MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nightpool | 2025-09-21 20:50:21+00:00
That doesn't sound very reasonable at all. Ruby Central, by their own admission, agreed to take $$$$ of funding on the premise that they would "secure RubyGems against supply chain attacks", and then sat on their hands not doing anything about it until a few days before the deadline, when it was too late to seek community consensus or figure out a good transition plan. So they ended up screwing over everybody who was actually doing work on the project. And they apparently used this as an opportunity to consolidate their power in other ways (renaming the github org) for reasons that were unrelated to the self-imposed deadline.
by mcflubbins | 2025-09-21 20:50:41+00:00
Neat! Might look at this next time I need a JSON parser in C.

I've been using cJSON[0] for years now and am pretty happy with it. I had used wjelement[1] before that but ran into a few issues and eventually moved away from it (can't recall why exactly its been so long.)

[0] https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON [1] https://github.com/netmail-open/wjelement
by moffkalast | 2025-09-21 20:51:00+00:00
F1 I sort of understand, there's a lot of aspects to it even though it is at the end of the day, a bunch of people driving in circles. The memes are good anyhow.

With foot/basketball, hockey, etc. there is no technical aspect if you don't get into pro tier shoe and ball design or whichever non-strictly rule defined straws one could competitively grasp at, but I guess most people relate through familiarity of actually playing it themselves? But there is a sort of chicken-and-egg problem there where to play it well enough for it to be actually fun you need to already be a fan and have a good grasp of the rules, otherwise it's just people running back and forth on a court.
by Xenoamorphous | 2025-09-21 20:51:14+00:00
Honestly, it’s quite boring. Many games end 0-0 or 1-0 and they’re just good to have a siesta, barely better than white noise.

Even at the peak of my interest in football here in Spain, when I was ~18 and I loved playing the game (actually indoor 5 on 5, much more technical and IMO “better”) there’s no way I could stomach a game between two mid or low tier teams, it had to have FC Barcelona and/or Real Madrid. But my dad and plenty others did and do watch those games.

Then there’s the worse aspect of it: football attracts the worst kind of people; think hooligans. I know a bunch of people smarter than me that love football so it’s not a matter of “if you like football you’re stupid” but “if you’re stupid you’ll probably like football”. Then there’s football becoming the whole personality of many guys here, you quite literally can’t talk about anything else with them.
by nightpool | 2025-09-21 20:51:21+00:00
So Ruby Central, by their own admission, agreed to take $$$$$ of funding on the premise that they would "secure RubyGems against supply chain attacks", and then sat on their hands not doing anything about it until a few days before the deadline, when it was too late to seek community consensus or figure out a good transition plan. So they ended up screwing over everybody who was actually doing work on the project in favor of their own funding. And also they apparently used this as an opportunity to consolidate their power in other ways (renaming the github org) for reasons that were unrelated to the self-imposed deadline. How does this make them look better?
by wqaatwt | 2025-09-21 20:51:37+00:00
Germany was still launching ballistic missiles at England a month after Dresden.

It’s a false analogy, the conventional war is long over and hamas has no real military capacity to do much anymore.

The equivalent would be the allies refusing to occupy Berlin and still bombing it well into 1946 despite the war being won.

Allies also had a rather clear plan on what goals they want to achieve and why. Israeli government seems to have no idea what do they want to achieve and how (besides extending Netanyahu’s political career..)
by rglullis | 2025-09-21 20:52:46+00:00
No, I did not. I understand that right now you might prefer to use car because you can not rely on public transit and you don't feel safe.

My question is the sense of "are you doing anything to change this reality, or are you just going to accept that now that you have a car you see no point in advocating better public transit for your community?"
by r14c | 2025-09-21 20:53:55+00:00
It kinda sounds like you're upset that the consensus doesn't align with your preferences. (which is the vibe I tend to get from the anti-systemd crowd) Maybe a bunch of y'all should get together and make a linux distro that demonstrates how much better the alternative can be!

I don't think anyone has a problem with dissent, but that energy should be channeled into making something. Complaining about it the comments doesn't write the classic style linux distro that y'all clearly yearn for. Get coding!
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-09-21 20:53:59+00:00
I used to have to take the train to college and back home on breaks and it was nice trip.

You can't bring a whole dorm and your closet, but a backpack and a bag for clothes are manageable. I always brought some bags of beef jerky and would watch the scenic view or listen to an audiobook. Just sitting on the train, enjoying my snack and watching nature was a nice way to pass time time.
by patanegra | 2025-09-21 20:54:09+00:00
I am not sure, if it isn't so intensive in other schools. It is so intensive in our prep school.

All kids aren't equally smart. Not all kids can also handle such a regime. It isn't for everyone. Those, who succeed in such schools, deserve not to be discriminated against, because their dad has a Range Rover and tweed suit.

