MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ACS_Solver | 2025-09-22 18:33:53+00:00
From my perspective, even the US cultural norm is way too taarof. It's normal for Americans to offer things for politeness, with no intention to follow up and the interlocutor is also expected to understand the offer isn't genuine. So a phrase like "we should grab lunch" can be said without being an actual invitation for lunch. And then there's the whole aspect of avoiding criticism or saying no. "I don't think that's a good idea" in the US is more likely to mean "no, we're not doing that" than "I don't think that's a good idea so you need to convince me more if you want to do that".

As someone who also struggles to decode situations where people's actual, implicit meaning runs contrary to the explicit meaning of the words, American norms of indirectness are already a headache. Persian or Arab communication is much more indirect and that sounds like a nightmare to me.
by zipy124 | 2025-09-22 18:33:57+00:00
Damn that's worse than I thought it would be. Citing non white-british ethnic groups as non-native is worrying. Especially to try use it as an anti-immigrant statement, when plenty of those are going to be third generation at the least. In fact why isn't anyone who is born here classed as native by DHH. Troublesome.

Especially when the main reason for a lot of the problems with the country is rich white men, notably the Tories and their failed governance over the past 14 years.
by sbarre | 2025-09-22 18:34:06+00:00
I never implied there was a reward system or value transfer (unless you count the feel-good reward of sharing knowledge with others and the value of doing so).

I said that putting things on the Internet is not, and has never been, "free".

And I think that's what Cloudflare is saying too.

You're free to interpret it differently (as was OP) but I think you're wrong. ;-)
by abeppu | 2025-09-22 18:34:15+00:00
No, I saw that page and it doesn't say anything meaningful about how they arrived at this. It says _that_ they expanded the model, and various notes about resolution, they use to communicate the labeling they arrived at -- but nothing meaningful about the input data used, any statistical methodology, etc.

> my Motivf colleagues and I refined the ad hoc models and produced what you might call the “official” American Nations Model spreadsheets for the United States, mapping the regional cultures at county-level resolution.

> This summer, we’ve expanded the analytical model to the rest of North America covered in American Nations.
by nerpderp82 | 2025-09-22 18:34:40+00:00
So you are saying they don't penalize browser from not being Chrome and then link to a specific mechanism that they are allow listing Safari. That goes directly counter to what you are claiming.

I have seen it myself, from my own system. Firefox, almost impossible to use the web due to non-stop bot checks by CF. For the same session, same site(s), I give up and use Chrome, with all the same browser extensions, and I sail right in. Multiple times.

Suspicious traffic is using Firefox, because Chrome browsers are 90%+ of the traffic. And the rich mac users have a special mechanism for bypassing them as your article outlines.

Using Firefox is the internet equivalent of DWB.
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-22 18:34:50+00:00
Heck, you could just drop the rocket and have it ignite (one hopes) with lateral thrust, clearing the launch aerostat.

Or consider the aerostat disposable (at a significant replacement cost, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333674>).

But either way it's a bit less the firey-burney-explodey problem than the sudden loss of a few thousands tonnes of mass that would displace the equilibrium of the launch platform, should you care to re-use that, or the means by which such platforms (capable of supporting said thousands of tonnes of mass).

Just to put some hard numbers on it, a crewed Falcon9 (Crew Dragon) has a launch mass north of a half-million kilograms, or 500 tonnes.

The Russian Soyuz-FG, also human capable, has a launch mass of slightly over 300 tonnes.

If this spacecraft is only a shuttle to low-Venus orbit with another transfer craft for the flight back to Earth (or other points of interest) that should suffice. If the launch craft is intended for the full return trip of 100--250 days, things could get a bit cozy and interesting depending on the number, disposition, and fragrance of inhabitants.
by wk_end | 2025-09-22 18:35:17+00:00
Mario 64 had undercurrents of a dreamy, abstract, dare-I-say vaporwave-y quality that I attribute to the undersung influence of SGI specifically and early American 3D animation in general on its development that I think is a big part of its enduring appeal; the Galaxies and Odyssey are technically superior and more polished and certainly classics in their own right, but even among younger generations it seems like Mario 64 remains the definitive 3D Mario.

