MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-14 16:55:20+00:00
This thread is about the economy, so that is what I commented on. That aside, it is important to note that Trump won the popular vote with fewer than half of voters voting for him and with a lower margin than Clinton's popular vote victory over him. I don't doubt that there are some people out there like those you describe, and I'll concede that in a country as big as America, you can describe many groups as "a lot" of people, but it is not by their actions or desires that we are in the place we're in. There is plenty of blame to go around, and yes, they own part of it. However, Trump is only able to act as an autocrat because he, congress and SCOTUS have all been bought by oligarchs who decided that checks and balances no longer need apply to Trump. The oligarchs' will is being enacted & these same donors own most media platforms, and as we've seen recently, are consolidating more, so they do have a hand in manipulating American opinion.

However, even despite that, even if not out of solidarity with their fellow man, but for rising costs, fear for their own health and safety or appeals from religious leaders, Americans understand there needs to be a change in healthcare, and their concerns about immigration are easing up a bit (even back in July), probably because they realize that by focusing efforts on law abiding folks, it's not making their communities any safer and is making things more expensive. Silver's polling data that you provide shows that even today, a majority of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling immigration.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/4708/healthcare-system.aspx

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigratio...
by tremon | 2025-10-14 16:55:41+00:00
I don't think that's an accurate metaphor. Seatbelts are expressly a runtime solution to car crashes, whereas Python's type checking is a) only done during development (not even during build), and b) completely reliant on third-party tools.

If you're looking for a car analogy, I would suggest comparing Python type checking to installing speed cameras on the factory floor.
by daly | 2025-10-14 16:56:53+00:00
Ecology is a dirty word to many people.

They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

They retreat into death games and other violence, "hiding their awareness from the terrifying necessities of this moment.

If any human sees a clear choice between life and death, then chooses death, we call that insane. Why do we accept it when it happens on a world scale?

We must shake the sleepers—gently and persistently, saying: "Time to get up."

— FRANK HERBERT
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-14 16:57:04+00:00
> gender research

It depends, this could be medicine or it could be sociology or it could be psychology, there's a few different places it pops up.

> feminist queer dance theory studies

This is very obviously performing arts or maybe something in English or Social Studies if the "dance" part is the specialization rather than the core. I doubt even the most died-in-the-wool woke-fessor or whatever would call it "science," which makes it pretty irrelevant to the current conversation, though just because something isn't STEM doesn't mean it's not important (though it might be significantly less lucrative).
by gopalv | 2025-10-14 16:57:39+00:00
> but it claims to be a tutorial.

This is, but only for someone who wants to do JIT work without writing assembly code, but can read assembly code back into C (or can automate that part).

Instead of doing all manual register allocations in the JIT, you get to fill in the blanks with the actual inputs after a more (maybe) diligent compiler has allocated the registers, pushed them and all that.

There's a similar set of implementation techniques in Apache Impala, where the JIT only invokes the library functions when generating JIT code, instead of writing inline JIT operations, so that they can rely on shorter compile times for the JIT and deeper optimization passes for the called functions.
by etskinner | 2025-10-14 16:58:05+00:00
Apparently my 'easy' isn't the same as yours. There's nothing I could find in the code that describes what it is. You'd have to make a pretty big logic leap to figure it out. All you can see in the code (in config.js, not in index.html) is the dataset url (random string) and the description "this website", which tells you very little.

For anyone who just wants to skip to the answer, I found it in the pull requests / issues: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/issues/47
by moralestapia | 2025-10-14 16:58:05+00:00
???

It's not any sort of personal attack, it's just my opinion on the thing. What's wrong about that? Lack of substance, perhaps?

Plenty of other comments in the thread are in the same vein.

idk @dang, a lot of these things you bring up, even though there's guidelines, are subjective at the end of the day. This seems quite tame to me, what do you think of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45495856??? I took no offense on that, though.

Anyway, do as you wish, you control this site at the end of the day. I like reading stuff here but if I'm deemed undesirable ...

Btw, I don't think this ever happened, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332765.
by tuveson | 2025-10-14 16:58:56+00:00
Just to offer another perspective: I think the way your website works right now is actually very nice and the person you’re replying to is wrong. When I go to godbolt.org, it similarly puts me on the screen where I actually want to be, as a person that wants to use that tool.

