MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by Heysonics | 2025-09-18 16:47:45+00:00
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by wofo | 2025-09-18 16:48:20+00:00
I met Daniel (creator of KSON) a while ago and have helped out with a few things, working towards this first beta release. I don't want to hijack the comments section, but there's an article I just finished writing that might shed a bit of context into why KSON exists. It's called "Configuration files are user interfaces" (see https://ochagavia.nl/blog/configuration-files-are-user-inter...). Hope it helps folks understand where KSON is coming from!
by MarkusWandel | 2025-09-18 16:48:54+00:00
Brake-by-wire sounds scary. In my current, recent-ish car, you can still control it - with more effort - if engine and/or electrics are out. I've had the experience of driving home with a suddenly failed alternator, watching one system after another report offline, until as I turned into my street, the power steering went too. But I was able to safely drive it to my driveway (with 7V remaining on the battery). I'd rather that cars stay that way, and not just because I'm a grumpy old man in training.

I do wonder about ABS and always have. If ABS can make the brakes not brake even as you fully stomp the pedal - is there a reasonably conceivable failure mode that would simply prevent you from braking despite perfectly good hydraulics and a stomped pedal?
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-18 16:49:04+00:00
> Please be advised that your platforms are rightfully expected to expeditiously remove all posts that have celebrated the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Further, the authors of these posts are to be identified and banned from your platform, as well as any new pages they may create.

Without any citations of law to justify it, this is a remarkable claim. It could be that the statements are against the terms of the sites, in which case they have every right to remove/block the content and potentially remove the users (it's their service, after all). If these comments could be construed as threatening there might be some law to have the contents removed, but not to outright force the services to ban the commenters.
by Someone1234 | 2025-09-18 16:49:06+00:00
Agreed. Plus the choices were never electrically actuated Vs. standard, plenty of vehicles before Tesla had flush fully mechanical doorhandles that reduced the drag coefficient.

Tesla did it to be different, futuristic, and to show off. Then plenty of other electric vehicle manufacturers copied. Even ignoring the safety issues, these things had reliability problems since almost inception and could be frozen shut in the winter.

Between the door handles, removing the turn signal stalk, removing the wiper stalk, non-round non-drive-by-wire wheel, and now putting the shifter in the ceiling, Tesla has made a lot of unforced errors to try to stand out.
by adrianmonk | 2025-09-18 16:50:29+00:00
You could probably do it with timing tricks related to video refresh. Wait until the monitor has finished refreshing, then draw the text into the framebuffer. Leave the text there a short while, but erase it before the monitor starts refreshing again. Repeat.

The screenshot would have a chance of capturing the text, depending on exactly when the screenshot pulls pixel data out of the framebuffer.

This might not work on certain devices. You need access to the refreshing timing information. The capture mechanism used for screenshots might also vary.
by abrouwers | 2025-09-18 16:50:35+00:00
I disagree - I see stuff like this, and I wonder if anyone actually thinks about the UI, or it's just "features thrown at the wall." It takes me a long time to remove buttons, icons, etc. from KDE's default layout. They seem to take too much comfort in "everything is configurable" as a way to ignore sane defaults.

https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/ba...
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 16:51:00+00:00
We call it adverse possession now but they had some different old timey term for it (the name escapes me) and the laws that they inherited from the english were far, far, more favorable to the possessor than what we have now because it was all built around the reality that the peasants who would be the ones working the land might have some rights but never really owned shit at the end of the day and that if some peasant who had the right to use some spot wasn't using it then the next guy was free to use it productively because at the end of the day the lord/church/crown/village whatever would extract their cut regardless, more productivity, more cut for whoever. Papering over "but you said I could graze my animals there" vs "yeah but you weren't using it" type disputes makes sense in that context.

What happened in parts of New England was people were expanding into native territory, the natives would show up appeal to these people's governments "hey, one of your assholes built a farm where I hunt, tell that guy to GTFO" and sometimes they'd win but usually the .gov would say basically "you weren't using it in any way we recognize, piss off", basically using the historical doctrine they got from England (which you can't really fault them for in the absence of other doctrine, though clearly their strategic vision was lacking), until eventually, farm by farm and pasture by pasture so much had been taken that the natives were so squeezed a lot of them cast their lot in with King Phillip. And after that the various lawmaking bodies started saying things like "hey maybe that weird Roger guy was onto something with his whole 'they're using it their own way, we oughta pay em for it' schtick" and writing protections for dis-used property into law and restricting what we now call adverse possession so as to reduce/prevent such disputes from reaching a boiling point going forward.