My favourite demonstration of this is a comparison between The Secret Aquarium bonus stage [0] with one of the animations in The Mind's Eye [1] (technically this is from Symbolics rather than SGI, but 3D animators of the time were in metaphorical conversation with each other), but this is maybe the most explicit example of just how direct that connection was.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARbWJX-P1oM

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBes8ki3lo
by text0404 | 2025-09-22 18:35:19+00:00
Please tell us how Matthew Dowd celebrated Kirk's murder? Or Kimmel?

Furthermore, celebrating murder is still free speech. For example, we've had to endure years of jokes about the murders of George Floyd and Trayvon Martin, the flame continuously stoked by Charlie Kirk and his colleagues.

Kirk was ultimately "cancelled" by the same society that he fomented. He was against empathy, used his platform to disparage and attack vulnerable groups, against gun control, and literally said that gun deaths are a worthy price for the 2nd amendment. He was a victim of a violent society he actively encouraged and campaigned for. Pointing this out is not celebrating murder.
by zahlman | 2025-09-22 18:35:21+00:00
> You are a beginner for a short time.

If you have the right mindset and consciously seek to progress past it, yes.

I can recall seeing people spend years on concepts in a way where I really couldn't rule out the possibility of dedicated trolling. I remember one who would repeatedly ask about fixing problems with code examples using various advanced (at the time) graphics APIs while clearly missing several fundamentals about writing code in the language. And who also seemingly refused, the entire time, to adopt the proper spelling of "variable", despite it being corrected by multiple people in every discussion.
by true_blue | 2025-09-22 18:35:30+00:00
the recommendation was what caused the norway problem. it now strongly recommends not to do this, and it says that a Yaml parser should use the core schema unless instructed otherwise. going against the recommendation while saying that you're yaml 1.2 compliant feels like an issue that should be raised with the parser to me. I've never run into this issue in practice though.

is there a parser that says that it's Yaml 1.2 compliant that uses that regex? I don't know of one.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-22 18:35:47+00:00
>We're living in state of anarcho-tyranny. The state is totally unable to stop shoplifters

This is still an utter bullshit narrative. Not only does "the state" not even try to go after coordinated shoplifting rings, but shoplifting has not statistically increased

Shrink has not increased.

The National Retail Federation, the lobbying org publishing industry wide shrink statistics suddenly declined to publish the numbers this year, while instead pushing forward a survey of their members that say they all feel shoplifting is worse.

Why do you think they would suppress that data unless it doesn't align with the narrative they are selling?
by mahirsaid | 2025-09-22 18:36:11+00:00
lasers have long been my in my list of interesting topics. I have done research on this subject before with little to none article on the internet for more information. There are a few white papers i found that made this possible yet they were not related to the specific field of semiconductors processors. My assumptions are from what ive learned about lasers is: (1) the light source and wave length of it is important (2) the emitted light treatment of how it will be processed. (3) The scattered light can be used for computing, lasers have noise when scattered with sharper noise reflections than regular light. this is useful IMO. (4) Further innovation is needed for the components required to accompany this potential.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-09-22 18:36:24+00:00
>> lawmakers submitting AI-generated language in bills or amendments?

Most people would be shocked to find the majority of bills are simply copycat bills or written by lobbyists.

https://goodparty.org/blog/article/who-actually-writes-congr...

