MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-18 14:18:24+00:00
Yeah. Klein did a good interview with Ben Shapiro in his last pod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqG00FUOK8

who covers a lot of ground: Shapiro seems rather strong when it comes to articulating that idea of personal responsibility but his satanization of the economic left (e.g. Bernie Sanders) seems forced and unreasonable and Klein sorta "owns" him when it comes to pointing out that many of Trump and Vance's policies and viewpoints are examples of the envy and resentment-based "scavenger" thinking that Shaprio discusses in a dehumanizing way.

Shapiro's attempt to foreclose any difference on economic issues is mirrored, I think, by a certain wish on the left to foreclose difference on cultural issues. One one hand there is an axis that runs through Trotskyites to centrists like Klein who would like to shut down the culture wars because as soon as the culture wars started we started losing [1] [2] but the leftist who enjoys the culture wars is more inclined to satanize the "christofascist" as opposed to the likes of Milton Freedman [3]

There's a tendency on the right to say there is an "objective" reality (the Bible, Ayn Rand's philosophy) whereas Marxism leads you to see there are "two sides" to any issue. It gets the left in no end of trouble thinking about Blacks because if you go talk to Black people you will find they really do see things differently from white people in the aggregate but that they also see things differently from one another.

So like Rhett Butler or Han Solo if I'm asked to take a side on something like "cancel culture" I'm going to say "my side". I'm sure someone got canceled who deserved it and someone got canceled who didn't deserve it. There is no "due process" but there's also a feeling (see Klein) that due process is as much a problem as it is a solution. I sure as hell hate the "debate" over it.

[1] that theory would say that Reagan's economic policies didn't have any appeal to a mass base

[2] to be fair, almost always white male although sometimes gay

[3] and it's a credit to the rise of financialization: when I grew up I learned the financial advice that if I take care of my bank account my credit score will take care of itself; the paradigm for financial advise on both the internet and in magazines has been "(1) stop people from stealing your identity, and (2) use this one weird trick to raise your FICO score" since 2010 -- leftists once might have cared about labor, opportunity, taxes and such, today they care about insurance (e.g. health insurance) and credit (student loans). The idea that you might have your own money to spend on something you want to spend it on is right out of the 1950s like the stay at hom emome.
by nixosbestos | 2025-09-18 14:18:26+00:00
> Admittedly, this was maybe 5 years ago.

Hahhaha, absolutely classic linux on HN post. Couldn't be better written satire.

Except that I guess you at least acknowledged it. Which non-abandonded OS/DE hasn't significantly changed in 5 years? I can't think of one. Maybe GNOME, but they were early movers and everyone hated them for that.
by cma | 2025-09-18 14:18:43+00:00
If this filter itself is effective, not saying it is, then gaps aren't necessarily a problem depending on where they are and if it still maintains the right pressure/airflow to the filter. Brought up a fume hood because if one of those had a filter for whatever was bad inside, and instead of exhausting outside it went through the filter, it would work still work despite the intentional gap.

I'm not saying the gaps are intentional or in the right place here, but that there could be an ok design with gaps. If you are exhausting through a filter you have to pull in air from somewhere.
by Aldipower | 2025-09-18 14:18:54+00:00
Great to see they support and still use Perl. Geizhals is a very usable and functional product and price comparison page. Looks a little bit old, but that is exactly what I like. Geizhals is associated with the Heise Verlag, that is what I do not like so much, because there was a steady decline in quality in the recent years.
by thrance | 2025-09-18 14:19:27+00:00
> Why are you so paranoid about it being "the jews" immediately when a cabal is identified?

Because that's usually what's implied when people speak of a cabal ruling the world and refuse to elaborate when asked about it. You can't blame me for thinking you a nazi when you use the same language and tactics as they do. Now I know you're not, and I'm sorry for being mistaken but maybe be more explicit about what you mean and refrain from using conspiracy-speak in the future?

