MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-08-15 00:43:16+00:00
> Your "extensive" Pew analysis has error bars of +/- 10% for the Asian groups and certainly doesn't show "over 40%" but something that rounds to 40%. Other exit polls all show less than 40%

That means it could be 50%. “Exit” polls in general aren’t reliable, especially with the mail in voting. Pew isn’t an exit poll, it uses massive surveys. That’s consistent with other data points. Blue Rose Research found that Trump probably narrowly won naturalized citizens: https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2.... Most of those folks are hispanic or asian.

Another data point: lots of majority asian precincts in new york and new jersey flipped to Trump. Trump outright won Flushing, Queens. Jamaica, which has a heavy Bangladeshi population, shifted from D+83 to D+31 (which would mean roughly 35% Trump).
by _swfb | 2025-08-15 00:43:53+00:00
I actually more or less did air all my dirty laundry on my first date with my wife, and we've been together since 2013, so at least that worked out ok.

Still overall I think I agree with you. I think most techy people tend to like me if they talk to me for awhile, but I can be kind of abrasive with initial impressions.

I'm just psychoanalyzing myself at this point; overall good advice...thanks!
by jetroni | 2025-08-15 00:43:53+00:00
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by metaltyphoon | 2025-08-15 00:44:59+00:00
Not saying you are wrong, but this is akin to “this is the year of the Linux Desktop”.

You probably don’t have this telemetry but have you thought about how having window support helps Zig adoption?

Anecdotal, at day job, we started to use Zig build system to target Windows because that’s where the customers are.
by kristintynski | 2025-08-15 00:45:49+00:00
Background: I built a new theory of everything with GPT-4o in 6 weeks. No curve fitting. 19 physical constants derived from recursion and topology. It’s called FIRM — and it might be real. or, im just another crackpot. But im a crackpot with a shit ton of code and experiments!

Thesis: Physical constants don't just happen to have the values they do. They are the unique stable solutions to recursive mathematical equations—the only values that allow the universe to be self-consistent.

Answer: Who tf knows, this was the wildest AI driven rabbit hole I've ever been down, and its not even close. Maybe some of you can help me figure it out? Is this really showing what it seems to be?

Physicists, Cosmologists, Mathematicians. Is there something to all this? It feels so parsimonious, and the math is working (at least as far as I can tell), but claims this big obviously require absolutely massive evidence.

So please, rip it to shreds if you can.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-15 00:46:01+00:00
That part really aggravated me. I already pay a hefty premium for Disney/Hulu so the fact that I do not get full experience, because someone thought an episode I pay for with subs is offensive really irks me. I am slowly getting to the point of pulling the plug and each time I see an ad for hulu on disney, I am getting a tiny little bit closer to pissing off wife and making kid cry in one go.
by reactordev | 2025-08-15 00:46:46+00:00
No, Your TV says it’s 1080 but it’s not, it’s 1074… This is a solved issue now but it wasn’t when HDMI was first introduced. The Xbox 360 suffered from red rings of death. Microsoft hated Linux. And C# was cool.

Basically, if you rendered an avatar image in the top left of the screen, perfectly placed on your monitor, on the TV its head would be cut off. So you change to safe area resolution and it’s perfect again (but on your monitor safe area and screen resolution are the same, except Apple apparently). Make sense?

You can see how if your screen says it’s 4k, but really it’s short 40 pixels, you render at 4k - the screen will shrink it by 40 pixels and introduce nasty pixel artifacts. TV overscan goes the other way. Interesting find by the author about the notch.
by Smeevy | 2025-08-15 00:47:03+00:00
I wouldn't say that I'm arguing in bad faith so much as recognizing yet another situation like this: https://www.readtpa.com/p/innuendo-studios-card-says-moops-s...

Let's look at "rich flight" through the lens that is not colored with difference to the affluent. The idea here is that, if you make rich folk pay more taxes, they'll pack up their hoard pile of gold, jewels, and dwarf skeletons and fly away to somewhere they're less taxed and more appreciated.

That sounds great until you realize that rich people have massive roots in the places they live. Their expensive homes and professional lives are very closely tied to the community in which they're located. This flight is something that gets threatened very frequently and acted upon very rarely. If past performance is any indicator of future returns, then I'd gladly take my chances that those jerks stick around and pay their fair share.

