MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by umeshunni | 2025-08-01 19:11:40+00:00
I think people in the West haven't come to terms with the fact that the gravity and dynamism of the global economy has shifted eastward and since the 2000s is in India, China and the Middle East.

For every depressed westerner posting doom and gloom online like this, there are a million people who have been lifted out of poverty and into the middle class and have experience upward mobility like nothing else in history.

My friends in China show me entire cities that didn't exist 20 years ago but now have millions of people whizzing around in high speed trains, driving electic cars and making 20-30x what their parents used to make.

My home town in India went from having a one-lane road when I was growing up to being connected to a national highway, an international airport and a subway.

The town I lived in the Middle East in the 90s now peppered with skyscrapers and factories and one of the largest ports in the world.

Meanwhile, my neighborhood in the Bay Area complains about building a new apartment complex and looks pretty much like what it did in the 1970s. And then people write blog posts about how nothing is improving.

Maybe it's time to look outside your narrow viewpoints and realize there's world outside that has changed dramatically and you're left behind.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 19:11:59+00:00
I might be missing what you mean, but I tried to explain as best as I could how I would understand these things to be "related to "politics" ".

Offensiveness of difficultly in pronouncing native Alaskan name - I believe this would be grouped under the umbrella of something like "linguistic imperialism" by people of particular political bents, which is an issue that at least heavily relates to politics.

Land acknowledgements - As far as I can tell, these have always been politicized because they originated "with indigenous Australian political movements and the arts" at least according to Wikipedia. I don't know much about the subject

Rude clueless white trope - I think this is to some extent a "positive" inversion of the "noble savage" trope, which Wikipedia tells me was historically political.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-01 19:12:01+00:00
Using a source-based distro (previously Gentoo, now NixOS) lets me solve the problem for myself, even if my PR never gets accepted. Right now the count is at 4 patches in software I use that I submitted upstream that were (for one reason or another) never accepted.

In at least one case, I later found out that I was not the only person to submit a fix for the problem I was running into, but their discussion on the ML also went without comment 3 years earlier.
by ad_hockey | 2025-08-01 19:12:08+00:00
A couple of considerations are:

- You have to decide whether to bump the entire API version or only the /foo endpoint. The former can be a big deal (and you don't want to do it often), the latter is messy. Especially if you end up with some endpoints on /v1 (you got it right first time) while others are on /v4 or /v5. Some clients like to hard-code the URL prefix of your API, including the version, as a constant.

- You still have to decide what your deprecation and removal policy will be. Does there come a time when you remove /api/v1/foo completely, breaking even the clients who are using it correctly, or will you support it forever?

It's not easy at all, especially if you have to comply with a backwards compatibility policy. I've had many debates about whether it's OK to introduce breaking changes if we consider them to be bug fixes. It depends on factors like whether either behaviour is documented and subjective calls on how "obviously unintended" the behaviour might be.
by nbbaier | 2025-08-01 19:12:10+00:00
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by benreesman | 2025-08-01 19:12:18+00:00
I've found Hackage to just completely shit on PyPI in terms of:

- there's a good library - its relatively clear which 2 or 3 represent standard choices - its going to be well-tested including performance

The Haskell library ecosystem is a lot like the Python one with the bottom 80-90℅ lowest quality stuff sliced off. There's one of two things and they work. I was needing an HTTP2 client the other day, which a good one? Long pull in any language. Haskell has it of course.

You're right on data science stuff but that's everythinf: Julia and R get killed on libraries in data science. Lattner is working on that problem and he's not nailed it yet, its a "hard for Chris Lattner" problem.

One thing that might be throwing you off (it misled me at first) is that when a Haskell library has had very little work for a few years? That usually means its done, it changes when the world of foobar changes and only when the world of foobar changes.

There are exceptions to this, I wish effects and optics libraries had more consensus, but mostly there's a right one and it works great.
by thisisit | 2025-08-01 19:13:37+00:00
I am always confused by this narrative. People extolling the virtues of old media organization as if those people weren't toeing the government line and were cold robots with no bias.

It is the rise of media org like Fox news where these kinds of comments have started surfacing. Because for Fox news is more commentary than facts. And then the narrative trick from Fox and other conservative media outlets have constantly pushed an agenda - "others do it too".

