MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway392405 | 2025-09-18 15:39:12+00:00
I'm pretty sure my dad has chronic grief. My mom passed away from cancer when I was 11. I didn't know how unusual their marriage was until I saw others' marriages. It became particularly clear when I started dating and got married myself.

They never fought at all. There was zero conflict. It wasn't that they just "hid it from the kids"—there was simply nothing to fight about. They were truly each other's very best friend, and intensely so. My dad tried dating again a few years after her death, but I think he soon realized there was no way anyone could capture the kind of companionship he had with my mom. Some people are able to love more than one partner over the course of their life; I think he decided he could not.

He's a very private person, but I know he constantly thinks about her every day, and I suspect he's pushing off retirement because he doesn't want to be at home without her. They would have just hit their 40th anniversary if she were still alive.
by pizzathyme | 2025-09-18 15:39:33+00:00
An alternative would be:

+ Yes, allowing people to have a celebration goodbye party before they go

+ Allowing for medically assisted dying on a person's own terms

+ More open conversations about: directives, how people would like to be treated when they near death, wills, inheritances, funerals. These are all taboo topics

+ A natural part of life
by dh2022 | 2025-09-18 15:39:42+00:00
I think you need to go out more often:). But seriously: this type of social connection works for some people and does not work for others. At church you are not allowed to question. When people pray you are supposed to bow your head. You are supposed to be quiet.

I went to a few church services when a few of my friends invited me. I stuck out like a sore thumb. At the door on my way out the church greeters wished me well-while avoiding any eye contact. To each his own, I guess.
by latchkey | 2025-09-18 15:40:04+00:00
Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286526

yarn feat: implement npmMinimumReleaseAge and npmMinimumReleaseAgeExclude config options

https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/pull/6901
by x3n0n | 2025-09-18 15:40:24+00:00
Yes! While I really like the article as an expression and exploration of the authors grief, a professional would not pathologize based on DSM criteria alone. If a person does not feel sick or want‘s not to be diagnosed for psychological illness, then they won‘t be (some limitations may apply).

That said, the writing really resonated with me and i wish Bess well.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-18 15:40:27+00:00
No. Tastes are subjective; beauty is objective. This is what permits us to say whether someone has good or bad taste. If it were purely subjective, then it would be impossible to make these claims. They would be nothing more than expressions of power, whether by the majority or some authority.

Fads and fashions occur, sure, but they aren't always aligned with good taste. And you can have varieties of beauty (why can't two different styles both be beautiful in two different ways?). I also wouldn't exaggerate the divergence. Some of what you've written is cliche rather than history.

Unity, the true, the good, and the beautiful are but three different perspectives on being and a matter of objective reality. The discernment or subjective condition of the tastes of a person have to do with how one receives reality rather than reality itself. Reality is, after all, received according to the mode of the receiver.
by twic | 2025-09-18 15:40:43+00:00
The Ranch House (Central Pier, Atlantic City, NJ) offers a jelly omelette. A jelly omelette! Sounds mad to me but it's a thing:

https://ahundredyearsago.com/2021/10/17/old-fashioned-jelly-...

EDIT: a postcard from the Ranch House: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:x920...
by evilduck | 2025-09-18 15:40:52+00:00
That's conflating content and design.

Also, where else are these expectations in society? I think accessible websites are important for equitable access to content, services and tools for those with disabilities, but nobody provides "content only" designs for concert posters where the user is expected to create their own art around it. Nobody who is making a movie supplies the script as the only creative output for the market. Nobody dumps a plaintext unformatted version of a book or research paper expecting you to format it yourself. Nobody creates a comic book which consists only the speech bubbles. Nobody should be expected to produce web sites that are just content.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-18 15:41:04+00:00
I think I got confused by your "release channels" bit in the original comment, because I thought you were asking for distros which ship and support the Plasma LTS release, but I guess you're asking more whether we have an LTS release?

We did in fact have versions marked as LTS in the Plasma 5.x generation, but the concept never quite worked that well practice (e.g. because distros generally shipped newer versions based on user demand and didn't really adopt the LTS releases, even for their own LTS distro releases, so the benefit calculation for them was different from your expectation) and we haven't kept them for the Plasma 6.x series. You can read some background here:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-pl...

It might come back some day in some form, but the discussion is ongoing.
by davidw | 2025-09-18 15:41:12+00:00
The 'media machines' are pretty much all owned by oligarch allies of the administration.

I agree about not getting too hand-wavy, but it's tough... the trajectory is pretty bad even if we're not all the way down it so far. Maybe it "only" ends up being like Turkey or Hungary or Russia rather than countries in 1930ies era Europe. Still pretty bad though.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-18 15:41:23+00:00
I think you're right on the word level but I think there's a difference about what significance and insignificance means to these groups.

