MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burkaman | 2025-07-30 21:47:18+00:00
This is how it already works in Europe (at least in Austria and Germany, but I assume elsewhere in Europe as well).

You will also find long trains that split in half mid-journey, so you need to make sure you get in the right car or you'll go to the wrong place.

Edit: I guess it's not exactly what you're saying, in Europe you will find platforms split into several sections with multiple trains to board, but they'll be for different lines with different destinations.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-30 21:47:28+00:00
I don't think it was UI that killed Slashdot. The value was always in the comments, and in the very early years often there would be highly technical SMEs commenting on stories.

The site seemed to start to go downhill when it was sold, and got into a death spiral of less informed users, poor moderation, people leaving, etc. It's amazing that it's still around.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-30 21:48:08+00:00
> The appropriate question is does this meet the intent requirements for collective punishment?

Let's put Netanyahu in front of the ICC and let the lawyers figure it out.

Edit: That isn't tongue in cheek, I think it is one of the few ways to difuse the cauldron of violence that keeps brewing hotter and hotter. A broad international coalition to hold the leadership on both sides responsible for their war crimes.
by a_e_k | 2025-07-30 21:48:17+00:00
And Emacs was banished to a write-in this year, when it was near the middle of the pack at 4.2% (Emacs) and 0.4% (Spacemacs) last year.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated...

It's also been fairly stable over the last few years, so it's hard for me to believe that it just suddenly dropped off to 0.2%:

| 2021 | 5.30% | | 2022 | 4.51% | | 2023 | 4.69% | | 2024 | 4.2% |
by troyvit | 2025-07-30 21:48:54+00:00
I don't know if I can point you to a PowerPoint presentation that did have a million man-hours of work on it, but here's a story about one that certainly didn't:

https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd...

Communication is communication, be it by PowerPoint or semaphore, and it takes talent to do it right.

> I have never seen a presentation that couldn’t have been done just as well without the use of a computer., except to demonstrate things that are computer related.

Re-reading that, I wonder what would've happened if the Boeing wonks in that meeting had just not brought a presentation. Maybe you're right.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-30 21:49:02+00:00
> The heat indexes plus what feels like a constant whiplash between drought conditions and flooding conditions has been brutal.

I've got a spiel about FL having 6-8 seasons and none of them are fall, winter or spring.

Summer: The 13th month is the worst. Not-Summer: Best 13 minutes of the year. Hurricane season: Better than summer up to a Cat 2 or so. Drought season: Begins 15 min after the last rainfall. Wildfire season: At least it cuts down on the sun. Doldrums: Period between summer and not summer of no weather at all.

I'll have to work in flooding somewhere. Also red tide. Not oil spill tho, no recurrence since the last one.

> it really feels like the heat has been more and more oppressive.

Our winters are warmer by the decade. I experienced teens in the 1990s. Now we're lucky to get below 40. Yard ghosts (sheets on bushes) were on/off thing all winter long. Now increasingly uncommon; we get years in a row with none at all.

ref: https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/FL/Tampa/e...
by topspin | 2025-07-30 21:49:08+00:00
> You'll be able to buy RISC-V at that level sometime next year.

Will you? What exactly are Tenstorrent's plans for Ascalon? They are chasing the AI market, and I haven't seen any clear indication that they intend to sell their RISC-V CPUs as unbundled SKUs, or on "main computer" PCBs (ATX/mATX/ITX/etc.) I'm not sure they even care about that market.

I hope they'll do this, but that's all I have right now. If you know something in particular, please share. If I could buy a M1 or better class Ascalon desktop system I'd be happy to pay an Apple-esq premium, and I believe many others would as well.
by anon84873628 | 2025-07-30 21:49:40+00:00
This is a confusing analogy because it's more like releasing 1,000 goats then wondering why they don't have an effect.

My non-SME answer to this thread is:

1) 100 years is not that long in evolutionary terms; 2) cropland is large but not all land; 3) evolution is complex; 4) resistance is actually already observed in some species.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-30 21:50:07+00:00
When I was 8, I was already hacking around net nanny software and involved in several online communities operated by other children, I was learning how to program and hack and generally use the internet as a gateway into culture that I otherwise never would have experienced.

I tried involving myself in a lot of communities related to my interests, but some sites were just for entertainment and not active participation, or I simply didn't participate in the community. That doesn't change anything.

Now a software engineer and artist, my entire life was shaped by that time, and as I said, I likely would have committed suicide due to my abusive situation if it wasn't for these communities.

