MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michpoch | 2025-07-06 14:53:32+00:00
These professions are a core of the middle class. Maybe some of the most successful could be called upper-middle class, if they also had a large inheritance?

But a regular software dev or a GP is the perfect representation of a middle class - having enough money for comfortable life, travel, owning a house, new car, leisure activities and having money for investments.

If one can’t afford these (all at the same time) - it is not middle class. Middle class is not a “median - average salary class”, by a long shot.
by yoz-y | 2025-07-06 14:55:15+00:00
When I was looking to buy a microwave myself I wanted to buy one that has exactly two dials and two buttons.

Power, time, start, stop.

It turns out that luckily there is one like that made. The Y4ZM25MMK. Also as bonus no clock.

That said, I realized only very late that the function dial actually has a marker to show which function it selects. An extremely shallow colorless groove.
by treetalker | 2025-07-06 14:55:16+00:00
I broke down and bought Bike. I use it almost exclusively for drafting complex legal briefs: I like that it makes it easy to make any node at any level a heading. Its system of changing the format of nodes (to heading, body text, checkbox, unordered or ordered list, etc.) is fast, easy, and unique in the space. But printing leaves much to be desired.

Otherwise I end up using OmniOutliner. The filtering can be useful (and it's a feature not really available elsewhere) but often OmniOutliner can feel slow and overly feature-heavy. Printing is also not great.
by analog31 | 2025-07-06 14:55:25+00:00
In some sense, yes. I've seen portions of works by people like Newton etc. You had to be a philosopher to read them, much less understand them. In a lot of cases, the same "material" that we learn today required someone to come along later and work out a notation that we can read and teach. My favorite example is the Algebra of Al-Khwarizmi, which contained no numbers, much less equations, but was just a wall of text. In fact, equations were invented later. Also, I think the electromagnetism of Maxwell was reformulated into the equations that we love and cherish by Heaviside.
by simondotau | 2025-07-06 14:55:49+00:00
If you think that’s confusing, there are two completely separate Japanese companies who use the Mitsubishi name and the same red diamond logo to sell air-conditioners in Australia. The products have absolutely nothing in common; the two companies have been completely independent from each other since 1921.

https://www.mhiaa.com.au/

https://www.mitsubishielectric.com.au/
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-06 14:56:47+00:00
> Not really.

Is really. The majority of systems, especially the larger ones, get no subsidies. Mostly the smaller rural ones get subsidies.

> I assume you identify as a modern conservative

you'd be wrong.

But I still bristle every time someone says we need public transporation when my favorite system I've used for decades is not public and is designed to be positive feedback loop. No public system can do that AFAICT because there's no way to set up the incentives. It's just an expense with indirect benefits, to easy to cut funding on and make it just a "for poor people who can't afford a car" system
by mpalmer | 2025-07-06 14:57:05+00:00
Is it yours?

They use it for their decision making process.

When you use a pen for your writing processes, are you outsourcing the process of writing to the pen? Or are you using it?

When the first thing you say to a stranger is an insult, I wonder, is that a domestically-produced decision? Doesn't seem very high-quality.
by theobeers | 2025-07-06 14:57:19+00:00
Another record, Name Authority Pointer (NAPTR), has the telephone number of the Johnson Space Center in Houston:

> dig where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io NAPTR ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io NAPTR ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31786 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io. IN NAPTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io. 3600 IN NAPTR 100 100 "u" "E2U+voice:tel" "!^.*$!tel:+12814830123!" . ;; Query time: 84 msec ;; SERVER: 100.100.100.100#53(100.100.100.100) ;; WHEN: Sun Jul 06 10:53:39 EDT 2025 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 111
by xg15 | 2025-07-06 14:58:08+00:00
I think Blizzard got this right in StarCraft and WarCraft III. During a game, there is a 3x3 (or 3x5) grid on the bottom right that sort of looks like a numpad. When you have units selected, the grid will show the actions, and only those actions, that correspond to those units.

