MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iAMkenough | 2025-10-07 21:31:58+00:00
Not great at Google Sheets. Repeatedly overwrites all previous columns while trying to populate new columns.

> I am back in the Google Sheet. I previously typed "Zip Code" in F1, but it looks like I selected cell A1 and typed "A". I need to correct that first. I'll re-type "Zip Code" in F1 and clear A1. It seems I clicked A1 (y=219, x=72) then F1 (y=219, x=469) and typed "Zip Code", but then maybe clicked A1 again.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 21:32:11+00:00
> There is 9th Circuit Ruling that says states can if "a federal officer [must do] no more than is necessary and proper in the performance of his duty" but that's pretty untested ruling

What? States have been fighting over this since the 19th century [1].

> States are loath to attempt to regulate Federal Law Enforcement by running it up the courts since their worry is it hits SCOTUS and they come back with "States have no power, LOLZ"

Source for states being "loath to attempt to regulate federal law enforcment"?

We literally have multiple states--led by California--passing laws which "attempt to regulate" just that. (Exhibit A: the comment you responded to.)

[1] https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/2025/explainer-...
by yoyohello13 | 2025-10-07 21:32:16+00:00
The difference between the Linux community and Microsoft is on Linux you are free to use whatever you want. There are a ton of distros (even Fedora/Ubuntu versions) that have KDE out of the box. If you don't like Gnome, you don't have to use it.

I'm happy Gnome exists, but you do you.

People like to rage, and rage about how Gnome killed their father or whatever and I just get tired of the constant hate towards a workflow that I actually like.
by arjie | 2025-10-07 21:33:12+00:00
Very cool tool. It's perfect for the "take a quick look" use-case.

I just downloaded it on MacOS and when I ran it the first time it took a really long time on a one-line JSON which disappointed me but then any subsequent run on anything was fast. I'd completely forgotten about MacOS doing that thing on first run.

Uses the pager for large files automatically etc. Very nice.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-07 21:33:14+00:00
My personal little doomsday theory is that the entirety of the advertising industry is built on faulty data. Approximately no one has the complete data set to determine how much an ad is worth. For direct ads ("enter promo code BLAH", "Click Here to check out the new...", there's hard data. But most of the perceived value of advertising is different: The company buying the ads has zero chance of knowing if someone seeing a car ad on YouTube 6 months ago factored into their decision to purchase a different car by the same manufacturer. Maybe the advertising platform has a chance of knowing (though Google AdSense has never asked me for my sales data), but they are strongly motivated to never reveal any results that would damage their industry. The platforms that serve the ads have no reason to thoroughly vet whether ad impressions are being accurately measured because error is almost always in their favor.

Basically, nobody has the data because anybody who could have the data is incentivized to not look at it. That's the recipe for a rather long-lived bubble, one which if it popped (say, some short trader targeting the entirety of tech industry) would fundamentally change the tech industry. In short, I don't think making me watch a video of a truck for a couple seconds should be worth a nickel.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-07 21:33:32+00:00
> 2) Healthcare funding is the least controversial thing to shut down the government for. This very article cites sick call-outs as a large contributing factor for the lack of tower personnel to begin with.

This isn't really the argument you think it is. The sick call-outs are not because they're actually sick (mostly, some may be). The sick call-outs are because:

1. Their annual leave requests are going to get denied.

2. Sick leave can't be denied for the first 3 days. In practice, self-certified "cough, cough, I'm sick" is accepted for the first few days. Past that, they could be required to produce medical forms certifying that they are, in fact, sick or injured.

3. Sick call-outs are a kind of strike, because federal employees will be fired if they go on an actual strike. So this is the only way they have to strike that doesn't guarantee they will be fired.

That said, I agree. Healthcare funding should be one of the least controversial things to shutdown a government over. But on your (1), the Republicans absolutely can open the government today. They can vote (so-called nuclear option) to change the rules and pass the bill with a simple majority instead of needing 60 votes.
by mothballed | 2025-10-07 21:33:35+00:00
I was 'not' arrested by DHS/CBP.

They simply got a warrant retroactively after they already did it. Released without charge, but they just invented some paperwork afterwards that an anonymous dog had alerted (judge signed it about 12 hours after I was 'not' arrested). No mention on the PC paperwork who the dog was or who the handler was, as far as I know they didn't exist.

So yeah that's nice in theory but in practice they can simply jail you without recording an arrest, then retroactively invent PC. When I ran a federal background check it came up with no arrests, despite the fact I was imprisoned.
by lisbbb | 2025-10-07 21:33:41+00:00
That was a bold statement that the children on here will no doubt downvote into oblivion as will mine. I'm tired of having this same argument over and over--just having the ability to vote for draconian shit doesn't mean you get to lord over everyone else! The power mongers in control of most Western governments are insane lunatics who use fear against hapless, low-information fools. They seem hell bent on eliminating every single basic freedom we ever had? Why? I keep hearing "neo-feudalism" but that's just a label, it's not the why. Also, why not just eliminate voting completely? Well, I mean, it's nearly a formality in many places these days already, but they like that little semblance of false legitimacy, I guess.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-07 21:34:06+00:00
I think it is either the journalist, or the guy she interviewed.

