MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by francisdavey | 2025-07-22 04:26:45+00:00
When I was learning BSL (British Sign Language), I wanted to be able to note down words I had learned, or the ability to look them up. It was part of how I studied. At the time, all that was available was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokoe_notation which is a complete pain to try to use. Sutton SignWriting looks to be similar in that sense. As others have said, much like IPA for language learning.

Of course video is more easily available now, so there are some aspects of study that may not need the ability to write things down.
by tzs | 2025-07-22 04:26:49+00:00
Wow. The article notes:

> Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed "on a reasonable and timely basis" to all Americans.

Carr says that when looking into whether that is being satisfied the FCC should not consider affordability because section 706 does not contain the word "affordability".

But it also does not contain any words for any of the things he does want the FCC to consider. All it says is "reasonable and timely".

I bet if you polled consumers and asked what they would think it means if they were informed some commercial service or product was available to them on a reasonable basis an overwhelming majority would include in their answer that it means it is available to them at a price they find affordable.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-22 04:28:53+00:00
They're not sending out 100BASE-TX ONTs to lower-tier subscribers. You're all using the same hardware; they're just limiting the packet rate to match the plan.

Regardless, the latency difference between 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE‑T pales in comparison to the difference in modem speeds between different providers' network types.

Fiber providers with an ONT get LAN-like speeds, while cable providers' DOCSIS modems add tens of milliseconds of latency, LTE modems are similar to double that of DOCSIS, and satellite providers range from similar to LTE all the way up to hundreds of milliseconds of latency, depending on the orbit and if there are ground stations nearby.

Again, within any provider, you get the same latency with any the plan, but changing providers can have order-of-magnitude differences.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-22 04:30:12+00:00
The situations seem unrelated. There's a much more informative article on what's happening in India here. [1] India is censoring accounts in India which X complies with by making it clear that's what is happening as well as providing information to the user on how to legally challenge it.

France, by contrast, seems to be making poorly defined and largely unfalsifiable claims about X's algorithm itself. I do not believe X would comply if a country began demanding algorithmic changes, as the main reason you'd go after the algorithm is to enact censorship with no transparency, which is very much in the spirit of contemporary French politics.

[1] - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/elon-musks-x-says-...
by scheme271 | 2025-07-22 04:30:43+00:00
It's a bit more tricky than that. Increasingly business and first class tickets have biz or first "lite" tickets that unbundle the seat from other benefits like lounge access and even seat selection or baggage fees. Also in the US, a lot of domestic airlines don't give you lounge access unless you're flying internationally. E.g. a first class ticket for United, American, and Delta a domestic first class ticket won't get you into the corresponding airline lounge. You'll need a club membership or to be flying on a first+ class (e.g. Polaris, Flagship, or D360) ticket to get into the lounge.
by knodi123 | 2025-07-22 04:31:01+00:00
Did I miss the vote we had on broadband speed goals, or whether we should publish prices?

Get outta here with that. Most of Trump's outrageous policies are incredibly unpopular, even among his base. He's just enacting the wildly unpopular Project 2025, which he denied ever hearing of while hiring 70% of its authors into his administration.
by narrator | 2025-07-22 04:31:36+00:00
Well Pieter Levels has a negative customer acquisition cost because he gets most of his business off of X and he gets so many impressions that he gets paid to post there. That's a pretty incredible marketing hack if you ask me. I invest in startups and the ones who do really well hack marketing. They have tech in their stack that is specifically devoted to automating and scaling their marketing.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-22 04:31:47+00:00
That’s exactly right. BBB is Yelp for boomers, and that’s it. I’ve heard plenty of older family and acquaintances wave it around like a weapon: “if they don’t honor my (ridiculous) request, I’ll sic the BBB on them!” And then… what? I’m sure someone, somewhere checks BBB before doing business with a company, but I’ve never personally seen someone do it, and without that feedback loop, the BBB is just another private review site with zero teeth.
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-22 04:34:05+00:00
Wow, they're actually proud of a marketing spam post that convinced a depressed person struggling with debt that they're being listened to and understood, while possibly convincing them to try some predatory lending service (I assume, since that "debt freedom now" site is telling me how much debt "Americans in București" are erasing right now!).

