MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nailer | 2025-10-12 02:14:14+00:00
> leftists professors" and promoting their harassment

That’s an incredible inversion of defending students from professors demanding conformance to their political beliefs rather than educating.

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/

> He was literally against civil rights, openly.

The silly thing about criticising a public speaker for saying things they didn’t is there are ample videos of them speaking about the topic.

No. He pointed out correctly that black Americans were poorer now than they were in 1950, and pointed out that one cause could be how the civil rights Act (which is not the same thing as civil rights) was interpreted. You can easily look up the many conversations on this topic for yourself.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A5e3Nb/

> trans are all groomers

Here’s how he handled a trans identifying child:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A5dgQa/

I found these while searching and thought they were sweet: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A5S9Gv/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A59yhk/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A5GoW1/
by aworks | 2025-10-12 02:14:50+00:00
I don't know.

Yes, I moved from Yahoo to Google in multiple apps. And yet, once I subscribed to ChatGPT, it satisfies what I need, despite all the noise I hear about the alternatives.

I haven't yet begun to absorb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513234. Presumably the median AI user won't either.
by Froedlich | 2025-10-12 02:15:06+00:00
I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux software written for Qt has been ported to Haiku.

In the end I wound up with basically the same application software as on my Debian desktop, except running on Haiku instead of Linux. Haiku is noticeably snappier and more responsive than Linux+X+Qt+KDE, though.
by ksec | 2025-10-12 02:17:00+00:00
Genie 3 is still currently low quality, low resolution and not anywhere near current AAA graphics, while requiring hardware that exceed current AAA Graphics requirements.

For Genie to exceed AAA Graphics in 2035 at 60 to 120fps per second would require a breakthrough of efficiency that is at least an order of magnitude, and much higher for it to be cost effective.

The gaming industry for AAA titles requires at least 3-4 years in making. Which means AAA titles studios would need to start working on it in 2031. Possibility of All AAA games in 2031 are made with LLM model is practically zero.
by epcoa | 2025-10-12 02:17:57+00:00
One example was already given. Epic dates back to 1979, certainly they were doing something prior to 2009 (as was Cerner and Meditech). Other than HITECH, what other major regulation in the US are you referring to?

https://international.kaiserpermanente.org/wp-content/upload...

Both UPMC and Cleveland Clinic were early adopters around 2001. Meditech has been partnered with HCA since 1994.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-12 02:18:17+00:00
I did/do too. I think it is possible to value:

1. The techniques, inspiration and creativity of skilled human artists.

2. The personality of art by unskilled artists.

3. The use of generative AI to replace generic clip art. A little whimsy to dress up plain text.

Is anyone really crusading to protect generic clip art? No?

There should be something like rule 34 for social and cultural movements. For every movement, the ideological version will get performatively or knee jerk expressed, with shame throwing, in benign situations.

> Actually, the dodgy GenAI calculator image at the top primed me for even more failure, making the excellent content that followed even more surprising.

This was poor spirited, personal itch scratching. We can just compliment a writer on their writing, if they are a writer, presenting themselves as a writer, not a visual artist.
by nateb2022 | 2025-10-12 02:20:20+00:00
You're looking for https://www.wscuc.org/directory/

ACSWASC is the Accrediting Commission for elementary and secondary schools, adult schools, and supplementary education programs. WSCUC is the senior college and university commission.

UC Berkeley: https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/university-of-california-...

Stanford: https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/stanford-university/

UCLA: https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/university-of-california-...

University of the People: https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/university-of-the-people/
by Froedlich | 2025-10-12 02:20:53+00:00
DESQview/X sucked the wind out of DESQview's sails. It was, on paper, a massive upgrade. I had been running DESQview for years, with a dial-up BBS in the background.

