MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-22 12:36:12+00:00
For JFK, and current regime, anti-science, Nasa cuts, etc... I think what you are espousing is the theory that sometimes you need to burn it down in order to rebuild. I really hope you are right. That is only silver lining to current times, is that maybe sometimes the current calcified structures need to be hit hard in order to re-form. I'm hoping it is that, as opposed to actually just burned down so far it never builds back.

Not to go off topic, it could be like Vorlon and Shadow war in Babylon 5. You need the side of order that can become stuck, and the side of chaos that can't really build anything. And they fight back and forth. Neither is really good/bad.

For research, FDA. I don't have an answer. I still think current system of scientific method, peer reviews, publishing openly to public, providing the raw data. All that, while it can have problems, I can't think of another way.

Of course, humans are fallible, and for any system to work, people need to stand up to fraud and bad ideas. But that comes down to individuals doing the right thing.
by II2II | 2025-08-22 12:36:15+00:00
Freedoms are a balancing of rights between two or more parties, and are never absolute. Complicating the matter futher: it is very unlikely that all parties are going to agree what that balancing of rights looks like. For example, someone who shares knowledge (e.g. a teacher) is going to have a very different perspective on copyright law than a person who sells knowlege (e.g. a publisher).
by anonymars | 2025-08-22 12:36:21+00:00
For what it's worth there are other considerations like wastewater processing capacity, especially when it rains

See e.g. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/whats-new/progr...

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/shared-sewer-systems-househ...

https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/submission/the-dirty-t...
by tmtvl | 2025-08-22 12:36:24+00:00
Where did that come from? 'You aren't allowed to prevent others from sharing this thing' is completely different from 'you have to share this thing'. 'Everyone is allowed to share everything' is a freedom, not a restriction.

Whether or not it's a freedom people should have is a difficult question to answer because we don't know what the modern world would be like without copyright (I expect creators would try and get paid for creating more works so it might look like how nowadays some shows end in cliffhangers to give the creators some leverage over the publishers to say 'look, people want to know what comes next, maybe you should let us do another season').
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-22 12:36:42+00:00
Honestly, now that I think about it, I am using a pre-2020 playbook. I don’t know what the hell I would do these days if I were still a pure developer without the industry connections and having AWS ProServe experience on my resume.

While it is true that I got a job quickly in 2023 and last year when I was looking, while I was interviewing for those two, as a Plan B, I was randomly submitting my resume (which I think is quite good) to literally hundreds of jobs through Indeed and LinkedIn Easy Apply and I heard crickets - regular old enterprise dev jobs that wanted C#, Node or Python experience on top of AWS.

I don’t really have any generic strategy for people these days aside from whatever job you are at, don’t be a ticket taker and be over larger initiatives.
by de6u99er | 2025-08-22 12:36:46+00:00
Since I started reporting them ad "Unwanted sexual content" I am seeing significantly less half naked persons desperately begging for sttention. But there's still the issue of all the comic and manga crap labeled as art. Bluesky needs to correctly identify and relabel those as comics and manga.

Would be nice if others would report them too, because there are kids on BlueSky and they don't need to see their uncles/aunts or neighbors sticking their butt into a camera.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-22 12:36:52+00:00
I'm still sad that Silverlight[0] (and Moonlight) died because people hated MS so viscerally back then.

It was actually really good for the time and lightyears ahead of whatever Flash was doing.

But people rather used all kinds of hacks to get Flash working on Linux and OSX rather than use Moonlight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
by netsharc | 2025-08-22 12:36:56+00:00
You should actually read the comment you reply to...

> If you maintain the price at "free", demand saturates and people stop stealing carts.

If the price is $1, the same people who'll steal them will keep stealing them (with a screwdriver it's easy to pry your coin back out of the slot anyway).

> it's also not rare for people to just leave the carts somewhere convenient for them

With the coin, guess what... it will be rarer, because the people have incentive to get their coin back. At least in theory. And if someone doesn't care about their change, some enterprising kids might return the carts anyway to gain some money, and the end result for the supermarket is the same: carts at their designated return locations. The worker just has to go to 3 or 4 of these locations instead of running up and down the parking lot collecting all the stray carts.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-22 12:37:09+00:00
> If the issue is so bad, that 70% of your neighbors actually come to a meeting and vote against what you're doing, it must be something really bad.

Two dangers with that.

First, mandatory votes are ... difficult. They exclude a lot of people, particularly those that gotta work two jobs to make ends meet, thus giving more power to those people who have lots of free time (i.e. pensioners, SAHM busybodies).

Second, tyranny of the majority. The original intention of HOAs was to keep out Black and Asian people and, in some cases, Jews [1]. Getting the majority of 70% in a majority white 'hood is an open invitation for harrassment.