Having this as a success story you brag about is sociopathic.
by __rito__ | 2025-07-22 04:34:54+00:00
> Most people do dream of gaining power and the sweet corruption money

No. This is false. Most people just want a stable, peaceful life. People want their children to become: 1. Take their profession if it is cushy (profitable business, law practice, etc.) 2. Become a doctor, 3. Move abroad and become an academic/engineer, 4. Have a government job due to stability (most departments don't have any opportunity for corruption, where I live, people drool over becoming govt. High School teachers, which is a very chill job, yet tenured and stable, but 0 money under the table), 5. Have an IT job, 6. Become self-employed and earn big bucks, etc.

You are talking in extreme delusions.

> Go to any small town and most prime real estate is owned by government servants

This is so so wrong. Most land in small town are owned by relatively richer business-owners, who pays zilch in income taxes. In a small town, the richest people are the local bar owner, marble merchant, B2B traders, etc.

If govt. servants do have land, it is become they have very easily available loans, and have a stable, regular, increasing income for 20-30 years which also compounds when saved.
by Qwertious | 2025-07-22 04:36:10+00:00
"Waste" is a nebulous term; it usually means "is not currently recycled". But you can't build a waste-recycling industry until after there's lots of waste to recycle, for simple economics of scale. Using waste as a justification to not build new stuff is just stupid.

Batteries especially are just absurd - they're ~10% lithium (and it's mostly in the electrolyte, which realistically means the electrolyte is 100% electrolyte, excuse the tautology), whereas 'lithium ore' is mostly 1-3% (there's some higher, even as high as 8%, but it's mostly 1-3% IIRC). With sufficient scale, that stuff will disappear like scrap copper left on the curb for an hour.
by knodi123 | 2025-07-22 04:36:23+00:00
I have {{popular job title in tech}}@gmail.com , and let me tell you.... yikes. Actually it's not that bad, I just tweak my enormous blacklist keyword filter once a month or so. For some reason, 99% of the junk is from India, which makes filtering easier. But brother you should see my "misdelivered crap" folder.
by scheme271 | 2025-07-22 04:36:34+00:00
I think a huge tell tends to be flying in on monday and flying out friday. A lot of cheaper tickets require you to spend saturday night at the destination to weed out business travel. Other people mentioned multi-stop routing and odd timing (e.g. biz travel usually won't involve leaving at 3pm on a tuestday). Some of this is obscured by day time flights being more desirable (e.g. no one wants to get up at 3am to make a 6am flight).

The other huge tell is last minute purchases. A lot of business travel ends up being decided on a week or two before the flight so last minute flights tend to cost more even though in some sense the value of the seat declines as the flight approaches. E.g. an empty seat is worth $0 and a pure loss to the airline so they should want to sell those seats before the flight even if they get minimal revenue. For biz travelers, clients often pay for travel expenses so inflated pricing for that flight tomorrow is worth it.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-22 04:37:34+00:00
Has this ever worked for you? If so, could you walk us through your journey?

In my experience if you spend a really long time trying to identify a problem to solve, you end up burning too much time on a problem that may not work. The Indiehackers approach is like the opposite of that where you shotgun low-effort attempts at ideas until you find one that sticks. I think most folks trying to build a business want something in the middle though. Use your experience and your knowledge to winnow the market of potential opportunities and to offer you an advantage (with your expertise) then iterate by creating different products until one of those products gets traction.

When I worked at a tech company that eventually became one of the Big Tech Unicorns of the last rush, we had plenty of products that completely bombed, much to the sadness of the folks that worked on them.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-22 04:39:13+00:00
Kinda!

jj has two kinds of these logs: the evolog and the op log.

