MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spyckie2 | 2025-09-18 18:07:29+00:00
Usually I would agree with your points, especially that wounds on the soul should be treated like wounds on the body - objectively, and with the best practice medical support for proper healing to minimize adverse effects.

But as she so eloquently puts it, the grief is not just a wound, its a lifestyle change. Its the repetition of existing expectations and systems that have to be retrained and rewired.

Professional help can help numb feelings but when it comes to retraining your entire life, as she also implies, professional help is only medically necessary if you are completely debilitated and unable to do the retraining yourself.

Professional help is only as helpful as it can do it better than she can. And I think because it involves lots of instances of processing her own feelings, that kind of help is difficult to provide medically.

Support groups I can understand helping her situation though.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-18 18:08:11+00:00
I have almost no context here. I only found out Kirk, RIP, existed, when the news of the shooting hit.

But I watched the clip (I don't know the comedian) and it really doesn't make fun of the assassination. It makes fun of JD Vance.

I strongly agree you don't make fun of tragedies, especially polarising ones, but this really doesn't do that.
by Lumoscore | 2025-09-18 18:08:20+00:00
I wrote an analysis on how memecoins, often dismissed as speculation, are actually driving meaningful adoption in Web3 ecosystems. The piece looks at transaction data, community growth, and on-chain activity to show how these tokens are bringing in users who then explore other DeFi and NFT applications.

Curious to hear from others here — do you see memecoins as a distraction, or as a real on-ramp for broader blockchain use?
by bangaladore | 2025-09-18 18:08:48+00:00
See the issue is you don't know the facts of this case, and call anyone who disagrees with you "worshiping Elon Musk"

This car (2020 MX) had a normal mechanical door handle that works perfectly fine without electrical power. She was highly intoxicated and couldn't figure that out.

Her death was caused by herself and only herself. She was too intoxicated to understand how to open the door while it was submerging. If she attempted to open the door as it was submerged, it would have opened fine.

Please research the case before spewing ad hominin attacks.
by bfors | 2025-09-18 18:09:10+00:00
I happen to work with otel a lot so I'll offer a few of my thoughts:

- Consider decoupling your collector from whatever is consuming your traces with something like kafka. Traces can be pretty heavy and it can be tricky to scale collectors. If something goes down, it's probably a good idea to continue writing the traces to queue or topic.

- https://www.otelbin.io is a nice little tool to help with collector configuration
by goku12 | 2025-09-18 18:09:17+00:00
Agreed. That's what I guessed too. WASM GC is probably a low level component which high level languages can wrap to get their native/idiomatic GC behavior.

> Work has been done for Java and Kotlin

I'm unaware of this development. What did they do? Did they create an interface to the GC specification in the draft proposal?
by solarkraft | 2025-09-18 18:09:22+00:00
Thank you for responding and taking this on.

> We're fixing it

By this you mean making sure something like this won’t happen to ANYONE ever again, right?

I hope so and I hope that you will post about it so that you can somewhat recover from this certified PR disaster.

I had previously considered advocating for your product but sure as hell won’t as long as this situation isn’t thoroughly solved. It also prompts me to look into your other business practices before ever considering speaking positively about you again.
by quuxplusone | 2025-09-18 18:09:29+00:00
Reading the "Divine Comedy" led me to a realization (or at least a shower thought) the other day: It makes perfect sense for someone living in the northern hemisphere to think of "north" as "up." Why? Because when you look up, you see the stars, all rotating around a fixed point at the very top of the heavens. (In our current epoch, this fixed point is close to the star Polaris.) If you journey on foot in the direction of this fixed, highest point — toward Polaris — you'll find that you are traveling due north.

So the conventional association between Upward and Northward is very much grounded in physical reality (for dwellers in the northern hemisphere).
by shayway | 2025-09-18 18:09:35+00:00
If the subject matter weren't somewhat baffling in the first place the edits and deletions certainly didn't help.

