MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-24 00:54:56+00:00
You use terms (other as well) like, "own, is the CEO of, and the owner of" and this speaks to the ironically illiberal shift we've seen in contemporary politics. Historically one needed to justify, "why" some person is put into a position of authority or power-- now as a result of the Randroid Neoliberal Assault™ it's taken for granted that if, "John Galt assumed a position of power that he has a right to exercise his personal will even at the behest of who he serves or at the behest of ethics" as an extension of, "the rights of the individual."

I want to recapitulate this sentiment as often and as widely as possible-- Rand and her cronies know as much about virtue, freedom, and Aristotle as they do about fornicating; not much.
by breadwinner | 2025-09-24 00:55:04+00:00
You know how this used to work in the old days? Instead of publishing allegations yourself, you would take your story to a newspaper reporter. The reporter will then do the investigations then, if there is solid evidence, the story will be published in the newspaper. At that point the newspaper company is standing behind the story, and citizens know the standing of the newspaper in their community, and how much credence to give to the story, based on that. Social media destroyed this process, now anyone can spread allegations at lightning speed on a massive scale without any evidence to back it up. This has to stop. We should return to the old way, it wasn't perfect, but it worked for 100s of years. Repealing Section 230 will accomplish this.
by iambateman | 2025-09-24 00:55:20+00:00
Remarkably, the television wasn’t the technology that forced the MLB’s hand on this. You would think it would…football and tennis went for challenges a long time ago, and viewers can easily see when an ump misses a call. But baseball has managed to stay human on balls and strikes for a long time.

Then along comes sports betting and they basically have no choice but to use robots.

It’s sad to me how much sports betting changes sports. When I watch, I wonder if the referee has accepted a bribe every time a call is a little funky. Considering the millions of dollars riding on every play, some of them must have taken some money at some point.
by mock-possum | 2025-09-24 00:56:20+00:00
Oh wow that is foreign to me, but I’m sure you’re right - Collecting invites you never intend to answer just sounds like… I don’t know, some sort of weird social hoarding.

If somebody I don’t want to hang out with keeps inviting me that doesn’t make me feel good about myself, that makes me feel anxious, like I haven’t properly clarified our relationship with them.

> That person likes to be invited to feel like they are the more valuable person in the relationship.

For me, I would expect the opposite - if you get invited all the time but never come, it’s because you’re not actually involved in their life, you’re not actually all that valuable. In order to be valuable you’d have to be making the effort to be present, or at the very least, communicating your availability so the other person would better understand when it’s appropriate to expect you.
by api | 2025-09-24 00:56:43+00:00
I’m undecided on the issue, but… if I were trying to cover up an accidental lab leak I’d spread a story that it was a giant conspiracy to create a bio weapon. For extra eye rolls I’d throw in some classic foil hat tropes like the New World Order or the International Bankers.

If it was a lab leak, by far the most likely explanation is that someone pricked themselves or caught a whiff of something.

A friend of mine who lived in China for a while and is familiar with the hustle culture there had his own hypothesis. Some low level techs who were being given these bats and other lab animals to euthanize and incinerate were like “wait… we could get some money for these over at the wet market!”
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-24 00:56:58+00:00
I thought flaggers always hid in the shadows, but here you are out in the open. Would you please reconsider your actions? You're doing great damage to a very nice message board, and it is to no benefit for yourself.

Flagging is a powerful tool in this small duckpond. Instead of abusing it, you can use HN to learn self restraint, so that when you one day achieve power over other people in real life you have learnt not to abuse it.
by dvsfish | 2025-09-24 00:56:59+00:00
100% agree. You'd start to think "Anna doesn't like us" and just move on. Despite what they're going through, some level of responsibility falls on them to express a sense of "it's not you it's me", if they legitimately do want to remain part of the friend group. Not engaging with the friend group is effectively the same as not being a part of it. If the "pleasant feeling of being included in the group" is the entirety of your involvement, it's actually a somewhat selfish and shallow position after a while. That's not to say that the group has to ban her, but at a certain point there is no valid reason to engage with someone (in a group context) who doesn't engage back.

If you have friends you think are depressed or have something else going on, by all means reach out, but thats not the same thing.
by asdfwaafsfw | 2025-09-24 00:57:07+00:00
If the viewers didn't know it was a blown call, there wouldn't be a problem. That's how baseball worked for 100 years.

But now when the viewers can see the pitch in 1000fps 8K slow motion, they expect better from the umpires. The entire premise of sports relies on the assumption that the rules are adjudicated correctly.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-24 00:57:57+00:00
I wouldn't say it's "meh" that you can take your kids to swim school only on weekends.

LPB is 23 vs 39 for me but I do drive. Either way I wouldn't think it "meh".

