MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BeetleB | 2025-09-15 16:37:57+00:00
> I'm sorry to the professional writers out there, but if I see an emdash in a piece of throw away writing (like a reddit or HN comment) I assume it's AI generated and I now immediately stop reading it.

All of this is distracting from the real question, which is:

Why do you care if it was AI generated?

As long as my comment reflects what I intended to say, you shouldn't care if I wrote it or the AI wrote it. Did it offend you in the past if an HN commenter used Grammarly to help craft the comment?

This is the literary equivalent of an ad hominem attach.
by wk_end | 2025-09-15 16:37:58+00:00
The audience is going to meet the article where they're at.

It's fine for, say, a blog post aimed at Haskellers to assume Haskell knowledge, but when posted on a board largely consisting of people without Haskell knowledge, it's natural that you're going to get at least a few people saying, "hey, I don't understand this".

But I'll be honest - I'm familiar with Haskell and the ML module system and the underlying concept (that typeclasses and modules are roughly equivalent in some sense), but I'm unfamiliar with Backpack so I still struggled to follow it a little. The target audience is an extremely narrow niche. So I think it's just somewhat poorly written; it doesn't feel like the author really had an audience in mind, other than themselves. There's probably ways of writing this - without spending too much time regurgitating the basics - that would be more palatable to more people.
by wpm | 2025-09-15 16:38:12+00:00
> linked with an increase in development of autoimmune disorders in the 12-24 month period after quitting

No shit, I had no idea.

That explains a lot. I quit smoking (well, the first time I tried to quit) when I was 19 (2 years smoking). 3 months later I was in the hospital with sclerosing mesenteritis, a rare disorder for an older person but baffling and way out of left-field for a 19 year old with no prior history autoimmune issues. We only got a diagnosis after full exploratory surgery that earned me a six inch incision scar on my stomach.

Don't start smoking, kids.
by conductr | 2025-09-15 16:38:26+00:00
lol, yeah the trick is to use them as sparingly as possible and have a dozen or so to rotate. I'm not sure if I qualify as a slow thinker the way OP and some others here are discussing it. But, I do frequently need more time to answer complex problems. I've also started just feeling OK telling people I can follow up with them on certain questions as it's too complex to answer off top of my head. As with anything, it's a balance, I find if you can't answer simple questions people will lose confidence in your answers.
by throwaway89201 | 2025-09-15 16:39:09+00:00
> I wonder if a judge would even see the difference.

A judge can't actually apply the constitution, as article 120 of the constitution forbids that, and The Netherlands doesn't have a constitutional court. In any case, most articles contain the phrase "except in cases determined by law". This means that the constitution is mostly a set of guidelines for politicians that practice civic hygiene, and not a tool to oppose bad laws. It's especially useless to delay and oppose fascists, as they'll just pass laws and/or state of emergencies without basis or changing the constitution.

Judges can apply the European Convention on Human Rights, specifically the right to privacy, but of course lawful exceptions can be made there as well as long as they are proportional and subsidiary. There's a good case to be made that Chat Control is neither.
by Someone1234 | 2025-09-15 16:39:11+00:00
> The first two results on Amazon US for "smoke detector" take 9-volts.

I did the same thing, and the first four results were Kidde and First Alert Smoke Alarms with non-replaceable 10-year lifespan batteries.

It is likely because you recently purchased one, and Amazon has targeted your results based on your purchase history.
by parliament32 | 2025-09-15 16:39:40+00:00
AMEX was/is the old-school equivalent of this. They would unapologetically ban merchants from accepting AMEX (forever!) after even a handful of complaints/chargebacks. This is also a key part of why you see some shops/restaurants with the "no AMEX" signs on their terminals -- don't be fooled by the "AMEX is too expensive to accept" red-herring, the actual difference for AMEX vs Visa/MC is ~1%[1], really not enough to matter for most businesses.