But you couldn't actually buy /X. After trying to buy a copy, my publisher even contacted DESQ's marketing people to get a copy for me, and they wouldn't turn one over. Supposedly there were some copies actually sold, but too few, too late, and then /X was dropped. There was at least one more release of plain DESQview after that, but by then Windows was eating its lunch.
by fourthark | 2025-10-12 02:21:06+00:00
> It’s a lot easier than working with actual people because you don’t have to worry about offending or discouraging them

But you have to worry much more about confusing LLMs by introducing contradictory ideas or talking about too many things at once.

They will not call you out and they will not recover.

You don’t need to reboot your coworkers.
by rectang | 2025-10-12 02:21:21+00:00
Idealized checked exceptions are isomorphic to Rust's `Result` type, which is great.

Java's implementation of checked exceptions has some issues, though.

* "Invisible control flow", where you can't tell from the call site whether or not a call might throw (you need to check the signature, which is off in some other file, or perhaps visible in an IDE if you hover).

* Java has both checked and unchecked exceptions, but they go through the same try-catch mechanism, failing to make a clean distinction between recoverable errors and unrecoverable bugs. (In e.g. Rust and Go, recoverable errors go through return values but unrecoverable errors go through panics.)

In the end, Java's exception design simultaneously requires a lot of effort to comply with, but makes it difficult to understand when you've successfully locked things down.
by notaurus | 2025-10-12 02:21:56+00:00
Honestly par for the course for human treatment of chickens. See chick culling [1]. Billions of baby chicks are macerated live because they are not commercially useful.

> Worldwide: As of 2015, approximately 7 billion male chicks were culled annually around the world

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-12 02:22:45+00:00
The global financial system has gone through successive iterations, each somewhat distinct from the previous version. Ex: post ww2 Bretton Woods to the aptly named "Bretton Woods II" post 1970 gold standard break.

The current iteration is almost certainly a phase, not an end point.

The system itself can be viewed through the lens of a sort of technology that is evolving like any other technology, and concepts like "paradigm shifts" can apply to the monetary system as well.

This particular system that we have is stable (perhaps only) within the context of a stable US centered world monetary order. Usually the conversation quickly veers into the decline of the US, etc, but that's not my point here to be clear. The current system is based on offshore dollars (eurodollars - confusing name, nothing to do with the euro currency) bound together in a 20 trillion dollar eurodollar derivatives market, which essentially takes Fed policy and propagates it through basis trades to the global Eurodollar system that is technically entirely outside of US jurisdiction. When the Fed does something like change interest rates, which is apparently quite important if you look at Bloomberg/Reuters etc, ask yourself what exactly is happening when interbank lending rates change. Map it out, it may be surprising. What's even more surprising is the lack of discussion about what things like rate changes actually mean technically, despite the vast mainstream discussion around these topics.

Since 2020 we have seen first hand that the world is actually quite isolated from the traditional banking space in many ways, on a first order basis. It's the higher order effects (such as policy propagation into global markets which are quite disconnected from Fed policy) that matter. The matter to note is that this is increasingly vestigial in nature, and evolution tends to eventually drop the vestigial remnants.

(I know these conversations tend to veer into doom and conspiracy, that isn't the intent at all. I think most would be surprised if the current system as it stands persists for another 100 years, if not 50, and that's a standard idea to have.)
by apwell23 | 2025-10-12 02:23:07+00:00
it was fine to say this is something new and ppl should maybe look at it. but strongly recommending its and calling it wild is not a nuanced opinion. esp given you have not actually used it yourself in any serious way. is it really that big a ask to only use hype words for things you've actually used and made a big difference to you.

edit: looks like my comments crossed into personally attacking you . i apologize for it.
by estearum | 2025-10-12 02:23:38+00:00
Yeah agreed. I'm not sure any civilian politician would really be charged for that type of violation though. Would've been nice if the DNC apparatus didn't downplay as if it didn't matter at all though: it does!

Note that this is actually quite different from the Mar-a-Lago case where Trump was asked to return documents, he said he did, then said he didn't have them, then asked people "what if we just said we didn't have them", then he was asked to return them again, and he said he didn't know anything about it.
by defrost | 2025-10-12 02:24:45+00:00
> Even the most cynical of us didn't think he'd lose.

