MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-04-21 14:13:14+00:00
> Thais are not Westerners. They revere their king

They revere Bhumibol, not his philandering, mercurial, and ripped son Vajiralongkorn who is de facto in exile in Germany. Everything in Thailand is de facto run by the military junta and aligned oligarchs like the Chearavanont and Shinawatra families.

And the younger generation (Gen Z) doesn't have much affinity for Bhumibol either, because they grew up in the midst of a middle income trap - their lives are better than their neighbors in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, or Vietnam, but CoL and the employment market is hellish, oligarchy and relations matter so if you didn't attend the right schools you're screwed, and abuses of power like the RedBull Heir running over a cop and all the extravagance around the royal family and their extended retinue grew more unpopular.

Tbf, I assume your frame of reference was the 1990s, and until the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 Thailand went through a massive economic boom so satisfaction with Bhumibol was high. Bhumibol also at least tried to appear like he cared about normal Thai people.
by _fat_santa | 2025-04-21 14:13:23+00:00
> Sometimes I wonder why there isn't more enthusiasm around theming

I can speak to this personally. I used to always tinker with various Linux desktops, themes, etc but nowadays I just use vanilla Ubuntu with zero theming modifications. There are two reasons for this:

1. Like others have said, theming is easy but consistency is hard. I've found that anything besides Gnome just turns into a shitshow where half your apps just don't theme properly.

2. It's a massive time sink. While I could create a very consistent theme, it would involve a massive time sink into dealing with all the edge cases. When I was in college and just used Linux "recreationally", I could justify spending a ton of time tinkering with my system and getting everything perfect. But these days I use Linux professionally so it's less about having a beautiful desktop and more about something that just works and gets out of my way so I can get my actual work done.

I should note that I still play around with other DE's and themes though I now do it all in VM's. I'm slowly building up my own theme stack on a Debian VM and once I get everything buckled up I might actually deploy and it use it on my primary machine.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-21 14:13:29+00:00
I don't see how LINQ provides an especially illuminating example of what is effectively method chaining.

It is an exemplar of expressions [0] more than anything else, which have little to do with the idea of passing results from one method to another.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
by glenstein | 2025-04-21 14:13:48+00:00
This is a bizarre response. My comment was not a denial of legal history on biology-as-testimony, it was instead opening space for other legal or philosophical objections: autonomy, bodily integrity, possibly Fourth Amendment concerns about unreasonable searches.

But you're replying as if my comment was claiming courts haven’t treated biometrics like physical evidence. That's not what I was doing.

The reference to Brown here appears to be massively misleading: far from being niche, it complicates the biology != testimony in a way that cuts to the heart of the most common real-world application of biometric compulsion which is smartphone access; from chatgpt'ing about it it appears that it's not the only court to rule on this and it probably awaits a SCOTUS decision to resolve an existing split.
by photochemsyn | 2025-04-21 14:14:24+00:00
Intelligence, like physical ability, is trainable within limits; the general belief appears to be that such limits are genetically determined and vary widely among human beings, but it also seems clear that the vast majority of human beings never even approach those limits, for the same reasons that most people don't become Olympic-level atheletes, even if they have the genes for it - they don't put in the time training and improving their abilities, or they're hobbled by injuries of various kinds.

Now if you have an objective goal such as improving mind-body performance across many different metrics, LLMs can be an aid - you can have them help with designing and developing physical and mental training regimens on a daily schedule, pointing out flaws in your understanding, etc. As for the article's thesis, you could spending 15 minutes writing a prompt about whatever author strikes your fancy and then have the LLM dissect, critique and grade your effort if you like, then rinse and repeat - just as with lifting weights, your short essay skills will improve.

As to why many people don't seem interested in following such rigorous programs, we could blame consumer capitalism, advertising aimed at immediate gratification and the promotion of addictive behaviors for short-term profit, on one hand, and fear among the ruling classes of an educated informed and indepentenly-minded population, with a resulting emphasis on rote memorization and appeal to authority over critical analytical and creative skills, etc., on the other.
by GaggiX | 2025-04-21 14:14:24+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental (a frontier model) has 5 RPM and 25 RPD.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17 another powerful model has 10 and 500.

OpenAI also allows you to use their API for free if you agree to share the tokens.
by aeturnum | 2025-04-21 14:14:39+00:00
Did you read these? I think they actually go against what you argue. One of the passages about "hell" is John 3:16, which could not be less about hell if it tried (IMO). Also the passages that actually mention hell/hades are extremely sparse on details: it's separate from god, there will be fire and it will be unpleasant. Considering the length of the bible, I think this list shows that the bible has "very little" to say about hell in general.
by TehShrike | 2025-04-21 14:14:53+00:00
I was excited for that proposal, but it veered off course some years ago – some TC39 members have stuck to the position that without member property support or async/await support, they will not let the feature move forward.