I think an “About” page or docs would greatly help people that want to know all of the features offered by the site, but I think the default of dropping you into the tool is ideal.
by zevon | 2025-10-14 16:59:32+00:00
Sure - I guess this is generally true for most work domains, not just machine shops and serious software shops. However, the argument I was responding to was that there is no mucking about in the "real world" and that there is this difference between mucky software people and the serious creators of real stuff. Which I don't agree with.

btw: If we understand "machine shop" as a mass production environment with modern, integrated production lines, it is my anecdotal experience that there is a massive amount of muckery and fuckery involved in getting such an environment to run (usually called "integration" or some such which probably looks better on business cards). There's also a good chance that over the years - or decades - different people will engage in further iterations of the muck-pile to modify the system for new requirements from high on up or weird edge cases, to replace components that are no longer available with other stuff or to do whatever else the day might call for.
by WD-42 | 2025-10-14 17:00:13+00:00
It’s far from dead. Take a look at the gnome circle apps as a demonstration of how many good applications are being written for gnome these days.

I believe a large part of this is due to the fact that to use QT you are still stuck with either C++ or Python, whereas there are a ton of gnome apps being written in JS and Rust now.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-14 17:00:20+00:00
I'm pretty sure jsonl was a bit earlier as a term, but ndjson is now the more prominent term used for this... been using this approach for years though, when I first started using Mongo/Elastic for denormalized data, I'd also backup that same data to S3 as .jsonl.gz Leaps and bounds better than XMl at least.
by aydyn | 2025-10-14 17:00:33+00:00
Evidence: your very own articles

> While speaking on his show Rumble, Fuentes, told his followers, known as “groypers,” that if they turn to violence in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk, he will “disavow” and “disown" them.

Hes saying that they shouldn't "turn to violence in the wake of the killing". Where does that imply that it was one of his followers? Its clearly saying "dont take revenge".

The BBC article:

> At the same time, a number of left-wing social media users have continued to claim that Robinson is a Trump supporter or member of a fringe, far-right group known as "groypers"

They explicitly provide no evidence that the shooter was far right, only mentioning that left-wing social media claims that he is far right -- the very source of the disinformation!

You are falling for straight disinformation, and its not particularly subtle. Its tribalism.

PS: lets be clear, it was disinformation not misinformation - the intent was to lie and deceive.
by graemep | 2025-10-14 17:00:37+00:00
> Those are all pretty much the same thing. I want to distribute programs and have them work reliably.

Yes, they are very similar in someways, but the tradeoffs (compared to using containers) would be very different.

> You would just rsync your deployment and run it.

If you are scaling horizontally and not using containers you are already probably automating provisioning and maintenance of VMs, so you can just use the same tools to automate deployment. You would also be running one application per VM so you do not need to worry about portability.

> Just unzip each app in its own folder.

What is stopping people from doing this? You can use an existing system like Appimage, or write a windows like installer (Komodo used to have one). The main barrier as far as I can see is that users do not like it.

> Just provide a zip with all the required development tools.

vs a container you still have to configure it and isolation can be nice to have in a development environment.

vs installing what you need with a package manager, it would be less hassle in some cases but this is a problem that is largely solved by things like language package managers.
by oscarfree | 2025-10-14 17:01:05+00:00
Not sure, could be the large number of Spanish dialects represented in the dataset, label noise, or something else. There may just be too much diversity in the class to fit neatly in a cluster.

Also, the training dataset is highly imbalanced and Spanish is the most common class, so the model predicts it as a sort of default when it isn't confident -- this could lead to artifacts in the reduced 3d space.
by zetanor | 2025-10-14 17:01:07+00:00
> Let's face it, most quality Linux desktop apps use GTK.

My only dependents of GTK are Qalculate, Chromium and Firefox. I do not use the GTK version of Qalculate (but the Arch package includes it anyway) and I would never count modern web browsers as having a significant dependency on any UI toolkit. Am I missing out on a high quality Linux desktop experience?
by f1shy | 2025-10-14 17:01:16+00:00
In 2010 I was managing 100 servers, with many Oracle and Postgres DB, PHP, Apache, all on Solaris and Sun HW. I was constantly impressed by how people were unable to do more or less correct estimations. I had a discussion with my boss, he wanted to buy 8 servers, I argued one was more than enough. The system, after growing massively, was still in 2020 managing the load with just 3 servers. So I would argue, not only today, but 15 years ago already.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-10-14 17:01:18+00:00
I have a couple of Starrett items only because I lucked out at machine shop auctions and they came in boxes with other stuff that the auction house couldn't be bothered to sort.

I'm not a professional, I'm a metalworking hobbyist and the cheap imported electronic tools are more than good enough for me. However, my Starrett Dial Test Indicator is like jewelry, it's so beautifully well made. My cheap Chinese mechanical DTI is probably almost as accurate, but one is obviously far better made than the other.
by kinto | 2025-10-14 17:01:23+00:00
Hey, Pyrefly developer here, thanks for trying us out! Thanks for bearing with us with these issues you're experiencing while we're still in alpha.

