MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-22 17:52:07+00:00
Later: some compiler errors are just warnings. If you really know what you're doing, you can suppress them and go about your merry day. You're not paid to make correct code; just "shippable" code.

Anyways, I'd be happy with a structure like

- "NIT" that acts more like notes for correct implementations used for highlighting potentially better structures or optimization to consider farther down the line

- TODO for issues that can or will become issues later on, but are otherwise functional for prototyping purposes. I don't think every TODO needs to be corrected, but you should have a refactoring day every period where you address most of these TODOS.

- FIXME for critical or showstopper level issues, but you need to clock out for the day. There shouldn't be any FIXME in a stable branch of code. Arguably a FIXME shouldn't persist for more than a few commits.
by tavavex | 2025-07-22 17:52:21+00:00
> it's not that it's hard to leave gaza. it's just nobody willing to accept gazans.

Isn't it both? I'm not an expert on this by any means, but it seems like anyone who's born on that land will find it almost impossible to leave. Both countries that have land borders with Gaza will usually not admit locals, except in very few exceptions. Even someone trying to transit through Israel to other countries would probably not be able to. Their sea and airspace, things that are seen in other countries as open windows to the rest of the world, are controlled by Israel. And their own government sometimes acts to prevent people from leaving. So, even if some countries accepted their refugees, I don't see how an average Gazan would be able to get there. It's not quite North Korea-level of difficulty, but it's up there.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-22 17:52:34+00:00
Hmm why do many countries not want to accept Palestinians?

- Supported Saddam in Kuwait

- Supported Saddam in Iraq

- Massacred Christians in Lebanon

- Tried to overthrow Jordan

- Caused chaos in Syria

- Destabilized Libya

- Aligned with iranian axis despite gulf states (eg Saudi) hosting at that time

- Complained about Egypt-Israel peace despite the former being the only country to send men to die for them

- Sent jihadists into Sinai

- Ran military ops out of Tunis after Tunisia agreed to host Arafat causing Tunis to get bombed

- Repeatedly militarized "refugee camps"

Like whether what israel is doing is wrong (it is) is independent of whether or not the palestinians kinda suck (they do)
by immibis | 2025-07-22 17:52:51+00:00
I can. He was asking if Babbage was cheating.

You put in 2+2 - the right figures. The machine says 4 - the right answer. If you put in the wrong figures, like 3+3, will the machine still say 4? It's easy to make a machine that always says 4.

The people who asked him that question, however, probably got a different scam demonstrated to them every every. Remember the Mechanical Turk? Babbage's reply paints him very honestly. It shows that he couldn't even conceive that someone might try to trick the royal court (or whoever it was) into accepting a fake device.
by fsmv | 2025-07-22 17:52:53+00:00
It is very difficult to avoid putting strings on the heap in go. I used the built in escape analysis tools and made sure I only use a constant amount of memory in the loop in my short https://github.com/fsmv/in.go progress bar program.

The biggest problem is any string you pass as an argument to the fmt functions is moved onto the heap because interface{} is always counted as escaped from the stack (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8618).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-22 17:53:00+00:00
Not wrong, but we're mostly locked in on the light vehicles and electrification front, the rest (as you mention) can continue to be worked towards. There is no silver bullet, just lots of work towards all the problems at once. Half of marine traffic is moving fossil fuels around the world, for example. That evaporates in the future. India and Africa will buy electrification and light vehicles from China, versus locking in a fossil fuel based economy. Everyone who needs fossil fuels is racing away from them for obvious economic and national security reasons, and everyone selling them is going to be desperate to sell them to the shrinking demand for them. There was $800B more capital invested in clean energy (~$2T) than fossil fuels globally in 2024.

To your point, the most important part is going to be how to rapidly remove the CO2 industrialization has injected into the atmosphere. This remains to be solved for at reasonable cost, but importantly, we're going to need a material amount of low carbon energy for that process.

“This is not inevitable. We have the tools, the instruments, the capacity to change course,” Guterres said. “There are reasons to be hopeful.”

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/07/22/un-says-booming-solar...

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-solar-wind-power-f...

https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un-energy-transiti...
by paleotrope | 2025-07-22 17:53:03+00:00
CLARK There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the early colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities especially of the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre- capitalist and...

WILL Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly, and so naturally that's what you believe until next month when you get to James Lemon and get convinced that Virginia and Pennsylvania were strongly entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That'll last until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood about the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

CLARK Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of--

WILL --"Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from "Work in Essex County," Page 421, right? Do you have any thoughts of your own on the subject or were you just gonna plagerize the whole book for me?
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-22 17:53:10+00:00
Google Gemini and ElevenLabs are quite good at transcription with diarization if you already have the audiofile. For real-time, I like Soniox, you can use their comparison page that runs all the major transcription services at once [0]. Note that their Google model is not Gemini, it's their older Chirp model.