FYI for anyone reading this (not directed at you specifically): the 'delay' option in profile setting adds a delay before your comments appear publicly, giving you a buffer for edits and deletions before it goes out to the world.

Personally it helps a lot with ensuring I'm happy with the comments I make, and it helps avoid situations like this where multiple layers of retroactive changes make the conversation hard to follow.
by vkou | 2025-09-18 18:09:59+00:00
She was drunk as a skunk, and drowned in a private lake on her estate, which somewhat dampens public outrage and sympathy.

... Also, exiting a sinking car - any make and model of sinking car [1] - is a non-trivial exercise.

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[1] You might be okay if you're in a convertible with the roof up.
by runarberg | 2025-09-18 18:10:22+00:00
I would argue that behavioral genetics is extremely ideologically driven. This whole sub-field was started by a white supremacist (Francis Galton) with the aim of “proving” the superiority of the white race. The early days were wrought with pseudoscientific bullshit and unlike me complaining about it on a tech forum, the ideology of behavioral geneticist resulted in an actual policy and the horrors of eugenics.

If you want to find more about what makes Behavioral Genetics such a terrible “scientific” endeavor and how the whole field is driven by ideology instead of science, there is a whole book dedicated to the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misbehaving_Science
by RyanOD | 2025-09-18 18:10:31+00:00
"This is mostly for proofreading and condensing my rambling voice notes. These rather boring uses have significantly reduced drudgery and improved the overall quality of my writing. Best yet, they work pretty well (well, most of the time) But I don’t ask them to do any of the writing."

I find I struggle with this. If an LLM is being used to improve the overall quality of my writing, I feel like it is then doing the writing and that doesn't sit well with me. Same with having it write my code (though I don't write code for a living).

Maybe it would be similar to playing a guitar solo and then having an LLM fix all the missed notes. Is that still my solo? I tend to feel it isn't.

Just my personal struggle with this new, admittedly incredible, paradigm.
by mkfs | 2025-09-18 18:10:52+00:00
My guess is these progressives are so used to eating their own and purity spiraling, that they just assume it must come as naturally to conservatives as it does to them. How they reconcile that with conservatives having clearly been able to set aside their differences to win enough elections to lock up the Supreme Court for probably of the rest of these same progressives' natural lifetimes, I don't know.
by freehorse | 2025-09-18 18:11:22+00:00
Slack claims to be data processor, not data controller [0]. The workspace admins are, ironically, considered by slack to be data controllers, so GDPR-related requests are supposed to be handled by them.

This is ironic though, as in the Pro plan they do not offer options to admins to download everything (eg DMs). So as an EU citizen I cannot request all my data, but technically it is the data controller who is responsible for it here (my workspace admin). Not sure how that would fly if somebody took the effort to seriously look into it though.

Also not sure how easy it is for an admin to download and provide me even my data from the public channels in the first place with the current tools. I am pretty sure there is no GDPR compliance overall, but it is probably not trivial to get slack actually accountable for it.

PS It seems the workspace owner has to contact slack about it, and this is for both free and pro plan where downloading direct messages/private channels is not an option by default. [1]

[0] https://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy

> In general, Customer is the controller of Customer Data. In general, Slack is the processor of Customer Data and the controller of Other Information.

[1] https://slack.com/help/articles/204897248-Guide-to-Slack-imp...
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-18 18:11:53+00:00
> My RTX 5090 is about 10x faster (measured by FP32 TFLOPS) and I still don't find it to be fast enough. I can't imagine using something so slow for AI/ML. Only 2.2 tokens/sec on an 8B parameter Llama model? That's slower than someone typing.