As a religious person, I see my life as insignificant compared to Gd, and compared to the chain of generations, but what I do with my life is extremely significant. As in, whether I bring children into this world and raise them well, is massively significant.

So maybe the way to say it is - religious people see themselves as insignificant in the context of much greater significance.

The other view of insignificance is that nothing is significant - including myself. I don't subscribe to that.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-18 15:41:40+00:00
I think we should find out who wrote the joke, if that matters to those who are downvoting me.

Everyone is acting like Kimmel wrote the joke he is getting canceled for (ostensibly), but it’s quite likely the joke was written by one of his team. It is possible even that he was “set up” and there’s more to the story than being presented.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-18 15:41:53+00:00
It's cute, looks nice, and bravo for shipping something, but FZ is too hyped and too expensive for what it is.

I have a similar Geiger counter that functions standalone and works as an Arduino module. It doesn't appear to be very sensitive because bananas don't increase counts. The only household object able to barely increase counts was some vintage uranium glass tucked away in a corner behind a display case.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-18 15:42:02+00:00
I've seen this too among some younger folks and I wonder how much of this is simply standard, run-of-the-mill teenage attention-seeking and exaggeration that's not fully outgrown yet.

I guess we'll know when they turn 40 and are still saying things like "I had a panic attack" and "I'm literally shaking rn".
by hk1337 | 2025-09-18 15:42:30+00:00
That really sucks, I like Slack but for what you get isn't necessarily worth kicking up a fuss if they're going to increase the costs.

I'm curious what they were actually getting for even the $5000/month and how many users there are? Going off the prices on Slack's homepage, for regular users to pay $200,000/year would mean they're working with ~900 users in a work group. I'm wondering if perhaps there's some automation that is kicking in when it shouldn't be?
by butlike | 2025-09-18 15:42:40+00:00
You complain about complexity and engineering quality, but then say all of the options should be customizable here. I think one has to sort of pick what they want. Terrible build quality since the RAM dimms aren't soldered on, or, a completely un-upgradable system that's packaged nicely.

To go off your McDonald's analogy, you can get a lot of kCals without necessarily getting a lot of nutrients.

Edit: GP comment wasn't yours, but I think my point still stands.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-18 15:42:53+00:00
The people who really drive ms office adoption are the ones who use it all day every day. They can't imagine a world without Excel, and (at the time) the cluttered formatting of the office controls were a power user's best friend.

When the Ribbon UI came around in office, it faced a ton of push back due to moving so many things around and hiding so many common operations, but the file format translation issues between office and alternatives kept people in the MS cage, I think.

Nowadays many users grew up with the ribbon, so it doesn't seem so painful.
by RubyReeves | 2025-09-18 15:43:01+00:00
I didn’t realize how close I was to burnout until Equanima helped me notice the signals I kept ignoring. By tracking my emotions and patterns, I started to see where my energy was draining. Now I set small daily goals that help me check in with myself and understand what I truly need. It’s been a simple but powerful shift in how I care for myself.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-18 15:43:04+00:00
Talking a bit out of my ass here as someone whose EE experience ended at graduation, but a good general rule is if you stay below 5 mA continuous, it is rather difficult to injure yourself. For extremely short shocks (like you get when you discharge a capacitor across yourself) you can get away with a lot more than that, though.

I would be rather surprised if a device that is powered off a lithium ion battery like the one in the Flipper Zero managed to seriously injure someone.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-18 15:43:05+00:00
Indeed, Gnome jettisoned everything for a touch-based interface, but is not actually usable as one. For example, there’s no video player that works well with touch even though at least three cosplay with large round buttons and no menus. Believe it or not, they require keyboards for essential functionality and taps are not recognized or broken.

Using phosh on a starlite btw. Web players work well however! No thanks to gnome.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-18 15:43:11+00:00
Modern?.. not to my knowledge; Dvorak could be DIY'd somewhat easily by manually moving typebars (characters are exchangeble, albeit with a lot effort, on most typewriters). Dvorak typeballs do exist for IBM Selectrics (just relabel the keys... or touch type).

An easier solution to your last question could involve the 1970-era Selectric II, which already has a built-in DAC (and OEM add-ons to e.g. turn your typewriter into a Telex printer)... which could easily interface with a USB keyboard (instead of the typewriter's onboard keys).

>Maybe it would be better to have some sort of middle man hardware

Part of a reason to avoid this would be that this "friction" disuades the simplicity of just using a typewriter on any whim. If yours is not an electric model, you don't even need to turn anything `ON`.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-18 15:43:13+00:00
In the Atari ST world GEM is still an existing and maintained thing, open source and somewhat modernized.

