MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atonse | 2025-09-21 21:01:00+00:00
Yeah I actually used to find soccer boring until I started watching it with my son, the sheer skill levels, there’s a lot of strategy involved. Yeah they don’t go into shoes or anything.

But for example, forcing a foul at just the right time, or causing offsides by positioning yourself, etc. those carry some level of strategy, at least how much I can grasp.

But the one common thing with every professional sport is the skill level for that particular skill in the sport is unlike anything we can comprehend.

I remember a friend recalling a professional baseball game he attended, and he described how those guys were warming up, and they were just playing catch to warm up their arms… they were able to throw the ball to within inches of the recipient’s glove every time from hundreds of feet away.

That sort of skill makes it enjoyable to watch human performance levels if you can appreciate how hard that particular skill is, especially if you’ve tried it.

Equivalents in F1 are how a race engineer will tell a driver to slow down by half a second over the course of a full lap to preserve their tires, and they more or less do it.
by intermerda | 2025-09-21 21:02:25+00:00
Yeah the guy who referred to African countries as "shithole" while wondering why the US can't import more immigrants from Norway puts insurmountable barriers to a program whose beneficiaries are overwhelmingly non-white people and that has nothing to do with race or skin color. Smartest HN chatter.

You racists really want all the "benefits" of racism without actually accepting the label. Why is that?
by fhcbix | 2025-09-21 21:02:37+00:00
"USB-C 2.0" in the specs reveals that. DisplayPort Alt Mode requires at least USB 3.0, the PinePhone Pro would be a Linux phone supporting that.

On another note, I've successfully connected to wireless displays (Miracast) on Linux using https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays
by Teknoman117 | 2025-09-21 21:03:09+00:00
As someone who does backpacking, a few reasons for bringing power sources:

- A satellite communication device. You don't use them for internet access, but it does allow me to send my location and a small message so I can let an emergency contact know where I've made camp for the night (and a lack of a message means I'm in trouble). It also enables me to contact search and rescue if I know I'm in trouble.

We did have to use it once when my sister lost her footing and fell of the side of a mountain and shattered her leg. (full recovery, thankfully)

- GPS receiver. I've shifted to using my phone as my GPS unit (with Gaia GPS). Trail GPS units have been subjected to planned obsolescence in a bad way, many will only be supported for a few years now, after that you can't load maps into them anymore. Might as well use your phone and Gaia works offline. Although you do learn that modern cellphones really, really hate being offline for weeks on end and random things start breaking down.

The latter was super important this year. With the budget cuts to park services this year in the US, many of our back country trails are in worse disrepair than they usually are. There were multiple days where the only way I knew I was still on the trail was to follow the dot on my GPS and look for the occasional cut log...
by nahumba | 2025-09-21 21:03:13+00:00
You are a unique person. You have detailedknowlage of graphics assembly and windows api. And you have the creativity to write games. Which need the side ability of drawing.

This insane amount of knowlage is rare. And the ability to write about it is also not common.

You are very talented and hard working person.

I am in awe.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-21 21:04:04+00:00
Who still can't afford US universities, as UK professionals are (excepting the very top executives, public servants, finance and legal professionals, of whom there are relatively few) paid a lot less than the US equivalent.

UK middle class also includes university lecturers, teachers, various health professionals, graphic designers and so on, most of whom make less than 100k USD/year and some not much more than 50k.
by kardianos | 2025-09-21 21:04:08+00:00
I just felt this recently. I was sent some code for me to put into prod, a long running service. And in one func, which returned an error (Go) but still called "os.Exit" in each error handler rather then returning.

Fixing the issue was a small matter. But the amount of disrespect I felt, that I looked at it closer then anyone else apparently (which wasn't really all that close at all), when they were ostensibly building this code, that disrespect was just immense.
by Retric | 2025-09-21 21:04:21+00:00
Fair, average thickness is somewhat meaningful when you have other stuff in your pocket. However, all phones are thin enough these days it’s kind of a silly comparison. Linguistically it’s a more interesting question IMO than in terms of marketing nonsense.

