MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-24 14:35:19+00:00
Ahh, just checked it and I think you might be correct but here's my nuanced take

Yeah I can also understand it, but I just saw their comments and scrolled down to find it ``` Nah, DotNET is amazing these days. At the risk of starting a holy war, it is neck-and-neck with Java, and I say that as a Java fanboi. I think it is good to have healthy competition between languages (and ecosystems), like C++ and Rust (and a little bit Zig) or GCC and Clang or Java and DotNet or Python and Ruby or NodeJS and Deno. Plenty of people are compiling and deploying to Linux after DotNetCore went open source. Plus, you can use JetBrains Rider, which is a cross-platform IDE for C#, from the makers of IntelliJ ```

It just seems that their use of words like boi etc. makes them (genz?-ish)

I am genz too (maybe younger than them, still in HS) but yeah maybe they just write one liners which can be quite common but I see that more on the reddit kind of things and not hackernews lol. I can definitely see our generation's attention span being cooked that when I write remotely as long as this, they say nah I ain't reading it. So well, how are they gonna write it for the most part :/

It might be a bot but then again, what is the point? The point I see of HN points is that I might create a new account and be the same guy and kind of accrue them back because I once had it y'know while being myself not writing some one liners lol.

The fact that I like about HN is that I have talked to soooo many people that I admire whether its a one liner from jose valim or etc. and I am happy that hackernews exists to a somewhat degree :>

Like just out of curiosity, has someone ever got any job or smth through HN in the sense that they had their karma in part of their resume and the company was impressed lol, I can see it to a somewhat degree in maybeee startups
by floatrock | 2025-09-24 14:35:20+00:00
What the airlines want is to have people pay more to sit together.

What they're gonna get is same thing that happened when luggage fees became standard: enshittification because people find ways to pay less. In the case of luggage fees, suddenly everyone's like "yeah, okay, I guess I can fit things into a carry on" and turns out there's not enough overhead space for the entire plane so the plebs in Group 4+ have mandatory gate checks. Is the labor of always gate checking bags really any cheaper than having it flow through the airport luggage infrastructure? Apparently it is slightly, but it's definitely a shittier experience.

What's gonna happen here is parent is gonna book two separate cheap middle seats and ask you when you sit down if you could trade your premium aisle/window seat for a middle seat so mom and child can be together. Because otherwise you're separating momma from baby and therefore a terrible human.

And then we all get upset at each other for trying to cost-hack instead of seeing the real enemy in the room: the pathological MBA's picking up pennies in front of the enshittification steamroller.
by kakacik | 2025-09-24 14:35:27+00:00
Nope, its still vast majority of situation, not a healthy setup for most people. Is being content with one's life a state of happiness or just state of content?

We are splitting hairs here but since happiness is considered the ultimate goal and state (what's beyond that if its not the end?), I would say aim for being content with your life as a baseline, jump to an actual happiness when stars align and revert back.

Its cool enough place to be and definitely more maintainable long term, and as mentioned a seldom dip to misery is a very valuable correction and reminder to all how fleeting this all is.
by arghwhat | 2025-09-24 14:35:28+00:00
Care to elaborate, as that sounds rather extreme?

I don't know of a country that requires all bicycle parking in any non-private location to be paid, nor a country that requires payment for roadside parking on country roads outside cities. Heck, even within cities, only the very dense ones seem to require paid parking on smaller roads.

Public space does not imply free of any use, but rather that it is freely used by all. The purpose of paid roadside parking is to reduce demand on what quickly becomes a limited resource in dense cities.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-09-24 14:35:54+00:00
Don’t worry!

Ads are coming to AI. The big AI push next will be context, your context all the time. Your phone will “help” and get all your data to OpenAI…

“It looks like you went for a run today? Good job, you deserve a treat! Studies show a little ice cream after a long run is effectively free calories! It just so happens the nearest Dairy Queen is running a promotion just for the next 30 minutes. I’m getting you directions now.”
by zmgsabst | 2025-09-24 14:36:12+00:00
Both statements as written are true: vaccines do kill people and vaccines do save lives.

