MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-10 19:50:14+00:00
As a North American who has contended with public transit in many different cities on this continent, I can tell you, you should infer that a person making comments like this has been primed by conservative media to: fear everyone who isn't exactly like them, overestimate the crime in cities, demand a fascist police state, blame the victims of circumstance (and be blind to the systemic issues that put them in said circumstances), blindly dismiss any honest attempts to fix the underlying issues as "communism".
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by pixelready | 2025-09-10 19:52:06+00:00
I have these same feelings in my more cynical moments, sure. But I think the truth is more nuanced than that. Sure the power players in government are those selected by a system that rewards a self-serving nature and a weak moral core, same as it ever was. But to say “people (writ large) are okay with sex trafficking” is to say a large proportion of our population is irredeemable, which I truly don’t believe is the case. Those people are hurting and confused as to why, just as we would be in the same context.

A mass of confused, angry people who feel powerless is a dangerous thing. You see the world slowly collapsing around you, and you are ignorant of the systemic forces that have eroded your quality of life for someone else’s gain, so you grasp for answers. Then someone who presents to you as an authority (by your cultural definition and role models) comes along and gives you a nice, neat answer like “It’s THOSE people’s fault. But don’t worry, I’m getting rid of them for you, the good folk. All I need is your vote, your donations and your vocal support.” It must be like a light shining at the end of a dark tunnel. You will run towards it for dear life. You will lock arms with your friends and neighbors, who are repeating the slogans like a self-soothing mantra and it makes you feel empowered and embraced instead of helpless and alone.

Then, someone else, an outsider who you don’t respect, comes along and says “WHAT? You idiot, why would you take the word of that con man? You’ve been duped and he’s taking you for all you’re worth, you fool! Also, he’s a MONSTER who preys on children. Here’s the receipts.”

Your first instinct is not to abandon your community and run back into the cold darkness of uncertainty. It’s to go “Nice try, outsider! You’re working for THEM ain’t ya? We good folk won’t be fooled so easily.” Your mind will happily follow whatever tortured logic and denial allows you to preserve your sense of identity and safety.

What we need is cult de-programming en masse, not vilification of half our population. We need counter-narratives that will create a vision of shared prosperity and mutual respect, or else this all goes to a really ugly place, and it’s going to take generations to dig ourselves out of the wreckage.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-10 19:52:29+00:00
> I get the good guy vs bad guy with a gun argument…

Trump was shot surrounded by (in theory) some of the best-trained armed guards on the planet. Uvalde saw several hundred "good guys with a shitload of guns" mill around for over an hour while schoolchildren got massacred by a single shooter.

I can't say I get it.
by ghaff | 2025-09-10 19:53:20+00:00
You have to keep those sort of museums up to date. As I recall the Computer History Museum in Boston, they had some interesting historical artifacts like Sage I think. But a fair bit of the museum was devoted to supposedly state of the art computing, some interactive. As a lot of the local computer companies went away, a lot of the the exhibits started looking pretty dated--and I'm sure a lot of funding dried up as well.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-10 19:53:30+00:00
As for this seeming like an anti-car cult, consider this:

I've just invented a thing I call a horseless carriage. It will only kill 1 million people a year. Give me money.

Not only wouldn't it get funded, you'd be confined to a special prison for super villains for coming up with this bad idea. The fact that we live with such massive negative externalities that we don't make manufacturers or consumers of cars pay for is the Jedi mind trick.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-10 19:53:49+00:00
> This is not child healthcare. That is already free in every US state.

Whaaat?

I have 2 kids and I can assure you healthcare is far from free unless you are low income; cutoff varies by state but it's not high -- around $80K/year household income[0], which is pretty middle-class. We're not at all wealthy, but a few years ago we started making more than threshold for our state's Medicaid/CHIP program, and we now spend >10K a year for our kids' healthcare (granted we have a child with a disability so he's the bulk of that).

[0] https://www.insurekidsnow.gov/coverage
by 916c0553e164269 | 2025-09-10 19:53:49+00:00
This change looks much better, thanks!

> "It is now Apache 2.0 which grants patent rights and can be re-licensed to PostgreSQL when the code is upstreamed."

It’s worth double-checking the relicensing angle. Imho: you can only relicense your own code. Any 3rd party contribution stays under apache 2.0 unless the author explicitly agrees.

So a full switch to postgresql license is only possible if every contributor signs off. That usually means having a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) in place up front.

