MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-22 03:09:53+00:00
> The article you shared raises an interesting point by comparing human memory with LLMs, but I think the analogy can only go so far.

The analogy may be much less wishy-washy than you imagine: check out "Source-aware training"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01019

Everybody quickly learns to take note of who-claims-what: in kindergarten kids learn to detect each others lies, and learn to attach more credibility to the teachers / caretakers than dubious claims "I am allowed to hit you", to the point that precisely because they learn it they start crafting insidious lies "the teacher said I'm allowed to hit you", after which you learn to be skeptical of meta-claims etc.

Sadly no SOTA LLM's use source-aware training.

Perhaps start a petition on

change.org openpetition.eu openpetition.org

etc.
by technofiend | 2025-09-22 03:10:03+00:00
My wife was a wedding coordinator for many years and we were both aghast at how anything dubbed "wedding" was magically 10x normal cost. I used to joke that wedding water would be next. Then some crafty bastard ran with the idea and started selling bottled water labeled for the events! I can't complain my joke turned into someone's side hustle but on the other hand we eloped and I don't regret it.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-22 03:11:34+00:00
Is Ambrose Heath a better example?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjIwI5Vdmds

British recipes today largely use metric units. Pre-metric recipes absolutely did use cups (although this persisted in Canada and the US more than the UK). As Glen points out none of these British cups were standardized.
by reassess_blind | 2025-09-22 03:11:51+00:00
Is this same model with different "Powelephant" branding? Looking for one available in Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Built-Cable-20000mAh-Power-Bank/dp...

EDIT: Doesn't seem to be. Similar design, but two USB cables on that one. Not sure I trust the capacity.
by dhosek | 2025-09-22 03:12:06+00:00
I don’t. My 11-year-old son managed, without knowing algebra, to find the square root of i without guidance. His technique was not dissimilar to what Newton described. And while he’s bright, I don’t know that I would put him in a class with Newton. Even with distractions available, people are still able to focus on questions like these and come up with solutions.
Building a Personal Assistant for PM – What's Your Biggest Daily Headaches
by thompson0012 | 2025-09-22 03:12:10+00:00
Hey HN friends!

I’m building something and would love your honest feedback. Project management can be such a headache sometimes—feeling like info is everywhere (Slack, email ), drowning in manual updates/progress report (ugh, Excel ), or losing track of important notes from meetings or whiteboards .

What if there was a single app that acts like your personal assistant, making all this effortless?

Imagine an app that:

1. Captures meeting notes & photos like Evernote, but all organized in one place

2. Syncs everything from Jira, Gmail, and Teams—no more hopping between tools

3. Uses AI to auto-organize your projects, like Google Docs giving smart suggestions

4. Helps you find anything fast, like Spotlight or Google search

5. Makes team collaboration easy & smooth, just like Slack or Teams

This is the vision, and I’m super curious:

What’s your biggest project management pain point? What feature would make your daily workflow easier?

Drop your thoughts, frustrations, and wish-list items below! Your feedback means a lot for shaping something that really helps.

Thanks so much!
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-09-22 03:12:15+00:00
It is good that Europe is keeping some distance from Big Tech. This kind of infrastructure has enormous influence on people here and US companies can easily bend to the whims of whichever administration is in power. That is dangerous, as unpredictable as Russian gas which was used to blackmail us. Strategic systems should not be in foreign hands, especially given their reputation.
by neilv | 2025-09-22 03:12:22+00:00
I guess I might agree, so long as that ecosystem is shared with Purism Librem 5 (a potentially sustainable device, if not affordable), and so long as a more affordable but also sustainable device (which means non-Hallium) will actually appear in response to this ecosystem stimulus.

At all times during the ecosystem stimulus, someone has to be keeping an eye on the real goal. Which is getting those affordable, trustworthy, sustainable hardware devices to become available.

