MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tristor | 2025-11-19 17:03:50+00:00
The current model year Santa Cruz and Maverick are roughly the same size as the Tacoma, and the Tacoma is now the same size as a Ford F-150 was in the 90s when the Ford Ranger came out as a successful small pickup and the Tacoma was sized the same as the Ford Ranger. The vehicle size bloat in the last 30 years has been insane.
by simonw | 2025-11-19 17:03:54+00:00
The Shopify and Cloudflare intern thing is interesting: both companies have committed to hiring way more interns, on the basis that an intern armed with AI-assistance can get productive way faster (plus they are more likely to be "AI-native" than older engineers.)

Shopify interns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3IILWQPRM&t=1970s - talking about planning to hire 1,000 interns.

Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1111-intern-program/ - announcing Cloudflare’s goal to hire 1,111 interns in 2026.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-19 17:03:59+00:00
Not every internet comment is a disagreement with what it's replying to.

The entire "media intended for voluntary casual consumption" industry is rife with these sorts of "gotta keep doing what you're known for" traps. Pretty much every industry with minimal product differentiation is like this to varying extents. Sorry my examples weren't completely devoid of exceptions <eyeroll>.

Anyway, two can play this stupid game. Why is it such a problem that I'm alleging this content is basically scratching the same itch in the same way as tabloids but for different demographics? Why do you feel the need to make this out to be an attack on everyone rather than a narrowly targeted "the world do be the way it is" criticism?
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-19 17:04:00+00:00
Your disconnect from Social Media and "the world still totally insane"—the latter is of course not dependent on the former. Perhaps we need to get the rest of the world also off Social Media? Off the internet?

Given that we can't do that, I choose then to continue my hobbies, take more walks, try to declutter my place, improve my health, lose weight, look for comfortable chats with my daughters, wife, friends…

I'm not sure where you see men and women not trusting one another. If I had to guess it would be that you perceive this from things you have seen on the internet?

I find the internet is kind of like that silly cave in "The Empire Strikes Back"—where you find only what you bring with you. Try looking for positive things and people and see if you are not rewarded. (And if you cannot, just drop the internet completely. I have a friend that I think checks online for about 30 minutes in the morning and then he's done for the day.)
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-19 17:04:05+00:00
> All.

Ok, so then transracial individuals[1] should be believed as well? What about those that identify as inanimate objects[2] or animals? If we accept self-identification as an inanimate object should others be allowed to treat that person as such?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/swjdjp/tree...
by duxup | 2025-11-19 17:04:09+00:00
She was delivering for DoorDash and encountered an unconscious naked man on his couch and the front door of the house open ... she then chose to film him and post it on social media (tik tok), apparently numerous times.

>“The only justice I’m getting is exposing this man and having posted that video,” she added. “And it has gone viral. Now he can live with shame and embarrassment if people have seen it.”

Her intent seemed pretty clear too.

She is charged with “Unlawful Surveillance in the Second Degree” and “Dissemination of an Unlawful Surveillance Image in the First Degree.”

Charges seem appropriate.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-19 17:04:17+00:00
Extremism is separate from coercion. It's entirely possible to have a coercive cult that has non-extreme beliefs.

Jonestown was, in several ways, a cult with non-extreme beliefs. They did have a charismatic and dangerously mentally ill leader (who did not start out by any means as an awful person).

But they collectively isolated themselves, rather than cutting off ties. And they did initially because of quite radical small-L liberal beliefs as well as politically socialist beliefs. Things that non-cult people think now.

It did not become truly coercive as a power structure until quite late on, mostly when they had isolated themselves and in many cases become physically ill, and in part it was still a collective delusion.

Even then, in many ways, Jonestown beliefs were not particularly extreme in a broad evangelical sense (rather than a US white evangelical sense, which is now a culture that could be defined largely non-religiously) if you specifically put aside their individually extreme devotion to Jones.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-19 17:04:34+00:00
This is nonsense. The error is here:

> buffer[4] = '\n' — puts a newline at the last position

> gets(buffer) — the function stops when it hits that newline

But gets() doesn't stop when it hits that newline. It stops when a newline appears in the input stream, not in the buffer the input is being copied to.

