MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Twirrim | 2025-09-18 04:54:30+00:00
I know a few engineers in different companies within Salesforce. They're under lots of pressure to integrate AI everywhere, and leverage it. The way they've talked about it gives me strong "flailing around desperately" vibes, when the smarter money is on making more minimal but targeted efforts, or at least waiting to see what happens the other side of the bubble.
by gblargg | 2025-09-18 04:56:41+00:00
In case you aren't aware, horse de-worming is just one use of ivermectin. The fact that it's used for that doesn't make it merely a horse de-wormer.

> Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug. After its discovery in 1975, its first uses were in veterinary medicine to prevent and treat heartworm and acariasis. Approved for human use in 1987, it is used to treat infestations including head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis. It works through many mechanisms to kill the targeted parasites, and can be taken by mouth, or applied to the skin for external infestations.] It belongs to the avermectin family of medications.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-18 04:57:14+00:00
> that comedians are correct when they point out that stereotypical humor shouldn't be off limits to any performer (of any background/color), but is... e.g. Owen Benjamin, Chappelle, Seinfeld.

You're quoting a Chappelle joke that he made literally from a fucking netflix special. He's definitely been "cancelled" making millions off of trans jokes. Amazing evidence that comedy is illegal now. I honestly don't know how anyone could take this drivel seriously unless they literally only consume media from a very narrow selection of highly biased resources.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-18 04:57:33+00:00
I think the biggest change has been auto bed leveling, and software to make the first layer good almost all the time, across a wide range of filaments.

Many people started with something like an Ender V3, then moved to Bambu... and that is absolutely life-altering in terms of 3D printing expectaitons. But a similar difference is present moving to a modern Ender, Elegoo, or Prusa. Just their marketing is far from as solid as Bambu.

Not that Bambu printers are bad; in fact I still like their AMS solution the best of any I've seen or tested.
by wqaatwt | 2025-09-18 04:58:06+00:00
In the sense that the government had the logistical capacity and capability to do something like this, yes.

Culturally I don’t see it as somehow exceptional. US government regularly employed highly authoritarian policies to suppress or remove people based on racial or ideological grounds since the very beginning.

Even in WW1 German Americans had the benefit of being white and forming a very significant proportion of the population so anything like this was obviously infeasible. But their cultural and linguistic identity was suppressed and they were forced to assimilate under the threat of violence.

When you take the Sedition Act and other similar policies in relation to how much of a threat US faced in WW1 compared to WW2 I’d day what Roosevelt did wasn’t that extreme.
by NeoInHacker | 2025-09-18 04:58:08+00:00
Yeah, It’s true that PDEs are the "top-tier tool" for describing physical phenomena—from the laws of motion in classical mechanics and electromagnetic waves in electromagnetism to the evolution of wave functions in quantum mechanics, they accurately model most macroscopic, classical scenarios. However, when it comes to covering all physical phenomena, they really "fall short": in quantum gravity, spacetime may be discontinuous, making the concept of differentiation meaningless; for complex systems like turbulence, PDEs cannot be solved nor can they capture macroscopic laws; even for the randomness of quantum measurements, PDEs can only predict probability distributions and fail to explain the underlying nature. In short, they are a "top-tier auxiliary," but by no means a "one-size-fits-all key."
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-18 04:58:58+00:00
>Their cost to manufacture vs sale price shows a clear ability to price like a monopoly.

No, it doesn't. It shows there exists demand for their products at that price point.

>As does their ability to box out competitors.

They have none. Anyone can go to various websites and order cheaper sunglasses that work just as well, or go to Costco and buy them for $25.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-18 04:59:00+00:00
Thanks, this is really interesting.

I feel like it adds more weight to my feeling that we should have a software building code. When you have software that's critical infrastructure, with a nutso security policy like "no embargoes / 0day me bruh", we should have some regulations in place to require the software be maintained properly (that is to say, in a sane manner) or you can't use it commercially or for safety-critical things. Which would inevitably force commercial entities to pay for the maintenance so it could be done right.... which they should be doing already, the same way any company that builds safety-critical infrastructure has to pay to do it right.

If we want society to be safe, we have to make a law that enforces it. That's how that shit works.

(as an aside: holy shit, you're a prolific HN submitter, and all from different sources. where do you get it all?)
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-09-18 04:59:11+00:00
Yeah, every time I read people saying stuff like the OP, I’m like, “Yeah, sure if you’re an atheist.” The religious world is chugging along just fine.

All of my religious friends have two, three kids, perfectly fine or above average incomes.

It’s just not a priority for non-religious people, and there was never a loss of third spaces. Church hopping to date is a thing. People share values. Congregations celebrate new babies and chip in. Community exists.

