MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Retric | 2025-09-19 13:46:16+00:00
I did read them.

The first is overlooking the issue of overfitting using hand calculation and imperfect observations. The calculated “best fit” for the data available did involved adding a bunch of epicycles and there was no theoretical reason to avoid doing so.

The second is playing fast and loose with a fat line drawn over a squiggly line based on a better model. It’s being mathematically rigorous but intentionally deceptive. You can fairly trivially construct a set of epicycles to fit some desired shape, but working backwards from observation there’s nothing guiding you to the most elegant possible solution for a given situation.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-09-19 13:46:51+00:00
I used to use this company-i-buy-from strategy, but i got accused of fakery a lot, until I tried a new strategy -- interest@domain.dev. So if i were buying from REI, i would use camping@domain.dev or if i were ordering office supplies i would use officemgmt@domain.dev. It's slightly less obvious what you're doing, and raises fewer questions.
by falcor84 | 2025-09-19 13:46:55+00:00
> But... reviewing code is harder than writing code.

For me it's very clearly the opposite. I wonder if it's a professional background, or personality or neurotype issue or something, but when I'm faced with a problem I often get somewhat paralyzed, spending a long time thinking about a good approach, but when I delegate to someone or ask an AI to tackle it, even if I get back something half-shitty, it removes my paralysis and then reviewing and improving what they did is significantly easier (or at least more motivating) for me than doing it from scratch. And even if they ended up giving me something that's entirely in the wrong direction, and I need to throw out all of it, I still usually feel that it removes that paralysis and gives me a better understanding of the problem space.

I wonder if this difference between people accounts for a significant different between those who benefit from AI and those who don't.
by hiccuphippo | 2025-09-19 13:48:09+00:00
I'd say a program or subcommand tha comes with the compiler/interpreter. Go has gofmt, zig has zig fmt. The compiler already parses the language so a formatter is only a few steps from that. And being part of the compiler means it's always up to date, there's less bikeshedding, all IDEs and text editors get formatter support easily.
by accrual | 2025-09-19 13:48:32+00:00
> Bedrock might be more popular, but I think there is a large community with absolutely zero interest in ever moving away from Java.

Yes, exactly. It seems the demographic for Bedrock tends towards kids because it's supported on tablets. IME the demographic for Java is either older kids or adults or people with interest in modpacks, which is a lot of people. All the major YouTubers who have run worlds for challenges for years are all on Java.

Whenever someone in my group asks to play some MC, there's no "Bedrock or Java?" question, it's just Java every time.

The only major thing Bedrock has right now that Java doesn't is the new stock shaders, but I assume that is coming to Java soon.
by bandie91 | 2025-09-19 13:49:02+00:00
i'm wondering nobody raised an other obvious point where the carthography-patriarchy wants to keep all of us in the darkness (BTW, why being in the dark is bad? is not it arbitrary whether the light or the dark is the good? why can not be the good is bad and the bad good?) is that the Marcator and other sphere-to-plain projections distort landmass area!! so counties are bigger than they made you believe! and other countries are smaller!

/sarcasm
by kalberg6429 | 2025-09-19 13:49:17+00:00
You are missing the point on purpose because the reality is indefensible. You talk about dead bodies because you can't talk about the ideology that outlived them.

That's not a "metaphor", but a direct and documented political bloodline. The Irgun's violent, expansionist and terrorist ideology was channeled directly into the Herut party[0], which became the Likud party, which put the Irgun's commander, Menachem Begin, in the Prime Minister's office. The Dahiya Doctrine isn't a metaphor, but Irgun's philosophy of collective punishment aka terrorism written down as official state policy.

And let's put down this already debunked lie you keep repeating. Israel did not "handle" its terrorist problem. It institutionalized it. It promoted it. It didn't have a version of Altalena to crush its extremists. It had an Altalena to consolidate power, and then it put the terrorist leader of the Altalena in charge of the entire "state". You didn't solve your terrorism problem. You made terrorism your state policy, which now manifested itself in the inevitable conclusion of Genocide.

[0] The same Herut party btw about whom Einstein said: "a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties." - https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2014-12-04/ty-article/.premiu...
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-19 13:49:38+00:00
> The probability of two civilizations with highly developed technology existing simultaneously in the Milky Way is so low that another would have to be at least 280,000 years old to exist alongside us now. At least, that is what two researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have calculated, based on their estimates of how many rocky planets with plate tectonics and an atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen appear to exist.

Oh man, I have about 200 science fiction books to recommend to these guys.

To summarze: Extraterrestrial life doesn't have to be just like us. It could very well be aquatic, it could very well be post-biological in any of a million different ways. (See, e.g., Accelerando.) We don't even know if there's life on Ganymede; it's absolutely absurd -- frankly, it hardly even seems sane -- to rule out extraterrestrial life in the Milky Way on such shaky and unimaginative grounds.
by galbar | 2025-09-19 13:50:23+00:00
Our job as SWEs is to convert the vertical slice of functionality into something that fits well and robustly in the various technical layers that need to be touched.

