MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by diggan | 2025-07-17 14:51:20+00:00
Speaking about flagging things :)

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

I think once you understand the context, it does make sense and would make it clear it isn't a "rant", but I also understand that that would require to actually do some reading so easier with a knee-jerk reaction to it instead.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-17 14:51:23+00:00
I used OpenSCAD a huge amount a few years ago and got pretty good at their language. I recently I saw someone bring it up again in the context of coding assistants/agents, and I am wondering: will we have a resurgence in programmatic solid modeling due to assistance? Is this one of the best ways for AI to be used for solid objects?
by 5ersi | 2025-07-17 14:51:45+00:00
LLMs are learning in a very similar way humans are learning. So if humans can read a text (or view a video), learn from it and then use the knowledge to produce something, so can LLMs?

Copyright laws have quite strict rules on what constitutes a copy, and this was tested in courts many times. This rules also apply to works produced by LLMs.
by diggan | 2025-07-17 14:53:24+00:00
> You're in the EU, right?

Yes.

> If you've been using these features for years

I haven't agreed to any of those features explicitly, the thing with flights/reservations appearing in Google Calendar has been a feature for years and don't recall that needing an explicit agreement that Google can use that same data for improving other Google services. It wasn't until today (it seems) they asked for explicit permission for that.

> What's the documentation link?

I think it was linking to https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322 but can't confirm 100% since I can't see that modal anymore.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-17 14:53:48+00:00
> In reality, however, >90% of the high school students I encountered were on the level of your grandparents 20 years ago.

Absolutely. Every naïve mom and dad giving their kid a tablet to say oh he’s gonna be great at computers!

No. Your kid is gonna be a good user. To click the thing they’re told to click, follow the path laid out for them. It’s bad.
by dinfinity | 2025-07-17 14:54:04+00:00
You have to remember that macroeconomic research is so incredibly hard to do that it is closer to truth telling or philosophy than to actual science. I believe it's called "astrology, but with fancy graphs".

I'm not trying to be mean to economists, just reminding everybody how reliable macroeconomic claims are (try looking for the concepts 'confidence interval' and 'randomized controlled trials' in macroeconomic papers).
by nijave | 2025-07-17 14:54:39+00:00
Seems rather niche. You can already improve async write availability with CQRS and a (durable) queue. Systems like Kafka implement this out of the box

Seems sort of like a CQRS implementation on top of PG (you're using PG replication as the change queue to loosely separate writes/reads, losing transaction guarantees in the process)
by ahachete | 2025-07-17 14:55:12+00:00
For inserts is "easy" if there's no possibility to write the same PK value twice (e.g. PK are random values like uuids or include as part of a natural key a identifier from the writer that's unique -shard id, region id, you name it-).

Once you have done that, for updates and deletes you need to keep the same rule (i.e. don't update "foreign" rows).

If you do this, no other technique is needed. Partitions, however, are potentially a good technique to enforce some of these invariants, which gives us quick understanding of where data is originating from given the table name. Same could apply to schemas.

RLS may also help enforce these invariants.
by gchamonlive | 2025-07-17 14:55:35+00:00
When it was the last time we had an actual issue where 16yo voting had direct measurable negative impact on something in real life? I think it's as other said, we have to draw a line, and I think it's reasonable to debate this because maybe each nation prepares their kids differently so one nations 16yo isn't another, this way there isn't a universal rule. But arguing that you have to discuss ALL the other civil liberties before discussing 16yo voting rights is absurd because there is no connection between drinking and voting and all else.
by nimbius | 2025-07-17 14:55:51+00:00
These services are irreplaceable. once they are gone, they are gone.

as for NOAA, China could decide to undermine the profiteering of weather in the US (as it did with AI using DeepSeek) by simply expanding the Fengyun satellite constellation to cover the globe (as it did with beidou) thereby providing weather forecasts for North America as well via the web, social media, and mobile app free of charge as a form of Kissinger style "soft power."
by diggan | 2025-07-17 14:55:53+00:00
There is indeed more to it. From https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322

