MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lazide | 2025-09-14 11:56:44+00:00
Eh, Trump is able to do what he does because he’s a populist and a bully in a society that hopes it can either get rich, or not be destroyed, if they just go along.

The odds of a monarch pushing those buttons is quite low - monarchs by definition don’t need to be populists, and are rarely able to pretend to make the rest of the population rich either.

Much more likely to the UK would end up with a PM doing it, and they’d nuke the last vestiges of the Monarchy in the process. The UK monarchy long ago lost the balls to survive a fight like that.
by pydry | 2025-09-14 11:57:08+00:00
It'd be larger if wealth inequality werent so staggeringly high.

The first automated-server restaurants (Horn and hardart) appeared in the 1930s during the depression. They were popular because they were cheap.

Far from being the wave of the future, they went out of business in the 1950s when people started having disposable income.

Part of the reason we accept slop, impersonal service and mass produced crud is not because "demand" is indifferent to it, but because disposable income is so often politically repressed, meaning the market is forced to prioritize price.
by baq | 2025-09-14 11:57:51+00:00
It’s absolutely true. Nobody should be building a microservice architecture for a product without a proven market fit, monolithic development is just faster at this stage, and when you get around to scaling it once you outgrow it (which should be much later than conventional microservice wisdom agrees) the database isn’t the bottleneck anyway and hence stays monolithic (don’t confuse with adding shards).
by Voultapher | 2025-09-14 11:57:56+00:00
-fbounds-safety [1]

Based on their slides [2]. I was wrongly informed one does need to do some light annotation in function signatures and struct definitions for anything ABI relevant. Based on their slides:

Ptrdist and Olden benchmark suites

- LOC changes: 2.7% (0.2% used unsafe constructs) Much lower than prior approaches

- Compile-time overhead: 11%

- Code-size (text section) overhead: 9.1% (ranged -1.4% to 38%)

- Run-time overhead: 5.1% (ranged -1% to 29%)

Measurement on iOS

- 0-8% binary size increase per project

- No measurable performance or power impact on boot, app launch

- Minor overall performance impact on audio decoding/encoding (1%)

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html

[2] https://llvm.org/devmtg/2023-05/slides/TechnicalTalks-May11/...
by simonw | 2025-09-14 11:59:03+00:00
Here's the search results you get if you type "eastern" in that interface: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c2a73e40bbc87b8c25333207c551f...

Typing "New York" gets zero results.

Even knowing the exact name of the timezone I want I still can't find it in that UI!
by lmm | 2025-09-14 11:59:04+00:00
SQL is just extremely bad on top of being poorly integrated with the host language. Middle-endian order, terrible abstraction capabilities, no test support to speak of, essentially no project management tooling...

I use ORMs so that I can write the thing I want to do in a vaguely reasonable language, just like I manipulate XML datastructures in code instead of writing XSLT.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-09-14 11:59:13+00:00
> What people these days are worried about isn't that they are racist and have no outlets for their racism. It's that they worry that whatever they say will be reinterpreted as racism when they were making an honest attempt to not be racist.

So you agree with my point that people could face social prosecution for dissenting (even when they are correct), so we should have anonymous platforms where they can champion their ideas.

> Your case doesn't sound reasonable and it also doesn't fit the current zeitgeist.

These were just extreme examples to indicate that there can be social repercussions to dissenting.

Maybe a more convincing example is that if I advocate for making it easier to build housing because that will lower the cost of housing and many of my friends are homeowners, they might really not like me because lowering the cost of housing directly lowers their net worth.
by squigz | 2025-09-14 12:00:33+00:00
Isn't this just a result of technological progress? Technology has displaced entire fields of labor for... well, ever.

I'm not unsympathetic to the problems this introduces to those workers, but I'm really not sure how it could be prevented; we can of course mitigate the issues by providing more social support to those affected by such progress.

In the case of artistic expression becoming more accessible to more people, I have a hard time looking at it as anything but a net positive for society.
by wcagscans | 2025-09-14 12:03:04+00:00
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by justinc8687 | 2025-09-14 12:03:51+00:00
I lived in Breckenridge (9,600ft) for a few winters post college.

