MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ptrvan | 2025-09-19 08:19:35+00:00
# A humorous PowerShell script

# Function to greet the user function Greet-User { $userName = $env:USERNAME Write-Host "Hello, $userName! Welcome to the world of PowerShell!" Write-Host "Where the commands are made up and the syntax doesn't matter!" }

# Function to check system status function Check-System { Write-Host "Checking system status..." Start-Sleep -Seconds 2 Write-Host "System status: All systems are... uh, mostly operational!" }

# Function to list files with a twist function List-Files { Write-Host "Listing files in the current directory..." $files = Get-ChildItem if ($files.Count -eq 0) { Write-Host "Looks like this directory is emptier than my social life!" } else { foreach ($file in $files) { Write-Host "Found a file: $($file.Name) - Is it a document or just a digital dust bunny?" } } }

# Function to pretend to update the system function Update-System { Write-Host "Updating system... Please wait." Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 Write-Host "Just kidding! Your system is already as updated as it will ever be!" }

# Main script execution Greet-User Check-System List-Files Update-System

Write-Host "Thanks for using this comedic PowerShell script! Remember, laughter is the best command!"
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 08:21:34+00:00
It's the one that immediately set off my alarm bell. I always try to put myself in the shoes of a scientist and imagine how it would be possible to design a study to test a claim. To me, this one implies humans of today are worse at recognizing faces compared to humans of the past who did not read as much or at all. That one cannot possibly be tested because you cannot test the cognitive capabilities of people of the past who no longer exist.

On the more productive side, this suggests we might develop standardized tests of human capabilities and limits that would allow people of the future to compare themselves to us.
by rishi_rt | 2025-09-19 08:21:57+00:00
This article presumes that the usage scenario has been defined already (by a PM) and the designer is just creating visual representations to enact the said scenario. In that sense, the article seems to attempt to answer what should a developer do, in the absence of designer. In such situations(ideally you'd avoid them), it might be better to defer to the defaults of a framework such as Tailwind which has basic accessibility concerns addressed.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-19 08:22:20+00:00
This may be a varying mileage kind of situation. I have an OM1 and basically only ever transferred pictures with the camera's connection. I don't have the fastest SD cards, and the transfer speed I get is the same as my dedicated Sandisk SD card reader, around 100 MB/s.

My older camera only had a usb 2 connection over a special connector, so I used to pop out the card. But the OM1 can also charge the battery via the usb-c connection, so it's an all-round great experience: I don't have to fiddle with random parts, not forget to put them back in, etc.

Never had a single image corrupted among dozens of thousands of them. Funnily enough, my older camera used to complain about the SD card every other time after plugging it into my mac. It would shut up after a format. That card is still going strong.

I transfer the files with lightroom (but don't remove them from the card) on a windows pc.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-19 08:23:28+00:00
> assess reading comprehension only, not general knowledge.

It looks like an LSAT question. Exactly the opposite of a knowledge question. These reading comprehension questions are designed to test whether you can - without any specific knowledge of the domain area - figure out what a piece of text claims, without injecting your own knowledge or assumptions. It's an ill fit for teaching a subject matter, though can be useful for reading and argumentation (especially in lawyer-like jobs, hence LSAT).
by mrweasel | 2025-09-19 08:23:44+00:00
> The greater the cultural distance between a country and the USA, the less accurate ChatGPT got at simulating peoples’ values.

I'd be somewhat concerned that what is actually reflected is a cultures willingness to adopt US (west coast) values over its own. We see this constantly in some European countries where we're willing to adopt US view points and problems over our own. Either because we're constantly exposed the US problems online or because the US problems are simply more "interesting", in the sense that they are more decisive and easier for us to split into right and wrong.
by Propelloni | 2025-09-19 08:24:11+00:00
Agreed, and to add: take a look at the incentive structures. Virtually everybody anywhere is acting rationally within the dominant incentive structure they are confronted with.

