MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breppp | 2025-09-19 12:53:37+00:00
You seem to somehow say I am misconstruing the word disappear, but everyone that was part of the Etzel/Lehi is either dead or dying. The organization itself does not exist for so many decades in no meaningful way, that I really feel I am repeating myself.

Your arguments have been reduced to changing the Irgun to some metaphor or what you don't like about Israel actions.

This doesn't change the fact that Israel had handled it terrorist problem in the transition to a state, while the Palestinians never succeeded in doing so, which had led them to be controlled by such an entity, culminating in that entity taking them on a national suicide in 2023
by ericmay | 2025-09-19 12:53:46+00:00
> Rail will never solve transportation for that population, but robotaxis can.

How do elderly Europeans or Japanese do it?

I’m not really following how a robotaxi is going to go pick up grandpa who has a tough time getting in and out of a car. And if they lived closer to society than they’d be able to live closer to their physician(s) or home health aids which cost a fortune, partially because they have to spend so much money and time driving to these rural locations. Believe me, I know first hand. Even when there’s a human present it’s not easy. This isn’t a question of transportation method, it’s a question of proximity to healthcare which rural Americans are losing and will continue to lose precisely because we can’t afford to support them.

Most Americans don’t live in tiny towns, they live in cities and suburbs. I’m not entertaining the idea we need to optimize for those folks living in the middle of nowhere instead of the rest of us. If they want to live far away then they can, but that’s their decision to make and I’m not going to see my own quality of life diminished because they want a robotaxi to come pick them up in the middle of nowhere to take them an hour drive away to a university hospital in a city to get treatment. Live closer to where you work or what your needs are and lay off my tax dollars.

These specific financial and social miscalculations are the reason the USA is so fucked up. We keep doing dumb stuff like suggesting we can't have rail, trams, or street cars in cities because some random old people exist in tiny towns. Seriously?

How about instead of the aging population of 3 in Raymond, Ohio getting robot taxis (that they can’t afford to pay for by the way, the government will have to pay for those rides) we support the aging population of 300 in a city neighborhood instead?

You’re talking about the distribution of towns and cities as something that we need to accommodate, but we don’t. Instead we need to focus on accommodating most people, not legal jurisdictions. This will lower costs and increase economic vibrancy, improve social cohesion, and health too.
by DoctorOW | 2025-09-19 12:54:28+00:00
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I feel I have a great example. Replacing the Google Assistant with Gemini has made my phone both slower and less accurate. More than once have I said "Hey Google, Play <SONG> by <ARTIST>" and had my phone will chirp back the song is available for streaming instead of just playing it. Once, I even had it claim it wasn't capable of playing music, I assume because that's true on other platforms.
by keyle | 2025-09-19 12:54:47+00:00
Yeah I'm with you on this.

When I contracted (for many years) I always told my employers at the time "my job is to return the value I cost, or more" and that if somehow I couldn't, I'd quit. I never had to quit. Sometimes I'd pivot internally as "it's what the company needs".

It was always a healthy relationship with my customers/employers.

I learnt early on that work is such a big part of life; why suck, or barely scrape the bottom of the barrel 40+ hours a week? Isn't that a complete waste of a life?

You might as well strive at being in the top 5% of "your people".

My business motto has always been "Find good people and do good work" - note that I don't say "the best people" or "amazing work". With age comes pragmatism; life isn't a self-help book. Having good people means that no matter the work, how terrible of a slog it is, you still wake up to work and look forward to the next week; even if this one stank! Surround yourself with people that care, that take it upon themselves to improve and that have your back (no genius psychopaths).

Sure I've come across a plethora of oxygen stealers and time robbers, and I could count on my right hand the people I'd chase up to work with again...

The key is to not let the bad apples ruin your experience (and sometimes, they're overwhelming all over, at every level, and you have no choice but to move on). Take pride in your work and ignore the bad apples. If the business is any good, they'll get weeded out. Constructive honesty works. And if you talk yourself out of job, it wasn't the one. A good dose of daily humour certainly helps.

