MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xyzelement | 2025-09-21 22:47:47+00:00
I wasn't born here either (but I am the person you are replying to)

I'll give you some examples of the kinds of things I easily did with my two bigger kids (5 and 3 years old)

- woke up on a nice Sunday morning and decided to go for a woodsy hike 20 min drive away. - threw our kayak on the roof and drove out to paddle it on the south shore, on a whim. - threw bikes into the bike rack for a long ride along a Greenway. - dropped by Grandma's house easily. - went to the Adirondacks for a week and brought our bikes and paddle board along with a bunch of other stuff.

And not directly care related but car enabled - I just opened the backyard door and they were playing there by themselves while I kept an eye from the kitchen.
by bbor | 2025-09-21 22:47:57+00:00
Well yeah, the illustration on some website (that may or may not actually be in her book) isn't scholarly evidence, that's true. But you're not giving her enough credit here, by a long shot!

1. She's been doing this since 2011, her TED talk a decade ago racked up 2M views, and this book landed a positive review from the curator of the Smithsonian's "hall of human origins"; she's not some rando. Here's her (somewhat outdated?) Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QaDkX_UAAAAJ

2. The actual evidence here is supposedly "a unique database that holds more than 5,000 signs from almost 400 sites across Europe". It could still be misleading of course, but it's a lot more than just a website diagram.

3. You putting "language" in scare-quotes is completely unnecessary, as that's not what she's arguing at all. Rather, she's saying that these symbols should be treated as a milestone on the way to written language ("first indicators of our human ancestors capacity for symbolic meaning"), not full grammars in-and-of-themselves. Given that evolutionary linguistics is in a "pre-Gallilean" phase at best (to quote Chomsky), I'd say any well-cited contributions to the field should be welcomed! Maybe she's wrong, but in a way that leads us to what's right.

I came to the comments to be dubious as well, so I appreciate where you're coming from. But IMO "ridiculous" is going way too far...
by nathan_douglas | 2025-09-21 22:48:22+00:00
My mother always put a really high emphasis on honesty. I wasn't the best kid, and certainly not the most honest (sorry, Mom), but I've always been absolutely forthright in résumés and cover letters. If I don't fully tick C, I mention it and share some quality or experience that I think might compensate. In my experience, it hasn't helped. I still do it, though, just because TBH I'm not 100% qualified for any of the jobs I apply for because I don't want to do the same shit I've already done for the rest of my career. I'm trying to grow, lol.
by lossolo | 2025-09-21 22:48:32+00:00
Since 16–17 September 2025, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (created by the Human Rights Council) has issued a formal report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. That’s a UN investigative mechanism with an official report and UN press release, not a couple of random staffers. Besides that the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory (an independent mandate holder) reported in March 2024 that there are reasonable grounds the genocide threshold was met. And the International Court of Justice (the UN’s principal judicial organ) ordered provisional measures on 26 January 2024 because at least some rights under the Genocide Convention were plausibly at risk, orders it reinforced in May 2024. You can disagree with these bodies, but they’re real UN mechanisms and courts, not "three employees".

And as to Faisal Ali, separate independent review (the Colonna report) found Israel had not provided evidence of widespread militant infiltration across UNRWA’s workforce. Isolated criminality by individuals doesn’t erase findings by UN investigative mechanisms or the ICJ.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/unrwa_claims_vs_fa...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-review-israel-hasnt-prov...

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/t...
by jcranmer | 2025-09-21 22:48:42+00:00
skims the articles quickly

Um, no.

Archaeoastronomy is a field that is borderline fringe science, in large part because it is really easy to overinterpret the data and find spurious correlations because there's just so many variables. To be taken seriously, you have to produce a lot of ancillary data to buttress the interpretation, for example showing that the claimed astronomical features have relevant cultural significance and hence would have reason to be specifically marked.

These papers aren't doing that. They're saying "hey, you can interpret pictograms as features of aurora," which is exactly the kind of argument you would make if you wanted to guarantee ostracization from the community. There's not an attempt to demonstrate a common source, there's not an attempt to analyze a complete context of petroglyphs (as opposed to individual ones) to demonstrate a coherent, single interpretation of a single event. Nope, it's just "some of these common petroglyphs look kind of like aurora features."
by godelski | 2025-09-21 22:49:05+00:00
Yeah, that is a big drawback. But as mentioned elsewhere and by others, there is `importctl`. So you can ship these images as well. Meaning only one person needs to make that image for others to be able to get the same convenience as pulling a docker image.

I'm unsure if someone has made a tool to convert docker images to systemd. If not, that'd be a pretty handy one.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-21 22:49:20+00:00
All other things being equal, yes. Static types work well for constraints on function parameters. "Parse, don't validate" and all that.