I know this seems so abstract it sounds like a truism and not actionable. Considering that incentive structures come in many guises (laws, morals, money etc.) the first thing we need to figure out which incentive structure is dominant in a given situation. An employee of a bureaucracy, for example, might share the presented moral disapproval about inefficiency but is it the dominant incentive structure? Probably not.

For example, DOGE toppled existing incentive structures, emphasising cost reduction vs. effectivity and privacy. People were (maybe are, nobody is reporting anything on this anymore) up in arms because they had to abandon incentive structures they knew to navigate. DOGE was a colossal failure because emphasising efficiency over effectivity is always like polishing a turd and many people said as much "back then" but look at the incentive structure of those who didn't and don't. Many of them have not prospered in the previous structures, so they support the new ones, even if they are insane to you and me. They act rationally.
by gyomu | 2025-09-19 08:24:21+00:00
> Truly a peaceful property

What you don’t realize if you’ve never spent time around those ridiculous properties is the amount of upkeep everything takes if you don’t want the indoors to become gross and dusty and the outdoors a wild jungle.

When you have that kind of surface area, you’re not taking care of all the cleaning and maintenance yourself in a few hours once a week. There are countless gardeners/cleaners/repair workers/etc on the property. Nothing peaceful about it.

And you have to also be okay with the labor dynamics of employing such an army of personnel which in LA is… interesting.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-19 08:25:28+00:00
Early this year I visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, it was built between 1994 and 2007 and it's definitely a grand monument, and amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Zayed_Grand_Mosque

But in the West I'd say yes, we have pretty much stopped. One more sign of our decadence. You have to go elsewhere to see this kind of projects.
by D-Machine | 2025-09-19 08:25:59+00:00
Yup, normalization doesn't fix vanishing gradients. It just sort of generally helps with conditioning (as you likely know, given the PhD, probably in part because it helps keep certain Lipschitz constants from being too large), just like typical residual connections generally help with conditioning. But yeah, in that sense, normalization is more about exploding gradients, and residual connections are more about vanishing. A bit sloppy on my part.
by jjav | 2025-09-19 08:26:49+00:00
> Is there a way to only host the receive portion?

Sure. Set up your email server and have DNS of your domain point the MX record at it so you receive all email directly without any third party involvement. Then, set up outgoing email to forward to some third party which handles delivery for you. IIRC there are some free options even, if your outgoing volume is low.

That said, my email server handles incoming and outgoing email for a handful of domains for self and family, no problem.
by discreteevent | 2025-09-19 08:27:10+00:00
That post seems to say that the unit of work must be something customer facing. It even qoutes Kent Beck talking about "Weekly delivery of customer-appreciated value".

There is so much great software in the world that wasn't delivered like that and couldn't be delivered like that: Unix, Microsoft Word, Postgres, AutoCAD, The JVM, Google search, Windows, AWS, Robotics, Calculators ....

The software industry seems to have been captured by contractors who used to deliver CRUD apps and now want to make the whole world in their image and likeness.
by iberator | 2025-09-19 08:27:14+00:00
> I wonder what it says about me or my life that my first thought was that it sounded absolutely wonderful.

>I do not want to be homeless or get rid of my family, but it sure would be amazing to "be able to" (of course I have a choice: I can just resign) just spend time spending time.

Trust me mate. Being homeless or a homeless traveler is HARD. I am homeless for 3 months now and it's absolutely devastating for my soul and morale.

Having no "safe harbour" takes away all enjoyment from "freedom". I was an avid hiker as well in the past :)
by nunobrito | 2025-09-19 08:27:29+00:00
Both things serve different purposes.

Imagine it this way, freenet needs electricity and servers to keep running. NOSTR messages can be printed in paper (handwritten even) and you'd still be able to verify it belongs to a specific person.

Basically freenet builds a network for communication (roads) but NOSTR is only about messages (cars) and doesn't really care about which road is using.

There is no centralization because there is no coordination. There is not even knowledge of what can be happening elsewhere because these messages might not even be using internet to be shared (e.g. radio or paper messages)

On the other side this is what makes it so powerful. You can download the full set of text messages from someone into your disk, that disk be found centuries later and digital archaeologists could easily read the contents because it is plain text.

