MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by worik | 2025-10-27 19:10:56+00:00
> They are for racism. Treat one group different from others based on race.

"Racism" means the oppression of one group because of race.

In an historically racist society (writing this in New Zealand) righting those historical wrongs involves some treating "...one group different from others based on race."

It is bad enough here, and it continues here explicitly by the current government (indigenous people just lost a bunch of property rights because they were indigenous, blatant, official, statutory racism), but according to people I respect in the USA it is considerably worse there.
by thek3nger | 2025-10-27 19:10:59+00:00
> And if you know enough to know to ignore ChatGPTs suggestions, you didn’t need it in the first place.

This will invalidate even ispell in vim. The entire point of proofreading is to catch things you didn’t notice. Nobody would say “you don’t need the red squiggles underlining strenght because you already know it is spelled strength.”
by latchkey | 2025-10-27 19:11:05+00:00
If this is a complexity battle, I'd rather that sysadmins have to use a tool to read logs vs. figuring out why the server is melting down because all the jobs are running 2x or answering questions about why jobs didn't run at all.

In my old gig, jobs ran for many many HOURS and consumed most of the IO on the server (processing reams of data), which meant that when you got them running 2x because of overlap, it was a trainwreck.
by iamtedd | 2025-10-27 19:11:09+00:00
Who says they're not also being more creative elsewhere?

Plus wouldn't it be a sense of creative pride knowing that you can create an illustration that perfectly depicts refraction through glass, such that people find it hard to differentiate it from a photo? (which did exist in 1938)

To you second paragraph, the output of a CAD model is often used for line art of a product, and sometimes for an illustrated parts breakdown.
by creatonez | 2025-10-27 19:11:57+00:00
ISPs very frequently do not give a shit about the law. There are so many instances of major ISPs intercepting and modifying traffic, injecting ads, redirecting people to gambling websites, etc. It's not some freak incident involving the NSA targeting you, it happens all the time. All it takes is one bribe.

And what happens if your ISP is compromised without their knowledge? What happens when it's a consumer device such as a router? Don't forget that nearly every TP-Link router has an active malware infection.

It's not just one ISP that you have to trust, it's every single intermediate piece of equipment.

Intercepting traffic is a trivial & common form of compromise, and the problem multiplies by how many different parties you are handing your data to. It is wildly irresponsible to not attempt to protect against this.
by runarberg | 2025-10-27 19:12:20+00:00
> The one thing LLMs should consistently do is ensure that formatting is correct.

In JavaScript (and I assume most other programming languages) this is the job of static analysis tools (like eslint, prettier, typescript, etc.). I’m not aware of any LLM based tools which performs static analysis with as good a results as the traditional tools. Is static analysis not a thing in the spreadsheet world? Are there the tools which do static analysis on spreadsheets subpar, or offer some disadvantage not seen in other programming languages? And if so, are LLMs any better?
by bigyabai | 2025-10-27 19:12:21+00:00
> But I won’t believe for a second he wasn’t celebrating Hamas.

That's fine. But we can both agree that bigotry is not evidence of a crime. If we expanded this "I won't believe for a second" logic further, any number of Americans could be arrested for any reason. It's a slippery slope that you are making more slippery by making immaterial correlations. What you assume is not the same as actual rhetoric.
by seec | 2025-10-27 19:12:31+00:00
I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Are you suggesting that I advocate for people going through a thermodynamics class so they "get it"? Traditional education isn't very effective even for some trivial matters so I wouldn't dare to propose that. As far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of people cannot learn much of complex science and there is nothing wrong with that.

And I wouldn't advise learning about thermodynamics just to solve a diet/exercice balance problem. In fact, I do the opposite. I tell people interested in the matter about various strategies they can use to control their caloric input and other strategies/motivations they can use to get a minimum of exercice.

But that's largely irrelevant, that's not the point. The problem is the various gurus who spit pseudo-science on the matter, pretending that CiCo isn't a thing and pointing the finger at various other things (sometimes with a sprinkle of truth to make things confusing).

There are many nuances in nutrition but if you don't get the basics right, nothing good can happen. And the gist of the matter is that every human needs to find a strategy that works for him to control his caloric input in relation to his energy expenditure.

One way to do this that is extremely effective is to build an intuition on how many calories most common foods are "worth" but also how much various activities/exercices spend. It takes effort but it is pretty simple and once people have the intuition on the matter they can more easily regulate the intake or exercice more, depending on what's easier/more successful for them. It doesn't necessarily solve some psychological disorders (like addictions and compulsive eating to regulate emotional state) but at least it gives a "roadmap" and a pretty accurate picture on how/why.

