MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshstrange | 2025-05-02 14:36:01+00:00
> May I also point out that your assumptions and stereotypes only serve to reinforce others’ entrenchments.

This is often repeated but I can't see how it could possibly hold true. Demonizing the other side has worked splendidly for republicans. Voters don't seem to care. Sure, they'll act all up in arms about "deplorables" (spoiler: they were then and are now, Hillary would have probably gone further by doubling down on that) but republicans say horrible things about democrats or people they see as "other" and it doesn't matter to their "family values" (a fully unmasked lie) voters.

I'm tired of people pretending "If we were only a little nicer to the people trying destroy the country this never would have happened"
by ziddoap | 2025-05-02 14:36:02+00:00
>would you prefer what’s happening in brazil?

I prefer not to do what aboutism.

>what kind of powers do you envision the judiciary having to rectify these wrongs?

Isn't that supposed to be figured out already? What is "checks and balances" if they can just be ignored? Impeachment for ignoring supreme court orders would be one example.
by lproven | 2025-05-02 14:36:10+00:00
Yeah, that sounds about right.

Gentoo and Arch are different takes on the same ways to build a distro.

Gentoo took the FreeBSD ports tree model and applied it to Linux: still relatively conventional packages, but they're source and you compile the whole thing each time. Arch, still conventional packages, but no fixed release cycle.

Nix throws all that, and the directory tree, out.

Slackware: tarballs are good enough, they're all my dad and grandad ever needed.

RHL: we'll have a package format, where packages can depend on others.

Debian: we'll take the RH idea, but make a tool that can go fetch and install what's needed by what you asked for.

Nix: you don't need to worry about stuff like packages or where stuff is. Tell us what you want and we will make it happen. (But you won't like the disk layout, so don't look.)

Guix: we'll do Nix but with Scheme.

AppImage: hey, you know Acorn did that apps-as-bundles thing first? And it's on Linux as ROX? What if we just zip up the bundles and mount them on demand?

Flatpak: that sounds too hard, dude. But we all agree Git's cool, right? So, what if we could, like, distribute apps over Git?

Gobo: all this packaging and dependency stuff is BS because you're still using a disk layout you improvised on the fly on some 1960s minicomputer with like 20 tiny little hard disks. Here, let's do a clean modern layout like NeXTstep did, but for the whole OS, then you don't really need a packaging tool any more. It's all just bundles, all the way down. But they're versioned. Just copy what you need.

(Entire rest of Linux world) Waah! But mah FHS! If I don't have my FHS then I won't compile!

Gobo: OK, OK, I'll fake it with symlinks for you, then hide it.

Snap: hey, app bundles sounds good, but let's compress them into single files and mount them when needed. Bunch of symlinks and you'll hardly be able to see the joins.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-02 14:36:27+00:00
St John's College is known for their Great Books curriculum - the foundation of their four year program - where students read the primary text of western civilization.

It's always held a soft spot in my heart as my own experience was mostly reading derivative descriptions and the rare times when I was able to read a primary text during my coursework were always my happiest memories.

1. https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...
by TimorousBestie | 2025-05-02 14:36:33+00:00
It’s so refreshing playing a game that isn’t the N+1 installment in some archaic franchise. I hope the studio survives and makes something else novel and interesting.

Of particular note is the care taken in facial animations. There’s still some uncanny valley (UE5 still sucks at human faces) but they’ve done a lot to make the characters emote believably during in-engine cutscenes.

I wish the out-of-engine FMVs weren’t so heavily compressed, but c’est la vie.

My advice: play this in performance mode. Parrying is significantly harder at 30Hz.
by tristor | 2025-05-02 14:37:29+00:00
> The article you linked is written by a prominent Republican blogger. You have to be pretty right wing to think its a good piece.

My dude, you have me confused with someone else. I didn't link any article in this subthread.

