MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2025-10-17 00:48:05+00:00
Whenever one of those rare topics comes up where I consider myself a subject matter expert (or where I have non-public knowledge), very often the top comments and the threads getting the most "action" sound HN-smart, but are totally factually wrong. Extrapolating this, I can only assume that the top comments on other topics are also usually wrong and/or contradict actual experts.
by kazinator | 2025-10-17 00:48:32+00:00
Highlighting different levels of nesting is mainly useful in situations in which nestings are processed in different contexts, and are similar to each other. For instance, nested backquotes in Lisp.

Color could tell you whether your

,',',var

has the right number of quotes and unquotes to refer to the correct evaluation level/context where var exists.

In run of the mill blub code not doing any metaprogramming, indentation is more than visible enough for indicating levels of nesting.
by 14 | 2025-10-17 00:50:58+00:00
Have you watched the series The Silo? It is on Apple TV. I love the show. Based on a serious of books. Season 3 should be coming out some time next year so a good time to watch the first 2 seasons if you have not. Your comment basically made me think of that show. They are a multi generational society that lives in a massive underground silo. And many of your concepts you mentioned play out. But in that show the brutal and very strict rules of course were used to keep people in order and from not rebelling. Of course as brutal as they are and do their best to control and stop rebellions it will always be inevitable. I don't want to give any spoilers away but I highly enjoyed the show and definitely recommend it. Cheers.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-17 00:51:12+00:00
Ok, but if they're doing it without the restaurant's buy in, then they're presumably just acting as a middleman and ordering from the restaurant themselves, at which point I'm not sure how they're stiffing the restaurant 20-30%. If I were running a restaurant and Doordash kept calling me trying to submit an order for cheaper than the food costs I would simply decline to take their business...?
by rangapin | 2025-10-17 00:51:47+00:00
Thanks for the report - sorry about that. I just noticed I'm limited with logs on Vercel, so I upgraded to Sentry for better error tracking.

The landing page scan is working fine as far as I can tell. Feel free to register and test the full app if you'd like - I'm sure you won't be disappointed, especially if you manage multiple sites.

BTW - if you scanned news.ycombinator.com, the result is 95 :)
by samtho | 2025-10-17 00:52:12+00:00
Not every restaurant can handle the deferred payout either. Their business is based on receiving payment at the time of service. The restaurant model operates on razor thin margins, and they don’t buy their food on net 30 terms, but they have to absorb costs as if they do.

There are other issues, but this setup looks a lot like paying the mafia due to the imbalance of power.
by jjmarr | 2025-10-17 00:52:28+00:00
Google's 2 temperature at 1 top_p is still producing output that makes sense, so it doesn't work for me. I want to turn the knob to 5 or 10.

I'd guess SOTA models don't allow temperatures high enough because the results would scare people and could be offensive.

I am usually 0.05 temperature less than the point at which the model spouts an incoherent mess of Chinese characters, zalgo, and spam email obfuscation.

Also, I really hate top_p. The best writing is when a single token is so unexpected, it changes the entire sentence. top_p artificially caps that level of surprise, which is great for a deterministic business process but bad for creative writing.

top_p feels like Noam Chomsky's strategy to "strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum".
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-17 00:53:02+00:00
Not extreme enough. Copyright itself should be abolished straight up. It's the information age, the AI age. Artificial limitations nonsense like copyright does nothing but hold us back. Even the corporations think so: they violate copyright at massive scales on a daily basis just to train their AI models. Why rules for us but not for them? That particular hipocrisy should have caused the elimination of copyright worldwide.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-17 00:54:35+00:00
> In the essay, he’s basically trying to square a circle: to reconcile the ideas that 1. natural talent exists and 2. everyone is morally equivalent.

I don't think this ideas are incompatible, or even unintuitive: most people intuit that it's equally wrong to murder a gas station attendant and a professor of medical ethics, even if the latter is more prestigious and/or talented in some sense than the latter.

