MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hearsathought | 2025-07-30 15:00:58+00:00
It's not so shocking when you realize that israel is a european settler colony created and founded by europeans and settled by europeans. I don't think many european countries criticized the settlement of canada, us, australia, argentina, etc.

Israel isn't a semitic country. It is a european/western country just like australia. It's just that nobody calls out the obvious.
by nicolaslem | 2025-07-30 15:01:01+00:00
I ended up building this entirely by accident. Last summer I wanted to have aquatic plants in my garden, so I made a small container pond.

As you can imagine it quickly got invaded by mosquito larvae. By the time I realized I was getting raided by mosquitos each night, much more than previous years.

After getting hold of the bacteria (not sure if it's completely allowed here, only Amazon would sell it to me) mosquitos are completely gone, in the pond and around.
by reactordev | 2025-07-30 15:01:06+00:00
I agree. The stability comes from its ecosystem though. Enterprise Software. Where things like meticulous use of Omit and Task are common place and really REALLY bad things happen if you fuck up.

But besides that, there’s a healthy gamedev community that embraced C# early and have been using it ever since. There’s C++ MFC guys that got duped into WPF and have been supporting it ever since. Winforms devs that are still trying to make a dark mode. I’ve even seen community grass roots “I need this in Silverlight” projects take hold and become one of the largest SDKs in the world. It’s cool. It’s fun. And with AOT, it’s everywhere. C# is like that cool uncle of your Father (Java) that likes to party all night but still holds a job. Maybe someday TS.Net will exist and we’ll all be singing “Back in my day”
by ralferoo | 2025-07-30 15:01:35+00:00
When you say junk then, I find that interesting as my first was a Redmi Note 4 launched in 2016, that I got in 2017 (and did this unlock process on, as I bought it in China), and the reason I got that phone in particular was its price (in the UK it was £120, in China I got it slightly cheaper at 1100 CNY) and that it was actually the fastest Android phone available at the time according to the AnTuTu benchmarks.

The modern Redmi Note series is usually a generation behind on performance now, but I keep buying them as they're still faster than I need and there's always still a decent phone less than £150. Only complaint is with the camera, which never seems to get any better even when they claim to have upgraded it.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-30 15:01:38+00:00
Having done web applications for oh…30 years now the key pain is network routing

That’s the only thing I can tell is useful about “the cloud”

I can build racks and servers easily, but the challenge is availability and getting past everyone’s firewalls

So the real win is any service that allows for instant DNS table updates and availability of DNS whitelisting.

This is why Google, Msft etc win in email because they have trusted endpoints

Alternative routes with self signed DKIM etc is more or less blocked by default forcing you onto a provider

We need more cloud flare tunnel and local hosting via commercial ISP routes and less new centralized data centers
by legitster | 2025-07-30 15:01:41+00:00
A lot of the "regulations" baked into childcare aren't really going to move the needle - the inefficiencies are baked into the model. I don't care how lax your state is, you're not going to run a successful childcare center with 100 kids and 1 caretaker. So the cost of childcare is always going to be linked strongly to median prevailing wages.

While I think Baumol may have something to say here, I think we should listen to Henry George a bit more. The lion's share of overhead for a daycare goes towards its real estate costs. Similarly, it's a growing share of cost of living for both the workers and the customers. And as Henry George pointed out, the cost of housing goes up without creating economic value for anyone.
by bpt3 | 2025-07-30 15:02:07+00:00
> Other authors of research and I are the ones demanding this. We're the ones giving the gift horse in the first place. People who don't play a part in creating human knowledge generally aren't interested in reading papers about how hard-to-use software that's no longer available worked on obsolete computers they don't have access to, especially when the problems that software solved are problems they don't have.

You (and I) are free to publish in venues that meet our requirements.

> I'm not demanding that the ACM do more. I'm demanding that they do less, by renouncing their right to sue other people for legally archive and redistribute ACM papers, so the ACM don't bear the full responsibility of doing so themselves. That way, I can do more of that wealth-of-knowledge-creating stuff you're so excited about, benefiting the ACM's members. It's a win-win.

I am not at all worried about this, and there's no real reason for you to be either (the odds of the ACM library vanishing is almost 0), so it seems like you're being needlessly hostile.

> It really isn't very likely that anyone will ever publish a computer science paper as impactful as Dijkstra's go-to-statement thing. That affects how we write literally every line of code in every language today except maybe assembly. Maybe one of the LLM papers might compete?

I'm sorry, but this is absurd. "Attention is all you need" comes to mind as a recent example of a highly impactful paper (not published in an ACM venue, but you're now expanding your claim to the entire field of CS).

