MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by feisty0630 | 2025-11-11 04:36:19+00:00
I didn't actually make the point initially. I was challenging the reply's point that:

a) just because some people are miserable at work, doesn't mean we shouldn't care that other people might become miserable at work

b) Someone saying they prefer their food to be made without suffering is clearly a hypocrite in all cases because... there are miserable people in fast food jobs?

I mean... really. Come on now.
by etempleton | 2025-11-11 04:40:49+00:00
They could, but it would require some work to get it right. This is very similar to conversations that happen regularly in the retro game scene regarding CRT monitors vs modern monitors for games of a certain era. The analog process was absolutely factored in when the art was being made, so if you want a similar visuals on a modern screen you will need some level of thoughtful post processing.
by dietr1ch | 2025-11-11 04:41:06+00:00
> > Readability is on the eyes of the final user, they are free to use whatever narrow column width they prefer.

> For plaintext sure. Not for code or tabular data. It destroys indentation and destroys column alignment and interleaves parts of rows. It's a horrid mess.

I don't think I have seen unaligned html tables, nor unaligned spreadsheets made from CSV/TSV/etc. Images are worse than PDF, so I guess it's 0-stars in the 5-star data tier.

https://5stardata.info/en/
by hresvelgr | 2025-11-11 04:41:18+00:00
> Godot is nearly 25 years old. I'm sure it was awful back in 2003.

Sure, but that's kind of my point, modern software is endemic of a mindset that most things are "fast enough" that we can reinvent the wheel, repeat old mistakes, and more or less get away with it, instead of using something better suited and more purpose built.
by kelnos | 2025-11-11 04:41:18+00:00
> Do people who write code not know about IANA?

I expect that if I'd walked around my last place of employment, asking software developers if they knew what IANA was, probably a single-digit percentage would have known (at best, small double digits). That's not a dig at them; I think you have an unrealistic expectation of what people should and do know about stuff these days.
by yunwal | 2025-11-11 04:41:23+00:00
> The entire cry of "corporations aren't people!" is based and a complete misunderstanding of what a legal person is.

> if it weren't for activists who thought it sounded scandalous

It wasn’t activists who first misunderstood the concept, it was the Supreme Court, who decided that corporate personhood gives corporations the same first amendment rights as real personhood. It’s not ridiculous to point out that if freedom of speech is implied by corporate personhood, it was insane to give corporations personhood in the first place.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-11 04:41:31+00:00
You learn things with Forth that you don't learn with Lisp. Foremost among these is the relationship between the highlevel language and the underlying computer.

In many Common Lisps you can write functions in assembler if you need to, but in a Forth compiler the assembler is right there. In fact if you have a native assembler it's very easy to bootstrap a baby Forth on top of it and then use that baby Forth to build a complete Forth. No C required.

The feeling you get from doing this is one of complete mastery of the computation process. It's awesome.
by MaxfordAndSons | 2025-11-11 04:42:45+00:00
I'd venture to guess that whatever legal logic resulted in the SC deciding that corporations should have the same right to free speech as individuals presumably doesn't hinge on any semantic blurriness between different subsets of "persons", and even if they didn't use overlapping terms it would still have ruled thus.

That said, it certainly is nice free marketing for our corporate overlords.
by op00to | 2025-11-11 04:44:07+00:00
My peaceful, law abiding neighbors were taken away by ICE thugs in a totally unnecessary military style raid in my upper-middle-class suburb. Absolutely no due process. Their autistic, profoundly disabled child was left alone, scared and unable to understand what was happening. After over a month of detention, the neighbors were released. Turns out they weren’t so dangerous after all.

This, to me, is a fucking disaster.
by teleforce | 2025-11-11 04:44:17+00:00
>There's a whole giant gap between grid cells and intelligence.

Please check this recent article on the state machine in the hippocampus based on learning [1]. The findings support the long-standing proposal that sparse orthogonal representations are a powerful mechanism for memory and intelligence.

