MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by titzer | 2025-11-30 16:23:11+00:00
> coastal elite attitude

There's definitely a Science communication problem because Science isn't about who is saying the things, but facts speak for themselves. The reliability, repeatability, and accuracy of what people say is far more important than who they are or where they come from, or whether they live on the coasts or in the "heartland" or whatever.

It's a real problem that there are a lot of ignorant people in the US that cultivate and defend themselves from the "other"--those elite liberals. They make it about identity and in-group dynamics rather than about facts.

The rest of your comment is just flat-out attack against all institutions and government without even considering whether this evil "bureaucracy" is just another mundane structure to administer the boringness of a functioning government.

> I think it is lazy to assume that he and his administration is the source of the breakdown here.

I mean, come on. Trump called COVID a "Democrat hoax" just weeks into the pandemic. Pile that on top of thousands of other lies and anti-science bullshit. Trump didn't build the bus that's carrying us off the cliff, but he and his supporters in the media have the gas pedal to the floor. They love people being ignorant and misinformed, and it's disgusting.
by epistasis | 2025-11-30 16:23:15+00:00
I guess if you think the very idea of science is invalid, the idea that people can study and learn a lot about a topic and discuss it using their knowledge, then perhaps your comment makes sense.

Is it "privilege" to study something and look at it in detail? Why would that be "privilege"?

If you want to critique them, then please do! But please do it with honesty, rather than saying "I hate those nerds and they seem like elites" merely because they spent a lot of their life trying to understand biology.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-30 16:23:37+00:00
I found gitea's interface to be so unusably bad that i switched to full-fat GitLab.

Gitea refused to do some perfectly sensible action- I think it had something to do with creating a fork of my own repo. Looking online, there's zero technical reason for this, and the explanation given was "this is how GitHub does things". Immediately uninstalled. I'm not here for this level of disrespect.
by ramon156 | 2025-11-30 16:24:10+00:00
> To avoid this problem, I created my own bug tracker software, buggy, which is a very simple C tool that parses plain Markdown files and creates a single HTML page for each bug.

I love this. I used to be a big fan of linear (because the alternatives were dog water), but this also opened the question "why even have a seperate, disconnected tool?"

Most of my personal projects have a TODO.md somewhere with a list of things i need to work on. If people really need a frontend for bugs, it wouldn't be more than just rendering that markdown on the web.
by iamkonstantin | 2025-11-30 16:24:32+00:00
We use them in our shop. It's quite straightforward if you're already familiar with Github Actions. The Forgejo runner is tiny and you can build it even on unsupported platforms (https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner) e.g. we've setup our CI to also run on Macs (by https://www.oakhost.net) for App Store related builds. It's really quite a joy :)
by Rochus | 2025-11-30 16:24:39+00:00
I'm not advocating for C (I wouldn't implement an Oberon/Pascal/Modula inspired C replacement otherwise). C was mostly adopted by industry because it came with Unix and had to be used by the many Unix-based workstation vendors to adapt and extend the OS for their specific need/brand. That a significant OS can be written in C without extensions is demonstrated by the many Unix versions themselves. There is always a remainder which has to be implemented in assembler (e.g. to achieve the system state required to run C functions at all). I can also confirm from my own long-time experience implementing embedded (microcontroller) systems in C that it is possible with standard C. But that's not the point. We were discussing about Wirt's minimalism and his focus on his own and the need of his students (vs. the need of industry). I think Wirth's role and influence are generally romanticized. He was innovative, but he did his own thing. The impact of his work on the industry is almost exclusively in a significantly modified/extended form. These extensions/modifications never came from Wirth himself, and only in exceptional cases did they have “his blessing” (e.g., Object Pascal or Modula-3). It was precisely his aforementioned minimalism that led him to focus on the things that were important to him, rather than on the needs of the industry, whether justified or not.
by quesera | 2025-11-30 16:24:44+00:00
Your point is kind of boring though.

If OP had asked "why do white people hold most of the wealth in the US", the answer would be the same:

Because they arrived (first) with superior technology and made slaves or serfs (or corpses) out of the indigenous population, and seized the indigenous de facto "ownership" (or at least possession, as de jure is contextually meaningless) of vast natural resources which had previously not been exploited fully due to lack of will or ability.

That plus generational wealth and the miracle of compound interest. (And, critically, the socio-econonomic-political skills for organizing large populations!)

"WASP" was always a pejorative, meaning basically "person from one of the usual countries/cultures". It's a distinctly (originally) American label, and it has always represented the massively-entrenched established power structure.