Technically, you never see "all" actions - you only see the actions that make sense for the selected units. However, because there is a predictable place where the actions will show up, and because you know those are all the actions that are there, it never feels confusing.

On the contrary, it lets you quickly learn what the different skills are for each unit.

There is also a "default" action that will happen when you right-click somewhere on the map. What this default action will do is highly context specific and irregular: e.g. right-clicking on an enemy unit will trigger an attack order, but only if your selected unit actually has a matching weapon, otherwise it will trigger a move order. Right-clicking a resource item will issue a "mine" order, but only if you have selected a worker, etc etc.

Instead of trying to teach you all those rules, or to let you guess what the action is doing, the UI has two simple rules:

- How the default action is chosen may be complicated, but it will always be one of the actions from the grid.

- If a unit is following an action, that action will be highlighted in the grid.

This means the grid doubles as a status display to show you not just what the unit could do but also what it is currently doing. It also lets you learn the specifics of the default action by yourself, because if you right-click somewhere, the grid will highlight the action that was issued.

The irony is that in the actual game, you almost always use the default action and very rarely actually click the buttons in the grid. But I think the grid is still essential for those reasons: As a status display and to let you give an order explicitly if the default isn't doing what you want it to do.

The counterexample would be the C&C games: The UI there only has the right-click mechanic, without any buttons, with CTRL and ALT as modifier keys if you want to give different orders. But you're much more on your own to memorize what combination of CTRL, ALT, selected unit, target unit and click will issue which order.
by sandreas | 2025-07-06 14:58:15+00:00
I had a Samsung 960 Pro nvme fail without warning, that was even more concerning

Then shortly after I had a BTRFS fail without failing Hardware on another drive

Just backup your stuff with 3-2-1 strategy and you're OK.

I'd recommend a combination of syncthing, restic and ZFS (with zfs-auto-snapshot, sanoid or zrepl) and maybe bluray (as readonly medium)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-06 14:58:40+00:00
As far as I can tell, the AI-hate is most prominent in tech circles (creativity too, but they don't like media generation, largely embrace text though).

It seems here on the ground in non-tech bubble land, people use ChatGPT a ton and lean hard on AI features.

When Google judges the success of bolted on AI, they are looking at how Jane and John General Public use it, not how xleet007 uses it(or doesn't).

There is also the fact that AI is still just being bolted onto things now. The next iteration of this software will be AI native, and the revisions after that will iron out big wrinkles.

When settings menus and ribbon panels are optional because you can just tell the program what to do in plain English, that will be AI integration.
by alganet | 2025-07-06 14:58:45+00:00
I think it's more difficult than it seems.

If I were an algorithm-profiling company I would try to anchor my profilings in the real world (what kinds of people I talk to, about what, what kinds of places I visit, what are the opinions of others on me, etc). LLM garbage would be just to draw voluntary participation in potential surveys.

It takes a particularly paranoid and stubborn individual to make the necessary efforts to consider what kinds of profiling could be done with such anchored data, and even more effort to probe it enough to acquire some knowledge on how it works.
by fn-mote | 2025-07-06 14:59:00+00:00
The power comes from the ease with which you can adapt your workflow to varying requirements.

If this description doesn’t cover areas you need to work in, forget it.

An example: you need to do a bunch of work in a pipeline, but at one point during development you want to stop, examine the output, possibly edit it, and then finish the pipeline. In this case, doing the work in emacs feels good because you can put the intermediate results in a buffer. Not life changing, but nice.
by hereme888 | 2025-07-06 14:59:00+00:00
The amount of intellectual dishonesty in the thread...

People avoid ICE because they're breaking the law themselves, or have hysteria over illegals being deported (a benefit to tax-paying citizens).

That's all there is to it.

It has nothing to do with "our country is being turned to a police state", because that's what Biden did with his 87,000 armed IRS agents.
by jack5341 | 2025-07-06 14:59:37+00:00
After a lot of work, I'm excited to share 4me.tools – a free, all-in-one online utility suite designed to simplify common digital tasks for both developers and general users.

