MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-08-01 18:56:30+00:00
Right, but drastically fewer people are consuming linear NPR/PBS content. My guess is that at this point most NPR consumption occurs via podcasts (maybe 60/40? there's still a big drive-time component, but podcasts eat into drive-time too!), and presumably an even sharper shift to the PBS streaming site.

Like, for elderly viewers, availability of linear media still matters (something I've learned tediously through serving on a local commission managing our cable franchise). But... that's basically it?

So, back to: this is not an existential threat to PBS or NPR. I think people think I'm being glib when I say the Internet is a bigger threat to PBS (as an institution called "PBS") than this funding cut. I'm not being glib.
by starkrights | 2025-08-01 18:56:38+00:00
A slippery slope is fallacious when the argument is made with little evidence or reasoning to connect the current state/action to the supposed bottom of the slope. Whether or not you agree with the reasoning is one thing, but there’s been a great deal of argument and discourse talking about the ways we are approaching worse and worse things, and the ways we have purportedly already progressed down the metaphorical slope. Acknowledging fallacy is one thing, but categorically dismissing all arguments that discuss the (observed and/or potential) repercussions that can arise from current trends and actions on account “slippery slope is a fallacy”, with absolutely zero critical thinking applied to argue against the reasoning and/or alleged evidence of the slope is, well, unreasonable, I feel.

You can argue that the original comment just said “it’s a slippery slope!”, and so that specific conversation is not very valuable, but there’s a lot of surrounding discourse that makes “haha you’re wrong/your topic is invalid because you only said slippery slope!” Is obtuse at best.

And if I didn’t clarify enough, it’s not as if “slippery slopes” don’t and/or physically can’t exist. It’s just that frequently people claim there is one with no argument to support it, just that “it is” a slippery slope, and that it is scary/true just because of the way that it is. That’s fallacy.
by frendlysquirrel | 2025-08-01 18:57:28+00:00
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by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 18:58:05+00:00
The comparison for something as openly partisan on the left as Fox News, in US media, would be something like Democracy Now! or maybe The Nation.

The thing is, though, there are a few components here: there's level of favorability toward a certain kind of politics, which some barely-popular left-leaning outlets roughly match Fox News on, plus propensity to lie and exaggerate. And there's reach.

Nothing left-partisan in the US that I'm aware of touches Fox on either of those latter fronts—propensity to just make shit up, and (certainly not) reach.

Nobody's putting Democracy Now! on in waiting rooms. Hell IDK maybe at Planned Parenthood, never been, wouldn't know, but not at a dentist's office or at the auto shop or what have you.

There are equivalents to Fox News on the Left (Fox News viewers think it's MSNBC because that's what Fox News and AM radio told them, LMFAO, no) in the US, in terms of level of commitment to supporting partisan causes. There's nothing like it as far as willingness to deviate from reality to do so, nor in reach. Nothing remotely close.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-01 18:58:31+00:00
This roughly tracks with my own thinking on the scenario. I don't understand the perceived danger.

This is a Dad who also frequently goes to playgrounds. Tbh, in my experience, most moms are super kind and generous to a man who's out alone playing with his kid because it's the sort of thing they want to encourage/reward.

The only times I've ever felt discriminated against as a male parent by female parents is in group play settings where the women form a clique and don't really want you to talk to them, but even then they're usually mature enough not to have the kids feel any of this, and nobody owes me letting me socialize with them, so it's whatever.
by Jaketeagle | 2025-08-01 18:59:04+00:00
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by benreesman | 2025-08-01 18:59:16+00:00
They're remarkably useless on stuff they've seen but not had up-weighted in the training set. Even the best ones (Opus 4 running hot, Qwen and K2 will surprise you fairly often) are a net liability in some obscure thing.

Probably the starkest example of this is build system stuff: it's really obvious which ones have seen a bunch of `nixpkgs`, and even the best ones seem to really struggle with Bazel and sometimes CMake!

The absolute prestige high-end ones running flat out burning 100+ dollars a day and it's a lift on pre-SEO Google/SO I think... but it's not like a blowout vs. a working search index. Back when all the source, all the docs, and all the troubleshooting for any topic on the whole Internet were all above the fold on Google? It was kinda like this: type a question in the magic box and working-ish code pops out. Same at a glory-days FAANG with the internal mega-grep.