It has evolved to mean less and less over the years. It now basically means "white, with English-speaking or adjacent ancestry".

It's also less true that true WASPs, or even white people, are the American aristocracy today than it was then. But the echoes are long and deep and hard to miss. I stand by Gates, Buffett, and Musk as modern WASPs, to the extent that the label means anything at all.
by Arainach | 2025-11-30 16:24:52+00:00
You're adding words that aren't there.

If in the past they could do 98% of their job without political influence most people would describe that as being free to do their jobs without influence.

If there's now political hacks interfering in 50% or more of their job that's a big change.

If in the past the political hacks were never interfering with THEIR role, just affecting what projects get funded, and now the hacks are interfering directly with them and controlling what they can say or publish - that's obviously new and significantly worse influence.
by zahlman | 2025-11-30 16:25:14+00:00
I legitimately can't understand why people believe they have a use case for `sudo pip install`, or ever did. I've seen so much cargo-culting (thankfully, generally it's all old material) suggesting the use of sudo to fix issues with pip and it's basically always at least wrong and generally dangerous. In cases I've seen where it "worked" and a user install wouldn't, it's ultimately because the root user has different environment variables.

(Also, apt-installing multiple Python versions can already mess things up, from the reports I've seen. Building from source and installing it at a custom location that won't mess things up is easy, however.)
by wtallis | 2025-11-30 16:25:51+00:00
Many (if not most) Meshtastic devices don't have a GPS receiver of their own, and also may not be paired with a phone app to supply location. So at least some devices would need to sniff GPS coordinates from traffic on the wrong band in order to know it's time to switch to the new band appropriate for the new location. Some amount of automatic reconfiguration could probably be made to work, but there would be serious limitations on how many use cases it could handle.
by vatsachak | 2025-11-30 16:26:21+00:00
COVID protocols destroyed social ability in young people and I don't know if that was a price worth the small death rate in those below 50

They also furthered the anti-vaxx crowd, which is a bad thing

I think what people don't understand is that effects of the vaccine are smaller than the effects of the actual virus.

It was an accidental leak of a crafted virus from an internationally funded lab. The world was just SOL
by balamatom | 2025-11-30 16:26:45+00:00
>There are already things in them that come from elsewhere - like the "shape shifter" consistency drive from the pre-training objective of pure next token prediction across a vast dataset

LLMs, the new Hollywood: the universal measure of what is "Standard Human Normal TM" behavior, and what is "fRoM eLsEwHeRe" - no maths needed!

Meanwhile, humans also compulsively respond in-character when prompted in a way that matches their conditioning, you just don't care.
by danans | 2025-11-30 16:26:49+00:00
> Most useful skill and knowledge is still learned on the job. The "education" is just a selection process.

It selects for the ability and intrinsic motivation to learn.

If you were running a factory or a building construction company, wouldn't you want that in someone you hire?

Are there high school dropouts who have the ability and intrinsic motivation? Of course there are. Many drop out due to poverty and family/community strife, or mental health challenges.

But as an employer would you risk assuming a high school dropout had the same motivation?
by nfriedly | 2025-11-30 16:26:50+00:00
My home server / NAS is essentially just my old gaming desktop + some extra hard drives. It runs Unraid with Nextcloud, Plex, and a few other services. It's great, and generally pretty low maintenance.

I'll also point out that there are a lot of folks out there who don't have very large demands when it comes to computing, and would be served perfectly well by a 5-10 year old system. Even low-end gaming (Fortnight, GTA V, Minecraft, Roblox, etc.) can run perfectly fine on a computer built with $300-400 of used parts.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-30 16:26:52+00:00
> See, that's my whole point: "examined and critiqued inside the scientific community".

> If you didn't want the rest of society to accept "the rest of the scientific community" as a separate, privileged authority, then why did you even make this part of your reply?

If my car is broken, I'm going to ask a mechanic to take a look and diagnose it, not a gardener or librarian. If my house is on fire, I'm going to call the fire department, not the grocery store. Expertise and specializations exist! It's not a shadowy conspiracy by mustache-twirling "elites" trying to make science into a priesthood.

It doesn't matter who you are--if you have a rational, scientific, rigorous critique of some established science, you publish it, and it survives discussion debate, you are part of the "scientific community."
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-30 16:27:25+00:00
> But kids that value their studies over their social lives, or just like to have conversations about something more intellectual than video games and the trending tiktoks, are still likely outside the fold whatever the contemporary take on that is.