It seems like most people are just asking for the simple function piping everyone expects from the |> syntax, but that doesn't look likely to happen.
by pdfernhout | 2025-04-21 14:15:14+00:00
I'm getting more at things like a perspective shift, like represented with ideas at these links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource

https://www.remineralize.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cost+of+militarism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-competition/

https://www.pop.org/overpopulation-myth/

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/298-june-19-1979/the-ori...

https://archive.org/details/AdvancedAutomationForSpaceMissio...

https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanE...

https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/AchievingAStarTrekSoc...

https://pdfernhout.net/basic-income-from-a-millionaires-pers...

https://pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transce...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080930065642/http://www.whywor... "I [Bob Black] don't suggest that most work is salvageable in this way. But then most work isn't worth trying to save. Only a small and diminishing fraction of work serves any useful purpose independent of the defense and reproduction of the work-system and its political and legal appendages. Twenty years ago, Paul and Percival Goodman estimated that just five percent of the work then being done -- presumably the figure, if accurate, is lower now -- would satisfy our minimal needs for food, clothing and shelter. Theirs was only an educated guess but the main point is quite clear: directly or indirectly, most work serves the unproductive purposes of commerce or social control. Right off the bat we can liberate tens of millions of salesmen, soldiers, managers, cops, stockbrokers, clergymen, bankers, lawyers, teachers, landlords, security guards, ad-men and everyone who works for them. There is a snowball effect since every time you idle some bigshot you liberate his flunkies and underlings also. Thus the economy implodes."

And so on...
by bornfreddy | 2025-04-21 14:15:15+00:00
> There is no evidence in the fork that he is the copyright holder of the original code and it looks like Microsoft is. Part of that is Microsoft’s fault, but part of that is his fault for not including per file copyright notices, such that Microsoft could add theirs and be the sole one listed in every file.

Absolutely not! This is completely and only M$'s fault, whichever way you look at it. Copying a file and slapping your own license on it, without consideration of the original one, is never acceptable. Don't blaim the victim please.

As for incompetence - well maybe they (M$) need to get better at managing licenses? Accusing others of stealing when the reverse is true only makes everything worse. Let's not try to change the standard way of licensing because some developers can't be bothered to check the license (and even fix typos in comments, apparently).

As an aside, there is no need to add copyright / license to every file. I would even consider it an anti-pattern, because it pollutes the code with noise.
by westurner | 2025-04-21 14:15:24+00:00
Why do you believe that no-till farming practices deplete soil of nitrogen more than tilling?

A plausible hypothesis: tilling destroys the bacteria that get nitrogen to plant roots.

Isn't runoff erision the primary preventable source of nitrogen depletion?

FWIU residue mulch initially absorbs atmospheric nitrogen instead of the soil absorbing it, but that residue and its additional nitrogen eventually decays into the soil.

I have heard that it takes something like five years to successfully completely transform acreage with no-till; and then it's relatively soft and easily plantable and not impacted, so it absorbs and holds water.

No-till farmers are not lacking soil samples.

What would be a good test of total change in soil nitrogen content (and runoff) given no-till and legacy farming practices?

With pressure-injection seeders and laser weeders, how many fewer chemicals are necessary for pro farming?
by nottorp | 2025-04-21 14:15:34+00:00
Hmm M3 macbook pro screen, brightness at max.

At about 13/20 they all started to look the same. I even turned off truetone at like 16.

I ended up scoring 15/20, but it's more like 12/20 and 3 lucky guesses.

But then I'm well known to not know or care about subtle colour differences.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-21 14:16:13+00:00
I cannot agree more. It's amazing that WeChat, a Chinese app, has figured this out years ago; its Moments feature had no ads, no influencers, only posts by contacts. It even suppresses comments made by people you don't know, even if the subject of a comment is a post by people you do know.

Of course there are other Chinese apps that operate entirely based on feeds. What I found interesting is that on Rednote it tried to suppress your posts from what it infers to be your friends in real life.

I think it is a great approach. There are sometimes I just want to see updates from friends and family. There are other times when I only want to see something interesting to me without necessarily telling all my friends what I'm interested in. These are two entirely different categories of social media and it is a good thing to require users to switch apps.
by perpetualpatzer | 2025-04-21 14:16:17+00:00
Neither of those answers seem at all dishonest. They just skip past the diagnosed cause to focus on the impact.

Maybe the boss being a raging ass is the root cause of the team moving in the wrong direction. But that may be debatable, and knowing that doesn't answer the interviewer's question. The more relevant piece is that you and the director disagree and that you don't want to waste your time working on something you aren't inspired by.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-21 14:16:35+00:00
I have no idea why this is even slightly neat? Like, it's not surprising that it works, it's not clever, it's not performant, and you can't actually code like this because it will overflow the stack pretty quickly. It doesn't even save lines of code.