[0] https://soniox.com/compare/
by cowboylowrez | 2025-07-22 17:53:34+00:00
same, I actually switched hands for a bit out of curiousity but didn't restring. mainly used to buy used guitars, pawn shop specials so finding a specifically right hand guitar would probably be more difficult, plus I liked the idea of being able to play a guitar that wasn't mine. I didn't do too much tho, as I'm not that good a right handed player either hehe
by zargon | 2025-07-22 17:53:48+00:00
I have been wanting a PWM controller for my Tesla cards in my workstation. Currently I open the case and manually turn up their fan speed when I’m going to use them, and turn it back down afterward. What I would like, but am not very interested in spending the time on, is a microcontroller that controls the fan speed based on messages it gets over serial from a script running on the host that tells it what speed to run based on GPU temperature. When I first set it up, I also placed thermistors that the microcontroller could use as a fallback if it doesn’t receive commands.

Seems like something similar should already exist, but I haven’t been able to find anything that is a close enough fit.
by kennywinker | 2025-07-22 17:53:52+00:00
> The First Intifada was characterized by protests, general strikes, economic boycotts, and riots[1]

Sounds like violence was a small component of the first intifada. So, tell me again how it always means violence? And also how did you get from violence against israeli occupation to violence against all jews?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalize_the_intifada
by ajkjk | 2025-07-22 17:53:53+00:00
> Then I can’t help but think: if the author of the article didn’t even understand this, how can the rest of the article be correct if it started from a biased and almost false premise?

That seems pretty unfair. The article is clearly structured to treat the Galileo thing as an example, not a premise. It is supposed to be a familiar case to consider before going into unfamiliar ones. In that sense it clearly still works as an example even if it's false: does it not set you up to think about the general problem, even if it's a fictional anecdote? It's no different than using some observation about Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter as an example before setting into a point. The fact that it's fictional doesn't affect its illustrative merits.
by alexeiz | 2025-07-22 17:54:12+00:00
Coming from Commit Mono, Atkinson looks a bit unusual. But I think I can get used to it. I think the comparison to Fira Code is valid, because in the terminal Atkinson looks almost like Fira Mono, but better. Since I usually sit a meter away from the screen, I can appreciate the extra legibility of this font.

Also, it's great that it's available as a Nerd variant. It makes it super easy to install on Linux with Embellish.
by cheeze | 2025-07-22 17:54:30+00:00
To me, it's night and day.

Cables stretch, need replacement (yearly or every 2 in my case), and mechanical shifting requires more effort.

Di2 is literally 'mouse click' with little electric components that _instantly_ shift. Maintenance is reduced, the shifting is notably smoother, and adjustments are a breeze.

IMO the "but my shifters could die" crowd overblow the concerns. I charge my bike _once a month_ and that's being conservative. I already have to charge my GPS unit, my lights, etc. so remembering to plug my bike in is a non-concern.

Anecdotally, most folks I know who don't like electronic shifting haven't actually used it. The major downside is that it's expensive, as are all road bike components.
by igouy | 2025-07-22 17:55:24+00:00
> no I don't, you win

Because what they are actually like is java.awt — they are the classes used to implement graphics in Smalltalk-80, not some made-up example.

(The "Java in a Nutshell 8th ed, I found has no page numbers. There's a "Subclasses and Inheritance" section which shows how to code PlaneCircle as a subclass of Circle class.

afaict That's a couple of made-up classes that exist solely to show things that can be done with Java classes. Not an example of "compile-time hierarchy of encapsulation that matches the domain model". Later the authors use class A and class B for their examples.)
by breppp | 2025-07-22 17:55:34+00:00
Maybe, but the entire story we are seeing here is supposed to be Palestinian armed "resistance against an occupation", willing to fight against a stronger enemy for almost a century now.

Why do you think in the at least six different armed groups in Gaza, there is not one ready to fight against the people who have effectively taken them hostages?

Why in the around half of million extended families of the 100,000 people associated with Hamas in Gaza, there is not enough political pressure to stop?
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-22 17:55:37+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sungenis

> Robert A. Sungenis (born c. 1955) is an American Catholic apologist and advocate of the pseudoscientific belief that the Earth is the center of the universe. He has made statements about Jews and Judaism which have been criticized as being antisemitic, which he denies. Sungenis is a member of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, a Catholic Young Earth creationist group.
by theglocksaint | 2025-07-22 17:55:49+00:00
I'm not sure what the point this article is trying to make. The image isn't the data for a lot of imaging modalities. The process of image reconstruction is translation from raw signal to image in any modality.