So it isn't competing against freenet, it will use it very happily when available as option.
by kelnos | 2025-09-19 08:27:54+00:00
> The most ambiguous case occurred in Phoenix in May, when a cat crossed a street ahead of a Waymo. The Waymo braked, but couldn’t avoid hitting the cat, “which subsequently ran away.” The sudden braking caused several cars to rear-end the Waymo and each other.

That's not ambiguous at all. If you are unable to stop in time if the car in front of you slams on the brakes, you were following too closely, and that is your fault.
by navigate8310 | 2025-09-19 08:29:04+00:00
There's a difference between lying versus explaining why the reasoning of OP is wrong or right and that they are onto something that they'll learn in future classes. The teacher could just give resources to further pique OP's interest but at the same time explain clearly that they cannot write advanced reasonings in exams. And that they must rote learn the false models at least for exams.
by fch42 | 2025-09-19 08:29:47+00:00
A mandate for government orgs including the military to exclusively use "all domestic" suppliers is laudable but also subject to graft and corruption - companies need to compete to get into the "in" club and admittance will be "gated" by favouritism, political alliance, and whatever grease needed to get you into that club. And once in, you're always tempted to collude ... partition the pie amongst the "competition" while petitioning the government to grow the pie ...

Yes, you _can_ try to regulate your way out of that. It'll result in a giant thicket of rulebooks, laws, procedures and processes. Exactly what a "slim" state would not want to see ...

(I am not sure there is a perfect way out; "extremely strong" gating criteria though tend to always favour the incumbents, and a prescription of "100% domestic all the way through" is a strong gating criterion if I've ever seen one)
by qcnguy | 2025-09-19 08:31:33+00:00
Kimmel made that exact claim. Fake news has been spread by the left by way more people than him. The lying is so far off the charts that the left is having a massive collective break from reality. YouGov has found Democrats mostly believe that Kirk's killer was either right wing, or they aren't sure.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52988-donald-trum...

Even The Atlantic has had to admit that this is stupid and they can't work out why anyone believes it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/charlie-ki...

> "The evidence that Robinson was a “Groyper”—a member of an online further-right-than-thou movement that had harassed Kirk and President Donald Trump—was paltry. Why did anyone believe that idea to begin with? Already it bore the marks of an incipient conspiracy theory, a soothing nugget of esoteric knowledge, suppressed for political purposes. Many of those suckered in were victims of their own motivated reasoning. It hurts to admit that a movement you like has produced a bad person, and it hurts even more to admit that bitter truth to a gloating member of a movement you hate."

They're soothing themselves. Nobody on the right is "gloating" over Kirk being killed. This really happened because leftists have deliberately tried to confuse everyone about the truth. On their safe space Bluesky they even admit to it:

https://substack.com/@mrandyngo/note/c-157561235

> "Anyway probably for the best if everyone asserts he's a Groyper whether he is or not. The narrative really does matter more than the truth in this case"

> "Lying to flood the news is good actually"

> "Spending the last week repeating that the killer was one of the right's own may have helped take the wind out of their sails. Regardless of whether that ends up being true it was rhetorically useful in the interim. Now you can pivot. Nobody is going to care what your last position was."

These tactics work. The internet has filled up with leftists who genuinely believe Kirk was killed for not being right wing enough, and anyone who tries to talk them back to reality gets answers like "I won't read any right wing sources". It's a self-created filter bubble of madness.
by throwaway0236 | 2025-09-19 08:32:44+00:00
I asked it to make a game where you place movies on a time line by dragging the movie poster.

Instead of the movie poster, it decided on its own to use icons that represent the movie instead (a pill represents Matrix, a gun Goodfellas etc.). I was surprised by its creativity to get around any copyright issues.

https://great-orca-9mjte9.manyminiapps.com
by illuminator83 | 2025-09-19 08:33:30+00:00
malloc and free aren't overhead.

