MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codyb | 2025-07-21 16:00:37+00:00
I guess the timeline suggests maybe they never expected him to go in, until the wife called out to him.

Maybe he's a big dude and it was just under his shirt/vest or something?

When I look up "weight training necklace" it looks like a weight disk at the end of some rope, so maybe it wasn't particularly apparent from the technicians view.

Obviously, not excusing the tech here at all.
by JdeBP | 2025-07-21 16:01:16+00:00
The U.K. equivalent is GB News. Its reality is worse than your hypothetical. (-:

But the level of Foxness that I was alluding to was not that of GB News, but rather more that of Reach PLC; which isn't Murdoch-owned, but which runs a whole network of purportedly regional news outlets which turn out to be just localized skins applied to a big syndicated empire, and which BBC News often does better than locally.
by hansvm | 2025-07-21 16:01:42+00:00
The problem is that normal MRI math tries its damnedest to avoid actually solving the right equations. Instead, with a flat enough field, you can assume linearity and just FFT the thing. They'll physically place bits of metal and magnets at various places on the big magnet to calibrate and better adjust the field to being approximately linear. A hunk of metal bigger than a shim sounds like it would mess with that.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-21 16:02:22+00:00
well then tell me why .NET's XSLT platform is rooted in 1.0 instead of just saying "no". From my understanding licensing was a factor that played into the reasons why .NET natively remains on 1.0. The transition to 2.0 appeared to have specific friction: why?

for reference: I'm not talking about today, I'm talking about that point in time where (for example) .NET could have adopted XSLT 2.0 but chose not to.
by codyb | 2025-07-21 16:02:25+00:00
Maybe if you instead phrased it as "there's a magnetic field in there that will shear anything magnetic straight through your body if you're holding it on the wrong side of you" that might help folk get the picture a bit better? I mean sheesh, I've got a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a 3 Tesla magnetic field doesn't mean much to me either
by jacurtis | 2025-07-21 16:02:35+00:00
There is a video of it floating around for the morbidly curious. I won't link it here. It is very NSFL. I was accidently shown it while scrolling instagram and wish I hadn't seen it.

He is able to talk, you can make out his words, but he is clearly choking or being strangled. He was fully sucked into the machine. There was a very strong guy trying with everything to pull him out. He made some pretty sad and harrowing words when he realized he wasn't going to make it. Again, the video is out there if you really want to see it. I do NOT recommend it though.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-21 16:02:37+00:00
Yeah, sounds like here. Homeowners on cul-de-sacs complaining about the rise in traffic and how it will keep them up at night. Complaining that improving the missing middle will lower projected year-over-year property value increases from 11% to 8%. Hyperbole and hysteria about having to widen streets to accommodate parking and traffic.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-07-21 16:03:12+00:00
Then how do we explain this? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/homebuyer-average-age-rises-...

I feel like you are skipping over the part where people bid for houses, a process which advantages people with more access to capital in a fairly obvious way.

In risk terms the landlord is a better bet because they have collateral.

Landlords have assets they can leverage to acquire more property, while renters have to save deposits from income that's steadily eaten away by... rent...
by infinite8s | 2025-07-21 16:03:34+00:00
Did you study chemical engineering knowing it's applicability to software engineering?

Your observation is interesting because early ideas in object oriented design were likewise inspired by biological robustness in the face of a non-zero background error rate (see any of Alan Kay's early writings, and his Turing lecture). I wonder if half of a CS degree shouldn't also involve basic chemeng and bioeng.
by thr0waway001 | 2025-07-21 16:03:56+00:00
Dude, exactly what I was thinking. Even if the staff weren’t telling me to remove it I would instinctively do the math:

big fat metal chain + big fat powerful magnet = disaster.

In fact, whenever I hear MRI I instantly think dental fillings. You’d think the patients and their handlers would instinctively think about all the metal they carry. How could big fat metal chain on neck not come to mind?
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-07-21 16:04:24+00:00
At my last job, when I first started there (this was circa around 2006), we actually used a Firefox browser plugin with a custom XUL interface to enable our writers to write content faster. It has a very complex UI, as complex as anything that could be found in the browser itself. Thousands of lines of XML and JS.

