MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by windexh8er | 2025-11-19 01:30:49+00:00
Because when I'm running infra just to manage scripts for me I want them in proximity to other apps or services I'm already running. There's very few SaaS that will offer a way to connect privately (e.g. Tailscale).

Ultimately I want this in my stack. Autokitteh let's me do it my way, so this is a deal breaker for me. I also don't want to get stuck in SaaS only to have it enshittififed in a few years.
by jancsika | 2025-11-19 01:31:01+00:00
> You can make more than that working at McDonald's near me, and nobody would claim that is a living wage.

Or he could scrimp and put four hard years towards making manager at McDonald's. If he gets it, then he can demand they match 44k a year (his passive income at that point) or he walks.

He could then try the same at Wendy's, and walk to retire on 64k a year.

Compound interest is one helluva drug!
by CoreformGreg | 2025-11-19 01:31:07+00:00
The other reply is really good. To add to that, the intersection of two bi-cubic Bezier patches (each being but one part of a cubic B-spline surface) is an implicit equation of degree 18^2=324. This simply cannot be implemented exactly in a geometry kernel and thus must be approximated. How do you want to approximate this? If you choose trimming (the industry standard) now you have to handle gaps in your geometry. If you choose remapping into an unstructured watertight spline, you need to solve a constraint system that is NP-hard. If you choose reparameterizing… well, see nVariate’s watertight Boolean technique (disclaimer: I once sponsored a project with nVariate).

Now, generally speaking, in a CAD model most surfaces will be “analytic” (plane, torus, conical, arc, line, etc). But whenever some complex surface that joins these surfaces is required, (NUR)B-splines are the principal technique for “covering” the gap.
by ajross | 2025-11-19 01:32:01+00:00
I'm not completely sure I agree. I mean, I do agree about the .unwrap() culture being a bug trap. But I don't think this example qualifies.

The root cause here was that a file was mildly corrupt (with duplicate entries, I guess). And there was a validation check elsewhere that said "THIS FILE IS TOO BIG".

But if that's a validation failure, well, failing is correct? What wasn't correct was that the failure reached production. What should have happened is that the validation should have been a unified thing and whatever generated the file should have flagged it before it entered production.

And that's not an issue with function return value API management. The software that should have bailed was somewhere else entirely, and even there an unwrap explosion (in a smoke test or pre-release pass or whatever) would have been fine.
by josefritzishere | 2025-11-19 01:32:14+00:00
The odds of a change in the constitution are pretty low. Whereas our economic need for immigrants is consistently high... So most of this is just very cruel theatre. Employers fill out an I9 for every hire. Illegal immigration could be ended in a week at the employer level through purely administrative enforement. Instead we have what we have; which means the cruenty theatre is the purpose. Why would that be?
by DiscoMinotaur | 2025-11-19 01:32:16+00:00
I have the BangleJs v2 and built a few small things for it. While I do like the hardware, only having one physical button kinda kills it for me. The software, community, and overall developer experience was pretty nice though.

I also tried Watchy, the eink, esp32 powered smartwatch. I got hardware v2 and I remember struggling a bit with firmware.

I had a Pebble back in the day and I'm currently wearing one from the new batch. It's the best combo of hardware and software in a smartwatch I've personally experienced.
by ecoled_ame | 2025-11-19 01:32:35+00:00
True. But even to your processed foods comment, how is that news to anyone? To me it’s like… we have now all read these facts hundreds of times over by now. Close the book on Internet health & science write-ups, and let’s all meet back here in 50 years. It reminds me of a schoolgirl mindlessly repeating capitols of cities to herself after school one day or something.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-19 01:33:41+00:00
Are you confusing the DMCA safe harbor process with first party distribution of copyrighted material? I'm not an IP maximalist or anything but what you're saying is straightforwardly not the process for distribution of copyrighted material.

It is not actually the case that I can legally distribute whatever I like so long as I stop when asked. These are US orgs so assuming US law here.

Since you ask for specifics, this part is wrong:

> Rebble clearly honors copyright, ex: removing apps on request of the author. Thst's the only right any copyright holder ever has is to say you can't redistribute copies.

