MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nucleogenesis | 2025-09-21 01:44:50+00:00
Shit happens. Putting a case on my phone improves the likelihood that my $1200 phone doesn’t shatter. People have kids, animals, and make silly little mistakes that can have massively expensive consequences.

I’m not regularly smashing my phone or especially careless with it, but in a year I’ve seen it take a dozen or so drops and I’m glad it had a case on it when it did.
by mlrtime | 2025-09-21 01:45:23+00:00
100% Right!

My wife "abandoned" her entire family to come to America at 18, didn't speak a word of english, had a suitcase and barely enough money to survive a week.

She doesn't regret it and her family doesn't think they were abandoned.

This "abandoned" idea is great example of a poor idea that goes into policy that doesn't match reality.
by xnx | 2025-09-21 01:46:29+00:00
AKA "Crime is now legal" (for Republicans). Non-republicans will be prosecuted for non crime (e.g. Lisa Cook[1])

[1] "Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bill-pulte-accused-fed-gove...
by faangguyindia | 2025-09-21 01:47:23+00:00
people underestimate brains "self correction ability".

I use slingshot, unlike gun's sight post slingshots do not have any sight in center of projectile path, basically you eye one of the fork's of slingshot and your brain quickly adjusts to it correcting whatever angle deviation is there.

I can shoot stuff in air without even aiming now, i got so good no sight nothing.
by jondwillis | 2025-09-21 01:51:29+00:00
IDK how we solve this without some serious regulatory changes and the backing awareness and political will.

An “a scanner darkly” approach could be kind of effective to pollute online information about yourself.

If there are 1000 “me” profiles all saying different stuff, it’d be somewhat hard to pin down what I think and persecute me. This doesn’t work as well or maybe at all for sufficiently doxxed people who are producing content for a living, public political organizers, etc.
by Jepacor | 2025-09-21 01:52:38+00:00
And given how both mental models are reasonable, I think a lot of the preference is going to come down to what you're used to.

For me it seems to be tied to muscle memory too? Because I've noticed that when I play using a Gamecube controller I prefer the camera's x-axis to be inverted, but when I play using a modern controller I prefer not inverting it.
by CarVac | 2025-09-21 01:54:48+00:00
The only actual benefit I find it has over a well-maintained sharp chef knife is the non-stick aspect, which looks really nice but not $300 nice IMO.

Most people don't sharpen their knives enough and therefore they have to expend a lot of effort to sharpen them.

If your knife is only slightly dull it takes 10 seconds to resharpen it, unlike if you've gotten the edge all folded over and such.
Ask HN: What to do when all you want to do is make software, but hating it?
by andoando | 2025-09-21 01:55:16+00:00
Over the last 5 years, I had a million ideas of software I wanted to create. About 3 years of it was spent on trying to create some super abstract non sense that started off being about building light shows and turned into something akin to trying to build a mathematical model for human thought. I sometimes think I should write about it, for the amusement of it, if nothing else, but Im so mentally tired of thinking about that project I can't get past a few words.

Even now there's 3-4 projects I want to work on. When I have free time, its where my mind goes.

Its pretty obvious I need some other sources of joy in my life, and used to have so many but now nothing is really gripping me.

I really wanted to quit my job and go back to school to study as I enjoy academics, but I can't justify it financially.

Im not sure what Im looking to here, and I don't usually ask for life advice, on HN of all places, but I am at a loss.
by trvr | 2025-09-21 01:55:26+00:00
I was in Las Vegas when this happened, though we had no idea that day that this is what was happening. My wife and I went to get tickets to the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor and they said "our computers systems are down, we can only take cash". I had cash, and they sold us the tickets for extremely cheap.

Long story short, I've always felt like I stole from the casino that day too! :-)
by realityfactchex | 2025-09-21 01:56:47+00:00
Jacques Pépin suggested at [0] "basically you need three knives":

- a chopping knive, 9-12" depending on one's hand - a utility knife for slicing, about 6" - a paring knife, a cheaper ordinary one is fine

Of those, other than the chopping/chef's knife, I imagine that one could generally slice cheese with the utility knife (depending on the cheese, of course).