The process that I outlined above explicitly creates the space for SWEs to consider the wider implications of the required changes in the architecture and make robust.

Part of that is understanding what the roadmap is and what is the product vision in the mid term, so that the tech layer can be built, step by step, towards what fits that vision.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-19 13:51:57+00:00
My friend, I suggest reading the actual lawsuit and rulings before commenting.

The case ruled that google search was a monopoly for using anti-competitive practices (paying apple to make google the default search) and one of the recommended remedies was selling off chrome. The judge didn't go through with this, likely because in the case they note that people voluntarily really like using chrome, because "edge is the default windows browser that people seem to use only to download chrome".

Check the chair you are in before speaking.
by whstl | 2025-09-19 13:52:01+00:00
Doesn't match my experience as a developer.

I haven't worked in a place that doesn't use Figma, since Figma was released.

And haven't worked in a place that didn't get a dedicated designer before the company was 6 months old.

However: I must have worked with 30 different designers in 10 years and TWO of them actually knew how to properly use components and Figma. The rest just copy pasted shit around.
by klibertp | 2025-09-19 13:52:55+00:00
I think it's pretty clear that there are both kinds of power users: the ones who take pride in being able to learn whatever defaults there are, and the ones who take pride in being able to customize the defaults to their preference.

I don't believe either group is any more right than the other: both sides have about equal amounts of good arguments and pointless posturing. A tabs-vs-spaces situation. Fortunately, in this case, we more often than not have a choice: computing environment GUIs are still pretty personal, so everyone can just use software that follows their expectations. The problem begins when a user from one side is somehow forced to use software following the other side's ideology - but that's a separate story, and arguably it's the "being forced" part that's the actual problem.

Personally, I'm very inconsistent in this regard. There are apps that I've been customizing for more than a decade and, quite honestly, I wouldn't know how to use them were my config to suddenly stop working (Emacs, ZSH, tmux). On the other hand, there are apps I've been using for a similarly long time, but never bothered to configure (other than possibly installing a bunch of plugins): Firefox and Vim come to mind.

There are also apps that I do customize, but either only once and never touch the config again (my window manager, Awesome), or ones that I customize but only to add an escape hatch (adding "Open this file in Emacs" to all JetBrains IDEs, for example).

So from my perspective, what's essential is to have a choice: both GNOME and KDE should exist, should enjoy similar popularity, and should each focus on their favored philosophy. Let those who want to work with defaults use software where a lot of effort went into providing sane defaults (it's ok if customizability suffers), and let those who want to customize use software where significant effort went into allowing customizability (it's ok if defaults are slightly insane).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-19 13:53:26+00:00
The nightmares of east india company can't be understated.

I can talk to even indian kids, Heck we learnt about east india company in 6th grade so like 10-11 years old & they can tell how they really really exploited india with their indigo plantations etc.

I have nothing against britishers but the fact that they kind of never really paid or literally anyone paid for the amount of exploitation that was carried is absolutely wild, and seem to glorify it from what I see is absolutely ridiculous.

Really shows you that the winners of wars write histories as I can't see how people just shrug off this as if eh yeah it happened ,when lets say the same couldn't be compared to lets say the nazi invasion of poland lets say y'know?

Just as how germany has almost learnt from its nazi history / remembering the pains to not do them again, yet from what I know, britain seems to have glorified it.

Literally millions died due to churchill in the bengal famine. Yet he's celebrated as a war hero which I can understand but why do I feel like critizing that millions of people died because of some guy who did wrong is gonna get me downvotes or get resentment, surely we can all agree that churchill was wrong in that context

I really feel as if the world is a large hypocritical machine.
by jijijijij | 2025-09-19 13:54:06+00:00
I think it mostly hasn’t aged well. Idk, seems like a relict of an era when people couldn’t have foreseen how language and the internet have evolved. This kind if vulgarity was en vogue in marketing once, kinda boomer stuff.

Also, I wasn’t aware it's Austrian, or I wouldn’t have made the Goethe remark. Thanks for the background info!
by amo1111 | 2025-09-19 13:54:08+00:00
> Something weird though is that turning on my extractor fan didn’t really do much.

Does your extractor fan vent to the outside, or just recirculate through a filter? In my experience, people often overestimate how much protection ventilation provides. It mostly dilutes contaminants rather than removing or isolating them. For example, with moderately hazardous compounds, a fume hood works fine under normal use, but in the event of a spill it can’t bring levels back down quickly enough to protect the operator. In that kind of situation, an isolator makes far more sense or adding PPE, though that can be burdensome.

