MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imiric | 2025-09-26 05:32:25+00:00
Virtue signalling? What are you on about?

Everything I said has direct benefits for the team, and hence for the company.

> If you want to communicate with others, write proper docs in a format that won't be lost to time

You have a severe misunderstanding of what commit messages are for. They're meant to describe changes that can be used as historical reference by developers. They're not meant to be read by non-developers, serve as replacement for "proper docs", or for general communication.

A VCS history is by definition never "lost to time". It is an immutable record of the development process of the project. If you don't find that useful, choose not to use it to its full potential, and strangely relish in that fact, you might as well use another tool.
by CBMPET2001 | 2025-09-26 05:32:53+00:00
OP mentions in the article that the draft was uploaded on 9/22/25, so it can't have been a simple mix up where the version with the addendum was the one they had originally intended to have signed, since it didn't exist yet.

If you just mean that they had the second version in their system but never intended to send it at all, then I'm not sure what possible innocent explanation there would be for uploading a newly modified version of an already signed lease that's run its course.
by Frieren | 2025-09-26 05:33:00+00:00
> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and critical thinking skills to verify its outputs and steer it toward better answers. My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months.

That sounds like calling stupid and lazy to anyone that is not able to get their "productivity skyrocketed" with LLMs. The reality is that LLMs are mostly a search engine that lies time to time.

No, people is not stupid nor lazy for not gaining any substantial productivity using LLMs. The technology is just not able to do what big tech corporations say it can do.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-26 05:34:16+00:00
A better rendering-engine is a no-brainer—the original shadows tend to become olive-banded messes—but my experience with texture-pack mods isn't as good.

IIRC they tended to make the overall experience worse, with jarring inconsistencies of high-poly/high-res objects versus unmodified portions of the environment.

Plus nowadays "low res" is sometimes it's own art-style. :p
by smugglerFlynn | 2025-09-26 05:34:19+00:00
Replies you get tell me it is more akin to Agile movement at this point. People are mixing “lines of code per minute” with tangible results.

Are you more personally ‘productive’ if your agent can crunch out PoCs of your hobby projects at night when you sleep? Is doing more development iterations per month making your business more ‘productive’?

It is like expecting that achieving x10 more sunny side ups cooked per minute will make your restaurant more profitable. In reality amount of code delivered is rarely a bottleneck for value delivered, but for ‘productivity’ everyone has their own subjective definition.
by scrubs | 2025-09-26 05:35:40+00:00
Uh no ... the perspective of corporate businessman does not trivially or with difficulty translate to goverment statesman more so in the legislative branch.

I reject the implied inevitability of your statement.

A nice read of your claim is you dont trust regular state employees at all - I could see that. But don't way overshoot by going 100 light-years beyond that.

I'll leave to others to argue say if musk is running tesla or X well.
by samtheDamned | 2025-09-26 05:36:50+00:00
I believe what the OP you replied to meant was that when entering your address in a form, the zip code allows for verification that the address was all entered correctly. Lets say someone wants to buy a book and they put their address in as 154 Broad Street, Philadelphia PA but they actually live in a neighboring county, when they put in their zip code the system will be able to see that the address was slightly incorrect and can be adjusted to ensure a smoother delivery.

I know where I live what "city" you live in can be a complex situation because of unusual classifications of cities compared to the rest of the country so I can see this being a useful system to have.
by TapamN | 2025-09-26 05:37:01+00:00
The headshot collision code in DX is broken as well. This is from memory from looking at the DX SDK years ago (+15 at least), but...

The collision shape used for a character in DX is a single cylinder. The game looks at where on the cylinder the collision point of the shot is, and tries to figure out if it's a head, body, or leg shot. It does this by checking how high the collision point is, with the lower X% being legs, top Y% being the head, and the middle being the body.

If a shot hits the head section, it runs some additional checks, and can sometimes still count as a body hit. There was some weird code that, after you stared at it long enough, looks like it ended up splitting the head area into compass aligned 1/8ths (so north, north-east, east, etc) and hits to the N-E-S-W octants would count as a head shot, and a hit to the NE-NW-SE-SW octants would count as body shots. (I couldn't tell if the angles rotate with the character, or are absolute relative to the world.) I think there was also a check for hits on the top cap of the cylinder, so that the hit would have to be close to the center of the cylinder to count as head hit, and near the outer rim would count as a body hit.

Hm, I should just make a diagram. Here: https://imgur.com/a/KG6MF1k

I guess what they were trying to do was make the actual head hitbox a smaller section of the head level, so that a shot that should go over the shoulder and miss would just count as a body shot and not a true headshot. And if you made a test map, with the player and a static test enemy placed in a line, this could work reliably from a fixed position. But when you actually play DX, and approach enemies from various angles, headshots inexplicably fail.
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 05:38:15+00:00
They were co-operating/conspiring with CBP as an extension of the federal government.

