MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breppp | 2025-09-24 09:50:22+00:00
Chemical weapons are not "technically" WMD, the entire discussion around WMD at the time concentrated on chemical weapons.

I suggest you read about UNSCOM and UNMOVIC, what they were looking for (hint: chemical weapons), their struggles at achieving their mandates due to Iraqi manipulations, and how it led to the 2003 war.

I have not moved the goal posts, from the first reply to you I maintained Iraq had used WMDs in the past and was in breach of the 1991 terms by maintaining a very large stockpile, thus making the pretext valid (let's put aside laboratories that were not dismantled).

You say these are "scattered" but 5,000 warheads (again underestimated) is a larger stockpile than most of the world, making Iraq in 2003 having one of the largest amount of WMD warheads in existence.

Thus the conventional truth that you echoed "No WMDs were found in Iraq" is completely false
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-24 09:50:29+00:00
>The real problem is just that they don't have brains, and can't think.

That would have had more weight if you haven't just described junior developer behavior beforehand.

"LLMs can't think" is anthropocentric cope. It's the old AI effect all over again - people would rather die than admit that there's very little practical difference between their own "thinking" and that of an AI chatbot.
by southwindcg | 2025-09-24 09:50:46+00:00
Your rambling, dozens-of-mobile-screenshots-long interaction with ChatGPT talking about magic sigils and "going hundreds of times deeper into the occult than Crowley did" makes me think you're out of your mind and that your solution to P = NP is probably vibe-generated nonsense. It's not a good look if you want to be taken seriously by the mathematics community.

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

I wish you well with your endeavors.
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by rsynnott | 2025-09-24 09:51:20+00:00
> The fact that 374 S&P 500 companies are openly discussing it shows the opposite of “no clear upside” — it shows wide strategic interest.

There was a weird moment in the late noughties where seemingly every big consumer company was creating a presence in Second Life. There was clearly a lot of strategic interest...

Second Life usage peaked in 2009 and never recovered, though it remains somewhat popular amongst furries.

Bizarrely, this kind of happened _again_ with the very similar "metaverse" stuff a decade or so later, though it burned out somewhat quicker and never hit the same levels of farcical nonsense; I don't think any actual _countries_ opened embassies in "the metaverse", say (https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/sweden-first-to-o...).
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-24 09:52:29+00:00
I don't get why everything needs to be a library? Using the OS to invoke things gets you parallelism and isolation for free. When you need to deal with complicated combination of parameters to an API, it doesn't become too different from argument parsing, so you might as well do that instead.

You can still wrap the interface to the executable in a library.
by cyberpunk | 2025-09-24 09:52:55+00:00
I don't really understand the outrage either. If he was planning on including his political views in the speech, that's something else, but I personally don't give much of a fuck about the political views of anyone, especially wouldn't use it to inform my technology choices.

It seem impossible for some people to allow anyone with dissenting views to their own to even exist anymore, pretty sad set of affairs.

What's the old quote? "Your right to swing your fist ends at the other guys nose?" Perhaps we'd all do better keeping that in mind.
by blharr | 2025-09-24 09:53:04+00:00
If you look at their figure (0.0377 kW hour) for a phone using 4G, the device power consumption is minimal and mostly made up by the network usage.

The data center +network usage will be the main cost factor for streaming. For an LLM, you are not sending or receiving nearly as much data, so while I wouldn't know the numbers, it should be nominal
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-24 09:53:41+00:00
> You have not provided any actual argument for why the analogy might be flawed.

You really want me to explain to you why black families moving into a white-only neighborhood is a ridiculous analogy for Zionist settlers moving in to Palestine with the goal of transforming it into a Jewish state?

I'm surprised that this has to be explained, but here goes.

In your analogy, blacks are an oppressed minority inside the United States who are merely exercising their freedom to live in whatever neighborhood they want. They are not foreign invaders coming in to take over the country, expel the native population and establish an ethnically exclusive state for themselves.

In Palestine, the goal of the Zionists were essentially invaders. They had the goal of transforming it from an Arab country into a country for European Jews, where Jews would have unquestioned supremacy and control over the state. In Palestine, the Zionists were not some oppressed minority. They were much wealthier than the Arabs. They had enormous financial backing from the outside in order to buy up land from absentee landlords, expel the tenant farmers, and establish Jewish settlements. They were backed by the imperial overlord, the British Empire. The Arabs had no power of self-governance. They were ruled over by a foreign power, the British Empire, which imposed a policy on them that meant that a foreign people - European Jews - would take over the country. When the Arabs rose up, they were brutally suppressed by the British army, with the help of Zionist militias.

