MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2025-09-24 17:35:05+00:00
In weekend tournament situations where there are a lot of games to play, amateur not professional, having a game end in a draw requiring extra time or shots put a lot of pressure on keeping things on schedule. Referees are often reminded "we need winners". The obvious take away from that is to be generous with penalties. If there's something you might normally let slide, call it and avoid making the match last longer than necessary. There's no direct instruction on what to do, but as a ref that has a game ending in a draw, it might not be received well by the tournament organizers and/or the referee assigner. You might just not get another game.

For other situations of officials influencing the game, the big one is how often they use their whistle to stop play. If they are calling ticky tacky fouls, the game slows down to nothing but restarts and there's no real flow. In youth matches, parents love it when the ref protects their precious little angel. Players HATE it. A ref that players like are the ones that let the game play. If two players are both strong in their fight for the ball with some possible pulling/holding equally from both sides, let it go. Let the stronger player win. If one player obviously is using the dark arts to gain unfair advantage, sure stop the play.

As far as blow out games with the stronger team getting more penalties, it could be a much more simple explanation as the ball just spends more time in the area which raises the likelihood of a penalty occurring. A game with back and forth will see less penalties. A game where one team is putting constant pressure on the goal is much more likely for a defender to make a mistake. Just like the awarding of an own goal. They only happen because the attacking team was putting pressure where an own goal could even be possible.
by pembrook | 2025-09-24 17:35:10+00:00
One time I was at a Holiday Inn at the same time as some multi-level marketer (pyramid scheme) conference. Breakfast conversation sounded like this:

Girl 1: "You should really check out Mary Kay, I'm making a fortune and could use help!"

Girl 2: "I'm not interested because I'm too busy making a fortune selling Herbalife, would love to send you some materials if you're interested!"

Girl 3: "Wow, that sounds great, I'd join you both if I weren't so busy getting rich selling the wonderful products in this Amway catalogue! Here's my card."

...This is what Product Hunt felt like the last time I visited organically like 7 years ago.

Somehow in the early days it didn't though, it felt like more of a community finding cool new stuff. Encouraging people to turn their PH launch into an "event" poisoned the well I think.
by mattwilsonn888 | 2025-09-24 17:35:22+00:00
It's called simplicity.

Not every single semantic element in the language needs to be a type.

`for i in 0..<10`

This isn't "magic," it's a loop that initializes a value `i` and checks against it. It's a lot less "magic" than Rust. The iterable types in Odin are slices and arrays - that is hardly arbitrary like you imply.

The type system in Rust is mostly useful for its static guarantees. Using it for type-gymnastics and unnecessary abstractions is ugly and performative.

Tasks in Odin can be accomplished with simplicity.

The C++ misdirection and unbounded type abstractions are simply not appreciated by many.

If you want a language with no special cases that is 100% fully abstract then program in a Turing machine. I'll take the language designed to make computers perform actions over a language having an identity crisis with mathematics research, all else equal. Unless I'm doing math research of course - Haskell can be quite fun!

Ginger Bill is a PhD physicist as well -- not that education confers wisdom -- but I don't bet his design choices are coming from a resentment of math or abstraction.

Absolute generality isn't the boon you think it is.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-24 17:35:59+00:00
There is a huge difference between funding education, health care etc which I’m all for paying taxes for and subsidizing your flight.

And if you expect me to defend the police or Karyns about anything, let’s just say I grew up on NWA and “F%%% the police” and my mom constantly told me that don’t think because my White friends could get away with minor criminal mischief that I could.

Well actually she said “don’t let your little white friends get you in trouble”. But close enough.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-24 17:35:59+00:00
> Democracies, even if flawed, are accountable to their citizens at least to an extent.

