MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leviathant | 2025-08-01 18:17:22+00:00
> It's Fox, but for the Left

There was a distinct shift to the right at NPR when Obama took office, and by the time he took his second term, NPR News' social media was posting clickbait trash instead of real headlines. "The liberal media" is an irrational boogeyman used to whip ownership in line. Everyone who complains about "bias in the media" is arguing in bad faith while they continue to turn a blind eye to the overwhelmingly dominant conservative slant of the 21st century American media.
by bobbiechen | 2025-08-01 18:17:27+00:00
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by motorest | 2025-08-01 18:17:47+00:00
> We don't really have this problem in .NET 8, we mock stuff just fine using an in-memory database provider.

No, you don't. At best in-memory databases represent a test double that you can use in integration tests.

If you need to write unit tests, EF leaves you no better option than to add repositories to abstract out everything and anything involving DbContext.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 18:17:59+00:00
I don't want to be "that guy", but I often find myself as the "intolerable lib" in some situations and the "intolerable con" in others, so here we go:

There is a degree of quasi-political messaging in PBS children's shows. I can say this because I've watched more hours than I'd like of several of them, but I'd like to focus on on Molly Of Denali. It's a good children's show about an inuit girl who lives in Alaska and teaches children general good morals and specifics of inuit and Alaskan culture.

When I say it's political, I mean that it makes points without nuance on historical and current issues which range from widely accepted and important ideas (example: They didn't let Native Alaskan People vote in the past, so it's important to exercise the right to vote now), to what I would consider less widely agreed upon and important ideas, such as it being deeply upsetting and disrespectful for a "white" teacher to call a native child "T", because she had trouble pronouncing his native name. Another example is them introducing the importance of "land acknowledgements" in a children's show. A final example is the "clueless white" trope wherein the offensive rude white visitor has to be educated by the wise natives over and over and over.

I'm not trying to say that any of these examples are "right" or "wrong", but they do represent "politics" in the mind of wide sections of the population.

This said I like the show and of course we need to fund public broadcasting, I would just prefer if we did our best to keep the most controversial stuff for when the kids are a bit older to make it a smaller target for outrage (from the right or left).

The most jarring part, to me personally, is the drastic shift in tone and presentation for injustices with wildly different levels of impact. Perhaps rudely, I think to myself in the voice of the Inuit grandfather from the show "The white man took me from my family, did not allow me to speak my language, beat me and did not allow me to vote, and worst of all...... He did not let me smile in photos"

I don't mean any of this as racist or disrespectful and I hope this is a nuanced comment for consideration and not a kneeejerk reaction or evidence of my subconscious biases run wild.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-01 18:18:28+00:00
Any form of URL is at best a point in time reference.

Shortened or not, they change, disappear, get redirected, all the time. There was once an idea that a URL was (or should be) a permanent reference, but to the extent that was ever true it's long in the past.

The closest thing we might have to that is an Internet Archive link.

Otherwise, don't cite URLs. Cite authors, titles, keywords, and dates, and maybe a search engine will turn up the document, if it exists at all.
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-01 18:18:33+00:00
> And even in the trades it isn’t common.

Source???

I'm definitely aware of welders and machinists having to show the quality of their work for interviews.

You might not think that basic coding/algorithms problems are good tests of actual performance, but being able to solve a problem, talk about your approach, debug issues when they come up, and then discuss expanding the solution in prod including trade-offs is actually a really great indicator of future performance in my experience.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-08-01 18:18:37+00:00
In my experience everyone will hate on Spring, showing how much easier other frameworks are using tiny unrealistic examples, until they hit a really hard architectural challenge (imagine reimplementing @Transactional in pure Java) and that's where Spring shines.

Yeah, it's sad, I like Groovy a lot. It got relegated to a second-class citizen role on Jenkins, for the most part.
by sunrunner | 2025-08-01 18:18:43+00:00
> I've sometimes wondered what their plan for this is wrt.

I'm also curious about this for other projects such as Shakti/k9 [1]. Apologies if not referred to correctly as I'm not familiar with these tools, so consider this a question as much as a comment:

A seemingly obscure implementation of a complex tool with a relatively high learning curve and just three maintainers that is supposedly a key component in a number of domains using high-frequency timeseries data (finance, etc.)?