> Your original claim was that Republican run states "have Higher economic growth" among other things

I never made that claim. I made the claim that PPP is a better quality of life metric than GDP when comparing between regions/economies, because of wealth and income inequality. Which it is. In fact, nothing I've said has been disproven by anything you've responded with, you are just trying to bucket me because you have mistaken me for someone else and decided to apply the most uncharitable strawman lens to my entire commentary.

> but equivocating what Trump is doing now to anything the Democrats ever did

It's super rich to spend hours deprogramming my Boomer father from being a Trump supporter to come online and get accused of being a Trump supporter by people too dumb to read what I actually wrote.

> You are not fooling anyone anymore. Centrist or libertarian = republican.

My political compass is posted publicly on my website, does this look like a Republican to you? https://tristor.ro/img/political-compass.png

You continue to fail to have any reading comprehension, inappropriately bucketing me as a Republican, which is frankly insulting. Be better. I'm done with you.
by Leftium | 2025-05-02 14:37:31+00:00
I wish the Open Props color helper[1] output results more like your tool:

- Shows both original vs matched colors

- Shows hex/rgb values

- Easy copy/paste via button

Some ideas you may be able to steal from the color helper:

- The "Quick pick" button is very handy

- Also there are two color matching algorithms. The LAB color matching is supposedly optimized for human perception.

And perhaps support for OKLCH colors? https://oklch.com/

[1]: https://props-color-finder.netlify.app/
by hanson108 | 2025-05-02 14:37:32+00:00
This is peak infrastructure collapse theater. A proven engineering solution to a long standing actual public health crisis gets labeled ‘illegal DEI’ and killed by executive order. The same people who preach meritocracy and solving real problems are now defending literal sewage in people’s yards because helping poor communities is somehow ‘illegal DEI.’ Perfect example of how American infrastructure decay isn’t a technical problem but a values problem. Wonder how many here would stay quiet about this if it was their neighborhood with raw sewage pooling outside.
by ecocentrik | 2025-05-02 14:37:34+00:00
> It's pretty clear at this point that it's others behind the curtain running this show.

It doesn't matter who else is running the show in his name in the same way that it didn't matter who else was running the Biden administration. He's more than just culpable by association. Stop trying to infantilize the man. He's old but he's nowhere a stupid as everyone makes him out to be. He is callous and vindictive and expects loyalty in all things. He hates all forms of liberalism including the Republican ideals of liberal democracy and believes himself to be above the law. It's his administration, even if he doesn't seem to know about or even care about all the details.
by hueyp | 2025-05-02 14:37:35+00:00
Yes, he was appointed dictator before the consulship of varro / paullus, but his strategy proved unpopular. It makes sense: identity is hard and slow to change, and the romans had a strong identity around aggressiveness.

That said, in the defence of romans, they were also open to learning and integrating others ideas into their own. Scipio africanus absolutely learned from hannibal, and was able to layer aggressiveness, deception, and delay into his strategy. Every metaphor is imperfect, and cannae is absolutely an example of being blind / stubborn, but my quibble with the OP would be that romans didn't _really_ change their aggressive identity in the long term, and that identify continued to serve them well for 100's of years after hannibal.
by sofixa | 2025-05-02 14:37:39+00:00
The fact that you think mythological figures that enshrined slavery in the same document which describes how people are free could have gotten the constitution "right" is very telling.

No, the US constitution is not right. It has tons of problems with it, and needs a significant update to clarify it and avoid a supreme court legislating by imagining what slaveowners a few centuries ago might have thought about a problem.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-05-02 14:37:46+00:00
How can the left remain unbiased to truth when the right is constantly making things up? If the right is constantly lying about their agenda, is it responsible reporting to constantly report the unobjective lie? Is it unresponsible to lean out of direct regurgitation, acknowledge the pattern of hypocrisy, bring objective analysis of it, and continue to monitor it?
by mcdeltat | 2025-05-02 14:37:47+00:00
I always wondered why constexpr needs to be an explicit marker. We could define a set of core constexpr things (actually this already exists in the Standard) and then automatically make something constexpr if it only contains constexpr things. I don't want to have to write constexpr on every function to semantically "allow" it to be constexpr even though functionally it already could be done at compile time... Same story with noexcept too.
by mrweasel | 2025-05-02 14:38:06+00:00
> In the US, you don’t have many options.