(I've seen Linux handheld/phone projects fail for ~25 years, wasted lots of time and money on them, and would be happy to see something solve the hard problem of open drivers.)
by arp242 | 2025-09-22 03:13:42+00:00
If you had said in 1988 that The Troubles in Northern Ireland would have a peace accord ten years later no one would have believed you. Everything seemed at a complete stalemate, and there is a history going back hundreds of years. Yet in 1998 the Good Friday accords were signed. And now, almost 30 years later, I think we can safely say it's been a huge success.

There are a few things that made this possible. One important factor is the change of prime minister. Whereas Thatcher saw things only in terms of terrorists who need to be fought, John Major had more holistic view and recognised that in spite of the terrorism, there were some real structural problems that needed addressing. Even Ian Paisley admitted as much later in life, which would be roughly equivalent to Ben-Gvir admitting there is something to the Palestinian complaints.

I guess my point is there can be happy endings to these types of conflicts. No one wins with the current situation, certainly not Israel. Punching everyone around you in the face as a defensive strategy works fantastically well right up until the point you take a nap, at which point everyone will stomp on your head like it's a right watermelon.
by klodolph | 2025-09-22 03:15:29+00:00
> I don't think cajoling or persuading others inherently manipulative, but I can think of a lot of examples where doing so feels grimy.

What I am trying to do is understand why sema4hacker, and some others, feel that influencing people is manipulative. So if you pop into the conversation and say that you don’t feel the same way that sema4hacker does, that doesn’t really help me understand sema4hacker’s perspective.

That’s the bounding leap here and I want to pull it apart, dissect it. The bounding leap from “I influenced somebody” to “I manipulated them”. I think there’s not just raw, random feelings here, but some kind of rational thought that I want to understand.
by themafia | 2025-09-22 03:16:17+00:00
> Why Is Venus Hell and Earth an Eden?

Because humans evolved on Earth and not on Venus.

If we evolved on Venus then it would be our Eden.

> They’ve been pushing their model Earth to its extremes

Is your model anywhere good enough to be able to get useful outcomes from this process? I would suspect not. I mean, we know this planet's state is partially owed to the many unique comet impacts that have occurred during it's life, are you modelling those?
by defrost | 2025-09-22 03:16:31+00:00
Something you didn't say, something significant, is the US military is made up of US soldiers.

A good many of those soldiers will have "Patriot Sympathies" (of many kinds).

This will lead to a great deal of information leakage, "lost" equipment going to militias, sabotage, etc.

Regardless of oaths to US military, an innate sense of duty to some personal ideal of USA will over weigh for a significant number, and a good percentage of those will remain embedded, organized, and difficult to root out.

They will also exist in various numbers from the lowliest boot to the highest general.
by mtndew4brkfst | 2025-09-22 03:17:50+00:00
One foundational misunderstanding in your very first bullet - Universal Blue distros are installable operating systems that happen to use container image formats as a file representation for network distribution and update mechanisms, but you're expected to be running it on actual hardware or as a traditional VM. The outermost "container" part is largely an incidental implementation detail. You don't run these as a workload on like, a Kube cluster, or anything like that.

The underlying project in question for the next conceptual layer down is rpm-ostree:

https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/
by Swizec | 2025-09-22 03:18:00+00:00
Most tutorials are not for non-developers, they’re for other developers who are also in the ecosystem. They’re more like academic papers (peer-to-peer communication of new discoveries) than they are like a pop sci book or show meant for a general audience.

And that’s okay! Great even! As a fellow peer I benefit greatly from those tutorials. Sometimes even from my own notes published and forgotten years ago.

This is why courses and other structured learning materials exist. Beginners have to be nurtured through lots of context that builds up slowly. If every article had to start from scratch, we’d never get to anything interesting. By the time we got to the interesting bit after 30,000 words of preamble, you’d be long gone as a reader.

