MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gilbetron | 2025-08-04 13:33:45+00:00
This is a terrible suggestion, please ignore it.

If people have found an effective way to communicate information, leave them the hell alone. I have too often seen people like Auronis decide to come in and manage something to be proper, and then destroy the communication.

The appropriate thing to do is to find a way to augment, without interfering, the channel to shore up any weaknesses.

Formal channels are often too formal - people don't want to look dumb, or get chastised for asking something incorrectly. Formal channels are intimidating, not welcoming.

The point is knowledge sharing, not "appropriate" knowledge sharing.

I love how the OP was like, "hey, we created this informal channel and communicated valuable info to the whole company", and then Auronis is like, "yeah, don't do that!"
by pbmonster | 2025-08-04 13:34:52+00:00
I also misread that. The 0.005% is in relation to this:

> In the following analysis we assume that 3I/ATLAS is on its current orbit but vary the time-of-entry into the Solar System (or equivalently the time of perihelion), assuming 3I/ATLAS could have come at any time into the Solar System, and happened to do so such that it came within the observed closest approaches of Venus, Mars and Jupiter. The probability of this is 0.005

So exact same trajectory, but analyzed over a long period of time. If it came any earlier or later, it would almost never get this close to exactly those three planets.
by energy123 | 2025-08-04 13:35:09+00:00
Second this method.

The one thing I would really recommend adding to your constraints is to Don't Repeat Yourself - always check if something already exists. LLMs like to duplicate functionality, even if it's included in their context.

Can I ask why you have asked it to avoid abstractions? My experience has been that the old rules, such as avoid premature abstraction or premature optimization, don't apply as cleanly because of how ephemeral and easy to write the actual code is. I now ask the LLM to anticipate the space of future features and design modular abstractions that maximize extensibility.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-04 13:35:21+00:00
Sincere question: what is the alternative you have in mind? Banning gambling or deregulating it?

One of the two great sins of the otherwise competent and progressive Blair/Brown New Labour government in the UK (1997-2010) was that they extensively deregulated and relaxed rules about gambling and simply taxed it.

The worst excess of this -- thankfully now finally heavily regulated -- was the Fixed Odds Betting Terminal:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/19/a-stup...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/27/high-s...

An excellent pair of articles by the brilliant Victoria Coren-Mitchell, but read the first one especially.

Deregulated gambling almost destroyed British society and created a new class of bankrupt addicts. And the internet and app stores are making it bad even as successive governments try to back away from the stream of revenue.

I personally think the solution is a near total ban on everything except horse and greyhound racing (for now) and state-controlled lotteries, but we are so far away from that now.
by gwbrooks | 2025-08-04 13:35:27+00:00
In most markets with state lotteries, it's easier to pass a lottery than a tax increase; they're typically sold as a way to fund schools or some other public good. It's an inefficient revenue capture in the sense that there are higher costs (marketing, printing lottery tix, profit for the lottery operator, etc.) but you can get it across the finish line and not have to worry about your opponent calling you out for raising taxes.

California's lottery, converted to a tax and using topline revenue numbers, would be ~$235 annually per resident.
by LLgordon | 2025-08-04 13:35:31+00:00
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by blondie9x | 2025-08-04 13:35:40+00:00
Mr Roger’s and Reading Rainbow will always be the best children’s programs ever made. No other show in history has been able to entertain children with real people as successfully as they were. You won’t know unless you let your children watch it. It’s just amazing because they engage with it and when you turn it off they don’t have a tantrum like many animated shows or Ms Rachel
by digitalsushi | 2025-08-04 13:35:41+00:00
why cant we? are you self-censoring because there's some policy forbidding us to talk about something clandestine here?

i dont have access to the joke, or inside club, or inner sanctum, and maybe theres other people like me that want to know more and if the mystery is self-imposed then i might respectfully push back that we cant talk about it
by incomingpain | 2025-08-04 13:36:21+00:00
I have some prompts ive saved and have been expanding as needed. I have say a dozen key features and a bunch of rules that need to be implemented. Not much is left for them to imagine. Then they need to get coding.

I also have 1 seat of my pants tests of 'give me a story' and its themed what my kid likes lately.

Overall from my testing, the good players like claude get it correct in the first go. Amazing. But i dont mind giving it feedback, what matters is how many times i need to recorrect it. qwen-coder was extremely excessive.
by bookofcooks | 2025-08-04 13:36:41+00:00
> To avoid the cost of updating the entire page, htmx only fetches a parent element and all of its children, but this runs into the problem that you must choose the common parent element for all the elements you want to update.

