MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whartung | 2025-07-25 20:49:06+00:00
I don't know, I'm not there, not my world.

But I would think the goal is to reduce the number of poachers. Poaching being a mind set, a criminal behavior, regardless of that actual animal they're harvesting. If someone is willing to poach deer, perhaps it's a gateway to poaching something more vulnerable. Learning how to avoid the game wardens, building an "underground" community.

Similarly, if the deer are that plentiful (and they no doubt are, there are all sorts of stories about deer populations expanding), then it would seem good policy to encourage hunting. Lower the fees, increase the bag limit, do some outreach with safety training, etc. "No out of state fees to come hunt in Minnesota!" The goal to get poachers out of the fold and into legal hunting.

And, of course, there's "dual use" concepts, as deer can be considered pests in some scenarios (which fall under different guidelines than game animals). That can always blur the lines. So, maybe not everyone running around at night with thermal imagers is, actually, a poacher. Perhaps they're doing pest control. But that's someone who shouldn't mind encounters with game enforcement.
by const_cast | 2025-07-25 20:49:44+00:00
Driving is just mostly edge cases. I've thought about it a lot, but I think automating driving is much harder than automating even air travel.

Sure the air is 3 dimensions, but driving is too dynamic and volatile. Every single road is different, and you have to rely on heuristics meant for humans.

It's stupid easy for humans to tell what is a yellow line and what a stop sign looks like, but it's not so easy for computers. These are human tools - physical things we look at with our eyes. Not easy to measure. Whereas measurements in the air are quite easy to measure.

On top of the visual heuristics, everthing changes all the time and very fast. You look away from the road and look back and you don't know what you're gonna see. It's why texting and driving is so dangerous.
by martin-t | 2025-07-25 20:49:46+00:00
Are you, personally, harmed by someone having an abortion?

Are you, personally, harmed by someone watching porn?

Maybe it makes society as a whole weaker compared to other societies but that doesn't mean your society actually loses anything. Countries have nuclear weapons and multi-national defense pacts now. Just because China has several times the population of the US and could win a conventional war, doesn't mean it's gonna invade.

We don't live in tribes of a few hundred people who are constantly on the brink of starvation and/or genocide anymore. But many people are still governed by instincts from that environment.
by metalman | 2025-07-25 20:50:15+00:00
they must do a whole bunch of work to determine what will happen mechanicaly and chemicaly, as the moon dust is hyper dry, and untra fine, and has potential chemical reactions that are impossible under ambiant lunar conditions, but might get very exciting after the introduction of whatever byproducts and residues produced by rocket exhaust, even plain water could set up chain reactions that might damage exposed parts of an accent module, life support, cominications gear or famously, "Q:what do you get when you mix aluminum and gold in a vacume? A: purple!"
by frumper | 2025-07-25 20:50:16+00:00
It's interesting about the leukemia one. They're also more likely to survive it than children without Down Syndrome and less likely to get a second cancer.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/11/408906/survivors-childhood...

Aside from that, it is actually hard to paint an accurate picture of today with historical data for people with Down Syndrome as the childhood Trisomy 21 strategies have improved and been implemented in the past 20-30 years. 60 years ago kids with Trisomy 21 were moved into institutions. Kids 30 years ago got some basic treatments to keep them alive. Now kids get all kinds of screenings for hearing, vision, thyroid, heart conditions before problems develop. Turns out it's very difficult to grow, learn and thrive when your thyroid doesn't work, or your cardiovascular system wasn't circulating enough oxygen.

There are more struggles for sure, including intellectual disabilities, but many more kids are doing significantly better than their past generations. It costs more, is more work, but like the parent poster said, my experience certainly isn't extreme. We go to more doctor's appointments, have IEP meetings, and she's in speech therapy. She's generally been pretty healthy, happy and very active.

It was scary when she was born. We were given a pamphlet with a list of things similar to your first link. The reality though is she's more likely to have those than the general population, but some of those things are very rare. 100x very rare is still rare. Having all of those issues would be even more rare. The greater point though is that any kid can have those issues too.

The epilepsy link seems to conflict with what I've seen. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31391451/ https://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/about-downs-syndrome/healt...

Both of those put it closer to 10% sometime in their life, with about half of those at birth.
by bitbasher | 2025-07-25 20:50:29+00:00
Seems like this is a move to remove alpinejs from the custom block elements in tailwindcss plus? I don't see alpinejs in the code snippets anymore.

edit:

Confirmed, they removed alpine from their copy/pastable code. Now you see:

<!-- Include this script tag or install `@tailwindplus/elements` via npm: -->

<!-- <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindplus/elements@1" type="module"></script> -->

This sucks because I have been using alpine and now I can't copy paste the examples ~_~
by nitwit005 | 2025-07-25 20:51:08+00:00
Sure, it's possible to catch up, but we're talking about at least four years of potential experience. That means spending years catching up, which can seriously impact you career.

