MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rekabis | 2025-07-06 15:29:52+00:00
> a microwave only really needs one (and ideally its just a dial instead of a button).

The 1967 Amana Radarange (https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/28/microwave_custom...) had two dials: short duration under 5 minutes and a long duration out to something like 30 minutes.

My parents still have theirs. It needs some resto love, but it’s still fully functional. I’ve already put my foot down in terms of who’s inheriting it.
by gmueckl | 2025-07-06 15:29:53+00:00
There is a subtlety here. Having a configurable UI requires that all the buttons and menu entries have a somewhat consistent behavior among themselves. That isn't the case sometimes.

For example, if the GUI can have more than one instance of the same view open, toggle buttons for view modes become specific to individual view instances. Putting those into a global toolbar is wrong.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-06 15:30:35+00:00
Every second reply here is "yes, congestion pricing is bad but it could be compensated by X"

The problem with every one of these posts is the same: IS it compensated by X? No. Why not? Because X is not happening, and the city is certainly not paying for it with the extra income.

You talk about a free bus pass, but you might as well talk about free use of a Star Trek transporter. I would argue that'd be more honest, because if you talk about a nonexistent transporter technology at least it's clear that it's not happening. Also: this is New York. The bus service would need to be improved as well. That too is not happening. Nobody would be complaining in the first place if there was cheap (you even say "free"), fast and good public transport. There isn't.
by theptip | 2025-07-06 15:30:35+00:00
> to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

Yeah, I like the general goal, but I worry about the corner cases; is an MMO “functional/playable” if you just release a localhost server? Are we forcing indie shops to pay for servers indefinitely now? Great way to ensure no more indie MMOs get built if that ends up being the text interpretation.

And, as you say, the question you should always be asking about EU legislation - how does this affect the small/medium shops’ competitiveness? Counterintuitively, compliance can hit the small guys relatively harder and entrench the big guys.

Not to say that we shouldn’t try to fix the problem. But agree that skepticism about EU regulations has some historical merit.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-06 15:30:37+00:00
I think of some older movie series like Dirty Harry or Death Wish which were developed over a long time but didn't focus on nostalgia but rather tried to make a really different movie each time. Some later Death Wish movies are silly (Charles Bronson's ability to get weapons in the mail is like Wile E. Coyote) but they're never the same. At least the last three Star Wars movie had a cast that seemed to come right out of Doctor Who.
by traverseda | 2025-07-06 15:31:29+00:00
Paying for a subscription is explicitly not what this is about. No one is suggesting this for MMOs. Just that it be clear that it is a subscription, that you're not actually buying the game. What a one-time fee for an MMO? Give it an expiry date. You can keep pushing the expiry date, but you have to promise support up to at least that date.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-06 15:31:43+00:00
It seems like the kind of thing you could "low code" in the sense that you write a schema and the settings UI is automatically generated.

I don't know what you're programming in but you should have some table in your app that has

* the name of the setting * the type of user interface control to use * how to get the settings data out of the app and format it for the UI control * how to set the settings data out of the UI control and apply it the system * other metadata to set the order, put the setting on the right screen, make them searchable, whatever

It is possible that the getters and setters are closures, or object references, method references, or a path of some kind (like the name of something in an .ini file or "property1.subproperty5") depending on the facilities used in your language. It's not crazy to keep settings in something like a sqlite database. Similarly the UI control could be specified by name or you could have a function that creates it.
by nosioptar | 2025-07-06 15:31:47+00:00
When weed was illegal, buying weedeant calling a guy who also dealt in opiates and meth. When they didn't have weed, they'd try to upsell you on harder stuff.

Now that I can get weed at a legit store, I have no clue where to get the harder stuff. My dozens of hookups have all left the field.
by zamalek | 2025-07-06 15:31:53+00:00
> Certainly not a AAA studio anyways

Almost every time I have spent more than $35 on a game in the past year I have wound up regretting it. It seems as though the quality of games typically increases til that point (exceptions exist, Terraria) and then declines sharply (again, exceptions exist). It has turned out to be a useful signal to be way more careful about a purchase for me.
by alganet | 2025-07-06 15:32:11+00:00
You assume that I'm offended by the comparison with aliens, and that I belong to a certain demographic. I'm actually not personally offended by it.

Here's me making a potentially offensive egyptian cultural comparison (human written), months ago:

https://medium.com/@gaigalas/pyramids-and-lightbulbs-ceef941...

It is hilarious to see you use off-the-shelf arguments against wokeism to try to put me down.