Why do you even call that a cabal? Yes, class warfare is a thing and the material conditions are shifting in favor of the owner class, no the left and the right are not the same on this issue, and yes the liberals are completely bought and ineffective on these subjects.
by jerf | 2025-09-18 14:19:32+00:00
On my Chrome-descended browser, the initial screen is populated by something that appears to be some sort of downsampled grid image, resulting in black and white, but also various shades of grey. However the scrolling text is pure black and white. It also seems the canvas is persistent, so the result is that text on the canvas is leaving a shadow for me, where I can still read the shadow. Somehow the initial noise is not coming out as just black and white pixels.
by sparrish | 2025-09-18 14:20:09+00:00
We're not talking about wild animals here. We're talking about farm animals, which are intended to produce or work.

If your dog is killing your chickens, he's impacting your production.

If a goat is too old to reproduce, they're just costing money to feed and care.

Margins are thin on a farm and there's little room for such liabilities.

Thus it has been for thousands of years in agriculture.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-18 14:20:14+00:00
I am doing me, and you do you - although I have to say given your posting history, you're an intelligent, principled, and thought out person and there's a part of me that's sad to know you're not "casting" that into the next generation. And I say that even though our politics are opposite.

One huge benefit of religion is a timeless/eternal orientation in thinking. Like, if someone takes concepts like "spending eternity in heaven or hell" - they are indeed thinking about eternity, a topic that an atheist never has to be concerned with. And I say this as someone whose religion does not orient around a traditionally understood heaven and hell.

The reason I mention that is because it's obvious that in the grand scheme of things whatever you're worried about today won't matter. Whatever evils you see in the 2024 election (I don't but that's the political difference) pale in comparison to what someone could discern at different points in time. And yet - I am very glad my great-grandparents decided to have my grandmother despite the turmoil around the Soviet revolution. I am glad my grandparents decided to have my parents despite their horrific experience in WW2. Both of my wife's grandparents literally went through concentration camps as eastern European Jews, and still went on to have families. I have cousins born soon after 9/11, etc.

The point is - looking back on it, as real as those events were, it would be exponentially more horrible if they "won" not by how horrible they were, but by making good people give up on the whole game.

If I dare go on a limb - I'll suggest an alternate perspective. Whatever forces caused you to see "fascism and antifeminism" so strongly today that you're not having kids, have done you more permanent harm than anyone else.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-18 14:20:16+00:00
Wow, indeed. To add insult to the injury, the whole message reads like this:

> Good news is several Google and Apple engineers have volunteered to help with libxml2 and libxslt security issues, despite your effort to sabotage libxml2 users...

I mean, c'mon. He's carrying the world on his shoulders and people are just pointing fingers?

Also, this shows how evil corporations are. I can understand Apple, it's their culture to avoid GPL code and and committing code to any public project needs permission from everyone plus the campus cat, but Google, the apparently bastion of open source software is doing the same thing without any shame...

They have morphed into the next Microsoft AFAICS.

Despicable.
by Shared404 | 2025-09-18 14:20:17+00:00
Good looking typesetting from markdown is surprisingly hard. Played with it a while myself, and it's really not fun.

.... is what I was going to say until I went and hit the print button and 10% of the text was missing and everything was right aligned in the top right corner.

Yikes. You may find it worthwhile to clone the repo, iterate over it with pandoc to make A Big HTML File and then use your browsers print feature or pandocs converter. That's about as good as you'll get without a lot of pain ime.
by palmotea | 2025-09-18 14:20:30+00:00
> And outside relatively gender-neutral white-collar occupations, the economy as a whole has been shifting away from male-coded jobs toward female-coded jobs. The chart below shows the shares of employment in health care and social assistance (blue line) and manufacturing (dashed green line) since 1990:

Think about it: regardless of the gender dynamics, that's a bad evolution. A shift from making things to not making them, as part of general enervation of the country. In that respect, health care and social assistance are as good as hawking crypto-coins and social media influencing.

> While Trump is telling Americans that he can bring back traditional manly jobs, Charlie Kirk called for a return to traditional gender roles — getting women to marry and have children young rather than focus on career.