Always hard to know what’s universal, but I think the inclusion of video games on this list represents a genuine shift. When I was growing up only the other studious kids would talk with me about video games. We understood it to be an intellectual hobby because we were analyzing how to achieve things instead of just passively consuming.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-11-30 16:29:12+00:00
> As it is simply plain text

Well, if your bugs can be specified clearly in plain text and plain text only, then yeah, I'd also advocate for this approach. Unfortunately, that's not really the case in any bigger software project. I need screenshots, video recordings that are 100 megs, cross-issue linking etc. I hate JIRA (of course) but it gets it right.
by WD-42 | 2025-11-30 16:29:37+00:00
This isn't true in practice. It turns out incrementally updating with small changes is more stable in the long run than doing a large amount of significant upgrades all at once.

Have you ever had to maintain a software project with many dependencies? If you have, then surely you have had the experience where picking up the project after a long period of inactivity makes updating dependencies much harder. Whereas an actively maintained or developed project, where dependencies are updated regularly, is much easier. You know what is changing and what is probably responsible if something breaks, etc. And it's much easier to revert.
by anonymars | 2025-11-30 16:30:39+00:00
This is FizzBuzz:

1. Output the numbers from 1 to 100

2. If the number is a multiple of 3, write Fizz instead of the number

3. If the number is a multiple of 5, write Buzz instead of the number

4. If the number is a multiple of 3 and 5, write FizzBuzz instead of the number

Does that really sound like something requiring special practice and preparation? Assuming a decent interviewer would help out with the modulo operator if that was unfamiliar
by esrauch | 2025-11-30 16:31:02+00:00
I'm not sure what evidence you would expect to see if it was self-selection because of an in-group mentality versus explicit hostility to intentionally keep some out.

By comparison, is there some affirmative evidence for the reason why there are so few liberals in the FBI is because they self-selected out, instead of that the FBI being perceived as a conservative institution causes them to self-select out?
by quesera | 2025-11-30 16:31:17+00:00
That's as WASPy as WASPy gets.

It's not important that the specimen is an active Protestant. The point is that their ancestry (with some decent adjacency to: white, anglo-saxon, protestant) landed them in a place of general privilege.

Musk is a WASP by any definition.

But it's always been a pejorative, and always used as a cudgel. Musk is not responsible for his ancestry. But he certainly benefited from it.
by matsemann | 2025-11-30 16:31:30+00:00
I use python at work but code these in kotlin. The stdlib for lists is very comprehensive, and the syntax is sweet. So easy to make a chain of map, filter and some reduction or nice util (foldr, zipwithnext, windowed etc). Flows very well with my thought process, where in python I feel list comprehensions are the wrong order, lambdas are weak etc.

I write most as pure functional/immutable code unless a problem calls for speed. And with extension functions I've made over the years and a small library (like 2d vectors or grid utils) it's quite nice to work with. Like, if I have a 2D list (List<List<E>>), and my 2d vec, like a = IntVec(5,3), I can do myList[a] and get the element due to an operator overload extension on list-lists.

and with my own utils and extension functions added over years of competitive programming (like it's very fluent
by breppp | 2025-11-30 16:31:36+00:00
I am talking about the Norwegian government post-1945 which included people who participated in a genocide of the actual real kind.

I am also talking about the responsibility of such a nation whose entire state apparatus is successor to that government

That's why I think the Norwegians should look at their recent history to understand the difference between genocide and war, and invest their partially stolen money accordingly
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 16:32:38+00:00
It seems pretty clear to me.

For #1, about herd immunity numbers, consider the below. I don't see any space for interpretation here: Fauci flat-out admitted to changing what he told the public in order to manipulate their (our!) behavior:

In the pandemic’s early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did. About a month ago, he began saying “70, 75 percent” in television interviews. And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said “75, 80, 85 percent” and “75 to 80-plus percent.”

In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.

[...]Dr. Fauci said that weeks ago, he had hesitated to publicly raise his estimate because many Americans seemed hesitant about vaccines, which they would need to accept almost universally in order for the country to achieve herd immunity.

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.” “We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

-- https://archive.is/20210305032312/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

Regarding #2, this is also pretty clear. Here's another citation, which also seems pretty clear.

The 6ft social distancing guidance enforced in the US during the Covid pandemic “sort of just appeared”, Dr Anthony Fauci, the former White House medical adviser, has admitted.

