MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ccppurcell | 2025-09-15 06:26:09+00:00
I'm glad it's not just anecdotal. I had an American colleague whose husband praised her amazing guacamole recipe. The recipe turned out to be a jar of guacamole and a jar of salsa mixed together. I may have forgotten the details but a jar of guacamole was certainly listed as an ingredient. I thought it was a joke!
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-15 06:26:50+00:00
Yead, the bias immediately kicks in:

> Perhaps he is given more grace since his words didn't incite an insurrection which he watched closely and refused to intervene for hours in the hope it would succeed.

Yeah, tweeting non-stop urges for protesters to stay peaceful. It is a certain kind of delusion to think that this 'riot' was at attempt to overthrow the state. Of course, Democrat propaganda bent over themselves to present it that way, but anyone with critical thinking understands, that even if Capitol was taken over by the unarmed protesters, then what? Oh, Senate would capitulate and declare Trump God Emperor? Please.

If we stop talking about fabricated mythology of a horribre horrible coup attempt, and look at reality, Jan 6 riot was a relatively peaceful affair, far more peaceful than BLM protests from the previous summer. I happened to watch it all live, on youtube, as it happened, it culminated in QAnon shaman strolling down the halls saying 'God bless you' to every security guard who were just standing there and doing nothing.

It is no wonder that all these livestreams were promptly scrubbed off all social media afterwards, because if anyone would watch it, as it happened, the narrative of a coup would just fall apart.

> I guess the prosecutions of Quintez Brown, Robert Menendez, and Eric Adams don't count?

I don't know who are the first two, but Eric Adams is a name I know, and from what I understand he mas prosecuted after he broke ranks with the Dems on the migration issue.

So yeah, they prosecute insignificant pawns and those who broke rank, and they also fabricate criminal cases against their chief political opponents, trying to deny him the right to be a candidate in presidential elections. However, these attempts were found unconvincing by the supreme jury - people of the US, whe majority of whom voted to re-elect Trump as president.

> Did Biden pardon BLM protesters who then went on to rape and murder?

Why would he need to pardon people who were neither prosecuted nor convicted?
by t43562 | 2025-09-15 06:27:05+00:00
If all you care about is success then it's not a help is it? If you have some standards though, then you can tell yourself that the price of standards is that you cannot rise in a corrupt hierarchy and you probably wouldn't enjoy it if you did.

I think this is the kind of reason people emigrate from countries where they feel dominated by whatever group was in power to various newer countries where it is still possible to make their fortune.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-09-15 06:27:16+00:00
I was once working with an E-Learning company and proposed that our multiple-choice tests should give -1 for the wrong choice, 1 for correct choice and 0 for no answer.

Instead they wanted to only give poinhts for correct answers, not penalize wrong answers. That obviously leads to and promotes guessing. Why did they want it that way? I think they wanted to show that with our product people actually learned the stuff and thus was worth paying for. You could pass the test by making "good guesses".

Something similar seems to be going on here. AI companies want their LMS to get good scores even when they don't know the answer, in which case they guess. That is bad because they don't tell us when they're guessing.

I think it should be OK for LMS to guess but only if it clearly tells the user it's answer is just a guess, when it is.
by tchbnl | 2025-09-15 06:27:16+00:00
Private equity has been a cancer for the web hosting community. A single firm bought the top two control panels (cPanel and Plesk), the top virtualization solution (SolusVM), and the top billing software (WHMCS). And each year the prices are raised further and further with no real investment. It's forced a lot of smaller providers out and caused prices for customers to skyrocket. And you have to put up with it because the alternatives still aren't quite as good, or you're too locked in.

It's the same for hosting companies. A single PE firm (Endurance) owns over two dozen hosting and domain firms. The first thing they do is lay off the staff (because they already have outsourced agents) and strip the bits away until it's nothing more than a shell with a name for one of their other platforms.