>You're intentionally sticking your head in the sand because you think the paper is from a "right wing think tank" - regardless of the fact that an extremely well-respected fiscally liberal podcast, Freakonomics, supported the findings.

My disgust comes from actually looking through the Mahattan Institute and seeing it's every bit as trash-flavored as the Heritage Foundation. I absolutely don't need to entertain their disingenuous, fascist-adjacent prattle. After the last few months, it's advisable to write off anything that still claims to be conservative. They've squandered all benefit of the doubt and, for the sake of our own survival, should be reviled at every opportunity.

On a more targeted note, you are switching between "I find this idea intriguing" and "this idea is a fact that's supported by the liberals on Freakonomics" so fast I'm getting whiplash over here. Freakonomics, while entertaining, has been spectactularly wrong enough times that it's more entertainment than anything else. You're appealing to an authority that has a predilection for results that are "surprising."

I don't know if you support the erosion of civil liberties, but it seems like you enjoy repeating things from folks that do.
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by iboshidev | 2025-08-15 00:47:27+00:00
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by ofjcihen | 2025-08-15 00:49:02+00:00
Honestly that would make a good sci fi short story. What appears to be a well of knowledge created by an advanced but missing species that turns out to be nothing but well ordered gibberish.

Maybe it spreads to other civilizations that find it and accidentally incorporate it into their technology.

Or maybe they go to war over it and destroy themselves leaving whoever is left to find out that’s its cyber trash.
by Jach | 2025-08-15 00:49:35+00:00
Some of the people I cared about left earlier in the Mastodon exodus but when I occasionally check up on them many have just stopped posting there too. It's not really any different from blogs stopping or at least updating very rarely. It happens on Twitter too, people I care about are still there and others have just faded out and gone nowhere. But overall it's not so bad, especially when I stick to the "Following" tab, but the "For You" tab does sometimes surface new interesting people as well and does pretty well at also being a feed for art or photography I like without having to follow specific people. (Of course I have many complaints. Perhaps the biggest is that I never used to use the block feature, but now use it routinely because the "not interested in this post" signal seems to do nothing as far as showing posts from an account less frequently. Then there's the endless waves of bots/bluecheck engagement farmers/etc that get a block if I find them in replies to people I care about and want to make sure I don't see them again in future replies.)
by incomingpain | 2025-08-15 00:50:25+00:00
>Vim vs. Emacs,

Nano has always won. Yes, vim is everywhere. I dont fathom why emacs exists.

>tabs vs. spaces

tabs make much more sense. python should fix this mistake. I guess my IDE fixes it for me?

>Mac vs. Linux,

100% linux; i tend to stick to the debian field, but certainly never actual debian. I really need to try alma; but dnf/yum/rpm and what the hell happened to centos? fedora is a mess like it always was. KDE? really we havent found one of the dozens of better DE?

>static vs. dynamic typing

Dynamic, ill never ever switch to a language that's static. I started in C++, never ever going back.

>JSON vs. YAML

JSON all the way.
by dogman144 | 2025-08-15 00:50:32+00:00
Rarely or never lost a tactical battle or a strategic conflict ther. Some big ones like Operation Anaconda are the obvious outlier.

But what the Army, Marines, and all the Air Force can’t do: nation-building.

What the State Dept is supposed to do but didn’t: nation building

What congress never really bothered to do per the Constitution: a non half-assed attempt at routine approval and review to authorize the use of military force

What the public did: super bowls and tech boom, poor people and idealists go to war

What senior officers did: another 18 months of warring and I get a deployment patch and strategic command

What your line officers and NCOs did: love a combat tour, pay and patch, but how much do we dig into the bigger picture mission and put ourselves at risk on (check notes) War Year 19 Strategy #807

Lot of reasons!
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-15 00:51:41+00:00
That may be true. But for those in "the long tail" Netflix could have been the only game in town.

