MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nucleardog | 2025-09-23 12:47:04+00:00
> How would any bag be an obvious diaper bag?

We used to tote around one of these: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/388909924480

Not very fashionable, has wet wipes hanging out the side, the pockets have stitched icons for what they're meant to hold like a soother and diapers, etc.

Having a child as a prop would definitely help, but a frazzled look and some wet wipes hanging out the side would probably help it along quite a bit.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-23 12:47:58+00:00
It's a tradeoff between getting "good enough" performance w/ guided/constrained generation and using 2x calls to do the same task. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's better to have a separate model. One good case of 2 calls is the "code merging" thing, where you "chat" with a model giving it a source file + some instruction, and if it replies with something like ... //unchanged code here ... some new code ... //the rest stays the same, then you can use a code merging model to apply the changes. But that's become somewhat obsolete by the new "agentic" capabilities where models learn how to diff files directly.
by hopelite | 2025-09-23 12:48:13+00:00
Well I sure did not have EV totalitarianism on my bingo card.

So all the European societies need to be forced and pushed with draconian measures and punishments, while racist excuses are made for why other groups are exempt from these climate punishments.

It is textbook abusive guilt shifting of narcissism. It’s not like most politicians are not grandiose, especially the ones who not only think they are some form of special one’s chosen by God, but have even just effectively declared themselves to be the only God they need (i.e., some form of external regulation). Talk about peak grandiose narcissism, this time with robots and AI.
by balamatom | 2025-09-23 12:48:24+00:00
Unironically this.

Monero is literally the only crypto that does what it says on the tin. Anonymous, decentralized, minable on commodity hardware. It basically solves internet micropayments.

If you run a website, instead of ads you could provide users with well-behaved "support this site by enabling cryptominer while browsing" toggle that defaults to off.

But no, that'd be "weird". Or in less gullible terms, it spooked some spooks (I mean in the Stirnerian sense, not the one the reader might be thinking of).

And, well, there you have it. 16 years after Satoshi people patting themselves on the shoulder, considering it a resounding success how BTC has become toothless enough for PayPal to adopt, ffs.

And as usual nobody putting 2 and 2 together till some hackers from some hellhole did.

And presumably some other big picture thinkers saw it, too, the ones in the opposite of a hellhole who poured literal billions to turn a global plea for financial liberty into the largest FUD cloud since the Halloween papers.
by grumbelbart2 | 2025-09-23 12:48:28+00:00
The bigger picture is though that taking swings every day also requires a bit of "luck". Some people just don't have the energy, education, mindset, or environment.

It's easy to assume it would be in our control, but if you're just tired all day every day because, say, your hormone balance is off and no one can tell you why, you might statistically accomplish less than others.
by Latty | 2025-09-23 12:48:43+00:00
It's not that I always use absolute/home-relative paths, but I'm almost always working from the same folders for the context: if I'm working on a project, I'll be in the project directory and work relative to that the vast majority of the time, for example. I also use the substring history search which makes it more useful for the equivalent to zoxide's case.

And I do have my path in my prompt, I'm not talking about something that actually takes time, but more interrupts flow (for me, as I say, I get how for other people it'd work better).
by tbrownaw | 2025-09-23 12:48:51+00:00
> SIMs don't know their 'physical location' and triangulation of signals in these bands in the urban environment is non trivial.

IIRC modern cell towers use cool tricks to send stuff for a particular phone to only where that phone is so they can send more total data. Can this not be turned into a precomputed map by taking a test phone everywhere and seeing what settings the tower picks to talk to it?
by darthrupert | 2025-09-23 12:49:08+00:00
An AI board would certainly fire a CEO of a $20 billion company who wastes their time doing little tweaking like that. I mean even if there'd be a perfect AI that does something beyond slop consistently, this would still be a waste of time for a CEO.

At least if this is true at all, which should be perhaps doubted a little bit.
by piva00 | 2025-09-23 12:49:30+00:00
> These things I named correlate to better outcomes, we have nothing that indicates that not doing these things generate similar favourable outcomes

Exactly, they correlate but there's nothing saying that just because traditionally it has correlated it means that getting married is the reason for it.

Traditionally only marriage was accepted as the means to form a family, even up to this day people will be shunned by their families for having kids out of wedlock, even in a loving relationship, don't you think being shunned by grandparents would also cause worse outcomes? Considering that some of these being shunned are also of younger age, less support from family members would mean worse outcomes.

Your data doesn't even discriminate about age groups, it's a blanket statement "marriage leads to better outcomes", leading to the question (which you could find data for): which groups? Are there other parameters/aspects that lead to better outcomes which are correlating with marriage rates? What about marriage exactly is causing better outcomes? It's not marriage itself since a lot of marriages end in divorce or an unhealthy home environment, so what is it?

