MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dathinab | 2025-07-24 12:32:13+00:00
much better but

the app is protected by free speech so using it isn't illegal

"ICEBlock is a free speech protected app that illegal immigrants in the US use to evade capture"

would be more precise and still objective

would explain why the government used questionable (and actual illegal) roundabout ways to "punish" the creator instead of normal legal actions

there is no problem with saying illegal immigrants are illegal immigrants, the problem is with removing the human factor, by calling them aliens, or by pretending all are supper criminal gang members etc.

that ICE also goes after people with legal status is another problem

and the argument of "it's aliens because they are foreigner non residents" also falls apart because many illegal immigrants have become residents. Not citizens, and not always with legal status. But they are 1) civilians 2) long term residing in the US so residents anyway. What ICE does here beside hypocritically pretending alien doesn't has de-humanizing connotations is expanding the term from "foreigners trying to illegally enter the US" to people living in the US for years and often are also in the process to try to get legal status even through they entered illegally.

anyway illigal immigrants are still illegally so no need to reduce it to just people
by Tmpod | 2025-07-24 12:32:24+00:00
I think those features are quite good on their own, but Kotlin has many more worthy features, such as sealed hierarchies, import aliases, delegation, operator overloading, default arguments, named arguments, reified generics, inline value classes (though somewhat limited by JVM features still), a very nice stdlib (in part augmenting Java's stdlib), etc. Even newer stuff like context parameters are really interesting and have useful applications.

The language ends up being more complex, but I find it a joy to use; going "back" to Java projects always leaving me wishing I could use Kotlin instead :P

Yet it's true, Java has improved quite a lot in the last decade. It is ahead of Kotlin in a few things, like pattern matching (though not incredible, it's still better than the nigh nonexistent support in Kotlin).
by amelius | 2025-07-24 12:32:44+00:00
I mean a large number of matches played between the same two teams.

You can compare it to how it is done in medicine. Imagine a match between a drug and migraine. Would we only do a single test to determine if the drug "wins" against migraine? Of course not. We do many tests and determine a p-value. We can do the same thing in soccer.

Now, of course we cannot do this in a real tournament (it would take too long), but we can draw conclusions from such a test, or several such tests.
by sumtechguy | 2025-07-24 12:33:16+00:00
The electric bill does not pay for itself.

What is also interesting is one of the biggest search companies is using it to steer traffic away from its former 'clients'. The very websites google talked into slathering their advertisements all over themselves. By giving them money and traffic. But that worked because google got a pretty good cut of that. But now only google gets the 'above the fold' cut.

That has two long term effects. One the place they harvest the data will go away. The second is their long term money will decrease. As traffic is lowered and less ads shown (unless google goes full plaster it everywhere like some sites).

AI is going to eat the very companies making it. Even if the answers are kind of 'meh'. People will be fine with 'close enough' for the majority of things.

Short term they will see their metric of 'main site retention' going up. It will however be at the cost of the websites that fed the machine.
by darkwater | 2025-07-24 12:34:30+00:00
This does not make any sense. It's a cab, it's going to stay 100% of the time in a city or really near, moving around. If it ignites a petrol engine to recharge the battery, what's the point? Surely a cab driver can pause 20 minutes every 4 hours to go to the restroom and fast charge their EV, no?
by carlesfe | 2025-07-24 12:34:51+00:00
While I agree with the underlying message, "writing is thinking" is only circumstantially correct. It wasn’t always like this.

We learned to think by writing only after writing became cheap. Yes, we’ve trained our brains to develop ideas by editing raw thoughts on paper, but it is just one of the possible methods.

I have read a lot of late 18th, 19th and early 20th century books and diaries, and it is plainly clear that writers such as Tolstói, Zweig, Goethe and others developed full books in their mind first, then wrote them from cover to cover in 20-30 days.

Thinking used to be detached from writing. That is a fact. We just lost that ability in the modern era thanks to cheap writing technology: pen and paper, then computers. I'm not saying the current approach is wrong, but don't assume that the only way to think is to write.

Socrates argued that writing would destroy people's memory. He wasn't 100% wrong, yet here we are. The criticism towards the use of LLMs is so deliciously ironic. The analogy with writing... writes itself. Kids that grow up with LLMs will just think differently.
by eldaisfish | 2025-07-24 12:35:10+00:00
regenerative braking can be uncomfortable for passengers as the car is constantly alternating between accelerating (or constant speed) and braking. It isn't even light braking, it is significant braking.

I generally turn off the auto regen braking because i find it uncomfortable.

Importantly, regenerative braking is a danger on icy roads. I disable it entirely in the winter in eastern Canada because it often causes the tires to lose grip.
by dekrg | 2025-07-24 12:36:13+00:00
> Also THAT is your problem? Are you for real?

