MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rmunn | 2025-09-23 03:28:01+00:00
This has nothing to do with the content of the article, but is anyone else annoyed by that link style, or is it only me? To me, the link style where the underline partially overlaps the baseline of the text (not just characters with descenders like g and q and y, but the actual baseline so that it overlaps nearly all characters) harms readability.

I'm also not a huge fan of the way hovering over the link turns it into a highlight on the word, but that's not a huge readability issue because the highlight covers the entire character. But having the non-hovered link underline be fat, so that it partially overlaps the baseline of the characters, means that those characters are superimposed on two different backgrounds, pale blue and pale red, and that harms readability.

This site isn't the only one that does this, or I might not be complaining. It's a style that seems to be popular, and I really don't know why. It's a bad idea and people should stop doing it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 03:28:22+00:00
I think you've shown Polymarket comments are crap. But I'd say that for every venue on the internet except, occasionally, HN.

While there is legitimate concern around manipulation given Polymarket's thin volumes [1], there is limited evidence that the broader value of prediction markets applies to them [2]. (I started taking it seriously after Nate Silver hitched up his wagon [3].)

I'm sceptical of political predictions. I have limited respect for crypto. But on the balance, once you account for manipulation risk, it has a good track record. More pointedly to OP's question, I don't see any controversy around its adjudication and ability to pay.

[1] https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/dont-trust-the-politi...

[2] https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2024/12/election-results-sh...

[3] https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/nate-silver-polymarket
by LTL_FTC | 2025-09-23 03:28:27+00:00
Well the discussion was California as a whole and averages, so I decided to share. As with averages, data is above and bellow the mean, so when a commenter above said $.30/kwh was much too low for California, I decided to lend some support the the argument as I’m in California paying bellow the average. It’s a just a data point. A counter example to the claim made by parent. Maybe it helps fellow nerds pick a spot in the bay if they want to run their homelabs.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-23 03:29:17+00:00
> there is no amount of investment that can make a person with the ability to afford a car willingly choose public transit

But also:

> Most people choose what makes sense for them, myself included. I drive most of the time, but have no problem taking public transit when it makes sense.

I apologize for taking your word as literal. The first quote is what I was really responding to.

There is a middle ground, it just sounded like you didn't know it existed.
by mcmoor | 2025-09-23 03:29:57+00:00
Yeah the conclusion from here [1] is that the biggest reason a prison can reduce crime is not because of rehabilitation or deterrence (even in places that try to do either) but because of incapacitation. It holds people in their prime age of doing crime (15-30) and spits them back out when they're too old to do those anymore. The obvious conclusion is that exile will have the same effect, but we don't have place to exile people to anymore.

1. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prison-and-crime-much-more-...
by elcritch | 2025-09-23 03:31:08+00:00
> Obama's love of drones and his ordering extra-judicial execution of US citizens

Yes, so many Americans forget about this or gloss over it. Even the fact you’re getting downvoted show how biased most folks are.

Trump has in many ways done less than previous administrations. He just makes it very public and brash.

> Presidential immunity was the defacto operating principle and most legal experts outside the fringe really agreed that an action like the killing of an American citizen abroad by the executive branch could not be prosecuted, despite it otherwise meeting all elements of the criminal statute for murder.

Which leaves me with mixed feelings. The idea that the President basically gets to do whatever he wants as long as congress won’t impeach him is scary for the rule of law. However on the other hand, it does allow the President the power to do things that may need doing.

It’s been that way since Thomas Jefferson sent the marines to fight Barbary wars without congresses approval. Perhaps earlier.
by galaxy_gas | 2025-09-23 03:31:59+00:00
at least have cost of storing the media that Dropbox need pay. In this case there is none of that.

[[ I do understand there is a small distinction here, in that the Dropbox reference is for a user that will self host the storage server, but in the context of this message I refer to the SAAS host or owner of Pocket Casts I cannot imagine to be losing 800k a year even at AWS pricing given what the app does or something is written very wrong ... ]]
by Gabriel54 | 2025-09-23 03:32:27+00:00
Where are you getting this information from? EB-1/2/3 are clearly visas issued to people [0]. It is true that many people may adjust status to EB-1/2/3 while already in the US in another status, but they are certainly visas still available to people. As I understand, due to the quota system it can be very difficult for folks born in certain countries to receive them (due to quotas) and they end up waiting for many years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-1_visa
by throwaway173738 | 2025-09-23 03:34:08+00:00
Energy projects are just a variation of a real estate project. As you might know, a lot of the difficulty in mass producing buildings isn’t making the parts but preparing the site to receive the parts. There’s probably 5 or 10 companies in your vicinity that can ship you prefabricated walls and floors for a house. But you still have to have the plans engineered for the exact piece of land you plan to put it on. The same will be true for every windmill and solar farm. Studying the site and planning the build are unique to each building and limit how fast you can go anyway.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 03:34:18+00:00
> I think Trump is just stupid and doesn't like windmills

Trump doesn't like windmills because his base hates windmills. They hate windmills because libs like them.

