MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kragen | 2025-09-07 14:10:42+00:00
Yeah, I was in favor of commercialization precisely because it was necessary for inclusion, but horrified by how much of that commercialization turned out. I started using it in 01992, at which point there were no ISPs anywhere within thousands of kilometers, so the only way to get access to the internet was to know people in person.

NameZero was from 01999 evidently: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/namezero
by simne | 2025-09-07 14:10:45+00:00
As I understand, you mean, fp approach is comfortable to work with large codebase. But in GD this is not the case, and even not was case at past.

Why so, because, at digital games dawn, hardware was too limited, just hardware limitations prohibited large projects; when appeared big networking games, complexity shifted to server-side, so for them subject irrelevant; now possible big games without networking, but high-definition multimedia costs prohibitive.

So, for subject only relevant small games, with small codebase, so they even avoid text programming at all and many people switched to so named Visual Scripting (google).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45158181
by mc32 | 2025-09-07 14:10:54+00:00
Especially that underpriced postage advantage (the de minimis exemption) that so many were taking advantage when shipping small shipments from China (and others). Maybe maybe this means fewer items of dubious repute on Amazon.

It was a stupid exception I'm glad they did away with it. I have no idea who in their bright mind saw reason to increase the exception to 800 from 200). Stupid.

Suspension was talked about in April. Announced globally at the end of July and took effect at the end of August.
by artemonster | 2025-09-07 14:11:01+00:00
I really want effects to shine and thrive, but since this is a very academic topic, only academic people engage with the research and it comes with academic pedantism, perfectionist worldview, strange attraction to beautiful consistency, etc. This automatically places effect research FAR from any practicality and grounded realism. 2 points, as examples: 1. Ever tried adding a simple print statement for debugging purposes while coding in effectful lang? compiler: "NNNOOOOO!!!! THIS IS AN ERROR; I WILL NEVER COMPILE THIS NONSENSE YOU __MUST__ SPECIFY CONSOLE EFFECT WAAARGHH!11" 2. multi-resumable stacks. how many times you really want to implement custom backtracking for multi resumable computations? this is such an obscure nonsensical use case that is hard to nearly impossible to solve efficiently, but everyone wants to support it. supporting this adds enormous complexity and kills any potential for performance. WHYYYYYYYYY. and yet they focus on this as a holy grail feature but whever there is a showcase they use synthetic "choice" example, lol.
by onionisafruit | 2025-09-07 14:11:57+00:00
This makes me realize I’ve been misinterpreting bell the cat references my whole life. I thought it was about team work.

My mother told me a version that had the mice building some rube goldberg contraption to get the bell on the cat. It’s a very different lesson from what’s described here. I wonder if she got her version from someone else or if it was her addition to avoid teaching me a cynical lesson.
by martin-t | 2025-09-07 14:12:03+00:00
Alright, so I read your story and I disagree with you even more now.

You had the system used against you and yet you still defend it. The system was specifically used against you by ignoring who initiated and escalated the conflict and by ignoring how other people have wronged you before you supposedly did anything you call wrong but not illegal.

See, you did nothing wrong.

You were wronged by the people in the house who initiated the conflict by cheating on you, by hiding a felon (assuming his offense was moral, not just legal), by attacking you physically and by refusing you access to your property (if you couldn't agree on temporary access to retrieve it, then a reasonable compromise would be to call the police to mediate the access, not to use against you).

You were wronged by the police by not letting you press charges.

And you were wronged by the state by setting up an inherently (due to imbalance of power) abusive system of plea deals.

And the reason none of them are concerned with harming you is because they know you have no way to fight back without overwhelming violence (the state) being used against you. It's the classic case of "might makes legal" (which I prefer to "might makes right" because the latter conflates legality and morality/justice.

The system needs to be changed so that:

1) You always have the right to fight back legally and punish people for harming you - e.g. police should absolutely be punished for doing their job poorly to this level of incompetence.

2) Failing that, you have the moral right to fight back against all three aggressors. Of course, as I said, overwhelming violence will be used against you. That's why people don't do it and that's I am not advising people to do it. I am saying they have the _moral_ right to and I wouldn't consider them doing anything wrong if they did (as we discussed earlier, assuming I had sufficient proof, not just taking their word for it).

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BTW by all 3, I literally mean all 3. People have the right to overthrow governments if those governments are sufficiently abusive. We could discuss where exactly the line lies. But nobody in the "free world" can defend a position that you always have to submit, especially given how many of today's democracies were created by overthrowing a previous (abusive) government.

Which is funny, many make it legal to celebrate events like the French revolution, the US war for independence, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, etc. but at the same time make it illegal to call for their own overthrow or for assassinations of current politicians.
by walterbell | 2025-09-07 14:12:09+00:00
There's a six-month period for new systems to be implemented.

