MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IcePic | 2025-06-05 06:35:05+00:00
This has probably been true for all unix fs's for a really long time. My take on it is that the amount of people that make better decisions than fsck are probably on a first name basis with eachother and I am certainly not one of those, so when fsck says "should we try to fix this?" the only question for me is "did I 'dd' this raw device to somewhere else or not?" but when I have that answer I might aswell let fsck do its best because I am not going to hexedit something into working shape that fsck could not figure out how to fix.

If the data is super important, I'd buy another drive and dd this one over to it somehow, so I can make 1-3-5 attempts at getting it fixed, but when fsck runs, I would let it run.
by graemep | 2025-06-05 06:35:59+00:00
> not who you are replying to - but: Shakespeare was limited by the number of interactions he had with humans. He did not have the internet.

The internet may increase the number of interactions, but decreases their quality.

Looking at most online interactions it looks to me that people show less empathy and understanding than they do IRL.

> Of course Shakespeare had a profound understanding of human nature. And of course he did not have the working vocabulary and knowledge base of modern psychology which has been built up over time by many humans working together. Two things can be true.

Does that help write better books. If the claim was true the best fiction would be written by psychologists and neurologists. Is it?

I think that knowledge is on the wrong side (for writing fiction) of Chesterton's distinction (in a work of fiction - I cannot remember which Fr Brown story) between understanding someone from the inside with empathy and from the outside with analysis.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 06:36:07+00:00
Its a lesson in human behaviour. And like all young people we were interested in what makes society tick. We were daring rogue anthropologists.

You get the 3 payphones.

If you have them all present the message, someone gets curious and lifts a handset, resolving the issue.

But if you disable only 2, everyone just lines up behind the working payphone. Its a repeatable experiment, one we performed everywhere we saw telstra payphones.

Apologies if you happen to be a disgruntled telstra payphone user.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-05 06:36:11+00:00
Less ChatGPT and more language reference manuals, ChatGPT isn't an ancient oracle knows it all, even though Microsoft's marketing sells it as such.

Ada has as much zero cost abstractions as C++ and Rust have, and one of the reasons of Ravenscar is even what to turn off for bare metal deployments, and real time OS deployments.
by cameldrv | 2025-06-05 06:36:50+00:00
This is not true. In the condition of a failed AoA vane like on the two accident flights, there is no way to enable the trim thumb switches and disable MCAS. You either get no electric trim and no MCAS or you get both. If you happened to have known that MCAS pushes the trim down for 9.3 seconds and then pauses for 5 seconds, you might have been able to time it and turn on the electric stab trim at just the right time when MCAS wasn’t trying to kill you, but unfortunately the very existence of MCAS was hidden from pilots.

If you flip the stab trim cutout switches, you can turn the wheel manually, but if there have already been a couple of cycles of MCAS, the plane may be so out of trim that you need too much force to move the trim wheel manually.

In that case there is one thing that could save you which would be to do the so called rollercoaster procedure, where you push the yoke forward to unload the trim and then crank the trim up while you hurtle towards the ground. This was a documented procedure in the 737-300 manual, but was later deleted.

The real crime was that Boeing deliberately removed all mention of MCAS from the flight manual. The problem was that if there were procedures that pilots needed to know in order to recover from an MCAS failure, they would have been required to practice these procedures in a simulator, and Boeing’s contract with Southwest had financial incentives if the MAX didn’t require any additional sim time for pilots to transition from the NG to the MAX.

We know that the information about MCAS was deleted from the manual because the only occurrence of the term MCAS in the MAX flight manual is in the glossary where it is a defined term. The tech writers obviously put it in there because it was described in an earlier version of the manual, but later deleted, but the glossary entry wasn’t deleted when the description was.
by genewitch | 2025-06-05 06:38:57+00:00
So you'd do:

x = doubler(x)

Instead of treating the function like a "subroutine"? Like:

x = 10

doubler(x)

print x

I'm unsure why, but I use the former. Probably due to most sources saying global variables are bad and if I do it the latter way I get errors, whereas with the former I only get errors unrelated to scope.

