MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-04 11:00:23+00:00
> And even they wouldn't be as bad faith as you and claim that Democrats wanted that suffering.

Tell me as what else than deliberate want for suffering I should perceive the actions of ICE? There are rules and processes to deport people that are deliberately being broken by masked thugs not identifying themselves.

A discussion about enforcement of rules or even if these rules make sense (with the conclusion, say, of handing everyone who has legally worked and stayed out of trouble for anything but traffic tickets and smoking pot a permanent residence) might be had, I don't deny that. But the way the current administration runs rampant? That doesn't answer any of the multitude of questions, it just makes life hell for everyone affected - children that are US citizens who come home only to find out their parents got snatched by an ICE raid on their workplace, people who get deported to CECOT or other hellholes with no due process at all on sometimes not even evidence but outright fabrications, employers who have half their work force either snatched up and deported over night or the work force just vanishing because they are afraid of ICE even though they have legal status...

Oh and even before that, 'member Covid? People trying to apply for unemployment benefits who got stuck in bureaucracy?

With the current Republicans I am far beyond giving them the usual excuse of "don't assume malice when stupidity is sufficient".
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-04 11:00:50+00:00
> do you care about per-request isolation so much

> It's worth noting that Cloudflare/AWS Lambda don't have per-request isolation and that's pretty important for server side rendering use cases where code was initially written with client side assumptions.

It wasn’t just because of SSR. There’s numerous opportunities for security vulnerabilities because of request confusion in global state. Per request isolation is definitely something Cloudflare would enable if they had a viable solution from that perspective. As such it’s irrelevant the language you write it in - Rust is as equally vulnerable to this problem as JS or anything else.

> If you don't then deploying a container to AWS Lambda or GCP Cloud Run is already pretty easy

Yea, but cloud functions like your talking about are best for running at the edge as close to the user as possible, not for traditional centralized servers. It also promotes a very different programming paradigm that when you fit into it is significantly cheaper to run and maintain because you can decompose your service.

> It might be possible to offer better cold start performance with the TinyKVM approach, but that is still an unknown.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-with-clo...

You’d want to start prewarming an instance to be ready to handle the request when a TLS connection for a function comes in.
by AbsintheLabs | 2025-08-04 11:01:34+00:00
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by fvdessen | 2025-08-04 11:01:45+00:00
HTMX is indeed simple and lean, but unfortunately that doesn't mean solving common frontend problems with HTMX is simple either. After a decade of frontend dev and being tired of react/vue/etc, I tried HTMX, wanting for something leaner, but IMHO it has big problems, and I am back to react/vue.

The two biggest problems with HTMX is that being fully server side controlled you need to put the whole app state in the URL and that quickly becomes a nightmare.

The other is that the code of components is split in two, the part that is rendered on the first time, and the endpoint that returns the updated result. You need a lot of discipline to prevent it from turning that into a mess.

The final nail on the coffin for me was that the thing I wanted to avoid by picking HTMX; making a rest api to separate the frontend and the backend, was actually a good thing to have. After a while I was missing the clean and unbreakable separation of the back and front. Making the rest api was very quickly done, and the frontend was quicker to write as a result. So HTMX ended up slower than react / vue. Nowadays react/vue provide server side rendering as well so i'm not sure what Htmx has to bring.
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 11:03:22+00:00
> It's not an on/off switch, of course

Not as it is usually defined. Many places take inspiration from free market capitalism, like Javascript takes inspiration from C, but have developed their own systems. The US model is usually referred to as mixed-market capitalism and the EU model is generally thought of as a social market economy.

Of course, that's just semantics. While there is value in using shared terminology, you can make up any definition you want on the spot. You could call the old Soviet system "free market capitalism" if you really want to. The world is your oyster.
by Anon_troll | 2025-08-04 11:03:22+00:00
Extracting text from DOCX is easy. Anything related to layout is non-trivial and extremely brittle.

To get the layout correct, you need to reverse engineer details down to Word's numerical accuracy so that content appears at the correct position in more complex cases. People like creating brittle documents where a pixel of difference can break the layout and cause content to misalign and appear on separate pages.

This will be a major problem for cases like the text saying "look at the above picture" but the picture was not anchored properly and floated to the next page due to rendering differences compared to a specific version of Word.
by dotancohen | 2025-08-04 11:03:27+00:00
I'm not talking about programming. I'm talking about basic use of a keyboard and mouse. You just expected other people will know how, yet have no basic knowledge of other professions, even those that are arguably more important.

