MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aachen | 2025-09-19 13:16:26+00:00
The mobile app is also buggy as hell. Notifications of direct messages (when someone wants to reach you personally) work only sporadically whereas in group chats they're reliable. Then when you click one of those group ones, it opens the group chat, flashes you the message, then loads the rest of the history, scrolls you down, and marks the whole chat as read. I've eventually found that you can find it again by going out of the chat and to your in-app notifications and tapping it there again. Then iirc to reply, you need to click some "open in chat" option (while you're already literally viewing the chat) and then it seems to scroll and show you the message correctly. Or maybe that latter thing was from search results, idk

I'm also pretty sure it silently deletes old direct message chats. I'm missing some that I really thought existed. Don't fault them for deleting things btw, seeing all the (literal and figurative) shit that thousands of teenagers post in this server I was helping out on, but it shouldn't be silent
by e40 | 2025-09-19 13:16:27+00:00
And some number of years ago, the government restarted a rare earth ore processing plant (somewhere in the west, like CO... I forget). Of course, after a year or two, the will to maintain it (because it was operating at a loss) evaporated and it went under.

Japan broke their habit of buying rare earths from China because of an extortion incident between the two... they process the ore in far off places (Australia and other places), before importing the final products.

The issue is that the US is (and has been for some time) mired in short-term thinking. The short term being how to win the next election, not how to solve problems. Of course, now, the problems being solved aren't really ones that people want, unless you are rich already.
by lsaferite | 2025-09-19 13:16:34+00:00
Your suggestions highlight what I hate about the new Android gestures interface. You have to know those patterns in advance and remember them. They aren't visually apparent like scroll bars, drag handles, titles bars, and window frames. I am quite versed in keyboard shortcuts, but keeping *all* of them in my head gets a bit much sometimes. When I forget one, rediscovering it is a serious PITA. The rediscovery (or initial discovery) is orders of magnitude harder for things like the Android gesture interface.

Couple this with App and OS designers feeling a *constant* need to change things and make them "better" and you have a disaster in the works. I've been grousing about Android changing things just to change them as I get older. The other day even my 12 y/o daughter was complaining about them changing how things worked.

Anyway, my point is simply two-fold. First, any UI that requires knowing and remembering interactions that aren't easily discovered *is a problem*. Second, constantly changing UI interaction patterns, even when they are discoverable, *is also a problem*.
by gjm11 | 2025-09-19 13:16:46+00:00
I don't know anything much about the history of Sanders's rhetoric specifically, but: Inflation and economic growth mean that "millionaire" very much doesn't mean what it used to N years ago, and more so the larger N is. (And Sanders has been around for a while, so N can be pretty big if you're comparing early-Sanders with late-Sanders.)

If you believe something along the lines of "the richest 1% of society, the ones who have > 10x more wealth each than a typical upper-middle-class person, have too much money and too much power and we should change that" -- which I think is the kind of thing Sanders believes -- then talking about "millionaires" was a reasonable way to express that 50 years ago; these days what we need is a word whose meaning is more like "person with $20M or more"; give it another 50 years and "billionaires" might express roughly the same meaning that "millionaires" did in 1975. (Or, of course, there might be a huge economic crash, or a currency devaluation, or a technological singularity, or something.)

So someone could switch from complaining about "millionaires" to complaining about "billionaires" just because the way the meanings of those words have shifted means that the best word for pointing at a particular social issue used to be "millionaires" and is now "billionaires".

Because we really only have "millionaire" and "billionaire" and, more generally, numbers spaced by powers of 1000, the sets of people you can talk about pithily change over time. So, at the moment, you can talk about "millionaires" and be referencing something like the top 15% of US households (so if you're wanting to engage in some hostile rhetoric, pointing it at "millionaires" is probably broader than you want for several reasons); or you can talk about "billionaires" and be referencing something more like the top 0.0003% (so if you're wanting to raise money by redistribution, "billionaires" is probably much narrower than you want).

I suspect there are a few good PhD theses to be written investigating questions like "do populist-leftist movements have more success in places/times where some handy term like 'millionaire' picks out roughly the top 0.3%-3% of the population than in places where there's no word that does that?".

(Note: numbers above are in the right ballpark but I make no claim that careful calculation wouldn't change them somewhat.)
by Aaargh20318 | 2025-09-19 13:17:21+00:00
I have an air purifier in my bedroom. It measures PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 as well as TVOC (Total volatile organic components) and adjusts it's air intake according to the air quality. Usually it runs at very low speed and is inaudible, even at night.

When I start cooking downstairs, within a minute or so I hear the purifier upstairs ramp up to full speed.
by sanjit | 2025-09-19 13:17:22+00:00
But staff showing up and simply quoting a person higher in the org only shows they’re parroting.

