MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seatac76 | 2025-05-07 15:04:10+00:00
Things most likely will not escalate.

These terrorist attacks are always planned by Pak Army with the next steps in mind. Pak Army needs a war to re assert it's dominance. It is under a lot of pressure domestically due to what they did to democratic opposition, so precipitating war with India would provide a chance to consolidate the base. The choice of explicitly targeting people by religion was done to ensure an Indian response. Which is what their Chinese backers also want, start a war to ensure India gets distracted. Smart geopolitics on their part.

Long term India will have to think through deterring such terrorist actions from Pakistan. Pakistan was and remains a epicenter for Islamic terrorism and sooner or later the world will have to confront it, they have been getting a pass for far too long. Deterrence will only come when the real perpetrators which is the Pak Army - Jihadi complex is deterred. Hell Pakistani people might be better off without the current Pak Army.

As for the Indus Water Treaty shenanigans, nothing will happen there, it's all posturing.
by pessimizer | 2025-05-07 15:04:21+00:00
There were years and years with lyrics sites being sued out of existence, blocked, moved from weird overseas host to weird overseas host, etc.. Also tablature sites.

Rap Genius was a massively financed Big Deal at the time (which seems unimaginable because it is so dumb, but all of the newspapers wanted to license their "technology.") They dealt with record companies and the RIAA directly, iirc. Google is google, and piggybacks off that. And the entire conflict became frozen after that, even through I'm sure that if you put up a lyrics site, you'd quickly get any number of cease and desists.

> Is it actually copyright infringement to state the lyrics of a song, though? How has Google / Genius etc gotten away with it for years if that were the case?

This shouldn't be treated like a rhetorical question that you assume google has the answer to, and just glide past. Copyright around song lyrics has a very rich, very recorded history.
by palmotea | 2025-05-07 15:04:24+00:00
>> They teach using proven methods, like phonics.

> Proven methods... For what? Acing standardised tests?

Phonics is the proven method for learning how to read English. Quite controversially, a lot of states ditched or de-emphasized phonics in favor of some faddish "balanced literacy" idea that took the education establishment by storm, but doesn't actually work as well and led to bad outcomes, like poor literacy. Now that the damage has been done and is visible, a lot of states are now mandating phonics again.

I think there have been similar cycles with math.

Education is probably one of the areas where our cultural obsession with innovation and change leads to bad outcomes. It's not like reading is a new technology or prior generations were full of stupid people (though there are a lot of chauvinists who assume they were). At a certain point, new educational ideas are very likely to be worse ideas, but they're pushed and adopted because people are required to be "innovators."
by penguin_booze | 2025-05-07 15:04:26+00:00
To me, the root cause of this problem is the externalizing of knowledge. The number of tools used in building software has exploded. Each such tool, while purporting to make the job of the developer easy, hides what it really takes to make software. In turn, the developer unwittingly grows reliant on the tools, thereby externalizing the essential knowledge of what it really takes to build software, or what the real cost of adding a dependency is. Everything turns into, "pff, I'll just click that button on my IDE--job done!".

Every software component follows the same pattern. Software, thus made from these components, ends up being intractably complex. Nobody knows what a thing is, nor how things work.

This is where we are right now, before we add AI. Add AI and "vibe coding" to the mix, and we're in for a treat. But don't worry - there'll be another tool that'll make this problem, too, easy!

I'm hereby coining the term 'cognitive sovereignty'.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-05-07 15:04:30+00:00
Free software and open source software are not the same. AGPLv3 is not an open source license, it is the strongest copyleft free software license available at this point in time.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

And it's hard to disagree with the clueless guy when what he says is happening keeps happening.

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178805704888726

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341#comment:4
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-07 15:04:37+00:00
> In what possible sense can you possible mean that "all wars are defensive"?