I think for people thin is mostly in reference to volume for a given height. But there’s a bunch of related factors involved like weight and clothing sizes which keeps it relatively ambiguous.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-21 21:04:25+00:00
I wrote my own Lisp-like language that's a LLVM front end that explicitly uses greater-than / less-than angle brackets instead of parentheses for exactly this reason. When you walk by and don't look closely at it, it sort of looks like HTML so doesn't attract attention. And when a co-worker looked closer I just said it was a legacy templating engine and they really should just stick to python.
by roarcher | 2025-09-21 21:04:53+00:00
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets viscerally irritated when I'm asked to review a PR that was obviously generated. You didn't take the time to write this code, but you expect me to take the time make sure it's correct, which will take far longer than a regular PR because there's no reason to assume an LLM even understood the task. Next time just be honest and ask me to do your work for you.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-09-21 21:04:56+00:00
It looks to me like many of the psych diagnoses come down to how much trouble we have with the situation.

And, personally, I look at the world, do I meet the criteria for Asperger's? Probably, although without a time machine there doe not appear to be any way to be certain. But it's a so-what I have had no reason to ever talk to a psychiatrist about. A label won't change reality, it won't provide any solutions, why should I bother?
by jolux | 2025-09-21 21:05:14+00:00
The Avelias are nice but the problem with the Acela hasn't been the rolling stock in a long time, it's that it can only reach top speed (~150mph) on a tiny portion of the track, mostly between Boston and Providence and some more in New Jersey. The rest of it, we're running proper high-speed trains at like 70mph, unfortunately. Fixing the alignment and upgrading the track is a kind of political nightmare that upgrading the trains just isn't.
by LiamPowell | 2025-09-21 21:05:22+00:00
This is rather lenient. There's not anything wrong with that (although perhaps it should be noted for people that will use it without looking at the code), but it's the main reason this can be so small. Using their demo in the readme:

{"x",10eee"y"22:5,{[:::,,}]"w"7"h"33 rect: { 10, 22, 7, 33 }
by jcranmer | 2025-09-21 21:05:40+00:00
I love SimTower to death, but unfortunately being a Win16-based game, it's kind of hard to get working on modern computers. For some reason, trying to run it in Wine works for a couple of minutes before it causes my window manager to spaz out and crash, and I haven't decided what avenue I'd try to get it working well again.

On the other hand, with all the poking I've done at it over the years, I think I now have the most complete knowledge of the save file format for anyone who doesn't have access to the source code.
by tomhow | 2025-09-21 21:07:08+00:00
Previously:

Calculator Forensics (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757455 - Jan 2025 (1 comment)

Calculator Forensics (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561298 - Sept 2021 (19 comments)

Calculator Forensics (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682045 - May 2014 (2 comments)
by achierius | 2025-09-21 21:08:00+00:00
What do you mean by that? Deep geological storage seems to work pretty well, and the 'size' of the problem is so small that even if we were to 100x it it would still be minuscule when compared to e.g. coal ash runoff, which includes fun things like arsenic and mercury and is currently 'disposed' of by stuffing it in landfills or even uncovered open-air pools.
by OskarS | 2025-09-21 21:08:11+00:00
Couldn't resist checking what math.h does for floats and doubles on godbolt, it returns slightly above 9, but curiously not exactly equal to any answer in that list [1]. Maybe not that surprising, these transcendental functions are always iffy in the last digits.

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/dK85Eq8r6
by cycomanic | 2025-09-21 21:08:12+00:00
> There's been an attempt to redefine "trauma" broadly. Technically trauma is acute stress. That is, a great deal of stress delivered all at one time. There's been an attempt to redefine it to include chronic stress. That is, generally living under stressful conditions. >

Do you have any references for trauma being tide to short acute stress? Looking at Wikipedia does not include acute stress and even talks about the difference between short trauma and long term trauma.