Stock corporation, even if flawed, are accountable to their stock holders at least to an extent; thus your point

> Private companies are accountable to no one

clearly does not hold. Corporations, of course, can also be steered and course-corrected (shareholders meetings).
by serf | 2025-09-24 17:36:00+00:00
automating logistics lines does have military potential -- a waymo doesn't have to be holding bob and sara on the way to mcdonalds, it could also be long-hauling thousands of pounds of troop equipment and logistics needs.

the lack of public funding towards automated cars isn't due to a lack of potential, it's due to a lack of focus and lower-hanging-fruit.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-24 17:36:35+00:00
Skate to where the puck is going. By the time they're ready for prod (2-4 years), regime change might have occurred. Be ready with a solution to this environmental problem at that time. Lots of oil and gas infra over the next few decades that will require remediation after the world transitions to low carbon energy and electrification, while declining fertility rates globally will mean a shrinking pool of workers to pick from for the human labor component.

Locales who don't want their aquifers contaminated will also be motivated in the near term to get this work done. They would be great test cases for proof of value of this automation imho.

(think in systems)
by lostlogin | 2025-09-24 17:36:51+00:00
> In the UK, the NHS does pay for a £2.6m-per-patient gene therapy for haemophilia B.

A misleading data point. This group of people were treated so poorly by the state that something had to be done. I don’t think this is setting a benchmark.

https://haemophilia.org.uk/public-inquiry/the-infected-blood...
by VGHN7XDuOXPAzol | 2025-09-24 17:37:14+00:00
> Token-agnostic prompt structures obscure the cost and are rife with misaligned incentives

Saying that, token-based pricing has misaligned incentives as well: as the editor developer (charging a margin over the number of tokens) or AI provider, you benefit from more verbose input fed to the LLMs and of course more verbose output from the LLMs.

Not that I'm really surprised by the announcement though, it was somewhat obviously unsustainable
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-24 17:37:18+00:00
You’d need to have literally infinite resources if you wanted to avoid a situation of having to pick and choose what you report on.

What matters is that all sides of the debate get representation. And the BBC does this almost to a fault.

The ironic thing is the fact that BBC is so good at doing this, everyone feels their voice is marginalised and then complains of bias.

So when people call the BBC “biased”, and as ferociously as you have, what they’re actually saying is “the BBC airs too many opinions that oppose my own biases”
by boctrg | 2025-09-24 17:37:34+00:00
I'm sorry to hear that and hope you're better now! 3D printing sounds really cool. Someday I want one of those devices as well. Are your printing projects more on the practical or creative side?

I'm in my late 20s, so the exposure to new things is there. My life has been rather unsteady in the past few years as well. There is also a big change ahead (dropping out of uni). My hope was that my interest carry me, but that didn't happen. My next step is to take the save route and start a trade (in IT).
by andai | 2025-09-24 17:37:35+00:00
Well, sort of! The new ones all "sound like AI." They're not great for writing, especially in terms of style and tone.

I'm not sure exactly how that works, but apparently instruct tuning produces mode collapse, whereas the older models are basically "raw unfiltered internet" (for better and worse).

I've been playing around with Davinci and it's remakable how much better the writing is.

You have to prompt it right, because all it does is continue the text. (E.g. if you ask it a question, it might respond with more questions.) But I think we really lost something valuable when we started neglecting the base/text models.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-09-24 17:37:43+00:00
> ID cards are also a thing, and in principle every grownup should always be carrying ID although its not like everybody really does when walking around the park etc.

Tangential: I may be misinterpreting what you mean by ”should”, but no one is required by law or regulation to carry identification on them in any Nordic country (except for in certain circumstances, like while operating a vehicle that requires a license).

If the police have a valid reason to ascertain your identity as part of performing their duties, and you refuse to tell them your name, date of birth and address, or they have reason not to believe you, they can detain you until your identity has been confirmed. An id card can save you that hassle.

