MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2025-11-05 06:13:01+00:00
You asked for feedback on a downvoted post, I gave it, and then you told me to fuck off.

I’m not sure what outcome you wanted here, but there isn’t really any amount of attacking me that will make other people agree that seeing “leather pan handle covers” and posting 200 words about how your conscience wouldn’t allow you to be involved in the leather pan handle cover business isn’t shaming.

It’s a factually correct read. If you look at this thread, nobody is here saying “actually it is totally normal and not shaming to bring up how you live and die by principles that make it impossible to countenance selling leather pan handle covers in response to seeing somebody mention leather pan handle covers”. No amount of painting yourself as a victim of “having your question answered” is going to make other people change their correct interpretation of the post that you asked for feedback about.

It’s like you asked a question, didn’t like the answer, and then decided that it’s against the rules to answer the question that you asked.
by vidursaini | 2025-11-05 06:13:50+00:00
I kept running into the same wall: friends wanted guidance from the Gita but bounced off the language and length. So I built an iOS app that rewrites all 701 verses into Gen Z-friendly style and lets you find the right verse by mood or situation.

Why

The original is in Sanskrit, most translations are dense, and even Hindi versions can feel heavy. I wanted something you can actually use in the moment, not just study someday.

Key features

Gen Z versions of every verse

Mood tags to surface the right guidance when you need it

Home screen widget that rotates a fresh verse every few hours

One-tap sharing to friends and family

Free

How I built it

Native iOS with WidgetKit for the widget. Happy to share more about the stack and tooling if useful.

What I’d love feedback on

Onboarding flow and first-session clarity

Mood tagging logic and search

Widget cadence and verse variety

Any ideas to make this more inviting for younger readers

Open to all thoughts and critiques.

Hare Krishna!
by macNchz | 2025-11-05 06:14:12+00:00
The ACA was, I believe, a highly intentional better-done-than-perfect effort, fully cognizant of the historical cycles of political will around major healthcare policy in America. If you review in depth the efforts in the 90s under Clinton, and earlier under Johnson, I think the approach was well considered. A more ambitious policy proposal ending in failure very well may have have put the topic to bed for another twenty years. The loss of the “public option” did sting, though.
by jacobolus | 2025-11-05 06:15:02+00:00
How many do you think were killed then, over those centuries of conflict? Several hundred thousand? What if we include deaths due to famine? How many were forced to migrate? Also several hundred thousand?

As I said, I'm not an expert; and you are right, it's not easy to find good sources for numbers about this. As far as I can tell were quite a few individual events with tens of thousands of people killed at a time. There were hundreds of recorded major battles.
by yongjik | 2025-11-05 06:15:26+00:00
Well, yeah, constitutionally speaking, Republic of Korea is the only rightful government with sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula (and if you go across the border, you will here the same in reverse, except they recently decided to change their stance to "there are two countries and we're not related at all!").

But everyone understands that this is a legal fiction. Despite mutual hostility, the two Koreas are somewhat relaxed about interpretation: for example SK doesn't object to other nations establishing diplomatic relations with NK, and vice versa.

Depending on who you ask, you'll hear different views on how to reconcile the law with reality, ranging from "there is only one rightful government, and a group of commie rebels we should destroy" to "we should accept that there are two different nations" to "South Korea is but a colony of American Imperialists!" But anyway, everyone accepts that practically there are two countries, so when we're talking about any contemporary matters, we're usually just talking about South Korea. (Unless we're specifically interested in North Korea.)
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-05 06:15:43+00:00
Yet their demands are almost entirely about limiting restrictions imposed by Google Play. There is a paragraph about not doing anticompetitive shit like banning partners from installing other stores (antitrust by settlement, what a world), but nearly all of the rest of the document is about making sure they don't need to pay with Google's payment processor or that the rates are lowered to a decent percentage.
by scrubs | 2025-11-05 06:15:47+00:00
Agree ... there is a heavy element of truth in Job's observation.

I sometimes push back like this mentioning Marshal Tucker lyrics:

I heard it in a love song.

I heard it in a love song.

I heard it in a love song.

Can't be wrong.

No, the whole point is it is wrong: you were told what you wanted to hear. They got their's now where are you? Stop believing the nonsense!

Fleetwood Mac's players only love you when they're playin' is the same sentiment.

Where oh where is our vaunted common sense? Atticus had it in to kill a mockingbird. Alas Job reminds Atticus is the exception.

This more so applies to current American politics ... which has been on my mind of late.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-05 06:15:50+00:00
Governments seem to care about "self-sufficiency" a lot more these days, especially after what's happening in both China and the US right now.

If the choice is between an architecture owned, patented and managed by a single company domiciled in a foreign country, versus one which is an international standard and has multiple competing vendors, the latter suddenly seems a lot more attractive.

