MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zeroq | 2025-10-05 06:18:38+00:00
my take:

The language is A ok.

It's way better JS, and at the time it was a breath of fresh air. It was NodeJS before JS, and it was much better than node will be (I scratched out that "never").

I do recall Guido's claims about developers cognition - stating that (quoting from memory) a person can only hold up to 50k lines of code in their head, and Py can have way more code in that dimension that C or Java, but that's just stupid.

But similarly to JS it's heavily misused.
by k1t | 2025-10-05 06:19:42+00:00
Probably related to RFK claims.

Eg https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5405595/claims-that-see...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have said that seed oils are poisoning Americans. The medical community mostly rejects those claims, but they are causing problems for farmers.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-10-05 06:20:29+00:00
A few weeks ago I bought a "new" coffee maker which arrived physically broken and with used coffee grounds in the hopper. I don't understand how this is even possible.

That's the last thing I'm buying on Amazon.

Amazon pre-COVID was amazing. But 2-day shipping is now 5+ day shipping. It's chock full of cheap/fraudulent junk. It's been interesting to watch it go downhill so fast.
by lurk2 | 2025-10-05 06:20:53+00:00
> I’ve dealt with terrible of both that were just good enough to not get disbarred or lose their license.

The existence of bad surgeons doesn’t make performing surgery on yourself the better alternative.

A sufficiently-motivated analyst can hack together an app and test it as he goes. Yes, there might be scaling issues and edge cases, but he’s putting together a proof of concept; once he has validated the market, the developers who build the app “correctly” are effectively interchangeable. There are questions of professional ethics if the software is touching anything to do with medicine, personal information, or other sensitive issues like that, but that does not represent a majority of development. If you mean “good” in the sense of being artful or efficient, then no one cares.
by sherr | 2025-10-05 06:21:01+00:00
> "Security services" isn't a power center, they are a tool used by power centers.

No, they /are/ a power center. They have a lot of power: they advise governments, police and business, who listen to their advice and act on it very often. A lot of the work they do is (sadly) essential in the world as it exists today. Of course the "security services" want to open and read your mail and will advise accordingly.
by sciencejerk | 2025-10-05 06:21:51+00:00
If AI and other societal shifts eliminate many white-collar jobs in developed countries, degree-seekers will eventually notice and the demand and perceived value of a college education may greatly diminish. I got my degree at a time when it was actually useful as a signalling mechanism. Now students might not benefit much from a college degree and internships might be hard to find. This is too bad and grossly unfair.

I hope that new societal avenues are created to help young people start their careers, even if those careers are in fields like plumbing, nursing and hospitality. I also hope efforts are made to help white collar workers transition into other (lesser-paying) careers when AI really starts to permanently reduce the size of the white-collar workforce.
by anonnon | 2025-10-05 06:21:53+00:00
> The return type of fgetc() is `int` and not `char`. This example will not differentiate between end-of-file in input versus reading 0xff

Be aware that character literals in c, e.g., 'f' or 'A', have type int for probably this reason. From the ANSI C89 spec:

> An integer character constant has type int. The value of an integer character constant containing a single character that maps into a member of the basic execution character set is the numerical value of the representation of the mapped character interpreted as an integer.

However, in C++, they have type char.
by shakna | 2025-10-05 06:22:19+00:00
And my response is that creation is never, ever, just assigned to a singular person. All work that goes into a work, is acknowledged.

Pretending that your model use doesn't matter, is ignoring all the people's works that are being used to construct it.

If one director or producer went around bragging that the film was all their work, the Actor's Unions and Writer's Unions would tear them to pieces.

You can't pretend only you are the creator. Because it does matter.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-05 06:22:27+00:00
It doesn't have to be a prohibition either. Advertising could be banned. Branding could be controlled so it isn't appealing (Provider 1, Provider 2, etc). Parlay bets and "innovations" (which burn customer money 10 times faster) could be restricted. The "concierge" service that preys on the big spending addicts could be regulated/erased.

That's the sort of ban that actually works for society, because it is strongly focused on disincentivizing harmful behavior, while shutting out the black market.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-05 06:23:12+00:00
> and then there's section 4 which is the actual complaint and is overwhelmingly about procedure.

Ah, yes, procedural complaints such as "The draft creates security risks." and "There are no principles supporting the adoption decision.", and "The draft increases software complexity."

I don't know what complaint you're reading, but you're working awful hard to ignore the engineering concerns presented in the one I've read and linked to.
by viccis | 2025-10-05 06:23:36+00:00
>It could be banned. Would that stop it? Probably not.

Absolutely asinine statement. Yeah no shit it's not going to deter the most degenerate of gamblers of seeking out a place to make bets. Will it stop apps being advertised on TV and the app stores from grooming new people into it? Yes. Will it stop people mildly curious from betting on sports? Yes.