I built this because I found myself constantly needing small, quick tools for various tasks, and often had to jump between different websites or download software. My goal with 4me.tools was to create a single, privacy-focused hub where you can get things done quickly and easily, without needing an account or worrying about your data.

The site is designed to be user-friendly, and all tools run client-side where possible to ensure your data stays private.

I'd love for you to check it out and hear your feedback! What other tools would you find useful in a suite like this?
by atorodius | 2025-07-06 15:00:52+00:00
> Some said it was a sign of a continued rise of Reagan and Thatcher style individualism. Cultural critic Allan Bloom deemed the Walkman "a nonstop... masturbational fantasy” in his 1987 book ‘The Closing of the American Mind.’ Neo-Luddite John Zerzan saw the Walkman as part of a modern trend that encouraged a "protective sort of withdrawal from social connections" and Thomas Lipscomb, chief of the Center for the Digital Future, equated it with the euphoric drug "soma," from Huxley's Brave New World, creating, as he put it, "an airtight bubble of sound" that was nothing but a "sensory depressant." In other words it all felt ‘a bit blackmirror’ as one might say today. (A collection of quotes collected in this 1999 Reason Magazine article)

not sure about the masturbational fantasy but the rest seems fairly spot on as a critique?
by alwillis | 2025-07-06 15:01:28+00:00
We already have specialized conditionals in CSS, such as @supports, minmax, media queries, etc.

if() is just a general purpose conditional.

Using if() is going to reduce complexity for a whole range of use cases. Right now, developers are using custom property hacks to simulate true conditionals [1].

[1]: "The --var: ; hack to toggle multiple values with one custom property"—https://lea.verou.me/blog/2020/10/the-var-space-hack-to-togg...
by WillAdams | 2025-07-06 15:04:24+00:00
As a person who grew up speaking his mother's tongue, learned the language of a country where she had been born as the child of a worker under the National Mobilization Law, and who learned English from his father and Armed Forces Radio and TV, ultimately forgetting the other two languages at his father's behest, failed miserably at his one year and one day of high school French, and when sent to the Presidio of Monterey when I enlisted to re-learn my mother tongue only had a small smattering come back and who never managed to regain conversational fluency, it is quite mysterious to me how some folks learn languages so readily.

Computer languages seemed a match for this facility (despite being the token graphic designer in the comparative programming languages course I was the only one who managed to do all of the Lisp problems successfully), but these days I find myself dragging blocks around to rough out designs using: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ rather than directly programming in OpenSCAD (or even the new Python variant: https://pythonscad.org/ ) and wonder if it is a consequence of my choosing to express myself through drawing rather than by words when I was young.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-06 15:04:36+00:00
Yup

Something I am noticing more and more is how stagnant the North American game industry is. Meanwhile Europe and Japan are still killing it

Larian with BG3 - Europe Cd Projekt with Witcher and Cyberpunk - Europe

Nintendo rocking on as normal Monster hunter wilds and the RE remakes? Capcom, Japan

Elden Ring and Nightreign. FromSoft, Japan

Helldivers 2. Arrowhead Studios, Sweden

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Warhorse Studios, Czech

I cannot remember the last time I bought a new game and had a blast with it from a North American studio. Certainly not a AAA studio anyways
by fidotron | 2025-07-06 15:04:53+00:00
If this happened all multiplayer titles would turn F2P.

People do not appreciate quite what a narrow path has to be walked by games from an IP standpoint. Code libraries, licensed property, per platform (and platform category) restrictions, general IP restrictions (not showing vehicles being damaged, or UI overlays on certain parts of licensed objects) and so on. This is why in the recent ROG Ally announcement Microsoft could not say all XBox games will run on it, because if it's a PC it's not a console, so various games will not be allowed to be sold on it as those contributing IP rights will have been split up separately.