I'm not a professional or even amatuer programmer, that's why I ask. My only exposure to Erlang unfortunately is from coding contests like advent of code and Codegolf stack; and those are "clever" and my brain doesn't abide clever. The inverse of "why use many words when few words will do"

In my own programs, if I go back and read the code I can tell what I copy-pasted vs what I understood as I wrote it, if that makes sense. Because clever stuff that solves the problem I've been unable to solve in the time I alloted will be in my code. You see anything pretending to be, or being a lambda in my code, I lifted it.

I would like to learn Erlang and there's been a few book recommendations aside from TFA. This comment also serves as my reminder to get some books.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 06:39:08+00:00
Thats a much deeper topic than I care to get into now.

You are thinking of monetary inflation, I am referring to the most common use of the word, price inflation.

>Inflation most commonly refers to a rise in the general price level over a period of time (also known as price inflation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(disambiguation)
by pjmlp | 2025-06-05 06:40:23+00:00
For Swift to be a shit show on Fortune 500 Linux and Windows servers, someone has to start shipping them in volume, regardless of percentiles.

Any language can be a shit show, when enough people beyond the adoption curve write code in them, from the letcoders with MIT degree to the six week bootcamp learners shipping single functions as a package, and architects designing future proof architectures on whiteboards with SAFe.

When Swift finally crosses into this world, then we can compare how much of it has survived the world scale adoption exposure, beyond cozy Apple ecosystem.
by cedws | 2025-06-05 06:43:33+00:00
This was submitted 4 hours ago and has 8 points. The last submission maxed out at 2 points. I think the lukewarm reception says it all - I don’t really understand this product. It’s a shared Copilot chat?

It feels like their strategy is to force developers to interact with LLMs as much as possible to generate training data for them.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 06:44:03+00:00
>I am saying that your specific objections to taxing unrealised gains do not apply.

I dont see how referencing borrowing is relevant to taxation.

>Ie income tax bad?

Yes its horrible. But if you tax 10% on income, you are left with 90% of your income on an ongoing basis, and that can accrue. People can become wealthier. People without income dont pay the tax so arent negatively affected. If you tax someone with 5 bucks in their bank account and no job, 10% of their 200K property, they arent going to accrue 90% of their property on an ongoing basis. Their wealth will shrink. Which is bad on average.

>Btw, you could run a land value tax but give everyone a universal basic income equivalent to the LVT paid by the median person.

I often see these joined but IIRC I did some math on this, and UBI would make your LVT extremely punishing. I wouldnt group them together as proposals.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-05 06:44:39+00:00
I suspect that Boeing didn't think it would be a problem because the runaway stab trim procedure is enough to stop it and recover. Who would have thought that trained pilots would not remember this procedure? It's supposed to be a "memory item", meaning consulting the checklist was not required.

The stab trim cutoff switch is in a prominent position on the central console (not overhead or behind the crew).

In the first Lion Air crash, the airplane dipped and recovered (via the thumb switches) 25 times over a period of 11 minutes. They never thought to turn off the stab trim system. It boggles the mind. Would you want to fly with a crew that didn't know what the switches on the console were for? Not me.

Both Boeing and the crew are at fault. Some percentage also for whoever made the faulty sensor and the failure to see that it worked correctly after it was installed.
by bjackman | 2025-06-05 06:44:43+00:00
Any solution to a problem that fundamentally comes down to undue privilege for incumbency, is gonna harm incumbents some way or another. I don't think there's much you can do about that, and it doesn't mean you shouldn't solve the problem.

Still, you're right that you need to think about how to avoid harming those interests in a way that's actively unfair or overly disruptive. I don't think people talk about this very much, because not many people are seriously talking about solving the problems LVT targets.

