MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by halflife | 2025-07-30 20:19:44+00:00
I presume you misunderstand the purpose of the Jewish state. It’s not to protect Jews living in europe from persecution, it’s to provide a safe haven from persecution. Without site they have no where to go when things get bad. And things to bad many times for Jews in the past 2500 years since their exile.

Thinking that the world isn’t tribal is naive, most of it is. Not living as a jew probably doesn’t give you the same perspective, we get daily articles about antisemitism around the world. Be it synagogue firebombs in Australia or Canada, Jewish schools getting shot at in USA, a Jew was refused service in a restaurant in Italy, another Jew had his ear torn off by a Syrian refugee in Athens, and there’s plenty more accounts. If you’re not exposed to that you have no idea how it feels. But I guess that Jews are “white” and can’t be discriminated against, or if they do, they deserve it.
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-30 20:19:59+00:00
>I still haven't found a use-case for the websocket Blazor Hybrid and it still smells so much like the worst mistakes of the original ASP (before .NET) and the `runat="client"` versus `runat="server"` confusions.

That is exactly my read of it, especially given Microsoft track record on delivering with stuff like this.

Not sure about the Silverlight comparison - in the days of Flash, browsers did not even have a way to stream video reliably, nowadays it just cramming a square peg in to a round hole - heavyweight runtime built on multithreading crammed to a single threaded event loop. I have not tried it - but after using .net in much more powerful/native envs like Android - I know for a fact that the iteration/build/debugging story sucks compared to native JS/TS. Also as bad JS is, TS makes it saner, tooling has matured and DOM APIs are built for JS.
by mlhpdx | 2025-07-30 20:20:44+00:00
Is S3 slow or fast? It’s both, as far as I can tell and represents a class of systems (mine included) that go slow to go fast.

S3 is “slow” at the level of a single request. It’s fast at the level of making as many requests as needed in parallel.

Being “fast” is sometimes critical, and often aesthetic.
by marcellus23 | 2025-07-30 20:20:58+00:00
> There is more and more proof these tools are not as useful as they are hyped out to be. LLM-based coding tools seem to actually hurt programmers’ productivity. “Hallucinations” are not going away because the only thing these LLMs can do is “hallucinate”; they just sometimes (about 30% of the time, in fact) happen to generate some text that has some connection to reality.

This hurts the article, I think. I don't disagree with his point about companies caring too much about stockholders. But this anti-LLM envangelism just comes across as ludditism.
by jerf | 2025-07-30 20:20:59+00:00
One of the neat things about programming is that you can develop a high degree of skill in it without any formal education at all.

But it does mean that we've always had those programmers who have had characteristic holes in their education as a result.

Personally I enjoy having a mix of self-taught and formally-taught around; I think there quite a few things the self-taught are often better at than the formally educated as a group. I respect both sides. I'm just saying that there has always been a market for this sort of thing on HN because the self-taught have always been around.
by LamaOfRuin | 2025-07-30 20:21:24+00:00
Only if you redefine "reasoning". This is something that the generative AI industry has succeeded in convincing many people of, but that doesn't mean everyone has to accede to that change.

It's true that something interesting is happening. GP did not dispute that. That doesn't make it reasoning, and many people still believe that words should have meaning in order to discuss things intelligently. Language is ultimately a living thing and will inevitably change. This usually involves people fighting the change and no one know ahead of time which side will win.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-30 20:21:42+00:00
In richer parts of town, many houses will be in trusts also.

It’s a no brainer if you have a couple thousand dollars to spare for an estate lawyer to do some estate planning and spare your heirs probate court.

Plus in the states and wealth levels that many people on this website have, it is also a no brainer to save on taxes.
by ImJamal | 2025-07-30 20:21:55+00:00
I think most would usually mean plurality not 50% + 1. If there are 3 people and 2 of them have $5 each and the third has $6 it would be correct to say the third has the most money despite not having 50% + 1.

Regardless, the majority is also the plurality so using most when it is over 50% would also be acceptable.
by dang | 2025-07-30 20:22:00+00:00
Related. Others?

Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229259 - March 2025 (78 comments)

MessagePack vs. CBOR (RFC7049) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23838565 - July 2020 (2 comments)

CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20603378 - Aug 2019 (71 comments)

CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10995726 - Jan 2016 (36 comments)

Libcbor – CBOR implementation for C and others - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597198 - May 2015 (5 comments)

CBOR – A new object encoding format - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932089 - Dec 2013 (9 comments)

RFC 7049 - Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632576 - Oct 2013 (52 comments)
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-30 20:22:37+00:00
> My experience is that most progressive causes want to redistribute income from high earners to low earners. Policies such as government supported housing, daycare, support this.

Oh absolutely. This is the way to make a more fair and balanced society.

If the US doesn't want that, fine but it is of course also the reason for the no-go areas/ghettos, the amount of violent crime etc. Because people who are in the lowest class and have no upward mobility will tend to spiral away in crime, because that does pay.

> These policies actively restrict freedoms by removing the freedom of choice from consumers. They introduce deadweight loss and moral hazard.

We don't believe in unrestricted free-market capitalism anyway.
by karthink | 2025-07-30 20:22:44+00:00
Is there _any_ other example? For years now, this is the only one I've ever seen brought up to support this point.

On the other side, there are many MacOS-specific features supported by Emacs, with the recently added dictation support being one of them. If a MacOS feature is missing, it's much more likely to be due to a lack of manpower than a desire to maintain feature parity with Linux.
by petermclean | 2025-07-30 20:22:46+00:00
I've been working on an open source library that, while it doesn't solve bitfields, can provide convenient ergonomic access to bit-granular types:

https://github.com/PeterCDMcLean/BitLib

You can inherit from bit_array and create a pseudo bitfield:

class mybits_t : bit::bit_array<17> { public: // slice a 1 bit sized field // returns a proxy reference to the single bit auto field1() { return (*this)(0, 1); } // slice a 3 bit sized field // returns a proxy reference to the 3 bits auto field2() { return (*this)(1, 4); } }; mybits_t mybits(7); assert(mybits.field1() == 1); mybits.field1() = 0; assert(static_cast<int>(mybits) == 6); //no implicit cast to integers, but explicit supported

There is minimal overhead depending on how aggressively the compiler inlines or optimizes*
by fredophile | 2025-07-30 20:22:47+00:00
So instead I should uproot her and move her to a new home with people she doesn't know. When they go through a life event like changing jobs, getting injured, having to move to look after a family member, having children, etc they should repeat the process and shuttle her off to another strange place.

> will you continue paying doggie day care out of consistency for her, or will you stop?

In that situation I'd probably continue but cut back. I've always paid for classes, private training, and other enrichment activities for her so this wouldn't be any different.

> Because if you stop, you're taking away someone and somewhere and maybe several other animal friends who she's formed an attachment to. For your own needs.

Parents do this to their children all the time. Should parents not move to a new city because their children would be cut off from their current friends?

> it's no different to dumping a child in boarding school

No, it's no different to dumping a child in public school or daycare. They get taken care of while I work and when my work day is done I can spend time with them.

> I think doggie day care is a sign of a society in ethical decline.

You've made a number of comments about doggie day care being immature or a sign that society is declining but you've never made a coherent argument for why that is. What is immature or unethical about wanting my pet taken care of when I'm unavailable, planning for that, and paying someone for the service they provide?
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-30 20:23:22+00:00
Yeah, no amount of effort allows me to shut off YouTube Shorts.

Imagine you're the one running a business where you keep repeatedly trying to shove some feature down your user's throat.

What's that called in business school? I don't know, I never took any Business courses.

That I have no where else to go to see the content I want to see smells like a de-facto monopoly.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-30 20:24:29+00:00
Raw = unpasteurized. That's it. Everyone claims it's "better" but that's likely mostly a reflection of freshness since anyone drinking raw milk these days is likely at the end of a very short supply chain.