Perhaps a few within the US bubble thought that.

From the outside the asymmetry was pretty clear, the bulk of global manufacturing takes place within China, the bulk of mining and processing of technological vital inputs was under a Chinese umbrella, and the time to rebuild manufacturing and supply pipelines was on the order of a decade plus.

The US is a customer in a world full of customers and potential trade partners, China has found other customers, trade partners have been forced to develop trade outside of former US trade agreements.

It would have taken a long term careful plan to bring back manufacturing, trade dominance and critical supply chains to the US, doable but not exactly Trump's forte.
by userbinator | 2025-10-12 02:24:53+00:00
Reading the part about using foam to make these drives quieter, and the link to the author's other article about putting drives on foam, makes me write this obligatory warning: hard drives do not like non-rigid mounting. Yes, the servo can usually still position the heads on the right track (since it's a servo), but power dissipation will be higher, performance will be lower, and you may get more errors with a non-rigid mount. Around 20 years ago it was a short-lived fad in the silent-PC community to suspend drives on rubber bands, and many of those who did that experienced unusually short drive lifetimes and very high seek error rates. Elasticity is the worst, since it causes the actuator arm to oscillate. The ideal mount is as rigid as possible.
by ggm | 2025-10-12 02:25:36+00:00
> Even the most cynical of us didn't think he'd lose.

Excuse me? As a sentence it's a fine sentence. It's not anchored in reality. Paul Krugman amongst others has been constantly reminding his subscriber list (448,000) that this is a trade war which only has losers. There is no factual basis to the assertion either only the most cynical of us, or didn't think.
by int_19h | 2025-10-12 02:26:03+00:00
Yes. The Soviet system did not require me to jump multiple hoops to get healthcare. Either it was covered or it wasn't, and if it was then there was surprisingly little bureaucracy for the end user.

I'm not a fan of Soviet communism in general, and that's putting it mildly. I'm not a huge fan of its healthcare system either because while it was truly universal, it deprioritized patient comfort - so e.g. many things would be done without anesthesia or with only the very basic stuff that wasn't particularly effective. Dental, in particular, was a nightmare.

Nevertheless, your points are so wildly off that they deserve pushback.
by apparent | 2025-10-12 02:26:38+00:00
I always wondered about how this fit with the TOS. People paid for Prime with the expectation it was ad-free. Then it got ads, and now it has tons. I never watch anything anymore, which I guess saves them $ because they don't have to pay the content providers. But it sure feels lousy to be a boiled frog. I would ditch it if my wife didn't insist on keeping Prime.
by godelski | 2025-10-12 02:26:59+00:00
A lot of people also don't know that many of the well known papers are just variations on small time papers with a fuck ton more compute thrown at the problem. Probably the strongest feature that correlates to successful researcher is compute. Many have taken this to claim that the GPU poor can't contribute but that ignores so many other valid explanations... and we wonder why innovation has slowed... It's also weird because if compute was all you need then there's a much cheaper option than Zuck paid. But he's paying for fame.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-12 02:27:01+00:00
Could be himself be the one he speaks of?

Even while we have major methane leaks in Antarctica, which is the stuff that runaway events are made of, he and his ilk still say that climate change a lie, when in truth they're the ones doing the lying.

Fwiw, he will turn 66 in '33. Tell me that's a coincidence.
by bxparks | 2025-10-12 02:27:12+00:00
I also have low-E windows all around, and I still have good cell phone reception. I think it's your aluminum siding.

As I understand, low-E reflects solar thermal infrared radiation (3-8 microns, 37-100 THz), while letting through visible light. I don't think it affects 5 GHz radio waves very much.

But yeah, it would be very satisfying to finally wire the house with ethernet.
by taftster | 2025-10-12 02:28:13+00:00
Agreed. These are good examples where annotations seem like a good fit. Being able to tell a processor that a method or field is "special". Test methods, serializable hints, etc.

It's kind of like, when annotations were delivered to Java, lots of projects thought they were just the next greatest thing. I followed right along at the time, as well.

