MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spicyusername | 2025-10-01 15:20:28+00:00
This is one of those things where I think autism has become a tag for the shared experiences of things like awkwardness, feeling out of place, or running out of the desire to socialize. Everyone wants an answer for why they have unpleasant experiences that aren't, "That's just life".

There is no normal experience, only the kinds of experiences that people have. Some people have buckets of experience that are worse or more challenging than others, everyone has shared experiences that cross-sect.

These labels are useful insofar as grouping experiences together that tend to co-occur makes it easy to talk about certain categories of aggregate experiences or strategies for navigating life, but I think too many people relegate too much importance to these arbitrary labels, like "autism", derive too much of their identity from them, and too often use them as excuses to not deal with life's challenges and complexities head on.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-01 15:20:34+00:00
if they can't ban good bettors they'll either swap the odds to juice bad bettors even more or go out of business. The idea that government can force you to do business with people you don't want to do business with is broad and dangerous. I think that banning discrimination for protected classes is a good idea (or, more accurately, a bad idea that several other bad ideas have made into an idea that does actually make things a bit better in pragmatic terms).

Would you agree that as a guiding principle for good government no one should be forced to associate with anyone they don't want to or disallowed from associating with anyone they do want to? That's the fundamental right that's in conflict with the idea of not being allowed to ban successful bettors. In the US we've decided that the insidiousness of class-based discrimination merits an exception to that idea, but overall free association rules the day. You as a business or a consumer are free to do business or not with anyone you want to or don't, and that's how it should be afaic.
by joshcsimmons | 2025-10-01 15:20:38+00:00
Maybe if you're very careful but probably not.

There are point diffs on your stats each turn. The positive diffs are always the same for the same choices regardless of day.

The negative choices have an additional 25% added to them each day, so -10 the first day for a choice would be -12 (floor) the second day, -15 the third day, etc.
by observationist | 2025-10-01 15:20:50+00:00
It's likely already happened, but we will never hear about it. Their attack surfaces will be clustered and broken up, through an inhomogenous distribution of various systems and layers and networks, and the entirety of the system will be protected through disjoint connections, both the intentional and the bureaucratic and structural that follow from the mere fact of being really big organizations. Any particular unit within the whole that gets pwned will have recovery tactics available, but reporting will probably be kept as private as humanly possible, even to the extent of avoiding reporting to government, so as to avoid "damage" to markets, loss of reputation, runs on the bank, and so forth. If they don't have a near instant recovery and mitigation of the attack, they'll be much more likely to pay and recover, quietly, than most other organizations. There are laws and regulations and boxes that get checked to ostensibly hold them to a high cybersecurity standard, but that's a lot of theater and pomp for public confidence over anything practical. Where they benefit is from being able to pay for teams and high quality security personnel and being incentivized to avoid getting hacked.

It's not in anyone's interest to make a lot of fuss or noise in the public eye, so us chickens out here won't ever hear about anything that happens.

That comes with the caveat that the big banks can afford to pay really nasty people to go find hackers and turn them over to authorities, or worse options in more lawless parts of the world, and the public will never hear about those actions either, which disincentivizes the hackers. There are easier ways of getting more money with less risk of catastrophic personal outcomes, with the technical difficulty of even attempting anything serious filtering out the impulsive and stupid.
by raddan | 2025-10-01 15:21:03+00:00
> As are you when you call the Democrats' reality "the real reality."

I literally never said that. You also have no idea what my political background is. All I said is that I would never vote for Trump.

In fact, I do believe that there is one reality, because I am a scientist. For me, politics has nothing to do with it. I’m sorry that it does for you. It shouldn’t.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-01 15:21:22+00:00
The Fit, Yaris, and Accent would have seen significant uptake for over a decade if this hypothesis was true though - both amongst low income and upper income buyers.

Yet the data just doesn't justify the narrative that "small cars" have a PMF in the US and Canada.

I get that you and a subset of people really like small cars, but you cannot justify funding low uptake SKUs just because some people like something.

> they didn't have any new Fits

Because the Fit was discontinued in 2020 because most Americans and Canadians just weren't buying it.
by tomck | 2025-10-01 15:21:42+00:00
This isn't what people are talking about, you aren't understanding the problem

With RAII you need to leave everything in an initialized state unless you are being very very careful - which is why MaybeUninit is always surrounded by unsafe

{ Foo f; }

f must be initialized here, it cannot be left uninitialized

std::vector<T> my_vector(10000);

EVERY element in my_vector must be initialized here, they cannot be left uninitialized, there is no workaround

Even if I just want a std::vector<uint8_t> to use as a buffer, I can't - I need to manually malloc with `(uint8_t)malloc(sizeof(uint8_t)*10000)` and fill that

So what if the API I'm providing needs a std::vector? well, I guess i'm eating the cost of initializing 10000 objects, pull them into cache + thrash them out just to do it all again when I memcpy into it

This is just one example of many

another one:

with raii you need copy construction, operator=, move construction, move operator=. If you have a generic T, then using `=` on T might allocate a huge amount of memory, free a huge amount of memory, or none of the above. in c++ it could execute arbitrary code

If you haven't actually used a language without RAII for an extended period of time then you just shouldn't bother commenting. RAII very clearly has its downsides, you should be able to at least reason about the tradeoffs without assuming your terrible strawman argument represents the other side of the coin accurately
by pjmlp | 2025-10-01 15:21:46+00:00
> I'd argue users wanted off the shelf software, not bespoke solutions, which is why they were cool with slow machines that ran 123, dBase and Wordperfect.