PE is a cancer, and I don't even know if I can count one that has ever been a net positive for a company. All they care about is extracting more and more until all that's left is a stone.
by vasusen | 2025-09-15 06:28:23+00:00
It is quite popular in testing circles to write e2e tests that are easier to maintain. However, in practice I have found it to be quite useless due to the time it takes to write good page objects. QA teams usually rely on a complete POM before writing tests on it. I used to joke that by the time my team was done shipping a page object model, our product team would have changed the entire product again.
by teiferer | 2025-09-15 06:28:36+00:00
> being able to teleport across jurisdictions

"Teleporting" doesn't need a blockchain. In fact, a central database is much faster than a distributed ledger.

The "across jurisdictions" part only works as long as the jurisdictions allow you. As soon as you are a serious contender, your tech gets just as much regulated as everybody else.

It's similar to saying "I use Uber, it's so much easier to order than a cab". How you order a taxi is unrelated to the employment structure of the particular transportation business you are using. That's why we're seeing cabs and neo cabs (uber, lyft, etc) converge in term uf UX.
by emmanueloga_ | 2025-09-15 06:28:48+00:00
Page Object Models trade off clarity for encapsulation. Concrete example [1]. They can make tests look "cleaner" but often obscure what's actually happening. For example:

await page.getStarted(); // what does this actually do?

vs

await page.locator('a', { hasText: 'Get started' }).first().click(); await expect(page.locator('h1', { hasText: 'Installation' })).toBeVisible();

The second version is explicit and self-documenting. Tests don't always benefit from aggressive DRY, but I've seen teams adopt POMs to coordinate between SDETs and SWEs.

--

1: https://playwright.dev/docs/pom
by danpalmer | 2025-09-15 06:29:06+00:00
I think the cost of energy to propel them was a common push-back. I've heard "the grid is dirty so EVs are dirty" from many people, and my point is that the grid composition essentially cancels out with oil refining, at which point EVs are "free" (to operate) while ICE vehicles still have to burn the fuel.

As for carbon intensity in production, I'd be interested to see a clear apples-to-apples comparison. High end products tend to have more emissions associated with them because they take more time, materials, transport, they're lower volume, higher waste etc. EVs have historically been high-end cars, or at least upper-mid market and up, there have been very few cheap EVs until recently, so if you compare the average ICEV to the average BEV, I'd expect the ICEV to be a lower end car, and possibly lower emissions by default as a result. Batteries will drag up emissions, but I'm not sure I've seen truly fair numbers on this.
by WD-42 | 2025-09-15 06:29:58+00:00
If someone uses an LLM to help them write good code that is indistinguishable from human written code, you are right, it's not enforceable. And that's what most people that are using LLMs should be doing. Unfortunately sometimes it is possible to tell the difference between human and LLM generated code (slop). Policies like this just make it clear and easy to outright reject them.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-15 06:30:43+00:00
Nope.

Not gonna happen.

It's not hateful at all. I wish you no ill will whatsoever.

I'm just calling out what seems pretty clearly to be your lack of nuance/flexibility of the language. Which is something you might expect from a recent English language learner or a child.

Are you one of those? If not, you're pretty clearly being deliberately obtuse.

I won't hazard a guess as to why you might do such a thing, as that would likely be uncharitable.

I'll sum up, in case you're still confused: Calling you out for your tone deafness and/or deliberate obtuseness isn't hateful at all.

In fact, it's meant to inform you of the above as a service, so that you might provide higher quality discourse here.

As for being "hateful," I have no quarrel with you. I wish no harm on you, nor have you earned my ire. Rather, I have no strong feelings about you one way or the other.

If a mild remonstration is considered to be "hateful" by you, I can hardly imagine your reaction to actual verbal abuse. I expect it wouldn't be pretty.
by thesz | 2025-09-15 06:30:47+00:00
One of resolved conversation contains a comment "you should warn about incorrect configuration in constructor, look how it is done in some-other-part-of-code."