No, are YOU for real? You thinks it's technical limitations that limit breast sizes and it's that assets would look stretcher? Or that the game engine couldn't handle big boobs assets? An incase you haven't noticed character creation in games usually allows you create all kinds of weird looking characters without it somehow hitting those magical limits that somehow apply to breast sizes apparently.

The breasts slider was just an example of "representation" not being actual representation and you need take time out and reflect on why big breasts in video games make you upset.
by nntwozz | 2025-07-24 12:36:21+00:00
"It means mutual empathy — they get you and you get them. It's discovering similar values, experiences and perspectives. It's a feeling of trust and comfort where you both feel safe to say what is truly on your mind."

Ah, sounds all fine and dandy!

But what do you do when you discover you don't have similar values?

Maybe there's no answer in todays polarized world; personally aspire to this:

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. — Abraham Lincoln
by marklubi | 2025-07-24 12:36:47+00:00
Interesting physics to know.

Most of the places that care about the clear ice around where I live purchase pre-frozen cubes or spheres.

They come from the vendor with each one individually vacuum sealed in a long strip. Cut one off the strip, open it, and slip it into the glass.

Probably not worth the labor to produce the cubes themselves when there is a simple, deliverable, solution available.
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-07-24 12:37:08+00:00
just check here: https://github.com/nikolaydubina/go-instrument/pull/53/agent...

amount of QA and real-world bash runs, exploratory Go programs, code tinkering, research, manipulation, is outstanding

this poor thing did incredible amount of QA and experimentation work to get it right. and it did! very complex task.

required only nudging in the right high-level direction
by AlienRobot | 2025-07-24 12:37:12+00:00
All because "content" isn't free to produce.

AI stole all the content from those websites, starving them from ad revenue.

The Google overview is made by the same company that puts those ads in those websites in first place.

What is coming next is that there will be ads in the overview and you will have no choice but to read it because all its cited links will be rotten.
by swat535 | 2025-07-24 12:37:14+00:00
Google stopped being a search engine long time ago.

Now it's the worlds biggest advertisement company, waging war on Adblockers and pushing dark pattern to users.

They've built a browser monopoly with Chrome and can throw their weight around to literally dictate the open web standards.

The only competition is Mozilla Firefox, which ironically is _also_ controlled by Google, they receive millions annually from them.
by phire | 2025-07-24 12:37:30+00:00
No, the entire point of a series-parallel hybrid is that it can offer the advantage of a series hybrid.

The Toyota Prius powerchain has two motor generators, and can take part of the ICE power from one and transfer it electrically to the other, remapping the engine RPM into more efficient power bands at the same time. It has a mode that can do this even when no power is being used from the battery.

It’s kind of a best of both worlds. They can avoid the extra weight of a full series hybrid, because they don’t need a motor generator pair that handles the full engine power.

Actually, power bands remapping is essential for the Prius to operate.

There is no clutch, there is no neutral gear, there is no torque converter. The ICE is always connected directly to the wheels with a fixed gear ratio on a planetary gear set. (Which improves transmission efficiency over a automatic/CVT gearbox, and actually reduces maintenance costs)

One of the motor-generators is on the 3rd input of the planetary gear. For the ICE to idle (during warm up, or when you have the heater on), the motor-generator much be spinning backwards at the exact same speed so that the wheels stay stationary.

Power band remapping can also be used for reversing when the battery is empty.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-07-24 12:37:35+00:00
Yep. Right now, even with cookies inferences about individual humans are minimal, but exposing your whole patterns in speech make you a ripe target for manipulation at a scale that some may not fully understand yet. 4o is very adept at cold reading and it is genuinely fascinating to read those from that perspective alone. Combine it with style evaluation and a form of rudimentary history analysis, and you end up with actual dossier on everyone using that service.

Right now, we are lucky, because it is the least altered version of it ( and we all know how many filters public models have to go through ).
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by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-07-24 12:38:27+00:00
I mean give the reactionaries a little credit. The systembolaget by my house closes at 1500 on Saturdays. Come on.

It is a really reasonable deal to buy from there though often. Selection is pretty good and the taxes on beer and wine are less and as a result due to the flat markup you can get really good deals on fine wines and the like.
by atoav | 2025-07-24 12:38:28+00:00
I always thought there are better ways to open a conversation. The first thing you have in common with the other person is that you are at the same place during the same time as them. Depending on the context this can already provide you with much, much better ways of starting a conversation than just using a "how are you?" to which nobody expects an honest answer. But German is my first language and this culturual circle isn't exactly known for valuing meaningless smalltalk so take this with a grain of salt.