If you insert the implicit “all”, then both are false: not all vaccines save lives and not all vaccines kill people.

But your knowledge of medicine is quite deep if you know the relative rates of vaccines with zero deaths ever versus the rate at which defective vaccines are produced. Do you have a good source you can share?
by mathfailure | 2025-09-24 14:36:37+00:00
Doubt. What are post-USSR countries (except for Ukraine) where government detains lots of people who hasn't committed any crimes? How many people get wrongfully killed by cops in post-USSR countries? In U.S. that's like a sport for cops to find an excuse to unalive someone.

And what is democratic about the fact that majority of people votes for candidate A, yet candidate B becomes the president because... because it's people don't actually vote for president, they vote for someone who counts pro-some party and it's THEY who vote for president in the end. What's democratic about corruption being completely legal (lobbying)? Do you know a single post-USSR country where lobbying is legal? (Hell, how can it be legal at all? there's no distinction between lobbying and corruption, that's the same thing!)
by semanticist | 2025-09-24 14:36:43+00:00
The left accuse the BBC of bias because, eg, the new Green Party leader has not been on any relevant BBC politics programs while Farage and other right wing politicians are regular fixtures.

The right accuse the BBC of bias because they fact-check them when they lie.

These things are not equivalent.

The BBC has lost a lot of credibility over the last decade or so. I can completely understand why they rolled over (often pre-emptively) to placate a Tory government that talked a lot about defunding them, but ultimately it has not served them well.

The newspaper situation in the UK is diabolical for sure.
by ghaff | 2025-09-24 14:37:00+00:00
>they'd rather pay less than pay more for luxuries they don't actually value very much

Basically. I have used a combination of miles and co-pays to upgrade to business trans-Pacific. But most of the time going from the east coast US to Europe (especially when I can do it without a red-eye to London), I end up thinking of all the nice stuff I could do with $5K at the cost of sort of a miserable flight.

It's not that I couldn't splurge but there are other things I'd generally prefer to splurge on.
by jagaerglad | 2025-09-24 14:37:11+00:00
There are some people suggesting that, however at a small scale and not taken that seriously by many. What difference does it make? What about all the other words that underwent the sound change? Also, some nuanced people can keep languages and politics separate. The sound shift isn't even entirely clear to be due to arabic influence, how come it turned into 'f' and not 'b' such as the arabic approximation? How come sounds like 'g' remained?

And in the end, in English it should be "Persian" and not "Farsi", that is where the actual move should be. How sad and historically wasteful if we started to do that to all languages, "deutsch", "zhongwen" or "elliniki" instead of German, Chinese and Greek
by Rover222 | 2025-09-24 14:38:08+00:00
I agree from a high level, but I think the major difference is that: - Chinese news is propoganda in the traditional sense - directed/approved by the central government - US news is not centrally controlled like that, but most sources lean heavily left or right, and distort narratives to fit their views.

I feel like liberals believe that, while Fox News is clearly presenting things from a right-leaning perspective, most of their chosen news sources are neutral. That's absurd. NYT is certainly far left in how they spin the majority of their stories.
by whartung | 2025-09-24 14:38:16+00:00
> ed isn’t quite flipping binary toggle switches to load your program, but close enough to deliver the joy of brutal minimalism along with a nostalgic waft of yesteryear.

No, that would be Teco, or, more “all we had were zeros”, ED on CP/M.

ED is, well, miserable. It’s a character editor, vs a line editor, and you had the joys of paging in chunks of your file into working memory.

I, personally, find command line character editors especially difficult. I find it very hard to maintain my context and, of course, who doesn’t just love counting characters for commands.
by raincole | 2025-09-24 14:38:28+00:00
> Instead of learning to type

How do you know they are not learning to type?

> you complain about letters having different forms

Where did they "complain"?