Those are the insights that data can lead you into. Your take is just to do whatever has been done because it's been working, without even questioning why it might work, and what can be done to lead to better outcomes without requiring marriage.

> but we should continue to tell people that it's not necessary for them to do these things to have good outcomes as we have not done enough qualitative research to know what almost all of our forefathers have known, and it's best that people experiment more and see if maybe the right combination of unemployment, promiscuity and lack of education could not create equally good outcomes for them.

This is just moral grandstanding without substance, the world changes, traditions change (the tradition of marriage used to be about property, changing ownership of a woman from her father to her husband, for example), just blind belief in traditions is, at best, ignorant, and at worst produces this bigoted worldview.

You'd do much better if you believed in traditions while also questioning the "whys" behind it, at least to understand better why some tradition you believe might have created better outcomes, and how those processes can be applied outside of your tradition.

That is, if you are a good person and want everyone else to also have a better life even if living outside of what your view of morality is, and not only living life the way your morality prescribes to because that's, supposedly, the only way.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-23 12:49:31+00:00
Written by someone who apparently doesn't know a thing about Latin American healthcare and has no experience of it. As someone who lives in a major Latin American country and has for many years, and has spent time in several others, I can tell you that both the public and private healthcare standards are very good for the most part, and standards are a lot higher than whatever caricature idea of some banana republic jungle hospital you seem to have. Mexico and Brazil in particular have hospitals that are at least as good as most American counterparts would be.
by dsr_ | 2025-09-23 12:49:51+00:00
My house lock doesn't have an online mode. It has to be programmed by visiting physically, unlocking it, and then you have to stand there and touch it for a while in order to remove or activate a code. In other words, it only supports two features that a keyed lock doesn't:

1. a keyholder can't lose/forget the key 2. keys can be disabled without the expense of replacing the whole lock core

Since the purpose of a house lock is entirely a cultural/legal signal (you are allowed to come in / you do not have authority to come in) rather than security (if you are willing to damage the house, you can definitely enter), this is the perfect "smartness" for me.
by kentonv | 2025-09-23 12:50:22+00:00
In HTTP batch mode, they're all sent as a batch.

In WebSocket mode, yes, you are sending messages with each call. But you're not waiting for anything before sending the next message. It's not a round trip until you await something. As far as round trips are concerned, there is really no difference between sending multiple messages vs. a single batch message, if you are ultimately only waiting for one reply at the end.
by aorth | 2025-09-23 12:50:39+00:00
We used GlusterFS for the past decade or so in HPC but it seems to be abandoned now. Need to see whether I switch to Ceph or something else.

Gluster was OK. We never pushed it very hard but it mostly just worked. Performance wasn't great but we encouraged users to use scratch space that was local to the node where their job was running anyway.
by juliangoldsmith | 2025-09-23 12:50:42+00:00
I'd use caution with the Mi50s. I bought a 16GB one on eBay a while back and it's been completely unusable.

It seems to be a Radeon VII on an Mi50 board, which should technically work. It immediately hangs the first time an OpenCL kernel is run, and doesn't come back up until I reboot. It's possible my issues are due to Mesa or driver config, but I'd strongly recommend buying one to test before going all in.

There are a lot of cheap SXM2 V100s and adapter boards out now, which should perform very well. The adapters unfortunately weren't available when I bought my hardware, or I would have scooped up several.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-23 12:51:34+00:00
The hot one for me right now is C#'s Blazor, which is not too young, bout 8 years now? Basically you can either have it do all the back-end dynamic rendering with C# for your front-end (Server Blazor) or you can compile it to Web Assembly. I have not written any JS in over a year, and the UI is very similar to how Razor pages are made.

I'm of the opinion that this is the future of web development for numerous web frameworks should they invest in tech similar to Blazor. Phoenix's LiveView also comes to mind. I am hoping a brave soul builds something for Django (I've been meaning to try, but I have too many side projects going on atm) that is similar to Blazor.
by roenxi | 2025-09-23 12:51:42+00:00
I just want to add one angle I don't think the other comments covered well - it is obvious that nobody pushing the propaganda angle ("encouraging them to rise up") is serious because the track record is far too clear. I can't think of an instance where sanctions have ever triggered a political change and if they do then it is rarer than a country's elites changing direction due to internal political concerns. Nobody believes sanctions will cause political change in their targets. It is almost unthinkable that they would. What could that even look like? If someone has the power to threaten a country then they don't need to actually levy the sanctions to get compliance. Countries only get sanctioned if the sanctions aren't enough pressure to cause change.

The point of sanctions is to cripple the middle and lower classes, destroying a country's ability to fund a military. That actually makes it less likely for a dictatorship to get overthrown - the middle class is too poor to organise which is desirable from the West's perspective. Dictatorships are really bad at waging war effectively, they struggle to handle the complex logistics and are easier to distract and threaten.
by hengheng | 2025-09-23 12:51:50+00:00
I've also learned the hard way to Google "AM4 main board tier list" before buying.