> 88 operators worldwide fully or partially suspending services, the Universal Postal Union.. said operators didn't have enough time to prepare for the changes, or to put in place mechanisms to collect the duties and establish a link with the relevant US authorities.. The agency is working on "the rapid development of a new technical solution that will help get mail moving to the United States again," UPU Director General Masahiko Metoki said
by doodlebugging | 2025-09-07 14:12:20+00:00
Hmmmm. I had not considered this. I guess I am in a rut with more than one project going all the time so I never took the time to look for other options.

I did buy a new pc several years ago when the T5400 started to have problems on reboot and I found a couple of bad caps. I figured it was only a matter of time. Oddly enough that still seems to be true.
by jmull | 2025-09-07 14:12:50+00:00
I kind of love the diy aspect of ai coding.

A dermatologist a short while ago with this idea would have to find a willing and able partner to do a bunch of work -- meaning that most likely it would just remain an idea.

This isn't just for non-tech people either -- I have a decades long list of ideas I'd like to work on but simply do not have time for. So now I'm cranking up the ol' AI agents an seeing what I can do about it.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-07 14:14:43+00:00
I did that the other day but for a warranty replacement. The company wants to make sure you're not getting a free second item but also don't want to pay for return shipping so they require a photo of the item that includes the serial number and the snipped cord visible so they know it's non-operational.

I've done this in the past few years for a broken fan, blender, immersion circulator, vacuum, wireless charging pad, and probably some other items I'm forgetting. (For whatever reason, I tend to be lucky that things tend to break slightly before the warranty is up.)

Are you sure that's not it? Why are you even assuming the items are functional? Most broken items still look fine, they just don't work properly.
by graemep | 2025-09-07 14:15:40+00:00
I agree. It also reduces the world's dependence on unstable regions.

However, some things that are regarded as renewable (e.g. wood burning, such as the notorious Drax power station in the UK) are more polluting than fossil fuels. Personally I doubt they are even effective at CO₂ reduction. What we need is clean energy.
by mattmanser | 2025-09-07 14:15:44+00:00
I think I can't get you budge position at all you because you feel people can't make value judgements. But reality is a harsh mistress, with no empathy.

If you look at development methodologies such as agile, scrum, XP, etc. what you'll notice is that originally, for all of these, there's no non-technical PM. Often the PM role is entirely absent. Why do you think that was?

Because the industry doesn't value that role. It is felt that the process generally works better without it. But C-Suite think they can delegate what should be their decision making to non-technical middle managers, and that's why PMs keep getting forced back in.

If you feel your role is so key and it's this empathy that's so important, why does your post drip with constant snark? Why can't you acknowledge other people's point of view? You've ignored most of my points, and strawmanned one, a classic narcissistic response. All I'm doing is explaining why the PM in tech workflows is generally disdained, and you're shooting the messenger. That all seems more like a lack of empathy than anything.
by dijit | 2025-09-07 14:16:25+00:00
JEDEC has a few frequencies they support: https://www.jedec.org/standards-documents/docs/jesd79-4a

DDR4-1600 (PC4-12800)

DDR4-1866 (PC4-14900)

DDR4-2133 (PC4-17000)

DDR4-2400 (PC4-19200)

DDR4-2666 (PC4-21300)

DDR4-2933 (PC4-23466)

DDR4-3200 (PC4-25600) (the highest supported in the DDR4 generation)

What's *NOT* supported are some enthusiast ones that typically require more than 1.2v for example: 3600 MT/s, 4000 MT/s & 4266 MT/s
by everdrive | 2025-09-07 14:16:25+00:00
My social circle has shrank to almost nothing, and I go to work and pursue my hobbies. It's not clear to me that knowing about world or political events has much impact. To the extent that I'm well informed, it mostly just allows me to have political conversations in my head, with no one, sometimes my wife, and very occasionally a fried or two. And there's no reason to think that those political conversations are doing anything positive for the relationships. (I don't lean into politics with people since it can be so divisive, but if people are so inclined, it can be fun intellectually.

I don't generally feel like there's much in the news that either discusses anything I care about. Or, to the extent that issues I care about are discussed, they come at it from such a strange angle that the discourse is mostly frustrating, or disappointing. (quick example, I heard a piece on NPR about how people are turning to LLMs for therapy. The commentator's solution? We NEED robust LLMs that are trained in psychology datasets and have the right guardrails for psychology.) For the rest of the HN crowd, imagine any news story from a mainstream outlet about issues of privacy or security. The commentary is completely worthless, except perhaps for informing you about where some of the general public may be on the issue.