Not a unique problem to software either. My sister in-law is a mechanical engineer. Her first employer was upset she didn't know anything practical, and only knew theory. She had to spend years catching up.
by adamrezich | 2025-07-25 20:51:40+00:00
Good thing our children will learn all about this at their mandatory Internet Literacy Fundamentals course they have to take in high school.

Oh wait—no such thing exists!

It's up to us to teach this to our children. There's no hope of getting the current generations of Internet users to grasp the simple idea that app/website backends are black boxes to you, the user, such that there is absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the personal information you gave them to anyone they see fit, or even just failing to secure it properly.

Without being a developer yourself or having this information drilled into you at a young age, you're just going to grow up naively thinking that there's nothing wrong with giving personal information such as photos of your driver's license to random third parties that you have no reason to trust whatsoever, just because they have a form in their app or on their website that requests it from you.
by Kirby64 | 2025-07-25 20:52:45+00:00
> No, not all homes are wired to that voltage. Some have 120 only. Some are 208. Some are 480 if they need lots of power

There are exceedingly few homes, especially single-family homes, in the US that do not have split-phase 240V power.

208V (2 legs of 3-phase) power is almost always relegated to condos or apartments and never single-family homes. Even in that case, many 240V appliances function just fine on 208V albeit at a lower maximum power.

Even fewer still, to the level that you don't have a 'home' at that point but, but a small commercial building, have 480V power. Only commercial buildings have 480V, and they basically always will have conversions to usable residential power for using... normal stuff.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-25 20:53:15+00:00
240V will give you a jolt, but it's really not that bad, at least if it's quick. I grew up in the UK and got my fair share of 240V shocks as a kid - from bare feet touching bare wires/connectors under the table, to me lighting up a small dolls house light bulb by poking stripped pieces of wire into a wall socket, while holding the other end with bare fingers onto the light bulb! I'm not dead yet!

You can even get a 480V shock if you short yourself across two wall sockets wired to alternate phases (+240V, -240V).
by Etherlord87 | 2025-07-25 20:53:25+00:00
And if people didn't align text, you could still make an argument that people use spaces to separate identifiers or otherwise tokens, therefore it's spaces vs tabs&spaces…

Tabs are for indentation, to align the beginning of the line, later on if you want to align text somehow, use spaces. You probably shouldn't align lines with different indentation (I align rarely so I can't remember ever to do that).
by ksherlock | 2025-07-25 20:53:26+00:00
So OpenStep for Windows NT ran under windows NT and it looked like Win32 GDI but it wasn't Win32 GDI. It was still display postscript but the GUI elements (NSButtons, etc) were themed to look like Windows NT instead of NextStep. For whatever reason they were included in Mac OS AppKit as well.

Take a look at https://hetima.github.io/fucking_nsimage_syntax/2.html - specifically NSWin* images (sliders, checkboxes, arrows). You can also see some NextStep era artwork and MacOS 9 (Rhapsody) artwork.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-07-25 20:53:47+00:00
Learning to program may be hard, but learning programming languages is relatively very easy. In other words, your second programming language is so much easier to learn then your first was.

I regularly use several programming languages, and tend to pick up a new one every year. I've been spending the last six months studying my second spoken language; I promise you human languages are much harder to learn.
by Teever | 2025-07-25 20:54:14+00:00
This is starting to get interesting.

I think that the killer app for this kind of technology is a robot that can load and unload a dishwasher, and pick up dirty laundry, sort it, put it into the washer, transfer it to the dryer then fold it and put it away properly.

It doesn't need to be fast at this it just needs to be able to do this. A product that can meet that criteria and all the other things that this entails at the price point of a luxury car will sell like hotcakes to an aging Boomer population that wants to 'age in place.'

Where things start to get really interesting is where the robots have both the hand dexterity and a user serviceable design that allows one robot to fix another. From there a pair of robots with a sufficient amount of spare parts would in theory be able to build in the infrastructure necessary to build more spare parts and therefore could self replicate.

A self-compiling compiler.
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-25 20:54:14+00:00
I use 8-sized tabs with 72 columns in C. The human eye doesn't like moving all that much while reading and more windows fit one the screen even if it is annotated with git blame. In addition there is this argument from Torvalds, that you should mind your maximum nesting in a single function, which I also find useful.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-25 20:54:48+00:00
Anger and outrage are our most viral emotions. Given ad-driven social media rewards attention, it also--by proxy--rewards those go generate anger and outrage. This is a market signal and entrepreneurial incentive as potent as any.

As a result, you get collections of fuckwits like this one [1] finding the 2% of the internet who will give them money to get upset about an imaginary problem, a problem so imaginary that nobody is on the other side of the issue because the entire issue was made up for clicks.