But I suppose standards of living in the US are by default so far ahead of other places that these are considered the minimum to not be "meh" here.
by doodlebugging | 2025-09-24 00:58:03+00:00
I too have repurposed a similar machine to try to help me solve a nagging problem.

One of my vehicles uses a hydraulic clutch. By design, air bubbles can be trapped in the master cylinder due to factory bends in the lines and the orientation of the master cylinder when it is properly installed. If this happens it will be impossible to shift the gears (manual transmission) until the air is bled from the lines.

I tried multiple air burping procedures without success. Part of the procedure involves tapping on the hydraulic lines to help dislodge air bubbles so they can flow up and out of the lines into the fluid reservoir. The area is tight and in order to do this efficiently you must remove the master cylinder from the vehicle.

I decided to avoid that removal step and employ a Sharper Image back massager as a tool to dislodge air bubbles with the system in place in the vehicle. Since that massager is huge it would not fit into tight places under the hood so I used a length of PVC pipe held tight to the lines to transfer the vibration to the lines. This allowed me to get large air bubbles out of the lines. In the end I was not able to remove enough air using this hack because an O-ring near the bottom of the system is missing or bad and that allows air to enter and flow up so i could vibrate that thing all day and never get anywhere. It was a shot in the dark anyway. If that O-ring were not missing or bad I know it would work.
by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve | 2025-09-24 00:58:25+00:00
The user apparently needs to provide that through ba.tpm.uniquekey(), providing persistent random data that is device dependent: https://realtimelogic.com/ba/doc/?url=auxlua.html#ba_tpm_glo...

I guess the rest still provide value by transforming whatever random seed into a proper certificate though.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-24 00:58:58+00:00
> There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer.

So live public webcams in the employee restrooms in all government buildings?

I would argue that public officers would retain personal privacy, but that such privacy cannot be a shield against the public for the government concealing substantive operations, and that the identity of public officers and the substantive means by which they are engaged in the exercise of public functions, are therefore not within the space of their personal privacy.
by failedagain | 2025-09-24 00:59:11+00:00
Encouraging words, well received.

I realize I'm a diva about VC. I definitely prefer capital upfront and a mission to shoot for the moon, but I have to admit that I've only demonstrated success when bootstrapping and running customer dev from the start.

Further thoughts on your point, I seem to have an expectation that I deserve free money to run a science experiment with low chance of big result, with little proof. This isn't how VC works in practice, so if I want funding, I should have built the case for it, or start now.

If it was SaaS, I'd advise bootstrapping product dev with consulting, but I don't see a path to do that with a robotics SDK. The only bootstrapping strategy I can think of is like robotics-for-coders courseware. Not a bad strategy, but that won't keep the lights on.
by hinkley | 2025-09-24 00:59:16+00:00
They are partway through creating two new games.

It’s possible that some of the engine improvements could be easily back-ported to BG3. Or even just compiler improvements could be a little more oomph.

Edit:

> Our Proton version runs on the Steam Deck via the Proton compatibility layer, which requires extra CPU processing power. Running the game natively on the Steam Deck requires less CPU usage and memory consumption overall!

Workaround for a performance regression helps some but I suspect more has gone on.
by itake | 2025-09-24 00:59:26+00:00
> The solution to the “female only”

Landlords/sellers aren't typically the limiting on gender (because they legally cant), but the renters/buyer's "self-select" process is sexist/racist. People post advertisements on FB looking for a new roommate of certain type.

If anything, landlords in my area subrenting / house hacking are better at managing a home with mixed race / gender than people "self-selecting" with racist/sexist ads.
by latent22 | 2025-09-24 00:59:29+00:00
then you may be able to do things like this I think

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by margalabargala | 2025-09-24 00:59:41+00:00
> A censorship policy that changes daily is a shitty policy.

Yes.

> If people on June 8th criticized that official position before they reversed the next day, do you think it was right or a good idea for them to be censored?

Obviously not. Like I pointed out to the other commenter, if you were to read the comment of mine you replied to, I have a whole paragraph discussing that. Not sure why you're asking again.
by naasking | 2025-09-24 01:00:48+00:00
> My memory is that the "lab leak" stuff I saw back then was all conspiracy theories about how it was a Chinese bioweapon.

No, that was just the straw man circulated in your echo chamber to dismiss discussion. To be clear, there were absolutely people who believed that, but the decision to elevate the nonsense over the serious discussion is how partisan echo chambers work.
by hedora | 2025-09-24 01:01:07+00:00
The whole automotive industry is doing this to cut costs, and supposedly improve the driving experience.