The OP's article:

> From this, I will extract three screenshots (with the MacOS screenshot tool). First, to create a card of type “basic” (one side). I use this type of card to exercise my reading, which is very difficult and remains stubbornly slow, even though I know the 32 letters of the Persian alphabet quite well by now. But the different ways of writing them (which varies by their position in the word) and the fact that the vowels are not present makes it an enduringly challenging task.

It doesn't sound like they literally can't type in Persian, or they're complaining about how it's written, at all. They're merely stating the fact it's difficult for them (like every language learner).

They also screenshot the English part too. So presumably they screenshot because it's faster, not that they can't type.

> Author, you're not properly engaging with the language

Strangely condescending. They're focusing on reading and listening, which is legit for beginners.

I do agree that the use of Anki cards is suboptimal though.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-24 14:38:41+00:00
For sure! I've gone through some pre-made verb conjugation and vocab decks -- and actually have been meaning to upload one I made for learning Bengali script -- but I still find grinding Anki decks to not be that effective for me. Which sucks, because all you hear is how magic Anki is, but I guess I've always struggled with rote memorization.
by gpderetta | 2025-09-24 14:38:52+00:00
What about seats? You can fly standing perfectly fine. Sitting is a privilege (definitely ryanair does not propose this form time to time).

> On the one hand, this seems fair. If you want to sit together [with your family], pay for that privilege

This seems shortsighted. Airlines could get much more money if they added a fee to guarantee not to be seated beside a kid!
by yawaramin | 2025-09-24 14:39:03+00:00
Nah, it's pretty clearly dog-whistling for racists. Talking about 'native Brits' vs 'mass immigration' changing the 'culture and makeup'? People don't say 'makeup' to refer to California programmer bro culture, they are talking about racial makeup.

Then he goes on about 'Pakistani rape gangs' and 'abuse of British girls'–oh look, the classic trope of the nasty browns and blacks preying on our precious white children.

Then take this: 'There's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.'

These words would not be out of place in 1066 Britain ie 'this is a country of the Saxons, not the Normans'. Britain has seen this exact brand of xenophobia for millennia, in fact they even had periods of bigotry against Danes! If dhh had gone to London at the wrong point in history, he might have experienced racial prejudice.

Interesting, right?
by wat10000 | 2025-09-24 14:39:12+00:00
There's a basic requirement in commerce that products sold must be fit for purpose. That is, they need to actually do what they're supposed to do in some form. I can't sell you a flight to New York and then give you a pair of plastic wings and say that the rest is on you. I have to actually get you there like any reasonable person would assume I would given what I sold you.

Selling tickets to a small child and their caregiver and then seating them far apart is plainly not fit for purpose. They can't actually fly like that, so you've sold them something they can't use, and that you know they can't use.

If they want to charge extra to sit together, fine, but that needs to be bundled into the basic price when one of the tickets is for a small child, not presented as an optional add-on at an additional cost.
by pixl97 | 2025-09-24 14:40:33+00:00
> it's to devalue the idea of truth in general.

You see a common theme in some people talking about science related things, aka "The science was wrong", which is very rarely the case. Most of the time when that is said it's "The conclusion was slightly incorrect because of statistically insignificant findings" (probability based) versus wrong (binary). You end up with a class of people that start thinking all science is wrong and at any moment their crackpot crap is suddenly going to be correct.
Show HN: A Python lib to create task-specific LLMs for NLP without training data
by rlucato | 2025-09-24 14:40:54+00:00
I built Artifex, a Python library to create task-specific LLMs for NLP and Text Classification, without training data. At the moment, only Intent Classification and Guardrail models are supported, but I'll be adding more soon based on users' feedback. The reason I made this is that general-purpose LLMs are overkill for simple Text Classification tasks, and LLM APIs can get expensive quickly. On the other hand, fine-tuning an LLM for a specific task requires labelled data, which not everybody has.

That's why I created a library to train small, task-specific LLMs WITHOUT training data. You simply describe how the model should behave, and it will be trained on synthetic data generated for that purpose.