But over time, finding the value in the configuration-as-code approach to application deployment, I definitely feel that annotations have been abused for many use cases.
by martinald | 2025-10-12 02:28:34+00:00
Why is having so many bands a bad thing? Demand for data is so much higher now you need (ideally) hundreds of MHz of spectrum in dense areas. You need some way to partition that up as you can't just have one huge static block of spectrum per auction.

The issue with LTE isn't bands, it's the crappy way they have done VoLTE and also seemingly learnt nothing for VoNR.

They should have done something like GET volte.reserved/.well-known/volte-config (each carrier sets up their DNS to resolve volte.reserved to their ims server which provides config data to the phone). It would have given pretty much plug and play compatibility for all devices.

Instead the way it works is every phone has a (usually) hopelessly outdated lookup table of carriers and config files. Sort of works for Apple because they can push updates from one central place, but for Android it's a total mess.
by ggm | 2025-10-12 02:29:13+00:00
I am brought to remember that all these language introductions by REPL are great for single expressions, and once its more than about 8 lines of input the tedium sets in fast.

Cut paste made it much simpler, but of course the typing was reinforced learning. Thus, fools rush in..

C you were driven to edit-save-compile-run and a different kind of tedium set in (syntax fuckups, mis-hits, command delay, do I printf() debug or do I now learn how to use adb/gdb...
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 02:29:28+00:00
The action by the man in the original article is advocating for the killing of oneself. His advice is to avoid suffering it is best to kill yourself. Approving of that message is advocating for death over suffering and that’s just something I disagree with. It is my personal choice, but his personal choice has an impact on society so it’s not really a personal choice. If we find it acceptable for people to kill themselves to avoid suffering or in his case to avoid future suffering than I think this is something that needs to go beyond personal choice.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-12 02:31:06+00:00
My problem (in this example) isn't understanding, it's memorization. I can understand the concepts. But I have to not only understand the different concepts, I have to understand how they are used, I have to memorize a unique word for each of the three concepts, and I have to remember which word is which concept. It's actually four different mental activities, all of which need to be embedded in my long-term memory, and all for a thing I'll almost never use. Yes, people use mnemonics. But then I have to memorize the mnemonic and what it means, which adds a fifth activity to all this. To add more difficulty, each of these things needs a visual/spacial representation. So I need five different mental activities in five different spatial representations to remember and explain trig ratios.

And this is why it took 8 hours for me to do math homework every night.
by catlover76 | 2025-10-12 02:31:46+00:00
> You can admit Gaza was a mess

It's not merely a "mess", it was a mass slaughter full of war crimes and the deliberate killing and maiming of scores of civilians.

And it's a lot more than Gaza (whose very existence is a fundamental issue). The military occupation and slow annexation of the West Bank by government sponsored terrorists is also a problem.

> The people of the Abrahamic faiths have more in common than not.

What is the point of this platitude in light of the fact that Israel's government and society are largely irreligious anyways? Also, maybe tell it to the Israelis who bomb Churches, threaten to demolish the al-Aqsa mosque, etc. And which segments its citizens by race and prevents intermarriage.

I guess it does have a lot in common with Saudi Arabia, which is involved in killing a lot of civilians in Yemen.

A lot of us have learned a lot more about the country and its origins over the past 2 years and this kind of tack you're taking trying to pretend it's a normal country that has just made one or two errors is rather obviously hollow and silly.
by noisy_boy | 2025-10-12 02:31:56+00:00
By each passing day since I switched from using Windows to Linux at home, with decreasing friction, I am increasingly happy that I took time to learn Linux and stuck with it. This not a come to Linux call because I know it is easier said than done for most of non technical folks. But it is a testimony that if you do, the challenges eventually will be worth it. Because at this point, Microsoft is just openly insulting their captive users.
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-12 02:32:34+00:00
Salt is Group 2, isn't it? (Salt is present unless you make a low sodium guacamole or it's a recipe I've never seen)

Salt is the Group 2 ingredient that I was mentioning. Nova calls out adding salt or sugar to Group 1 makes it Group 3, and specifically calls out Group 1 does not contain added salt.