If "it" in "stop it" is "all sports betting" then no, obviously. If "it" is "sports betting in normal society" then yep, it will stop it. Anyone obfuscating this simple fact wants to make money off of more human misery, remember that.

Remind me of how cigarette usage has gone in nations that ban advertisement of it.
by riffraff | 2025-10-05 06:24:50+00:00
An interesting development of modern blogging is you can integrate the fediverse pretty easily, e.g. WordPress can trivially publish ActivityPub and you can receive replies, likes, and boosts from mastodon et al.

I Imagine the risk of spam is the same as for pingbacks, but at the moment this doesn't seem to be the case yet.
by mjg59 | 2025-10-05 06:25:48+00:00
Poor quality analogy: should ed25519 only have been incorporated into protocols in conjunction with another cryptographic primitive? Surely requiring a hybrid with ecdsa would be more secure? Why did djb not argue for everyone using ed25519 to use a hybrid? Was he trying to reduce security?

The reason this is a poor quality analogy is that fundamentally ecdsa and ed25519 are sufficiently similar that people had a high degree of confidence that there was no fundamental weakness in ed25519, and so it's fine - whereas for PQC the newer algorithms are meaningfully mathematically distinct, and the fact that SIKE turned out to be broken is evidence that we may not have enough experience and tooling to be confident that any of them are sufficiently secure in themselves and so a protocol using PQC should use a hybrid algorithm with something we have more confidence in. And the counter to that is that SIKE was meaningfully different in terms of what it is and does and cryptographers apparently have much more confidence in the security of Kyber, and hybrid algorithms are going to be more complicated to implement correctly, have worse performance, and so on.

And the short answer seems to be that a lot of experts, including several I know well and would absolutely attest are not under the control of the NSA, seem to feel that the security benefits of a hybrid approach don't justify the drawbacks. This is a decision where entirely reasonable people could disagree, and there are people other than djb who do disagree with it. But only djb has engaged in a campaign of insinuating that the NSA has been controlling the process with the goal of undermining security.
by wiether | 2025-10-05 06:26:23+00:00
> If type "Charles dickens" in search, there should be a way to get works by Dickens exclusively.

I tried it:

- on the website from the home page

- in the Kindle category

- on my Kindle directly

All I got was books by Dickens.

There was the usual "sponsored" items but they are explicitly displayed as it.

I don't know if it's a country issue, but I don't have the same experience as you.

Furthermore, I read regularly on HN comments about how bad Amazon became, selling fake products, taking forever to send packages... Again, maybe a country issue, but here in France my experience is the same as it was ten years ago. It's even a bit better thanks to the number of Lockers that are available near my flat or my office and the fact that more and more refurbished products are offered.
by wtallis | 2025-10-05 06:26:50+00:00
This wasn't published in an academic journal. It was published on the News page of Harvard's School of Public Health. It's PR/publicity for the school. The purpose of the post wasn't to appease industry donors, but to call attention to a Consumer Reports article that quoted someone from Harvard. The news post is just about bragging rights for the school. The Consumer Reports article seems to be a high-quality article, though still written for the general public rather than an academic journal.
by Biganon | 2025-10-05 06:28:24+00:00
I hate the fact that your comment got flagged / greyed out / whatever even though it's perfectly correct. I'm one of those people who had configured everything perfectly. Score of 100 on mail-tester, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, you name it. Examining the headers in an e-mail sent to gmail: pass, pass, pass. Everything green.

Microsoft however? Denied, 100% of the time. Spam folder, or even plain rejected. Why? No idea, they won't say. They redirect you to their shitty partner that you can PAY in order to HOPE you get approved.

I don't know why our experiences are considered "anecdotes", and not the other way round. What's the incentive for big players to accept e-mail from home servers or small dedicated servers? "Sure it could be Standard Nerd from HN running their own stuff for street cred points, or it could be one of the bazillion spam factories sending fake UPS scams. In doubt, let's reject."
by defrost | 2025-10-05 06:29:33+00:00
While it’s true that many foods that use seed oils—such as packaged snacks and french fries—are unhealthy, they also tend to be high in refined carbohydrates, sodium, and sugar. “Sure, if you cut back on these foods, chances are you’re going to feel better,” Crosby said. But these other components, not the seed oils themselves, are the culprit behind weight gain and other negative health outcomes.

~ from the main article.

That said, the title really should be "Scientist dismisses claims ..." (singular) as it's a press release that quotes a single scientist who no longer works for Harvard and who asserts that no scientific papers find the seed oils to have health risks.