No. A rights holder can request that you pay for the distribution you already did. You'd then force litigation and it would cost the rights holder a lot for very little gain. Showing harm here would be hard so they don't do it but what you're saying is so far from correct it's unclear why you are insisting on specifics. It's not nuanced.
by idle_zealot | 2025-11-19 01:34:45+00:00
I don't know if this addresses Rebble's concerns (which may involve more self-preservation), but as a customer, here's what I want:

If Core sells or otherwise goes bad, I want it to be impossible, legally or technically, for them to take functionality away. I want them bound by an agreement such that their hardware can load third-party versions of PebbleOS, the app can be replaced with other compatible apps, any web services can be swapped out without reverse engineering effort, and uploaded apps/watchfaces/etc are shared between backends so no party can attempt to create walled garden.

I think some of these are already addressed informally, but now that trust seems low I'd like to see something more formal. I do not want to see a world where Core pulls an Android and starts shipping a proprietary version of PebbleOS that apps start depending on a la Google Play Services. I do not want to see a world where Rebble or Core can restrict access to their app library. I also don't want to see a world where an overly restrictive deal means that Core can't ship on-device speech-to-text or weather services.

I realize the big issue that blocks this sort of app sharing is probably the existence of commercial/proprietary apps. If all the backends share apps freely, how could payments be handled? It's probably technically possible but very difficult. Personally I don't think this little hobby watch ecosystem would be made much poorer if it went the F-Droid route and required all apps be open and free. We're already relying on hobbyists for pretty much all apps and faces, and having the whole thing be open seems to fit the general hackable community-driven ethos Pebble is built on. Not having paid apps and IAPs would also dodge the temptation to go the modern Apple route of becoming a broker/services company.
by h4kunamata | 2025-11-19 01:35:04+00:00
Nearly all drivers look at the incoming headlights!!

True, driving at night sometimes can be an adventure and half but as long as you do not look at the incoming headlight, you are fine. Drivers automatically look at the headlight, that is the issue.

Also, there is the old and gold quick high beam towards the incoming traffic, it still works 99% of the time. Some drivers don't know or realised they are on high beam until you send a quick high beam towards them, it is all you need. It is an unwritten traffic rule.

My Suzuki Jimny allows me to lower the headlight beam so I don't blind incoming traffic. I keep mine very low and for being a LED one, still allows me to drive safely and see everything.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-19 01:35:25+00:00
> For universities, yes. But not for primary education. Administrative bloat is the worst in K-12.

First, where is your data?

Second, this discussion is clearly about post-secondary education ("the idea is more money could've been invested into bringing the bottom rungs of American society up and created a more skilled and educated workforce in the process.")
by captain_coffee | 2025-11-19 01:35:33+00:00
Legit question: if this disaster of a legislation passes, what are the alternatives to provide secure messaging / comms when you are inside the EU? The only 2 options that I can think about are:

- The Dark Web: TOR, I2P (<--- not sure why I2P didn't gain more popularity) or potemntially other alternatives in the same space

- VPN outside the EU and access a secure messaging system via the VPN exit point. This would assume that the system would have E2EE / some kind of at least superficial privacy guarantees.

Am I missing any major category / tech combination?
by 10000truths | 2025-11-19 01:36:59+00:00
Yes? Funnily enough, I don't often use indexed access in Rust. Either I'm looping over elements of a data structure (in which case I use iterators), or I'm using an untrusted index value (in which case I explicitly handle the error case). In the rare case where I'm using an index value that I can guarantee is never invalid (e.g. graph traversal where the indices are never exposed outside the scope of the traversal), then I create a safe wrapper around the unsafe access and document the invariant.
by burningChrome | 2025-11-19 01:37:38+00:00
>> Some people have trouble doing meaningless intellectual pursuits like crosswords, sudoku etc.

My Dad is like this. I'm like this. My son is like this.

Unless we're busy, pushing ourselves to build something, fix something or just outside doing something we don't feel the reward.

