MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacobolus | 2025-10-22 15:18:00+00:00
A further problem is that Wikipedia is chock full of nonsense, with a large proportion of articles that were never fact checked by an expert, and many that were written to promote various biased points of view, inadvertently uncritically repeat claims from slanted sources, or mischaracterize claims made in good sources. Many if not most articles have poor choice of emphasis of subtopics, omit important basic topics, and make routine factual errors. (This problem is not unique to Wikipedia by any means, and despite its flaws Wikipedia is an amazing achievement.)

A critical human reader can go as deep as they like in examining claims there: can look at the source listed for a claim, can often click through to read the claim in the source, can examine the talk page and article history, can search through the research literature trying to figure out where the claim came from or how it mutated in passing from source to source, etc. But an AI "reader" is a predictive statistical model, not a critical consumer of information.
by returningfory2 | 2025-10-22 15:18:00+00:00
Thank you so much for this comment - you've put a name ("contrarian and counter-cyclical reporting") on a phenomenon that I've observed a lot and is one of the main reasons I don't consume the media anymore.

The craziest example for me was NYC congestion pricing. When it was about to happen, all the reporting was about all of the downsides of the tolls starting. A week after the New York Governor "indefinitely paused" congestion pricing, the reporting was all about the downsides of the tolls not starting.
by mikece | 2025-10-22 15:18:00+00:00
Another consideration: some apps are locked to the particular device using secure enclave chip so even if you had a full backup of the phone, data, and apps it's possible some apps won't even work on a new phone. You would need to have a second active handset (perhaps the one you retired because the battery was dying?) with some of your apps so a replacement handset for the stolen device can have the ultra-secure app authorized onto the new handset. Right now only one of my apps is this secure but I don't understand why more apps aren't this secure.
by gradientsrneat | 2025-10-22 15:18:32+00:00
> everyone expects everything to be spelled out for them

Strictly speaking, that's how civil law works, spelling out explicitly the statutes.

By contrast, common law statutes can be (but are not always), more concise but more vague, putting greater emphasis on the courts to interpret them.

That is one reason USA is more litigious, but it probably isn't the only reason. After all, Germany has the infamous legal bounty hunters (one of the words may be "Abmahnanwälte" but I think there's a different one), and Germany is a civil law country, so USA being common law can't fully explain it.
by mortenjorck | 2025-10-22 15:18:56+00:00
This is pretty clearly an LLM-written sentence, but the list structure and even the em dashes are red herrings.

What qualifies this as an LLM sentence is that it makes a mildly insightful observation, indeed an inference, a sort of first-year-student level of analysis that puts a nice bow on the train of thought yet doesn't really offer anything novel. It doesn't add anything; it's just semantic boilerplate that also happens to follow a predictable style.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-22 15:18:58+00:00
I balked a little when the article refers to format strings as "string interpolation" but there's multiple comments here running with it. Am I out of date and we just call that string interpolation these days?

I also found this very confusing:

> When updating a map inside of a loop there’s no guarantee that the update will be made during that iteration. The only guarantee is that by the time the loop finishes, the map contains your updates.

That's totally wrong, right? It makes it sound magical. There's a light explainer but I think it would be a lot more clear to say that of course the update is made immediately, but the "range" iterator may not see it.
by oofbey | 2025-10-22 15:19:06+00:00
It’s a clear signal the paper is gonna be hard to read. It takes a ton of work to compress complex ideas down to 8 pages for a conference paper. But that work makes it easier to understand. This paper did not do that work. In fact it seems they did the opposite: try to write a LONG paper as if that shows how much originality they have.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-22 15:19:31+00:00
It doesn't sound like it's for me. For me, the nostalgia itch is scratched by actually playing the games in their original form. If they are enhanced or modernized, that pretty much kills it for me.

That's also why the majority of these new implementations of old consoles aren't very interesting to me. My nostalgia itch is scratched by playing on the original machines, or modern machines that are extremely faithful to the look and feel of the originals.
by taylodl | 2025-10-22 15:19:31+00:00
This thought came to mind while reading this and was a lesson I had learned sometime earlier in my career: your customer (both internal and external) doesn't care about the tools you used to create their product or service. Just like you don't care what tools were used to create your dining room table.

Why then does it matter to us? These are the usual suspects:

1. Availability of labor. That also affects cost of labor. The more esoteric your technology stack then the harder it's going to be to find labor and the more expensive it's going to be to get it.

2. Implementation efficiency. You may not care about (1) if your technology stack allows the person to do the work of 10 using a mainstream technology stack.

3. Flexibility. Change is inevitable and continual. Some technology stacks are more flexible than others and allow you to rapidly respond to change. This is often coupled with (2).

