MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ggm | 2025-07-27 06:48:00+00:00
People have preferences and sometimes they are irrational and even counter productive. That's what taste is. I like coffee more than tea.

I ran v7, on a pdp11 and enjoyed it immensely. I'm not blind to it's limitations. I doubt I ran a pure v7 since shebang worked, what I recall most fondly about v7 was the "learn" tutorials which allowed me to self pace my Unix birth experience.

What I disliked about v7 was mainly how "crude" it could be compared to 4.1bsd, which I was exposed to shortly afterwards. Pre-sockets, things we now take for granted in a network were less easy to negotiate and you confronted cu and tip as guardians to access over wires to other services. BSD packaged some of those away quite nicely and additionally the csh (pre tcsh) had some UX advantages in command recall, if not syntax compared to (Bourne) shell.

It probably helped that a vax was significantly faster than a pdp11. We ran the printers off the vax for a reason.

I am sure my love of v7 is nostalgia. I abhor the gatekeepers of "now you like it, it's not cool" but a distinction needs to be drawn between this, and how Bell Labs alumni act. The Bell people had to deal with fandom, and setting "you must be this high to ride" barriers weeded out a lot of stupid questions, and questioners like me. I asked about mgr and "the plumber" but missed some key points about the underlying abstraction and I'm not surprised "read the source" terminated the conversation.

Plan9 and inferno presage kubernetes in so many ways. They were more forward looking than the progression of v7 to 2.9bsd and 4.2bsd and system III/system V. It doesn't surprise me the world glued on to a different model, or that the abstractions of the Unix world took root on android. It also doesn't surprise me we see MIT X10/X11 as significant and only historians of systems point to Xerox or symbolics lisp machines, or even NeWS. I coded in sunview and X10, forth passed me by. Yet, postscript and hence pdf now dominate the world. X has frozen and Wayland struggles to push it aside where sunview and CDE quietly withered on the vine.

There's much less of VMS in windows, than POSIX these days. You wouldn't have said that was coming back in the 80s.
by madaxe_again | 2025-07-27 06:49:07+00:00
The reported incidences account for the bias - as the parent notes, men are much less likely to report domestic violence.

When I was stabbed, I took myself to hospital and said I did it myself, accidentally - she was a trainee barrister and I didn’t want to fuck her career up, plus “my girlfriend stabbed me” is usually going to get you “oh yeah, and what did you do to deserve it?” and police questioning in response.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-27 06:49:29+00:00
> The same game design reskinned would be fine.

The same game design reskinned wouldn’t be the same game, though.

I respect the Germans for their decision to pass and enforce their laws in Germany, and to have an opinion about how websites are displayed to German IPs, but I also am sensitive to the artistic intent of id software, while questioning the necessity of making the games in the first place. Nazi symbols are problematic for the same reasons that war movies are: even if you’re trying to make an anti-war or anti-Nazi piece, it still portrays the very same imagery and context in order to subvert it or supplant it. It’s somewhat self-defeating, and it’s fodder for fans of the things creators themselves may oppose to rally around and agitate for or against to raise awareness for their ideology and their support of it.

Ironically, id didn’t even start that franchise, though they did popularize the genre and their own place in it with Wolfenstein 3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein

That said, the original stealth based games were loosely based on real events in which Allied forces killed Nazis, so I’m kind of okay with publicizing notable historical instances of Allies defeating Nazis in World War 2 to a point. We’ve probably crossed that point as soon as id made Wolfenstein 3D, if not before that under Muse Software, which curiously disestablished itself after the second game in the franchise before id continued it. I don’t mean to find fault per se but the moment has passed to make these kinds of content in my opinion.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140710-can-a-film-be-t...

> “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film,” is a quote often attributed to the late French filmmaker François Truffaut.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-27 06:50:06+00:00
Yeah, all social media has been pretty toxic for society. But Twitter has been especially bad. Turns out that requiring everyone to use very short messages means that interactions devolve into short, hot takes almost immediately. And then people just get angrier and angrier at each other as they fight back and forth via those barbs. Twitter couldn't have done more to unravel the social fabric if they actively tried to.
by disillusioned | 2025-07-27 06:51:51+00:00
Man, this is just not an accurate stand-in, though, _because_, well, Arizona has literally over 500,000 residential pools. It's actually one of (if not) _the_ highest pool-per-capita rates.

And because of that, drowning is the leading cause of death for children 1 to 4 years old in Arizona.

As a result, parents here are fairly fastidious about early childhood swim lessons. It's a _big_ deal for us. We've had both of our kids in lessons as early as a year, but a lot of folks start at 6-9 months.