I think there's a whole cohort or two who think that "type in the magic box and code comes out" is new. It's not new, we just didn't have it for 5-10 years.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-01 18:59:39+00:00
Global vars?

So with a Singleton what you can do at least in Java land is have your service invoke the method to get the Singleton semi-global object.

So you can mock that method invocation to return a different object. So you basically have the local object to play with in your test and won't be affecting any actual real global state

But basically the article was just saying just use global variables. Does python have a means for then intercepting the value request and data assignments for that global variable for the local scope of the testing code? Or is it hardwired like a global variable, presumably is?
by majormajor | 2025-08-01 18:59:47+00:00
It's really not. Many people are strongly inclined to believe claimed victims and disbelieve reflexive "I didn't do it" claims. Accusations have a lot of strength generally.

Does "believe victims" avoid triggering your feelings better?

It just happens in this case that the accusations flow predominantly one way due to common behavior differences between men and women, and historically it's been one of the areas where the allegations were least believed by the legal system* so "believe women" becomes shorthand for "believe claimed victims of sexual harassment or worse."

Consider the stories around Weinstein or R Kelly. "Open secret" sorta thing where people in the know avoided the guilty party. Yet nobody took it seriously enough to take legal action. There are a lot of other crimes you couldn't get away with in the open like that for so long.
by ggreer | 2025-08-01 18:59:55+00:00
Leaked internal documents show that last year, Starlink made $72M net income on $2.7B in revenue.[1] Their revenue growth rate is ≈90% year over year. They're spending most of that on expansion (paying SpaceX for more launches, manufacturing more/better satellites, and manufacturing terminals). If they wanted to, they could scale back these expenditures and rake in the money. But long-term, they stand to gain more if they spend their revenues on ways to grow their business. Their customer base has increased by 30% since those financial statements came out, so their finances are most likely in even better shape now.

For comparison, last year Viasat had $4.3B in revenue and lost $1B. This year their revenue has been flat. They lost revenue in communication services (probably from Starlink) and gained revenue in military contracts.[2]

1. https://www.scribd.com/document/886692980/GI-2139325374

2. https://investors.viasat.com/static-files/c89c3424-4ad3-4fe2...
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by guywithahat | 2025-08-01 19:00:59+00:00
> The company must pay $329 million in damages to victims and survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages.

> A Tesla owner named George McGee was driving his Model S electric sedan while using the company’s Enhanced Autopilot, a partially automated driving system.

> While driving, McGee dropped his mobile phone that he was using and scrambled to pick it up. He said during the trial that he believed Enhanced Autopilot would brake if an obstacle was in the way. His Model S accelerated through an intersection at just over 60 miles per hour, hitting a nearby empty parked car and its owners, who were standing on the other side of their vehicle.

On one hand I don't think you can apply a price to a human life, but on the other 329 million feels too high, especially since Tesla is only partially to blame, it wasn't FSD, and the driver wasn't using the system correctly. Had the system been being used correctly and Tesla was assigned more of the blame, would this be a 1 billion dollar case? This doesn't hold up logically unless I'm missing something, certainly the victim wouldn't be getting fined 329 million if it was decided to be his fault for not looking at the road
by selbyk | 2025-08-01 19:01:18+00:00
I feel like your chosen examples are very disingenuous. If you're comparing data harvesting/leakage and video games to the atrocities caused by Big Military and the direction it's headed, you must be very disconnected from the real human casualty and suffering.

But to answer your point, yes. People have the autonomy to not do business with individuals and corporations that don't align with their values. It's a personal choice. You may not understand it, but if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.
by dang | 2025-08-01 19:01:32+00:00
> You clearly don't understand

Could you please stop being aggressive with other users in comments here? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and it's very much against the site rules. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: this has unfortunately been a problem for quite a while:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697685 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955972 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498260 (Sept 2020)

We ban accounts that keep doing this and won't stop when we ask them, so it would be really good if you'd fix this.
by hopelite | 2025-08-01 19:01:52+00:00
Imagine how people like me feel that have been warning of this for an unspecified number of decades now.

I was told that I don't understand the internet and technology when I said that all these types of things would be happening, as it easily predicted if you even remotely integrate a basic understanding of human nature.

Reality though is that, sure, you and me may for the time being be able to get around some of these efforts, but what does that matter when the vast majority already don't avail themselves of any of the subject resources, and the regime's control measures will only expand from here and will make it nearly impossible for even people like us to get access to things, let alone share them.