If I'm reading a file, then opening and closing a file is not overhead either. But if I'm reading a file and some convoluted system in my own process is slapping some 3000% extra work on top because it needs to asynchronously track opened files and close them at arbitrary time later - that is overhead and creates bugs.

Which is one reason why many GC languages end up with bad emulations of an almost overhead free pattern like "try-with-resources" in Java and "IDisposable" in C# etc.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-19 08:34:03+00:00
Last time I checked(years ago), it was like Mastodon but there are only dozen servers, and posting once in standard clients post it on all servers. Everything is a tweet, and servers serve you contents based on what it remembers about you. The core principle is that bans and refusals by server operators are at best customary since users can receive the same information elsewhere, even transparently.

Though, they did happily filter Macau casino spams flooding the system, so I wouldn't be so sure. Workload of posting to and receiving from dozen servers was also not trivial when I was trying it out, and architecture changes to reduce duplicates and/or syncing databases across hosts were actively discussed. I guess those works were never completed judging by comments here?
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 08:34:17+00:00
I almost want to sign up now because I read comments like this and it sounds abhorrent and stupid, but then I go click explore on the actual page, and the first page of stuff I see is people actually making and selling real stuff. Sure, they take payment in Bitcoin, but they're selling ghee and cacao and there's a community of people interested in alternative schooling. It's not "I'll show you my diary and you pay me for it" that you're describing here. Real goods and services, not "content."
by walkingthisquai | 2025-09-19 08:35:39+00:00
It's right there in the privacy center. The answer is quite unambiguously yes by the way. (This is for the Gemini app):

"How your data is used Google uses this data, as described in our Privacy Policy, to:

Provide our services Maintain and improve our services Develop new services Personalise our services (learn more) Customise our services Communicate with you Measure performance Protect Google, our users and the public

These uses extend to the generative AI models and other machine-learning technologies powering our services."
by gwd | 2025-09-19 08:37:48+00:00
Right, well, the project needed something like IRC / Discord / Slack, where random people could just show up, ask questions, hang out, whatever. You know, engage with the community.

"Lots of clients" -- that's actually a problem. "Oh, you want to have a quick chat with experts in our community? First, here's a list of 50 IRC clients, half of which haven't been updated since 2003, all of which have different advantages and disadvantages. Go through and choose one and go through all the configuration. Oh, and you wanted to be able to read something someone wrote while your laptop lid was shut? Like, maybe you're not in the same timezone as many of the contributors? You're going to need to find an always-on server and set up this IRC bouncer. Also, because of spam, we only allow registered users to post, so you're going to need to type these runes in the command-line and make yourself a certificate."

Matrix certainly had its warts when we switched, but it was still an immediate quality-of-life improvement, particularly for newcomers.

I mean, HAM radio is basically a chat room with an entrance exam; there's certainly something nice about having communities full of people with that sort of filter up front. And, for a charity designed to teach kids to code, maybe helping them munge around with IRC clients is a bonus. But for a normal community, IRC isn't the right tool for the job.
by benrutter | 2025-09-19 08:37:50+00:00
Is the moralizing you're referencing coming from the article or comments?

I can't see anything in either implying people are bad for seeing world maps as "upside down" when the Southern Hemisphere is at the top. The article does say that looking at it that way "encourages us to think more deeply about such conventions" - I don't think it's saying people are morally bad/prejudiced/etc (or anything) for accepting those conventions.

I don't want to acuse but it seems to me like you're assuming a response from an imagined liberal-woke-type-persona(tm) that doesn't exist?
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-19 08:39:51+00:00
They're actually the usual hedges you'll see. Hell, even some mice will say to not plug them into a USB hub.

> Data transfer is not guaranteed in the following environments, even if your computer is equipped with a USB port.