Not exactly, you can use Out-Of-Band updates, which means the server can arbitrarily choose to update specific elements outside the parent.

> So the author reaches the conclusion that htmx is not meant to be used for SPA style apps. It's meant to add a little bit of interactivity to otherwise static HTML.

Can you clarify where I seemed to have come to this conclusion, as this is not what I intended to express.
by theluketaylor | 2025-08-04 13:37:08+00:00
Great example from just this week.

Here in Ontario the province passed a law directing themselves to remove separated bike lanes from Bloor Street, University Avenue, and Avenue Road in Toronto, claiming it would reduce traffic congestion. They are three important surface arteries in and around the downtown core.

A group of cyclists sued the government under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with the verdict being handed down this week. The cyclists won, though it's far from the end of the story since the government can appeal or invoke the notwithstanding clause.

One of the lone voices who filed court statements in support of the government was a retired Toronto fire captain, who stated without evidence that bike lanes increase both congestion and emergency response times. The judge was not convinced, in part from lack of supporting data, but also because the sitting fire chief said in a public meeting the fire department had not recorded an increase in response times.

Collisions involving cyclists have gone down around 50% on those roads since the lanes went in, despite cycling volume nearly doubling. A retired firefighter still felt compelled to testify it would harm emergency response. Wow.
by Zigurd | 2025-08-04 13:37:16+00:00
Yes. Most people don't understand either physical and chronological distance enough to understand that contact with an alien civilization, if it exists or ever did exist, is vanishingly unlikely to happen because of time, physical changes to solar systems, distance, the endurance of civilizations, the speed of light, etc. Loeb is pandering to the UFO-susceptible.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-04 13:37:53+00:00
I've done this research in 4 different large metropolitan areas, including Chicago.

There are a handful a major problems:

1. They don't guarantee a specific make, model, or configuration. They guarantee a hitch receiver, but they don't guarantee minimum payload capacity, brake controllers, tow mirrors, axle ratio (important for towing), or engine configuration (also critical for towing). This alone is pretty much a breaker. Again, a truck isn't any use if it cannot legally tow your configuration.

1b. Rental trucks are almost always lowest trim levels. They're not going to have a tonneau cover, advanced safety features, or creature comforts of the truck you own/lease.

1c. They do not guarantee fuel capacities or offer extended range tanks. This can be a major problem when you're towing in the middle of nowhere or in mountainous areas.

2. They do not guarantee they will have inventory available when you need it. Everyone wants to go camping and move during major holiday weekends, so it's neigh impossible to actually rent one during peak times. This argument holds against any sort of "just rent from a niche provider". Renting doesn't work if somebody else is renting the vehicle you need during the time you need it.

3. It's wildly inconvenient to actually rent a truck. For example, Enterprise does offer truck rentals - but they come from truck-centric rental locations, geared towards business and commercial use. They basically only operate during standard business hours. That means getting a rental truck requires taking time off.

Some companies offer fleet rentals that basically solve all of the issues above - except these are really more like leasing programs. You can get a month-to-month rental, but prices are pretty absurd. Not to mention, you still have a truck sitting in your driveway for the part of the month you're not traveling.
by supplied_demand | 2025-08-04 13:38:02+00:00
== In the real world, Australia is significantly closer to A and further away from B than France is; and, unsurprisingly, France has significantly greater immigration-related social problems than Australia has.==

Your example completely ignores the facts of history and geography in favor of simplicity and a narrative.

Australia is a former colony, France is a former colonizer. Australia is an island, France is a small part of a much larger continent. Density is considerably higher in France than Australia.

There is a large immigration blowback happening in Australia today, even with your ideal policies.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-27/have-the-political-wi...
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-08-04 13:38:07+00:00
Ive had so many problems woth e prescribe. Half the time its "just not working right now" the other half they send to the wrong place, or they send to a pharmacy that doesnt have supply and you cant find out that theyre out of stock until they recieve the script. At which point you have to cancel and then contact your doctor to resend. Which can take several days. Whereas with paper prescriptions you just drive to the next pharmamcy.

Theres pros and cons to both
by hermitcrab | 2025-08-04 13:38:13+00:00
I wondered what the story is of the 14 year old who tried to stow away on a flight from Sydney to Tokyo? They weren't exactly escaping political oppression in a third world country.