Most likely the feds said they will tie up whoever challenges them in federal court. They can play jurisdiction fuck fuck games and then flip between it being a search, it being necessary for safety, that the city/county was obstruction a federal investigation, and all other nonsense.

Don't think your company could just put up cameras and post the location of LEO and they'd let you get away with something like that.
by Frieren | 2025-09-26 05:39:15+00:00
Artist like Picasso were great publicists. His art was innovative, but not more than other of his contemporaries. But he was really good at self-promotion. This is why so many famous artists are such ass holes. It is a biased sample. But newspapers like to write and the population likes to read about narcissists. Narcissists make a good spectacle, even if they are horrible people doing horrible things.

But Picasso was not known for his poetry, so, people just do not value it. Even that it could be as good or as bad as his paintings.
by Eisenstein | 2025-09-26 05:40:34+00:00
What they are saying is that we have a system that evolved over time to address real world concerns. You are designing defenses to attacks that may or not be useful, but no one has been able to design past criminals and this is evident because if we could there would be no criminality.

> Dismissing crypto as doomed to dystopia ignores why it exists: because our current systems already fail millions every day.

This only makes sense if crypto solves the problems that current systems fail at. This have not been shown to be the case despite many years of attempts.
by kennywinker | 2025-09-26 05:40:56+00:00
That’s true, but of the 65,063 deaths reported by the GHM, at least 18,500 of them are children, 217 journalists, 120 academics, and 224 humanitarian aid workers.

And that 65k number does not include indirect deaths - i.e. deaths by starvation, or death from something that could have been easily survived if there were still hospitals instead of rubble. Which is where the 680,000 number comes from - the largest estimate of how many may have been killed directly and indirectly by this genocidal war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
by CBMPET2001 | 2025-09-26 05:41:24+00:00
I think they're referring to the 'signed checksum' field on the document, and this line from the article

> Interestingly, the certificate page was identical in both documents, including the checksums, despite the content being different.

I think they took this to mean that the signed copy and the copy with the fraudulent addendum both hashed to the same checksum, but I'm not sure that's what was meant; based on the article it's not obvious to me that OP was able to check the signed checksum, though I can't imagine they didn't try. It's the 'original checksum' field that matched the base.pdf clean document without signature or addendum.
by smittywerben | 2025-09-26 05:43:45+00:00
When this happened to me it was because, I can only guess, it was the Gemini servers were overloaded. Symptoms: Gemini model, Opaque API wrapper error, truncated responses. To be fair the Anthropic servers are overloaded a lot too but they have a clear error. I gave Gemini a few days on the bench and it fixed itself without any client side changes. YMMV.
by curtisblaine | 2025-09-26 05:43:48+00:00
But the "life hack", as far as I understand, is not living in Uk's govt temporary accommodation waiting for a decision, it's rather leaving your temporary accommodation without any way for the government to track you, then work illegal, cash in hand jobs, which are still more remunerative than what you had back home. In this case, seeking asylum is not the goal: it's just a loop-hole to not get deported immediately.
by fakedang | 2025-09-26 05:44:56+00:00
No it isn't. I, and many I know, would never trade away 100+ hours at a namebrand investment bank/PE firm/consulting firm to work 100+ hours at a startup. It's not what I would recommend nor is it what many people I know would recommend, some of whom are billionaires. The constant advice is to always work at the best possible opportunity the first few years of your career, then step into entrepreneurship. You'll then have an idea of things actually work in the world. And I say this as someone who went the other way around (startup first before working in corporate).
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-26 05:45:13+00:00
Nice cherry-picking

> Halevi stepped down as chief of staff in March after leading the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for the first 17 months of the war, which is now approaching its second anniversary.

> The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”.

The point is that we know 64,000 is almost certainly an undercount. Notably it hasn't changed much in the last year since the Hamas ministry of health collapsed.

The commenter above is correct in saying the bound of deaths is very likely between 45,000 and 600,000. We have good reason to suspect it was over 100,000 late last year. We won't know the actual number until an independent assessment can occur.
by utilityhotbar | 2025-09-26 05:45:50+00:00
The triplet of wind, pole, dragon appears multiple times in the same order, so is possibly a single phrase that has been broken up into three parts by Google Translate. In error reports that I have seen, the second line would usually convey something about the user's system. For example:

> Minecraft installer keeps crashing, I'm using a Macbook pro 2014. (...)

Based on that, if I had to guess "wind" is actually a coercion of the katakana ウィンドウ into ウインド based on simple pattern-matching, then translated into "wind". I'm sure you can guess where this is going... that's right, ウィンドウ is "Window/Windows" (for an example of how it is used as tech terminology, see https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3...). Typing ウィンドウ into google search also autocompletes with ウィンドウ 10 , ウィンドウ 11 (this should be easy enough to guess).

