MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astrange | 2025-11-03 09:07:44+00:00
Did those people become unemployed? (Not because of that they didn't. There was a Great Depression and a few wars that could've caused it.)

They mostly stopped working in those fields because everyone hates farming and mining and quits the first chance they get.

Here's recent evidence from Canada, Japan and Spain showing automation caused employment increases:

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3812

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3377705

https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/etidpaper/20051.htm
by vintermann | 2025-11-03 09:08:06+00:00
I can give an example. I'd heard that Super Meat Boy was hard, and it was, but it turned out, if you ran it at the 60hz it was designed for instead of 75hz, it was considerably easier. At 120hz it was unplayable.

You kind of understand how the game loop is tied to the refresh rate in games like this, though. Practicing "pixel perfect" jumps must be challenging if the engine updates aren't necessarily in sync with what goes on on screen. And in the really old days (when platformers were invented!) there was no real alternative to having the engine in sync with the screen.
by stOneskull | 2025-11-03 09:09:20+00:00
for anyone reading this, and curious, i'm learning nim with raylib. (naylib is the nim wrapper around raylib). and i'm making the code comments and the display show what's happening, making the nim files into discrete lessons, for myself as well as you. as of today's date, i've done the vectors and most of the graphics lessons, with sound effects coming soon.. https://github.com/stOneskull/nim
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-11-03 09:09:47+00:00
generally, 7 and 13 get a lot of attention because a)they are prime b)1/7 and 1/13 have long period when written as decimal fraction - so you keep stumbling in your calculations every time you encounter them

1/7 in base 20 takes surprisingly short form of 0.(1h) (h is 17), unlike 1/9 or 1/11 - so I wonder if there's Mayan prejudice on those instead
by CapsAdmin | 2025-11-03 09:10:25+00:00
If a large company is making a utility cares, they'll have a ux person/s, sometimes part of a design team, to make sure things are usable.

But if you're really big, you could also test in production with ab testing. But as you said, the motivation tends to be to get people to click some button that creates revenue for the company. (subscribe, buy, click ad)

Somewhat related to this, the google aistudio interface was really pushing gdrive. I think they reduced it now, but in the beginning if you wanted to just upload a single file, you had to upload it to gdrive first and then use it.

There was also some annoying banner you couldn't remove above the prompt input that tried to get you to connect to gdrive.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-11-03 09:13:30+00:00
You're doing it wrong. Its not a race against other people.

It's a race to freedom from wage slavery. A race against time because you only have about 50 years left.

What you really need to know is, how cheap can you live, and how soon you can retire. How big does your warchest need to be so that it will grow with inflation and so that you can live off that growth without drawing down the principle. That's really all that matters.
by u_sama | 2025-11-03 09:13:31+00:00
All EU nations have programs to safeguard cultural artifacts and the UK had trainings as late as the 80s or 90s I think.

As for your first point, the nations set to safeguard their treasures, doesn't mean they weren't at a total war were destroying those of the enemy is out of bounds. The fact that Germany and the UK safeguarded paintings and sculptures doesnt mean they dont destroy the other's one.

As for the Reformation, it happened 500 years ago. Even before and after many heresies and iconoclastic movements destroyed artifacts and historical things for being pagan but I don't see why are you trying to go so far back when there are literal examples of the Taliban explosing Buddhist symbols that date of this century, or Palmyra.

Yes, and? I am sorry but what does that have to do with anything. The point is that Middle Eastern countries dont value their historical heritage enough and in case of civil conflict would at best sell it in the black market, at worst destroy it for ideological reasons. I think in the region only Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Jordan are trustworthy enough to safe-keep their cultural artifacts existing abroad.
by fragmede | 2025-11-03 09:13:36+00:00
Absolutely none! This is all based on FUD. But! Does knowing that an organization that's building out a social graph for as much of the developed world as they can has ties to Palantir, which has ties to governments, leave you with a warm fuzzy "I wanna give them my data!" feeling, or something else?

As far as it not feeling particularly data-mine-y: You give them your name and your phone number. Unless you're doing a lot of extra work to hide it, with data brokers and public data breaches, that's enough to get the rest of your info these days, your address, your job, you bank accounts, your family. You're giving them a list of friends, that's what they're building the site in order to ask for!

If you're findable via http://FastPeopleSearch.com, why would Partiful need to ask you for that information?
by dalben | 2025-11-03 09:15:19+00:00
Here in Belgium too. Somehow they don’t properly work if you have other Bluetooth devices connected, so the app forces you to disconnect other devices. Then it needs access to precise geolocation, and not just because Bluetooth requires it - I have to turn on location services.

In the old system, I could just punch in the code or scan the QR code, but now I have to do this dance of “why won’t it connect?” every time
by Einenlum | 2025-11-03 09:16:46+00:00
Maybe it's because I'm French and the author is American (I guess?), but this post made me anxious.

Putting so many rules and so much science on something that should be fun and spontaneous feels so wrong to me.

Maybe a cultural thing. But I would never go to a party hosted by someone who thinks in statistical terms and uses a dedicated app to invite guests.

I admit there are a few interesting tips though. Especially the one about splitting food and drinks across the room.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-03 09:17:21+00:00
GDP per square metre is probably the best metric, even though it's the more rarely used one. [1] has a neat map of Europe by GDP density.

However Germany is still very high in both GDP per capita and GDP per land area. Roughly on par with the UK, and far higher than France which has a much better mobile network

1: https://ssz.fr/gdp/
by miningape | 2025-11-03 09:17:26+00:00
I've been enjoying writing a Gameboy emulator in Odin - it interfaces nicely with C libraries (I've been using SDL and its been much easier to set up than with C++)

Tooling it a bit lacking, but the language is simple enough you can get away with using a semi-broken LSP.