Alternatives that aren't dumb:

for x in range(2**256): # not infinite but go ahead and run it to the end and get back to me from itertools import repeat for x, _ in enumerate(repeat(None)): # slightly more annoying but does work infinitely

Granted these aren't clever or non-performant enough to excite functional code fanboys.
by mlyle | 2025-04-21 14:17:29+00:00
> So if they had left that line in, everything would be cool?

It certainly would be better.

Forks tend not to have -perfect- relationships and tend to cause a bit of mutual annoyance. But attribution is important-- it's the most basic step.

When this maintainer is asked how the projects are related, it'd sure be nice if both projects are telling the same story, instead of one illegally lying about it.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-04-21 14:17:39+00:00
> the Second Vatican Council decided Mass should be said in the vernacular

It didn't actually.

See Sacrosanctum Concilium: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_coun...

Vatican II opened the way for use of vernacular in the Mass while also directing "use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites".

In practice, after the overhaul of the Latin rites was completed and promulgated (published) in 1969, four years after the council ended in '65, the Latin language itself was dropped almost everywhere all at once and only translations were used. Many people rejoiced at that, some did not, but the vast majority of bishops, priests and laity alike, conservatives and liberals across the full spectrum, probably 99.999%, went ahead full throttle with Mass and all the sacraments in the vernacular.

There were hold-out contingents like the SSPX, led by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who stuck with the all Latin rites per the last round of small reforms in 1962, the same as used for the celebration of Mass, etc. during the whole time of the council from 1962-65.

It was over the next 40 years that discontent with the reforms of 1969, and their fallout, began to grow. There was increasing awareness that it wasn't just a switch from Latin to vernacular — the '69 reforms were "cut from whole cloth", outright replacing the traditional rites with syntheses of a commission of scholars. Long story short, many Catholics, some born before '69 and many born after (myself included), desire a return, and have implemented a return, to the traditional form of the Latin rites. Pope Benedict XVI gave it his blessing. But then Pope Francis was not a fan, believing it to be a retrograde movement that causes more harm than good and a kind of "saying no" to the Holy Spirit. It's hard to find middle ground on this matter, to be quite honest.
by masklinn | 2025-04-21 14:17:50+00:00
> Please engage with my point instead of criticizing trivialities.

Your complete misunderstanding of what's happening is not a triviality.

> The essential difference is that the language is referenced at the declaration site, not the usage site, which makes the syntax highlighting far easier.

Javascript has no built-in template tags beyond `String.raw`. If tooling has the capabilities to infer embedded language from arbitrary third party libraries, I would hope they have the ability to do utterly trivial flow analysis and realise that

html(t"<something />")

means the template string is pretty likely to be HTML content.
by zpeti | 2025-04-21 14:18:33+00:00
I think this is what your conscious mind thinks but your actual desires don’t.

Facebook was refocusing on friend and family content before TikTok came along. But they had to adjust to the TikTok trend otherwise they would have lost market share or potentially lost the entire market.

You might think you want friend and family content, but actually you don’t. Not as much as you want engaging content.
by financetechbro | 2025-04-21 14:18:35+00:00
Look at how well people have “adapted” to social media and short form content and then decide whether your point still stands…

I think your point is valid, but I see it more as something that will happen with a small percentage of the population. The reality is that people don’t like to think, it’s hard and inconvenient, and often involves learning new things about yourself and the world which are uncomfortable because it goes against inherited world views. I don’t think AI will help improve this at all. To me, poor use of tech is just the same thing as binging junk food and It’s difficult to stop binging junk food
by xfeeefeee | 2025-04-21 14:18:58+00:00
> It looks like OP filled out the text area alongside with the URL when submitting the post. HN takes that text and turns it into a comment.

Yeah, this is exactly what happened, but I decided to keep it rather than delete and filled it out more with the synopsis from the repo.

Looking back at it, it really does look like an AI bulleted summary. I probably should have noted that the last part was indeed a quotation.
by vel0city | 2025-04-21 14:19:03+00:00
IR motion/proximity sensors are not basically cameras. You can't get an actual image from them. They are essentially a single, unfocused pixel tuned to a wide angle with a narrow filter tuned to specific wavelengths. Some of them will have a few extra pixels to try and reject background motion, but still we're talking like 3 or 4 pixels for a whole scene.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-21 14:19:29+00:00
What I've been doing for decades is to not bring my phone on the plane (regardless of whether the flight is domestic or not). I have a cheap prepaid travel phone that I carry instead. My actual phone is either just left at home or shipped ahead via parcel carrier along with anything else valuable that I may want at my destination.