From a public health perspective yeah pasteurized milk is obviously superior but it's one of those redundancy things that isn't necessary if every party from tit to mouth gives a crap. Farmer isn't gonna sell you crap if he can help it. You're not gonna drink crap if you listen to your nose. Where it gets tricky is when there's a bunch of potential middle men moving a bunch of product who could potentially risk it moving some questionable stuff around and plausibly dodge blame or adulterate the product so it's not obvious that it's bad. Both of which were a problem 100yr ago which is why we have standard pasteurization today.

Personally I think with modern robust supply chains there could be a place for raw milk in the market but it sure would be expensive after accounting for the extra QC one would need to drink it right.

And this is coming from someone who drinks ultra pasteurized lactose free because it lasts the longest.
by dttze | 2025-07-30 20:24:34+00:00
> Iranian/Russian proxy

Russian proxy? Where are you getting your propaganda from? Russia supports Israel and has only paid lip service to Hamas.

> Islamic terrorism also threatens Arab states

Salafi terrorism, sure. But the US and Israel support those jihadis.

Israeli terrorism is a larger threat. If they materially aided Hamas they would get terror bombed like Lebanon. It will still continue to be a threat as long as people like Ben-Gvir are in power. All you need to lookup is greater Israel to see their long term plans.

> And yeah, most people would rather be rich, prosperous and not fall victim to terrorism.

Only the dictators and their cronies are rich. The average Arab suffers.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-30 20:25:27+00:00
Ehh at the left we don't really think in terms of 'original sin'. Most of us are not religious, these things are simply meaningless to us.

And DEI is something that is not about quotas at all. It's about having race and ethniticy not influencing the hiring process at all. Being "colorblind", which is ironically enough what Trump says how he wants things to be (but in reality he is very racist).
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 20:26:47+00:00
The US actually has two real-time payment systems: RTP and FedNow. The number of participating banks is growing rapidly.

https://real-timepayments.com/Banks-Real-Time-Payments.html

Prior to that, you could get instant transfers but it came with a small fee because they were routed through credit card networks. The credit card networks took a fee but credit card transactions also have different guarantees and reversibility (e.g. costing the bank more in cases of fraud)
by AIPedant | 2025-07-30 20:27:20+00:00
I think you are reading a little too much into my comment but I understand where you are coming from. My point is that even if you agree with this:

There’s just not that much distance between a chatbot that can manage a vending machine poorly and a chatbot that can manage it well.

it is a huge leap to conclude this:

There’s not much distance between a chatbot that is as intelligent as a human and a chatbot that is more intelligent than a human.

But that seems to be what Anthropic is assuming.
Show HN: An app to let you use your Qardio device without their servers
by dwardu | 2025-07-30 20:27:29+00:00
Since Qardio went bankrupt, Qardio Arm users were left with paperweights. I've built this app to let myself and other users left in the lurch to give back life to their device and continue monitoring their health. I'm looking for feedback, and will be planning to release it on the app store.
by o11c | 2025-07-30 20:27:37+00:00
Note that although alignment and size are platform-specific, in practice padding can be minimized simply by using a fixed order:

(various vector types) int128_t long double long long, int64_t, int_fast64_t, double off_t time_t (can be 64 bits on 32-bit platforms only if off_t also is) register_t, int_fast16_t, int_fast32_t (64-bit on e.g. x32) void *, void(*)(), intptr_t ptrdiff_t (theoretically wrong if fully aligned and bigger than pointer) size_t, ssize_t long (32-bit on win64; generally has 16-bit alignment if bigger than pointer) int32_t, float int (can be 16-bit) short, int16_t char, bool, int8_t, int_fast8_t (a trailing array member must come last; note when calculating combined size you should use offsetof instead of sizeof to not waste padding)

Besides this, `int_leastN_t` goes with `intN_t`, and all unsigned types go with their signed types. Note that types like `id_t` are hard to place however.

Although there do exist many platforms where this is not in order of size, the bigger types generally have smaller alignment on such platforms. Despite this I have split out rows occasionally despite not knowing of any such platform.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-07-30 20:28:44+00:00
>and you think that they shouldn’t get a sovereign country for themselves?

