MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-11-03 01:59:11+00:00
America is a huge place with a lot of different cultures. Even within a big city you’ll find social circles with different ideas of what partying is like. I have friend groups that have completely different ideas of what gatherings are and I adapt depending on the group. There is not a singular American party style.

> In movies or TV there’s even a common theme of guests judging the host’s hosting abilities.

That’s a movie trope. You can find parties and social groups like this if you search around long enough, but most people are decidedly not like this.

Don’t take American movies too seriously as an indicator of American culture.
by eru | 2025-11-03 01:59:16+00:00
> I genuinely don't understand why people don't get more upset over hitting refresh on a webpage and ending up in a significantly different place. It's mind-boggling and actually insulting as a user. Or grabbing a URL and sending to another person, only to find out it doesn't make sense.

The two use cases are in slight conflict: most of the time, when I share a URL, I don't want to share a specific scroll position (which probably doesn't even make sense, if the other guy has a different screen size.)
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-03 02:01:22+00:00
Pretty fascinating stuff regardless of your opinions.

About the people involved, Barak is an unsavoury character and Epstein was of course evil on a different level. Of course they are totally eclipsed by Assad and Putin who are many orders of magnitude more evil.

Looking back at their plans from a historical point of view. They were only partially successful and it's true that until the recent war Russia and Israel at least communicated quite closely over Syria even if they didn't necessarily see eye to eye.

Earlier this year Israel finally achieved what they wanted with the collapse of the Assad regime. It doesn't hurt that Russias influence is dramatically weakened. Best of all the new order has no great love for Iran or their Hezbolla affiliates and are not openly hostile to Israel and are trying to court the West. I can only hope their situation will genuinely improve.

Finally, of course the US at long last bombed Irans nuclear program hopefully permanently ending it or setting it back a decade or two. So there you have it, a decade long story of intrigue, politics and scandal enough to fill a novel, with plenty of morally grey areas because real life isn't black and white.
by ggm | 2025-11-03 02:01:31+00:00
I don't think the "considered harmful" says much to the current coder, but I do think throwing out from deep/loop state to a target is an ugly code method which leaves all kinds of problems behind in it's wake.

Early termination of loops, assumptions about the values present, locality of reference, mutated state.

If your problem is speed, I don't think it necessarily is actually more runtime efficient. If your problem is die early, then it loses information an assert() would preserve. If your problem is a dislike of if-elif-elif- then I think you argue more for a case: statement than a GOTO.

I used them enough in the past to suffer the consequences of debugging around them. I don't miss them, they haven't consciously been in my back pocket armory for some time. I'd rather find other ways to fall through/out-of code to a fixed point.
by eru | 2025-11-03 02:01:42+00:00
> People rant about having to learn algorithmic questions for interviews. I get it — interview system is broken, but you ought to learn binary search at least.

Well, the example of git bisect tells you that you should know of the concept of binary search, but it's not a good argument for having to learn how to implement binary search.

Also just about any language worth using has binary search in the standard library (or as a third party library) these days. That's saner than writing your own, because getting all the corner cases right is tricky (and writing tests so they stay right, even when people make small changes to the code over time).
by achushankar | 2025-11-03 02:02:04+00:00
Quick disclaimer: Some features shown on the landing page are still in active development or testing. I wanted to get this in front of the community early to get feedback on direction before polishing everything.

Specifically: - Multi-channel deployment (Slack/Discord) is working but needs more testing - Some integrations (Teams, advanced webhooks) are in progress - Documentation is being expanded

The core functionality (RAG knowledge base, tool use, web deployment, self-hosting) is solid and ready to use.

Would rather launch early and iterate with community feedback than wait for "perfect"! Happy to be transparent about what's ready and what's coming.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-03 02:03:23+00:00
> I feel like this is really an American culture thing where parties or dinner parties are mostly the responsibility of the host. In movies or TV there’s even a common theme of guests judging the host’s hosting abilities.

This is really a function of the type of party and of the type of people one is inviting to a party rather than a universal among Americans. I was brought up that you don't come to a party empty-handed. If you're going to a party where you know everybody else was brought up that way, you call ahead to see what will be lacking (mostly so everybody doesn't bring alcohol.)

I've brought chairs to parties; if you haven't ever done that you probably don't know what I'm talking about.

There's also a "dinner party" culture, though, where you're going to cook for a bunch of people. They should bring alcohol, but they don't always because people don't always drink, and their bringing alcohol doesn't get you out of providing alcohol. The expectation is that you have a reciprocal party rather than everyone contribute at this party i.e. you're inviting people who also might have dinner parties. They're bringing a guest or two to yours, you'll also bring a guest or two to theirs.