>> Computers with a USB port added by means of an extension card, etc., computers without a factory-installed OS, or home-built computers

Manual for version 1.7 page 286

https://download.omsystem.com/pages/inst/om1/manual_om1_v1.7...
by mcdeltat | 2025-09-19 08:40:00+00:00
Australia is exceptionally bad for the sun. It's crazy because the incidence of skin cancer is still so high even though sun protection is drilled into us since birth. I'll rant further that Australia is not even good from a UV/temperature tradeoff because the UV is always ridiculously high. Nice warm Mediterranean summer UV level is equivalent to a freezing cold winter day in Australia.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-19 08:40:15+00:00
Are you done editing your post?

The source for the killer being a groyper is solely the disinformation account. The things you've mentioned are postfacto efforts to try to support the disinformation, in rather nonsensical ways I'd add. A Spotify playlist from some random guy, to try to create some 5d chess argument - also known as mental gymnastics, and Robinson riding around on a demeaned looking Trump doll 8 years ago? [1] If that's the best people can dig up, you should realize you're obviously being lied to.

[1] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15092455/Trump-cost...
by wiether | 2025-09-19 08:40:38+00:00
If it was trash, I doubt that it would still be a best-seller on its book #8 on the series, twelve years in.

Furthermore, given what's surrounding its author, there's a non-negligible part of the readers community that won't read it, just because of its author. And it can be seen as _risky_ to read anything she publishes. During a party, someone decided to stop talking to me once I told I was currently reading a book in the series (we were discussing our current reading, so I wasn't trying to do anything smart here). On the other hand, I doubt there's people still buying her books just to _own the libs_.

Sure, it helped launching the series, but if there's still thousands people reading it after more than a decade, maybe it's because those people like it. Maybe.
by oliviergg | 2025-09-19 08:40:56+00:00
thank you iterm2 team to continue to try things !

I give it a try this morning. I can't decide if I'm confortable with it or no.

Having multiple webpage combined with your front and back process traces is nice.

You can move to each panel with the same shortcuts like a sort of simplified linux tile manager within a terminal on mac.

It's also a good idea to interact less with the weird liquid glass redesign.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-19 08:41:15+00:00
Oh nvme and commodity 10/40/100gig networks mean that NFS shares can be _faster_ than local disk

In 2008 when I was a youngen, 100tb filesystem that could sustain 1-3gigabytes of streaming throughput took something like 40 racks. Huge amounts of cost and power were needed to set it up and maintain it. Any kind of random IO would kneecap the performance for everyone

Now you can have a 2u server with 100tb of NVME storage and the only bottleneck is the network adaptor! not only that but its pretty cheap too.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-19 08:41:33+00:00
> The idea is that a programmer will work with natural language dynamically to create enough of an understanding to create a formalized specification within the programming language

I don't disagree that that is some people’s idea of the idealized process (though there are others, too.)

I disagree, though, that it is the purpose for which programming languages, as a category of tools, were invented. In fact, there were a whole bunch of tools for solving the problem of clarity of communicating expectations of sysstem behavior between humans in unconstrainted natural language invented, and that it was until fairly recently (well into the period of dominance of Agile, or at least “Agile”, methodss) the usual expectation in non-trivial programming projects that some combination of those would be used to solve that problem, and then the programmers, understanding the intent through those tools, would use programming languages to solve the problem that languages that are ideal for communicating between humans are not ideal for source languages for practical compilers or interpreters in computers.
by altairprime | 2025-09-19 08:41:58+00:00
Here in California, 20k miles of driving at 30mpg (so, highway only, which is of course unrealistically high) is $600 in gasoline taxes per year, with California state and local taxes at $0.612/gal; meanwhile, the EV registration gas tax makeup fee is $118/yr, which is equivalent to 192 gallons per year of tax, which at 30mpg is merely 6k miles, not 20k. California average miles driven is estimated at 11k.

So: the EV loophole is costing the state half of the road maintenance tax budgeted for road wear in subsidies paid to EV drivers, assuming that all gas vehicles get 30mpg at all times. I don’t expect that gap to last much longer now the Federal government is openly hostile to the state. Hooray for silver linings, I guess.