It has led to comments like these and this is fine.

> It's Fox, but for the Left

But then when you start adding stuff like this:

> and with a bit more of an intellectual spin. What makes it most annoying is their utter blindness to their own bias. The Fox hosts know that they're taking one side of a story. I've never gotten the impression that any of the NPR hosts are even that self-aware.

It becomes clear you are regurgitating RW talking points and both side-ism. And because Fox is worse, the only saving argument is that Fox at least knows their bias. God help this country if this is level of intellectual spin people can give to reinforce their points.
by m463 | 2025-08-01 19:13:47+00:00
The model s has terrible phone docks. Don't get me started on cupholders, I'll bet people have drink mishaps all the time that affect driving.

I'm actually kind of serious about this - keeping people's stuff secure and organized is important in a moving car.

I'm surprised the touchscreen controls and retiring of stalks aren't coming under more safetly scrutiny.

With the new cars without a PRND stalk, how can you quickly reverse the car if you nose out too far and someone is coming from the side? will the car reverse or go forward into danger?
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-01 19:13:49+00:00
Although I have no direct knowledge of the implementation of these policies

People need to keep in mind that return to office is going to steadily be a more and more orwellian affair.

Monitoring of internet was always kind of standard at this point of course, and attempts to track users remotely for attention and activity were already partially in the works.

But one thing that was nice about having your home is that they can't put cameras and those types of things outside of an approved device.

You have no such assurances in office in office. They can monitor you every second of the day and now they have AI that they can apply to those data streams.

Governments of course desperately want these capabilities and will fund them to no end so that they can apply a AI agents to the fire hose of monitoring information that governments have at their disposal.

Corporations will be happy to pilot these in the environments that they have greater totalitarian control of over compared to "the public".

Combined with the massive unprecedented labor bargaining hammer that AI gives them, acceptance of this by the United States and Democratic workforces is inevitable.

And with that, it'll pave the way towards total societal monitoring and control.
by hypersoar | 2025-08-01 19:13:49+00:00
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by TimTheTinker | 2025-08-01 19:14:07+00:00
That's a very impressive demo of Datastar, and I like his minimalist approach to frontend architecture.

However, the display logic is implemented as a web component containing (a) a lot of tags written as a big HTML file for streaming state from the backend, and (b) a canvas element rendered by a WASM component. If that fits your definition of SSR for frontend apps, no problem and I think it's great. But that's not what I would have defined as SSR.

Some hurdles I imagine Datastar will need to overcome before this pattern can see widespread adoption:

- there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to statically bind the frontend markup to the backend, so scaling this to multi-team apps will be a challenge.

- the markup and associated binding feels very similar to template-driven SPA frameworks (data- attributes for everything, really? That's fine in the resulting DOM tree but it's got to be a pain to author and maintain for large apps). Perhaps if someone could build a JSX-like code-to-markup DSL, that problem could be ameliorated.

- he is demoing it from his local machine, so we don't get to see (a) how much server-side compute is required at any scale (even >10 users), (b) how strongly latency can affect rendering, and (c) overall bandwidth requirements.

That being said, I know video game companies have streaming games deployed, so in theory this approach has merit (though I suspect only users who lack beefy home computers and have great internet connections opt for it).

Overall, this feels like less of an indictment of the SPA pattern in general* and more of a "let's see what happens if we change what we assume the constraints are."

*Yes, he's right that a lot of modern SPA development tooling is terrible. Dojo from the 2000s is still arguably easier to develop in than most modern SPA frontend stacks, especially since it can be run with only a static file server, no build required.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 19:14:31+00:00
When I'm not busy worrying about everything else, I worry that there's assuredly an explosion of local corruption, especially outside of cities large enough to still have something resembling actual local news media, that we can't even begin to get a handle on because it's... well, it's invisible now, that's why it's (surely—I mean, we can't possibly think corruption is dropping or even remaining steady, with the death of the small town paper and small-market TV news rooms, right?) happening in the first place.