Then the whole thing can be read as

> When I try to install the runtime it throws an error. Does this happen a lot on Windows [Version]? I tried two, three times and it throws an error

[Error]

> That's not the exact error but it's about right. Is the full error in the runtime log? [Something]? Is this a problem with the JSP error handler on Windows [Version] when you install the runtime? Or maybe I just got something wrong with the runtime?

Otherwise I subscribe most to @brazzy 's point about this possibly just being a joke or a prank with multiple layers of machine translation. Still, this doesn't exactly seem like a big newsgroup so I don't see why someone would go to the effort.
by NathanaelRea | 2025-09-26 05:47:04+00:00
Ok, that makes sense. I re-read the post. I thought the signed doc checksum was the same for both, but it seems like the certification page is inserted into the actual document, thus breaking your ability to verify the final document checksum? Seems strange that the provider doesn't email the final doc to both parties after signing. Also, kinda weird that they knew it would say uploaded 9/22 and still offered to screen share.
by jbullock35 | 2025-09-26 05:47:35+00:00
There is a larger issue that other commenters are missing:

> The city has paid the first two years of that extension but would still owe $145,500 for the final three years if the contract is upheld. The city intends to terminate the contract on Sept. 26 under its notice to Flock, but the company is challenging that termination, and the dispute could escalate to litigation.

The city is trying to terminate a contract with Flock. Under that contract, the city agreed to pay Flock for three more years of service. Flock maintains that the city doesn't have the right to nullify the contract. The linked article says almost nothing about the contract dispute, but another article [1] has some details.

I don't know whether the city is correct about its power to terminate the contract, or whether instead Flock is correct. Either way, I wonder whether Flock is re-installing the cameras out of fear that, if it doesn't, it will be voiding its right to future payment under the contract.

[1] https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/28/flock-challenges-c...
by CBMPET2001 | 2025-09-26 05:48:44+00:00
Ah, so the 'signed checksum' field isn't actually the checksum of the signed document? How odd . . . but yeah, now that I think about it, they couldn't know the hash of a document before they generate it, but they would need to in order to include it in the document, hence an impossible cycle; they must have overlooked that . . .
by mrtksn | 2025-09-26 05:49:56+00:00
Everyone can do that if its that great.

Some years ago I met a Palestinian guy in who was staying in hostels in London, receiving something like 800GBP as aid and illegally working his ass off in constructions for something around the min wage. I've seen him only in the late evenings as he was working all the other times.

He was living the dream I guess. Hacked the life.

Anyway, I have him on Facebook and occasionally check on him and he eventually he became properly documented and the last time I checked he got into real estate business.

Immigrants are not life hacking, they are just trying to build a life on hard mode. The end game is to become legal, which is the the default state of the people who feel like they are the victim and immigrants are having it good.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-26 05:49:56+00:00
>with blockchain your intermediary is the exchange, the developers of the cryptocurrency, etc.

You are mistaken. The transfer of cryptocurrencies takes place on the blockchain ledger. That's, like, the core "thing".

If you choose to bank with an exchange, that's like you bringing your cash money to a regular bank and depositing it. And the developers are no more intermediaries to your transaction than the Mint is an intermediary to your cash transaction.
by barishnamazov | 2025-09-26 05:50:10+00:00
The most counterintuitive finding: cutting H-1B quotas didn't help American workers, but it did make the remaining H-1B pool less innovative. Employment losses were heaviest at both the lowest AND highest wage levels, filtering out the most exceptional talent while concentrating visas among mid-skill workers and Indian-born computer workers due to network effects.

Classic unintended consequence -- the policy achieved neither goal. Opponents didn't get more jobs for Americans, supporters lost the highest-impact innovators who drive patents and startups.
by Gud | 2025-09-26 05:50:41+00:00
No it wasn’t. The internet peaked in 2005, or whatever year Firefox had the most popularity.

It’s only been downhill from there.

The internet was a lot better place before American mega corporations took total control.

It was mostly neighborhood bulletin boards, fan zines and the occasional shop.

Today there is only bots, bots, bots, political lunatics and influencers dumbing down future generations.
by neobrain | 2025-09-26 05:51:12+00:00
20% is about the general order of magnitude we observed in FEX a while ago, though as you enable all TSO compatibility settings (including those rarely needed) it'll be much higher even. As people elsewhere in the thread mentioned it'd be interesting to see how FEX fares on Asahi with hardware TSO enabled vs disabled (but with conversative TSO emulation as set up by default) since it's less of a blackbox.
by motorest | 2025-09-26 05:51:18+00:00
> A TTL doesn't really tell you if it's stale though (...)