And TBH I think legally things would have gone that way anyway. The sort of adverse possession laws that make sense in a country of mostly landless peasants who have rights and permissions but don't actually have final say because they don't own the land are going to be very different than the sort of adverse possession laws in an agrarian society where most people own the land they work (i.e. the US 1700-1870ish).
by munificent | 2025-09-18 16:51:01+00:00
Yes, it is.

This land is only preserved from development because people are willing to pay taxes for the government to monitor and fence the land, and pay higher property values because there's less land for development.

If you want people to be OK with those costs, it really helps for them to be able to actually go and see the beautiful land that they are preserving. It's not reasonable to expect people to care about nature of you don't let them experience it.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-18 16:51:25+00:00
> Many will have no formal diagnosis at all or even proudly claim that they don’t trust the medical system, they’re just diagnosing themselves.

The thing is, many people have valid reasons not to trust the medical system. Not so long ago:

1. Homosexuality was considered a mental disease

2. Forced sterilization of minorities was good medical practice

3. FDA ignored warnings about pesticides being potentially harmful because that would be bad for business

4. FDA ignored warnings about pesticides being potentially harmful because that would be bad for international politics

5. Entire field of psychiatry was just basically random shit, it's not until very recently that we have any actual scientific knowledge

6. Pregnant women were presribed medicine that fucked up their fetuses

Not to mention that most likely when you go to a doctor you're not getting state-of-the-art diasgnosis, most likely the doctor is just a random guy doing his job, sometimes better sometimes worse. Personally I don't trust medical system with my mental health because medical system is a product of a society that made me have mental problems in the first place.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-18 16:51:31+00:00
I have a model Y and it is the first car in my life where I need to give passengers a tutorial on how to enter/exit the car. Also, my mom in the front passenger seat just assumed the emergency door release was the normal one(because she has never pushed a small button to open a door in a car before), and she pulled it and a big "WARNING! YOU MIGHT BREAK YOUR WINDOWS DOING THAT" message popped up on the screen.
by arp242 | 2025-09-18 16:51:31+00:00
There are some people really obsessed with Antifa.

A week or two ago I browsed Eric S. Raymond's Twitter/X, and he keeps banging about it as some organisation that ruins everything. He also still keeps banging on about BLM in a similar fashion. Curious people. (also: don't do this; it's not good for your blood pressure – the guy is literally calling for segregation of "low IQ savages" now; he's gone full KKK).
by LeafItAlone | 2025-09-18 16:51:36+00:00
>a young pregnant woman losing her husband, and say, something like a middle aged person losing an elderly parent

This isn’t really your point, but this person lost their husband at 40. By some definitions, that is middle aged. In the general view of things, not young. That doesn’t really change much, but I was thinking of a mid-twenties before I realized who it was.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-18 16:52:02+00:00
Yeah, no. Not neutral at all.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-mocked-botching-joe-biden...

One of many examples. Joe is outraged because he thinks Joe Biden talked about airports during the revolutionary war. He goes on to state that someone who makes such comments shouldn't have a job. When it's revealed that it's a Trump statement he pivots to "oh he just made a mistake when speaking". It's so blatantly obvious and happens constantly.
by nicce | 2025-09-18 16:52:14+00:00
I don't see the difference? Natural language simply was lacking the level of precision. We see natural language words and symbols everywhere in programming languages. Natural language was fine-tuned with improved accuracy. And optimised to reduce the amount of needed words. The difference in the precision between natural languages and programming languages was simply just too big, so you needed "an interpreter" to translate the level of precision from customer to computer.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-18 16:52:22+00:00
If you end up with bits that hash to 0xabc123 and I end up with bits that hash to 0x456def and we both think we installed fooapp version 7.8.9, there's nothing about the version number that tells us which one of us has been hacked.

But if we both attempt to install 0x456def, it's clear that whoever has 0xabc123 is in trouble. This is especially important in cases where you might need a package while you're on a separate network partition than npm. Any peer can provide it and you know it hasn't been tampered with because if it had been it would have a different hash.
by bityard | 2025-09-18 16:52:34+00:00
I have used essentially all of the Linux desktop environments over the course of decades and my impression is that GNOME attracts developers with a strong interest in "design" as a hobby. And apparently ones who take the whole, "Perfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away," philosophy perhaps a little too rigidly.