[1] https://www.collectiveshout.org/our_team
by qcnguy | 2025-07-25 20:55:43+00:00
A few days ago a video leaked of a woman riding in a Mexican taxi, who was demanding the driver went faster. He refused because it'd be dangerous, and she immediately started threatening to report him as a harasser to the police. She even said he had to speed up or else the police would be waiting for him when they got there. She didn't realize her whole conversation was recorded on camera.

A lot of men have had experiences like this one. Either directly or they know someone it happened to. Yeah #NotAllWomen but way too many will exploit the feminist #BelieveAllWomen culture to gain even trivial benefits. An app devoted to letting women anonymous gossip and engage in reputation warfare without fear of consequence, or even fear that the man might reply in self defense, is going to get flooded with women like the taxi passenger.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-25 20:55:51+00:00
Knowledge is not proliferating faster than ever. It's being gobbled up and locked down by companies whose sole interest is making as much money as they can instead of improving the world and profiting from the improvement.

Media is being deleted or locked in vaults.

Games are being shut down with no way to restore them.

The written word that has been vetted by people with domain specific knowledge is being locked behind paywalls and not being advertised, while AI machines directly lie to the curious and the seekers of knowledge.

I can throw a digital stone in any direction and hit something that is worse off thanks to the modern internet.
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-25 20:56:03+00:00
...and Berg (0.1") connectors are now Dupont, even though Dupont doesn't make them anymore, and has had nothing to do with them since 1993. Everyone called them "Berg" in 1978 when I was first exposed to them, even though Dupont had acquired the product line from Berg in 1972.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/ioc6sf/i_final...
by alex_c | 2025-07-25 20:56:37+00:00
Except you do still have to think about time, no matter what… Libraries will help with the really messy details, but even the high level requirements have a lot of pitfalls.

“Simple” example that anyone who’s ever worked on a scheduling application will probably be familiar with:

“Get a list with all of today’s events.”

Well, whose “today” (timezone) are we talking about? Server, client, setting in the user account? Or none of the above, and actually timezone at the physical location of the event, if there is one?

And what does “today” mean, anyway? Truncate the date? 00:00-23:59? Business hours?

And what does “today’s event” even mean? Events can cross midnight… Does an event need to start today? End today? Both? Can events span multiple days?

The fun never ends!
by ohdeargodno | 2025-07-25 20:57:01+00:00
> that's generally legal in the US.

Cool, I'm sure Tea is only available to report things about United States citiz... nevermind.

It runs afoul of about a dozen european rights to privacy, imagery and consent laws. And that's just by posting pictures ! Libel and slander are a bunch of others, right to a response is also another... the list is long. It is, once again, yet another dudebro trying to skirt legality.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-25 20:57:08+00:00
The future of trucking probably involves neither truckers and nor any fuel. Battery electric trucks are already taking over. And autonomous driving trucks without a driver seems like it is a matter of time. That eliminates the two most expensive cost factors in trucking.

Of course this won't happen overnight. But it will probably be happening faster than some might expect. Cost saving potential is going to be the main reason. Trucks use a lot of fuel, and at the rate they are using it, it adds up to quite a lot of money. Tens of thousands of dollar per year. 50K$ is fairly average. The only thing more expensive is the driver. Getting rid of both, adds up to meaningful savings.
by dimava | 2025-07-25 20:57:19+00:00
Edit: it got fixed, thanks to the author

I think with majority of TypeScript projects using Prettier, 2 is more likely to be the default[0]

The linked page literally says to ignore it [1]

> STOP READING IMMEDIATELY THIS PAGE PROBABLY DOES NOT PERTAIN TO YOU > These are Coding Guidelines for Contributors to TypeScript. This is NOT a prescriptive guideline for the TypeScript community.

4 is a historical thing used as a default for all languages in VSCode [2]

[0] https://prettier.io/docs/options#tab-width

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Coding-guidelin...

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/41200

Edit: found the TS style guide at https://github.com/basarat/typescript-book/blob/master/docs/... , it should be the correct link

P.S. did send a mail to author hopefully they fix it
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by JTrehan | 2025-07-25 20:57:28+00:00
Hello everyone,

I'm happy to show you my project and would love to get some feedback on it!

DocGoblin is a desktop search engine designed to handle large collections of PDFs. It indexes your documents and allows you to perform fast and accurate searches for specific terms, phrases, or sections across your entire library in less than a second.

For more details on the technologies : * JavaFX for UI * Lucene for indexing and search * PDFium for PDF rendering * Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux * Packaging via jpackage / jlink (distributed as native installers)

I also created an open-source example for packaging a java/javaFX app on github : https://github.com/JulienTroudet/easyJavaFXSetup

DocGoblin is my first "commercial" and independant project :) I'm really proud of it!
by nextos | 2025-07-25 20:57:58+00:00
Some technical universities in EU solve this problem by having full-time practical courses e.g. in January and June. For example, as a CS freshman you can build a really solid background in functional programming by going through a sequence of SML or Haskell courses in Autumn and Spring and spend January and June learning trendy technologies in depth. It's the best from both worlds.
by MBCook | 2025-07-25 20:58:04+00:00
I think they would be far more likely to support a gun exception than a general “no moralizing” rule.