I have no idea what you are trying to say but it really isn't that complex of a problem. Humans being what they are make it more complicated than it needs to be.
by delusional | 2025-10-27 19:12:40+00:00
I don't think this is nearly at the stage of "corporate customers putting into serious trust"

Buildjet (the parent company) looks to be a pretty small company with currently modest revenue[1]. I agree that the absence of people on both webpages is sort of odd. I think it make more sense for their original service (CI workers) than it does for a hardware product.

https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/16075023/Buildjet-O%C...
by harrall | 2025-10-27 19:12:56+00:00
You're not wrong. Increasing font size is one method.

Another method I like to use is to adjust the amount of words per paragraph depending on the medium. I will literally write more or less just to attain my personal favorite of 3-6 visual lines per paragraph.

Or sometimes I will more readily join paragraphs or split them more often in a text just to achieve my target.

Decreasing width is actually just really easy and also works really well when the type of content can vary.

All of this seems like some serious overkill attention to detail I know, but I guess it's a big deal for some people. For example, most people don't really care about dressing nice regularly anymore when they get older and marry because it frankly doesn't matter anymore (and they're totally right), but people who like fashion still care up until the end.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-27 19:13:02+00:00
I was using "blacklist" in a much more general sense, but here's how it actually plays out. Most of my general purpose website reading is done through an RSS aggregator. If one of those feeds starts using genAI, then I just drop it out of the aggregator. If it's a website that I found through web search, then I use Kagi's search refinement settings to ensure that site won't come up again in my search results. If it's a YouTube channel I subscribe to, I unsubscribe. If it's one that YouTube recommended to me, I tell YouTube to no longer recommend anything from that channel.

Otherwise, I just remember that particular source as being untrustworthy.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-27 19:13:04+00:00
My pitch for an improved system is to give defendants the opportunity to file a lawyer-less motion for summary dismissal, which is 1) geared towards being filled out by a layperson and 2) doesn't disqualify you from a subsequent filing for summary dismissal once you get a lawyer. Basically, an initial "this is a stupid lawsuit, here's why" type deal.

And then fine plaintiffs (and pay the defendants) that lose a summary dismissal, because if your case can be thrown out before trial, it was a shit case that should have never been filed in the first place.
Show HN: TrueType Rasterizer
by s_petrov | 2025-10-27 19:13:05+00:00
Hello. This is an updated version of my TrueType rasterizer - now it has few solid color modes, gradient color modes and underline functionality. Also, it's a C project now (it started as a C++). I wanted to implement precomputed glyphs (and maybe strings) in this version but this will wait for some time, as this is a side project for me and this functionality is not that trivial as it may sound at first.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-27 19:14:04+00:00
The legal costs would bankrupt most non-corporate farms. (In fact that's what happened - as explained in the link in that comment, many farmers had to settle even if they believed themselves innocent.)

A lawsuit is rarely a good remedy to a problem, between legal costs, the time delay to any rewards, and the overloaded court system strongly encouraging people to settle out of court.
by milesvp | 2025-10-27 19:14:16+00:00
Parent may be surprised how many people live paycheck to paycheck because they take vacations.

I’ve recently come across a financial audit show that might be generously described as Dave Ramsey meets Jerry Springer. I get the impression from the show’s founder that he sincerely cares about the topic and wished someone would have presented the topic to his dumb younger self the way he does now. I also don’t think it’s scripted much, other than him getting clear yes/no on which highly personal topics he can approach, and potentially joke about.

The people he has on the show, I think are representative of a certain demographic, and I’m continually amazed at the amount of financial illiteracy and lack of appreciation for the financial ramifications of their actions.
by alyxya | 2025-10-27 19:14:46+00:00
I hadn't heard of Loudoun County before. I also did read the article and here's a sentence from it.

> But while most locals the BBC spoke to opposed the data centres, the industry has many powerful proponents, including US President Donald Trump.

Also moving isn't something to take lightly.

> "I never thought that a data centre would be built across the street from my house," she said. "I would not have bought this house if I had known what was going in across the street."
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-27 19:15:41+00:00
>The thoughts I put into a text are mostly independent of the sentences or _language_ they're written in.

Not even true! Turning your thoughts into words is a very important and human part of writing. That's where you choose what ambiguities to leave, which to remove, what sort of implicit shared context is assumed, such important things as tone, and all sorts of other unconscious things that are important in writing.

If you can't even make those choices, why would I read you? If you think making those choices is unimportant, why would I think you have something important to say?

Uneducated or unsophisticated people seem to vastly underestimate what expertise even is, or just how much they don't know, which is why for example LLMs can write better than most fanfic writers, but that bar is on the damn floor and most people don't want to consume fanfic level writing for things that they are not fanatical about.

There's this weird and fundamental misconception in pro-ai realms that context free "information" is somehow possible, as if you can extract "knowledge" from text, like you can "distill" a document and reduce meaning to some simple sentences. Like, there's this insane belief that you can meaningfully reduce text and maintain info.

