MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrowen | 2025-10-10 19:16:55+00:00
Thank you for the detailed explanation. In that case it makes sense because it was actually writing or recordkeeping done by a human hand that failed to communicate some pertinent bits of information (though in a more abstract sense than being physically unable to read the glyphs).

Extending it to observations of natural or emergent phenomena seems like a reach for fanciness when "inscrutable," "unclear," "murky," or "poorly understood" would be more accurate to me.

Edit: Upon further review, I am coming around to it a bit, in the sense of performance reviews looking for the wrong thing, but I still think the larger point is about something more complex that poor evaluation metrics are just a symptom of rather than the cause.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-10-10 19:17:16+00:00
It's kind of a beautiful turn of phrase, in that the filing cabinet is entirely superfluous, you can use almost any noun. "it’s a little like having two versions of a website’s sub sandwich — the AI agent can experiment freely with a development sandwich, but the production sandwich, which is the real thing that users interact with, is completely walled off".

"When you click a button on our website, a request is sent across the internet to our servers, it's a little like if a sockeye salmon was sent across the internet to our servers."
by schmookeeg | 2025-10-10 19:17:50+00:00
I'm surprised at this expectation.

I work hard to cultivate hobbies outside of programming, but inevitably, I find a way to improve that other hobby with software. I'm just wired like that I think. I love systems. Code is my love language. :)

I'm currently trying to digitize a hopelessly analog procedure to calibrate aircraft engine fuel injection systems. Rpi, transducers, and python to the rescue! :D
by jfengel | 2025-10-10 19:18:13+00:00
Clinton's budget surpluses had more to do with the dotcom boom than with his spending plans. Federal spending continued to rise all through the 90s:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W019RCQ027SBEA

Budgets were balanced by slightly higher tax rates, and a whole lot of capital gains to tax.

We've got a massive market bubble right now, and could potentially make a dent in the deficit by taxing it. The deficit has grown so much since the 90s that you couldn't come anywhere close to balancing it even with an aggressive tax regime, but it would be much more effective than haphazardly firing Federal employees.

We did actually raise taxes a bit -- or rather, tariffs. They've taken in about $150B, more than DOGE has done. But that comes mostly from the poor and middle class, and doesn't come anywhere close to balancing the tax cuts (which go primarily to the upper class).
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-10 19:18:53+00:00
That'd be great. But how would you define what's advertising and what's not?

I've built a relatively successful professional photography side hussle without "advertising" as in, I've never paid for an ad on any of the social platforms or google ads. Most of my business comes from word of mouth, or hits on my website.

But, is the SEO I do advertising? What about when I share my work to my socials, is that advertising? Post a reel of behind the scenes footage of me photographing a wedding so potential clients can see my process, is that advertising?

I do all of those things with the goal to drum up business, but they fall outside of the traditional meaning of the word. Likewise with product placement in films, influencer marketing, etc.

How do we even begin to draw the line at what is an advertisement and whats not?
by kg | 2025-10-10 19:18:56+00:00
To draw lines instead of a geometry shader you can use instancing, since you know how many vertices you need to represent a line segment's bounding box. Have one vertex buffer that just contains N vertices (the actual attribute data doesn't matter, but you can shove UVs or index values in there) and bind it alongside a buffer containing your actual line information (start, end, color, etc). The driver+GPU will replicate the 'line vertex buffer' vertices for every instance in the 'line instance buffer' that you bound.

This works for most other regular shapes too, like a relatively tight bounding box for circles if you're drawing a bunch of them.
by Sean-Der | 2025-10-10 19:18:59+00:00
The first time I talked with AI santa[0] and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself.

What's even more exciting is YOU CAN BUILD IT YOURSELF.

* libpeer [1]

* pion [2]

Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible. If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg

[1] https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer

[2] https://github.com/pion/webrtc

[3] https://github.com/sean-der
by tastyface | 2025-10-10 19:19:25+00:00
In what sense is the current administration not a fascist one? They are consolidating plenary authority in the executive, erasing democratic norms, enacting lawfare against political enemies with the DOJ, abducting undesirables to torture camps in legally untouchable countries, pardoning convicted insurrectionists, and treating Blue areas like enemy territory -- up to and including military occupation. This is unprecedented in American politics since the Civil War.