What's the cost/complexity ratio in incorporating technology like this into your system? Or is it much less than the impression I get as someone that's jsut a curious passer-by?

[1] https://shakti.com/
by Cyph0n | 2025-08-01 18:19:01+00:00
The world of Daniel Tiger is the definition of a welfare state - too socialist for my taste.

Peg + Cat relies on numerology and emphasizes DEI above all else.

Alma’s Way is pro-illegal immigration and unbelievably on the nose about it.

I can keep going. Point is, PBS Kids should have been shutdown a long time ago.

/s
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 18:19:32+00:00
If companies can spend billions on AI and not have anything in return and be okay with that in the ways of giving free stuff (okay, I'll admit not completely free since you are the product but still free)

Then they should also be okay for keeping the goo.gl links honestly.

Sounds kinda bad for some good will but this is literally google, the one thing google is notorious for is killing their products.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-08-01 18:20:23+00:00
>Contrary to the conservative spin over the years, I have found public broadcasting to be one of the least biased sources

Can we break this down?

You open with a effectively derogatory accusation about conservatives making things up…which I have no opinion on.

That immediately shows your own likely liberal bias and then you say you saw no problem with the programming.

Isn’t that exactly the issue? That you saw no issue and everyone that disagrees is just wrong?

How do you know? How would you know if CBP’s biases weren’t just your own?

Do you know the arguments against the biases of CPB, NPR, PBS from the people that can make their most effective arguments against those orgs, or do you know the lines of the people that already agree with you?

Jon Stewart Mill’s On Liberty has a great part about this… [It is not enough to know the refutations from your own teachers, you must learn them from the people that present them in their truest form].
by frmersdog | 2025-08-01 18:20:30+00:00
It's likely something related to this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

There are multiple lawsuits, and settlements are already in with some property managers. Yieldstar/RealPage are not the only culprits, either: https://imgur.com/a/EmJQryv
by godelski | 2025-08-01 18:20:45+00:00
I know the difference. You write literal.

>>> I think you’re being more literal maybe?

I'm saying a footgun is de facto metaphorical so it is a weird thing to accuse me of being literal. I understand Chekhov's rifle is a different thing, and a literally. I literally demonstrated knowledge of this. I literally stated as such

>> Checkhov's rifle is a foreshadowing device
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-01 18:21:06+00:00
Not nothing. The events described by the original letter are very something. Something rapey. https://medium.com/@yifanxing/my-experience-with-sexual-hara...

And none of that was shown false. It looks like all that the court said was "no evidence was provided".

Duh imagine being a victim there and providing "evidence". It looks like any text messages would be careful and all the stuff would be IRL (if he did it).

He himself could say "I didn't sleep with a young attendee of a conference I helped her get into, by getting her drunk in my airbnb" on this letter. But he didn't deny it. He just said "fake evidence" and "short relationship". C'mon...

It's clear as mud.
by glial | 2025-08-01 18:21:07+00:00
At your recommendation I took a look at Ground News.

I'm not a fan of the continued reification of "left" and "right". I have heard conservatives lament that MAGA isn't truly conservative. I've heard economic reformers lament that liberal social policies are sucking the oxygen out of the room for real structural reform. In both cases the idea of a single "left" and "right" as a group, or even worse as the two sole options on the menu of how to think, is severely damaging to productive political dialogue.

Framing everything as left-vs-right is like doing PCA and taking only the first principal component - sure it might be contain some signal, but it flattens any nuance. Critically, it also pre-frames any debate into competing camps in a way that harms rather than serves. I would challenge groups like Ground News to offer other framings - why not "owners vs workers"? Why not "rural vs urban"? We should ask why they chose the framing they do. I have my own cynical opinion but I'll refrain from sharing.
by JeremyNT | 2025-08-01 18:21:18+00:00
Of course, if you live in a large metro the local stations will survive due to large numbers of wealthy and middle class benefactors. This is not necessarily so if you live in a typical red state middle size city or less.