If you reduce "Lord of the flies" to something like "children shouldn't run a community", you've lost immense amounts of info. That is not a good thing. You are missing so much nuance and context and meaning, as well as more superficial (but not less important!) things like the very experience of reading that text.

Like, consider that SOTA text compression algorithms can reduce text to 1/10th of it's original size. If you are reducing a text by more than that to "summarize" or "reduce to it's main points" a text, do you really think you are not losing massive amounts of information, context, or meaning?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-27 19:15:45+00:00
>You're confusing transparency with efficiency

They go hand in hand. Or is it fine that the government is openly lying about how it claims to want to be "America First"?

>that doesn't mean they're inefficient for their intended purpose.

And that's what I ask. What is the intended purpose? I fail to explain it, and even with my most cynical interpretations I don't see how this is an efficient route.

Transparency would help a lot in evaluating if they aren't being wasteful. But as is, it seems to be a bunch of special interests all clashing with one another in the White House. They don't make sense because there's no unified plan.

Which meets the above definition of "waste"
by gnarlouse | 2025-10-27 19:15:49+00:00
Cool idea! Although without looking closer I can't tell if "meme" is in reference to the technical or the colloquial meaning of meme.

Admittedly I don't know that much about LLM optimization/configuration, so apologies if I'm asking dumb questions. Isn't the value of needing to copy/paste that prompt in front of your queries a huge bog on net token efficiency? Like wouldn't you need to do some hundred/thousand query translations just to break even? Maybe I don't understand what you've built.

Cool idea either way!
by IncreasePosts | 2025-10-27 19:16:54+00:00
What would you build with $20B near Milan? Also, it's not like Northern Italy is forgotten when it comes to government investment. The Brenner Base Tunnel is being built there which will probably cost on the order of $15B or more.

Per-capita GDP is very low for Sicily relative to other regions - but it still has an overall GDP of around $100B, which is similar to Costa Rica or Croatia. Giving it a car/rail connection to the mainland would be a huge boon for the region and Italy in general.
by jecel | 2025-10-27 19:17:08+00:00
The problem with Self in the 1990s wasn't the lack of sources (I just checked the 1994 Self 4.0 sources and the license looks like the typical BSD one) but the fact that the binaries only ran on Sparc workstations and not the computers people actually had. I might as well post the whole text of the license:

# Sun-$Revision: 21.2 $

Copyright 1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Stanford University.

All Rights Reserved. RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software Clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 (Oct. 1988) and FAR 52.227-19(c) (June 1987).

Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2550 Garcia Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

LICENSE:

You may use the software internally, modify it, make copies and distribute the software to third parties, including redistribution for profit, provided each copy of the software you make contains the copyright notice set forth above, the disclaimer below, and the authorship attribution below.

DISCLAIMER:

Sun Microsystems, Inc. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided to you "AS IS", without express or implied warranties of any kind. Sun Microsystems, Inc. disclaims all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of third party rights. Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s liability for claims relating to the software shall be limited to the amount, if any of the fees paid by you for the software. In no event will Sun Microsystems, Inc. be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages in connection with or arising out of this license (including loss of profits, use, data, or other economic advantage), however it arises, whether for breach of warranty or in tort, even if Sun Microsystems, Inc. has been advised of the possibility of such damage.

AUTHORSHIP:

This software has been derived from the Self system, which resulted from the combined efforts of:

Bay-Wei Chang, Craig Chambers, David Ungar, Elgin Lee, John Maloney, Lars Bak, Mario Wolczko, Ole Agesen, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Randall B. Smith, and Urs Hoelzle.
by lxgr | 2025-10-27 19:17:28+00:00
In my experience, it's really not pleasant having to work with logs that require a dedicated viewer compared to regular old text files I can use Unix commands available everywhere (`tail`, `head`, `wc` etc), with, i.e. not just on the server producing the logs, but also the device I'm viewing them on.

That said, I absolutely prefer UTC times in logfiles. I'd rather do some math every time than make wrong assumptions about the local timezone of the file even once. (Even correctly indicated local times are more annoying, since I have the math for the offset of my timezone to UTC memorized, but not that of every possible server time to mine.)
by the_af | 2025-10-27 19:17:59+00:00
> And it will make them up just like it does everything else. You can’t trust those either.

In tech-related matters such as coding, I've come to expect every link ChatGPT provides as reference/documentation is simply wrong or nonexistent. I can count with fingers from a single hand the times I clicked on a link to a doc from ChatGPT that didn't result in a 404.

I've had better luck with links to products from Amazon or eBay (or my local equivalent e-shop). But for tech documentation which is freely available online? ChatGPT just makes shit up.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-27 19:18:00+00:00
> On July 7, the company dismissed the lawsuit against McNally instead.