This is what you're comparing to a few black families moving into a white neighborhood. It's beyond absurd.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-24 09:54:19+00:00
This book looks fantastic, just ordered a board-book copy for my 2 yo. Weirdly couldn't get anything on Amazon for less than £11 or delivered in less than 2 weeks, but found a new copy on ebay for less than £7 delivered in 3-5 days. Reminder to always try ebay first these days!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-24 09:55:08+00:00
> You’re seemingly arguing against free markets.

You're only talking about the people that like a feature. Why do you need a free market for that if every company can do it?

Not everything has to be a free market. There are reasons to use competition but not this reason.

> the government should not be in the business of deciding what kind of speech makes people happy

I did not say or intentionally imply they should.

> People should have the freedom to choose the media they consume. Compelled speech takes that choice away

Not if the compelling is just that they can't ban content. That only adds choice.

> If your problem with Google is how much influence they have then yes, you are talking about antitrust. That’s the regulatory mechanism by which excessive corporate influence can be restricted.

There can be other mechanisms, and more importantly my argument there isn't about mechanisms. They are barely barely humanlike, so human rights are barely barely relevant.

> “A little” is still more than nothing which was your previous assertion. You may be comfortable with the rising temperature of our shared pot of water but I say it is a cause for concern.

It's barely any increase because we already have common carrier rules.

And I stand by the statement that it doesn't erode fundamental rights. The right of giant corporations to have free speech is at the edge, not fundamental. And a rule like that increases the free speech of so many actual humans.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-24 09:55:17+00:00
What DHH said:

“First-world problems” shouldn’t be seen as an insult, but a celebration! Hurraaaay, I have ascended from the daily toils and tribulations of a life in the third world, so my worries may now include slow laundry machines and air conditioning, not starvation or failed states [party confetti emoji]

What this guy feels about that:

I regret to say I am unable to support an organization which seems unable to publicly disavow a man who has demonstrated numerous times to be a racist, homophobe, transphobe, fatphobe, ableist white nationalist who is now apparently cheering on death via starvation in third world countries

It's too much. I don't have the patience for this. The complaint is so out of left field I have to assume DHH and the RubyCentral guys are right.
by gf000 | 2025-09-24 09:55:33+00:00
It has virtual threads, that under most circumstances let you get away from the async model. It has records, that are data-first immutable classes, that can be defined in a single line, with sane equals toString and hash. It has sealed classes as well, the latter two giving you product and sum types, with proper pattern matching.

Also, a very wide-reaching standard library, good enough type system, and possibly the most advanced runtime with very good tooling.
by 3D30497420 | 2025-09-24 09:58:01+00:00
I really had no idea of DHH's politics and I read through the linked posts and, while I don't agree with a bunch of what DHH said, none strike me as excessively extreme. Worth debating? Sure. Worth protesting? Less sure.

I will say DHH's post on Trump's return is like reading something from an alternate universe (https://world.hey.com/dhh/mega-a0f62cd4). What optimism was there in Trump's second campaign? Trump promised exactly what he's doing: retribution, tariffs, self-dealing and corruption, accelerating climate change, etc. I'm curious DHH's assessment of the past ~9 months and how it matches with his original "optimism".
by gnulinux996 | 2025-09-24 09:59:24+00:00
> That would have had more weight if you haven't just described junior developer behavior beforehand.

Effectively telling that junior developers "don't have brains" is in very bad taste and offensively wrong.

> people would rather die than admit that there's very little practical difference between their own "thinking" and that of an AI chatbot.

Would you like to elaborate on this?

I was told that McDonalds employees would have been replaced by now, self-driving cars will be driving the streets and new medicines would have been discovered.

It's been a couple of years that "AI" is out, and no singularity yet.
by Alifatisk | 2025-09-24 09:59:39+00:00
The article did not live up to the title and shifts focus to DHH and his political tweets, which is totally irrelevant of RubyCentrals hostile takeover

What is even weirder is that towards the end, after all of the pie throwing, the author ends with "I am done. I am done with this drama." and suggests building a separate ecosystem for Ruby from the ground up

I can barely take the article serious at this point. I am afraid the author caused more damage and confusion than good, if anything, this might even make people feel like what RubyCentral did was right
by KeplerBoy | 2025-09-24 09:59:42+00:00
Remarkably RDR1 was only released for PCs late last year, ~14 years after the original release.