I will always fight to provide that kind of environment for others and not pull up the ladder now that I've climbed up.
by slackpad | 2025-07-30 21:50:13+00:00
I ended up using one of my more generic domains (https://www.modulecollective.com/) and then launching things as <product>.modulecollective.com. It's a little wordy but it's free and creates kind of a natural place to catalog things. I figure if any of them take off then I can go buy a better name later and move it over, having the old one redirect. That would be a good problem to have :-)

That particular domain was going to be like a Netflix DVD style subscription product for Eurorack modules but I never even ended up trying to build that after buying the domain.
by tom_ | 2025-07-30 21:50:40+00:00
In terms of the underlying bit assingments, bitfields have been pretty safe for a very long time now, as you can assume little-endian. Just a question of bearing in mind the packing rules, not too difficult given stdint.h. I went full bitfield shortly after the time I went full size_t, about 15 years ago now.

Big-endian systems sort-of still exist (I do indeed have an Amiga, and an Atari STe, and an Xbox 360, and they all work, so they must count) - but they're only slightly less weird from a practical C programming perspective than stuff like the DSPs with CHAR_BIT==24, and Harvard architecture microcontrollers with 2-byte ints. And so you can ignore them. People that use still actually these systems will be used to it.
by zahlman | 2025-07-30 21:51:07+00:00
It took me hardly any effort to find an essay that appears to be arguing that Hobbes' thought is in many ways compatible with that sort of redistribution: https://brill.com/view/journals/hobs/34/1/article-p9_9.xml Some quotes:

> Also notable is Gregory Kavka, who argues, “Though it is rarely noticed, Hobbes is a bit of an economic liberal, that is, he believes in some form of the welfare state and in the redistributive taxation needed to support it.”7 .... But Kavka’s analysis has two significant flaws. First, ... Hobbes dedicates arguably greater attention to the problems associated with excessive wealth. ... The second problem with Kavka’s analysis is that it ignores Hobbes’s rich moral psychology that is integral to Hobbes’s understanding of the problems associated with wealth, poverty, and inequality.

> Hobbes’s political program prioritizes peace above all. Along these lines, it is essential when considering Hobbes on economics that one understands how poverty, concentrated wealth, and inequality can obstruct peace. This is one of the fundamental lessons Hobbes likely learned in the decades leading up to the English Civil War – a war at least partly facilitated by the economic upheaval, the impoverishment of many along with the enriching of others, the concentration of wealth, and the systemic inequality. Hobbes acknowledges some of this in his own history of the Civil War, Behemoth.

> While Hobbes is surely concerned about the problems poverty pose for his commonwealth, he expresses even greater concern about concentrated wealth. His earliest discussion of wealth can be found in his Briefe of the Art of Rhetoric, written in 1637, his summary of Aristotle’s Rhetoric.84

Classical liberals are not the same people as modern libertarians or minarchists.
by ACow_Adonis | 2025-07-30 21:51:25+00:00
Presumably for the same reason Google doesn't let you block or filter shit sites.

If you genuinely let user's preferences be taken into account, it's incredibly hard to make money from ads if the user's true preferences are not to be shown them.

The entire point of ads is to manipulate and change user preferences and behaviours.

So any preferences or customisation has to be minimal enough that their use can only partially implement user preferences. White listing is a step too far against the purpose of YouTube.

Thus Google will always be biased to not letting you implement full customisability and user control.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-07-30 21:51:38+00:00
I suggest you don't code at all. Do a very detailed mind map of the project. It will include, the users you are targeting, what's the goal -- why are they better off with your project, how will you get customers, and there is so much before you start to code.

As a learning project, copy a successful project and mind map it, program it and find customers. You will learn so much that you can apply to whatever project you come up with. You'll get frustrated because you will need to go out and learn a lot but power thru it. You'll be better off for the hard work. Good luck!
by h-bradio | 2025-07-30 21:51:51+00:00
Here is how my prompt ended up! https://gist.github.com/hbradio/2f504c3fdb6f7113181b2d8c6862... I just asked an LLM to make it similar to a working Qwen prompt.

To make the LLMs able to use tools, I had to configure them in the Zed settings like this: https://gist.github.com/hbradio/fa4b456658a8d250e6ccc69ae9b3...

Also, I had to go into LM Studio and increase the max context size for each model I wanted to use in Zed. Otherwise it gives a parsing error on the response. I set it to the max allowable value.

I start LM Studio, start the LM Studio server, then go to Zeds AI config and tell it to connect to LM Studio. I put it in Agent mode, and it seems to work!

I don't know much about temperature, and I didn't use any other system prompt.

Good luck!
by lordnacho | 2025-07-30 21:52:00+00:00
> there are people on both teams who really are tackling those guys.

This is the critical distinction.

Why is the commentator talking about Brady vs Peyton, when actually Peyton is doing nothing to stop Brady getting touchdowns?

Why don't they focus on whoever is making the decisions on the defensive side? That would seem to matter more as a struggle between combatants. It's not like each defense is some nameless, generic unit that simply reveals who is the better QB.