[1] Average brick-and-mortar interchange fees for Visa and MC range 1.85% to 2.6%, AMEX is 2.5% to 3.3%.
On Hacker News and Charlie Kirk
by keepamovin | 2025-09-15 16:39:44+00:00
Charlie Kirk thought conversation was the only way we were going to heal America. He believed we had to learn to talk to each other without vitriol, without poison, without anger. We had to be able to listen, and say what we mean, without being mean. And to talk to each other across divides. These are exactly the kind of things good discussion here exemplifies.

Because these are Hacker News’ ideals as well. The moderators fight for this kind of discussion. This is the place on the internet that most represents the kind of ideal discourse that Charlie Kirk practiced day in and day out.

This is what HN aspires to be. Given this truth it’s surprising that despite the volume of discussion about Kirk since his killing, there’s been so little here of that kind of discussion: without hatred, without vitriol, without anger. This is also true here of many topics that challenge us to embody those ideals.

I think this realization should prompt reflections on the kind of behavior really here, and hopefully reflecting nudges it back towards collectively creating the kind of discourse that will heal not just America, because HN is truly global, but the world - by talking to each other in the Charlie Kirk way, across divides, without hostility.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-09-15 16:40:17+00:00
Almost every electronic device becomes disposable at some point, some sooner than others. Just make sure you bring them to an e-waste bin when that time comes. E-waste recycling is a profitable business, so there's always one nearby in my experience.

If you have some old Samsung Galaxy Gio from 2011, it'll provide far more value by recycling it back to raw materials than it would if you'd somehow try to keep it usable in 2025.

The problem here is planned obsolescence in a product's design. That is what needs to be made illegal.
by Y_Y | 2025-09-15 16:40:18+00:00
Thank you for engaging with me so politely and constructively. I care probably more than I should about good science and honesty in academia, and so I feel compelled to push back in cases where I see things like: blatant overstating of capabilities, artificially farming citations.

This case seems to have been a false positive. Surely people will misuse your tool,but that's not your responsibility, as long as you haven't mislead them to begin with. Good luck with the project, I hope to someday need to cite the software myself.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-09-15 16:40:23+00:00
I was just thinking about that slashdot meme the other day. Like Beowulf clusters were the dream! Imagine one! I wanted one! Everybody did!

And now you can spin that shit up for pennies an hour and then throw it all away when you are done.

Who would have seen that coming back in, what, 1998…
by schlauerfox | 2025-09-15 16:41:05+00:00
It's contested, in the USA the spectrum is allocated so the FCC regulations seem to allow an abridgement of first amendment freedoms in exchange for use of the regulated spectrum. Is that constitutional? Why are broadcast airwaves censorsed, but the cable companies that were built with public right of ways contracted to private companies because they're natural monopolies allowed to swear on cable channels? It's not clear to me this is just.
by conductr | 2025-09-15 16:41:31+00:00
I'm self taught programmer, I don't code professionally but feel confident that I can build any software related widget I ever dreamed up. That said, coding interview stuff I have seen is like gibberish and I don't see how it correlates to the day to day job of building software. Maybe some types of software (lower level systems stuff and such come to mind). It seems like everyone online discussing it feels about the same too. So honestly not sure if that's signal or noise for you, lol.
by grogenaut | 2025-09-15 16:41:40+00:00
Player. It's slow for a short bit with culture in references until he gets airlifted. Then gets interesting dumping you into convos with intelligences and then the games and court drama. I actually don't recall plebias. googling it reminds me it nay be the one with an unmanned snowpiercer. i remember that not as good.

i like the culture books but they suffer sometimes from jumping unreoated viewpoints, mental instability, and sprawl sometimes.

player is tighter and doesnt jump. probbably a better entry.

sorry auto corect and swype tuened off mid post so speley misteaks
by euroderf | 2025-09-15 16:41:51+00:00
> I speak of the elegant, elongated hyphen, the gentle friend and ally of all writers, used to set off a chunk of text within a sentence.