Before college, when I had last been to CO, I didn't get any altitude sickness. Post college, I discovered (by blacking out on the slopes at Vail) that I now got bad altitude sickness. It now takes me almost 2 weeks to aclimate, but once I do, boy, is it amazing.

The most fun time was when I flew home to the East Coast after being there 4 months. I felt like absolute Superman. So much energy, barely needed any sleep! I only wish those effects lasted more than 5 days...
by sschueller | 2025-09-14 12:06:37+00:00
It's between the underground tracks of Bahnhof Löwenstrasse and the above ground: [1]

There are a lot of little neat things. For example the elevators go sideways [2] because the platform in the underground Bahnhof is wider (this is due to safety regulations etc.) [3]

BTW, what is marked as Stadttunnel in [1] is the new bike tunnel [4] which has actually been there for many years as it was supposed to be a highway tunnel but was never opened (built many, many years ago).

[1] https://img.nzz.ch/2014/05/30/1.18312867.1401474596.jpg

[2] https://www.standseilbahnen.ch/images/8000/8000.06-zuerich-h...

[3] https://implenia.com/fileadmin/implenia.com/referenzen/durch...

[4] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/web/de/mobilitaet/v...
by xolve | 2025-09-14 12:07:11+00:00
Thank the fate for PC to exist!

Open nature of PC allowed for truly free/open source software to exist which can be functional without big corporate lockdown. I can fully assemble it with parts I can buy individually and as long as they are compatible (which is mentioned on the box, no hidden knowledge here) I can expect it to work within the mentioned warranty.

My PC based computers can be booted and fully functional with Debain, Fedora and (put your favorite Linux, BSD distro here mine is openSUSE Tumbleweed). There is no parallel ecosystem which yet, which rivals PC in terms of open specs and fully tinkerable hardware and software.

Macbooks are locked down with Apple and forget about your own hardware.

Android seemed like a competitor, but closed nature of its development and lack commodity hardware around ARM based phones means that FOSS layer exists only in user bases apps. We have custom ROMs which require bootable blobs from vendors and its non-reliable and breaks often.
by tveyben | 2025-09-14 12:07:36+00:00
Also called ‘perspective’ and the only way to change it is to move the position of the camera

It does not matter if you crop an image taken with a 50mm lens to get the same area of the motive as taken with a 300mm lens from the same ‘standpoint’ - there will be no difference between foreground and background (except for grain and noise - but that’s another story… ;-)

You have to move the camera to change that.

This is often seen in movies (those shot on real film) as opposed to on video as zoom lenses are often used without moving the camera, film based often use a dolly to move the camera. The effect of combining zoom and camera movement to keep the same crop of the foreground while having a dramatic effect of the background quickly getting larger/closer (or vice versa) is really effective - also in illustrating this concept.

In my early life (before taking the education as a photographer) I was really liking wide angles as it brought ‘life’ in to a lot of pictures. Wide as in 24 mm for my 35mm camera (Nikon F2, from 1973 should you wonder) was a favorite, replacing my 28 mm.

Too bad full frame digital is still so expensive. Using a 14-24 f/4 on the DX format in (Nikon D7100) just is’nt the same.

So now the iPhone is the most used camera (you know - the camera you have with you…!)
by rlpb | 2025-09-14 12:07:41+00:00
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of these blog posts for what is, at best, a simple bug in Debian. When I encounter something like this, I find steps to reproduce and file a bug. That's it.

If someone wants to get indignant and broadcast how terrible it is that a project (Debian in this case) is so terrible that they dare have a UX issue that is probably just an oversight, then they're entitled to do that but can also expect pushback where they aren't perfect either.
by porker | 2025-09-14 12:08:01+00:00
Isn't that though the narrative arc being shaped? We see it everywhere now, but just because LLMs like to output it doesn't make the structure you're highlighting bad.

