MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j45 | 2025-11-05 20:28:37+00:00
Clever is one thing, sometimes just clear prompting (I want to know how to be better informed about what kinds of topics or questions to speak to the doctor/professional about) can go a long way.

Being clear that not all lawyers or doctors (in this example) are experts in every area of medicine and law, and knowing what to know and learn about and ask about is usually a helpful way.

While professionals have bodies for their standards and ethics, like most things it can represent a form of income, and depending on the jurisdiction, profitability.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-11-05 20:28:44+00:00
Let's say there is a case like UA1175: - they can see how damaged the engine is - they can see if the wing is damaged in any way (over and under) - is there any other damage to the aircraft (like there was a piece of shrapnel that hit the plane)

In other situations: - are the wheels out when the sensors say they are not - have a way to visually inspect critical parts of the plane while in flight (so you don't have to do a flyover and the tower to look with binoculars at the airplane)

This is what comes to mind now.

Happy? Or am I still dancing?
by newfriend | 2025-11-05 20:29:04+00:00
Again, you're mistaking a Senator representing a state vs the people in a state. The Senator represents the state, no matter if they got 51% or 100%.

What makes you say that Republican senators represent a minority of the population?

There is no real way to determine the population in each state represented by a party other than votes. The presidential vote tallies (the only truly national vote) are the closest we have to this. Numbers in the Senate are fairly close to the popular vote (not a coincidence).
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-05 20:29:09+00:00
Ever heard of advanced concepts such as "euphonism" and "joke"?

Especially in the context of idioms such as "boot licker" (which doesn't describe a person literally licking someone's boot! I know, shocking, right?)

I mean I didn't click on the linked thread, because frankly: who the hell cares what people on a forum called "Mac rumors" say... Even as a frequent apple user myself i wouldn't take anything seriously there. But the way you two addressed his sarcasm was just underwhelming.

Take a joke for what it is. Downvote if you don't see value in it - but if you're going to address it - do it properly and not by "misunderstanding" things on purpose.
by tanseydavid | 2025-11-05 20:29:14+00:00
I avoided Metamucil for a long time, because "only old people use that."

Contempt without prior investigation and denial of my mortality is the true reason.

But once I started taking it I was sorely disappointed in myself that I did not start at least 10 years sooner.

Perhaps un-branded supplemental fiber is unburdened by the old people connotation? I probably still would have resisted.
by rpearl | 2025-11-05 20:29:42+00:00
I do floss, but I genuinely don't see that this is obvious. You can do a lot of damage with mechanical force, to both teeth and gums! Starting a flossing regimen after not having one tends to cause pain--isn't that a signal to stop? etc.

Furthermore, correlation is not causation and it could well be the case that flossing is associated with better outcomes without causing it. For example, people who can afford to go to the dentist regularly are therefore regularly told to floss. People who care about dental health in general probably floss more, but also may be doing other things, consciously or unconsciously, to improve outcomes. Gut (and perhaps mouth) bacteria have behavioral effects; perhaps flossing is caused by having healthy mouth bacteria!

(at least one study says mouthwash is better than floss. That seems obvious to me! liquids are smaller than floss.)
by theultdev | 2025-11-05 20:29:52+00:00
That's referring to American Airlines Flight 191 (May 25, 1979).

https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...

I watch a lot of airplane disasters.

TLDR: you are supposed to properly disassemble and use a proper lift to lower the engine, not shove it in with a fork lift (even though it's quicker).

I don't think this was the cause of this accident though, the engine was on fire before takeoff.

Not an airplane engineer, but I very much doubt anyone has used a forklift to install an engine since 191. Procedures got much more strict.
by throwanem | 2025-11-05 20:30:30+00:00
Yes, but from a much older coinage, as documented in (the not entirely uncontroversial) "The New Hacker's Dictionary" compiled by (the likewise) Eric Raymond: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#hacke...