And ethically, contributors should already know their work might be relicensed under "postgresql terms" later - otherwise it's a surprise change for the community.

ps: if the plan is serious, do the legal homework early and gather consents now, so upstreaming to postgresql doesn’t fail later because a few open-source contributors (who aren’t supabase/orioledb employees) are unreachable.)
by PleasureBot | 2025-09-10 19:54:19+00:00
I think the real answer is that executives at large companies live in a completely different world than their employees.

For one the circles they run in are going to be full of like-minded people; i.e. people for whom work is the most important part of their life. People like that want RTO and don't understand those who oppose it. When those are your priorities and all of your pees share them, its going to produce an echo chamber where most executives want RTO.

Furthermore their lifestyle is completely different. Most are going to have chauffeurs so they can be productive to/from work. They are going to have aids that take care of the food shopping, laundry, picking kids up from school, cooking, helping with homework etc. RTO does not affect them nearly as much as their employees who still have to deal with all of this in addition to commuting time now.

Its really just as simple as that. They lead completely different lives than their employees, are surrounded by other executives in friend and professional groups who have similar lifestyles, and generally don't understand why someone wouldn't want to RTO.
by staticman2 | 2025-09-10 19:56:27+00:00
If that comment was so bad I don't get why your initual complaint shifted from GP having "a subtext you're not saying out loud."

But this became when the discussion continued "hurling blame on children." Which is presented as text not subtext?

And something about implicit logic?

You sure put a lot of work into deciding why that of all comments deserved ire.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-10 19:56:30+00:00
Fwiw, for other projects you can look at other SoC brands than Raspberry, such as OrangePi, BananaPi, ClockworkPi, KickPi, Pine64, Rock64, Odroid, Libre Computer, Radxa, ArmSom, Onion, Udoo, NVIDIA Jetson, ASUS Tinker, Khadas. I was kinda blown away by how many there are. Ask ChatGPT for specific models and feature comparison.
by mrandish | 2025-09-10 19:56:34+00:00
Dealers sometimes have promos or get spiffs for selling financing which can further reduce the price for a net savings to the buyer.

On one purchase we were upfront from the start that we were paying cash but after we negotiated the final price the dealer told us the manufacturer was offering a $1,000 rebate off the dealer's final price for cars financed through their plan. They pointed out the deal only required keeping the loan for six months at which time we could pay it off with no prepayment penalty. Since the financing had a 0% promo rate for the first year, we took the loan, made payments for five months and paid off the balance at six months and saved an extra $1,000 at no cost. The dealer said the manufacturer was aware people could do this and bank free money and were fine with the dealer suggesting it to cash buyers.

I guess they were counting on some cash buyers deciding to keep the loan after six months. The dealer didn't care either way since they got a spiff for selling the loan and we got an extra $1K off. We carefully penciled out the numbers and there was no trick (my wife worked in finance). A few weeks later we got a $1,000 check direct from the manufacturer's finance arm and ended up paying nothing more than our out-the-door price (plus the inconvenience of writing five monthly payment checks). Essentially, our $1K was funded by the profit from people who kept the loan. This was also a good reminder that any time a dealer is offering 0% financing (or financing well below the market rate like "no payments for X months" deals), that discounted financing has a real cost that's being paid by the seller (because money has a fixed time value). So a cash buyer who doesn't use that discounted promo financing saves the seller money and should be able to claw that value back into their final price.

So, does is your AI handle this kind of situation during the negotiation? I'm also curious how deep your AI's knowledge of various strategies and tactics unique to auto transactions goes? Just having an AI to deal with all the back-and-forth communication and obvious negotiating gambits to get to a "final out-the-door price" is good but if it was more deeply prompted to be savvy to the level of exploring ways to save money which can vary based on a buyer's (or dealer's) unique situational context - that's even more valuable. Things like model year timing, dealer incentives, buyer flexibility on car model/features, delivery or purchase timing.
by lynndotpy | 2025-09-10 19:57:57+00:00
I agree that Charlie Kirk was both responsible for fomenting political violence and was the victim of political violence, but I disagree with the causal suggestion. I think it's more likely to be the opposite. When he said gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, I think that must have come from a position of never imagining he'd be far less likely to be one of the deaths.
by bccdee | 2025-09-10 19:58:06+00:00
Given that the current generation of kids missed out on several crucial years of socializing due to Covid and were forced to find community online, I'm skeptical of arguments that point to poorly-socialized kids and say, "it must be the phones." Even if this was based on real data and not a hodgepodge of anecdotes, the phones themselves would not be my #1 suspect.