And it's pretty clear that "getting women" to "focus on career" will eventually lead to extinction. It's a shortsighted optimization with severe medium to long term problems, a lot like industrial pollution. Of course someone like Krugman will try to hand-wave that problem away with immigration, but the math there just doesn't work. As best, that's like moving the factory overseas to destroy some poorer person's environment instead of yours. Birthrates are declining everywhere, including in poor countries. Worldwide fertility is at replacement and dropping. The poor places will get depopulated (e.g. poor elderly left without caretakers), and eventually fail to provide the needed replacement workers.

> Like Trump’s job promises, Kirk’s prescriptions were impossible. We will never return the share of manufacturing in the economy to 1950s levels, and neither will women eschew birth control and quit their careers.

Is Krugman that dumb? Nothing like that impossible. Imagining history as a ratchet moving monotonically to more progressivism is a delusion (see: Trump and the failure of minorities to cooperate with the predictions in "The Emerging Democratic Majority"). I mean, trivially, given enough time anything possible will inevitably happen. 1950s American society happened, so is possible, so something like it can happen again.
by EbNar | 2025-09-18 14:20:31+00:00
> I dread buying a new model of anything these days, knowing that the MBAs will have found some way to shave a cent off a million units, or a millionth of a meter from a poor mouse foot.

So true... Generally speaking, quality of anything from a reputable brand was taken as granted just a couple decades ago... Now, every time I buy something there's some detail showing how the people in charge wanted to save a few cents making it.
by taeric | 2025-09-18 14:20:42+00:00
Apologies, I missed this yesterday.

It isn't that it is scary. It is that it connotes something about equations and such. It is literally the name of the class people learn how to symbolically solve quadratic equations and such.

I was saying in another thread that I think this would be a lot more obvious if people actually did algebra on the types. But we don't. At least, I can't recall ever seeing it done. Closest I've seen is in places where people have to do so to justify the naming here.

And I want to be clear, I specifically mean using + and * with types. And not that it can be done. Is it done?
by kevinfiol | 2025-09-18 14:20:45+00:00
Add me to the list of people happy with KDE. I tried every desktop environment under the sun over the past fifteen years. I even wrote off KDE foolishly many years ago simply because I thought it looked gaudy.

After Plasma 6 dropped, I decided to try it, and it quickly became my favorite Linux experience. Coming from GNOME, I was pleasantly surprised that many GNOME extensions I would rely on had equivalent feature functionality built into KDE (things like a Dock, Clipboard Manager, KWin Scripts, Tiling/Fancy Zones, animation configuration). I can pretty much echo everything said by the blog author here. (EDIT: Not to mention that so many of my GNOME extensions would break in between upgrades, or crash regularly, meanwhile KDE has been rock solid for me these past 9 months).

I still think GNOME is slightly prettier, but KDE is infinitely more usable for me.
by jlarocco | 2025-09-18 14:21:02+00:00
Why throw out numbers when we all know you haven't actually measured that it's >80%?

In any case, the tooling around XML (DTDs, XPath, XSLT, etc.) is the reason to use it. I would go so far as to say the (supposed) >80% not using those features shouldn't have used XML in the first place.
by TuringNYC | 2025-09-18 14:21:26+00:00
>> and what did you use to manage git push deployments, setting env vars to replicate the heroku features?

Yes Digital Ocean did all this, they were very feature-close to Heroku. We have over time migrated everything stable/prod to AWS just because AWS has more products and hence you have everything in one place inside a VPC (e.g. vector db)

For Replit, i'd use it for anything I can in early-stages. It helps to prototype ideas you are testing. You can iterate rapidly. For PROD we'd centralize onto AWS given the ecosystem.
by fpoling | 2025-09-18 14:21:32+00:00
This has the same purpose as caffeinate command on Mac and will prevent the system from suspend while a command is running. This is useful with tmux or long compilations or tests or whatever.