Some boards can run a 5950X in name only, while others can comfortably run it close to double its spec power all day. VRMs are a real differentiator for this tier of hardware.

(If anyone can comment on the airflow required for 400-500W Epyc CPUs with the tiny VRM heatsinks that Supermicro uses, I'm all ears.)
by alistairSH | 2025-09-23 12:52:09+00:00
Tangent... I've always thought a custom resto-mod Airstream Bambi would make for a rad little travel trailer. Scrap the wet bath, ditch the propane, add a pile of LiFePo4 batteries and flexible solar, run it all off 12V. Probably end up costing $60k or more, so probably never happen. Oh well.
by cameronh90 | 2025-09-23 12:52:30+00:00
Indeed, but a traditional MVHR would require ductwork which isn't common in the UK and often there isn't really any space to route it.

I have been investigating easier to retrofit decentralised MVHR systems such as the Prana Recuperator, Ventaxia Tempra and the Blauberg Vento. They can be noisy (not a problem for me, I don't mind noise) and quite expensive as you have to fit a number of units in different rooms, but still easier than retrofitting ducting.
by rmu09 | 2025-09-23 12:53:08+00:00
Tesla Model 3 is typical middle class sedan size IMHO, like VW Passat, Audi A4, BWM 3, i.e. one size up from VW Golf/Tiguan/Touran.

Tesla was different because it was no gas-guzzling V8 behemoth that takes at least 20l/100km like what you used to associate with "US cars".
by loudmax | 2025-09-23 12:53:50+00:00
This is a case of the right tool for the right job. YAML is far easier to read and parse as a human than JSON.

If you're passing data between processes, and you still want the data to be human readable, then JSON is a good choice.

If you're writing a configuration file that's going to be edited by a human, then YAML is easier to look at and understand.
by elcapitan | 2025-09-23 12:54:26+00:00
cd alternatives always give me PTSD from one of my earliest computer memories, aged 13 or so. That was on DOS 3.3 on my parents 286, and I had recently installed some Norton utilities, among them ncd (Norton Change Directory), which kept its own database of directories and allowed for fuzzy cd with regex.

It was quite cool to see the power of such a tool, until the day I wanted to ncd into a directory with some code experiments I had built and just delete them all. Unfortunately the completion sent me into another directory, which I noticed after deleting all my parents tax documents.

DOS 3.3 didn't have an undelete command like later versions of DOS, so a colleague of my dad had to spend an evening trying to restore some of that data with some external tools. On the positive side, he also installed DOS 6.22 (we were really behind).
by ioteg | 2025-09-23 12:54:50+00:00
This is not true. ULEZ already exist and are mandatory from the EU in several cities of my country. (If your city has a population of more than X, you must implement a ULEZ.) People with 15 year old diesel cars can no longer drive in those cities. Exactly the same people who can't afford to change their cars. We are not talking “vintage” cars. We are talking poor people cars.
by umanwizard | 2025-09-23 12:54:58+00:00
No, this has nothing to do with English grammar. I understand that you are using "you" in the plural, here. What I reject is the premise that "Americans" is an identifiable group that is collectively responsible for any particular thing, extending to people who never supported or voted for that thing.

This is a philosophical disagreement, not an issue of language.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-23 12:55:08+00:00
That's not default behavior in most shells (e.g., `autocd` in Zsh, and, for the record, that's also not default up arrow behavior in Bash or Zsh [it is in Fish]).

But my question is specifically about relative vs. absolute paths when recalling directory traversal from history. I'm still struggling to follow how you'd use Zsh history as a zoxide replacement without always using absolute paths.
by gethly | 2025-09-23 12:55:10+00:00
That is perfectly fine. You are the customer and you can choose whom you will give your business to. My point is that companies should not be doing it because they instantly cut their potential customer base by half with every single act of activism they do. They should be focusing on business and nothing else. Politics, activism, whatever you want to call it, should be solely in the hands of the individual, not the corporations, whose sole purpose to exist is to do business with every possible customer they can in order to turn a profit.

Additionally, companies might be political in ways I might not care. It might be simply a non-factor when deciding whether I give them business or not. But the sheer fact they are politically active, so to speak, and don' focus solely on providing the best services for the best prices with the highest quality, is the red flag that instantly makes me wary of doing business with them in the first place.
by cdfsdsadsa | 2025-09-23 12:55:49+00:00
Why would you expect things to stop changing?

For one, cars old enough to be without emissions or safety equipment are becoming more rare, to the point that they are now worth a significant amount of money. Anything that is currently in that grey, "pre-classic" area is already a very complicated machine that is very hard to maintain without OEM spares and support. Anything newer is designed from the ground up to hit a specified lifetime then get ground up into flakes for recycling. Opinions vary on the positive outcomes of this.