Non-sequitur,and imaterial to the discussion.

> You should probably evict it when the write comes in.

No. This is only required if memory is maxed out and there is no more room to cache your entry. Otherwise you are risking cache misses by evicting entries that are still relatively hot.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-26 05:51:33+00:00
Again, feel free to provide data instead of lighting strawmen alight. In general you are already speaking of things that are primarily relevant for people critically ill in senescence, which is both a fringe scenario and also (I think obviously) not the general case sort of scenario I'm speaking of. But even there! Out of curiosity, I decided to look up data on e.g. sepsis readmission rates vs hospital quality. [1]

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"One third of sepsis survivors were readmitted and wide variation exists between hospitals. Several demographic and structural factors are associated with this variation. Measures of higher quality in-hospital care were correlated with higher readmission rates. Several potential explanations are possible including poor risk standardization, more research is needed."

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As they're implying, this is likely due to biasing and not a causal observation. One possible explanation is that higher quality hospitals may be able to keep people knocking on deaths door a bit longer than lower quality hospitals, but it's not like night and day - they're still knocking on that door, just a bit longer. And so it makes sense that they'd actually have worse outcomes on discharge, including higher overall readmission rates. But once again the picture between the quality of hospitals is not this tremendous dichotomy that many try to frame it as.

Billionaires, in general, seek out the highest quality care money can buy, and have no limitations on the meta-factors that also improve longevity including activity, relationships, healthy food, exercise, etc. Yet their life expectancy (~85) is comparable to the life expectancy of Hispanics in America. The "Hispanic Paradox" [2] again emphasizes that longevity isn't about premium healthcare and money.

[1] - https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/abstract/2017/07000/seps...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_paradox
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-26 05:51:45+00:00
I too have had data loss from BTRFS. Had a RAID-1 array where one of the drives started flaking out, sometimes it would disappear when rebooting the system. Unfortunately, before I could replace the drive, one time when booting my array had been corrupted and it was unrecoverable (or at least it was unrecoverable with my skill level). This wasn't a long time ago either, this was within the last 2-3 years. When I got the new drive and rebuilt the array, I used ZFS and it has been rock solid.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-26 05:51:56+00:00
Wow this is great, didn't realize this had become affordable! I'm going to google around, but do you know if any of the glasses would be "plug an play" with my (windows 10) laptop? I regularly work on my laptop to coffee shops, so if I can just add the glasses to my setup and eliminate posture issues, that would be amazing!
by boricj | 2025-09-26 05:52:23+00:00
> License is the obvious blocker, aside from all the technical issues. Btrfs is GPL

WinBtrfs [1], a reimplementation of btrfs from scratch for Windows systems, is licensed under the LGPL v3. Just because the reference implementation uses one license doesn't mean that others must use it too.

[1] https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
by Peteragain | 2025-09-26 05:52:34+00:00
Someone once compared the web to the wild west. A set of anarchist communities getting on mostly well with no rules, then the whities discover it and introduce property and ownership. Capitalism then destroyed what was there and introduced the idea of every man for himself, which means there is no going back. FOS isn't the enemy, and it's not dead. It has just gone somewhere else and they're not telling you where.
by veeti | 2025-09-26 05:52:40+00:00
> Consider the DMA’s impact on Europe’s tourism industry. The DMA requires Google Search to stop showing useful travel results that link directly to airline and hotel sites, and instead show links to intermediary websites that charge for inclusion. This raises prices for consumers, reduces traffic to businesses, and makes it harder for people to quickly find reliable, direct booking information.

Well, it doesn't seem to be true because a quick search right now shows hotel rates and flights from the hotel or airline's own site and various aggregators. Is Google breaking the law or what am I missing?
by Aeolun | 2025-09-26 05:53:26+00:00
> It means the website operators were so fed up with bots and bad actors that they just applied a carpet ban and called it a day.

Many of my websites get 98% of their traffic from bots and bad actors, but it doesn’t really matter because the extra load of all these fake requests is absolutely negligible. I have a hard time understanding how someone would be bothered by an extra 50k requests a day. That’s less than a request per second. Most of the sites on even the weakest VM’s can easily do 10r/s these days.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-09-26 05:54:05+00:00
What a disappointing comment on HN. Did you check who published it, what the methodology used was, before commenting?

Of course not. Easier to be snarkier than to research and understand.

For the record: The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent editorial board.

https://www.worldhappiness.report/
by elric | 2025-09-26 05:54:08+00:00
I have a friend who performs court-ordered treatments of people convicted of sexual crimes. She frequently sees cases like this. Young teens sexting, parents of one of them find out, the other one gets in legal trouble. It is absolutely insane to see perfectly normal behaviour ruining lives because of misinterpreted laws and overbearing parents.

Chat Control would only make this sort of thing more frequent.