Not everyone to the right of the "far left" is a fascist, but the administration in power undeniably has a fascist core. And people who actually study this stuff professionally largely agree.

"We are in the process of the second American Revolution which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
by feoren | 2025-10-10 19:19:26+00:00
> Should it be memory-efficient? Fast? Secure? Simple? Easy to formally prove? Easy for beginners? Work on old architecture? Work on embedded architecture?

What do any of these have to do with guarantees of long-term compatibility? I'm not arguing that there should be One Programming Language To Rule Them All, I'm asking about whether we can design better guarantees about long-term compatibility into new programming languages.
by jtbayly | 2025-10-10 19:19:28+00:00
He who pays the piper...

This is why a couple of conservative schools don't accept any sort of federal money. Liberal schools might be considering doing the same.

Otherwise, yes, an independent school can do what they want. If you want to be truly independent, you have to be willing to walk away from the money. Anybody that gives money can attach conditions to it, including the government.
by zoidb | 2025-10-10 19:20:01+00:00
The bloat of the neovim distributions are real and what I would suggest for anyone who is a long time vim user is to check out kickstart. https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim , specifically the modular fork https://github.com/dam9000/kickstart-modular.nvim which will give you a great (minimal) starting point
by standardUser | 2025-10-10 19:20:07+00:00
Before authoritarian rule, Venezuela was one of the wealthiest nations in the global South (if not one of the wealthiest period in the 50-60s). Then Chávez came along and stacked the courts with lackeys, intimidated critical media outlets and harassed journalists, diverted state spending for political patronage, demanded loyalty oaths from underlings, injected "Bolivarian" ideology into schools and sports, took control of private industry...

I'd tell you what he did to elections but we'll all find out soon enough.
by astrange | 2025-10-10 19:20:31+00:00
"The Iraq War was for oil" -> the Iraq War was because Dick Cheney felt like it. Noone made any money or got any oil and in general US defense companies make /less/ money during war than peacetime.

"Housing is expensive because Blackstone/BlackRock bought all the houses and is keeping them empty to raise prices" -> very common online and couldn't be less true if it tried.

"X politician gets donations from big tech companies" -> 99% comes from misreading donations on OpenSecrets from /employees of a company/ as if they were the company itself, but employees have different interests than their employer.
by jzelinskie | 2025-10-10 19:20:44+00:00
I rebuild from HEAD using homebrew quite regularly and have maybe had a single crash in years using Helix, so I'm shocked to see Julia report she's had crashes. But because I run HEAD, I can tell you what's actually merged which might not be released yet:

> Code actions on save

There are command on save hooks which solve the problem for Go, but I could see this being not as applicable for other languages.

> Fuzzy search

Man, I'm pretty sure this shipped before telescope was particular stable or popular. Although, I don't recall if Helix originally used the ripgrep backend at first. They reworked it earlier this year and it was a massive improvement.

> Automatically updating buffers

+1 to this. I constantly suspend (ctrl+z) my editor and sometimes forget about it and could really use this prompt.

> File tree in browser

Space+e or Space+E opens a hierarchical file explorer on HEAD, but this is definitely relatively new
by sarchertech | 2025-10-10 19:21:27+00:00
>indirectly through medical boards reducing capacity

My wife has served on government medical advisory boards, and handles resident education. I've heard plenty of virtual meetings in the background. I've never once heard anyone discussing adding requirements for any unnecessary reason whatsoever. Not even a hint anything that would reduce capacity. If anything it's "how can we add capacity without reducing quality?"

>absurd hour restrictions

What do you mean by hour restrictions? The only hour restrictions that are enforced are on Residents and that is 80 hours per week.

If you're talking about doctors choosing to work less than 40 hours per week, that's general because they'll completely burn out. My wife is a pediatric ER doctor, she works less than 40 hours per week, but she has no set schedule and could be working 7a-4p one day, 1p-11p the next, and 10p-7a the next. For many of those shifts she's the only doctor there, and is responsible for the life and death of every single patient that walks through the door. She's the one who gets to tell a young mom that her 3 year old has a brain tumor, she's the one who has to code an already dead 5 year old found face down in a pool victim for an extra 15 minutes so her parents can get there because studies have shown it helps them process grief if they can see people doing everything they can to save their kid. And to top it off any mistake she makes could literally cost us our house because it's relatively common in our state for people to awarded judgements that are larger than malpractice insurance limits.

