MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-11-19 15:45:01+00:00
They 100% are. I’m a cyclists in Seattle ride to and from work 4-5 days a week. This time of year it’s dark by 5pm so bike lights are on full force on the home commute. Being dazzled by oncoming bikes happens almost every trip. I absolutely hate it, it’s sometimes even worse than the cars, although car headlights have caught up in awfulness in the last few years. My least favorite type of overly bright bike lights are the blinding and also blinking rear red lights.

People do it for safety, but it doesn’t help. I literally can’t see where you are if you have a bright light shining in my face. The same thing is true if I’m in a car. As long as you have lights I can see you. If your lights are obnoxiously bright and especially if they are blinking you have succeeded in making people want to harm you, not increased your safety. The drivers who aren’t paying attention will not be more likely to see you if you are just a blinding glow of light.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-19 15:45:24+00:00
No, RCS is 'built for' a cheap and thinly vieled attempt for carriers to retain some control over messaging. Oh, and for mass surveillance purposes.

It's not a coincidence that RCS still requires carrier hardware and coordination, despite being an IP messaging protocol. It's also not a coincidence that the protocol did not feature E2EE, despite even student project protocols providing that.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-19 15:45:31+00:00
>A person who is immune to cult recruitment is a person who never feels isolation, desire, loneliness, grief, hope, fear of loss or lack of control, a person who never wants a hug or someone to talk to, who feels nothing at a smile from a stranger or the giggle of a baby.

Is it? Surely you can feel all those things and also be cynical enough to think no group can really provide a satisfying alternative.
by pengaru | 2025-11-19 15:45:36+00:00
Sure, but the OG Brat is a tiny truck by modern US standards. It's like the Miata of trucks.

Even my 01 Forester will look big parked next to the OG Brat. Despite looking diminutive next to most modern vehicles here in Cali... It's super annoying how big ~everything on the road has become.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-19 15:45:37+00:00
> The changes, proposed by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, changes core elements of the GDPR, making it easier for companies to share anonymized and pseudonymized personal datasets. They would allow AI companies to legally use personal data to train AI models, so long as that training complies with other GDPR requirements.

Put together and those two basically undo the entire concept of privacy as it’s trivially easy to target someone from a large enough “anonymous” set (there is no anonymous data, there only exists data that’s not labeled with an ID yet)
by immibis | 2025-11-19 15:45:48+00:00
I think this is all under the assumption that your goal is to make the project as successful as possible. If that's true, then if people think you should step down, you should. BUT can that happen? If you're trying to maximise project success, how can you also be so bad that people want you to step down? If you're not contributing but good-hearted, then you should select someone to run it day to day, but retain ultimate power in case that person turns out worse than you.
by mikewarot | 2025-11-19 15:45:58+00:00
According to the report, on page 7[1], it was connected to a WAGO terminal block 280-681 connector. Looking that up on Digikey[2,3] finds that it's a connector suitable for 28 through 12 AWG, up to 800 volts and 24 amps.(UL 20 Amps)

According to "3 - ENGINEERING - DALI - ENGINEERING FACTUAL REPORT"[5], page 20, the circuit was DC, 110 volts, going to a circuit breaker's "under voltage release" terminal. It was 17 AWG, according to page 23.

It apparently goes to a solenoid, and if [6] is in any way typical, it's only 2-6 watts of power in normal operation. This yields a current of 20-50 milliAmps.

Here's a nice animation of the connection failure on that wire.[4]

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/Board%20Summar...

[2] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/wago-corporation/...

[3] https://wago.priintcloud.com/datasheets/280-681/en_GG/d41d8c...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7PJoxaMZg

[5] https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19228257&Fi...

[6] https://abbsales.com/pdfs/tmax_techspecs.pdf
by quantummagic | 2025-11-19 15:46:12+00:00
Silos. You can create your own and say anything you want (only constrained by the law). Everyone else can join it, or blacklist it, for themselves. Nobody gets to shut off someone else's silo, they can only ignore it for themselves. Nobody gets to decide what other people choose to read or write.

For the case of Reddit, a silo maps nicely onto a subreddit. Within any subreddit the moderator can have full control, they can moderate it exactly as they choose. If you don't like it, create your own where you will have free rein.
by Taikonerd | 2025-11-19 15:46:49+00:00
I would also say -- in the late 90s, Perl's claim to fame was that it had CPAN. At the time, CPAN was revolutionary: a big, centralized repo of open-source libraries, which you could install with a single command.

Now, of course, that's a common and maybe even expected thing for a library to have: Python has Pypi, Javascript has NPM, etc.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-11-19 15:46:55+00:00
> But they aren’t going to those other developed countries

Canada is also in the midst of an immigration crisis. Western Europe has been debating how to deal with a steady stream of "refugees" for as long as I can remember being conscious of the news.

This is a remarkably shortsighted position and ignores the many, many other factors at play, e.g. the US's relatively high wealth / currency stability.
by groundzeros2015 | 2025-11-19 15:47:31+00:00
> The end result was a massive world-wide outage.

The world wide outage was actually caused by deploying several incorrect programs in an incorrect system.

The root one was actually a bad query as outlined in the article.

Let’s get philosophical for a second. Programs WILL be written incorrectly - you will deploy to production something that can’t possibly work. What should you do with a program that can’t work? Pretend this can’t happen? Or let you know so you can fix it?
by paulv | 2025-11-19 15:48:22+00:00
I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do.

Jim Weirich was a heavy perl user for a long time, and we were both involved in the Cincinnati perl mongers group. He found ruby and fell in love. He thought Ruby would be a good fit for me and we had a long conversation about why he preferred it to perl. It took me a few years, but I eventually took his advice. As usual, Jim was right, and I haven't written any perl since then.

tl;dr: for me, ruby killed perl.
by runjake | 2025-11-19 15:48:53+00:00
It sounds like Perl just wasn't your style and that's okay.

But, Perl was immensely popular, particularly in the 1990s in its 4.x/5.x days. We used it because it was precisely more elegant, ergonomic and performant than awk :-)

Later on, Python gained more traction because it was more batteries-included, and PHP evolved from being a toy named "Personal Home Page".
by toasterlovin | 2025-11-19 15:48:55+00:00
> I belonged to a cultic political party

Minor thing, but I prefer ‘cultish’ to ‘cultic’ for your usage. In academia, ‘cultic’ means anything to do with worship and lacks the association with cults as discussed in this thread, whereas ‘cultish’ is how I usually see people adjectivize ‘cult’ in the way you are doing.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-11-19 15:49:03+00:00
I have a hard time taking this kind of enlightened-centrist both-sides gruel very seriously. Calling every strong position "extreme" is a classic sleight-of-hand maneuver by people who want to mask their own wrong-side-of-history beliefs that they know they should feel ashamed of expressing.

Yes, yes, look for truth beyond labeled groups, but pretending that the "sides" are equal is some utterly moronic "Fair and Balanced" bullshit.

> it makes you realize that intelligent people can disagree with you without being monsters or morons.

Many issues really do have a bright dividing line. I mean, for fuck's sake, there are people who are currently fighting against releasing the Epstein files, documents that clearly incriminate pedophilic rape and sex trafficking.

> One friend became “convinced” that every major news story was manufactured consent.

I think the author here doesn't actually understand what manufactured consent is, because believing otherwise demonstrates media illiteracy. Talking about our extreme filter bubbles (community/information homogeneity) in one breath and then denying the pervasiveness of manufactured consent in the next is otherwise a perfect demonstration of Gell-Mann amnesia.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-11-19 15:49:10+00:00
> If you think there is one single fundamental essence that makes you you more than anything else, you’re at risk.