E.g. everyone says "tackle the housing crisis, build more houses!" but very few people actually seem interested in doing anything that would have any downside at all. At least with e.g. climate change people say "we have to make some sacrifices".

Anyway I guess the basic solution has to be that you solve the problem very slowly so people have a chance to adjust to the new regime?
by ReptileMan | 2025-06-05 06:46:12+00:00
The fundamental problem comes from the fact that the value of land in a center of a city is O(n^2) on the number of inhabitants. The only option is to limit the influx of people in the city either by carrot or by stick. Managing the size of cities is something that the government should be more involved in to get to optimal for the state situation. There are cases where 30 or 40 percent of the population is in the capital of a country. That is not a country that is a city state with extra steps.
by Frieren | 2025-06-05 06:46:23+00:00
> GDPR: “Any judgment of a court or tribunal and any decision of an administrative authority of a third country requiring a controller or processor to transfer or disclose personal data may only be recognized or enforceable if based on an international agreement…”

That is why international agreements and cooperation is so important.

Agreement with the United States on mutual legal assistance: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=legissum...

Regulatory entities are quite competent and make sure that most common situations are covered. When some new situation arises an update to the treaty will be created to solve it.
by onli | 2025-06-05 06:46:41+00:00
Just above it says:

> an original manufacturer may not use parts pairing to ... Reduce the functionality or performance of a digital electronic product

Dismissable would have to be defined, but when being annoying about it it should be possible to show that it reduces the functionality. It would be clearly against the spirit of the law, but sure, Apple already risked management jail time by ignoring court orders so they might try stuff here as well.
by kaibee | 2025-06-05 06:46:55+00:00
No. Obviously the tax would be phased in over a long period of time and for political reasons probably include some recompense to current owners. But what, are we doomed for all time because of decisions made in the past? There will always be a new cohort of people who played by the rules of the current system and oh won't it be unfair to them. What about the people who are suffering because of the current system?
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-06-05 06:48:11+00:00
As you grow up and experience more of life you come to realise that you thought of as harmless “pranks” probably had a real impact on people’s lives.

Who knows that the people in that queue were trying to do or who they were trying to contact.

It’s only by experiencing these moment and stresses ourselves that gives us the perspective to put ourselves in others shoes and gain empathy.
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-05 06:48:38+00:00
These studies don't really show a decent comparison between EV's, just car makers in general. We aren't trying to argue whether Tesla's are better than ICE car makers, but whether they're consistent or better against other EV's of other car makers.

However, if you look at the latest press release by JDPower (https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2025-us-vehi...) you'll see that Tesla now ranks right near the average. Significantly better than in previous years and ahead of other common car makers.

The dependability study could do with a segment purely on EV's, given that EV's as a whole are improving by roughly 33 PP100 per year.
by genewitch | 2025-06-05 06:49:09+00:00
thanks for engaging.

> The linked tweet (whatever it's called)

"post" works for social media regardless of the medium; not an admonishment, an observation. Also, by the time i saw this, it was already an Ars link, leaving some comments with less context that i apparently didn't pick up on. I was able to make my observation because someone mentioned mastodon (i think), but that was an assumption on my part that the original link was mastodon.

So i asked the question to make sure it wasn't some bias against mastodon (or the fediverse), because I'd have liked to ask, "for what reason?"
by jrflowers | 2025-06-05 06:50:17+00:00
Thank you for clarifying that you are using the term “doctrinaire egalitarian leftist” to refer to any individual that does not believe in race science, or more specifically any individual that doesn’t agree with Scott Siskind’s position on race science.