What really surprised me is how high the values get from just a single pan. It makes me wonder what it’s like in a commercial kitchen with multiple pans at higher temperatures, especially if the extractor fan fails and there’s no time to shut down operations to fix it.
by blakepelton | 2025-09-19 13:54:13+00:00
I wonder how tricks that rely on compiler extensions (e.g., computed goto, musttail, and preserve_none) compare against the weval transform? The weval transform involves a small language extension backed by a larger change to the compiler implementation.

I suppose the downside of the weval transform is that it is only helpful for interpreters, whereas the other extensions could have other use cases.

Academic paper about weval: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3729259

My summary of that paper: https://danglingpointers.substack.com/p/partial-evaluation-w...
by RajT88 | 2025-09-19 13:54:20+00:00
In the New Testament, Jesus had a lot to say about wealth and power being bad. This feels like a reference to all that.

In my head, all that Sunday school I had internalized as a kid makes me think, "This is not the kind of church Jesus would preach at" when I see a really nice church where wealthy people attend.

Some Christians talk about "mammonites" or "the cult of mammon":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
by annsjdhs | 2025-09-19 13:54:25+00:00
> don't exert strong selective pressure in the first place

This assumes we understand how these things work in the first place. It’s very likely our understanding of evolution is incomplete.

I make this mistake a lot:

1. See thing that’s been done a long time a certain way

2. Modern recommendation is don’t do thing

3. Revised modern recommendation says “actually wait, do thing”

4. Revised modern recommendation is now ok because our incomplete model has been updated, whereas it should have always been ok because it’s been that way for a long time

Put another way: we should give more weight to a repeated pattern observed over thousands of years and heavily question any science that goes against it. Both sides are just estimations, but nowadays it’s almost assumed “old ways bad”. Way too many cases that end up being “way humans have operated for millennia is actually ok”.
by iluxonchik | 2025-09-19 13:54:41+00:00
85 out of 93 central banks (≈94% of global economic output) are engaged in some form of CBDC work, and while wholesale CBDC (inter-financial institution settlements) are likely to use Distributed Layer Technology (DLT) - it's not going to be a permissionless blockchain like Ethereum

Regarding retail CBDCs - i.e. the CBDC to be used by the broader public (used for ordinary transactions, essentially a digital version of the cash), those likely won't even use blockchain/DLT technology - at least for Advanced Economies
by bluGill | 2025-09-19 13:54:48+00:00
Most streets in the US are the same - there is an odd and even side of the road. Most are as said elsewhere also your house number is distance from the corner (most often in units of 100 feet) - I've seen half numbers before when houses when doors are close together, but normally they round.

However every development is different. The rules might be set by the city, but they change often enough that we can call this per development, others is really is the developer decides. Even where the city sets the rules, a "small fee" lets you choose your street name and address - which is why for most large companies their headquarters is "1 [company name] drive". Still the observation that in the US address are distance to corner with and even and odd size applies to the vast majority.
by chipsrafferty | 2025-09-19 13:55:23+00:00
I purchased a $3400 Linux laptop with excellent hardware and I've experienced the following issues:

Sound output is garbage. Webcam barely works or straight up doesn't work on some apps. The built in microphone doesn't work with common apps like Google hangouts and Zoom. All on Ubuntu (latest). Certain input ports (like USB C) don't work for certain apps even though they work fine for other Linux users and they work on my other computers.

Oh, and when I was on PopOS, the entire system froze and crashed nonstop (sometimes I would go over a day without a freeze, sometimes it would happen within 30 seconds of booting). This stopped happening for a while after I did a complete system reset, but then it started happening again. The team was completely unable to figure out the issue despite it being fairly widespread. No hardware was damaged or corrupted as they claimed must be the case.

Basically, in my experience, Linux has a ton of issues still.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-09-19 13:56:03+00:00
> So what if they are a VC backed company? If you perform a public service

VCs have no public service - it’s an oxymoron.

Hence the “hate” though I think cynicism is the more appropriate term

The reality of finance driven organizations is that no matter what, anything that looks like public good will eventually -if not immediately- be used to capture value on behalf of capital to control
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-19 13:56:03+00:00
Or you will get the pages that are good enough to hold your attention, while being short form enough to keep giving you small constant dopamine hits. Nothing too interesting or too long, keeping you chasing more hits, to prevent you from feeling like you really "finished" something significant, since that might feel like a stopping place and cause you to go do something else.
by hu3 | 2025-09-19 13:56:07+00:00
Well that is an urgency that Deno folks created. So it seems the deed is done.

> After more than 27,000 people signed our open letter to Oracle about the “JavaScript” trademark, we filed a formal Cancellation Petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Ten months in, we’re finally reaching the crucial discovery phase. - Ryan Dahl

You can't make this up. If I was Larry Ellison I would be calling Deno folks personally to thank them.
by jack_h | 2025-09-19 13:56:50+00:00
It's no different than the South in the US which does not include Texas, New Mexica, Arizona, or any other states that are geographically South in the modern day US. Once you understand the historical aspect of the naming it makes sense. The category itself, regardless of its label, is useful.

