MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tcgv | 2025-09-19 13:58:56+00:00
Leszek, I don’t think your reply invalidates what blargey said. Showing that "down" can also be neutral, impactful or enthusiastic (like "down for" or "get to the bottom of") is useful, but it adds nuance rather than disproving the broader pattern that up = good / down = bad runs deep across languages.
What open source AI extension would you recommend for someone using VS Code?
by _345 | 2025-09-19 13:59:00+00:00
I used to use Continue for the longest time, it was incredible. Unfortunately, its just gotten too buggy. I lost the ability to copy paste images into the chat so I lost a way to communicate with the AI I was using (usually an openai GPT model). A nasty copy paste bug (yes, a different copy paste bug) also occurred where occasionally my editor would refuse to let me copy paste content anymore until I rebooted VS Code. You can imagine how deleterious that is to your workflow. I was pretty angry at Continue when I discovered that the bug instantly went away when I disabled the extension

I uninstalled it and tried Cline, but I can't even get Cline to reliably open the chat on a simple CTRL+' (their default keybinding to pop open cline chat). So I promptly uninstalled that too. Curious if anyone here has tried something that has stood the test of time and could recommend it to me?

Really, all I want is an extremely streamlined AI chat experience that lets me stay in the drivers seat. I hate agents, I hate watching agents slowly process a task that I gave it that was designed to be extremely granular and small and still somehow the agent screws something up that I'll have to go in and fix anyways. I'd much rather just take the original experience I have with AI (chatgpt.com) and sort of answer the question of "How can I make the QnA/pair programming experience I get on chatgpt.com as fast and as embedded as possible in my own existing workflow so I can move as quickly as possible while staying in the driver's seat?" For me, continue's snappy CTRL+L keybinding to pop open chats with the highlighted context and typing @... to mention a file or two was the fastest thing that accomplished my requirements of staying in charge of what happens to the code (keeping the AI confined to a chat box).
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-19 13:59:25+00:00
Yes, I've been in many Western homes, but never one without a hood over the stove. Perhaps it is a hasty generalization to assume they don't have hoods. Adequacy of the hood seems like it's not going to be usefully quantifiable or provable. I hope your analogy doesn't rely on this measure...

I also don't think "you cook and the whole house smells" fits the analogy of "cooking in your bedroom". The key feature of the bedroom is that it's where you sleep, get dressed, etc., not the smell.
by mattmanser | 2025-09-19 14:00:12+00:00
One company I worked with we use to import data from other systems into our project management system for clients to help them get set up.

This was the 2000s so it was all scripts (SQL scripts and vbscripts I seem to remember). As part of it, we ended up cleaning the customer data from a myriad of bugs. Inconsistent capitalization, leading and trailing spaces, and this. Weird characters you didn't even know exists.

Over time more and more of these hidden characters were added to the script, because back then it wasn't a case of googling it or asking on SO.

I have a friend who works as a data analyst for a local council. He hates the school reports season as the data from the schools comes in with all sorts of weird problems in consistency.
by ziml77 | 2025-09-19 14:00:47+00:00
Yeah I'm really not sure why people take doing things that their employers don't want them doing as a challenge. Like how about the challenge instead be working within the restrictions? Or communicating with their boss what they need to get their job done?

They have no clue what legal requirements are imposed on the company that led to those restrictions. They could easily land themselves or the entire business in hot water by not complying. It doesn't matter how easy the controls are to bypass. Like, it's easy to pick or cut a LOTO lock, but that doesn't mean it's fine to do that.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-19 14:00:54+00:00
This is really just an ad for Dochia's testing product.

But the first half of the post really is an interesting problem -- what to do about invisible Unicode characters that wind up in a username login field, thus becoming an invalid user, because the username was copied-pasted from a source that inserted things. The post lists potential sources as:

> Copy-paste from PDFs or Word docs: Rich-text formats often inject hidden control characters.

> Email clients and chat apps: Some insert soft hyphens, directionality markers, or non-breaking spaces.

> Keyboards and IMEs: Certain language input systems add combining marks or zero-width joiners.

But of course it's part of a broader Unicode problem, like the fact that there are two ways of representing common accented characters (precomposed vs decomposed) that are also not equivalent, or that multiple accents can be in a different order. Normalization handles those cases, but it doesn't do anything about nonprinting characters.

Is there not any common method for Unicode we should be using to check for, essentially, "grapheme comparison" that doesn't just normalize but ignores non-printing codepoints?
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-19 14:00:55+00:00
>That's literally what is being fought for...