That's a really easy question: no.

Plenty of people don't have sovereign countries for themselves. Some of them persecuted, some of them integrated by force into other countries. Countries are not owed. They simply are. Tibet is being wholly integrated and controlled by China. Catalonia is somewhat asking for it, native americans are being relegated as second class citizens, and aboriginals in Australia are being left to die. Romanis do not have a country based around their culture.

Jews should absolutely be protected, in whichever country they are. That does not make the world owe them a country. Countries are not owed, they just are. As it stands, Israel is, but as a result of what they have done, not because it was owed to them.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-07-30 20:28:47+00:00
The Australian Prime Minister - Anthony Albanese - was once asked by a radio host what he would do if he was dictator - he said he would ban all social media.

And lets note that the ALP government is very fast and snappy to ban social media, very slow to do important things like:

- ban money laundering in real estate

- ban gambling advertising

And very quick to:

- approve massive new coal mines

- approve massive new natural gas projects

The Australian government hates social media because that's where the people get to say what they think of the governmnent - in real time.

The social media companies have missed a crucial point about doing business in Australia - you must be paying your dues to the political parties and you must be paying big taxes. This is what the mining and gambling and fosil fuel companies do, and the Australian government does backflips to give them what they want.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-30 20:29:08+00:00
> completely ignore the nice words people use

Kind of an unrelated topic but I'm reminded of a video essay in which the creator talks about this. They put it very kindly, IMO:

> Rich and powerful people have quite a different attitude and approach to truth and lies and games compared to ordinary people.

Which sounds like a really nice way of saying that rich and powerful people are dishonest by ordinary standards.

https://youtu.be/m6lObdE3s10?t=245
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 20:29:23+00:00
Every Rails project I've been involved with has had two phases:

The first phase was being amazed that we got basic functionality up and running so fast

The second phase was feeling like we were spinning our wheels because we were always dealing with some performance issue or some complexity explosion that occurred when we stepped outside of the bounds of a simple low volume CRUD app where Rails excels.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-30 20:29:42+00:00
Nailed it.

I find it pretty annoying that people mischaracterize the dislike of the modern web as nostalgia. The modern web is a big wasteful resource hog that expects users to just randomly download and run JavaScript programs.

And another thing: A modern web browser has to be incredibly performant because of all the bloat, and also have a robust enough sandbox to just download JavaScript programs from the Internet and run them. So we’ve ended up in a situation where only Google can (plausibly pretend to) have a good enough sandbox for this use-case.

This isn’t just nostalgic grumpiness, we’ve gone from a diverse ecosystem to a hugely fragile tech monoculture run by an ad company.
by ovulator | 2025-07-30 20:29:43+00:00
Large of law numbers. There are a lot of idiots out there. I had a buddy; super nice, super funny guy, late 20's, but financially an idiot.

He sent a $1,000 check as "collateral" to some online "bank" to get a $10,000 "loan". I explained to him that this isn't how any of this works and he just paused and said, "Huh, so should put a stop payment on the second check?" He had sent them another $1,000 as some sort of second round of collateral for the loan or some other nonsense.

And I've known dumber people than him.
by MintPaw | 2025-07-30 20:29:45+00:00
I made the opposite choice with Vim, opting to always use GVim instead of the terminal. I was never able to set up terminal colors and mouse compatibility just right, and at 4k Gnome terminal would lag a bit. Terminals use windowing systems too. :P

This was 10 years ago though, before Kitty and the new Windows Terminal.
by xnx | 2025-07-30 20:30:03+00:00
> it feels like there is poison built up in my mind, then sleep clears it up/feel better.

I'm not sure how common this is, but I feel this acutely after sustained mental exertion (e.g. reading informational material for a few hours). A deep 15 minute nap takes the feeling away completely without any grogginess.
by algo_lover | 2025-07-30 20:30:05+00:00
Emacs jank on macos has been slowly killing me. Enough so, that I am thinking of completely jumping ship after almost a decade of using emacs.