"Minimally processed foods, that together with unprocessed foods make up NOVA group 1, are unprocessed foods altered by industrial processes such as removal of inedible or unwanted parts, drying, crushing, grinding, fractioning, roasting, boiling, pasteurization, refrigeration, freezing, placing in containers, vacuum packaging or non-alcoholic fermentation. None of these processes add salt, sugar, oils or fats, or other food substances to the original food." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10260459/
by mgrandl | 2025-10-12 02:33:29+00:00
I keep trying Orion from time to time, but my experience is basically the opposite. Plugins rarely work, websites break and reported bugs just get ignored for years while the only activity in the forum posts are a bunch of +1. Basically at this point I don’t ever see myself switching to Orion.

I do pay for Kagi, which has been a wonderful service.
by itrummer | 2025-10-12 02:33:37+00:00
The approximation in ThalamusDB is relative to the best accuracy that can be achieved using the associated language models (LLMs). E.g., if ThalamusDB processes a subset of rows using LLMs, it can reason about possible results when applying LLMs to the remaining rows (taking into account all possible outcomes).

In general, when using LLMs, there are no formal guarantees on output quality anymore (but the same applies when using, e.g., human crowd workers for comparable tasks like image classification etc.).

Having said that, we did some experiments evaluating output accuracy for a prior version of ThalamusDB and the results are here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3654989 We will actually publish more results with the new version within the next few months as well. But, again, no formal guarantees.
by dhosek | 2025-10-12 02:35:39+00:00
It’s really just the idea that having a collection of music that I’ve curated through my own tastes means that I can safely do things like just tell my phone to shuffle all songs and I’ll be happy with what plays. Jason Kottke recently posted the kind of hacky thing he put together to be able to get music he likes playing through a web-based player that manages to combine all the various streaming sources where he gets his music and it seemed really sad that he had to do all that work while I can use my phone/itunes¹ in exactly the same way I did 17 years ago.

⸻

1. Yes it’s now just called “Music” but because “Apple Music” (intentionally, I think) confusingly refers to both the streaming service and the app I use to manage my digital music collection and because damnit, I’m the kind of old person from Chicago who still calls it the Sears Tower/Standard Oil Building/Northwestern Station/Comiskey/etc., I’m gonna still call it iTunes.
by olyjohn | 2025-10-12 02:35:43+00:00
I don't know how long they are supposed to last always on, but I have done a few always-on displays with cheap-ass consumer TVs. They have always been fine left on for a couple of years. I mean, some of them got turned off on weekends and stuff, but for the price of a commercial display, you can buy 4 cheap-ass displays, and just replace one if it dies. I've also seen lots of these commercial displays die as well... I just don't believe they are really worth spending the money on. Of course, this was back before every consumer TV was a smart TV. I dunno if you can find cheap-ass TVs that aren't smart anymore.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-12 02:35:47+00:00
You can get the same thing with lit-html and any of the add on libraries that flesh it out.

For example, Haunted is a react hooks implementation for lit: https://github.com/matthewp/haunted

Choo suffered from not having an ecosystem, same with mithtil and other "like react but not" also-rans.
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-12 02:36:17+00:00
I mean... different dishes have different names. Mashed avocados would probably just be called mashed avocados. Guacamole has many many regional versions, but I do think salt would be considered an essential ingredient in most of them. Salt would be a Group 2 ingredient. Nova calls out adding salt or sugar to Group 1 makes it Group 3, and specifically calls out Group 1 does not contain added salt.

"Minimally processed foods, that together with unprocessed foods make up NOVA group 1, are unprocessed foods altered by industrial processes such as removal of inedible or unwanted parts, drying, crushing, grinding, fractioning, roasting, boiling, pasteurization, refrigeration, freezing, placing in containers, vacuum packaging or non-alcoholic fermentation. None of these processes add salt, sugar, oils or fats, or other food substances to the original food." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10260459/