And the very next reader would complain that the 30,000 words were not enough introduction to the topic. They needed 40,000.
by ShroudedNight | 2025-09-22 03:18:50+00:00
I agree that most scenarios are not going to be so perilous. However, GOTO FAIL[1] would fit your C99 foot gun description neatly, with repercussions that would approach the peril of my metaphor within at least an order of magnitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable_code#goto_fail_bug
by oefrha | 2025-09-22 03:19:04+00:00
I'm not sure I understand you, or you understand me. I'm saying this is okay:

type Order struct { Type OrderType CommonAttr1 int CommonAttr2 string } type OrderTypeA struct { Order TypeAAttr1 int TypeAAttr2 string } type OrderTypeB struct { Order TypeBAttr1 int TypeBAttr2 string }

And yes you should convert to OrderTypeA or OrderTypeB at the first opportunity in domain code, and only convert from them at the latest opportunity.

You seem to be under the impression that I'm advocating for something like

type OrderUnion struct { CommonAttr1 int CommonAttr2 string TypeAAttrs TypeBAttrs }

That's what I consider going crazy.
by etbebl | 2025-09-22 03:19:44+00:00
I can see that some of the categories are a stretch semantically; however, I didn't see the specific categories and their names as central to the point of the article. I think the goal is to demonstrate that 1) everyone engages in persuasion in some form; 2) there are various different styles of persuasion with different strengths and weaknesses, and it's useful to be self-aware about what style(s) you tend to use and whether there are other styles you might want to try out in certain situations. I think breaking it down into 5 somewhat artificial categories is a good framework for making this topic approachable and providing good examples to think about.

I think if you already have well-developed thoughts about persuasion and social interaction, it might not add much, but it was useful for me.
by rstat1 | 2025-09-22 03:20:14+00:00
I don't really have much interest in Zig the language, but Zig as a standalone C/C++ compiler is pretty great.

I'm using it as a cross-compiler for linux-arm64 because its much simpler to download a single archive and extract it somewhere than to waste a bunch of time on guessing how each different Linux distro does ARM64 cross compilers (or doesn't in the case of Fedora).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 03:20:15+00:00
> If we evolved on Venus then it would be our Eden

I don't think we can just anthropic principle this one away. We couldn't have evolved on Venus. It's valid to ask whether any complex life could.

> Is your model anywhere good enough to be able to get useful outcomes from this process? I would suspect not

Got it, reflexive blanket dismissal comment.
by joahnn_s | 2025-09-22 03:20:22+00:00
Who's actually expecting `xyz.com` here?

Spec: https://go.dev/ref/spec#Selectors > x.f resolves to the field/method at the shallowest depth in T. If there isn’t exactly one at that depth, it’s illegal.

Embedding promotes fields; on name collisions the shallowest wins. So `opts.URL` is `FooService.URL` (depth 1), not `BarConnectionOptions.URL` (depth 2).
by tejohnso | 2025-09-22 03:20:29+00:00
> Unless this is literally so disposable you think of the money like pocket change, it’s not worth it.

Well yeah, spending tens of thousands of dollars on one party is insane unless you're royalty or just crazy rich. Everything about a wedding is overpriced and overhyped.

But it's one of those times when rationality is challenged by emotion and expectations that have been moulded throughout childhood.

Congrats on the free beach party wedding. That's a great idea. COVID or not.
by rramadass | 2025-09-22 03:20:50+00:00
This is a good time to point people to one of the best PBS TV series about "Our Planet Earth" (unrelated to BBC series of the same name) aired in 1986 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(1986_TV_series)

Episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=planet+earth+pb...

Everybody needs to watch this to understand how exquisitely balanced our planet is.
by twodave | 2025-09-22 03:21:22+00:00
No, I disagree. Not all differences need resolving. Mature adults should learn to respect those differences. It doesn’t mean you have to change your worldview to get along. This is not about how tight or loose your convictions are, but rather how much empathy and grace you’re willing to grant to others. I can vehemently disagree with you while also seeking to understand and love you. Mischaracterizing strong and, yes, even non-negotiable convictions as “hate” or “division” is what keeps us divided.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-22 03:22:41+00:00
I'd like to learn this too.

But off the top of my head - Facebook and the genocide in Myanmar. The various collosal data breaches that usually have token punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches

Mass surveillance and face identification by private companies for law enforcement eg https://www.auror.co/role/loss-prevention You can't appeal it and they don't respond to requests for your records (like a government department would).