Some contracts are more difficult to express, though. The worst kind involve sequences of behavior, e.g. "start() must have been called," or "must have been obtained from a previous call to 'allocate()' on the same object."

Even value parameter constraints can be tricky. "The input must be sorted."

I haven't studied type systems, but I like the idea of values picking up attributes as they pass through functions. Imagine a "sort" function that bestows its output with the "sorted" type attribute. But then what happens when you append to that value? Is it still sorted?

At some point it's convenient to be permissive with the parameter's static type and to constrain the caller with a contract.
by patel011393 | 2025-09-21 22:51:16+00:00
Sorry, but other academic researchers who have analyzed Langer’s work have found many problems invalidating her claims. These studies have not been independently reproduced and are ludicrous: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/19/carroll-la...

There are many, many detailed critiques online. PubPeer is just one starting point: https://www.pubpeer.com/search?q=ellen+langer

I would not allow an undergrad psych major to propose such drivel.
by jonstewart | 2025-09-21 22:51:39+00:00
I live in DC and go to NY a couple times a year, for a decade+. It can be a little faster to fly, sometimes it can be a little cheaper (but that depends a lot on when you book), but AmTrak wastes less of my time. Living in DC proper, it's faster for me to get to Union Station. Once there, maybe I'll grab a coffee and then it's time to board the train. I get on, I sit down, I plug in, and I have three hours of no hassle quiet work time. Then I come into Penn Station, catch the A train downtown, and I'm at the NY office. There's way less standing in line, dealing with security, being shutdown due to taxiing, waiting in traffic, etc.

The Acela is useful if I'm trying to make a tight time window. However, I prefer the café car booths on the Regional.
by DavidPiper | 2025-09-21 22:52:09+00:00
> Is there such a thing as being fashionably disordered?

Anecdotally, absolutely yes. Based on what the Instagram and YouTube feeds have sent me over the last couple of years, ADHD in particular (Autism less so, but as the parent notes, "AuDHD" is becoming very popular) is totally glamourised at this point, much to the detriment of people who actually have to manage ADHD and Autism, I assume.

There is an enormous amount of monetised content around it.
by rtpg | 2025-09-21 22:52:48+00:00
> Which is very difficult, and requires a broad coalition in 2 houses of parliament.

In the current moment the same party controls all three branches of government.

There's a more basic reality that the idea I'm mentioning simply wouldn't be popular. I just think that people talk about market forces in these discussions and the lock-in effect is so clearly something that's affecting the market, yet not mentioned nearly enough IMO.
by codeduck | 2025-09-21 22:53:40+00:00
awful handle ergonomics compared to any "real" knife e.g Wustoff or Victorinox.

No tang whatsoever, so the knife has no strength. It's probably unbalanced, which makes it awkward to use with finesse and speed. A year of heavy use and the "haft" will degrade to the point that it's dangerous.

Buy a proper carbon steel knife. You can keep it sharp forever with 5 minutes on youtube and $20 worth of kit from Amazon. Plus, it will never go flat.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-21 22:53:43+00:00
This is correct but needs more explanation. What the commenter is alluding to is Precision Scheduled Railraoding ("PSR") [1]. Basically this means having really long trains with half the crew and cutting down on safety inspections to increase profits by spending more time delivering freight. It also gets around the Amtrak priority. Why fewer staff? Because you only need one engine crew for a train twice as long.

Increasing train length on tracks not designed for it is a safety issue. Think about it, you have a whole bunch of separate carriages. Some are turning because that's wher they are on the track. Others are going uphills, yet others downhill. All of these forces become a problem that arguably increases the likelihood of derailment, the kind of which we had in East Palestine, Ohio a few years ago.

The labor situation is so bad that there was the threat of a strike in the Biden administration. For what? Paid sick leave, mainly. Biden got Congress to use their powers to end a strike by "essential" workers and then quietly later went and partially conceded to their demands.

Retiring crews haven't been replaced so the labor is at dire levels, all to slightly increase profits. It was estimated that if UP conceded toa ll the union's demands it would reduce their profit by 6%. Not revenue, profit.

[1]: https://www.fractracker.org/2024/06/exploring-the-fallout-of...
by panarchy | 2025-09-21 22:54:44+00:00
The point of no return was likely electing someone that attempted a coup (fake electors plot) back into office. If they didn't want to leave peacefully or legally the first time what made anyone think they would the second.

PS this site is filled with people who downvote and flag any post that makes Trump look bad so good luck with yours.

Germans were 'simply' worried about their jobs and dealing with the 'violent left', homeless, and rounding up people that they viewed as invaders poisoning their way of life.