KDE tends towards pragmatism, discoverability, and customization over simple and flashy. The developers don't assume their users are simpletons who will get confused and run away if they encounter a checkbox they don't understand. They understand that many of their users are advanced tech-enthusiast "power users" just like themselves.
by lproven | 2025-09-18 16:52:36+00:00
Not really a game, but neat all the same.

It reminds me of the mid-1990s video game Magic Carpet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_(video_game)

This was a pseudo-3D game and on an ordinary display it used perspective to simulate 3D like most games. If you had 3D goggles it could use them, but I didn't.

However, it could do a true 3D display on a 2D monitor using a random-dot stereogram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_dot_stereogram

If you have depth perception and are able to see RDS autostereograms, then Magic Carpet did an animated one. It was a wholly remarkable affect, but for me anyway, it was really hard to watch. It felt like it was trying to rotate my eyeballs in their sockets. Very impressive, but essentially unplayable and I could only watch for a minute or two before I couldn't stand the discomfort any more.
by srean | 2025-09-18 16:53:09+00:00
At the core both derive their optimization from the distributive property. If the expression graph has symmetry, you get more optimization out of it.

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Teaching/Papers/GDL.pdf

Check out the first paragraph

THE humble distributive law, in its simplest form states that...this leads to a large family of fast algorithms, including Viterbi’s algorithm and the fast Fourier transform (FFT).

Two extremely influential papers appeared back to back in transactions information theory. This is one of them.

The other is

https://vision.unipv.it/IA2/Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm.pdf

Both are absolute gems of papers. The editor made sure that both appear in the same volume.
by jhatemyjob | 2025-09-18 16:53:30+00:00
https://amazon.com/Sennheiser-600-Ear-Audiophile-Headphones/...

Not for everyone obviously. But there are many, many, many, options at this level of quality.

I am not claiming these Sennheisers are the best. The parent claimed the Airpods are the best. Which is not true. That's all I'm saying.
by polairscience | 2025-09-18 16:53:43+00:00
This is so false I can't even begin to describe it. And I say this as someone who nearly daily wanders around National Forest near his house.

First, why would it hurt to codify land access in a clearer way. And second. There are continuous battles with private landowners of where and how to access the public lands that you claim mean we don't need traditional paths or easements. See the recent Wyoming corning crossing case.

There are some public lands within a 5 minute walk of my house that I cannot access because rich landowners have intentionally cordoned them off. They're beautiful areas that should remain public. Why should you be able to effectively buy public land by restricting access to it maliciously? Why shouldn't Americans take seriously access to our shared land resources?
by wyre | 2025-09-18 16:53:51+00:00
I find public transit will often use electric doors, but they will also have ways to open the door or window manually in the case of an emergency which seems like the best middleground.

That said, when has a door handle ever been a major point of failure in a personal automobile? Electric door handles on cars for less wear is a bad argument, imo. My internal skeptic says Tesla saves as much money as they can on door latches, so they need it to be electronic to remain gentle enough it won't break.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-18 16:53:57+00:00
The accusation of sabotage was pretty disgusting but there's something that's arguably even worse deeper in the thread:

> maybe if you stop fixing things for free, perhaps somebody will suddenly be willing to pay you to do so

We should all remember that line every time we think about being generous or altruistic. He essentially called the maintainer a fool.
by mr_tristan | 2025-09-18 16:54:24+00:00
Yeah, I think there's a lot more "good, focused" companies out there than what are covered in this hidden champions book. The book is just interesting to me. It highlights a lot of the economic export strength of Germany isn't due to the large corporations that people know, but a bunch of mid-sized companies people don't.

In some sense, what seems important is a business culture that has a mission or meaning to exist other than make shareholders money. I'd wager their employees will absolutely geek out about what the companies do throughout the organization. A lot of corporations these days, once you get above a couple of layers of management, is all fluff. I can't think of the last time I talked to a mid-level or above "engineering" manager in a tech company about any nuanced or interesting discussion about technology.
by lazyjones | 2025-09-18 16:54:34+00:00
The domain was a gift by the founders of inode (former Austrian ISP) and the website grew pretty fast after the brand change in 1999.