If a good independent school prepares a child better than a state school, the child should have a preference. Otherwise, all those years of preparation and all that talent is wasted.
by cyberpunk | 2025-09-21 20:54:59+00:00
> On the other hand, writing code that the most junior in your team can understand leads to mediocre code.

Sorry but this is absolutely false in almost all regular corporate software jobs.

As i get greyer, I find myself spending much more time planning before I write any code now; what I would previously have run into headfirst and solved with a bunch of advanced language features and complicated logic usually now ends up being implemented in much less and simpler code.

This is the sign of a senior developer, in my book.

Writing code anyone finds hard to understand is a marker of inexperience to me.
by afavour | 2025-09-21 20:55:01+00:00
> vaguely hinting about ideological picks doing ideological things, you knowing this is what they're doing, but then stubbornly refusing to acknowledge that and just repeatedly saying, "show me the connection!" when you know very well what it is?

> You're making this out to be some kind of final stand, when this is the first time you have even gotten close to putting your point in writing.

“show me the connection” is a request for evidence. You’re saying I’ve said that repeatedly then you’re claiming I’ve only done it once at the end. What else would “a demonstration of the connection” mean?

> So, you cannot have an honest conversation with a racist because just saying, "maybe you think some races are superior, but..." could be weaponized in inter-party fighting as a tacit endorsement of racism.

I’m not a member of the left wing debate club you have in your mind (if it exists at all) but my starting point when having an honest conversation with a racist would be to ask “what evidence justifies your racism?”, because absent that we’re not having a conversation based in reality.

Same here. The reason I’m asking for evidence is basically what you’ve already said: OP’s assertions are vague at best. Yours haven’t been a lot better. It’s all attributable to “ideology”. Then you say he’s “one of the most prominent voices for that ideology”. What ideology? And by what metric is he one of the most prominent voices?

This is my problem with much of the right: it’s gotchaism. The only reason he’s prominent is because statements he made in a private WhatsApp chat were leaked and circulated in right wing circles. The president of the Oxford students union is not normally a person you ever hear anything about on the national stage. The vast majority of Oxford students don’t even care about who they are.

So the right makes a relative unknown prominent by excessively hyping their statements then turns around and says “look at this prominent spokesperson!”. The union have disowned his comments. He has disowned his comments. And yet, despite his views being endorsed by absolutely no one, he’s still held up as emblematic of a larger, completely unattributable larger movement (the “ideology”) that is responsible for all kinds of problems, apparently including Oxford university’s ranking. And anyone associated with that “ideology” (vague enough that it encompasses whoever it needs to) must atone for the sins of this newly prominent spokesperson they never even heard of a week ago.

That’s why I have asked repeatedly what these supposed connections are. Because when we actually get into the details none of this adds up to anything. And none of it has anything to do with Oxford’s university ranking, the actual topic at hand.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-21 20:55:31+00:00
> That is certainly true. But don't overlook the value of expertise in a native platform instead of just one set of abstractions that run on top of it.

This applies to the web, too. A dev who has a good grasp of of the fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JS), the DOM, what does and doesn't trigger a repaint, etc is going to be able to take a React project a lot further than a dev who only knows how to use React.
by araes | 2025-09-21 20:55:58+00:00
Personal view on the healthcare side, at least in America, while the old spend 36% compared to 10-15% in every other age category, 10-15% spend is still relatively significant. [1]

[1] By age chart: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/indicator/spending/per-c...

In America, the average age of medical bankruptcy is 45 years old, that's not really that old. [2] 17% had to declare bankruptcy or lose their home and 45% of Americans worry a major health event will bankrupt them.

[2] https://www.retireguide.com/retirement-planning/risks/medica...

I might personally spend more money if I had a difficult health condition and reasonable healthcare, vs being uninsured and crippled by financial costs. If I live every day in fear of bankruptcy, I'm not very willing to spend money on much of anything I don't "really" need.

Having worked in the government, the pension thing is difficult. They exhibit a J-shaped accrual pattern, where young workers don't get much, and long term workers are difficult to pay for. So the motivation is to burn people out and then get rid of them before the pension costs get to be too much.

They're "supposed" to be funded to an adequate amount to pay for the benefits, yet political pressures and less rigorous accounting standards result in excessive commitments to employees and retirees, but inadequate contributions. In the American gov that has resulted in a lot of attempts at buy-outs, early retirement schemes, and almost anything to get people off the pension payrolls.

Personally, an acceptable result was the employee matched retirement contribution. That worked acceptably from my own experience in the government. Generous ceiling on how much we'll match, and employees who actually use the program are effectively getting a 3-5% pay raise because of contributing. IE: "I put in 5%, and my employer matches my contribution with 5%"
by kokada | 2025-09-21 20:55:59+00:00
My goal is really... Nothing, I guess? I write things that I found interesting. If you look at the submission I wasn't even the person that did it, someone else found it and posted it here.

