MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-12 20:03:36+00:00
As others have mentioned, what evidence of risk is there between a normal game purchased on Steam, versus an adult game, purchased on Steam?

Steam has a specific return policy that it applies everywhere, the games don't show up on card statements, and Steam will lock your entire account for charging back.

If there's a secret epidemic of people making new accounts specifically to buy and chargeback on adult games, the solution is for the processor to pressure Steam to take measures to reduce fradulent chargebacks (e.g. through minimum account age requirements for adult games), not to censor the platform.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-12 20:03:55+00:00
I work for a massive corporation that employees tens of thousands of engineers. Actually sitting down and typing code is literally never the bottle neck. I'm lucky if I get to sit down uninterrupted for a couple hours to actually work on something technical at all. The majority of every engineers time is spent in meetings, on documentation, or fighting with either the development, staging, or production environments. Shit I spend more time on trying to prevent management from making a stupid decision then I do on writing code.

When I have gotten time to do something deeply technical, even that time isn't spent on writing code. I've spent hundreds of hours in labs with colleagues debugging complicated systems trying to track down where a single code line change needs to be made. The ratio there is probably 1 line of code written per two dozen hours spent testing and debugging.

AI has little to no value in any of that. If companies really want to save money, their leaving billions on the table in operational inefficiencies, compared to a few thousand dollars in incremental improvements to developer productivity.
by photonthug | 2025-09-12 20:04:45+00:00
As a big believer in documentation and communication in general, there's this inevitable double-bind that people hate whatever you give them and also hate it if you give them nothing. LLMs have made this worse.

No emojis and any effort to be comprehensive? Everyone complains "what is this wall of text", or "this is industry not grad school so cut it out with the fancy stuff" or "no one spends that much time on anything and it must be AI generated". (Frequently just a way of saying that they hate to read, and naively believe that even irreducibly complex stuff is actually simple).

Stuff that's got emojis, a friendly casual tone and isn't information dense? Well that's very chatty and cute, it also has to be AI and can't be valuable.

Since you can't win with docs, the best approach is to produce high quality diagrams that are simultaneously useful for a wide audience from novice to expert. The only problem is that even producing high quality diagrams at a ratio of 1 diagram per 1k lines of code is still very time consuming to produce if you're putting lots of thought into it, double so if you're fighting the diagramming tools, or if you want something that's easy for multiple stakeholders with potentially very different job descriptions to take in. Everyone will call it inadequate, ask why it took so long, and ask for the missing docs that they will hate anyway!

On the bright side, LLMs are pretty great at generating mermaid, either from code, or natural language descriptions of data-flows. Diagrams-as-code without needing a whole application UI or one of a limited number of your orgs lucid-chart licenses is making "Don't like it? Submit a PR" a pretty small ask. Skin in the game helps to curbs endless bike-shedding criticism
by kulahan | 2025-09-12 20:04:56+00:00
I don't pay much attention to Nintendo news these days, aside from the occasional exciting game I see (my wife is crazy about Fire Emblem, so today's a good day!), but I was under the impression this was kinda specifically aimed at making life hard for Palworld, a game which is (as far as I know - I've not tried it) nearly identical to Pokemon, but with some more mature themes and more a more mature technical environment.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-12 20:05:01+00:00
I'm not arguing about whether we should or shouldn't use nuclear energy. We should.

> 1. Only six reactors have had meltdowns, partial meltdowns, serious core damage, or fatalities.

If we assume that everything above INES[0] level 4 is already serious enough, then there were 11 accidents [1] and around 4484 fatalities (mostly 4000 indirect from Chernobyl but still).

> Gen 4 reactors have gravity driven control rods, passive cooling systems, core catchers, safer fuel, and moderators.

And yet, 100% safety is not achievable. But the risk is probably quite acceptable now.

[0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_and_Radi...>

[1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...>
by bayindirh | 2025-09-12 20:05:21+00:00
My view on this is simple:

If you're a bot which will ignore all the licenses I put on that content, then I don't want to you to be able to reach that content.

No, any amount of monetary compensation is not welcome either. I use these licenses as a matter of principle, and my principles are not for sale.

That's all, thanks.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-09-12 20:05:33+00:00
A country is not forced to have AI farms running in it. Building giant powerplant for the AI tech (possible) bubble not seems wise.

The plant will take 5 - 10 years to build, who knows what demands AI will have at that point.