[1] Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08548-w
by heddycrow | 2025-11-11 04:44:31+00:00
I was content to write the original off as "to each his own", but this one I feel you on.

Maybe the problem is sharing without caring and/or without being aware.

Case in point, folks capture large blocks of text as you mentioned and paste it into slack which converts certain characters unless included in a code block. This can be much worse than sharing a screenshot.

Please know the best way to share what you are sharing when you share. I've had to come to expect this request will not be honored.

I also might be guilty of not honoring sharing with caring myself. For example, I didn't read this entire thread before posting; others may have made this exact point already.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 04:45:10+00:00
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. PDF...?

I'm talking about tables output in the terminal, in ASCII by SQL or something. By Python's tabulate. Output from a script. Or yes, even HTML tables or spreadsheet cells that get pasted into the message client as plaintext and lose their table formatting.

This isn't about a standard for publicly distributed open datasets, what are you on about? This is about quick messages in a chat or e-mail.
by timenotwasted | 2025-11-11 04:45:31+00:00
This makes so much more sense now. After having kids I've been watching my fair share of Pixar and I just never recalled how flat and bland everything looked but I would always chalk it up to my brain not recalling how it looked at the time. Good to know I guess that it wasn't just entirely nostalgia but sad that we continue to lose some of this history and so soon.
by djtango | 2025-11-11 04:46:31+00:00
The human body is an organised system of cells contributing to a greater whole - is there much difference between blood vessels designed for the efficient transport of key resources and messengers across the body and roads that carry key resources and messengers across a landmass?

In that sense has nature just replicated its ability to organise but at the species level on a planetary (interplanetary soon) scale?

Why are humans above nature...?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-11 04:48:03+00:00
People who work in fast food may not be “passionate” about their job. But they aren’t “suffering”. You aren’t relieving anyone’s “suffering” by not eating fast food or even if there was no fast food. They aren’t “suffering” anymore than people working at the grocery store.

Cry me a river for software developers (been delivering code professionally for 30 years and before that as a hobbyist) because now we have something that makes us more efficient.
by tombert | 2025-11-11 04:49:34+00:00
The DEC stuff feels like a foreign country to me.

Most of the world is powered by Unix (and its clones/derivatives), at least in the infrastructure space, with a small percent still running Windows Server for some masochistic reason. Outside of playing with OpenVMS exactly one time with qemu (purely because I kind of liked their goofy shark logo [1]), I've never used anything from DEC, but throughout the 80s my understanding is that DEC was a force to be reckoned with. I think there was probably more diversity in operating systems back then.

The DEC stuff was huge for a period of time, and I feel like there's an alternate universe where VMS and VAX stayed the standard, and Unix is the footnote. I'm not sure that universe would be better, there's probably a reason that Unix won overall, but it's not like DEC and VAX were tiny things.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Dec-vms-...
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-11 04:49:40+00:00
It’s fascinating to me how many of these discussions boil down to dialing in dynamic range for the medium in question.

As the Aladdin still shows with its wildly altered colors clearly other aspects matter/are at play. But the analog/digital discussions always seem, at least to me, to hinge heavily on DR. It’s just so interesting to me.

Many of us remember the leap from SD->HD. Many of us also can point out how 4K is nice and even noticeably better than FHD, but man…getting a 4K OLED TV with (and this is the important part) nice DR was borderline another SD->HD jump to me. Especially with video games and older films shot and displayed on film stock from start to finish. The difference is incredibly striking.
by al_be_back | 2025-11-11 04:49:48+00:00
>> doing, or is it about getting things done

Who says the thing is done? there is a massive danger now, with the sheer amount of complexity & speed brought by ai, in that it's increasingly harder to verify / do proof-of-work.

>> AI allows me to realize my ideas

sure for a personal/pet project. however, when working for a customer/client, they've ideas, needs, wants and usually have their own users and shareholders to satisfy - need proof.