Price and performance don't matter that much. Governments are a lot less price-sensitive than consumers (and even businesses), they're willing to spend money to achieve their goals.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-05 06:16:43+00:00
Is it? It's quite uncontroversial I think that consciousness has no special impact in physics, there's no physical experiment that is affected by a consciousness being present or not. Electrons don't behave differently if a human is looking at them versus a machine, as far as any current physical experiment has ever found.

If we agree on this, then it follows logically that we don't need new physics to explain consciousnesses. I'm not claiming it's impossible that consciousness is created by physics we don't yet know - just claiming that it's also not impossible that it's not. Similarly, we don't fully understand the pancreas, and it could be that the pancreas works in a way that isn't fully explainable by current physics - but there's currently no reason to believe that, so we shouldn't assume that.
by necovek | 2025-11-05 06:17:20+00:00
I believe you are conflating a few things under wrong categories: something that only has a single "stream" of releases (for instance a web application, but it could be anything, an API or a desktop/phone application) needs to only communicate where it's at for "debugging" purposes (talking about a feature/bug from previous releases, referring to the problem a customer has...). A calendar version works fine as long as it matches the release cadence (eg. do you do 100s of releases a day? might need more than a date) and allows easy referentiality.

If you strictly maintain a single API version and expect all users to stay in sync, calendar versioning works there too: it is has different meaning from numbers in SemVer, but it is semantic in that it informs the user of when the changes were introduced in your stream of releases.

Just like it does make sense to use SemVer for desktop software you have paying customers for 2.1 and 3.0.

Your versioning should have a goal and fulfill that goal. Your attempt to shoehorn software types into versioning schemes makes no sense, even if I am with you that SemVer can drive good API development practices if applied to the letter (or can result in you quickly getting to 145.14.7 where SemVer did not really help and is likely not suitable for your product release cadence).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 06:17:32+00:00
> there is no way this was even remotely close to the most socially motivated (I don't see radical as a desirable adjective) package he could get have gotten passed

What are you basing this on? Again, Pelosi lost her House because of ACA. Republicans shut down the government multiple times trying to repeal it. They narrowly missed, but because the compromise was powerful. Had Pelosi and Obama pushed harder on ACA, chances are high it would have never passed.

I’m not saying it was perfectly calibrated. But the problems you’re mentioning would have meant battling entire new categories of powerful interest groups. That's what, in part, sank HillaryCare.
by teiferer | 2025-11-05 06:18:19+00:00
This approach has two fundamental problems.

1. It requires you to essentially re-implement the business logic of the SUT (subject-under-test) so that you can assert it. Is your function doing a+b? Then instead of asserting that f(1, 2) == 3 you need to do f(a, b) == a+b since the framework provides a and b. You can do a simpler version that's less efficient, but in the end of the day, you somehow need to derive the expected outputs from input arguments, just like your SUT does. Any logical error that might be slipped into your SUT implementation has a high risk of also slipping into your test and will therefore be hidden by the complexity, even though it would be obvious from just looking at a few well thought through examples.

2. Despite some anecdata in the comments here, the chances are slim that this approach will find edge cases that you couldn't think of. You basically just give up and leave edge case finding to chance. Testing for 0 or -1 or 1-more-than-list-length are obvious cases which both you the human test writer and some test framework can easily generate, and they are often actual edge cases. But what really constitutes an edge case depends on your implementation. You as the developer know the implementation and have a chance of coming up with the edge cases. You know the dark corners of your code. Random tests are just playing the lottery, replacing thinking hard.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-11-05 06:18:40+00:00
>after a successful Giuliani admin (yes he’s tarnished that).

Successful? Try again.

Rudy Guiliani was the most hated man in NYC on September 10, 2001.

I'm not really sure why that changed, he was a horror. Anti-democratic (small 'd') anti-freedom of expression and spent most of his time being a boot stomping on the faces of hard working New Yorkers.
by yannyu | 2025-11-05 06:18:46+00:00
I agree with you in principle. And I agree that the government has been steadily eroding our privacy. And I agree that California probably shouldn't be retaining these samples forever.

However, the likelihood of being able to "sequence" the biomatter on a blood spot is quite low, and the probability of getting good signal out of it continues to go down over time. It'll still remain useful for various kinds of spot testing and genetic disease testing, but it's not going to produce a fully validated genomic sequence or even be that useful for forensic purposes.

This isn't some sort of sealed blood vial, it's literally just blood on paper.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 06:19:09+00:00
> Zohran is exactly the kind of change candidate that the San Francisco machine with Grow SF would actively seek to squash.

GrowSF is a conservative group with a right-wing policy platform trying to pretend it's progressive, so I'm not sure why that would be surprising.