This means that he did not put serious effort into understanding what, when and why others do in a highly structured project like LLVM. He "wrote" the code and then dumped "written" code into community to catch mistakes.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-15 06:30:55+00:00
It's more that in America, cars are for the most part an inelastic commodity. It's very, very hard to hold a job and maintain your life without a car except in the densest of metro areas. Since the population is still growing, sales of cars keep going up and people get trapped in predatory loans or conditions. Used cars are also harder to find and more expensive, which pushes people into these predatory conditions.

I think it's a really poor indicator for the future. America literally cannot function without cars, and if people cannot afford cars they cannot afford to work.
by michaelt | 2025-09-15 06:31:31+00:00
It's always surprised me, when talking to Americans online, how many people seem to feel they don't have access to the secondary car market.

Perhaps it's because I grew up around people who were good with their hands, but in my mind buying a used car isn't a scary matter - you visit the private seller, you look at the vehicle, you check for the things one needs to check for, and you know if it has problems or not. And if you can't do this, you've got a cousin or uncle who can.

But speaking to Americans, they make it sound like this kind of traditional working-class knowledge has been lost? A lot of folks seem positively scared of the second-hand market, and say that a $50,000 brand new car is going to save them money on maintenance.

Crazy high standards of living, in a sense!
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-15 06:32:39+00:00
"Tried" is too strong a word.

A military coup is when the military deploys its forces and deposes the government. A military coup attempt consists of the military's forces being defeated while trying to seize power.

I'm sure they planned a military coup. I don't think they actually tried it. An attempt actually has a chance of succeeding. Bolsonaro was in the USA while his fans were protesting in Brasília. When the military finally showed up, it was to arrest them.
by stoltzmann | 2025-09-15 06:34:04+00:00
This is besides the point. The lead dev started going on a rant when facing a comment as simple as "this is informative, and unfortunate" on a video that he didn't like, and is unable to parse that statement as anything else but a personal attack at him. He threatened banning Louis over that unless he completely gave in. You can see the whole discussion in the video linked in the post above.

It's a communication issue at the core, and always doubling down is not making it any better.

It portrays the whole project as being unreliable.
by kouru225 | 2025-09-15 06:34:12+00:00
I feel like I have a lot to say about this because I've actually been at both ends of the spectrum at different points of my life.

Going into college I was an extremely quick witted person, but I was also at the beginning of a depressive episode. Over the course of 10 years (and 8 years of therapy), I developed into the slow thinker that I am now. The reality is: I actually think my quick wittiness was only possible because I was overlooking a ton of mistakes. I was an incredibly certain person, but I didn't have the foundation necessary to be as sure of myself as I was. Going to therapy made me more cautious about thinking I knew how others thought and felt, and I realized that, by being so quick, I was dominating other people and failing to actually gain any real input or information from them.

The best way to describe it is biologically IMO. It's the difference between a precocial and altricial species: A precocial species matures quickly because it has strong instincts. It's born knowing what to do and how to do it, but because it's ruled by its instincts it can't be creative. It responds to each stimulus the same way each time. An altricial species is born with less knowledge. It has to spend time learning, but because it learns, it can pick and choose its response to different stimuli, and so it exhibits greater creativity.

Maybe I've gone too slow and I feel like I'm starting to pick up speed again these days, but I'll never think less of a slow person. Maturation is not necessarily a good thing. IMO the longer you can go without maturing, the better.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-15 06:35:03+00:00
What I find crucial about Framasoft’s work is not the idea that PeerTube will « beat » YouTube (that’s not even the goal), but that it exists at all. A small association like theirs reminds us that the way things are done online is not set in stone.

By building tools that prioritize openness and decentralization, they show that there could be real alternatives to the dominant platforms. Even if most people never leave YouTube, the simple fact that PeerTube and similar projects exist keeps alive the idea that the web doesn’t have to be controlled by a handful of corporations.