If she worked 40 hours a week she'd be completely burned out in 6 months.

>excessive testing & procedures

You can 100% blame fear of litigation for that. My wife is constantly balancing her desire to save patient's parent's money with her desire to get answers and her fear of legal liability.

>petty / pointless consults

You can blame fear of litigation for that one too. Calling in a specialist for a consult works the same as testing. It's a balancing act.

I know a lot of doctors, some of them are assholes, but I don't know a single one who even consider changing their treatment recommendations based on how much money it nets them.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-10 19:21:35+00:00
> showing me same ad each day would convince someone to eventually try something they are not interested in

* not interested in right now.

Showing the same ad to the same person (or cohort of people) works. Eventually, someone in the cohort may be interested in that product/service at some point in their lfie and they are more likely to pick a brand they are familiar with. They are now familiar with that brand after having seen it everywhere all over their internet browsing, sometimes for months or years at a time.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-10-10 19:23:14+00:00
Depends if our goal is to have zero aircraft crashes. If the goal is zero, then for any given parameter, you have to define a margin of safety well before crash territory and treat breaching that margin as seriously as if there had been a crash.

Similarly planes are kept 5 nautical miles apart horizontally, and if they get closer than that, you guessed it - investigation. Ofc planes could come within inches and everyone could live, but if we normalize flying within inches, the we are also normalizing zero safety margin, turning small minor inevitable human failings into catastrophe death & destruction. As an example, planes communicate with ATC over the radio and are given explicit instructions - turn left 20 degrees, fly heading 140 etc. From time to time these instructions are misunderstood and have to be corrected. At 5nm separation everyone involved has plenty of time to notice that something was missed/garbled/misinterpreted etc and correct. At 1 inch separation, there's no such time. Any mistake is fatal, even though in theory you are safe when separated by 1 inch.

TBC an investigation doesn't mean investigating the pilots in order to assign blame, it means investigating the entire aviation system that led up to the breach. The pilot's actions / inaction will certainly be part of that, but the goal is to ask, "How could this have been avoided, and ask how every part of the system that we have some control or influence over might have contributed to the outcome"
by zimpenfish | 2025-10-10 19:23:24+00:00
> I tried to switch from neovim to helix for a couple weeks

I bounced off after a couple of hours because 35 years of muscle memory for vim commands meant I was making constant infuriating mistakes[0]. Which is a shame because I'd really like to use helix and avoid the neovim config faff.

[0] I did try one of the "vim keybindings for helix" but they were only partially correct and that annoyed me even more.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-10-10 19:23:35+00:00
I am affiliated and have been affiliated with several top universities, including the two in Cambridge, MA. I'm an academic. I say that because this stuff directly affects my career prospects.

The Compact itself can be found here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/1... It's short, I ask that you read it before commenting.

It's too bad MIT has taken this stance. I think the Compact is overall an obviously reasonable, good-faith effort to improve universities in the United States. The one area I'd change a bit is the specific mention of "conservative" ideas:

"...purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas."

It's entirely fair because these universities do purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas. But it's not what I'd want in such a document because next time around it could be "liberal" ideas, or "communist" ideas, or...

Everything else seems on the nose. I would hasten to remind you that the threat is not "we'll force you to do this stuff", it is "if you want federal funding, you'll do this stuff". Which seems fine to me. Much of the document is merely trying to actually enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-10 19:23:44+00:00
> its about to push this in a moment

The point is acetaldehyde metabolism is at the heart of your question: Why do some people flush red with alcohol.

Reading the first reference on Wikipedia's article about alcohol flushing [1][2] would have generated, I believe, more understanding about the biochemistry involved. (And the fact that ALDH2 deficiency simply exacerbates something we all do--acetaldehyde is a big part of what causes hangovers.)

What that would not have done is demonstrate (a) a genuinely interesting way to "step through" a physical system and (b) the ease with which a biochemist might be able to do so. As a hack and a project and a mode of communicating a model, I love this. Where I'm objecting is in pitching it per se as a mode for understanding a phenomenon, in this case, "what ALDH2 deficiency is."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction#cite_no...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2659709/
by kkukshtel | 2025-10-10 19:24:03+00:00
Building demos as a key part of development is really key imo. Demos act as a half-step between working on the software (programming) and writing about the software (writing). Demos act more as a way to continually validate your own theses about what a project SHOULD do, and act as nice feedback mechanism as you continue to work. They are also long-living, so when you break something you can see you broke it and continue the feedback system again.