My advice; try to "hoard" as much valuable information, data, and knowledge as possible; especially things regime really does not like and keep them offline and ideally in shielded storage. Maybe it will be for nothing and I am wrong, but maybe you may create the cache of human knowledge that survives into the future and humanity can uncover and recover from your "backup".

We are really looking at a digital Fahrenheit 451 scenario or like when Kings and Bishops sent out their henchmen to smash printing presses and torture anyone who dared disseminate information that was not regime approved thought. It may not seem like it today, especially since it is all of course only about saving children and countering "piracy", and we know of course that those are never just feigned intentions to obscure nefarious objectives that always turn out to be true.
by reimisdev | 2025-08-01 19:01:56+00:00
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by ryandrake | 2025-08-01 19:01:57+00:00
I don't think we can chalk these up to "it's just Reddit, amiright?" I have a daughter, and I've personally had a non-zero number of negative interactions with justice-moms on the playground / at kid events. Are those interactions extremely rare? Yes. Did it freak me out a little? Yes. Are these kinds of anecdotes amplified on Reddit? Yes. A dad needs to keep in mind that he's likely to encounter it at least once in a while, while also not avoiding all life on the off chance the it happens.
by MisterBastahrd | 2025-08-01 19:02:00+00:00
This has been an attack on democracy over 40 years in the making. Conservatives have been openly saying what they've wanted to do all the time, but most people thought there'd never be a moment where they'd actually have enough power to pull it off. Meanwhile, liberal politicians have and still are operating under the delusion that they don't have to pass laws when they gain power, they can merely cast feelings and hope that the courts will back that up.
by mulmen | 2025-08-01 19:02:00+00:00
> Right, but drastically fewer people are consuming linear NPR/PBS content. My guess is that at this point most NPR consumption occurs via podcasts (maybe 60/40? there's still a big drive-time component, but podcasts eat into drive-time too!), and presumably an even sharper shift to the PBS streaming site.

Is the source of that 60/40 more substantial than any part of your anatomy?

> Like, for elderly viewers, availability of linear media still matters (something I've learned tediously through serving on a local commission managing our cable franchise). But... that's basically it?

Ok so you hear from elderly viewers that they care about this content and because you don’t hear from anyone else you assume they don’t exist? Are you really satisfied with that conclusion? Is it possible other listeners just have less time to be involved? Have you reached out to get their thoughts? Why are you so willing to dismiss the elderly?

> So, back to: this is not an existential threat to PBS or NPR. I think people think I'm being glib when I say the Internet is a bigger threat to PBS (as an institution called "PBS") than this funding cut. I'm not being glib.

I do think you are being glib. I don’t care about the comparison you’re making and I think it’s incredibly shallow. By your own estimate this will negatively impact 40% of NPR listeners. The existence of a larger threat is no consolation.

Why do PBS and NPR need to compete with anything? This is a public good, not a competitive business. That’s the entire point.

Does this funding cut somehow help NPR and PBS generate non-linear programming or online content? Of course it doesn’t. This is a bad thing for NPR and PBS even if they continue operating in spite of it.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-01 19:02:03+00:00
Wellbeing doesn't have a price tag. There's no amount of money someone could pay you to make up for your daughter dying early or your son becoming disabled.

However, $329M sounds like an imaginary amount of money in a liability claim. If this guy crashed into a parked car without Tesla being involved, the family would be unfathomably lucky to even get 1% of that amount.
by wincy | 2025-08-01 19:02:40+00:00
You can run a 4 bit quantized 120B model on a 96GB workstation card, the Blackwell Pro workstation, which are $7500. Considering the 5090 is bought by gamers for $3300 it’s definitely attainable, even though it’s obviously expensive.

I’m running a gaming rig and could swap one in right now without having to change anything compared to my 5090, so no $5000 Threadripper or a $1000 HEDT motherboard with a ton of RAM slots, just a 1000 watt PSU and a dream.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-01 19:03:01+00:00
> While driving, McGee dropped his mobile phone that he was using and scrambled to pick it up. He said during the trial that he believed Enhanced Autopilot would brake if an obstacle was in the way. His Model S accelerated through an intersection at just over 60 miles per hour, hitting a nearby empty parked car and its owners, who were standing on the other side of their vehicle.