Do you have basic knowledge of your own body? Anatomy, for instance? I recently tore a rotator cuff, none of the four muscles mentioned I had ever heard of in my life. It would have helped me immensely had I not had to spend an evening googling what are actually basic medical facts.

Or how many people who drive know what a catalytic converter is, or what symptoms are typical of it failing? Or even what to do when certain idiot lights light up on their dashboard? The check engine light comes on, do you stop on the side of the road or can you continue to your destination? Or can you continue, but just to a garage? Do you have to do so at reduced speed? How about if the oil light comes on? How about if the low tire pressure light comes on? How about if the airbag light comes on? How about if the battery light comes on? How about if the light with an exclamation mark inside a triangle comes on? How about the light that looks like a profile of the car with skid marks under it? How about the light with the cryptic three letters ABS?
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-04 11:03:35+00:00
The docx standard, which was rather tendentiously named Office Open XML back when OpenOffice was still called that, is 5000 page long and that's only Part 1 of ECMA-376, with another 1500 pages of "Transitional OOXML" in Part 4 which is basically Word-specific quirks.
by Olreich | 2025-08-04 11:04:36+00:00
US students are expected to be able to read 104 characters by the end of 6th grade. While Chinese students are expected to be able to read 20k words by that time.

Characters in Chinese can be combined to make more words, and you need around 9k words in English to read a novel and 2k characters in Chinese to read a novel.
by tacostakohashi | 2025-08-04 11:04:38+00:00
I bet it would be fine if they stuck to Windows 3.1 and MS Word 6, or DOS + Wordperfect 5.1 (with no network connectivity) which was approximately what I used for my homework.

The problem isn't "computers", its the internet, and ads, and the fact that all "modern" stuff is just a thin wrapper around that.
by grafmax | 2025-08-04 11:05:28+00:00
Google’s DEI rollback might seem like it’s just an example of liberal-conservative culture war but what’s happening is more sinister than that. We should read it in context. A mega-corp strategically bowing before the government like this is an example of the growing authoritarianism as the US leans further toward white nationalism. The concentration camps and mass deportations are already occurring. Stripping racial minorities of citizenship is looking to be the next step - which may seem implausible until you consider how effective this regime has been at collapsing the checks and balances on its powers.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-04 11:06:11+00:00
But it seems fairly straightforward who it is.

If it was indeed Collective Shout's pressure campaign that led to Valve and itch.io being told by their payment processors to remove games, then this is how it went:

Collective Shout -> Mastercard -> Mastercard's head of brand risk (or equivalent role) -> Mastercard's business partners -> Valve and itch.io

We know it was Mastercard who told the payment processors what to do, as the rule they cited to Valve says "in the sole discretion of the Corporation, may damage the goodwill of the Corporation" -- the Mastercard Corporation used its sole discretion to tell payment processors what to tell Valve and itch.io. The payment processors did not decide this for themselves.

Mob bosses order hits, wise guys carry them out. The mob boss has clean hands.

Keep the pressure on Mastercard.

We need to stop these side-channel attacks on democracy. If a government deems some media lawful, you shouldn't get to de-facto ban it by going after publicity-averse private companies that provide hosting, payment processing, etc. https://protectthestack.org/
by ivanbakel | 2025-08-04 11:06:34+00:00
> I think most people lack horizontal space more than vertical.

Is this your own experience? I’ve personally rarely suffered for horizontal space, but very often for a bit more vertical space, especially with web-browsing now being so vertically cluttered.

I think many workflows are top-to-bottom in a way that benefits from more vertical space to keep it all in view - though development is probably exceptionally well-suited. My current setup (cribbed from an ex-colleague) is two vertical screens side-by-side, and I miss it whenever I’m working with a horizontal display.
by yorkie | 2025-08-04 11:09:13+00:00
Yea, it’s primarily designed for headset or AR glasses, but it can also function as a special web browser for desktop platforms (e.g., macOS). By default, the window is a 3D space where you interact with web content (both 2D & 3D).

You can download the macOS version I just compiled today from https://m-creativelab.github.io/jsar-runtime/download.html. Try opening a supported web page with it, such as: https://github.com/M-CreativeLab/jsar-runtime/tree/main/fixt....
by nicoburns | 2025-08-04 11:10:07+00:00
I miss vertical space a lot when browsing websites on a small screen. There is:

- The OS toolbar

- The browser tab and url bar

- often: A fixed website header

- sometimes: A fixed website footer

Sometimes I'm left with only ~600px of vertical content space. Which isn't much for reading content, much less for skimming it or getting an overview.
by wickedsight | 2025-08-04 11:10:18+00:00
> Another question that few are asking is: what has the off shoring of so much manufacturing cost the USA? Looking at the resident of the WH, it appears to be quite a bit.