Jobs in our industry, we change like we change cars. Often we get more jobs than cars actually. So don't get too precious about your first scratch...

Many CEO, CTO, manager, whatever, will recognise quality in their people if they see it. Weasels have a limited shelf time. No matter how good they're at lying, they're scared of people who confidently do a good job quietly. Eventually they'll stand naked in the spotlight without any excuses.

Any job worth doing, is worth doing well - my father said, he was always inspired by the Japanese culture.

When I found myself in a daily slog, I found that routine was extremely important. That walk to coffee. That walk at lunch time. That little detour during commute. Whatever could be small wins throughout the day, I'd take it. It helped the drudged work where I was stuck in for a while, because having nothing to look forward to, is depression.

Work is a marathon, not a race; even if the industry wants you to believe that you're missing out, you're too slow, etc. As long as you can sleep with yourself at night, and it brings the pay check, strive to do your best in any condition and accept the things you cannot change. But don't let bad people define your work.
by tbrake | 2025-09-19 12:55:31+00:00
I don't know about romanticizing a hard life but I'll definitely get hit with a very strong sense of wanting to escape and leave it all behind.

It hits me every summer like clockwork tbh - leaving a nicely typed 2 minutes notice on my VP's desk and just taking my chances as a traveling beach bum. Akin to wanderlust, I'm filled with the urge to just go off into the unknown.

In my heart of hearts I know I'm a soft city boy though. I wouldn't last a week.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-19 12:55:50+00:00
Seems like he doesn't understand the meaning of "cash strapped".

I make my own "latte" before leaving the house. Total cost --- maybe 25 cents and 2-3 minutes.

As opposed to $5 and 10 minutes waiting at Starbucks.

Just for fun, ask your Starbucks friends to justify their patronage and behold the utter nonsense they unleash. It often boils down to the fact that they don't really like coffee and they aren't smart enough to add their own syrup.

https://www.torani.com/
by FergusArgyll | 2025-09-19 12:56:04+00:00
I think the "straussian" reading is it's the husbands fault. He knows he's doing the wrong thing but he can't say no.

1) Listen to your conscience & speak up unambiguously

2) Something like "Victim blaming is correct in moderation"?

I don't know if I agree with that but it seems like an interpertation
by piker | 2025-09-19 12:56:11+00:00
I hate this "feature". Was there a rash of children jumping out of cars that lead to its creation? It just seems like such a narrow set of facts where a child is big and smart enough to open the door but dumb enough to jump out and get seriously hurt. Opening a moving car door is presumably quite difficult given the aerodynamic pressure on the body. So the car would have to be moving rather slow and yet turning and moving fast enough that the child couldn't avoid disaster.
by Levitz | 2025-09-19 12:56:11+00:00
The problem is not considering them arbitrary or not. We are sure to derive expressions from reality in some way, I'm sure that many languages have different versions of saying that something is so boring it puts someone "to sleep", no matter if speech is not hypnotic, the human experience will relate the boredom with sleep.

The problem is when from that we derive, with little justification and with the by now widely recognized horrible standards of social science, that in those rationalizations lie very important hidden truths about our society and psychology.

Many things boil down to an implicit association test of some sort, and that's now considered basically junk science.

There's a pipeline in which basically anything that can be considered a social issue in some way can get picked up by someone in the social sciences whose biases it confirms and given a justification, and since it has a political backing and is powered by preconceived bias and academia it goes through and actually has a negative effect on the world.

The stupid Stanford prison experiment. Facilitated communication. Power posing. Trigger warnings. Learning styles. Priming. All bullshit. All popular. All part of "the science".

And people wonder why there's a problem of institutional trust.
by astrobe_ | 2025-09-19 12:56:16+00:00
The finite world is a problem in practice only for popular game servers. I think the base walking speed for characters is ~2m/s, so reaching the edge from origin would take at least 4 hours. Even free-falling from max altitude (10 m/s is the max speed IIRC) takes a while.