[0] https://youtu.be/nffGuGwCE3E?t=12
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-21 01:57:04+00:00
> Genocide is about intent. The party must be acting with intent to destroy the nation or group

True, but provocation does not mitigate genocidal intent.

> By the definition of genocide, it's actually Hamas that is genocidal.

Hamas being genocidal, or even committing genocide, has no relevance to whether or not Israel is connitting genocide.
by tptacek | 2025-09-21 01:57:08+00:00
Hey, I should say this, and wish I had earlier:

I don't really so much care whether Nostr is good or bad. I'm a connoisseur of cryptographic vulnerabilities, and the ones in that paper are fun. We host a podcast (me, Deirdre Connolly, and David Adrian) that is mostly about good crypto vulns. If there's someone affiliated with Nostr that would want to chat for an hour or so about how applicable the vulns in this paper are or aren't, and how they're addressed in NIP44 --- we'd love to talk. My email address is in my profile. Whoever showed up, they'd be in good company!

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-21 01:58:50+00:00
I think you’re wrong about this. 90% of customers will not realize there is a distinction, and so there’s just confusion over the general state of things. My guess is that splitting the brand in half like this is actually more costly overall than just committing to one path

Eg, imagine if mazzerati also made a mid-market vehicle. It would lose some cachet, and also wouldn’t make much profit off the midmarket item. In the other side, if Walmart stocks premium goods, they won’t sell because they’ll be perceived as too expensive by the Walmart audience.

Edit: anecdotally, I once used the weaker variety, the dish exploded on me, and I luckily was not maimed. The floor was not so lucky, it is still pockmarked. The lesson I learned is: only use metal in the oven, no matter what.
by jstrieb | 2025-09-21 01:59:42+00:00
This teardown is great!

At my work, we have an X-ray machine for PCB reverse engineering. On Fridays we throw in random stuff from around the office, and sometimes make videos about what we find inside.

A few weeks ago we released an X-ray teardown of several other, older chargers. Very interesting to compare with these fancy new ones!

https://youtu.be/4h4qabPsPfI
by tw04 | 2025-09-21 02:00:02+00:00
It’s really not. I one time had a phone fall out of my pocket while getting out of my truck, and literally hit my foot on its way down which propelled it face up into the bottom of my front tire which shattered the screen. There was absolutely nothing I could do to stop it, and there’s no reason I’d have ever thought it’d just fall out. I probably got out of that truck in the exact same way for 2 years and the phone never fell out.

The fact you’re baffled that accidents happen makes me question if you’re trolling or literally live in a bubble.
by jimmydoe | 2025-09-21 02:00:57+00:00
If you follow the public policy discussions in China, you’ll likely notice more complication surrounding the 70-year leases. Basically everyone already feel they own the property, the government’s forceful attempt to reclaim property would be counterproductive and unlikely to succeed. Additionally, many government officials are not particularly fond of this policy. They prefer property tax like US. Individuals currently do not pay property tax in China, they are reluctant to pay property tax and argue that they have indirectly paid them when purchasing property. Consequently, the property tax and ownership restructuring are essentially stuck in a stalemate.
by trhway | 2025-09-21 02:01:29+00:00
>- What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place?

such an approach has long history - peeing on wheat is known from the times of Ancient Egypt and it was widely used in Middle Ages too

https://history.nih.gov/illustrated-histories/thin-blue-line...

"Bastard Executioner" series set in 14th century has a scene on using several objects to test urine for pregnancy on.
by danielodievich | 2025-09-21 02:01:35+00:00
Driving a 2002 Mini here with fully analog controls everywhere. I don't need to look at anything and I love it. Since I hardly drive anywhere this should last me a while.