In other words, for me personally, it's not sure that following politics has very much real utility value. I can just research a candidate when I go to vote. The only direct referendums I can vote on are town-level and have nothing to do with national matters. I donate to a few causes I like, and otherwise I have effectively zero say in how these things turn out. This means I'd be far better off reading a book, doing chores, or thinking about how I can improve the quality of my life than paying attention to the news whatsoever.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-07 14:16:52+00:00
It's long overdue. I'm not sure exactly how long bitcoin, tech stock speculation and private equity rollups were supposed to support an actual economy.

The question is whether you impose protectionism before or after you crater.

> I hope the recession ends up being smaller in length and magnitude than the 2008-2009 recession because that one wrecked an entire generation in terms of wealth and psychology.

It's going to be longer, and worse. Especially since there's no one in the ruling class that doesn't think that the way to get out of recessions is the massive-scale disinvestment that comes with austerity. We only got out of the last one because while America was preaching austerity, it was giving handouts to every wealthy person in America, while Europe was actually dumb enough to do austerity for real.

Upper-middle class people will be fine. During covid their wealth doubled through no particular effort of their own. It was just a gift from taxpayers to show them we love them.
by eduction | 2025-09-07 14:17:19+00:00
This fits with the complete lack of care for ethics and societal awareness from Gary and Paul on down. They just want companies that can succeed by the usual amoral metrics of Silicon Valley (money). Which is entirely their right, but here is one of the social cost in a form most “hacker” founders can maybe appreciate. (As opposed to a low income resident getting evicted to make way for an illegal Airbnb)
by mmastrac | 2025-09-07 14:17:56+00:00
From someone outside the US (Canada) and in a country that's been abused by its giant next-door neighbour -- longer than just the current, explicit abuse -- I kinda hope this recession is deep and hurts badly.

We've already seen some huge, positive structural changes to our economy and a down-and-out, bleeding US will have nothing but positive effects for the rest of us.

I'd have some sympathy but this is an entirely self-inflicted wound and Americans could collectively use a bit of humility.
by croes | 2025-09-07 14:18:00+00:00
Postal traffic doesn’t mean no tariffs or duty, it just means it was shipped from outside the US.

But now it’s an unknown risk to ship because you don’t know if the tariffs you calculated when you send the package are the same as when it arrives.

Get used to empty shelves and less choices at a higher price.

Lose-Lose-Lose
by kybernetikos | 2025-09-07 14:18:59+00:00
I'm not saying it's not simple to write, I'm saying it's ugly and contingent and you can't really avoid that. It's exactly this reason that has led to a proliferation of MV* patterns, including the one you describe.

But to try to explain myself more clearly - in the architecture you describe, who is that it is implementing TableData and TableCallback? Is it your beautiful clean business logic classes that have no coupling to their representation - in which case that is weirdly coupled in an ugly way, or is it some other class that acts as the bridge between the two worlds, in which case, that's where your ugly code is living.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-07 14:19:21+00:00
> If you instead use visitor pattern, you will be looking at all the code related to Variable, Function, Literal in those files respectively.

I've never organized visitor pattern code that way. Usually it's something like:

TypeChecker visitFunction visitVariable visitLiteral PrettyPrinter visitFunction visitVariable visitLiteral

So related functions (across the types you're visiting) are kept together, you're not revisiting the Function module to add a new visitor there. That would almost defeat the purpose of the pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern - See the UML diagram here.
by zackmorris | 2025-09-07 14:19:39+00:00
Back in the 90s when I was in college, my friend brought back Sambal Asli hot sauce packets from Indonesia after holiday breaks. I think he said it meant "real sauce" but I just looked it up and it might mean "original sauce".

The funny thing about it is that you build up a tolerance to how hot it is. So the first time you try it, a few drops feel like your face is burning off. By the end of the semester, we were pouring full packets on each slice of pizza.

I just looked and I can't find the (ketchup sized) packets online. So I don't have anything to recognize the brand from. If anyone knows, please share! They are at least as addictive as Sriracha IMHO, should there ever be another shortage.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-07 14:20:35+00:00
That's kind of my attitude.

I have a number of friends that are addicted to Outrage Pron (almost all media -mainstream or fringe- qualifies). They -literally- spend almost every waking hour, doomscrolling. One of them occasionally forwards videos to me, that are clearly edited for angst, but he takes as gospel. AI will make that kind of stuff much, much worse.

I had a friend tell me "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!" He thought it was a clever, brand new saying (Spoiler: It's not —I first heard it, in the 1970s).