The story is here:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/keith-sapsford

Someone even (by chance) got a photo of him falling.
by em-bee | 2025-08-04 13:38:24+00:00
whatever [...] they think will eliminate the need to hire people, will provide instead

the problem is that whose who do that thinking want to enrich themselves and not provide for others. if that doesn't work, then they won't do it. so the question is, how do we get from the current situation to this life of abundance without letting the majority of people suffer in the transition. because that is hat will happen if we keep going as we are. less and less labor is needed, and the focus is on getting the money from those who still have an income while the rest are pushed into poverty.

i do not believe we will be able to make this kind of transition without a serious push in moral education. this can only work if we change our attitude towards those who can't find work.

personally though i do not believe we will ever need to eliminate work. there are so many worthwhile things we could do. i rather envision a future where the majority of jobs are in education, healthcare and research, almost everything else can mostly be automated. i believe humanity would benefit immensely if we took advantage of all of human potential instead of letting people stay at home.
by clusterhacks | 2025-08-04 13:38:27+00:00
Just to add some hope and a different perspective, we received 23 applicants for an entry-level or early-career software developer position when it was open for a couple of months in early 2025. This is about the same number of applicants we usually get for an opening.

Applicant count for similar positions by year:

23 - 2025 (the position I mentioned) 31 - 2025 10 - 2019

The above are three jobs where I was on the hiring committee and are relatively recent. My organization is relatively well-known but also pays a little bit below market in general.

I do think the market is very rough right now for software developers. I also know for a fact that "attractive" hiring companies can get a crazy number of applicants for each opening. SAS was famous for getting 1,000+ applicants per job just after the dotcom bust in the early 2000's.
by MandieD | 2025-08-04 13:38:34+00:00
I don’t know what it was like before I came over two decades ago, but I think you’re likely right - there are tons of little casinos and sports betting parlors in even small towns in Germany, and unless they were explicitly declared off-limits to soldiers by the post/base commander, he’d have been at one of them gambling away his paychecks, and exposed to people who would not have been likely to get on base who could have caused him even more trouble.
by ivanbakel | 2025-08-04 13:38:36+00:00
I don’t exclusively use vertical splits - often I opt for a four-corner split if I need more than 2 panes at a time.

But your avoidance of vertical splits likely comes for the same reasons I have a rotated screen - shrinking the vertical space in a buffer by any amount on a horizontal display quickly hits some kind of ergonomic limit where you just can’t see enough of the file at a time. I find that not only splits, but also console output, search results , etc. take up too much vertical space.
by patentatt | 2025-08-04 13:38:53+00:00
Peppa pig has little to no value though, whereas many people find Bluey wholesome and touching and sometimes really poignant. To each their own, but at least Bluey tries to encourage creativity and play and fun beyond jumping up and down in muddy puddles. The short episode length can be a natural disengage checkpoint with Bluey too, as long as auto play is turned off.
by throwaway22032 | 2025-08-04 13:38:54+00:00
You’re just seeing division.

The blue haired woman won’t date the fisherman and the farmer girl won’t date the metrosexual city boy.

Somehow you’re getting stuck on one side being universally correct, which in some extreme cases might be reasonable, but generally you are just looking at a societal split rather than one side moving hard.

IME, as a mid 30’s bloke in the UK in a stable relationship, guys haven’t significantly moved right wing, society as a whole has feminised (mostly in large cities). If anything it’s the women moving away from the previous norms - polling struggles with this because it defines “how the world was 30 years ago” (e.g. the home that almost everyone I know grew up in) as being hard right / conservative.
by the_sleaze_ | 2025-08-04 13:38:56+00:00
I believe what he's saying is either embrace the full power and maintenance of a JS client side framework, or just use ssr'd templates. I agree with them, that HTMX isn't attractive because it doesn't solve any issues I find important. I largest of which is I don't "hate" react and I don't attach emotionally to any arguments about "frontend"
by derdi | 2025-08-04 13:39:05+00:00
Gotcha. I've never had a problem with this usage. I guess I see the objection of "the goal is to prove the theorem" vs. "the (initial) goal is the theorem". It strikes me as overly pedantic, but we're talking about formal methods, so I guess pedanticism is warranted.

I do want to note that systems usually use terms like "current goal" or "active goal", which do imply a sense of progress. I never felt that they imply that the current goal is a brand-new thing. It's a transformed version of the previous goal, hopefully made up of simpler parts that eventually become so simple as to be trivial, which then completes the overall proof.
by DannyBee | 2025-08-04 13:39:07+00:00
I just spent a few weeks testing about 25 different pdf engines to parse files and extract text.