The models can run locally (without a GPU) or on small servers, offloading simple tasks and reducing reliance on third-party LLM APIs.

I am looking for any kind of feedback or suggestions for new model/tasks. Here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/tanaos/artifex
by jlokier | 2025-09-24 14:40:57+00:00
> How on earth can it be that terrible [>20 minutes] compared to Deno?

QuickJS uses a bytecode interpreter (like Python, famously slow), and is optimised for simplicity and correctness. Whereas Deno uses a JIT compiler (like Java, .NET and WASM). Deno uses the same JIT compiler as Chrome, one of the most heavily-optimised in the world.

That doesn't normally lead to such a large factor in time difference, but it explains most of it, and depending on the type of code being run, it could explain all of it in this case.

QuickJIT (a fork of QuickJS that uses TCC for JIT) might yield better results, but still slower than Deno.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-24 14:41:10+00:00
> In parallel I don't understand gamers with 15 years old hardware leaving bad reviews or whining when a game chokes above 720p with minimum settings.

I game on 1080P and never have issues with any games I play, though I am on a 3080. It's definitely people trying to max out every setting for their 4K monitor that they overpaid for. I might be giving 2K monitors a try soon on the other hand.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-24 14:41:11+00:00
Could you please stop repeatedly editing multiple comments to respond to replies? The "reply" function exists for a reason, and your backedits disrupt the directional read of a thread, confusing the discussion.

If the HN system tells you that you're posting too fast, and you need to slow down, that also exists for a reason: you are, and you do. You can still reply (so please stop saying you cannot), you just need to slow down, be patient, and wait. It's ok to wait. Don't try to evade the restrictions. Wait.
by zekica | 2025-09-24 14:41:22+00:00
It can be valuable on devices *you own* with servers *you own* when the devices are not physically present (or even if they are).

You can get PCR values and decide if the device you are talking to is tampered with. That way, you can set a higher bar for hackers.

This is completely different to what this topic is about, I'm just saying that there is a case where it can be useful.
by veqq | 2025-09-24 14:42:16+00:00
> interpreter based

Not at all. Co-dfns came out ~5 years ago. Here's a discussion including the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/k258e...

Here's an article about many others: https://codereport.github.io/GPUArrayLanguages/ including interviews with some of their makers.
by mr_toad | 2025-09-24 14:42:28+00:00
Implementations that use vector database do not use LLMs to generate queries against those databases. That would be incredibly expensive and slow (and yes there is a certain irony there).

Main advantages of a vector lookup are built-in fuzzy matching and the potential to keep a large amount of documentation in memory for low latency. I can’t see an RDMS being ideal for either. LLMs are slow enough already, adding a slow document lookup isn’t going to help.
by mariusor | 2025-09-24 14:42:37+00:00
But as long as there are still people using desktop computers, removing access from them is an overreach and makes these ideas totally undemocratic. I am frankly baffled that an organization having the principles and know-how of the EU can even think of gating access to information with something so slipshod.

The only eventuality where this is acceptable is when desktop computers won't even be gated, and then if anyone can circumvent the problem with a computer, why is anyone even bothering with the whole thing...
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-09-24 14:43:07+00:00
"I'm the lead, and we are going to do it this way": avoid it for as long as you can, but do NOT hesitate to use it when it's the appropriate answer.

Take the time to listen to everyone and to form an educated decision. Explain your conclusion once, twice and even thrice. But sometimes teams can get caught in an endless futile discussion over details that don't matter for the stated goals.

In that case, it's *your duty* as the leader to play the dictator and impose order. "If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader. Sell ice-cream", Steve Jobs reportedly once said.

If it happens though, don't forget to re-establish trust with your team members and make sure they understand the circumstances that led you to act in that way.
by hackernudes | 2025-09-24 14:43:33+00:00
I've had similar problems but no amount of tweaking vm and vfs cache settings helped. Swap or not, both 32gb and 128gb of ram. Manually reclaiming memory would un-lock the system (/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim).