Maybe that is even related to it's good performance on consoles back then: Rockstar invested a lot of development time and sacrificed portability for performance. Basically the opposite of what modern games achieve with unreal 5.
by michaellzd0303 | 2025-09-24 10:00:03+00:00
I watched my sister stress over save the dates for weeks and spend $100 on what was basically just names and a date in nice typography . It got me thinking: why is announcing your wedding date so complicated? So I built https://www.engagement-photos.com/tool/save-the-date - clean, typography-focused save the dates generated in 30 seconds. No photos, no designers, no stress. What it does: * Enter names, date, location * Get multiple minimalist designs instantly * Print-ready files, way cheaper than traditional options Been running this quietly for weeks. Couples love the simplicity - no engagement shoots, no back-and-forth, just elegant announcements.

Would love to hear what you think! Have anyone noticed how the wedding industry makes simple things needlessly complex and expensive?
by sReinwald | 2025-09-24 10:00:27+00:00
You're absolutely right that named credit has tangible career benefits that go well beyond feelings. But I think Vincke threaded that needle well with the anonymous public credit - it creates a documented public record of innovative work at the company level while preserving the engineer's privacy.

The engineer can still leverage this (LinkedIn, internal promotions, industry networking) without being forced into a public-facing role they might not want. When they're interviewing or networking, they can point to Vincke's public acknowledgment and say "that was my project" in contexts where it's professionally relevant, without having their personal social media permanently associated with it.

Considering Vincke was impressed enough to publicly acknowledge this individual's passion and initiative, there's no doubt in my mind that this engineer could get named credit or something that would acknowledge their role in the project if they wanted it.

But to go a bit meta: I think it's strange that we are discussing this in the context of a CEO publicly acknowledging one of their engineers (even if anonymously). Vincke is, at least in the context of the broader industry, going above and beyond. I doubt you'd see Ubisoft, EA, or Blizzard publicly acknowledging a single engineer's after-hours passion project in this way.

Feels a bit like misdirected energy, I guess? Why are we debating about the nuances of named vs anonymous credit and recognition when industry leaders don't give any?

It's like calling someone out for only tipping 10% while ignoring the guy in the top hat who's tipping 0. If you want gaming companies to get better about giving credit and recognition, you should support the companies that are at least moving in the right direction. I know it's easy to be cynical, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
by gloosx | 2025-09-24 10:00:47+00:00
Why do you speak for someone else? Those "We" are in the same room with us?

The commenter above first couldn't understand, then read some comment, then understood something completely out-of-point throwing a bunch of generalisms touching me like "people make themselves suffer" and "everyone else is just following" and decided to dump it here? I can't just leave it untouched since I have actual experience with React.
by cgio | 2025-09-24 10:02:52+00:00
If you put ETL and ELT in the same layer you have missed the essence of data platform architecture schools in the last few years. DW is ETL. Data lake is ELT. Then you mix and match (e.g. lakehouse etc.) The distinction between transformation post or ante ingestion is the major thing to drill into. The next one to master is streaming versus batch and after those you start hitting interesting problems like orchestration, snapshots and consistency layers. Not too complex a domain, but it requires some practical requirements to have to find these things out.
by ranguna | 2025-09-24 10:03:57+00:00
As a European, I don't mind this getting passed anymore. I'll just go around it like I do for many other laws. Enforcing laws in the EU is a total joke, even if this passes, no one will care.

Signal will probably add an option to circumvent this like they have for other laws in countries that block signal itself.

So, Europe, if you really want this, go ahead and spy on the majority of the people, I'll just keep using signal or something else that respects my privacy, even if it's "illegal" by your standards (again, like I already do for many other laws).

If the story is different this time around and they double down on enforcing this, I'll just leave to Switzerland, if they do the same, I'll go somewhere else. Or I'll become an activist, I've actually been kinda bored of everyday life, maybe fighting the "system" will be fun for a change.

I don't care anymore, there'll always be a way to do what whatever me and those close want, as long as we are not hurting anyone.
by javawizard | 2025-09-24 10:03:59+00:00
Hate to break it to you but, sample size of 9, my entire friend group talks like this. We're all in our 30s.

Language changes. The construction "what's up" and its extension "what's up with ..." didn't become widely accepted until Bugs Bunny brought it into the mainstream, and yet you use it as naturally as anything else at the beginning of your message.

I don't know that it's particularly constructive to dish on this post purely on that account.
by ckbkr10 | 2025-09-24 10:04:59+00:00
I see. I'm still holding on to my 3:4 aspect ratio EIZOs as second screen just because I prefer having a smaller second screen instead of 2 huge widescreens.