I'll believe that when they ship a single car with a better UI than the pre-touchscreen vehicles I used to own. Until then, there's no way I'm getting any of these stupid software defined vehicles. We have one (Kia EV9), which is also a "dumpster fire in a train wreck", and are getting rid of it. We've had more issues than the people interviewed in the article about the Volvo. So have the other EV9 owners I've talked to.
by trhway | 2025-09-24 01:01:53+00:00
>At that point the newspaper company is standing behind the story

the newspaper company is the bottleneck that the censors can easily tighten like it was say in USSR. Or like even FCC today with the media companies like in the case of Kimmel.

Social media is our best tool so far against censorship. Even with all the censorship that we do have in social media, the information still finds a way due to the sheer scale of the Internet. That wasn't the case in the old days when for example each typewritter could be identified by unique micro-details of the shape of its characters.

>Social media destroyed this process, now anyone can spread allegations at lightning speed on a massive scale without any evidence to back it up.

Why to believe anything not accompanied by evidence? The problem here is with the news consumer. We teach children to not stick fingers into electricity wall socket. If a child would still stick the fingers there, are you going to hold the electric utility company responsible?

>This has to stop. We should return to the old way, it wasn't perfect, but it worked for 100s of years.

The same can be said about modern high density of human population, transport connections and infectious decease spreading. What you suggest is to decrease the population and confine the rest preventing any travel like in the "old days" (interesting that it took Black Death some years to spread instead of days it would have taken today, yet it still did spread around all the known world). We've just saw how it works in our times (and even if you say it worked then why aren't we still doing it today?). You can't put genie back into the bottle and stop the progress.

>Repealing Section 230 will accomplish this.

Yes, good thing people didn't decided back then to charge the actual printer houses with lies present in the newspapers they printed.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-24 01:01:53+00:00
Thank you for sharing that. It clears up my confusion. I thought perhaps you had found some magic way to get them to do something without you needing to disrupt your day.

It doesn't seem worth the time investment, as it won't have any effect beyond the particular incident you're reporting. It won't increase the threat of enforcement such that people decide not to break the law.
by crote | 2025-09-24 01:02:14+00:00
Of course. After all, it is mathematically impossible to prove the correctness of all valid and safe programs - the halting problem clearly shows that. The real question should not be "Are there valid and safe programs Rust will reject?" but "How common is it that your well-written valid and safe program will be rejected by the Rust compiler?".

In practice the vast majority will be accepted, and what remains is stuff the Rust compiler cannot prove to be correct. If Rust doesn't like your code, there are two solutions. The first is to go through the rituals to rewrite it as provably-safe code - which can indeed feel a bit tedious if your code was designed using principles which don't map well to Rust. The second is to use `unsafe` blocks - but that means proving its safety is up to the programmer. But as we've historically seen with C and unsafe-heavy Rust code bases, programmers are horrible at proving safety, so your mileage may vary.

I don't want to be the "you're holding it wrong" person, but "Rust rejected my valid and safe program" more often than not means "there's a subtle bug in my program I am not aware of yet". The Rust borrow checker has matured a lot since its initial release, and it doesn't have any trouble handling the low-hanging fruit anymore. What's left is mainly complex and hard-to-reason-about stuff, and that's exactly the kind of code humans struggle with as well.
by potsandpans | 2025-09-24 01:02:22+00:00
The topic at hand is not whether it's a bold claim to make. The question is: should organizations that control a large portion of the world's communication channels have the ability to unilaterally define the tone and timber of a dialog surrounding current events?

To the people zealously downvoting all of these replies: defend yourselves. What about this is not worthy of conversation?

I'm not saying that I support lab leak. The observation is that anyone that discussed the lab leak hypothesis on social media had content removed and potentially were banned. I am fundamentally against that.

If the observation more generally is that sentiments should be censored that can risk peoples lives by influencing the decisions they make, then let me ask you this:

Should Charlie Kirk have been censored? If he were, he wouldn't have been assassinated.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-24 01:02:49+00:00
This. Even if we have concrete protections in our society it takes a society of people committed to a common democratic cause and common functional prosperity that prevents there from being abuses of the right to speak and so on (..) This isn't complicated and this wasn't always controversial.

I've already described above that even in this thread there's a sentiment which is that, "as long as somebody has gained coercive power legitimately then it is within their right to coerce." I see terms thrown around like, "if somebody owns" or, "if somebody is the CEO of..." which speaks to the growing air of illiberality an liberal autocranarianism which is a direct result of the neoliberal assault founding and funding thousands of Cato Institutes, Adam Smith Societies, and Heritage Foundations since the neoliberal turn in the late 1960's. We've legitimized domination ethics as an extension of the hungry rights of pseudotyrants and the expense of people in general.