XUL was deeply unpleasant to use and maintain, and I do not miss it at all. We eventually ended up rewriting it as a standard webapp. It made the writers a bit slower, but they adapted eventually.
by slightwinder | 2025-07-21 16:04:55+00:00
> But why would you give this generic advice without even looking at the thing?

Is there a website, documentation, any kind of presentation of your product? In that case, depending on your idea, this might be already enough for people to evaluate it. Certain categories are so overpopulated, people don't need to see the actual product any more; some description, maybe a screenshot, that's enough. The other side is, people are also so feed up with seeing the same stuff for the gazillions time again and again, they simply can't even bother with it any more.

> I can see how one could be tricked into the idea that success mainly comes from a good idea and not a good execution.

The idea drives your marketing, which brings you customers. The execution is what holds them and animates them to give you money. But if your marketing sucks, you won't get customers easily, so it's important to have a good balance, unless you plan to polish your product for a decade, until serious money shows up.
by twtran | 2025-07-21 16:05:07+00:00
The project has a page about "wiring" [1] which also has a table with the needed parts to make your own cable (that's what I ended up doing).

In my case it was more hassle to look up how to dismantle the unit to get to the motherboard (I recommend looking up your unit's service manual), attaching the module and routing the cable are trivial.

[1] https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin/wiki/Wiring
by DangitBobby | 2025-07-21 16:05:19+00:00
It certainly hurts homeowners who would be upside down on their mortgage, which would mostly be people who just bought a house and people with a 2nd mortgage. My house costing twice what it did when I bought it does literally nothing for me because so does every other house! I can't actually get anything from the increased "value". Actually, it mostly hurts me because I pay more in insurance and property taxes.
by CJefferson | 2025-07-21 16:05:20+00:00
I don't see why you think they don't understand the tech.

This is going to be heresy here, but honestly I think it's a reasonable position. Not one I would take, but reasonable.

For the first time in human history there can be large scale communication it is mathematically impossible for governments to have any access to. If you believe that governments are doing the job of protecting their citizens (and many do), it's entirely reasonable for them to want this type of access.

They have it with the postal service, and analogue phones and the world didn't collapse, and many criminals got caught.
by danjl | 2025-07-21 16:05:34+00:00
The biggest problem I have, is that, even though I know from experience that I should talk to customers to understand their problems and build a solution that provides them value, and spend time talking to them to understand the value proposition, how to communicate it, and how it fits into their workflow, I don't enjoy those bits, and I prefer to just code things I want to build. I prefer to willfully delude myself into thinking that the thing I want to build is something other people will want to pay for. Oh, wait, and I prefer not to charge people and not to sell ads. So there's that too. Am I doing this right?
by tristor | 2025-07-21 16:05:39+00:00
I think you are mistaken, because you have made a category error. The work of a personal secretary or an assistant isn't merely to book you an airline ticket or manage your calendar. These are part of it, yes, but not the entirety and even in those you are missing the nuance of it. Their job is to understand you, and act on your behalf in the matters you delegate, knowing what outcome you would choose yourself. This is a force multiplier in the way that Outlook will never be.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-21 16:05:51+00:00
Hardware problems are a frequently understated barrier to switching, particularly for laptop users. Long time Linux users are generally selecting their machines with Linux compatibility in mind and so don’t see much of this, but the corpus of potential switchers haven’t, and it creates a lot of friction. It’s difficult to convince people to replace their perfectly good laptop with something else just for the sake of trying out an alternative OS.
by weitendorf | 2025-07-21 16:06:11+00:00
I didn't understand the indiehacker community/product mindset until I discovered the indiehacker "influencers" / lifestyle vloggers / etc. that might be the only ones actually turning a profit on all of this.