I’m personally not super familiar with that label and assumed because of the definitions of those words that it would have some sort of philosophical or ideological connotation — but since a person needn’t be doctrinaire, a philosophical egalitarian, or a leftist to not be a fan of Scott’s blog, when you say “doctrinaire egalitarian leftist” here you mean it like when a Juggalo says somebody isn’t “down with the clowns”

I’d pick another word for non-Codexers or Scott Thots (I’m guessing, I don’t know what label your fandom self-applies here), as someone could mistakenly think that you are trying to make some sort of point. (Which we know that you are not, since your original post was essentially just “Bringing up Scott’s positions on race science won’t change the opinions of the fans of Scott’s positions on race science” just phrased in a maximally-confusing and belabored way)
by rkomorn | 2025-06-05 06:51:27+00:00
I wonder what kind of audience split there is on HN when it comes to "marketing" "tools".

Whenever I see posts like this one, all I think is "great, more spam in my inboxes", and I gut-feel like the overwhelming majority of people think similarly.

I assume there are people (maybe "founders"?) who see things like this in a different light, but how many?
by awb | 2025-06-05 06:51:57+00:00
Many years ago there were guides on how to write user stories: “As a [role], I want to be able to do [task] so I can achieve [objective]”, because it was useful to teach high-level thinkers how to communicate requirements with less ambiguity.

It may seem simple, but in my experience even brilliant developers can miss or misinterpret unstructured requirements, through no fault of their own.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-05 06:52:29+00:00
It's something you can apply in your own life. If you think someone did something nice or good, just tell them. Don't make a big thing out of it; but just make sure to let them know when you get the opportunity. Most people will really appreciate that and might get motivated by that. This sounds simple but a lot of people don't do this or are a bit shy about it. Of course the value of your compliments decreases with the frequency you give them so it helps being a bit genuine about it and to not overdue it. Something simple as using the star button in github, adding a little thumbs up to an issue in an issue tracker, or upvoting a comment on HN is what keeps the good stuff going.

A lot of stuff that people do for free is rather thankless work except for the occasional appreciation. I've been maintaining some only modestly popular OSS projects on Github. They won't change the world and I mostly do it because it serves my own needs. But getting the occasional outreach from people that used some of my code is always a highlight in my day.
by paulddraper | 2025-06-05 06:52:49+00:00
If someone damages your property, they must pay for damages.

That doesn’t mean you’ll wind up with the same car you had before. The parts might be unobtainable. Or the car’s value may have depreciated enough to be less than the cost of repair.

It’s sucky that you are “forced” to acquire new parts or car, but that’s life. They will pay you the fair amount for damages, not necessarily restore exactly to the previous state.
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 06:53:52+00:00
They were only psychologically limited. Thats the point. All someone has to do is pick up the handset and the condition clears. Instead they line up, flocking with other humans. A human being curious enough to lift a second handset immediately resolves the issue. The experiment just demonstrates how rare that condition is. And judging by your responses I feel like you would not have been curious enough to either lift a handset or identify the method to create the condition in the first place.
by friendzis | 2025-06-05 06:54:13+00:00
> Regulatory entities are quite competent and make sure that most common situations are covered.

There's "legitimate interest", which makes the whole GDPR null and void. Every website nowdays has the "legitimate interest" toggled on for "track user across services", "measure ad performance" and "build user profile". And it's 100% legal, even though the official reason for GDPR to exist in the first place is to make these practices illegal.
by preisschild | 2025-06-05 06:54:22+00:00
> Shifting to a pure LVT ignores the house because, of course, it’s a land value tax. So if you have the most expensive house in the neighborhood your taxes go down, but if you have the cheapest house on the block your taxes go up (assuming similar lot sizes and such).

As it should be. Land is a finite resource and taxing based on the value of the land instead of the thing you build on your land makes sense.
by wagwang | 2025-06-05 06:56:21+00:00
Removing the owner should be done at the time of the transaction - by the owner themself. I bought a used tesla and it was very straightforward. Getting registration should also be done at the time of the transaction to make sure there's no outstanding registration fees? Also the article reads like complete AI slop, wtf is this excerpt lol

> What reads like a rejected Black Mirror episode is actually a hard lesson in how vulnerable the connected car ecosystem can be. Tesla vehicles are technological marvels, crisp, quiet, brilliantly engineered, but the reliance on cloud infrastructure and app control creates a glaring risk for secondhand buyers.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-05 06:57:15+00:00
> This protects against coups, ensures your power in society and prevents groups of officers and soldiers etc. from taking over.

