MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninju | 2025-04-07 15:20:09+00:00
That because Excel defaults to treating numeric data as a number and leading zeros are extraneous and it will strip them off before storing the value (and it will right justify the display).

The root issue is that zipcodes though numeric in content (at least in the US) should not be treated as number (data type) but instead as a text (string) value

To tell Excel to treat this numeric data as a string you to either

* Precede the value with a single quote (') - Excel will treat the rest of the data as a string (and won't hide the leading zeros)

* Before entering the value set the format to TEXT which will tell Excel to take the entry verbatim with no inferring what the data represents (i.e. a number or date)
by belter | 2025-04-07 15:20:17+00:00
Willing to concede that. But he has thousands of followers and is well known in the MMA comunity. Would he throw all that away for a good story? Also there is an update: "Update on U.S. federal prison detention of MMA coach Renato Subotic who recently trained Merab Dvalishvili"

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-update-u-s-federal-pris...

"UPDATE: I just spoke with coach Renato Subotic for a few minutes. He says he was detained at FDC Honolulu, which is a federal prison facility. He says he has no criminal record and it was a simple visa application issue. Interview later this week."
by pjmlp | 2025-04-07 15:20:21+00:00
There were lots of applications written on enterprises, hence why Gang of Four book used Smalltalk and C++, not Java as many think when bashing the book ideas.

That would come later and take the air out of Smalltalk business adoption as IBM and others pivoted away from Smalltalk into Java.

It is no coincidence that while Java has a C++ like syntax, its runtime semantics, the ways how JVM is designed and related dynamism, Eclipse, key frameworks on the ecosystem, and by extension the CLR, all trace back to Smalltalk environment.
by kragen | 2025-04-07 15:20:30+00:00
I find it amusing that in 02023, after 77 years of software development, they referred to something like 01992 as "early software development", because people had only been developing software for 46 years at that time. But it's true that most software that has been written so far was written after that.

Are we still in "early software development"? Presumably most software that will ever be written hasn't been written yet.
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-07 15:20:48+00:00
> if the crust is sturdy enough

In short, the crust is not sturdy enough.

In comparison to the bulk of the earth, the crust is like the film of dry paint that forms on a paint bucket if you leave out too long. At the scale of a planet any rock is still a liquid for mechanical purposes. (Which is in fact what the hydrostatic equilibrium part of the IAU definition of a planet is talking about.)
by addicted | 2025-04-07 15:20:51+00:00
The rest doesn’t matter.

No one wants to be detained.

People who are spending thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to travel are fine if they need to spend a few hundreds additional ro fly back and cancel their vacation. Or sucks but it’s in the realm of the risks you take with international travel.

However, being detained, even for 1 day, and treated like a criminal is something none of these folks want.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-04-07 15:21:09+00:00
I agree, I had the same thought about the vegan example.

The premise of dark mirror ideologies is interesting if you don't consider the moral inversion to be an exact mirroring. TFA even gave the anti minimum wage example at the beginning, which is not an exact mirroring (scoring political points & looking generous != enjoying killing businesses).

If dark mirror ideologies is supposed to be more like the main examples (dark veganism, dark liberals, etc.) then I'm afraid all TFA has discovered is that the no ideology has "being evil" as their priority.
by tetris11 | 2025-04-07 15:21:45+00:00
Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice series.

Culture, gender identity, hive mind, all rolled up into one extremely dense universe with a rich history told through warfare and cutting remarks, humanising potentially inhuman central characters with a vague number of limbs.

It takes ten pages to get used to the dense yet clipped writing style, but once it clicks, you cannot put the book(s) down: the plot moves forward at breakneck speed.
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-07 15:21:47+00:00
A short list of books that cost some candles after I reached 40 (has been very picky about books since then). I not only read them into late night but also went back to them whenever I need some mental boost.

- The Soul of a New Machine

- Showstoppers

- iWoz

- Athens and Jerusalem (Shestov)

I'm devouring many F & SFs (right now reading Arthur Clarke) but so far nothing really sticks. A lot of them are interesting but I'm keeping counting the pages I read. I used to burn candles reading them back in the day, but the magic was lost. I'm going to try out some recommendations I got on HN and see what happens.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 15:22:58+00:00
Truly sorry you feel this way. For what it’s worth, this was common for people graduating into the 2008 financial crisis, too. It’s actually unusual that we went for so long without another period of contraction.

