MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pfexec | 2025-10-01 18:05:37+00:00
I'm in awe at the number of people that will go to bat for things like artificial dyes in food, only because the policy is coming from the present administration. It's just common sense. We don't need to be ingesting this shit. It's cosmetic and not needed for nutrition. Why are you feeding your child Fruit Loops and not Cheerios?

I personally have known people who develop migraines after eating food with artificial dyes. We can sit here and snipe and play semantics and argue over pointless details but why bother? Just get rid of them all.
by jonah-archive | 2025-10-01 18:05:54+00:00
There's not a huge amount of info I've seen on the specifics of Starlink's LISL setup, but there are a couple interesting bits in here: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...

> Brashears also said Starlink’s laser system was able to connect two satellites over 5,400 kilometers (3,355 miles) apart. The link was so long “it cut down through the atmosphere, all the way down to 30 kilometers above the surface of the Earth,” he said, before the connection broke.

(the presentation that's being reported on, which I don't have access to: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of... )
by alarge | 2025-10-01 18:06:03+00:00
I think the problem here is the implication of the term "politics". We've been conditioned (at least in the US) to think of politics as a tribalistic "us vs. them" activity where interactions have winners and losers.

The classic picture of "office politics" is about either damaging reputations with gossip or getting special treatment because of who you know instead of what you know.

But this depiction strikes me as less about that dirty version of politics and more about simply accepting that social grease is important in an organization. Teamwork is important. Crafting the message to the recipient is important. Inclusiveness and a shared sense of ownership is important. Culture is important.

I detest and refuse to engage in tribalism - workplace or otherwise. But I 100% believe in the stuff from the previous paragraph.
by thejash | 2025-10-01 18:06:19+00:00
It actually originally worked that way, and you can still mostly kinda use it that way (except that, because of CSRF protection, it's obnoxious -- run the program once to figure out the command line that the backend python process is started with, eg, via `ps -Fe` on linux, then shut down the app, then run that process. As long as you don't set the `ELECTRON_APP_SECRET` env var, CSRF will be disabled. Use `netstat -pant | grep -i listen` to figure out what port it is listening on)

Obviously not the most user friendly or usable, but we found that people often got pretty confused when this was a browser tab instead of a standalone app (it's easy to lose the tab, etc)
by i4i | 2025-10-01 18:06:20+00:00
My understanding is that most aphantasics (like myself) can still see images while dreaming—suggesting that dreaming uses a different network for visualization. I have vivid dreams most nights.

Shane Williams (an aphant) hosts a podcast where he interviews people using a set of questions designed to probe their inner sensory world. From it I’ve learned, for example, that some people can taste food when reading a menu, or have a conversation with a deceased loved one and actually hear their voice. One of his prompts is whether guests can place themselves inside a photo of a carnival (which he provides); many say they can smell the cotton candy or hear the chatter of the crowd.

It’s striking how little we really know about the variety of inner sensory experiences: Discovering Your Mind – Aphantasia and Beyond https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discovering-your-mind-...

A favorite research paper compares brain activity in identical twin sisters, only one of whom is aphantasic: The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614521v2
by tobiasbrandy | 2025-10-01 18:06:24+00:00
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by cnity | 2025-10-01 18:06:39+00:00
It's hard to describe. I think there's more nuance here. When you ask "What colour was the apple?" then I can "fill in" the colour and imagine a "red" one. But it's more like the details are filled in "on demand" or "lazilly" rather than "ahead of time". And like I said, it's not the same thing as actual visual hallucination.

It is helpful to have someone engage, for sure. I have a question for you: if you look at a 3d object that you can only see one side of, can you make inferences about the other side of the object? Can you rotate it in your head? Could you quickly be able to tell whether an object will fit in a particular hole, without actually trying it?
by markbao | 2025-10-01 18:06:44+00:00
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by realmike33 | 2025-10-01 18:06:45+00:00
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by galenmarchetti | 2025-10-01 18:06:47+00:00
it depends on whether you want to live life with work-as-someone-paying-for-your-time or whether you want to live life as work-as-perfecting-and-delivering-on-craft

you can have an attitude towards spending the short hours you have on this earth attempting to produce quality work that others appreciate and make their lives easier in some way, as opposed to writing those hours off as sold to someone else
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 18:06:59+00:00
I agree with most of this. Though it gets really conceptually murky what a mental illness is and the DSM diagnosis checklists are quite different from how diagnoses work in "body"-medicine. The psychiatrist blogger Scott Alexander has written a lot about this.

