MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-14 13:43:56+00:00
I'm assuming we're talking NGOs here, because if we expand "organization" to include for-profit entities, then I'd argue vast majority of them will not just be US-English speaking, but US-originating and US-headquatered.

> Without such a conscious choice, yes, Americanisms do seem a fair bit more globally pervasive and easy to fall into "by accident".

You'd need choice and enforcement - unless such organization is testing for Received Pronunciation during interviews and filtering out people who cannot into Queen's English[0], I'd wager most of the members in such org, who don't come from UK (or a few related countries), will be speaking "British English" with distinctly US pronunciation. Because while an organization can make a conscious choice here, for most people, learning a second language is a long-term endeavor that largely happens "in the background", and it's very easy to learn a blend, with UK English being present in schools, and US English everywhere else.

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[0] - Or is it King's English now?
by openplatypus | 2025-07-14 13:44:11+00:00
It is very close, but it not the same.

https://techgdpr.com/blog/difference-between-pii-and-persona...

> When organisations seek to protect their user’s data, it is necessary that they understand the data they need to safeguard. Personal data, in the context of GDPR, covers a much wider range of information than personally identifiable information (PII), commonly used in North America. In other words, while all PII is considered personal data, not all personal data is PII.

When you say PII in context of GDPR you are simply using wrong term.
by tikhonj | 2025-07-14 13:44:15+00:00
> For example, if you’re making a game for a 24-hour game jam, you probably don’t want to prioritize clean code. That would be a waste of time! Who really cares if your code is elegant and bug-free?

Having worked on some 24-hour game jams and similar, I've found completely the opposite. It's when you're in a real hurry that you really can't afford bad code. Writing better code will make it easier to get it right, will put less pressure on my working memory, will let me try things faster and make those last-minute changes I wanted, will make adding features towards the end easier rather than harder and, crucially, will both reduce the chance that I need to do intense debugging and make debugging I need to do easier.

Working with good code just feels lighter.

The thing that breaks 24-hour projects isn't writing code too slowly, it's writing yourself into a corner or hitting some problem that derails your work, takes hours to solve or doesn't even get resolved until after the deadline.

A game jam isn't the place to try to squish all bugs, sure, but that's a question of what you're doing, not how. I still want to write good code in that situation because it makes my life easier within the time constraints, and because, even if I'm fine with some bugs, there are still lots of bugs that render a game unpleasant or unplayable.

I'll need to fix some bugs no matter what; I'd rather fix fewer, easier bugs than more, harder bugs!

The same thing applies to longer time horizons too. When you have more time you have more slack to deal with bad code, but that doesn't mean it makes any more sense to write it!

And, of course, once you get in the right habits, writing solid quality code becomes basically free... but, even if it really did meaningfully slow you down, chances are it would still be worth doing in expectation.
by exodust | 2025-07-14 13:44:20+00:00
> campaigns to educate parents on using parental controls.

Exactly this.

The other possibility is that Google & Microsoft won't want to hassle people for ID or "papers please" just for liking a post, reviewing a business or sending email.

If I were Google, I'd be worried about losing a LOT of customers who simply won't provide invasive personal details which routinely get stolen in Australia from poorly secured "trusted" organisations like Qantas and Optus.

People won't want to send their ID to "trusted ID contractors" for simple web services because e-Karen has a final solution. I'll close my Google accounts if they ever deny me access on that basis, and I'll take action against the measures in any way I can to make things as uncomfortable as possible for whatever authoritarian government ushers this garbage in.
by prmoustache | 2025-07-14 13:44:30+00:00
I just buy second hand thinkpad for half of that if I want a good enough one.

Recently bought a Thinkpad x390 for my significant other for 170€ with a brand new battery. Works well enough, is small, light and quiet, has a decent keyboard and fullhd screen. Very little battery drain when suspended. Brand new laptops at twice that price offer a much crappier experience.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-14 13:45:02+00:00
>Why should we take TCM any more seriously than traditional western?

Wasn't the entire idea behind evidence-based medicine to start putting traditional western treatments to the test and check if they actually work? I think we do take traditional western methods quite seriously, and we should do the same with TCM.

With regard to your bark example, right here in the thread someone points out: "E.g. willow bark was used to treat pain for thousands of years, which led to the discovery of aspirin."
by mtomweb | 2025-07-14 13:45:13+00:00
1. If you use either "Safari" or "Chrome" on iOS, then Apple gets paid. That's 97% of the market on iOS.

2. Many of those games could be rewritten in WebGPU/WebGL2.. if it saved them 30% appstore tax, and the install process was decent and they had frictionless payments, they'd move.