The US have three networks, I believe, Denmark has three networks as well. Both have a number of MVNOs. For some reason pricing for service in the US is just crazy.

I pay 119DKK or ~20USD for unlimited talk and SMS, plus 30GB of data (and 30GB of data abroad in pretty much any country) per month. My American colleagues starts pondering getting a local SIM, when travelling, because data is expensive, both at home and when travelling. I see people on websites commenting "Make sure you're on wifi" ... WHY, data costs almost nothing, you can get free data for 35USD. Except you can't, not in the US at least.

Why is cell service so expensive in the US? I get that it's a big country, and it would cost more to build out the network, but there's also more people and you don't exactly need to cover the middle of the desert or random fields with anything but 2G.
by Retr0id | 2025-05-02 14:38:10+00:00
I was initially fairly sceptical of this essay, but getting to the parts about Erdős I find myself more in agreement. The title misled me!

Intellectualism for the sake of intellectualism is a road that leads to isolation. And then, what's the point of it all?

Connection and collaboration is where it's at - which is more or less what the author concludes, although still under the banner of intellectuality. Perhaps my definition of intellect is/was too narrow?
by bsimpson | 2025-05-02 14:39:01+00:00
Tim's a selfish businessman, whose interests just happen to align with the public interest in this instance.

He makes excuses about Linux market share when asked why Fortnite isn't on the Steam Deck, then ships a build for Windows ARM.

Fortnite Festival, their Rock Band recreation in the Fortnite ecosystem, recently started limiting when you can purchase songs in an effort to get people to impulse buy them when available. Players call it FOMO mode.

Epic is still pretty scummy and dishonest, even if in this insurance it appears to be on the good side.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-05-02 14:39:24+00:00
While I don't watch NBC or CNN (they talk about 5 minute topics for 2 weeks), I notice often that a progressive bias, as far as I understand, is not immediately bending the knee to any rightwing pushback. It shouldn't be biased to say climate change is real, for instance, but that has been politicized so much that it's seen as a progressive bias. It's only in recent years that Republicans have switched from "It's not real" to "well doing something about it is too hard."

A better example of a bias would be texts from Fox news anchors privately trashing Sidney Powell as a lying hack while they, simultaneously, plan to boost her appearances to make election interference seem more plausible [1]. Or saying they can't fact check Trump anymore [2].

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/all-the-texts-fox-ne... [2] https://www.mediaite.com/news/this-has-to-stop-now-new-bombs...
by selfhoster11 | 2025-05-02 14:39:26+00:00
I am low-key shocked that this has become a thing on Arch Wiki, of all places. And that's just to access the main page, not even for any searches. Arch Wiki is the place where you often go when your system is completely broken, sometimes to the extent that some clever proof of work system that relies on JS and whatever will fail. I'm sure they didn't decide this lightly, but come on.
by mherkender | 2025-05-02 14:39:34+00:00
It's not that extreme -- I had to get a new phone recently and it has 12 GB.

There is such a thing as reasonable upgrades and necessary replacements. But long-term FAANG software projects are built like sedimentary rock -- layers upon layers. This bloat has a real cost in performance but hardware upgrades help defer the problem and users pay for it.
by sleepyguy | 2025-05-02 14:39:36+00:00
This is the company that first said it would never raise prices. Then, they said if you pay by CC, there will be an additional $10 per line fee. Users started paying by debit to avoid the fee. Now they say if you don't give them access to your bank account, you will only receive a break of $5 per line fee. These people get hacked every 6 months, and all your personal information is stolen.

I wish there were an alternative, but the other carriers in the US are just as shady, and Google Fi uses T-Mobile. Mobile plan prices are increasing and are now more than a water or electric bill for a family of 4. The Gov should break up the industry; they have facilitated an oligarchy of Telecoms like Canada has.
by dmix | 2025-05-02 14:39:58+00:00
> When viewed as a percent of their annual revenue,

I've always found this viewpoint a bit childish, with little regard for how businesses work IRL (even the ignoring the obvious profits vs revenue part). Reminds me of how every comment section re: some crime story is people calling for death penalty or how a mob should kill them first. Justice is never that simple.