It’s a comparatively bad experience for those without that support. The secular world has none of this except maybe immediate family, and even then I don’t see support from non-religious parents to their non-religious children. So of course these people think these things. They’re basically thrown into the world with no social net.
by ofrzeta | 2025-09-18 04:59:46+00:00
"I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday morning. "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!"

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-absolutely-love-steph...

Make no mistake, this is a witch hunt. Very soon there will be no one left who publicly speaks out against Trump.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-18 04:59:56+00:00
Many years ago there was some summer camp and the staff organized a game "take a picture of your team leader without having them realize you're taking a picture". I completely obliterated the game by downloading an app that allowed me to record "in the background". I got a few good shots by showing a funny picture to people while having the front-facing camera on. Then I got other shots by turning on the back camera, locking the phone, and then just casually holding it in my hand like any other locked phone and waving it around.

The point is, if you want to secretly record, it's already trivial to do it.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-18 05:00:42+00:00
And one shouldn't. Even if you use their devices and OS (and many people "have to!"), one should stay away from their app and services offerings.

Use third party apps/services which usually function on interoperable standards/specs.

It's been years since I have used any service by either of these companies where my personal data stays inside their ecosystem - email, notes, pics, videos et cetera.. nothing.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-18 05:00:55+00:00
> Assyria being named for the home city of Assur

Well, sort of. "Assyria" would be a rendering of the Greek idea of the name. The Greeks couldn't pronounce it.

In English the city (and god) is usually called "Ashur"; in Akkadian it's Ashshur. It's never called "Assur".
by southwindcg | 2025-09-18 05:01:01+00:00
I really enjoyed Adam Savage's video about these keyboards.

https://youtu.be/N3FEv1qw4_w

I would have to have at least ten times as much money in my bank account to even consider one. $8000 is firmly in "Rolls Royce but for typing" territory. Even the $3600 model is outlandish. I get it, though...
by dlubarov | 2025-09-18 05:01:56+00:00
Yes, there was a certain period when Jews were a small minority; so what?

If we're using "Palestinian" to mean someone from Palestine, why wouldn't we count a family from the First Aliyah as Palestinian? The Second Aliyah? Holocaust refugees?

Some who now identify as Palestinian also immigrated during the economically prosperous Mandatory Palestine period. Would you say they're not real Palestinians, because they joined too recently? How about Arafat, who doesn't have a "pure" unbroken Levantine lineage (being born in Cairo)?

Should American families who have only been here for one century have fewer rights, perhaps less voting power, than families who have been here for multiple centuries?
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-09-18 05:02:32+00:00
> impersonation tokens, called “Actor tokens”, that Microsoft uses in their backend for service-to-service (S2S)

Literally every single "security" framework uses God-mode long-lived tokens for non-human identities.

(Except for SPIFFE, but that's a niche thing and used only for Kubernetes bullshit.)

The whole field of "security" is a farce staffed by clowns.
by kelnos | 2025-09-18 05:03:33+00:00
Sure, when you frame the question as, "do you support these measures to ensure children don't have access to pornography?", of course people are going to support it.

Present evidence that the new laws will be a danger to their fundamental rights and maybe you won't get quite as much support.

Also, that survey shows that there's broad support even though the same people don't believe the new laws will be effective. So... that's pretty stupid.
by tdeck | 2025-09-18 05:03:41+00:00
This brought me a wave of nostalgia for the old Qbasic "operating system" projects, of which there were many. This site has a lot of reviews and screenshots:

http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/

Ans this site has more

http://theguiblog.com/

It was a popular style of project. Some even implemented their own programming languages so they could multitask applications written for them by running lines from each app in a round-robin fashion.
by mikepurvis | 2025-09-18 05:03:46+00:00
Outside of the 24hr news bubble, I believe the reality is that there is a lot of common ground on these supposed hot button issues, for example on the guns issue alone there is broad support for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/07/25/poll-majority--supp...

But it's hard to make it happen when Fox paints any kind of gun measure as crazy leftist tyranny and then deep-pocketed fringe organizations like the NRA vow to punish any Republican who collaborates on compromise measures.
by vbilopav | 2025-09-18 05:07:30+00:00
It looks to me team is clueless about database development.

Typescript ORMz lol.

Soft deletes make indexing, well, problmatic to say at least. Use temporal tabls instead for point in time recovery. Nevertheless it could have been solved on a database level without any help from ORMs, lookup RLS. Still, screws up indexing strategy.
by Stratoscope | 2025-09-18 05:07:50+00:00
Of course I'm aware of that. After all, I was born before IBM announced the RAMAC 350 Disk Storage Unit. [1] [2]

To understand the problem, consider two things.

First, imagine another word that rhymes with "disk". I will just call it "di*k" here.

Second, the problem wasn't that my hard di*k was too small. I could have the biggest hard di*k in the world, but if it didn't have enough free space, there wouldn't be room to install Acrobat.