I think the argument is all wars can be defensively spun. Russia apologists falling for the imminent-Ukraine-membership lie, MAGAs falling for the idea that we’re defending our Arctic interests by invading Greenland, Hitler’s argument that the Nazis were defending against a jealous Jewry and Europe, et cetera. The justifications for war are always, in part, however flimsily, couched in terms of defence (in modern times).
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-07 15:04:53+00:00
I'll say otherwise.

Some people would say there is a spiritual dimension in beauty vs ugliness, and certainly something people would get out of a Catholic or an Orthodox church as opposed to, say, a Baptist church, is going to a beautiful building that evokes certain feelings.

Carelessness about one thing (typography) makes you wonder if you're dealing with a culture of carelessness or "careless people", which many of my relatives in New England think the church leadership was when they interrupted my cousin's wedding to ask us to pray for the pedophile priests.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-07 15:05:09+00:00
Well, it has to be. The number can only have 53 bits of precision.

There are more than 2^53 floating point values between 0 and 1, but if you use them all, you'll fail to have a uniform distribution. Either certain regions of the space will be far more likely than other regions, or certain values will be far more likely than other values. The article takes the view that the second of those options is desirable, but it's not clear why.

And the algorithm the article describes is:

1. Generate a random float the uniform way.

2. If it's close to zero and has extra precision available, generate some more random bits to fill in the extra precision.

It's always going to be faster to skip step 2. What are we gaining by not skipping it?
by SoftTalker | 2025-05-07 15:05:51+00:00
I think the ideal here would be what good trailer brake adapters do in cars that are not factory equipped with a trailer light connector: they have an adapter for each car model that plugs directly in to the stock wiring harness at the taillight. No soldering, no stripping wires, no piercing insulation. However, this complicates the product because you need an adapter for each bike manufacturer and possibly each bike model or even model year.

Another advantage of this is it simplifies installation for the bike owner. Just mount the controller and connect the plugs.
by SirMaster | 2025-05-07 15:05:53+00:00
I don't really understand the appeal of these delivery services.

Whenever I try them my food usually arrives cold and more than once has apparently gotten stolen and then I have to spend a bunch of time with delivery people messaging me saying the food is not there, and then have to talk to customer service to get a refund.

On top of that they practically double the cost of the already expensive food it seems to me.
by OptionOfT | 2025-05-07 15:06:11+00:00
> BMW’s dynamic brake light, for example, flashes during emergency braking to alert trailing drivers, greatly enhancing road safety.

Mind you, that this is not enabled in all countries. In the USA the rear fog lights turn on in addition to the brake lights under heavy braking, as flashing the lights weren't allowed.

They remain on until you no longer depress the brakes.

Unsure if they're allowed right now, or whether the ones you see are aftermarket mods.

For BMW you can change the coding (configuration) relatively easy.

There is also a difference in 3 flashes when you touch the brakes, constant flashing while pressing the brakes, or only flashing under having braking.

I can't imagine driving in stop&go traffic where all brake lights are constantly flashing.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-05-07 15:06:11+00:00
There's an industry piece that points out that a remarkable percentage of beer sales in the US are single cans stored cold, sold at convenience stores. Most residents of the US drive to convenience stores. Given that they are buying 1-2 cans at a time it doesn't take much in the way of inference to figure out that they are buying them to be consumed while driving.
by llm_nerd | 2025-05-07 15:06:28+00:00
Ukraine kind of wasn't prepared at all. The US was screaming warnings and giving precise intel, but Ukraine's defence didn't seem to plan for an actual attack at all.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64664944

It is just shocking incompetence by Russian forces that Kyiv wasn't taken in days. Russian units faced negligible resistance right to the outskirts of Kyiv, where their own lack of training, planning and logistics stalled their efforts.

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-russias-failure-to-take-...

Ukraine is now a potent military force and Zelensky is a bonafide hero, but they were in a profound state of denial and got incredibly lucky in those early days.
by chneu | 2025-05-07 15:06:45+00:00
My roommate has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The first thing we look for when his mental health starts to go is social interaction. As soon as he starts to get antisocial we know his mental health is tanking.