Simply pretending these very real concerns don't exist is nonsense land. You want games with real vehicles or licensed music? This is what you have to deal with. At least these days they have learned to license music for longer than used to be the case.
Go-msquic: v0.11 is out
by noboruma | 2025-07-06 15:04:57+00:00
go-msquic is a Golang wrapper around microsoft QUIC/HTTP3 protocol C library. https://github.com/noboruma/go-msquic v0.11 is bringing: - QUIC Datagram support - Improved throughput: from 0.5 Gbps to 1.0 Gbps Thanks everyone for your help so far!
by rainsford | 2025-07-06 15:05:52+00:00
> But was pedestrian traffic up to the same rate as cars were down such that overall traffic was unaffected? No, probably not, because the story says vehicles are down 11% but pedestrian traffic is only up 8%.

Those percentages are only directly comparable if the number of cars and the number of pedestrians is the same, which I'm guessing it's not. Some quick searching doesn't seem to yield an answer to this question, but in a city like NYC I'd venture to guess there is more pedestrian traffic than car traffic, so it's entirely possible that an 8% increase in pedestrian traffic more than makes up for an 11% drop in car traffic.

> So, overall, a negative impact. You can debate the magnitude and whether it is “worth it,” but it’s definitely a negative impact on commerce.

I don't think you can conclude that at all because you're missing some key pieces of information, like whether the average positively impacted businesses had a greater positive impact than the average negatively impacted business had negative impact. You also don't know the long term impacts that might change what types of businesses are in the area of how they attract customers. Businesses that optimize for car traffic (like Costco, at the extreme end of the spectrum) might see an initial decrease in customers, but longer term could either adapt to be more pedestrian friendly or be replaced with pedestrian friendly businesses that might generate even more economic activity.

Also not to put too fine a point on it, but the "business impact" numbers were based off a reporter going to 40 businesses in one neighborhood and asking "people working there" what the impact had been. I'm not sure that's a very scientific way to draw broad conclusions, as the NYT freely admits.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-06 15:06:51+00:00
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED.” Trump wrote, adding, “LONG LIVE THE KING!”*

Sorry, I guess I crossed the streams with all of the nonsense from the White House. Saved, not liberated.

*https://apnews.com/article/trump-halts-congestion-pricing-ny...
by comrade1234 | 2025-07-06 15:07:52+00:00
> ...nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of owning music...

I have no desire to go back to that. New music is being created WORLDWIDE constantly and we also have a few hundred years of already-made music. There's no way I could even come close to 'owning' all of the music I'd want to own.

Discovering good new music is a problem becasuse there's so much of it. Since '99 I've been listening to one of the first streaming internet station. DJs give them one to two hour sets that go into rotation. There's no limit to the variety - you'll get an hour of Portuguese Fado music (was a fad in L.A. for awhile) followed by 8-bit video game music then Iranian music... I like it because it's curated by humans and not computer.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-06 15:08:12+00:00
The ozone hole is still appearing annually, btw.

https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Each year for the past few decades during the Southern Hemisphere spring, chemical reactions involving chlorine and bromine cause ozone in the southern polar region to be destroyed rapidly and severely. This depleted region is known as the “ozone hole”
by simion314 | 2025-07-06 15:08:15+00:00
>Vote with your wallet

I bought Minecraft from Mojang, years later I am forced to setup a Microsoft account to play the game, or risk downloading a cracked version. They did not offer a refund. Minecraft is a video game where you need to login even if you do not play online. (maybe things changed , I think this MS account thing was a few years back, it worked for my account but I read of people having big issues because some MS assholes ahd to force the Java edition players to use an MS account)

This behaviour should not be legal.
by bellgrove | 2025-07-06 15:08:19+00:00
Having worked there in the past, Ubisoft is awful. When I was there previously there was an aggressive push for UPlay (now Ubisoft Connect) integration into all products. Then there were the bullshots for promos/E3/etc. There were often clashes with leadership who would fight against creativity / novel ideas in favour of cookie-cutter mechanics that would not add anything to the experience - certainly there was a mentality of, let's just copy what was recently successful.