But they don't really go after anyone for it right now, as it's a legal gray area that they haven't really cared to pursue. Forcing the issue will create a judgement (one way or the other) for them to know that it's enforceable if they win. I really hope Deno's lawyers know what they are doing because Oracle has literally unlimited money and legal resources for this kind of thing; it's basically their whole business model.
by maxbond | 2025-09-19 14:00:59+00:00
No, I never said that. To be perfectly clear: if you want to argue that a text says X, you need to provide evidence from the text. Everything I see you commenting in this thread appears to be based your preconceptions around this acronym, nothing you've said even indicates you've read the article.

Read it or don't, it's your business, but if I ask you for evidence from the article and your response is to try to put words on my mouth (on an irrelevant tangent, at that), I'm going to write off your argument entirely.
by kawsper | 2025-09-19 14:01:26+00:00
Something like that made it into a colleagues Ruby code, and it blew up! I think he lost half a day to it.

It was back in the 1.8.7 days, just before proper Unicode support in 1.9, but I don’t remember if that was relevant to this story.

He was deleting code until the bug disappeared, and then we zeroed in and found the character.

It was in the Textmate days, and it didn’t highlight such characters.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-19 14:01:38+00:00
Firstly 200k isn't a lot of money against ORACLE which is a lawyer's level 100 and atleast millions of $

Secondly, it would be really shitty if they think that oracle could buy deno and we can just allow that and continue to cheer on for them.

It would be all hell breaks loose if oracle buys deno and this lawsuit disappears after raising money from public, the people donating would be furious and I feel like that there are already alternatives to deno (bun which is faster) which itself was a alternative to node.

People might as well fork it if comes under oracle possession. Idk

Tbh I agree that deno isn't the best for such lawsuit but rather something that can stand for free speech maybe fsf which deno could directly support and they can do a lawsuit instead?
by jjkaczor | 2025-09-19 14:01:57+00:00
As a child, I spent about 4-5 years on both a family farm and then followed by about 6-months at a large commercial egg production farm (my father took a job as the farm manager, came with free housing) - it cemented within me the desire never to toil in the fields or take care of animals outside of pets.

Yet of course - my kids and grandkids who were raised in suburban environments ALL romanticize farming...
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-19 14:02:25+00:00
Democrats cut the government because they were unable to resist Republican cuts, so if we’re drawing a causal link I think it would be fairer to say Republicans made the cuts during a time when a Democrat was president. Also the public blamed the Republicans for the shutdowns which reelected Clinton and is probably the reason the Republicans stoped caring so much about the deficit.
by sjw987 | 2025-09-19 14:02:34+00:00
Sorry to hijack, but...

I have weird issues with YouTube on my home PC. If I have a Chrome window with a YouTube video running to the side of my monitor, it always inevitably ends up freezing up the whole display. Ctrl+Alt+Delete and cancelling back in makes it go away briefly, however sometimes it can just keep freezing the monitor up constantly.

The weird thing is, the PC (running Windows 11) has a powerful graphics card which can handle AAA games (as of earlier this year at least), graphics drivers are all up to date, and YouTube works fine in fullscreen across the whole ultra-wide monitor.

I just can't work out what's causing it. It makes running YouTube side-by-side with other programs a real pain in the ass. It's been like this for months now. Checked browser HWA settings, and they're all as they should be.
by justusthane | 2025-09-19 14:03:38+00:00
I think GP’s point was that it’s talking about LE vs BE while simultaneously explaining what a “play” button is.

It reminds me of my “electronics” class back in school (2010): Day 1 was learning how to use a computer mouse. Day 2 was straight into how a CPU works on an electrical level.

That’s awesome though, re: serving the site from a camera. Are there details on that somewhere?

Edit: Nvm, found it here: https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2

Edit 2: I also like this thread, in which they are considering moving the site to a Galaxy S5, but decide not to after seeing that the site survives the HN hug: https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28
by krapp | 2025-09-19 14:03:40+00:00
>Software is inherently apolitical. Claiming otherwise would be like saying that a hammer or drill are political, which is absurd.

No one sells "apolitical hammers" or "apolitical drills." If one has to specify that software is apolitical, it isn't.

No software exists in a vacuum, even the license terms are a political statement. Certainly nostr was created as an expression of fiatjaf's specific political ideals, and those ideals will tend to attract certain political demographics, and repel others.
by ethagnawl | 2025-09-19 14:03:42+00:00
> He suggested that perhaps labels just "don't like the Internet Archive's way of pushing the envelope on copyright and fair use."

This seems to be the whole ballgame.

They're (UMG, specifically) doing the same to YouTuber Rick Beato. His music theory/analysis/reaction videos are very careful to abide by the rules of _fair use_ and, yet, UMG is still drowning him in copyright violation claims. He's had to hire representation to deal with the backlog of claims that are (extremely likely) all bogus and _hope_ to keep his videos and channel online.

