MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greenie_beans | 2025-10-07 22:26:46+00:00
fair enough, but their assumption wasn't even about that. a better joke on that quote would've been about vermont.

i hear people online punch down on mississippi all the time, and often they don't know anything about the state except whatever metric they've heard about from a headline. the rest of america isn't very far behind, and if you think the state of mississippi isn't a product of america as a whole then you are extremely mistaken. without the industrialized north you have no plantation economy and without the civil war you have no "dead last (or in the bottom 5 states) in virtually every possible positive metric."

i grew up there, attended public school all the way through my BA, and then spent significant time as a young adult there. based on the stereotypical assumptions, it might be shocking to the big brains on hacker news that somebody from mississippi is an audience of this website.
by sureglymop | 2025-10-07 22:27:29+00:00
I have no issue with rewriting the coreutils in rust technically but I also don't think it's that interesting. They work just fine as they are.

However what I truly don't understand is using a different license. For something so fundamental, please just let that be the same.

But I think there are a lot more great examples. I have used pandas and I like polars. I have used latex but I like typst. People are creating generally valuable tools that bring something new to the table. More competition and diversity is rarely a bad thing.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-07 22:27:34+00:00
Not the GP and I do like bat, but to answer your questions:

> That shows non-printable characters like bat does?

cat does actually support that via the flags with -v (you can also use -t and -e to view tab and line endings too)

> That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does?

cat is literally called “cat” because it’s intended purpose is concatenation.

It’s not a pager though the GPs example did pipe to less anyway.

> That supports the --line-range option like bat does?

‘tail’ and ‘head’ would be muscle memory to a lot of people and not that different in terms of number of keystrokes.

But I do take your point that it’s nice to have that built into your pager.

> You can pipe the output of tail -f through your alias?

I couldn’t see why not. tail -f isn’t doing anything weird with the fd.

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I’m not arguing against using bat though. I have it aliased to cat on my own machines, so I clearly and would recommend bat. But I do think some people might be surprised how far you can get with coreutils if bat wasn’t available
by astrange | 2025-10-07 22:27:44+00:00
This is actually very similar to Bluesky discourse last week, where US protest organizers sent out emails asking people to RSVP and all the activist posters got upset and started lecturing everyone that if you want to go to a protest you must first turn off all your electronics and second make sure nobody else knows you were ever there, or else the police will come get you.

The problem with this is... if you have free speech rights you should use them, not give them up the instant you imagine someone might know you said something.

> I wouldn't be surprised if the founder will be arrested in the near future. Since free speech does not cover harboring violent extremists.

Of course it does (in the US.) You're required to respond to legal process and report CSAM, but you don't have to do pretty much anything proactively.
by cardanome | 2025-10-07 22:28:04+00:00
> Paul Ekman

Your knowledge of psychology seems to be outdated by... several decades.

I recommend reading "How Emotions Are Made" by Lisa Feldman Barret.

If you don't recognize the name Lisa Feldman Barret, please google her. She is very acclaimed in the scientific world.

I also highly recommend watching anything by Ember Green, especially this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnd74yyf4nQ

Realistically, I know what I am writing is not going to change your mind. It might cause you to get defensive if anything else. But the fact that you have an autistic child and are operating on very outdated scientific ideas make me wish I could somehow.

I mean it is not surprising. Those ideas by Paul Ekman are still extremely popular. There are many fraudsters that use them to this day to get government founding and the like. So note that I am not calling you a bad person for falling for this. I am just saying you could be a damn good parent if you updated your views with a bit of more modern psychology.
by codepoet80 | 2025-10-07 22:28:04+00:00
I still remember fondly when we paid for two, and only two streaming services. Netflix for movies and older TV shows, Hulu for current TV (usually only a day behind cable). It felt good -- using two definitions of that word. It felt good-as-in-right that I didn't have to pirate content anymore, because two reasonably priced services were worth the money, and it felt good-as-in-satisfying because everything we cared to watch was at our finger tips (we've never cared about sports.)

I know Disney is not solely to blame for the state of affairs, but all the services seem to be racing headlong back toward the cable model: subscribing to bundles of crap I don't want, just to watch a couple of things I do want.

They say piracy is not a pricing issue, its a user experience issue. I'd say we have both issues, and that if it hasn't already, piracy will win this particular race -- yet again.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-07 22:28:17+00:00
How can people laugh and make meme at someone else murder ? Like the guy, hate him, but there is something that used to be shared amongst humans, it's that you respect the dead.

