 2020 murder spree by gangs killed 77 people in a country of 6.3 million. Again, scaled to America's population, that's killing 4.1k people.
by snowwrestler | 2025-04-26 16:30:54+00:00
Nonprofits have privacy too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_v._Alabama

That said, there are a lot of operational advantages to being a for-profit corporation. Chan-Zuckerberg is organized this way. Other nonprofits try to have it both ways where the for-profit entity operates the business while being owned by a nonprofit. It has not worked out great for OpenAI. Patagonia converted to this model recently.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 16:31:08+00:00
The problem is that it is both pragmatic and cowardly. The unfortunate logical consequence of this is that as a race we will likely cease to exist as a result of a nuclear weapon(s) being used for any number of reasons including political expedience.

I genuinely agree with you and I am glad you are pushing back on those arguments, but our tendencies does not put me in an optimistic mood.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-26 16:31:12+00:00
Can you point out any factual errors in the article, with sources that demonstrate the error?

> The pro-gamergate editors were completely shut out of that article eventually and the article doesn't even mention any perspectives from the other side

The "pro-gamergate" perspective is described in the very first sentence under "Purpose and goals":

The most active Gamergate supporters or "Gamergaters" said that Gamergate was a movement for ethics in games journalism, for protecting the "gamer" identity, and for opposing "political correctness" in video games and that any harassment of women was done by others not affiliated with Gamergate.
by ohgr | 2025-04-26 16:31:22+00:00
I had a friend until recently. Really nice guy. Always looking out for people. Never said a bad word. In the last couple of years he turned into a nasty piece of work jumping on every politicised story out there and treating it as gospel. He alienated everyone around him.

It turns out that some people don't have a mind of their own and are waiting for orders.

Here is no exception. Look at the foaming at the mouth praise of the second coming of Microsoft when Satya took over. And where we are now? Look at the hype as well - blockchain, crypto and AI now. Mindless people slithering all over everything.

In fact I find a lot of the people in the technology sector to either be entirely morally bankrupt or lack any kind of self or societal awareness of their speech of actions. It disgusts me. I've been on HN pretty much since day one but the accounts last perhaps 6 months before I tire of it.

I moved out of the tech-first industry about 10 years ago and into a position of tech as a tool not a reason for a business existing and there are better people here.
by xyzzyz | 2025-04-26 16:31:23+00:00
Look, if you insist on using this term like this, it will make conversation and mutual understanding more difficult. If banning toddlers from voting is "voter suppression", then now we must distinguish between "good voter suppression", like banning votes from toddlers, and "bad voter suppression", like for example tactics to mendaciously make it harder to vote for people who are otherwise eligible.

The result is that "voter suppression" is no longer understood to be a bad thing. You lose the ability to drop this phrase and expect people to pick up that the implication is negative. For example, you said above:

> Democracy is not 2 parties doing voter suppression and gerrymandering as a filter to pass the result to an electoral college.

If "voter suppression" as a term now include things that are universally understood as good, like banning toddlers from voting, this sounds incoherent. Democracy very much is about doing voter suppression, and everybody agrees it to be a good thing!

If you don't like how it sounds, you need to stop including good and proper things under the "voter suppression" label. Rayiner tried to help you with that, by distinguishing between mendacious voter suppression, and good and proper setting of voter qualifications, but you rejected that.
by peakskill | 2025-04-26 16:31:54+00:00
People saying it’s impossible with a family have really never frequented third spaces in Europe. Kids go everywhere with their parents and are allowed to roam as long as they remain within sight. The adults make friends and so do the kids. Most importantly, even if hypothetically nuclear families with young children couldn’t do it, younger and older people alike would be able to, which is still a major improvement to the current status quo. Second order effects from the existence of third spaces are simply a more open, pleasant, higher trust society with more independent, resilient adults. Say what you want about GDP, but fact is, I was much happier in Europe than the US and I live in a relatively walkable town close to NYC.