They need help in their journey - support them :) [0]

[0] https://framasoft.org/
by cvanelteren | 2025-09-15 06:35:47+00:00
Thanks for your questions.

- ProPlot appears to be unmaintained - I initially tried to push changes to make it compatible with matplotlib 3.9+ around mid-2024, but after repeatedly trying to contact the original owner through official and unofficial channels with no response, we decided to fork by the end of 2024. I had grown really fond of ProPlot and wanted to keep it alive. - This is currently a friendly fork, not a reimplementation. We're carrying on the torch that ProPlot set out with, adding features along the way and refactoring when necessary. - We implement a custom GeoAxes that allows for basemap and/or Cartopy as a backend. The GeoAxes object behaves similar to a normal axis, allowing direct plotting and manipulation without the user having to worry about projections.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-15 06:36:21+00:00
Well not to bury the lede, a Fox News host just said that homeless people should be killed last week…

> It amazes me how quickly people forgot that we had 8 years of Obama. That was a lot more recent than racial segregation.

You mean the same 8 years that a large part of the country was saying he wasn’t really an American and that he was a secret Muslim wanting to bring Sharia law?

> Well yeah, if someone fits the description of a criminal suspect, why not?

So you’re okay with harassing all Hispanics because they “fit the description.”? Including American citizens?

Let’s look at what the government data says about discrepancy in sentencing…

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/one-in-five-racial...

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...
by logicalmind | 2025-09-15 06:36:34+00:00
This is exactly why giving examples isn't helpful. All that does is define what tribe you are on. And each tribe has talking point to defend their position. Where everything I'm saying is agnostic of that.

Without picking any side in the Ukraine/Russian conflict. You can pick one side or the other AND STILL have the other side wanting to inflict violence on you. I wasn't promoting or defending either side. My point was that have a debate, opinion, argument, whatever about something where lives are literally on the line is prone to violence. The violence is what the whole thing is about. Because if Ukraine/Russia could just "debate the idea" of land ownership, then there would be no violence.

Where you're arguing/defending for one side, the other side is in heavy opposition to that. If you want to supply Ukraine with weapons then you shouldn't be surprised if the Russian side wants suppress you. If you're arguing not to supply weapons, then Ukrainians might have issues with that. But the point isn't to pick sides. The point is that some ideas are prone to more violence than others. And if you make yourself the face of one side or the other of those ideas, it shouldn't be shocking to meet violence.

Kirk held opinions on many controversial topics. My argument isn't that any of those opinions are right or wrong. It was that strong opinions on those topics tend to result in violence. I feel like I'm the only person here who it isn't plainly obvious that religion and politics are extremely divisive topics. Especially in our current time.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-15 06:36:37+00:00
> Using resistive heating with nuclear electricity would be very foolish, unless you have a money wasting fetish.

Hmm. "... if electricity is cheap enough."

> Nuclear district heating would be very difficult to retrofit.

Who said anything about retrofitting? Just build district heating nuclear plants.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sollid_denmark-to-investigate...

Again, building one nuclear plant is expensive. But building tens or hundreds of thousands of heat pumps is certainly also and likely even more expensive.
by bravetraveler | 2025-09-15 06:37:14+00:00
I'd guess perceived status. That, or, they want a tank: another arms race for Baby (Crushing|Saving) Machines. Modern cars keep growing.

I've bought exactly one new: will drive it until the wheels can't be put back on. Before that, probably a dozen second-hand. I now make silly amounts of money, am American.

All this to say: used cars are best cars. Terrible purchasing experiences await regardless.

edit: "In for a penny, in for a pound", right? :)
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by kaffediem | 2025-09-15 06:37:22+00:00
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It's inspired by newsletters like TLDR[1], but with a key difference: you can follow your own feeds rather than someones curated selection.