There might be some depth to the attack vs defense strategy that is worth highlighting, above the QB v QB.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-30 21:52:17+00:00
In most cases it's definitely better for it to be fast. For example I sold a buggy face to face today and they paid me by bank transfer, and the reason we could do that was that I had a high confidence it would turn up quickly and they weren't trying to scam me. It actually took around 1 second which is really quite fast.

You don't need slow transfers to get an opportunity to satisfy automatic payments. I don't know how it works but in the UK direct debits (an automatic "take money from my account for bills" system) gives the bank a couple of days notice so my banking app warns me if I don't have enough money. Bank transfers are still instant.
by svachalek | 2025-07-30 21:52:30+00:00
I have had history turned off for years. It won't recommend anything on the main feed, but when I watch a video, it recommends more as usual. There's plausible deniability that the recommendations are based on just what I'm watching but in practice that's obviously not true, many recommendations are based on either my subscriptions or my watch history, as they are not related to the video I am watching but are related to my interests.

Since there's not supposed to be any history, I have to trust it's just based on subscriptions. It seems like that could be the case, I guess? But I do have doubts that they do in fact have my history somewhere that's accessible to this recommendation engine.
by Izkata | 2025-07-30 21:52:31+00:00
Huh, this looks like the same thing I came up with about three years ago. I'd tracked my weight for a long time and only just started tracking calories, then a month or so in wondered if combining the two datasets would result in anything useful. After about six months there were some obvious patterns, and ever since a year in I've been able to control my weight however I want without much effort.

One graph I have that I don't see on there is average-calories-per-day on the X axis and weight-change-per-week on the Y axis (scatter plot). Sticking a linear regression on top told me all those online estimators for how many calories you burn in a day are just wrong, at least for me.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-30 21:52:55+00:00
> Termination of employment is not speech. It cannot be "censored". It can, however, be called out as unjust, and cited as evidence of a trend of unjust extrajudicial punishment.

This is the key point of this argument and it boils down to the idea that freedom of association is somehow less meaningful or more able to be limited than freedom of speech. It's not. Even in a business context.

> If you don't want to work with him, that does not merit him losing his job.

If I'm his employer, then yes, this merits losing his job because it's literally the definition of why people lose their jobs. Because people don't want to work with them. Whether that's due to things they say or things they've done is irrelevant.

The thing is, speech matters. You can't arbitrarily separate the world into "speech" and "actions". The nursery rhyme about sticks and stones is incredibly untrue. Speech is the predecessor of actions and it tells you both what someone intends to do and what they want you to do.

If every single company in america signed some kind of agreement to never hire James Damore, or the federal government passed some kind of law forbidding his employment, then yes, that would be extreme and unjust. Instead he just got fired and had to interview at a new company. Hardly an existential crisis.

This again goes to my original point, Damore is in a fairly privileged position and didn't actually suffer that much, and yet we're supposed to use this as an example to justify silencing people.

The thing that gets frequently glossed over is that all of these situations where people are "cancelled" are merely reversions to a neutral position. Hiring someone, and by extension keeping them employed, is an action you take. Firing them is merely stopping that action. Same thing with inviting someone to come give a speech at your college or anything else. Cancelling the invitation is merely reverting to the original, neutral position where no action had been taken. It's not some kind of massive injustice if rescinds an invitation, no matter if that's to a party or to give a speech.

Gamergate is especially ironic since it was essentially an attempt to cancel someone that started all of it, it just turned out to be based on a ton of false accusations and then escalated into frankly criminal behaviour.

The whole purpose behind the "cancel culture" meme is an attempt to prevent people from reacting to speech. I think that's wrong and damn near evil. Speech can be incredibly impactful and being able to speak and act in opposition to it is sometimes the most important thing anyone can actually do.

Like most things in life, it turns out that why you're doing something actually matters quite a bit. There are people in this world who absolutely deserve to be "cancelled".
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-30 21:53:33+00:00
You put these laws in place, and they will be used indiscriminately as needed. Anything can become "social media", and if not, it's easy to add a new category to the list since the Overton window has already been allowed to shift.

We the people are vanguards of our own freedom. Always assume a government organization is lying to you about their intentions. We're taught about slippery slopes in civics and history class for a reason.

The true intent here is to control the ability for teens to freely congregate online and contribute to discussion around unsanctioned topics. To prevent teenagers from being exposed to or distributing material that challenges the incumbent authorities.
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-30 21:54:01+00:00
> There are tons of great instructional videos.

Yes, but its also unregulated and full of shit, Moreover its designed to feed you more stuff that you like, regardless of the consequences.