Social media and addiction to it. How this should be managed with vulnerable groups, eg children?

I'm sure there are numerous better examples out there.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 03:24:37+00:00
> Only then do we start terraforming, which takes thousands/millions of years in addition

The methods we could realistically launch into in our lifetimes would take thousands of years, not millions (but also not hundreds) [1]. Projects of these timescales have precedent in human history, usually with a healthy dose of religious zeal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 03:26:20+00:00
> If you admit that terraforming, even after it's 'done', will require an ongoing maintenance effort

The Earth hasn't always been hospitale to humans, much less technological civilisation. Chances are, we'll have to do similar "maintenance" at home, too. (Easiest to grasp: deflecting asteroids.)

> I suspect terraforming planets is a waste. Far more bang for your buck to build habitats in space from scratch

This comes down to how biology works in zero and partial g. One of the most useful set of experiments we could be doing right now, in terms of colonisation, is putting lots of rats and whatnot in tiny space stations and letting their life cycles play out.
by hakunin | 2025-09-22 03:27:16+00:00
This might sound bad, but having worked in a few different languages, I find it kind of cute how some parts of Go seem to promote simplicity while others are simply what the authors were used to growing up. Sometimes it frustrates me when I write Go, when I see a tradeoff due to the latter. But yeah. Languages tend to have a lot of subjectivity of their author in them. The more "strict" the language is, the more confined you are to the author's opinions.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-22 03:27:35+00:00
It looks like during a two month pause in fighting stocks were built up in Gaza. From reading the articles while there were fears, it looks like food was handed out continuously. I can't find calory counts, be if they dropped by half from the target 3000 calories they would still by at the high end for Germans during periods of US occupation (1000-1500 calories a day).

I would argue waiting a year before the USA allowed aid agencies to feed starving children after the war still puts the US occupation in Germany in a worse situation, the fact infant mortality was double in Germany for 3 years after the war, the fact that target calories were 1/3-1/2 for Germans than for the people in Gaza today.

Germans were at much greater risk as the 1000-1500 calories level doesn't leave as much room for issues as Gaza's 3000 calorie one. In addition Germany had really harsh winters during this period which would need more calories than Gaza.

I think we've explored this topic to it's end. I think objectively the occupation of Germany post war by the US was worse than what Israel has done during an ongoing war to feed Gaza. It's horrific that the government of Gaza chose to start this war and chose to head down the path to all the suffering that war can create.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-22 03:30:38+00:00
I followed this tutorial but ran into an issue where shamrock portal kept crashing. When I checked the logs, I found it would start a beep but never finish a boop. After a few hours of Googling I discovered my Debian 12's Klingon troglodyte emulator had a known centipede reported in 2013 that's never been squashed because hoobastank 34.100-6x00 actually requires it, and Debian can't move to the newer version of hoobastank without a major gLibc upgrade. I got shamrock talking after compiling the compatibility shim for single-threaded pintafore and migrating from Debian to Fedora 75bit, but then the fistifunk socket closed! A few more hours troubleshooting and eventually figured out the root cause: The Snarfus node's DNS resolver was down. Turned it back on and everything worked perfectly.
by elcritch | 2025-09-22 03:30:39+00:00
> Why are all of Israel's prime ministers either first or second generation immigrants of European persuasion? If so much of the population is either local to Palestine or at least the Middle East in general, shouldn't that be reflected in the highest echelons of power?

Are you seriously trying to imply that there's some conspiracy trying to lie about Israeli demographics? That's absurd. I'll assume you're not.

Anyone who goes to Israel can see the ratios pretty readily. Many Israelis are fairly "brown" and clearly of Middle Eastern descent. There's also about 2% of the population in Israel who are black Ethiopian Jews. No serious academics contest the numbers of Sephardic / Mizrahim expelled from Arab Muslim nations after 1948 either that I've read.

The Likud, the current ruling party in Israel, has strong Sephardic / Mizrahi base [1]. Yes, there is bias and discrimination in Israeli society. Israelis debate about these things all the time, including Arab Israelis.