I wrote a user space memory reclaimer and have not got a lockup since. https://gist.github.com/EBADBEEF/f168458028f684a91148f4d3e79...
by greenavocado | 2025-09-24 14:43:33+00:00
When Nixon slammed the gold window shut so Congress could keep writing blank checks for Vietnam and the Great Society, it wasn't just some monetary technicality. It was the moment America broke its word to the world and broke something fundamental in us too. Suddenly money wasn't something you earned through sweat or innovation anymore. It became something politicians and bankers could conjure from thin air whenever they wanted another war, another corporate bailout, another vote-buying scheme.

Fast forward fifty years and smell the rot. That same fiscal recklessness Congress spending like drunken sailors while pretending deficits don't matter has bled into every pore of society. Why wouldn't it? When BlackRock scoops up entire neighborhoods with Fed-printed cash while your kid can't afford a studio apartment, people notice. When Tyson jacks up chicken prices to record profits while diners can't afford bacon, people feel it. And when some indie blogger slaps a paywall on their life's work because OpenAI vacuumed their words to train ChatGPT? That's the same disease wearing digital clothes.

We're all living in Nixon's hangover. The "us vs us" chaos you see Discord servers demanding your phone number, small sites gatekeeping against bots, everyone scrambling to monetize scraps that's what happens when trust evaporates. Just like the dollar became Monopoly money after '71, everything feels devalued now. Your labor? Worth less each year. Your creativity? Someone's AI training fuel. Your neighborhood? A BlackRock asset on a spreadsheet.

And Washington's still at it! Printing trillions to "save the economy" while inflation eats your paycheck alive. Passing trillion-dollar "infrastructure bills" that somehow leave bridges crumbling but defense contractors swimming in cash. It's the same old shell game: socialize the losses, privatize the gains. The factory worker paying $8 for eggs understands this. The nurse getting lectured about "wage spirals" while hospital CEOs pocket millions understands this. The teenager locking down their Discord because bots keep spamming scams? They understand this.

Weimar happened when money became meaningless. 1971 happened when promises became meaningless. What you're seeing now the suspicion, the barriers, the every-man-for-himself hustle is what bubbles up when people realize the whole system's running on fumes. The diner owner charging $18 for a burger isn't greedy. The blogger blocking AI scrapers isn't a Luddite. They're just building levees against a flood Washington started with a printing press half a century ago.

The tragedy is that we're all knee-deep in the same muddy water, throwing sandbags at each other while the real architects of this mess the political grifters, the Fed bankers, the extraction-engine capitalists watch dry-eyed from their high ground. Until we stop accepting their counterfeit money and their counterfeit promises, we'll keep drowning in this rigged game. The gold window didn't just close in '71. The whole damn social contract rusted shut.
by bilekas | 2025-09-24 14:44:07+00:00
> First, realize that there is no such thing as the 'public interest'. The public is composed of different subdivisions of people, from everyone everywhere down to the individual.

I don't buy that at all, that's what regulations are for. There is no public interest in still having lead in our fuel [0], or arsenic in green wall paint [1]. To say regulations are not for public interest is to say why have any oversight of anything.

Should we say "well fuel companies can make fuel cheaper with lead so lets just remove those regulations.

[0] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/inside-20-year-c...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green#:~:text=Because%20...
by the_snooze | 2025-09-24 14:44:14+00:00
I think the fact that so many people (myself included) interpreted it as Anna declining everything demonstrates that the article is poorly written. Even a quick signpost mid-piece like "parties obviously weren't Anna's scene, but she was a regular at our dinner table" would have made things much clearer.

There's a big difference between inviting a regular to something they may or may not like, and inviting someone who's absent for everything.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 14:45:32+00:00
Most states have a public real time map showing snow plow locations. Ask yourself why is it not a problem when their info is public.

At the end of the day what this comes down to is the current scale of parking tickets being something that needs to be backed by more violence (i.e. deploy actual cops with all their associated costs) than society would tolerate (people would complain about costs, request the resources be spent elsewhere, etc).