I know how Ford sets book time. Their methodology, while perhaps biased towards optimistic estimates, is not ever going to put cab R&R at under an hour.

Charitably, someone is mistaken. But given that these numbers are core to the argument being made, I find it odd that the claims were not vetted at all. It takes almost no effort to find example R&R times for various Ford pickups, and they're all measured in hours. It's not hard, typically 6-10 bolts depending on the model. But even with bulk electrical connectors, no rust, the right tools, and experience, the process takes more than an hour.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-07 21:34:47+00:00
>#include is a C pre-processor feature which just pastes in whatever the contents of the specified file are. Did you not know that's what it does ?

LOL, I’ve been writing professional C and C++ code for 40 years, so yes indeed I know perfectly well what it does, I just couldn’t fathom your description as being a valid complaint. I mean, seriously?

“Data structure”. No, it’s a class.

Since this class is about encapsulating behavior, managing state, or providing an interface it’s better described as a code module.

Since you cannot make this distinction and seem more inclined to argue from the position of someone who can’t/won’t write C++ code, I’ll just leave you to your misery and state that I disagree with your whining, completely. Please don’t ever write any C++.
by NewUser76312 | 2025-10-07 21:34:47+00:00
That's fine, but for future reference, robotic arms should have their specs listed and quantified - stuff like reach, payload, repeatability. If I'm a researcher, how do I know if this arm can do what I need? I can only infer so much from a few demo videos.

Final comment I'll say, it's a weird and tough price point. Actual research labs would rather spend $20,000 on a very high quality and likely larger high-fidelity platform. A random hacker or grad student will need some real convincing to shell out $2,000, sub $1K might better serve them. So what's the target customer profile exactly?

I encountered similar issues developing a $3K plug and play robot research arm in the past. The economics are awkward. You can actually just spend $5K and get a really good second-hand industrial robot (maybe even first-hand now from China). Or you could spend $500 and get a 6 DOF platform at least as good as your current platform's arm and then buy the sensor separately and bolt it to your workspace - bam, done. And no, the software isn't that important, servos are easy to work with...

Therefore my 'in between platform' was stuck in a hard place. I made some one-off sales, but never really scaled the business, which is what would be needed for any fancy "we're the platform where people do AI" vision to manifest to investors. Hardware is tough - they'll see your numbers and easily pass. They'll realize you need sales in quantity to get anywhere meaningful otherwise.

So I wanted to share criticisms and my experience so you can look ahead to likely challenges and hopefully get further. Best of luck.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-07 21:35:00+00:00
The entire initiative is based on the idea that it is more friendly to route around contrails. I work actively in this area on the routing side (flightscience.ai), and can assure you it's actually fairly cheap climate-wise to reroute a flight given enough warning. If you check out their map (follow TFA's links), you can see that contrails are formed in fairly localized areas.

Go to aviationweather.gov, and you can see huge boxes of alert areas that we already have to deal with. It's really just another day at the office.
by whistlestop | 2025-10-07 21:35:28+00:00
Indeed, Singal is a journalist you go to when you want to read a thoughtful, data-driven analysis of a controversial issue.

He's exceptionally skilled at taking complex and highly polarized topics and picking them apart in a way that invites readers to consider different perspectives.

Unfortunately, that in itself is a polarizing approach, as many people just want their pre-existing beliefs reinforced.
by mattlutze | 2025-10-07 21:35:30+00:00
Here is an interesting review of how the two are historically strongly correlated[1].

Their conclusion is that "[...] ethnic and elitist forms of nationalism, which combine to forge exclusive nationalism, help to perpetuate autocratic regimes by continually legitimating minority exclusions [...]"

Right-wing nationalism as we're currently experiencing it is exclusive. It broadly advocates for restoring revised historical cultural narratives of a particular ethnic group, for immigration restriction and immigrant removal, for further minority culture erasure, and so on.

1: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:859c6af4-d4fd-461e-b605-42...
by like_any_other | 2025-10-07 21:35:32+00:00
> Why do you believe that description applies to Singal? His work is well-researched, grounded and reasonable.

To answer your question: because truth is no defense. How many times have you seen some statement accused of being something-ist, instead of simply false? How often did in further arguing the factuality of the original statement not even come up?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 21:36:17+00:00
> the law of this land is based on the Constitution, which gives the Supreme Court ultimate authority to interpret the law

The Constitution vests "the judicial Power of the United States" in "one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish" [1].

