MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-18 19:00:50+00:00
I think humanity majorly underplays how much success is based on culture. I have a long-held theory that offices don't exist to accomplish work, but to establish social relationships, and that work itself is a secondary product of the office community.

My belief was reinforced when companies switched to remote work, and management at many companies complained that it was difficult to tell who was and wasn't working, when the managers didn't get to watch the workers. Abstracting the social relationship from the results of work will make it easier to judge the work itself, but more difficult to enforce the social relationship. When the abstraction occurred, those who were basing the status of their employees on the social relationship, and not the work output, were especially disadvantaged.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-09-18 19:00:50+00:00
Some sites (and something I did while refactoring my portfolio) is levarage that to CSS. You can set is as to read the light/dark mode setting from the OS and provide a "toggle" to let the user choose between light and dark. This doesn't even need JS, just a couple hidden `<input type="radio">`s and some bits of CSS.

Although as I've said in another comment, things like this, "go to the top" buttons, cookie banners and the like should be task of the web browser, not of the website.
by wofo | 2025-09-18 19:01:35+00:00
Hmmm that's interesting. KSON actually shows a warning when there's misleading indentation, exactly to prevent this sort of thing! It seems like the detection logic only considers indents after a new line, so it doesn't complain in this case. I just opened an issue to see if things can be tightened up a bit (https://github.com/kson-org/kson/issues/221).

To see misleading indentation warnings in action, you can try the following snippet in the playground (https://kson.org/playground/) and will properly get a warning:

ports: - 80 - 8000 - 10000 - 12000 - 14000

Next to that, note that KSON already has an autoformatter, which also helps prevent misleading indentation in files.
by sohrob | 2025-09-18 19:01:39+00:00
I used to tinker with a bunch of different Linux desktop environments and had a hard time deciding on which one to standardize on because there is something to love about all of them. I suffered from major analysis paralysis as a result. In the end, I went with KDE Plasma across all of my devices because it's the most well-rounded and allows for customization without too much fuss. Fedora's Kinoite is perhaps the best KDE Plasma edition out there in my view.
by timeinput | 2025-09-18 19:01:41+00:00
I don't know how the town I live in can some how support two Greggs, a Starbucks, two Caffe Neros (Caffes Nero?), a Pret A Manger, and a Costa Coffee all with in a few hundred meters of each other, but the local bakery that opened a second location in the train station (basically on the high street) couldn't keep it open. At least the bakery still exists, just not in the center of town, and not where I'm getting on a train.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-18 19:02:23+00:00
It might be a more tractable question to ask whether the author could have written the text, focusing on evaluating the _author_

You might imagine, for example, in an academic context combining an in-person Q&A. Or other non-text modalities that currently still are hard to fake.

(In an academic context, people are pretty stupid with their low-effort prompting and copy-pasting, at least when people finely tune their prompt and writing, its a bit of work and thought)
by spwa4 | 2025-09-18 19:03:53+00:00
> UC Berkeley gives personal information for 150 students and staff to government ...

Why is this being argued as a bad thing? If there is one constant in even mild socialism it's that government has access (and uses) everyone's data, exactly for the reason Trump is using it.

This happens, as a matter of course, where I'm from (Northwest Europe). Oh and sure, when I was studying it was mostly to find actual fascists (you know, actually openly pro-Hitler), but I've been told this has expanded. Schools are far from the only ones who do this, the government "youth houses" do the same (report the political ideas of everyone who comes by to the police commissioner. They have forms and everything. Extremists or thieves are to be reported immediately). Same with any kind of social support. Only the rich get to be fascist.
by giuliomagnifico | 2025-09-18 19:04:00+00:00
> We investigated phenotypic and genetic correlates of never having had sex in ~400,000 UK residents aged 39 to 73 and ~13,500 Australian residents aged 18 to 89. The strongest associations revealed that sexless individuals were more educated, less likely to use alcohol and smoke, more nervous, lonelier, and unhappier. Sexlessness was more strongly associated with physical characteristics (e.g., upper body strength) in men than in women. Sexless men tended to live in regions with fewer women, and sexlessness was more prevalent in regions with more income inequality. Common genetic variants explained 17% (SE = 4%) and 14% (SE = 3%) of variation in sexlessness in men and women, with a genetic correlation between sexes of 0.56 (SE = 0.17). Polygenic scores predicted a range of related outcomes in the Australian dataset.
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-18 19:04:39+00:00
No, not really. The features that distinguish between feudalism and capitalism are mostly to do with class mobility and hierachies. Capitalism without class mobility is indistinguishable from feudalism. All it takes is a couple of generations of unchecked markets and power accumulates completely in upper classes and we are back to feudalism. You can argue "no, because reasons" (paraphrasing) all you want. Good luck convincing me, though.
by ugh123 | 2025-09-18 19:04:49+00:00
Taking a quick test spin. Seems to be enabled (on mac) by the existing "Gemini in Chrome" extension but requires a Chrome update. Which has a global shortcut (across all mac apps) of "Ctrl+g" (this can be changed). The additional AI features seem to come from the tab content's integration into the Gemini console (previously (I believe) the Gemini extension was merely a thin console to the Gemini service)).