Bank lobbyists, for example, authored 70 of the 85 lines in a Congressional bill that was designed to lessen banking regulations – essentially making their industry wealthier and more powerful. Our elected officials are quite literally, with no exaggeration, letting massive special interests write in the actual language of these bills in order to further enrich and empower themselves… because they are too lazy or disinterested in the actual work of lawmaking themselves.

a two-year investigation by USA Today, The Arizona Republic, and The Center for Public Integrity found widespread use of “copycat bills” at both federal and state levels. Copycat legislation is the phenomenon in which lawmakers introduce bills that contain identical langauge and phrases to “model bills” that are drafted by corporations and special interests for lobbying purposes. In other words, these lawmakers essentially copy-pasted the exact words that lobbyists sent them.

From 2011 to 2019, this investigation found over 10,000 copycat bills that lifted entire passages directly from well-funded lobbyists and corporations. 2,100 of these copycat bills were signed into law all across the country. And more often than not, these copycat bills contain provisions specifically designed to enrich or protect the corporations that wrote the initial drafts
by caymanjim | 2025-09-22 18:36:26+00:00
Everything you're quoting is from one aggrieved person, who clearly felt slighted, and who left out a whole lot of context in their own post. The article above is a lot more reasoned, less emotional, and seems completely reasonable to me. Ruby Central clearly has issues with both internal and external communication. And the above article isn't an official statement either; it's just one person, not involve in the decision, offering another perspective.
by fuhsnn | 2025-09-22 18:36:40+00:00
You didn't make the tasks difficult, you make them easier.

The entire coreutils is reduced to one utility (sha1sum) and the test doesn't even try to feed a real file to it (just a stdin string)[0], same goes to the jq task, there isn't even a json file feed to it, what's being verified[1] is barely a calculator.

These project ship with "make check", please tell AI to use it.

[0] https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/CompileBench/blob/86d9aeda88a16...

[1] https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/CompileBench/blob/86d9aeda88a16...
by wtallis | 2025-09-22 18:37:11+00:00
I wish that was how it worked.

Far too often, we have OEMs trying to build unique differentiating features without actually building much in the way of custom hardware, so you end up with some random thing hanging off GPIO pins or something like that, completely undocumented and driven by software that didn't really make it past proof of concept phase.

I had a desktop motherboard once that included a SATA power output intended to allow the software gimmick to fully power down hard drives you didn't need running. It was never worth the hassle.

I once used an HP laptop where the webcam disable switch was a USB HID device, and everything that connected that switch to the webcam functionality was implemented in software.

And then there are all the power management/tuning hacks written by people who've never even heard of control theory. Every "gaming" laptop ships with its own iteration on that disaster.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-22 18:37:17+00:00
Exactly, probably so they can get a job, write a blog post, or sell NordVPN on a podcast showing off how amazing and easy this is.

IMO, this sort of thing is downright malicious. It not only takes up time for the real devs to actually figure out if it's a real bug, but it also makes them cynical about incoming bug reports.
by brirec | 2025-09-22 18:38:20+00:00
I think the parent comment means that Ladybird is fighting to be an additional browser engine in the current ecosystem of “Chromium and a couple of tiny, unimportant competitors.”

However, on the subject of the other meaning of “diversity,” and whether or not it is in the business models of either of these projects, I think we have pretty conclusive evidence that actually it is NOT a core value to either of them:

Citation for Ladybird: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity...

Citation for DHH, the creator of Omarchy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600746

As someone directly affected by this sort of thing, I really want nothing to do with either project.

I also can’t help but notice that this “tech-right smell” is about the only thing that these two projects seem to have in common with one another, making me question Cloudflare’s intentions with this.
by peterfirefly | 2025-09-22 18:38:26+00:00
And we don't even have to get exotic for that. My language, Danish, is just a run-of-the-mill Germanic language and those terms are "faster", "moster", "fætter", and "kusine".

Some of the East Asian languages are crazy regarding terms for family members. It's like learning foreign words for plants: I just give up. I will not even attempt to learn them.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-22 18:38:41+00:00
I see the government trying to hide the data & I vious fact that says it's one side that is violent extremeist. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-depa...