This isn't the five year old not liking green beans. It's the five year old seeing his sibling like them and then deciding--despite having no green beans on his plate, not being offered any--to spit in Mom's.

There are also energy interests at play. But from all appearance, those aren't controlling here. Trump hasn't given the energy lobby what they want, not substantially. He has leaned over backwards to please his base.
by cookiengineer | 2025-09-23 03:34:34+00:00
You seem to have not understood that in politics, it was never about values.

It was about beliefs, that's why the right wing is winning, always, just from a game strategy viewpoint.

Trying to find a compromise is losing the game in the long term. That's why doxxing in public is so effective for the right wing, because it moves the needle of what is okay to say as a rhetoric, while lowering the chance of finding a compromise, too. The more hate it spreads, the better.

And the absolutists on the left side of the spectrum are just as radicalized by now as a copycat game strategy. The irony here is that if they would get voted into the Capitol, they would stalemate democracy just the same.

And that's the bug that Putin is exploiting with his propaganda machine, since 2011, the day he realized he must control the media when Gorbachev's daughter tried to start a coup and failed.

Also check out what happened to MTV in Russia, which had a comedy show about Putin. That's what's happening to Jimmy Kimmel right now (and probably John Oliver soon).
by AuthAuth | 2025-09-23 03:34:55+00:00
I like that they are considering this problem. I really dont like what they have decided to focus on. Having 'answer engines' as the core with content creators filling in the gaps like some sort of task rabbit workers sounds horrible. I dont want gaps filled by people who are doing it for money. I want people that actually care enough to organically create the content.

The problem isnt oh no people wont be viewing ads and thus creators wont get paid. The problem is "why arent people who view these websites willing to pay?". So many subscriptions are like $5 a month but if we consider how much a creator is paid for showing you an ad its like 0.0005 cents. I'd rather pay that everytime i view a page than look at ads or have cloudflare pay people to create the content openAI thinks I want.

Funding the content we consume should be cheap considering how many people are there consuming it and how cheap it is these days to serve content.
by MountDoom | 2025-09-23 03:35:21+00:00
As an 18 year old arsonist, you can set a commercial building on fire and cause tens of millions in damages. Is that the fault of the owner?

I don't know why, but we all have a much stronger moral compass when it comes to the real world than to the internet. It's not just cybercrime, the standards of civility are completely different too.
by r721 | 2025-09-23 03:36:31+00:00
Reminds me of Russia:

>Russia outlaws ‘international LGBT public movement’ as extremist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/russia-supreme...

>Russia’s top court bans nonexistent ‘Satanist movement’

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-supreme-court-bans-sa...
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-23 03:37:28+00:00
> Which by the way was largely false, for both low and high-ranking Nazis. It was usually possible to slowly or even quickly distance yourself from directly committing atrocities (or coordinating them) and get fobbed off into some low-key administrative position without fearing anything like serious punishment. The Nazi machinery was harsh towards openly voiced disobedience and discontent, but surprisingly tolerant of a "weak stomach" or a lack of what their fanatics called moral fiber (being able to protect the race by butchering innocent others).

Totally agreed. I can see how Eichmann, and many other government functionaries committing evil acts willingly (historical and modern) are perfectly able to believe the lie wholeheartedly. That is all that really matters. The state supports the lie, the culture supports the lie, and the person believes it, despite proof otherwise.

That is the banality of evil. Just follow orders, and you will be fine. There are monsters (historical and modern) who do not see the issue with separating children from parents (or whatever evil you choose) over trivial paperwork, but the ugly reality is that most of the people doing the work know that what they are doing is wrong on some level, but feel shielded by the authority of the institution issuing the orders.

The examples abound (modern and historical).
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-23 03:37:35+00:00
That's one viewpoint. I had a Swedish-American economics and history teacher in high school who was a partial Luddite against watches and cell phones because he viewed them as tools limiting freedom rather than as functional or ornamental accessories. Some view the presence of watches as concern for respect of time and/or efficiency, and others perceive smartwatches as convenient, less obtrusive alternatives to smartphone notification/scrolling time sinks. There are many viewpoints. I would suggest continue doing whatever works best for the individual independent of shitpost opinions on the internet.
by wpm | 2025-09-23 03:37:44+00:00
I remember a year or two ago the FCC was here in the comments asking people about IoT and what we felt the issues were.

Sadly, I have no hope of anything to come out of that, not that the current admin really changed anything about that hope either.

