MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deltarholamda | 2025-08-01 18:32:36+00:00
What if "he cornered me in the elevator" was actually "he talked to me while we were alone together in the elevator, but I have background trauma that made this extremely uncomfortable for me".

That's the point I was trying to make. One person's interpretation can be wildly different than another's interpretation of the same event. If we are going to assign preference to the interpretation that is the most damaging to both parties involved--she is traumatized, he is fired--then perhaps it is better to completely separate the sexes.
by zamalek | 2025-08-01 18:32:36+00:00
The think the premium that these devices suffer from is how niche they are. Mechanical is relatively niche to begin with (programmers and gamers, mostly). Then you add the idea of making a single large investment for the good of your health, and the pool gets even thinner. Just think of all the garbage chairs that people sit on in front of their computer; let alone keyboards, which they barely think of (until they get RSI, that is).

I'm currently designing one that is a crossover between the characorder and a Logitech vertical mouse (but not actually a mouse), and I hope to make it cheap. It has been going poorly, to say the least. The biggest problem so far is smaller hands, multiple designs scrapped when put in front of such a person. Maybe I should take inspiration from Svalboard instead? Furthermore, Average Joe is not going to tolerate the massive dependency on layers that these keyboards often have, so I'm still fighting in my head with an approach for that.
by abeppu | 2025-08-01 18:33:00+00:00
As with many things, I wonder if we should start unbundling services the federal government provides. If many states like public broadcasting, what if a pool of states were to opt-in to continuing to fund it (and decide whether to limit it to supporting stations in those states)?

Some things (defense, diplomacy) perhaps can only be done through the federal government. But so many things (national weather service operations, HUD housing assistance, grants for local PBS stations, SNAP benefits) have a largely local or regional benefit. Rather than disassembling these things entirely, why not allow them each to be run by and for a coalition of states (or even cities?) which opt to participate?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-01 18:33:10+00:00
Ok. No snark. Sessions, tabs, windows, tiling . All done in GUIs and done better.

Tmux is good when you have no gui.

But all this endless getting square pegs to fit in a round hole is what causes the snarks. Like you want to draw windows? Let’s use terminal characters instead of lines! Makes perfect sense.

I find it incredulous that a lecture had to get this guy to realize what’s wrong with tmux and he still doesn’t see that this problem can be avoided by using a gui. He still goes for terminal abstractions.

GUI is an obvious solution. But this guy is blind.
by timr | 2025-08-01 18:33:14+00:00
> Somewhat ironically a lot of the extreme cuts (this included) only serve to reinforce the status of major blue state metros as more desirable, since they have more resources available to fill the gaps left by federal austerity.

If the people in the red states aren't willing to pay for it, it would seem that they don't think it's desirable. Capitalism is funny that way.

I get that you're trying to say that the pie is smaller overall, but the principle still applies.
by esbranson | 2025-08-01 18:33:20+00:00
Yes that's my claim, as defined in Mexican law since that's more like most countries' legal systems.

I don't know so my claim is weak, my Wikipedia articles on non-US legal systems is extremely slow going, and I have not written articles on this particular topic outside the US. :( The real basis of my claim is that most of the world would be expected to have judicial procedures for seizing assets more akin to our CAF. What the US considers reduced rights, like no jury trial, is just how things are elsewhere. (Ain't no one with a right to a jury trial anywhere in the world ever gonna choose a bench trial, it's that much of a difference.)
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-01 18:34:08+00:00
I don’t know what to say. I explained my position and you find it lacking. I make no accusations of lack of understanding, I merely lay out my reason for all to critique and correct, and so you may understand my thought process.

Do you think that metaphors can be used too literally? All models are wrong, and some are useful. Let’s not let the perfect allusion, that I didn’t make, be the enemy of the good comparison, that I didn’t (in your view), make. I’m fine discussing my views, but I can’t change what I said originally.

