MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AOE9 | 2025-09-25 11:55:00+00:00
I am not sure how I was being a bad actor, I asked the same question three times and was not getting an answer.

> how does that translate to wanting a dictatorial leader, autocracy, forcible suppression etc like Russia?

> > * wants a centralised autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader - check. > Where did this come from? I don't think that article said anything about this.

You responded to this with a wikipedia article, which said he denounced fascism/neo-nazis & banned people from events.

> So has he ever expressed anti-democratic ideas? Such as wanting a dictatorial leader, autocracy etc that kind of is a key component of fascism.

I don't see how my follow up question was unreasonable given the wikipedia or ADL article you linked never said he expressed anti-democratic ideas.

However, projectazorian has convinced me that while they may not have expressed fascist views directly, with their deep connections to neo-nazis/fascists they could be hiding it to be electable.
by Letstalk123 | 2025-09-25 11:55:01+00:00
Most platforms today revolve around content, feeds, and algorithms. They’re optimized to hold attention for as long as possible — not to make us happier or more connected.

What I’ve noticed is this: the moments when I actually feel connected online rarely come from likes or comments. They come from conversations — that one honest reply, or an unexpected dialogue with someone I didn’t know before.

So I started experimenting with a different model: mindfuse.io . No feeds, no algorithms, no likes. Just anonymous 1:1 voice conversations with people from around the world.
by thrance | 2025-09-25 11:55:15+00:00
Oppression is not the only alternative to legalization. Just because your country's policy on drug addiction is very misguided and does more harm than good doesn't mean the solution is to legalize everything.

Anyway, my point, that you seem to have completely missed, is that some rules that Americans would reflexively dismiss with a thought-terminating cliche like "nanny state" are in fact necessary. You wouldn't want the road to be a free for all, would you? Well, I don't want psychological warfare to be legal and used to trick my neighbor into losing vast sums of money to online platforms. Poor, addicted citizens make the country worse for everyone.

Also, "But the person that sells them the poison has to make sure they are of sound mind" made me laugh. When has it ever been in the business owner's interest to vet his clients? Legalize fent and in a year, half the superbowl ads will be selling you drugs in rainbowy attention-grabbing displays of decadence.
by Mindfusefounder | 2025-09-25 11:55:36+00:00
The internet was supposed to bring the world closer together. Technically, it did — we can now message anyone instantly. But in practice, most platforms have turned into echo chambers. Algorithms reinforce what we already believe, and global connection feels more like global noise.

What struck me is that empathy doesn’t come from reading more posts or headlines. It comes from conversations. Hearing someone’s voice, their story, their perspective — that’s when assumptions break down.

I started experimenting with this idea through mindfuse.io , which connects people for anonymous 1:1 voice conversations. No feeds, no likes, just two people talking.
by oersted | 2025-09-25 11:57:07+00:00
I've completely stopped using Google since the ChatGPT search Chrome extension came out. That was, what, almost 2 years ago? More? It simply redirects URL-bar searches to ChatGPT (with the web search toggle active) instead of Google, nothing fancy.

I didn't explicitly decide to stop using Google, it just happened, I didn't need it anymore, just like I went from using StackOverflow daily to never opening it again. ChatGPT with search is just better (at least ChatGPT Plus). Granted, it is noticeably slower to get a first result, but end-to-end it's a much faster way to find your answer.
by gabesullice | 2025-09-25 11:57:24+00:00
To be clear, I'm not wishing for evidence of whether RTO is good or bad.

I want evidence that proves "it's about cheap layoffs" or "it's about real estate" or "it's because they want to monitor people" or "<insert any speculative reason on this thread>"

Once we have evidence"it's about layoffs" then we can debate whether it's ultimately helpful or harmful to cull headcount that way.
by threatofrain | 2025-09-25 11:57:35+00:00
If you're buying Raspberry Pi's, either the form factor or power requirements really worked for you, such as if you're in robotics, IoT sensors, or hardware-adjacent stuff, or you knew you were spending a little bit extra for the hobby space.

That includes all the people setting up home labs for their own learning. An M1 is about $250 refurbished under Amazon's protection program. If you intend to use this as a hybrid device, which many frugal people do, then you'll also likely be using this as a desktop device connected to a monitor. The cost of electricity will rival your purchase in a year.

If you're gonna buy a throwaway computer for a child to experiment with, IMO a used Mac Mini delivers unbelievable price efficiency as a general-purpose computer. Use it as a server, use it for programming, use it for homework.
by bluGill | 2025-09-25 11:57:42+00:00
The problem I you compete with other exchanges and so need to compete on odds or customers go elsewhere. If there is an imbalance in your system because the favored home team has more people on you platform (or someone else has extra of the unfavored team and so has better odds) you take the losing side just to keep the customers and then pay out when you lose.

the above is much less likely if you are national, but there may be small competitors with an advantage live this you are trying to compete with
by lnsru | 2025-09-25 11:59:19+00:00
I think, you must be technical guy. As a technical guy I share your negativity:-) While mining is already automated, the regular construction sites are too small, not scalable and retrofit costs are huge. Autonomous excavator is functional safety nightmare… it can not only drive, but has a huge moving metal part. And can dig holes and fall into these holes.

