MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-04 23:20:28+00:00
>I don’t even live in the United States.

Sorry to hear that.

>Your guilt is showing.

Gtfo with that. I just know that has been a Democrat talking point lately, because there was some locale with Republican gerrymandering.

>Must all actions by politician be somehow “tainted” by partisan tactics without objective foundation?

No, but these were tainted by partisan politics, and also very unconstitutional. Maybe you are ok with censorship but most Americans recognize it as incompatible with democracy.

>Here, let me pick a random example of blatant wrongdoing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$Trump

That sucks but I don't think it's illegal. And that is NOT what they went after him for over a period of 8+ years. They manufactured hoaxes about fraud, rape, Russia collusion, and an insurrection and went after him and everyone he was associated with so bad that the dude could hardly find any lawyers to take the cases. All while saying he and his supporters are literal Nazis for specific very mainstream policy preferences like "let's not import the third world or destroy American jobs with excess immigrants" or "let's not fight wars all over the world as we are going bankrupt over here"... God forbid you wear a MAGA hat, or the crazed thugs will attack you. All of these things are ACTUAL political persecution. Trump is not perfect but he is not at all what he's been made out to be.
by pverheggen | 2025-10-04 23:20:45+00:00
The study doesn’t have public access, but here’s a blog with some more details:

https://soranews24.com/2025/10/04/research-in-japan-proves-t...

What makes this study flawed is that they had pianists performing actual pieces of music. Pianists will change their attack to express different tone qualities, sure. But this has more to do with your muscles being imprecise and not the physics of the hammer itself. You have to use a variety of arm, wrist, and hand movements to get the exact subtleties of volume and note spacing correct.
by jongjong | 2025-10-04 23:21:16+00:00
As a software engineer, I'm constantly exposed to system complexity. My experience is that even systems which seem relatively simple from the outside can be extremely complex. Beyond a certain level of complexity, it becomes very difficult to change something without breaking something else. You need to be aware of dependencies when making changes. It appears that the human body is a much more complex system than any software system, with much more complex interdependencies... Given this, it's not surprising at all that it's so difficult to develop solutions to problems like cancer. The whac-a-mole effect must be massive. Seems like every change has countless unintended side effects.
by wantering | 2025-10-04 23:21:25+00:00
Why Am I Using the Old Model? The most common reason is regional restrictions. OpenAI has limited the availability of the Sora app and Sora 2 model to specific countries.

Current Availability According to OpenAI's official documentation:

Access to the Sora app is currently available in the US and Canada. To learn more about the new Sora model, read the research:

OpenAI Sora 2 Research Sora Supported Countries (Official)
by re | 2025-10-04 23:21:31+00:00
> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and sharing it! If your RSS reader supports OPML file exports and imports, perhaps you can share that file as well to make it easier to share your feeds.

This is usually called a "blogroll", which has the advantage of being much less ambiguous/overloaded than "feeds".
by anamax | 2025-10-04 23:22:29+00:00
> many senators blamed the democrats, explicitly switched to the republican party, and the south has been anti-democrat since.

In this case, "many" is at most 2.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators... Thurmond was the only US senator who switched parties in the 60s. Harry Byrd (from Virginia, not Robert from West Virginia) stopped caucusing with Dems in 1970.

No other US senators switched parties until 94.

Before Thurmond, the previous switch was by Morse (Oregon) who went from Republican to Democrat in 53-55.

The same seems to be true of the House of Representatives - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_represen... .

Pretty much every prominent Dem segregationist only left office when he retired.

That's why the "first Republican elected since Reconstruction" events didn't start until the mid 70s and didn't really get going until the mid 80s.
by true_religion | 2025-10-04 23:24:11+00:00
Adding an example to this.

People knew that you would die if you were kept from breathing, but they didn't really know why that was, nor did they know the exact action by which breathing even occurred postulating that it air entered the body through the skin, or perhaps air somehow was necessary to cool the heart which at the time was theorized to be where all thought occurred.

Study as follows: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25532022/
by mindcrime | 2025-10-04 23:24:32+00:00
You don't think a motivated individual could kill and injure about as many people, in about as much time, by just driving a box truck into the waiting line in front of a popular night club, or something? I get what you're saying, but I still believe that the problem is the motivation / mental state of these people, not the specific tools they choose to act out their horrible vision.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-10-04 23:24:52+00:00
I actually agree with you but I think two things can be true at once.

- There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. Any individual with a camera can record you at any time. (Otherwise the entire genre of street photography basically wouldn't exist, and journalists could get arrested for documenting stories in the public interest.)