Also I definitely recall that even when I was young (>30 years ago) we would talk about e.g. the trauma of child abuse or sexual abuse, which is often not acute.
by jrussino | 2025-09-21 21:08:22+00:00
Ever since I saw that episode I've felt like it's inevitable that something like this will become commonplace. If I had a product like this that actually worked as imagined, and the full data pipeline was under my complete control, I could think of a dozen reasons why I'd want to use it. If we take it for granted that this is coming whether we want it or not (and I'm not saying we necessarily must, but it's worth pondering)... is there a way to design the technology, and cultivate new social norms, such that we end up with something that's a net positive rather than a dystopian panopticon? I haven't been able to answer this for myself, at least not yet.

(Even setting the social repercussions aside, though, Zuck/Meta being involved is a dealbreaker for me.)
by calf | 2025-09-21 21:09:42+00:00
Edited: I think what's really going on is that you've internalized oppression so as to be so cynical and toxically jealous that someone else online can actually blithely/stupidly say what they think on a Sunday afternoon. Because you're professional working at a university, and you can't just do that and speak out. Noam Chomsky famously described this behavior amongst his peers.

I'm Asian American and LGBT+, and I was privileged by an advanced formal education. So, yes, I literally have a different set of values and goals than you. So you should just try to read it in good faith, I have made no such assumption rather my comment laid out those issues for you to think about. Unless you are doing the old "rules of rational discussion are for me, not for thee"? Surely you're not that sort of antiintellectual reactionary.

And to the other possibility, you're just writing an insult, so the problem there is you and your emotional regulation, and you are responsible for that.

Going back, it's quite the opposite, when the other commenter framed "identity politics" and "meritocracy", they were committing the very error you have ignorantly accused me of. Thus you are just engaging in projection. Not to mention the ("kritik" conservative's dogwshistle).

Thus, the fact that you are lacking in critical thinking skills today does not excuse you from such intellectually prejudiced remarks.

And finally, your reference to "electoral results" tells me you didn't read through my comment, and are pigeonholing me as one type of left-American Democrat or another, of which I have provided enough commentary in the original comment that I could not be one.

So as much as you were trying to suggest the problem is on my end, the problem is with you and your narrowminded (and frankly, one with a racist tenor because surely you would not have said that comment to my face) reply, eli_gottlieb. It's too bad you're actually a postdoc, if I were an evil SJW or Democrat (or whatever politics it was you were insinuating) I'd be cancelling you through your own institution or something.

If you are a conservative, further discussion is going to be pointless. If you are Bernie/AOC/other leftist then I'll chalk it up to you basically misreading what I wrote.
by notahacker | 2025-09-21 21:09:50+00:00
Yep. The beneficiary of this ranking update, for those who take it seriously, is a place where the same comprehensively educated kid that disgustingly and outrageously get a place at Oxford with three As after also passing additional selection hurdles in the form of an entrance exam, a special application form that certain schools are very good at teaching their kids how to pass, and an interview with a probably privately-educated Oxford don gets an offer of 3 Bs based on the vanilla UCAS application, and might well get in if they miss out if the course isn't oversubscribed, especially if they have a good story about going to a bad school.

Also, nobody thinks gaming a teaching quality survey ranking (something traditionally focused on more by much less academically selective universities) to jump up the Times list means that Durham is on average outputting more elite students
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-21 21:09:56+00:00
You're saying a flatly mistaken thing in absolutist terms from pure fucking igonrance, as if you knew what you were talking about, at that. There are many ways to store nuclear waste very safely, just as there are many ways to store all kinds of dangerous things safely and do all kinds of dangerous things we need to do as a civilization, safely. As for the size of the "problem" growing. Go look at how much space even all the world's known HL nuclear waste combined requires, and how slowly that space (hint: it's tiny, as in, fits-into-a-college-sports-auditorium with room to spare for a quick basketball game tiny) grows year over year, or would grow even if we exponentially increased our use of nuclear.