> When smart features are on, your data may be used to improve these features [...] To improve our services. If you have turned on any of the smart features settings, we may also process your Workspace Content & Activity to improve these features. [...] Developing new products and features [...] Performing research
by xnorswap | 2025-07-17 14:55:54+00:00
Another way to detect the odd way HN handles articles it re-pushes to the front-page, the wikipedia submissions page, and the submitter submissions page show the original 2 days ago submission time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bookofjoe
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-17 14:56:08+00:00
College grads average IQ had dropped from 119 in 1939 to 102 in 2022. For many jobs an IQ test would be sufficient to determine expected likelihood for long term success. College still teaches domain expertise but to a larger and less intelligent cohort - so I would attribute the lower value of degrees more to it's decreased relevance to general intelligence. Which would suggest the very thing to fix it would be through the use of IQ tests, but we're not allowed to do that.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-07-17 14:56:10+00:00
You simply do not know what you are talking about. I live in an urban city. I have a yard, fruit trees, a vegetable garden, and birds singing. Don't have a creek running behind my house, but there is one a half mile away, plus there is the whole SF Bay, and Redwood parks accessible on bus routes _within_ the city.
by david2ndaccount | 2025-07-17 14:56:12+00:00
Summer reading programs are a band-aid on the problem that children shouldn’t have such a long summer break now that air conditioning is common. Spread the breaks out throughout the year if you want to maintain the same number of days off. All evidence shows the summer break is bad for children’s academic achievement (especially poor children), but it is viewed as a perk for the teachers so the teacher’s unions fight against questioning it.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-17 14:56:18+00:00
>You point blank cannot find legit ways of playing the original underground games

Did you mean to type "You point blank cannot find legit ways of playing the original underground games without paying $20"?

Need for Speed Underground sells for between $15 and $24 on the used market: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Need+For+Speed+Undergro...

Every single version listed on Wikipedia, except for the arcade version, is available.

edit: the arcade is £4095, including VAT with free delivery (presumably in the UK).

https://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/video_arcade_machines/d...
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-17 14:56:31+00:00
Since Champions Online, Cryptic Studio's game chat server used to be Jabber compatible, too. I don't know if it still is, I haven't had a Jabber client running in a while. It might still be.

There was something really cool about getting MMO Guild chat (or Fleet chat in my case as a big Star Trek Online player at the time) in your normal IM client.

That was also about when we discovered the server would let you create channels that would be global across all the games (and any IM clients). I still tend to refer to Champions Online and (Cryptic's) NeverWinter Online as "Holodeck Adventures" for that reason, because I'd commonly play those in the days of my very active STO Fleet until people started chatting about STO in the global fleet chat.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-17 14:57:44+00:00
We had Accelerated Reader in my public school in Texas in the early 2000s.

It was a pretty cool system.

The lottery system described upstream is terrible.

But with Accelerated Reader you would accumulate points that you could spend on things like the Scholastic Book Fair (buy books), slices of pizza for lunch, and various toy gadgets. Sometimes a teacher would sell some gimmick like a get out of homework ticket.

Of course, you'd have to read a good number of books to receive any of these prizes. But you were always working towards something unlike a lottery system which isn't motivating at all.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-17 14:57:55+00:00
The pathways and decisions made might be unintuitive and effects can linger even after the original reasons no longer apply.

Where I work, usernames are still limited to 8 characters because some old unix platforms didn't support more than that. I'm virtually certain that none of those are still in use today, but the requirement was baked into user provisioning in ways that would be expensive to change, so they keep with it.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-17 14:58:02+00:00
Yes, the risks part of a 10-K is usually pretty comprehensive, and includes all kinds of things that may or may not be an issue: that's why they're risks, and not problems or showstoppers or something. Many of the 10-Ks I've read enumerate tons of things that have a very low chance of happening.

I'd be curious about the position of these segments in the 10-Ks, like, if they're suddenly all at the top, that's much more interesting than being tacked on to the end.
by echelon | 2025-07-17 14:58:14+00:00
Here are some S&P 500 companies that are doomed:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpublic_Group_of_Compa...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom_Group

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Discovery

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Global

I'm sure there are a lot more.
by the_other | 2025-07-17 14:59:17+00:00
My eyesight’s rubbish. I learn very little from looking at people’s eyes. I almost never remember eye colours. It just doesn’t register because I “don’t see it”.

I have to make a special effort to make eye contact, and when I do I feel like my “trying to see better” habits and postures make others uncomfortable. I’ve no idea what “normal eye contact” feels like.