>> lighting up the gas-powered street lights

ok, no this metaphor may well be loved by ai companies, but doesn't actual work in so many levels. For one, ai (as actually provided) is not electricity or a physical system, a brain, or a mind, it's software (I use it v-selectively). Second, the job being done (lighting, or coding) is ultimately to produce / output the desired outcome for whoever ordered it - a solution to a problem - failing that it's just work and wages for the worker but no effective solution (lighting the dark side of the moon, kinda).

I agree with the OP, as system complexity went up, so does the ability to keep up.
by jonahx | 2025-11-11 04:50:15+00:00
> And somehow after being given a patently counterfactual response to one query, we just blindly continue to take their responses to other queries as having value.

They have value because they are very fast, concise, and right "often enough."

People used to make your criticism about Wikipedia (and occasionally still do).

All of the following are true:

1. They regularly make errors

2. They require more caution than most people have to use effectively.

3. They have tremendous value.
by kelnos | 2025-11-11 04:51:37+00:00
Well, both, obviously.

But in all seriousness, if I had to choose, I think I'd rather be 25 with $1k.

I really don't need a trillion dollars, at any point in my life (and certainly not with too few years left to do anything with but the tiniest fraction of it). I don't need a billion dollars, even. I figure $20M would allow me to do anything I wanted to do, with a healthy cushion in case anything went wrong. (Well, with $20M, even if I were to triple my spending habits, I'd likely still die with more money than I started with.)

I'm not sure that I fear death, but I do recognize at middle age that time is finite, and there are so many things to do in this world. Even with close to nothing as a $1k-holding 25-year-old, I could strive to make things better for myself, and likely look forward to a lifetime of experiences. At 95 that would nearly all be behind me.

Put another way: if I was 95 and had a trillion dollars, and there was some highly advanced, crazy-expensive procedure I could undergo to reduce my biological age down to 25, even if I'd only have $1k left over afterward, I expect I'd do it.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 04:51:50+00:00
It's not widely supported. It's not in e-mail or SMS or Gmail or Docs or Word or a hundred other pieces of software where I communicate.

Yes, I use that wherever it exists. It's great, and you're lucky when it's there. I wish it was everywhere. But as long as it's not, for everything else, there's screenshots.
by autoexec | 2025-11-11 04:53:50+00:00
Most of the time if someone is sending me code as text (which is by far preferable to a screenshot) I'm copying it out and pasting it into my own editor.

That way I get a width appropriate for my screen (which may be different from yours), text that's still aligned correctly, and uses the font of my choosing (which may differ from yours), and still has syntax highlighting (using the sizes/colors/styles that I'm accustomed to).

Sending the whole file (or a link to it) works well too but screenshots are absolutely likely to be some level of annoying for anyone who isn't you no matter how helpful you think you're being.

Forcing someone else to view code the way you like seeing it isn't always going to be completely obnoxious for them (although you might be surprised by what some people find acceptable) but it does make it difficult/impossible to view it the way I like seeing it (in addition to losing the ability to search/edit)
by TowerTall | 2025-11-11 04:55:07+00:00
We had a Lada 1200 when I was a kid. Mid/late 1970s. The car was a 1:1 copy of the Fiat 127 if I remember correctly.

It served my family well for many years, and for us, it was "sort of" rock solid. That a Lada was "rock solid" was in no way the norm. People were saying that we had a Wednesday model, meaning it was assembled on a Wednesday.

The saying goes that the quality of cars built on Monday/Tuesday was impacted by the hangovers the workers had from all the vodka drinking during the weekend. For Thursday/Friday cars, the workers were already mentally gone on the weekend but on wednesdays the workers were fresh and motivated, and did their job proper.

We were lucky and that car took us kids on many road trips all across Europe. I remember that the car seat was covered in plastic, and on our first trip from cold Denmark to sunny Italy, we all got burn marks from the seats and had to stop buying some covers.
by Sabinus | 2025-11-11 04:55:29+00:00
That case was a bit weird and motivated. Weird in the same way as the prosecution of Hunter Biden for lying about drug taking when getting a gun license, but weird nonetheless.

What wasn't weird were the other cases that didn't complete before Trump was re-elected and ended them.