People such as yourself, just blandly stating plain nonsense with certainty are cause for many problems in the world, and for nuclear energy, they're as common as fruit flies, buzzing around any serious debate.
by toast0 | 2025-09-21 21:09:57+00:00
Microsoft has done a lot of bad releases since they eliminated engineering in test, but it seems a little bit above and beyond to expect them to specifically add an arm executable to a list of executables to patch with x86(64) code and then not confirm that it does what it's supposed to do.

The current situation is derpy, but understandable. The patching system was ported with the rest of the arm stuff, and the executable for arm matches the name list so it makes sense to do the patch, but nobody ported the patch data. Whoops.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-21 21:10:17+00:00
The way I tell it is FP gives you more options for where to put the state and how to denote it. There are plenty of environments that let you mix OOP and FP and they're all a little bit funky, but not unworkable. I think the key thing here is the learning curve is a little steeper than OOP-ish languages. And since our universities are now really just trade schools, teaching kids which python libraries to use to feed data into a ML model someone else has built, there's little chance we'll see junior software developers who have been exposed to idomatic functional programming.
by samtheDamned | 2025-09-21 21:11:16+00:00
> People don't want their whole desktop to fly everywhere and zoom out when they just want to quickly switch or launch an application with the mouse. They just want to mouse over the bottom of their screen and click.

for switching between programs, gnome is designed around workspaces instead of stacking and covering windows so you aren't expected to fly into the expose view to switch apps you just swipe to the side to your other program (or scroll in the corner with the mouse, or press meta+alt+left or right).

For launching programs just press meta and type the first couple letters of it's name. This is exactly the same how I open software on windows, and imo it's quicker due to not taking my hands off the keyboard.

I think it's silly to look at a new desktop and be mad at it for not behaving exactly like other desktops. If you grew up using computers that behaved like gnome you'd likely be just as uncomfortable with a stacking based desktop like windows.
by ajross | 2025-09-21 21:11:25+00:00
Yeah, but for every single instance of every single one of those glyphs, someone needs to publish a paper substantiating similarity to whatever that archetype is. You can't just put up a pretty font diagram and announce "They use the hand symbol here".

This is the same thing as all those stories about the Impossible Black Hole That Should Not Be There illustrated with something the graphics department threw together in photoshop.
by abnercoimbre | 2025-09-21 21:13:23+00:00
The livelihoods of many come from social media, so this is a war not unlike regulating the tobacco industry (remember when we could smoke on planes? It was un-American to suggest banning people's right to do so.)

A recent HN thread examined [0] the NYC ban on smartphones for teens at school. We see positive results so far.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211527
by cjensen | 2025-09-21 21:14:07+00:00
ACE Rail (from Stockton to San Jose) has an absolutely wonderful network of eight shuttle buses that meet the train when it arrives at the Great America station[1]. They fan out across most of the Silicon Valley so that there's no need to wait for a bus or make connections between buses.

Every commuter rail line really should do this. Obviously Caltrain could not do this for every train, but how about some trains?

[1] https://cdn.acerail.com/wp-content/uploads/ACE-Shuttle-Map-S...
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2025-09-21 21:14:22+00:00
I agree:

Senior engineer: "you shouldn't have to use llm to do simple things" Their boss: "hey I need you to write this thing in Go for performance reasons" Senior engineer: "you shouldn't make me learn new languages, js is plenty performant for this task just install a new server. why are they making us use all these new tools? everything is new again, blah blah excuses excuses"

vs.

Boss: "hey can you write this in go" Vibe Coder: "write this loop to ignore the first semicolon in this response", and then proceeds to move on with life.