Humans need social interaction. Happiness is a muscle and it's best strengthened with other people. Seeing people at all improves mental health.

Humans are social creatures whether people want to believe it or not.

Being isolated and alone will make almost anyone unhappy and unwell, whether that person will admit it or not.
by wiether | 2025-05-07 15:06:46+00:00
> Do these people even like food?

They don't.

Basically they _consume_ food like they _consume_ shows on Netflix.

They want tons of choice, they want something constantly new, but they never actually enjoy what they consume. Ask them what they ate last week and they can't tell you. Ask them what they thought about what they just ate, same result.

It would be fine if it wasn't for the tons of trash that creates and the cooks/delivery people that are exploited by this system.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-07 15:06:52+00:00
> Kashmiris on the Indian side are citizens (unlike in "colonies")

Since when has that prevented any government from negotiating borders?

> the issue is too good to give up for (religion-based) politics and (military-industrial) businesses, on both sides of the border

Yup. I’d add that the citizens of both countries legitimately despise each other. Not genocidally, for the most part, but dismissively to each others’ humanity. So it’s not like you have to go full manufactured consent to develop jingoism.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-07 15:07:15+00:00
Hi codingclaws, I own my eponymous firm, Andrew McWatters & Co. (https://www.andrewmcwatters.com) in Phoenix, Arizona.

We have bench engineer staff and I am the only one who does sales. I write the contracts, as well as do the design work and engineering alongside my coworkers. I consider us a software development firm, but there are other companies that call themselves "agencies" in the valley.

They do a bit more full-service work, while we focus on custom software specifically.

The answer is that I work alongside a network of developers who have an established history of contacts here in Arizona, and I've also been in the industry for a number of years and previously worked at a large number of companies doing a mix of professional services work, contract, and full-time employment. That's the long way of saying that I obtain business by word-of-mouth.

Separately from local contacts here in the state and abroad based on remote work I and others have done, we publish some notes of design work and software development that others do not which garners some attention from clients who acknowledge us as subject matter experts. This is also partially validated by press publications and industry awards.

Additionally, we review requests for proposals where we think we can provide a valuable service, and we work on some internal products by reinvesting earnings into developing technologies from research and development efforts. Fun novel stuff that doesn't really exist in the open source world. In this wing of the business, we focus on competing technologies to proprietary solutions that exist in the wild.

So, it takes some exceptional work to gain enough traction to stay in business, and I think by extension, that's why you don't see too many of these businesses stay afloat.

We've been in business for maybe, I'm not sure now, 5 or 6 years. Not long. But we do so by doing things others don't, or can't. So in terms of market segmentation, we address solutions from a premium perspective.
by Reason077 | 2025-05-07 15:07:22+00:00
> “Moreover, during intense braking scenarios, it flashes proportionately to the braking intensity.”

In Europe, a lot of modern cars have a similar feature. When braking particular hard (eg: a sudden emergency stop from highway speeds) the brake lights will flash rapidly to warn drivers behind you. It’s a very good safety feature, IMO. But not legal in North America?
by volkk | 2025-05-07 15:07:36+00:00
> what specific documentation do you think are lacking? Tutorials?

examples beyond tiny todo app/best practices would be a great start.

> Tutorials? That's for users to write.

sure, and how's that going for them? there are near zero tutorials out there, and as someone looking to build a desktop tool in rust, they've lost me. maybe i'm not important enough for them and their primary goal is to intellectually gatekeep this tool from the vast majority for a long time, in which case, mission accomplished
by drob518 | 2025-05-07 15:07:37+00:00
Some feedback for you.

1. I love the idea.

2. The UI needs to work on smaller screens (e.g., tablets). The current layout is VERY cramped.

3. Its ability to search for businesses in a given geography is poor. I asked it to search for businesses in a city and it was giving me results that were obviously incorrect from halfway across the country.