(This is a recurrent theme in Scott Alexander's writing: establish a dichotomy and run with it, even if it's facially incorrect.)
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-17 00:55:03+00:00
To be completely clear, EA is not a union shop. UVW (the CWA local putting out this statement) is a direct-join industry wide union. They have no contract or direct relationship with EA, though it seems (unsurprisingly) that some EA employees are members. As a legal matter they have no more relation to the EA deal than your local library does.

So yes maybe they're overreaching, but there's also very little for them to lose. Presumably they feel their labor power (unconstrained by the usual NLRB rules as this is not an NLRB-recognized bargaining unit) gives them some sway in the matter, but if not, they're not out anything.

Seems like a smart enough thing to try. If it doesn't work, they organize some more and try again later with better odds.
by gcanyon | 2025-10-17 00:56:06+00:00
Vague recollection, could be wrong -- in J, you can apply a "rank" to verbs, which determines how the verb applies to its arguments. So for example, if we define that average verb:

avg =: +/%#

then we can say

avg 2 4

and get 3

We can also say:

x =: i.2 3 4

and that makes an array like so:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

And then we can do things like:

avg"1 x 1.5 5.5 9.5 13.5 17.5 21.5 avg"2 y 4 5 6 7 16 17 18 19 avg"3 y 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

In this instance I believe the "_ is just giving back 4r3p1 = 4.18879 for each of the arguments handed to the rest of the verb. This is one of those things that is second nature once you internalize J, but so so foreign until you do.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-17 00:57:28+00:00
If IE6 did everything that a user wanted, why should he have to update? I totally disagree with this assumption that we should always have to be on the update treadmill, always changing the software we're using, and if we don't, then it's some kind of user failure showing "we cannot be trusted". Maybe if IE6 was so terrible, Microsoft shouldn't have released it in the first place. Don't blame the user.

The only good justification I can think of to update totally working software that I am happy with, is for mitigating security vulnerabilities. And even then, the choice should be on the user.
by vvpan | 2025-10-17 00:57:38+00:00
I have seen Doordash statements where commission + fees added up to 60% of the price. I asked the person who mostly worked with restaurant owners why they do it. He said:

1. A lot of restaurants are passion businesses and they don't realize how much money they are losing.

2. Morale in the kitchen is important, orders coming in keeps morale up.

From myself I would also add that they get a FOMO, cause it's hard to sit and watch others get business, however unprofitable. The most stable and profitable businesses in towns where we operated only worked with us, cause we offered cooperative ownership and small commission. It made no financial sense for them to work with anybody else.
by akarshc | 2025-10-17 00:57:49+00:00
that’s fair, though the intention wasn’t to dismiss rails or crown a winner. it was more about sharing a personal experience with elixir and phoenix for a specific use case, not a comparison to discredit other frameworks. i haven’t discredited rails, but features like fault tolerance and the beam make phoenix especially robust. i also mentioned that rails is a beautiful framework, i just chose what felt best for my project.
by shkkmo | 2025-10-17 00:59:06+00:00
> that won't pass environmental review

In what way do walkable neighborhoods not pass environmental review?

> but if you're against the disenfranchisement of people.

Nobody is taking away their right to vote, so it isn't "disenfranchising" someone to put in a second icecream shop in their neighborhood when they only wanted one.

> San Francisco, local neighbourhoods discussed whether or not two ice-cream stores in the neighbourhood were too many ice-cream stores

SF seems to have a public feedback and planning problem that dysfunctionally favors nimbyism over regional needs and they end up shooting themselves in the foot with it over and over.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-17 00:59:17+00:00
> I'm not asking for full markdown since I know people would just abuse headings, etc.

While we're at it - I also would favor a strict subset of markdown, but it would be really nice to have a strict subset of markdown instead of the homebrew thing we have now. The biggest one that regularly catches people out is that

* foo * bar

formats as

* foo * bar

instead of a bullet-point list. And on that note, I'd really like ``` to do code blocks instead of needing 2+ space indentation as the way to make a code block.
by watersb | 2025-10-17 00:59:35+00:00
My usual machine is a MacBook Air M1.