I'm blown away that series like AC, FarCry are still big sellers. These games are vapid and designed to be a time sink.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-06 15:08:37+00:00
My dad owned an auto dealership through my youth. He always had a least one "natural" salesman, who could just sell, but couldn't tell you how he did it. My dad was not a natural, and made up for this by consciously & relentlessly practicing the behaviours and actions: active listening, root cause analysis, identify the decision maker, respecting time & financial factors, attentive customer service, building connection & relationships. He became very good, but in a completely different way. Where his star salesman sold easily my dad had to work harder, but he then sold to the same person every few years, sometimes decades, and did better on the trade-ins than the new sales.

Why the story? Because lots of things - including networking - sometimes come naturally to a few, but are more commonly learned. You can practice & must practice, and this can start with a short list of things like presented here. It's not about caring more about the Big Thing (tm) but focusing solely on a few small things that start you down the right path. In my experience a few easy things is a great way to displace the anxiety from big, complex, scary situations.

Another brief anecdote I think helps illustrate this. I teach mountain biking, and the two biggest desires are 1. corner better, 2. learn how to jump. I suck at cornering but have logged a fair bit of air time. A common observation is people go very rigid in the air (called a "dead sailor"). This not only undesireable, it's dangerous. The fix? Get people to do any sort of movement when they are in the air; the smallest wiggle, shimmy or tweak unlocks their body AND their mind, and moves them forward. It both focuses and distracts. The list here feels a lot like a similar approach for certain social situations, and compared to your advice (stop caring and... just do it?) actually targets the root of anxiety "OK, but how?". YOLO is often part of it, but makes a terrible strategy.
by foobarchu | 2025-07-06 15:08:44+00:00
This seems pretty easy. If the license to the music goes for X years, then build that expiration into the game. After X years, licensed music goes away, and the game is still playable. This is completely in scope of SKG. Everyone understands that not every feature has to be retained to stay the playable game.

That expiration date should, of course, be on the box. The consumer deserves to know.
by tetris11 | 2025-07-06 15:08:49+00:00
how did they do it in the past? If I can put my Tony Hawks cd from the PS2 into a cd player and enjoy all the DRM music, what changed between now and then?

If music labels refuse to license out their songs like that, then if this law passes, they're going to have to suck it up and play nice again, else lose customers/publishers.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-06 15:09:20+00:00
History != culture. Culture has roots in history, but is a living thing defined by the experience and perception of average people living it. Short of going to a place and living it, LLMs are actually your best bet at getting the feel for a culture[0] - it sampled more reports from people of that culture than you ever could yourself.

Egyptologists are better equipped to talk about Egyptian myths than average people. But don't confuse Egyptian mythology for Egyptian culture, the former is only a component of the latter.

Also LLMs have read more primary sources on Ancient Egypt and Egyptian myths than you, me, average person, and even most amateur Egyptologists.

--

[0] - If it's large enough to have enough of a written footprint, that is.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-07-06 15:09:48+00:00
Bullshit. No, I'm not interested in anyone in a party and not going to smalltalk, because some retard wrote half a dozen books about it. Just place your namecard on the table and then if I want to I'll call you. Rest is just facade. Why are we call ourselves humans when we actually act like monkeys :D.

This is why the stock market is a godsend.
by b112 | 2025-07-06 15:10:07+00:00
Hence the talk of aerodynamic design.

The numbers you quote don't show math, and even if they did, the math is different for each vehicle airflow.

Regardless, efficiency has many properties.

Time means more labour cost + cost of spending another day on the road, plus time not shipping something else.

I sometimes, in my car, drive from Quebec to California. It can take an extra day to make this drive, if I must drive slower due to weather, traffic, or construction.

EG 60mph vs 80mph average (yes, average without stops).

A little more fuel pales in comparison to these costs.
by kmoser | 2025-07-06 15:10:17+00:00
Nobody needs to rely on Cloudflare when they can use server-side solutions like Fail2ban (already mentioned). Other tools like iptables exist for more granular control over incoming traffic. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, so just pick the tool(s) that work for your situation. If your situation is so unique that no existing tool will work, you likely have the resources to write your own.