MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ziddoap | 2025-04-02 18:33:08+00:00
Most of this essay is either about wholinator2's comment (for some reason?), or your thoughts on grading and why you're qualified to have those thoughts. Anyways.

>Please don't confuse expertise and experience with condescension

I'm not. Both of your comments are patronizing. You're sprinkling in rhetorical questions implying I can't read the comment I replied to, over-emphasizing parts of your sentences as if I'm a middle-schooler who is first encountering your fancy words, or claiming that I'm being emotional while you're just a beacon of logic.

I've had many experts explain stuff to me without doing any of that. I'm not confused. I even agree with a lot of the stuff you're saying about teachers! But your tone in these comments leaves a lot to be desired.

>But nobody - including you - is actually holy

Obviously. It's a saying, I wasn't being literal.

>Biggest issue aside from ascribing emotion to where there's none, that is, which is a common theme in this thread

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're writing multiple thousands of words on a topic on a semi-obscure technology forum, in response to a total of like 8 sentences from random people you've never met, you've got some emotions and passion involved. Which is totally fine! Humans aren't meant to be completely devoid of emotion.
by easterncalculus | 2025-04-02 18:33:16+00:00
Maps are to be read. If you want a subway map to frame for your apartment, then the current/old one looks nice, but the new one is just easier to read - particularly in a moving subway car, through a dirty pane, and from 3 feet away. Especially in the age of smartphones, if you're doing navigation on a train (or station) you likely don't have a phone or are already lost, the map should be optimized to be easy to read in either scenario.
by airstrike | 2025-04-02 18:33:24+00:00
On the one hand, I think it's a bit unfair that this comment is currently downvoted as it's discussing moderation on a topic about moderation, so very much on-topic in this particular submission.

On the other hand, I think it needs to be more specific in order to be valuable feedback. Which dissenting opinions? Can you provide specific examples of comments you think got unreasonably flagged?

There's been an uptick in political posts which are off-topic per the guidelines, so an uptick in the absolute number of flagged submissions would just mean the community is properly enforcing the guidelines, which is good. However, as a consequence of that uptick in political submissions and flagging, there's also an uptick in the number of users complaining a post is unjustly flagged, because they incorrectly conflate enforcing the guidelines with political opinion, and that is not good.

I think a lot of users are tired of this back and forth, so my guess is they are reading between the lines of what you said (since you didn't provide specifics) and filling in the blank with what _they_ think you mean about undeserved flagging, with the topic of politics being top of mind at the moment. This shows that being specific helps both by providing actionable feedback while also increasing clarity, which is your responsibility as a communicator.
by moped | 2025-04-02 18:33:25+00:00
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by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-02 18:33:46+00:00
> For example, having the opinion that manifest V3 is good for users is an opinion that will not thrive on HN.

That's not a moderation issue. You can post that opinion, and people will disagree with it, post responses to it, and downvote it. It will not be flagged out of existence, unless it's also violating site policy in other ways.
by louthy | 2025-04-02 18:33:50+00:00
That whole scene is amazing:

“I will not be pawed at. Thank you very much”

“I know, how about a spelling contest?!”

It’s been a while since I’ve seen Tombstone (I think I’ll watch this evening in tribute), but even with that I have the exact tonality of all the quotes listed here replaying perfectly in my head.

Genius performance.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-02 18:34:02+00:00
The drained-color thing is exclusive to a certain type of TV/movie drama, and then also a serious technical problem involving HDR device-side (which is a whole other story).

But if you watch any comedy, or reality show, or plenty of "normal" dramas, on a regular TV, the color is normal.

However, yes, there has been a certain trend involving Christopher Nolan, "gritty realism", and legal-political-military-crime themes, to do color grading to massively reduce saturation and aggressively push towards blue. I don't like it much but you can also just not watch that stuff. It's stylistic the same way film noir was. Some people hated that back in the day too, now it's just seen as a style of the time.
by jajko | 2025-04-02 18:34:14+00:00
No thank you. I prefer rich colors, they consistently make world look a more lively place, the more the better. There is some getting used to of course, but it doesn't normalize at the same bottom that sea of grey/white/black is.

I hate this with passion with cars - sea of grey in western Europe. Heck, both of our cars are grey - we always buy used ones and there was simply no other option that wasn't 10k more expensive for params we wanted and were willing to pay. It looks bland, boring, unimaginative. One of top reasons why buy new - one can actually choose something nicer.