I understand people want businesses they don't like to simply not exist anymore but that doesn't mean it's rational to throw up insane fines because you spent 2min doing back of a napkin math of revenue * (imaginary deterrent %)

> For simplicity, if they got paid, I don't know, $150M/yr from China for the data and they've been sending data for (at least) 4 years... They would have made a profit despite the fine!

The Chinese government doesn't need to pay companies to exfiltrate data from companies within their reach.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-05-02 14:40:02+00:00
This isn't really a personal or controversial take on the issue. There are easier ways to back up a sqlite database, but if you want to use LVM snapshots you need to understand how to do it correctly if you want to have useful backups.

Here's a scenario for a note-taking app backed by sqlite:

1. User A is editing a note and the app writes the changes to the database.

2. SQLite is in WAL mode, meaning changes go to a -wal file first.

3. You take the LVM snapshot while SQLite is:

- midway through a write (to the WAL or the main db file) - or the WAL hasn’t been checkpointed back into the main DB file

4. The snapshot includes:

- a partial write to notes.db - or a notes.db and notes.db-wal that are out of sync

Result: The backup is inconsistent. Restoring this snapshot later might:

- Cause sqlite3 to throw errors like database disk image is malformed - Lose recent edits - Require manual recovery or loss of WAL contents

In order to get a consistent, point-in-time recovery where your database is left in state A and your backup from the LVM snapshot is in state B with _no_ intermediate states (like rolled back transactions or partial writes to the db file), you have to first either:

- Tell SQLite to create checkpoint (write the WAL contents to the main DB) and suspend writes - Or, flush and block all writes to the filesystem using fsfreeze

Then take the LVM snapshot.
by hwillis | 2025-05-02 14:40:42+00:00
On the grounds that he should have been sent to literally any other country, totally inapplicable to any of the other cases without specific preexisting orders against ES specifically. And notably they have outlined exactly nothing except that the administration had better say how they plan to get him back- the SCOTUS response to the executive saying "we have no plan" was just to say again that they wanted to know the plan.

The government is imprisoning people indefinitely (forever?) for unproven allegations and misdemeanors. They should be able to file habeas petitions for unlawful imprisonment. The courts are doing fuck all about it because the government is contracting to a foreign country to physically imprison them. That's crazy.
by evolve2k | 2025-05-02 14:41:03+00:00
What is this? A map of sausage and cake availability on election day.

I still don't understand It's practically part of the Australian Constitution. Or something. But how do you get all of the sausage sizzles?

We crowdsource (or is it crowdsauce?) data from social media, the web, and from the stalls that people submit to us on this here website.

To let us know about sausage and cake availability (or the absence thereof), the best method is to use the "Add stall" functionality on our website - you can submit as either a stall owner or just a 'tip-off' as appropriate. You can also contact us via our various social media channels listed below.

To make this work, we've also used Australian Electoral Commission polling place data (likewise from the state and territory electoral commissions).

Democracy Sausage incorporates data that is © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission) 2025.
by mebassett | 2025-05-02 14:41:09+00:00
Maritime shipping software | Full-stack software engineers | UX Designers | Implementation Managers & Customer Success execs | Data analysts | Global REMOTE | UCT-8 to UCT+4

Would you like to help tackle one of the most important sectors for the global economy - maritime shipping? We're hiring for multiple roles: software engineers, data analysts, UI/UX designers, implementation managers.

Nearly every person is affected by stuff shipping on the seas - whether its energy, ore, or wind turbines, but the industry itself is antiquated and archaic, and hampered by paperwork and bureaucracy. Our customers are crying out for better solutions. We're looking for people to help us build those solutions.

If you're the sort of person who is: - intellectually curious about new industries - wanting talking to and getting close to end users - keen to use LLMs and other AI tools

Then please get in touch.