He may well be correct in that assertion, but that has to be taken as hearsay.
by napo | 2025-10-05 06:30:08+00:00
Amazon search looks bad for us because it is designed to sell ads. Its goal is to make company pay the most money to show articles. Iirc, when this was proposed, Jeff Bazos said that this was the most stupid idea he ever heard. I think the reason why it was introduced, and why Executives don't want to change it, is that it generates a ton of money for Amazon. I'd personally love if in the end this would be the reason that Amazon stop making money and it would have been some short sighted greedy move. I'm afraid that advertisement, when it comes down to numbers, is just damn too profitable.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-05 06:30:14+00:00
I've been using 1P since version 6 and I do miss the native app and I was sceptical of the transition to Electron. But for the most part it has been pretty decent, it does its thing and gets out of my way for the most part, haven't felt any performance regression (even the one stated in this post). I don't even know if/what things are getting worse every release.
by conductr | 2025-10-05 06:31:25+00:00
I don’t mind it at all, because it’s purposefully turning to shit. Degradation sounds slow natural. Like how a computer bought in 2005 that runs just as well as back then has seemed to have degraded 20 years later, no fault of its own.

I do have a hard time believing this author coined the term in 2022. I’ve had this phase as part of my vocabulary for much long than that to describe the same exact phenomenon, I know I didn’t invent it but it’s been around in the online software community at least. Maybe he claims ownership because he was the first to write about it, or maybe my memory is just failing me and he deserves the credit. Idk but that tidbit bothers me way more than the words. I don’t let vulgarity get in the way of having polite conversations, they’re not mutually exclusive in my opinion.
by monkeyelite | 2025-10-05 06:31:42+00:00
> Please. PLEASE. I am begging you. Learn about a subject before forming an opinion about it.

I actually lived it, so thanks for your understanding and consideration.

> Getting money to fund an idea is not lesser than, it is often the hardest part.

Difficulty is not value. Extremely talented people are doing arbitrary waste work!

And you’re right - promotors aren’t lesser. They are greater - more valued in academic job placement and promotion.

> There is a tremendous amount of publicly available oversight at every step,

Did you miss the prior comment? The existing oversight is ineffective. Researchers see it as a hoop to jump through.

> If you ask, scientists will leap at the chance to tell you what they did

Personal communication is not systematic public reporting.

Also professors tend to use a two job approach: stuff they like, and stuff that’s important for their career. Unless I attend a specialized conference I won’t hear about the latter, except in a form crafted for public reception. That’s the one that gets grants.

> Again. Its all public info. Its all publicly presented.

There is public info - but it’s a facade. It’s constructed with the goal of appeasing the public requirements.

> yes you are buying into (or actively promoting) anti-intellectualism.

Name calling.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-05 06:31:58+00:00
At least it Germany it's mostly down to marketplace shenanigans. Ofc you can still get your refunds but now you sometimes get wrong articles. Return frauds are normalized and the only thing they seem to check before sending it out again is weight. You can't find brand items anymore because it's flooded with Chinese throwaway brands and Amazon fulfillment is just garbage... well at least the outsourced company in our region.
by raincole | 2025-10-05 06:32:04+00:00
The unlimited pickoffs were ridiculous. It technically meant the game could simply not progress until either the pitcher or the runner made a mistake. Glad it's no longer the case.

[0]: https://www.mlb.com/news/vince-coleman-drew-most-pickoff-thr... There was an at-bat with 17 pickoff attempts. It only took 7 minutes!
by blagie | 2025-10-05 06:32:42+00:00
It's double-return-fraud.

Amazon shouldn't sell returned products as "new," but as "open box."

The other way it happens is co-mingling. Some vendor sends an "open box" product to Amazon as new, or a fake product, and Amazon ships it out when sold by Amazon since it considers goods to be fungible.

I stopped buying anything which goes in my body from eBay, Amazon, and similar after receiving a premium food product with very clearly fake packaging.
by freehorse | 2025-10-05 06:34:12+00:00
> […] that's inherent moral and ethical, even if the downstream outcome is not. That is because it is the socioeconomic system rather than the individual who is acting immorally.

Wow. This is incredibly dangerous way of thinking. Are any “downstream outcomes” justified as moral in such a case? How about outcomes involving people dying eg due to safety or quality rules broken? People may do things like that “to feed their kids” but that does not make it ethical, especially when we actually talk about preservation of certain social status rather than real survival.
by alexdbird | 2025-10-05 06:34:21+00:00
Well, I won't cover all the same things the replies do there!

I can empathise, as I always used a full size keyboard on Windows/Linux, and I chose Thinkpads and decent Dells where the extended key layout wasn't completely bastardised.