I've spent 6 months backpacking all over India and boy do they use crazy intense colors all over and everywhere including clothing - orange, purple, pink, very bright, both men and women. A very, very nice visual experience one doesn't get used to. Then coming back to western civilization where literally everybody dresses in black or dark grey during winter. Its just sad view, like winter with low amount of sunlight isn't depressing enough, no lets add some more monotonous colors.
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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-02 18:34:49+00:00
This is something that can be heavily skewed by the small N. If the people in both groups happen to closely match in their distributions of accuracy for this self-assessment then this would be correct. Larger N would make both groups much more likely to match the real distribution, which would in turn make them more likely to match each other.
by maxglute | 2025-04-02 18:35:24+00:00
PRC / Byte dance won't sell TikTok global. PRC won't export TikTok algos. There's probably some JV / oracle / project texas arrangment PRC alright with. But yeah, 100% US ownership not happening, especially as "concession" in exchange for tarrifs / export control list relief etc, which basically would reward US leverage / behaviour.
by shawabawa3 | 2025-04-02 18:35:32+00:00
> GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time:

I think what happened here is that the interrogators weren't primed properly that it was an AI impersonating a human as opposed to just stock AI models

Because the ai said things like "yeh ok lol hbu?" Which most people assume an AI would never do, so they think it must be the human

They were probably on the look out for stuff like "Certainly! I would be happy to help you with that"
by _verandaguy | 2025-04-02 18:35:32+00:00
I strongly disagree with most of this post.

Politics dictates so much of daily life, at every level, that it's important to be able to have conversations about it. It's frankly self-righteous to see yourself as the one person with nuanced opinions in a crowd of simpletons, and while I do think that politics in many liberal democracies has become more polarized, you'll never restore nuanced debate or good-faith disagreement in political discussions by just avoiding the topic.

I'm not advocating for politics being the only thing you talk about with your friends, but if you and your friends are able to have useful discussions about the impact of some policies over others, can have constructive disagreements over reasonable political discourse, and can identify larger problematic trends in politics, a lot of good can come of that.
by lolinder | 2025-04-02 18:35:42+00:00
> HN is mainly left leaning

This is largely an illusion, as can be seen by the number of people complaining in the other direction about how wacko libertarians or MAGA or whatever dominate on here.

What you're actually observing is that HN is one of the more diverse public spaces you participate in and there's no personalized algorithm that filters the content to only show what you want. When your exposure to left-leaning content goes from <10% on an algorithmic feed to ~50% on HN, it feels like being overrun.

Just know that it feels just as overwhelming to the left-leaning people on here, and they will jump to the same interpretation in the opposite direction.
by scoofy | 2025-04-02 18:35:52+00:00
Honeypots in JS and CSS

I've been dealing with this over at golfcourse.wiki for the last couple years. It fucking sucks. The good news is that all the idiot scrapers who don't follow robots.txt seem to fall for the honeypots pretty easily.

Make the honeypot disappear with a big CSS file, make another one disappear with a JS file. Humans aren't aware they are there, bots won't avoid them. Programming a bot to look for visible links instead of invisible links is challenging. The problem is these programmers are ubiquitous, and since they are ubiquitous they're not going to be geniuses.

Honeypot -> autoban
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-02 18:35:54+00:00
That's so cool!

Crazy how popular 28V (140W) has gotten. I assume it's because there's a lot of 30V mosfets & passives. Going to 50V or 60V is admittedly a pretty big leap.

For a long time I've planned on combining some lipos & a 24V inverter to make a power station capable of powering my projector. But with the crazy good sales for power stations, I'll probably buy something. Not quite enough juice in this power pack, but man it's so tempting for no particular reason to get, just for this one fast-charging gimmick.

Hopefully higher voltages start showing up on the scene some day! USB-C 2.1 with EPR outlined was released May 2021; I really wasn't expecting such a long delivery pipeline. Ditto for Auracast, although I appreciated that was more a software problem than hardware market fit problem. It'd be interesting to have a review of how much if at all the actual delivery of Auracast has changed since "release"; I don't know a lot, but I poke through and the Zephyr IoT implementation has been under active development for years now, and, like, not at a slow pace either; it's hard to tell how much effort was making a spec first then making it all work, adapting & layering in new specs as they go. What an interesting story that would be to tell.
by davidany2 | 2025-04-02 18:36:52+00:00
I definitely struggle with this, and I feel like option 2 is the way to go, but just thinking about doing that is daunting, and seems like there is little hope that you can bring about any change. I guess one thing we all can do is strive to be better to each other in our relationships, and make the world better in just small way.
by tracker1 | 2025-04-02 18:36:55+00:00
Strong disagree here... While there are definitely those that will bury some opinions with downvotes, there are others that will upvote. Conservative, Libertarian, Progressive, Liberal and even outright Communist views get expressed in varying comments and that's just political leanings.