Oh, and you can absolutely have friends AND children. I have both.
by treis | 2025-04-26 16:32:04+00:00
Y'all sound like the people in an infomercial that can't pour juice without spilling it everywhere or they get egg in ridiculous places when they try to crack it. With dishwashers, instapots, roombas, microwaves, and so on modern life just isn't that hard. Or, more accurately, it's mostly as hard as you make it.
by derektank | 2025-04-26 16:32:41+00:00
Have you found that with your procedure, to quote the blog piece, "new venous bypasses grow to replace the destroyed spermatic veins," as found in Gat and Goren's work in follow ups? Or is the long term data not there yet?

Thank you for taking a risk on this by the way. As someone who has family history it's heartening to know there are people taking this seriously.
by conor_mc | 2025-04-26 16:32:47+00:00
We do have a chicken and egg problem. I think the idea here is that it's a systemic issue and the enforcement is focussed on individuals. This is analogous to the concept of getting everyday people to recycle when the companies creating the products have greater control over how much garbage is produced.

Employers need to stop taking advantage of undocumented workers at artificially suppressed wages. This has acted like a subsidy keeping these poor business models afloat. This has led us to the situation we are in now, where we've become dependent on undocumented migrants (food production etc), who we are being taking advantage of (lower wages, less rights), and also trying to villanize & deport them (the article above). All simultaneously.

It's possible with careful coordination of industry, legislation, and immagration, we wouldn't be here. But now that we are, we need to either find a way to improve the situation or reverse it.
by beloch | 2025-04-26 16:33:12+00:00
Let's do a time warp.

It's 2018. Children are being separated from their parents and kept in cages[1]. It's really important to notice that the pictures in this article are not from reporters, leaks or anything of the sort. They were released by Customs and Border Protection and, no doubt, make things look better than they were.

What has changed since Trump's first term? Yes, there is now a stronger sensitivity to separating children from their parents, among the public at least. One solution is to simply deport child citizens along with non-citizen parents and claim it was by choice.

What solutions are we not seeing in the media though? How many photos are being published about conditions in ICE facilities, Guantanamo bay, etc.? What's going on that we just don't know about this time? If some judge ordered the release of photos of current conditions in ICE facilities, they'd be ignored or even charged with some made-up crime.

I see a lot of people here trying to reason this away, but it's going to be worse than last time and, eventually, the truth will get out. I know it's tough to care about this while Trump is simultaneously tanking the stock market, waging trade wars, threatening multiple countries with invasion or annexation, etc.. That is by design. Even Americans who cannot spare any sympathy for immigrants need to make the time to care about how their government is treating American children.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942
by panick21_ | 2025-04-26 16:33:14+00:00
> 2) all the other US manufacturers treated electric as a premium product

This is because the LITERALLY CAN'T make money of a non premium product.

And for Tesla is just because Musk is stupid and went ALL-IN on self driving. They literally believe that the market will drop by 80% because of self driving. That's why the only build robotaxi and no model 2. Against the advice of basically everybody in Tesla leadership.
by joenot443 | 2025-04-26 16:33:15+00:00
With all the charity work Moby does, I get the impression he's pretty comfortable cash-wise.

Personally, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and saying that his intentions are earnest here; he really does want to put free music in the hands of creators. Maybe if he'd launched a $MOBY memecoin alongside it I'd be skeptical, but my gut says this isn't a venture he expects to make real money from.
by ayaros | 2025-04-26 16:33:48+00:00
I think the default system font should be a more condensed variant; it would make the system look much more refined. There are a number of areas where it's clear you need more horizontal space for characters. Each character should have less width, and there should be as little space between the characters as possible - just a single pixel ought to be enough at the font size and resolution you're using.

I don't know anything about your font system; I'm assuming it's fixed width bitmap fonts? I don't know how hard it would be to make these changes within your codebase so if it's too much work then don't worry about it.

I've been building a web OS site from scratch for a while now (not as technically impressive as what you're doing) and I just got through a total rewrite of the font classes, so it's at the top of my mind.
by casey2 | 2025-04-26 16:34:01+00:00
s/the internet/youtube, facebook, instagram, twitter, reddit/ s/twitter/x/

Youtube subscriptions generally work fine, it isn't worth my time maintaining rss feeds for channels. Just make sure you click the button that says subscriptions. I don't use any of the other sites so I can't comment.