I'm old enough to recall the term in active use, and to have received the appellation from one who'd had it likewise handed down. I regard both as epiphenomena of the Internet's frontier or "Wild West" days, of which California has proven as terminal as it was for the nominate example after the US Civil War - not wholly for dissimilar reasons, if we take Vietnam, for the Internet, as the war whose loss would spur the migration.
by sfblah | 2025-11-05 20:30:57+00:00
Things like this really favor models offered from countries that have fewer legal restrictions. I just don't think it's realistic to expect people not to have access to these capabilities.

It would be reasonable to add a disclaimer. But as things stand I think it's fair to consider talking to ChatGPT to be the same as talking to a random person on the street, meaning normal free-speech protections would apply.
by jfkw | 2025-11-05 20:30:59+00:00
I would gladly pay extra (in terms of OEM's profit margin) for a de-contented EV that aims to stay reliable, offline, and be easier to field-repair and upgrade as components improve. Our phones are better than any infotainment system. Batteries and motors will get better in time.

https://www.slate.auto 's pickup seems to be heading in this direction, and now Carice enters in a higher-end market segment. If someone does a minivan or other people-hauler configuration similarly, I'd be first in line.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-05 20:31:06+00:00
Bright colors fade more noticeably over time, so bright clothing was a good indication of new, regularly replaced clothing. The dyes themselves could also be phenomenally expensive. The scarlet red of Catholic cardinals was historically made from Kermes, an especially lightfast dye. Kermes was in turn a cheaper alternative to the Tyrian Purple worn previously.

Daily clothing would have been more pastel than the saturated colors we associate with "colorful" today.
by 4ggr0 | 2025-11-05 20:31:19+00:00
> Sometimes this blurring ends up looking absolutely great, and other times it's just lazy, obnoxious, and awful

yeah, maybe i should give this way of setting the graphics a try. should try to find a game which looks great with it.

> I find a 32" 3840 pixel wide monitor to be good

just looked them up, surprised that they're quite a bit more expensive (800+ vs 600-750 for an ultrawide), but i guess the panels are more expensive due to the higher resolution. but your comment now makes me think what path i want to go. gotta read up on some opinions :D

> Hope you don't have much trouble with it

luckily i work on and with unix systems, so the new things are just the those related to gaming. but bazzite really has been very nice so far :) and as you say, the only times i had to boot up the windows on a separate disk are when i wanted to play games which don't run on linux at all, especially the kernel-level anticheat slopware.

but enough is enough. i've kept using windows at home just because of gaming, but i'm sick of M$. can't spend the whole day making fun of windows and then go home and game on it, feels dirty.
by vorpalhex | 2025-11-05 20:31:23+00:00
Nundinae was only for the ruling class to go shopping

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

So sorry, you still get to bake bread all day.

And Greek festival days involved.. lots of food, baths had to be hot, etc. So someone has to run the event. It wasn't the common people getting a day off.
by quantified | 2025-11-05 20:32:06+00:00
One of the wonders of neighborhood and small-town newpapers is the opportunity they afford to get smaller matters into print, often as human interest. I've been in a couple, for human interest and business news. Without malice, as far as I can tell, the articles always got significant facts wrong and had real differences of viewpoint. Collecting info, composing it, editing it are collectively hard. We hate ingesting bad info, but try generating good info yourself.

That's even before agendas, owners, and axes to grind come into play.
by brandonb | 2025-11-05 20:32:10+00:00
Photos are used to track nutrition -- you choose each photo to upload within the app.

Location is only used, in context, to help find healthy meals near you. (You can use the app with or without enabling this location-based feature; if you don't use it, then we don't ask for location.)

Where are you seeing messages? We don't track messages, so this is probably a mistake in our metadata.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 20:32:13+00:00
Is there really not enough room in the global market for two smaller companies to compete (and win) against CRCC?