Overall I found it a decent piece, a few too many "<term>: <explanation>" blocks for my taste but better than what I can write - and than most of the tech-industry blogging I come across.
by guenthert | 2025-09-14 12:12:11+00:00
Dunno. I worked (fortunately only) very briefly on one (Octane I _think_). Still remember the trashcan were flames shot out, when one was dragging a file on it. Cute the first three times. Other than that, I remember the bad flicker (in Europe 50Hz only!) of the (large, then) colour monitor and the noise. Oh, the noise. Fellow users tried to mitigate it by hiding it behind the door to the server room to little effect. I'm sure it's performance as graphics workstation were outstanding (which I had no use for then), but the ergonomics were just awful.
by jalapenos | 2025-09-14 12:14:30+00:00
Computer nerds should probably use Rust and Tokio. Then they can spend hundreds of evenings tinkering with their oh-so-superior contraption of a website, muttering how silly everyone else's websites are.

But everyone else who just want to put their small business website up that their marketing assistant can easily edit, will just pay someone on Upwork to pop up a WordPress site for them in a day or so, with everything they need included, so they can spend their time on value-added activities.
by danparsonson | 2025-09-14 12:14:54+00:00
"Scientists having to face the fact that their theories aren't perfect" - I think you fundamentally misunderstand how science works, or else you hang out with some extremely arrogant astronomers.

Why do you think they put the JWST up there, if not to get better data and thereby improve our understanding of the universe? If we thought our theories were already perfect, what would be the point in doing more research?
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-14 12:15:34+00:00
It is more nuanced than "segregation good" but it is still ridiculous. Kirk is building off of the idea from people like Hanania that after Griggs v Duke the disparate impact theory took the interpretation of Title 7 off the rails. I'd like you to tell me if you think that Duke Power was doing something acceptable here. Just because Kirk isn't taking the most odious possible stance about the civil rights act does not mean that his opinion is above reproach. What I am saying is not disinformation.

I do know about the other claims. He specifically advocated for Ilhan Omar to be deported and deadnamed Lia Thomas in public. Do you want the specific events where he said these things?
by jmull | 2025-09-14 12:16:10+00:00
> avoiding whole-of-program analysis

Why, though?

Perhaps it's unfeasibly complex? But if that's the argument, then that's an argument that needs to be made. The paper sets out to refute the idea that C++ already has the information needed for safety analysis, but the examples throw away most of the information C++ does have, without explanation. I can't really take it seriously.
by daneel_w | 2025-09-14 12:16:24+00:00
> Idling "gaming PCs" idle about 30-40w.

Hm, do they? I don't think any stationary PC I've had the past 15 years have idled that low. They have all had modest(ish) specs, and the setups were tuned for balanced power consumption rather than performance. My current one idles at 50-55W. There's a Ryzen 5 5600G and an Nvidia GTX 1650 in there. The rest of the components are unassuming in terms of wattage: a single NVMe SSD, a single 120mm fan running at half RPM, and 16 GiB of RAM (of course without RGB LED nonsense).
by DannyBee | 2025-09-14 12:16:38+00:00
To your last point, the social/etc component of success always seems to be overlooked on HN. The world is littered with good solutions to problems that simply failed to get traction for various complex social reasons. There doesn’t have to be a technical reason something was not adopted widely. It could be fine, great even, and still just not get traction. I would bet everyone can name a piece of software they use that is not really popular at all, and everyone else uses something else that is popular, but this unpopular software really solves a problem that they have and they just like it.

Software never was a technical meritocracy.

There does not have to have been anything technically wrong with D for it to not have been widely adopted. I think HN doesn’t like that because it often means that there’s nothing obvious they can necessarily do to fix it
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by daolm | 2025-09-14 12:17:17+00:00
I'm launching a service where you will solve 80% of the data visualizations with 0 learning curve. You can upload your datasets or synchronize data sources, and the AI will generate charts & dashboards. You will be able to see and edit the queries generated by the AI and chat with your data sources.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-09-14 12:17:50+00:00
> "AI" is that it seems to significantly reduce barriers to entry in many domains.

If you ask an LLM to generate some imagery, in what way have you entered visual arts?

If you ask an LLM to generate some music, in what way have you entered being a musician?