3. Because Apple is the primary target market, and if you've already built native for iOS, what's the advantage of doing web for Android if your not making the cost savings of only having to build one app. 70% of Desktop usage is now the web/web apps... that tells you what's possible if browsers can compete.
by op00to | 2025-07-14 13:46:11+00:00
Holy cow, they’re serious:

Penalties:

• Up to €15 million or 2.5 % of global turnover for essential requirement failures.

• €10 million or 2 % turnover for other obligations.

• €5 million or 1 % turnover for misleading or incomplete documents

On the one hand, these are important standards. On the other, it seems impossible for small shops to adhere to a lot of this.
by Sanzig | 2025-07-14 13:46:25+00:00
Humans have already survived simulated dives in hyperbaric chambers to around 70 bar with no long term effects, so in theory you may be able to have Venusian astronauts live in a habitat at ambient pressure if 90 bar is similarly tolerable (obviously would still need heroic measures for cooling, an approx. 200 K temperature differential is no joke). Getting enough gas there to pressurize the hab could be difficult, the deep dive experiments used a hydrogen/helium/oxygen mixture and I doubt you can recover helium through in situ resource extraction. And you would need some sort of acclimatization system to get the astronauts from their half-bar or so transit environment down to the surface - maybe a balloon that slowly descends over the period of a few days.

So yeah, pretty much science fiction for now!
by breckinloggins | 2025-07-14 13:46:35+00:00
Thanks for your work on this. I’ve bookmarked several of these videos and used them as reference.

Learning assembly with a really good visualizer or debugger in hand is highly underrated; just watching numbers move around as you run your code is more fun than it has any right to be.

I really like Justine Tunney’s blinkenlights program. (https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/)

A version of that for AArch64 / RISC-V would be really cool.
by heeton | 2025-07-14 13:46:40+00:00
Having been to a place that does this, before I had an online profile: I think this is only one side of their approach.

During my visit the team were super attentive and conversational and picked up on insanely small details. I’m sure if you weren’t a person of note, you’ll still get the same service but they have a different starting point to deliver it.
by ohadpr | 2025-07-14 13:47:02+00:00
Totally agree. Persistence is a huge part of what we usually mean by state. Nothing stops this from plugging into a real database when needed. But also, nothing stops us from rethinking what a database even is, especially in a world where LLMs have growing context windows and can carry more state internally. Maybe persistence doesn’t always have to mean "write to disk."
by agust | 2025-07-14 13:47:05+00:00
The likely outcome of alternate, capable browser engines coming to iOS will be to push Apple to invest in Safari so it can compete with them and not loose all of its market share.

Otherwise, yes it's likely web apps will prompt their user to use a browser with a capable engine on iOS if they exist. Nothing to configure, install and use.

Users will then be able to use capable web apps that take up a tenth of the storage of native apps, that are cheaper and portable across platforms — among many other benefits.
by newsclues | 2025-07-14 13:47:10+00:00
It's a transition, not a reduction. Human energy usage is going up.

It's just shifting, what types and where, energy is generated.

And those shifts, have tradeoffs.

Want cleaner air in developed urban areas via EVs? ok cool, but the tradeoff is more mines elsewhere to supply those minerals, more batteries and metals for charging infrastructure.

There is no free lunch in the energy world, solar and wind have tradeoffs.
by teddyh | 2025-07-14 13:47:24+00:00
> That's actually happening though.

No, it is not.

From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture>:

“Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery.”

(Now you either accuse Wikipedia of Western chauvinism or dismiss Wikipedia altogether.)
by __rito__ | 2025-07-14 13:47:49+00:00
I did not possibly make my arguments clear.

China has higher emission, because China has higher number of factories. The factories produce stuff. Where do all that stuff go? And for whom are all that stuff produced?

Not entirely China, or Africa, or India. A vast amount of that stuff flows to... the West.

So, if the West chooses to reduce its consumption significantly, the CO2 emissions of China will go down.

The consumers have to take the blame. It's as clear as that. And the West should fund climate-resilient infra for people and green tech for China and India and Vietnam. Because it is to West that stuff goes. But that's another issue. It is because there is demand in the West, China produce stuff.

If every American buys only one pair of shoes and a couple of new tshirts every year, and not more, and buys a smartphone after using one for 4 years, not less, the CO2 emission of China will go down.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-14 13:48:03+00:00
That requires research.

Not that that crypto was a sure thing, for a long, long time. Everything that hyped it up in the start, are more or less dead now. It has been collectively decided that coins like BTC have little practical value, outside store of value. As I wrote in this thread, back in the early days the main attraction of bitcoin was mass adoption for daily use as a currency. We've long since moved away from that. What makes it valuable today, was only a part of the equation back then. And that's not taking in all the regulatory risks that were looming (not that they have been completely eliminated).

Likewise, for the longest time GPUs were mainly seen as a consumer product for graphics usage. Then machine learning algorithms started using them, and the rest is history. If you invested in Nvidia on the thesis that all they ever were going to serve were gamers, you likely wouldn't have foreseen the current price.