A question that I see ignored by people who ask your question, is 'what has off-shoring brought the US?' The answer is massive economic growth and improvements in quality of live.

Off-shoring allows you to make stuff cheaper by keeping the economic circumstances of the creator worse than your own. We can get cheap stuff from China because they work many more hours than people in the west do and they live in conditions that are much worse. Because we can get cheap stuff (like pocket computers, clothing, shoes, couches, cars and more) and off-shore most of the downsides (pollution, long working hours, dangerous workplaces), we improve our quality of life significantly.

So unless you prefer working in mines or working 80 hours a week in a dirty, dangerous factory, I think you're probably better off with globalization than you would've been without.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-04 11:10:42+00:00
The C++ model is that in theory there is an allocation, in practice depending on how a specific library was written, the compiler would be able to elide the allocation.

It is the same principle that drives languages like Rust in regards to being safe by default, in theory stuff like bounds checks cause a performance hit, in practice compilers are written to elide as much as possible.
by glimshe | 2025-08-04 11:10:46+00:00
I don't know how to solve this in the current environment. A hiring manager friend said he's getting unprecedented number of application for a software engineering role.

Ultimately applicants will endure whatever companies put in front of them with a job market that is this bad.

If the government made this illegal companies would come out with ever increasingly silly filters, such as demanding specific college degrees, handwritten applications by snail Mail etc.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 11:11:03+00:00
They wouldn't on purpose but I can tell you from experience that what happens in practice is that you don't re-quote everything or instantly change your quoted pricing based on a small fluctuations in inputs. So most companies will eat a couple percent (gross) margin here and there. So when an input cost rises margins my go to X-1, and then X-2 as it it rises more, then someone notices and changes quoted pricing to say Y+1, 2 or 3 depending on whether you're trying to get ahead of future hikes, how bad you're being squeezed, how bad you want more work, etc. But no matter what the "area under the curve" of all this change is almost always going to be negative. Sure, there's the occasional winner but in total the entire industry and economy loses.
by originalvichy | 2025-08-04 11:11:12+00:00
The dollar is weakening because the US institutions are weakening. The EU might not be wealthy compared to the US, but at this moment in time it is more rational and future-proof than the volatile US business environment.

The main reason the US is a hub for well-paid programmers, is that there is a giant pool of VCs that subsidise growth for companies that can potentially find money all over the world thanks to the way the US still is a cultural hegemon to western liberal nations with strong English language skills. As long as a US based tech company leverages cultural hegemony (in a positive way) and deep VC pockets, they can succeed in Europe and the world.

The biggest tech company failing at using cultural hegemony in a positive way is Tesla. European consumers have largely abandoned Tesla thanks to E.M. He single handedly ruined the company's position of strength by thinking that US news and politics do not reach us. He did not understand the hegemonic aspect (or was too high to care).
by berkes | 2025-08-04 11:11:43+00:00
If cron is broken for you, than the logic solution would be to replace it with something that does work for you. But do so at the right place and abstraction. That's hardly ever the runtime or in the app.

Do One Thing (and do it well).

A special domain specific scheduler microservice? One of the many Cron replacements? One of the many "SaaS cron"? Systemd?

This problem has been solved. Corner cases ironed out. Free to use.

Same for ENV var as configurations (as opposed to inventing yet another config solution), file permissions, monitoring, networking, sandboxing, chrooting etc. the amount of broken, insecure or just inefficient DIY versions of stuff handled in an OS I've had to work around is mind boggling. Causing a trice a loss: the time taken to build it. That time not spent on the business domain, and the time to them maintain and debug it for the next fifteen years.
by roenxi | 2025-08-04 11:12:03+00:00
The US has some clear laws against government controlling speech and, in the abstract, that makes it pretty much impossible to censor games. Various factions - exactly who it is difficult to pin down - have been working hard to set up a system where they can shut things down without ever explicitly instructing anyone to do anything. This appears to be the system engaging by accident because some crazy from Australia accidentally said the right thing to the right people.

So I do actually believe Mastercard when they say this, but holding them accountable anyway is probably for the best. They're likely the single group with the most influence over the regulators.
by criley2 | 2025-08-04 11:12:17+00:00
>Incorrect, it applies to companies too as companies are citizens according to citizens united ruling over a decade ago.