> allocortex's ability to navigate freely

If your allocortex is navigating freely, something has gone badly wrong. Put it back under the neocortex where it belongs and seek immediate help from a neurologist.
by kkukshtel | 2025-09-10 19:58:06+00:00
I think it's funny how goblin mode this whole hack is. The memory scanner itself was clearly written by an LLM (using python??) and the way this person goes about hacking the game is very non-reverse engineer but instead someone equipped with very capable tools. No shade to the dude to be clear, I think it's sort of incredibly how possible this stuff is now due to LLMs and doesn't require someone to know how to use Ghidra.

AND ALSO - the Gamecube did actually have networking through a barely used peripheral (though I knew and loved it through Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2): https://gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Broadband_Adapte...
by johnea | 2025-09-10 19:58:06+00:00
Thanks for the reply! (I upvoted you)

I have used that UI in MPV, but it just wasn't satisfying.

VLC is a native GUI application and I just find the interface more easily usable.

Not just play/stop, etc, but all of the preferences, etc are via a GUI interface.

Totally personal preference, I just prefer VLC over MPV.

Somewhat counter to all of that, I do often use the hotkeys to control various features during playback (audio delay, that sort of thing).

I just feel that VLC is a more GUI oriented application, and in spite of being a mostly command line linux user, I do enjoy a floating window manager desktop (fluxbox is my long time preference).

Thanks again for the reply!
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-10 19:58:32+00:00
An interesting alternative to the SQFMI Beepy / Beepberry [0][1] which is just a rpi zero but has a Sharp Memory Pixel display that I love. Both could use some work on adapting the UI to the little blackberry touchpad. Neither using a mouse cursor nor meta/ctrl modifier combos are very ergonomic on these little handhelds.

[0] https://beepy.sqfmi.com/

[1] https://blog.beeper.com/2023/05/16/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry/
by jimbo808 | 2025-09-10 19:58:36+00:00
No. They didn't code very well back then, they just pattern matched and regurgitated whatever code snippet was in some GitHub repo that matched your prompt best. And that's what they're doing now, too.

They're useful tools when used intelligently, and they can have their moments of surprising utility, but by an large they're like really fancy boilerplate generators but with far less accuracy and reliability.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 19:58:52+00:00
> I don't see why you're being so snarky about popular games...

You misunderstand me. I've wasted a ton of my life playing video games. I've played a huge number of video games. If you enjoy violent FPS games, you've not played many games, and you especially haven't played any very good multiplayer FPS games, you're likely to like this year's AAA Military-Themed Murder Simulator (MTMS). As I mentioned, fifteen-year-old me would have surely enjoyed this year's installment of MTMS, as fifteen-year-old me had played many, many fewer games in the genre than mumble-year-old me has.

If I wrote video-game-storefront video game reviews [0], there's a type of positive review that I'd end up writing for many of the games I play. It goes something like

"If this is the first or one of the first games of this type you've played, then definitely get a copy and play it. If you like the genre at all, you'll have a great time. If you have played many games of this type, then consider playing something else, or maybe replaying one of those games. It's a totally competent game, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. But it doesn't do anything or go anywhere that many other games like it haven't already."

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a competently executed game that doesn't do anything that hasn't already been done before by most of its predecessors. Folks who really want more of the same will enjoy the game, and folks who haven't yet had what you're offering will love what you've done. It's hard to make a competently executed game, and it's dreadfully hard to make a groundbreaking one. There's no shame at all in "merely" making something that's solid and decent.

Hopefully now you better understand what I'm talking about and why? If you're still confused, or things still don't make sense, I'm happy to attempt to answer additional questions.

> That's not sticking it to anyone at all.

Sure? I agree? I'm not of the opinion that I'm sticking it to anyone here. The huge dev shops don't want to make their extremely invasive kernel-mode anti-cheat work on Linux, but are fine with having their software run on the PS5. I don't know if their kernel-mode anticheat runs on the PS5, and I don't particularly care. I'm 110% fine with them doing whatever they feel like to my PS5, which is a dedicated video gaming appliance. I'm not fine with them doing whatever they feel like to the computer I use for my day-to-day business.

Why would I believe that I was sticking it to someone when I pay them money for a copy of the game they made? That'd be a really stupid way to think. That's like book-burner levels of stupid.

[0] ...and maybe that's something I should start doing...
by tantalor | 2025-09-10 19:59:15+00:00
Despite the article, I'm not quite sure I understand exactly what this entails.

Mainly I'm confused what this check is gating. Based on the article it's hard to tell what they mean.

1. Code changes that may conflict with each other in the repo, in the sense of a merge conflict.

2. Regressions (test failure, build breakage) caused by recently checked-in code.

3. Preparing and verifying a new release prior to deployment.

4. Monitoring/canary a release candidate with real users.

In my mind, these are all very different things, but the article seems to mix them up.
by akshaysg | 2025-09-10 19:59:35+00:00
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by shermantanktop | 2025-09-10 19:59:35+00:00
I routinely had 8+h drives in the rear-facing seat of my family's circa 1970 Plymouth Satellite station wagon growing up. Completely unsafe, and very boring, but I don't recall barfing.