No one is finding fault with you in this thread, least of all me. If you persist in finding fault where I readily admit fault through deliberation, I might be led to believe perhaps you protest too much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much...
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-01 18:34:17+00:00
It is a C library, and does not implement ASN.1 schema at all, only implements reading/writing the data. The caller is expected to implement most constraints that would be required, although you can limit the size of data being read, and the functions for decoding integers will automatically check that the type is correct (although you can disable type checking) and will limit the values to those that fit in the variable that the decoded value is stored in (e.g. signed 64-bits, unsigned 8-bits, etc), and other functions that decode specific values will also normally check the type (although you can tell it to not check the type).
by salynchnew | 2025-08-01 18:34:20+00:00
This article appears to be focused mostly on the line of argument that there is some cabal of builders that keep housing prices high. This also mostly seems to use Dallas as a case study, which is weird, b/c you can't test a lot of other argument about the effects of building/permitting requirements.

It should probably instead be titled something like "This one anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"
by unnamed76ri | 2025-08-01 18:34:28+00:00
You don’t think it might have something to do with the Internet and having access to all of the knowledge in the world on your phone?

I’m glad libraries exist but a lack of traction if the idea were introduced today would have more to do with the impracticality of them than any political leanings.

My town spent millions on a small expansion to the library this past year. A project that if it was in the private sector would have cost a couple hundred grand at most. I can’t tell how they managed to spend as much as they did.
Ask HN: AI Chat Agent vs. Traditional Personal Website?
by JaiRathore | 2025-08-01 18:34:46+00:00
I just put together this quick AI agent that answers questions about me and my work: https://jairathore.com

Is it better / more useful than a classic one-pager? If yes, what top 2–3 tasks should a personal agent handle for visitors? All feedback welcome.
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by rjsw | 2025-08-01 18:35:34+00:00
I think that my problem is similar to this [1]. Have tried more than one USB to serial adaptor with the same result, the adaptors work fine on other boards.

The board boots Armbian fine with nothing connected to the serial port.

[1] https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues/1073
by burnte | 2025-08-01 18:35:37+00:00
I agree. I swore off of cable news many years ago because they're ALL toxic. They all have to keep people watching so it's stuffed full of breathless journalism making you think something major is happening any moment now. We'd all be better served with NO 24/7 news networks at all. NPR is not breathless, and is very fair.

I hated Fox News because it's so full of lies. I hated CNN because it's making mountains out of molehills and manufactured outrage. MSNBC was less yellow, but it's still full of opinion shows engineered to make you upset. NPR didn't do that, ever. They'd say when democrats screwed up just as much as when republicans did. It was true.
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-01 18:35:50+00:00
Look I get it. You hate social media and what it is doing to people's attention spans. I do too for the most part and I'm sure we agree on many things regarding this. But there is value in short form content. It's the type of content that matters, not the length. Short films, short stories, 2-3 minute songs, etc. These things can and do evoke meaningful emotional experiences. I actually made the site as an antidote to the doomscroll which many have found it helpful to be.
by assword | 2025-08-01 18:35:58+00:00
> Jeez... what a damning indictment of today's Universities.

There’s a modern phenomenon I’ve been thinking about but have struggled to put a name to.

Everything just becomes so generalized, streamlined that it becomes impossible to operate outside of the pre defined “happy path”.

AI will make this increase 100x as taking humans out of the loop seems to accelerate this process.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-01 18:35:59+00:00
That's my point. I don't understand why you'd undertake performative protests against an idea you can't triumph over. Do you remove your songs from Apple Music because of the Client Side Scanning or Push Notification scandals? Would you remove your songs from Bandcamp because Epic made Fortnite and diminishes the tragedy of real war?

Extrapolated to the extremes of "I don't want megalomaniacs publishing my music" you just end up with nobody ever hearing your songs.
by jordanb | 2025-08-01 18:36:11+00:00
As an example when I was active in housing in Chicago one of the organizations that was with us on the left was a developer of affordable housing: https://www.bickerdike.org/

Several of the activist actually worked for this developer.