Some commentators believe the Mizrahim vote more far right and tend to be pro the Gaza war because of the ethnic cleansing that their parents and grandparents endured from the Muslim states.

The Seohardic Jews and Mizrahim lived in largely Muslim countries for centuries after Islamic empires conquered most of the middle east starting with the Rashidun Caliphate. They and other non-Muslims were treated as second class citizens and forced to pay jizyah tax every year. It's arguable that the Mizrahim were economically and educationally more suppressed than their European cousins, well at least until WWII.

1: https://www.972mag.com/why-mizrahis-dont-vote-for-the-left/
by red369 | 2025-09-22 03:31:21+00:00
Ha! Fine, it will have to wait until I'm next near a post office with time to kill, otherwise it's not convenient. I think you'll allow that "not an unreasonable amount of effort" could imply "convenient".

I think the post offices where I am only sell the envelopes in bulk, and buying a pack will probably add an unreasonable 20% - 30% of the amount, but I'll concede that most people will probably have an envelope from a bank and a glue-stick lying around.

This is very off-topic, but sending something to an address which I can't tell is complete, without a name, has reminded me of something I find interesting.

A few years ago, my mother received a postcard from a friend who didn't have her address handy. She sent it with just my mother's name (first and last), the city, and country (New Zealand). It took some time, but it reached her! In NZ, "city" is used for some pretty small places - the population is only around 70,000. But I'm still very impressed with the effort to deliver that to her. Especially for a postcard - even internationally the postage on those is not a lot!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 03:31:27+00:00
> But many transit systems use larger buses to increase passenger capacity

Non sequitur.

You said busses are constrained by congestion. That's simply not true. When congestion is reduced, due to demographics or a congestion charge, cities don't run out to buy more busses. If the release of a suspected constraint doesn't cause an increase in signal, it isn't a constraint.

The real constraints on buses are demand, capital budgets and operating budgets. The dominant component of the last is the driver. The dominating deterimant of the first is the route. If you can have more buses on more routes for the same capital and operating cost as fewer, big buses, you'll increae ridership.
by bsder | 2025-09-22 03:32:56+00:00
> Most tutorials are not for non-developers, they’re for other developers who are also in the ecosystem.

To me eye, most tutorial nowadays are so a developer can put "made public contribution to <X>" on their resume or quarterly evaluation rather than helping other developers.

I'd be even happier if the original writer would simply come back 3 months later and retrace their own directions. That would make the tutorial vastly better as they will suddenly see all the little things they left out.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-22 03:34:03+00:00
Lol. Funny enough I actually like camel case because I've spent so much time in Java.

Yeah, I can see that. It's also difficult to put my finger on, but for a language that claims to be simple it seems to make a lot of things needlessly complicated. I'm also not loving how everything is deeply nested structs so I have to do struct.doThefirstThing.doTheSecondThing.doTheThirdThing().etc() all the time.
by reactordev | 2025-09-22 03:34:57+00:00
You see, the issue is you’re framing your mentorship (or lack thereof) on a very specific topic, that you are already well versed in. Why would someone give you advice in your field? You probably already know…

Mentorship is about more than just “don’t use strings directly in your squeal”, it’s about navigating the organization. Filing proper TPS reports. Encouraging refactoring. Having empathy when shit goes south. Coffee talks. Hikes. Walks. Getting to know them as a person and giving them life advice.

My best mentor taught me, if you keep looking under rocks, all you’ll find is dirt. Look up.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 03:35:18+00:00
> On demand is a bad thing - it means you can't know when the bus will arrive

You'd still have buses travel routes with fixed points they aim to be at on time. They just have more freedom between those points to deviate. Again, if you have one big bus this doesn't work. If you have lots of smaller ones, it does because not everyone on board will need to stop at every scheduled stop. (And if they do, you punt the detour to the next bus. Or better yet, spin up a new one from the garage. Mechanics you can't do with a fixed set of scheduled drivers.)