From last time around: The people who kept pushing and took any job, anywhere turned out okay. This translated to a lot of people taking jobs below what they expected to get or having to move when they didn’t want to, but it was ultimately temporary.

The people I knew who turned cynical, let negativity take the wheel, and checked out of the job market struggled much harder to get back in.

You’re early in your career. This current period of turmoil doesn’t mean that much, even though it feels like everything right now. Keep at it, work a little harder than your competition, and put a little more care into your applications and it will work out. Stay away from the doom spirals on Reddit or Blind. Uninstall those apps (and others) if they’re making you worse.
by realo | 2025-04-07 15:23:11+00:00
I cannot imagine any programming language interpret "1/2" as a day and month in that specific context.

It takes a very special mindset to do that, maybe the kind that comes from a junior MBA manager, for example ... and even then I find that farfetched.

It sounds more like one of those things that is observed, but some manager decided it is not high priority enough to fix right away. And then technical debt raises its ugly head.
by schwartzworld | 2025-04-07 15:23:14+00:00
I can't think of a real one. The only good reason I can think of for all the original members of a band to reunite under a different name would be if they had lost the legal right to use their old one, like when Prince became the Artist Formerly Known As Prince. It happens to solo artists from time to time, but I can't think of a band example.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-07 15:23:43+00:00
> You do a good job. You’re promoted to manager. You need to learn a whole other job

Relevant: https://nebula.tv/videos/coldfusion-why-are-managers-so-bad-... (or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7-UdDg5uIw if Nebula won't show it to you)

The tl;dw is that quite obviously the years and years spent learning one skillset absolutely does not translate into the ability to "debug humans"
by the_af | 2025-04-07 15:23:53+00:00
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or not. I'll answer assuming it's in earnest.

> Doesn't the crime rate go down when Republicans hold the power?

Does it? And what about police brutality? As a tourist, I'd rather go to a country where I'm less likely to be treated badly by the police.

> As a tourist, I rather visit Florida than California.

I think this in general has very little to do with crime rates. There are confounding factors. I'd rather not visit Florida regardless of crime rate.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-07 15:24:01+00:00
I think we're getting into that stuff that I don't want to elaborate on. They would probably get cranky I have said what I've said, but that's pretty common knowledge.

If the third-party stuff has access to the raw Bayer format, they can do pretty much anything. They may not have the actual manufacturer data on lenses, but they may be able to do a lot.

Also, 50MP, lossless-compressed (or uncompressed) 16-bit-per-channel images tend to be big. It takes a lot to process them; especially if you have time constraints (like video). Remember that these devices have their own, low-power processors, and they need to handle the data. If we wrote host software to provide matching processing, we needed to mimic what the device firmware did. You don't necessarily have that issue, with third-party pipelines, as no one expects them to match.
by RajT88 | 2025-04-07 15:24:04+00:00
There is a balance to be maintained for sure. I am known for bemoaning the almost-exclusively scammy ads on Facebook (and getting downvoted for it here).

But - also - my wife and I opened a restaurant recently. We need exposure. We are buying ad space on social media, having influencers review the place, working on putting up fliers at public bulletin boards, and investigating mailers (snail mail). It's clear, we're not going to make a go of it without connecting with more customers. If it was just me and her working it, we'd be in the green but we have day jobs and pay our (necessary) employees fairly.
by FredPret | 2025-04-07 15:24:04+00:00
You're still on the same US-diversity train but there's nothing in that comment to justify it.

There are other many more layers to a tourist's cost/benefit analysis than just culture. Some of those layers will be common to the entire US:

- exchange rate between USD and their home currency

- affordability might vary across the US, but perhaps the consider even the cheaper places to be too pricey (the US is indeed a very pricey destination compared to much of Europe)

- the customs & border people deter tourists from visiting, no matter where in the US they want to go

- the US is a long flight away for many people in the world, whether they're going to Seattle, LA, NY, or Miami.

OP might be absolutely enthralled by US cultural diversity and still make the exact same comment.
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-07 15:24:15+00:00
What? Number two would make most companies run the other way. “Whatever you use to create a DNG, secret sauce or algorithm or processing from your sensor data, Adobe can license” - you act like it’s no big deal but it’s often the closely guarded color science or such things.

You can argue that maybe those things shouldn’t be considered trade secrets or whatever. But there’s just a bit more to it than that.
by treetalker | 2025-04-07 15:24:29+00:00
The Bed of Procrustes is great too, and easy to reread as a summary of the other books once you've already read them a few times individually.