A more general and vague guess would be: Something related to data, AI, green energy, healthcare, etc. - look at our biggest unsolved problems, and then at the companies that are working to solve them.
by apaprocki | 2025-07-14 13:48:03+00:00
I do not think you should ever feel that way. If any English-speaking listener has an issue with another speaking the dialect of English they were raised with, the listener has an issue with themselves they need to work through.

As an American English speaker, I have in the past used UK spellings when communicating at work with a group that I know only contains British English recipients. There is nothing wrong with that -- anything that makes communication more fluid should be welcome.

I believe the arrogance angle exists in a situation where an American English speaker with no British English education is using British spellings when communicating with other _American English_ speakers to purposefully create an air of superiority. If you do this, even if no one says anything, they definitely notice.

For other English dialects, my personal take is that most Americans (at least the ones who travel or interact with foreigners personally or at work) will assume they either are or are heavily influenced by British English due to history.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-14 13:48:38+00:00
A lot of established dev practices - like this one - are effective with AI generation. Another is the super-valuable but less common product spec that spends a lot of effort and verbiage defining what is NOT included. LLMs are helped greatly with explicit guardrails and restrictions.

I fear this is different from the "code slop jello poured over a bespoke marshmallow salad of a system" problem though. Mostly for the same reasons that Brooks described that make SW inherently hard 60+ years ago. It feels like the JS framework / SPA experience but with every.single. developer. and the 10x "improvement" is just speed.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-14 13:49:19+00:00
I don't pay out the ass... My premiums are covered by my employer, and I have no co-pays. It literally does not cost me anything to see my doctor.

> the system is absolutely drastically worse than other developed countries

I can see my GP same day, and a specialist within a week, for $0. It really can't get any better for me...
by anomalistically | 2025-07-14 13:49:21+00:00
I have been reading content about AI from the 70s and 80s.

The same wishful thinking we see now was there already.

"AI" is the ultimate computer technology hype. It makes very intelligent people shift into magical thinking. And now having the first competent chatbot in history got people to believe in magic. Nevermind it corrupts your data half the times.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-07-14 13:49:25+00:00
Reddit does this, too. It is used to measure sharing something as some sort of analytic/goal on your account for engagement. I tend to just screenshot them now after the annoying middle menu started popping up for me.

I really am not a fan of apps wanting me to engage more with the app when I'm trying to engage with real-life people.
by strken | 2025-07-14 13:49:49+00:00
Sqlite is mostly boring but I've found that there's just slightly more risk of something going wrong because of the way it handles locking between threads. It has tended to misbehave under unexpected load and been difficult to fix in a way that Postgres hasn't.

I'm particularly thinking of workers running tasks, here. It's possible to lock up everything with write transactions or cause a spate of unhandled SQLITE_BUSY errors in cases where Postgres would just keep chugging along.
by wincy | 2025-07-14 13:50:41+00:00
The ASUS PG27UCDM 26.5" 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) 240Hz Gaming Monitor [0] paired with an RTX 5090 for my home desktop, but I got a USB switcher (for peripherals), and keep it on my standing desk that I plug in my work laptop too with a USB-C to DisplayPort cable. Only 60hz on the work laptop but I really like having a quad monitor setup in a T shape (3 27” monitors and the laptop plugged in with screen open below the central monitor, which is the OLED). It’s great for both productivity and for gaming. I turned off HDR for work, though.

The only annoying thing is every couple hours it asks me to run a 7 minute pixel refresh cycle to avoid burn in, but according to the dashboard I run it every 2.5 hours or so when I go on breaks, so I think I’m good.

Overall the monitor is just fantastic, my LAN party buddies and I dreamed about OLEDs like this back in 2003 and kept saying it was “just around the corner”. The biggest thing is in dark scenes in games there’s absolutely zero noticeable smearing.

[0] https://www.microcenter.com/product/689939/asus-pg27ucdm-265...
by newsclues | 2025-07-14 13:50:44+00:00
The ultra rich can afford EVs, and well insulated homes with solar panels.

Dirt poor people heat and cook with coal or firewood. They burn down forests to plant food. They are sustained by long supply chains by well intentioned NGOs rather than local produce.

It's not simple to say rich people are polluters, and poor people are living naturally.

Although per capita, the middle class consumer may be the worst of them all.
by donatj | 2025-07-14 13:51:06+00:00
Knowing magnesium burns as brightly as it does and is so difficult to put out once lit, having done both as a kid, I'd always just assumed magnesium was the name of the paint color or something - not what it was really made out of. As they'd mentioned briefly in the article, water just makes the flame worse rather than better.