That isn't the same as "ultimate authority to interpret the law." In practice, SCOTUS does usually have this power, due to Marbury and other precedent. In practice, too, it can be bullied, e.g. by FDR and potentially right now.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-3/
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-07 21:36:24+00:00
Just inspect the memory content of the process. It's all just numbers at the end of the day & algorithms do not have any understanding of what the numbers mean other than generating other numbers in response to the input numbers. For the record I agree w/ OP, screenshots are not a good interface for the same reasons that trains, subways, & dedicates lanes for mass transit are obviously superior to cars & their associated attendant headaches.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-10-07 21:36:30+00:00
Thanks, I couldn't have said it better myself:

> The detailed CUA specification, published in December 1987, is 328 pages long. It has similarities to Apple Computer's detailed human interface guidelines (139 pages). The Apple HIG is a detailed book specifying how software for the 1984 Apple Macintosh computer should look and function. When it was first written, the Mac was new, and graphical user interface (GUI) software was a novelty, so Apple took great pains to ensure that programs would conform to a single shared look and feel.

Windows NT came out in 1993 by the way.
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-07 21:36:30+00:00
> Why do you believe that description applies to Singal? His work is well-researched, grounded and reasonable. Perhaps his journalistic output conflicts with your beliefs, but that's no reason to cast false aspersions on him.

Singal's work is not well-researched or reasonable. There have been countless analyses documenting the factual inaccuracies in his work, not to mention the routine and egregious violations of journalistic ethics.

Nobody has cast false aspersions on him, least of all the person that you are responding to. On the contrary, your comments on this post suggest to me that your defense of Signal and your description of him as "grounded and reasonable" has more to do with your approval of his beliefs rather than an honest assessment of his work.
by tovej | 2025-10-07 21:36:35+00:00
Trumps figure is probably more misleading. But even if you believe it, it's not a contradiction, is it? Hamas foghters would be a subset of all Palestinians, and 30000 is less than 67000.

67000 is, for the record, an underestimate, as the only recorded deaths are ones that happen in hospitals. With Israel's indiscriminate bombing campaign, many have been lost under rubble, and with hospitals being bombed, reporting has slowed down in the last year while the genocide has continued to become worse.
by 112233 | 2025-10-07 21:36:44+00:00
A bit OT, but why is ikea internet store (any country) designed to be so unusable? Lists of available components hidden in pdfs tucked in obscure menu, no way to find compatible components, search flooded with tens of thousands of "combinations" — I mean, they obviously know what they are doing. What is the goal of making it such way?
by kmoser | 2025-10-07 21:37:01+00:00
I tend to not resize the browser ever, except when developing/testing sites to make sure they render properly on different screens sizes. I use a 27" monitor and I like reading full-width. As I said in my original comment, I find the act of syncing my eyes with scrolling text to be very distracting, whereas reading a very wide column of text to be very easy. Depending on the website's default font face and size I might use the browser's text zoom feature to enlarge the font, but I still like reading full-width.
by lisbbb | 2025-10-07 21:37:09+00:00
You can't look at California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts--states who have these very long-term Democrat majorities, and tell me we have a representative anything! Those places will likely never turn back to any kind of balanced representative rule. They pass whatever the hell they want and the only pushback is through our Federal courts who often take years to produce meager relief.

It's not "getting bad" it "is bad."
by pessimizer | 2025-10-07 21:37:12+00:00
This is just lifestylist nonsense to make yourself feel better than everyone else. If you design technology to make this hard, they will hit you with a stick, and find everyone who uses your technology and hit them with a stick. If you still do it, they will hit you all with the sticks until you are dead, and also hit your family and friends with sticks. If you don't work for them, they'll find a bro who will. Teaching your neighbors just makes them another potential victim, and they will report you or curse you as they die with you. Moving off platforms when there are no alternatives just means you won't be able to bank, or file your taxes. And if you fail to file your taxes, they will hit you with a stick.

The cage is real, it's not a state of mind. It's not something that can be recycled out of. You'll know when you're really doing something when you can give people a time and a place to show up; when that showing up isn't to stand in the street and socialize with each other, burn down a Starbucks, or spit in the face of a cop who makes less than you do; and when most of you end up dead or in prison.

I always reply like this, but some people think everybody else in the world is so weak and naïve, when they themselves aren't doing anything important and have not taken a fraction of the risks or suffered a fraction of the loss of the people they're asking to speak up. Speaking against power is an impotent magic spell. You can recognize journalists who speak against real power by their deaths.

Everybody is just aping the US black civil rights struggle, where watching the violence done in their name to nicely dressed, well-behaved people filled enough people with disgust that politicians wouldn't get a boost from continuing to support it. That was how a small minority population faced with irrational restrictions in a media-saturated society was able to barely overcome explicitly unfair laws (and go no further, we're still the underclass, we're still dying.)