I wonder what people in general might one day do about this? I wonder if there's a historical precedent for what happens when people face oppression and the degradation of common cultural projects?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution#October_Rev...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
by db48x | 2025-09-24 01:02:53+00:00
Well, they didn’t come right out and say that they modified their policy on COVID-19 “misinformation” as a result of pressure from the White House, but we all know that they did. They started banning anyone who talked about how COVID-19 might have originated in a lab, or how that lab might have been doing Gain of Function research on coronaviruses. Now that most people think that a lab origin is likely they have changed their policies and are inviting people back. They never should have banned those people for expressing their opinions in the first place.
by itake | 2025-09-24 01:03:00+00:00
The problem currently isn't the landlords, but the tenants and subtenants. Maybe if landlords could offer more shared housing, this problem would go away. But tenants frequently look for people of the same gender or race to rent a shared housing.

The other (smaller) issue I think is house hackers (landlord occupied properties). The landlord doesn't own multiple units and is effectively "airbnb-ing" out rooms for short term leases.
by gpm | 2025-09-24 01:03:53+00:00
Mildly related:

"Evan and Katelyn" is the name of a youtube channel where (amongst other less mature things) they make a bunch of small things with concrete and epoxy, like a concrete keyboard. Both materials (especially concrete) need some assistance in flowing into small spaces and getting bubbles out. For the size of project they often work on... a personal vibrator seems to work damn well.

Concrete keyboard video as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSG5ohV0nY
by altairprime | 2025-09-24 01:04:33+00:00
> then you were never interested in anything other than an affirmative

I disagree. Perhaps these roguelike examples will clarify.

You can Raise Concerns towards the project. The project is mired in your concerns! The project loses 5 HP extricating itself from the muck! The project moves forward. --more--

This indicates that the project considered the concern raised and chose not to halt work over it; those 5 HP who might be impacted should continue planning for that impact. Most likely, in Git's case, that's either 'the good of the project outweighed the impact to the few' and/or 'no one is willing to commit developer/maintainer hours to us for that platform so we're bailing on it'. I haven't uncovered any evidence that they tend to lie about project motivations, and certainly I would not classify the project founder as 'uncomfortable sharing unpalatable views', so I have no evidence supporting the accusation that the Git project might refuse to consider a supported claim that has not already been evaluated.

You cast Unsupported Claims towards the project. The project's shield reflects them! You take 5 HP of Reasoning damage! The project moves forward. --more--

A politely-phrased objection is meaningless if it isn't backed by reasoning that can be considered and either accepted or rejected by a project. People do try, but disappointingly, human beings are sometimes vulnerable to politeness attacks of this sort. I can assert with near-perfect certainty that Git is not vulnerable to polite but unsupported objections.

You cast Hostile Tirade towards the project. The project casts Protection from Hostility! Your tirade has no effect. You blink away! --more--

Everyone is looking to ignore this kind of criticism. The roguelike joke makes it especially clear that the criticism was not considered solely due to how it was presented, rather than by whatever merits it may have. Doesn't matter how substantive the claims, being mean typically guarantees both disregard and eviction from the chosen battlefield.

ps. Note that in some cases, the project will abandon the requested outcome. Human beings have a certain percentage chance of sacrificing personal gain to 'reward' hostility with an outcome that is maximally undesirable to those being hostile. This can result in ending support for platforms that might otherwise have remained support, or even outright shutdown of an entire project. See also: Fez 2, libxslt, et al.

pps. None of these outcomes guarantee that they will change course, even if a perfectly-supported and politely-presented argument is made and considered. None of these outcomes guarantee that one will receive a considered rejection rather than a blind rejection, either. There is no Konami code, but one thing is certain: one cannot win an boss fight by throwing the controller at the TV.
by theluketaylor | 2025-09-24 01:04:43+00:00
I'm a huge fan of the automatic balls and strikes challenge system baseball is going to adopt.

Awful calls need to be struck from the game and this should do that. Tonight my Blue Jays had a double taken away on a foul call and a ball 2 inches off the plate called a strike in the same at bat with the bases loaded. Between this and the horrible reviews last week it feels like the fix is by MLB to keep us from winning the division.

Unlike tennis where in and out have always been strictly defined and we just didn't have the technology to enforce it, baseball has always involved the human element to the strike zone and some umpire judgement on whether the pitcher hit the spot or just got lucky and what a given batter's zone is. I want some of that to stay, with catchers holding game-long discussions about the zone with umpires, and batters having their own sense of the zone.

I don't want full automatic balls and strikes, so I like the challenge. There is some new strategy on when to deploy it and who can be trusted to recognize a missed call. It leaves some room for a pitcher and catcher to work a corner over a few innings to expand little by little.