My sister and I would pass the time folding up a piece of paper and each of us got to draw part of a person without seeing what the other had drawn. Sort of like visual madlibs.
by asyx | 2025-09-10 19:59:37+00:00
I had that too but I think it’s kinda weird. Like, high readings should be followed up with long term blood pressure measurements. And maybe the recommendation to get your own device and check regularly at home.

At least that’s what happened to me.

To be fair though, this high readings problem at the doctors office went away when I lost weight (from a BMI of 25 to a BMI of 22. both in normal weight range).
by n8m8 | 2025-09-10 19:59:54+00:00
Thank you for the feedback!

> The “question” - is a statement at the top in smaller italic type

That's context to the question

> Why one option has a heart on it?

That's the question, the answers are below it. There are different categories of questions, the emoji changes based on the category

I can probably just add labels overlapping/replacing the box outline and have it look pretty nice

> Is “simulation” questions and answers?

Yup, that's the gimmick!
by const_cast | 2025-09-10 19:59:58+00:00
It is a poverty problem, and black people are much more likely to be in poverty. That doesn't mean that white people can't also be in poverty.

A lot of people just don't understand what privilege is. Who has more upward mobility - an impoverished black person, or an impoverished white person? Who is more likely to face systemic factors that influence poverty and outcomes - black people or white people?

And before I hear "well not everything is about race!!1!" Uh, the US has a long history of systemic racism that does continue to this day.

Obviously if you just integrated a few decades ago you're not going to just magically have equal outcomes. People don't move like that, systems are sticky, and the US isn't evenly distributed.

And, of course, race is correlated tightly with culture and with average income and levels of poverty.

No, you can't just ignore race. Well you can, if that's easier for you, but it's dishonest and incomplete.

And, because I know it's coming: yes I'm white, no I don't have white guilt, I just think about the world we live in. Its easy not to think about things. I prefer thinking about things.
by nialse | 2025-09-10 20:01:21+00:00
Not the parent poster, but I sort of get the notion. There is little correlation between long hours and getting more work done, especially post 50 hours per week. Learning to do more with less time, prioritizing that is, is the more vital skill.

Work can be a lot of fun, but it is certainly not all of life. And we are (somewhat) free to choose what we make of it. Your path might be different from mine, yet again maybe it isn’t.
by adzm | 2025-09-10 20:01:29+00:00
I'll take this opportunity to suggest some great places I've found.

The Corning Glass Museum is free (!!) and has both great art and great science, several interactive exhibits, and lots of information about glass and its history and application.

Interactive art exhibits like Otherworld! (and Meowwolf maybe? I have not been to it, but I hear it is a similar idea) It has a whole storyline, various rooms with different 'exhibits'. Classic physical art, puppets, electronics, a space invaders arcade game that is broken but then you realize you can climb under the arcade game and through a tunnel into a room where you can play _for real_ while space invaders drop from the ceiling, etc.

There are a lot of these neat things around.
by hpen | 2025-09-10 20:01:44+00:00
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by kmeisthax | 2025-09-10 20:01:57+00:00
There's a couple of factors that make selling at a profit but below "market value" unattractive to people who should be putting their housing back on the market:

1. $83k is not the total cost of ownership; it's just the loan balance. Just looking at a home mortgage calculator, the out-of-pocket costs of buying an $83k home at the historical interest rate of 1997, which was about 7.6%, is about $363k[0].

2. Homelessness is a crime in most states, so housing becomes a natural short position that everyone has to cover, just like taxes.

Outside of estate sales, it is very rare for a home seller to not also be a home buyer. The monetary value of the home is, for them, a way to accelerate and account for what would otherwise be a barter transaction. So if you're expecting to have to buy a home for a million dollars, and you've already spent $350k on the loan, then $1.2 million means you'd be about $150k in the negative, not counting closing costs and moving costs, compared to doing nothing. The $1.3m asking price is close to break even for people who aren't planning on dying anytime soon.

[0] I used this calculator: https://www.calculator.net/mortgage-calculator.html?chousepr...
by ghaff | 2025-09-10 20:02:15+00:00
As a tangent, I find it a bit annoying that so many UK museums advertise free pretty aggressively and then provide such "very strong encouragement" as you put it to attend. Mind you, there's less direct pressure than there is in some places. The Met in NYC used to have an optional but not really optional policy for museum admission as you got your pin though it now not optional at all for non-NYC residents.