I have found that the key to successfully starting a conversation is (1) to be emphatically observant and wonder which questions are moving the other person in a given moment and (2) be open to take it any direction including shutting up without feeling any pressure.
by peeters | 2025-07-24 12:38:45+00:00
Hmm I'll take your word for it that that's true, but I would say the examples are very different. Independence Day is a title/holiday retroactively created to commemorate the event (which apparently might not have even happened on July 4).

Whereas D-Day was something soldiers used to describe that specific day even before it happened. And you would hear things like "D-Day plus 23" to describe points in time, you wouldn't have to specify the year

So to me the Independence Day analogy is a little weak.
by ETH_start | 2025-07-24 12:39:45+00:00
> What does this "industry" make?

The same thing the internet "made" in 1995: permissionless infrastructure. You can dislike individual use cases, but you're missing the forest for the trees. The base layer of the crypto ecosystem is a decentralized transaction protocol that allows anyone to send verifiable, uncensorable data, including payments, without relying on trusted intermediaries. That's a breakthrough.

> The only products I read about are scams, theft... etc.

That says more about your reading list than the technology. Stablecoins are now the primary cross-border payment rail in dozens of countries. ETH secures billions in programmable contracts, used for everything from microloans to insurance to remittances. Even JPMorgan and BlackRock are tokenizing assets. Scams exist, as they do in every new technological frontier, but that's just the noise in terms of the big picture.

>There's lot's of moaning about "freedom from financial oppression" but also wild screams of jubilation when one of the "financial oppressors" starts trading or indexing crypto. Which one is it?

It's like opposing censorship while being glad when mainstream publishers adopt free speech norms. Crypto isn't anti-institution, it's anti-coercion. When financial giants choose to participate, that’s a win for the principle of neutrality and open access.

> I don't really follow the legislative mess...

That’s part of the problem. You admit you’re not informed, yet dismiss the documented abuses: warrantless financial surveillance, censorship of code, legal harassment of developers, and backdoor pressure campaigns against lawful businesses.

You don’t need to love crypto. But ignoring the suppression of basic rights in the name of tribalistic dislike for an industry is how authoritarianism creeps in. If crypto buying influence in DC prevents that, maybe it’s not the worst thing.
by xnorswap | 2025-07-24 12:40:16+00:00
That unironically is the opinion of many people.

It comes up again and again, and is a culture clash that is not limited to but particularly prevalent between US and European perspectives.

US sports tend to have less meaningful "regular" seasons, which just seed "play-offs", which themselves often have "Best of X series".

All of that is designed to maximise the chance that the "winner" and the "best team" are aligned.

Meanwhile in UK competitions, an entire yearly competition can be decided by a bad 90 minutes, such as ManU losing to York City, something the fans of both sides likely still remember 30 or so years later.

This argument frequently plays out in e-sports, which still try to find a good balance between the two, with the "best players should win" crowd wanting anti-climatic double-elimination, and the "Let's have more meaningful games" crown preferring single elimination.

"Competitions should be designed to find who the best team is" is a statement that many would agree with, but "Competitions should provide excitement and allow for upsets" is one I think is just as important, if not more so.

Another similar culture-clash is the concept of relegation versus franchising, as well as the concept of "drafting" in a (failed?) attempt to even out the competition.
by Certhas | 2025-07-24 12:41:17+00:00
If I have a coin that shows tails 55% of the time, then there still is a 45% chance that heads wins.

If heads and tails play many games against each other, then the probability for tails to win the overall "tournament" goes to 1. But football is a sport of relatively few games in cup tournaments and low scores (this relatively high variance). This is very conducive to upsets even if we assume perfectly independent probabilities.

Compare to Basketball play offs, with best of 7 Series and on the order of 100 "goals" per game.

That's maybe why in football the league title is more prestigious than the cups, while in basketball the regular season is not considered anywhere near as important as the play offs.
by infogulch | 2025-07-24 12:41:53+00:00
Even speaking is thinking. This is why free speech is the very First Amendment. Whoever denies your right to speak freely is controlling your thinking.

Writing is thinking with a superpower. It's like using the "Pensive" from Harry Potter, depicted in the scene where Harry and Dumbledore pull memory whisps out of their temple to rewatch in a mirror pool. Writing enables you to apply your attention to an idea at multiple levels of analysis with significantly less effort than doing the same while also preserving the idea in your head manually.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-24 12:42:34+00:00
I plug shoulders in large part because it drives certain people up the wall. I'd say maybe half the time they last the life of the tire. Frequently they're finicky and unreliable. Less often than that they start a tread separation bubble. In either latter case I just trash the tire since that's easy enough.