I think it's, quietly and slowly, the thing that's going to doom our country to decline if something else doesn't get us first (which, there are certainly some things giving this one a run for its money). The Internet killed a pillar of democracy, replaced it with nothing that serves the same role, and we didn't even try to keep it from happening, so here we are, we doomed ourselves by embracing the Internet quickly and not trying to mitigate any harm it causes.
by ploxiln | 2025-08-01 19:15:13+00:00
> 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

That is the same thing, though! ... very quickly escalating a probable mundane situation to very serious accusations!

I'm the father of a 3 year old daughter, who I take to the playground multiple times per week. This is in Brooklyn, NYC. I haven't had any issues. But I believe the horror stories, there are just a sufficient number of crazy people out there, overly concerned "karens", or reddit warriors, or whatever. People overly confident in their judgement based on a cursory one-sided description of events. It seems you want to "fight fire with fire" or "play hardball" because that seems fair or necessary, but ... jeez. This is why guys are cautious and disengage.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-01 19:15:17+00:00
Sorry but I do not care to even process the excuses, lies, and deflection from Visa or Mastercard. These companies need to be regulated like the public utilities they are, and forced to accept every transaction that isn’t proven to be illegal ahead of time. Or replaced with government funded (public, gasp!) payment services. I do not like monopolies or duopolies (like here) or oligopolies anywhere. But especially when it comes to things as fundamental as speech or payments, since we are a democracy.

Remember, it’s never just about games. These same companies censored journalism and accountability when they blocked donations to Wikileaks like 15-20 years ago. They’re too powerful and cannot be trusted. Call and write to your legislators every day to get payment processors regulated and fined.
by liendolucas | 2025-08-01 19:15:19+00:00
Yes, but that can be simply solved by the banking app to re-ask for the PIN instead of directly declining to take the screenshot.

If it asks me again my PIN when I'm about to hit "transfer" when sending money, there should be no problem in doing the same for the screenshot.

Instead at least my banking app forces me to navigate through an unfamiliar menu and donwload a PDF. A waste of time compared to taking a screenshot.
by sdenton4 | 2025-08-01 19:15:59+00:00
To add slightly more detail: Most research math programs in the US are 5(ish) year 'combined' masters+phd programs. The first couple years are basically course work, seminars, finding your area and advisor, and then the rest is the actual research work. It's not uncommon to leave after the first couple years with a Master's degree.
by saguntum | 2025-08-01 19:16:06+00:00
I'm in my mid 30s and have definitely noticed a gap in perception between people in their early 20s who haven't experienced much of pre-2016 politics and the older folks. The younger folks are much less alarmed because they weren't familiar with the "normal political discourse" that occurred when they were children.

It makes it hard to be optimistic that there is any plausible roadmap back to some form of normalcy in the medium term.
by booder1 | 2025-08-01 19:16:13+00:00
They will not be punished, e.g. uber and Airbnb were never really punished despite blatantly ignoring the law.

I would claim incapable but it doesn't really matter, outcome is the same.

GDPR won't protect you nor will data privacy laws. Most of the world simply doesn't care enough. I wish it were different.
by h3lp | 2025-08-01 19:16:17+00:00
Well, I don't really understand the detailed content of executables compiled by GCC/LLVM either, but I am not going to go back to writing assembly language. Having said that, I am old enough to remember worrying about compiler bugs, just like today I worry about LLM hallucinated vibe code. The hope is that we'll figure out how to make it more reliable---and I believe there seems to be a clear path forward.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-01 19:16:43+00:00
They're lying by omission.

> At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.

This part is doing all the work. They aren't going to spell it out for you. But you can read this great ACLU filing that explains, in detail, what they are intentionally glossing over when they say "appropriate controls". https://www.aclu.org/documents/federal-trade-commission-comp... (Federal Trade Commission Complaint - MasterCard, Inc.

Document Date: August 30, 2023)
by gruez | 2025-08-01 19:16:56+00:00
>Point out to me a single piece of software utilizing a EULA that supports individual redlining and renegotiation on a user by user basis, with a feedback loop tight enough to be reasonable. I'll wait.

If you want apps priced at $0.99 or even $99.99, standard form, take it or leave it contracts is the only game in town, for pure economic reasons. No company is going to bother getting legal involved to negotiate a bespoke contract for anything with less than 5 figures TCV.
by jlokier | 2025-08-01 19:16:59+00:00
You can run models the size of this one locally, even on a laptop, it's just not a great experience compared with an optimised cloud service. But it is local.