I think this is especially not that big a deal considering the national security implications. I expect Norway would contract with a non-Chinese company for bus, rail, everything from now on due to that, regardless of whether or not they are smaller than the CRCC.
by dzaima | 2025-11-05 20:33:01+00:00
Linux of course does have an interface for RISC-V extension probing via hwprobe. And there's a C interface[1] for probing that's OS-agnostic (though it's rather new).

[1]: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-c-api-doc/blob/main/s...
by ashf023 | 2025-11-05 20:33:29+00:00
Yeah, golang is a particular nightmare for SIMD. You have to write plan 9 assembly, look up what they renamed every instruction to, and then sometimes find that the compiler doesn't actually support that instruction, even though it's part of an ISA they broadly support. Go assembly functions are also not allowed to use the register-based calling convention, so all arguments are passed on the stack, and the compiler will never inline it. So without compiler support I don't believe there's any way to do something like intrinsics even. Fortunately compiler support for intrinsics seems to be on its way! https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787
by mbesto | 2025-11-05 20:33:39+00:00
> but I work in the space

Ya, the original commenter likely does not work in the space - hence the ask.

> the evaluation of new models is actually very quantitative.

While you may be able to derive a % correct (and hence quantitative), they are by their nature very much not quantitative. Q&As on written subjects are very much subjective. Example benchmark: https://llm-stats.com/benchmarks/gpqa Even though there are techniques to reduce overfitting, it still isn't eliminated. So it's very much subjective.
by rodarima | 2025-11-05 20:33:56+00:00
I wrote my own:

https://git.dillo-browser.org/buggy/

It fetches the issues from GitHub and stores them in <number>/index.md in Markdown format, with some special headers. I then keep the issues in a git repository:

https://git.dillo-browser.org/bugtracker/

So we have a very robust storage that we can move around and also allows me to work offline. When I want to push changes, I just push them via git, then buggy(1) runs in the server via a web hook. This also tracks the edit changes.

While typing, I often use `find . -name '*.md' | entr make` which regenerates the issues that have changed into HTML as well as the index, then sends a SIGUSR1 to dillo, which reloads the issue page.

The nice thing of allowing arbitrary HTML inline is that I can write the reproducers in the issue itself:

https://git.dillo-browser.org/bugtracker/tree/501/index.md#n...

Closing an issue is just changing the header "State: open" by "State: closed", often with a comment pointing to the merged commit.
by whstl | 2025-11-05 20:34:22+00:00
I don't know.

I have seen CEOs and CTOs tearing apart feedback from surveys at all-hands meetings. To the point of mocking answers and saying people are "tripping", or that "in other YC companies people work 80 hours".

And I've seen leads/managers leaving due to micromanagement as well.

As long as the expectation is for managers to hide concerns and fall in line, the information will be hidden from C-levels.

For example:

> A fintech company decided to build their own authentication system rather than use established solutions.

I lived this exact scenario. Fintech wanted custom authentication! It was pushed into my team. I said no and put my foot down, VPE disagreed with me and gave to another team. That team failed to deliver after 6 months, and my team finally ended up being the one implementing a third-party solution in a couple weeks. That third-party solution costed less than $100 per month, because of how little users we had.

On my yearly feedback I still got knocked down a peg due to this incident. It really hurt my career at that company, even though I was in the right. That other team failed to deliver other projects too, and we got the same feedback I did, same salary increase. I got the yelling, I got the negative marks.

Of course people will rationalize this with "you should have been more political".

Well, that's what the people being criticized in TFA are doing: being political.
by epistasis | 2025-11-05 20:34:51+00:00
The grid is HUGELY expensive, an absolutely massive cost for our electricity. And it would still be expensive in a well-regulated environment where you can quickly and easily get permission to build, without, say, voter ballot propositions illegally blocking a transmission line for years [1]. Here in the US we have a very very poorly regulated environment for adding to our grid, it moves slower than molasses and there are so many parties that have unilateral veto points. The advent of a new transmission route in the US these days is pretty much a miracle event.