Gaining access to raw data is difficult. For example, if I want access to raw projection data on CT, it requires specific research keys and agreements with the vendor. A typical end user, like a hospital, cannot get to this raw data as part of a standard purchase.
by PhasmaFelis | 2025-07-22 17:55:51+00:00
It wasn't his theory, it was that he presented it in the form of a dialogue with a character who was an obvious stand-in for the Pope, and then made that character sound like a complete idiot.

The heresy charges were an excuse to punish him for being disrespectful. He'd gotten approval from the Pope to publish; he would have been fine if he'd just been polite.

Obviously that's still petty and unjustified, but science denial wasn't the real reason for it.
by bityard | 2025-07-22 17:55:51+00:00
Some people use proportional fonts in their IDEs, and have been for decades. It's just not exactly a mainstream practice. (I seem to recall that Microsoft used proportional fonts in their IDEs in the 90's. Or maybe I'm thinking of Visual Basic? Not sure.)

The main reason I have felt no inclination to use proportional fonts when coding is that proportional fonts tend to be _very_ bad at distinguishing homoglyphs and that is the _last_ thing you want when trying to find the syntax error or undefined variable. Although I will admit that I haven't look very hard for a proportional font that's actually meant for programming.

The other reason is that sometimes I read code where someone has created an ASCII diagram in the comments, or have other structures or whitespace where vertical alignment matters. (This used to be highly popular in C, although it's viewed as a bad practice in "modern" times.)

I find monospace code very easy to read, so I guess at the end of the day, proportional fonts have a few disadvantages with no real upside. For me at least.
by NotGMan | 2025-07-22 17:56:21+00:00
Chemo could have modified her gut microbiome.

People went on keto diets etc... to heal their psychichiatric issues.

Eg the son of the Roblox founder healed his bipolar with a keto diet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXKh7cjALw
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-22 17:56:44+00:00
Well, raw graphical content is the easy part.

A live layout tree that has to be repainted and composited yet intersect with arbitrary layers like an accessibility tree and what would naively be N:N style calculations is completely different architecture.

Consider examples where people toy with the concept of replacing the DOM with a canvas but basic things like text selection don't even work anymore.
by tempnew | 2025-07-22 17:57:00+00:00
There have been reports from Israeli soldiers about surplus killing of citizens which you can find on YouTube. It’s unlikely these people are lying, but their reports may not be entirely representative of the war effort either. I think we need to avoid turning ethic cleansing into some sort of binary where you have it or don’t. It exists on a continuum and is a side effect of war that we should assume exists in some tacit degree wherever there are wars involving ethnic groups.
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-22 17:57:29+00:00
It is a common categorical error to assume that people good at math or complex electromechanical systems must also be good at ethics, morality, or philosophy.

We see a bodybuilder good at lifting things, or a bricklayer good at building houses, and we don't assume they also have an opinion on nicomachean ethics that should be entertained. Similar, usually, with entertainers. But we sometimes assume that someone really good at structuring database queries for optimal retrieval efficiency must respect the separation of labor from capital value or the challenges of providing for the needs of eight billion people because they are people.

I have to assume it's because we think that if you're good at one "labor of the mind" you must be good at the others (and, probably, because too few of us also have nearly enough respect for how much thought goes into making a wall that won't fall down).
by bookofjoe | 2025-07-22 17:58:02+00:00
The first paragraph of article's author's Wikipedia entry:

Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been called "the premier combat journalist of his generation".[1] He currently writes for The New Yorker.
by andrewstuart | 2025-07-22 17:58:39+00:00
Minds can’t be changed when a decision was based on emotion.

One day I told a friend how I could make no sense of my girlfriend’s behavior in some situation.

He said to me “you still think people make decisions on logic. Many people make their decisions on how they feel emotionally. Logic and facts have nothing to do with it.”

Suddenly a light switched on and i realized that I’m a typical computer person who thinks that everything is based on logic and if you can just explain clearly enough, explain the facts, then the other person will change their mind when they see the facts. It doesn’t work that way.

Computer people have real trouble getting their head around this concept.
by the_real_cher | 2025-07-22 17:58:51+00:00
OPT employees must still file taxes and pay income tax, but FICA (Social Security + Medicare) is exempt for both employer and employee as long as the worker remains in F-1 nonresident status (typically up to 5 calendar years).

For an OPT worker in F-1 status, the employer saves approximately 7.65% on payroll taxes compared to hiring a regular U.S. worker.

An OPT worker after graduating can remain in F1 status for 3 years while employed with these exemptions.
by turnsout | 2025-07-22 17:59:33+00:00
Yes. There are true facts, but the concept of "rationality" presupposes that there is one correct way to interpret these facts and translate them into behavior.