It seems like when people evaluate the merits of what a code generation ai agent should and shouldn't do, they leave out a lot of their implicit assumptions about how project should work and their own theory of mind around coding.
by martinpw | 2025-09-21 21:14:42+00:00
Took Amtrak from LA to San Jose last week, which was a good experience. The train runs along the coast for a good stretch, from Ventura through Vandenberg and then through the hills. It's certainly not the fastest way to go (~10 hours) but you can leave in the morning, have a couple of sit down meals on the way, watch the world go by, work if necessary, and be in San Jose in the evening. Probably not something to do regularly, but a great occasional change from flying.

Since Amtrak is often delayed due to freight having priority, traveling the other way is more risky from a scheduling point of view, since the train starts in Seattle and could already be heavily delayed by the time it gets to San Jose.

https://www.amtrakvacations.com/travel-styles/famous-routes/...
by IAmLiterallyAB | 2025-09-21 21:15:14+00:00
I don't know if it was filename exactly, but a similar story:

> Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-21 21:16:14+00:00
You can assume that sin(9) is within the range of all the functions that are post-composed w/ it so what you end up w/ in the end is arcsin(sin(9)). Naively you might think that's 9 but you have to be careful b/c the standard inverse branch of sin is defined to be [-1, 1] → [-π/2, π/2].

Edit: The assumption is that the calculators are using specific branches of the inverse functions but that's still a choice being made b/c the functions are periodic there are no unique choices of inverse functions. You have to pick a branch that is within the domain/range of periodicity.
by ninalanyon | 2025-09-21 21:16:16+00:00
How very odd. In most of my finals at Exeter Uni. Physics department in the 1970s regurgitation of course notes got you nowhere because all the exams were open note so the examiners didn't bother asking questions of that kind. The Quantum Mechanics exam was an outstanding example, not only did it not ask for any regurgitation most of the questions required the student to provide answers to problems that had not been more than hinted at in the course.
by 2dvisio | 2025-09-21 21:16:18+00:00
I used to teach tutorials at Keble college (Oxford). Not sure how they were run in Manchester.

Tutorials in Oxford are impressive for me for many reasons: 1. Those teaching were generally of a higher level beyond Ph.D., post docs or professors, all paid, all assessed against an NPS from students, and the performance of the students in exams 2. Tutors are generally teaching more adjacent topics (creating connections), students are challenged to think beyond the assignments (which are generally tough), 3. Tutorials are calibrated and personalised to students and made sure all students are challenged at the right level, I had tutorials where I had to teach 1:2 because the students were excellent and needed a higher level of complexity.
by addaon | 2025-09-21 21:16:48+00:00
I'm down to around 10 lb base load. And then I hike in the desert where I carry 5 - 7 liters of water (11 - 15 lbs). And food. Saving a pound here and there is totally worth it, but there's a large part of the country where prudent hiking means the majority of your weight is water.
by Qwertious | 2025-09-21 21:17:11+00:00
Because car-based roads are so fucking noisy, we throw a ton of green space and front yards to mitigate it. Not to mention "sidewalks" are unnecessary when you can just walk in the centre of the street.

The size of a traditional road is about 6 metres wide or less (that's measured from the front wall of the building on one side, to the front wall of the building on the opposite side). In comparison, the same wall-to-wall measure of a car-centric suburban street comes out to, IIRC, 20-30 metres. That's 3-5x the cost in just land alone, let alone maintenance.

And yes, we will need some roads - about 20% or so, as arterial roads. But right now we're closer to 100%, and most of the throughput of arterial roads is tied up in one-occupant passenger vehicles rather than actually necessary cargo/tradie vehicles.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-21 21:17:59+00:00
Yea, plenty of cameras need precise temperature control too. A laser or LED shifting spectra is just the easiest and most accessible example I could think of.

Highspeed needing it is a head scratcher though. Best I can come up with is the sensor needs relatively low temperatures, that or as the frame gets smaller on the sensor to up the framerate the power density goes nuts.