The real reason for frustration with personalization algorithms is that nobody is willing to go all the way because of the belief that the individual is evil and any creators that target individuals are promptly banned usually with no reason given at all, breaking some unspoken social rule.
by EasyMark | 2025-04-26 16:34:09+00:00
If GMC had been “publically owned” it would have been gutted for profits (kickbacks) by its bureaucracy and politicians and been long dead by at least a decade. Bureaucrats are not good at running companies and private companies should not be providing public services (prisons, toll roads). I don't know why Americans have become so unpragmatic and either all in on “government doing everything” or “private corps doing everything” when life is never ever that simple.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 16:34:38+00:00
> voters decided there was a common interest, cultural identity, etc. and mutually agreed on political integration.

I'm less confident that this was performed in either location due to direct democracy, and more because it made political sense and was expedient at the time that these locale enacted the governance structure.

In other words, it's not a one-and-done-forever type discussion, and things (clearly) evolve over time.
by AndrewOMartin | 2025-04-26 16:34:39+00:00
Not only that but also you often want to anticipate or avoid some common responses so you make special effort to make sure you've tried all common techniques and referenced all available resources. Doing this is often the answer.

E.g. It's just not working, I've tried everything I can think of, I looked up the official documentation on this method and... oh, there's a big highlighted paragraph explaining what to do in this situation.
by qarl | 2025-04-26 16:34:46+00:00
Yes, I agree entirely: LLMs can produce very entertaining content.

I daresay that in this case, the content is interesting because it appears to be the actual thought process. However, if it is actually using EXIF data as you initially dismissed, then all of this is just a fiction. Which, I think, makes it dramatically less entertaining.

Like true crime - it's much less fun if it's not true.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 16:35:22+00:00
Thanks. I also love watching the pros play.

>One thing I'm curious about - in high level play, how much of the meta involves knowing characteristics about the photography/equipment/etc. that Google used when they shot it?

The photography matters a great deal - they're categorized into "Generations" of coverage. Gen 2 is low resolution, Gen 3 is pretty good but has a distinct car blur, Gen 4 is highest quality. Each country tends to have only one or two categories of coverage, and some are so distinct you can immediately know a location based solely on that (India is the best example here).

You're asking about photography and equipment, and that's a big part of it, but there's a huge amount other 'meta' information too.

It is somewhat dependent on game mode. There are three games modes:

1. Moving - You can move around freely 2. No Move - You can't move but you can pan the camera around and zoom 3. NMPZ - No Move, No Pan, No Zoom

In Moving and No Move you have all the meta information available to you, because you can look down at the car and up at the sky and zoom in to see details.

This can't be overstated. Much of the data is about the car itself. I have an entire flashcard section dedicated only to car blur alone, here's a sample:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

And another only on antennas:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

You get the idea. The real pros will go much further. All Google Street View images have a copyright year somewhere in the image. They memorize what years certain countries were covered and match it to the images to help narrow down possibilities.

It's all about narrowing down possibilities based on each additional piece of information. The pros have seen so much and memorized so much that it looks like cheating to an outsider, but they just are able to extract information that most people wouldn't even know exists.

NMPZ is a bit different because you have substantially less information. Little to no car meta, harder to check copyright, and of course without zooming or panning you just have less information. That's why a lot of pros (like Zi8gzag) really hang their hat on NMPZ play, because it's a better test of skill.
by dmesad | 2025-04-26 16:35:36+00:00
I choose NGinx mainly because it's the server I'm most familiar with. GIven Wiredoor is an open-source project focused on security and reliability, I wanted to build on a stack that I understood deeply from the start.

NGinx also offers very flexibility handling of HTTP, TCP (via stream module) and SSL/TLS termination.

One of my main goals with Wiredoor is to make exposing private services as simple and user-friendly as possible, without compromissing security.

Building on NGinx allowed me to offer a solid foundation that balances flexibility, performance, and simplicity for self-hosters and developers.

Thanks for the question!