The influencers sell a lifestyle of throwing a million darts at the board with simple apps and building tiny businesses off the handful that get a lot of interest or seem to resonate with users. And the apps they build that do well are mostly small tools for other indiehackers to use to build/host/augment their apps. So they not only have the distribution and marketing aspects solved already, but they've actually created the demand for their own products by selling what they do as a viable (and easy/glamorous) path to success.

The other indiehackers are mostly in it to be like their favorite influencers, so they copy them by making small tools for other indiehackers and trying the million darts strategy. But it just gets lost in a sea of other indiehackers with no audience or distribution, all trying to sell the same kinds of products to each other. It just seems like a really bad community to sell to: very cost conscious, building competing products, familiar with all your marketing/fake-it-til-you-make it strategies. If at first you don't succeed, watch more youtube videos and throw more darts!

I don't think "market pull" is a terrible strategy and I'm sure for some it's just a fun way to write software but I worry that it's mostly a hybrid get-rich-quick scheme, parasocial thing for the small number of influencers at the top that wastes a huge amount of time. Personally I don't like the idea of baiting people with fake landing pages and think it's actively harmful for so many people to only build simple apps with immediate traction. It's just poisoning the well and making small-scale software low-trust, trying to get rich quick off other people trying to get rich quick
by joules77 | 2025-07-21 16:06:17+00:00
The PhDs in the Fed should ideally react by saying the Attention Economy has replaced the real Economy in the US.

Where the main currency is not the Dollar but Like/Follower count(store of value), which if anyone is paying attention too, can be now exchanged for dollars/influence/power and is acting like a currency itself.

Therefore the Fed is going to step in and regulate how many likes and followers can be "printed" in a day to prevent like/follower inflation and attention stability.
by xerox13ster | 2025-07-21 16:06:26+00:00
For what it’s worth I agree with them.

Hanson’s razor says never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.

Nowhere in there, does it say that stupidity should be acceptable or accepted.

Yes, fuck them for being too stupid to know better. At some point in their life they made a decision to disengage from any use of their brain, and have remained that way to the detriment of everybody around them.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-21 16:06:29+00:00
> I suspect their must be a lot of variance between laptops, since this isn’t an intended use case.

Yeah and so it is for ordinary strain gauges aka load cells. You can either use a 2 point calibration (aka no load followed by known load) or if you want more precision a 3 point calibration.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_cell
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-21 16:06:39+00:00
Argh, not my intention at all. fzf was written by https://github.com/junegunn , I merely wrote a tutorial on it that got unexpectedly popular on here some years back.

I'm sorry Junegunn! I would never dream of stealing that kind of valor. I'll remember to flag [1] as a tutorial I wrote explicitly in the future.
by ogogmad | 2025-07-21 16:06:39+00:00
It follows from matrices of the form [[a, (-n)b], [b, a]] being closed under multiplication, and taking determinants.

In more advanced language: For R a commutative ring (like say, the integers) the following function f is a ring homomorphism

f:R[√(-n)] -> M_2(R), f(a + b√(-n)) = [[a, (-n)b], [b, a]]

Now take determinants.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-21 16:07:13+00:00
Sorry, I was accidentally unclear in my writing. fzf was written by https://github.com/junegunn , I merely wrote a tutorial on it that got unexpectedly popular on here some years back.

I'm sorry Junegunn! I would never dream of stealing that kind of valor. I'll remember to flag [1] as a tutorial I wrote explicitly in the future.
by meroes | 2025-07-21 16:07:44+00:00
Uh no. I’m a math RLHF’er. When I get hired, I work on math/logic up to masters level because that’s my qualifications. Masters and PHD work on masters and PHD level. And IMO work on IMO math.

Every skill and skill level is specifically assigned and hired in the RLHF world.

Sometime the skill levels are fuzzier, but that’s usually very temporary.

And as been said already, IMO is a specific skill that even PHD math holders aren’t universally trained for.
by octopoc | 2025-07-21 16:07:58+00:00
Has the situation in Alabama gotten better over time? Have the Alabama workers been able to negotiate for more protections/better pay?