Its also orders of magnitudr slower than what I normally see cited by people using 5090s; heck, its even much slower than I see on my own 3080Ti laptop card for 8B models, though usually won’t use more than an 8bpw quant for that size model.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-18 18:12:20+00:00
You said it wouldn't "blow up". You didn't say it would replace mechanical keyboards. It wouldn't. Noone said people were going to switch from using a mechanical keyboard to that. WE are talking about its usefulness for phones/tablets. Also, a phone's on-screen keyboard replaces a mechanical keyboard in that phones dont have a mechanical keyboard and people dont use a mechanical keyboard as their input device for that phone. If my car doesn't have a mechanical key, it has been replaced by a digital key. It doesn't matter if I make 5 copies of my house key.
by axiolite | 2025-09-18 18:12:22+00:00
That's a real method:

https://digital-photography-school.com/taking-photos-in-busy...

https://petapixel.com/2019/09/18/how-to-shoot-people-free-ph...

But it only works well if the crowds move out of the way reasonably quickly. If we're taking about areas packed with people all blocking a certain area, and you need hours of shots, the change in ambient lighting over time will have negative effects on the end photo.
by theturtletalks | 2025-09-18 18:12:43+00:00
I agree, I've seen so many products start open source to gain traction, get into YC, and then either go closed source or change the license. That's a bait and switch and I appreciate the comment pointing it out.

I downloaded Cactus a couple months back because I saw a comment, but bait and switch like this makes we want to look for an actual open source solution.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-18 18:12:56+00:00
Fair enough, but it's written on a bullet meant to assassinate someone in real life. Had it been in the context of playing video games, I would see it just being a game quote.

Ok, fine, but then "Bella ciao" is an anti-Nazi and anti-fascist Italian folk song (at least according to wikipedia) [1], so, we got a hard right winger, mentioning killing fascists and listening to Bella ciao killing someone like Charlie Kirk. There was "notices bulges" comment which I didn't get. But given just those two clues and having to guess the affiliation of the shooter, not sure how people arrived at "this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them [maga gang]".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao
by bdamm | 2025-09-18 18:13:14+00:00
The white collar worker doesn't need to be replaced for the bots to be profitable. They just need to become dependent on the bots to increase their productivity to the point where they feel they cannot do their job without the chatbot's help. Then the white collar worker will be happy to fork over cash. We may already be there.

Also never forget that in technology moreso than any other industry showing a loss while actually secretly making a profit is a high art form. There is a lot of land grabbing happening right now, but even so it would be a bit silly to take the profit/loss public figures at face value.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-18 18:14:19+00:00
There's a difference. How much money went into training the computer here Vs the human? If you want to prove that a computer can, at extreme cost and effort, beat a human - sure, it's possible.

But you can also conclude that putting a lot of money and effort pays off. It's more like comparing a horse to a Ferrari that had millions of development costs, has a team of engineers maintaining it, isn't reusable, and just about beats Chestnut. It's a long way until the utility of both is matched.
by sivers | 2025-09-18 18:14:34+00:00
It's also a wonderful metaphor for how the opposite can also be true.

Japanese addresses that name the blocks, not the streets: https://sive.rs/jadr

West African music that uses the "1" as the end of the phrase instead of the start: https://sive.rs/fela

“Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true”, Joan Robinson

https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_differe...
by OrangeMusic | 2025-09-18 18:14:38+00:00
I'm an Android developer and I really like Android development (Kotlin is a great language, Compose is also enjoyable). But, just like OP, I had a bunch of apps in the Play Store that I just stopped maintaining, and I'm totally disgusted with the app distribution story.

Mobile web apps are a very good solution (plus you can use Kotlin/Compose Web!). It's not adapted to all kinds of apps of course...
by mannschott | 2025-09-18 18:15:06+00:00
One would assume that, but in practice, the predominant style is not one of many short procedures. Instead it feels that there's a preference to just inline the code unless the resulting procedure will have more than one caller.

For example, search for "PROCEDURE Scan" here: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Texts...

Control structures are deeply nested and this goes on for 64 (very dense) lines. The low line count but is an artifact of how Oberon is conventionally formatted. When reformatted to mimic the conventions of languages like C, Java or Python it works out to more than 120 lines.