My Dad told his motto, "A rolling rock gathers no moss - until it finally stops rolling." He told me that in his 50's - he's in his 80's still out in the garage refinishing old furniture and giving it away. The drive the man has just never burns out.
by crote | 2025-11-19 01:37:41+00:00
> I can and do use all those FOSS tools just fine both as a hobbyist and professionally, my needs are meet.

Mine aren't: GIMP is okay, FreeCAD is a complete joke. It is painfully obvious that their development is done primarily by F/LOSS enthusiasts rather than by industry professionals and UX designers. They are closer to being a random collection of features than a professional workhorse. You might eventually get the job done, but compared to the proprietary competition it is woefully incomplete, overly complicated, and significantly buggier.

The poor quality of FreeCAD is the main reason my 3D printer is collecting dust. As a Linux-only user the proprietary alternatives mostly aren't available to me, and FreeCAD is bad enough that I'd rather not do CAD at all. The Ondsel fork was looking promising for a while, but sadly that died off.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-19 01:37:48+00:00
Swift has implicit unwrap (!), and explicit unwrap (?).

I don't like to use implicit unwrap. Even things that are guaranteed to be there, I treat as explicit (For example, (self.view?.isEnabled ?? false), in a view controller, instead of self.view.isEnabled).

I always redefine @IBOutlets from:

@IBOutlet weak var someView!

to:

@IBOutlet weak var someView?

I'm kind of a "belt & suspenders" type of guy.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-19 01:37:50+00:00
> You're wrong that it would prompt a stock-market crash.

It certainly would.

Where do you think those billionaires would get the money to pay the tax? It’s not like they have billions of dollars in cash somewhere; they’d sell assets. Those assets are predominately stock. Selling off that much stock at once would absolutely disrupt the markets.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-19 01:39:02+00:00
Qualcomm is a comically-evil company. It's a giant law firm with a vestigial engineering department. When Larry Ellison looks at Qualcomm, he mutters, "Damn, son," under his breath, and you can't tell if it's envy or horror that made him say it.

This is the sort of thing they do. It always has been.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-19 01:39:26+00:00
According to a bunch of philosophers (https://ai-2027.com/), doom is likely imminent. Kokotajlo was on Breaking Points today. Breaking Points is usually less gullible, but the top comment shows that "AI" hype strategy detection is now mainstream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRlIFn0ZIlU):

AI researcher: "Just another trillion dollars. This time we'll reach superintelligence, I swear."
by amy_petrik | 2025-11-19 01:41:45+00:00
>Who is going to be buying the products and services if no-one has money to throw around?

Let me answer your question with another question - if the population pyramid is inverted and birth rate is like 1.1 babbies per 2 adults.. then how is any market going to grow? Seems to me all markets with halve. On top of what you pointed out. Or I suppose it's a happy accident if our workforce halves as our work halves - but still the consumer market has halved. It does make me wonder under what reality one would fathom that the stock market would go up long term.
by scoofy | 2025-11-19 01:42:32+00:00
> I don’t downvote people that have a different opinion so it ain’t me

Totally fair. I’ve had a tough time with my good-faith, heterodox views on this issue lately.

>>they are not responsible for the laws on the books

>so in 26/28 when Blue people take over they are free to disregard all laws because they are not “responsible for it”?

No, my only point is that some seem to try to argue that “Trump is different because he is acting in bad faith,” and I generally agree.

The problem with that argument is that our immigration laws are decades old, and blue states nullification is also decades old. We’ve found ourselves dealing with federal enforcement of federal laws because of state nullification, we don’t like that enforcement — I don’t like that enforcement — but we could pretty much end all this escalation between blue states and the feds by just agreeing to enforce the laws on the books. No more flirting with literal civil war. Just dealing with the consequences of a losing position as humanely as possible, given the fact that it’s going to suck.