I do this as part of the work on my own game engine:

https://github.com/zinc-framework/Zinc.Demos/tree/main/Zinc....
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-10 19:24:42+00:00
> The other commenter was saying they don't have incentives to cut costs because of the MLR limit, but that limit is a 25% margin over the cost of their "product." For a product that boils down to just moving money around, 25% is pretty good.

I don’t know where you are getting 25% from. See exhibit 2:

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2024/sep/...

Medical loss ratios float between 80% to 90%, leaving 10% to 20% for operating costs and profit.

Their “product” requires enormous manpower to negotiate contracts, handle customer service, lawyers for the government, and most of all, employ doctors and pharmacists to adjudicate claims.

> It would make sense if they don't care about cutting costs because the law doesn't allow them to spend less, but that's not where they are at the moment.

Of course, and the obvious fact of the matter is insurance prices are heavily regulated and there is competition, so they already have an incentive to control costs in order to control premiums. Which is literally what their customers pay them for, to negotiate with healthcare providers with whom customers usually wouldn’t have leverage against.

>If they could cut their medical spending by 1% they could increase their profit by 40%.

Sure, but in industries like insurance and retail, the low single digit profit margins indicate a more pressing need to survive, rather than increase nominal profit.
by troupo | 2025-10-10 19:24:56+00:00
The problem is defining what is political ads. I haven't read the regulation yet (full text here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/900/oj/eng) so I'm just speculating.

E.g. Russia happily bans organisations that promote AIDS awareness because they a) receive foreign money and b) "work to influence political decisions".

Oh, we all know which political ads we don't want. The problem is that sometimes promoting worthwhile causes or just existing may and will end up political
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-10 19:25:01+00:00
No, the 2025 Republican party is definitely fascist.

Wikipedia: "Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy"

- Dictatorial leader - President Trump tries to push things through Executive Orders, which are supposed to go through Congress. And that one guy in his admin said he has "plenary" (I guess meaning total, unquestioned) authority

- Centralized autocracy - "Autocracy is a form of government in which absolute power is held by one person, known as an autocrat. It includes absolute monarchy and all forms of dictatorship, while it is contrasted with democracy and other forms of free government" - Same thing

- Militarism - The President has deployed National Guard and militarized ICE agents to American cities under the guise of improving public safety. The real reason is to terrorize non-white people and prepare for interfering with or preventing the next election. He also attacked ships from another country without any just cause.

- Forcible suppression of opposition - I believe right now Trump's administration is going after an Attorney General? ICE has also been detaining and physically harming people who try to (legally) film them. There is certainly more suppression I'm forgetting and more in the pipeline. The Republican party also generally seemed okay with violence against Democratic Party elected officials. I seem to recall violence against Nancy Pelosi's husband went un-remarked-upon.

- Belief in a natural social hierarchy - I don't have pull quotes from elected officials but there is a lot of white supremacy in the Republican party and among their voter base. They have ideas like "America First" where, when you dig into it, "American" means "pure-blood white person". They also seem to broadly look down on women, gay people, transgender people, the usual suspects. Patriachy is popular among the right, they'll say things like wives should submit to their husbands, women would categorically be happier as stay-at-home mothers, and some have opposed women's right to vote.

- Subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race - We are being asked to give up our civil rights, as well as our free trade (via tariffs that nobody wants) for some nonsense efforts from the President and the Republican Party.

- Strong regimentation of society and the economy - Kind of a restatement but again - Tariffs, deploying the military and the police without warrants against citizens and residents who have not been properly accused of any crime, yada yada
by schreiaj | 2025-10-10 19:25:17+00:00
Would be cool to see some logs on server load, it's one thing to claim "scale to thousands of requests per second" it's another to show the logs of a €4 VPS doing it. I don't doubt it, when I did a similar experiment with golang I never noticed any real issues (aside from a misconfiguration at the proxy requiring a min size on the SSE response) but it would still be neat to see the logs/active users.