If anything, the distributed nature of the many many many many _small_ bodies of water makes the drowning problem more pervasive and dangerous. An ocean is... well, an ocean: its availability for extremely small children is limited by geography, and many areas where you might take small children are policed by professional lifeguards. Backyard swimming pools, on the other hand, can be a lurking danger literally over your neighbor's wall. My parents had a neighbor one house over who had a 4 year old drown in their pool... from one house further over. He had stacked chairs against the cinderblock wall and climbed over while his grandfather was watching him but dozed off. Even if you don't have a pool in your own backyard, it's a risk here in Arizona.
by 3ple_alpha | 2025-07-27 06:52:08+00:00
It is not true that reliability requires old-style engine design, it's more a question of cost. Modern jet airliners (their engines but also really everything about them) have a ton of complexity, including a myriad of electrical control systems, yet they are no less reliable.

It's just that this is not a fair comparison because manufacturers of said airliners have more resources for R&D.
by iforgotpassword | 2025-07-27 06:52:53+00:00
Made that experience once ca. 2011. I hosted a Minecraft server ona box with raid1.

The "cool" part was that I ran a cronjob that rendered the map to a png file once and hour, and at some point a friend asked why there were holes in the map. Back then, Minecraft stored every 16x16 chunk of the map in an individual gzipped file. When the raid1 decided to read the chunk from the bad drive, it couldn't unzip it. If that happened to the renderer, there was a hole on the map. If that happened to the game server, it would regenerate the chunk, and overwrite the old one on both drives, even the healthy one. Luckily as far a I remember that only happened on random terrain, otherwise someone would have ended up with half their house missing.
by akra | 2025-07-27 06:54:25+00:00
I sadly think if the promise of AI happens this is the likely economic outcome. The last century or so was an anomaly from most of human history; a trend created by the "arms race" of needing educated workers. The prisoner's dilemma was if you trained your workers in more efficient tech you could out-compete and take all the profits from competitors which gave those educated workers the means to strike (i.e. leverage). Now it is the "arms race" of educated AI, rather than workers which could invalidate a lot of assumptions our current society takes for granted in its structure.
by conductr | 2025-07-27 06:54:45+00:00
In America the racial cultures place different values on learning this skill. Black people not swimming has been a prevalent stereotype my entire life and I still hear jokes about it (primarily stand up comedians these days)

I grew up poor in a trailer too but my mom made sure I swam. Never even had official lessons. We’d use public pools or visit a friends apartment pool, or sometimes just crash one. I just learned by exposure and playing with other kids. First in floaty then without. I’m better off now and have a pool in my yard but I also taught my kid early on, no lessons. It’s an important life skill and a huge hobby/activity that I feel most white peoples engage in across all economic cohorts
by jraph | 2025-07-27 06:56:01+00:00
The lack of null result publication is a real issue for research and scientific knowledge in general, including for accurate positive results (what if once you see a positive result by statistical chance but the experiment was actually conducted before you by 10 other people but that wasn't published because the results were null?)

> Papers are written to invite replication

They are written to share knowledge, new discoveries. We hope that they are replicated.

> It's easy to call it shameful when it isn't you who has to do the work.

We are not judging anyone, we are qualifying the situation. And we are speaking of publishing results for experiments that have already conducted, not voluntarily making up null cases and doing the related experiments. It wouldn't make sense and would be harmful. But if you did an experiment that produced a null result, not publishing is a loss of knowledge. Again, we are not judging anybody, it's a failure of the publishing system. But this cannot change if nobody points it out.

I'd have troubles understanding a researcher not acknowledging today that the lack of null result publication is an issue. It would show a lack of perspective IMHO. And for someone acknowledging that there's an issue, pushing back is not the right stance.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-27 06:56:29+00:00
I didn't know what a wave pool is (I've never been to a water park) but they do seem like an awful idea . Wikipedia says they can be hard to lifeguard:

Safety

Wave pools are more difficult to lifeguard than still pools as the moving water (sometimes combined with sun glare) make it difficult to watch all swimmers. Unlike passive pool safety camera systems, computer-automated drowning detection systems do not work in wave pools.[11] There are also safety concerns in regards to water quality, as wave pools are difficult to chlorinate.

In the 1980s, three people died in the original 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) Tidal Wave pool at New Jersey's Action Park, which also kept the lifeguards busy rescuing patrons who overestimated their swimming ability. On the wave pool's opening day, it is said up to 100 people had to be rescued.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_pool#Safety
by jumploops | 2025-07-27 06:57:02+00:00
Tangential, but for anyone looking to utilize Elasticsearch in production, I highly recommend “On-Site Search Design Patterns for E-Commerce”[0]

I was familiar with both inverted indexes and Elasticsearch at a conceptual level, but this overview helped me improve our search (rankings, facets, etc.) much faster than I would have otherwise.