On one hand, their behavior is baffling, as I've streamed and purchased music from these companies I would not have otherwise because of Beato's channel. On the other, it's completely unsurprising, as they stand to _have their cake and eat it too_ by introducing chokepoints for _all_ access to their music (in theory, anyways) and suing anyone in the hopes of inking these bullshit settlements with anyone who dares get within a few miles of their moat.
by apothegm | 2025-09-19 14:04:00+00:00
I’ve had to lay people off to extend runway. I’ve also been laid off to extend runway. It SUCKS. It sucks to have to do, and it sucks even more when it happens to you. But sometimes you have to do it so the rest of the company can stay employed.

When megacorps do it to boost profits when they’re already profitable, that’s shitty. But also, that’s how we do capitalism in the US — the company has a greater obligation to shareholders than to employees.
by jerf | 2025-09-19 14:04:18+00:00
Unfortunately, "it would end life on Earth as we know it" is not, on its own terms, a thing that will stop it from happening. All it takes is the people who can make the decision deciding to do it because they think they will come out ahead, and not caring about what it may do to anyone else. And they don't even have to be right. They just have to think they will come out ahead.

Don't mistake talking about a thing as advocating for that thing. It leaves you completely unable to process international politics, and frankly, a lot of other news and discussion as well. If you can only think about things you approve of, your model of the world is worse than useless.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-19 14:04:35+00:00
It's all just anecdotes vs. anecdotes. The alleged "broader pattern" is not proven by one any more than it is disproven by the other. (For what it's worth, I do think there is a cultural pattern, especially in biblical metaphors, but in general use it's far weaker than what TFA is making it out to be.)
by legacynl | 2025-09-19 14:05:15+00:00
> A recipe is an ordered list of steps of what to do. So of course a list can be used for a recipe.

That you felt you need to add 'ordered ... of steps of what to do' to your definition of list, kind of proofs that a recipe is a bad analogy for a list.

A recipe contains multiple lists, has a name, has a purpose and a desired outcome. Totally different from a simple list. But a kid who's unfamiliar with the programming concept of 'list' doesn't know that, so it's very possible that at some point they will get confused when a list can't do things that a recipe can do.
by rconti | 2025-09-19 14:05:34+00:00
It's probably just a general comment for folks who don't understand CA property taxes. I've lived here my whole home-buying life, so it never crosses my mind to look at the Zillow property tax figure when doing my mental maths on whether I can afford something, but if you lived in an area where the figure in Zillow actually means something to the buyer, you might be in for a surprise in CA.

Here, it's just an easy 1%, so the math isn't hard. I'm not sure if other states have highly variable rates on a county-by-county basis, or if other states also tend to have consistent rates within their borders.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-09-19 14:05:54+00:00
I disagree with that "argument" for the reasons I stated. China has a billion people, including tons of programmers. They will rapidly build whatever software they need if push comes to shove, potentially starting with Windows source code or Linux. There may be a team working for the Chinese government in secret doing this as we speak, ready to push an update to millions of PCs over China's heavily censored and manipulated Internet. They have mandatory software installed on practically every PC that could be used to facilitate this "upgrade" automatically. I promise, installing Linux or a hacked version of Windows can happen way faster than any mining operations to provide the minerals you're talking about.

As for proprietary software that runs on Windows, these would need to be handled individually. The simplest solution for them is to use old versions that need no connection to the outside world to function. There might be some risks involved but I think they will rapidly adjust.

In my opinion, China and probably other countries currently have stolen code for every major proprietary software product. They just won't use it openly or officially because of IP laws. In a war, all that will go out the window. They may not have quite as many competent people to throw at fixing issues with that software, but they will do what they can.

What about scenarios short of a war? Well, a lot of what China does for us involves IP. If they stop respecting a bunch of our IP and stop exporting things that only they currently make, they can cause tremendous damage. Go look in a store and see what is made in China. American cars currently rely on Chinese parts and materials. The Chinese can stop exporting steel if they want. They will certainly take damage but you seem to not understand the extent of the damage they can inflict on the West. Windows Updates won't mean a damn thing in the long run, or even the short run.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-19 14:06:14+00:00
Joerg Sprave from Slingshot channel designed and is selling new type of glass breaking hammer that has foldable car glass saw.

Sounds like the same window hammer what my uncle had in the glove box of his 1971 Cadillac, next to his cigarettes and his gun. He said each was for use in different types of emergencies.

Just because it's on YouTube doesn't make it new.
by detourdog | 2025-09-19 14:06:42+00:00
I'm not 100% sure what you are asking. If the established convention is that a compass points north. Orienting a map to that convention makes sense to me. I thought I provided for the possibility that a compass also points south.

The southern hemisphere historically navigated using wave patterns and stars with maps made of sticks and stones. So I expect they have different navigational conventions. I have heard of an southern hemisphere island that provided on their navigational orientation based on a mountain top.