SO let some countries that want to spent enormous amounts of their energy on AI do so, adn the rest can connect to those.
by cyberax | 2025-09-12 20:06:16+00:00
The devil is in the details. The easy part is now done, and further significant increases in solar/wind in Germany are not going to happen.

Renewables now dominate generation during the optimal periods, but there's nothing on the horizon for other times.

Your graph also ignores energy used for heating and for industrial processes. Their electrification is now stalled by high energy prices.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-12 20:07:06+00:00
> I think they should all be government projects so that private companies can't complain that they're losing money and keep have to ratchet up the prices, like PG&E in California.

If you think PG&E jacking up prices has anything other than greed, hubris and decades of short term thinking behind it, I have news for you.

And thats is why people look at nuclear and say "no thanks". The same corporate structures that hid data about smoking, PFAS and oxycodone are the ones you want running a nuclear plant?

Can you make a nuclear plant safe, small and useful: yes. The navy has been doing it for decades now with nary an incident. That doesn't mean you can do it outside a rigid structure where safety and efficiency are above costs. The moment you make that other constraint a factor something else has to give.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-12 20:07:12+00:00
Of course, the press does cuddle its darlings. Compare any first-term Trump's press conference with Biden's press conference: a pack of wolves that screamed and shouted suddenly morphed into cute fawning puppies: "what kind of ice cream do you like, mr president?"

Regarding your accusation that I work for Kremlin, you should be ashamed of yourself to say such things to a person who was literally beaten by Putin's polizai for protesting his policies. In your simplistic mindset, anyone who has a differing opinion from you surely must be a paid troll working for evil people. It is very fitting that you exhibit this attitude in a discussion about a person who was killed for his views. Should I be shot, too? I surely have it coming, right?
by dv_dt | 2025-09-12 20:07:16+00:00
The indirection for variability of costs basically places a accounting hole that the motivation for "fixed" estimates was attempting to plug. Then it basically becomes a regulatory accounting chasing game that costs even more to administer. Instead of verify, time and materials expended are whats billed, now to verify fair prices, you need a sample size of all the outcomes of all the procedures that started with this code and their relative weighting of occurrence, and verify all the time and materials expended for each. It all costs more for dubious benefit of a privatized multi payer model
by mort96 | 2025-09-12 20:07:29+00:00
This feels like it should be solveable with introducing a few more marker characters, like one code point representing "the following text is traditional Chinese", "the following text is Japanese", etc? It would add even more statefulness to Unicode, but I feel like that ship has already sailed with the U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE and U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE characters...
by mtlynch | 2025-09-12 20:08:02+00:00
>Flat rate web hosting exists, and blogs (especially unsophisticated ones) do not require much bandwidth or processing power.

I actually find this surprisingly difficult to find.

I just want static hosting (like Netlify or Firebase Hosting), but there aren't many hosts that offer that.

There are lots of providers where I can buy a VPS somewhere and be in charge of configuring and patching it, but if I just want to hand someone a set of HTML files and some money in exchange for hosting, not many hosts fit the bill.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-09-12 20:08:22+00:00
Russia did not make Europe dependent on them for gas. Europe freely made that choice, even going so far as to do away with existing alternatives like nuclear in Germany. Trump even warned them. They had a wonderful time laughing at him while proclaiming the ignorant orange buffoon didn't understand Europe. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Everyone then pretended Europe didn't make itself vulnerable while also ridiculing anyone who dared sound an alarm about the potential danger.

Europe wasn't forced. Europe chose and chose freely. Europe chose poorly.
by rogueparitybit | 2025-09-12 20:08:44+00:00
The employer is shifting the responsibility of wages to the customer (you). It is customary in business to pay a wage even if an employee makes a mistake. The tipout structure of most restaurants, where the server tips out the kitchen and support staff, also collects a percentage of all *sales* from the server's tips, so not tipping results in a server paying your tipout from their tips just for the privilege of serving you, hence the agast faces.

Tipping should be illegal to substitute for pay. Majority-tipped restaurants are almost always predatory and take advantage of both customers and employees in order to further enrich the owners.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-12 20:08:48+00:00
> Sorry, what's the point of this blog?

Being a blog the way the author dreamed of it.

> I hope people would write a quick abstract/summary in the first few lines and then go on elaborating.

I hope people continue doing what makes them happy. It's their site, they owe nothing to anyone (maybe except hosting / network fees, but that's not my business, either).

> Or at least put that summary at the end, in old-fashioned way.