Amazon was that way for me. I went to record (music) stores to buy my music in the 1990's. I started buying music from Amazon in 1996 because they had the stuff I couldn't find in the record stores.
by blackguardx | 2025-08-15 00:51:45+00:00
I'm surprised this article focused solely on blurry rendering when mouse pointer location in "fullscreen" Mac games is also commonly affected by this bug or whatever we are calling it. You have to dive into an OS menu for each game to tell it to render fullscreen below the notch to fix it. It should be a global accessibility setting but isn't for some reason.
by WillAdams | 2025-08-15 00:52:13+00:00
There is a Facsimile Gift Edition which is pretty affordable:

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Facsimile-Gift-Tolkien-author/...

Or, the differences in the texts are pretty thoroughly hashed out in:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12973638-the-history-of-...

which contains an annotated (and analyzed) text of the first edition.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-15 00:55:18+00:00
Yes and yes. I got mildly upset when I learned this, because it is oddly surprising amount of work to get it to work ( and some models do better than others, apparently ).

On the other hand, dvd is dirt cheap now and you get a very respectable collection that is not reliant on the internet.
by zahlman | 2025-08-15 00:55:31+00:00
> However, what was interresting was their qualified upvote system

In the abstract, this seemed like a brilliant idea, and I don't understand why nobody else tries it, and I still don't see a good argument against it.

But in their specific implementation, if you deem that "funny" can redeem a post in and of itself (and you allow an open community to judge humour), well, you get what you measure. (And nowadays, "troll" is basically understood to mean the same thing as "flamebait", because nobody trolls the old-fashioned way — it's increasingly hard to distinguish yourself from people who are actually that clueless, and too many clueless people around to make it worthwhile to fake more.)
by helveticabold48 | 2025-08-15 00:55:54+00:00
Actually the world needs more Jobs too. More Jobs, more Woz. Brilliant engineers and hackers need to partner with some super egotistic, charismatic, bullying asshole visionaries to make a dent.

Remember how Jobs single handedly bullied Adobe Flash into its graveyard? Bullied record labels into selling individual songs instead of the whole CD? Cannot imagine Woz doing that. Elon is the next Jobs only even harder to stomach. I wouldn't want to work for these people but they, along with those who can work along side them, change the world.
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by freehorse | 2025-08-15 00:57:30+00:00
Baldur's gate 3 groups the resolutions by aspect ratio. I assume it probably queries the resolutions, computes the aspect ratios and then displays them grouped them by it. This results in some weirdness with some weird ratios with huge coprime numerators/denominators but, as long as the right resolution is detected somewhere, you only basically need to do is select the right aspect ration for your screen.
by djtango | 2025-08-15 00:58:01+00:00
This one is particularly janky!!!!!

Watch anime on Netflix at home with English subs. Fly to japan. Open Netflix, now you cannot watch with English subs.

The workaround is to pre emptively download the show, then put your device on airplane mode so Netflix cannot phone home, then watch the show with the English subs as snapshotted at home.
by p1necone | 2025-08-15 00:59:38+00:00
This kinda makes sense if you think about it in a very abstract, naive way.

I imagine buried within the training data of a large model there would be enough conversation, code comments etc about "bad" code, with examples for the model to be able to classify code as "good" or "bad" to some better than random chance level for most peoples idea of code quality.

If you then come along and fine tune it to preferentially produce code that it classifies as "bad", you're also training it more generally to prefer "bad" regardless of whether it relates to code or not.

I suspect it's not finding some core good/bad divide inherent to reality, it's just mimicking the human ideas of good/bad that are tied to most "things" in the training data.
by crq-yml | 2025-08-15 00:59:48+00:00
Marshall Vandruff, one of the teachers on the popular art education channel "Proko", spoke at length about working with airbrush in discussing his illustration career:

https://youtu.be/8qDI8NfCyeg

To hear him tell it, it was not particularly glamorous, and hours of fastidious airbrushing to get huge, smooth gradient backgrounds was an RSI-inducer.

I'm pretty sure we can do a better digital emulation of an airbrush than what's currently in paint programs, it just needs more of the actual physics and pigments to be modelled. We've gotten a bit stuck on the RGB raster graphics paradigm and only a few programs are really doing the work to break away from it.
by diogenes_atx | 2025-08-15 01:00:03+00:00
Palantir's business operations are not a secret, despite the company's latest efforts at obfuscation. In fact, there is a recent academic study about Palantir and the surveillance data industry:

Sarah Brayne (2020) Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, Oxford University Press

https://www.amazon.com/Predict-Surveil-Discretion-Future-Pol...