--

For our SWE roles we have budgeted ~ 90k USD.

Our tech stack for new projects is largely typescript/vue/mysql (we have several fans of fp-ts and EffectT with us and are investing in using more functional programming). But like the industry at large we also have significant legacy code in javascript. If you're the sort of person who likes refactoring complex projects to make them more workable, then we also want to hear from you.

--

For our Data Analyst or Implementation Manager roles:

You'll be helping our customers in maritime shipping get the most from our software. Initially, a lot of that work will be in helping our customers get their data in and out of it. Lot's of MySQL, Metabase, AWS Glue, DBT, or other ETL pipelines.

--

For our UI/UX designer roles we have budgeted ~ 40k USD.

You'll be helping us on three different axes: (1) designing the user interface for new features, (2) fleshing out the user journeys and mockups for our roadmap, and (3) helping us craft a consistent and learnable user experience across all our software.

--

We hire remotely and globally with offices in Houston, London, Singapore, and Joinville (Brasil). You should be fluent in English. The current team is >20 people. You should be in a timezone within 3 hours of one of those offices.

Interested? You can contact me directly from my profile. I'm the CTO.

Please, no recruiters or agencies.
by chii | 2025-05-02 14:41:22+00:00
But outside donations do also have potential strings. Think how much strings mozilla has been having with the money google gives them. Of course, there's no strings attached from a legal perspective. But i dont think anyone is kidding themselves that it's not strings attached money.

Hopefully, the public broadcasting donations are from various small amounts from many viewers, and collectively they are less corrupting. But this isn't guaranteed, and during economic recessions, these sorts of sources tend to dry up (and get replaced with big money sources, and thus their agendas).
by yladiz | 2025-05-02 14:41:35+00:00
Maybe your argument makes sense in the US, but in many countries (like here in Germany) there do exist TV and radio that are publicly funded, trusted, and good, so yes I’m more than okay that I have to pay monthly, and in your words, “forcibly subscribed” to the ARD and ZDF. I think having trustworthy news that is accessible to everyone is extremely useful and important so even if I didn’t use them myself I’m glad to pay so that others can.
by master-lincoln | 2025-05-02 14:41:59+00:00
I don't think it's valid to say you can only criticize somebody if you are doing better on that front. We should all watch and criticize other countries so humanity can improve.

> Perhaps China not having the same values of European powers is a good thing in terms of overall peace?

I fail to see why that could be the case. Why would different values support peace?

> I would love to hear from EU citizens on why they should be the judge of all human moral values when their countries have arguably done more collectively to disturb the peace of others in the last 300 years than any country in Asia.

Again you assume one is only able to voice concerns if you are doing better in a certain area. You are also treating different governments of different times in a country as a single entity. FYI: In most countries there is more than one party in government over time and parties have different values.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-02 14:42:14+00:00
I don't think bias is the right word. It's more that a station not bound by corporate sponsors better has the ability to reflect the voice of the people, and Americans generally lean progressive when you ask them directly about policy.

Most Americans wanting to tax the rich/large corporations: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/19/most-amer...

Wanting to legalize marijuana: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/03/26/most-america...

The government should supply universal healthcare to Americans: https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-...
by tart-lemonade | 2025-05-02 14:42:27+00:00
> That acknowledgement was tacked on well after publication.

The original title was "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'".

https://web.archive.org/web/20200827191914/https://www.npr.o...

> Even interviewing this person was an absurdity and revelatory of the kind of bias at npr.

So news organizations should not cover things which may seem sensational, especially those which are being actively talked about in the context of the current news cycle?
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 14:42:31+00:00
A news source aiming to independently investigate and report where reality stands in relation to opposing political talking points is an opportunity for bias, but you're guaranteed bias against reality if you don't do that part, is the thing.

Most folks haven't thought about that too much, though, and/or haven't had much education in politics and media, so "fair and balanced" and "we report, you decide" resonate as slogans, rather than smelling fishy.