In the forked and (heavily) maintained form of EmuTOS (GPL, https://emutos.sourceforge.io/)

Or in the from-scratch rewrite in the form of MyAES http://myaes.lutece.net/ (AES ["application environment services"] is the GUI & messaging layer of GEM, sitting along side VDI, the graphics layer)
by gus_massa | 2025-09-18 15:43:50+00:00
It depends on what you want. We gave our students voluntary additional exorcice, and we gave them 1 point for a correct answer and .5 in the second guess. The idea was to encourage them to learn from their first mistake (and perhaps some clue, like "remember the parenthesis" or "(a/b)/(c/d) is not (ac)/(bd)")
by krapp | 2025-09-18 15:44:03+00:00
Atheism doesn't presuppose either hedonism or nihilism. This is a common theist libel which is surprisingly popular on this forum of ersatz rational thinkers and logicians. Atheists are perfectly capable of finding value and meaning in their own lives and the world around them, they just don't base that value on a belief in the supernatural. Listen to any astrophysicist, physicist or biologist talk about their field and you'll encounter a wonder and awe that no theologian reciting thousand year old tracts can match.
by jasonlotito | 2025-09-18 15:44:03+00:00
The latest comment suggests otherwise: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375#issuecomme...

From the comment: The recent YT issues aren't related to Easylist/Easyprivacy.

Edit: To be fair, your comment came before this comment. I'm merely posting the latest update.
by slg | 2025-09-18 15:44:36+00:00
That is because the complaints about left wing threats to free speech are always incredibly dubious like the government asking social media sites to take down what was widely considered dangerous Covid misinformation or some random college professor saying people should use "Latinx". In comparison, the right wing attacks on free speech are like the FCC threatening people for mild jokes. Can you name anything the left wing has done that approaches what we just saw with Kimmel?
by philipallstar | 2025-09-18 15:44:59+00:00
No, this is just in your head. You might still have 40-year-old instincts from when the authoritarian right was in charge, both in institutions and in social norms, but it's been the authoritarian left for 20 years. Any discussion that engages in spreading stereotypes, rather than debating ideas, is just part of the problem.
by swores | 2025-09-18 15:45:00+00:00
I'm sure the numbers of people wrongly using those terms has risen at least a bit, but I think the anecdotal evidence you have is likely to be a mixture of that and also not that.

Similar to how some people look at raw stats of autism diagnoses and think hugely more people are becoming autistic when in reality it's that we've got better at diagnosing autism; I think we (society, in at least some countries) have got better at being honest about mental health conditions. Meaning that more people, especially younger people who've grown up around less mental health stigma, will talk about having an actual genuine problem even without more diagnoses or more exaggeration. I think studies would be needed (that I'm not aware of) to figure out how many more people are using labels that don't really fit, vs how many more people are being honest about actual serious conditions.

When I was in my 20s, if I needed a day off work because of depression I would always use a bullshit excuse to avoid mentioning the actual reason. I don't any more, most of my colleagues know what issues I do or don't have. And the younger generations are starting from that place, rather than having to grow into it.
by thomasmg | 2025-09-18 15:45:01+00:00
I fully agree. Lua and Luau are impressive, sure, but they are not really "small" or "simple", in my view. I don't think the complexity is unavoidable however. There are many programming languages that are much simpler, but at the same time very expressive. I'm working on one of them currently named "Bau" [1], and I started working on a Lua-inspired VM [2] for a subset of this language. There are many languages like mine, most of them incomplete and not really popular, discussed in [3].

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang [2] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/
by tw04 | 2025-09-18 15:45:33+00:00
>Consumer gpus are totally different products from the high end gpus now. Intel has failed on the gpu market and has effectively zero market share, so it is not actually clear there is an antitrust issue in that market. It would be nice if there was more competition but there are other players like AMD and a long tail of smaller ones

I'm sorry that's just not correct. Intel is literally just getting started in the GPU market, and their last several releases have been nearly exactly what people are asking for. Saying "they've lost" when the newest cards have been on the market for less than a month is ridiculous.

If they are even mediocre at marketing, the Arc Pro B50 has a chance to be an absolute game changer for devs who don't have a large budget:

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-arc-pro-b50-review-a-16gb...

I have absolutely no doubt Nvidia sees that list of "coming features" and will do everything they can to kill that roadmap.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-18 15:45:39+00:00
You seem to want to say that because an LLM is Turing complete (a doubtful claim) it should be able to implement AGI, which would be a logical conclusion, but yet totally irrelevant.

If the only thing missing to implement AGI was a Turing machine to run it on, then we'd already have AGI running on Conway's game of Life, or perhaps on a Google supercomputer.

> Here's a GPT model that learned physics just by training on a data

It didn't learn at run-time. It was PRE-trained, using SGD on the entire training set, the way that GPT's (Generative PRE-trained Transformers) always are.