Besides, good luck finding a modern compiler that still supports gets() at all.
by warpspin | 2025-11-19 17:04:38+00:00
I'm not even sure you can generalize to "in the EU" here. A lot of contract law might be different between countries.

So for example, in Germany, an EULA would be considered an AGB, and subject to §303 BGB and following paragraphs, which e.g. means, "surprising" clauses which you cannot reasonably expect beforehand being part of the EULA would be unenforcable or §307 BGB would make certain kinds of one-sided/lop-sided clauses unenforcable.

Other EU countries might have other laws. I'm not really sure this is an area of unification, and a lot of the commonalities there is might be more due to the common heritage of Napoleon's Code Civil which underlies contract law in many european countries, instead of EU unification efforts.
by lapcat | 2025-11-19 17:04:39+00:00
> Why are you here

I agree with, uh, assbuttbuttass: "there are still a lot of interesting articles posted here".

As for commenting, it's just a matter of too much time on my hands, temptation, and bad habit.

> Promise not to criticize you or even respond to what you say.

You can respond, anyway. ;-)
by leipie | 2025-11-19 17:04:40+00:00
My car only comes with the very bright LED headlights. There are no other options. These are way to bright and have a very sharp cut off. Street signs now blind me with high beams on. Though you can barely ever turn on high beams here in NL. The contrast of the low beams is so large I can barely see beyond the lit part right in front of the car. Sometimes I just turn off the lights down to parking lights, because I have a better view of the road ahead where I'm actually looking. Nowadays I have special glasses that filter the blue light to be able to drive at night for longer periods. I previously had them for oncoming traffic and street lights. Since I got my new car I also need them to be able to drive my own car...
by filoleg | 2025-11-19 17:05:36+00:00
> The bullied have no respite from the bullies

I feel like I am missing something important here.

The great-grandparent comment was talking about things like not being invited/kicked out of group chats, not being spammed/harassed through the messaging protocol in question.

Unless I am genuinely missing something important, I agree with the grandparent comment. How does not being invited to certain group chats is different from not being invited to "cool kids groups" at school/playgrounds? As in, how is it "always on"? Not being invited to a chat or being kicked out of a group chat isn't "always on".
by hoofhearted | 2025-11-19 17:05:48+00:00
You can have one built; you just call Vermont Sports Car lol.

Yes, price is a major factor.

No, you are completely incorrect on street legality; and way far from the truth lol

The basis of a WRC rally car is that it is indeed street legal; and is required to be driven on the public roads with a proper license plate in between the stages of the rally.
by everdrive | 2025-11-19 17:05:51+00:00
>"Customer safety remains our highest priority," said CEO Iñaki Berroeta.

It's fun to imagine a world where a lie like this could be a legal liability. I mean an actual court case, where evidence is brought and the claim is tested. "Is customer safety a higher priority than shareholder value?" and "why don't you support old devices" and then Samsung would need to produce internal evidence to try to make their case.

Nothing like that will ever happen, but I can dream.
by btilly | 2025-11-19 17:06:15+00:00
Even if people are reading something into your post that you don't intend, they are reading it for good reason. Which is that your post sounds exactly like an attack on any technically competent person that runs an open source project.

This fits squarely into a pattern that open source people deal with all of the time. Namely that someone tries to gain control of a project by appeals to "community", while subtly insulting the people who actually did the work. The result is toxic politics that, if it is left to stand, drives away technically competent contributors. And which makes leading that project a misery.

If you don't want to come across this way, you absolutely need to get rid of rhetoric like the paragraph beginning with, "The last year has seen several BDFLs act like Mad Kings." Anyone who has encountered this antipattern will see exactly what that leads to. It is a rhetorical club that can be levied against any technically competent person who objects to something based on technical concerns. The self-proclaimed "community leader" doesn't need to address those technical concerns. They just need to imply the ad hominem. Suggest that the contributor is the would-be Mad King. There are a number of ways that this can end. All of them are bad.