I've found that I can get a lot done, when I pay attention to the things over which I have direct control.
by Sharlin | 2025-09-07 14:20:36+00:00
Mm. I’m an older millennial, so solidly in the Web 1.0 generation, but never had the chance to use the internet before the web took off. I missed BBSs too, which were big where I’m from (probably bigger than the pre-Web internet, outside universities at least). I was fourteen when Postel died in 1998. My earliest memories of internet use are probably from ’96 or so, using library or school computers after classes.
by djoldman | 2025-09-07 14:20:38+00:00
> ...The skeptics say they believe that a decade of computer use in schools has not resulted in any marked improvement in children's learning basic skills.

> Instead, they say, the Internet will promote a cut-and-paste style of learning, with students parroting trivial bites of information found on the computer screen instead of developing the critical judgment and analysis engendered by culling through books.
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by gruez | 2025-09-07 14:20:56+00:00
>Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people on Thursday — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility.

> ...

>South Korea will “push forward measures to review and improve the residency status and visa system for personnel travelling to the United States.”

The implication seems to be that the workers didn't have authorization to work there.
by csallen | 2025-09-07 14:21:19+00:00
A democracy is only as effective as its people are educated.

When people are not well educated, they have more trouble than they should discerning real from fake, objectivity from bias, quality from trash. (Obviously there is some subjectivity here, but there is also some ground truth, and I'm talking about the latter.)

The result is that they're more likely to click, read, believe, and share pieces that are sensationalist and low in quality. Consequently, the media companies that write that kind of stuff get all the views and most of the revenue, which they use reinvest to grow and write more of what they're writing. This also incentivizes other media companies to go the same route, and the ones that don't remain largely irrelevant. It also normalizes sensationalist low-quality writing.

To wit: SimilarWeb says the Daily Mail gets 230 million views/month. ProPublica gets 3 million and Democracy Now gets 1.5 million.

I have no idea how a society gets itself out of this downward spiral, besides better educating its people. Or restricting its people's ability to decide what rises to the top (which ofc has its own obvious downsides).
by waltbosz | 2025-09-07 14:21:39+00:00
> I'll take me about a day or two (per candidate) ...

I have so much trouble deciding on primary elections. There are often 5 primary candidates, and 10 seats to decide upon. And I've found no good tool to help evaluate their policy and record.

I want some sort of score board website that tracks their political and public behaviors towards various policies.
by habosa | 2025-09-07 14:21:57+00:00
If you want to keep a light pulse on national news without the clickbait and doomscrolling, I recommend https://text.npr.org

It’s text-only, no photos or videos. Updates only once or twice a day. No comments section or any other distractions.

That’s been my main change to my news diet. Deleting the NYTimes app and replacing it with that site has made me much happier.

I still read a lot of local news (San Francisco things that affect my life) but I just realize that national political news is not something I need to track 24/7
by simonw | 2025-09-07 14:22:16+00:00
Something I found thought-provoking was this comment about Jevons: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/11/datarama/

Basically: if something useful gets cheaper, people may end up using it way more such that the total energy usage increase is materially large.

I do think there's a risk of that happening here: an AI-assisted search is inevitably more expensive than a single web search (since it runs potentially dozens of additional searches on top of the LLM inference cost).

I could counter that and say that now I can resolve a complex question in 30s with a single typed prompt, where beforehand I might have spent 10 minutes running my laptop and running dozens of searches by hand, for a net increase in spent energy.

... but actually, for trivial curiosity questions I just wouldn't have bothered looking for an answer at all.

I value curiosity deeply though, so maybe it's worth the world burning a few more gigawatts if the result is a more curious population?
by henrebotha | 2025-09-07 14:22:23+00:00
> Interesting that you’d count disagreeing with an expert as a ‘worse’ decision

"Less correct" is perhaps more what I mean. Disagreeing with the opinions of experts is, generally, the same thing as being less correct.

> If I taste something, and carefully critically consider my experience, I would count that as a better decision, and the opinion of experts don’t really factor into it, because they’re not me.

A different way to test this would be to make two judgements — one snap decision based on vibes, and another based on a thoughtful chain of reasoning that you explain or write down — and then see which judgement was actually more correct _for you_ (perhaps after some time has elapsed).
by alexjplant | 2025-09-07 14:22:58+00:00
This is not true. From their site [1]:

> Dave Van Zandt is a registered Non-Affiliated voter who values evidence-based reporting. Though not a journalist, Dave has maintained a lifelong interest in politics and media bias. He originally pursued a Communications degree in college before ultimately earning a degree in Physiology. Since then, he has worked in the healthcare industry (Occupational Rehabilitation) while continuing to study media, language, and bias independently.

The guy you're talking about (from Wikipedia):

> Van Zandt was born in 1953 in Montgomery, New Jersey, and raised in New Jersey along with his three siblings. He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. In 1981, he earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he served as managing editor for the Yale Law Journal. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics.

Unless Dave leads a double life as both a physical therapist and treasurer of the bar foundation these are two different people.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/about/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Van_Zandt