So if you’re just saying that it’s a good idea to always bring your id with you, then sure.
by chriskw | 2025-09-24 17:38:04+00:00
The tricky thing is the code for making decisions runs locally on the contestants machine, so the first time they submit they can record the sequence locally and compute the best set of actions for the next time they submit. Even if the sequence is somehow tied to a user's account so they can't resubmit against the same sequence, they could do the same thing with an alt account and feed the sequence to a main account.

Sites like Kaggle usually get around this problem by running contestant code in a containerized environment server side, but even then you can get clever with tricks to leak info.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-24 17:38:35+00:00
I worry that theres a cyclical nature to it all. When society has smaller organizations, people saw what community organizing looked like, and folks were far more likely to have a hand being leaders simply by virtue of there being so many businesses when they were smaller and more distributed.

What terrifies me is a pocket thesis I have that the local leadership—the local activating & bringing people to a purpose— vanishing is a symptom or symptoms directly coupled to Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Capital swallowing up all the wealth & managing the world from the top down means there are way less people with Buck Stops Here responsibility, and that they tend to be in much loftier offices, far more remote and detached from the loved experiences of the business. Capital manages the world from afar now, exacts it's wants and desires via a very long arm of the invisible hand, and it doesn't involve us, doesn't involve humanity anymore.

We humanity don't see the world working before us, and are thrown into the world without much chance to carve a meaningful space out for ourselves. It's all very efficient and the scale of capital enables great things, but it deprived us of the human effort of stumbling through, deprives us of ingenuity's energizing reward of seeing things around us change and improve, seeing people connect through and around our actions. Society at a distance isn't social media & it's parasocial relationships: it's the new megacongolmerated world that left us Bowling Alone in 2000.

MBA-ification of our professional lives erodes the social animal. The less social animal, lacking experience, does not build social and business organizations around themselves. The social environment degraded further, the center cannot hold, we are moored less and less to purpose and each other.
by casey2 | 2025-09-24 17:38:44+00:00
B:It's exactly this kind of disrespect shown to lauded members of public office that is tearing this country apart. We need a great moral correction if we want to succeed as a nation. What good does pornography do for our nation other than alienate wives from their husbands, girls from their boyfriends, brother and sisters? The left has trampled on free expression for so long now that such a backlash will be tolerated by the courts.
by abeppu | 2025-09-24 17:38:56+00:00
I notice the article doesn't say anything about accuracy. This is not my area, but I think the _other_ hacky way to try to do spectroscopy with a phone is with a diffraction grating (and maybe a box with a slit in it). Diffraction gratings are cheap, probably not so different from a specially-printed reference card. If you have a choice, which is better?
by andai | 2025-09-24 17:38:59+00:00
That is true. What I meant was, I'll ask it for some practical problem I'm dealing with in my life, and it will start talking about how to model it in terms of a cybernetic system with inertia, springs and feedback loops.

Not a bad line of thinking, especially if you're microdosing, but I find myself turning off reasoning more frequently that I'd expected, considering it's supposed to be objectively better.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-24 17:39:15+00:00
> Interestingly, in the past, the US federal government actively made efforts to keep private organizations from becoming too dominant.

Yes but one can't just ignore the federal government itself, as if this wasn't an organization. In this framing of small organizations kept small by the government the largest organization is the State. Indeed in this framing the State's job is to control other organizations. While a democratic state is different than a private organization in that it derives legitimacy from its voters, I'd be hard pressed to say that the state is sufficiently different from any other large organization. We can certainly see this now in the US in highly polarized times where the State bears opposition from half the country depending on who is in power.

I think this "anti-monopoly" framing is a bit dangerous as it smuggles a political position into a much more complicated situation. There is an overall decline in the West of small association groups. More and more of these groups happen on Discord voice chats and are divorced from the real life constraints that offer a more "grounded" character. And I think this issue has been written about much less than the "anti-monopoly" one. Even if you fervently believe that the State needs to play an aggressive role in policing private organizations, I think it's more thought-provoking to think about ways to encourage more grassroots organizing.
by Maro | 2025-09-24 17:39:22+00:00
I don't understand mastodon or whatever the blogging software is. Why is it breaking the article into multiple pieces and showing the rest as comments, in smaller font? This is not Twitter, so why follow some archaic silly microblog format?