[0]https://project-a.github.io/on-site-search-design-patterns-f...
by Szpadel | 2025-07-27 06:57:19+00:00
I just want to mention that ZIL is just to speed up sync writes, as it ends syscall when data are written to ZIL, but might be still in progress on slower storage.

ZIL is also basically write only storage, therefore sad without very significant over provisioning will die quickly (you only read from ZIL after unclean shutdown)

if you don't really case about latest version of file (risk of loosing recent chances is acceptable) you might set sync=disabled for that dataset and you can have great performance without ZIL
Releasing a Python Library for Deploying Agents with Microsoft Azure
by manuelfdng | 2025-07-27 06:57:22+00:00
I'm excited to announce that the alpha release of Ingenious is now available!

From our PyPI page, Ingenious is "an enterprise-grade Python library for quickly setting up APIs to interact with AI Agents, featuring tight integrations with Microsoft Azure services and comprehensive utilities for debugging and customization."

https://github.com/Insight-Services-APAC/ingenious
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-27 06:57:23+00:00
> In hindu mythology, Raghavan (also Ravana [1]), who was blessed by gods and turned into villain by abducting Sita from lord Ram.

WTH :D

Raghavan != Ravana

(Only relation is that they were on the opposite sides and that made pretty much the whole epic Ramayana)

Raghavan comes from "Raghu" (another name for Ram). Raghavan kinda means "from Raghu" or so like "His descendants" or so.

AFAIK
by eszed | 2025-07-27 06:58:47+00:00
My history is pretty wack. I have a graduate degree (MFA) in physical performance, and my work history until I was 40 was entirely in theatre: acting, writing, directing, and teaching. (And, you know, waiting tables, and selling shit, and all the other gig-work stuff actors have to do to get by).

Thing is, I was always a tech nerd, too. I put up websites for every project I worked on - and plenty for friends, too - going back to the late nineties. I programmed (and sometimes physically repaired) lighting and sound systems. I built plug-ins for lighting and sound software, to solve problems various shows had. I set up networking stacks for a couple of theatres. In 2004 or so I built what was basically Brown Paper Tickets (before Brown Paper Tickets existed) for a theatre company I was working for at the time - backed by an Access database, of all things, running on an old box in the office because that's all we had to work with without paying for it. Later I built effectively MailChimp, to promote my own show. Arguably I should have monetized one or another of those tech projects, and done theatre later, but that was never the point. I enjoyed messing with tech, but didn't want to do any of it, except insofar as it made possible something else I really wanted to do.

At 40 I lost my teaching job (enrollment dropped, and arts are always the first to go), and my wife and I didn't want to move, and were thinking of having a family, so I finally sold out. A restauranteur I'd worked a fair bit for in my twenties needed an IT Director for his growing company, and figured I could do it, which it turns out I can. I make three times what I did as a teacher, five or six times what I did in my best year as a working actor, and... Eh. I like my job. I'm pretty good at it, but it's what I'm doing in order to do what I really want to do, which these days is to support my family.

I don't recommend my career path to anyone as a way into tech (lol!), and I think our world would be a better place if there were less money in tech, and more in arts and education.
by Galanwe | 2025-07-27 06:59:05+00:00
I tend to do the same, some colleagues as well, so I guess this is some common pattern.

The way I see it there are two schools:

- The whitelist school: You write everything without _ prefix, then you whitelist what you want accessible with __all__.

- The explicit school: You forget about all and just use _ for symbols, modules, etc.

I find the latter more readable and consistent (can be applied to attributes, free functions, modules...
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-27 07:03:04+00:00
I'm looking at the data for Greece (where I'm from) and I'm wondering whether the "deaths per 100,000 people" stats are taking into account the millions of tourists that visit each year, especially in the summer. Not just for Greece, of course. Every Mediterrannean country is going to be full of tourists in the summer and that's going to push numbers up for those countries.

And that all the Western European countries have 0 deaths per 100,000 people must also be a distortion. A brief online search found this article according to which 4 million people where expected to visit Greece only from the UK in 2023:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1209183/british-visitors-t...

P.S. I can't find if the data is counting deaths of citizens of a country or deaths reported in a country or what.
by its-summertime | 2025-07-27 07:03:59+00:00
> Use Cases: Journalists & Whistleblowers, Personal Confidential Info, Temporary Credentials or Access Tokens.

Also

> However, without access to the source code, users cannot independently verify these claims. For casual users and most professionals, this level of trust is likely acceptable; for threat-model-sensitive users like whistleblowers, this may be a limiting factor.