The git reflog is based on, well, refs. Whenever a ref is updated, you get an entry. This log is per ref. That's HEAD, your branches, your tags, and your stash.

jj's evolog is sorta similar, but also different: it's a log, but per change (think commit in git). This means it is broader than per ref, as it includes not just commits that correspond to a ref, but all of them.

jj's oplog is a log per repository. This lets you do things like `jj undo`, which lets you get the entire repository, not just one ref or commit, back to the previous state, easily.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-07-22 04:39:47+00:00
>But gatekeeping is actually good if you care about quality, and I think we're going to discover that more with LLMs

The people who you might be justified in gatekeeping against are the very same who become the gatekeepers. They gravitate towards that role because deliberately or instinctively they understand that they either capture it, or get blocked by it.
by skissane | 2025-07-22 04:40:14+00:00
Suppose I have such a begin block without the correct corresponding end block - will Python itself give me a syntax error, or will it just ignore it?

It might be “built-in syntax” from a specification viewpoint, but does CPython itself know anything about it? Does CPython’s parser reject scripts which violate this specification?

And even if CPython does know about it (or comes to do so in the future), the fact that it looks like a comment makes its status as “built-in syntax” non-obvious to the uninitiated
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-22 04:40:35+00:00
I never understood the need to pay extra for getting on the plane first. I travel light and I couldn't care less about the overhead bins. Which would be the only valid reason to board early. And I'll gladly be on the plane last so I can minimize the amount of time I have to share farts with my fellow passengers. Airplanes are not very pleasant places to be. And the cattle herding that is boarding these days is very unpleasant.

I flew a few weeks ago (Lufthanse, Lisbon to Berlin). I found some seating near the gate (always in short supply) and I observed people starting to queue to board. Lufthansa uses groups to structure the boarding. Mine was group five, last in (perfect!). So I remained seated while people nervously started to queue long before the gate was open. In the end, it took another 40 minutes before I stood up and boarded. Some of the people queuing were in the same group as me so they just got told off by the ground staff and were kind of just waiting for their turn right until the end.

The most stupid thing is when the boarding turns out to be a bus ride to the plane. You get crammed into the bus with all the other passengers and then the last one in is the first one out into the plane. I've seen that happen on smaller flights. So, you get people paying extra to be first into the bus being out competed by people like me that just wait until the last moment. The bus won't leave until the bus is crammed full. And it generally has no or very little seating. Much better to be on the last bus.
by Larrikin | 2025-07-22 04:41:02+00:00
2 younger kids streaming a movie, one parent listening to a podcast in the shower, one parent streaming a YouTube cooking video while making dinner, and an older kid playing any game would completely saturate the network. That is assuming nobody has a phone that is also connected to the network

Also its ridiculous to think that is excessive in any way. Imagine what we could have if we had 100 gigabit or 1 terabit. Instead of watching a flat 4k movie, render a full 4k scene in AR.
by mettamage | 2025-07-22 04:41:14+00:00
> If anyone can clone most SaaS products in a week, then I already am pretty impressed.

Yea, it's not true. Currently I'm seeing this business style type of co-founder that I met through a mutual connection. He can do things I couldn't, but cloning a SaaS under a week? It's not one of them.

He created an interactive prototype with lovable.dev and while it fleshes out his idea to me, he clearly isn't strong in UX-design either. Nor does he need to be.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-22 04:41:43+00:00
Just to be clear, jj makes it really easy to carry this sort of thing as a separate patch, so while it may be "committed," that doesn't mean it has to go into what you send upstream.

(though for debug printfs in particular, the Right Thing is proper logging with log levels, but I myself love printf debugging and so sometimes don't do that either. Which is why carrying local patches is nice.)
by chronid | 2025-07-22 04:42:46+00:00
I worked in finance on the other side of the pond - developers wanted to constantly bring in and use new services but also didn't want any of the responsibility or the work needed to make compliance happy (or even in that particular company shoulder the costs). When me and other folks where brought in it to fix the "cloud strategy" it was a complete shitshow and heads actually rolled when we wrote a tool to assign costs to applications. But we had to start almost from scratch and limit usable services as we developed strategies and blueprints for each...