Then we can fight to change those laws democratically.
by rcxdude | 2025-11-19 01:43:04+00:00
Cloudflare is what happens when the internet as a platonic idea fails to come up with a sensible answer to ddos attacks. When there's no pipe fat enough to take the traffic a moderate DDoS can bring to bear, you need means of filtering in a distributed fashion, and in way the internet is organised that takes connections and hardware which are essentially impossible for a small operation to muster.
by Redster | 2025-11-19 01:43:18+00:00
So Gemini 3 Pro dropped today, which happens to be the day I proofread a historical timeline I'm assisting a PhD with. I do one pass and then realize I should try Gemini 3 Pro on it. I give the same exact prompt to 3 Pro as Claude 4.5 Sonnet. 3 pro finds 25 real errors, no hallucinations. Claude finds 7 errors, but only 2 of those are unique to Claude. (Claude was better at "wait, that reference doesn't match the content! It should be $corrected_citation!). But Gemini's visual understanding was top notch. It's biggest flaw was that it saw words that wrapped as having extra spaces. But it also correctly caught a typo where a wrapped word was misspelled, so something about it seemed to fixate on those line breaks, I think.
by basscomm | 2025-11-19 01:43:32+00:00
> Using for-each or choose should be a sign you're doing it wrong.

I wouldn't say that I did it wrong, I just didn't do it efficiently. And I knew that at the time.

I appreciate the work, but I've said it elsewhere: I'm not a programmer. This was something I spent a couple of afternoons on five years ago and never looked at again after getting the results I wanted.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-19 01:43:40+00:00
No one has sold digital music with DRM since around 2009 - not even Apple.

The story behind that is the music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM and it refused. Instead Steve Jobs said in his public “Thoughts on Music” letter that was posted on Apple’s website at the time that the music industry should license its music to Apple and everyone else DRM free and Apple would gladly sell music DRM free. Only one organization (EMI) and indie artists took him up on that in 2007. By 2009, everyone did after contract wrangling.

https://shellypalmer.com/2007/02/thoughts-on-music-by-steve-...

> Maybe it is a bias by music genre. I went to things played in a concert hall: old classical music, new classical music, Jazz, film music, etc., to newly composed music on modern medieval-like instruments and to a-capella concerts of music from various centuries from various choirs, some of which I used to or still participate. All of them sell CDs and Spotify would be considered unprofessional and cheap

And you are far from the mainstream. I went to a Jazz concert this year. He also didn’t sell music and had a QR code where you could find his music online. He sold merch and the chance to take pictures with him. Funny enough, we were in London earlier this year and saw Lionel Ritchie at the O2. He was also selling merch and the chance to take pictures with him and definitely not CDs.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-19 01:44:05+00:00
From the report:

While Math 2 was designed in 2016 to remediate missing high school math knowledge, now most students had knowledge gaps that went back much further, to middle and even elementary school. To address the large number of underprepared students, the Mathematics Department redesigned Math 2 for Fall 2024 to focus entirely on elementary and middle school Common Core math subjects (grades 1-8), and introduced a new course, Math 3B, so as to cover missing high-school common core math subjects (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II or Math I, II, III; grades 9-11).

So actually I was wrong. I should have said:

- 11.8% of UCSD freshmen haven't mastered high school math

- 8.5% haven't mastered middle school math

These folks may have had some disruption during the last year of middle school, and the first year of high school. But does that fully explain why they haven't mastered middle school math or, in some cases, elementary school math?

The comment to which I responded quibbled with mhb saying "We used to be able to assume that high school and college graduates could do elementary school math."

It's clear from the report I linked that we cannot assume that high school graduates can do elementary school math.
by Aloha | 2025-11-19 01:45:25+00:00
I have been in ~15 CO's - there is tons of floor space in them, and the only thing telephone switching equipment has done since the 50's is shrink - beyond that, most existing CO buildings had expansions when electronic switching came about, because they couldnt add the new electronic (1/1A/5 ESS) without additional floor space. Cooling is noted by the requirement for NEBS compliant equipment.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-19 01:45:31+00:00
There is a boatload of evidence. It's been studied repeatedly.

Most of it shows that there is a small but real link between CEO pay and stock performance. This works best when CEO pay is tied directly to performance, and it isn't tied to the specific dollar value just the percentage of increase. IE - The $40m CEO doesn't actually outperform the $20m CEO, but a CEO who oversees a big jump in profits will see a big raise regardless of the reason.