Opting into anything higher than 1920x1080 seems uncomfortable for me.

Maybe I just get old. I find it hard to read fonts on higher resolutions and it seems like other people do as well..

16pt Lucida Console on 1920x1080 just works way too well for me to even consider switching to anything else.
by mtrovo | 2025-09-24 10:05:24+00:00
> DHH would be platformed—and ironically at the very conference he was asked not to keynote in 2022 seemingly as a result of Basecamp’s politically-charged implosion which led to a third of the entire company resigning in protest.

That's a funny way to say that he asked for people to refrain from politics when they're at work and a third of the company said no and left, I really struggle to see this in a bad light. I don't have beefs on this whole discussion and only sporadically follow DHH blog posts, I think the main conflict people are having with his views is that work is not just work anymore, people are expected to share a vision, to have the same cliques, to live the same live, work became for some people what family, church or the local community used to be for most before that. See for example https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/the-company-isnt-a-family-... or his book "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work".

I was talking to a friend who worked in the US and the UK about the culture differences, and he mentioned how the US leaned more towards a family culture where the UK was more of a pub culture. On a family you feel required to cope with whatever bs is thrown at you because you're supposed to stick together. On a pub the more off putting you are the more chances people are not gonna talk to you.
by vanderZwan | 2025-09-24 10:05:31+00:00
Nobody is "shooting" any "messengers", I'm just raising an eyebrow at messengers who state the obvious with a tone as if I'm a child who still believes in Santa Claus. I genuinely do not see how you managed to conclude that I needed to be explained that the muteness is an act.

Do you understand the difference between rationally knowing something is an act and the experience of actually seeing an actor out of an acting context?
by gf000 | 2025-09-24 10:06:02+00:00
There are non-Turing complete programming languages, and there are many things that are Turing complete but have nothing to do with programming (even PowerPoint), so this is neither a required nor sufficient property.

I believe a reasonable way to categorize languages as programming or not is simply.. what is it's primary use case. HTML's last two letters tell us exactly that it is not a programming language.
by sjw987 | 2025-09-24 10:06:37+00:00
I wonder at what point (if not already) Google will start scanning personal photos for generative AI training. It must be a tempting asset base for them.

Personally, I've begun moving my photos off of Google in anticipation that this is the next step (or if it's already happening, to prevent more of it).

I'm a very private person. The only place online that I keep my personal photos of family, friends and my memories is in Google Photos and I don't trust them not to use these assets for training. I (maybe daftly) trusted this as a sort of private vault for my photos, and don't want my likeness or that of my family, wife, or friends being used to generate AI content.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-09-24 10:06:38+00:00
The topic was melanoma incidence, not skin aging.

But even for skin aging things aren't that simple, though sunscreen companies would love you to think that. UV light is a treatment for psoriasis, eczema, and many other skin conditions.

And vitamin D improves symptoms/reduces incidence of "hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, schizophrenia, asthma, preterm birth, maternal mortality, myopia and COVID-19" (a lot of these are aging related).

Most studies on UV light/vitamin D supplementation have been done in mice, which are nocturnal and don't get the same benefits as us from sunlight. Here's a recent article in pigs:

UV light exposure versus vitamin D supplementation: A comparison of health benefits and vitamin D metabolism in a pig model

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095528632...

Here's a helpful review of the topic:

Are Vitamin D Supplements an Adequate Substitute for Sun Exposure?

https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/3635

In this paper we review the current state of the science on this subject and conclude that vitamin D supplements are not an adequate substitute for sun exposure for attenuation of most of these diseases and adverse health effects, particularly hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and should not be recommended in lieu of sun exposure to patients presenting with low levels of serum 25(OH)D. Vitamin D supplementation for such patients could even be harmful, because it will raise patients’ serum 25(OH)D levels, thereby giving patients a false sense of security and obscuring the best available metric for insufficient sun exposure.
by palata | 2025-09-24 10:07:19+00:00
First, Chat Control refers to a proposition in the EU, which has not been accepted at this point. So no, it's not Chat Control.

> People believe private chats to be, well, private.

You have to choose an app that seems private enough. Signal is one of the few, because it can be audited easily.

> as if the problem isn’t the censorship, but my failure to follow the rules.

The problem I see is that you disagree with how Meta handles Messenger, but still use it. Chat Control or not, there is no law preventing Meta from reading your messages for moderation.

> I guess we still have Signal. For now.

Yes, and that's a good thing.
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