We're planning on adding unreachable code diagnostics soon (github issue [here](https://github.com/facebook/pyrefly/issues/1292)). These come for free with Pyright so we don't want to regress features.

I'm happy to help diagnose/fix your autocomplete issue: it should work on modules. If you want to provide details here, on [discord](https://discord.gg/Cf7mFQtW7W), or as a Github issue (github/discord preferred) we'll fix it for you + anyone else with the problem.
by IainIreland | 2025-10-14 17:02:05+00:00
Cranelift does not use copy-and-patch. Consider, for example, this file, which implements part of the instruction generation logic for x64: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/crane...

Copy-and-patch is a technique for reducing the amount of effort it takes to write a JIT by leaning on an existing AOT compiler's code generator. Instead of generating machine code yourself, you can get LLVM (or another compiler) to generate a small snippet of code for each operation in your internal IR. Then codegen is simply a matter of copying the precompiled snippet and patching up the references.

The more resources are poured into a JIT, the less it is likely to use copy-and-patch. You get more control/flexibility doing codegen yourself.

But see also Deegen for a pretty cool example of trying to push this approach as far as possible: https://aha.stanford.edu/deegen-meta-compiler-approach-high-...
by timmytokyo | 2025-10-14 17:02:10+00:00
When building their LLMs, the model makers consumed the entire internet. This allowed the models to improve exponentially fast. But there's no more internet to consume. Yes, new data is being generated, but not at anywhere near the rate the models were growing in capability just a year ago. That's why we're seeing diminishing returns when comparing, say, GPT-5 to GPT-4.

The AI marketers, accelerationists and doomers may seem to be different from one another, but the one thing they have in common is their adherence to an extrapolationist fallacy. They've been treating the explosion of LLM capabilities as a promise of future growth and capability, when in fact it's all an illusion. Nothing achieves indefinite exponential growth. Everything hits a wall.
by hearsathought | 2025-10-14 17:02:24+00:00
> The reason it increased (not doubled)

It did double. Check the april lows.

> is that their CEOs public behavior drove the value down over 100 points in the months prior.

And yet, he is still CEO. Not only that, didn't the board just award him a new pay package?

> I think the meme stock comment above actually has some merit though.

A $1.5 trillion meme stock? Don't think so. A S&P500 company that is a meme stock. Don't think so. It is highly volatile, but it isn't gamestop.

All I'm saying is that Musk is still the CEO because enough shareholders back him. Why? Who knows. Maybe it's because he's increased the value of tsla from a few billion to $1.5 trillion in the past 15 years. Who knows.
by scoofy | 2025-10-14 17:02:49+00:00
It's priming. You have to present very obvious scams, to then conflate the concept of being scammed with political ideology... which doesn't necessarily follow.

Propaganda is really interesting in the way it carries a narrative. It's like a good movie, gives you an idea about what you're going to watch, and then slowly flows to the places you expected it to go to, but it does it in unique and interesting way.

There is certainly something innate in the human mind that loves these predictive narratives.
by walkabout | 2025-10-14 17:02:52+00:00
I've been doing PDF data extraction with LLMs at my day job, and my experience is to get them sufficiently reliable for a document of even moderate complexity (say, has tables and such, form fields, that kind of thing) you end up writing prompts so tightly-coupled to the format of the document that there's nothing but down-side versus doing the same thing with traditional computer vision systems. Like, it works (ask me again in a couple years as the underlying LLMs have been switched out, whether it's turned into wack-a-mole and long-missed data corruption issues... I'd bet it will) but using an LLM isn't gaining us anything at all.

Like, this company could have done the same projects we've been doing but probably gotten them done faster (and certainly with better performance and lower operational costs) any time in the last 15 years or so. We're doing them now because "we gotta do 'AI'!" so there's funding for it, but they could have just spent less money doing it with OpenCV or whatever years and years ago.
by romforth | 2025-10-14 17:02:59+00:00
Hello HN,

Tree Walk Format (TWF) is a flat file format to describe your family tree. It allows you to describe your family tree in one (or more) files which are editable using your favorite text editor.

I see it as a viable alternative to GUIs such as Gramps or TUIs such as llines(Lifelines).

Currently it is Unix/Linux only since it uses groff/dot to generate the graph depicting the family tree. The git repo has a script that turns the flat file you created into a pdf depicting your family tree. I assume Windows users may be able to use it too using WSL.

It should be possible to generate an equivalent GEDCOM from the TWF input, but that is not implemented yet.

