MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-19 06:45:30+00:00
How socially-suitable is that?

I think a key part of freetime2's quoted excerpt is the part that relates to social acceptance.

Right now (well, not exactly now, but tomorrow-now) I can pop into any random over-21 bar near me and buy some drinks for myself and whoever else happens to be around.

And that will be perfectly OK, socially-speaking, according to anyone I'm buying a drink for, and the bartender, and anyone who sees me behave in this fashion.

Even leaving aside such notions as legality and length-of-trip: LSD is a long, long way from reaching that level of social acceptance, don't you think?
by middayc | 2025-10-19 06:45:47+00:00
Sorry, but I don't understand the example. In Rye, as in REBOL all first level block evaluations (do, if, for, loop, ...) happend in current scope (context).

Rye has first class contexts and it's one of more exciting things to me about it, but I'm not sure it's related to what you describe above. More on it here:

https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/specifics/context/

One thing that pops out at the example above is that I wouldn't want to define a y inside if block, because after the if you have y defined or not defined at all, at least to my understanding of your code.

Rye is constant by default, most things don't change and you need less veriables because it's expression based and it has left to right "flow" option. So you only make variables where you really need them, which is less common and specific, it should be obvious why you need a variable.
by int_19h | 2025-10-19 06:47:42+00:00
You can't account for any possible contingency obviously, but you can still account for most. Start with just determining possible diversions on the route as it is supposed to be. That route can in turn be replaced with a heatmap of historical routes the planes on it have actually taken. And so on. The point is to not be on a plane that can be diverted to a country where you really can't end up at any likely point of its regular route.
by mynameisash | 2025-10-19 06:48:05+00:00
> Since I suspect I've had it since birth, it doesn't bother me. It's just something that is. I feel bad for the folks who get it later in life and have trouble with it.

100%. I remember being rather young - maybe 5? - and listening to the deafening sound of ringing in my ears when laying in bed. Never knew that quiet was supposed to actually be quiet.

I wish I didn't have it, but I've literally never not had it, AFAIK.

Possibly unrelated: I can fall asleep within a minute of laying my head down, almost every single day. Built-in white(ish) noise machine?
by turtledragonfly | 2025-10-19 06:48:51+00:00
I'm reminded of that scene from A Beautiful Mind where someone asks him if he still has his hallucinations. He looks over and sees the fake people still there, and says "Oh no, they're not gone. Maybe they'll never be." And they still would drag him into things again, but he has learned to ignore them and not get pulled in.

So it is with internal demons sometimes, I find. You learn to recognize them, rather than expunge them.
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-10-19 06:49:16+00:00
> but most users didn’t notice the bias — unless they were in the negatively portrayed group.

I don't think this is anything surprising. I mean, this is one of the most important reasons behind DEI; that a more diverse team can perform better than a less diverse one because the team is more capable of identifying their blind spots.

I find funny but unsurprising, that at the end, it was made a boogie man and killed by individuals with no so hidden biases
by carlob | 2025-10-19 06:51:26+00:00
Usually the medical part of it all is strictly worse in the private sector (at least in my country) because the public system has a pretty strict competitive exam to get in, whereas profit driven private companies hire the cheapest doctor they can get.

Not everybody realizes that and they often fall for the single room in the hospital.

Shorter waiting times is definitely a thing though, especially for non life threatening conditions.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-19 06:55:48+00:00
Perhaps you could quote something from that section that you feel is relevant here. It didn't look relevant to me.

> Google's options were either to not be in China at all, or to be in China and abide by their laws.

OK. So, they chose "be in China and abide by their laws", and you think it makes sense to characterize that as "they left the market rather than bend the knee"? Those are exactly opposite descriptions. They bent the knee rather than leave the market. That's what happened.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-19 06:57:39+00:00
> people need sustenance but that doesn't need to be water

The analogy is apt enough IMHO, so let me stretch it.

You wouldn't tell someone holding a melon they absolutely need water or they'll die. You'd tell them to eat the melon, and see if they can get more water from there. If all their hydration ends up coming from different sources than pure water, you wouldn't tell them they're screwed.

The "love yourself" sounds the same to me. There's a thousand ways people can deal with themselves. Self preservation, understanding what they bring to others, what they mean to others why they're needed can and will happen outside of what people call "love".