Taleb also wrote a forward to the recent edition of Cipolla's The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, which predates Taleb's books but is "Taleb-adjacent".
by swat535 | 2025-04-07 15:24:51+00:00
As a Middle Eastern Canadian, I’ve been harassed at the U.S. border more times than I can count—often detained and questioned for hours, leading to major delays and unnecessary stress. It’s happened so frequently that I've completely stopped visiting the U.S. and avoid any connection that involves touching U.S. soil. It makes travel a bit more complicated, but honestly, it's worth it.

These days, my favorite place to visit is Europe. Even the UK, which can sometimes be tricky for travelers, has never been an issue for me. I’ve only ever had polite and respectful interactions there. And when crossing into Germany in particular, I’ve found the officials to be consistently professional and efficient.
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by rocksalad | 2025-04-07 15:24:58+00:00
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by saulpw | 2025-04-07 15:25:02+00:00
The reason that there's an "expected" process is because the people who were hired to think deeply about security got together and, for a bunch of reasons including "(obvs) the ability to add the wrong person is a problem", decided that the process should be something other than Signal. I'm not sure if we know all of the reasons they made that decision, but I think we can infer a few:

- all communication must be stored for legal purposes

- all communication must be on secure government hardware

- the entire security infrastructure must be operated by the government

Which of these aren't fundamental and practical?
by wduquette | 2025-04-07 15:25:29+00:00
_How to Read a Book_ is excellent. I don't apply Adler's method precisely in my reading, but many of his notions are simply now part of my mental toolkit, particularly his notion of "coming to terms", AKA "make sure you understand how the author is using the words he's using, and what precisely he means by them."

This is especially important when reading philosophical or technical material, especially material from another era.
by toss1 | 2025-04-07 15:25:53+00:00
THIS

Ordinarily, trust is earned in drops and lost by the barrel.

However, in the last eleven weeks, the current administration has sunk and destroyed supertanker-loads of trust in The United States Of America, and in every field including defense, security, health, science, academics, political, economic, and anything you can think of.

Even if the goals are good, the way they are being implemented is insanely stupid and damaging to everyone involved. (And I mean stupid in Cipolla's formal definition [0] of actions that harm both others and yourself.)

Any rational non-American person will not consider the US to be a reliable trustworthy partner in any venture. They may do deals at arms-length, but never again as a trusted partner.

Even if the policies are 100% reversed, the uncertainty will linger. Will international students really trust they won't be disappeared into a Central American prison if they say the wrong thing on social media? Will businesses really make a major capital investments when random tariffs may be added or removed on any day? Will allies really trust we will be there to defend them as they have come to our aid every time? A key part of trust is certainty, and uncertainty alone is deadly to relationships.[Edit: added this paragraph for clarity]

Much of America's prosperity was based on the tacit assumption of goodwill.

That is GONE.

If it is ever rebuilt, it will take not years or decades, but generations.

[0] https://principia-scientific.com/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-s...
by tristor | 2025-04-07 15:25:58+00:00
You can definitely do more than that these days. My Nikon Z8 can do 30fps with 1xCFExpress, and the flagship Z9 can do 120fps because it has 2xCFExpress and alternates writes. On the Sony side they have a closer differentiation to what you describe, the flagship (A1 II) does only 30fps compared to the next-best (A9 III) which does 120fps, while the prosumer (A7 RV) only does 10fps.

I don't know Canon well, but 120fps w/ dual CFExpress + 800-1200 frames buffer is fairly standard on top-end professional sports/wildlife mirrorless cameras these days.
by maeln | 2025-04-07 15:26:29+00:00
> But what happened to specializing? When a house is being built, tons of people are involved: architects, civil engineers, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, interior designers, roofers, surveyors, pavers, you name it. You don’t expect a single person, or even a whole single company, to be able to do all of those.

You would be surprised. While it stays more or less true for low-education job, I find that any job that require more than a high-school diploma suffer from the same problem. We are asked to be more and more polyvalent, and every job offer has a laundry list of skills that we are supposed to master.

When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense: Why pay two expert when one person with just enough knowledge can wing it ? Unless the job/task is highly regulated (you don't wing accounting) or the output quality really matter, a half-ass job is often 99% enough.

Taking about building a house, you can kind of see it actually. A lot of building company are doing the bare minimum, which is why inspection is critical.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-07 15:27:14+00:00
False dichotomy (for the clicks, of course). Filing tickets is still part of the process for both QA and record keeping.