If you ask an LLM to generate some text, in what way have you entered writing?
by nailer | 2025-09-14 12:18:47+00:00
Thanks for the apology, I assure you I absolutely believe what I write.

I’m not sure if I have an answer one way or the other - I’d like it if I could buy milk in NY without someone threatening violence, and don’t think it’s right for jihadists to stand in the middle of London saying they’ll kill all the jews without the police doing anything, but I also don’t want to live somewhere where someone snaps and they have access to an automatic weapon.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-09-14 12:21:03+00:00
Series 16 cards have weird idle problems. Mine also exhibited that. They're literally Series 20s with no RTX cores at all, and their identical 20 counterparts didn't seem to have the same issue.

So, I assume its Nvidia incompetence. Its my first and last Nvidia card in years, AMD treats users better.
by diggan | 2025-09-14 12:21:11+00:00
This is amazing, seems really detailed and leveraging official sources too, nice job!

Since the author seems to be Catalan, I'll shamelessly plug a Metro-station-relevant event that is ongoing right now in Barcelona:

There are many "ghost" metro stations in Barcelona that been popular (at least used to) urban exploring destinations. Two of those, Gaudí and Correus, are now opening to the public via tours, if you register at https://obrimelmetro.cat

I've only visited Gaudí in a unofficial capacity like a decade ago, and haven't yet done the new tours myself so can't vouch how interesting they are, but seems there are only 5000 open spots in total. It seems like one of the tours is even during the night, so you get as close to the urban exploring experience as possible without having to run across active train tracks :)
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-14 12:21:18+00:00
Reddit and 4chan both get their money from advertisers though, so they have an incentive to try to boost engagement above whatever level might be natural for their userbase.

Social interaction is integrated with our brain chemistry at a very fundamental level. It's a situation we've been adapting to for a million years. We have evolved systems for telling us when its time to disengage, and anybody who gets their revenue from advertising has an incentive to interfere with those systems.

The downsides of social media: the radicalization, the disinformation, the echo chambers... These problems are ancient and humans are equipped to deal with them to a certain degree. What's insidious about ad-based social media is that the profit motive has driven the platforms to find ways to anesthetize the parts of us that would interfere with their business model, and it just so happens that those are the same parts that we've been relying on to address these evils back when "social media" was shouting into an intersection from a soap box.
by ksec | 2025-09-14 12:21:31+00:00
I know this is not a popular opinion, but Johny Ive is out, if Tim Cook were to retire we should bring back Scott Forstall in.

Very unfortunate the current state of Apple could have been so much better. They finally have the resources to stop worrying about the bottom line. Instead all they cared about are their bottom line now.

And they are about to loss the $20B annual profit from Google.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-14 12:21:44+00:00
We have stats for India, and they're no match: Kolkata Howrah gets about 1M pax per day, Mumbai CST around 670k. Nothing to sneeze at, but still several million (!) less than Shinjuku.

China has numerous airport-sized stations that handle huge volumes of long-distance passengers, but I'm not aware of any single commuter hub remotely the size of Shinjuku. Partly this is because of the economic system: Chinese trains are all state-run and centralized, while a large part of why Shinjuku is so busy is that it's a hub for numerous private railways as well.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-14 12:21:59+00:00
>I don’t think that culturally IBM ever really felt that the PC was a true IBM product.

That was true everywhere. I worked at a mini company at the time when the PC came out. People in that company looked at the PC as a cool thing, but not a real computer.

In 10 or so years, the PC killed of almost all mini computer companies. Some even speculated that was the main reason for IBM to create the PC :)
by RLAIF | 2025-09-14 12:22:30+00:00
SpikingBrain treats 'spikes' as 1-bit quantization stickers. True neural-level sparsity should be input-dependent, time-resolved, and self-organized during learning. If a new circuit diagram cannot 'grow' with every forward pass, then don't blame everyone for treating it as Another Sparse Marketing - oh wait, Neuromorphic Marketing.
by pizlonator | 2025-09-14 12:22:46+00:00
> I can't rationalize how "prevents... except" isn't still just heuristics.