And last but not least, my car can’t keep lane and can’t drive itself safely in autonomous mode for 50 miles straight on clear day on highway. That’s state of art vision only system in 2025.

The salary of the skilled guy is laughable compared to heavy machinery costs. I was in a quarry on Tuesday. Two guys were operating 7000000€ machinery there, their salary is rounding error in the whole operation. Fuel over the year costs more.
by underlines | 2025-09-25 12:00:24+00:00
I had the NX1 with all the premium lenses and some photos still seem to be better than what my Sony A7-M4 shoots. But no 10bit 4:2:2 for video and no real flat profile was a bummer. I loved the persistent mod though. Sold all NX1 gear years ago, moved to a Sony A7-M3 and then A7-M4. Full Frame has some great benefits.
by alexmerced | 2025-09-25 12:00:35+00:00
2025 also cemented a practical reference architecture. A successful lakehouse now looks less like a monolith and more like a layered system: cloud object storage for durability and cost, an open table format for transactions and evolution, ingestion that blends batch and streaming, a catalog for governance and discoverability, and a flexible consumption layer that serves SQL, BI, notebooks, and AI agents with consistent semantics.
by jalapenos | 2025-09-25 12:00:59+00:00
Mind-blowing this take gets a heavy downvote. There's not a single even "spicy" take in there.

Maybe the "native births" bit is a trigger - but how was that actually ever wrong? Perhaps from consumer culture I guess - why go through the hassle of raising babies for 20 years until they become ripe consumer-taxpayers when you can just import them ready-made for free, or some such thinking.

Really illustrates how leftist the tech class is.
by smallnamespace | 2025-09-25 12:01:00+00:00
The platter is a circle so using the uniform distribution [0, 1] is incorrect, you should use the unit circular distribution of [0, 2pi] and also since the platter also spins in a single direction the distance is only computed going one way around (if target is right before current, it's one full spin).

But you can simplify this problem down and ask: with no loss of generality, if your starting point is always 0 degrees, how many degrees clockwise is a random point on average, if the target is uniformly distributed?

Since 0-180 has the same arc length as 180-360 then the average distance is 180 degrees. So average half-platter seek is half of the full-platter seek.
by Tepix | 2025-09-25 12:02:05+00:00
Interesting. I did this google search and i get this:

"Yes, coffee is predominantly water , with a standard cup of brewed coffee being about 98% water and the remaining 1-2% being solids like caffeine and antioxidants. Because water forms the vast majority of coffee, its quality is crucial for a good cup and it contributes to your daily fluid intake"
by yannk | 2025-09-25 12:02:59+00:00
Actually... those fees are outdated. It jumped to me because for the first time in years I got a fine for "parking on grades" - Somehow I was distracted and turned my wheels the opposite direction.

So I found the fees for July 2025[1]. My fine was $108 and not $68

But also they made errors in publishing their fees, they claimed it didn't increase this year, but it did [2] - and asked the AI to find all the other inconsistencies.

So now I wonder if I should ask for $40 back. That's a dramatic increase, and seems like the intent was it to stay at $68

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/media/42628/download?inline [2] https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/3330732a-2bd1-497d-ab...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-25 12:03:10+00:00
Yep. And the sources are too often self-reinforcing and self-referential.

Use the "right"/better tool from the toolbox, the tool you know best, and/or the tool that the customer wants and/or makes the most money. This might include Ada[0] or COBOL[1]. Or FORTH[2] or Lua[3]. Popularity isn't a measure of much of anything apart from SEO.

0. https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html

1. https://theirstack.com/en/technology/cobol

2. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/360271.360272

3. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/relnotes/#boot-loader
by viraptor | 2025-09-25 12:03:12+00:00
> only you hide the way all changes interact with each

Splitting the change does not prevent you from looking at diffs of any combination of those commits. (Including whole pr) You're not losing anything.

> at least 10x longer because an average approval time is often more than a day.

Why do you think it would take longer to review? Got any evidence?
by jawns | 2025-09-25 12:04:15+00:00
There is an ethical component here. The process you describe involves bringing new human lives into existence, then culling the embryos that carry the gene. For those of us who believe that directly ending human lives at any stage is wrong, this is problematic.