- - -

There is seemingly no information in how this approach prevents privacy issues that other one-time-view services have.
by watwut | 2025-07-27 07:05:26+00:00
Addressing their concerns will do nothing, just as it did nothing in the past. They will hate you for addressing their concerns and blame you for things Trump caused. Each time they were given something, they just got more aggressive and harmful

Yes small swings could change election results, but none of them will come from Trump voters. This argument just serves to more politics further to the right.

Those people wanted harm, wanted to cause pain and addressing their concerns does not provide any of that.
by riffraff | 2025-07-27 07:05:53+00:00
My son had a "near drown experience" at ~2yo with a swim ring in a pool.

He somehow jumped from the side and "capsized" ending up with his head underwater, so the ring kept him in that position.

I was playing with my daughter facing the other direction and didn't notice until she pointed him out, I fished him out and he had somehow kept his breath (it was some seconds, not minutes) and kept playing as if nothing happened soon after.

I was scared shitless.
by GianFabien | 2025-07-27 07:09:01+00:00
The majority of folks are consumers and unable and/or unwilling to handle the complexity of self-hosting, self-sovereignity, etc. They will gravitate to what is free and easy. There are no incentives for the major vendors to implement protocols that will threaten their massive advertising revenues.

If you decide to foster an online community, then you might end up being the tech support to that community. For many of us, that is not an appealing choice.
by teruakohatu | 2025-07-27 07:09:51+00:00
> Thanks for your thoughts on the license; we know that it's FRAUGHT, for sure

There is no doubt that your company maintains a lot of high quality open source code.

But in this case Posit is re-licensing Open Source code, with a "source available" license.

Posit is free to help itself to VSCodium, but not the other way around.

I do hope Posit will one day reconsider this.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-27 07:11:09+00:00
>> Children drowning is tragic, but this is nanny-state stuff. Are we to wrap literally any pond, lake, stream, fountain, etc. with a four-foot tall fence, because children exist? Imagine Central Park, but with the ponds surrounded by chain-link fences -- now that I think about it, I'm sort of amazed that New York City (where every other building is perpetually surrounded by ugly and useless scaffolding because one person died from falling bricks once) hasn't actually done this.

Sorry if I'm being too literal here but are you saying that, for half of the houses in New York, it's true that someone died because a brick fell on their head from that house?

Half of all the houses? That sounds like a real problem that should be fixed somehow.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-27 07:13:05+00:00
Which, coincidentally, is exactly the same soul that appears in art.

Walter Benjamin called it "aura" - something a physical original has, but a reproduction doesn't.

It explains why collectors pay $$$$$ for a guitar played by [famous musician], even though they can't play.

There's no objective way to look at any one guitar and divine its history. Without provenance or physical customisation, any Rickenbacker or Les Paul is indistinguishable from any other of the same production run.

But we believe in sympathetic magic. Objects are charged with mysterious non-physical manna through proximity to wealth and status. Owning these special objects confers that manna on us, and perhaps our fortune will increase.

It's the logic of witchcraft lurking at the heart of capitalism.

One of the fun things about AI is that it deconstructs this while reinforcing it. Huge collections of high status manna are now inside a machine, and available for free, or near as.

Do we still believe in magic, or not?
by bawolff | 2025-07-27 07:14:20+00:00
Its the nature of reporting that people want to report "new" things. However if the stuff actually worked it wouldn't be "new" it would just be in use. So instead they report on stuff that is 90% of the way there. Sometimes people figure out the last 10%, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they figure it out but it takes 20 years.
by cladopa | 2025-07-27 07:14:54+00:00
Why hasn’t this been done already?

First, it is way harder to do.Every imperfection introduces secondary effects.

Second, the people that make those diamonds are not ashamed or hiding but believe on what they do. Leo Di Caprio for example invested millions in making synthetic diamonds that do not finance wars in Africa.

New generations are proud of people not dying for getting their beautiful stones.

lastly, diamonds, like gold, are very useful for science. In particular they are amazing semiconductors with incredible heat dissipation and small power loses. If we get better, less defects diamonds ,cheaper, power electronics will be revolutionised.
by Catbert59 | 2025-07-27 07:16:55+00:00
In 2025 I'd go for an Intel n100/n150/n305 with 32GB RAM (in officially supported). If nothing rotates nothing can break.

At work we have ~10 of these passive cooled TopTon n100 with their 5x Intel i226-IV 2.5GE interfaces laying around for emergency router setups. They are great for a lot of things.

But be careful: starting with the n150 you will need active cooling.
by drgo | 2025-07-27 07:17:00+00:00
I think this study adds to growing evidence that aging doesn’t progress linearly. There’s less evidence supporting a specific inflection point for aging. If aging is like any other biological process, it’s likely to vary a lot between individuals depending on genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors and within an individual between different tissues. Until we develop accurate measures of tissue aging, there’s much we can do other than live as well as we can and as hard as possible.