The history of effective, revolutionary, positive protest by what are often majorities involved people getting out into the streets as a show of strength, not a show of weakness. It always involves converting and including portions of the army and the police forces. It involves building strong shadow governments. Not this pantomime where everybody pretends to be black, and the people who are the blackest, weakest, most undeserving of their treatment win because mommy parliament or daddy supreme court are moved enough to declare them the winner.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-07 21:37:34+00:00
That's interesting. The other removed features all sound like things I would prefer not to pay for anyway: from the article on The Verge, "front and rear light bars, panoramic glass roof, power mirror folding, the second row display, and puddle lamps" - what even are "puddle lamps," I've never heard of such a thing? But moving even more ordinary, everyday functions into their already-annoying touchscreen would really irritate me.

It's not likely that I would want to buy a Tesla anyway, though; the design ethos is not for me.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-07 21:37:39+00:00
You could solve this with a capabilities permissions system. That way the config files can be written in the same language but have configured permissions that are different from the rest of the programming language. So you could restrict the config files from resources like threads, evaling source, making network requests and whatnot. Come to think of it you could even probably section off parts of the language behind capabilties such that the config files could be configured to be a not-Turing complete subset of the language.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-10-07 21:38:09+00:00
It was only ever true by an extremely specific, now outdated, definition of loudness. Basically commercials back then would have the audio extremely compressed, such that they were always at the maximum possible volume allowable by your system at a given volume setting, whereas content mixed to be enjoyed would be mixed such that there are louder and quieter moments, which is both gentler on the ear and more dynamic.

You know how movies are mixed such that they have really quiet dialogue and big explosions are like 4-5x as loud? Commercials are in explosion-mode the whole time.

So yeah, commercials are mixed louder than the rest of the content on purpose, just to try to snag your attention. If they could, advertisers would come into your house and turn the volume on your AV receiver/soundbar/tv/computer/phone way up themselves.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-07 21:38:38+00:00
It is, but hopefully you could do the math and see my current electricity price is like 30 cents a kwh (generation and delivery), primarily because our state has not built out any generation infrastructure in a long long while. Not "triple" my electric bill.

Likely, being able to buy from a generator across the country would REDUCE our prices. Allowing a solar farm in Nevada to compete in markets all over the country would be a large benefit to states like Maine.

Most people are not as far from the western deserts as Maine is, so they would see smaller losses. Add to that, as others have pointed out, a HVDC line is much better than 30% loss to get from Nevada to Maine.

So all this whinging is dumb. Lets build giant solar farms in Nevada deserts and ship it all across the country. Remember, I can't have local solar power past 4pm in January. This capability would replace wind or gas power

The financial fact is that solar is cheap enough that de-rating all panels by 30% to support such a "cross country grid" would be inconsequential. It's the equivalent to buying solar panels from a couple years in the past.

We should be building 2x what we "need" anyway.
by JdeBP | 2025-10-07 21:39:02+00:00
That's because it is in ports rather than in base. (-:

* https://freshports.org/textproc/highlight/

* https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/textproc/hi...

* http://ports.su/textproc/highlight

* https://ports.macports.org/port/highlight/
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-07 21:39:21+00:00
> It's maybe the case that books as a whole is a winner-takes-all market.

Books, music, films, games, basically all creative things. Because everyone can just watch/read/listen to the best of the best. It's not like restaurants where the consumer actually consumes the product.

It's the result of global scale distribution networks. Long ago you could be okay-famous by being the best guitarist in the village and people would appreciate you. Or you could be the local history buff. But if you write enter the global arena, you'll compete with everyone else. There's no limit to how many books the famous author can sell, or how many times a famous singer's song can be streamed on Spotify. There's simply very little demand for mediocre stuff. Also, people want to be able to talk to each other about cultural things. Even if it's a bit more fragmented today, people still want to belong together through liking the same things.
by beembeem | 2025-10-07 21:39:31+00:00
I don't think it's a fair argument to say that EVs are an ineffective use of battery capacity. They are certainly more affordable and accessible than home batteries.

Have you seen the cost of home batteries? Napkin math shows their installed-cost in my region of the US is the same as the fractional cost of an EV. But the EV comes with a free drivetrain, seats, and airbags!
by spacechild1 | 2025-10-07 21:39:49+00:00
For me, JS has just too much magic, in particular the behavior of 'this', and lots of weird quirks, like "for in" vs. "for of". Lua, on the contrary, is very predictable and therfore easy to understand.

One killer feature of Lua (that surprisingly few scripting languages have) is stackful coroutines, i.e. you can yield across nested stack frames. Unlike JS or Python, there is no artificial split between generators and async/await and no need for function coloring.

If Lua had zero-based indexing, it would be close to perfect :)