It works nicely for regular newspapers, Substack and YouTube but is not suited for following feeds with 20+ new items per day (e.g. Reddit)

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by uncircle | 2025-09-15 06:37:47+00:00
Great analogy with your dog. I noticed that when I’m doing the washing up, my DMN, for some reason, takes me to ruminate negatively about my relationships, and I constantly have to return my attention to something else. No wonder I’ve come to loathe it and let my dishes pile up.

I find it can be a great tool for creativity, but needs to be directed or at least given some task to chew on; then I can close my eyes in a half nap and all kinds of interesting associations and ideas bubble up.

EDIT: that said, the default mode network should not be unjustly demonized. Its purpose is crucial for reprioritising our goals based on what is important to us at any given time, and the problem with modern living is that we never have enough idle time to ourselves, always distracted by our smartphones, and in the long run it is easy to lose sight over what drives us forward. A simple exercise, harder than it should be for most, is to be idle yet undistracted for 30 minutes. You’ll soon get into a “big picture” view of your life, what is missing, what you wish for yourself; into a kind of goal-oriented view that only kicks in in this mode.
by thayne | 2025-09-15 06:39:30+00:00
Right, but the vast majoriry of servers don't use must-staple certs. So browsers would need to do something (even if that something is not checking revocations) for all the other connections anyway.

It's really a chicken and egg problem. Browsers don't want to support must-staple because not enough servers use it. And servers don't use it, because browsers don't require it (or even implement it). And now CAs don't support it, because hardly anyone was using it.

Now if CAs started requiring must-staple, that might push it into widespread use. But that would cause a lot of disruption.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-15 06:39:31+00:00
> Nuclear fans could only dream of this rate of improvement.

Nuclear doesn't need this rate of improvement, because it was always cheap.

> Nuclear doesn't work in the sense of being competitive.

Empirically false.

Also: if it weren't competitive, Germany wouldn't have had to outlaw nuclear, it just would have disappeared on its own.

> The best time to have given up on nuclear was decades ago.

Your incorrect and unsubstantiated opinion is not shared by the rest of the world.
by niemandhier | 2025-09-15 06:39:46+00:00
Wow, I think I might just have grasped one of the sources of the problems we keep seeing with LLMs.

Johnson-Lichtenstrauss guarantees a distance preserving embedding for a finite set of points into a space with a dimension based on the number of points.

It does not say anything about preserving the underlying topology of the contious high dimensional manifold, that would be Takens/Whitney-style embedding results (and Sauer–Yorke for attractors).

The embedding dimensions needed to fulfil Takens are related to the original manifolds dimension and not the number of points.

It’s quite probable that we observe violations of topological features of the original manifold, when using our to low dimensional embedded version to interpolate.

I used AI to sort the hodge pudge of math in my head into something another human could understand, edited result is below:

=== AI in use === If you want to resolve an attractor down to a spatial scale rho, you need about n ≈ C * rho^(-d_B) sample points (here d_B is the box-counting/fractal dimension).

The Johnson–Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma says that to preserve all pairwise distances among n points within a factor 1±ε, you need a target dimension

k ≳ (d_B / ε^2) * log(C / rho).

So as you ask for finer resolution (rho → 0), the required k must grow. If you keep k fixed (i.e., you embed into a dimension that’s too low), there is a smallest resolvable scale

rho* (roughly rho* ≳ C * exp(-(ε^2/d_B) * k), up to constants),

below which you can’t keep all distances separated: points that are far on the true attractor will show up close after projection. That’s called “folding” and might be the source of some of the problems we observe .

=== AI end ===

Bottom line: JL protects distance geometry for a finite sample at a chosen resolution; if you push the resolution finer without increasing k, collisions are inevitable. This is perfectly consistent with the embedding theorems for dynamical systems, which require higher dimensions to get a globally one-to-one (no-folds) representation of the entire attractor.

If someone is bored and would like to discuss this, feel free to email me.