I only really recognize this because I'll be actively reading/replying sometimes and see comments go +/- 2-3 up or down votes back and forth on the same comment. While you may be at say -2, that's just the aggregate. I sometimes wish I could see the total up/down votes just out of curiosity.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-02 18:36:56+00:00
In my experience the (now ancient) Sequences are not of much use in learning how to change your mind. With only a cursory background in psychology, his advice tends to consist of generic platitudes. Not much practical application.

I’d recommend a short course in mindfulness instead, at whatever point in the spectrum between science and mysticism you’re comfortable with.
by mullingitover | 2025-04-02 18:36:59+00:00
I think you meant "DOES not know how to competently keep a grip on power would do"

(or maybe this is what you mean?)

Democrats were successfully tarred as being behind the Tiktok ban. Even though it was a pretty bipartisan ban, Trump came out loudly as opposing it and said "vote for me, I'll save Tiktok" and then he narrowly scraped by on election day. His razor thin victory is arguably because of that play.
by jdoliner | 2025-04-02 18:37:09+00:00
> On the face of it, HN should be terrible. It's a forum owned an investment firm as promotion for their business.

I think it's at least as plausible that this is part of the magic that makes it good. HN is sufficiently "on the margin" that they don't have to do things like placate advertisers with their moderation policies. The mods like dang, tomhow and pg mostly care about HN as users rather than owners.

> It would be a good thing for the world if HN was spun out as a non-profit and maintained long-term.

That sounds good in theory... in practice it might be the beginning of the end. Once there's a non-profit behind it the non-profit has a mission of its own. Although I'm actually not sure of the legal status of HN right now, maybe it's already something like that.
by jchw | 2025-04-02 18:37:39+00:00
I don't think it's a coincidence, but it also doesn't necessarily undermine their utility. In fact, I think a lot of images that are also used in a mocking context get there because they wind up being overused and over applied, in part because they're actually really good.

Another example of an illustration I like that is somewhat derided is the classic equity vs equality cartoon with the boxes[1]. I say this in spite of the fact that I generally find myself identifying more with equality as a baseline, and the simple reason is it's a good illustration of the potential pitfalls of overindexing on equality.

IMO It's all in how you use them. It's hard to avoid that useful metaphors/analogies often become overused and cliche.

[1]: https://interactioninstitute.org/illustrating-equality-vs-eq...
by pcblues | 2025-04-02 18:37:44+00:00
I'm 52. For me, there was a time when it was considered impolite to talk about sex, religion and politics. Then it became super fun when done with open/questioning/rational/critical minds, and a lot of progress in my own thinking was achieved from the usually non-threatening but lively debates and fights among friends and family for ideas. Then it shifted in the last ten or fifteen years. When social media started having friends of friends, the tribalism kicked in. It was explained very well in a talk between Maria Ressa and Jon Stewart. She is brilliant, and well worth listening to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHoX9ZpA_M
by K0balt | 2025-04-02 18:37:48+00:00
Well, that is good, at least. It sounds like those are Located between your legs? Could you actually do a 0/0 (not that it would be advisable) but -could- you even make a call safety at decision height with those? Even if you wouldn’t, would you feel like you -could-?

I’d bet if there was an iPad with foreflight synthetic vision running in plain sight looking forward, that aircraft would still be flying. Bailing out is a matter of pilot confidence in the aircraft being flyable.

Still, if he did have an operational horizon, HSI, turn and bank, altimeter, VSI, and turbine temp /RPM that he had presumably been trained to fly the aircraft with, I’m probably going to have to come down on the side of “he abandoned a presumably airworthy aircraft.” I mean, in that case, he had a (huge,catastrophically) failed system and he failed to use the backup for that system.

I still think the app would be a hit among F35 pilots, even if only for ironic reasons and superstition lol. Probably some national security concerns there though, if you handled any location data at all. I mean, can fighter pilots even carry smartphones? Dr. Evil wants to know.
by doright | 2025-04-02 18:37:52+00:00
But I guess for prioritizing the happiness of the friend group, some amount of ignorance is needed if someone in the group is ultimately going to model the world on "they kill and deport or they don't" given enough information to make that declaration, and eventually a person on the other side is encountered?

I understand that some things can be more important than just having fun though, down to personal values.

"To be ignorant" sounds like a moral failing on its face, but I feel it is increasingly becoming required in some circumstances with the explosive amount of information available to subscribe to nowadays.
by alterom | 2025-04-02 18:38:13+00:00
Side note: the parent's entire argument boils down to this:

"Look at how hurt the teacher would be by being fired, you are a bad person for suggesting that.