The second type of party is more conversation-oriented, and sometimes the contribution you're making is how interesting your guest is. I'm still bringing wine or something, though. Can't show up empty-handed.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-03 02:03:34+00:00
The question is at what point is it considered "hacking"? There is evidence of corporate misdeeds on the company's computers. Under what circumstances can a journalist view it? At no point would the guilty company want them to for obvious reasons, but if the answer is thereby "never" that seems like a major flaw in the law. Whereas if it isn't never then when is it, and why?

Or to extend your analogy, where's the computer equivalent of an investigative reporter getting let inside under a pretense so they can snoop around wearing a guest badge instead prying open the back door with a crowbar?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-03 02:04:32+00:00
> Is there a lawyer forum where the members constantly try to construct from the ground up "how does the internet happen", and then draw a bunch of inferences and concerns from their construction?

Idk about lawyers, but finance forums will regularly construct absolutely batshit crazy assumptions about how the world works.

I think it’s a feature of online echo chambers.
by macintux | 2025-11-03 02:04:35+00:00
Shameless plug if you like videos: I gave a talk about Erlang, building the language (focus on semantics, not syntax) up from the fact that the = sign doubles as a runtime assertion.

https://youtu.be/E18shi1qIHU

Joe was indeed a great guy. I was lucky enough to spend some private time with him when he was visiting Chicago to give a talk, a true renaissance man with wide-ranging interests.
by bluGill | 2025-11-03 02:04:52+00:00
That depends on what you are looking for. There are plenty of shops for the common needs - but if you want an odd niche no small walkable area can support it. How many magic stories can your city support? Even something like a guitar shop need a very dense area for people who live in walking distance to be enough to support it. I can think of dozens of other niches - many smaller the above examples.
by marssaxman | 2025-11-03 02:05:04+00:00
That one struck me oddly; escalation of volume is a problem you want to have. If the party is quiet, it feels dead, and people leave early. I always used to deliberately leave music playing at a level which would require people to speak up a bit, so it would feel like something was happening right from the start; the glorious roaring chaos would then build of its own accord.
by AndrewDavis | 2025-11-03 02:05:25+00:00
That's similar to me, I started using FreeNAS back in the 9.x days.

At the time the FreeNAS documentation recommend installing to a usb drive. This proved unreliable, but dedicating a drive to it was silly given it couldn't be used for anything else. I had all the things I needed but I wanted to peel back the layers and this seemed like a good excuse

So I threw in a drive and installed freebsd 10 and spent a few days familiarising myself with everything, learned how to configure samba myself, learned how to setup jails with iocage (the old shell version), and finally imported my pool.

Years later very little has changed.
by tim333 | 2025-11-03 02:05:35+00:00
I don't know what the Venezuelan people want but the US removal of General Manuel Noriega from Panama seemed popular.

>Polls show that the Panamanian people overwhelmingly supported the invasion. According to a CBS News poll, 92% of Panamanian adults supported the invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...

guess it depends a bit if you can shift the dictator without killing too many people.

I guess the peaceful political option would be kick out Maduro, put Edmundo González Urrutia in power (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/venezuelan-pre...)

Apparently Urrutia got about 2/3 of the votes in the 2024 election but Maduro claimed victory and wouldn't go.

The US has offered $50m for information leading to Maduros arrest and the Miami Herald said a 'source' said "there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over" so maybe the US is hoping that kind of thing will happen?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-03 02:06:01+00:00
Looks Anubis allows Internet Archive's bot sometimes

Allowed

https://web.archive.org/web/20250419222331if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250419222331if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250420152651if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250420152651if_/https://anubis...

Blocked

https://web.archive.org/web/20250424235436if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250510230703if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250511110518if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250630101240if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250808051637if_/https://anubis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250909160601if_/https://anubis...

Allowed

https://web.archive.org/web/20250921062513if_/https://anubis...
by goykasi | 2025-11-03 02:06:33+00:00
During the beta, the only consistent HITs were to identify an album based on a picture and 4 or 5 choices (if Im remembering correctly). These paid pretty well since the workforce volume was very low and the service was brand new. Well, I noticed that the image link contained an ASIN. So, I wrote a greasemonkey script that would look it up on Amazon and highlight the most likely correct answer. I then turned around and shared it with the forum I frequented. It became extremely popular and spread to other forums before we moved it to a private forum. The damage was already done though.

People kept asking me to automate it, but I felt it was against the spirit of mTurk. So, another member would take my updates and add an auto-clicker. That lasted for a couple of weeks at most before the HIT volume dried up and very few would be released. I guess Amazon caught on to what was happening. But before that, several forum members made enough to get some high dollar items: laptops, speakers, etc. Eventually, I relented and created a wishlist. Thats how I ended up with the box sets for the first run of Futurama seasons.
by pepoluan | 2025-11-03 02:07:50+00:00
The issue with not having something deterministic is that when there's regression, you cannot surgically fix the regression. Because you can't know how "Plan A" got morphed into "Modules B, C, D, E, F, G," and so on.