He certainly did try to directly ask for votes 'to be found'(the Georgia case), overturn the previous election with Jan6 and his general rhetoric(the DC case), and steal and conceal boxes of classified material (the Florida case)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_election_racketeering_...
by wilg | 2025-11-11 04:57:00+00:00
If you're interested in these 35mm film scans, I recommend watching this excellent YouTube video "SE7EN & How 35mm Scans Lie to You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQwQRFLFDd8 for some more background on how this works, and especially how these comparisons can sometimes be misleading and prey on your nostalgia a bit.

If you're interested in making digital footage look exactly like film in every possible way, I'll shill our product Filmbox: https://videovillage.com/filmbox/
by kelnos | 2025-11-11 04:57:32+00:00
I'm not sure I'm convinced a trillion dollars in one person's hand could radically change the world. Money is a big deal, to be sure, and money gives you a lot of power, but there's so much else when it comes to politics and power that I expect there would be many roadblocks in your way.

And on top of that, it's possible -- perhaps even easy -- to deploy vast sums of money in well-meaning ways that turn out to have disastrous unintended consequences. I don't think I'd want that kind of responsibility.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 04:57:54+00:00
This isn't about sending 300 lines of code in a screenshot or something.

This is about, "hey, look at these 6 lines which is where I think the problem might be". It's not for pasting in a separate editor, why would you do that? It's about providing quick context even if you're on your phone.

If you want to go inspect that spot in the file once you're back at your computer then go do that. The screenshot is to save you time because often you can answer just based on it.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-11 05:00:11+00:00
Do the client and server necessarily exist on the same machine? I thought vscode had an architecture where the frontend and backend could be on separate machines, although I don't know if the LSP crosses that gap.

Also, I'm sure there's a way to do it, but if someone wanted to write an LSP in Haskell and the editor was written in JavaScript, I'm not sure it would be as straightforward to load it as a dynamic library as you suggest it should be.
by Groxx | 2025-11-11 05:00:19+00:00
Yea, I've got a Corne and a Kinesis Advantage2 and I mostly use the Advantage2.

If it was available earlier (and a bit cheaper) I'd have almost certainly bought the 360 and I'd probably be happier with it - I think I need a bit more width and a bit more tenting... but the Advantage2 + the Corne has completely convinced me that curved bowls are massively better than flat and I have almost no interest in spending time on flat unless strictly necessary. Ortho and stagger when split are rather clearly the correct choice, but flat just feels wrong and uncomfortable in a way that the Advantage2 never did (though it absolutely felt weird for a while when learning it).
by withoutboats3 | 2025-11-11 05:00:26+00:00
The problem in this conversation is that you are equivocating between "fixing memory safety bugs" and "preventing memory safety bugs statically." When this blog post refers to "memory safety skeptics," it refers to people who think the second is not a good way to expend engineering resources, not your imagined flagrantly irresponsible engineer who is satisfied to deliver a known nonfunctional product.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 05:01:47+00:00
Tuition for my college in 2012-2016 was around 6k per year. A quick Google shows me this increased to 11k.

And it's worse than it looks, because this doesn't include cost of materials, the dreaded "other fees", and of course, room and board. Room and board increased 50%.

And this used to be considered a "best value" college. I'm sure it's only worse fr private schools in the state.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 05:01:52+00:00
The Supreme Court was going to decide whatever they wanted, regardless of which linguistic terms were used to describe the underlying legal concepts which remain the same.

If you look at the text of the first amendment, the word "person" doesn't appear in that part. It says "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech." It doesn't say that the speech has to come from "persons". So I'd say you're the one misunderstanding here.

I think it was a dumb Supreme Court decision, but I'm not going to pretend it had anything to do with the fact that corporations are called a "legal person" instead of a "legal entity" or some other term that ends up meaning the exact same thing. Disagree with their decision, great. But arguing over legal terminology is a waste of breath.
by Groxx | 2025-11-11 05:03:10+00:00
Strictly for BeeKeeb: I got my Corne kit from beekeeb several years ago and I'd happily buy from them again. I was a total custom-keyboard-and-soldering newbie and they helped me figure out what I needed, what I was missing, and even sent me extra parts for the trickier bits.