My point is that, despite of any of our personal preferences, LLMs should have been aligned to academia. That's because they're trying to sell their product to academia. And their product sucks!!!

Also, it's not just nature of training data. These online LLMs have a huge patchwork of fixes to prevent issues like the one I demonstrated. Very few people understand how much of this work, and that it's almost fraudulent in how it works.

The idea that all of these shortcomings will be eventually patched, also sounds hilarious. It's like trying to prevent a boat from sinking using scotch tape to fill the gaps.
by tocs3 | 2025-07-06 15:32:15+00:00
I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia in the 1980s. I mix up d and b and write some letters upside down (numbers are not a problem, 6s and 9s, but I was told that I write my 8s upside down). I was always a prolific reader but could not spell at all.

Early 2000s I read a paragraph [1] about how people can read sentences that have the letters scrambled as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. I think it is a general phenomenon (Typoglycemia on wikipedia [2]) and not just the dyslexic.

[1]: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[2]: Typoglycemia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#Inter...
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 15:33:02+00:00
It certainly is feasible. Requiring it to happen though, would result in some interesting economic dynamics, I believe.

We currently exist in a two tier global economy where some countries are required to follow a strict set of laws, and others basically make their own. To be clear, I am saying that Russia and China do not care at all about piracy and IP theft and so on.

As you increase the rules that Western companies must follow, you run the risk that some day your only options will be non-Western companies, and that may or may not be a good thing. This is what has happened with manufacturing, and it was good for a while until it wasn't. It still is quite good in some pockets though, like batteries and solar.
by mikestew | 2025-07-06 15:33:34+00:00
Engine braking doesn’t work on diesels, that’s why they have “Jake brakes”, that loud braaaaaaaaap you hear when they go downhill (and why you see signs at the edge of town saying “compression brake use illegal”). I highly doubt a diesel engine would overheat going downhill. (Not a diesel mechanic, but FWIW used to be an auto mechanic decades ago.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
by ta1243 | 2025-07-06 15:34:23+00:00
> Like in Sweden we pay ~50% income tax

Sweden median income is 345,529 SEK, or $36k. 90%ile is 658,623 SEK or $69k. For 20-65 year olds it's a bit higher.

(That's from "Total income from employment and business by deciles, sex and age 2023")

Someone on 700k a year - so top 10% income - pays about 26% of their income in income tax.
by tikhonj | 2025-07-06 15:34:32+00:00
I have a commercial microwave with exactly one dial[1]. It's great. It's more expensive than a "normal" microwave, but the UI is great, the construction is really solid and it's easy to clean. There's no external moving parts—no annoying rotating tray on the inside, and no visible latch on the door. It's clearly meant to take some abuse.

At first it was a bit annoying because frozen meals sometimes want you to run it at lower power and this microwave has no power setting. If that's a problem, I imagine there's some other similar model that does. But in practice, just running it at full power for shorter seems to work just as well.

It would look much nicer if it didn't have a cooking guide printed on it.

In Europe, I saw some consumer-grade microwaves with similarly minimalist designs, like these Gorenje microwaves[2] with two dials. I'd have gotten one of those, but I couldn't easily find them in the US. But I also did not look especially hard.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZTVIPZ2?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...

[2]: https://international.gorenje.com/products/cooking-and-bakin...
by ttul | 2025-07-06 15:35:25+00:00
“Vast majority” is literally only one company I have ever heard of in Canada. Slack didn’t bother because they could not claim at the 35% and Andreesen showered them with so much cash it simply wasn’t worth the hassle. But every other software company I have ever had any insight into in Canada claims SR&ED. And not by lying on the forms… Everyone gets audited typically every 3 to 5 years. You can’t make it through an audit with B/S. They are very good at sussing out the bad claims and yes, that is a punishing experience as it should be.
by sixo | 2025-07-06 15:35:29+00:00
uh oh we got a badass over here.

The point of my argument was to express a "practical" epistemology in which Newton's successes represent exactly what they accomplished, instead of some failure to live up to an ideal "truth", a view which I consider useless and pedantic.

> One cannot absorb the idea of a "force" into GR.

Yeah you can, tho I never learned the specifics. IIRC, a force is a Lagrange multiplier representing a constraint on the extremization of action. When you extremize a joint system (two particles A and B interacting) you just get some exchange of momentum between them and no force appears. But if you extremize just A w.r.t to a known and fixed trajectory of B, B's influence on A appears as an "external force" term. This is actually all "forces" ever were—constraints relating dp_A/dt and dp_B/dt—but this fact is obscured in Newton because we typically think of systems with their external forces factored out, which of course lets us apply useful approximations for gravity, air resistance, friction, etc.