Setting aside the Ad-Hominems¹ like "Are you better than the teacher"?, this is a textbook example of the logical fallacy known as Appeal to Emotion².

Which is delightfully ironic given the numerous people accusing you of being overly emotional in the point you're making that a teacher who willfully breached trust and abused their authority over children shouldn't have such authority.

This says much more about the people criticizing you than they realize.

_____

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
by ashryan | 2025-04-02 18:38:29+00:00
Mermaid is fantastic as a portable I/O format for LLM context. I spent some time discussing entity relationships with an LLM recently, and had it produce a Mermaid diagram to wrap up the conversation.

Once you have the diagram code, you can use that as an artifact for new LLM chats related to databases, APIs, etc.

I'm not sure what the history of mermaidchart.com specifically is, but I'm guessing it's new since the ER diagram docs are marked as "coming soon":

https://docs.mermaidchart.com/mermaid/er/syntax

I'm curious how this plugin compares to Markdown Preview Mermaid Support: https://marketplace.cursorapi.com/items?itemName=bierner.mar...
by buttercraft | 2025-04-02 18:38:34+00:00
> having the opinion

What I see a lot of is this:

User posts "$opinion $generalization $snark $dismissal $adhominem".

User gets down voted or flagged. User complains that downvotes are for expressing $opinion and that $opinion is not allowed on this site!

But we can all see the other things in their post that probably brought on most of the downvotes.
by doodlebugging | 2025-04-02 18:38:38+00:00
I agree that there is no likelihood that coffee snobs are gonna jump to yaupon tea. I mentioned this really just to point out that there is a native plant here in North America that produces caffeine so if one day we wake up and supplies of the real beans are short or interrupted for long periods we will have something totally free to brew up for a caffeine hit. If you're out camping in an area where yaupon grows wild you can always grab a few leaves, wash them and dry them until they're brown, crush them and boil some tea water. No need for a late night cup of coffee that could keep you too wired to rest when you can enjoy a simple cup of yaupon tea that won't leave you wired.

I drink a lot of coffee too. I enjoy the flavor and hanging around without a cup of coffee feels strange. Sometimes I just add some boiling water to the dust in the coffee cup, stir it up and see what happens. I've certainly had worse at more gas stations than I care to remember.
by rdegges | 2025-04-02 18:38:39+00:00
I'll provide an opposing viewpoint. In the last 10 years, I've lost friendships and family because people in my life have voted for candidates that stripped rights away from women, minorities, etc.

Having a vast difference between opinions is fine, but some of their decisions are fundamentally against my core beliefs and have done literal harm to many people I know.

For that reason, terminating family and friendships has been absolutely worth it for me.

Until we can live in a world where fundamental rights are protected and respected, we have no common ground, and it's pointless to tiptoe around these insanely harmful beliefs while maintaining a facade of friendship.
by cobertos | 2025-04-02 18:39:08+00:00
How do you avoid the pain of someone expressing a particularly hurtful political opinion (i.e. entire class of ppl should die) if you don't filter relationships by political beliefs?

I generally keep people's political opinions at arms length, as some relationships are worth the pain or lack of depth. But it has caused unforseen pain at times, and hurts when relations from different spheres interact negatively.
by zelon88 | 2025-04-02 18:39:47+00:00
Politics is more regional than any other single factor. Like religion.

You're highly unlikely to grow up Protestant in Israel just like you're highly unlikely to going to grow up with liberal views in Tennessee.

Second to geography is demographic. You're unlikely to support DEI if you're surrounded by 90% white people all the time, and you're unlikely to decry globalism after you've been exposed to large cities and dense population centers for a long time.
by wazoox | 2025-04-02 18:40:02+00:00
For the sake of exactitude, this was England - Argentine in Saint-Étienne (not Lyon, but Carlos managed both sites as they're not very far away), on June 30th 1998. As these were highly respected teams and a very disputed game (actually the score at the end of extra time was 2 - 2) the stakes were very high as there were literally billions of people watching the game live. Pressure was really strong... Fortunately I was used to and comfortable working in live broadcast conditions myself; Carlos not so much :)
by bananalychee | 2025-04-02 18:40:02+00:00
Looks much better. The current map is a nightmare for readability, especially when you're squinting from a distance trying to read it inside a subway vehicle without encroaching on the personal space of someone sitting below it. For actual locations in relation to other points of interest, consult a general-purpose map, there are more options for that than there are readable and up-to-date alternative renderings of public transit network maps.