CEO pay DOES correlate strongly with luck. IE - They get rewarded with big bonuses when the larger market does well or taxes go down, and they don't tend to get smaller pay when the market does poorly.
by ethanwillis | 2025-11-19 01:45:40+00:00
The "issue" is the comparison is much more complex than people may be led to believe. It's not a simple "adjust the dollars to be the same" calculation.

There are a lot of assumptions that go into making that calculation.

If I tell you that the value of a dollar you hold has gone down or up this year versus last year because of the price fluctuation of an item you never have or never will purchase, such as hermit crabs in New Zealand.

Would you believe your dollar is worth more or less? What if the price of a good you do spend your dollars on has an inverse relationship with the price of hermit crabs in New Zealand? Or what if the prices of the items you do buy haven't moved at all?
by humanperhaps | 2025-11-19 01:45:53+00:00
SilverBullet is an awesome piece of software. I still run it, and used to use it quite a bit a year or so ago. I've mostly switched to pen-and-paper, but if you have some spare time and want a simple, customizable note taking app, I highly suggest trying it out. I will say, don't skip the tutorial; it's pretty helpful.
by georgeecollins | 2025-11-19 01:45:59+00:00
A lot of this stuff about baby boomers vs now is based on how remember things. The data is more complicated. Example: The average home in 1960 was like 1600 sq ft, now its like 2800 sq ft. Sometimes we are comparing apples to oranges.

I am not trying to blunt social criticism. The redistribution of wealth is a real thing that started in the tax policies of the 1980s that we just can't seem to back away from.

But a lot of people are pushing gambling, crypto, options that are telling people that they have no hope of getting ahead just by working and saving. That's not helpful.
by ddasdsasdkjasdj | 2025-11-19 01:46:05+00:00
Here's a wonderful interview with Rebecca that goes into a lot of detail about her experiences as a trans person in the 80's and 90's. She said she doesn't like to talk about those things too much because she'd rather be admired than pitied, but the context makes her accomplishments more remarkable considering she played life on hard mode for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SyIL6zAmhA
by DoomDestroyer2 | 2025-11-19 01:46:23+00:00
> I'm not here to debate the scientific evidence; labelling well-researched peer-reviewed studies as "paranoia" (your words, before editing your reply) because you don't like the outcome is absolutely your choice, and tells me there's little chance any reasoned reply will be meaningful as you've made up your mind.

A web page about why people are still wearing masks when the risks to most people is extremely low is paranoia and is not "well research peer-reviewed studies". It is people cherry picking things because to justify their own neurosis.

As I said I've had to deal with someone that behaves exactly like you do for my entire life. I hope your children don't resent you for it, because I still have a hard time dealing with my mother as a result.

You are doing exactly the same thing as she does. Whenever anyone points out that she is being paranoid (which is everyone because she is), she will just get angry and demand you do it. Which is pretty much what you did here.

> Your anecdote around acute infection recovery makes the common mistake of confusing acute infection (the period where you "feel sick") with long-term systemic (post-acute) symptoms.

The vast majority of people do not suffer this with COVID.

> The typical influenza (flu) only has an acute phase; once you're done "feeling sick", the virus has been eradicated from your body. And unfortunately, many talking heads keep repeating "Covid is now just like the flu" which ignores long-term consequences of repeated Covid infection, which does not behave like the flu (it is not an acute-phase only illness).

For the vast majority of people they get it, they recover from it and they get on with life.

> Google is your friend.

It is actually better to talk to a medical professional. As they actually know what they are talking about.

> And just as I have, you're free to decide what risk tolerance you're comfortable with for your lifestyle and longevity goals. If you require the extra adrenaline kick of feeling morally superior by publicly passing judgement upon others' choices, have at it — genuinely! — and I hope you find all the missing joy you need.

That is what you did and are continuing to do. You are the one who likened it to seatbelts that have a tangible and demonstrable safety record to a virus that often most people catch and shake off after a week. It allows you to feel morally superior and every reply you've written so far is essentially nothing more than morally grandstanding.