Keep in mind that this isn't a so-called "incompatible with life" genetic issue. People with the defective gene can live asymptomatically into middle age. I've lost multiple family members to HD, and have multiple living with HD today. I would give just about anything to spare them from the effects of the disease. But should we decide, moments into a human being's life, that because they carry this gene, it invalidates their entire existence?
by a_humean | 2025-09-25 12:05:44+00:00
Valve already runs all native linux games I believe in the scout 1.0 runtime by default unless the vendor specifies a newer linux runtime. You can override some of this behaviour by going to the games's preferences within the steam client under "compatibility". It lets you force a specific native linux runtime or run the windows version instead using Valve's fork of wine, proton.

Sometimes if there are issues with the native linux release you can quickly swap over to the windows/proton version and see if that fixes issues.

Valve are absolute heroes in trying to create stable targets for linux gaming whether that be running windows games via proton or having a stable container target for native support.

I haven't had to boot into windows for nearly a year at this point and yet still playing new games on release without much issue (occasionally had to force to use a newer version of proton).

The only games I cannot run are competitive multiplayer games that do intrusive kernel level anti-cheat, but fortunately I don't play those games. https://areweanticheatyet.com/
by klez | 2025-09-25 12:05:57+00:00
> I search DDG from the Firefox bar, and that does not let me copy the URL anymore

Yeah, I just noticed too. Go to Settings->Search there's a checkbox just below the default search engine. Uncheck that. Should be something along the lines of "Show search terms in the address bar in search results" (sorry for any errors in the translation, my browser's language is not English).
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by sltkr | 2025-09-25 12:07:59+00:00
I'm talking about theoretic security, i.e. number of operations needed to perform certain attacks.

For a 256-bit cryptographic hash function, it should take an expected 2^256 attempts to find a message with a given hash (preimage attack) and around 2^128 attempts to find any collision (due to the birthday paradox), and a few other properties like that. This holds for both SHA-256 and Blake3 (as far as we know—neither algorithm has proven security*) but not for MD5.

MD5 is insecure not just because its output size of 128 bit is too short (though that's a problem too), but also because it has weaknesses that allow constructing collisions with much less than the 2^64 attempts than you would expect on the basis of its output size. That's why MD5 is considered insecure even for its size.

Generally speaking, you want your hashing primitives to be as fast as possible. The practical security then comes from the output size. If someone discovered a secure 320-bit cryptographic hash that is a trillion times faster than even Blake3 (10^12 or about 2^40), everyone should adopt it, because it would be much faster and even more secure against brute force attacks than SHA-256/Blake3 are (since 320 > 256 + 40).

While there are use cases for deliberately slow hash functions too (notably password hashing) those can be constructed using fast hash functions as primitives. For example, one of the strongest password hashing schemes (Argon2) is based on one of the fastest hashing primitives (Blake2), not a slow one as you might have expected.
by oblio | 2025-09-25 12:08:26+00:00
Yeah, the magical American is the reason for US tech dominance. There's a reason why the biggest software companies come from big countries:

1. large internal markets provide more funding and more competition at the start

2. which leads to better product-market fit

3. which leads to more dominance as the natural software monopolies happen

4. which leads to easier taking over of smaller foreign markets

Biggest software companies? American and Chinese. Also Indian ones are starting to rise, too.

In comparison Europe is super fractured. Ignoring big US companies, the average French person buys stuff from a totally different website than the average German, for almost category you can imagine.
by scotty79 | 2025-09-25 12:08:50+00:00
> Factually incorrect. "The only right of the physical world is might." is not a realist statement,

It's absolutely correct. Familiarize yourself with concept of "monopoly on violence". That's the physical source of any other arrangements including rights.

You handwave about some vague morality a lot, even after your accusation of envy missed by a mile and you think it's a substitute for a robust argument. It's tiresome and boring.
by vdupras | 2025-09-25 12:09:58+00:00
A while ago at a past job, I was working on OpenERP (now called Odoo I think). This "community" had instated this kind of "mandatory community review" policy so that each change had to be reviewed by X developers from other organizations. I kind of virtuous web of review.

But the thing is: this code is terrible and huge chunks of it are a unholy mix and match of code written for very specific purpose for this or that client, with this very weird "falsely generalized" code. I don't know how to call that: you have some very specific code, but you insert useless and probably buggy indirections everywhere so that it can be considered "general". The worst kind of code.

Anyways, I was asked by my boss to do such a review. I look at it and I realize that building a database setup to be able to properly run that code is going to take me weeks because I'm going to have to familiarize myself with tons and tons of modules I don't know about.

So I write down my estimate in our tracker: 1 month.

He comes back to me, alarmed. A whole month? Well yeah, otherwise I can't even run the code.

All you have to do is look at the code! What? No way, that ain't a review. Well, I ask you to do it as such. I'm not writing LGTM there.