4. Longevity. You should plan for your product/service to be in place for 10 years before a major overhaul may make sense. This could be as high as 15 to 20 years in some corporate environments. Not only do you need the support, but you need to make sure (1) is still true throughout the product lifetime.

Notice what I didn't mention: how "cool" the language or its technology stack is, or is the language object-oriented, functional, or whatever. None of that matters, unless (1)-(4) have led you to a couple of different options then you could use that to differentiate those options. But you have to make sure you have (1)-(4) covered first.

But at the end of the day, only you care about the code.
by Klemoniono | 2025-10-22 15:19:45+00:00
So just to be clear, they publish the docker image, they have an Github action which is basically free for them to build and release it into a free registry but they don't do it.

So i setup everything to do this on my github with their code and publish it on my package.

And you don't think this is stupid?

The problem is the critisim how they act and even if they release everything and its just building the image, you can't trust another source to upload the image someone else has build with this file. So now everyone has to build the same image.
by dawitworku | 2025-10-22 15:19:47+00:00
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by dpc_01234 | 2025-10-22 15:20:32+00:00
It has nothing to do with science really. I don't think "pro-raw-milk people" question safety benefits of pasteurization or doubt germ theory. It's only about people's lack of nuance, totalitarian ambitions and safetism. Some people just can't help but make decisions for other people because they think they are smarter and know better. Ban, ban, unsafe, ban, I know better. The idea that consuming raw milk is somehow "unscientific" is plain stupid and/or propaganda. All I want is to enjoy the taste of raw milk from time to time, I know how germs work, I'm not forcing anyone to drink it, but I'll be fine, please worry about yourself.

I would even appreciate government making sure that companies selling raw milk to me are taking additional (but reasonable) precautions. But anyone just trying to ban raw milk for being unsafe and "unscientific" is just stupid.
by palmotea | 2025-10-22 15:20:47+00:00
> If you were given the ratchet and then someone wanted to charge you every time you use it you would also be pissed.

People gotta eat. If someone's making valuable tools and giving them away, they still need to get paid somehow. If people aren't voluntarily tipping them enough, then something's gotta give.

There have been too many stories of open source developers basically burning themselves out for years, then it comes out that they're barely scraping by and can't take it anymore.
by underlipton | 2025-10-22 15:20:50+00:00
I appreciate that you've been willing to do the work in this regard. A major part of the issue is people (lead, in part, by establishment Democrats) absolutely desperate to avoid rocking the boat - really a euphemism for "kicking the can on the social dislocation that's inevitably coming, and all the harder for it".

It's similar to the people who push against unionization for fear of being retaliated against, only to get capriciously laid off during the next cyclical downturn. Seek your justice now, as delay is a form of denial.
by evanelias | 2025-10-22 15:21:07+00:00
> If you think otherwise then you should make your terms of service explicit

FOSS licenses already do that: they shout at you in all-caps that the authors PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.

Meanwhile the licenses don't say anything about communities.

For better or worse, OSI convinced everyone that "open source" is synonymous with using specific licenses that meet their definition. If that's the case, then how can it be a "fundamental misunderstanding of OSS" to strictly interpret OSS by the terms of the licenses, which don't mention any sort of "social contract", while they do include language explicitly contrary to such expectations of users?
by gxonatano | 2025-10-22 15:21:18+00:00
> ... many current and former professional educators have taken it upon themselves to do their own research. Some then wrote books collecting their findings. These books tend to be insta-dismissed as the ravings of crackpot loonies given their alarmist titles and appearances. But they are typically very well written, well researched, and full of primary sources for their claims. So many sources, in fact, that they make for good jumping-off points for more in-depth research.

This sounds like the frustrated research log of someone lacking research skills. An undergrad-level annotated bibliography from someone interested enough to gather sources, but undiscerning enough to tell the good ones from the bad.
by sjxjxbx | 2025-10-22 15:22:04+00:00
True, but they also have a combined interest in growing their wealth that comes at the cost of leaving less pie for the rest of us.

I can’t think of many (Massie maybe?) rich (no black and white definition) that are using their wealth to better their fellow citizens to their own detriment. Most of them see it as another tax to prevent keep their heads attached.
by mikece | 2025-10-22 15:22:14+00:00
Good: the Gripen is a fantastic plane and I'm happy that Saab is making sales of this platform. If it were not for the economic terrorism/influence of the US then Saab would be selling a lot more of these planes to countries who are currently being forced into buying the F-35.