In particular that "advice" will be pushed toward people who can be in the worst place to reinterpret and adapt it to their needs.
by Hilift | 2025-10-19 06:59:38+00:00
Spying was a profession 400 years ago due to the intense rivalry of France and England. Vast sums and amounts of time were spent on various schemes. Probably for revenge for losing western Europe in the 100 years war. Religion seems to have been mostly a cover for plunder and stealing treasure. France remained mostly Catholic, however the religious turnover in England created interesting dynamics.

The proprietor of Maryland landed the title Baron Baltimore through friendship with the spymaster to Queen Elizabeth, "whom Calvert had met during an extended trip to the European mainland between 1601 and 1603".

"He also held the title of Earl of Salisbury in 1605 and Lord High Treasurer in 1608, making him the most powerful man at the royal court."

The Calvert family lost the Maryland estate after the armed insurrection of 1689, however the Crown returned the estate to the Calvert family in 1715 "after Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, declared in public that he was a Protestant."

The final "23rd Governor of Restored Proprietary Government" Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, was the great great grandfather of Prime Minister Anthony Eden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Calvert,_1st_Baron_Balt...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Maryland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Treaty_of_Dover
by pjerem | 2025-10-19 07:01:10+00:00
No, for me 30-50. The objective is to be socially apt.

In this dose range I can feel a little drunk but still have a conversation and be less impaired intellectually than with alcohol.

But it will last longer and, more importantly, I will not be able to sleep for hours which is the biggest blocker at using it at all for those situations.
by middayc | 2025-10-19 07:03:48+00:00
True, there is the "old maintainer" aspect, that differs.

But what exactly does this mean in relation that what are special forms in other languages are function calls in Rye?

Is the problem that you somebody could make their own control-structure-like functions? All these function calls have exactly the same evaluation rules, which is not something you can say about "special forms" in "normal" languages because special forms are exactly rules that break the regular evaluation rules.

Rye already has a lot of control-structure-like functions in it's standard library and many other functions that accept blocks of code and aren't related to control-structures. Yes, a "stupid" person can write "stupid" code in Rye, but you don't need much flexibility in any language to write stupid code.

I fully admit there are languages that are more suited for teams, and languages that are more suited for solo developers, for this reason.

That was also my point mentioning "million pixel website" because that "art" is directionless and crowdsourced and a painter can use the same pixels or even more flexible options to create beautiful images.
by mmooss | 2025-10-19 07:04:57+00:00
> There's a thousand ways people can deal with themselves. Self preservation, understanding what they bring to others, what they mean to others why they're needed can and will happen outside of what people call "love".

But those things don't provide love, which is (also) essential. People need love even to pursue self-preservation and helping others; it's the people without love that commit s*de.

Why is it important to build a model that excludes love, which seems obvious and overwhelmingly present?
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-19 07:04:59+00:00
I can't prove it, but my experience with commercial models is that baked-in bias is strong. There have been times where I state X=1 over and over again in context, but get X=2, or some other value, back sometimes. There are times where I get it every time, or something different every time.

You can see this with some coding agents, where they are not good at ingesting code and reproducing it as they saw it, but can reply with what they were trained on. For example, I was configuring a piece of software that had a YAML config file. The agent kept trying to change the values of unrelated keys to their default example values from the docs when making a change somewhere else. It's a highly forked project so I imagine both the docs and the example config files are in its training set thousands, if not millions of times, if it wasn't deduped.

If you don't give access to sed/grep/etc to an agent, the model will eventually fuck up what's in its context, which might not be the result of bias every time, but when the fucked up result maps to a small set of values, kind of seems like bias to me.

To answer your question, my gut says that if you dumped a CSV of that data into context, the model isn't going to perform actual statistics, and will regurgitate something closer in the space of your question than further away in the space of a bunch of rows of raw data. Your question is going to be in the training data a lot, like explicitly, there are going to be articles about it, research, etc all in English using your own terms.

I also think by definition LLMs have to be biased towards their training data, like that's why they work. We train them until they're biased in the way we like.
by arcanemachiner | 2025-10-19 07:05:16+00:00
I don't see why that would affect it, unless that Back button press modifies the URL such that it is out of the current live session, which would trigger a page reload.

My LiveView is rusty, but I encourage you to reconfirm your assumptions, as I think that things work the way we both hope they do (as long as the live session doesn't change).
by palmotea | 2025-10-19 07:08:25+00:00
> I mean, this is one of the most important reasons behind DEI; that a more diverse team can perform better than a less diverse one because the team is more capable of identifying their blind spots.