You can certainly do the same operation in GR of isolating a subsystem of a joint system and you will find a "force" term, it has to be there just as a logical consequence of the extremization process. I thought this was well known. Or do you mean "one cannot absorb..." in some other sense?

My mistake tagging you as a philsci person, tho. I regret the error!
by dinfinity | 2025-07-06 15:35:37+00:00
This.

From the article:

> Next year, the EU Commission is set to present a Technology Roadmap on encryption to identify and evaluate decrypting solutions. These technologies are expected to equip Europol officers from 2030.

> Now, lawmakers promise to be committed to finding the right balance between "allowing for efficient and future-proof solutions to facilitate law enforcement’s lawful access to digital information, while respecting the right to privacy and maintaining high levels of cybersecurity," said EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner.

Basically the status now is "we've heard that most people think it is a really shitty idea, but we really, really think we can make it work and are going to come up with how! Just give us some time!"

It is misguided, wasted money and effort, and deserves to be called out as such; The chances of it actually being implemented are very, very small, however.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-06 15:35:46+00:00
Doom is really cool and I appreciate the devs’ hard work. It’s seriously impressive.

But. Doom is an uncanny valley for me. It looks like Emacs, but feels like something else entirely, something unlike I’ve ever used before. If you want to use all the things available inside Emacs without learning the “bare” version, right on. But if you actually want to learn Emacs, in my opinion, Doom isn’t it. It’s its own thing, and it’s a fine thing, but whatever it is, to me, it ain’t Emacs.
by mrangle | 2025-07-06 15:35:52+00:00
Your games are mediocre now.

It's better to have a mediocre game that one can play, than an exceptional game that one can't.

You're free to make games now, and yet it's most often hard to justify money for a game that isn't a skin on a version of solitaire (on sale).

That's how bad your industry is. So, please, with your warning. As if you have work product to bargain with.

You act as if your industry is busy. Outside of a couple of exceptional studios, and infinite sequels on literally only a few popular formulas (whether or not these formulas are good is another discussion), your industry is largely non-productive. If we are utilizing your metric of good vs mediocre.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 15:36:21+00:00
Ok, so your idea is that we will require all companies to release server and client builds, and also the source code as well (?), at some clearly defined point in the future, if they decide to terminate the live service?

Will we also require the same of the smart fridge companies? Will we also require the same of companies that don't sell live services, such as toilets?
by Hojojo | 2025-07-06 15:36:25+00:00
This vague handwringing isn't any better. None of us know what the law will end up turning into. But we shouldn't let that stop this being addressed properly in our political institutions. That's what they're there for.

Also, bringing up the DMCA is sort of rich, since it was always just a vehicle for the biggest content companies in publishing, film, television, music and software to protect their property online.

Now we have something that was brought into being by consumers and may finally do something to curb anti-consumer behaviour by companies like this, and you're against it because you have no idea what it'll look like. I just can't, man. What's even the point of legislation if we have to be afraid it'll all be corrupted? Why even have political institutions at all at that point?
by zamalek | 2025-07-06 15:36:31+00:00
> I'm blown away that series like AC, FarCry are still big sellers. These games are vapid and designed to be a time sink.

They are like junk food. Everyone has the junk food that they enjoy. FarCry is certainly the McDonald's of games. I enjoy some junk food once in a while, problems arise if I make it my staple diet.
by dvnsercan | 2025-07-06 15:36:35+00:00
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by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-06 15:36:48+00:00
The problem is that when the going gets tough, people think they’re willing to accept big ol’ meanie heads in order to get good outcomes.

They are not aware that even if you were okay with that, that’s not the trade off that autocracy gives you.

And inversely, being “good” does not imply someone is incompetent. In general, the reverse is true because being good is such a powerful tool to achieve things (i.e. to be competent).
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-06 15:36:56+00:00
Your article doesn't say "Larian are no longer involved with development of BG3". It in fact says they're still developing it, but won't be making BG4.

The official Larian BG3 Discord server is promoting a mod competition, and they're still adding content, bug fixes, and new features to the game as well.
by SamuelAdams | 2025-07-06 15:37:13+00:00
At a macro level, killed games are a good thing for gaming companies. It creates a shortage of playable games so that new games sell and continue to make money.

The biggest competitor to the video game industry is movies (Netflix, Disney plus, etc) and past games.

Think about it - what does the gaming industry look like 100 years from today? If players can play thousands of high quality games for free, why bother paying for a new game?