Hard for me to see this as anything but the driver’s fault. If you drop your phone, pull over and pick it up or just leave it on the floor. Everyone knows, and the car tells you, to pay attention and remain ready to take over.
by larntz | 2025-08-01 19:03:18+00:00
If you're working locally I can't think of much. OSC52 works to copy to your local clipboard from a remote system (e.g., over ssh) from within tmux or nvim as long as you are using a terminal that supports it.

I use it to copy from remote system when I'm in nvim (`"+y`).

Here are a couple links that relate to tmux and nvim.

- tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Clipboard

- nvim: https://neovim.io/doc/user/provider.html#clipboard-osc52
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-01 19:03:22+00:00
$500 per hour for a media production seems like a weird number. It's either fantastically cheap for production costs and an atypical model for licensing costs. From what I understand radio licensing is usually done either per listener per time or per content (which might be only 25 or 50ish minutes a piece to allow for ads). It's quite high if it's the latter and would probably be a significant fraction of the operational costs for many smaller stations, far above their music costs.
by trhway | 2025-08-01 19:03:34+00:00
>In the next 25 years, Africa is projected to add around 900 million new urban residents — more than the current urban population of Europe and the United States combined. The scale and speed of this growth are historically unprecedented

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S222658562...

"estimated that approximately 500–550 million rural residents had transformed into cities and towns from 1978 to 2017 in China"

and if we add newly born in the cities then it would result in about the same number of new urban residents.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-01 19:04:01+00:00
> Perhaps this story should really be about why EV sales seem dramatically lower.

That would be because the article is poorly written, in that it only lists six brands, three of them very obscure. BEV sales are up relative to July 2024: https://mobilitysweden.se/statistik/Nyregistreringar_per_man...

That is, EV sales aren't lower, they're higher.

Also, Polestar sales are up year on year. I'd be reluctant to read to much into _month to month_ fluctuations.
by codedokode | 2025-08-01 19:04:12+00:00
> Is it the case the landlord hires the broker in that situation? Like the landlord hires the broker, the broker lists it and then the tenant pays the broker?

Yes. It costs nothing to the landlord in this case. However some landlords prefer to post the ad themselves and do not want to deal with the brokers, as well as some tenants avoid them too.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-01 19:04:20+00:00
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a huge "pedophile panic" going around these days--much worse than the "satanic panic" back in the 80s and the "video game panics" in the 90s. I don't think anyone wants to be the next viral video star with a caption like "Found a pedo at the park--put him on blast!"
by thechao | 2025-08-01 19:04:27+00:00
In my teens I worked with the statistics department at UTMB. That had a cast of characters there; many profs in the 70s and 80s, who'd gotten their degrees before WW2. A number of them had schooling of the form: Start school at 9-10, do 5 years of public school, got to a 1 year prep, do a year or two of college, do a two year PhD. Most of them had their PhD's by 22.
by rakeda | 2025-08-01 19:04:33+00:00
Thank you for that insight, indeed k8s uses pascal case. I have opened an issue to investigate further and resolve. https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge/issues/10

The color of the fields is not based on right or wrong but based on typing. Green is string, red is boolean, orange is object, purple is array, etc. I can definitely make that more apparent. https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge/issues/11

As for the empty object, there are a lot of objects are that incomplete that I need to go through and apply manual override definitions for (https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge/blob/main/src/componen...). Thank you for pointing out the two above. https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge/issues/12

For the fields that exist but aren't feasible for users to interact with, currently I'm puling in the schemas raw. but I do want to create a preferred fields override with commonly edited and changed fields to reduce clutter. https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge/issues/13

Thank you for the awesome feedback!
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-01 19:04:39+00:00
It’s a reference to a four-year-old discussion[1] in the Curl bug tracker about Travis CI introducing a similar prohibition on commercial activity in relation to open-source projects. The more general point is, fully open-source projects that earn money via support contracts are few and precious, and it’s a dick move to cut them off.

[1] https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7150
by const_cast | 2025-08-01 19:04:45+00:00
The US is about the same, 3 months is typical.

However it's still rare and companies rarely terminate that fast. They require lots of documentation, even in probationary period.

Why? Liability. You can fire someone in the probationary period, but it's not free. You can't fire them for being black or being disabled. That's still illegal.

So, to protect yourself, companies get documentation.