Anything personal would have been appreciated, especially in this context. Maybe “I’m one of the thousands that work here but this means something to me…”?

Actually even a professional stance that showed concern: “One of our shared company values states…”

Sadly Jamie’s response didn’t build any trust of Slack from me…
by georgejg | 2025-09-19 13:17:25+00:00
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by crazygringo | 2025-09-19 13:17:53+00:00
No, gas combustion doesn't generate any significant amount of particles.

It produces CO2, NO2 and some CO. But it's not going to show anything on a PM2.5 meter.

The particles when frying come from the oil turning into smoke, as well as just aerosolization even well below the smoke point. These are what send PM2.5 levels skyrocketing.

When I sear a steak in cast iron, my PM2.5 levels go from their baseline of ~2 ug/m^3 to ~200–400. And course you can smell it in the air.
by kgwxd | 2025-09-19 13:18:00+00:00
In the cases cited in the English article, the driver doors were supposedly not crushed, and someone on the inside would have been able to open it, had the handles worked as expected.

Defending deadly design is a really weird hill to die on. Your false idol is actually just an idiot, and I know it stings the pride to admit you fell for it, but doubling down isn't the way forward.
by zhivota | 2025-09-19 13:18:17+00:00
I used Teams just before Covid (last job I had used it). For one messages didn't arrive in the same order for everyone, so chat histories often didn't make sense, with replies appearing above the messages they were replying to. The other thing I recall was slow loading time. Slack is _snappy_, moving from channel to channel is very fast, as if nothing ever needs to load (it does, it just cleverly preloads everything except images it seems like). The interface was just far less intuitive as well.

At the end of the day, just about every team that I worked with had a WhatsApp group that they actually used to chat in. Having a bad product as your internal chat is how you get shadow IT like WhatsApp where people are discussing your proprietary information on a third party service.
by MBCook | 2025-09-19 13:18:36+00:00
Since I do web apps Strings are my bread and butter.

If you make UntrustedString a subclass of String (trusted) then you lose type safety. So TrustedString has to be the subclass. Easy enough.

But now string literals are “untrusted”. So you have to do new String(“this is trusted content”) everywhere you need it, which is a pain.

And you can’t add trusted strings. The operator will return a normal String (untrusted) so you have to cast it. Same with any function you call like substring.

So you have to live with that, or make overrides for every single string function that fix the types where necessary.

It’s just really non-ergonomic. I think having it built in would likely make it far better.
by ajross | 2025-09-19 13:18:37+00:00
I don't have numbers for you, but the answer is likely of the order "almost always after a rollover". The cage will protect the occupants from being crushed, not the high-tolerance door and hinge clearances. And rollovers are common.

Again, the confirmation of priors effect is extremely strong here. People are leaping from "Tesla manual door handles are difficult to open from inside the cabin" to "All Tesla accidents are the fault of the interior door handles".
by SamuelRubidge | 2025-09-19 13:18:49+00:00
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by kalberg6429 | 2025-09-19 13:19:01+00:00
The expected Zionist modus operandi, whitewash Zionist crimes, then blame the victim for responding.

Your "socialist" argument is a weak attempt to hide behind a political label. It doesn't matter what they called themselves. The "socialist"[1] Haganah and Palmach were the main engines of the Nakba. The distinction between them and the Irgun was a public relations strategy, a "good cop, bad cop" routine for the same unified colonial project of dispossessing Palestinians.

The Altalena was a colonizing force consolidating its monopoly on violence to better oppress and dispossess the Palestinians. You cannot compare that to a occupied population struggling under a foreign military boot. Palestinian "leadership problems" and disunity are a direct result of decades of Israeli assassinations, imprisonment, and engineered fragmentation.[2]

[1] 'The Dark History of "Left-Wing" Zionism' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehp9PZo4UR0

[2] https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...
by lapcat | 2025-09-19 13:19:40+00:00
> the basic and commonly understood meaning of the word "unimportant" - the definition is fairly easy to understand

This is nonsense. I don't agree at all. The meaning of "important" and "unimportant", with respect to any particular issue, is vague, controversial, arguable. It's ridiculous to suggest that we can easily put bugs into those two categories.

> There are numerous bugs and errors in software that have no real effect on users.

This is also nonsense. If there's "no real effect", then there's no bug.

> But having 10 of these (your words) "nearly-meaningless" things

What are you claiming to be my words?

> It is what people/users seem to like and want.

More accurately, what stockholders/advertisers seem to like and want.

> They've "ignored" aka de-prioritized some requests, because otherwise all requests would have to be considered equally important.