But it curiously turned out that while Austrians mostly like the name (notable exeptions were delusional marketing people of "premium brands" considering advertising on the site), Germans are really not so fond of it. Cultural differences, I suppose.
by an0malous | 2025-09-18 16:54:40+00:00
I’ll repeat what I said the last time this was posted before it gets flagged off the front page again: if you think government censorship is not on topic for a forum called “hacker news”, then you don’t understand what the word hacker means or its origins and you’re just appropriating a word to make your entrepreneurship forum sound cool. Freedom of speech and freedom of information are central to the hacker ethos and its BS to keep selectively flagging posts that are inconvenient for the tech industry under the false pretense that political discussions don’t belong here.
by jedberg | 2025-09-18 16:55:02+00:00
Big discussion about it yesterday, but something new today is the FCC pressure, and that is what would be interesting to the HN crowd.

The government is using its power to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum as a way of getting political speech it doesn't like off the air. The President himself suggested NBC cancel their shows as well.

It's a blatant violation of the first amendment, using the government to censor speech. And it looks like not a thing will be done about it.
by billy99k | 2025-09-18 16:55:07+00:00
"Nothing you just said bears resemblance to the FCC-directed censorship we just saw today. Cite some sources if you think otherwise."

So if the government puts pressure on private individuals to censor, it's okay? The government put pressure on Apple, Google, and Amazon to ban Parler when it was thought that it was thought it was being used to plan J6 (oopsie, it ended up being Facebook, but that didn't matter because right-wing bad).

There's no difference between the government putting pressure on private companies to censor and the government censoring themselves.

I also would like to add that this is public airwaves. The government has always controlled public airwaves. You can still say all the sick shit you want on Podcasts, Youtube, and any other private platform and it won't be controlled by the government.
by interroboink | 2025-09-18 16:55:13+00:00
I haven't read the article, so just speaking generally...

(and not meaning to contradict you, just thinking aloud)

I think there's some overlap between "taste" and "thinking for yourself" — though they are not the same thing.

Lots of people don't want to think for themselves in every teeny aspect of life, so choosing from a menu of "good enough" options is reasonable. It doesn't mean they lack taste, just that they lack the energy/interest/etc in that moment for that activity.

Another aspect: plenty of people will know whether they like something when they see it, but they won't be able to describe what they want beforehand. So, they have taste (ability to choose a good one), but not an ability to enunciate it, or conjure it out of thin air.

Also, the "taste" terminology is often intertwined with "style", and I think that's unnecessarily limiting. An "engineer's taste" might help them decide between gadgets and gizmos, based on their merits, even if they're both ugly.

To your last example, I think modern Lodge cast iron frying pans are mediocre. Not because of ugliness/prettiness, but because the sharp ridge/seam on the handle from the casting process is not ground down. It makes it uncomfortable to hold. Also, the cooking surface is left rough. Compare it to an old Griswold — miles apart, according to my tastes. They're both handsome enough to look at, though.
by munificent | 2025-09-18 16:55:17+00:00
Things like:

* A comment I saw on HN once where some dude was excited about AI video because it let him play at being a filmmaker without having to deal with actors, camera operators, etc.

* The large number of tragic souls who install chatbot apps on their phones and have virtual relationships with them instead of actual relationships.

* Spending an evening scrolling through TikTok or other social media which is increasingly AI-generated images and video instead of summoning the willpower to call a friend or get out of the house.

* Music producers who use AI vocal generators instead of finding a friend who can sing.

Etc.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-18 16:55:28+00:00
> We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the host said.

I've heard this before, but where did this originate? Did Jimmy just make it up or was he quoting some source? I heard the same thing but from people I interact with that this guy was crazy right wing nazi and killed Kirk because Kirk wasn't hard-line enough. But then the bullets said "Catch, fascist" so that was just super confusing. Are fascists calling each other fascists as a meme, or was the killer signing his name like "catch, <signed by> fascist".
by kkylin | 2025-09-18 16:55:31+00:00
Thanks! I saw that. As the ghotty commit (and another commenter on this thread) suggest, one can set

defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false

I've been using this for a couple days now. FWIW

- With GNU Emacs, this seems to work just fine. Hurray!

- With Emacs-Mac port, which many people like (including myself): I haven't had any luck so far. In particular, if you (like me) like to compile your own from source, doing this on macOS 26 (with XC26 etc) will compile but the resulting binary will very quickly (in seconds to minutes) become unresponsive. If you use a precompiled binary (including Homebrew cask) compiled on an earlier macOS version, that may be fine (provided you set NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled as above).

Somehow the combination of the compiler & library (runtime & statically linked) is breaking Emacs-Mac for me. I haven't quite figured out why, and probably don't have time right now to get to the bottom of this...