I upgraded as soon as Tahoe was generally available. I haven't seen major problems but due to another project I have not used the Mac very much. It's plugged into a docking station and stays up and running but it's been just idling for the most part.

But it handles the dock/undock, sleep, monitor mirroring, external hard drives just fine. During the beta there was a challenging issue with sleep/wake when it is docked but that has been resolved. So from a basic hardware functionality perspective Tahoe is working for me. That is fit and finish you would demand from Apple, but the Thunderbolt 4 dock is from OWC etc.

I haven't tested Electron worker thread issues beyond some light editing in Visual Studio Code. I haven't noticed acute performance problems.

That said, two weeks ago I was doing photo conversion to SVG with OmniGraffle, Affinity Photo and Designer, VSCode, multiple web browsers, five external storage devices... With all that, the system seemed laggy. I was getting irritated by some stupid design decisions the project required and the lag didn't improve my mood. So: totally subjective anecdotes.
by phatskat | 2025-10-17 00:59:50+00:00
But DEI isn’t and wasn’t ever that. I did DEI training at two different jobs and it boiled down to “you can’t know what someone else may be going through, or where they’ve been, and no the best course of action is to be open and curious”. Heck, in my most recent DEI training, one of the people to be sympathetic towards was a white cis man - it was a section focusing on discrimination based on age.

Both sides can not, in my view, argue both things: the right as we see it in America wants to oppress people based on immutable values such as race and gender.

The left wants people to acknowledge that “hey maybe it’s ok if everything doesn’t cater to one specific archetype of a person” - no reasonable person on the left wants to punish or oppress anyone for being a “white cisgender male”.

There’s this idea I’ve held onto that seems very apt: when a group that was being oppressed is given the same rights as their oppressors, their oppressors feel as though something is being taken from them.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-17 01:00:06+00:00
Actually not that many types of things will bind to the carbon permanently, mostly it's the affinity for such a wide variety of contaminants to the carbon, combined with the porosity of the carbon structure which can have a very impressive amount of surface area to come in contact with the fluid being filtered. Whether filtering air or water. It hangs onto contaminants tightly.

Because carbon is such an effective adsorbent for contaminants, the partitioning coefficient for contaminants to remain in the solvent being filtered is lowered quite dramatically compared to so many other kinds of affordable alternative filtration media.

Most times people do need to afford to discard the carbon eventually, but it doesn't even really absorb contaminants like it's supposed to unless it is activated carbon to a good degree.

Activation only means that is it porous enough to begin with so it has enough surface area to be effective, then it is heated with adequate air exchange to about 250 Celsius for as many hours as it takes for virtually all of the VOC's or moisture it may have accumulated to be baked out. Then sealed up tightly, otherwise it can sit around for ages and gradually become saturated passively with any contaminants or humidity admitted through leaks to the ambient environment.

Sometimes, you can reactivate almost indefinitely to keep reusing the same carbon, and it works with VOCs because by their volatile nature they are basically baked back out easily and virtually completely each time. Different amounts of time if using different temperatures though, if equipped.

The stronger the activation, the more tightly with higher capacity the carbon wants to absorb things it encounters that are dissimilar to the fluid being filtered.
by razodactyl | 2025-10-17 01:00:24+00:00
Sorry about the confusing nature of the images - I'll explain what's going on:

I clicked a link to swr.vercel.app on the facebook react documentation and noticed that the subtitle font was different to a duplicate of the page I opened the other day.

OK, weird, I refreshed the old page that was already open and the font remained the same.

OK? I disabled ad-blocking because some of the tracking scripts were off but still the same issue...

I noticed in the DOM panel that some of the scripts down the bottom were in different orders so there's clearly something weird going on.

When I opened it in Incognito, it was showing the latest version.

When I duplicated the old version I had open however, even the duplicate had the same alternate font.

Only when loading the page fresh by typing out the URL did I get the latest version of the page.

I even tried hard-refreshing with dev-tools open.

What's this weirdness?
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-17 01:00:40+00:00
Microsoft was in such a hurry to kill off IE6 that if install a fresh copy of Windows Server 2022 with the latest updates, then Event Viewer will throw an “Access denied!” error in your face at startup. That’s because the IE6 logs were unceremoniously ripped out, but the default Administrative view still contains it in its list.
by nradov | 2025-10-17 01:01:26+00:00
I don't think your memory is serving you very well. A 12oz can of Coca-Cola contains 39g of sugar, which hasn't changed in a long time. (Some people claim that switching the sugar from sucrose to high-fructose corn syrup had harmful effects but there's little evidence for that.) Other brands have a little more or less sugar but that's probably the one most commonly consumed.

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/faq/ingredients

Sugar consumption per capita has been trending up slightly in the last few years. But ironically it was actually higher back in the 1970s when the population was less obese.

https://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/sugar-consumption-pe...
by avsm | 2025-10-17 01:02:08+00:00
Another extremely cool feature of Eon is that it uses Capnproto as the capability-based RPC interface to handle management. There's a schema that any client can implement here https://github.com/RyanGibb/eon/blob/main/lib/cap/schema.cap... including to provision ACME TLS certificates directly via DNS negotiation instead of the usual HTTP dance.
by sparky_z | 2025-10-17 01:02:31+00:00
It would be nice if you explained what you're talking about, rather than just assuming everybody knows. Whatever it is, you come off as someone "protesting too much" by taking a simple reference to WWII as being an attack on Switzerland. Apparently over some sort of alleged Nazi collaboration? That's kind of a stretch.

For what it's worth, I took them to mean "Did not suffer significant population losses, widespread physical devastation, and exorbitant military expenditures during WWII, and so found themselves in a much stronger economic position than all the other major European countries in the decades that followed". I don't understand why you seem to have a different interpretation, especially one that you yourself describe as "baffling" and "not relevant" to the question of national wealth.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-17 01:04:01+00:00
I don't have issue with NSFW content per se, but this? This isn't a problem of whether NSFW content should exist. It's a much bigger issue than that.

First, mental health issues surrounding this are far from being solved. Having a sycophantic robot faking intimacy looks manipulative, ripe for exploitation, and damaging to long term psychological well-being.

Second, this is a service that manufactures compromising chat logs and stores them for profit. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-17 01:04:39+00:00
I think a huge part of a functional consensus government working is delegation of power to the cantons. When citizens own and oversee largely local projects, there is less conflict and more civic ownership and pride.

For Americans, Imagine if the majority of your tax money was directed and spent at your county, not state level. What might your schools and infrastructure look like?

For context, California has 8 counties more populous than the largest Swiss canton.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-17 01:05:03+00:00
My faith in humanity was lost and now I need an emergency memetic eyewash.

Even I as a human dishwasher have no issues doing extra freshly used spoons. but that refrigerated two days old spoon... that is going to have dried stuffs stuck on the surface, and it's going to need to be soaked before washing. And also mildly bio-hazardous? That's horrible. Just why...
by handoflixue | 2025-10-17 01:06:34+00:00
Skills can be toggled on and off, which is good for context management, especially on larger / less frequently needed skills

Currently if a project is 5% or less capacity, it will auto-load all files, so skills also give you a way to avoid that capacity limit. For larger projects, Claude has to search files, which can be unreliable, so skills will again be useful for an explicit "always load this"
by alganet | 2025-10-17 01:07:59+00:00
I love how Schopenhauer can be succint on the nature of writing:

``` There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. While the one have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, the others want money; and so they write, for money. Their thinking is part of the business of writing. They may be recognized by the way in which they spin out their thoughts to the greatest possible length; then, too, by the very nature of their thoughts, which are only half-true, perverse, forced, vacillating; again, by the aversion they generally show to saying anything straight out, so that they may seem other than they are. Hence their writing is deficient in clearness and definiteness, and it is not long before they betray that their only object in writing at all is to cover paper. ```

``` As soon as the reader perceives this, let him throw the book away; for time is precious. The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. ```

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10714/10714-h/10714-h.htm
by monch1962 | 2025-10-17 01:08:55+00:00
> Most authors do not support a way to pay them directly.

I think this is the problem that should be addressed.

Musicians went through a similar process in reverse order: first Napster ("piracy") then streaming services (analogous to Kindle/Amazon, where a huge 3rd party inserts themselves between content creator & consumer). Eventually some musicians twigged that they were getting screwed every way, so they set up ways for fans to pay them directly or via a less money-hungry intermediary (e.g. Bandcamp).

Not a perfect solution by any means, but if book authors feel their situation is bad enough, they could look into how musicians are dealing with it.

I'm probably not alone in thinking I'd far rather pay an author directly than Amazon or book publishers.

"Bookcamp", anyone?
by adam_arthur | 2025-10-17 01:09:19+00:00
I'm confused by all the takes implying decode is more important than prefill.

There are an enormous number of use cases where the prompt is large and the expected output is small.

E.g. providing data for the LLM to analyze, after which it gives a simple yes/no Boolean response. Or selecting a single enum value from a set.

This pattern seems far more valuable in practice, than the common and lazy open ended chat style implementations (lazy from a product perspective).

Obviously decode will be important for code generation or search, but that's such a small set of possible applications, and you'll probably always do better being on the latest models in the cloud.
by AxiomaticSpace | 2025-10-17 01:10:31+00:00
This is just anecdote, but my roommate's dad works in construction management specifically for semiconductor fabs, and he was working for about a year on one of Intel's new fabs in Arizona up until a few months ago when the entire project was suddenly scrapped. IIRC he got the sense it was someone high up in intel that decided to pull the plug on it.
by guerby | 2025-10-17 01:11:34+00:00
Hi, I'm used to save locally chat history of channels I'm listening to.

In hexchat GUI client chat history is locally found in a simple text file, one line per message in .config/hexchat/logs/irc.libera.chat/xxx.log

However I've found no option to create such a log with halloy, am I missing something in the documentation?
by underlipton | 2025-10-17 01:11:36+00:00
I usually take moments like this to relate my experience of OpenOffice (LibreOffice, prefork) blanking several of my documents, courtesy a bug that may or may not still be in LibreOffice. But this leads me to the reason I'm bringing it up now: the incre~dibly uncomfortable and unwelcoming experience of trying to pry 1) What happened, and 2) How to fix it out of the OO/LO volunteer support community.

My understanding is that the issue is the way OO/LO and the OS work together to handle file writes, which will not be changed because Linux distros do it right and Windows does it wrong and too bad that I was trying to use OO on a Windows PC. But I can't get a straight answer, and even if I were to, it wouldn't fix the bug - because the bug would be that I was using Windows. And now that I know that this is something that happens, I don't have any real guarantee that tomorrow the problem won't be the particular distro that I use, or whatever weird personal ax-to-grind led to the design decision that would now be giving me a headache. And that probably goes doubly for your average Windows user who doesn't really know what they're getting into.

Obviously, Google's support situation isn't any better. They've also had their share of catastrophic data loss fun-times. I genuinely don't know what the answer is.
by wombatpm | 2025-10-17 01:12:37+00:00
Publishing is a dying industry. It use to be that publishers had limited press capacity, so if wanted to print and sell your book you needed a publisher to handle the production and distribution. Now it’s electronic. What value is a publisher bringing?

There was a time I could go to Borders, Barnes and Noble, Crown Books, and a couple of independent bookstores. Now I can go to Barnes and Noble and the remaining independent store.

Seems like there should be some sort of new coop structure where a writer can engage with editors, graphics people, and marketers on a fee for service or sales percentage basis. Without the agent/publisher gatekeepers.