I suppose the book industry has the same problem, maybe there are some parallels to study from that.
by ttul | 2025-07-06 15:37:57+00:00
Honestly, this is a not true. If you work with a decent accounting firm like KPMG’s Vancouver practice, and maintain a decent dev task management system like JIRA, you will be fine to hand over your payroll register and a CSV dump every January. A few weeks later, you have your claim. Once in a while, you have to sit there and talk with the CRA’s auditor.
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-07-06 15:38:31+00:00
Ah, so 2012 was the year they brought retina displays to the MacBook Pro. The port reductions didn't bother me much because when I'm docked, I've got so many peripherals that I'd need the edges of the laptop to be nothing but USB-A ports to fit them all. So, all I ended up needing to do was replace my hub with one that uses USB-C and has ports for Ethernet and displays. The biggest upside of this arrangement is that I only need to plug in one cable at my desk instead of six.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 15:38:47+00:00
If that was the end of the road, then I definitely don't have a problem with it. Like another poster said, it would be like labeling for cigarettes, and that is totally fine.

What I do fear however, is that they will go a step further, requiring companies to release server builds, client and server sourde code, and then of course the ultimate dream, "well no you actually can't turn it off, we require you to maintain it forever even if it loses you money because gaming is a right".
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-06 15:39:16+00:00
Empirically the system I have seen criticized as putting incompetent people in power due to their skin/sexuality/etc has yielded far far far better outcomes than the system that has been described as “hiring the most competent regardless of X…”

Perhaps the criticisms of the former and the descriptions of the latter were not accurate.

Can you describe specifically where/when you’re referring to that implemented your ideal system and achieved a good track record?
by knighthack | 2025-07-06 15:39:21+00:00
I have some doubts about your statements. If you can't get a job at FAANG or the major startups, sure - that makes absolute sense. Competition is crazy.

If you can't get a job at all, that makes no sense, and probably speaks more to the fact that you might be an academic parrot who can talk code, but not write code, as an actual software developer with practical abilities. And that goes more to your lack of practice, rather than lack of knowledge. The world is not to blame in that regard but you.

Alternatively, try different domains - your skills might work little wonder in the software world, but might move mountains in other (especially labour-intensive) domains.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-07-06 15:39:27+00:00
>is extremely mediocre games for which you will have the server executable along with the client.

opposed to absolutely nothing? yeah i think we can do with "mediocre"

>video games that are eventually turned off is a legitimate business strategy

if they aren't misleading customers about it sure. make the game a subscription and you can shut it down whenever you want :)

>And no, "just release your source code then" is not a valid rule to enforce either.

nobody said that. the petition explicitly leaves out the "how" because it could possibly run against existing copyright laws.

>have you tried making your own?

ad hominem and irrelevant to the topic. i don't need to have every build a roof to be against building it with asbestos.
by alganet | 2025-07-06 15:39:27+00:00
> If you wanted it to act like a real Egyptologist

I don't care about LLMs. I'm pretending to be a gullable customer, not being myself.

Companies and individuals are buying LLMs expecting them to be real developers, and real writers, and real risk analysts... but they'll get average dumb-as-they-come internet commenter.

It's fraud. It doesn't matter if you explain to me the obvious thing that I already know (they suck). The marketing is telling everyone that they're amazing PhD level geniuses. I just demonstrated that they resemble more an average internet idiot than a specialist.

If I were a customer from academia, and you were an AI company, you just lost a client. You're trying to justify a failure in the product.

Also, if I try to report an issue online, I won't be able to. A hoarde of hyped "enthusiasts" will flood me trying to convince me that the issue simply does not exist.

I will tell everyone not to buy it, because the whole experience sucks.
by Ylpertnodi | 2025-07-06 15:39:40+00:00
>Now everyone is wearing wireless earbuds, even while riding a bike.

Wind in the ears can be a problem. Blocking the wind helps people hear cars/ dangers better, provided the music is off/ very low volume. I, and several other cyclists i know wear buds (no music) for this reason. You can't always tell if people are listening to music, or not. With walkman headphones, i always remember being able to hear the high frequencies of other people's music.
by strogonoff | 2025-07-06 15:39:41+00:00
I appreciate your empathy.

I lived in a situation with a noisy tenant previously. It was loud bang noises of something falling in the middle of the night, with very thin floors. In my infinite wisdom I decided to move instead of sorting it out, and traded that at least potentially negotiable situation for an inflexible yearly tenancy contract on an apartment that cost 3x more to rent with what turned to be a noisy lift that building management could not care less about despite complaints. (Silver lining, at least noise EQs more easily to cover the constant rumble.)