I often end up facing lag and performance issues in several different aspects of using emacs. Every time I boot up vim or any of the modern editors (zed/vscode), I get shocked at how smooth they are.

I only have 3 realistic options at this point:

- stop using macos (won't because macbooks are the best hardware I can get)

- stop using emacs

- keep suffering

currently I'm doing #3, but I soon need to make the hard call and swallow the pill.

What will my next editor be? Zed? NeoVim? write my own? Is there any other lisp/emacs like editor?

EDIT: helix looks cool
by graemep | 2025-07-30 20:30:12+00:00
I do not think that really explains it.

For one thing you are arguing that living standards have fallen in rich countries because the wealth is more spread out. The numbers say that both rich countries and the world as a whole have better off.

It is more about the cost of things that are in limited supply (land, for example) and the distribution of wealth within those countries.
by cobbal | 2025-07-30 20:30:19+00:00
This is the only one that has bitten me personally, but I probably only noticed it because it was working and then taken away. I just assume there are more instances where something was never implemented in the first place for a political reason.

Edit: I also remember hearing that for a long time an ffi was forbidden because someone could use it to call proprietary software. Don't have a source on that one though.
Show HN: SubSlayer – Track and manage your digital subscriptions
by danteocualesjr | 2025-07-30 20:30:33+00:00
I built SubSlayer to solve a personal pain point: I was paying for multiple tools I barely used, and didn’t even realize it.

SubSlayer helps you: – Track your active subscriptions – Set cancel reminders – Simulate how much you could save

I built it as a solo founder. Still very early, and I’d love feedback from the HN community, especially on what features would be most useful next.

https://subslayer.app
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-30 20:30:40+00:00
Most and majority mean more than half, in the context of proportions.

>If there are 3 people and 2 of them have $5 each and the third has $6 it would be correct to say the third has the most money despite not having 50% + 1.

This is not an applicable example, as most is not being used to refer to the proportion of money. It is using a different definition of most, which is the top rank when ranking things by quantity.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-30 20:30:50+00:00
> I assume the Amrad is a Turbo 200 ... Titan HD is a good "traditional" alternative though.

Not Turbo 200. Amrad model I got is USA2226.

Trane OEM is CPT00659 so, ±6%.

My new AmRad is actually +10/-5%. Pic in the listing is fuzzy and taken 2013. It probably says +10%/-10%, not 16/16. Regardless I have a 10/5.

I appreciated your feedback tho.
by hollerith | 2025-07-30 20:31:13+00:00
For the entire 10 years I was a Mac user, a Japanese professor named Mitsuharu maintained a fork of Emacs with MacOS-specific features. I never came across any explanation for why the Emacs project didn't accept his changes (i.e., why he needed to maintain his own fork) other than some maintainers' wanting to discourage the use of non-Free OSes.

The good news is that this fork was very competently maintained, so I had a good experience in Emacs on OS X.

The 2 or 3 times I tried "vanilla" Emacs (the one published on fsf.org) it had bugs that weren't present in Mitsuharu Emacs. One of those times vanilla Emacs did not work at all: it displayed a window, but the window was very small (i.e., incapable of displaying more than a few characters) and the usual ways of enlarging a windows on OS X had no effect. My (typing blindly) evalling (set-frame-parameter frame 'fullscreen 'maximized) also had no effect.

The homebrew package named "emacs" got you vanilla Emacs. To get Mitsuharu Emacs, you needed to install the homebrew package named "emacs-mac" instead.

Maybe vanilla Emacs got better on OS X during the past 4.5 years. I haven't had access to a Mac during that time.
by neomantra | 2025-07-30 20:31:55+00:00
Thanks for replying and congrats on releasing your idea to the world. I just signed up to check it out and will use it in parallel with my project. I like your idea of session-based versus photo-based and also the approach of pre-printing QR codes. That is a simple workflow quite accessible to the less technical on both sides.

I don't think I have specific questions now, but I'm excited for the kinds of interactions it can spark. I mostly imagine getting lost in a sea of QR codes if it is not managed well. I was going to try to composite an extra copy for photographer reference.