Pretty bad take right at the end. We're supposed to be ashamed of biological strengths? I have red hair and take pain very well[1], but I cannot speak to that being a strength in life because it's wrong to do so? There are other non-extreme examples of biological differences being strengths but that example alone dissolves the flippant conclusion.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-f...
by triceratops | 2025-11-19 15:49:13+00:00
Assuming he wants to eliminate all gifted programs because he said he wants to eliminate some of them is a type of ZDS. You also edited your earlier comment to say

> You disallow it for new kindergarten students one season, then next year remove it from 1st grade so they can’t go into accelerated programs and so on

I don't know how it works in NYC now, but it doesn't have to be like that. When I went to school you could always get into the gifted program at the beginning of any school year if your teacher put you up for it. You didn't have to be in the program since kindergarten.
by croon | 2025-11-19 15:49:15+00:00
Ok, maybe you're right, but can you categorize those and show that link?

Yes, the UPF classification used here likely flags some false positives and perhaps misses others, but if the methodology is otherwise sound and the link is there, even if fuzzy, I don't think it's as easy as you claim either. And even if if fuzzy, it's still useful as I would be healthier avoiding UPF (assuming accurate study), even if I would also avoid some perfectly healthy foods.
by underdeserver | 2025-11-19 15:49:36+00:00
> So the context of their comment is not some specific nuanced example. They made a blanket statement.

That is their opinion, I disagree with it, but I don't think it's an insulting or invalid opinion to have. There are codebases that ban nulls in other languages too.

> They are factually mistaken in their characterization of the use of unwrap()/expect() in general.

It's an opinion about a stylistic choice. I don't see what fact there is here that could be mistaken.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-19 15:49:46+00:00
Every single person has an internal narrative which justifies their own actions. Assuming that Karp doesn't is just totally bizarre and not an argument at all. "He just is evil and wants money", is not a coherent explanation of anybody.

Hilariously this who thing was one of the central debates in Germany, which got significantly influenced by Habermas. If some people are "just evil", then National Socialism will just spontaneously come again and again, it is not a coherent theory of human behavior.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-19 15:50:05+00:00
Is it though? Or is it, oh, this is such a simple change that we really don't need to test it attitude? I'm not saying this applies to TFA, but some people are so confident that no pressure is felt.

However, you forgot that the lighting conditions are where only red lights from the klaxons are showing so you really can't differentiate the colors of the wires
by ninalanyon | 2025-11-19 15:51:32+00:00
It's public domain, sort of.

" Updated 2002 September Philosophy

My attitude about software is that it expresses ideas that cannot be owned. Attempting to assert ownership is undesirable and impossible.

So, although colorForth is infinitely valuable, I place it in the Public Domain to make it freely available to anyone for any purpose. There is plenty of money to be made by porting code, programming applications and teaching.

I am having a fine time using colorForth. I won't spend much time promoting it. This site is my attempt to gauge the market. I will rigidly control the version I use."

But when you go to the downloads you see this:

"Download You can download colorForth thanks to UltraTechnology.

Downloads are still available. But note that COLOR.COM can only run under DOS - not Windows. As you can see above, it's 9 years old and I no longer know how to run it. The current version is available at GreenArrays

COLOR.COM Jul31 boot.asm, floppy source gen.asm, generic graphics source color.asm, kernel source

This is the exact version I'm using, limited only in the amount of source code provided. It's a 63KB .COM program. You're welcome to use it as you please. But it's a powerful tool, so please be careful."

See https://colorforth.github.io/
by array_key_first | 2025-11-19 15:51:32+00:00
I live in the US, how is this for the better?

We're stuck with iMessage, which Apple is actively hostile towards non-users. Even for me, who had an iPhone, it was a royal pain in the ass. What do you mean I can't see my messages online? I need a Mac? Are you fucking kidding me? I'm a paying customer, why am I being nickled and dimed?

That, and then SMS MMS. Which are so unbelievably bad they're basically worthless.