Moreover, the "finitude" of the world can be mitigated by the fact that Luanti also offers 64 km total vertically out-of-the-box; various mods use this space to create the equivalent of "dimensions". In practice, without tools that allow to dig ridiculously fast, supposedly realistic mountains (what can be realistic in a game where you can carry with you several trees, casually jump 1 m anyway and barely get a scratch from a 15 m fall?), planes, dragons or whatnot, a "troposphere" of 1 km is plenty, and would allow 128 64x64 km "dimensions".

That being said, and my own biases put aside, people outside of the Luanti core team are working on that [1]

[1] https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=9183
by croon | 2025-09-19 12:56:18+00:00
Ballots are locked up and have detailed logs for where and who is handling them, and all critical processes have mutual verification from all (or both in reality) parties.

Ballot reconciliation ensures that every ballot printed is tracked, as well as ballots counted and ballots cast match up.

And as it is spread out over counties and districts, any injection anywhere would fail those checks.

I'm not an expert, and there is likely at lot more depth to this, but I did try to read up on it after the 2020 election and was sufficiently convinced at the time at least, but I'm happy for anyone to correct me.
by anonymars | 2025-09-19 12:57:29+00:00
Guaranteed every Tesla owner (Model 3/Y at least, I haven't seen the others) has had to explain to new passengers how to properly open the door and to use the button to exit and NOT the obvious handle.

Meanwhile how many times in one's life as a non-Tesla-owner have you had to explain to someone how to open a car door?

They do say they're a tech company and not a car company, eh?
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-19 12:57:53+00:00
I think its pretty weird to take this passage at face value. "Foucault's Pendulum" is, at least in part, about how facile this kind of yarn spinning is. Any prejudice or conclusion anyone might like to make is a few waves of the hand away from something that looks like a good argument.

Interestingly, Aristotelian physics would have described down as "the true, appropriate place" for material objects and "up" as the unnatural state, only produced by violence and bound to be corrected by the universe.
by vintermann | 2025-09-19 12:57:55+00:00
It's not so surprising. Nansen was conservative-ish politically. Seeing the effects of the famine in Ukraine radicalized Quisling as a fanatical anti-socialist. He also married a Ukrainian woman (bigamously, but that's another story). As a fanatical anti-socialist in the 20s-30s he fell in with the wrong crowd.

Who knows if Nansen too would have, if he had lived to see the rise of Hitler. Probably not, as he was usually fairly ambivalent about politics, but it wouldn't have been terribly surprising either.
by e40 | 2025-09-19 12:57:59+00:00
What people normally mean by wealth is easy access to cash. Someone that owns a $15M house and has very little other liquid assets is not poor, but they definitely don't qualify as wealthy.

Many, many people in CA that live in expensive homes are in this situation. It's what Prop 13 wrought. Variously, in my neighborhood, old people are paying a small fraction of the property tax that I do, and their house is worth a lot of money, but they have almost nothing, living on their social security check, month to month.

I'm not saying Lynch was living on SSI, but given his movies and what we know of how much they made, the story told by his daughter is very plausible.
by SignalM | 2025-09-19 12:58:29+00:00
I appreciate the thought but this isn’t even a David and Goliath .. this is David’s infant taking on Goliath… Oracle spends more on lawyers than engineers. If this 200k is spent it will be thrown in the garbage. Unless Oracle wants to release it on their own they’ll happily stay in court until every penny Deno has is gone and not think twice about it. Have the team focus on something else.. this isn’t even worth typing up and putting on their website.
by karel-3d | 2025-09-19 12:58:38+00:00
Plaid whole business model is that it uses OAuth2 on banks that support it and export the data through APIs; and for the banks that don't, they ask for name/password and scrape it through "fake" web browser that mimick user behavior on the backend.

(I worked for a Plaid competitor. The long-term goal for all similar companies is of course to use OAuth and APIs, because it breaks less often; but since the banks don't offer that, scraping it is!)
by esafak | 2025-09-19 12:58:52+00:00
It's not about managing churn; it's about making it easy to refactor by leaving open the option to use newer versions of libraries, or add dependencies that themselves depend on newer versions of libraries. And the way to do that is to continually pay off the tech debt in upgrading your dependencies.