That's just empathy. Seems like it's gone to the toilet in some part of the usa or maybe it's just weirdos on internet. Either case it's despicable.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-07 22:28:49+00:00
I'm still not sure why anyone is surprised by a devaluing of the dollar -- that's literally what the monetary kooks in the current US administration are on record as wanting to cause.*

Thought process goes: (1) devalue dollar, (2a) make basic US industry more globally competitive, (2b) devalue US debt to "solve" it without having to implement austerity, (3) stronger US industry

Given that equity nominal values (read: future profits) will grow (to balance out the decreasing fiat value), purchasing power / wealth holds something close to constant and market numbers go up (which keeps voters from becoming unruly).

The only people who really get fucked are (a) people who aren't invested in the stock market (read: poor), (b) fixed income folks (read: retirees who will be dead before it fully plays out), and (maybe c) labor (if wage growth doesn't keep pace with purchasing power loss).

It's not the worst economic-political plan, other than the fact that no one is being honest with the public about it and some idiot ALSO picked the same time to drastically decrease the domestic labor supply (by sharply decreasing immigration and mildly increasing deportations) and increase tariffs. Both of which make completely offshoring labor more attractive.

* See also why Trump has such a bug up his ass about the Fed, as this becomes a lot harder if they don't play ball. Say, by following their mandate to fight inflation...
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-07 22:29:08+00:00
Have you checked out OnlyOffice (not to be confused with OpenOffice)? It's MSO file format compatibility is vastly superior to LibreOffice, I use it work on files shared by colleagues using MSO and it works fine for the most part.

The only issue I faced is with embedded ActiveX/VBA, like forms in a Word doc that might use radio buttons will get converted to static images. If you don't have weird stuff like that in your docs then you should be fine.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-07 22:29:22+00:00
User and content bans are a great way to make money right now as partisans are super gullible

If a platform doesn't ban someone: short it as people say they are cancelling

If a platform does ban someone: also short it as people say they are cancelling

requires a publicly traded platform like Netflix or Disney+ as significant pieces of the parent company's revenue
by DaveZale | 2025-10-07 22:29:48+00:00
Okay I get that. Although, it's a matter of definitions.

I use Roku with an antenna to get local television stations for weather, some of the PBS options (news and some great travel shows), and occasionally sports.

But your remark is very insightful with respect to differing opinions among age groups regarding certain global topics, which I cannot mention by name here due to censorship. The young in the US are certainly more aware of global opinions that diverge from those of the US that are promoted in the "elderly media" for example.
by themafia | 2025-10-07 22:29:54+00:00
> has the effect of making the quiet parts louder and and loud parts quieter

Not quite. The ceiling of the signal is the same. The quiet parts have gain added but the louder parts (over the threshold/above the knee) receive no modification at all.

Once compression is complete you might even do a normalization pass to ensure that the loudest impulse in your audio achieves 0dBFS.

Put the two together and you have a "wall of noise" effect.
by mackeye | 2025-10-07 22:30:01+00:00
anecdotally, my trans friends who took puberty blockers and eventually started hormones are happier for it, and my trans friend who was sent to conversion therapy jumped in front of a train (and lived, and is well now).

the literature is relatively sparse on puberty blockers, though. i found a review [0] which is inconclusive, but points to better psychosocial outcomes at the expensive of factors such as bone density and emotional stability.

i do think it's crucial to point out that the dichotomy is not "puberty blockers vs. nothing", but "puberty blockers vs. gender dysphoria". i recently read a piece about the extremely poor treatment of an SRS patient, who reflected 10 years later and claimed she'd still go through the treatment to have had the surgery, as she would likely not be here otherwise. the description of the surgery frankly made me dizzy with unease (and i work in the surgical OR). it's a sensation i imagine is not at all unfamiliar to trans people. as i understand it, they are born with this unwanted operation performed in advance, and live through this, and eventually an unwanted puberty.

the issue is then, how do we alleviate this? conversion therapy is conclusively, not an answer. puberty blockers are inconclusive, from what i understand, but the research which has been performed points to lower suicide attempt rates among trans kids.

[0]: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/camh....
by fresh_broccoli | 2025-10-07 22:30:25+00:00
Right, the website lists the accusations with links, but the links seem unrelated to the accusations.