For adults, thats probably fine (I mean its not, but thats out of scope) for kids, it'll fuck you up. Especially as there isnt anything else to counteract it. (think back to when you had that one mate who was into conspiracy theories. They'd get book from the library, or some dark part of the web. But there was always the rest of society to re-enforce how much its all bollocks. That coesn't exist now, as there isn't a canonical source, its all advertising clicks)
by giantg2 | 2025-07-30 21:54:03+00:00
There is a happy medium. The big beautiful bill stuff is not normal. There are some states that have single issue clauses where the bill must be a single issue, resulting in more concise bills. Enforcement and rules can be made by agencies too. I think the whiplash is more of a two party thing since the bipartisan ones rarely flip-flop. The other stuff barely passes. We would still have whiplash even if implementation were left to another congress because it would still barely pass.
by dttze | 2025-07-30 21:54:15+00:00
Cool, thanks for linking where you get your propaganda from.

First link is written by a Zionist aligned think tank and the writer is an anti Russian Atlantic council ghoul.

Second is a US opinion piece with zero evidence, which they even admit, to back it up (which is why it went to the opinion column).

The last is Carnegie Politika which, going by all their recent articles, is another anti Russian group. It’s also a commentary piece with zero evidence.

So, yeah, not a strong argument on your part. No evidence of material support. Just lip service like I said.
by sharperguy | 2025-07-30 21:54:24+00:00
I haven't tried it myself yet, but I self host my own Jellyfin(1) instance, and I've had it recommended to combine it with pinchflat(2), which will auto download and label entire youtube channels, as they publish new videos. So then you could use it to archive and provide access to the channels you want without worrying about the recommendations and other channels.

1. https://jellyfin.org/

2. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
by mattigames | 2025-07-30 21:54:30+00:00
"Created a better search experience" sure, just like eating human meat would create a better dinning experience because there is a lot of humans near you, at the end of the day what "AI" is doing is butchering a bunch of websites and giving you a blend, in the progress making you no longer required to enter those websites that needed you to do so to survive, because they are monetized by third party ads or some paid offering.
by skydhash | 2025-07-30 21:54:33+00:00
Code structure is simple. Semantics is where it get tough. So if you have a good understanding of the code (and even when you don't), the overview you get from one of those tools (and the added interactivity) is nice for confirming (understanding) the needed actions that needs to be done.

> cursor agent does it just fine in the background

That's for a very broad definition of fine. And you still need to review the diff and check the surrounding context of each chunk. I don't see the improvement in metrics like productivity and cognitive load. Especially if you need to do serveral rounds.
by dirt_like | 2025-07-30 21:54:41+00:00
I have seen bit fields used in real code. Long ago. The reason I know it so well is that bit field updates are NOT atomic, and this caused a rare crashing bug under heavy load. Unless you read the header the code looks atomic.

S->buffer_free = 1;

This is a very serious limitation if the structure/class is being updated in a multi-threaded environment.
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-30 21:55:08+00:00
I think a lot of this is hard for an external observer to discern. Are the Palestinians really thar bad? Is IDF really bombing indiscriminately? Ultimately a lot of this is down to information external observers don't have, and people's convictions are at risk of aligning with their sympathies. It is definitely true of me. I don't know if Israel really needs to destroy Hamas to be safe, and what is sufficient to do that.

However, there are two aspects of this conflict where Israel is IMO monumentally and unarguably in the wrong.

One is the settler program. It is wholly inconsistent with a desire to live peacefully alongside even savage enemies. If they are so bad, put up fences and put guns on them - as Israel is doing. But the settlement program, with displacements of Palestinian civilians, bulldozing of Palestinian villages, rendering arable land inhospitable, unchecked settler violence, is clearly just a land grab, and against any semblance of desiring a peaceful coexistence. It often gets dismissed as a fringe movement, but election after election, democratic Israeli governments show varying, but always positive amounts of support.

The other is use of famine against civilians. There is no conceivable military goal in sight other than indiscriminate death and misery onto truly random people, half of them below the median age of 19 not even being politically active. It is not an accident either, Ben Gvir and/or Smotrich talk about it openly.

To be clear, Hamas and co are also guilty of horrendous crimes. Thing is, vast majority of reasonable people accept that and point it out. Israel clearly accepts that too, but perceives the mere whiff of criticism as rabid discrimination.

And the two don't cancel out. It's not about restraint, or higher standard, or any uneven field. Any instance of terrorism and genocide is horrendous, unnecessary and unacceptable. They don't serve military or diplomatic deals. They are there to hurt just because you can, and somehow it pleases some basic human instinct.

Anti-Israeli crime is awful and I condemn it. I don't support Hamas, heckling of Jews around the world, the 7th Oct attacks were awful. I mean it. And Israel's actions are also awful and inhumane.