Somewhat ironically a lot of the extreme cuts (this included) only serve to reinforce the status of major blue state metros as more desirable, since they have more resources available to fill the gaps left by federal austerity.
by Lammy | 2025-08-01 18:21:36+00:00
Just for disambiguation to emphasize that I'm talking about the Intel-based console, because the naming scheme of the later Microsoft consoles makes it easy to confuse “Xbox One” with the OG one. I spent most of my time playing RCT 1 and 2 on a 400 MHz PⅡ, and their performance was indeed flawless :)
by hinkley | 2025-08-01 18:21:37+00:00
I see you’ve been downvoted.

Design patterns aren’t solutions to common design problems. They’re after the fact descriptions of solutions for design problems. That’s the issue. That’s the beef. Everyone thought of that book as a cook book instead of a naturalists’ musings on an ecosystem, which is what they are.

Those of us who designed before people discovered that stupid book were constantly asked what the differences were between this pattern and that. And the book just isn’t thick enough and Eric Gamma was just trying to complete a thesis not write a book, so despite having at least 8 years in industry before completing his masters he cocked it up. And ruined Java in the process.

We had a contemporary of Vlissades teach a class at my last company and he crystallized all of my suspicions about the GoF book and added a whole lot more.

My advice for at least fifteen years is, if you think you want to read GoF, read Refactoring instead. If you’ve read Refactoring and still want to read GoF, read Refactoring a second time because it didn’t all sink in.

Refactoring is ten times the value of GoF for teaching you how to do this trade and how to break up architectural brambles.
by bbanyc | 2025-08-01 18:21:37+00:00
When Congress passed the CPB defunding bill, the Republican sponsors paraded around the most deranged takes to air on NPR in the last few years and asked, why should our tax dollars keep going to this?

And I'll be the first to admit that NPR has completely lost its mind, it's losing its listenership, and it needs to be humbled a bit. But audio is much cheaper than video and NPR's remaining listeners will easily be able to make up the shortfall. Meanwhile we're going to see PBS, whose news coverage mostly avoided the pitfalls NPR fell into and who run a lot more non-news programming, take a huge funding hit and resort to even more pledge drives and reruns, while local affiliates in large swaths of the country have to close entirely.

This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and not even throwing out the bathwater.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 18:22:17+00:00
This has been a project under way since the friggin' John Birchers and the postwar "think-tank" boom. They've (this specific set of interests, not conservatism in general) been successfully ratcheting things toward authoritarianism since their Chicago school pals got the right people in the right places to radically change how we enforced anti-trust in the '70s (that is, they made it impossible for us to enforce in all but the most egregious cases, period) and have been winning one boring but effective battle after another ever since (plus the occasional headline-grabbing one).

Often these victories have contributed to further momentum—concentration of wealth means more money for the cause; death of the "fairness doctrine" opens up the possibility of wholly partisan media for propagandizing, which was instantly capitalized on with a boom in right wing AM radio; Citizens United decision de facto ending campaign finance regulation, well that's sure convenient; all kinds of things.

This has been more than a half-century in the making.
by sleet_spotter | 2025-08-01 18:22:41+00:00
While I sympathize with the feeling, it’s a stretch to say “obligated by law”. You pay taxes, which your legally-elected representatives decide how to spend. We elect them to speak and choose on our behalf. It isn’t a “loophole” when this runs afoul of an individual’s values. It is simply that we have a representative government that makes decisions by majority votes. I don’t agree with most defense spending, but I acknowledge that a majority of this country wants it. This is the purpose of compromise. If there had been a good-faith proposal to reform CPB [1], we could have made it better. The collateral damage from destroying the good parts (e.g., PBS) due to our failure to compromise should not be celebrated. [1] Such a proposal isn’t hard to imagine. A key purpose of local stations is to give a platform to the voices of local people. Simply shifting funding from national programming to local programming (without changing the total) would have accomplished this “debiasing” and empowered the (tragically endangered) local news.
by AustinWentz | 2025-08-01 18:22:42+00:00
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by smaudet | 2025-08-01 18:22:55+00:00
I find even this incredibly stingy... Back of the envelope:

1043*1000000000 / (1023^3)

10 4 byte characters times 3 billion links, dividing by 1 GB of memory...

Roughly 111 GB of RAM.

Which is like nothing to a search giant.

To put that into perspective, my Desktop Computer's max Mobo memory is 128 GB, so saying it has to do with RAM is like saying they needed to shut off a couple servers...and save like maybe a thousand dollars.