I might also have some autism traits (I’m a coder, after all), so that feeds into it.. but even if I wasn’t coder/austistic, I’d be struggling in this domain.

I offer this as anecdata for your “everyone is different” suggestion.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-17 14:59:38+00:00
People have the right to be greedy capricious dickheads with the property (physical, intellectual, and real) that they own and you are infringing on that right.

Like, they can write the best and most entertaining video game of all time, one that makes you pass out if not almost die from joy, and they have the right to sell only a single copy for $10 quadrillion and sue the shit out of anyone who plays it without their permission.

And there is no right, or need, to play a video game as far as I'm aware.
by rafram | 2025-07-17 14:59:43+00:00
A pillar of free-market models, sure. But economics is built on a stack of spherical-cow assumptions that don’t really hold up in the real world.

Of course an employee theoretically has total freedom to leave an abusive employer and go somewhere else. But do they have time to search for jobs while working full-time? What if their employer makes them work mandatory overtime? If they don’t have time to search while working, can they afford to be unemployed for a few months? What if their employer threatens them or discourages other employers in the area from hiring them?

It would be great if competition made unions unnecessary, but it doesn’t.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-17 14:59:45+00:00
> If we're going to be a fascist dumpster, why does everyone pretend it's some inherent right that the corporate wigs get all this insulation and that there's simply nothing that can be done against quite literally the worst crimes against humanity that we could possible participate in?

I mean, historically, Fascists and Capitalists have been pretty hand-in-hand so that's far from even strange to me. Despite the Nazi party having Socialist in it's name, they literally coined the term "privatization" to describe their process of selling public-good utilities and services to private owners so they could profit off of them.
by waldopat | 2025-07-17 15:00:13+00:00
I was actually talking about this with a dev this morning.I might reframe this away from self-taught and more towards on the job experience.

Obviously, I think it depends on the domain you're working in, but most comp sci majors really learn math and algorithms.

Math is great, of course, but the vast majority of app and web developers never use any of it. So at the end of the day, even with a proper technical background, everyone is really self-taught when it comes to Python or React programming when they get a real job.

This is a broad brush, but then you get data scientists with academic background who maybe learn R or Python for analysis, which again is great, but they don't necessarily learn OOP principles or exception handling and so their code quality is bad. Yet, they are often tasked with creating apps or doubling as a dev and so they too end up becoming self-taught to a degree.

Just two cents
Show HN: Video Space, pose-aligned video playback
by benjaminbenben | 2025-07-17 15:00:44+00:00
I’ve been playing with an idea for rendering video in the 3d space that it was captured. It’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and it’s been fun to finally get it working.

There’s more info in the post. Tldr, I used COLMAP to extract camera poses from video frames, then three.js to align and render the video textures.

I'm happy with how the content is loaded, it uses a video element so the browser will be able to start loading frames before any of the component code is initialised.

Check it out and let me know what you think, or if there’s any good ideas of videos I should try.
by clusterhacks | 2025-07-17 15:01:02+00:00
Yes. I recently used the online calculator and it quoted me $4200/yr for $250K of coverage.

I live in a "zone X" neighborhood. Interestingly, it appears that significant areas around me are all "zone X" but personal experience and common sense show vastly different flood risks. Meaning there are lots built on the edges of "100 year" flood areas in "zone X" and properties 50-100 feet higher in elevation in the same neighborhood. Surely the risk would actually be quite different? I guess the models aren't particularly fine-grained.

You can play around with the calculator at: https://www.floodsmart.gov/policy-quote/

There are a bunch of available spreadsheets with costs by state/county that show some stats on those costs but I don't have the link handy.
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by iamarnob6543 | 2025-07-17 15:01:05+00:00
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by pyuser583 | 2025-07-17 15:01:28+00:00
When buying or selling a house, this can get really bad. You have all sorts of entities which extensions of other entities. The bank has a mortgage sector which uses a different domain.

I also had to deal with a medical device recall, which was terrible. I had to trust some skeezy domains.

This isn't hard to fix, all you need to do is list on your website your "partner domains."

My personal security protocol was to search a .gov website for contact info of financial institutions, go to the domain listed, look for a customer service number, and call that to find out what domains to trust. Customer service people thought I was weird.