Bad: this is likely to cause an escalation in tensions in the Ukraine-Russia situation.
by apparent | 2025-10-22 15:22:19+00:00
I could see how it might be helpful when people compare meals. For example, maybe a hamburger doesn't have added sugars, but a salad does (because the dressing is so sweet). A customer might order the burger instead, or order the salad but swap to a different dressing.

There have been some restaurant foods that I knew weren't healthy but didn't realize how unhealthy they were until I looked at recipes for how to make them myself.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-10-22 15:22:35+00:00
They were talking about using things like Supabase, not just RDS.

Also, "small scale" means different things to different people. Given the full topic at hand, I would call it "nano scale". Depending upon your specific schema, you can serve tens of thousands of queries per second with a single server on modern hardware, which is way more than enough for the vast majority of workloads.
by vel0city | 2025-10-22 15:22:42+00:00
I grew up in South Houston. I knew lots of families affected by workplace injuries at chemical plants and refineries growing up (for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_refinery_explosion ). I grew up going to Challenger Seven Memorial Park all the time. I had met a few of the people on the Columbia. Many of my friends had their parents go up in the shuttle afterwards, very clued into the risks involved. The idea of risking your life on a job is not shocking to me, it surrounded me from a young age.

I'm just pointing out the risk of failure and its impacts on the overall program is much higher when we're talking about humans experiencing a massive sudden depressurization event compared to a foil sheet failing to unfurl. If you think its expensive trying to get a foil sheet to reliably unfold once, imagine how expensive it'll be to design a door to properly seal and unseal hundreds of times with sharp, hard, and fine regolith constantly working its way into the seams and hinges and seals. If you think it'll be difficult getting public support after your telescope isn't perfectly functional, imagine the reluctance of funding you'll get when you accidentally kill seven people in a horrific way.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-22 15:23:01+00:00
Literally constantly? It takes both careful prompting and throughout double-checking to really notice however. Because often the links also exist, just don't represent what the LLM made it sound like.

And the worst part about the people unironically thinking they can use it for "research" is, that it essentially supercharges confirmation bias.

The inefficient sidequests you do while researching is generally what actually gives you the ability to really reason about a topic.

If you instead just laser focus on the tidbits you prompted with... Well, your opinion is a lot less grounded.
by mandeepj | 2025-10-22 15:23:05+00:00
> Donald Trump regularly accepts bribes

Of course, he does! That’s why in the first place he ran for the office! He’s the most corrupt MF in the history of our planet. But, here’s your confusion - did he ever say he accepts or asks for bribes? No!! He wraps it all up in patriotism and his stupid followers suck it all up.
by Kbelicius | 2025-10-22 15:23:21+00:00
> If that was the case, then why does the site from the EU first off track

If you are asking why there isn't a "reject all" button on their webpage then the answer is simple. There is one. The "Accept only essential cookies".

> and secondly why does it use a cookie banner rather than some other solution that would not be malicious compliance with the law?

GDPR (general data protection regulation) is about general data protection, not about technology. It applies the same no matter if you are using cookies or something else.

> Can a company go wrong implementing the same approach as https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en uses? Why is that considered malicious compliance with the law?

The example you've given is an example of compliance since there is a button to reject all tracking cookies. Whenever you read the words malicious compliance within the context of this discussion you can just swap it with the word illegal which is the correct word for the behavior that is being bemoaned here.
by pxc | 2025-10-22 15:23:30+00:00
If everyone else genuinely loved Teams, I could stomach using it even though I hate it. But regardless of what anyone says about it, it seems the rest of the company also hates it— it's a ghost town. There's no sense of community whatsoever.

My personal "sample size" is too small to be sure, but I worry that Teams usage is poisonous to collaboration and engineering culture.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-10-22 15:23:41+00:00
agreed on Kagi News, and Particle News has been good, but they accepted funding from The Atlantic which evidently earns "Featured Article" positioning to articles from funding sources, muddying the clarity of biases, which Particle News has a nice graphic indicator for, though i've not seen it under promoted Feature Articles. Surely applies to other funding sources, but The Atlantic one was pretty recent.
by bluGill | 2025-10-22 15:23:58+00:00
That isn't enough information to learn anything.

Activity level matters a lot. Genetics matter a lot. There are a lot of late teen boys (teen boys are likely in sports at school, and hormones means they will use a lot of energy anyway) who need 6000 calories per day. There are a lot of adults only only need 1700 per day (they really should exercise more!). We can talk about the 2000 calories daily requirement, but that is a round number that is close enough for discussion but not really relevant to any individual.

What you grew up with matters - if your body is always low on calories it will compensate by growing less, so if you someone young gets calories they will tend to be larger (there is a lot of genetic variation between humans that makes hard to measure at levels smaller than national population over decades), in various ways and need more calories to maintain the same weight. It isn't clear if this shows up in anything other than body size though some suspect it does.