“Prevent something unless obviously safe” is a core pattern of rules in type systems. For example variable assignment in Java. If it’s possibly unsafe (RHS is not a subtype of LHS) then it’s prevented.

Are you saying Java and all of classic type theory is just heuristics?
by amiga386 | 2025-09-14 12:22:59+00:00
> I dislike TZ selectors that use locations (cities, countries, etc.). Let PDT be PDT(-8) and PST be PST(-7).

You can choose that. Set your timezone to Etc/GMT-8. Then, at the exact time your political jurisdiction mandates switching over to PST, go to all your computers and switch them all to Etc/GMT-7. Then do the same thing next year for switching back.

What? That's bad UX as well? Well then, you have to name the correct political jurisdiction that mandates the timezone rules where you live. And that's hard, because so many little tinkerers at state and municipal level decide to change the rules just for their little fiefdom. And they keep changing their minds.

The tz database is looking for the longest-lived identifier that accurately describes that geographic region to which the rules apply. Every time one region diverges from the norm, they need to accommodate the split. They chose continent and city names, because the historical perspective is that city names have remained in use longer than country names.

For your case, however, they have aliases. "US/Pacific" is an alias to America/Los_Angeles", as is "PST8PDT". Set and forget.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-14 12:23:11+00:00
Exactly. People forget this, and "forget" this, but democracy's power is not based on picking the best (or even merely not disastrous) rulers. Italy, Germany and more recently Russia illustrate that pretty disastrous choices have been made by democratic institutions (I don't mean the Ukraine war, I mean electing Putin in the first place).

Democracy's power is almost entirely in voting out bad rulers without destroying the entire country. That's why a great deal of people's ideas of democracy are ridiculous. For example, democracy can tolerate the existence of fake news or terrible/fake science, just go read newspapers from the interwar period. Take an alternative of the islamist gulf monarchies. They'll end in destruction and fire, war or revolution, because that's the only way to replace the government, so you can pretty much guarantee that's what will (eventually) happen.

The simple truth one hopes America, including democrats, can embrace is that Biden was bad, and allowing him to cling to power was horrible (if he'd made Ms. Harris president halfway through his presidency, THAT might have worked). What was done during the election ... seriously? Yes, Trump is worse (and he'll be voted out, or at least take the GOP down, like he did before), but that doesn't matter in most people's minds. Besides, taking the "least bad" option, what democrats generally advocate these days, is how Italy and Germany destroyed their democracy (Mussulini and Hitler were put in power, not elected, because any other choice would have resulted in civil war. How that worked? Easy: they instructed their supporters to fight until they were the least bad option, and the police couldn't keep control. Which is why I think countries like France are playing with fire since every extreme party in France and Germany, the various extreme left, right, green is trying the same playbook now: elect them or they sabotage the entire country. Why? Same reason Hitler did it: he only had maybe 20% of people really behind him. But 20% of the population can sabotage the entire country, easily. Of course, Hitler was the only one doing it, and these parties are not)
by integralid | 2025-09-14 12:23:18+00:00
Yeah, but that's just your convention. I, for example, store password in

private/foo.com/foo-com-login

The first line of that file is password, the rest are optional notes. I think using first line for password and the rest for metadata was intended originally.

I love pass, but I agree that it would be nice to have an established standard of where to put username etc.
by nailer | 2025-09-14 12:23:56+00:00
Most don’t exist:

> Using FBI active shooter data (excludes gang violence), there were 85 non-gang-related mass shooters in the US from 2021-2025 (24 in 2024, 48 in 2023, 13 in 2022, ~0 in 2021; 2025 data incomplete as of Sep 14).

There are absolutely too many trans mass shooters.
by somat | 2025-09-14 12:24:38+00:00
If we are doing a survey. I found a few more. It feels like we need to get everyone together in a room and say "we will let you out when you decide on a standard non-blocking address lookup" What a mess.

- OpenBSD: getaddrinfo_async / asr_abort https://man.openbsd.org/asr_run - FreeBSD: dnsres_getaddrinfo / found no way to abort https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dnsres