Now I'm not saying that you are bringing up an unimportant issue. But you REALLY need to check your tone if you wish to convince the people that you are supposedly addressing.
by archargelod | 2025-11-19 17:06:39+00:00
> Never used Nim before so I might be doing something wrong though.

With Nim on weird targets you usually want:

- OS target = any

- Memory Management = ARC

- malloc instead of default Nim allocator

- turn off signal handler (if not POSIX)

- disable threads (most of the time)

Then look at how C is compiled and copy all compiler+linker flags to your Nim configuration. Here's an absolute minimal `config.nims` I used to compile Nim for C64 with LLVM-MOS[1] toolchain:

import std/strutils --cc:clang --clang.exe:"mos-c64-clang" --os:any --cpu:avr --mm:arc --threads:off --define:usemalloc --define:noSignalHandler let args = [ "-isystem $PWD/../mos-platform/c64/include", "-I$PWD/../mos-platform/c64/asminc", "-L$PWD/../mos-platform/c64/lib", "-mlto-zp=110", "-D__C64__", "-isystem $PWD/../mos-platform/commodore/include", "-I$PWD/../mos-platform/commodore/asminc", "-L$PWD/../mos-platform/commodore/lib", "-D__CBM__", "-isystem $PWD/../mos-platform/common/include", "-I$PWD/../mos-platform/common/asminc", "-L$PWD/../mos-platform/common/lib", "--target=mos", "-flto", "-Os", ].join(" ") switch("passC", args) switch("passL", args)

Nim side was easy, because I have already compiled Nim to WASM at that point and the flags are similar. Hard part was figuring out the C compiler flags: e.g. cmake structure and why compiler complains about missing symbols, when they're not missing (answer: include/lib order is very important).

[1] https://github.com/llvm-mos/llvm-mos
by phtrivier | 2025-11-19 17:06:49+00:00
Call me grumpy and sleep deprived, but every year I look at this talk again, and every year I wonder... "now, what" ? What am I supposed to do, as a programmer, to change this sad state of things ?

Start the n-th "visual" or "image based" programming language (hoping to at least, make _different_ mistakes than the ones that doomed smalltalk and all other 'assemble boxes to make a program' things ?)

Start an OS, hoping to be able to get an "hello world" in qemu in a year or two of programming in my sparse free time ?

Ask an LLM to write all that would be so cool ?

Become a millionaire selling supplements, and fund a group of smart programmers to do it for me ?

Honest question. Once you've seen this "classic" talk ("classic", in the sense that it is now old enough to work in some countries), what did you start doing ? What did you stop doing ? What did you change ?
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-19 17:07:04+00:00
No, what doesn't help is that the new builds aren't nearly enough. If they were quantitatively sufficient, it wouldn't matter if they all targeted the high end, because the people moving in to it would be pulling demand away from other existing units, with a ripple effect across the whole market.

What many people don't realize is how badly the total housing inventory has fallen behind what is needed for the population since the Great Recession.
by modo_mario | 2025-11-19 17:07:41+00:00
I don't consider those types of efforts well meaning anymore. Rather than changing minds they without fail seem to attract narcissists and people utilizing victimhood like a status item or the like and that and purity spirals like a cudgel.

>I find that most everyone on Mastodon focuses properly, but too much on "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because of the racism," and not "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because it's boring as hell."

It's sad to say but I think black people aren't big in the tech space or similar spaces in general and not just in the US. Fosdem is one of the most pasty conventions out there in a rather international city.