Followed by

> I don't know what you're trying to say here, all those programs would have run terribly if they were written in lisp or scheme.

While dBase was written in Assembly, the interpreter, Clipper, the compiler was written in C, and dBase software written in xBase programming language, a programming language that by Clipper 5 days was just like Lisp or Scheme in capabilities, garbage collected, able to do functional programming, and OOP, in 640 KB, running on 20 MHz CPUs.
by abruzzi | 2025-10-01 15:22:51+00:00
> I see these complaints on HN a lot, and maybe it’s anecdotal, but I just don’t see this in the real world these days.

It happens all the time where I work. I don't want to be specific, but we have lots of examples here. In some cases people don't like the core software, so they work around it by tracking things on a spreadsheet. And sometimes that spreadsheet disappears (in one case, it was being kept on an XLSX on a USB thumb drive, but the thumb drive got corrupted and we lost some very important data.)
by rdtsc | 2025-10-01 15:22:51+00:00
A lot of fairy tales in the West take place in a "medieval mythical time" as I call it: Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella etc. Not sure how many children are still reading or hearing those these days but I think that generates some of the interest. The women can still pretend to be Cinderella and men get to pretend to be knights or Robin Hood and such.
by hcamacho1 | 2025-10-01 15:22:53+00:00
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by Otek | 2025-10-01 15:22:58+00:00
I don’t stick to one tool. I rarely go back to what I wrote in the past but I found that the process od journaling is valuable enough. If I have my paper notebook at hand, I’ll use that. I sometimes write something in Apple Notes or Apple journal app.

If I were to recommend one: go with paper. But regardless of the tool: don’t treat it as “one precious journal that have to be perfect”. Missed a note? Don’t feel shame. Don feel like writing? Just note a one sentence.

Good luck!
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by leogrn | 2025-10-01 15:23:09+00:00
thanks for the answer

maybe my question wasn't clearly written, sorry

I meant how are you planning to handle different exchange operation types like on this example situation:

when you send or receive international transfers in Brazil and you exchange it for BRL you need to declare what is the nature of the exchange operation you are doing

if you are receiving for services that you provided, if it's a transfer from an account you own, if it's a donation, the list goes on

this is important because of the different treatment each of them receive on compliance, risk and even fees
by toss1 | 2025-10-01 15:23:09+00:00
Exactly right on every point. And they won't willingly change.

And absolutely, the metaphor is absolutely right where the table is set with one brown person with one cookie, a white person with two cookies, and the oligarch with a pile of hundreds of cookies, and the oligarch is telling the white guy to watch out because the brown guy will steal his cookies. And the stupid white guy believes it.

That said, when even a small portion of the people actually unite and demand change, things change. We have the USA itself (as opposed to British colonies), India, Pakistan, No French kings, etc., no slavery, women's voting, 40-hour work week, minimum wage, social security, lunch breaks, and more all because people united sufficiently to force change.

There is the 3.5% rule [0], validated scientifically [1], showing it takes only 3.5% of a population to force serious change in a society.

There are also situations where a rich person with power wakes up and does good things. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one such person, tagged "a traitor to his class", but he implemented huge changes in favor of ordinary people.

If you are pointing out the obstacles, we agree. If you are saying it is impossible because the rich tend to stick together, that is counter to history, and if the US people fail to respond to the latest assault from the oligarchs, they'll go down in history as the greatest losers ever.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35...

[1] https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviol...
by benjiro | 2025-10-01 15:23:35+00:00
My guess but his finger was very swollen/red, and he was probably fidgeting a lot trying to get the ring off. So airline staff probably noticed this strange behavior, and asked if he needed help.

One of his comments:

>> the staff at the gate gave me some hand cream, but no luck. If anything, that made it worse and expanded the battery even more

Its just insane for people to carry lithium-ion batteries on their finger in a restricted ring.

A phone in your pocket is already dangerous if he goes, but on your finger it can restrict the blood flow or burst. One finger or even more can be gone, if that battery goes.

I never understood how a device like this gets approved by management.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-01 15:23:52+00:00
Isn't this moving the goalposts? It's great that you're learning but MathAcademy appears to be a whole product that may incorporate an LLM but is much more, and it's a paid product none of us can evaluate. It's not possible to tell from looking at their site, or from your comment, what content is generated, or how it is verified before being used as teaching material.

There are probably smart ways to incorporate LLM output into an application like the one you're lauding but your comment is a little like responding "but my cake tastes good" to someone who says you shouldn't eat raw flour.
by jon_north | 2025-10-01 15:24:00+00:00
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by daxfohl | 2025-10-01 15:24:09+00:00
It'd be nice if it also included the queries for each use case, and had a better understanding of sharding. As is, I gave it a bunch of requirements, it created some tables. Was it sufficient? No idea, it didn't say what the query was for each requirement. Would it scale? Again, no idea without the queries. (But actually, no, it wouldn't have scaled; some requirements were impossible without cross-shard scans).
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by uecker | 2025-10-01 15:25:28+00:00
They only need trampolines when they access their local environment and you take their address. Without optimization a trampoline was generated whenever an address was taken, but I recently changed this in the development version of GCC to only do this when needed, so hopefully in the next released version you will not get a trampoline for many more cases. Here, there is no address being taken anyway, so you do not get a trampoline.

(and I hope we get a solution without trampolines for the remaining cases as well)
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