On Linux I rather prefer to configure my laptop to never suspend when connected to a power supply. For me the compilations and tests heavily drain battery and should not be run typically on battery.

But it turned on Mac Apple really wants to suspend and configuring the same behavior is somewhat non-trivial. So in past when I used Mac i often had a terminal window running

caffeinate -i sleep infinity

to prevent any suspend until I hit Ctrl-C there.
by wpm | 2025-09-18 14:22:27+00:00
There are a lot of AI companies that don't have a clue about what to do with AI. I would argue almost no one really knows what to do with it, which is why it's being shoehorned in everywhere.

I think Apple is being smart by sitting out this "light barrels of money on fire" phase, because we have no idea where it ends or whether it'll be worth a damn. Apple has a big enough warchest that once real solutions do start to coalesce out of the fog, they can just acquire what they need to build actual products.
by ramses0 | 2025-09-18 14:22:41+00:00
The project history is also crucial to understand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#History

TLDR- it was an in-house editor through several bankrupted companies, and the code was purchased (assets) for $100k by the community and subsequently released and stewarded to where it is today. Truly an OSS and community home run!
by normalaccess | 2025-09-18 14:22:44+00:00
Yep, I was thinking how convenient for Sinclair to "loose" Jimmy right now. I'll bet they are going along with it because his show was already really unpopular (at least for the ratings that I could find) and this is a perfect excuse to drop him while saving face.

Everybody "wins"... The right get to gloat, the left get to have talking points and Sinclair get's to freshen up their line up while we all fight it out in the comments.

I'll bet there was a cigar smoke filled back room chat when the discission was made $$$.
by mlyle | 2025-09-18 14:22:56+00:00
No one is ever going to pay per-seat for tens of thousands of teenage volunteers. If you're an unusual customer (nonprofit, with lots of volunteers and program people in the slack) you might end up with a long term special deal recognizing those circumstances (charging you for employees but not others).

The biggest issue is the abrupt change in policy. Slack had wanted Hack Club's patronage and had supported it. (Shoot, getting Slack visible to tens of thousands of future decision makers instead of Discord where these users all naturally congregate was a major win!)

To abruptly demand a massive immediate payment after a month's worth of mixed signals, from a small nonprofit, is messed up.
by watwut | 2025-09-18 14:24:09+00:00
The thing is, self-professed "free speech absolutists" generally believe that only right with and nazi speech are the ones worthy of defense. Anybody else who is criticizing those, disagreeing with those or promoting other ideas is seen as threat to free speech.

Self-professed "free speech absolutists" get really angry when left or anti right people speak or make the right uncomfortable.
by wtcactus | 2025-09-18 14:24:19+00:00
I check this site several times to get an idea what is the market price of something in the real world (i.e. outside Amazon).

Also, it’s very good at keeping tabs on the features of some products (best place I found to compare motherboards per features, something surprisingly difficult to do).

Unfortunately it’s very German centric and I live in Portugal, so I’ve only actually bought something from a link I’ve got there once.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 14:24:37+00:00
You don't have to tell me it was hell, I was there.

People, the government and scientists were all spreading misinformation depending on what the official messaging was at the time.

Case in point: Early on, the government was saying "Masks are not effective at stopping COVID-19" due to them wanting to control supply. When that happened, there was a large number of studies that came out showing just that. When you looked at the methodology, it was "Mask over mouth, cough into Petri dish" and see if any COVID was detectable in dish. Also "Virus particle size is much smaller than openings on mask"

When the government changed it's stance, all of those were retracted. It took the WHO 2 YEARS to change their stance and say that COVID-19 was airborne:

>In the spring of 2020, as covid-19 took hold, confusion reigned among scientists, doctors, public health experts, and others. Many insisted the spread of the new virus was through the air, yet the World Health Organization refused to use the terms “airborne” or “aerosol”1 in the context of covid-19 until 2021.2 This had repercussions as the world debated mask wearing (and what types of masks were suitable) and whether indoor spaces were a factor in infection.