This reeks of something else, if not just sheer ineptitude...
by Twey | 2025-08-01 18:22:55+00:00
I agree, I never wanted to get into mechanical keyboards per se — I was always just on the lookout for an ergonomic layout. Mechanical switches are cheaper and cheaper these days, though, and I suspect the premium on high-end keyboards now is more from a combination of the luxury good tax and the lack of economies of scale.

I really wanted to make myself a steno theory for the CharaChorder, but now I don't have time. There's definitely something to be done with keyboards like this and I do reckon you could do better than with the mechanical constraints of the stenotype, but it's not trivial: the extra inputs are hard to make use of if you want to avoid awkward ‘scissoring’ strokes, though there are definitely some comfortable strokes in there to mine.

The physical direction thing is a neat idea but a bit hindered by the fact that the two sides have very different accessibility: typically the inward keypress is much easier than the outward keypress. There might be some pairs that's good for, though, e.g. the backspace/delete pair you mention (if put on the right hand: delete is much less common, in my experience, than backspace).

> So, basically, "grabbing" movements are more natural?

Right, for me at least that seems to be the case. Other Svalboard users seem to pretty unanimously agree that outward movements are worse than inward movements, especially on e.g. the ring finger, but people differ on how the inward/upward/downward movements compare.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-01 18:23:07+00:00
isn’t the problem with the benchmarks that most people running ai locally are running way lower weights?

i have an m4 studio with a lot of unified memory and i’m still no where near running a 120b model. i’m at like 30b

apple or nvidia’s going to have to sell 1.5 tb ram machines before benchmark performance is going to be comparable

Plus when you use claude or openai, these days it’s performing google searches etc that my local model isn’t doing.
by burkaman | 2025-08-01 18:23:11+00:00
Some of the top comments do, these three for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26961815, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963597, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962421.

In general I think this was quite a reasonable comment section. I see a lot of "damn this sounds awful" (and it does), discussion about the general phenomenon of sexual harassment (which is obviously real) rather than that specific case, and some uncertainty about what actually happened. I don't see much "this guy should be jailed immediately" in the top comments. I certainly wouldn't call it a mob and I don't see anything that deserves to labelled as insincere virtue signaling.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-01 18:24:03+00:00
>PBS Newshour

Haven't watched this since I was a kid. Just scrubbed through the latest episode. I was surprised, it's not bad. Left-leaning to my eye, but FAR less so than any other left-leaning mainstream TV media I can think of. And as you point out, more substantial and meaningful coverage than you typically get anywhere else. I would be happy to encourage anyone to watch more PBS Newshour based on that
by Nelkins | 2025-08-01 18:24:11+00:00
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by mystifyingpoi | 2025-08-01 18:24:22+00:00
Good example for Python not needing this pattern sometimes is Pulumi. Check out the differences between example code in Java and Python.

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/get-started/kubernetes/revie...

In Java (or even Go) this pattern is required to enforce type safety. In Python it seems that they ignore the typing part and just pass a bunch of dicts. Looks much cleaner, even if not entirely typesafe.
by lotyrin | 2025-08-01 18:25:18+00:00
Everyone is part of rape culture, the same way that everyone is part of racism. I am not trying to point out certain people as criminal but rather certain behaviors and ideas as perpetuating the situation and others as being disruptive to it.

The antidote to the cycle you describe is to do as I have done, to point out people acting in bad faith and for people with privilege to hold other people with privilege accountable. We must create consequences for bad behavior but it's more important that we must create consequences for the people that promote or condone the behavior.

I actually dislike when professional circles or other social groups "solve" the problem they create by permanently exiling individuals in the way of "cancellation" because in many ways the cancelled individual is also a victim of the culture of the group. It's often a performative way to be seen not to have whatever problem the individual exemplifies without addressing how that person came to be an example. It also, from a game-theoretical point of view removes any incentive for those individuals to improve. The individual may not understand that they've done anything wrong, because the culture clearly expects and promotes this behavior. I feel neurodivergent people in particular are likely to fall into the trap because they'll interpret the rules as shown to them by the cultures of oppression they exist in and then not read the room that while the way people behave suggests the behavior is overtly permitted, "everyone knows" it's actually horrible and you're supposed to be covert about it to not get caught.