That's nonsense, and not how it works. In fact the Google bug tracker has a specific "Priority" label for each report. You don't need to close a bug report to assign it a priority.

> When that happens, important things don't get handled.

That's not true either. Not all open bug reports get "handled".

> When one developer with a hawk-eye for errors drops a new bug/suggestion

1. I didn't drop a suggestion.

2. I didn't have a "hawk-eye for errors". I'm not specifically looking for bugs in Chrome. I have absolutely no desire to do free labor for an ultra-wealthy mega-corporation. I was simply using the developer tools, and they didn't work right.

> Just jumping to the conclusion that they're big means they should be able to do everything

Another straw man.

> there is a lack of experience speaking an opinion here

What "lack of experience" are you referring to? I've been a professional software developer for 19 years, how about you?
by mallowdram | 2025-09-19 13:20:06+00:00
Ditch them. Movies already demonstrate what Mayan/Chinese accomplishes momentarily. It's post-representation, post-symbolic, post-metaphor. verbs only, references only. Concatenation. Humans are slaves to symbols, look at computers. We have an S&M relationship to the arbitrary and Wall Street and Silicon Valley want it this way: they've made trillions off an illusion. We either shift to external references for action-syntax or enjoy the ride the dinosaurs took down. And they had a meteor. We've got a self-made mirage of the arbitrary.
by hobs | 2025-09-19 13:20:24+00:00
It's literally reported right in the top "Up 29% since February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

And later "Coffee prices have jumped more than 20% in the last year. And while some of that is due to weather in coffee-growing countries like Brazil and Vietnam, Trump's double-digit import taxes are not helping." if you want to pretend that your boy had nothing to do with it (because global trade wars have nothing to do with rising prices.)
by breppp | 2025-09-19 13:20:34+00:00
You might call it a cynical colonial propaganda. However, I believe that someone who is so insistent on removing any agency from the Palestinians is actually someone who echos colonial propaganda.

One of the historical motivations for colonialism is seeing the 'natives' as merely children without agency that need the benevolent west's help, which is the exact dehumanizing vibe applied whenever someone suggests Palestinians may also have the concept of responsibility
by nunobrito | 2025-09-19 13:20:50+00:00
I don't think you ever used Monero because payments are settled in a few minutes and the user gets fast notification of incoming transaction.

So that point you raise is fake. However, if you want to pick a more realistic reason then complain about the fees which are still high when doing for example a payment of 5 cents and the fee will often also be 5 cents whereas it should be free.

Anyways, I'm not even a fan of Monero being used for that purpose. The conversation here was about privacy and the lack of it on some virtual coins.
by thisoneisreal | 2025-09-19 13:21:22+00:00
You didn't ask me, but I can respond as someone with a similar background. I grew up in a religious household. I spent about a decade from ages 18-28 studying philosophy both academically and casually, then entered a technical field and got reaquainted with science.

Many philosophical problems informed my view of religion, but probably the most profound were Carl Sagan's invisible dragon and the problem that there are so many differing and incompatible religions. Many religious people will freely admit their beliefs have no evidence, and yet from my point of view, if that's true, how can anyone claim their particular religion is correct? Why should I believe in Hinduism instead of Catholicism? I never got a satisfactory answer to that in any of my philosophy classes or reading. (The problem of evil is another strong one, but didn't have as big of an impact on me as the first two.)

As far as science goes, the two main contributors to that were biology and physics (although there are some countervailing forces there: the order of the universe truly does seem miraculous). Jay Gould's essay "non-moral nature" where he describes parasites that lay their eggs on paralyzed victims, then the eggs hatch and the larvae eat the victims alive, was probably the first thing I read that had bearing on religion. But if you look at nature generally there is obviously an overwhelming amount of suffering. Kids who die from random genetic mutations, animals that get eaten alive crying. I could never square any of that with God.

As far as physics, what really gets me is the sheer immensity and seeming indifference to human scales. Because of the speed of light, we are basically trapped within our own universe. Space is mostly an enormous empty void, and there is no sign that any other planet would be especially hospitable to our species. On a more mundane level, human beings have been killed in incredibly stupid ways, like the guy who was irradiated to death because of a software bug in the x-ray machine. So you put all of that together and it just doesn't suggest any sort of divine guidance to everything going on around us. (Which isn't to say there aren't counterarguments, but that's the sort of evidence and thought processes I imagine the parent was referring to.)
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-19 13:21:29+00:00
I was prepared to cynically dismiss whatever he said as damage control but his explanation is fair enough. An obscure bug and... Forgetting that every single pair of glasses in the room will respond to you as well??