Seems like asking for trouble, but perhaps it's enough of a pain to light initially that it's not a concern?
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-14 13:51:33+00:00
I came of age in SW dev when we started with the (database)schema. THis doesn't seem to be common any more and I regularly see experienced devs with low to no SQL exposure. Seems they typically work at an abstraction (or 2 or 3) above the API or maybe the ORM, but would struggle to write the resultant query, let alone profile it.

I'm not convinced this was a good abstraction that really helps us be more effective.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-14 13:52:07+00:00
Eh, the replication crisis shows that the "methodological discipline" of RCTs is really not all that strong. But they're still better than nothing. I think you've set up a false dichotomy.

If the effect size for a given treatment was small, I would expect it to be outcompeted by other treatments with larger effect sizes. Practitioners who are disciplined in their thinking will make better discoveries, can treat patients more effectively, and will have more business, thereby training more apprentices in their methods. Over hundreds of years, it's easy to see how this process finds treatments with relatively large effect sizes.
by skrid | 2025-07-14 13:52:10+00:00
tracked my coding sessions for a week. only actually wrote code 51% of the time.

built this as a vs code extension - tracks lines changed, languages used, debug time. intentionally session-based (not always-on) because i wanted to measure my "deep work" blocks specifically.

tech: vs code extension api, next.js, supabase realtime, typescript.

biggest surprise: my 9pm "peak productivity" sessions were 23% coding. morning sessions i thought were slow: 67% active.

happy to answer questions about implementation or the harsh reality of measuring actual productivity.
by mingus88 | 2025-07-14 13:52:18+00:00
Putty was once indispensable for me, too.

The era of which also coincides with the era when browsing to long URLs to university domains with tildes and usernames was commonplace

At any rate, I similarly don’t have any utility for this bitvise client either and it’s very scummy behavior and textbook trademark infringement to confuse the user by using the putty name to promote a competitor, even with that weak disclaimer
by runlaszlorun | 2025-07-14 13:52:19+00:00
Completely OT and apologies if rude, but you're Gary Numan the musician?

I love finding out when celebrities have talents elsewhere. And Wikipedia says you've had quite a bit of aviation experience as well.

Kinda makes my morning... lol

p.s. The inner city cynical kid in me is now required to throw in that I found Django disappointing even though every else seems to love it. Ok... identity restored... can now go back to shaking my fist at the sky as per usual...
by left-struck | 2025-07-14 13:52:56+00:00
> In addition to this underground chamber, there are two massive pumps on either sides, which divert the water from whichever river is surging to the other (Arakawa & Edogawa possibly).

You probably mean pumping stations right? Usually single pumps don’t have that kind of flow rate. Just a nit pick though, your comment was really interesting!
by teddyh | 2025-07-14 13:52:58+00:00
I believe that dkarl’s point was that what is now called “osteopathy” in the US is functionally the same as modern medicine, since that is what actually works. But they keep the name for its brand recognition. (But even if this is true, there is still every reason to avoid it, since if its practitioners were any good, one would assume they would rather be regular medical practitioners.)
by janosch_123 | 2025-07-14 13:53:04+00:00
Of course. It is an intriguing idea, but a local maximum.

- The panel sits at open-circuit voltage of 48V

- That then needs to be converted/boosted to 400V (conversion loss)

- The converter needs to talk to the BMS to make sure batteries can be charged at this moment (component that is live all the time and is a current draw)

- Need to think about it, but you want another set of contactors between panel and HV-Bus where the battery sits (current draw)

1km of driving is 150Wh so 1kWh gets you 6.6km or 4.1 mi

Let's be generous and say you have a 500W panel(punchy) for 8 hours at full blast (doesn't happen), you get 500W x 8 hrs = 4kWh. Lets say isolated converter loses you 10% so you are at 3.6kWh Thats 24km or 15mi of driving in perfect conditions.

2x Gigavac contactors, keep them closed costs you 24W, so that lowers the input further to 476W * 8hrs = 3.8kWh, less 10% = 3.42kWh ...

Someone who studied EE might be able to make this more accurate. Back of the napkin math, not totally impossible, but not worth adding it for a trickle charge. Adding components that can break, adding weight etc.

There are interesting solar cars out there where you reduce the weight heavily and fold out big solar sails. Then you are getting somewhere, for a city car you don't have enough surface. For an SUV or American Style Flatbed truck you have so much weight it's not worth it either.
by jimbokun | 2025-07-14 13:53:43+00:00
> No one in their right mind would say: just use the standard library but I've seen it online.

Yes but...sometimes the proper level of abstraction is simply a good HTTP library. Where the API of your application is defined in terms of URLs, HTTP methods, status codes, etc., the http library from the Go standard library might be all you need (depending on other requirements, of course).

A real life example: I needed a simple proxy with well defined behavior. Writing it in Go as a web application that forwarded calls to another service based on simple logic only took a few pages of code in a single file.