That was oversold though: 1) DEI, in practice, meant attending to a few narrow identity groups; 2) the blind spots of a particular team that need to be covered (more often than not) do not map to the unique perspective of those groups; and 3) it's not practical to represent all helpful perspectives on every team, so representation can't really solve the blind spot problem.
by middayc | 2025-10-19 07:08:57+00:00
Yes, a lot of REBOL ideas, that Rye took, or various functional, homoiconic langauges implement (haskell, lips, clojure, scheme, Io, Factor) come from search for greater internal consistency than your ALGOL-derived status-quo languages provide. :)

So degrading the core doesn't make much sense if you are not more specific. This is the core.
by positron26 | 2025-10-19 07:09:40+00:00
> It is Free Software whether it is BSD or GPL3.

You clearly did not read the FSF manifestos and don't understand their positions. They will call the BSD license "permissive" and will correct you if you attempt to call BSD "free/libre".

> Why would it matter

The FSF didn't build "open source." They actively work to discredit open source. Let's not give them credit for what they tirelessly denounce.

Linux is open source, but did not adopt the GPL3. Firefox is open source but uses MPL. If the FSF is a leader who is responsible for all of these great projects, why doesn't anyone want to use their license?
by md224 | 2025-10-19 07:14:01+00:00
> The solution was reached by using codebreaking software the team had developed along with extensive manual work, in part required because Perwich had mistakenly omitted a couple of letters in his ciphertext.

That explains how the team of 3 codebreakers got it, but what about the other codebreaker, Matthew Brown, who figured it out by himself? The article doesn't say anything about his approach. Seems impressive if he can match the effort of three cryptographers using their own custom software. I want to read more about him!
by aryehof | 2025-10-19 07:14:07+00:00
This seems to assume that any endeavor in software is something entirely established from scratch. There are no patterns, experiences or reusable parts that can be relied on. A hack at it until it works methodology.

Accordingly, it seems to imply that we as developers can’t be accountable for anything but effort. It’s a sad condemnation of our industry, and at odds with any (normal) commercial undertaking that has limited resources that must be allocated among competing alternatives.

Any real manager knows the basics of calculating the best choice amongst competing alternatives by establishing projected cashflows and calculating the PV (present value) of each. But not for software - we’re too special.

(normal) - one that can sustain itself on a commercial basis, rather than just on injected capital or borrowed funds.
by yason | 2025-10-19 07:14:28+00:00
> That's just means you're effectively acting as a moderator yourself, only > with a whitelist. It's just your own direct curation of sources.

That's exactly how a useful social information system works. I choose what I want to follow and see, and there's no gap between what moderation thinks and what I think. Spam gets dealt with the moment I see something spammy (or just about any kind of thing I don't want to see).

This is how Usenet worked: you subscribed to the groups you found interesting and where participants were of sufficient quality. And you further could block individuals whose posts you didn't want to see.

This is how IRC worked: you joined channels that you deemed worth joining. And you could further ignore individuals that you didn't like.

That is how the whole original internet actually worked: you were reading pages and using services that you felt were worth your time.

Ultimately, that's how human relationships work. You hang out with friends you like and who are worth your time, and you ignore people who you don't want to spend your time with, especially assholes.
by Animats | 2025-10-19 07:15:42+00:00
"The 19th reports at the intersection of gender, politics, and policy - a much-needed inclusive newsroom..." This isn't a problem with the distribution technology. This is a problem with the message, and its narrow niche.

The site's marketing is geared towards collecting donations in the US$20,000 and up range. That doesn't scale. They don't have viewer counts big enough to make it on payments in the $10/year range. So that doesn't scale either.

The back-end technology of this thing has zero bearing on those problems.

[1] https://19thnews.org/sponsorship/
by ownagefool | 2025-10-19 07:16:47+00:00
Ordering System is a good example because you typically want both. Your base logic will probably exist in OLTP with joins and normalised data, and you'll generally have local on-device OLTP databases.

Reporting on your Ordering System is an OLAP problem though. Generally an OLAP database stores data on disk in a way that it only needs to read the selected columns and the performance is better with wider columns, i.e. lots of duplicated data ( JOINs are slow ).