- We shouldn't have automated cameras recording all the time and feeding that information into a massive database where people's movements can be correlated and tracked across the country.
by cb321 | 2025-10-04 23:25:24+00:00
Nim (https://nim-lang.org), mentioned elsethread Re: numeric ranges like Ada, only needs a library for this: https://github.com/SciNim/Unchained

FWIW, physical dimensions like meters were the original apples-to-oranges type system that pre-dates all modern notions of things beyond arithmetic. I'm a little surprised it wasn't added to early FORTRAN. In a different timeline, maybe. :)

I think what is in "the" "stdlib" or not is a tricky question. For most general/general purpose languages, it can be pretty hard to know even the probability distribution of use cases. So, it's important to keep multiple/broad perspectives in mind as your "I may be biased" disclaimer. I don't like the modern (well, it kind of started with CTAN where the micros seemed meant more for copy-paste and then CPAN where it was not meant for that) trend toward dozens to hundreds of micro-dependencies, either, though. I think Python, Node/JS, and Rust are all known for this.
by tim333 | 2025-10-04 23:26:00+00:00
The

>Our Solar System formed around 4,568 million years ago. Considering that it only took up to 3 million years to determine the chemical properties of the Earth

sounds suspiciously precise. You'd imaging the proto Earth would have formed gradually over millions of years from rocks and dust merging rather than suddenly there 4,568 m years ago and then shortly after crashed into?
by Aurornis | 2025-10-04 23:27:33+00:00
> But how do you know what the management perception is of whiat is currently considered to be 'the right problem' vs 'side-quest'?

You ask.

A large number of the problems I helped people work through while mentoring came down to engineers get stuck in their own head instead of communicating.

Whenever it's not clear, you communicate. Many companies have this as a daily update ritual in standup, but some engineers treat standup like a game where they have to say the right thing to get it over with as quickly as possible before going back to their computer and forgetting what they said they were going to work on.

If ambiguity persists, it's a good idea to write a short e-mail to your manager saying you're working on X instead of Y or Z because you think that's what's best, but then finish by asking them to let you know quickly if you got it wrong.

> Corollary: have you never seen a group or entire dept get sidelined by being assigned something that they're officially told is important but at some point is publicly/secretly determined not to be

No, I have never worked at a company so dysfunctional that management will make secret decisions but forget to inform the company, or make public decisions and an entire department will ignore them.

I don't get it. What's the incentive for anyone to do this?

Though I have worked with some people who would go off on their own tangents, then when the consequences caught up with them they'd concoct excuses about how it was never communicated to them (despite us pointing to records in Slack where they acknowledged) or elaborate conspiracies about management coming up with secret changes or something.
by Buttons840 | 2025-10-04 23:28:25+00:00
I'm also saying the law doesn't matter to an extent.

Remember this? https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-the-hacking-investig...

A reporter pressed F12 to view the source of a web page and the Missouri governor spent months trying to charge him with a crime as part of a "felony investigation". Full weight of the state on his shoulders because he revealed something embarrassing about the state.

In practice if you embarrass a company, they will crush you legally. And sure, after you spend a few hundred thousand dollars on legal fees you'll probably win, and the company will have to say "our bad lol", but you'll still be out the legal fees.
by asddubs | 2025-10-04 23:28:33+00:00
having worked with wxwidgets only a tiny bit, things simply don't look or even work the same across operating systems with wxwidgets. It tries to use native widgets wherever possible, but that also means things behave slightly differently across systems, and if the toolkit doesn't provide a matching widget, it sometimes just uses the next best thing. All this also makes it rather hard to style things in a way that looks good. It's good for simple applications but you run into the limitations quickly if you actually try to use it cross-platform in my limited experience.
by vacuity | 2025-10-04 23:28:46+00:00
To be clear, Rust encourages the development of safe abstractions around unsafe code, so that the concern goes from proportion of unsafe to encapsulation of unsafe. Whether you trust some library author to encapsulate their unsafe is, I think, reducible to whether you trust a library author to write a good library. Unsafe is not all-or-nothing. Thus, as with all languages, good general programming practices come before language features.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-04 23:29:16+00:00
Timbre seems to be a pretty wide idea. If defined as “character” or “quality”, I would question the definition of “character” if it is anything other than “perceived character”.

In that case, we can say that timbre of a piano can definitely be controlled separately from volume—as in, one can play a note with the same volume (to some precision), but different timbre—if nothing else then because a piano note does not really exist standalone, and the perceived character of a sound from a given key will always depend on what keys were played before and after, how they were played, etc., adding innumerable complex interplays between all the factors involved, even possibly including the movement of the pianist.