Real leftist housing rights supporters are not against developers. They are against for-profit, private equity, land banking speculators, and yeah nimby homeowners. In general we hated the Oak Park type nimby liberal more than we hated the right to be honest.
by citizenpaul | 2025-08-01 18:36:42+00:00
Chromebooks can be had dirt cheap and for the most part are not customizable in any way. Laptops not so much. Most of the world is not SV or google. They don't put thought into the hardware you use other than is it the cheapest we can get for this persons position.

On the other had I've seen execs/directors that barely turn on their PC get $10k monster laptops because they are considered important. While staff get recycled garbage equipment or a $1000 max per person equipment budget.
by RigelKentaurus | 2025-08-01 18:37:01+00:00
Man, this was hard to read. Irrespective of what actually happened, this found-guilty-by-popular-opinion mentality is a corrosive evil, and it's been worsened by social media. Hard to believe that this community just ignored "innocent until proven guilty" so casually.

I used to naively believe that people are generally good. I still believe that but with a major qualifier. There are some truly toxic people out there who are seriously mentally fucked up and don't hesitate to screw with others' lives. They seem normal and nice at first, but if you look closely enough, you see the trail they have left behind.
by homefree | 2025-08-01 18:37:07+00:00
There won't be peace when one side has an explicit goal to kill all the Jews, the other side is Jews that don't want to be killed and neither is willing to compromise.

You can ignore that underlying moral framing, but it's the basis of the conflict and it's why Israel has a morally superior position.

The Palestinians have over and over again said they don't want two states, they want to destroy Israel and kill Jews - the idea they want two states only exists in the minds of western leftists, it's a failure to understand Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood.
by grafmax | 2025-08-01 18:37:16+00:00
Jobs and culture are indeed reasons for people to move to the city, but it’s odd to claim that housing types don’t factor into consumer demand. Because housing types do, developers are incentivized to build housing that is the most profitable (such as less dense and luxury housing) not housing that best serves the needs of low income people (as more expensive units make more money). At best we can only expect minor effects from deregulatory mechanisms.

Which brings us to public housing. The main obstacle to public housing is funding these projects. Reasonable deregulation of public housing projects makes sense, sure, even though that is not the main blocker.

But public housing deregulation is not the argument of abundance, it’s YIMBY deregulation. Its proponents claim that it’s market based supply/demand effects that need to be unleashed by deregulation to provide adequate housing. Because “abundance” holds that YIMBY deregulation is the solution - not public housing - it misdirects efforts to address housing issues faced by low income people.
by MaxikCZ | 2025-08-01 18:37:19+00:00
I hear this repeated so many times I feel like its a narrative pushed by the sellers. Year ago you could ask for glass of wine filled to the brim and you just wouldnt get it. It wasnt garbage in, garbage out, it was sensibility in, garbage out.

The line where chatbots stop being sensible and start outputting garbage is in movement, but slower than avg joe would guess. You only notice it when you get an intuition of the answer before you see it, which requires a lot of experience on range of complexity. Persisten newbies are the best spotters, because they ask obvious basic questions while asking for stuff beyond what geniuses could solve, and only by getting garbage answer and enduring a process of realizing its actually garbage they truly make wider picture of AI than even most powerusers, who tend to have more balanced querries.
by hitekker | 2025-08-01 18:37:36+00:00
"Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses." from https://wamu.org/story/19/05/15/guidance-reminder-on-abortio...

I'm not against abortion. In fact, I actually see the legal necessity of it in an overpopulating world. But NPR's bias on the front does not align with my own bias or, I think, with most people.