As an outsider looking in I think just like with the lack of women in tech it's not primarily a barrier problem. And this is a different subject but I in factthink some of the weird campaigning towards women to join has had the opposite effect (Think 'barbie and her pink laptop entering the male dominated field' type stuff just reinforcing pointlessly gendered preconceptions.)
by nradov | 2025-11-19 17:07:42+00:00
What is basic decency? Is it indecent to advocate for atheism or if a women posts a picture of herself not wearing a burka? Many people in certain countries would say so. Personally I think those people are insane, and that maximal freedom of expression is the most important human right, but the fundamental problem is that there is no consensus on what constitutes basic decency.
by nradov | 2025-11-19 17:07:55+00:00
You don't understand what's happening in China. Advanced cancer treatments are generally not even available to poor people. Instead of becoming homeless due to medical expenses they just die. The US healthcare system has serious problems with access and efficiency but it's at or near the top worldwide in terms of cancer survival rates.

Chinese society is more "metastable" than really stable. The Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square massacre weren't that long ago. Chinese history going back millennia is full of violent revolutions and civil wars. Xi Jinping has been able to keep a lid on things lately through brutal purges of all other potential power centers but times may get "interesting" again when he leaves power.
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-19 17:08:26+00:00
Indeed, and an articulate, confident defense can also be that much more insidious. I never found it hard to ignore obviously bad-faith talking heads on cable news, but when someone is on a podcast conversation with a host I like, it's much easier to nod along until that moment where they say something demonstrably false and I have to rewind my brain a minute or two to be like... wait a sec, what? How did you get to that position?
by moduspol | 2025-11-19 17:09:01+00:00
> Owning a home and having a parent be able to stay home with your children, husband or wife, are important pillars of a stable life.

I'm with you but I think we're in the minority nowadays. "Progress" seems to mean paying someone else (who cares a lot less about your children than you do to) to raise your children starting from the moment that maternity leave ends. But at least you get to live close to a big city, and I guess our GDP is a little higher.
by platypii | 2025-11-19 17:09:13+00:00
I started Hyperparam one year ago because I knew that the world of data was changing, and existing tools like Python and Jupyter Notebooks were not built for the scale of LLM data. The weights of LLMs may be tensors, but the input and output of LLMs are massive piles of text.

No human has the patience to sift through all that text, so we need better tools to help us understand and analyze it. That's why I built Hyperparam to be the first tool specifically designed for working with LLM data at scale. No one else seemed to be solving this problem.
by imiric | 2025-11-19 17:10:21+00:00
I've read this sentiment often on this forum, and I suppose it shouldn't surprise me given that most people here share the entrepreneurial mindset. But it still rubs me the wrong way, and I'll write about it again.

What I don't like about this idea that the role of open source authors ends with throwing some code over the fence, relinquishing any responsibility for it beyond what their chosen license dictates, is that it completely ignores the community aspect that forms around software, and in large part, contributes to the success of OSS.

Software is written for people. Open source software explicitly invites collaboration, and sharing of knowledge. When someone sees people asking for help, and making feature and improvement suggestions, as "demands" from "entitled" users, they're completely missing this point of community. When they additionally require or suggest that no work will be done unless these entitled users pay up, it's no different from source available, proprietary or commercial software at that point. Of course your work should be compensated, and you shouldn't be expected to work for free. You are free to choose any number of viable business models to ensure that happens. But demanding this from your users is essentially putting the software behind a paywall. It also signals to users that the direction of the project is dictated not by a community of passionate users, but by whoever pays the most, which is a twisted incentive for any software.

My point is: there is more to OSS than the code and the license. Despite what some may claim, there is an unwritten social contract which is created when software is published in the open, whether the author decides to ignore this or not. Some authors do acknowledge this explicitly[1], which is a large factor in making their projects more successful than those from authors who decide to alienate their user base.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00017.html
by bigbuppo | 2025-11-19 17:10:21+00:00
Really? Please indicate your source for that claim that "most people don't even use text anymore" because I have never once in my life been asked about WhatsApp, but have implemented a few dozen SMS integrations after all the annoying rules changes where you have to ask "mother may I" and submit a stool sample to send an SMS message from something other than a phone.
by alksdjf89243 | 2025-11-19 17:10:26+00:00
The article is an indictment on hackernews itself. I'm sure that won't be well received here, because of what the article says, specifically: "Start by diversifying your information diet in ways that feel actively uncomfortable."