This sort of shutdown should, immediately, with the full force of the law, mandate a release of a working version of the software and a working firmware update to switch it to that version of the software, that is licensed MIT or BSD, with full source code, that allows one to build the app themselves and keep using it as it was.

If you don't wanna keep rolling with it, fine, go ahead and move off of it. But this enshittified rug pull is infuriating and it cannot be allowed to continue this way. Absolute scummy behavior. Just fucking open source it, assholes.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-23 03:39:27+00:00
The larger market has 2 phones (Pro and Pro Max) which release each generation, separate from the base model being >6". That one needs to compare a specific subset of a larger model type and say it's somewhere within the same factor of 10 is exactly why Apple stopped making the mini.

The articles are literally about how bad the sales were before Apple stopped making minis. There is no reasonable way to conclude that means they were actually worth serving.
by Gabriel54 | 2025-09-23 03:40:23+00:00
As many others have pointed out there remain EB-1 visas and O category visas. In particular the O visas (for "extraordinary ability") are not subject to any nationality quotas. If these companies are serious about hiring the "smartest people", why would they not fall into these categories? Just for fun, here is an example of a teenager who recently got an O-1 visa as a software engineer [0]. Surely the folks applying to OpenAI, Nvidia, etc. would have similar qualifications?

[0] https://x.com/Mokshit06/status/1955377782902624410
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-23 03:42:05+00:00
i think working hard is a smart thing to do - but be intentional about it! Don’t just work hard to make your boss happy, that’s dumb.

Work hard to develop the skills you need for the job you want, even if it’s not fun. Work hard to get a job at an employer that pays well and offers good work life balance. Work hard to carve out time for your family. Work hard at the hobbies that bring you joy. Work hard to maintain friendships that matter to you. Work hard to be a good parent, spouse, friend, neighbor.

To me, “work hard” just means “don’t half ass life”. For some reason a lot of people associate working hard with “slaving away for an employer for 40 years while ignoring family”.

You only get 1 life, don’t waste it all at the beach doing nothing.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-23 03:42:32+00:00
And yet, (1) testing finds bugs in any nontrivial program that hasn't been tested, and (2) test long enough and with enough variety and you can make programs significantly more reliable.

Perfect is the enemy of good, and absent academic fantasies of verified software testing is essential (even then, it's still essential, since you are unlikely to have verified every component of your system.)
by toofy | 2025-09-23 03:43:25+00:00
it seems to me that we desperately need to get back to a place where a business is held to their word.

we have come to a place where corporations are calling limited “unlimited” and outright just lying to people.

i have seen people unironically defend this as “well if they don’t lie, then how do you expect them to sell their product?” again, people have said this entirely unironically.

i think it’s far more reasonable to expect a company to be held to their contracts and agreements. normal people certainly are.

i’ll never understand how we got to a place where so many corporations can say with a straight face “we deserve to make money in any way possible and it’s unfair for you to hold us to any kind of responsibility for our own actions”
by decafninja | 2025-09-23 03:44:15+00:00
The PRC would be delighted to see South Korea enter the Sinosphere and abandon the US. If nothing else, China would see it as a return to historic norms where most of East Asia serves as tribute states to the Chinese empire.

But also likewise, Korea holds historic antagonism towards China, arguably just as much as it does to Japan. Most of the population would hate such a relationship, and despite some in the left thinking otherwise, most South Koreans still see the US as the favorable partner over China.

But with China’s continued rise, and the US seemingly evolving (irreversibly?) into the MAGA Empire, that perception isn’t guaranteed to never change either. The PRC isn’t doing itself much favors in courting its neighbors, so it’ll become a game of who is worse.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 03:44:45+00:00
> reduces cognitive engagement with the actual task at hand, and forces a huge attention share to hand-holding

You're in some senses managing an idiot savant, emphasis on the idiot part, except they're also a narcissist who will happily go out of scope if you let it.

If you have management experience, the analogy is immediately obvious. If you don't, I can see how having speed run learning it with a kid running around with dynamite would be taxing.
by MountDoom | 2025-09-23 03:44:59+00:00
The reason it gets easier after 30 is largely because of what you learned. It's easier to find a job because you have an employment history, a set of work-related skills, and some connections you can lean on. It's easier to manage money because you know what to not spend it on. It's easier to get into a stable relationship because you learned from the teenage drama. And on, and on.

Getting to the level of a well-adjusted 30-yo is much harder if you're spending that time behind bars.
by defrost | 2025-09-23 03:45:40+00:00
Trump has disliked windmills far longer than he has had a base.

The Donald Trump who came to Scotland in 2006 to say he was building the world's greatest golf course was in many ways a different Donald Trump to the one now enjoying his second term in the White House.

~ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78nv0y89p6o

What followed was a saga;

* Some of the land he bought was under protection as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The shifting sand dune system along that stretch of coast north of Aberdeen was regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the UK. * In 2012, he travelled to the Scottish Parliament to argue against a wind farm being built in the North Sea, within sight of his development.

He lost appeals against protection, he lost appeals against the "unsightly" wind farms, he was relentlessly mocked and protested against by the Scots, which hasn't ceased:

Jig of Slurs: A Musical Record of Scotland’s Best Insults to Trump - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NNWmZwObZc

Cockwomble is a delight for lovers of the language.
by Moto7451 | 2025-09-23 03:46:28+00:00
As an owner of a few of those smart plugs I can attest they didn’t work properly when supported. You could get them paired in matter but they just fall off the network and never come back until you did a full reset.

I’m sure a few people didn’t have trouble but the Wemo support forum and Reddit were justifiably full of anger at the products.
by burch45 | 2025-09-23 03:47:26+00:00
Its entire purpose is an optimization. You have an expensive operation. A bloom filter can tell you that you definitely don’t need to do that operation. So rather than wasting a lot of time unnecessarily doing that operation, you get the cheap Bloom filter Che most of the time and only occasionally have the false positive where you do the expensive thing when it turns out you didn’t need to. That as far as I am aware of is the only use case for a bloom filter. That said, I have used it for that purpose effectively several times in my career.
by asteroidandy | 2025-09-23 03:47:36+00:00
No bug here, my database is still quite small, we're covering 300K keywords at the moment and that keyword isn't inside our database. We're releasing a much larger database in the coming weeks so stay tuned. I'll add that keyword and a bit more Q&A searches around referral software for you.

Really appreciate you signing up for the beta, hope you find it useful.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-23 03:49:21+00:00
Very few watch it - big influencers on social media have far larger audiences. In fact I think that’s also why the show being taken off air was polarizing. A lot of people watching clips of Kimmel during this controversy didn’t see the part left out of most clips shown in news articles, where Kimmel painted people mourning Kirk as toddlers mourning a goldfish or something like that. I think that would be offensive / insensitive to a lot more people than are currently offended.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-23 03:51:15+00:00
Haha, well depending on the exact ship they go on they'll probably have substantially more room than the ISS. That was the main motivation for things like people staying 370+ days on the ISS. And long before the ISS even existed, the USSR was also actively pursuing this. In 1988 Valeri Polyakov stayed aboard the Mir Space Station for 240 days. His first words after landing were, "We can fly to Mars." [1]

After that he spent a whopping 437 days on Mir (which had about 1/3rd the pressurized volume of the already claustrophobic ISS) to see how the human body would respond to long-term duration in minimal gravity. Upon landing back on Earth this time he decided to get up and walk from the capsule to his rest point (astronauts are normally carried/rehabbed due to muscular atrophy + dysfunctional balance/orientation, even for far shorter stays), making a point of the fact that he was just fine. Dude was just a complete badass. The USSR would have beaten us to Mars if they hadn't collapsed in 1991.

In any case, it's probably a good idea to do a flyby because there will be, with near 100% certainty, some thing things we hadn't considered and others that we simply were not aware of. By first doing a flyby and then a landing you increase the chances of success. And the people doing the flyby will probably be mostly the same people doing a landing a couple of years later - so it'll be more like "See you soon."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov#Cosmonaut_care...
by stogot | 2025-09-23 03:52:04+00:00
The Biden DHS called them “loosely affiliated organizations” because they were underground. Closest analogy might be anonymous or lulz. You can see members show up to protests and carry Antifa flags, in full military gear, causing violence, etc. There are arrest videos on YouTube, and the ATF, DHS, and Florida AG went after some named members back in 2023

http://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/action-against-ant...

Also others have linked to other orgs later in this comments
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-23 03:52:25+00:00
Well, does anyone actually have a copy of the contract from 14 years ago? Usually there are clauses hedging against this kind of thing.

Example: I recently wrote the T&S for my Finnish dictionary app (still working on it), and I make it clear in advance that the license was a one time fee for perpetual use for that major version. [1]

I can do this because the app is almost entirely offline, and because for the parts that are, smart cloud infra decisions means my recurring infra costs are low. If I add in features which imply a bespoke server down the line, of course that would probably be a major version upgrade - and a change in the pricing model to boot. But I'd still keep the old v1 stuff up for the lifers.

[1]: https://taskusanakirja.com/terms-of-service/#91-pricing-and-...
by axiolite | 2025-09-23 03:53:00+00:00
I clearly said: "as they secure alternative broadcast arrangements in each area"

TV broadcast tower agreements are not ossified. Every year some station switches from one to another. Comcast buying NBC led to quite a spate of that in several markets. It can be slightly disruptive on the fringes (like Comcast/NBC*) or it can go unnoticed or even improve reception.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbVXUaDAcBg