MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonsarris | 2025-10-03 14:14:11+00:00
Regarding the "why" of Russian drone/air shenanigans: I don't think Russia wants to get their expensive assets shot down or provoke a NATO-wide war. Many people seem to believe this but it presumes far too much. They don't gain from more fronts. They cannot realistically march into the west, they can't even march into west Ukraine.

Realistically, Russia is doing these antics to force as many European countries as possible to feel that they need their air defense inventory (eg MIM-104 Patriot interceptor stock) for themselves, rather than giving or selling that inventory to Ukraine. That has immediate material benefit for the current Russian war effort with almost zero cost (assuming EU countries don't shoot down anything important).
by rtp4me | 2025-10-03 14:14:13+00:00
In my naïve of opinion, AI is not necessarily about coding or making things better, it's more about creating a system to control the message to the masses. Just like Facebook controlled the message during the Clinton/Trump campaigns, AI is going to control the message for the vast majority of easily swayed people. Especially now since it is very hard to detect between real and AI generated persons/data (see Tilly Norwood).

This relates directly from your post about nation states. Those who control the message control the people.
by garbawarb | 2025-10-03 14:14:16+00:00
The music is an essential dimension of the text. To remove it and only leave the words is like deciding whether a movie is great based on its screenplay, or taking all the words of a poem and writing it out as prose. The piece that as created to be heard, and of course it won't be good if you remove a whole dimension of it.

The author's argument seems to be "literature equals words," which I, and evidently the Nobel committee, think is a naive way of viewing literature. Music has always been tied to poetry, and the advent of recorded audio made sound people's primary way of experiencing poetry again, as it was before mass literacy. In my opinion, Dylan brought music back to poetry, not poetry to music (which is how many like to characterize his work).
by codyb | 2025-10-03 14:14:35+00:00
I've started buying refurb, and will be heavily considering my upcoming electronics purchases. I encourage others to reduce consumption from companies which kowtow to this dangerous administration's demands and rhetoric.

I've been boycotting Amazon as best I can for nearly a decade though since they had ambulances outside their warehouses and delivery workers pissing in gatorade bottles but reducing consumption of toxic brands can be done and is effective at sending messages when done en masse.

I also boycott all the social media companies, Disney, Google as much as possible.

Sadly, there's not a ton of options in this space (computer electronics).

I've also e-mailed tim.cook@apple.com and expressed my opinions in a polite manner. Maybe someone read it. Who knows.

Stand up, fight back!
by nis0s | 2025-10-03 14:14:43+00:00
You would think that since DUI operators present a greater social problem, both in numbers and potential to cause harm, there would be all sorts of active campaigns against such an issue. But the present reality is that some issues have great political forces behind them, and the media takes care to paint such issues as “crises”. Maybe it is a crisis, for a certain locality, and that reflects on the governance of that place. But I don’t think it’s fair or accurate to say your local problem is a problem at large, even if that means you get less federal monies to deal with it. Maybe what that means is that people need to reflect on how their localities are spending their budget, or sorting their priorities.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-03 14:14:45+00:00
> Israel wasn't paying Hamas so they'd launch October 7th

Agreed. But as a close friend -- who spent years living and working in the Middle East, including Gaza, and very well connected there -- pointed out to me, it's very hard to believe that Israel, with one of the most, if not the most, heavily guarded borders in the world, with arguably the best intelligence force in the world that is very embedded in the Palestinian Territories, did not know of the attack in advance, if not the details. Think about how much Israel had to gain from letting it happen and it becomes an easy decision.
by Daub | 2025-10-03 14:15:14+00:00
It depends on what your best hopes for yourself are.

You don’t need a lot of creative skill to model something geometric such as furniture or mechanisms. Having modeled it you would need to texture, light and render it. That can required good visual judgement, but god knows there are lots of examples to learn from.

Making organic forms is another matter and would require some sculpting skills, which are not easy to acquire.

Finally, there is the procedural environment of geometry nodes. With a good mind for maths, you could make some super cool abstract animations.
by rtkwe | 2025-10-03 14:15:23+00:00
Zoning code != building codes. Zoning deals with the types of buildings/uses that can be built in an area not the requirements for safety like electrical or structural building codes.

It's definitely a mixed bag though, zoning keeps industrial uses away from residential which is good for pollution and noise reasons but it also restricts building dense housing in areas zoned single family.

I'm always dubious about explanations that don't account for the fact that the weather in many California towns are more pleasant and survivable year round compared to Texas. Or that locations like SF are quite space constrained when it comes to new housing so new projects generally have to displace some current use making the process harder.
by dheera | 2025-10-03 14:15:33+00:00
Just switch to Linux ... In Gnome just hit Windows+Right or Windows+Left it does exactly what you want. Install some Gnome plugins if you want 2x2 or 3x2 or other custom tiling.

I genuinely don't get why so many devs use MacOS when Linux is already set up for devs, and the stuff you run in the cloud will also run locally with 1/100 the SSH keyboard latency.
by Gilthoniel | 2025-10-03 14:15:57+00:00
It made way more sense when it was introduced with the iPhone 6 Plus because there was still a home button. Much less likely to accidentally trigger it with that compared to the full screens we have now. It’s triggered by swiping down on the bottom of the screen, nowadays essentially the opposite motion of how you’d exit an app. Anyway, you can disable it in Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Reachability.
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-10-03 14:16:34+00:00
Even if you end homelessness, you'll still be walking past people in all different states of desperation multiple times everywhere you go.

People looking like they have homes or acting like it won't stop this. It doesn't make people inherently dangerous.

Don't get me wrong, I think any percent of the population being homeless because of lack of options is a tragedy. (I don't really care if someone wishes to be so, and I think we should have appropriate living options for this). I understand that you can't really stop temporary homelessness - fires and urgent things happen - but that's something we can deal with as needed.
by commandar | 2025-10-03 14:16:43+00:00
>Changing dimensions or previous sketches is usually fine, but anything more complicated often results in everything in your stack breaking with strange errors, leading it to just be easier to re-create the model.

This is usually the result of design workflows and how you avoid it is going to vary based on the CAD package. It definitely requires being pretty deliberate in design, which can make it harder to draft out an initial design. And the path of least resistance is often one that's more likely to break.

One example would be in Fusion, using projected faces in sketches is far more fragile than projecting a body -- but Fusion will happily project faces by default.

Which constraint types you use where are another common cause of breakage.

The thing that makes it frustrating is that none of this is really well documented anywhere and largely ends up being best practice wisdom passed from one person to another, since a lot of this stuff is really non-obvious. And it's confounded yet again by people cargo culting best practices from one CAD package to another that then gets repeated third and fourth hand.

All that said, as you work with it more and delve into more complex designs, you'll end up settling into workflows that result in more resilient models if you're deliberate about it. The "scrap it and start over" cycle is part of the learning experience, IME, as frustrating as it is at the time.
by js8 | 2025-10-03 14:16:47+00:00
Yes, there is popular support, but the consequences have been barely discussed. We don't openly admit, that by supplying Ukraine, we are entering a war with Russia, based on our own decision (not as a defensive measure). This vigilantism (even if it can be argued is employed to protect international law) goes against the idea that we're a peaceful country.

There is no consensus about Russia attacking Czechia (or any EU country) next. In fact many military experts agree that Russia doesn't even have military personel to occupy whole Ukraine.

It's also unclear why, if Putin's ambition is some kind of Hitlerian/Napoleonic expansion to Europe, he would wait 25 years (into his 70s) to do it. And to the extent he has reasonable goals, we can put something tangible on the negotiation table to see what he really wants, instead of guessing. We (I mean NATO) didn't - this indicates it's us who doesn't want to negotiate; because we don't want to reveal our colonial preference (Ukraine is already being described as a great next investment).
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-03 14:17:16+00:00
I grew up in this era, owned a VIC-20, and it's simply not true that many people were doing anything useful with the rather awful BASIC dialects that shipped in microcomputers. They were just a pain to work with -- no real editor, etc and often missing the ability to even use the graphics etc functions of the computer they shipped on (esp on Commodore devices). Professional developers mostly wrote to assembly.

We did BASIC (& Logo) programming in my elementary school, on Apple IIs. It's rare anybody got past basic "hunt the wumpus" programs.

There were program listings for simple games in the back of computer magazines of the era. Invariably the better ones were full of DATA statements at the end that were bits of 6502 or Z80 machine code to do the "real" work. Woe befell you if you typed them in slightly wrong.

Later, mostly in the "16-bit" era, we got structured BASIC varieties with better/real editors, and that definitely changed things. I got a lot done in GFA Basic on my Atari ST. But it's debatable if GW-BASIC, GFA Basic, (and later Visual Basic) etc were "really" BASICs... they were more like ... permissive and weird Pascal.
by Spivak | 2025-10-03 14:17:19+00:00
I'm fully in the camp of just give people dollars and let them decide how to spend it rather than navigate a bureaucratic nanny state system like SNAP. But if you're only doing that well no shit it doesn't help. You have to actually put them in a stable house/apartment and get them set up with work. Or if they're homeless due to mental illness get them admitted.
by dismalaf | 2025-10-03 14:17:19+00:00
I'm also on Omarchy. I use it somewhat like a scrollable compositor, in that I open a max of 2 windows, then move on to the next desktop, then just scroll through them all. But have the option for floating windows or a vertical split when needed (to run a command or something). Plus Hyprland is becoming more cohesive by the day.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-03 14:17:39+00:00
If I'm reading this correctly, this person had an LLM make up a bunch of code, then had another LLM make up some text purporting to analyze the code. The post doesn't mention actually running any of the code to see if it functions, nor even reading it, much less actually analyzing it. Somehow, this recursive LLM-ness is supposed to tell us something interesting about architectural style?

I am sure you can persuade an LLM to tell you anything you like about a piece of code, especially if it's not even real code, just something made up by a previous LLM.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-10-03 14:17:47+00:00
for as long as the left has not been about the working class and been about university educated white collar government workers this has been true though. It may have been true prior to that too i just dont have living memory to back it up. There is something about being removed from the reality of how the metaphorical sausage is made that turns the left from having some valid concerns but usually wrong ideas on how to address them into actively incomptent civilization destroyers. I would love to know why.
by cess11 | 2025-10-03 14:17:47+00:00
The Terminus DB folks have been doing projects with LLM:s for some years by now, I'd assume they've had some success.

Don't remember if their licensing is annoying, but it was rather neat as a graph storage when I tried it out last christmas or thereabouts. If you actually have a fitting need it's probably a decent option, there are some graphical interfaces and so on that people who aren't technical specialists can use.

https://terminusdb.org/
by ajross | 2025-10-03 14:17:59+00:00
There have been literally (not figuratively literally, literally literally) zero diplomatic resolutions of military conflicts or tensions with Russia during the Putin era. None. The closest one you can see, if you squint extremely hard, is the detente of 8 years that that followed the invasion of Crimea. And then we know what happened.

Conflicts in Putin's Russia end militarily, always (usually in victory or stalemate, though he for sure "lost" in Syria), or at best a lie in preparation for the next war. Negotiated peace is not a thing.
by adi4213 | 2025-10-03 14:19:00+00:00
This is very much part of the motivation behind BetterBrain, the wait for an in-network neurologist is often 6+ months, but the wait for one of the few in-person dementia prevention clinics can be years (and cost thousands out of pocket). If your insurance plan covers BetterBrain, definitely recommend giving our insurance covered option a try to meet with a clinician as soon as next week. We do have a free option, with the ability to purchase bloodwork and additional testing.
by hmaxdml | 2025-10-03 14:19:00+00:00
DBOS stores all the workflow metadata in postgres, which is readily queryable for observability. We've recently seen a user setup an entire Grafana dashboard to observe their numerous workflows.

A postgres server can host many databases, and multiple applications can use the same server. The same dashboard can be used to monitor them all.

With respect to recovery: A new Transact process will run a round of recovery at startup. Transact also exposes an admin server with a recovery endpoint.

For more elaborate scenarios, we have control plane options commercially available.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-03 14:20:09+00:00
Israel is where we in the west get shown a mirror in front of our faces. A country led by religious fanatics, who don't respect other religions and for the most part feel no remorse when people of other faith suffer due to their actions or inaction. A genocidal military, that continues its deeds, seemingly aiming to reach ISIS level of despicability. But we have tons of people here, who don't want to see anything wrong with Israel and how it acts. That really shows us our double standards. Religious fanatics are OK for us, as long as they are not against us. Crimes against humanity are OK, as long as they are inflicted upon a group, that is not seen by the mainstream as "us".

We have really lost the plot when it comes to ethics. Not all of us, but many, and especially in our leaderships and governments.
by vidarh | 2025-10-03 14:20:10+00:00
To the prefix, it survives widely in Germanic languages to this day in newer forms.

In Norwegian for example, "edel" and "adel" means noble - the former used for objects (a gemstone is an "edelstein" - noble stone; a noble gas is an "edelgass") while the latter refers to the nobility. You'll find one or both or variations in every (I think; certainly most) Germanic language.

We still have names derived from Æthel as well, e.g Ethel, Albert, Adele, Adolf, and others.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-10-03 14:20:13+00:00
Strava is a social network, and its user base is its added value.

If I want training data, I'd be better off with TrainingPeak or Intervals.icu.

Strava has been stagnating in terms of features for athletes for years. They are just starting to roll out a report on hours spent per week in different power or heart rate zones, for example.

The latest features are either designed for posting stories on Instagram or are gimmicks like AI that interprets the results of a workout in natural language and gets it wrong half the time without ever saying anything interesting.

Strava's second function is to serve as a data hub when using multiple devices from different brands.This point is also relatively overlooked, and duplicate synchronisations and incorrect reports are quite common.

Meanwhile, Strava focuses solely on segments and rankings. They are extremely aggressive with anything that could resemble a ranking or one of their paid features. Even when it's a small personal project that doesn't generate a penny.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-10-03 14:20:27+00:00
>The truth that people here don't like is that the Couch/Mongo style document DB is far more compelling as a intermediate point of structured/unstructured.

in my opinion Graph DBs should only be used for highly structured data, which after all is what a graph is. Generally anything you would represent in SQL with too many joins to do queries you commonly have to do.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-03 14:20:41+00:00
"Provide more assistance"

My point is that I'm not sure we need more assistance. TBH we need better, more efficient assistance. We spend a lot on deliberation, not enough on delivery.

A lot of this is due to leadership gaps IMO. Center-left leaders (ie Schumer) look weak because they excessively triangulate every stakeholder. Instead leaders need to act as true leaders, which means being a touch less collaborative / trying to triangulate. And more focused on some top-down, cut through red-tape, have a vision, persuade people etc.

(Then, arguably if people saw the system working well, they might want to award it with more money.)
by noisy_boy | 2025-10-03 14:22:03+00:00
I don't use niri but I worked around this problem (feature?) by creating a bash script that by default checks if a terminal is already open and if so, brings it into focus. Then I attach it to my default shortcut to open terminal and then create one more shortcut that opens a new terminal every time. So now, depending on which shortcut is pressed, I can either keep reusing the existing terminal or open a new one. I'm sure we can have a script that can do more fancy logic like allowing new terminals upto a given number and after that just bring the latest one into focus. Plenty of possibilities.
by codyb | 2025-10-03 14:22:20+00:00
I think the better question is general walkability.

The extremes is a pretty weird trip to do comparisons of since most people go from the outskirts into the centers to work and play and then go back to the outskirts.

The question becomes... once you get to your destination, can you get anywhere else without having to hop back into the car?

In cities like NY or Boston you can ride into town, hit a restaurant, go to the show, grab a few drinks then hit the clubs all without getting back into your car or just by taking short stints on readily available public transportation or taxis.

Can you have that same experience in Houston? I don't really know. Maybe. Where I'm from it's not concentrated like that so you go to your friends house... then you get in a car and go down to the bars... then you get in the car again to go to the arena for the show.

Everything's very dispersed. I personally like that much less.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-03 14:22:52+00:00
Exactly. The opportunity set isnt large.

The best play for all portfolio managers is to froth up the stock price and take their returns later.

Everyone knows this a bubble but the returns at the end of this of those who time it are juicy - portfolio managers have no choice to be in this game because those who supply the money they invest on their behalf, demand it.

Its that simple.
by dinkleberg | 2025-10-03 14:22:54+00:00
I was daily driving Niri for a few months a while back and it was the first WM that worked nicely OOTB on a big ass ultrawide monitor. There is a nice hotkey to center your active window. I've found it was quite the hassle on other WMs to work nicely on a wide monitor. The traditional split view means nothing is directly in front so you're always turning. Or you have to spend a bunch of time customizing it to suit the monitor. Niri is the way to go in these cases IMO.

That being said, these days I prefer floating windows so I just use GNOME.
by patcon | 2025-10-03 14:23:11+00:00
This creeping authoritarianism is why Google's play to force developer registration (before allowing a developers apps to be installed on android) is so irresponsible of Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

It's like they don't understand what's possible to be coerced into from there. They cite "danger to users" as the rationale, but their imagination of danger is so damn limited
by kasperset | 2025-10-03 14:23:37+00:00
Smartphones feel like a saturated devices in terms of functionality. Way too many things depend on it and interface is riddled with so many functions. I miss the very first iPhone. Perhaps it was the novelty at that time. It was slower and had way less functionality but easy to use. I guess it is hard to balance functionality and ease of use. It is becoming a hodgepodge of apps/things. Sorry to echo the sentiments expressed here.
by devmor | 2025-10-03 14:24:29+00:00
I don’t really think this holds the point you think it does.

While property crime is more likely to be committed by people the lower their income level is, the majority of all violent crime is committed by people who have homes.

In fact, the homeless are far more likely to be the victims of a violent crime than any other income demographic.

Furthermore, the unstable and dangerous people you see behaving erratically on the street are not necessarily sleeping there - and the homeless in the area probably feel much more unsafe about their presence than you do.
by ajross | 2025-10-03 14:24:33+00:00
> Russia is the stronger party in that conflict

In some sense that remains true, but the war remains a stalemate after three years nonetheless. It's become clear that Russia's per-capita war fighting ability is basically garbage. They aren't a superpower, they're something more like Iran, a regional power that is big enough to be expensive to mess with but not a feasible threat to anyone but weaker neighbors.

Ukraine's infrastructure damage can be backstopped by robust trade with wealthy partners and supporters, while Russia is losing refining capacity and running out of gas. To the extent that the war represents an existential threat to either side, it's Putin that has to be more worried. Ukraine can keep this going for a decade or more, it seems like.
by ge96 | 2025-10-03 14:25:15+00:00
man... things like this is why I was seeking another mobile OS at one point eg. wanting Pine64 to take off but alas... it needs more money

to clarify I get it's Mobian or Postmarket etc... which you could put on an Android phone but yeah

edit: the other thing was built in ads especially on cheaper phones like what you'd get at say Boost Mobile which I imagine is one of those subsidized costs thing phone is cheap because it's riddled with ads.