Now imagine a world where there's tons of bribes to government officials all along the way to get a grid going (in the US you just need to bribe landowners and hold-outs). Or there's bribes to get a permit for the large centralized electriticy generator. And you have to deal with importing a whole new skill set and trades, on top of importing all the materials, fuel, etc.

Decentralized solar plus batteries is already cheaper than electricity + transmission for me at my home in the US. The only thing stopping me is the permitting hassle or the contractor hassle.

Out in greenfield, solar plus storage is so revolutionary. This is bigger than going straight to mobile phones instead of landlines.

Africa is going to get so much power, and it's all going to be clean, renewable energy. Thanks to all the entrepreneurs and engineers over the past decades that have continuously and steadily improved this technology, it's one of the bright lights of humanity these days.

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/maine-jury-clears-avangrids...
by izacus | 2025-11-05 20:35:13+00:00
So the major, common and probably most destructive, theme is the ecosystem of specialised tender companies. I mostly know this from the software side, but if you start working on such projects, you'll quicky find out that there's a persistent ecosystem of companies which specialize for these tender signups.

People employed there optimize for winning them (at any cost - quid-pro-quo agreements aren't rare in my experience). It's common for several such companies to collude in a way that they get awarded the tenders in a circle ("I get this one, next one is for you.")

Afterwards, they outsource the work to the cheapest lowest bidder (usually IT studends in the cases I've seen for software development, but essentially they'll be bottom of the barrel juniors). The quality of such products is about the same as the quality of any outsourced product which is built only to satisfy a checklist at the end. The US equivalent of that would be a corporation getting a defense contract and then basically have everything built by the cheapest outsourcer in India or similar location. Funny enough, university labs (or spinoffs) tend to be major part of this ecosystem, using grad students as workforce - their credentials tend to give them legitimacy over smaller companies.

The results are as disastrous as you can expect - companies a HNer could expect to win usually don't (due to lack of specialized knowledge on how to game the tender process, lack of connections and cost) and those that do are really there to do the bare minimum, shed the work as much as possible and deliver something they can't get sued over.

It's also not uncommon to see whole chains of such companies - the winner sometimes shares some outsourcing work with "losers" they outsource work further, skimming the funds on top and essentially outsourcing everything to the cheapest engineer they can find.

Dealing with any public EU project has been nothing but misery for me personally (as you can imagine from this post :) and this environment bred some of the most toxic workplaces I've worked with. The products were universally terrible and rarely actually useful for the purpose.

As much as I want independent EU software ecosystem, I don't think using public funding can breed anything but more corruption.
by bombela | 2025-11-05 20:35:16+00:00
The laws of physics means that the longer the path for your network packet, the higher the latency.

One way latency on the Internet across fiber is about 4μs to 5μs per kilometer in my experience.

For example, SF to Paris is ~40ms one way (it used to be 60ms 15y ago, latency and jitter have really improved).

Double those values for the round trip allowing you to interject in a conversation.

Add wifi, which has terrible latency with a lot of jitter (1ms to 400ms jitter is not uncommon). Wi-Fi 7 should reduce the jitter and latency in theory. We shall see improvements in the coming decade. Cellphone 5G did improve latency for me, so I don't doubt WiFi will eventually deliver.

In other words you need to be within 3Mm (3000km) away to get a chance at a 30ms roundtrip. And that's assuming peer to peer without wifi nor slow devices.

For a conference call, everybody connects to a central server acting as the relay. So now the latency budget is halved already.
by righthand | 2025-11-05 20:35:37+00:00
Why would I forget about XSLT a really good technology pushed to the wayside by bad faith actors? Why would I forget Mason Freed? A person dedicating themselves to ruining perfectly good technology that needs a little love.

Do you have some sort of exclusive short term memory or something where you can’t remember someone’s name? Bizarre reply. Other people may have had a similarly lazy idea, but Mason is the one pushing and leading the charge.