At one point, a customer service person said, "you know it's legitimate because if you go to LinkedIn, you can see the person you're dealing with has <Bank Name> listed as their employer."
by slightwinder | 2025-07-17 15:01:39+00:00
> No, they re-release a couple of them, as it conveniences them,

It's significant more than a couple these days. But the number doesn't really matter, it's an ongoing process, and nobody knows which are released at which point. So nobody can claim any more that it's dead content.

> And the handheld consoles aren't competing with nintendo for people interested in playing retro games.

That doesn't matter, it's still not legal. If people want to play old games, OK, then do it, but let it stay with the fans, uncommercial. Don't the f** make money with it, and the h** don't make public advertisement for it. It's illegal, and owners are going after you for it if it's too obvious, because they have the right.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-17 15:03:32+00:00
I take the request:

> $ weather in san francisco, today evening?

To be an example of some free-form written request without any special format. Parsing that input seems like a reasonable job for an LLM, right? Otherwise we will have the typical adventure game problem of “use thumb on button” doesn’t work because it expected “finger,” or whatever.
by gooooood | 2025-07-17 15:03:36+00:00
I wonder how Go would fare if it had a production-ready LLVM/GCC backend. I wouldn't be surprised if much of the performance differences between Go and C/C++/Rust comes down to optimized codegen (rather than GC, which is what people often complain about Go). Not saying that GC pauses might not be an issue in some cases, but still...
by stemlord | 2025-07-17 15:03:45+00:00
I think this is a good idea, given we now see how selfishly most people vote. If an 80 year old man is going to vote only for his immediate self interest and not even for his own generational legacy, then his vote shouldn't count as much as a 22 year old struggling to establish a sustainable future for themselves.

I was raised to champion the elderly for their life wisdom but it's starting to seem like society has been changing so rapidly that they no longer understand what's actually going on
by zo1 | 2025-07-17 15:04:27+00:00
It's the padding! And the UX teams that add them into the designs!

My cynical take is that an unholy pact was formed between FE devs and UX designers:

By adding in "design" and "user experience" you essentially reduce features, complexity and general "dev time" of every single user-screen or page or component. They're no longer cram-packed with oodles of features, toggles, buttons, menus, etc. Most pages are glorified lists of things, with maybe a menu on each item if you are lucky. Devs dev less, have less bugs, just use FE-library of the day and go home happy because they made a CRUD screen essentially.

Meanwhile, UX designers get to play around and constantly fiddle with design because let's all be honest, nothing will ever be truly good and in a perfect "user experience" space because complexity and functionality are never what the user is happy about having, until they need it.
by leereeves | 2025-07-17 15:04:29+00:00
> Some things that are better supported by multiple lines of scientific research, to quote two consecutive bits from the second article: "young people’s general cognitive skills, including their ability to reason, don’t change much after the age of 14 or so." "What does change with age is the ability to reason while distracted; emotions and peer pressure are more likely to hamper decision making in teens and early twentysomethings."

Yeah, that's pretty much saying the same thing I posted.

"Young people’s general cognitive skills" (SAT and ACT scores) develop early and "don’t change much after the age of 14 or so."

"What does change with age is the ability to reason while distracted; emotions and peer pressure are more likely to hamper decision making." In other words, "Good judgment isn’t something [teens] can excel in, at least not yet."

By the way, I don't know if you noticed, but what I posted wasn't a popsci article, it was from Stanford Children's Health.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-17 15:04:43+00:00
On the other hand, your criminal record matters far less in Germany than it does in the US. Most employers never ask for your record, especially in white collar jobs, and the ones that do usually only look for relevant offenses. If you are convicted for fraud that will make it harder to get a job as accountant, but an conviction for insulting an official or for drug possession years ago is unlikely to have a major impact.

Obviously you shouldn't be charged for stuff like that (and there was backlash for that incident), but the are less than it might appear to the American reader. Being convicted does not turn you into the scum of society in Germany
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-17 15:05:48+00:00
That doesn’t really help. If you play around with it, the plat integrity test will not pass and there goes too many apps — so that nullifies even MicroG etc as well. I haven’t played around with microg’s #2611 (had seen it on github when it was getting implemented) but the point is — it will remain cat and mouse in this manner and that is a headache one doesn’t want to have on their primary device.