When I program in Oberon (recreationally) I tend to follow this style even though I would extract the same code into a separate method were I writing in Java.
by cloudmike | 2025-09-18 18:15:34+00:00
I use Luau with my Unity game for all gameplay code (60k+ loc so far). I agree the docs could be improved, especially for custom integrations. The new type system + LSP aren't great together yet either, and I've been a little worried about the direction since zeux left the team.

But otherwise I really like it. My Luau code hot reloads almost instantly while the game is running, and my C++ project compiles quickly when I update it. I like that it provides sandboxing if you want to support modding. And there's an active community of people on the official Discord, which is better than nothing.
by EugeneG | 2025-09-18 18:15:42+00:00
In theory what they are doing of value, is that at any time you can go to an exchange and say "I want to buy x" or "I want to sell y" and someone will buy it from you our sell it from you... at a price that's likely to be the accurate price.

At the extreme if nobody was providing this service, investors (e.g. pension funds), wouldn't be confident that they can buy/sell their assets as needed in size and at the right price... and because of that, in aggregate stocks would be worth less, and companies wouldn't be able to raise as much capital.

The theoretical model is: - You want to have efficient primary markets that allow companies to raise a lot of assets at the best possible prices - To enable efficient primary markets, investors want efficient secondary markets (so they don't need to buy and hold forever, but feel they can sell) - To enable efficient secondary markets, you need many folks that are in the business of XTX ... it just so happens that XTX is quite good at it, and so they do a lot of this work.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-18 18:15:49+00:00
During that time, I had a job for a major games company doing nothing but developing Windows graphics card drivers. They were moderately complex beasts (enormously complex compared to other device drivers), but not really that huge of a thing.

The biggest effort about them was reverse-engineering certain cards. The games often used very strange video settings, and the card manufacturers had poor, sometimes no, documentation about their operation at a low level.
by ghostpepper | 2025-09-18 18:15:50+00:00
I wonder why Zulip isn't mentioned more in these comparisons. Personally I would pick Slack over Mattermost any day in terms of sheer usability, corporate lock-in notwithstanding. I find Discord's UX to be pretty awful in terms of visual clutter and notifications demanding attention - constantly being notified to subscribe to Nitro etc.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-18 18:16:03+00:00
> There are dedicated UX teams whose sole focus is to improve UX.

Imho, this is a big source of the problem.

Granted: there are some amazing UX designers and teams out there.

But my experience with UX teams has been that in most middle-market companies they're usually less that sort and more the {huge designer ego} + {management consulting political skillset} one.

And it's a tough problem to solve! Because ultimately you want someone who can argue very hard for their approach to improving UX (usually against opposition from others). But when someone's ego exceeds their skill, that leads to disaster.

And without a strong Jobs-esque "this sucks" arbiter over them, their changes make it to prod.
by alwa | 2025-09-18 18:16:27+00:00
I mean, and.. with the map South-up, all the stuff is crammed down at the bottom now, no?

Aren’t most of the people and land and things in the North part? A casual Google [0] suggests 88% of the humans, for example?

I don’t understand the “good” and “bad” thing, but it does make sense to me that you scan something “earlier” or “later” in casting your eye across a mass of stuff.

If we read from top to bottom… doesn't it make sense to put the part where the stuff is earlier in order than the part with mainly oceans?

It makes slightly more sense to me to argue about which continental masses should go on the left or the right of the map, e.g. [1]. Although compositionally, if you put the Eurasian continent on the left side (“first” for left-to-right readers), doesn’t the massive Pacific exaggerate the impression of a discontinuity or a vast gap between geographical clusters of humans?

[0] https://brilliantmaps.com/human-hemisphere/#:~:text=88%25%20...