Sure there's some violent the other way too, some Chinese Robber Fallacy. But it's vanishingly small, it's not systematic, it's not the nature of the non-right at all, unlike what the right how the right has been agitating itself, pushing itself towards stochastic terrorism. There's a whole delusional crafted reality telling America my god Antifa is raging through the streets, wanton violence everywhere, you are under attack! But crime stats are way down, and from here in DC and from what Chicago tells me, it's all pure fabricated nonsense, deranged madness, terror-mongering.

I don't see both sides resorting to political violence. It's absolutely core to look at the character of the parties. Dems have tried again and again for bipartisanship, to be inclusive of of both parties. Lawful respectful hopeful charcacter abound, respect for civility & wanting good for all. Those basic traits are so vanishingly rare on the right, who has been terror-mongering & trying to shock their gullible marks into never realizing they are being preyed upon by their party, that their party is getting their interests again and again and doing everything it can to benefit the ultra-wealthy.
by truelson | 2025-09-22 18:38:43+00:00
Going to leave this link here: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc250814/

By many different measures, we are at record valuations (though must be said, not P/E however). Tends not to end well. And housing prices are based on when mortgages were at 3% and have not reset accordingly. We are in everything bubble territory and have been.
by TuringNYC | 2025-09-22 18:38:59+00:00
>> You can still have an arbitration system like how credit card chargebacks are handled.

You can have that, but it doesnt exist, so it isnt helpful. We can have many good things, but unless they are --paired together-- with the potentially bad things, you end up in a bad place.

Talk to anyone who has been randomly deplatformed off Uber, CitiBike, etc.
by tarkaTheRotter | 2025-09-22 18:39:02+00:00
Hey - maintainer here. Sorry about your bad experience and thanks for mentioning it! The Core Web Vitals test did come back ok - but evidently there's more to do so will get that sorted. (Web design not a strong point! ). The code examples should be showing on smaller screens when in landscape on mobile (they looked awful in portrait) - but will also look at that as well!

Could I possibly ask you to reply with the model of your phone so can make sure it works ok after have fixed?
by bri3d | 2025-09-22 18:39:03+00:00
> I would highly recommend you read the docs on InnoDB locking then pick Postgres.

This made me laugh pretty hard, but it's basically my take too.

I'd pretty much go with the same thing. It's interesting to me, though, that people see Postgres as the "big database" and MySQL as the "hobby database." I basically see things as the exact opposite - Postgres is incredibly flexible, very nice to use, and these days, has fewer foot guns at small scale (IMO) than MySQL. It's more academically correct and it generally tends to "work better" at almost any achievable "normal" scale.

On the other hand, Postgres is full of pitfalls and becomes very difficult at exceptionally large scale (no, not "your startup got traction" scale). Postgres also doesn't offer nearly the same quality of documentation or recipes for large scale optimization.

Almost everything in the 2016 Uber article you link, which is a _great_ read, is still true to some extent with vanilla Postgres, although there are more proprietary scale-out options available now. Postgres simply has not been "hyper-scaled" to the extent that MySQL has and most massive globally sharded/replicated systems started as MySQL at some point.

For this same reason, you are likely to be able to hire a MySQL-family DBA with more experience at hyper-scale than a Postgres one.

With all that said, I still agree - I'd almost universally start with Postgres, with MySQL as a back-pocket scale-up-and-out option for specific very large use-cases that don't demand complex query execution or transactional workload properties. Unless you have an incredibly specific workload which is a very specific combination of heavy UPDATE and `SELECT * FROM x WHERE id=y`, Postgres will do better at any achievable scale you will find today.
by buildbot | 2025-09-22 18:40:15+00:00
Everyone is somewhat missing the point here that the California bar is making.

They don't care if you use an AI or a Llama spitting at a board of letters to assemble your case, you are responsible for what you submit to the court.