Describing this difference as an illusion may be meaningful in some contexts, I suppose, but they would be pretty narrow and it is not too different from classifying consciousness as illusion: perhaps it cannot be quantifiable in certain ways, yet in other (very concrete and important) ways it is more consequential than many things we can quantify.

In other words, so if you compare A then B then C vs. Z then Y then C (where B and Y could even be the same note, just played differently), you can have “the same” C as measured in separation from the rest[0], but which crucially would nevertheless have a different character in listener’s mind—which may well be subjective, but also practically most relevant, and evidently reproducible.

[0] If that is even possible, considering the tails of preceding notes would be audible.
by mitchell209 | 2025-10-04 23:29:34+00:00
My main gripe is with the iOS app. I actually think the Mac version is easy to use still and don't have that many issues with it. But on iOS, it starts on Home and if I don't already have the site favorited and can't remember the name of the website, that's 2 additional taps to get to a list of all passwords - Items in the bottom tab and then either All Items or my Personal vault - and then I can start scrolling through to find what I'm looking for. Obviously if I'm already on the site for autofill or it's something basic like Gmail, Microsoft, etc then I have no problem searching. But sometimes I search for sites that I used years ago and can't remember the name.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-04 23:29:34+00:00
The simpler version is "Actually deliver on what you're asked to do".

It sounds so simple that people get offended when you say that. Yet it's at the root of a lot of employee performance problems where the employee is doing a lot of activity, but not delivering on expectations.

I've worked with some brilliant engineers who failed because they were always off trying to reinvent the wheel with their own completely unnecessary framework or rewriting some code that didn't need to be touched. In each case their managers were practically begging them to just focus on delivering the tasks they were assigned, but they were still surprised when the performance management actions came along.
by ericd | 2025-10-04 23:29:36+00:00
Our inverter lets you set it so that it doesn't do any grid export, and otherwise sits between the grid and the normal main breaker panel.

If you do this, I'd highly recommend that you put a transfer switch in place that lets you connect the grid back to the breaker panel with the flip of a lever, and cut the inverter out of the loop. That way, if the inverter ever goes down for whatever reason, you can cut it out and do maintenance on it without any "why is the power still not on".
by kstrauser | 2025-10-04 23:31:24+00:00
> If hoa allows that and then someone else decides to do something crazier, then association is liable for selective enforcement.

"Oh, no, the Torkelsens put in a bay window!"

> Your neighbors could [...]

Oh, come one. We both know that's not realistically possible. I think in most cases HOAs are tolerated as something nearly impossible to avoid, and buyers weigh how likely they are to run afoul of the dumb rules. And as I've said elsewhere, governments appropriately limit the kinds of onerous conditions a contract can inflict upon you. That's something we've elected them to do for us so that people with an unreasonable power advantage can't railroad everyone else into agreeing to their bad ideas.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-04 23:32:38+00:00
Email for me is a critical service, and the reasons I stopped self hosting after about 15 years is:

1. Because I couldn't ensure consistent backup and restore with regular monitoring,

2. no disaster recovery plan and in doing so it'd be more expensive than going through another email provider,

3. not always on top of security (my friend that I colo'd with also ran an email server and his system was struck with ransomware (with no backup [except a copy of email via thick client] or DR); I seemed to get away unscathed because I was using FreeBSD which generally less of a target).

I agree that it is little maintenance, but once you're off the happy path, it can be a huge pain in the arse and devastating.
by hnthrowaway121 | 2025-10-04 23:34:13+00:00
> I agree, can these scientists seriously go and do some real work?

This can be said about a lot of individual studies, but it leads to missing the wood for the trees. We need seemingly trivial studies because they accumulate towards a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

Also you can’t have the big interesting surprise results unless you are testing something where the answer seems obvious. This study seems fine.
by esubaalew | 2025-10-04 23:35:15+00:00
Yes, that's exactly the point. What I'm trying to do is: 1. Use Rust because it's fast. 2. Make REPLs universal, so we don't need separate REPLs for different languages. 3. And third—though not a new idea—is to create better abstractions, like allowing print statements without requiring a main function, and accessing variables without explicitly printing them.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-10-04 23:35:32+00:00
> People involved with HTMX play really fast and lose with anything that doesn't fit their conclusions hoping no one will call them out.

Do we?