So the message had an admittedly slim chance of being misconstrued, but more importantly it was just plain incorrect.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ibm-announce...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_d...
by bigiain | 2025-09-18 05:08:03+00:00
> 288 cores is an absurd number of cores.

Way back in the day, I built and ran the platform for a business on Pentium grade web & database servers which gave me 1 "core" in 2 rack units.

That's 24 cores per 48 unit rack, so 288 cores would be a dozen racks or pretty much an entire aisle of a typical data center.

I guess all of Palo Alto Internet eXchange (where two of my boxen lived) didn't have much more than a couple of thousand cores back in 98/99. I'm guessing there are homelabs with more cores than that entire PAIX data center had back then.
by afiori | 2025-09-18 05:08:09+00:00
The three main camps of wasm use cases are ( in no particular order )

1. Non browser application (lightweight cloud, plugins, sandboxing)

2. Performance kernels (like compiling a game/rendering engine or AI stuff)

3. Compiling js-like applications from other languages (eg blazor wasm and others)

The only case where DOM access would be useful is 3 and even there 90% of the gains are already available from the JS-strings proposal to avoid copying+reencoding.

Direct DOM access is otherwise mostly a red herring
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-18 05:09:20+00:00
'Sup, 'brows. Tell me, what's special about American politicians as opposed to those in the rest of the world, in your view?

Education?

Religious values?

Neanderthal versus Cro-Magnon genelines?

A more-enlightened electorate?

Nothing but your own empty prejudices and comforting assumptions?

It can happen here, and it can happen to your party, too. It just didn't this time.
by vunderba | 2025-09-18 05:09:21+00:00
I took a look through the BAS source file - it doesn't appear to be QBASIC source. If it was compiled with QB64 (which it seems to be) then it's not a DOS compatible binary, it'll be a 64-bit PE so unfortunately only runnable on a 64-bit version of Windows.

OP says that they've been at it for decades so my guess would be it started as a QBASIC game but then was later ported over to use QB64 and its modern features.
by brandall10 | 2025-09-18 05:09:40+00:00
I agree repression has always existed in the U.S, but the difference is scale.

In WWI the country was smaller, less centralized, and suppression was cruder - local violence, language bans, mobs.

By WWII the U.S. was far larger, more cohesive, and had a strong federal state; without that scale and central capacity, something like internment would have been much harder to pull off.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-18 05:09:57+00:00
Some sites outsource their ID verification to platforms that want live videos of different angles of your face, along with pictures of your ID.

Literally all the data they could possibly need to build 3D models of your face for even better facial recognition, along with plenty of data to train models on. When that data eventually leaks, it will be interesting.

It's insane that anyone puts up with it.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-18 05:11:05+00:00
The naked emperor was already a pissy chad over Jimmy; this grudge-holding isn't new at all. Trump, back in July:

> The word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone. These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!

Nexstar owns outright a bunch of broadcast zones in America, with zero conpetition in those broadcast areas. So them folding and everyone else following suit isn't much of a surprise. It's pathetic that media ownership has degraded to such a sorry lame ass state, that there's many markets where almost all broadcast media is via one company. The decayed anti-health of media continues to plague this nation, allow the worst poxes to spread.
by cc101 | 2025-09-18 05:11:25+00:00
As one grows older, one is responsible for building one's own motivation. This is relatively easy to do.

To build motivation I spend time actually day-dreaming about success. I am trying to get an emotional involvement with an exact vision of what success would be like. I want to emotionally experience success and develop a yearning for it.

That is what I need to get started on a project. Once I'm started, I find that it is often easy to get so involved in what I'm doing that it becomes hard to stop. Remember those all-nighters when you just couldn't bare to stop. You were in the grove. You were hot!

That's it. Get emotionally involved with success and get in the grove to get it done.
by jesse__ | 2025-09-18 05:11:45+00:00
I'd say two things about this.

1. Opening the native keyboard and plumbing those events through to the WASM runtime sounds pretty easy. It's probably not cause modern software, but conceptually it should be trivial.. right??

2. In terms of 'the boss' wanting to do 'that one weird thing' that there isn't a library/plugin/whatever for in DearImgui land. If dev time for everything else gets faster, than the 10x cost of that small corner case can be absorbed by net win. Now, I'm pretty sus on the claim everything else gets better today, but we can certainly imagine a world where they do, and it's probably not far away
by moffkalast | 2025-09-18 05:12:43+00:00
Not true, most all but the very top creators have stopped relying on Youtube's measly ad revenue and just run sponsored content instead, in which case the actual view count (minus SponsorBlock users anyway) is very relevant to show how much they actually reached.