For two - regulations are constantly changing. Many cities have low-emissions zones. The EU is making significant changes to their vehicle end-of-life laws.

"Poor people" are not going to be maintaing classic old cars as a cheap form of transport, like some rose-tinted view of Cuba. They already lease brand-new cars.
by defraudbah | 2025-09-23 12:55:53+00:00
no, haven't heard of goref yet but will give it a shot!

usually I go with pprof, like basic stuff and it helps. I would NOT say memory leak is the biggest or most common issue I see, however as time goes and services become more complicated what I often see in the metrics is how RAM gets eaten and does not get freed as time goes, so the app eats more and more memory as time goes and only restart helps.

It's hard to call it memory leak in "original meaning of memory leak" but the memory does not get cleaned up because the choices I made and I want to understand how to make it better.

Thanks for the tool!
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-23 12:56:22+00:00
The world went mobile, and Faustian software licenses undermined actual ownership.

Thus, customers get software companies that are SaaS even when they appear to sell some product. Accordingly, most "Computers" sold today are "information-appliances" with constrained predefined use-cases the dominant OS publishers allow people to use.

Few FOSS projects survive contact with such ecosystems, and likewise software App sellers drive platform decay due to shifting priorities that mess with users.

This is also why many modern AAA games have online game-play even when it makes no sense to do so... And why we see 147 fart Apps on the App store. =3
by ogogmad | 2025-09-23 12:56:53+00:00
Any program which you apply FHE to needs to be expressed as a circuit, which implies that the time taken to run a computation needs to be fixed in advance. It's therefore impossible to express a branch instruction (or "if" statement, if you prefer).

The circuits are built out of "+" and "×" gates, which are enough to express any polynomial. In turn, these are enough to approximate any continuous function (Weierstrass's approximation theorem). In turn, every computable function on the real numbers is a continuous function - so FHE is very powerful.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-23 12:57:06+00:00
Russia has had to sell oil at a steep discount, which has cut into their revenue significantly. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been frozen/seized that can't be used to fund the war effort. Modern war is not just "beans and bullets”, and Russia pays upwards of 10 times the price for key components it needs for missiles, aviation, UAVs, tanks, artillery, air defense, etc. as well as quality manufacturing equipment needed.

Russian industry is operating at only 81% capacity, largely due to labor shortages, which make sense considering that about 1% of its labor force join the military every other month. Russia is losing tank barrels, artillery barrels, and infantry fighting vehicles more than 10 times faster than it can manufacture new ones. It will likely never be able to obtain a third rotary forge, required for barrel manufacture, to expand its capacity. It has almost entirely cannibalized its old, defunct Soviet era stock. They are being kept afloat by China, NK, and Iran, but with a much-reduced capacity, and often much lower quality. For example, Russia relies on China for 70-80% of its microchips, but China is dumping defective microchips on them with a 40% failure rate.

Sanctions have absolutely had significant, direct, measurable impacts on Russia’s ability to wage war and sustain war.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/21/half-of-russias-ai... https://jamestown.org/program/russia-exhausts-soviet-era-arm... https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-where-are-russias-... https://archive.ph/c17pk https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-202... https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-sanctions-have-reshaped-ru... https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme... https://osintforukraine.com/publications/microchips https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/russia_china_semicond...
by eigenspace | 2025-09-23 12:57:09+00:00
> And a mouse, because non apple laptops are hard to use with just the trackpad.

Have you ever used a Framework's trackpad? It's very good.

> And the huge power adapter for the "gaming" laptop.

First of all, Framework laptops are not gaming laptops. Second of all, Framework ships smaller power adapters than Apple because they invested in Gallium Nitride chargers which are significantly more compact than other options.

Personally, I wouldn't even carry around a power bank, I just mentioned it because the person I was talking to said they wanted to carry around a hot-swappable battery, and I thought a power bank was a better option.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-09-23 12:58:37+00:00
How kind of Trump to solve the brain drain problems which have affected so many of America's peers and/or rivals.

It'll be easier to hire now that they don't have to compete with US salaries.

Even better there are a lot of US scientists looking for a job since the multi billion dollar funding cuts for cancer research. Perhaps they can also help everyone else out.

It's still America first, he's just using zero based indexing and everyone else is in position 0.
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by robenkleene | 2025-09-23 12:59:27+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding the authors intention. Fuzzy finding is the banner feature of zoxide, i.e., it's only a better cd because it includes that feature. Everything else is just the necessary table stakes features in order to make zoxide a viable cd alternative. E.g., it's not notable that zoxide copies the rest of the useful features from cd in Bash, because that's exactly what it would need to do in order to be a cd replacement.

What you could argue with is whether there's a point to replacing the cd built-in in order to include fizzy finding (personally I don't see the point of this either). But the reason all the other cd features are included is in order to make that viable.