> On a different note, it seems like you mostly post comments on HN in order to personally attack other commenters, as you are doing here, and to advocate political positions. That isn't what the site is for. If you keep doing it, they're going to ban you.

You're a real peach.
by PathOfEclipse | 2025-07-30 15:02:09+00:00
.NET perf can be great in the sense that it provides more tools to write C-like code while still taking advantage of safe memory management, as compared to Java. On the downside, both their JIT and their GC seem to be far less sophisticated than the JVM.

Why, for instance, does the CLR GC not have something like TLABs? The result is that it seems like .NET devs have to worry a lot more about the expense of small, short-lived allocations, while in Java these things are much cheaper.

Overall, I think it's easier to program idiomatically in Java and get decent performance out-of-the-box, while C# may provide more opportunities for optimization without having to rely on something equivalent to sun.misc.Unsafe and offheap allocations.
by hundrednews | 2025-07-30 15:02:12+00:00
I have to track a lot of news in various niches for my work (e.g. AI, Bonds etc). Been using Google News and Google Reader (from back in the day) for god knows how many years now. However, I got increasingly annoyed with Google's algorithm showing me sources I didn't recognise / trust.

I decided to build a completely free site called 100.news that allows you to:

Choose the topics/keywords you're interested in

Choose the sources you trust - I have linked over 70 sources so far from outlets that bother to make their RSS feeds accessible (you would be surprised by how many trusted news sources gatekeep - The Economist and The Times to name and shame!)

You end up with a real-time feed only from sources and topics you have curated yourself.

Just built this over the weekend so very open to criticism!
by _aavaa_ | 2025-07-30 15:02:22+00:00
> One should be glad that such a large sector of economy - healthcare - has a great stable demand and a great labor market.

This is not the tourism industry, a “great stable demand” is sick and suffering people.

The hospital has limited resources, which are being taken up by people who have no hope of getting better (they ain’t getting younger). A push to do everything we can to stop them from dying buys us what? A few more months of pain and delirium before we reach the same result.
by ruszki | 2025-07-30 15:02:33+00:00
And how it would be helpful for me to specify? Do you think that I just gave up immediately, and didn’t try to solve it for days and weeks? Do you think you can help me more than that without the exact errors which I got? Do you think I care about a solution to laptops which I don’t even have? Do you think any kind of blanket term like “NVIDIA whatever doesn’t work” would be even true?

I specified a few times, and I got zero relevant information. My time is more valuable than reading comments which are like “it worked for me with <something-which-is-not-even-in-my-spec>”.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-30 15:02:39+00:00
This is cyclical to a certain extent.

The same thing happened during Dot Bomb, the Great Recession, and even 2018-20.

Paul G's early blogposts on "ramen profitability" and entrepreneurship hold credence in these kinds of times, as these rightsizing moments do open opportunities to build challengers.

Behemoths like FB, PANW, SNOW, and SFDC were founded during the aftermath of the dot bomb and behemoths like Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession.

Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships.
by salawat | 2025-07-30 15:02:51+00:00
>A "purge" violates decentralized stewardship and falsely presumes perfect insight into who is "nonessential."

A test case then. What happens when a digital entity requires more resources (training power/cooling water) than the organics can consciably/sustainably provide? What if the problem requiring sacrifice of meta-stability must be solved regardless?

You can assume that the training is to accommodate the solution of a problem the organics need solved to move forward, but you said your framework is intent invariant mind, so you're kinda also dedicating yourself to the possibility that this system can maintain stability in the face of a selfish/deceptive machine. How does it play out?

To be quite frank, I don't think you can come up with a magical system of ethics that'll solve human/machine interaction satisfiably until we can figure out human<->human ethics/morals satisfiably. Adding in the additional mechanicals just makes the current problem of trust even more difficult to navigate, because neither empathy nor acknowledgement of kinship will be fundamentally accessible between much of the two populations, which from current events, (Russia/Ukraine, China/Taiwan, Israel Palestine, India/China/Pakistan, U.S. liberal/Conservative/MAGA) we can already demonstrably conclude that we have very hard and present problems with what comes down to essentially inability or unwillingness to empathize, or even more horrifically, empathy followed by subsequent rational extinction of the empathic response and embarking on the path of "other extermination to further our own ends" anyway.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-30 15:03:48+00:00
Needs better search, like an autocomplete where I type "tama" and get my favorite fox. The space of popular anime characters is like what, a few thousand? You oughta be able to suck them all out of danbooru.