It was “likely not based on data”, Dr Fauci conceded in a behind-closed-doors session of the House select subcommittee on the Coronavirus pandemic.

-- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/12/anthony-fa...

For #3, I acknowledged from the start that this is more subjective. If we judge solely by academic jargon, then Fauci was telling the truth. The thing is, it's not reasonable to judge solely by that academic jargon when Fauci wasn't talking to fellow members of the academy. He was being questioned by Congress, and one expects an intelligent guy like him to be able to communicate effectively. When speaking to politicians and ultimately to the public, he should be aware of the language he uses.

EDIT: Sorry to jump back into the same post. But I want to emphasize that the root question we're arguing about here is loss of trust. We don't need a mathematically airtight proof that Fauci was lying. I just need to demonstrate that the institution, and Fauci specifically, said things that for reasonable listeners could be construed in ways that destroyed trust. I think what I've illustrated clears that threshold easily.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-30 16:32:43+00:00
Yeah but those people haven't chosen not to bike entirely because their bike might be stolen, they won't take their nicest bike to sketchy areas. To me that's a meaningfully different thing than what the person arguing is claiming.

Don't get me wrong, I'd never wanna give anyone the impression CPD is ever going to do anything useful at all lol :)
by h2zizzle | 2025-11-30 16:32:50+00:00
The Chinese national entrance exam (gaokao?) is notoriously grueling, but doing well pretty much guarantees you a spot in a top university. Would have been useful to me, having grabbed a middle-of-the-road SAT score for Ivies but having failed to apply to one. There's definitely a multi-pronged strategy for ensuring exclusivity.
by rdedev | 2025-11-30 16:32:57+00:00
> "[Specialized expertise is] the antithesis of democracy."

> "Democracy works best when men and women do things for themselves, with the help of their friends and neighbors, instead of depending on the state."

These are nice sentiments to have but it does not work in the real world. At a certain point certain problems are too complex for a regular person to understand.
by ojosilva | 2025-11-30 16:33:05+00:00
As far as the data goes, adjusted for inflation, tuition and fees have eased up in the last ~5 years [1]. But overall, college enrollment has been going down anyway [2], except for 2025, where it hints at a slight rebound.

So I'd say we have to consider the full set of drivers that can correlate: overall rising cost of living making it very expensive to be at a university full-time, general labor market sentiment which is mostly down since covid, interest rates and debt risk which are still high despite recent cuts, etc.

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/college-costs-working...

2. https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics
by BerislavLopac | 2025-11-30 16:33:51+00:00
> you still don't get a good overview

True, when focusing only on the schemas as code. But good tooling could provide links and similar.

> do you have something public to show

Just a very early PoC [0]. I'm slowly working my way through a very long to-do list of improvements, but I'm lacking time and resources to do it more efficiently.

[0] https://schematalog.com/
by Someone1234 | 2025-11-30 16:34:02+00:00
I understand your point; but I'm struggling to see how this could be weaponized. Keep in mind, that these Dos compatible drive letters need to map to a real NT path endpoint (e.g. a drive/volume); so it isn't clear how the malware could both have a difficult to scan Dos tree while also not exposing that same area elsewhere for trivial scanning.
by speakingmoistly | 2025-11-30 16:34:11+00:00
It's less about pulling and more about tools like DeepWiki making the assumption that its inputs live in GitHub, so repository URLs are expected to be GH URLs as opposed to a URL to a git repository anywhere.

That being said, there's no reason for tools like it to have those constraints other than pushing users into an ecosystem they prefer (i.e. GitHub instead of other forges).
by programjames | 2025-11-30 16:34:25+00:00
Wow, I really dislike this framing of life as a lottery. Yes, people can get lucky. You could win the lottery. Statistically, someone else will hold the winning ticket, every time. It's even worse, because graduate school admissions and startup success are correlated between attempts. If you bring a shotgun but you're not even aiming at the target, you're never going to hit it.
by datavirtue | 2025-11-30 16:34:30+00:00
Most investors can time this aspect of the market accurately enough. It's tough for these people to stand by and watch profit being left on the table for a year or two, though. So they get back in, seeing how long they can leave their hand on the got plate.

Myself, I made the decision to go to cash a while ago, right before the recent AI pullback. Things were going great for a week until I started seeing all that money go unclaimed. I get back in, and the pullback I predicted happens. It was my own conscious decision to look past the gorilla in the room to get more free treats. I'll be fine but this is a good anecdote for how these things unfold.