Fun thing is that this car has volume and radio channel change buttons on the BACK of the steering wheel so you can do change things with just a flip of a finger without moving anywhere. I told my little kids it had voice recognition to change volume and radio but it could only understand russian. They only figured that out once they started to try to drive it. They still laugh about it.
by oreally | 2025-09-21 02:02:14+00:00
Okay then how about another interpretation: I'm a software engineer questioning the boarder group of SWEs on what they're trying. (Somehow I have to show you another interpretation I can't believe how tunneled people can be).

Also bureaucracy is added friction, usually done by humans. It can be found everywhere where you're working with humans, from leetcode interviews and code styles and practices. It's not just a bunch of signed papers.

Sure you can add the second language if adds value, but let's not pretend that the added friction isn't there. If you could solve your problems without the friction of second language it would be better.
by m0llusk | 2025-09-21 02:02:35+00:00
In a way this is more like Perl's maketext or maybe Mozilla Fluent. Reasonable translations need to be constructed using variable inputs and correct messages can vary greatly between languages with grammar agreement and such. While gettext does have some extra support for getting numeric translations and agreements right it is kind of hacked in as an add on to a text lookup procedure rather than in terms of constructing the messages based on inputs.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-21 02:03:26+00:00
In a bad job market, a person with a mortgage and 4 people on their health insurance will work the same amount as someone who has 60 days to look for a different job. Paying COBRA for 18 months is wildly expensive and 2 years of job search is not an easy option as you’re making it out to be. It’s a hypothetical and most people won’t willingly put themselves in that situation.

And FYI, you have 60 days to search for jobs but you can convert to B visas and continue your job search for another year. USCIS has clarified that, so H1Bs are also not that constrained as you’re making it out to be.

https://x.com/USCIS/status/1638543885168263168
by xyzelement | 2025-09-21 02:04:56+00:00
Ok let me give you a richer answer. You ascribe to Republicans (so, to me) a belief that gays or trans shouldn't exist. Just like earlier you ascribed to us/me a hatred of immigrants.

These are (1) NOT MY VIEWS and (2) views I don't hear from actual Republicans.

If someone told me they hated immigrants or gays or trans I would tell them to fuck off and never speak to them again.

So what do I do with the fact that people like you easily ascribe horrific views to others and then consider them worthy of the Nuremberg trials? Doesn't leave much room to join your team does it.
by jsharf | 2025-09-21 02:05:54+00:00
If you have independent copies of the network learning gradients, then you’re effectively making the batch size smaller— unless you’re doing an all collect and making them sync, in which case there’s a lot of overhead

When you take a batch and calculate gradients, you’re effectively calculating a direction the weights should move in, and then taking a step in that direction. You can do more steps at once by doing what you say, but they might not all be exactly in the right direction, so overall efficiency is hard to compare

I am not an expert, but if I understand correctly I think this is the answer.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-21 02:06:09+00:00
I'm not quite sure about that. Cyberpunk had an inherent techno-optimism to it couched in that whole weird Gen X cynic schtick.

It's the 2020s. Tech is just "normal" to us, and for a decent size of our demographic, it's viewed no differently than how the legal industry, accounting, or high finance was back in the 1980s-2000s. Tech is viewed as a "normal" concenpt and career path with no real emotional or psychological attachment.

Sorry if this sounds very "Ok Boomer", but like much of the technology and stuff mentioned in cyberpunk fantasies back then is basically an engineering problem at this point, and a very tech ambivalent lens is becoming popular amongst younger people.

Even amongst younger Gen Z/Zilleneial type hipsters, neo-Marxist or neo-Maoist style views are kinda hip in the same way 50s-70s era nostalgia is becoming vogue amongst younger Americans on both sides of the aisle (ie. neoliberal views being viewed as antithetical by both ends of the spectrum) due to the cutthroatedness of modern society.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-09-21 02:06:20+00:00
Man up and say what you want to say. None of this weakling passive aggressive quoting a line from the article like we're supposed to believe that makes it a smoking gun.