They seem totally fine with the age checks many states are enacting for porn sites. The Republican Party loves slagging pedophiles (real or imagined) and hating on LGBTQIA+ people or trying to make their lives as difficult/horrible as possible.

Yeah some games delisted were horrible. One of the main offenders had already been pulled as soon as Steam (or was it Itch) was notified. But they still used it as evidence. The platforms were policing themselves well.

But not only did gratuitous porn games and abuse games get delisted, lots of games on related to inclusiveness of LGBTQIA+ did too from what I’m seeing from developers on social media.

I suspect if anything the administration would be happy to let people use this as yet another hammer in their culture war against such people existing.

That’s why.
by ksec | 2025-07-25 20:58:23+00:00
I have seen some talks in the recent few months about AI bubble that is comparing to Dot com bubble. I thought this is very strange.

Dot Com was real hype. The usage of internet and PC with Internet as well as user's usage pattern simply wasn't there. AI usage is real and is building on Smartphone platform as well as PC. Even PC, Internet and Smartphone all three in their era didn't get as quickly adopted as AI. Considering Government or business is very slow to adopt to new technology, but CoPilot literally widely deployed from Government to Fortune 500.

I dont believe in AGI or ASI. But I also dont think we are currently in an AI bubble.
by caconym_ | 2025-07-25 20:58:24+00:00
If you start down this road, policing which media people have access to based on your own totally subjective moral standards and interpretations, you will end up with pervasive censorship that severely stunts cultural development. Because who is "you", anyway? The answer is, of course, whichever monstrous nutjob chooses to devote a huge chunk of their time and money to seizing the levers of power so that they can impose their monstrous nutjobbery on everyone else.

Seriously, outside of special, clearly delineated cases with indisputable negative externalities (especially on the production side), when has [effectively] banning certain [types of] media been a net good? Seems to me that all it's good for is political repression and fueling moral panics.
by ramijames | 2025-07-25 20:58:33+00:00
This is such nonsense. All the stuff that we use, someone wrote. If nobody makes them, then how is that going to work?

The messaging here is that you should be careful about using what you build on your own because it:

- hasn't been battle tested

- likely has bugs

- isn't mature

The only way that it will be all of those things is if someone invests time and energy in them.

From an ecosystem perspective this is absolutely the right thing. You want duplicate projects. You want choice. You want critical knowledge to be spread around.
by cuddlybacon | 2025-07-25 20:58:45+00:00
I use fullscreen mode a lot.

For work I will have VS Code and a web browser side-by-side. Every ticket I work on gets its own instance. I find it keeps me organized so I can focus on the work.

If Apple ever got rid of fullscreen mode I could probably just do this with normal virtual desktops. But this is slightly better than that.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-25 20:59:34+00:00
There are no ads on the results I see for "New York Yankees" on Google right now.

Also there is a HUGE difference in ad quality between the old pay for placement guys and Google. On Google, your ad has to be relevant and will be downranked into oblivion if nobody clicks on it. On Overture and the rest of them, that was not the case, they just auctioned off the results without regard to whether any of it was relevant. I know some of you refuse to believe this, but Google search ads are themselves a corpus of documents that are responsive to the user's search term.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-25 21:00:47+00:00
> you can at least concede it's not entirely arbitrary content like say a sitcom

I'd actually hypothesise that if you locked three sets of teenage boys in rooms, one with only porn games, one with only social media and one with only sitcoms, that the first group would likely emerge the healthiest of the three. I'm basing this on my bias towards activity and that nobody seems to have bothered with actually doing research on porn games, the organisation pushing for these bans included [1], instead proxying research on porn as a whole for this specific category.

[1] https://www.collectiveshout.org/research
by tacostakohashi | 2025-07-25 21:01:24+00:00
Probably it's all BS as others and yeah they're trying to manage you out and get a lawyer and all that stuff.

I would say, re the "emotional drain" and "being disrespected", learn to just get over yourself and your ego and suck it up during this challenging period, it's something you can learn from and take with you. For now, nothing has changed, they're still paying you, so you should still punch in / punch out, put in a reasonable / good faith effort while you are on their payroll.

You don't have to be a star performer, you can be talking to lawyers and looking for other jobs on the side, but if you can keep it together for the time being there's a better chance you'd get let go with a better settlement, they won't be able to come up with a "for cause" rationale, and frankly its just good manners / professional while you are on their payroll and a guest at their company.