Or maybe people can spend a couple of minutes to read and understand it, with the MSI (MeatSpaceIntelligence) which comes bundled with all human beings.

It's free, too!
by KPGv2 | 2025-09-12 20:08:52+00:00
Historical luck. Though "luck" is probably pushing it in the way one might say certain math proofs are historically "lucky" based on previous work. It's more an almost natural consequence.

Before ASCII there was BCDIC, which was six bits and non-standardized (there were variants, just like technically there are a number of ASCII variants, with the common just referred to as ASCII these days).

BCDIC was the capital English letters plus common punctuation plus numbers. 2^6 is 64, and for capital letters + numbers, you have 36, plus a few common punctuation marks puts you around 50. IIRC the original by IBM was around 45 or something. Slash, period, comma, tc.

So when there was a decision to support lowercase, they added a bit because that's all that was necessary, and I think the printers around at the time couldn't print anything but something less than 128 characters anyway. There wasn't any ó or ö or anything printable, so why support it?

But eventually that yielded to 8-bit encodings (various ASCIIs like latin-1 extended, etc. that had ñ etc.).

Crucially, UTF-8 is only compatible with the 7-bit ASCII. All those 8-bit ASCIIs are incompatible with UTF-8 because they use the eighth bit.
by jabl | 2025-09-12 20:09:00+00:00
If you're going for the enriched uranium route to a bomb, nobody is going to start with used nuclear fuel, because dealing with the highly radioactive spent fuel is such a huge PITA.

If you're going for the U233 (from Th) or Pu route, yes then you need a reactor and spent fuel reprocessing. But not enrichment of spent fuel.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-09-12 20:09:05+00:00
I'm not sure, but it does seem like a great bit of historical foresight. It stands as a lesson to anyone standardizing something: wanna use a 32 bit integer? Make it 31 bits. Just in case. Obviously, this isn't always applicable (e.g. sizes, etc..), but the idea of leaving even the smallest amount of space for future extensibility is crucial.
by dpc_01234 | 2025-09-12 20:09:07+00:00
UTF-8 is a undeniably a good answer, but to a relatively simple bit twiddling / variable len integer encoding problem in a somewhat specific context.

I realize that hindsight is 20/20, and time were different, but lets face it: "how to use an unused top bit to best encode larger number representing Unicode" is not that much of challenge, and the space of practical solutions isn't even all that large.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-12 20:09:19+00:00
Two things: folks care about Brew because its update story is nice; otherwise one needs to constantly revisit your /releases (or plug /releases.atom into their RSS reader) in order to know. It also offers very light "I got what I expected" behavior via their use of sha256, which your current setup won't participate in since you're only publishing .md5 anyway

That leads to the second thing which is that you said you "added binaries" but your release artifacts are .tar.gz which means that one now needs to `curl -fSL | tar -xzf - -C /whatever` and deal with whatever interior directory scheme you are using (I didn't check)

I suspect I may be throwing good commentary after bad, but if you did want to participate in Brew distribution, but don't want to go through their stupid PR process, you can retain control over your update schedule by creating a "Brew Tap" and then the consumer would (e.g.) `brew tap plutov/brew && brew install plutov/brew/oq` which also gets away from the naming collision
by gopher_space | 2025-09-12 20:09:41+00:00
> My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions. My mind just doesn't work like most do, and leetcode to some extent seems to rely on people memorizing leetcode type answers. On a few, there's enough context that I can relate real understanding of the problem to, such as the coin example in the article... for others I've seen there's not enough there for me to "get" the question/assignment.

The issue is that leetcode is something you end up with after discovery + scientific method + time, but there's no space in the interview process for any of that.

Your mind slides off leetcode problems because it reverses the actual on-the-job process and loses any context that'd give you a handle on the issue.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-12 20:09:48+00:00
I always kinda figured that any "timer" in any language would technically need to work that way unless you're running a very fancy real-time system because multitasking, especially in high load scenarios, means there just may not be clock cycles available for your task at the exact millisecond you set something to execute at.

So it is with JS; I kinda figured EVERYTHING would need to be heavily throttled in a browser in order to respect the device running that browser.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-12 20:09:49+00:00
Given people A/B test all kinds of minor things I'm sure someone would have hit on it and then it would spread. That's basically the rocket fuel that drives people really into A/B testing everything rather than just hunches "I could find something which increases metrics you wouldn't otherwise think to try".