Because that’s the explanation for why offshoring to countries with fewer regulations is a good thing. Yeah it’s tough at the beginning, but it theoretically gives the workers leverage over the company because there aren’t any cheaper sources of labor. It’s supposed to give the cheapest labor the option to grow a pro-labor movement.
by righthand | 2025-07-21 16:09:07+00:00
Debian Testing packages are not too old. They are mostly very nearly bleeding edge, if not they’re a month or so behind. Ridiculous you would blindly say Debian Testing is outdated.

Debian Testing KDE Plasma version: 6.3.5-1 [0]

Arch Stable KDE Plasma version: 6.4.3-1 [1]

[0] https://packages.debian.org/trixie/plasma-desktop

[1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/plasma-desktop/
by starkparker | 2025-07-21 16:09:35+00:00
> It excels in: Modular publishing workflows (DITA

Stopped reading here because the XSLT story with DITA-OT is so godawful that it's been the primary driver to move off DITA altogether at nearly every place I've worked at or with that used it. The one exception spent nearly $1M/year on third-party tooling to get away from having to deal with it, and that tooling under the hood was a Mechanical Turk support engineer writing the XSLTs for their weird-ass custom req.
by Spivak | 2025-07-21 16:10:04+00:00
It is normal and okay. Every 8-14 year old boy wants to play guns even in the absence of video games. The video games we're talking about are play violence. If they upped the realism to depict actual mature themes, like the German soldier begging for his life, then we're talking about content not appropriate for kids.

What's funny is that boys don't grow out of this, the entire genre of dad action movies is the same play violence. The only reason they might not be appropriate for kids is because they feature sex.
by danjl | 2025-07-21 16:10:17+00:00
You learn where your customers hang out, and then you hang out there and authentically become part of the social group. You spend weeks/months/years learning what they like, their workflows, and their problems. Or, better, you've already spent years working with your customers so you have some experience in these matters. Then you spend more time setting up face-to-face discussions, at conferences, online, or wherever they hang out, *not* trying to shill, but honestly and authentically trying to learn what they need.

It may take dozens or hundreds of attempts, and then you find a small group, maybe a half dozen or so, that are early adopters, willing to live with your experiments and provide feedback. Work with them to hone the value proposition, and learn how to communicate it effectively. Tweak or pivot the product to fit their needs, often for many more months.

There is no simple solution that involves making a few social media posts, or paying for advertisements, or spamming people with email. Everything that actually works takes lots of personal time and energy.
by sgt101 | 2025-07-21 16:10:37+00:00
The peak and decline of US oil production is going to be one of the geopolitical stories of the next 25 years. If US renewables and nuclear don't fill the gap the need for global naval dominance is going to come knock knock knocking again. It looks very like there are three factors that are going to mean that reasserting dominace isn't just very hard:

- Missile tech has advanced and proliferated.

- US ship building is crippled, and expanding it (especially where needed) is going to be very difficult. Basically the US is going to need a lot of SSN and it won't be able to make them.

- There is a competitor power with sufficient resources to make it a real competition, and a very different conceptualisation of how the world should work.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-21 16:11:23+00:00
When I first starting seeing 419 scams in the 1990s I wondered "Who would expect $10M to fall out of the sky?" As these target the intersection of "rich" and "no common sense", it must be "someone who already had $10M fall out of the sky" and could be a case for more taxation because these people aren't in a position to put money to work in a way that benefits themselves and society.
by nobody9999 | 2025-07-21 16:11:59+00:00
>...where the analogous thing would be to create more "nice places to live" with all the desirable attributes like walkability, jobs, public transport, etc. It's a tall order since land and climate are the ultimate scarce resources, but there are probably some underutilized spots that could support it.

Absolutely. And in fact there are lots of places that could support such things. In the US we call them "small towns" and "rural areas" and "the rust belt."

Areas where a lack of good jobs (as manufacturing left and farming became much less human intensive) drove folks to where decent jobs are (were?) more available.

Which drove up the costs of housing and, well, pretty much everything else, in those places.