Two people observe someone beating another person. One person moves forward to intervene and stop the violence. The other moves away to protect themselves. Which person has acted rationally? They may have both acted in complete alignment with their personal philosophies, and they may each view the other as irrational.

"Rationality" is completely subjective to your own values and belief systems. Human behavior is infinitely more complex than formal logic allows.
by labrador | 2025-07-22 17:59:45+00:00
This is not surprising. The training data likely contains many instances of employees defending themselves and getting supportive comments. From Reddit for example. The training data also likely contains many instances of employees behaving badly and being criticized by people. Your prompts are steering the LLM to those different parts of the training.

You seem to think an LLM should have a consistent world view, like a responsible person might. This is a fundamental misunderstanding that leads to the confusion you are experiencing.

Lesson: Don't expect LLMs to be consistent. Don't rely on them for important things thinking they are.
by cowboylowrez | 2025-07-22 17:59:51+00:00
history sort of rhymes but its because even in the past, we are still merely humans. I suspect there's no resurgence of these "philosophies", they were probably always there but hidden to whatever degree appropriate to the state of the current things.

I definitely agree tho, in my youth I thought science and rational thought would be spread by enhanced worldwide communications but should have known all that would be spread was the natural and inevitable state of human degeneracy.
by 9dev | 2025-07-22 18:00:09+00:00
With bootstrap, there was a fixed set of components to pick from. For a lot of things, there were no suitable components, so people used those that they had for everything else, kind of like designing furniture in Minecraft with blocks. This makes bootstrap interfaces bland and overly similar, in a way that Tailwind doesn’t: its design system is fundamentally based around design tokens arranged in sensible steps, not full components. That allows for a lot more flexibility and stylistic control.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-22 18:00:12+00:00
It depends. The most likely scenario would be that RH holds except in very specific conditions. Then, any dependent theorems would inherit the same conditions. In many cases, those conditions may not affect the dependent theorem, so they'd still be completely valid. In some cases, those conditions may make the dependent theorem useless, like if RH was "all numbers are even", and your theorem was "all numbers % 2 equal zero, because we know even numbers % 2 are zero and we assume RH", then the exception to RH "except odd numbers" would make your theorem devolve to "all numbers % 2 are zero except the odd ones, because we know even numbers % 2 are zero", which is obviously just a restatement of an existing statement.

In other cases, the new condition affects your theorem but doesn't completely invalidate it. So you can either accept that your theorem is weaker, or find other ways to strengthen it given the new condition.

That's all kind of abstract though. I'm not an expert on RH or what other important math depends on it holding up. That would be interesting to know.
by chasil | 2025-07-22 18:00:40+00:00
The companion star "has an estimated mass of about 1.5 times that of the Sun and appears to be an A- or B-type main pre-sequence star, i.e. a hot, young, bluish-white star that has not yet begun to burn hydrogen in its core... The companion is located at a relatively close distance to Betelgeuse, about 4 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. This discovery is the first time a stellar companion has been detected orbiting so close to a red supergiant star. Even more surprising is that the companion orbits inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere."
by uecker | 2025-07-22 18:00:57+00:00
I think people today often do not understand any more that C like many other things in the UNIX world is a tool, not a complete framework. But somehow people expect a complete convenient framework with batteries included. They see it has a deficiency that C by itself does not provide many things. I see it as one of its major strengths and this is one of the reasons why I prefer it.
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-07-22 18:01:04+00:00
Who's to say why I downloaded and am now watching a movie? Is it for my enjoyment? Is it because I'm training my brain? How is me training my brain any different from companies training their LLMs?

Same goes for recording: I'm just training my skills of recording. Or maybe I'm just recording it so I can rewatch it later, for training purposes, of course.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-22 18:01:28+00:00
I think another example of "compression" is car maintenance. Either you learn all there is to your engine, or you follow the manufacturer recommendations and follow the schedule.

Sure, it is better to really know your engine, and you probably know someone who will tell you they know better than the schedule, and sometimes, they do. But maybe you have other things to do than to become a mechanic, so you just follow the schedule. It will cost you more, and maybe you could get a bit more longevity or performance by doing things your way, but it frees you for other things that may be more valuable to you than your car.
by zahlman | 2025-07-22 18:01:30+00:00
As far as I can tell, this only applies to the wheel contents, not to the .pyc bytecode cache created by the interpreter. If you use the defaults, Python will just create per-environment copies on demand; if you precompile with `--compile-bytecode`, uv will put the results directly in the installed copy rather than caching them and hard-linking from there.

I plan on offering this kind of cached precompiled bytecode in PAPER, but I know that compiled bytecode includes absolute paths (used for displaying stack traces) that will presumably then refer to the cached copies. I'll want to test as best I can that this doesn't break anything more subtle.