I stopped reading at 1/5, the text after is too small on my phone.

I run a cheap dedicated server for $25/mo and run a blog on it, and it just shows my fuxxing writings like a regular article. Surely TT can get someone to host a blog on his University's servers. Someone help this man!
by Confiks | 2025-09-24 17:39:34+00:00
> The insane question here is, why would the EU mandate hardware attestation controlled by two private American companies in order to access services?

Please (kindly) ask Paolo De Rosa [1], Policy Officer at the European Commission and driver of many of the decisions behind the wallet and the ARF. His position is one of fatalism: that it's "too late"; the duopoly of Goople is entrenched, and it's therefore not a problem if the wallet project entrenches it even further. Regrettably quite a lot of member states agree, although representatives of France and Germany specifically are frequently standing up to the fatalism.

[1] https://github.com/paolo-de-rosa
by gdulli | 2025-09-24 17:39:36+00:00
No, it never occurred to me that anyone would care. I don't think many of my bosses or teammates could have named my choice of IDE/editor even after working with me for a while. I'm sure I mentioned it occasionally but I don't think anyone would care enough to remember.

I was usually most productive with a text editor as opposed to an IDE but I'd sometimes use an IDE as needed or when I wanted to try something new.
by us-merul | 2025-09-24 17:39:56+00:00
I submitted the article. I agree that much of the language and style is one-sided and partisan. If I could tone that down, I would. I submitted it because the outlined logical consequences stood out to me that I hadn’t encountered elsewhere—- the announcement itself, regardless of its underlying merits, opens the path to reduce vaccine access for all.

Another commenter here missed that point, thinking that people should just ignore what Trump says. The point is that what Trump says can be used to influence downstream policy in ways that might appear unexpected, but are certainly intentional.
by snozolli | 2025-09-24 17:40:08+00:00
when that opinion is that they are glad Charlie Kirk was murdered

I have yet to see anyone express that opinion. I've seen plenty of dark jokes, and even more comments calling him out for saying that the second amendment is worth a few deaths, but I haven't seen a single person say they're glad he was murdered.

I tried to look up the supposed 30k tweets that have been collected by the site used for organized harassment, but it doesn't seem to be openly published, counter to their promise.
by Borg3 | 2025-09-24 17:40:10+00:00
Well, it is age thing, because young people start they experience in current tech and only those determined enough can take a look on past tech, how it was used and how it evolved. Thats always was minority.. There are just 2 kind of people there: Those who belive and those who research.. ;)

Well, dunno what to say about it to you.. Its indeed sad.
by moron4hire | 2025-09-24 17:40:19+00:00
That's why I linked to Jeffries' post where he gave more context.

Though, in this particular case, he then went on to go back down the TDD Sudoku rabbit hole and, though he does seem to eventually write a program that works, the path to get there involved reading existing solutions and seems rather drain circly, which makes his post I linked seem a bit like making excuses. IDK. I don't really care beyond mild bemusement.
by viccis | 2025-09-24 17:40:25+00:00
Have you read Simulacra and Simulation? I think it sounds like you are pursuing very wise choices, but the problem is that the precession of simulacra is unavoidable in modern society. Even the idea of trying to chase more off line unmediated experiences is a simulacral objective, an attempt at simulating a lifestyle that doesn't really exist now.
by iefbr14 | 2025-09-24 17:40:39+00:00
On my system I use a little script coupled to a key that lets you select a graphical area with text in it and it converts it into real text that is placed in the clipboard:

#!/usr/bin/bash

maim -us | tesseract --dpi 145 -l eng - - | xsel -bi

[[ "$(xsel -ob)" ]] || (notify-send "No text found"; ohno)

You wil have to install maim, tesseract and xsel for it to work.