My blog is not for other humans, it is mostly for me. Sometimes other humans find it interesting and that is fine, but they're almost never the target.

If my objective was to have popular blog posts read by other humans, yes, I would definitely take the feedback by heart (even if the way OP worded is unnecessarily passive aggressive). But no, it is not, and this is why I said what I said (that not everything is for everyone).
by mcflubbins | 2025-09-21 20:56:05+00:00
As far as Linux phones go there's not many options left and so they're still on the table. If they'd have just came out and said "Sorry, we tied up all the preorder money, and the delays put us between a rock and a hard place." I'd have more respect for it but they responded to Louis Rossman's video in the weirdest way I could imagine and that _really_ turned me off from buying a device from them.
by Archelaos | 2025-09-21 20:56:21+00:00
> neither code nor comments should be tutorials

Why not? To take the example from the article:

def userCoworkers(u: User): List[Employee] = u.departments.flatMap(_.employees)

Why not add a comment like:

// Automatically iterates through all the user's // departments and assembles a single list of all // their employees.

Perhaps a note should also be added explaining why the domain model opted for u.departments and not for something more natural like u.company.departments. And the comment should also explain, why we do not filter for duplicates here.

I insert many such comments into my own code when I use a rare language feature or a somewhat peculiar element of the domain model. This makes refactoring my own code much easier, faster and more bug-resistant. When composing code, it is generally simple and quick to add such a comment, as it is merely a matter of writing down the result of my immediate thought process.
by yorwba | 2025-09-21 20:56:52+00:00
France had their construction boom earlier, so they're ahead of the curve. The article suggests that the secret of cheap reactor construction is mostly economies of scale: if one reactor is too expensive, buy fifty instead.

China has been reducing approvals for new reactors in recent years, to the point where the share of nuclear electricity generation is actually going down. Maybe 40 years down the line, they'll want to build just one more reactor to deal with increased demand and discover that the supply chain has atrophied so the project becomes an expensive boondoggle.
by balder1991 | 2025-09-21 20:57:03+00:00
If the zoning laws in a place aren’t the same as the US/Canada, everything will look different. Here in Brazil I also walk 3 min. to the nearest market, public transport is quite accessible everywhere. Schools can also be nearby and walking distance — though Federal Universities have a tradition of being quite far away from the city center.

Now, if you live in a smaller town it’s a whole different story and I suppose it’s the same in Europe. I don’t see the need to own a car living in a capital in my State, but in smaller towns basically everybody has at least motorcycles.
by al_borland | 2025-09-21 20:57:19+00:00
This sentiment is common with every major UI change. Give yourself some time to adjust, and Apple time to work out some of the bugs, before doing anything drastic. iOS 7 was very rough around the edges and got a lot of hate (rightfully so), but it evolved and got better.

I was bothered by how many taps I had to use to do things in Safari, but then I figured out I can swipe up on the ellipsis to select something from the menu, so it’s one action. Bringing up the tabs is a quick double tap, I don’t actually need to wait. Things like that, which I’m figuring out through use, are helpful. I had issues with not being able to see some widgets with certain wallpapers, so I changed my wallpaper for now until they work that out.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-21 20:57:25+00:00
> Is that just the exchange ratio's runaway hyperinflation

Yep. Turkiye is in a weird position where there is hyperinflation but also economic expansion. It's the hallmarks of an overheating economy.

A lot of this was due to the run-up Russia-Ukraine War, which saw significant capital outflow from Russia to all over the CEE, Balkans, and Turkiye (as is reflected in their GDPs per capita), along with Turkiye's then abnormally low interest rates in order to subsidize the construction industry, because Turkiye had it's own Evergrande 10-15 years ago.

Turkiye - just like leadership in China who were in their 20s to early 30s in the 1980s - was influenced by the development of Malaysia and Singapore. Mahatir Mohammad was the original Erdogan (infrastructure driven growth mixed with a large welfare state mixed with a heavy dose of Pan-Islamism), and both he and LKY used the same economic model and had a love-hate relationship with each other as they were in the same circles in their early career, but it's easier to develop a 4 million person city state like Singapore instead of a 15-20 million country like Malaysia under Mahatir.

Additionally, much of the Chinese economy in the 1990s and 2000s was developed thanks to the Chinese Malaysian diaspora heavily investing in China. The ethnolinguistic group (Hokkien) in the province Xi spent most of his career in (Fujian) itself represents the majority of the Malaysian Chinese business class, and they heavily invested in Fujian (along with Guangdong) during Xi's time there, and were a major reason why China's economy opened up in the 1980s-2000s.
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-21 20:57:28+00:00
> What will be left when what you consider ideology is gone?