The complete, unapologetic desire of devs and security teams (but also many infra teams) to not have any kind of ownership was horrifying to me.

In the end there's not a single solution or strategy, it really goes back to the organization and where your weaknesses and strength are as an org. If you have a gazillion consultants following the "best practice" of the day and exceptions on top of exceptions you are dead, devops or otherwise. You will still make billions if you are the right company though regardless of your software practices, so...
by Qwertious | 2025-07-22 04:43:14+00:00
Sand batteries aren't batteries - they output heat instead of electricity. You could use them to feed a steam turbine, but then you're paying for the steam turbine.

That said, sand batteries are amazing for the heat users who can use them - just plug em into some off-grid solar/wind (and/or on-grid, and make money by buying electricity when the prices go negative) and you get 24/7 heat for the price of intermittent renewables.
by HaZeust | 2025-07-22 04:43:35+00:00
Which, is a mixed bag. Judge shopping was a huge problem from universal injunctions. But at the same time, what branch of government is the loss of the steadfast check-and-balance known as "universal injunctions" in favor of – and will now require for ANY AND ALL parties to ONLY be recognized for their loss and damages from actions of the Executive ONLY IF they have the means to sue for it and prevail – in a 1:1 cardinality? Could it be the Executive, who OP said this supported Kingsmanship for?

If a executive action is so unjust, so grotesque, and you need to round up parties damaged by it – outside of the absurdly long time most courts take to make things whole – can't that also be a way to round up people being directly targeted by 1 of 3 branches?

Example: EO-1 quietly builds a “voluntary” federal digital ID, so no one is harmed and nobody has standing for their own injunctions. Then, EO-2 later makes that ID mandatory to file taxes, get Social Security, renew a passport, etc. Real injury finally appears, but each citizen must sue alone and any victory helps only that plaintiff while everyone else stays locked out. The first order sinks the foundations; the second flips the switch.

Sometimes, there should be things that should have avenues to be quickly stricken down before more parties fall victim to them
by consumer451 | 2025-07-22 04:44:00+00:00
> The only hurdle would be the price.

This is not the only hurdle. You can have an airport right next to a major city, with hundreds of arrivals and departures each day.

The same cannot be said for a Starship spaceport. Due to very loud launch, sonic booms on landing [0], and the danger of dropping a Starship onto populated areas, it would likely need to be offshore. That requires a boat, so now boarding a Starship involves thinking about sea states, taking a ferry ride on each side, and more.

Starship is super cool, but point to point Starship is a bit of a fantasy when you start to get to the nitty gritty.

[0] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/11/starships-sound-stud... (TL;DR: Super Heavy's sonic booms are 110 dB when standing 20 km from the booster.)
by Dilettante_ | 2025-07-22 04:44:20+00:00
>Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher

That's not actually what they're called, it's an overly descriptive contrived way to get a long word, like "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän". Imagine someone in english saying "Ink-to-paper-writing-implement" instead of "pen".

You'd call it an "Eieröffner"(Egg opener) or "Eierköpfer"(Egg beheader).
by lossolo | 2025-07-22 04:44:25+00:00
> But alas, they did not, and in fact nobody did

Seems like they actually did that:

> We achieved this year’s result using an advanced version of Gemini Deep Think – an enhanced reasoning mode for complex problems that incorporates some of our latest research techniques, including parallel thinking. This setup enables the model to simultaneously explore and combine multiple possible solutions before giving a final answer, rather than pursuing a single, linear chain of thought.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-22 04:45:09+00:00
Sure, why not. Obviously if you mean "do you have an example of that exact class hierarchy being shown in an introductory Java textbook" no I don't, you win. However, the example of a program that uses a class inheritance hierarchy defined at compile time to represent all the different types of shapes it can operate with is used all over the place, and that's what I was referring to. Some examples:

Introduction to Programming in Java by J. N. Patterson Hume and Christine Stephenson, page 392

Object-oriented Programming with Java by Barry J. Holmes and ‎Daniel T. Joyce, page 544

Understanding object-oriented programming with Java by Timothy Budd, page 304

Teach yourself Java by Joseph O'Neil, page 184

Java in a Nutshell by Benjamin J. Evans, page 128

Java for Students by Douglas Bell and Mike Parr, page 490

Data structures and problem solving using Java by Mark Allen Weis, page 84

See here for a good article that goes over the downsides of this approach, and how it hurts both readability and performance: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-perfor...
by drdeadringer | 2025-07-22 04:45:45+00:00
Speaking for myself, I know that I have never looked up a business for BBB accreditation. (I am 43 and a half).

Yelp reviews, TripAdvisor, Google reviews, yes.

And as honestly never crossed my mind to check with BBB about anything.

But I haven't done any major purchasing like with property, land, or similar.
by LoveMortuus | 2025-07-22 04:46:35+00:00
I had that happen in Portugal when I was refueling my scooter, the Galp gas station tired to take 100€, which I didn't have to it took everything it could, but then said that I don't have enough money to pay, even though it was less than 10€... I had to pay with cash and I didn't see the money that was taken on my debit card for almost a month...
by mettamage | 2025-07-22 04:46:41+00:00
An AI organizing my computer. It would organize small things, like perhaps a particular folder or something and then show the before and after. Then I'd approve it, it'd do it.

A bit vague, but fleshed out well this would probably make my life a little easier. I have 3 laptops, multiple SSDs and my data is all fragmented.
by AnonHP | 2025-07-22 04:48:17+00:00
Not GP. One of the things that AAA makes easy is getting an IDP, which is not related to roadside assistance (or vehicle insurance).

IDP is “International Driving Permit”, which is a booklet that certifies that the person has a driving license in <country> for <class of vehicles>. It includes the photo of the person and the date of birth. It includes translation in various languages so that when you’re in another country and rent a vehicle (or drive one) and the police (or enforcers) need to check if you have a valid license, you can show this (as well as your original license, if asked for). Anecdotally, I’ve heard that the process to get it through AAA seems quicker and easier than from the DMV.
by HaZeust | 2025-07-22 04:49:58+00:00
>"The only thing that makes people from the US a nation is their commitment to popular rule, one which inspired the world."

What's this even mean?

Sherman compromise (2 states per state in one chamber of the bicameral legislature) isn't popular rule,

the electoral college doesn't have to operate by popular role,

voter suppression in modern times isn't popular rule,

gerrymandering isn't popular rule.

These existing systems of structure in American political institutions ARE sympathetic to those without votes. We are not a pure democracy. This is civics 101 and amateur hour.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-07-22 04:50:41+00:00
I’m not saying that SGI weren’t involved with DRI, but Inferno cost about £1,000,000 a seat, and the suite was booked out at £1000 per hour. There really isn’t any comparison between a PC running DRI graphics and an Onyx 2 with 128 CPUs and 256 GB (yes, GB, even then) of RAM, running (programmable GPU) InfiniteReality2 graphics.

It’s a mountain compared to a molehill.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-22 04:51:47+00:00
I’m not aware of any rocket landing safe enough for human use. NASA nixed the idea of propulsive landing for Dragon 2 for this reason. It’s extremely difficult to make safe, since just about any reasonable engine configuration means guaranteed death if a single engine fails at a critical moment. Compare with modern airliners where an engine can fail at any point in flight and the plane can land safely.

So yes, I agree, it is akin to saying that.
by pests | 2025-07-22 04:52:53+00:00
I remember seeing something from Boom (now renamed?) which was an YN company years ago. I recall them developing some technology to solve the noise problem - somehow bouncing the sound off the atmosphere or similar IIRC? I do think its viability has increased over the years, just everyone has this default "it wont work" mindset because of the failure that was Concorde.