This is just a bad lawyer who probably didn't check their work in many other cases, and AI just enabled that bad behavior further.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-22 18:40:28+00:00
The point is, I don't want to spend lots of time solving these essential problems, when I actually want to learn the language through solving puzzles. It seems, that Forth does not lend itself to be learned that way, since even very basic things are not provided and require in-depth knowledge of Forth and developing manual memory managed solutions to problems, that are solved in almost every programming language in their standard libraries. If I used Python it would literally be 2 lines of code, and with file.readlines() or so, I don't have to think about how long a line can be and then develop ad-hoc brittle half-solutions.

Perhaps readlines() has a limit somewhere too though. Just not aware of it and so far have not needed to deal with that kind of thing. But then again Forth and Python are 2 very different languages and act on another level of abstraction in many cases, so maybe that comparison is not fair.
by kid64 | 2025-09-22 18:40:33+00:00
I think you and your fellow commenters are missing the point. The degree to which Obsidian is "a superior Markdown editor with backlink support" can be debated. What I'm saying is that actual usability, in this context, is not a matter of opinion -- see ISO 9241-210, ISO/IEC 25010, etc.. Having said that, I'm glad you're happy.
by nirvdrum | 2025-09-22 18:41:23+00:00
That's fair. And I'm not arguing that YAML anchors can never be a problem. I am saying that layering in a whole custom build system to handle a 250 line ci.yml file is not the trade-off I'd make. What I'd hazard to say most teams do in that situation is duplicate config, which is not without its own problems. I think YAML anchors is a fine solution for these cases and don't think they'll lead to total chaos. Alas, not all config options can be hoisted to a higher level and I'm trusting a team has explored that option when it's available.

If you're dealing with 10s of files that are 1000s of lines long, then YAML anchors may very well not be the ideal option. Having the choice lets each team find what works best for them.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-22 18:41:51+00:00
I am stuck in an organization for some personal reasons.

The first thing I noticed when I joined was the culture of "Please ask when something is not clear". After was given a quick overview in person.

You guess: almost everything is unclear. A mess. Need to ask a lot. Task descriptions, purpose, reasons, whys, wheres, what does this comment mean, why are these things contradict each other, and so on, and so on.

And except asking KG, usually the answer is: ask XY. Or KG.

People always busy, always in rush, give a condensed answer raising the same amount of new questions that it answers.

When KG is out, productivity slows down.

And all this beyond the usual in a meeting, out with customer, on holiday, sick, the children is sick, held up in a traffic jam, car broke down, need to finish project P so schedule something for next week, and all those kinds of common things making the relevant person unavailable when "something is not clear".

And beyond the forgetting 4 things of the 15 new info given by the time we are finished with the converstaion. No written trail to look back at.

When 3 person paint a complete picture then all above happen three times in a row, or in a never ending loop.

Productivity suffers, quality suffers, I will leave as soon as I can.

Positive things? Probably that the expectations are low. And they pay well. And by now I am irreplecable in a local subset I was hacking together (I do not call it work or development), not even KG can help others there! I will leave on my own terms (as usual, unluckily).
by oliwarner | 2025-09-22 18:42:13+00:00
Do they? More than the property rights of British Londoners to have sold their part of their homeland to someone with enough money? Even foreigners?

We're talking about a small part of the country that's disproportionately expensive that has tried to attract those with money and the side effect of this is natives have chosen to sell up. There might be too much immigration, there might be too much external competition driving house prices up, but I think it's weird to talk about native rights. None of us is truly native here.
by snapetom | 2025-09-22 18:42:38+00:00
Second American Nations. I take issue with, in parts of it he has an elitist, typical Yankee patronizing tone against the South, but overall it’s well done work. As far as I know, it is the most comprehensive work in highlighting the diversity in culture and history of the US, and why we appear to be so divisive.

If you read news and opinion articles from the early 1900’s you’ll find that many authors are saying the same thing as people say today. In context of American Nations, the answer is “we’ve always been like that.”