The SF tech millionaires/billionaires are not progressive. They may have claimed to be in the past, but that was either opportunism, or they lost it as they made more money and saw people like Trump and Musk gain power.
by tguvot | 2025-11-05 06:20:40+00:00
pods are about convenience. exactly same reason that i got dishwasher with detergent cartridges and washing machine with build in container for detergent.

but if we talk about powders, they can be very different with different performance. There are commercial powders (for restaurants and such where dishwashers run on very short cycles) that I afraid to put in my dishwasher and there are eco powders that are made from unicorn tears (tried once, they cleaned dirt but leave stains on clear glass). i went through sds of a bunch of them. most of them have same similar basic ingredients, but in different proportions
by timr | 2025-11-05 06:21:13+00:00
> people are calling it a clown show

Not "people" -- a single, unnamed, VC. It's right there in the article. Read it.

> Prasad was ousted

No, he wasn't. He voluntarily resigned pre-emptively after the WSJ editorials, then he was re-hired almost immediately. You are just misinformed. You'd know this if you read a better source.
by bradlys | 2025-11-05 06:21:30+00:00
I left nyc a couple months ago after living there for three years. The city has so many issues and something only someone like Mamdani (with good support) could fix.

It’s been said that it’s impossible for a New York City mayor to be uncorrupt. By the nature of getting the position, you must be a corrupt individual. That’s why you see so many past mayors and potentials having such a shameful history.

Mamdani feels like a break from that tradition. I wish the Bay Area could replicate something similar. We suffer from similar issues as NYC but we are constantly getting conservative leaning officials who refuse to get law enforcement to do their job. Breed was a center politician (right leaning in any other western country), and now we have a center right mayor. I’ve not really noticed much improvement in the bay - even with the current mayor’s constant posting on TikTok. I just see him blocking housing development and congratulating developers on building more empty office space in a city that desperately needs more housing.

Not a surprise if you’ve lived here for a while. The Bay Area is incredibly conservative for all its performative wokeism.
by j45 | 2025-11-05 06:21:45+00:00
After market stereos were always the norm for actual technology. Crutchfield made it super accessible.

Automakers moved into it to try and capture more of that stream.

And generally they can’t keep up.

Cars don’t seem to change much except for the dash tech.

So mane it’s time to own the smarts yourself.

You could get any car and get a big android screen (some have tesla size screens) for your vehicle like those made by phoenix android radio. Only mentioning them as an example not the only choice.

All the built in car screens and graphics continue to work, plus put whatever you like on it.
by crypto420 | 2025-11-05 06:22:50+00:00
Peter Thiel and Mamdani are more alike than you may think.

https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1937879912221667792

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-peter-thiel-warns...

Nobody wants to hear this because it departs from the 'billionaire bad' trope. But Thiel has been remarkably consistent in his criticism of housing being the center of all of the Millenial economic woes.
by ksimukka | 2025-11-05 06:23:10+00:00
Ok, fine, I’ll use TurboTax.

I live and work abroad and Turbotax requires a US billing address to pay the fee of using Turbotax. :facepalm

All the other self-service options do not work and I’m not sure if the risk is worth it to file it myself.

To my fellow Expats, what are you doing?
by bee_rider | 2025-11-05 06:23:48+00:00
Someone mentioned the latencies for gaming, but also I had a 4K TV as a monitor briefly that had horrible latency for typing, even. Enough of a delay between hitting a key and the terminal printing to throw off my cadence.

Only electronic device I’ve ever returned.

Also they tend to have stronger than necessary backlights. It might be possible to calibrate around this issue, but the thing is designed to be viewed from the other side of a room. You are at the mercy of however low they decided to let it go.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-05 06:24:08+00:00
The key point here is improving. For example, the doodad the BBC is marketing here is clearly not an improvement, is it? It's much more costly than traditional electrical rail (solar panels are much more expensive to maintain than a pole with a wire), it requires massive new infrastructure (the railway company would have to create a whole solar energy management division), and the only benefit is that it allows the railway company to avoid dealing with the regular electrical grid that powers everything else - for no clear reason.
by mmooss | 2025-11-05 06:25:13+00:00
You are 'this government's best friend, advocating for their opponents to give up and quit. In a remarkable pattern that I never thought I'd see in the rugged individualistic, idealistic, freedom-loving USA, a large group is literally self-defeating: They defeat themselves before even getting out of bed.

That's why your opponents are unstoppable - because you don't stop them. The performative nonsense is their aggression display.

They still want to win the election. Political and policy outcomes aren't all or nothing; the more they see, the more it will nudge them in whatever direction you want. Others will see it and it will nudge them too. If one person didn't embrace being a quitter, others would do the same.
by eru | 2025-11-05 06:25:35+00:00
In addition to what other people have said:

> [...] time to learn a DSL for describing all possible inputs and outputs when I already had an existing function [...]