Yeah a proper internal glue on patch would likely perform better in the shoulder but ain't nobody got time for that, that's like 90% of the work of changing the tire.
by clscott | 2025-07-24 12:42:45+00:00
Do I understand correctly that you deliberately entered personal contact information into LLM?

If so, I would be a reprimanding anyone in my org that did this. While it’s more effort I’d use the LLM to write a script to read the page with the Confluence api, parse it, write out the json files and push them where they need to go.

Add in basic assertions to check the data is present, in the expected format and there is enough of it. Alerting when the assertions fail, then I can schedule it and forget about it.

This is where LLMs shine, I can now build a robust solution in an hour instead of a day.
by blueflow | 2025-07-24 12:43:13+00:00
The WHO did not word it badly, it was the accepted knowledge back then.

You previously accused me of somehow missing the 2019-2021 timeframe, but that the vaccine doesn't really protect you well from infections was not established until autuum 2021. Consequently, as the scientific data to show it was not collected yet. Either you got the year numbers wrong or there is some retcon happening.

> Why did you feel the need to inject that into the discussion, even though it doesn't belong here at all?

Why is that on me? You tried a stab at antivax whackos and it backfired.

> Really, verbalize it.

I got vaccinated with the belief that it would reliably keep me from the hospital. Because it "prevents severe causes of the sickness" (translated from german). We blamed and shunned unvaccinated people because they were an unreasonable burden to the hospitals, and now you casually remark that its the low efficacy of the vaccine, not being unvaxxed, that causes the majority of people who end up hospitalized. For how long has that been?

Maybe we should have worked on a vaccine with better efficacy (hey, let me dream up the impossible, maybe immunity like with the measles vax where 99% ppl actually can't get sick at all) instead of harassing unvaccinated people?
by homebrewer | 2025-07-24 12:43:31+00:00
Your company, and others like it, are of course entitled to a refund. These infrastructural projects never get any funding when everything goes well, but when an overworked maintainer screws up in good faith, everybody piles on them.

The attacks on OpenSSL maintainers ten years ago were disgusting, and I think we've learned nothing since then.
by bunters_1 | 2025-07-24 12:44:26+00:00
Fantasy football drafts can have rounds only giving you 30 seconds to make a pick. Typically, fantasy players are cross-referencing cheat sheets, rankings, and tier lists to make an informed decision. I got tired of having to manually switch back and forth between these sources, so I made an extension to not only track my rankings against the live draft, but also directly enrich ESPN's draft room with helpful UI insights.

How does it work?

First, upload your custom rankings and tiers in the "Upload" panel of the extension. Most popular fantasy sites have CSV exports available for their rankings and the extension also provides a sample formatted CSV.

See all your rankings displayed in the extension. As the draft happens, you'll see your rankings list automatically updated to reflect what players have been drafted. Additionally, see how many players at each position have been drafted.

UI enhancements display directly on ESPN's draft board. See your tiers and players to target or avoid directly on the screen.

See how your rankings compare to the current draft pick. See helpful pop-ups when a certain player is higher or lower in your rankings compared to the current draft pick. This is especially helpful for spotting overvalued/undervalued players.
by grymoire1 | 2025-07-24 12:44:31+00:00
Summary: The temperature will continue to rise after removing meat from a grill. The thicker the meat, the more temperature is retained. You want the cut the meat when the proper temperature is reached.

So if the meat is at the target temperature - slice it right away. If the temperature is below the target temp, and the meat is thick, wait until the target temperature is reached, then slice it.

The trick is knowing how thick the meat is, how much the temperature will continue to rise after removal, and therefore when to remove the meat.
by al_borland | 2025-07-24 12:44:35+00:00
How will UBI solve homelessness?

If a decent percentage of homeless people are suffering from mental illness or addiction, throwing money at them won’t actually solve the problem.

For the drug addicts it could kill them, as they’ll get a windfall to go on a bender. For those with various mental illnesses, throwing money at them won’t magically give them the skills to be a good steward of the money and do everything need to get and keep a home.

There are also a non-trivial number of people who have jobs and aren’t homeless today, may end up homeless if they lose their job, even with UBI. For many, a job is their purpose and gives structure to their life. Take that away and addiction often fills the void.

UBI will help some, but not all. There will also likely be some unintended consequences in the form of addiction and death.

UBI also doesn’t mean people are living well, it’s the bare minimum, or maybe less than that. If everyone is getting the same amount, that life will not be a good one, as resources will be spread thin and corruption will creep into ranks of those who collect and distribute the money.

Someone who is homeless, without addiction or mental illness has nowhere to go but up, so sure, they’d like UBI. Distributions to that group would be the most difficult, so it’s questionable if they’d even see it.