>Now, four years later and after two years of deliberation by experts,3 WHO has altered its definition of the “airborne” spread of infectious pathogens in the hope of avoiding the confusion and miscommunication that characterised the first year of the pandemic—and threatened attempts to control the virus’s spread.

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280304
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-18 14:25:08+00:00
As long as consumer protection is an afterthought companies will continue to change their agreements after purchase and screw over consumers.

I'm left to wonder why do we even use words anymore, when tipping isn't optional, when purchasing doesn't mean you own the thing you buy, and an agreement can be changed without notice.

Why is it called tip and not fee. Why is it called purchase and not rent. Why is it called agreement and not... well I don't even know what to call that... a pinky promise?

We are building a culture of cynicism and calling it progress. It's just pyramid schemes and consumer abuse disguised as innovation.

I just can't trust anything anymore.
by squigz | 2025-09-18 14:25:32+00:00
I've never used Mattermost, so I'm only going off my reading of what you said, but the difference is that, if you're not actually in a thread when you reply to a message on Discord, it doesn't get put into that thread, whereas on Mattermost, IIUC, you're saying that you can reply to a message outside of a thread and be able to click into a thread made of all those replies.

My question (and pcthrowaway's) response is about what happens when you send a message inside a thread without replying to a message. I was wondering if it would be sent into the main channel, with no context, which would be confusing.
by fastball | 2025-09-18 14:26:42+00:00
- I agree you should follow the data. That is the point I made from the beginning. Elon Musk / Tesla saying anything is not a sign of progress (or lack thereof).

- No, Teslas are not fully self-driving like Waymo. Alas, Waymo isn't the only competitor. The parent comment I replied to was lumping all driving assist together, as if Ford BlueCruise, which is highway-only driving, is comparable to current iterations of Tesla FSD, which has the capability to take you from point A to point B without a geofence ("universal A-to-B navigation") and with zero driver intervention required. That includes the ability to handle traffic lights, stop signs, roundabouts, pedestrians and cyclists, etc. Basically none of the other driver assists claim that capability (besides Waymo), and Waymo very notably has not allowed their cars to drive on highways in the majority of jurisdictions in which they operate (I believe LA is the only highway driving being done at the moment for Waymo). Tesla FSD however remains unreliable, which is why they haven't launched a full driverless service like Waymo, but Tesla FSD has more (unreliable) capabilities than any of their competitors, Waymo included. Reliability is super important though, which is why I'd say Waymo is clearly ahead.

- Not all anecdotal evidence is created equal. I suggested a specific type of anecdata – asking a friend (read: someone you trust who you think has broadly good judgement) who actually has a Tesla with the FSD package a question like "have you seen significant improvement in the self-driving capabilities of this car?" or "have you had any drives where your Tesla took your from home to where you needed to go, with zero interventions on your part?". Asking a GM employee "is your competitor doing a better job than you" is a very different type of anecdata and not something I personally would rely on. Mind you, I think asking a friend about their personal experience isn't great either, and that the other measures I suggested are much better, but it is still much better than "competitors say".
by andrea76 | 2025-09-18 14:26:56+00:00
I've used gnome for 7 years in Fedora. Often certain extensions stopped working betweenv after Fedora big upgrades (i.e. from 32 to 33). The JavaScript engine that runs extensions had many memory leaks bugs so I had to kill the gnome-shell process on a TTY session.

After 7 years I was fed up and switched to KDE and never looked back
by Ciantic | 2025-09-18 14:27:27+00:00
Typed Lua is something I've always wanted, but writing a very comprehensive type-checker and LSP for another dynamic language is pretty difficult. All dynamic languages have similar problems to those TypeScript encountered, as most dynamic languages have a sort of structural typing in the form of dictionaries or objects.

I do wonder if we could reuse TypeScript in other dynamic languages.

Transform Luau to a subset of TypeScript, check with tsc, transform errors and results back to Luau. In the same way, one could reuse a TypeScript language server. This way of utilising TypeScript's engine could jump-start many other type checkers for other dynamic languages.