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114928471406098871

This image doesn't have the deep blues which I'd associate with that character though.
by mardifoufs | 2025-07-30 15:03:52+00:00
They have been settling the only territory that actually stopped the armed struggle against Israel. The West Bank has literally kicked out Hamas, stopped fighting for years, and given up their arms for the most part. And Israel has been relentlessly colonizing them since then, as a show of good faith I guess. The Palestinians there have absolutely 0 recourse, and will eventually lose all of their home land.

But I'm sure they wouldn't have done the same to Gaza if they would've just done the right thing by kicking off Hamas, and stopping any armed resistance !

I mean they didn't literally kill every single arab in Gaza yet so they are very progressive. They'd rather just slowly settle your land and kill you if you resist, as opposed to Hamas who would've done the same but faster. Let's not forget that they have killed tens of thousands of Muslims, but at least they could've killed even more!
by exasperaited | 2025-07-30 15:04:01+00:00
There is a solution to this, though, and it is the solution that generations -- generations -- of people have chosen.

1) don't have a pet that you will have to leave alone for too long because it is cruel to do this just so you have a pet to keep you company when you have time to enjoy it

2) there is no 2)

I have plenty of grace for people in my life -- much, much more than you might imagine. I have no patience for people who treat the happiness of their pet as transactional and have created a service economy to support it.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-30 15:04:27+00:00
> “so I stopped paying them”.

This was exactly what I got from a colleague about a decade ago. Day care was so expensive it was eating half of her salary, so she quit, stopped paying for day care and stayed at home instead.

A lot of couple do the math and end up in the same place, where working their ass off to earn more, just to pay more doesn't make sense.
by sararita28 | 2025-07-30 15:04:27+00:00
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by jlokier | 2025-07-30 15:04:30+00:00
> is it possible that at some point the computational photography makes a mistake and changes text?

Yes it is. I've seen that happen in real-time with the built-in camera viewfinder (not even taking a photo) on my mid-range Samsung phone, when I zoomed in on a sign.

It only changed one letter, and it was more like a strange optical warping from one letter to a different one when I pointed the camera at a particular sign in a shop, but it was very surprising to see.
by bwfan123 | 2025-07-30 15:05:01+00:00
Kudos, great start. Ambitious effort, for it to be successful you could zero-in on a specific application and make that better than pytorch for training/inference.

Many users of pytorch are scientists and folks only peripherally interested in software. For them, python scripting is great because of its low barrier to entry. The torch ecosystem is large, and consists of folks like that. They are unlikely to learn things like rust. So, instead of wholesale reimplementation of pytorch, a better bet would be to replace parts of pytorch that are slow and bloated. Those parts would be invisible to end-users, and would be a great candidate for a rust refactor.
by rachofsunshine | 2025-07-30 15:05:04+00:00
> Should we trust the information at face value without verifying from other sources? Of course not, that's part of the learning process.

People who are learning a new topic are precisely the people least able to do this.

A friend of mine used chatgpt to try to learn calculus. It gave her an example...with constants changed in such a way that the problem was completely different (in the way that 1/x^2 is a totally different integration problem than 1/(x^2 + 1)). It then proceeded to work the problem incorrectly (ironically enough, in exactly the way that I'd expect a calculus student who doesn't really understand algebra to do it incorrectly), produced a wrong answer, and merrily went on to explain to her how to arrive at that wrong answer.

The last time I tried to use an LLM to analyze a question I didn't know the answer to (analyze a list of states to which I couldn't detect an obvious pattern), it gave me an incorrect answer that (a) did not apply to six of the listed states, (b) DID apply to six states that were NOT listed, even though I asked it for an exclusive property, (c) miscounted the elements of the list, and (d) provided no less than eight consecutive completely-false explanations on followup, only four of which it caught itself, before finally giving up.

I'm all for expanding your horizons and having new interfaces to information, but reliability is especially important when you're learning (because otherwise you build on broken foundations). If it fails at problems this simple, I certainly don't trust it to teach me anything in fields where I can't easily dissect bullshit. In principle, I don't think it's impossible for AI to get there; in practice, it doesn't seem to be.
by schiffern | 2025-07-30 15:05:32+00:00
Mosquitos don't fly very fast or very far, and they breed extremely fast, so if you have nearby puddles you get a "local high density" zone. The inflow is so large that it never settles down to the expected steady state with uniform density.

It's the same reason you have a high density of sports fans when you stand near the exit of a stadium after a game. The people (mosquitos) are streaming out of the stadium (standing water) so fast that there's a local high-density zone.

I literally live in a swamp, so I reasoned "how much could one tire hurt?" Oh boy was I wrong! Eliminating that one single mosquito breeding site near the house made an enormous difference on the local mosquito density.
by mrsilencedogood | 2025-07-30 15:05:34+00:00
"If you commit to institutional neutrality, the result is a one-way ratchet"

Can you explain why this is the result? And why is it allegedly democrats that the ratchet pushed towards?