I shouldnt have to spend 2.5 thousand dollars to get an acceptable messaging experience. I shouldn't. RCS isn't really helping, but the situation is absolutely NOT for the better IMO.
by triceratops | 2025-11-19 15:51:37+00:00
I mean that's nice and all. But then you can also get behavioral issues from gifted students who feel stifled. Their needs aren't less important than the other students'.

Kids usually don't learn "school" things like math, reading, and science from each other. They learn behaviors. Kindness, cooperation, competition, integrity, working hard, not being disruptive etc. Having a gifted track for part of the day doesn't disrupt that learning.
by hylaride | 2025-11-19 15:51:48+00:00
I think this is mostly the correct take. Perl's strength is that it was really good and quick and dirty one-offs, especially with text manipulation. This made it particularly popular with UNIX sysadmins and sometimes network admins. This was helped by the fact that CPAN made it easy to share a lot of these, which added to its popularity (it can't be overstated how revolutionary CPAN was).

The 1980s/1990s was full of many different data formats in a time before XML/JSON, often by long dead companies. Many a tech person was in a situation where "Oh fuck, how do I get this data out of some obscure database from some dead company from Boston that only ran on SCO UNIX into SAP/Oracle/etc" only to see somebody else already done it and made a CPAN module.

But stories like that became less common as DBs converged into a few players.
by RodgerTheGreat | 2025-11-19 15:51:48+00:00
The value proposition for AWK is very different from Perl. AWK is a tiny language that can be learned quickly, and it's ubiquitous: a hard requirement for even the most bare-bones POSIX environment. AWK is on your machine already; Perl may not be. If you have to install Perl, you could just as easily install any one of hundreds of alternative scripting languages.

AWK scripts don't have any kind of dependency management features, so they naturally lend themselves toward being freestanding and self-contained. Perl, on the other hand, has a massive package ecosystem with transitive dependencies and widely varied quality and design aesthetic, amplified by the baroque design of the language. AWK is as close as a language can be to immune to dependency hell.

When Perl was new, perhaps many people saw it as "a better AWK", but I suspect most of the newcomers to AWK today don't see it in relation to Perl at all.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-11-19 15:52:20+00:00
> "The A500" mini console which comes with pre-packaged games (but also lets you run your own once you've got to the end of enjoying the 30 or so pack-ins).

https://retrogames.biz/games/thea500-mini/

I count to 26, plus one free download they provide for testing out the USB feature.

Amiga Forever in Windows (or in WINE) is about as easy to run, plus it comes with nice pre-configured system images to boot into Workbench. Not having much real Amiga experience I struggle a bit with making use of those. I tried to install some freeware Amiga applications (trackers and such) but not much success.
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-19 15:52:24+00:00
That's roughly one per 20 minutes?

I think that's doable, it likely wasnt a traditional enema, they most likely just had to put some fluid in which consequently got absorbed by their column. Like 5 ml or so.

Definitely mind boggling people are willing to do such, but it's within my expectations for people that fall to such obvious scams/cults.
by jcgrillo | 2025-11-19 15:52:29+00:00
Step 1: Get ~$250k+ in cash for the initial build.

Step 2: Start learning. If you don't know how to evaluate the work of your builder you may have a few false starts finding someone who can actually do it, which will cost you even more time and money.

Step 3: Learn some more. Owning a vehicle like this is a constant development effort. The work will never be "done" so unless you have a mechanic on retainer you will be working on it constantly.

In short, unless you have like a million dollars to spend on a toy and staff to keep it running you'll have to shoulder at least some of the effort.
by yabones | 2025-11-19 15:52:44+00:00
When cost and reliability is no concern, you can do truly crazy things...

> 2.0-liter boxer engine ... 670 horsepower and 680 lb-ft of torque

Those are V10 numbers coming from something the size you'd find in an econo-box.

Obviously unlike your Camry this thing is not going to do 300,000 KMs over its lifetime, and will be rebuilt frequently. This is the extreme end of the engineering tradeoff, and it's interesting to see what happens when the scale tips all the way over.
by Teever | 2025-11-19 15:52:45+00:00
There's an interesting list of criticisms about Larry Summers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15320922

Based on an interview that I've seen of him a few years ago and these emails between him and Epstein he seems kind of... not smart?