There is also the question about what people eat between meals. Some people eat big meals but never snack between meals. Some people don't eat much at a meal - but they always have snacks in between. There is a lot of variation. I know some people who get half their calories from soda (beer is another large source of calories for some people, but that starts to get into alcoholism).

There is probably more that you don't know about others and so be careful about drawing any conclusions.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-22 15:24:31+00:00
At this scale? No, no they do not. Even if you know my password is a single dictionary word in lower case, the odds of you guessing it in 3 vs 10 guesses is negligible.

In fact, let's do this right now: I've just thought of a random english word and written it down. I'll give you 20 guesses. Guess it right and I'll agree with you.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 15:24:38+00:00
Back in the 1980s you had TUI applications for DOS that wrote characters directly to the screen buffer and were 100% reliable at putting characters in the right location with the right attributes. Over serial lines terminals like the VT-100 were pretty good except for occasional line noise.

It's never been the same since we started using graphical terminals like xterm and Windows CMD.EXE, I don't expect any of them to work 100% whether it is outright bugs in the implementation, some weirdness in how I/O works, applications not really being coded right for variant screen sizes, etc. If I could at all avoid it I would not run vim and especially emacs over a graphical terminal and instead I'd use the GUI mode of gvim or xemacs because at least these draw properly.

I don't have a GUI terminal which I really believe in, I just have GUI terminals where the applications I use work 98% right and I can live with the faults. My assumption is that another GUI terminal at best works 98% right but the 2% wrong is different (prove me wrong!) but that some random GUI terminal might be completely broken. If it is joined at the hip to some other complex software the odds of it being SNAFU or FUBAR increase, for instance the terminal emulator for Jetbrains IDEs almost works but it is a lot worse than CMD.EXE. My expectation would be the terminal baked into VS Code is crap too.
by dpc_01234 | 2025-10-22 15:24:46+00:00
> Your data point is what they call “anecdotal”.

Oh, whole nations and hundreds of years are now "an anecdote".

> How does your underdeveloped country compare to developed countries in a bunch of health related indicators?

Comparable, probably soon to overtake all US stats given how much of a shitshow the healthcare here is.
by CiPHPerCoder | 2025-10-22 15:24:46+00:00
Most people don't make their spam public, but I did when I ran this bounty program:

https://hackerone.com/paragonie/hacktivity?type=team

The policy was immediate full disclosure, until people decided to flood us with racist memes. Those didn't get published.

Some notable stinkers:

https://hackerone.com/reports/149369

https://hackerone.com/reports/244836

https://hackerone.com/reports/115271

https://hackerone.com/reports/180074
by foxyv | 2025-10-22 15:24:50+00:00
I agree, they are doing a great job with Starship so far. I think they were overly optimistic at first (Typical Engineering Management Thing), but their Raptor engines alone are a huge advancement. The rest of Starship is coming together great.

They have set a hard goal, but they definitely have the expertise to make it work. I look forward to seeing the first orbital re-fueling.
by walkabout | 2025-10-22 15:25:24+00:00
I’m pretty sure the loyalty-card thing has become so big because they’re selling the data.

So many things are like that now. Like Roku sticks and TVs are subsidized by selling user data. You want to make a Roku competitor that doesn’t spy? Your product will struggle to get on shelves and to stay there, in part because the price for your product will be higher even if you get just as good a price on your components as they do, because you’d have to price them at-cost to match Roku’s pricing. Meanwhile 99% of people looking at the products don’t realize that one’s cheaper than the other because it’s going to spy on them and sell the data.
by john_mose | 2025-10-22 15:25:47+00:00
Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting with running AI models locally and noticed how scattered all the good projects are across GitHub, Reddit, and random forums. To make things easier to track, I built a simple website that lists and categorizes tools you can run locally, from model runtimes to developer tools and agent frameworks.

Right now, it’s just a searchable directory, but I’m planning to add features like:

User likes and popularity rankings

Community submissions

More detailed filtering by category and purpose

The idea is to make it easier to discover and compare local-first AI software in one place. It’s still early, but I’d love any feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement.

https://thelocalaidirectory.com
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-22 15:25:50+00:00
The EU has nutri-score which looks like this, but less information.

I quickly skimmed to the article you linked. I couldn't find anything as to whether it pertains to cooked or uncooked food?

For example, in the EU frozen pre-fried French fries have an A score (best), but that isn't correct, as no-one eats them like this. You fry them again in your home fryer.

Whereas smoked salmon is D or E because of the higher fat content, and the salt used for drying.