For the common person, psychology and therapy are a new skin on spiritual guidance, shamanism, or rituals like Catholic confession.

> That is not how the brain works. The whole chemical imbalances thing is a gross over-simplification

I know and I was implying disagreement by the placement of that sentence in the context. I was trying to present what the common notion is. If it's a chemical imbalance, it can't be your fault. We trust science, we are physicalists. It has to be imagined as some miswiring or chemical problem for it to be respectable and taken seriously.

> If I lived in a perfect utopia, I would still have ADHD. If ADHD were made up, why do my genetic children also have a 40% chance of having ADHD? Why would that not be true if I adopted someone?

Personality and temperament differences exist yes. What we decide to label as a disease diagnosis is an entirely orthogonal question. ADHD is often diagnosed in rigid school environments that look nothing like homo sapiens' evolved natural habitat. It's not necessarily a disease not to flourish there. Yes I understand that given the environment, it makes sense to try to help as best as we can, and we can't single-handedly change society with a magic wand. Of course.
by rayiner | 2025-10-01 18:07:05+00:00
> Which isn't to say that there aren't problems with recent Supreme Court decisions in this area

The problems aren’t with the recent decisions, but the 1930s ones. I don’t think there’s a decision on the books today that was more clearly wrongly decided than Humphrey’s Executor. I mean:

> The commission is to be nonpartisan, and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality. It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law. Its duties are neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative.

The concession in italics should have made this a slam dunk case in the other direction. Enforcement of the law is the quintessential executive power. An English peasant in the 1600s could have gotten this one right. And where does the constitution say anything about Congress being able to create “quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative” bodies? The founders spilled all this ink to make three branches of government, but they really meant “j/k mix them all up into one unelected body if you want!”
by lightningzou | 2025-10-01 18:07:14+00:00
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by jeswin | 2025-10-01 18:07:16+00:00
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by shadowgovt | 2025-10-01 18:07:25+00:00
It turns out in the end, we are solving problems for real people, and so all the messiness of real people: the pettiness, the tribal nature, the bickering, the facts-bent-to-justify-feelings... That's in the problem domain.

(For software engineers in particular, who can trend towards wanting to think of themselves as little logic-machines divorced from that kind of behavior: I also think it's a good exercise to keep that stuff in-scope because we are not immune to our own humanity, and recognizing when others are being tribal and petty makes it easier to recognize it in ourselves.)
by exmadscientist | 2025-10-01 18:07:27+00:00
It turns out that that the degree to which you can avoid politics is proportional to the number of other people involved. You can probably safely ignore international politics: there are around 8 billion other people involved in it, and unless you are prepared to devote most of your time to it, you probably aren't going to move any needles anywhere.

Family politics, on the other hand, involves maybe a dozen people. Usually less. We don't even call it "family politics" even though it really kind of is. Family politics is important and you can not opt out unless you don't want (this) family. Even disengagement is a form of active participation here!

Somewhere in between, there is a line. The author says (and I agree) that workplace politics is on the "really you should be caring" side.
by mindcrime | 2025-10-01 18:07:45+00:00
> Did you read the article?

FWIW, the HN guidelines[1] specifically ask that we not do that.

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by brudgers | 2025-10-01 18:08:13+00:00
Without flood insurance banks won’t write mortgages and home ownership has been a Federal policy objective since at least the 19th century, e.g. the homestead act.

To be clear, banks once wrote mortgages without flood insurance and that’s how places like Gulfport were originally built out.

Not saying any of this is good. Not saying it is bad. Just saying it is.
by xor3000 | 2025-10-01 18:08:19+00:00
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by lupusreal | 2025-10-01 18:08:21+00:00
I think it might loop back around pretty quick. I've been using it to write custom GUI interfaces to streamline how I use the computer, I'm working piecemeal towards and entire desktop environment custom made to my own quirky preferences. In the past a big part of the reason I used the terminal so often for basic things was general frustration and discomfort using the mainstream GUI tools, but that's rapidly changing for me.
by b112 | 2025-10-01 18:08:32+00:00
None of these answers are accurate.

What happened is that this county gathering has been happening for centuries. Since 1253 in truth. First it was called a gathering, then a cobble, and finally in 1582, the Franks took it over.

It was highly popularized as a French affair. The whimsical garb, the music, all something the stodgy English would have no part in. In fact, so stodge were they that it was forced outdoors, as none would rent to the Franks for this. Quite rude, in the rainy land of the Brits!