[1] https://www.mapresources.com/products/world-digital-vector-r...
by jrochkind1 | 2025-09-18 18:16:32+00:00
i don't know if your surmises are correct. But my point is just that this seems irrelevant to Slack ending the deal. If they had stayed on the existing "grandfathered" plan, Slack could still be ending it. So I don't see the relevance. There's no reason to think they would be safer if they had stayed on a "grandfathered" plan that isn't even offered anymore, in fact it's often safer to switch to a currently offered plan if they're offering you a reasonable one, figuring they'll end the grandfathered one sooner than a currently offered one. That alone could be reason to switch in fact.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-09-18 18:17:17+00:00
I upvoted your comment because this is also a huge issue. I just find that the co-opted terminology does worsen the quality of dialogues about the co-opted terms. People need to have the symptoms fully described for them in detail and sometimes don't believe me or think I'm exaggerating because it doesn't match their preconceived notions of what those words mean.

I'm not saying that the problem isn't ableism, it absolutely is, just that the co-opting of the terms is still harmful in that it uses up spoons and makes it harder to communicate clearly, especially with those who are stuck on the pop-culture meanings instead of actual medical meanings.
by bdamm | 2025-09-18 18:17:39+00:00
There were always applications that were snappy and applications that were dog slow; sometimes even the same application with different releases. And that's still true today.

In fact, I would argue that the objective experience of responsiveness has not meaningfully changed at all if you stick the average, except that speed and capacity are much more available if you are willing to spend even a little bit more time and money.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-09-18 18:18:02+00:00
> Nonsense. The castle doctrine only lets you kill trespassers if they are threatening your life.

Depends on the state. In Texas using deadly force is permissible to stop crimes like robbery. https://legalclarity.org/in-texas-can-you-shoot-someone-on-y...

And there was a case where it wasn't even the homeowner, it was the neighbor who shot the burgulars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy
by ahazred8ta | 2025-09-18 18:18:05+00:00
Bootleg photocopies of the nonclassified CIA map of Moscow were very popular. Even among soviet government employees. https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/st...

When Napoleon invaded Russia, one of his big problems was that he couldn't get maps of Russian roads; there were no such maps.
by robotnikman | 2025-09-18 18:18:09+00:00
Having a keyboard with tactile feedback is much easier to use than a touch screen keyboard, an you're way less likely to make mistakes. The main reason you don't see them on phone anymore is because having a keyboard on a phone takes up space, makes the phone cost more, and in the case of sliding keyboards adds more points of failure as well. For phone, a touch keyboard is good enough.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-18 18:18:32+00:00
Moving from one proprietary app to the next isn't a solution. No matter which commercial service you choose, there will be an attempt to squeeze more profits out of you sooner or later and you will have to pay up or lose your data.

The lesson here is that proprietary software is for suckers. Bite the bullet and move to an open protocol with FOSS clients.
by QQQQQQQQQQQQQM | 2025-09-18 18:18:38+00:00
Recently I had been looking for a specific map of a local trail system and found a map store near me that might have it, and had seen this exact map in the store. Crazy to see it here a couple days later!

I believe you should be able to get it shipped wherever. https://www.mapcenter.com/store/p/upside-down-world-by-rober...
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-18 18:19:00+00:00
Ha ha, I forecast, SPY goes up, and I’ve already made more money than XTX or any of its clients…

Look I like technology as much as anyone. Improbable spent $500 million on product development, and its most popular product is its grpc-web client. It didn't release any of its exotic technology. You could also go and spend that money on making $500m of games without any exotic technology, and also make it open source.
by antonyh | 2025-09-18 18:19:08+00:00
I run with XFCE for work to drive a mix of GTK and KDE apps. Personally I find the base system is slower, but the apps themselves are better than the GNOME alternatives in terms of functionality and visual appeal.

XFCE > KDE > GNOME > MacOS

For my Steam machine, it's all KDE and works beautifully.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-18 18:19:33+00:00
> ...unless there is a mechanism to keep it all local

I'm not sure the Google is a trustworthy party [0] to believe when they give you some hard-to-find option to keep data local and not use it for user profiling and ad targeting. Google is essentially a data mining business. Some opportunities are simply hard for them to resist.

[0]: <https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/google-s...>