I insisted on a full size Mac keyboard for nearly a decade afterwards. Then I realised that, barring the niceness of full height cursor keys, it was a useless appendix that meant I had to move my hand ~8 inches more every single time I needed the mouse/trackpad.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-10-05 06:35:18+00:00
I don't know what you're complaining about, there's plenty of links in this short piece which ends with a link to https://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-eating/do-see... , an article that is somewhat more in-depth than the text from Harvard.

> with the supposed goal of appeasing industry donors

I've literally no clue why this strange thing fell out of the sky coming from seemingly nowhere. Are you angry Harvard doesn't comply with your imaginary goal posts? I don't get it.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-05 06:35:49+00:00
Genies are tricky to get back in the bottle - especially when you can just as easily go to a company based in the Caymen Islands or wherever and spend that way.

Phones allow you to gamble from anywhere on anything. You could ban advertising it during sports broadcasts, which would probably reduce things a fair bit, but that's likely to impact the "casual" gambler who

I don't do sports, but occasionally I'm in a pub and they are on. I've seen in the UK over the years how pervasive it is now compared to a generation ago. The advertising companies paint this picture of it not only being normal, but also being the only way to enjoy a game. I'm fairly sure that my parents and grandparents who were big into football enjoyed games quite happily in the past.

In the 90s the typical sports gambling in the UK was old men putting the price of a pint on the pools or in a fruit machine, where you guessed which team would win. The winning limit on the fruit machines was about 5 pints worth, and the pools was a confusing weekly maths challenge while listening to results such as "Forfar Four, East Fife Five"

The explosion of "fixed odds betting" machines which dispensed with the social aspect of going to a pub and spending £5 over lunch in favour of extracting £50 in 5 minutes and moving on, combined with general high street abandonment led to a terrible blight on uk town centres. Online gambling meant you no longer had to go into a seedy shop to hand in a betting slip for the 3:40 at doncaster, then wait for an hour or so in the pub next door to watch it with acquaintances, but instead you could do it all from your own home.

Gambling has become industrialised in the last generation, emphasising the cash extraction and reducing the pleasure it brought. It's no longer £3 for an hour of interest, it's become about extracting as much money as possible (and thus the adverts are all about winning big bucks because you as a sports nerd know far more about which player will score first than the betting companies do)
by jader201 | 2025-10-05 06:35:58+00:00
> That's return fraud, someone orders a new version of a product they have, put their old product in the new box and file a return immediately.

Not necessarily. What’s more likely is that people try something, change their mind, and return it now used.

Amazon actually allows this for some products, as long as it’s still within the return period.

The problem is, they shouldn’t be shipping them back out as new.
by nawelasg | 2025-10-05 06:36:41+00:00
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by ggm | 2025-10-05 06:37:05+00:00
Personally I think the primary issue is legislative. I think there are risks, of out of control drones, of spent shot falling in bad places, even of aircraft coming under fire.

There are also risks of doing nothing. It's a cost/benefit issue more than anything else, but legislative maybe has to come first: empower airport police to take action.

I think we're in an undeclared asymmetric war. Arson attacks, test runs, sovereign citizens being encouraged to take direct action against infrastructure. People are wierd, people are gullible, people are impressionable and people are angry and motivated. It's easy pickings for state actors to do arms length actions. "Here, take this smelly rag and stuff it under the nose of this person at an airport for a prank on secret camera tv" actually happened: it was a nerve agent.

Former soviet Republic nations flags being waved by .. pacific Island noumean independence rebels. Iranian agents paying Australian crime gangs to commit arson attacks against synagogues. This is not normal.
by nine_k | 2025-10-05 06:37:07+00:00
If you want, you can translate to Latin and call it "faecefaction".

The key difference is that degradation can be a natural process, or a result of neglect, while faecefaction is a deliberate act of turning a product into crap, while knowing that the customer will continue buying for some time, due to inertia and / or lack of alternatives.
by mjg59 | 2025-10-05 06:39:13+00:00
As is made clear from the fact that those issues all link to the mailing list, these are not novel issues. They were raised during discussion, taken into account, and the draft authors concluded they were answered adequately. Complaining about them at this point is fundamentally a complaint that the process failed to take these issues into account appropriately, and the issues should be revisited. Given that this was raised to the IESG, who are not the point of contact for engineering issues, the response is focused on that. There's a mechanism Dan can use to push for engineering decisions to be reviewed - he didn't do that.
by zeroq | 2025-10-05 06:39:15+00:00
side note:

Amazon is a marketplace, and more and more different vendors came to that place selling cheaper, shady things. They seems to have an open door policy. It's somewhat understandable.

But that same strategy got adopted in many different places.

Decathlon on their website offer products from other vendors. It's really shady as they advertise hassle free returns everywhere but that only applies to products sold by them specifically, not to majority of products available in their shop.

Kaufland (if you're in US think Germany's Walmart) has the same thing going on.