There's nothing elegant about a punctuation mark firmly glued to the words on either side, making a sequoia-sized typographic log that typically gets wrapped in its entirety to the next line, leaving a half mile or so of white space just hanging in space before the wrap.

If you're gonna use the em dash, make sure your software can break a line on either side of one.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-15 16:41:54+00:00
Thermal expansion was a consideration when I took an optomechanical design course 15 years ago, for example (we had to memorize expansion coefficients of various common materials for quizzes, much to my annoyance). Like the glass itself changes size, altering how it focuses without even getting into the housing, which can also change size, shift around, vibrate, etc. Optical systems need pretty precise alignment.
by izacus | 2025-09-15 16:42:13+00:00
I dunno, I also have a Razer Blade and a MacBook and the lack of that one A port pisses me off regularly. Meanwhile the Razer team managed to fit it next to Thunderbolt and other ports.

It's just such a pointlesslly user hostile move for some Californian dude to make a point about progress.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-09-15 16:42:21+00:00
Well, physics is primarily an experimental science. We see something, we make a model that hopefully brings something new to check, we check, and either it is a good model or it is not.

Then come the theoreticians that try to find something deeper that would link or emerge the models.

In the case of energy conservation the "root" reason for the conservation are Noether principles that state some immutable entities (basically an experiment is not dependent on time and on geometric transformations such as translation or rotation). The link is not immediately visible (5 pages of math :)) but then suddenly tadaaam! and conservation of energy!

But yes, your point is very correct and this is why people wondered (and to some extend still wonder) if the masses in mhg=mv^2/2 are the same masses :)

Physics is really cool
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-15 16:42:43+00:00
> if you have the right to travel between internal states

The relevant cases are Corfield and Paul [1].

They restrict states. Not the federal government. And since 1926, “the presidential administration” has explicitly had the power to “deny or revoke passports for foreign policy or national security reasons at any time.”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Un...
by mnw21cam | 2025-09-15 16:42:50+00:00
Lead-acid car batteries are designed for high short-term current supply, for starting engines, not longevity. You can buy deep-cycle lead-acid batteries that last much longer, on the order of over ten years. Moreover, lead-acid batteries wear out when you discharge them too much more than by time elapsed, so taking good care of them can make them last even longer. Lead-acid batteries are great for standby storage, where you normally only discharge them a small amount between charging, but then need to use the whole capacity every now and again (for instance if you have a few dull days).

LiFePO3 batteries don't take as much wear from cycling, so they usually wear out from time elapsed instead of over-use. It's economically sensible to cycle LiFePO3 batteries as frequently as possible to get as much "benefit" out of the investment. They're great for time-shifting energy production by charging them at a cheap time of day and discharging them when you need the energy at an expensive time of day.
by Gormo | 2025-09-15 16:42:52+00:00
> None of those are left wing (or even “more frequently associated with the less right wing of the two major parties in America”)

These are quintessentially left-wing in the context of the past century of American politics.

> Fascist corporatism is not left-wing

Of course it is. It was deliberately designed as an alternative means for achieving socialist ends by socialists disillusioned with Marxism. It's always characterized itself as a "third way", but still one that seeks to radical change society through political force, and in opposition to those who want to conserve the status quo and admit change only through gradual development. The former is the traditional definition of "left" and the latter of "right".

> No, you’ve confused libertarianism/minarchism with conservatism. Conservatism, as an “actual political philosophy”, or rather a broad political orientation which is not a single unified philosophy but is conprised of distinct philosophies tending in the same broad direction, arose in response to and is exactly resistance to the downward, equalizing, leveling drive of enlightment liberalism.

It should be clear that in a US context, I'm referring to specifically Anglo-American conservatism, which does differ from other varieties in its devotion to particular forms of constitutionalism and to economic liberalism, i.e. the Burkean variety, and not to continental forms of conservatism which have had little historical significance in America.