Everyone has bias and that's perfectly human. The problem is when we don't own up to it. NPR tries to cover theirs with circuitous language and lies-by-omission, https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/05/29/7280694.... That double-talk served well in insulating them from criticism, but it ended up costing them the public trust.
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by tmiku | 2025-08-01 18:38:21+00:00
More so than tables per unit time, it's dollars per unit time. When I was a server, the usual metric of how well you performed on a given shift was the total of your bills ("how much you sold"). The best servers were good at encouraging parties to spend on the things they were on the fence about: the appetizer, the second drink, the dessert. Even with the volatility of individual tipping decisions, getting your tables to order more increases the EV of your total tips.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-01 18:38:26+00:00
I think she learned to do the fish the way kids learn to draw a star. It's a motion they learn to do, and she wanted to do that simple motion. She's good at knowing a shape she wants to make and drawing it but I think knowing a gesture she wants to make is different.

And then I think when she consciously thinks about it - trying to do it the opposite way, or later the normal way after being judged repeatedly - she can't make the motion that way. But I bet if she was just thinking of the shape and trying to draw that shape it would be zero issue.
by nige123 | 2025-08-01 18:38:32+00:00
Perl's maxim - there's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI) can make Perl easy to write but harder to read.

Thankfully LLMs can de-obfuscate even the gnarliest Perl with command line utilities like wat (https://raku-advent.blog/2024/12/02/day-2-wat-llm-coding-too...)
by stickfigure | 2025-08-01 18:38:32+00:00
Thankfully someone posted a link to the document: https://pretty.direct/consentorder.pdf

The apology came from four people who signed the Open Letter who live in a special jurisdiction (the UK) where the burden of proof for libel is on the defense. The costs and damages were £20,000.

This exposes the narrator as unreliable. When I first read his paragraph, I read it as implying that a court judged the veracity of the women's claims. The words seem deliberately constructed to provide that impression.

In fact the court judgement is merely an acknowledgement that the UK defenders can't possibly prove the truth of the accusations and therefore they fold. Whether or not you prefer the UK system or the US system (which requires the plaintiff to prove falsehood), there's no vindication here. I feel lied to.
by nikshepsvn | 2025-08-01 18:38:43+00:00
hey hacker news! got into writing down my ideas and thoughts quite recently and this is my take/proposal on the future of the agent economy and how we might reach ASI. it's still very much an early idea/draft but i'd love to put this out there and iterate on it with your feedback.

any attention is better than no attention, so here is my proposal to the void (:
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by firefax | 2025-08-01 18:40:03+00:00
The correct response is to stand your ground and say "No, I'm trying to connect a hurt child with their parents. Are you their parent? If not, we'll cut this favor short and just call child services".

Then do it. Call 911, say there's an injured, unattended child at the playground, and you're getting a hostile response from folks as you try to locate the guardian so you'd appreciate it if a social worker collected the kid until the parents can be found.

There is nothing illegal about speaking to a child, and when you soft play people like this you empower them. Let them have to show a cop a DL to get their kid out a squad car to learn their lesson if they can't handle polite help.

(Also, what is this narrative around HN about being accused of nefariousness at playgrounds? I used to eat my lunch at one near me because it was the only park with a trash can nearby and I didn't want to lug my trash back to my apartment before going on my way towards the city -- nobody ever said a word to me aside from asking for a ball if it rolled over.)
by sho_hn | 2025-08-01 18:40:13+00:00
I think one of the reasons communities like Scala's are susceptible to this pattern is that they have some characteristics of a movement and compete for attention with other movements, so there's a knee-jerk response to protect the movement and all the effort put into it from being associated with bad stuff. Most signatories to this letter were likely erring on the side of protecting their community, at the risk of an individuals' fate.

(I'm also discussing this neutral to the actual issue, which I don't know much about and haven't made my mind up on.)
by neilv | 2025-08-01 18:40:16+00:00
"Actively used" criteria scrods that critical old document you found, in which someone trusted it was safe to use a Google link.

Not knowing all the details motivating this surprising decision, from the outside, I'd expect this to be an easy "Don't Be Evil" call:

"If we don't want to make new links, we can stop taking them (with advance warning, for any automation clients). But we mustn't throw away this information that was entrusted to us, and must keep it organized/accessible. We're Google. We can do it. Oddly, maybe even with less effort than shutting it down would take."