If there is bad behavior, such as someone working on "car projects" at night, or letting junk pile up in their front yard, the solution is zoning, noise ordnances and environmental protection laws. Not HOAs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association#History
by thomashabets2 | 2025-08-22 12:37:56+00:00
Author here. No, I didn't misunderstand it. Interface variables have two types of nil. Untyped, which does compare to nil, and typed, which does not.

What are you trying to clarify by printing the types? I know what the types are, and that's why I could provide the succinct weird example. I know what the result of the comparisons are, and why.

And the "why" is "because there are two types of nil, because it's a bad language choice".

I've seen this in real code. Someone compares a variable to nil, it's not, and then they call a method (receiver), and it crashes with nil dereference.

Edit, according to this comment this two-types-of-null bites other people in production: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983576
by piva00 | 2025-08-22 12:38:02+00:00
> So you mean all those universities and other places that have been forced to spend $$$ on licenses under the new regime also can't be taken seriously ? Are you saying none of them took advice and had nobody on staff to tell them OpenJDK exists ?

This info is actually quite surprising to me, never heard of it since everywhere I know switched to OpenJDK-based alternatives from the get-go. There was no reason to keep on the Oracle one after the licencing shenanigans they tried to play.

Why do these places kept the Oracle JDK and ended up paying for it? OpenJDK was a drop-in replacement, nothing of value is lost by switching...
Show HN: Explaining Bundesliga predictions for the start of the season
by CloseChoice | 2025-08-22 12:38:04+00:00
Hi, we build a small ML model with data from the past 15 years to predict the outcomes of the first Bundesliga matches. We used explainable AI to visualize how these predictions were made. Let us know what you think.

Edit: don't bet or gamble, we build this for curiosity, not to push unethical businesses!
by lupusreal | 2025-08-22 12:38:31+00:00
Interest in lost media is a harmless hobby, which occasionally yields positive fruit. Reddit looked for the identity of the song "Subways of your Mind" for 17 years before it was found, and I'm sure the band was pleased to learn their music had found such interest so many years later. Where's the harm? Calling it "obsession" to make it sound bad can be done to any hobby.
by sgc | 2025-08-22 12:39:05+00:00
If it takes 10x the time to do something, did you learn 10x as much? I don't mind repetition, I learned that way for many years and it still works for me. I recently made a short program using ai assist in a domain I was unfamiliar with. I iterated probably 4x. Iterations were based on learning about the domain both from the ai results that worked and researching the parts that either seemed extraneous or wrong. It was fast, and I learned a lot. I would have learned maybe 2x more doing it all from scratch, but I would have taken at least 10x the time and effort to reach the result, because there was no good place to immerse myself. To me, that is still useful learning and I can do it 5x before I have spent the same amount of time.

It comes back to other people's comments about acceptance of the tooling. I don't mind the somewhat messy learning methodology - I can still wind up at a good results quickly, and learn. I don't mind that I have to sort of beat the AI into submission. It reminds me a bit of part lecture, part lab work. I enjoy working out where it failed and why.
by thecupisblue | 2025-08-22 12:39:13+00:00
It being a crime depends on who you are.

I'm in an EU country where banks go through all the necessary checks.

As someone who worked for a bank, I got hit by the AML check on a larger transaction, delaying it for over 3 months in the end, causing me to have to spend from my companies war chest instead.

Once, I mistakenly sent a large amount of money from my own account to my own account, which I had to spend multiple emails and phonecalls explaining the mistake to the tax authority.

But, we had cases where people illegaly transferred hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars to accounts without anyone reacting.

We have a large amount of real estate that is "bought in cash". It is especially popular among politicians who declare getting a large "loan in cash from their mother" or "their parents collected money for years". When you compare the salaries to the amount of cash earned, it is obviously impossible unless they were genius investors too.

We have corruption cases in which money was transferred from government companies into personal accounts without anyone's knowledge or anyone triggering a check.

These transactions are somehow legitimate and not investigated.

The AML system as it is is not just inefficient, it is suspect to corruption, human error and vindictiveness.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-22 12:39:30+00:00
The thing holding AI back is that LLMS are not world models, and do not have world models. Being confidently wrong is just a side effect of that. You need a model of the world to be uncertain about. Without one, you have no way to estimate whether your next predicted sentence is true, false, or uncertain; one predicted sentence is as good as another as long as it resembles the training data.
by aliceryhl | 2025-08-22 12:40:05+00:00
> IIRC Alice from the tokio team also suggested there hasn't been much interest in pushing through these difficulties more recently, as the current performance is "good enough".