According to the book, Palantir is one of the largest companies specializing in surveillance data management services for clients in the U.S. military, law enforcement and other corporations. Palantir does not own its data but rather provides an interface that runs on top of other data systems, including legacy systems, making it possible to link data points across separate systems. Palantir gathers its data primarily from "data brokerage firms," including LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters CLEAR, Acxiom, CoreLogic, Cambridge Analytica, Datalogix, Epsilon, Accurint. As Brayne observes, these data brokerage firms "collect and aggregate information from public records and private sources, e.g., drivers licenses, mortgages, social media, retail loyalty card purchases, professional credentials, charities’ donor lists, bankruptcies, payday lenders, warranty registrations, wireless access points at hotels and retailers, phone service providers, Google searches and maps geolocation, and other sources who sell your data to customers willing to pay for it. Yet it is difficult to fully understand the scope of the data brokerage industry: even the FTC cannot find out exactly where the data brokers get their information because brokerages cite trade secrecy as an excuse to not divulge their sources" (pp. 24-5, 41-2).

Why is this a concern for people living in a democratic society with a supposedly strong legal system that protects individual freedoms? "Big data companies argue that their proprietary algorithms and data are trade secrets, and therefore they refuse to disclose their data, code and techniques with criminal defense attorneys or the public" (p. 135). This means that, "In many cases it is simply easier for law enforcement to purchase data from private firms than to rely on in-house data because there are fewer constitutional protections, reporting requirements and appellate checks on private sector surveillance and data collection, which enables police to circumvent privacy laws" (pp. 24-5).
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-15 01:00:29+00:00
It was detrimental to the employees. And that’s why I’m arguing against the narrative of other commenters that Apple was wrong for offering Masimo employees money to leave.

It’s the same as the Windsurf situation with Google. In other words, I don’t care that Masimo was hurt because employees took a better deal from Apple.

As far as did it hurt the industry, there is really no logical argument that these companies who were already extremely profitable roundly have had the money to invest in their products if they hadn’t suppressed wages, that some new challenger was going to come along and compete with any of them if Microsoft (search and mobile phones) and Facebook (mobile phones couldn’t).

These employees weren’t going to take the extra money they made an invest in some world changing startup (that’s what VCs are for) that would pay more than BigTech. 50-70K wouldn’t be the determining factor to invest in their own startup.

The startup offers I was getting to be a “CTO” [1] (yes it would have been a laughably inflated title) was less than I was making as a mid level employee at AWS at the time (2020-2023) for more work and more risks.

[1] I didn’t go in AWS as a software developer, I went in working in Professional Services. But my previous experience was strategy and architecture at a couple of startups.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 01:00:46+00:00
> The non-white kids are encouraged in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to identify with the oppressed people in the books in a way the white aren’t.

Well, um, yeah. That's because white people just aren't oppressed.

Its the same way I don't identify with feminist literature. I can read it, understand it, enjoy it - but I can never fully relate, because I'm not a woman and the way I experience the patriachy will always be different.

Of course black people identify with or relate more to something like the color purple. That doesn't mean the color purple is racist.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-15 01:01:45+00:00
Their compatibility layers being intended as exclusively transitional can be frustrating, but on the other hand it’s also why near every Mac app now has a proper aarch64 build. If it were known that Rosetta were going to remain part of the OS forever, many apps would’ve never been ported and would’ve been at an effectively permanent 30-60% performance penalty and disproportionate drags on battery life.

On the other side of the fence in Windows land, adoption of features much more trivial than an architecture change are absolutely glacial because devs know they can lean on back compatibility in perpetuity.

Apple’s approach is perhaps too aggressive but Microsoft’s is far too lax. I don’t think it’s realistic to dump a binary and expect it to work forever with no maintenance.
by daveguy | 2025-08-15 01:02:31+00:00
Yeah, I was going to go into all that crap, but they're all still just options to buy at whatever market price you start at. Market go up. Market go down. Just consider stock options to be worthless when negotiating. I'm not saying don't accept them, just don't factor them in as "compensation". Factor them in as chips already laid on roulette table, at best.