The direct tab integration works by first showing the Gemini console (ctrl-g or Gemini icon in the mac system tray) where there is then a 'Share current page' icon below the text view.

This adds a blue border around the chrome window indicating the current page can be shared with chrome. It's not clear, but I believe the page content is only shared once a prompt is made intending to use the page's content. However, the share-enablement remains enabled for all tabs (all tab windows will have the blue border) until turned off in the Gemini consol. Again, it's not clear if just merely browsing these tabs will automatically share that content with Google.

The Gemini integration does not perform actions (can't ask it to do stuff directly with the site's content (navigate, click buttons, etc).

But direct summarization works well (try it on an HN comment page or news article).

Overall, I like this feature as long as I understand what and when things are being shared and ability to turn off easily.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-18 19:04:57+00:00
> Radon was mentioned on the project website, yes technically radon decay products are detectable but pracfically a Geiger tube is reacting only to terrestrial, cosmic, and other sources of radiation, not anything to do with radon.

To measure radon (say in a cellar), you'd typically take some dust filter or filter foam, attach it to a fan and circulate the cellar air through the filter, then the radioactive dust collects in the filter, and one can measure higher doses more easily.
by amalcon | 2025-09-18 19:05:19+00:00
Do you have the same musical taste as your wife? I have a bone conduction headset that I use for cycling. Podcasts and ebooks sound fine, and some music is acceptable (a lot of classical, some pop and folk). Anything with bass just sounds like garbage though - don't bother with any hard rock, hip hop, or anything else with bass.
by delichon | 2025-09-18 19:05:27+00:00
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 last year in Murthy v. Missouri that the states lacked standing to sue the government for first amendment violations from pressuring speech platforms to moderate. I'm afraid that decision will effectively immunize the FCC from pressuring ABC in this case. The states were found not to have the necessary injury, causation, or redressability. Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch dissented.
by Imnimo | 2025-09-18 19:05:34+00:00
I looked at the example for computer science basics for a 7th grader interested in food. Explanations include:

"a list can be used for a recipe"

"a set can be used to list all the unique ingredients you need to buy for a week's meals"

"a map can be used for a cookbook"

"a priority queue can be used to manage orders in a busy restaurant kitchen"

"a food-pairing graph can show which ingredients taste good together"

Maybe I'm over-estimating the taste of 7th graders, but I feel like I would get sick of this really quickly.
by yorwba | 2025-09-18 19:05:35+00:00
Figure 10 of the technical report https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/ai_augmented_textb... has a third n=30 group labeled "LCG" that is mentioned nowhere else. It scores 100% on "I felt like today's educational tool helped me gain a good understanding of the content." so I wonder what's up with that.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-18 19:05:52+00:00
Trump just announced that broadcasters who are against him should have their network license revoked! My patience with you has run out, so don't expect any further response, but I remain utterly baffled by this phenomenon of people who think it's "paranoid" or "hyperbole" to believe the president's official announcements about what he wants and what he plans to do. I understand that you don't perceive yourself to be an apologist for fascism - like other people I've met, you seem to genuinely believe that it's paranoid to accurately report what the President is doing and savvy to instead make up a fictional president who does less alarming things for more sympathetic reasons. But why? It's just absurd.
by zzzeek | 2025-09-18 19:06:19+00:00
I dont know that we should assume the worst but you are assuming the best, that's what irks me more here. my position is that we should be skeptical and demand (politely, civilly, that is all fine) more information about what is the nature of this mistake, why did it happen, and what do we know about the same mistake happening elsewhere? the parent post was just "this is a mistake, we're fixing it, giggles", I would argue that's insufficient.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-18 19:06:41+00:00
I believe it also doesn't make a lot of sense to have a real Geiger tube and have it exposed.

For the sexond, Geigers are binary, they only report detection events, not types. So you don't want it to be triggered on non-X rays like interferences from computers around, and you might also want to be able to occasionally remove surface contaminants from the equipment. Both of these are easily achieved by giving it a durable opaque case which is how everybody do these.

And for the first, I believe a modern photodiode taped over is by itself more sensitive than Geigers, even more so if coupled to a scintillator crystal(salts that glows in x-rays), not to speak of spectrometer based systems that can additionally tell energy levels therefore types and biological damage levels of incoming rays.

The real Geiger tube running on display is cool, but that's strictly it. I believe.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-18 19:07:33+00:00
> if people are using the vouch mechanism if they can

Nobody can vouch the post right now because it is not [dead]. At this point, if one wants the flag to be removed, the only way is to email hn@ycombinator.com for them to remove it manually at their discretion.