Well, I think there is interest, but mostly for file IO.

For file IO, the situation is pretty simple. We already have to implement that using spawn_blocking, and spawn_blocking has the exact same buffer challenges as io_uring does, so translating file IO to io_uring is not that tricky.

On the other hand, I don't think tokio::net's existing APIs will support io_uring. Or at least they won't support the buffer-based io_uring APIs; there is no reason they can't register for readiness through io_uring.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-22 12:40:06+00:00
> If all the drug cartels in the world were limited to pawning copper scrap it would make me very happy indeed.

That isn't one of the alternatives. Notice that the laws against "money laundering" are the status quo and the cartels continue to get enough money to buy entire countries.

> I am also sure that it would benefit a large number of people who live in countries where cartel money dominates the economy.

I feel like I must not be explaining this well enough.

The cartels are going to end up with money, not assorted junk. When they launder money through a car wash, they're not doing it because they want to have their cars washed. They're doing it so they can claim their drug profits are car wash profits and then deposit them into a bank.

The problem with trying to prohibit "money laundering" is that nobody except for the criminals knows that it's happening. If you deposit money into a bank, the bank has no way to know what you were actually paid for, they only know what you tell them, and then criminals just lie to them.

Anyone can convert an arbitrarily large amount of money to stuff and then back to money again. You simply buy something fungible and then sell it again. That prevents anyone observing financial transactions from tracing the money because they have no way to know that the stuff Alice bought and the stuff Bob sold was the same stuff. The cartels know this which is why the laws against money laundering are completely ineffective.

And when you have a law that causes a ton of collateral damage to innocent people while being highly ineffective at producing value to the public, you should get rid of it.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-22 12:40:08+00:00
> there's still the issue of all the comic and manga crap labeled as art

I'm not into comics or manga, but surely they're art?

And I mean this quite aside from the annoyance of seeing them when you don't want to. I'm not saying you should have to see them. It just doesn't seem right to imply that you shouldn't have to see them because they're not art.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-22 12:40:24+00:00
Having run out of training data isn't something holding back LLMs in this sense.

But I agree that being confidently wrong is not the only thing they can't do. Programming, great, maths, apparently great nowadays, since Google and OpenAI have something that could solve most problems on the IMO, even if the models we get to see probably aren't models that can do this, but LLMs produce crazy output when asked to produce stories, they produce crazy output when given too long confusing contexts and have some other problems of that sort.

I think much of it is solvable. I certainly have ideas about how it can be done.
by torginus | 2025-08-22 12:41:40+00:00
While C# is great, but the problem with programming languages, is you're net only picking a language, but a kind of company who uses it, and a kind of person who writes it.

Which means if you write C#, you'll encounter a ton of devs who come from an enterprise, banking or govt background, who think doing a 4 layer enterprise architecture with DTOs and 5 line classes is the only way you can write a CRUD app, and the worst of all you'll se a ton of people who learned C# in college a decade ago and refuse to learn anything else.

EF is great, but most people use it because they don't have to learn SQL and databases.

Blazor is great, but most people use it because they don't want to learn Frontend dev, and JS frameworks.
by psychoslave | 2025-08-22 12:42:12+00:00
> We learn about the past by looking at the present all the time. We also learn about the future by looking at the present.

We infer about the past, based a bit on some material evidence we can subjectively partially get some acquaintance with. Through thick cultural biases. And the actual material suggestions should not come to far from our already integrated internal narrative, without what we will ignore it or actively fight it.

Future is pure fantasm, only bound by our imagination and what we take for unchallengeable fundamentals of what the world allows according to our inner model of it.

At least, that's one possible interpretation of the thoughts when an attention focus on present.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-08-22 12:42:29+00:00
That's only for web design. The EO speaks of:

Sec. 2. Establishing America by Design and the National Design Studio. (a) There is established a national initiative, America by Design, to improve comprehensively the visual presentation and usability of Federal services provided to the public in both digital and physical spaces, creating first-class online and offline experiences for Americans.
by xtracto | 2025-08-22 12:42:30+00:00
I recently started writing Go for a new job, after 20 years of not touching a compiled language for something serious (I've done DevKitArm dev. as a hobby).

I know it's mostly a matter of tastes, but darn, it feels horrible. And there are no default parameter values, and the error hanling smells bad, and no real stack trace in production. And the "object orientation" syntax, adding some ugly reference to each function. And the pointers...

It took me back to my C/C++ days. Like programming with 25 year old technology from back when I was in university in 1999.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-22 12:42:43+00:00
The irony here is I've never found my neighborhood HOA problematic. They plan the block party and take care of the landscaping of the neighborhood signage.