There is almost no diversity of thought here, simply due to the algorithm. The basis of acceptance is agreeing with the main ideology here.

When the algorithm of the platform is to banish those who disagree, tribal unity is the outcome.

The algorithm doesn't allow disagreement. The algorithm is wrong and part of the algorithm is to disallow commenting on the algorithm.
by thebigspacefuck | 2025-11-19 17:11:04+00:00
Slow feedback loops are an antipattern. Do you like waiting 5 minutes for your checks to run on a separate computer that reports to a separate interface that you then have to navigate to and inspect the error and pull it back into your dev environment to fix? It’s soo much better running locally in 20 seconds and knowing your shit will pass or exactly where the problem is
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-19 17:11:18+00:00
> Ok, so then transracial individuals[1] should be believed as well?

I mean, "race" is a social construct too. There's nothing biologically different about a black man from a white man. It's a collection of cultural, historical and visual cues society imbues with meaning. So... in a way, it's got a lot in common with gender.

> What about those that identify as inanimate objects[2] or animals?

Yep.

> If we accept self-identification as an inanimate object should others be allowed to treat that person as such?

If someone earnestly identifies as an object, that's their prerogative. But no, others don't get to treat them like furniture or property because consent and dignity still apply to them. Identity doesn't override someone's right to safety, and it doesn't give others license to dehumanize, even in a twisted manner of affirming them.

And, as someone with an occasional spirit for some BDSM play, I am familiar with treating people like objects in a way that is edifying without being harmful to them.

Edit: It feels like you're trying really hard to find an edge case in self identification where it could be used to cause harm, as though the actual, current mechanisms of identity as imposed by society aren't also doing that. Yes, someone could use self identification to do something shitty. That is not unique to this concept and in fact this, and a variety of others, already have plenty of holes wide enough to drive a truck through to accomplish the same goal.

If your standard here is a system which is objectively verifiable, you will not meet it at any point. All of this is subjective because it all ties into the subjective experiences of individuals and the subjective analysis of systems and other individuals. There are no clear cut answers and there never will be, it's subjective turtles all the way down.
by danaris | 2025-11-19 17:11:43+00:00
> Untargeted pay less than 90% of targeted ones generally.

If targeted advertising, as a whole, is banned, you can be pretty damn sure the payout for untargeted will come up—not necessarily to match what targeted is now, but way more than that 10% figure.

Ad spend, in aggregate, doesn't change that much based on new "innovations" in advertising annoyance. If you've still got roughly the same amount of money being spent on untargeted ads, continent-wide, as you do now on targeted, they're going to pay out much closer to parity.
by timenotwasted | 2025-11-19 17:11:51+00:00
"I don’t know. I wish technical organisations would be more thorough in investigating accidents." - This is just armchair quarterbacking at this point given that they were forthcoming during the incident and had a detailed post-mortem shortly after. The issue is that by not being a fly on the wall in the war room the OP is making massive assumptions about the level of discussions that take place about these types of incidents long after it has left the collective conscience of the mainstream.
by hoofhearted | 2025-11-19 17:12:02+00:00
Here is a pretty recent and in depth video by Larry Chen of the Subaru WRX STI Project Midnight car built by the same company.

For those who are underestimating just how advanced Vermont Sports Car is, this should open up your eyes.

https://youtu.be/5GklA8AXQvU?si=9pZwanLVpbVw_cWq
by rincebrain | 2025-11-19 17:12:08+00:00
The problem with that is that there's a number of examples about how your entitlement increases markedly when you feel you have paid for something.

So if you don't have enough hours in the day, more money doesn't solve that problem unless it can displace other things in your schedule, and can make the number of people attempting to impose, and their attitudes, worse.