Some additional usage info including examples of family trees from the Bible which are denoted using the TWF format are available at: https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/twf_ftwmd
Show HN: Replicas – Workspace VMs for your coding agents
by connortbot | 2025-10-14 17:03:01+00:00
Setting up a workspace for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Aider, etc) takes 30+ minutes - VM provisioning, SSH keys, dependencies, or cloning your repo. Replicas makes it one command. Workspace is ready in ~30 seconds, immediately ready for SSH.

Looking for feedback!
by bigyabai | 2025-10-14 17:03:15+00:00
A lot of people don't agree with DHH's opinionated setup, though - most of them don't even know what they're installing, and that's the problem. Like I said, we've seen hundreds of OSes that completely break on system updates because the user doesn't understand that the AUR package conflicts with the opinionated defaults.

They really don't know what they're doing, which isn't going to help you get things done on Linux. I empathize completely with people who want a one-and-done gorgeous r/unixporn desktop, but they should also know that those distros are a deal with the devil.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-14 17:03:27+00:00
Teslas rank pretty highly on safety reports.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks

https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings-search

There was also that guy that tried to murder-suicide his whole family by driving off a cliff and everyone survived. Crazy considering the picture of the crumpled car..

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/luck-tesla-family-plung...

Is there any evidence Teslas are not at least average, if not above average in safety?

Edit: see post below for insurance loss comparisons, which would be the most accurate data in my opinion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582701
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-14 17:04:29+00:00
You wouldn't necessarily know whether the certificates were obtained by the US government or another random attacker. They have the CA's name on them and the website name, not the attacker's name.

I'm not saying there's no value in being able to detect when you're compromised. I'm just saying it would be better if the compromise wasn't possible to begin with.
by haspok | 2025-10-14 17:04:41+00:00
I don't understand that comment. The K-suite of apps is just as comprehensive as the G-suite of apps - most people don't really care or notice anyway. No, I did not notice that Firefox uses GTK - seriously, who cares, and it is even shipped as a snap or flatpak. (I would even say that Qt is far more capable and developer friendly than GTK, so I'd pick Qt over GTK _any time_.)

There is one app that I installed recently, that used GTK and I noticed it - the ProtonVPN Connect UI, it looks a bit funny, but integrated seamlessly in the whole system (KDE) including the tray icon. It just works. What is the problem?
by rbartelme | 2025-10-14 17:05:03+00:00
>The replication crisis is a growing concern.

This! The amount of clinicians I know who simply read the abstract of a case study, with no real statistical interpretation of results, is a non-zero number.

Whenever I see some hyped up popular press article about a scientific study, my immediate reaction is to go to the primary literature. First, I read the study design and analysis methods, then I determine if its even worth continuing to read the rest. Study pre-registration should be a must and papers need to be more explicit about being exploratory when the sample size dictates it.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-14 17:05:21+00:00
> This one says camera rotation for Jak and Daxter is mapped on the R/L buttons: https://jakanddaxter.fandom.com/wiki/Daxter_controls

Seems wrong too, archived manual (https://archive.org/details/ps2_Jak_and_Daxter-_The_Precurso...) seems to say "RIGHT ANALOG STICK ... Camera Rotate/Zoom" under the game controls. I think the page you linked to is for another game.
by goobert | 2025-10-14 17:05:49+00:00
Every time I read about someone's woes with git I have no idea how people run into certain scenarios or what people are even talking about, it reads like "if you've ever tried to unfrobnicate all non-downstream flanges without rebasing your head ref onto the flange upstream of your commit, you'll know this is really hard to do in git", I just think great I have never tried to do that in 20 years of git usage and have no idea what I'd want to, I'm just going to keep using the same ~5 commands and avoiding complexity which has served me well and allowed to avoid any crazy vcs issues that seem to plague other developers
by throwawaypath | 2025-10-14 17:06:05+00:00
A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, lest it gets destroyed by it. In other words: the far left and maoists are an existential threath to our current society and cannot be tolerated, no matter what. We should call them out and fight them all the time, everywhere, for our childrens future, to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-14 17:06:24+00:00
The difference from the big clouds is that an equivalent instance at AWS costs 10x as much. If you go with few beefy servers AWS offers very little value for the money they charge, they only make sense for "cloud native" architectures. But if you rent raw servers from traditional hosters you can get prices much closer to the amortized costs of running them yourself, with the added convenience of having them in a certified data center with 24/7 security, backup power, etc.

If you want more control than that, colo is also pretty cheap [1]. But I'd consider that a step above what 95% of people need

https://www.hetzner.com/colocation