They were even largely quite happy with Hitler. He didn't take Germany against its will (technically he did, but the people fell in line and reported liking him after it happened, except for those "communists and antifa"), he was the manifest will of those who felt scorned by how society had changed around them. It wasn't until the fallout of the aftermath of their desires and evidence of the evils that they were perpetrating did they start to realize they were played and even then the sunk cost fallacy was too strong and many Germans went to their graves believing Hitler was right.
by mattmaroon | 2025-09-21 22:55:23+00:00
I can see why you would think that, but no, that’s not the case. My RV battery is 200aH but can discharge at 380 amps and drain itself in well under an hour. (That’s a peak rate which it cannot sustain for long enough to discharge itself but it can still be well above 200 the entire time.)

Most lithium batteries can drain themselves much faster than an hour.
by godelski | 2025-09-21 22:56:30+00:00
Tbh, it makes it harder to follow and reply.

> tmps

What problems does it introduce?

If anything, I'd say that /tmp is more of a hacky solution than private tmps. Private temps is really just allowing you to force a program to perform to use mktemp rather than rely on /tmp. Much easier to provide that "patch" than to get a maintainer to modify what they're doing.

I agree that it is a more powerful tool than is needed to solve the actual problem, but a lot of times you don't actually have the power to solve the root problem (or solve it and keep it solved). So the solution works out pretty well imo.

I'm open to better solutions but you've only made complaints and offered no alternatives. Maybe you have better solutions, but who's going to know what they are and how are we going to know they're better if you make us guess? It's also why I'm not going to "fight" back because there's not a point when there's no real opposition. I wouldn't even know what I'm "fighting against" other than "the way status quo" which has obvious errors and is why this tooling was created in the first place. But please, I honestly do want to hear better solutions so I can make effective use of them.
by mattmaroon | 2025-09-21 22:57:41+00:00
I think they really just do it because generally everything you will connect to the battery, for the most part, will be using the same voltage, and it’s just easier to do your math and in your head. Remember, most people can’t just calculate a 20% tip in their head without having to think about it for a while or use an app.

Also, in this particular instance, phone batteries are measured in miliamp hours, so it makes the thing I actually want to know, how many times can it charge my cell phone, really easy to figure out.

But as somebody who tinkers with inverters and such, I agree, it is annoying. It is still generally not that hard to do in my head, and trivial with a calculator. But I’m with you.
by baby | 2025-09-21 22:58:12+00:00
I used to watch a lot of interviews in Moscow and about in Russia during the start of the war in Ukraine, and I remember that that was a lot of the response people would give. Most of them would say "I'm apolitical". I don't mean to tell people what they should do, but I think this is the modern death of democracy: most people don't want to put their lives on the line to protect it, but the loud crazies are spending 24/7 on destroying it
by fennec-posix | 2025-09-21 22:58:20+00:00
I'm Australian, so your news and politics are covered quite extensively over here. I also have people I care about there in the US. There's no doubt that things are getting a lot worse. The rhetoric against Immigrants and Transgender people is following a worrying trend towards more violence and persecution. It's most definitely not your finest hour right now.

I wouldn't say it's ONLY tech that is talked about here, I do see a lot of cross-over with Tech and the political climate in the United States as both are very much intertwined. I have seen people recognise that things are becoming a lot more autocratic.

Though for your sanity, I recommend trying to pull away from the news and social media much as possible. These places greatly amplify the issues and no doubt make people more anxious and nervous, because they want your attention on their platform all the time to advertise and make revenue.

It's important to stay aware of events, but you gotta make sure you take care of yourself too. Take a break if it's becoming too much.

As for what to do about the US... I can only hope your constitution and those who truly uphold its values will continue to fight the attack against it.
by mbesto | 2025-09-21 22:58:32+00:00
This is a very poorly researched article. A few things worth considering:

- 20,000 mAh is the rated capacity. Anyone who has tested 18650 batteries (which are the cells typically used in these battery packs) knows the rated capacity != tested capacity.

- Watthours is more important than amp hours

- Tested watt hours as typical loads is more important than amp hours

- It's very normal to see tested capacity to be roughly 70~80% of rated capacity.

- This commenter said they got "At 18W average, I pulled out 55.4Wh" on the Haribo [0]

- The generally considered "gold standard" for ultra light batteries in this range is the Nitecore NB20000 Gen 3, which regularly tests around 56 Wh.

So yes the conclusion is correct - you get roughly the same amount of capacity for a typical load (18W phone) for a cheaper price and slightly less weight. Very curious what battery cells the Haribo uses.

[0] - https://old.reddit.com/r/Ultralight/comments/1li5rxw/20000ma...
by jltsiren | 2025-09-21 22:58:44+00:00
The US has had to share its scientific leadership for some time already, and China is now seriously challenging its technological leadership. It continues to attract foreign academic talent, mostly because its academic salaries are less competitive against industry salaries than in other developed countries. Because Americans are less likely to pursue academic careers, it's often easier for foreign academics to find opportunities in the US than in other countries.