And don't even try to claim there won't ever be any regression: Current LLM-based A.I. will 'happily' lie to you that they passed all tests -- because based on interactions in the past, it has.
by ebcase | 2025-11-03 02:07:56+00:00
When we first created Domainr (then domai.nr, now domainr.com) back in 2008, we needed a list of “zones under which domain registrations were somehow possible.” E.g. not just the root zone list from IANA, but all the .co., .edu., .net., etc. variants. We found what we could from Wikipedia, and used Mturk to find the rest from registry websites, etc.

It wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t need to be. We essentially needed a “good enough to start with” dataset that we could refine going forward. It got the job done.
by amluto | 2025-11-03 02:08:02+00:00
> The biggest problem at many parties is an endless escalation of volume. If you know how to fix this, let me know.

If there’s a band: if you’re the host or the person paying, just ask them politely to turn the volume down every ten minutes or however long it takes for the volume to drift up. And it will drift back up, because very few bands are able to keep their hands off the mixer.

For conversational volume, either go outside or use serious acoustic treatment. The latter may be challenging.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-03 02:08:52+00:00
> It is arrogant, at least. Are you trashing just the 340 million people in the US with this comment, or everybody not-Swiss?

You’re parsing discernment as a value judgement. Don’t do that.

New York City has America’s best bagels. This is because OG bagels are best fresh, and making them fresh multiple times a day takes a lot of work. (They stale super fast because gluten is a bastard. Hence toasting.) To pay for that work at a non-ludicrous cost per bagel, you need lots of reliable demand. That really only happens when you have an ecosystem of people who have been eating bagels all their lives made by folks who have been making them similarly.

You don’t find great bagels outside New York (at an affordable price) because the demand isn’t there. Meanwhile, if you haven’t spent time in New York, you probably don’t know (or care about) the difference. Which means you’re unlikely to give excess patronage to anyone who tries to do it right if they try to do it near you. That doesn’t make anyone outside New York who likes their local bagel wrong; it’s just that economies make it very difficult, and frankly pointless, to replicate the New York bagel elsewhere.

If the people in your town will pay extra only for great cheese and the guys across the pond will pay the same price for mediocre and great cheeses, the deck is stacked. (And to be clear, you can find great Swiss cheeses in America. What you can’t is great Swiss wines.)
by Waterluvian | 2025-11-03 02:08:54+00:00
I don’t like #2 because I hate the game of tricking people to be on time and then people start compensating further and eventually I’m trying to host a Cosmic Comet Party and you’re showing up after the punch has been distributed.

I just like being honest and stripping away the layers of manipulation. “Starts at 2:00. Please be on time. If you don’t want to be the first, show up at 2:10. If you want to come early, we’d love a bit of help with last minute preparation but we won’t be in hosting mode just yet!”

Do I overthink things? Absolutely. Do people comment about how much they love how I strip all the uncertainty and mind games from it all? Yes.
by kagerou74 | 2025-11-03 02:09:09+00:00
Such a spirit from a "non-profit" - was it last week or so Sam Altman said Chat GPT will be soon good for erotica - as if we all want to hand over our IDs and personal data to Open AI.

In my view, current for-profit model of AI development is killing what could have been hte most meaningful potential of AI - to genuinely benefit betterment of the humanity.
by dangus | 2025-11-03 02:09:17+00:00
A lot of this isn't very relevant to my personal use case and/or has not been my experience.

- I have had my Microsoft account connected since early in the Windows 10 days so that I can use my Xbox library. For my personal use case it doesn't really bother me that I have to login. Sure, most competing commercial OSes don't straight up force you to login, but as an example I never really used my Mac laptop without the Apple ID logged in because it has some pretty clear benefits and essentially no discernible downsides. It has some downsides that mostly boil down to what-if scenarios and thought experiments. To me, Microsoft forcing you to login with an account is not a big deal in the context of commercial paid software with a paid license. I can certainly understand why it might be a big deal in a different context. I can certainly see why my own Linux laptop is more appealing to not have this requirement. However, I specifically use Windows for a lot of commercial stuff - Steam, Xbox, etc. Being logged in was going to happen anyway, at least for me.

- As far as being nagged to pay, use Edge/Bing, or buy cloud stuff from Microsoft, all of that has been extremely easy to dismiss permanently. I have not needed to use any power user tools or scripts.

- It's an outdated notion that OneDrive is tossed in the menu bar forever. In Windows 11, OneDrive can be uninstalled entirely like a standard app. When I open my Start Menu and search for "OneDrive," nothing comes up besides an obscure tangentially-related system setting. It's literally not there.