And <$200 for this combination of features is shocking. I'd have probably been a instant buy if I was in the market for a minimal split.
by larusso | 2025-11-11 05:04:00+00:00
I always felt the old matrix had a more colder blue. And it changed drastically when the second and third hit cinemas. At least that was my memory because I watched a double feature when the second one hit the theatre's and complained then that the Matrix somehow looked weird. But it could also be my memory since I also own the blue ray release.

Another movie with the same / similar problem is the DVD release of the Lord of the Rings Extended editions. Both Blu-ray and 4K version. As far as I remember is that they fixed it for the theatrical version in 4K but not extended.
by shrinks99 | 2025-11-11 05:04:18+00:00
Generally yes, but we're still working on it all these years later! This article by Chris Brejon offers a very in-depth look into the differences brought about by different display transforms: https://chrisbrejon.com/articles/ocio-display-transforms-and...

The "best" right now, in my opinion, is AgX, which at this point has various "flavours" that operate slightly differently. You can find a nice comparison of OCIO configs here: https://liamcollod.xyz/picture-lab-lxm/CAlc-D8T-dragon
by sergiomattei | 2025-11-11 05:04:19+00:00
Thanks for the link.

In the interest of saving myself an hour of time uploading a video, I’ll attest that yes—that street view is as “average day on Pike” as it gets.

To be clear, there are homeless who walk around the area… and Capitol Hill isn’t exactly the nicest area these days. 3rd and Pike isn’t nice. But Seattle in 2025 isn’t real-life World War Z.

Parent commenter should visit sometime.
by spockz | 2025-11-11 05:04:48+00:00
If you don’t know at compile time what the type of the value is that is returned, how do you know whether the remainder of the expression is still correct?

The choice is either to have a total function that will be able to deal with every type and check at compile time whether they exist or to defer to the runtime and then throw an exception if the program doesn’t know what to do with the value.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 05:06:27+00:00
On my phone is exactly when I do want it, because that's where text linewraps and jumbles and becomes totally unreadable.

You understand you can just screenshot the code part that is 80 characters wide? You don't have to screenshot the entire full-screen window?

But even if someone does include extra width, it takes me about a tenth of a second to pinch-zoom. Which is way quicker than trying to decipher line-wrapped spaghetti.
Show HN: Mac menu bar app to monitor your internet connection
by spullara | 2025-11-11 05:06:36+00:00
I was on a United flight with an especially bad Viasat connection and I kept having to recheck it while trying to do some work. Since I had ollama and gpt-oss:120b on the machine I asked it to write a small app for me. Interactions with computers like this I think will soon be the norm. Most software will be requested by end users and built just in time by AI much like this app was built.
by zdc1 | 2025-11-11 05:07:27+00:00
We need to make it easier to work with client-side encryption. Keys on the devices, ciphertext in cloud storage.

I was using CloudMounter to do this, but the software was unfortunately a bit rough around the edges and didn't feel as reliable and seamless as the other options.

These days I have some hacked together tar + PGP scripts for encrypted backups, but still rely on iCloud + ADP for the rest.
by mmastrac | 2025-11-11 05:08:07+00:00
Related, I'm working on a VT420 emulator that's about 90% there...

https://github.com/mmastrac/blaze

It's prerelase and I haven't pushed the experimental graphical interface yet but you can actually use it, configure it and run everything using a TUI mapper that renders the text framebuffer on your terminal.

There's one or two memory mapper bugs that seem to break multi session mode but those are somewhat obscure and will probably require some experimentation with real hardware to solve.
by al_be_back | 2025-11-11 05:08:39+00:00
this is not practical or desirable in my view: de-google, de-apple, de-meta, de-aws etc etc etc

What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;)

Come on, what happened to moderation, discipline and planning? How about use what you need, hedge your risks (mix providers, products), be more proactive than reactive to demands for consumption?