Who was responsible for CRISPR is good question (I'm less familiar with the advances leading to LLMs). There was a series of incremental advances building on each other from at least Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, the US, France, Sweden, and Lithuania. And the Nobel prize was shared between an American researcher working in the US and a French researcher working in Sweden (and later in Germany).
by buggrm84 | 2025-09-21 22:58:59+00:00
Welcome to 20 years of social media normalizing everyone to avoid mean words; everyone is a Neville Chamberlain.

"Bernie Sanders is barely a good start" types like myself were trained not to tell these guys off at work and the like as in the past.

Imo there's a value to shit talking and taking the piss out of people. A necessary reminder if there is indeed a center to the universe to measure for truth relative to, it isn't them.
by peterashford | 2025-09-21 22:59:07+00:00
"it's tempting to see modern Christianity as being a faithful reflection of what Jesus did and said" - there's also the Council of Nicea a few hundred years later where people decided on the divinity of Jesus in a very political manner. It doesn't take too much looking at history to realise how much the nature of the religion is entirely a human story and whatever the nature of the Jesus (if he even existed) is probably unknowable by now.
by rglullis | 2025-09-21 22:59:23+00:00
> Most American cities are built on a scale designed around human driving.

That's absolutely not true. It only became true in the post-war when there was a push for suburban sprawl, lobbied by GM and all the auto industry [0]

> it's pretty safe to bet that she doesn't think that she can live where she does without a car.

"Where there is a will, there is a way", right? The discussion is not even if she can go by without a car, but whether she would want it.

> We can't even manage the political will to build enough housing to keep people off the streets.

Ok, but then don't go around trying to rationalize your bad choices and poor capacity for civic organization. [1]

Don't go around saying "I lived in NYC and I thought I could live without a car, but after I had kids I realized they are not so bad", and please don't go around saying "it can't be done".

Amsterdam and Rotterdam were once also car-centric cities which managed to turn themselves around in less than a generation. There is no inherit limitation in the US that forbids this change to happen. There is no amount of American Exceptionalism that can prevent people from clamoring change. Maybe it won't be done in the US, because people are lazy and not willing to sacrifice their own convenience for some communal benefit, but it's super annoying to always get in these discussions when people try to hide their preferences on external circumstances. North American cities are they way they are by choice.

[0]: How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo)

[1]: The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ)
by hinkley | 2025-09-21 23:00:03+00:00
The max weight is a bunch of bullshit on the ultralight gear.

Last time I moved I showed up the day before my stuff did, I slept on a camp cot I had bought for which I was 90% of the max weight. I used it on a carpeted floor for one night, it bent in two places. If I’d put the damned thing across a root it would have looked like a pretzel the next morning.
by al_borland | 2025-09-21 23:00:26+00:00
Turn off the news for a while. We have congress, we have the courts, we have term limits.

Part of living in a democracy is not always liking the current administration. The administrations, good or bad, are temporary.

George W Bush once said: “We're here in the Oval Office, and by the way, the office is bigger than the person. And so when you work for democracy and freedom in your country, make sure you put institutions in place that are bigger than the individuals.” [0]

The office is bigger than one man. And if you think Trump is ruling as if it’s not, then you should be happy, because any rule he makes that way can be undone just as easily if it doesn’t make sense.

[0] https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/results/leadersh...
by shakadak | 2025-09-21 23:00:44+00:00
You've mentioned list comprehensions, map, and filter, so I suppose you mostly used these concepts with lists/arrays.

One question you could ask yourself is, how could you reproduce list comprehensions without special syntax ?

Another way to view monads is by following the types. With map, you can chain pure functions from one type to another to be applied on lists (hence the (in -> out) -> ([in] -> [out]) ) . How would you do that chaining with function from one type to another but wrapped in a list ( (in -> [out]) -> ([in] -> [out]) ) ?

Then you can think about how it could be applied to other types than lists, for example, nullable/option types, result types, async/promise types, and more hairy types that implement state, reading from an environment, etc...
by dtagames | 2025-09-21 23:01:00+00:00
Johnson & Johnson is not a friendly medicine company. They have a long history of causing and suppressing information about harms in their products. It's quite likely that they were responsible for the Tylenol contamination scare decades ago.[0]

Aside from that, acetaminophen had always been a dangerous drug to hand out willy-nilly. It's a major cause of overdose poisoning and is known to damage the liver. How was it ever approved in the first place? I'd say the same way as J&J's other products. It made up half their profit for most of its product life.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Tears-Secrets-Johnson/dp/0593...
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-09-21 23:02:24+00:00
> Node24 is incompatible with macOS 13.4 and lower versions.

...wait, really?

I have NodeJS 24 working all the way back on macOS 10.9 [1]. I realize official support is a very different thing, but I'm still surprised they can't do better than Ventura.

1: https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Node-24-Mavericks/blob/master...