As for the actual product, it's a solution for a problem nobody has. It doesn't matter how great or terrible the implementation is, i think nobody cares.
by greengreengrass | 2025-09-19 13:21:54+00:00
I have often wondered why we don’t see more usage of the brand gTLDs, which many of these big firms own. I muse that this is (part of) the reason why – there simply isn’t the understanding or recognition outside tech circles (or even within tech circles) to comprehend that it is possible to use such a gTLD without a conventional .com or similar suffix tacked on the end. I tend to see it localised to use for marketing micro sites that do not ask for credentials so have no need to establish user trust, or occasionally internal technical uses that will never touch the typical customer’s eyeballs.

The other reason I hypothesise is that corporate big brother snooping systems that have whitelists for their trusted services – with entries like mail.google.com or calendar.google.com – are simply too painful at this point for big tech to break for their customers by dropping the .com suffix, so big tech doesn’t bother.

No hard data on any of that, though.
by stemonteduro | 2025-09-19 13:23:18+00:00
Thanks, then I think I’ll try to focus only on one niche, and since I already have a customer I’ll immediately try sending them an email to understand how they use it (and if I can improve the service from their perspective at no extra cost).

And then I think it makes sense to contact those who no longer use the service to ask why and get some feedback (they definitely signed up but didn’t find what they were expecting).
by CaptWillard | 2025-09-19 13:23:24+00:00
I'd never heard of the replication crisis, but it mirrors what I think is a core problem with modern political discourse.

Example: Two people with similar classically liberal values hear the same "pithy take" on a politically contentious issue. One accepts it as presented, the other digs in and finds it doesn't hold up to scrutiny at all.

Almost invariably, the skeptic is ostracized, his findings met with incurious dismissal.
by Thorrez | 2025-09-19 13:23:25+00:00
Yeah, it does make things more difficult in terms of teaching people a simple rule. Instead of "ends with @<company>.com", the rule is "ends with @<company>.com or .<company>".

OTOH, there were probably a lot of places already violating the "ends with @<company>.com" rule, e.g. by using subdomains, or even other domains. So very little of the online population was likely using the rule. And with email spoofing, even "ends with @<company>.com" can't be relied on to ensure the email is legit. So the rule of "don't click links in emails" is the only foolproof rule. Though you also need to add "don't copy and paste things from emails".
by pessimizer | 2025-09-19 13:23:52+00:00
We're also heading for a crash because we invested in financial scams rather than infrastructure that would allow us to make groceries cheaper.

But this is just a submarine anti-Trump piece. Everybody knows that groceries are expensive and why. The idea that annualized inflation rising to 2.9% in October when it was 3.0% in January is a huge failure for Trump is silly when he's actively pursuing policies that are expected to raise prices (tariffs and the deportation of workers that have no rights and are paid trash.)

Trump's failure is that he's simultaneously trying to cut the social safety net because he's a dumb libertarian at heart, surrounded by dumb libertarians, who engineer policy to serve their plutocrat sponsors (who aren't dumb libertarians) whims. They convinced him that he could get rid of the enormous number of illegal aliens to create a wage renaissance without spending a dime, but they aren't easy to get rid of. They're here, and they don't have anywhere else to go because we fucked up their countries. In fact, he's still fucking up their countries because he serves the people he golfs with. Even if you warehouse the illegals, all that's doing is keeping them from feeding themselves, and making them an even larger weight on the citizen economy. He even knows that most of them will have to be made citizens. At least the gate is closed for now.

He needs to put price controls on necessities hard, and start doing stimulus checks so hard that it looks like UBI. His goal is to lower the dollar anyway, print a ton of them and don't give them to the wealthiest people in the country who don't spend (or who "spend" on trash like the metaverse and AI being anything like AGI.) By that, I mean be better than Obama. People will forget that you reigned over the completion of a genocide in the holy land, and remember that you saved the West.
by ssimpson | 2025-09-19 13:23:56+00:00
Not sure about yours, but many extractor (vent) fans will just suck the air over a very loose filter and throw it back into the room. Many in the US are part of the over stove microwave and rarely vent at more than 250cfm (~7 m3/min) where specific vent fans that go outside can move upwards of 700-800cfm (20m3/min).
by Aachen | 2025-09-19 13:24:12+00:00
Join us on Signal or one of the many other options: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels#Realtim...

I've never understood why a part of our community goes with this walled garden to host their chat. We're literally an open data project

Edit: fwiw, I know that moving communities is extremely hard, not to say impossible to achieve completely intact, but those who care could choose to join two chat systems. Eventually, the one people gravitate towards will win. E.g. I'm still in the Telegram chats and use those on occasion (also because, as a moderator, I get regular pings), but primarily share content on Signal or Matrix