In either case, I think the net result is bad news for users, good news for people selling things. And of course the sprinkle of "people just making mistakes/guesses" too, but there's no universe that's not going to be found.
by neilv | 2025-09-12 20:10:40+00:00
I think one part of it (not all of it) is that the US has a long history of women being sexually harassed in the workplace, in various ways. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be, but it's not fully solved everywhere.

(Note: Statements suggesting that sexual harassment exists at all make some people on the Internet flip out angrily, but I interpret your questions as in good faith, and I'm trying to answer in good faith.)

One example of why that that harassment context is relevant: if you were a woman, wouldn't you think it was insensitive for a male colleague to send you an image that was obviously designed to be sexually suggestive, and with the female as the sex object? Is he consciously harassing you, or just being oblivious to why this is inappropriate?

For a separate reason that this is a problem in the workplace: besides the real impact to morale and how colleagues respect each other, even the most sociopathic US companies want to avoid sexual harassment lawsuits and public scandals.

For reasons like these, and others, if someone, say, posted that isolated maid image to workplace chat, then I think there's a good chance that a manager or HR would say something to the employee if they found out, and/or (without directly referring to that incident) communicate to everyone about appropriate practices.

But if there was a pattern of insensitive/oblivious/creepy behavior by this employee, or if someone complained to manager/HR about the incident, or if there was legal action against the company (regarding this incident, or a different sexual harassment situation), then I guess the employee might be terminated.

If I were a manager in a company, and one of my reports posted an image like this, I'd probably say something quietly to them, and much more gently than the above (e.g., "Uh, that image is a bit in a direction we want to stay away from in the office", or maybe even just the slightest concerned glance), and most people would get it. Just a little learning moment, like we all have many of. But if there were a trickier situation, or I was under orders, I might have to ask HR about it (and if I did, hopefully that particular HR person is helpful, and that particular company is reasonable).
by dudefeliciano | 2025-09-12 20:11:14+00:00
> It seems like no one can disagree with you in good faith.

I gave you about 10 examples of "the right" being unhinged, violent and espousing radical rhetoric. You conveniently ignored all of them and continue claiming it's "the left" that does not want dialogue. That is bad faith.

> There are many counterexamples to this.

I am really not about to waste my time going through that dreck. If you have examples i'll have a look.

> Get out of your bubble. The many failures of anything-but-neutral fact checking are patently obvious,

Again, going to need sources. Is "get out of your bubble" the constructive discourse you were mentioning earlier?

> What is it that you propose be done about the tens of millions of Americans that agree with Charlie Kirk?

That I do not know, people have been radicalized by insane conspiracy theories over the last 10 - 15 years that I don't think much can be done to help them at this point.

Just for context, here some constructive statements from Charlie Kirk:

- If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

- Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

- Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.

- The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

- The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.

- There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.
by adeptima | 2025-09-12 20:11:37+00:00
QGIS is a gold standard to verify you tools works fine and data is in a correct format ...

if you are a web based first, you have even better options to build and extend

kepler, protomaps, maplibre-gl-js

https://kepler.gl

https://protomaps.com

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js

the rest can be found on great Qiusheng Wu’s (aka @giswqs) Geo/GeoAI tutorials channels and repos

https://www.youtube.com/@giswqs/videos

https://x.com/giswqs

but what really amazed me is how geo spatial support is growing inside of databases recently

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/spatial/overv...

all mighty postgis https://postgis.net/docs/manual-3.5/postgis_cheatsheet-en.ht...

https://sedona.apache.org/latest/

https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.0.0/

and many unlocked dataset compare to other industries

https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/duckdb/

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

https://hub.arcgis.com/search

lot great webtools are comming for sure and you still can be 100% of most of your geospatial pipeline

p.s. want to extend the above list with self-hosted tools with minimum or none dependencies on paid APIs, and recommendations are greatly appreciated
by ux266478 | 2025-09-12 20:11:46+00:00
This doesn't holds water as an argument against labor protectionism, since we can point to China as a contemporary example with the opposite result. Much of the US's industrial base wasn't destroyed by consumer choice, but was intentionally moved abroad for geopolitical reasons. It wasn't even simply about implementing an economic power structure the US could use to extend its influence. The Asian Tigers were built up to facilitate more powerful "strategic partners", a South Korea poorer than Gambia wouldn't be a very useful friend. That Samsung SSD is the product of a need for strategic power balancing in East Asia. The consumer doesn't matter nearly as much as you think they do when policy is the primary agent that shapes cost, often intentionally through second order effects like infrastructural design.