In terms of Latin America being a part of the West or not, that's more interesting. I'm currently reading Samuel P. Huntington's "A Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" and in it he talks a lot about civilizations which he defines as the highest cultural grouping of people short of what makes us human. Language, law, and religion in Latin America largely derive from Europe, although there are other aspects like economics that tend can differ. Some people consider Latin America as part of the West, others believe it's peripheral to the West or its part of its own civilization as Huntington does.

As others have pointed out Russia is not part of the West and at least according to Huntington would be placed in the Orthodox Civilization. Interestingly Huntington also argues that Greece, despite being the center of Classical Civilization which is the bases for Western Civilization, is not a part of the West, rather they too are Orthodox.

Regardless of whether you agree with these groupings, I think distilling it down to skin color is incorrect and not useful. The West itself is not even remotely homogenous in this aspect. You wouldn't go to sections of the Deep South in the US and declare it as not being a part of the West anymore than you would include Belarus as part of the West.
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-19 13:57:04+00:00
>In my experience, people often overestimate how much protection ventilation provides.

Do you have references to back this up that I could read? Assuming the same fan size, ventilation would act like a perfect filter and remove everything out of the room that the fan pushes, whereas a filter will allow some particles to pass and recirculate. Especially useless if it is those metal fiber filters that are in a range hood that just remove some grease.
by badlibrarian | 2025-09-19 13:57:11+00:00
A search for "Internet Archive rumors" returns a copy of Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" on my first page of results. Playable in browser and downloadable in high-quality lossless format.

The book lawsuit was over current titles (not really archival and preservation), and the record lawsuit wasn't really about the rare 78s, it was about the modern Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney records that somehow slipped in. And their refusal to follow the modern law that they themselves celebrated that made what they're trying to do (including downloads) explicitly legal. But that law prohibited fundraising, and they couldn't resist tweeting out links to Frank Sinatra records with a big banner on top asking for money.

In both lawsuits the discovery revealed tech debt and sloppy process at the Archive that made it impossible for them to argue on behalf of the future we all want.
by busterarm | 2025-09-19 13:57:25+00:00
This started happening on one of my older computers recently and I had to actually disable hardware acceleration to get the audio to stop being out of sync. The tradeoff for that has been noticeable frame dropping. I even added an extension to force h264 but there's no difference.

It can play video no problem on other sites or in VLC. It's just YouTube and just on that PC...That PC can run Doom Eternal. Video content shouldn't be a problem.
by tiahura | 2025-09-19 13:57:27+00:00
IA has a board page. My guess is the other members are independent in the sense they have don’t have material financial ties. However, you can draw your own conclusions as to whether they would ever tell management “no.”

The issue is that nonprofits don’t have shareholders that can hold boards accountable. As seen w/ OpenAI, sometimes big donors can bully (or eject) the board, and that probably needs to happen with IA.
by Igrom | 2025-09-19 13:57:37+00:00
Somewhat related: a coworker of mine recently wrestled with unexpected output coming from the company's internal CLI tool. What he was seeing did not match the flags that were specified in the command.

Lo and behold, his input method automatically collapsed two consecutive dashes into an en-dash (`–-f`), and the "option" was instead treated as a regular positional argument.
by heeton | 2025-09-19 13:57:55+00:00
To be that guy: you’re objecting to someone’s subjective phrasing while also using your own subjective phrasing.

Language is malleable and messy, and I find it doesn’t help discourse if you attack the surface reading of a comment. I don’t think OP is “accusing of hate”, I think they’re expressing surprise that such negative sentiments exist to a sensible issue. I agree, as do you it seems.

(And yes, in writing this I asked myself if I’m reacting to your terminology or the intent behind the words. I hope it’s the latter)
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by ardagurer | 2025-09-19 13:58:19+00:00
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The game is free to play, no ads, and works on desktop and mobile. I wanted to make something quick to pick up, like Wordle, but with a twist on ordering/chronology puzzles.

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Would love to hear your feedback on gameplay, UX, or anything that could make it more fun and sticky.
by dspillett | 2025-09-19 13:58:21+00:00
I've hit something similar recently though thankfully it didn't cause significant problems¹: a left-to-right indicator, U+200E, at the end of a user's name.

Apparently Word has a habit of inserting these in fields, whether needed or not in the context, with any right-to-left language supporting language packs are installed. Once added they are silently maintained and depending on exactly what you select may get included when you copy the text out to paste elsewhere, or get included if you use some form of automation to read the field value directly from the document or Word itself.

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[1] I noticed it while digging into some output to analyse a related issue, the file had been mashed together from content with different codepages in a way that meant it included invalid code points.