For example, I'd expect "criticizing expert medical and scientific consensus on healthcare for our minors" to link to some kind of article describing what Jesse Singal said about this topic and why it's incorrect, but instead it links to a general page about "healthcare providers serving gender diverse youth" that doesn't even mention anything about the accused person or their writings.
by louthy | 2025-10-07 22:30:47+00:00
I wrote “roughly” on purpose, but I think your description is wrong. A compressor triggers when the signal goes above a threshold, this applies a compression factor to the loud signal, which reduces the overall gain of the loud sounds (they become quieter). That is what reduces the overall dynamic range. Making the loud sounds quieter.

Most compressors then have a ‘make up’ gain control to recover the lost volume. That process makes the quieter sounds louder.

Your description sounds like an expander.
by equinox23 | 2025-10-07 22:30:56+00:00
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by CrimsonCape | 2025-10-07 22:31:18+00:00
I was confused too. There's no mention of current implementations. It's like half an encyclopedia article missing the good half. For example, TLDraw has it's own inking algorithm of pressure+velocity+path -> generated outlines comprised of bezier curves. InkCanvas in Microsoft implementations afaik is closed-source. Is there a standard library for ink for the pencil in macos? Or does everyone roll-their-own on the mac side?
by tptacek | 2025-10-07 22:31:32+00:00
I followed him long after he was declared persona non grata, sort of uncomfortably agreeing that he was getting dogpiled unfairly (I don't think I agree with him about much, but at the time, it didn't seem like he was saying anything more than a stddev from the media consensus). I don't follow him anymore, after it became very clear that he's steering right into personal conflicts with people, and reciprocating all the weird grudges. I've also had reason to listen to his podcast within the past year (they did an episode covering our local library system), and feel comfortable with the decision to yuck out of paying attention to him.

(Not over the library coverage itself, just over ancillary stuff I heard on the podcast).

I'll put it this way: I had reason to tip our local politics Facebook off to the episode he did, and when I did that, I wrote a paragraph long disclaimer about what he's like. Not because I have any animus towards Singal, but because I didn't want anybody to associate me with some of what he's said.

So yeah, I'd push back on this.

Singal is a lot less interesting a subject (aren't we all exhausted of debating Singal at this point) than whether Bluesky is going to be a viable mainstream competitor to Twitter, and he's interesting to me only in what this drama says about that question.
by testing22321 | 2025-10-07 22:32:56+00:00
I’m in Canada , in a tight valley where it snows a ton. I pay 13 cents a kWh for electricity.

I installed 7.8kw of rooftop solar for $8k out of pocket, all of which is on a ten year interest free loan.

In 12 months it makes smack on $1000 worth of electricity. So my payback is 8 years ( less, actually. The price of electricity here is already pre approved to increase no less than 5% a year) After that I get $1000 of power per year for twenty or so years.

The term no brainer doesn’t seem enough.
by lovereading | 2025-10-07 22:33:09+00:00
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by hitekker | 2025-10-07 22:33:21+00:00
That’s a good observation about position. For those curious, the original (and arguably representative) Bluesky user said:

> “I want to be extremely clear I was not making a death threat or inciting violence,” he told me, saying that he had sent 12 separate examples of other people posting the same Kirk image as a reaction meme. “I don’t wish death on Jay, I wish for her and her team to grow a conscience. I disagree with the decision and how it was handled. My account was taken down without any explanation for almost a full day in what can only be viewed as a retroactive ban.”
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-07 22:33:26+00:00
> This is actually very similar to Bluesky discourse last week, where US protest organizers sent out emails asking people to RSVP and all the activist posters got upset and started lecturing everyone that if you want to go to a protest you must first turn off all your electronics and second make sure nobody else knows you were ever there, or else the police will come get you.

The clash there is between people who think they are living in a rule-of-law liberal democratic regime that treats them as respected citizens with free speech rights and are protesting to register disagreement with some policies, and people who think they are living in a fascist state that has declared, and intends to treat, them as domestic terrorists and are protesting to rally opposition.

Naturally, these different premises about the context and intent of protest lead to different conclusions on how best to approach it.
by Hansappreciator | 2025-10-07 22:33:51+00:00
Signs of a bubble in this sector are everywhere. OpenAI is trying to fundraise a $5tn infrastructure buildout on $15bn in annual revenue. That's insane.

What's worse is that OpenAI and the other AI companies are all intertwined. The chipmakers are invested in the datacenter operators are invested in the software guys. When the bubble implodes - and it will implode - the good will go down with the bad, and that's what makes a financial crash a true crash.
by skybrian | 2025-10-07 22:34:29+00:00
There seem to be a lot of people on Bluesky who don’t think it’s wrong to post reply-spam about their favorite grievances even when it’s entirely off topic. Complaining about Singal is an example. It’s the sort of thing that would be downvoted to oblivion on Hacker News.