My condo HOA experience was so bad I would never again recommend someone buy a condo. They refused to look at a structural issue until I got a lawyer and then refused to let the residents see the engineering report for the building we legally own. (Note: If you ever experience this, get out. There is no louder signal of an unsafe structure than "the engineering report is privileged".)
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by thomashabets2 | 2025-08-22 12:43:22+00:00
Author here: I'm not talking about the value. I'm talking about the lifetime of the variable.

After checking for nil, there's no reason `err` should still be in scope. That's why it's recommended to write `if err := foo(); err != nil`, because after that, one cannot even accidentally refer to `err`.

I'm giving examples where Go syntactically does not allow you to limit the lifetime of the variable. The variable, not its value.

You are describing what happens. I have no problem with what happens, but with the language.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-22 12:43:53+00:00
So which of these benchmarks are most relevant for an ordinary user who wants to talk to AI about their health issues?

I'm guessing HeadQA, Medbullets, MedHallu, and perhaps PubMedQA? (Seems to me that "unsupported speculation" could be a good thing for a patient who has yet to receive a diagnosis...)

Maybe in practice it's better to look at RAG benchmarks, since a lot of AI tools will search online for information before giving you an answer anyways? (Memorization of info would matter less in that scenario)
by op00to | 2025-08-22 12:43:54+00:00
The point isn't that businesses are closing profitable stores, but the stores are unprofitable for reasons other than shrinkage. You're being fed a narrative about crime. Why? Who benefits?

> Finally, corporate claims are not holding up to scrutiny, and are being used to close stores that are essential assets for many communities. For instance, the CEO of Walgreens has acknowledged that perhaps retailers “cried too much last year” and overspent on security measures that failed to reflect real needs. And although the National Retail Federation said that “organized retail crime” drove nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021, the group later retracted its claim; it now no longer attaches a dollar amount to money that is lost due to retail theft. And in memorable cases, major retailers have chosen to maintain stores with much higher rates of crime, while closing others.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities...
by gf000 | 2025-08-22 12:44:00+00:00
I can reasonably likely run a 30 years old compiled, .jar file on the latest Java version. Java is the epitome of backwards and forward-compatible changes, and the language was very carefully grown so the syntax is not too indifferent, someone hibernated since Java 7 will probably have no problem reading Java 25 code.

> Go, with all its faults, tries very hard to shun complexity

The whole field is about managing complexity. You don't shun complexity, you give tools to people to be able to manage it.

And Go goes the low end of the spectrum, of not giving enough features to manage that complexity -- it's simplistic, not simple.

I think the optimum as actually at Java - it is a very easy language with not much going on (compared to, say, Scala), but just enough expressivity that you can have efficient and comfortable to use libraries for all kind of stuff (e.g. a completely type safe SQL DSL)
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-08-22 12:44:00+00:00
I live in a neighborhood with an HOA, next to a guy who works on his motorcycle all day, loudly blaring his awful music, and then waking us up at 5 AM every morning when he drives the bike to work.

The HOA will break down my door about grass that is not strictly manicured, or about some algae on my front siding, but you know the one thing they will not lift a finger about? Noise complaints. Funny, that.
by brookside | 2025-08-22 12:44:03+00:00
> As a practicing Psychotherapist for over 25 years,

I'm trying to find a therapist after about 20 intermittent years of disappointing therapy experiences.

I find CBT trite ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/16/cbt-in-the-water-suppl... )

But psychodynamic is directionless and in a way that never seems to help either, and hides behind the lack of measurement. It could be amazing with a wise Irvin Yalom figure, but 99% of us aren't interacting with somebody that thoughtful.

How well, generally, do you think therapy works? What works best?
by fruitworks | 2025-08-22 12:44:48+00:00
I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.

4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot.

If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.

I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are burying their own graves.
by kayxspre | 2025-08-22 12:44:53+00:00
This is similar to how Wikipedia reacts to Internet Watch Foundation (a UK CSAM Watchdog) when it decided to block the page "Virgin Killer" (a 1976 album by German band Scorpions) and the album cover image page. FBI found no issue with it, but the UK did. The result means ISP using the IWF blocklist are getting their traffic routed to proxy server, and Wikipedia usually blocks open proxies. Eventually, news outlet reproduced the artwork in question, rendering the block moot, and IWF rescinded the block a few days later [1]

I wonder if 4chan will simply decide to ban visitors from UK from visiting based on regulatory compliance. Sometimes when I accidentally clicked on a streaming sites that were not available in my country, their error page will be simply "This content isn't available in your country", but the URL contains GDPR, even though the site is not EU-based at all, and that I'm not visiting it from EU country either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_...