This doesn't even make sense. If a corporation is a person, then 1A Freedom of Speech means that the government cannot restrict the corporations political speech.

The corporation is absolutely allowed to restrict their users free speech, including political speech, because A) the bill of rights only binds the government, not corporations and B) it would actually be against free speech to compell a private corporation to engage in speech it does not agree with.

Should you be forced to post political or sexual content that you disagree with on your accounts or on a wall at your house? Of course not. Similarly, if you start a business, you cannot be forced to post political or sexual content you disagree with. Your freedom of speech as a business is what matters here.

The idea that we have "speech anarchy" where all people can say anything they want and punish anyone who doesn't reproduce their speech is insanity.
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 11:12:32+00:00
No, why?

If people still want other people to do things for them, accounting isn't going anywhere. It has already been invented. We don't have to un-invent it. But, if this our future, then humans remain relevant, so there is no concern about job loss or anything of that nature.

If, however, some future plays out where people aren't needed to work anymore, there will simply be no need for trade. The magical AIs, or whatever it is that someone has dreamt up that they think will eliminate the need to hire people, will provide instead. You only need people to buy things from you if you need to buy things from them as well.
by brokegrammer | 2025-08-04 11:13:57+00:00
I built my latest SaaS (https://clarohq.com) using HTMX, backed by Django. I really enjoy the process because HTMX allows reactivity using swaps and plain Javascript events instead of server side state management, useeffect, and API endpoints.

However, it's difficult to get things right. I spent way too much time on some basic features that I could have shipped quicker if I used React.

The issue with React though, is that you end up with a ton of dependencies, which makes your app harder to maintain in the long-term. For example, I have to use a third-party library called react-hook-form to build forms, when I can do the same thing using plain HTML and a few AlpineJS directives if I need dynamic fields.

I'm not sure if I'll ever build an app using HTMX again but we need more people to write about it so that we can nail down patterns for quickly building server rendered reactive UIs.
by koolba | 2025-08-04 11:14:16+00:00
From the article:

> Weyl semimetals are materials that allow electricity to flow in unusual ways with very high speed and zero energy loss because of special relativistic quasi-particles called Weyl fermions. Spin ice, on the other hand, are magnetic materials where the magnetic moments (tiny magnetic fields within the material) are arranged in a way that resembles the positions of hydrogen atoms in ice. When these two materials are combined, they create a heterostructure, composed of atomic layers of dissimilar materials.

I’m not going to pretend to understand how any of this works.

How long do you have to work in physics until you grok things like this? And how much longer until you get to come up with cool names like “spin ice”.
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by diggan | 2025-08-04 11:15:54+00:00
For context:

> The other audible quirk is the ThinkBook’s “you’re doing it wrong” alarm: If you start closing the lid with the screen extended, or you move the screen while it’s rolling, the laptop emits a high-pitched tone. It’s the most 90s-motherboard-ass thing I’ve heard in a long time, but I find its needling sound oddly charming.

Would I expect to read this in a corporate press release? Not really. Would I expect to find some author trying to be a bit funny in a Verge article? Probably. Is it borderline offensive? I don't think so, wouldn't even think about it unless I read this comment first.
by eadmund | 2025-08-04 11:15:57+00:00
> (largely) privatized the costs of children solely onto their parents.

The single greatest component of the property tax is the local public schools. Federal taxes pay for free lunches at those schools. Approximately half of Social Security’s budget go towards needy families. Over half of college students receive federal aid, and over a quarter receive state aid.

To privatize something implies motion from public to private. What costs of parenthood do you believe have been privatized over the last 200, 100, 50 or 25 years? I genuinely don’t believe that there’s a single one, but I sincerely know that I could be wrong.
by exceptione | 2025-08-04 11:17:13+00:00
> The amount of wealth that is redistributed is frankly insane.

I would change that to: the amount of income tax quickly reaches idiotic heights. Capital taxes are generally low, and income taxes are for the 95% losers.

There is no plan to make the pie larger. The problem is the same as everywhere: a public brainwashed by neo-liberal nonsense voting against their own interests. Private gains and public losses.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-04 11:18:29+00:00
How does it handle “bi-weekly”?

At the end of the day, anyone using cron-type things should just learn cron syntax, it’s really not that difficult and there are a number of websites that you can use to assist or spot-check your work.

I’m always incredibly resistant to “human readable” for things like this because there is just too much ambiguity.