Edit: you can leave out the ohno which is just an audible alarm on my system
by metalman | 2025-09-24 17:40:42+00:00
there is little corelation between signal "type" and up/down data speed here in Nova Scotia. Personaly I have no fixed/wired services and find huge problems with maintaining a solid network connection with the internet and see realy wierd stuff where one phone will be able to access certain web sites, but the one next to it wont, until the phone company reset mumble something mumble mumble, registered my imie # again mumble own both phones, same provider nothing but hassles
by minimaxir | 2025-09-24 17:40:59+00:00
Product Hunt has been always been native marketing for VCs to launder perceived credibility to products they fund, and for PH that's not a bug, it's a feature.

The root problem particularly in 2025 is that discovery for new products is dead as the social frameworks such as have died out for various reasons, such as X's algorithm being very unfriendly to external links. There's a reason that most talked about tech products are for reasons extrinsic to the quality of the product itself, such as their founders (e.g. Cluely). The days of an indie project from an unknown developer going viral organically on Hacker News and getting massive interest of VCs have long since been over: hell, even Launches from YC companies on Hacker News don't get buzz anymore.
by dabockster | 2025-09-24 17:41:10+00:00
Jumping from this for visibility - LM Studio really is the best option out there. Ollama is another runtime that I've used, but I've found it makes too many assumptions about what a computer is capable of and it's almost impossible to override those settings. It often overloads weaker computers and underestimates stronger ones.

LM Studio isn't as "set it and forget it" as Ollama is, and it does have a bit of a learning curve. But if you're doing any kind of AI development and you don't want to mess around with writing llama-cpp scripts all the time, it really can't be beat (for now).
by dang | 2025-09-24 17:41:11+00:00
If users didn't flag opinion pieces on hot divisive topics, HN's front page would consist of nothing but opinion pieces about hot divisive topics. As that would be an entirely different site, user flags are vital to preserving HN for its intended mandate. As I put it years ago, we need those white blood cells.

If you want to call that an "organized fringe group trying to control the narrative", I suppose it's really just a different way of wording the same thing.´
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 17:41:31+00:00
> Does the second amendment apply to non-citizens?

There's some current disagreement on that in the courts after Bruen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Rifle_%26_Pisto...)!

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/24...

We'll see.

There is… little disagreement on this aspect of the First/Fourth/Fifth/etc., though.

> revoking their visa is not jail

The First Amendment protects you from non-jail government consequences just fine, for obvious reasons - "we're fining you $1M for your speech" would have just as much impact.
by djtango | 2025-09-24 17:41:32+00:00
If you want to experience the frustration of text not being text, take a look at one of the main train ticket booking websites in China https://www.12306.cn/index/

Plain old text that can be selected is always going to be the most user friendly to non-native speaker users.

The question then is on the balance of trade offs which user group experience is the one you want to cater more to, non native speakers or keyboard-only users.

Edit: I love how one of the icons is 票 - perfectly self explanatory to Chinese speakers. Good luck if you don't speak Chinese which goes to show that icons are cultural to some degree
by moomoo11 | 2025-09-24 17:41:36+00:00
Countries where domestic laborers are plenty are usually lopsided in terms of disparity. I don’t want to be a part of that. Like India.

It’s why rich people here contract out house keepers and middle class uses robo vacuums.

We don’t have people in slums that live on a dollar a day. Yet. And I hope it never comes to that.
by wutwutwat | 2025-09-24 17:41:41+00:00
pull a vacuum from the bleeder. problem solved.

ps, if you haven't annihilated your syncros, you can 100% shift without the clutch, just "burp the throttle" when you want to shift, meaning, let off the gas, change gears, back on the gas.

shifting up anyway.

downshifting is another story, as is starting from a stop, though I've had good luck with a disabled neutral safety switch and stopping in neutral, turning the car off, pop into 1st, start when the light turns. Hell on the starter and battery, but sometimes it's the only option.