The reason I do this is not really privacy, privacy is just a happy side-effect. The actual reason is to minimize the risk of loss or damage during my travel.
by boramalper | 2025-04-21 14:20:02+00:00
As @diggan wrote[0] elsewhere in the thread, the issue is not that MIT is permissive but that Microsoft did not honor the requirements of the license (despite it being permissive!):

> Does it matter what license you use if they actively ignore the terms in the license you did chose? MIT requires attribution, but they didn't. Why would any other terms be different? You surely could have put "You must license your project the same as the one you forked from" and they still would have ignored it, not sure what the difference would have been.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750670
by cthalupa | 2025-04-21 14:20:22+00:00
> Well if we go to an even more extreme degree with the devil’s advocate thing: what is the difference between an ~4 month embryo (or any cutoff after which miscarriage becomes very unlikely) and a newborn?

From a practical perspective, giving up the newborn for adoption is significantly easier than the 4 month embryo - it's already been carried to term and birthed. And quite a few humans, correctly or otherwise, feel a lot more 'ick' around the idea of infanticide vs. abortion. But they also feel a lot more 'ick' around late gestation abortion too - most states have had gestational limits around abortion. Very few have had none. (Many of those with gestational limits do have exceptions around health/safety issues for the mother, or significant medical issues with the fetus, etc.)

It's kind of a strange argument because most of the US did accept the premise that at a certain point in the embryo's development abortion becomes less acceptable. I can't speak as definitively for the rest of the world, but a cursory google shows that the situation is quite similar - most countries that allow for abortion have gestational restrictions.
by rayiner | 2025-04-21 14:21:03+00:00
It's not their cultural inheritance. Their moms never pulled them aside as children and said something like "you don't have to like what Bobby said to you, it's a free country and he can speak his mind." Quite the opposite: as in most Asian societies, there is an overarching emphasis on social harmony, face saving, etc.

As to democracy, that is both culturally alien to them and their experience with it has been one of failure. We have never had a stable democratic government in Bangladesh, and my parents are persuaded that it's not possible. In general, they view democracy experiments outside Europe as something of a cruel joke. My parents felt quite vindicated that democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan failed, because they expected that to happen.
by consumer451 | 2025-04-21 14:21:18+00:00
I recently learned that human brain size has been decreasing for the last 10,000 years.[0]

The thinking is that prior to us building societies, we all had to be generalists and know "everything." Once we are in a group, we can offload some knowledge to others in the society.

My point being, this all seems to have started long ago and doesn't even necessarily require technology to explain the beginnings of the trend.

[0] https://www.dwarkesh.com/i/158922207/why-is-human-brain-size...
by ksec | 2025-04-21 14:21:18+00:00
I watched it. Basically low temperature ( - 30C ) driving is solved. Much faster charging. Safer than previous gen Sodium battery which is already safer than LFP, and LFP is safer than Lithium Ion.

And a new type of battery package that combines fast charging and slow release battery in one. 175Wh/Kg and working towards 200Wh/Kg in the future as they previous said.

We are not talking of some non-sense or far in the future solid state battery. We are talking about something they will ship soon.

I wonder if Tesla have anything up their sleeves.
by mindcrime | 2025-04-21 14:21:24+00:00
> The GPL and the free software movement is borne out of an earlier era, GenX and younger boomers who lived through seeing their hard work exploited and stolen from them.

There may be something to that, but speaking as a GenX'er myself, I release most of my OSS code using the Apache License. I really don't care if anybody - from a single student in a 3rd world country, to a Fortune 50 megacorp - uses the code, so long as they abide by the license.

I'm not going to say there's NO circumstance where that might ever change. But to date, that's been my approach and I don't particularly see it ever changing.
by masklinn | 2025-04-21 14:21:25+00:00
> Aren't there other benefits to server-side parameter binding besides just SQL-injection safety? For instance, using PG's extended protocol (binary) instead of just raw SQL strings. Caching parameterized prepared statements, etc.

All of which can be implemented on top of template strings.

> A single character difference and now you've just made yourself trivially injectible.

It's not just a one character difference, it's a different type. So `db.execute` can reject strings both statically and dynamically.

> I don't think

Definitely true.

> this new format specifier is in any way applicable to SQL queries.

It's literally one of PEP 750's motivations.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-04-21 14:21:38+00:00
Even if we compare CAN to Single Pair Ethernet, most of my points still stand, do they not?

SPE is still more expensive and complicated than CAN, but also much more capable (higher data rates etc.). PHY power consumption is much lower compared to traditional Ethernet, but still on another level compared to CAN.

I’ve seen Ethernet chosen mostly when CAN (or RS485 etc.) is too slow or you want longer distances (cabling).

I mean to clarify my point - not to bicker :) I don’t think I disagree with any of your points