I think this company is simply discovering what many have already learned: Having designers who can’t code combined with a coding team that is too backlogged too work with the designer isn’t productive.

Having designers who can code (through whatever form that takes) makes more sense for smaller teams than having a designer who just files tickets that never get prioritized.
by boesboes | 2025-04-07 15:27:40+00:00
This rings true. What I notice is that the longer i let Claude work on some code for instance, the more bullshit it invents. I usually can delete about 50-60% of the code & tests it came up with.

And when you ask it to 'just write a test' 50/50 it will try to run it, fail on some trivial issues, delete 90% of your test code and start to loop deeper and deeper into the rabit hole of it's own halliciations.

Or maybe I just suck at prompting hehe
by davidgay | 2025-04-07 15:28:06+00:00
> Everything you said is supported by regular image formats. You can adjust white balance of any photo and you think image formats are only limited to 16-bit and sRGB?

No - the non-RAW image formats offered were traditionally JPG and 8-bit TIFF. Neither of those are suitable for good quality post-capture edits, irrespective of their colour space (in fact, too-wide a colour space is likely to make the initial capture worse because of the limited 8-bit-per-colour range).

These days there is HEIF/similar formats, which may be good enough. But support in 3rd party tools (including Adobe) is no better than RAW yet, i.e., you need to go through a conversion step. So...
by gopiandcode | 2025-04-07 15:28:23+00:00
The visualisation of how the model sees nullability was fascinating.

I'm curious if this probing of nullability could be composed with other LLM/ML-based python-typing tools to improve their accuracy.

Maybe even focusing on interfaces such as nullability rather than precise types would work better with a duck-typed language like python than inferring types directly (i.e we don't really care if a variable is an int specifically, but rather that it supports _add or _sub etc. that it is numeric).
by bee_rider | 2025-04-07 15:29:27+00:00
I generally believe engineering is right in this sort of hypothetical. But, at some point if they really are focusing on code quality… I mean, ultimately the point of code quality is to deliver features/reduce maintenance over the long run, right? So if they really are doing a good job of improving code quality, over the long run they should have a good relationship with management and the political capital to make this request.

From an outside point of view, focusing on code quality and playing videogames instead of working look identical over the short term (or more realistically, working on little niche bits of the code or doing tidying-up busywork that doesn’t really improve the overall quality of the project—it could legitimately be hard to tell the difference). Of course, it should eventually become apparent that the latter group didn’t actually accomplish anything in that time.

“How do you balance the,” I guess it is a social thing/judgement call ultimately.
by frereubu | 2025-04-07 15:29:33+00:00
I respect their choice too, but like you the reason for my question was that I feel I can't trust the end product. Alex said "We only make sound-alike changes, like to-morrow -> tomorrow", which I could just about get along with, but Mahomet -> Muhammad creates an entirely different flavour for me. As Alex said, that's fine, in that it doesn't mean the other editions aren't available, but it is a shame for me when I essentially don't want to use something that has been put together so painstakingly.
by mcphage | 2025-04-07 15:30:48+00:00
> Doesn't the crime rate go down when Republicans hold the power?

I don't think that's true—or at least, not a strong correlation. Crime rates were going significantly down since the early 90s, regardless who is in power. There was a smaller spike during COVID years, which has I believe returned to normal.

> I think the crime rate is a major concern for every tourist.

It is, but it isn't the only concern, and ICE sending tourists to prison is by definition not a crime, but is just as relevant to potential tourists.

> As a tourist, I rather visit Florida than California.

I really don't think you really want to look at the state level crime rates, you should look at the crime rate for the place you're going to visit. For instance, the violent crime rate in Florida was 260 per 100k people in 2022 (according to Wikipedia)... but if you're going to Walt Disney World, specifically: it's a whole lot less.
by jillyboel | 2025-04-07 15:31:02+00:00
UNIX is dead, no one cares anymore. It's just Linux now. Your examples and complaints are both outdated and not in good faith.

For all the weirdos smashing that downvote button: How about you name me some UNIX distros you have ran in the past year? Other than Linux, OpenBSD (~0.1% market share btw) and ostensibly MacOS (which we all know has dropped any pretense of caring to be UNIX-like many years ago), that is.
by frm88 | 2025-04-07 15:31:06+00:00
Ask and you shall receive :)

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/foreign-visits-american-air...

- A sight uptick followed, but the number was still down 18.4% as of March 28 versus the same time last year.

- Compare that to the number of U.S. citizens returning to the country, which was up nearly 14% by late March from the year earlier.