4. For a homepage URL for a business, it once gave me a parked domain name at GoDaddy's "domain for sale" page. That seemed like a blunder. Is that because it's pulling in WHOIS information and it connected some addresses?

5. Performance is quite poor. Perhaps that's because you're getting "Hackernews'd" with a surge of people consuming all your capacity.
by seatac76 | 2025-05-07 15:07:50+00:00
It is true though, India has the moral upper hand here. All Pakistan has achieved in it's short existence is to be thug for hire(first US now China) and a place for midwifing every other Islamic terrorist faction.

It is also inherently unstable given they have never been able to solve their innate identity crisis, in short it is as Islamic North Korea(nukes) at best. It should be treated like the pariah that it is.

You can't kill civilians in cold blood and expect to get away with it.
by keenmaster | 2025-05-07 15:08:00+00:00
Thanks for pointing that out, they’re actually tied for second-to-last.

As for % tested, states that don’t mandate the ACT tend to have higher performance in general. They don’t have as compelling of a need for the mandate, and they have many students who’d rather just take the SAT on its own. There is an effect going the other way though - if you don’t mandate the ACT, then students who don’t want to take any standardised testing at all…won’t, and so they won’t depress the average score.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-05-07 15:08:57+00:00
I am not suggesting anything; i am a nobody and so are you, Taiwanese are sovereign people, they'll choose what they want to do

DPP have lost latest legislative elections, and KMT, the winners, are advocating for closer ties with China

Besides, China wants peaceful reunification, warmongers want to arm Taiwan and steal its semiconductor industry

Always using proxies :smiley_face:

"1982 U.S.-PRC Joint Communiqué/Six Assurances

As they negotiated establishment of diplomatic relations, the U.S. and PRC governments agreed to set aside the contentious issue of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. They took up that issue in the 1982 August 17 Communiqué, in which the PRC states “a fundamental policy of striving for peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, and the U.S. government states it “understands and appreciates” that policy. The U.S. government states in the 1982 communiqué that with those statements “in mind,” “it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan,” and “intends gradually to reduce its sale of arms to Taiwan, leading, over a period of time, to a final resolution.” The U.S. government also declares “no intention” of “pursuing a policy of ‘two Chinas,’” meaning the PRC and the ROC, “or ‘one China, one Taiwan.’”"

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12503
by isaacimagine | 2025-05-07 15:09:05+00:00
I interned at zed during the summer of 2022, when the editor was pre-alpha. Nathan, Max, Antonio are great guys and build software with care. I'm happy to see the editor receive the success it deserves, because the team has poured so much world-class engineering work into it.

I worked with Antonio on prototyping the extensions system[0]. In other words, Antonio got to stress test the pair programming collaboration tech while I ran around in a little corner of the zed codebase and asked a billion questions. While working on zed, Antonio taught me how to talk about code and make changes purposefully. I learned that the best solution is the one that shows the reader how it was derived. It was a great summer, as far as summers go!

I'm glad the editor is open source and that people are willing to pay for well-engineered AI integrations; I think originally, before AI had taken off, the business model for zed was something along the lines of a per-seat model for teams that used collaborative features. I still use zed daily and I hope the team can keep working on it for a long time.

[0]: Extensions were originally written in Lua, which didn't have the properties we wanted, so we moved to Wasm, which is fast + sandboxed + cross-language. After I left, it looks like Max and Marshall picked up the work and moved from the original serde+bincode ABI to Wasm interface types, which makes me happy: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-extensions. I have a blog post draft about the early history of Zed and how extensions with direct access to GPUI and CRDTs could turn Zed from a collaborative code editor into a full-blown collaborative application platform. The post needs a lot of work (and I should probably reach out to the team) before I publish it. And I have finals next week. Sigh. Some day!
by SoraNoTenshi | 2025-05-07 15:09:06+00:00
This looks interesting to me, as i am currently using GlazeWM, but a lack of scriptiness makes it a bit of a hassle for me to use, it also sometimes is glitchy especially with a specific set of applications i use.