Do you only write utilities that are fire and forget? Most people write applications whose specifications constantly evolve.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 12:59:06+00:00
> And how do you address my point that the volume of so-called "unimportant" bugs

I would address your point by first re-focusing our attention on the basic and commonly understood meaning of the word "unimportant" - the definition is fairly easy to understand, so just grasping that again as part of the conversation seems to be necessary.

So, you asked about the "so-called" unimportant bugs? Yeah, they're called that because they're the unimportant ones. It sucks if an unimportant bug bothers you or interrupts your workflow - been there.

If unimportant bugs still seem important to you, an easy way to understand this concept is that in comparison, other bugs exist that are deemed even more important than these. And the company developing the software in question gets to make this call.

> a myriad of small, nearly-meaningless bugs ... pile up until your product is noticeably full of them.

I don't think that is at all how this works. There are numerous bugs and errors in software that have no real effect on users. Could they be fixed? Sure. But having 10 of these (your words) "nearly-meaningless" things still results in ... near-meaningless. If they had meaning and were important, people would be complaining so much about it that you couldn't sweep the issue away by auto-closing a dead 2-year-old ticket.

> Google is constantly, constantly, constantly, constantly adding new features.

Correct. It is what people/users seem to like and want. Unsurprisingly, new features come with new bugs... these new bugs may be way nastier than the so-called "unimportant" bugs that have been well-known for a while. Which fix should the team focus on?

> Worse, they've obviously chosen to auto-close bugs that they've ignored

They've "ignored" aka de-prioritized some requests, because otherwise all requests would have to be considered equally important. When that happens, important things don't get handled.

If the bugs being auto-closed were important, users would be clamoring about it, discussing the issue, and opening tickets with support. When one developer with a hawk-eye for errors drops a new bug/suggestion, it isn't going to get the same attention as a huge file-deletion bug in the new feature that just rolled out and is being actively used.

> I don't know whether they do that anymore, but the point is that Google has plenty of time to do stuff.

Again, even big companies do not have infinite resources. Just jumping to the conclusion that they're big means they should be able to do everything tells me there is a lack of experience speaking an opinion here.
by amonith | 2025-09-19 13:00:01+00:00
Here's the funny thing though (as a developer which worked for various companies that didn't have designers):

It looks custom designed because... it's not designed at all :D

At this point I'm not even sure if what you said is an insult or a compliment.

Almost all projects I worked in looked more or less like the following:

- a BA meets with the client and creates unstyled wireframes with all of the requested features. (BA doesn't really think about UX here, more or less applies some generic patterns).

- the development team grabs the wireframes, uses a generic preexisting "design system" which is the cheapest for the chosen technology (can be whatever: Bootstrap, Tailwind, Material Design) and max. adjusts colors a bit to match the client's brand

That's it. There is no design.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-19 13:00:25+00:00
Who are they a victim of exactly? Hamas can't be a victim when they are still actively holding onto hostages and started this whole war. You can say it's the average gazan, so long as they don't support Hamas. Which makes them a victim of both Israel and Hamas which is a fair claim, but they have been horribly let down by their leaders while Israel hasn't, which was kind of my point?
by shomp | 2025-09-19 13:00:43+00:00
With truly personalized learning I would expect more than incremental returns on the traditional pedagogical approach. I learn very rapidly with LLMs at my fingertips, largely due to the dialectical approach -- that is, having a conversation with the model allows me to dive in to places that are blurry and uncertain. Rather than "read, digest, quiz" maybe with the new tooling there is a better way to zero-in on what is unclear other than doing an assessment. Just kinda thinking out loud here.
by veidr | 2025-09-19 13:01:13+00:00
Right now I believe GNOME is literally the only Linux desktop environment in the world that can:

1.) Enable RDP connections to Wayland sessions, whether they are already running locally, or not (i.e., start a new session if none exist when logging in remotely)

2.) Set that up via SSH, for a remote machine that has no display and anyway is remote so you cannot physically log into it (still very fiddly, but possible)

My requirement is just that every system be remotely accessible via both GUI and CLI. So, RDP (or, theoretically, VNC over SSH would be OK) and SSH.