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand

https://htmx.org/essays/alternatives/

Do other libraries talk as much about when they are and when they aren't appropriate to use? Do they link to alternatives? Do they link to bad experiences with their own software?
by simonbw | 2025-10-04 23:35:47+00:00
I've been living in a rental for a while, and I have a woodshop in the garage. I've been really wanting to have a 220V outlet to run some bigger power tools, but if figured doing that would require hiring an electrician to come do some work in the breaker box. This has me curious if I can do something like this just to power some stuff in my garage, and also potentially charge an electric car.
by jagrsw | 2025-10-04 23:35:53+00:00
> This can be done safely if you know how to compute the correct wire gauge for the distance, and don't overload the circuit.

Agreed, a long run adds so much impedance that during a short circuit, the breaker won't trip instantly. It will just sit there and let the fault current cook the wires.

Various jurisdictions require a fault loop impedance test for installations (and discussed one looks "fixed"). This cannot be eyeballed from a wire diameter table, must be measured.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-04 23:36:10+00:00
> m still not understanding how this is a solved problem on Linux. If there is a vulnerability in libc then you need to restart (probably) all processes to have the fix take effect.

Restarting the service that was directly impacted by the patch is preferable to the 1980's techno-brained idea of rebooting the entire system. Most of the time it isn't glibc.

FWIW - I did recently read that hotpatching is already there in 11 if you enable it in an enterprise. Fingers crossed it comes to home users.
by dilyevsky | 2025-10-04 23:36:15+00:00
Yes similarly how sf voters elected government to appropriately limit the kind of onerous police enforcement and now their city is a dump. Also just fyi - 100% of fines that i can recall over past 5ish years went to rented properties. So it’s not even active members of the community that are doing this crap - just absentee landlords who offload their costs to their neighbors
by refulgentis | 2025-10-04 23:36:38+00:00
Motte/bailey[1].

Also, somehow, you keep coming back to this uninteresting conversation where no one offers you anything new.

I recommending being kinder to people who offer their time. Even when we disagree or are having a rollicking discussion, there's a fundamental respect we should have for each other, if begrudging.

[1] Where you are: "[it seems you are] trying to make me stop describing how to achieve a similar quality system out of free pieces."

Where you started: "Do you believe AI is at the core of these security analyzers? If so, why the personal story blogpost? You can just explain me in technical terms why is that so.

Claiming to work for Google does not work as an authority card for me, you still have to deliver a solid argument.

Look, AI is great for many things, but to me these products sounds like chocolate that is actually just 1% real chocolate. Delicious, but 99% not chocolate."
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-04 23:37:00+00:00
Powering your house is an advertised feature (with additional equipment) of a few electric cars.

e.g. https://electrek.co/2025/09/28/yes-an-ev-really-can-power-yo...

To go off grid, you'd need a source of power to the car that wasn't your house.
by mckn1ght | 2025-10-04 23:38:19+00:00
My hot take is that quality is inversely proportional to income. The more someone is paying for something, the more bloodsucking mercenaries are attracted to it that have less consideration for the quality of the output than for their own enrichment. (A corollary to this is that the more a job pays the more it will suck: the only way they can get people to come help and keep them there is to offer high compensation).

Look at trappist brewers. Long tradition of consistent quality. You just have to devote your life to the ascetic pursuit of monkhood. It attracts a completely different kind of person.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-10-04 23:40:26+00:00
The issue is cutting off your inverter from your grid without also cutting off your outlets from the grid. The ways I've seen to do this are to either put some clamp meters on your grid connection and configure your inverter to a "zero export" mode that'll scale depending on your current usage. Not sure about the legality of that; I'm sure it depends on your locality.

Or to put your outlets on a subpanel with the inverter controlling the feed to that subpanel. Maybe with a 2nd lockout connection to the main panel so you can do maintenance on the inverter without having no power.
by tangotaylor | 2025-10-04 23:41:07+00:00
I completely agree and I don’t like when non-medical professionals take these terms too seriously.

Psychiatrists are way better equipped to diagnose these things not because they can read diagnostic manuals (anyone can) but because their training exposes them to real cases.

There’s a world of difference between feeling awkward and quiet at a social event vs having heart palpitations and panic attacks that prevent you from even going outside.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-04 23:41:14+00:00
The generic CDC class does not support high-speed bit-bang JTAG modes. Most ESP32 chips have a built in boot-loader for normal 3.3v UART protocols.

Retro computer eMMC memory-recovery hardware like the xgecu T76 is a USB3.0 device with built in FPGA and gpio voltage-level-shifters. It may eventually solve a lot of the hobby diagnostic/recovery tool issues, but the Beta software is currently Windows only. There is a FOSS project that should port to Linux and MacOS systems soon:

https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/minipro.git

Keep in mind, the software is still being built, but I'd keep an eye open for full-speed JTAG support releases in the next year or so. YMMV Best regards =3