Eventually it became Frank-aire, just as other loan words from French, like concessionaire or millionaire, and then just Faire.

It's really the world's longest running annual gathering, where there's always a redhead in the same maid outfit. 538 years running, this year in fact! You can find it in the Guinness Book of World Records!
by tikhonj | 2025-10-01 18:08:42+00:00
My experience has been 100% the opposite. Daily public status check-ins, top-down decisions, every work interaction mediated through artificial structure? The points are made up, the deadlines are obviously fake, but everyone acts as if they are real? Except when they're not?

That, on its own, would make it clear the environment wasn't built for me.

The fact that the environment was very obviously built for management—for information to flow up so that decisions can flow down—but also that nobody is willing to acknowledge that? That just makes it even clearer.

I've worked in an environment that did feel like it was built for me, and it was pretty much the opposite of scrum/agile/etc. I had real trust with a clearly defined area of ownership. I was responsible for managing the interfaces and interaction points around my area and, occasionally, for real deadlines (with real context!), not a slog of fake short-term deadlines that exist just to create pressure. I didn't have to break down or justify my work in terms of bite-sized tasks that could roll up into somebody's spreadsheet.

And the best part? We got more done, faster, than conventionally managed teams.

If the culture hadn't been totally ruined by a reorg, I'd still be there. I'm still sad I haven't been able to find anything similar since. But, having experience that, I am only more confident that scrum et al are absolutely not built for me.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 18:08:54+00:00
>If one person with high cholesterol does not get heart disease then cholesterol is not the problem. Fact. Logic.

This is such a silly statement I'm not sure where to begin. Plenty of people smoke and drink and don't die of issues related to smoking or drinking, but smoking and drinking are bad for you.

Individual response to things varies. No one reasonable is going to say that because such and such person did X, Y, Z things that we know are bad and didn't have a negative outcome that we must flip the script on if those things are bad are not. Exceptions exist for a wide variety of reasons.

> It’s not that I haven’t died yet either. My calcium artery score was zero. I have no plaque in my arteries and I’ve had high cholesterol for probably 30 years of my life because of my genetics.

Calcium score does not tell you how much plaque you have in your arteries - it tells you how much calcified plaque you have in your arteries. This is NOT the same thing. You need a CCTA to tell if you have soft plaque or not.

I'm sorry, but you're just severely misinformed here and spreading all sorts of dangerous misinformation all over the comments here.
by osigurdson | 2025-10-01 18:08:59+00:00
Actually I think .NET config is pretty good. You define a file, which can be overridden by environment variables which in turn can be overridden by command line parameters. Just reading environment variables is fine as well but then you have to do source .env before you run anything (unless you are talking about Python like approach where .env is just another config file essentially).
by inside_story | 2025-10-01 18:09:21+00:00
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by teddyh | 2025-10-01 18:09:22+00:00
> Tribeless suits me just fine.

Just because you’re not a part of the prominent tribes that you see around you does not make you tribeless.

— […] and I have no culture of my own.

— Yes you do. You’re a culture of one. Which is no less valid that a culture of one billion.

— Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 16, Birthright, Part I
by yazmi | 2025-10-01 18:09:40+00:00
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by palmotea | 2025-10-01 18:09:53+00:00
> This reminds me of a similar article that might have been posted on here about tech now focusing on hype as the product.

It kind of reminds me of the money-manking strategy where someone buys a business with a good reputation, debases its products, then profits from the (temporary) price premium it can still charge due to is prior reputation.

These people are well on the way to ruining tech's reputation, but they don't care because they hope to get rich(er) in the process.
Show HN: Dire - CLI that automates i18n translations
by Dearth | 2025-10-01 18:09:53+00:00
Devs on my team kept forgetting to add i18n translations. It was boring manual labor that killed flow, so I built a CLI in Go to automate 90% of it.

Now when someone wants to add new translations, they just run a one line script (we've set up a script in our `package.json` to just run `npm run translate`) and it handles all the locales automatically.

What mattered to us when building this:

- No vendor lock-in. If this tool disappears tomorrow, you still have all your translations - Fast enough that it doesn't break your flow - One command to run, that's it - Accurate enough (around 80%) that review doesn't take forever - Glossary support so established terminology stays consistent

Works with JSON locale files in any frontend project. It uses your provider of choice (bring your own API key for DeepL, Claude, OpenAI, etc.) and has built-in memory so it doesn't retranslate the same strings.

Happy to answer questions

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dire