Meanwhile Spain suffered an attempted coup in 1981 [0] while mandatory military service was still in place [1]. The conscripts did not play a role in protecting democracy.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_attempt

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Service_(Spain)
by nmhancoc | 2025-06-05 06:57:17+00:00
This was a long reply and I’d like to honor it by addressing what you bring up, but there’s a lot so forgive me for jumping around.

Let’s start by noting that we’ve now shifted the argument from “100% of this tax will be charged to renters” to, “this will get passed through to renters who were previously being undercharged.”

It’s hard to directly argue with your anecdote because I don’t know where you are or what your rental market is like, so I’ll address the argument more broadly.

Let’s examine how common that arrangement is. To the best of my search small time landlords of the variety you mention own something on the order of 35 and 40% of rental units. The rest, primarily multifamily (apartments) are owned by corporate landlords.

The corporate landlords were sued by the last admin for price fixing using realpage. I don’t know if or how that case was resolved but I think it’s safe to conclude they’re probably not undercharging.

For the small time landlords, probably some aren’t undercharging and some are. After all, how hard is checking neighborhood rents on Zillow once a year? Even if none are, we’re still admitting at least 60% of renters aren’t getting the kind of deals you mention. So this is a minority case, and probably shouldn’t be the basis of policy.

Addressing this point: > Under an LVT my landlord would be required to run the property in the most taxation efficient manner, which is counter to my interests as a renter.

Even granting that that’s true, I’d argue it’s not persuasive. The government needs some amount of money to function. LVT is one source of that money, income taxes are another, sales taxes are another, wealth taxes are another, etc.

So your argument fundamentally resolves down to “other members of society should make up the deficit in taxes I would otherwise pay so that I (and others in my situation) can enjoy a yard or more space than I otherwise would.”

And the basic question here is, why? In what way does it benefit literally anyone else in society that you have a bigger yard? This is a blunt and perhaps impolite way to put it, but it’s true.

Going back to those alternatives, we can counterfactually raise income taxes on some waiter bussing tables or a SWE slinging code at Facebook, on an author with a copyright, or on someone who owns a business. But, if we do, we should expect less of all of those services. That serves as a reason to avoid such a tax.

In contrast, with the yard, I can’t think of a single such service provided or reason to avoid the tax. And that’s the crux of the Georgist argument more than railroads or slumlords. It’s the empty lot, or the lawn as we now call it.
by genewitch | 2025-06-05 06:57:49+00:00
I can fill in anything missing, i would like to go to bed but i did't want to leave anyone hanging. had to come edit a comment i made from my phone, and my phone also doesn't show me replies (i use materialistic, is there a better app?)

https://getdeploying.com/guides/run-deepseek-r1 this is the "how to do it"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897205 posted here, a link to how to set it up on an AMD Epyc machine, ~$2000. IIRC a few of the comments discuss how many GPUs you'd need (a lot of the 80GB GPUs, 12-16 i think), plus the mainboards and PSUs and things. however to just run the largest deepseek you merely need memory to hold the model and the context, plus ~10% and i forget why +10% but that's my hedge to be more accurate.

note: i have not checked if LM Studio can run the large deepseek model; i can't fathom a reason it couldn't, at least on the Epyc CPU only build.

note too: I just asked in their discord and it appears "any GGUF model will load if you have the memory for it" - "GGUF" is like the format the model is in. Someone will take whatever format mistral or facebook or whoever publishes and convert it to GGUF format, and from there, someone will start to quantize the models into smaller files (with less ability) as GGUF.