You don't have to describe all possible inputs and outputs. Even just being able to describe some classes of inputs can be useful.

As a really simple example: many example-based tests have some values that are arbitrary and the test shouldn't care about them, like eg employees names when you are populating a database or whatever. Instead of just hard-coding 'foo' and 'bar', you can have hypothesis create arbitrary values there.

Just like learning how to write (unit) testable code is a skill that needs to be learned, learning how to write property-testable code is also a skill that needs practice.

What's less obvious: retro-fitting property-based tests on an exiting codebase with existing example-based tests is almost a separate skill. It's harder than writing your code with property based tests in mind.

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Some common properties to test:

* Your code doesn't crash on random inputs (or only throws a short whitelist of allowed exceptions).

* Applying a specific functionality should be idempotent, ie doing that operation multiple times should give the same results as applying it only once.

* Order of input doesn't matter (for some functionality)

* Testing your prod implementation against a simpler implementation, that's perhaps too slow for prod or only works on a restricted subset of the real problem. The reference implementation doesn't even have to be simpler: just having a different approach is often enough.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-11-05 06:25:57+00:00
> yet somehow in the USA this is "radical"

As they say... (often misattributed to John Steinbeck, but at best its really a rough paraphrase of something he wrote) "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

The truly wealthy have long convinced the average "middle class" American that they exist in roughly the same social class (even though this has always been an insane lie) but this illusion is quickly falling away due to current economic circumstances causing untenable concentration of wealth.

Ultimately its the absolute naked greed of the truly wealthy that is causing this realignment (that is likely to end badly for them as well) to happen. They are so dead set against making even the smallest move toward fair taxation that they are creating a situation in which the shrinking middle class have no choice but to see that they are quickly becoming an endangered species whose relative fortunes are moving rapidly down rather than slowly up.
by miley_cyrus | 2025-11-05 06:26:20+00:00
Way too many examples to list all of them, but here is the easiest: Mamdani used the phrase "seizing the means of production" during a live streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021.

https://www.aol.com/news/zohran-mamdani-chilling-call-seizin...
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-05 06:27:04+00:00
Oh, yeah, Obama being aloof was why the white men who questioned his citizenship openly - who are now entirely complicit in or supportive of an unaccountable gestapo randomly kidnapping people from the streets wth no ID or due process based on their skin tone - weren't "charmed" by him.

Dog whistles are supposed to be subtle.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 06:27:09+00:00
That quote seems to ignore reality. If we look at San Francisco, where units built before 1980 are not subject to rent control, we find that building new housing has nothing to do with fears that rent control will be extended.

I agree that rents for uncontrolled apartments are high, but if we eliminated rent control for the rest, that wouldn't really fix anything. The formerly-rent-controlled apartments would cost just as much as the post-1979 housing stock.

The only thing that will fix our housing cost problem is a truly radical amount of new construction. Developers would love to build here, but the cost to build here is ridiculously high for policy reasons that have nothing to do with actually building.

If we could build enough housing to satisfy demand, then we might be ok eliminating rent control. Rent control is a response to housing scarcity, not the cause. You'd think economists would understand basic supply and demand.

About the only thing I do agree with is that rent control reduces the quality of available housing. Landlords are less incentivized to fix problems and maintain their buildings when they can't make market rate from their tenants.
by thayne | 2025-11-05 06:27:24+00:00
For most people, those deductions are less than the "standard" deduction you can take instead. For most of the people who do itemized deductions, it's mostly just your mortgage payment and state taxes, which the IRS already knows about, and maybe charitable donations.

And even if you do have a lot of things to report, why not just report those things directly and let the IRS calculate your taxes, rather than you having to do it, fill out a complicated form, then the IRS does the calculation anyways to make sure you did it right?
by JamesLeonis | 2025-11-05 06:27:50+00:00
I visited Munich back in 2013 and recorded several surfers on the wave [0]. For reference I was standing on the bridge just above the platform in the article's second photo. It was pretty neat, and I'm sad that it might be lost.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4eheoiHY4
by jack1243star | 2025-11-05 06:28:15+00:00
Please do not let my comment take away your enjoyment of the article.

I hate to nit-pick on such a beautiful story but that it ended with a faux-Ghibli profile picture is just sad.

How can someone working so hard to humanize technology and preserve history, justify this soul-less commodification of art? Do the animators deserve to get treated as anonymous model trainers without their consent, names and frames lost in a dead ocean of bit-vectors?
by positron26 | 2025-11-05 06:28:47+00:00
For skin, a few seconds might be significant. For the spars, not nearly enough time to matter. It's also not at cruise speed slamming into a downdraft or anything. This is about a 1G loading. Negligible for a while. While the fire looks cool, there's a lot of free stream mixing in and the temps won't really get that high beyond the cowling.