Only three of them can process all 2500 files i tried (which are just machine manuals from major manufacaturers, so not highly weird shit) without hitting errors, let alone producing correct results.

About 10 of them have a 5% or less failure rate on parsing the files (let alone extracting text). This is horrible.

It then goes very downhill.

I'm retired, so i have time to fuck around like this. But going into it, there is no way i would have expected these results, or had time to figure out which 3 libraries could actually be used.
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by bityard | 2025-08-04 13:39:32+00:00
> Besides, it's not like you can boycott Mastercard or VISA.

Why not? Lots of people, especially in lower income brackets, don't have ANY credit cards at all. I know many. They buy groceries and gas with cash and pay their utilities by ACH or mailing a check. Everything else they need, they buy locally.

What you mean to say is that it's _inconvenient_ for you personally to boycott Visa/Mastercard. Which may be true enough.
by betaby | 2025-08-04 13:39:39+00:00
> Yeah margins in groceries are great.

On some definitely are. At least in Canada grocery stores can get better margins by not selling prunes which go from green to dry (or rotten) hile on shelf. Various fruits are sold at loos and I see why.

At the same time I don't think kind-of AAA beef sold for $55-$110CAD has bad margins.
by gwbrooks | 2025-08-04 13:40:27+00:00
There's no standard definition of what constitutes the press.

Now, if the question is some flavor of: Do Hacker News posts and comments enjoy First Amendment protections generally described as "freedom of the press?" Absolutely.

The press isn't a special class under 1a; "or of the press;" in the First Amendment simply means you're free to write and publish -- not just speak -- without interference from the government.
by piva00 | 2025-08-04 13:40:27+00:00
I don't understand the relationship between those, the wage to COL is not "so bad" comparatively to the majority of the rest of the world, it's a rich continent, and Western Europe is by any metric one of the richest places in the world while Eastern/Southern Europe is comparatively rich if you measure against most other countries outside of Europe, Oceania, and North America.

You are again comparing it against the USA, the very outlier, and in specific places of the whole country even, of course then everything else will be "so bad" except for very few places on the whole Earth...
by Balgair | 2025-08-04 13:40:36+00:00
I did one of these once. Once.

I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever.

It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start.

It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I could have used to apply for another job, or cook, or sleep, or exercise, or spend time with family. But no, like an idiot, I talked at a bot for that time for literally no reason.

Like, sure maaaaybe the company is going to use it as a screen for 'real' people. But the odds that it's not just another hoop they have for you to jump through are nil. If they send an AI 'interview' at you, that's the exact same as an email requesting yet more portfolio submissions. Pointless.
by tomhow | 2025-08-04 13:41:03+00:00
There was a brief moderation error, in which I changed the capitalisation to "How we built Bluey’s World", assuming that the article was about the immersive attraction called "Bluey’s World" [1,2], which has been open in Brisbane since last November.

I can attest that it is incredible; we took our kid a few weeks ago and it exceeded expectation. Probably more exciting for the parents even than the kids. Strongly recommended if you can get to Brisbane or if it comes to a city near you some day.

[1] https://www.bluey.tv/blueys-world/

[2] https://www.bbcstudios.com/news/bluey-s-world-opens-in-brisb...
by photochemsyn | 2025-08-04 13:41:04+00:00
Whataboutism is designed to deflect attention from a particularly egregious example of malfeasance, corruption, incompetence etc. by claiming "everyone's doing it, why pick on my guys?"

Palantir really is much like the private mercenary firm Blackwater - they seem happy to sell their services to anyone with little consideration of the consequences, rather like IBM in the 1930s who saw the rising authoritarian regime in Germany as a good customer, with no concern for what their technology might be used for. This is remarkably similar to Palantir's eagerness to sell their tech to Israel, where it seems to have been used to aid in decimating the Palestinian population. This exposes Palantir to the same kinds of charges IBM faced, as long as we are making that comparison.
by matt_s | 2025-08-04 13:41:21+00:00
A slightly different viewpoint is that sharing in public or larger private channels allows for knowledge sharing and collaboration. Sometimes the key person is wrong because they aren't the only one working on something. I know that ego might get in people's way sometimes but other people in the team and in the organization also have valid perspectives. As a manager, its important to try and get to a best solution and that means collaboration, not a specific person's approach all the time.

The redundancy also helps the key person be able to disconnect when on vacation. If you are the sole knowledge base for some critical part of the company, might as well drag the work laptop with you every where you go.