So like, you select * from Customer, Order, Items, Device, Staff, stick it in your OLAP database that's where customers should generate reports. This both makes reporting more performant, but it also removes the problem from the critical path of your POS device syncing and working.

This has the added benefit that updating your product name won't update the historical log of what was done at the time, because what was done at the time was done at the time ( but you can still map on like productId if you think the data is relevant. )

At scale you want to pop the writes on a queue and design those devices to be as async as possible.

This is what happens when you just build it pure OLTP.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nobody-expects-thundering-her...

This was an ~£19m ARR POS company dying because of architecture, now doing £150m+ ARR. ( the GTV of the workloads are multiple times that, but I can't remember them ).
by knorker | 2025-10-19 07:17:19+00:00
It's the worst, except for all the others.

20 years ago someone missed an important email.

Every 20 seconds someone misses an important message in a thread hidden deep in a chat.

I don't understand how we have moved from email and IRC to the various chats. The latter seem to actively hide communication, as some deliberate sabotage.
by donkeybeer | 2025-10-19 07:18:12+00:00
You are a fucking coward if you can't own up to everything he does both bad and good. If you can't own up to the fact that he is doing several grossly illegal activities including and not limited to turning a legitimate law enforcement agency into a illegal criminal organization then you are a fucking coward, plain and square. If you voted for him you have to openly fucking admit these are wrong or just man up and say you agree with it all. Anything else and you should give up your manhood card.
by DrSiemer | 2025-10-19 07:18:47+00:00
That's actually not tinnitus but (from what I've been told) cochloreal hyperacusis, another form of hearing damage.

I always have that, but I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months.

I can still hear old CRTs in my forties, although it's less maddening now. They had those mosquito devices, that are intended to repel kids, for a while at a shopping mall near me. They repelled me very effectively as well.

A friend once thought it was funny to try the 15.000Hz silent ringtone on me, although I had told him not to. It made me react without conscious input and I nearly broke his phone.
by nine_k | 2025-10-19 07:20:23+00:00
The manual is there usually: type `man`, or `help`, or run the command with `--help`.

Most GUIs also have "endless" pages of options. Grouping them helps quite a bit.

Having many options is usually considered the trait of the rich and powerful. Studying them for the tools you use often may actually save time, compared to googling around the bush every time.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-19 07:21:35+00:00
> Midterm elections are approaching and the federal government has already shown its willingness to deploy the military to big cities for intimidation purposes.

Fall of democracy to dictatorship is a different problem than a failed state, and both that and balkanization are more likely than a failed state scenario (though balkanization could result in one or more failed states among the successors.)
by scrollop | 2025-10-19 07:22:06+00:00
Did you notice the cookie service this site (and many others) use?

This service can have cookies switched off, though "legitimate interest" is left on.

"Legitimate interest" sounds innocent, yet it is not.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

If you scroll down the dilog box for this service you will find a link to "vendor preferences".

Click this, and you will find dozens of companies, with many having "legitimate interest" switched on. I find this deceptive (hiding this, essentially, and also using "legitimate interest".

If I really want to read what the site says I laboriously click no to legitimate interest, though usually I just close the page.
by rashunain | 2025-10-19 07:23:33+00:00
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by tgma | 2025-10-19 07:24:12+00:00
> ...will correct you if you attempt to call BSD "free/libre".

Wrong. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html

> The FSF didn't build "open source." They actively work to discredit open source. Let's not give them credit for what they tirelessly denounce.

Where did I ever use that term in this conversation?
by tailrecursion | 2025-10-19 07:25:16+00:00
> [...] show people posts from the people they follow or that the people they follow liked.

Yes, this is a good system. It'll work particularly well at filtering spam because people largely agree what it is. One thing that will happen with your system is people will separate into cliques. But that's not the end of the world. Has anyone implemented Anthony's idea of using followees' likes to rank posts?
by aaronrobinson | 2025-10-19 07:25:20+00:00
You used to have to prove that your ancestor hadn’t given up the Italian citizenship which is where you would have missed out. I believe your ancestor is now limited to parent or grandparent AND one or both must have a ‘connection’ to Italy - as in they were born there and/or live there. I know nothing about German citizenship but my advice to you would be to start the process now given the far right momentum in Germany and the world in general. I’ve been through the process and mine was fairly straightforward and it still took a couple of years to gather and legalise document and then go through the process.