There are well-known differences in political alignment both among more-educated workers (the federal government probably does not employ many people without at least a college degree of some sort?) and being employed in a public-services government job (e.g. what kinds of workers are more likely to want to work for the EPA? People who want to protect the environment or people who want to exploit it more? Remember, one party tried to sell off a large number of public forests and lands and is gutting the national parks).

These seem like they would explain the majority of the effect you mention without any mention of some kind of ratchet mechanism.
by capital_guy | 2025-07-30 15:05:41+00:00
I believe the fans are actually smaller. The rack is definitely quieter than other racks, but he says in the rear rack tour that it's quite hot. Check out these videos of it

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbgjB0RQ1s [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmw9OICH-4
by zamalek | 2025-07-30 15:05:46+00:00
> It's ethno-nationalist supremacy by a powerful group believing they are superior to others who are seen as "animals".

And this largely encapsulates the original definition of racism/racialism; it was far more extreme than hating some other race (which has become the modern dictionary definition). Hating Mexicans who (you incorrectly believe) are taking jobs that Americans would have filled is a very different mental state to believing that a group of humans is no better than animals (thereby "justifying" horrific acts like slavery and concentration camps).
by bowsamic | 2025-07-30 15:06:21+00:00
In my experience the issue with these ideas is that they are so niche that it ends up being a network of unstable or odd people who I cannot at all relate to. Of course when there is a selection effect towards enthusiasts you end up losing a lot of, for lack of a better word, socially "normal" people. And then, yes, it does become harder to enjoy. I'm sure this will be cast as my problem but it's a very real effect. Of course there was also some selection effect at the beginning of the internet but the net was still a bit wider than it is today. I'm not really interested in the 1000th furry rust hacker
by dukeofdoom | 2025-07-30 15:06:49+00:00
Maybe property taxes. Cities keep bumping these up. But also the intersection of people that neet multiple sets of requirements approaches zero pretty quickly. I watched a guy that's a professional filmer, and he explained that actually the circle he's in is pretty small. So while the set of people that want to do his career is fairly large. That people that jumped through all the requirmeny hoops is like filter. So he has no problems finding work because of it
by bee_rider | 2025-07-30 15:07:06+00:00
That’s probably the responsible thing to do. It is always odd to see American weather disaster reporters, like:

“We’re here inside the hurricane, let me go outside so you can see that the wind will push me over. Can’t hear anything because my microphone is getting blasted by the wind. Over there you can see the emergency responders, they appear to be fleeing. Tell my wife I love her, but I’ve got to die for some b-roll.”
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-30 15:07:33+00:00
Its one of many tools that is founded in one of the two key organizational realizations underlying Agile software development that, unfortunately, is completely ignored everywhere that pretends that they are "doing Agile".

The other one, and the one that is talked about more, is control of the methodology by the individual dev team, rather than as an external dictate from outside.

But the one relevant to Cucumber is that development isn't an activity that the dev team does alone, but a high-contact relationship between the dev team and the people working in the application domain that the software serves.

Like many Agile tools, it is completely broken when divorced from those organizational principles. Unfortunately, while lots of shops are "Agile", those "Agile" implementations are almost invariably completely divorced from those principles, and are the same kind of consultants-sold-this-canned-buzzword-bingo-approach-to-management-and-now-it-is-imposed-on-the-software-team-we-keep-walled-off-from-business thing that the entire Agile movement was a reaction against.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-30 15:07:34+00:00
that a big problem. Its because one never know whether its a customer or a bad actor giving the bad rating. In the case of google, I would go through the process and tell them everything about the visit (proof it) and then, if it gets blocked, issue a complaint with the regulators/Bundesnetzagentur.

May be you also didn't chose the right legal counseling? Just wondering.. but yes. Its a weapon and each one utilizes it. I would go on the full with such things and give proof and write quotes for the time needed and send them to the businesses like "because you cant stand the truth, here is the quote for 1h search evidence, 1h write up, 1h ... this that. Its perfect legal to write quotes in Germany. Its important not to move away from your right.

the other thing is, you don't know whether the removal is initiated by the businesses or is an algorithm-change happend??? Thats also a known thing, businesses losing bad and good customer ratings. They also tend to sue google after for their good reviews.

good luck on all your paths you step onto ;)

I once also had a situation with a doctor. But at that time I said bye and let him do the work of removing the post. I think, I'll go visit his office one day and write the same thing again with a few additional photos that puts a ledger on my written thing.