It seems maybe you want me to blame this on Google as a whole but that would mean bypassing blame and giving into their ridiculous bs.
by righthand | 2025-11-05 20:36:06+00:00
So you’re choosing to help them spin the lie by cherry picking comments.

The Mozilla comment itself ends with:

> If it turns out that it's not possible to remove support, then we think browsers should make an effort to improve the fundamental security properties of XSLT even at the cost of performance.

> If it turns out not to be possible to remove the feature, we’d like to replace our current implementation. The main requirements would be compatibility with existing web content, addressing memory safety security issues, and not regressing performance on non-XSLT content. We’ve seen some interest in sandboxing libxslt, and if something with that shape satisfied our normal production requirements we would ship it.

But the only way it’s possible to remove the feature is if you ignore everyone asking you to please not to remove it.

Therefor by totally ignoring push back you can then twist Mozilla reps words to mean the only option is to remove it.

Similarly with the Webkit comment:

> WebKit is cautiously supportive.

Both these orgs requested investigation not removal. Both expressed some concern and caution. Google did not, they only ever pushed forward with removing it. Even goong so far as to ignore the followup request to implement XSLT 3.0.

No it’s not blatantly untrue. It’s unblatantly misleading.

Furthermore I’d say for those specific comments, “go ahead and remove it”, the inverse is blatantly untrue.
by nekusar | 2025-11-05 20:36:26+00:00
What capitalism continues to show us: proof that public libraries, if created in the last 10 years, would be deemed illegal and sued out of existence.

It's only because the late 1800's billionaires wanted to leave legacies and made pay-to-enter and free libraries, and migrated them to free, or public libraries. Thats why so many of them are (John) Carnegie Libraries.

Only legal when billionaires do it.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-05 20:36:32+00:00
You see this a lot with videos editors. A professional video editor flies around in their software of choice like an sales person in a TUI. Both are inherently proficient with their tool, to the extend that it's hard to graps what's actually happening on screen. We also see this with editors and IDE. Some people cruise around Emacs or Vim, while other hit a few keys and Visual Studio or IntelliJ will refactor 500 lines of code in an instant.

The TUIs are a little funny, because often people can navigate and input faster than the program can render. So you vaguely see a screen change, a menu move or an overlay pop up, only to instantly disappear. The user doesn't need to know what's happening on screen, because they trust their fingers and the system to do the right thing.
by wlesieutre | 2025-11-05 20:36:43+00:00
I don't get how it makes this jump

> Then $40-65/month over 24-30 months

> replacing $3-5/week kerosene spending with a $0.21/day solar subscription (so with $1.5 per week half the price of kerosene)" in the next paragraph.

If it's $40-65/month that's $1.33 to $2.17 per day, not $0.21/day (assuming month with 30 days)
by jjk166 | 2025-11-05 20:37:26+00:00
But some are selfish assholes; and if you find yourself agreeing with the selfish asshole rich people when it comes to economics, it might be worth double-checking their claims that a policy is supposedly better for everyone. Much hooplah is made of rising tides lifting all boats, but flooding the valley tends to just drown everyone not in a boat.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-05 20:37:34+00:00
It was too small at the time the law came into force. It's actually just about big enough now (market cap 110bn). That said, it's not at all clear that it's a gatekeeper in the sense that, say, Apple or Google are; it's mostly just one reseller of many of other peoples' stuff, and most Spotify users aren't forced to use it. It's just hard to see how it poses the same sort of competition problem.

(You could maybe make a _vague_ argument based on podcast exclusives, but it seems like pushing it a bit.)

The really puzzling one to me is TikTok, which is included but feels like it barely meets the criteria.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-05 20:37:35+00:00
I haven't got space for a TIG. However a couple of weeks ago Hofer had an inverter gasless MIG about the size of a Commodore 64 power brick, not including the spool of wire. Can't say I wasn't tempted to get myself a hot-glue-gun-for-metal kind of tool.