If you think it's a defensible position that the only people who can have a legitmate opinion on this topic are the hypothetical pure neutrals who don't affiliate with any party, make it yourself and stand by it.
by realityfactchex | 2025-09-21 02:06:42+00:00
Are the $10 "rugged defender style cases" found online actually as protective for drops as the $80 actual Otterbox Defender branded case?

I really wonder, seems like maybe, and might be worth looking into. If so, that would be fantastic and would make the case round to 2 orders of magnitude less costly than the device, instead of just 1.
by nextos | 2025-09-21 02:11:50+00:00
I somehow agree with this statement too. Although I don't dislike current GNOME, I think Mer Linux (SailfishOS and Nemo) as well as its predecesors (MeeGo and Maemo) are much more pleasant to use on a small screen. The others don't look very optimized for that usecase. Actually, MeeGo, as shipped in a Nokia N9, was in many aspects the most elegant mobile UI I've ever seen.
by drdaeman | 2025-09-21 02:12:37+00:00
> If there are 1000 “me” profiles all saying different stuff, it’d be somewhat hard to pin down what I think and persecute me.

Noise-drowning only works against profiling that's set up with intent to measure you, rather than punish you.

I'm afraid, in autocracies and dictatorships, it takes one "me" profile (that could be not even mine) that said something out of current goodthink to be persecuted. Just look at what's going on in Russia.

The key point of those "we'll be using AI to monitor everything you publish" announcements is not in even it its directly stated goal. It's in the chilling effects this creates, making people avoid expressing their opinions except for unquestionably safe ones.
by Arnavion | 2025-09-21 02:13:54+00:00
The ShowError() API they're talking about doesn't take a format string. It takes a resource ID which is an integer that's essentially an index in the resource table. So running the message compiler produces a C header that defines ERROR_BITLOCKER_PASSPHRASE_MINIMUM_TOO_LONG to an integer constant, and then ShowError(ERROR_BITLOCKER_PASSPHRASE_MINIMUM_TOO_LONG) looks up the string at that index in the resource table and displays it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/eventlog/mes...

(You'll note that that page mentions that FormatMessage() does support printf-style format specifiers in the string resource. That's why I'm saying that their ShowError() specifically is the one that doesn't.)
by vanc_cefepime | 2025-09-21 02:14:35+00:00
Instead of making this Republican vs Democrat issue, how about you complete that paragraph.

"Suresh served in the Biden-Harris administration as Assistant Director for Science and Justice in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In that capacity, he helped co-author the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. He was named by Fast Company in 2023 to their AI20 list of thinkers shaping the world of generative AI."

Seems to me he wants rules and legislation around AI so it protects the American people. AI Bill of rights was deleted when this new administration took over but available at https://archive.is/XEFJJ

"To advance President Biden’s vision, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has identified five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights is a guide for a society that protects all people from these threats—and uses technologies in ways that reinforce our highest values"
by rayiner | 2025-09-21 02:14:48+00:00
The article says Poles did have ethnic identity: “What little has been written about Poles suggests that the Wolfinger view may be correct: Polish Americans still vote for Poles if they have the opportunity to do so.” The article’s thesis is that Poles were unable to effectively exercise power as a block because the Irish got there first and froze them out of the ethnic grifting.

Whether or not tribalism exists among white ethnics today is besides the point. Corruption is self-perpetuating. The real question is what Chicago would look like today if it had never experienced mass immigration, starting with the Irish. I strongly suspect it would be a better governed city today, like Toronto before the recent mass immigration.

There is a single well-governed city in the world that has experienced mass immigration from multiple ethnic groups, and that’s Singapore. And that’s got an authoritarian, top-down government, and seems to be engaged in selective immigration to maintain a stable ethnic composition and Chinese supermajority.

> But LCN is not in fact the story of Italians in America, and wasn't replicated by other ethnic blocs.