- Sure, various new things have been presented to me along with new updates, like Copilot and the like, but I have been forced into none of it. When I visit Settings > Apps > AI Components, nothing is installed. When I type "Copilot" into the Start Menu, nothing comes up besids Windows Store search suggestions (apps I have not installed) and a keyboard key customization setting. Copilot is literally not there.

- I think there’s actually a good argument that upsells like OneDrive/Copilot (again, in my experience easy to dismiss once a year and uninstall permanently) that solve complicated problems for the median user (secure backups, document storage, AI assistant) is a decently tasteful way to fund a commercial operating system. All of that stuff is optional, and I can just say no, while paying for annual point releases (e.g. Mac OS X) kinda sucked.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-03 02:09:40+00:00
Like old Georgie (Lucas*) would say, (an atmosphere of) fear leads to threat perception, which leads to anger..

So the desire for political shifts drains the nation's attention away from (locally) consequential actions. There's plenty of stuff that approximates direct democracy at the town level but the tough (=hard to keep in _both_ prefrontal & basal) part is trickling it upwards

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democracy/direct-democracy-seri...

Sorry for the meta: pols45/joules77 is your type, only richer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787446

*Zen Buddhism+Methodism != Stoicism but come quite close
by stonecharioteer | 2025-11-03 02:10:01+00:00
> Flix Vision has been shown to use resource monetizing services that pay app developers in exchange for using the device CPU and network traffic while their app is running. Live NetTV has been criticized for doing the same. These kinds of proxy monetization services have been classified as Riskware and accused of giving cybercriminals access to devices and residential IPs for malicious operations.

> It seems far more likely that Amazon targeted and disabled these two apps because they functioned as residential proxy providers, rather than due to any role in facilitating unauthorized access to copyrighted content. For over a decade, Amazon has shown through inaction that it is unwilling to combat piracy outside of its appstore by endlessly disabling third-party piracy apps. However, the possibility of a network of unknowingly compromised Fire TV devices being used as gateways for cybercrimes appears to have been sufficient motivation for Amazon to take action and block the apps.

Sigh. Yeah no. This is a good thing. I'm sure they're not worried about stuff like Jellyfin or SmartTubeTV.
by jonway | 2025-11-03 02:10:11+00:00
No, the right wing fielded opposition to the real ID laws. See this 2008 CATO report[0]. There was a bipartisan movement against this at the time.

But yes, far less bothered by stingrays, ALPR national surveillance, etc in more recent times.

I just want to give people their dues on this. For example Rand Paul introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act which would have banned no-knock warrants if it had passed.[1]

[0] https://www.cato.org/policy-report/july/august-2008/real-id-...

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3955
by bluGill | 2025-11-03 02:10:22+00:00
Spice is fine - but you still need to get places and that is the primary goal of most cars. People who have the car/motorcycle for fun only nearly all have some other vehicle they use as the "daily driver" to get places. I might take a train on a sunday drive myself once in a while.

The majority of uses should be for people trying to get someplace. If the trip is also fun that is a bonus, but if it is only fun but otherwise worthless (that is something else is enough better) your system won't get many riders.
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-03 02:11:31+00:00
At best they can use some particularly suitable embankments.

Putting solar actually near the tracks is presumably not on the cards: not only because the regulations for bolting techy shit to a railway are there for a reason, but also the vibration, the overshadowed nature of much railway, thick black grime, and difficulty in getting access for maintenance, and impediment and vulnerability to normal railway maintenance. It sounds a nightmare in both operational and capital terms.

And since the trains mostly run at 25kV (the 750V third rail systems are basically a dead end in the UK) it would probably be quite a headache to step a few dozen panels here and there up to that, even if there was a way to feed it in near the panel. So exporting to the national grid is probably more cost effective in many cases.

Then again, it's understandable that if Network Rail has to have the land anyway that it wants to get something out of it rather than it just being a net cost.
by sleepyguy | 2025-11-03 02:12:04+00:00
That means you still have about 4 safe years to invest and reap some great returns. Will NVDA see 8-10 trillion, who knows?

There are some great investors out their that think we are not even close to this AI thing slowing down.

As the saying goes...."the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-03 02:12:28+00:00
To be fair to Avi Loeb, it took him 1/4 of the article before he finally started talking about fucking aliens.

> These interconnected dimensions, from cataloging interstellar object populations to assessing potential threat from alien technology,

We absolutely are at a beautiful bold exciting frontier, of seeing so so many more interstellar objects going through the solar system. It's absolutely a fantastically exciting time, with Vera Rubin and others providing wide survey ability to detect things humanity hasn't had the bandwidth and attention to see before. We're going to see so much more.

But this is such a low life charlatan playing every single moment for maximum attention. Fuck yes this concept, fuck this fucking amazing piece of shit no good loser for grasping for every second of attention he personally can steal from the universe. What a sad shitty junkie doing such dis-service.