> The on-and-off rhetorical appeal to libertarianism by the Right especially when out of power is, exactly, a matter of “whatever faction a particular political party happens to be pandering to at any given moment.”

The problem is that you're presumptively conflating party with political philosophy even in levying this criticism. In terms of US presidents in my lifetime, I'd regard Carter, Reagan, and Clinton as conservatives, both Bushes and Obama as moderates, Biden as being on the center-left, and Trump as being on the far left.

Actual political philosophy cuts across party lines -- the parties themselves are just coalitions of factions that are mainly aligned due to mutual tactical opposition to the other coalition, and not by any shared worldview. The nature of these coalitions has far more influence on what rhetoric they employ on the campaign trail than it does on what actual policy positions they take once in office.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-15 16:43:31+00:00
That's kind of how I was thinking about it. Why does each cubesat project have to start over from scratch? Why isn't there a basic set of projects that a team can build on top of to make their own custom sensors for their purpose, but the basic operational stuff like the suggested multiple storage types with redundant code shouldn't need to be recreated each time. Just continue using what worked, and tweak what didn't. No need to constantly reinvent the wheel just because it's students learning.
by tgv | 2025-09-15 16:43:45+00:00
With whom is Apple competing on their own web pages and apps? And how much advantage does some shiny reflection (which, btw, could also be attained by writing the effect yourself) offer them over that competition? It must be something big and obvious, otherwise there's no way it's illegal, but I can't think of it.

If you mean "anti-competitive" without referring to monopolies, then, well, every company does that.
by questionableans | 2025-09-15 16:43:48+00:00
Because conservatives are, by definition, people who don’t deal well with change. I wouldn’t go that far, but I’ve heard it called a mental illness masquerading as a political position (well, there may be something to that in some cases).

They were mad that work was interrupted, and if they ever wore any masks at all, they weren’t high quality respirators that are actually awesome to wear in the winter or allergy/smoke season—they were either uncomfortable (humidity built up inside the mask, hard to get people to hear you clearly, fiddly rubber bands hurt your ears or mess up your hair) or ineffective (low filtration, worn without a good seal).

So they want to argue that it was all unjustified and we should just ignore the next pandemic so we can stick to how it’s always been done, because that’s more comfortable.
by vasusen | 2025-09-15 16:44:01+00:00
The reason isn't technical. This isn't implemented because the entire card-processing ecosystem is hooked on the chargeback fees (min $15 to $100). It starts becoming a lucrative revenue stream for Visa/Mastercard/Stripe/Adyen/WorldPay/Fiserv and the entire ecosystem.

Merchant's end up getting the short end of the stick in most cases.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-15 16:44:28+00:00
Makes no sense to buy Framework laptops.

For example, their part to upgrade to an Ryzen HX 370 costs $1050.[0]

You can find a brand new laptop with an Ryzen HX 370, 3k 120hz OLED display, 32GB of RAM, 1TB drive for $1050 on sale.[0]

Framework sell their 16" laptop with the RTX 5070 for $2,449.00. Meanwhile, you can get the same CPU, display, GPU for half the price at $1200 on sale.[2]

[0]https://frame.work/products/laptop16-mainboard-amd-ai300?v=F...

[1]https://slickdeals.net/f/18576667-asus-vivobook-s-15-15-6-3k...

[2]https://slickdeals.net/f/18592141-gigabyte-aero-x16-16-qhd-1...
by simianwords | 2025-09-15 16:44:38+00:00
I have a nice example of Grok working well: https://x.com/cgt_strom/status/1967577034579947768

Grok provides clear value here: obvious false information is easily countered. You can see how it easily convinces anyone casually looking at this post. Once they see grok's fact checks they usually believe grok - without it they might leave the post thinking the original post was true. This is immense value in my opinion.
by mr90210 | 2025-09-15 16:44:48+00:00
I stand corrected.