So I was never asked to do reviews there again (in fact, I stopped working on OpenERP at all), but I could see "LGTM" popping up from my colleagues. By the way, on OpenERP tracker, all you ever saw in review logs was "LGTM" and minor style suggestions. Nothing else. What a farce.

So yeah, as the article says, there are some "LGTM-inducing" type of PRs, but the core of the problem is developers accepting to do this "LGTM-stamping" in the first place. Without them, there would only be reviewable PRs.
by mijoharas | 2025-09-25 12:10:10+00:00
Interesting.

> I have registered my existing trademark on the Bundler project.

As all of this was happening I had wondered if there was going to be some kind of copyright dispute, but I guess it's gonna be trademark based.

Does anyone have any insights into how this might play out? How do trademark disputes tend to happen? (I assume this is in the US?)
by lordnacho | 2025-09-25 12:10:17+00:00
When you're native at a language, you often don't realize that you're using an idiom. By that I mean when you use an expression that means something different to what the literal words mean.

Here's one I was thinking of the other day. In German, to breathe is just a verb: atmen. But in Danish, it's an idiom: at trække vejret. If you just found the straight dictionary definition of "at trække" you would find "to pull". "Vejret" is the weather. So if you didn't know that bringing the two together meant to breathe, you would end up being confused.

It gets worse if the idiomatic phrase has grammatical significance. "I used to eat meat". If you only just learned a bit of English, you would wonder what "to use" in past tense meant that had to do with the rest of the sentence. Or perhaps you would theorize that a word was left out (eg using a fork to eat meat). But you'd be completely wrong, since what it actually means is that I stopped eating meat, though I had done so for a period in the past.

My guess is that Japanese is far enough away from English that early translating software couldn't figure out these kinds of things. By contrast, I've never had modern LLMs write anything that didn't seem native, presumably because they are complicated enough to absorb the knowledge from the training data.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-09-25 12:11:00+00:00
Good luck getting 90% of devs to commit (har har) to this level of history surgery. Of the ones that actually know how to do it (a small fraction of your typical engineer) an even smaller fraction of that is going to have the patience to do it correctly. You’ll tell devs to do this kind of thing and you’ll either have their eyes glaze over from lack of understanding, annoyance at the extra work, or nodding then apathetical disregard. The one top engineer will do it then be frustrated that the rest of the org doesn’t do proper commit hygiene.

It’s not really something you can easily enforce with automation, so basically unachievable unless you are like Netflix and only hiring top performers. And you aren’t like Netflix.
by balamatom | 2025-09-25 12:12:08+00:00
>that should come out-of-band of the code in question.

Ideally, yes. After a decade and something' under ZIRP, seems a lot of workers never had incentive to remain conscious of their intents in context long enough to conduct productive discourse about them. Half of the people I've worked with would feel slighted not by the bitterness the previous sentence, but by its length.

There's an impedance mismatch between what actually works, and what we're expected to expect to work. That's another immediate observation which people to painfully syntaxerror much more frequently than it causes them to actually clarify context and intent.

In that case the codebase remains the canonical representation of the context and intent of all contributors, even when they're not at their best, and honestly what's so bad about that? Maybe communicating them in-band instead of out-of-band might be a degraded experience. But when out-of-band can't be established, what else is there to do?

I'd be happy to see tools that facilitate this sort of communication through code. GitHub for example is in perfect position to do something like that and they don't. Git + PRs + Projects implement the exact opposite information flow, the one whose failure modes people these days do whole conference talks about.
by moltopoco | 2025-09-25 12:16:17+00:00
I think I agree with what the grandparent poster wrote, and I'll try to expand on my reasoning. As a mildly paranoid user, I cannot possibly keep track all of all the individuals who maintain parts of Bluefin, no matter how much I like following all of you on Discord etc. I still don't even know what a DistGit or COPR is.

When I install a more corporate product such as Ubuntu or macOS, sure, it's also mostly middlemen repackaging other people's code. But it is clear what and who belongs to the company or team, and the team has a shared interest in protecting its reputation, and hopefully pwning or buying a single individual's accounts cannot infect everything else.

To that end, I agree that "consolidation" would help - sometimes that might mean controlled mirroring of things into the Bluefin org or so - but that is exactly what distros do, and I understand that Bluefin does not want to be a distro.
by raverbashing | 2025-09-25 12:16:32+00:00
Well, you're not technically wrong.

But 99% of people won't like the solution where this has to work out of the box

Every moderately "needs impact resistance" in the prosumer/professional sector either comes with a case, or has a "builtin" case, making it thicker/heavier. Just search for 'Cat mobile phones'

A grain of sand will scratch most metals and most glass surfaces, even hardened ones. If Apple managed to make this more resistant props to them, but it is not infallible

Vandalism resistant electronics are thick and have glass/polycarbonate/acrylic combinations that don't look good for the most part but will take a baseball bat like a champ