However, with the technological changes we've seen over the past eighty years or so (Interstate highways, compute/semiconductor industries, ubiquitous networking, etc., etc., etc.), revitalizing those areas that have been left behind could boost both local economies as well as broader ones.

However, ALEC[0] and its corporate backers have sabotaged efforts to do so in pursuit of destroying competition and maximizing rent seeking. a lack of infrastructure maintenance is part and parcel of that -- as a lack of economic activity reduces the amount of tax revenue available for necessary infrastructure repairs and investments.

If companies could get symmetric, multi-gb internet, decent office space with decent road and rail connectivity to/from regional hubs in small towns and rural areas, more people would move in, prompting more housing development, more local businesses, more tax revenue, better infrastructure, etc., etc., etc.

This type of investment could have instant positive economic effects in poorer areas, and longer term (coupled with more housing), reduce the insane housing prices you see in NYC (median apartment rent in Manhattan is ~$4500[1]), SF, Boston, etc.

Unfortunately, statehouses appear to be fully captured by big corporations wanting to maintain their rents by stamping out any competition, the economies of those states be damned.

Sadly, the above can't happen unless the folks in those areas stop voting (in municipal/state elections) for the folks who are supporting policies designed to maintain the penury endured in those places.

There are so many good reasons to reinvigorate these areas, but we keep electing folks that won't bite the hand that holds their leash.

[0] https://alec.org/

[1] https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/nyc-manhattan-brooklyn...

Edit: Added the missing links.
by PopePompus | 2025-07-21 16:12:29+00:00
This happens to me almost daily. I get photos of mail sent to the couple I bought my house from 4.5 years ago. Their mail never actually arrives in my mailbox, but it's still quite a privacy breech for the former owners (who were clearly operating a business out of their home, in violation of the HOA rules (not that I care an iota)).
by gkfasdfasdf | 2025-07-21 16:12:33+00:00
Why not leverage the bash 'caller' builtin? It's meant for printing stack traces, e.g.

#!/bin/bash die() { local frame=0 while caller $frame; do ((++frame)); done echo "$*" exit 1 } f1() { die "*** an error occured ***"; } f2() { f1; } f3() { f2; } f3 Output 12 f1 ./callertest.sh 13 f2 ./callertest.sh 14 f3 ./callertest.sh 16 main ./callertest.sh *** an error occured ***

Via: https://bash-hackers.gabe565.com/commands/builtin/caller/
by npteljes | 2025-07-21 16:12:33+00:00
This touches on a larger problem that I think we tech people don't address as much as we should. That the modern big tech OS (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS) has a huge advantage, which is that it's managed. Actively supported by the vendor, well after the purchase. That, and the heavy restriction of the user makes the computer orders of magnitude more stable.

With Linux this is not the way. The closest I can get is unattended-upgrades.
by spyckie2 | 2025-07-21 16:12:39+00:00
I think this is the one dimensionality of modern life. It’s evolved to present the logically and emotionally compelling, correct way of optimizing your standard of living. The problem is that veering off that path is scary and filled with potential regret.

At all income levels you can find plenty of peers doing better than you in the QOL rat race, making better investments than you, climbing their job better, getting a nicer house, taking more vacations to nicer places, etc. Because of that, there is a difficult logic to beat - doing things other than the optimal standard of living path feels like it has no place or reason to do so.

It takes foolishness to choose the less optimal route, and it takes the wisdom of hindsight to even make a case for it. So as a result life is… very one sided.

Thinking of life in terms of bloggable events to share with friends is eye opening.

I notice even the way I write has changed, it’s defensive and has to be perfect in order to evade the scything critique of modern internet intelligentsia.

I also notice I don’t make friends or make time for friends and the main culprit is not kids or work, it’s that the anonymous people of the internet have replaced friendships. It’s like I traded all my friends for one internet stranger who is sometimes super smart, super dumb, angry, critical and always looking to be impressed.

Anyways rant over. Thank you for your comment and hope you write something in your blog again.