The scientific method, that is what you're left with. Even when the results of your study do not track with your feelings, your religion, your political opinions or any other irrelevant factors. I can give examples galore and I'm pretty sure you can come up with close to the same examples of where ideology trumped the scientific method by either not releasing studies, by simply falsifying or otherwise manipulating data so the results fit with the narrative and other interferences with the scientific method so as to use the cachet of the institution to amplify some desired narrative.

As far as I'm concerned there is no 'Science', what there is is people who use the scientific method to study some phenomenon in the search for more insight. People who know how to use this method and who apply it diligently, who publish their data and methods and outcomes and to the best of their ability try to interpret the results are 'doing science'. It can be bad science if they don't know what they're doing or if they're using bad methods but as long as they follow the tenets of the scientific method they're doing science. Their experiments can be repeated, their methods can be researched, their data can be inspected and others can apply their methods to their data to verify their results. Their conclusions can be questioned and discussed.

If the same people start with a given position and tailor their experiments and data and methods around that position to reach a pre-defined conclusion they are not doing science no matter how lofty an institution they happen to be employed by and how impressive their titles are. If one of these people says something which clearly does not stroke with the truth and starts throwing epithets at those who call him or her out on this that person is not a scientist but something else - a charlatan, an activist, a propagandist, a troll, anything but a scientist. A scientist, when confronted with clear and obvious refutation of his or her claims will retract or revise those claims and - if their character allows for this - thank those who pointed out the error in his or her way. That is how knowledge grows, by learning from our mistakes and by turning back when we happen to have entered a dead end.

In short, science does not have an ideology, it is the application of a method - the scientific method - which is orthogonal to ideology. You can take the most left-wing radical and the most convinced orthodox conservative person and have them do a study into ${subject}. If both of them strictly adhere to the scientific method and use valid method and valid research data there's a good chance they'll arrive at more or less the same conclusions. They may differ on their interpretation of what these conclusions mean when applied to society but the actual conclusions should be similar.
by elcritch | 2025-09-21 20:57:49+00:00
I TA’ed a course at my state university a few years back. We had some program that attracted hundreds of students from the UAE. Many were obviously from wealthy families and drove Mercedes and BMWs, etc.

The amount of cheating on exams and complete lack of effort on studying by the vast majority (+80%) was astounding. We were essentially hand feeding them to get them to learn the material.

The professor was very frustrated but (I presume) was told you can’t come down hard on them. They were obviously a huge income source for the university.

Reason #53 why modern university has basically become a scam.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-21 20:59:04+00:00
This is the video that's been going around. It's a bit long and could have been compacted into a 20 minute video, but if you have the time, it's a good overview for people without a computer science background.

"Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025" https://youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI

But if your point is there aren't any written articles about stuff like this, I agree. If they're out there, they're a bit outside the mainstream.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-21 21:00:12+00:00
These aren't a "language" they're called entoptics or phosphenes. Calling this a language is like the other posts here, is pseudoscience.

Entoptics are actual neural gradient patterns of the retina and occipital externalized, from altered states, light-deprivation, trances even extreme expression.

Entoptics are well enough researched (Lewis-Williams, Entoptics: The Signs of All Times) that any New Scientist writer should have at least mentioned this.
by raybb | 2025-09-21 21:00:29+00:00
I heard that Caltrain toyed with the idea of partnering with waymo to get people to and from train stations more affordably but dang wouldn't it be nice if one of the ride hailing companies started offering shuttle type services to get you to the train station but while sharing with other people.

Better bus coverage and reliability would be ideal but perhaps this could be used to help make the case in the mean time.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-21 21:00:30+00:00
I also reject non-free apps whose main purpose is to snoop on their users like Facebook. But what about dozens of FOSS projects like Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, KeePass and many others? All of these have polished clients that work perfectly on Android and provide an experience that rivals or surpasses commercial offerings. They took years to develop and I don't expect Linux phone versions will ever be released because of the chicken and egg problem. You can emulate these apps with Waydroid on a Linux device, but you will almost certainly lose some features like GPS access or notifications. At the end of the day, you will mainly be running Android apps anyway, free or non-free, so you are better off with an Android device in the first place.
by kapellmeister | 2025-09-21 21:00:37+00:00
I've gotten used to it mostly, i still think it's a significant downgrade from the almost perfect Interface they had in iOS 18. But what i just can't get used to and what i hate with a passion is the HDR effects on touch down. Who in their right mind thought that it was a good idea to increase the brightness of the screen beyond what it is set to in partial areas of it?? It's incredibly distracting and serves in my opinion no purpose.

All in all it feels to me like a hacked together Gen Z "Aesthetic" toy interface and not at all like a professional piece of software.