I will make sure to give Jwno a try, as i have had Janet on my radar for quite some time already. Maybe it will solve some of my concerns i have with GlazeWM. :)
by gcmeplz | 2025-05-07 15:09:52+00:00
State-based ACT scores are also highly influenced by who takes the ACT. If more students choose to take the ACT, the scores might go down even it's because your education system is doing a better job because more kids are trying for college.

For the same reason, you'll see some surprising state scores for SAT/ACT. If you're in a state that prioritizes the ACT, the main students taking the SAT are the strongest students who are looking at out-of-state schools.

Aside from the time lag, I don't think you can look at voluntary test scores and draw many useful conclusions from it.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-07 15:09:52+00:00
OP's point is warhawks and propaganda can easily weaponize their position as the aggressors as being "peace seeking".

The best example of this is the Iraq war. The US invaded another country and sold it as a peace keeping mission because "They are building weapons of mass destruction!".

In fact, the US has decades of history doing such actions (see: banana republics and the CIA's anti-communism efforts).
by naikrovek | 2025-05-07 15:09:53+00:00
native resolution on any monitor should work fine on MacOS.

using pixel fonts on any non-integer multiplier of the native resolution will always result in horrible font rendering, I don't care what OS you're on.

I use MacOS on all kinds of displays as I move throughout the day, some of them are 1x, some are 2x, and some are somewhere in between. using a vector font in Zed looks fine on all of them. It did not look fine when I used a pixel font that I created for myself, but that's how pixel fonts work, not the fault of MacOS.
by travisgriggs | 2025-05-07 15:10:07+00:00
Pycharm is my goto for Python; I happily use AndroidStudio when working on our Android apps.

In the past when I tried CLion, I found that its need/desire to use cmake prohibited me from really using it. We have our own build scripts, and it seemed to struggle with that. Anyone know if that CMake bias still exists?

I ended up using Nova on my Mac for C code and have been pretty happy with that.

I would really really really love it if there was an Elixir skin for Jetbrains tools.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-07 15:10:20+00:00
True, but some people might have favorable gut flora others do not (there was evidence of this with fecal transplants, with recipients acquiring the metabolic profile of the donor). The meta issue is that the human body and its interaction with gut flora and other systems are still somewhat unknown, and we are still simple monkeys using hammers on inputs of the body.

Why do we need GLP-1s? Is it because of Western diet? Misfiring reward centers (GLP-1s also appear to quell addictive behavior around alcohol and hard drugs)? Broad antibiotic usage along with more sterile living environments causing misbalanced gut flora (not producing sufficient quantities of natural GLP-1)? The most exciting phrase in science is not "Eureka!" but "That’s funny...".

I thought the long term solution was gene therapy for GLP-1 consumers, but now believe it's going to be probiotics that encourage gut flora that excretes sufficient quantities of GLP-1 for the desired metabolic outcome (based on most recent evidence and findings). If feasible, this is exciting because it is much harder to gate this therapy via the medical industrial complex (primarily insurance, pharma, PBMs, etc).

Scientists May Have Found a Natural Alternative to Ozempic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874436 - May 2025
by camel-cdr | 2025-05-07 15:10:20+00:00
I've written an algorithm that generates a uniform random float in the range [a,b] that can produce every representable floating-point value with a probability proportional to the covered real number range*: https://github.com/camel-cdr/cauldron/blob/main/cauldron/ran...

* Well, almost. I messed up the probability around subnormals slightly and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.

Still, the algorithm it self should works for all other values and it was measurably more accurate than the regular algorithm.

In terms of performance it is 10x slower compared to the regular implementation of `(randu32(x)>>8)*(1.0f/(1<<24))` on my Zen1 desktop.