The pole star could also be part of this convention. The pole star appearing in a consistent point may also contribute to this standard.
by cjauvin | 2025-09-19 14:06:57+00:00
Counterpoint: I actually really enjoy his style of writing, which I find clear, patient (you must appreciate visual examples and exploration though) and very often challenging and stimulating (recent examples: the posts about the bigger brains, Conway GoL engineering, and biology / evolution). I find he regularly introduces intriguing and useful ideas, like the distinction between "brain-like" computers (which includes neural networks) and more general, Turing-like mechanisms, and I find his overarching concept of computational irreducibility (even though he didn't invent it) quite profound in its implications. I would add that his posts read like an ambitious research program in progress (like a book written one chapter at a time) and that is why I think certain concepts (like ruliology) may appear obscure at first, if you didn't read a lot of stuff that comes before. One tiny nitpick I have: certain language tics, like the constant use of the "And, yes" pattern (he really uses this a lot I wish someone somehow told him).
by jerf | 2025-09-19 14:08:14+00:00
I have a hood over my stove.

It has a fan to pull smoke and steam up out of the cooking space.

It blows the fan output right in my face, rather than outdoors.

This does not contribute anything useful to the cooking process.

It's fairly common in America. It's so common it appears it doesn't even cross your mind to consider it as something that might be desirable or useful.

(For those who say "well fix it then", I've looked, but unfortunately if you just put a hole in the wall behind the fan you end up in another exterior wall that meets up with the house there. It's not an easy cheap fix.)
by jrepinc | 2025-09-19 14:08:28+00:00
Absolutely my favourite too. KDE Plasma is the best all around desktop environment. Very flexible and customizable so you can tune it to emulate any other desktop environment, or just make it into something completely of your own. Also packed with features and nice little thoughtful things no other desktop has. Absolutely love the powerful window management features (although i still miss some tiling features and I miss tabbed windows ala BeOS). Activities features to separate environment for work [projects] and home is also nice and would love to see it extended and supported in more applications. Despite all these powerful features and configurability it is still one of the most light-weight desktop environments, very efficient. And the KDE community is also one of the most if not the most friendly I have encountered. Great job and thanks to all.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-19 14:08:32+00:00
He would have to pivot or extend. Suggestions to extend on paper:

* graduate degree

* PMP and/or CISSP

* federal security clearance

* foreign language

* certs for AWS/Google/Azure

Technical pivots:

* operations (PMP would be helpful)

* management. I have pivoted to management and operations but am still required to ship software as a developer

* cloud infrastructure

* enterprise API management (MuleSoft is a proprietary solution that seems to be the growing industry solution)

* network management - routers and switches (get a CCNA and then work towards a CCNP)

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The best part about getting into a high barrier of entry job is the people. Everybody is generally confident about their ability to execute. That means people are more honest about technical concerns, less focused on how to do their jobs (literacy), less focused on the vanity of the technical work, and are generally more pleasant to be around.
by yodafx | 2025-09-19 14:09:03+00:00
You're trying to change the subject to a 1948 popularity contest because you can't refute the fact that the Irgun's extremist terrorist ideology won and became Israel's "state" policy. You resort to mocking the analysis with academic jargon because you're terrified of admitting that you're defending a colonial project that is currently in its final phase of exterminating the natives it couldn't get rid of in 1948.

Your last question is an amusing piece of Zionist projection. "Don't you think Palestinians have a terrorist organization problem?" - That's rich, coming from an apologist of a colonial project founded by terrorists, led by terrorists, and whose state terrorism has culminated in genocide. The very group you're pointing at was propped up with cash by your own Prime Minister, Netanyahu, as a deliberate strategy to divide Palestinians. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...

The core problem Palestinians have is a Zionist occupation problem. What they also have is an internationally recognized right to armed resistance against a foreign military occupier. Zionism, from the King David Hotel to the Dahiya Doctrine, is the one with the "terrorist problem." You just call it your "state" https://web.archive.org/web/20231029055310/ojp.gov/ncjrs/vir...
by cameronh90 | 2025-09-19 14:09:10+00:00
It’s a trade-off.

Most people are never going to check the links no matter how much you ask them to, and even if they did they wouldn’t know what to check for. But the tool Microsoft give you to check a link before opening it is that awful URL rewriter, which prevents the small minority who would check from being able to.

Similarly those flashing cmd windows are usually automatic update processes that Windows has no way to hide. Even some drivers that MS distribute through Windows Update do it. We could turn automatic updates off, but then nobody would update their software.

IT is rough because you’re often stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one side you have users who don’t want to change their behaviour, on the other side you have industry leading vendors, that the SLT insist on using, that make it impossible to do the right thing or put the right thing on an Enterprise plan that the budget won’t permit. Then to top it off, there are usually compliance and insurance breathing down your neck forcing you to implement questionable best practices from the 90s, so you just have to do your best to limit the damage.