For the most part they’re fairly easy to avoid, but reading the replies for popular accounts is a minefield.

This is sort of like email in the old days before the spam filters got good. Bluesky needs better reply-spam filters. Or maybe they already exist somewhere, but it needs better ways to find the good filters?

If that gets fixed then maybe it has a chance to become a more welcoming place.
by lxgr | 2025-10-07 22:34:33+00:00
> With this solution, there's a high chance that if they ban you by mistake (AI bots are to blame), they will not disable the forwarding mechanism.

Why bet on that instead of doing it the other way around (i.e. making the self-operated mail server the primary that forwards to the service provider inbox), or at least practicing doing so by pointing the MX records accordingly?
by rwky | 2025-10-07 22:35:14+00:00
Same thing happened to me over 20 years ago back then it was common to get domain hosting email all from one provider. They hiked up the price to something extortionate and changed the owner details on the domain to themselves cost me a fair penny to get that back from then on I kept my domain email and hosting all separate and stuck with what are hopefully more reputable providers. And of course these days if it happened I'd go straight to legal action something that young me didn't think of.
by vayup | 2025-10-07 22:35:21+00:00
There is a whole lot of commerical products built out of what we consider hobby projects (Adruino, Raspberry Pi). Eg: digital displays, industrial equipment controllers etc. All of this is clubbed under the nebulous IoT moniker.

My take: Qualcomm hopes to leverage Adriano adoption to expand their IoT share, and also to grow Adruino's footprint to include more smart IoT devices using Qualcomm's chipsets (Eg: Robotics)
by LanceH | 2025-10-07 22:35:39+00:00
> The fact people can't escape JavaScript doesn't stop people from being JS haters.

It just creates more of them.

The nice thing about stimulus is that it binds the pages I'm making to the javascript. It's all easy to find.

90% of what I want react for is to update just part of the page. This is simple with Hotwire now. There is no added marshalling/unmarshalling of json -- just regular crud requests the same as everywhere else. There is no second programming language. There is no added toolchain.

Adding in Stimulus and I can do most of the other things I've been wanting to do -- like modifying dropdowns.

The one place I can see React perhaps being better is when something happens on the page and I don't talk to the server. For most of my business applications, this doesn't come up as much. But say I was organizing a schedule, only to submit it to the server at the very end, React might be better at dragging things around, labelling them, then one big update at the end. Maybe it's easy in Hotwire also, I don't know yet.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-07 22:36:24+00:00
Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Virginia and an article referencing Sundar at the White House.

Seems pretty clear to me :)

EDIT: to be clear, I think investing in struggling, predominately red states is totally fine and good. I'm more taking issue with the way this information is presented. The red/blue text gradient, the "investing in America" focus, etc. It feels specifically crafted to appeal to a certain mindset. Contrast this with, say, the roll-out of Google Fiber in Kansas, etc. where the focus was on technology not patriotism.
by nevi-me | 2025-10-07 22:36:59+00:00
My cheat code for 100 kWH is an EV that supports V2H. It's becoming supported in more cars, so I want to buy an EV as my next car. I don't anticipate battery savings and new tech reaching me faster than replacing my aging car with an EV, hence this path.

I'm in South Africa if relevant, and range anxiety is being alleviated by competition in the vehicle charging space, and municipal grid charging still comes to about 70% cheaper than fuel.
by sureglymop | 2025-10-07 22:37:33+00:00
> That is possible in theory, but for me personally that's just too detailed. :D I wouldn't need all that granularity, myself.

I do see that. I think for that reason it would be cool to support a kind of extension system for arbitrary "collectors". And then solid filtering to filter data.

The vision is definitely similar. I am very pleasantly surprised to see your project. And I also like your ideas/roadmap on the website. I know you are building this for yourself/your family but I certainly would be open to contribute to it.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-07 22:37:43+00:00
I don't see how permission from a dead person would factor into how well you're using it, no. Just like I don't see how you'd need their permission to do a mashup of their work. I don't think it's particularly controversial for a person emulate widely known unique voices like Bowie's or Elvis's even after they're gone, and I don't see why using ML to alter your voice to do so would make that wrong somehow.

At least the stuff I've seen is usually pretty explicit about using machine learning; it's not trying to create a counterfeit (the two songs I linked are like this). I only see fans appreciating artists and sharing how songs like Fountains of Wayne's Go Hippie totally sound like an Oasis song if you put Liam on vocals.