As a fellow EU citizen that came from a “third world country” I can’t help but to be surprised about 3 things:

- How slowly but surely the EU and its members are becoming exactly like the governments of said third world countries. (I’ve lived through them, trust me, I know)

- How unaware most citizens are about EU’s power hungriness. The same EU that hasn’t yet apologised for their attempt to clean up the US mess in the Middle East by taking on the displaced people from that region without proper integration plans.

- The fellow Europeans have little clue about the shit-show and corruption in Brussels. It’s rotten.
by cptroot | 2025-09-15 16:44:50+00:00
I'm curious. Aside from this general criticism of Doctorow, do you have any specific criticisms of TFA's contents?

Any thoughts about whether reverse-centaurs are something that should continue to exist? Perhaps something about how the AI boom is going to produce miracles, as opposed to making us all babysitters forced to keep up with supersonic idiotic toddlers?
by spoiler | 2025-09-15 16:44:56+00:00
I grew up ob forums where em-dashes and semicolons were fairly common—Harry Potter roleplay forums! In fact, that's how I learned most of my English; probably where some of my expression style developed.

Em-dashes are a great way to signal something—thought or extra context—were inject into normal sentences flow. It can make the text appear more conversational

I realise Harry Potter roleplaying forums are not really your "normal" crowd though lol
by bigyabai | 2025-09-15 16:45:20+00:00
> seems like the future

Please, please cite sources for this. Without context you are really just drawing conjecture here.

Apple certainly seems invested in the idea of an AR future. But users do not - ARkit integrations are few-and-far between, Pokemon Go is a dead fad and Vision Pro failed harder than almost any other contemporary Apple product. It seems less like Apple is skating to the puck, and more like they're begging someone to pass to them. But the rest of the industry seems content ignoring the AR industry to invest away from Apple into stocks like Nvidia. Simultaneously, Apple threw away their stake in consortiums like Khronos, signalling a lack of desire to engage in new software standards.

With how many roadblocks Apple is facing here, I have no idea how you'd conclude that forcing AR on their users is a preferred paradigm.
by sleepybrett | 2025-09-15 16:45:44+00:00
Uh, there is nothing stopping a crazy guy with a cell of white supremists in idaho for communicating with another sell of malitia guys in utah via ham. If I were said crazies I would certainly want to encrypt that traffic. Given a rural enough compound it might be one of the only ways that they can communicate, certainly starlink exists these days but you catch my meaning.

Ham is useful, there are things about it that make it DIFFERENTLY useful than the internet. (see also number stations)
by tcldr | 2025-09-15 16:45:50+00:00
No.

In Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic style – pretty much a bible amongst typographers – he states:

We should “[u]se spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens – to set off phrases.” Bringhurst then adds this devastating indictment:

The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-15 16:45:51+00:00
I overlooked nothing, just pointed out that you are referring to a wrong document. But since you mention article 52... it cannot be taken out of context of the whole title VII. Yes, human rights are not absolute. It does not mean that they can be restricted arbitrarily. In case of digital surveillance there are already some legal precedents in EU (I know that in EU precedents are not binding, but they may serve as indication of possible decisions). E.g. in Germany installing spyware is now allowed only to investigate serious crimes, according to recent decision of the Constitutional Court.
by mindcrime | 2025-09-15 16:45:57+00:00
Amazing. For one of the few times ever, I agree with Trump about something. That said, I am of slightly mixed feelings on this. Why?

1. On the downside, this could be seen as reducing transparency and possibly enabling corruption and other nefarious behavior. Given what we know about Trump, I'd assume this is his motivation for pushing this item, but...

2. On the flipside, moving away from such a quarterly focus on things could help companies shift to taking more of a long-term view, and could reduce the frequency of knee jerk reactions designed to boost quarterly earnings.

I'd say (2) slightly outweighs (1) in my mind, so I generally think this would be a good move - on balance - if it happens.