In the old X11 days, all major Linux distributions met this bar. XRDP worked most everywhere. But Wayland is a very different story.

The only Linux distribution that has Remote Desktop working on Wayland is Ubuttnu 25.04 ("working" per the above, not some "log into the GUI first locally, and then share your desktop" — that almost works in KDE but the experience is very buggy).

The previous editions of Ubuttnu with GNOME almost worked, but logging in remotely would kill any GUI sessions already running locally.

I can still achieve this using X11, so I do. But that doesn't work for my own personal workstation, because I have too many modern (4K or better) monitors for X11 to reliably work. So I need Wayland to drive my actual, physical monitors — and therefore am stuck with GNOME, because I really do need occasional remote access to the entire machine.

I connected to RDP sessions from Linux, macOS, and Windows. (And actually, iPadOS — using Microsoft's app which used to be named "Remote Desktop" but then they bizarrely renamed it "Windows" — leaving me in the rather ludicrous position of saying "I make a remote desktop connection from my Apple iPad to my Arch Linux workstation, using Windows from Microsoft..." ¯\\_(ಠ_ಠ)_//¯
by patriceckhart | 2025-09-19 13:01:15+00:00
I've been using Go for some time now. I've never programmed with Rust before, and it seemed appropriate to use Go for this project. In my initial prototypes of an event sourcing system that I experimented with last year, I used PHP (yes PHP) with either PostgreSQL or MySQL and a few other things. A major advantage of Go is its backward compatibility, which certainly makes maintenance easier.
by em-bee | 2025-09-19 13:01:33+00:00
my main interests in a framework is minimalized boilerplate code that only exists to make the framework functions work, so that i can reuse code without the framework without much change or any change at all. and a html syntax that follows the standards. your syntax here has a bit of an issue because characters like * or + may be ok in HTML, but they are not valid in XML or XHTML, so they limit the usability in systems where interoprability with XML or XHTML is needed.

by far the biggest point is however is buildless application. while aurelia and vue and others can be used buildless, it's always a chore to get there because using build tools is still the default. buildless first, or buildless only is a big win. also because it encourages different optimizations that are more suitable for a buildless application. aurelia or vue are not optimized for buildless usage.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-09-19 13:01:45+00:00
Julia is pretty good at basic data science. Working with dataframes is comparable to R's data.tables with the benefit that I don't need to switch languages if I want to run a fast loop over some data as part of a calculation or use a custom data structure.

I'm not a fan of pandas, so I'd say Julia and R beat python at basic dataframe manipulation. Nothing beats kdb+/q at dataframes though imo.
by jalapenos | 2025-09-19 13:01:57+00:00
I guess your imagination isn't as dark as mine.

I imagine the nerd confidently standing up in meeting room, his eyes wide with a psychotic look of conviction, stating with vehement certainly: "they wouldn't be dead if we'd written it in Rust!".

But yeah, the 50 something checked out MBAs - just waiting for the end to the farce that was their "career" - would be nodding along.
by strnisa | 2025-09-19 13:01:59+00:00
I understand not wanting another subscription. You can subscribe and then immediately turn off auto-renewal — your access stays active for the full year you paid for.

On PAYG, you can target the largest emails first and stop whenever you've freed enough space. For example, processing 300 of the largest emails at $0.01 each is about $3; if they average around 10 MB, that's 3 GB freed.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-19 13:02:17+00:00
> I can't name a single well-designed app off the top of my head.

When it's well designed you don't notice it. Surely you've encountered badly designed apps and interfaces in your life. Now think of the apps that don't make those same mistakes.

The purpose of digital technology is so that people who are not developers should be able to use them and be productive with them. Just like cars are designed so that people who are not mechanics or engineers can also drive them.