It raises a really interesting question which is how do people like him climb so high up the ladder?
by lan321 | 2025-11-19 15:52:47+00:00
The best way with finite money is racecarsdirect or some other similar platform.

Cons are you're getting someone else's project.

Pros are they've already sunk stupid money into it.

You can get great cars on there if you have someone in the know to bounce deals off of.

The best way with infinite money is either some very high end small batch restomod or to even commission one of the large OEMesque motorsport shops to plan and build a one off. Smaller, specialized shops are also an option but the amount of people who're learning on customer vehicles is high and they'll be so hyped to get a large project they'll promise you the moon with entirely good intentions and then fail spectacularly.
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-19 15:53:32+00:00
> The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure.

This is a very odd framing, because the actual reason from quotes in the article is that the EU is acutely feeling the pain of having no big tech companies, due in part to burdensome privacy regulations.

The pressure isn't really from big tech, it's from feeling poor and setting themselves up as irrelevant consumers of an economy permeated by AI.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-19 15:54:03+00:00
> Not everyone has per-se bad experiences with social media.

Not everyone who drinks alcohol is an alcoholic. Not everyone who gambles is a gambling addict.

> Yes, it also tiggered some rage at some times, but that does normal social interaction as well.

Anywhere can be toxic. The difference is that social media is incentivized to drive engagement, and the way most social media is set up leads to the kinds of anti-social behavior that is rampant on most social media sites these days.

Not all of them. Discord has quietly become the 10,000 gorilla of functioning communities due to the fact that servers are invite-only and moderated by humans, without any populism-driven moderation. Most of the folks I know from the oldschool forum and IRC era ended up there, and I've met loads of new people simply through connections and friends of friends.
by FatherOfCurses | 2025-11-19 15:54:09+00:00
Standardized tests are reliable predictors of students' abilities to solve standardized tests, which is not necessarily a 1-1 correlation with aptitude in that field. It is much like how your ability to sort a binary tree in a development interview isn't a 1-1 correlation with your ability to effectively upgrade your production website's Angular to the latest version.

My wife works in private college admissions counseling, so I've been privy to a lot of conversations around these issues over the years.

The article is paywalled, but I feel that in this sentence the author is using all reasons used against standardized testing to criticize the elimination of standardized math testing.

The concerns around racial divides have been mainly in the non-math portion of the SAT's, where it's been found that students with a non-white background don't choose the "right" answer on ambiguous questions because they don't have the same shared experience that would make the "right" answer obvious to someone with a white background. Its inclusion here sounds like the author is trying to inject a little anti-woke hysteria into her argument.

Wealth leading to increased standardized test scores is a very real thing. Many of us have taken multiple choice tests where we've known that the best answer isn't necessarily the "right" answer, and that in order to pass the test we have to select the answer the test is looking for. The SAT and ACT are littered with these questions and there are test prep companies who have decades of industry knowledge that they provide their clients with to get a boost on their scores. No amount of non-profit or public school provided test prep can compete with that.

As someone else commented, someone with an 800 on their SAT math will get admitted 99 percent of the time. Colleges are always very open about their admissions criteria and students are always free to choose to apply or not based on those.
by kelsier1 | 2025-11-19 15:54:12+00:00
I liked the fuck out of this article. I read it fully and I liked it. I read it because I liked reading it. And I wrote this because I want the author to know I liked it. What a riot of actionable points written so simply! <insert of-course-simpson meme> Alright then. I'm off. To read . Anything I want.
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-19 15:54:16+00:00
You're correct that I think you're entirely wrong about how culture works, but that's not what I'm asking you about.

My point is that under your rules and worldview, you should not have been allowed to come to the US, because you are from the "bad" culture.

Why should an exception have been made for you? Why are you and your family special and different from everyone else in your home culture? Under your own rules, that makes no sense.