The size in bytes of this 120B model is about 65 GB according to the screenshot, and elsewhere it's said to be trained in FP4, which matches.

That makes this model small enough to run locally on some laptops without reading from SSD.

The Apple M2 Max 96GB from January 2023, which is two generations old now, has enough GPU-capable RAM to handle it, albeit slowly. Any PC with 96 GB of RAM can run it on the CPU, probably more slowly. Even a PC with less than 64 GB of RAM can run it but it will be much slower due to having to read from the SSD constantly.

If it's a 20B MoE, it will read about one fifth of the data per token, making it about 5x faster than a 120B FP4 non-MoE would be, but it still needs all the data readily available for multiple tokens.

Alternatively, someone can distill and/or quantize the model themselves to make a smaller model. These things can be done locally, even on a CPU if necessary if you don't mind how long it takes to produce the smaller model. Or on a cloud machine rented long enough to make the smaller model, which you can then run locally.
by vel0city | 2025-08-01 19:16:59+00:00
> and then purchased by local PBS stations

If those stations go off the air, who is buying that content?

It's like arguing it doesn't matter if the stream dries up the plants don't get water from the stream, the plants get the water from the ground. Where did that water in the ground come from? The stream!

You're right, these shows aren't going off the air tomorrow. But this does affect the funding for the shows produced by PBS and NPR.
by panarky | 2025-08-01 19:17:12+00:00
If you you make a manufacturing error without intentionally deceiving your customers through deceptive naming of features, you have to pay millions per death.

If you intentionally give the feature a deceptive name like "autopilot", and then customers rely on that deceptive name to take their eyes off the road, then you have to pay hundreds of millions per death.

Makes sense to me.
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by sho_hn | 2025-08-01 19:17:42+00:00
> To make these kinds of accusations as a woman tears your life apart in unimaginable ways.

Salient. I do not doubt that false accusations happen, but the world is generally set up to disincentivize women from leveling accusations at anyone. If you're a woman who speaks up, you may be perceived as "damaged goods" (by others or even just yourself), it turns your identity into that of a victim, your successes get attributed to pity, it may lead others to believe you're easy to manipulate, etc. It's generally very unlikely for women to wield this as as a tactic, even if they were Hollywood-style sociopathic villains, because there's almost never anything to gain.
by lenkite | 2025-08-01 19:18:02+00:00
> Can you cite specific examples of this "bias?"

Read https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru... by NPR veteran that shows how NPR developed a left wing bias over time. Also at https://archive.is/H7QNM

https://washingtonstand.com/news/npr-has-zero-republicans-87...

NPR Has Zero Republicans, 87 Democrats on Editorial Staff
by johnQdeveloper | 2025-08-01 19:18:03+00:00
These companies need to be properly regulated so this statement is true (instead of false) it is also ironic they can post this from one of the most expensive / highest income communities in the country.

The average income is significantly north of a quarter million per household.

So it explains why these people are out of touch to such a degree that they can insist something being possibly illegal in <random country> means a global ban is warranted.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-01 19:18:42+00:00
While some of this is murky because the ZIRP period ending also coincides with the RTO movement, I think this bit is interesting:

I think its interesting that its driven more by RTO policies than it is driven by say, offshoring of jobs, which is the downside risk of full remote companies[0], instead its by the desire for control[1].

One thing RTO should make plain for everyone is executives and their managers value control over substance. Productivity did not decline with the rise of remote work[2], to quote the BLS study

>Looking at a more aggregate level to measure the impact of remote work on economic performance across 43 private sector industries, Fernald et al. (2024) find little relationship between labor productivity and the ability of workers in an industry to work entirely remotely, suggesting remote work neither hindered nor helped raise aggregate productivity growth

[0]: Said in a different way: when a company becomes efficient at employees being remote, there's less barrier of entry for them to hire workers in different countries.

[1]: Companies seem to be using return to office as a two pronged thing: a silent layoff, that is, shrinking headcount that doesn't get replaced but done in a way where they're counting on natural attrition (IE people quitting) and a way for them to take back more control, which ultimately is the point, no matter what the headline reasoning is.

[2]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productiv...