> Because this post doesn't have an insignificant upvote count and has actual conversation happening in the comments.

This isn't really relevant to the post being [flagged]. That happens when enough people click "flag" on the post. It will go to [flagged][dead] first, then people can vouch and it will drop them both, then, if more people flag it, it will become [flagged] again. It might be more complicated than that but I've seen that pattern a fair amount and I'm pretty sure the only way for a post to be [flagged] is for it to be, well, flagged.
by rigtorp | 2025-09-18 19:07:41+00:00
Interesting, of course many computations can be expressed as a graph. In the case of the bipartite graph we perform belief propagation on to decode LDPC where is the optimization from the distributive property? The parity matrix would typically be constructed so that there's few subexpression to factor out, to maximize the error correcting properties.

I agree both FFT and belief propagation can be expressed as message passing algorithms.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 19:08:01+00:00
Free speech is free speech, it doesn't come with qualifiers about public health crisis or anything else. The old canard "You can't shout fire in a crowded theater" can from a Supreme Court case in which the government was prosecuting someone for an anti-war speech(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States). That was 1919, so maybe a bit before 2024.

The Supreme Court has been walking that back ever since(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio).

>There is no clearly established public health exception among the 43 judicially recognized exceptions to the First Amendment. https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/ronald-kl-collins-first-a...

Please don't accuse me of lying, it's rude. Especially if you are also saying you are not familiar with what happened at that time.

It is a shame that you are unable to look at a situation where high level officials from one administration were asking why someone was allowed to express their views and that the administration was looking into how to hold them accountable and see how it is the mirror.

"Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts" - White House press secretary Jen Psaki

"Shouldn't they(Facebook and Twitter) be liable for publishing that information and then open to lawsuits?" - MSNBC "Certainly, they should be held accountable, You've heard the president speak very aggressively about this. He understands this is an important piece of the ecosystem." - White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way, These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” - FCC Chair Brendan Carr
by BeetleB | 2025-09-18 19:08:15+00:00
Well, this may explain why the presenter said it is one of the most litigious parts of Real Estate :-)

Yes, I do know about the potential for fraud. Ultimately, this sounds more like a problem with the government not doing their due diligence as opposed to a problem with the idea itself.

And yes, this is fundamentally something only rich people can make use of. The average Joe doesn't have over $100K sitting around to buy a piece of land only to intentionally lower its value!

The example of the golf course they give is weird. You're not allowed to do it to a property that has a structure on it (at least not one with utility connections). Nor can it have paved roads. What kind of golf course was this?

Still, thanks for the article. It provides a more down to earth context.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 19:08:18+00:00
Try $50k and 1-3yr. More if you're doing something other than residential. You can thank the EPA for that. Can't do get approval without a plan for the stormwater. Can't do that without engineers. Engineers won't draw and stamp without surveys and the like.

Mega-corps building cookie cutter subdivisions or commercial space obviously pay less because they're vertically integrated and highly streamlined.

Some small scale 1-4 unit stuff (single structure here and there) is exempted, unless it's too close to water of course.
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-18 19:09:01+00:00
I've been downvoted before for saying my take on this but...

Its because SE is a low class low power field. Its not respected by the people in charge at the overwhelming majority of companies. It has resisted standardizing like lawyers, doctors or even real estate agents. So there is little leverage a person in the field can push back with. Its mostly just seen as an annoyance to gaining/consolidating power for the power brokers on their way up the ladder.

That really is what computers/software are. Huge engines for orchestrating power that kings of old couldn't dream of.
by mikulas_florek | 2025-09-18 19:09:19+00:00
Fast hot reload is not Luau specific though. Lua and LuaJIT reloads fast too, so does JS and most other scripting platforms. In fact, I have subsecond C++ hot-reloads.

Do you have a link for the official Luau Discord? I can't see anything on their webpage or github and google is not helpful either.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-18 19:09:22+00:00
>If you need an alternative mode to get to public transit

No one was suggesting that.

> I can carry many items in its trunk, making it worthwhile to make multiple stops on my journey. Public transit is not meeting my use-cases.

Well the guy I was talking to was only worried about one or few trips per month, and we only need most people to use transit for the scenario to work.
by kevmo314 | 2025-09-18 19:09:26+00:00
This makes it difficult to configure Caddy in anything except the native Caddyfile language due to a lack of thorough documentation. It's an interesting idea, but configuring Caddy with a yaml config that someone prior deemed a great idea was quite painful.