In order to learn at run-time, or better yet get rid of the distinction between pre-training and run-time, requires someone to invent (or copy from nature) a new incremental learning algorithm that:

a) Doesn't require retraining on everything it was ever previously trained on, and

b) Doesn't cause it to forget, or inappropriately change, things it had previously learnt

These are easier said than done, which is why we're a decade or so into the "deep learning" revolution, and nothing much has changed other than fine-tuning which is still a bulk data technique.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-18 15:45:54+00:00
Well if the complaint is China is experiencing/experienced much more recently a big uplift in QoL vs the US it's because China was behind the US in it's economic development so it had easier gains to make.

We're no where near experiencing the same political and cultural forces because the US and China are vastly different on many axes both in their structure and culture and importantly we're very very different economically.
by glitchc | 2025-09-18 15:45:55+00:00
> There’s no modern cultural framework for dealing with death.

Indeed. We used to have religion to help us deal with it. In our modern world driven by science, death is just the absence of life. Since all (physical, chemical) reactions have ceased, science has nothing more to say about it. In trying to deal with the ills of organized religion, we may have also disposed of its benefits.

Very sorry for your loss.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-18 15:47:05+00:00
To further elaborate, here's a more detailed breakdown of tokei's line counts for each of the directories you list + the CodeGen directory:

- Analysis: 62821 lines of C++ code, 9254 lines of C headers

- Ast: 8444 lines of C++, 2582 lines of C headers

- CodeGen: 21678 lines of C++, 4456 lines of C headers

- Compiler: 7890 lines of C++, 542 lines of C headers

- VM: 16318 lines of code, 1384 lines of C headers

Compare to Lua 5.1, which tokei says has 11104 lines of C and 1951 lines of C headers in the src/ directory.
by bogwog | 2025-09-18 15:47:13+00:00
This is very short-sighted. The cards are improving, which can't really be said about AMD, the only other potential threat to Nvidia. It's also well known that Nvidia purposefully handicaps their consumer cards to avoid cannibalizing their enterprise cards. That means that the consumer market at least is not as efficient/optimal as it could be, so a competitor actually trying to compete (unlike AMD, apparently) should be able to do that without even having to out-innovate Nvidia or anything like that. Just get close on compute performance, but offer more VRAM or cheaper multi-gpu setups.
by tsunamifury | 2025-09-18 15:47:48+00:00
When you spend a lifetime learning design you learn the difference between taste and fashion. Taste is the ability to make solid choices coherently within a system being it fashionable or not.

Fashion is just the latest system that is popular.

Tasteful people can design good things regardless of the fashionable era. Great ones can create new fashionable eras.
by Scotrix | 2025-09-18 15:48:01+00:00
I input text and preferably I output JSON but doesn’t matter much as long as it’s somewhat structured.

Ultimately I’d like to extract information like date ranges, specific indications of tool usages (e.g. I have a bunch of data apis with their own individual data and semantic meaning which need to be picked and then a combination of tools to transform the data)
by pmontra | 2025-09-18 15:48:35+00:00
Well, I never wanted something standard so I always configured my desktop. My current GNOME desktop looks more like KDE than GNOME. I gave a try to KDE in 2014. It seems that it has been the wrong time to be there. I switched to GNOME Flashback (the one that looked like GNOME 2) and updated to 3 only when there has been the right extensions to make the desktop look like what I want it to be. Neither Apple nor Microsoft figured out what I want, so I use something else. Actually Microsoft have been closer to that with XP and 7 but it's Windows. I migrated to Linux in 2009.
by loeg | 2025-09-18 15:48:48+00:00
std::println dates to C++23. This is very recent. You only have to be using Clang 18 (March 2024) or older to find the feature unsupported: https://godbolt.org/z/xPqYafhss (Clang 19 dates to September 2024, only a year ago.)

In contrast, the standard C++ stream types have used operator<< overloading for more than 25 years. glog/gtest assertions continue to use it.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-09-18 15:48:49+00:00
> if you're running a non-profit on Slack and not paying full price, I'd strongly recommend looking at alternatives...

Is the concept of "full price" well-defined in this kind of situation?

I assumed price was always a matter of negotiation for enterprise-y sales. I'd think a "full price" would just be an attempt at anchoring by the vendor.
by yeutterg | 2025-09-18 15:49:04+00:00
It's not like Slack is even that well-designed anyway. By design, it results in conversation fragmentation, with similar conversations happening all over the place. Once you have more than ~5 employees, people have a hard time keeping up.

My dream work chat app:

1. Conversations happen adjacent to internal documentation, with agents constantly writing and updating the docs based on natural human conversations

2. Create topic threads instead of channels. When you open the topic, agents help you identify similar topics that have already been discussed

3. DMs are essentially banned or strongly discouraged because they contribute to information asymmetry (just spin up a topic and scope it to the relevant people, but only for sensitive discussions)