> Proven also made a highly unusual request: Would the judge please seal almost the entire court record—including the request to seal?

Tough at first then running away with the tail between their legs. Typical bullying behavior.

> but Proven complained about a “pattern of intimidation and harassment by individuals influenced by Defendant McNally’s content.”

They have to know it's generated by their own lawsuit and how they approached it, right? They can't be that oblivious to turn around and say "Judge, look at all the craziness this generated, we just have to seal the records!". It's like an ice-cream cone that licks itself.

> the case became a classic example of the Streisand Effect, in which the attempt to censor information can instead call attention to it.

A constant reminder to keep the people who don't know what they are doing (including the owners of the company!) from the social media.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-27 19:18:26+00:00
How do you figure? I'm not involved with either project, but to my outsider eyes it seems like two completely different implementations of the same basic idea, with configuration that only looks necessarily similar to (i.e. there are only so many ways to write "here's how to look for secrets in 1Password" using TOML, which is a common configuration language and also one heavily used in the Rust ecosystem).

Also, devenv and mise also feel like different animals to me. I can't imagine many scenarios where I'd use them interchangeably.
by NaomiLehman | 2025-10-27 19:18:39+00:00
I hear you but we are a minority. Apple will demolish the market when Gen Alpha grows up. Look at what phones are used to film at concerts by the crowd in the US. it's hard to find a single non-iPhone. Also for a more unbiased take, look up stats for teen preferences. It's not Gen Z that will change the world.
by mediaman | 2025-10-27 19:18:52+00:00
We've had a great experience with JSONata too.

It's nice because we can just put the JSONata expression into a db field, and so you can have arbitrary data transforms for different customers for different data structures coming or going, and they can be set up just by editing the expression via the site, without having to worry about sandboxing it (other than resource exhaustion for recursive loops). It really sped up the iteration process for configuring transforms.
by bambax | 2025-10-27 19:20:00+00:00
One approach is to produce read-only data in BI tools: users are free to export anything they want and make their own spreadsheets, but those are for their own use only. Reference data is produced every day by a central, controlled process and cannot in any circumstance be modified by the end user.

I have implemented this a couple of times and not only does it work well, it tends to be fairly well accepted. People need spreadsheets to work on them, but generally they kind of hate sending those around via email. Having a reference source of data is welcomed.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-27 19:20:19+00:00
Even if nothing was damaged (like that's going to happen) after you fish them out of the drink you think they can be put back in service? Just look at the boosters on the Shuttle--the cost to refurbish them after their dip in the ocean was almost as much as buying new. Valuable in as much as it showed the problem that lead to Challenger, but they refused to look.
Show HN: MNML – Android Launcher (Open Testing Release)
by tuxxness | 2025-10-27 19:20:22+00:00
Just got the first open testing release approved on google play store for a minimal android launcher i'm developing.

I recently switched to a phone with an e-ink display and was missing features in current minimal launchers, so i decided to make my own.

Would love to hear your opinion, improvements that could be made or features to change/add.

Thanks!

=== Links ===

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kolktech.mnml - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcF9lSDBPY (video demo)

=== Current Features ===

- Multiple rows of apps - Material Font icons can be set as app names - When reducing or increasing apps you can re-order and select which apps to keep (this is missing from a lot of minimal launchers imo) - App shortcuts (long press on an app to show that app's own shortcut menu) - Backup your launcher settings with Export/Import - App drawer list (swipe up) - You can hide apps from the app list - You can uninstall apps from the app list - App rows can have their size individually set.

=== Planned features ===

- Background images or static colors - Show weather information - Screen time usage information - Possibly some limited widgets - google search bar on the bottom? - Notes on the main screen - App folders (so you can assign multiple apps to one slot) - App slot assignment other than apps - URL's - Files - Intents - Contacts - etc. - More gestures that you can assign actions to - 3 or 4 finger swipe - triple tap - pinch zoom - etc. - Find contacts and files in the app list - Localization
by serf | 2025-10-27 19:20:46+00:00
Anthropic is in a weird place for me right now. They're growing fast , creating little projects that i'd love to try, but their customer service was so bad for me as a max subscriber that I set an ethical boundary for myself to avoid their services until such point that it appears that they care about their customers whatsoever.

I keep searching for a sign, but everyone I talk to has horror stories. It sucks as a technologist that just wants to play with the thing; oh well.
by merelysounds | 2025-10-27 19:22:12+00:00
> You are not allowed to transmit or store my sensitive information anywhere (unless I give my consent).

The “unless I give my consent” part could be tricky; for a sufficiently big company it is relatively easy to guide, force or trick users into giving away their privacy.

Then again, perhaps this could be addressed on a technical level; e.g. somehow making it impossible for the app to distinguish between consent given and not.