There’s two different things. Mass immigration alone gives rise to ethnic, religious, and cultural conflict, which undermines democracy. Then sometimes you import specific problems from specific places. Organized crime is a bigger problem in Italy even today than in England or Scandinavia. And it was a definitive part of the story of Italians in America. It took decades to eradicate that problem.
by jmcodes | 2025-09-21 02:15:00+00:00
Been doing it for ten years still love the profession as much if not more than when I started, but the joy of software development for me was always in seeing my idea come to life, in exploring all the clever ways people had solved so many problems, in trying to become as good at the craft as they were, and in sharing those solutions and ideas with like-minded peers.

I care deeply about the code quality that goes into the projects I work on because I end up having to maintain it, review it, or fix it when it goes south, and honestly it just feels wrong to me to see bad code.

But literally typing out the characters that make up the code? I could care less. I've done that already. I can do it in my sleep, there's no challenge.

At this stage in my career I'm looking for ways to take the experience I have and upskill my teams using it.

I'd be crazy not to try and leverage LLMs as much as possible. That includes spending the time to write good CLAUDE.md files, set up custom agents that work with our codebase and patterns, it also includes taking the time to explain the why behind those choices to the team so they understand them, calling out bad PRs that "work" but are AI slop and teaching them how to get better results out of these things.

Idk man the profession is pretty big and creating software is still just as fun as when I was doing it character by character in notepad. I just don't care to type more than I need to when I can focus on problem solving and building.
by oreally | 2025-09-21 02:15:20+00:00
you're completely missing the point.

Even if it's 'not hard' your brain has to compensate for switching to another realm/space and that takes energy and time especially if you haven't used that particular space for a long time.

This is backed by science. Go read up on short-term working memory and crystallized memory.

All this will add up the maintenance costs, so it had better be a good trade off.
by stefanfisk | 2025-09-21 02:16:03+00:00
This was my experience when trying to get fonts to look good in Ubuntu about a year ago. FontConfig, Gnome and of course some individual apps like browsers all have their own little settings for font rendering that interact in weird and not so wonderful ways.

I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox and realized that kerning is completely broken. I can only assume that it's because of some setting that I changed but I'd rather reinstall the whole machine than go on a wild goose chase...
by tripletao | 2025-09-21 02:16:47+00:00
Executive Order 13769 (the so-called "Muslim Ban") actually was effective immediately, resulting in a similar race to the airport during its chaotic implementation. Hundreds of people with previously lawful immigration status were denied entry or detained, including dozens with green cards despite those being excluded by the EO.

In any case this new order was not ambiguous. It plainly said the restriction was on "entry", not the issuance of new visas. Nobody reading the text of the order claimed otherwise. The Trump administration just changed their position, in informal guidance rather than a formal executive order but with similar practical and legal effect.

Anyone who returned early was effectively hedging, paying the airline change fee and some inconvenience to avoid a potential $100k fee or worse, with downsides including job loss--potentially leading to forced repatriation--if your employer doesn't pay, and indefinite detention under harsh conditions. That hedge currently seems likely to expire worthless; but with such an imbalanced payoff, are you really saying you wouldn't have paid it yourself?
by notpushkin | 2025-09-21 02:17:00+00:00
> the service crashes with a mysterious error: version 'GLIBC_2.28' not found

Mysterious?

This is by the way why many binary Python packages use https://github.com/pypa/manylinux for builds: if you build on an old glibc, your library will still (generally) work with newer versions.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-21 02:18:02+00:00
> Those are two different narratives.

Also, those two narratives are sometimes deployed as a false-dichotomy, where both just make the same assumption that LLM weaknesses will vanish and dramatic improvement will continue indefinitely.

A historical analogy:

* A: "Segway™ balancing vehicles will be so beneficially effective that private vehicles will be rare in 2025."

* B: "No, Segways™ will be so harmfully effective that people will start to suffer from lower body atrophy by 2025."
by retrac | 2025-09-21 02:18:08+00:00
There's a classic experiment of which variations have been done for almost a century now. Put on goggles that use mirrors to flip vision upside down. People adjust much faster than one might think. Minutes to hours. Those who have worn them for multiple days report that the world stops looking upside down with them. Wear them long enough and the world looks upside down when they're taken off.