What Google gets out of it is free content for their platform, which other platforms seem to be only able to dream about, and accurate metrics would be something like the lowest possible bar to provide. But well, turns out you can do just about whatever if you're the defacto monopoly and the experience doesn't matter anymore, not for creators, not for the consumers.
by exabrial | 2025-09-18 05:13:01+00:00
My dream is we get pluggable execution runtimes (wasm, jvm, , LLVM IR?) with pluggable display tech (svg, html, opengl) and each tech JITs itself on your platform.

While we do need a default “text mode” (html), js is not the answer to a common language and is holding everything back.
by rottc0dd | 2025-09-18 05:13:15+00:00
I am not sure of historical significance of what OOP is, but even Alan Kay seem to agree that modern definition of OOP is not what he intended[1]. But, for better or worse we are stuck with the principles.

We even have design patterns like Command, to workaround first class functions in "pure" OOPy way.

And for enterprise software development, I like it that way. It can make up a definition it wants and stick to it. I think it is better for a language's ecosystem and culture to have one dominant paradigm than becoming kitchen sink of programming languages.

Edit: added a link

[1] softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/264697/alan-kay-the-big-idea-is-messaging
by chrisasquith | 2025-09-18 05:14:47+00:00
Hi! Ty! And Hack club is totally free to teens and we provide travel stipends, hardware, electronics and more. (We don’t charge 7 percent to clubs to sell things :)) hack club run a fiscal sponsorship and adult-orgs using it pay us 7percent- which we use to make more things free to teens. - hack club cofounder here
by rramadass | 2025-09-18 05:15:03+00:00
This is just a oft-repeated cliche and nothing more. Because C++ is a multi-paradigm language (with admittedly some less than ideal syntax/semantic choices) people overstate its complexity without much study/experience. Herd mentality than takes over and people start parroting and spreading the canard.

For the power and flexibility that C++ gives you, it is worth one's time to get familiar with and learn to use its complexity.
by rashidae | 2025-09-18 05:17:32+00:00
I got so excited watching these videos and going through the product page. I completely ignored the price tag without putting any resistance and I thought to myself: I'VE GOT TO HAVE THIS!

Not only that... I started to think about ways I could use this!! I pictured myself using them... I visualized it all, and then remembered when I felt this way when the Ipod was released, and then again, when the first Pebble watch was launched or maybe even, the first kindle.

Although there's going to be some strong competition in the next 1-2 years with Apple, as we all know, the "thin phone" is nothing about the phone, and all about their pathway towards wearables...

I must have this. This is a game changer. WOW!
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 05:17:54+00:00
I see we are forgetting the period of time from the end of 2019 to 2022...

Government agencies were "recommending" and "cautioning" social media companies on topics such as COVID and laptops. That was not being done to benefit the political rights.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24781367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813762
by dang | 2025-09-18 05:18:59+00:00
Yup we agree and have restored the post. The extra background was helpful, plus the community response is clear from the thread and we try never to fight the community.

The title edit is standard practice though - the word "extorted" is too baity for HN's frontpage (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."). Making titles somewhat more factual/neutral is normal HN moderation. That's not a criticism of the OP, mind you! - we'd feel the same way too in their position.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-18 05:19:33+00:00
> I really hope that the tech industry finds a better model for things ...

Given the tech industry's failure to support things with 10X, 100X, 1000X, etc. the number of people affected, this seems unlikely.

Instead, could legislation ("when unsupported, it becomes open source", or whatever) be workable? Politicians might not want to be seen voting against blind people. OTOH, the situation is probably 100X more complex than I know of. And legal changes wouldn't magically give anyone the skills and budget and stuff to keep providing support.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-09-18 05:20:04+00:00
Our experiences seem similar so if we're the same age---I've wrestled with this question a considerable amount of time and what seems to work for me is to find a way to broaden my life experience, so that I can find a new thrilling problem to solve. Break out of your isolation if you've been in a bubble, and try out a totally different business domain (without establishing a reputation as a brash idiot), make new friends who matter to you so that their (business) problems or causes matter to you. In any case, you won't find that ambition by keeping things the same.

Oh and manage your expectations. You might no longer have the wild burning distracted passion as you did when you were younger, but you might have the measured, genuine curiosity of an experienced adult, and you should own that.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-18 05:20:11+00:00
We're using teams in my new company, which is awful for textual communication (lacks threads in chats, groups are more like old forums than new IM). I've been experimenting with self-hosted Mattermost but it seems that it also requires paid license in some situations (e.g. does not have groups for some reason in the free version).

I was unable to find another system. Would anyone recommend me something?
by wyager | 2025-09-18 05:21:02+00:00
This seems less than ideal to me.

1. Different languages have totally different allocation requirements, and only the compiler knows what type of allocator works best (e.g. generational bump allocator for functional languages, classic malloc style allocator for C-style languages).

2. This perhaps makes wasm less suitable for usage on embedded targets.

The best argument I can make for this is that they're trying to emulate the way that libc is usually available and provides a default malloc() impl, but honestly that feels quite weak.