Curiously, LLMs have made it a lot easier. One step away from an English adapter that routes through an LLM to generate the config.
by ag8 | 2025-09-18 19:09:31+00:00
Having an RL agent that's really good at search across some space sounds very powerful in general; "proofs-as-search" make this an appealing target. Back in the day, when I did more fundamental RL research, we worked on an extension of SoRB [0] where an additional meta-level target was learning improved heuristics to explore the search space faster; would be exciting to figure out what a good setup for doing things like this in LLM-policy-gradient world is these days!

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05253
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-18 19:10:01+00:00
Ubuntu is the worst of the Debian based Linux distributions. Give MX Linux a try. It's rarely evangelized, unlike other Linux distributions, but it has a surprisingly high user base, and for good reason. Everything it has added to Debian enhances it, and it doesn't try to promote any services, like Ubuntu does with Canonical's services.

Regardless of the Linux distribution, it's still way to early to get good support for RISC-V. Current products are good enough for general development, but RVA23 was ratified less than a year ago, and I don't know of any designs started after the ratification that have hit the market yet. Once that's the case, it should be easier to get universal support, but until then, every RISC-V SBC is a one-off development board.
by jszymborski | 2025-09-18 19:10:15+00:00
You're speaking of what is referred to as neo-corporatism [0] and it's a tripartite, democratic process, not the fascist sort where everything is within and for the benefit of the state [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Neo-corporatism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatis...
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-18 19:10:53+00:00
Of course, I would reject the same idea from the other side, no question. To me personally, all this religious hogwash about who is the chosen people and whatever amounts to no credible argument either way. Too bad the religious fanatics don't use their religion to do good and be social and friendly instead.

But that is a side issue, since Israel is the one taking territory away, that is not theirs to take. It is not theirs, due to people living in that land and having lived there for many generations. Then armed settler gangs supported by the IDF violently hunt Palestinians out of their homes and plundering them. That's not all of it, there are even cases of murder without prosecution.

So the point is the perpetrator, whether it is one side or the other, needs to stop, be put back into their internationally recognized borders, and we need to do what we can to make the perpetrator stay there.
by efreak | 2025-09-18 19:10:59+00:00
I really like Harmonic, but there's other features from Materialistic that I miss: - ability to switch back and forth from the article to the comments (in harmonic you have to scroll up or use a second app as browser) - ability to see the comment you're replying to - per-comment menu without long-press - draft comments (pause editing and save the comment to continue later...if you can remember where it was)

Why does every HN app re-implement bookmarks? Why can't they just save them to the HN website? Sure, you'd maybe need to fetch the static page from HN itself instead of using the API, and parse it for the favorite link to get the URL necessary, but it should be fairly simple regardless of whatever other changes are made (the link text is favorite, it's probably the first occurrence of a link with that text and has predictable URL format)
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-09-18 19:11:05+00:00
ALi was indeed pretty much on the avoid list for me for most of their history. It was only when they came out with the ULi M1695 made famous by the Asrock939dual-sata2 that they were a contender for best out of nowhere. One of the coolest boards I ever owned and was rock solid for me even with all of the weird configs I ran on it. I kind of wish I hadn't sold it even today!

I remember a lot disappointed people on forums who couldn't upgrade their cheap PCs as well, but there were still motherboards available with AGP to slot into for Intel's best products. Intel couldn't just remove it from the landscape altogether (assuming they wanted to) because they weren't the only company making Intel supporting chipsets. IIRC Intel/AMD/Nvidia were not interested in making AGP+PCIe supporting chipsets at all, but VIA/ALi and maybe SiS made them instead because it was a free for all space still. Once that went away Nvidia couldn't control their own destiny.
by Slow_Hand | 2025-09-18 19:11:05+00:00
I'm a big advocate of rereading, or revisiting any form of media that resonates. I will turn a good piece of literature or art over again and again until I know it intimately and have it in my blood. Then I can walk away from it.

As others have said, some of the best works will provide new insights as you age and gain perspective. Some will reveal remarkable foreshadowing and narrative lines that run quietly through the background of the work.

And, of course, repetition reinforces and consolidates your memory and understanding. A lot of books are not retained well by me the first time. The revisit consolidates the work in my mind, and eventually I can recall it from memory. Perhaps not verbatim, but beat by beat and detail by detail.

A revisit always allows me to savor and appreciate the finer points of the artist's craft. The small choices that are attuned to the larger purpose in the book. The inflections that support the themes and reinforce the sensations that are being evoked.

The best work can be turned over again and again with little loss in pleasure. More often than not satisfaction and admiration appreciate with each visit.
by clusterhacks | 2025-09-18 19:11:54+00:00
Isn't this just showing the effects of actively engaging the learner by placing a topic in contexts familiar/favored by learner versus just reading about a topic?

Like, if you had made the text pdf readers do some manual thinking by working on trying to place the topic into the same type of familiar/favored context, wouldn't that have been the better comparison?

I think using GenAI for learning is cool and exciting (especially for autodidacts) but I'm not excited by this particular study structure.