The language feels light and expressive, and has generally gotten out of my way - the only thing I've been really craving is closures.

You might not like it because it has errors as return values like Rust/Go, however there are some directives/macros/keywords such as `or_return` which work a lot like `?` in Rust.
by Mashimo | 2025-11-03 09:18:34+00:00
> Polaroids/Disposable cameras are cheap and seem to be universally adored.

I do this on my parties! Also sometimes people ask me to bring my gear to their parties.

The guests can either keep the photo and take home some memories or gift it to the host.

My more advanced version is that I take photos with my "good" mirrorless camera, transfer the photos to my phone, and then send them to the polaroid (Instax mini) for print. Too much work as a host, but as a gift when I'm a guest I might do it :)
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-11-03 09:19:40+00:00
I read an article a while back, than when something really bad happens to the body, the brain looks back into memories to "see" how to solve the problem - maybe it happened before and it will know what to do (like when you cut yourself the second time, you know exactly what to do).

But because it never encountered something like it, it cannot find a solution.

And apparently this is why people when they die see their life flashing before their eyes.
by anon35 | 2025-11-03 09:19:58+00:00
> Tend to like a lot of formal rules about everything.

I would amend to: what Americans don't like to accept are what they see as preventable mistakes. The least American sentiment of all is "shit happens". Americans sometimes say that, but they don't mean it. What they really mean: "this shit shouldn't be allowed to happen". Hence the rules, and (in the extreme) the litigiousness.
by 0xEF | 2025-11-03 09:21:24+00:00
It's not exactly a big problem, but my company makes a three-axis desktop CNC machine powered by an ATMega328P that is dependent on having a Windows PC connected to it in order to run the proprietary software. Uno Q has me thinking we can eliminate the PC along with our custom PCB, making a more compact and convenient stand-alone system that would also come with a lower price tag. I may order a few to experiment with this idea, but again, it's not a huge problem and something only specific customers would care about.

I'm curious what the Maker community comes up with, provided it sticks around and remains supported, unlike the Edison.
by sznio | 2025-11-03 09:21:37+00:00
If you're not using V-sync, if a new frame is rendered while the previous one wasn't fully displayed yet, it gets swapped to the fresher one half-way through. This causes ugly screen tearing, but makes the game more responsive. You won't see the whole screen update at once, but like 1/5th of it will react instantly.

I used to do that until I switched to Wayland which forces vsync. It felt so unresponsive that I bought a 165hz display as a solution to that.
by jacobolus | 2025-11-03 09:22:03+00:00
It's pretty fair to blame the entire social and political system of 16th century Spain, which at that time was centered on religious persecution, mass murder, large-scale theft and exploitation, and quasi-slavery, leading to centuries of profoundly racist tyranny in the Americas. The book-burning cultural genocide was just the cherry on top.

(As is common for feudal occupiers of foreign lands, and by no means unique to Spain) the worst kinds of psychopaths were continually elevated to positions of authority and then granted almost complete impunity to do what they wanted, with an ideology that treated the recipients of their exploitation as sub-human.
by Frieren | 2025-11-03 09:24:38+00:00
> Labor is a major cost, and cutting it is one way to bolster profit margins.

This also shows that big corporations do not expect growth. Investing for growth is the best strategy unless the company is sure that there is no more growth. Then cutting expenses makes sense, short term at least.

> In an environment where employment growth is already low, any increase in layoffs could lead the economy to start shedding jobs.

Stagflation is a very likely outcome of current policy. Job loss, increase in prices, shrinking economy, etc.

> While there is evidence that AI is cutting into demand for certain jobs, such as software development

* citation needed.

> “Labor hoarding was especially pronounced in higher-wage jobs, where employees are harder to find and therefore more costly to lose,”

This is one problem with having increasing monopolies in the sector. When most developers will be hired by the same dozen companies there is no job market, but just a cartel in line with the 2010 no-poaching agreements.

- These agreements, which can take various forms, aim to reduce competition in labour markets. They also carry the risk of suppressing wages and limiting job opportunities for employees. While such agreements may be pursuant to ancillary legitimate restrictions, they are often viewed as horizontal cartel agreements necessitating a per se approach (https://www.legal500.com/developments/thought-leadership/no-...)

So, nothing new. Big tech screwing software developers like they always do.
by joppy | 2025-11-03 09:25:00+00:00
The commenter says pre-rendered/server-side-rendered mathematics (via katex) is great - I’ve found the opposite. It’s probably great if you have an article with one or two equations. On the other hand, if you have an article which uses mathematics pervasively, like many pure mathematics articles, it quickly becomes far more space efficient to render the mathematics on the client side. You can quickly get 200kB+ pages by pre-rendering.
by lynx97 | 2025-11-03 09:25:02+00:00
I am not so sure about this. What would motivate someone to willingly transform their last moments into a medical experiment, with all the risks of being treated in not-so-nice ways? Almost nobody wants to die in a hospital in the first place. And as part of a medical "experiment", no thanks. Science can fuck off as long as they don't have control over their (small, but existing) emotionally detached workers.

https://youtu.be/ET71mabgEuM
by yurishimo | 2025-11-03 09:25:03+00:00
This is definitely nitpicky, but a better translation (imo) for "gemeente" is municipality. You're spot on otherwise. Tbf though, in much of the Randstad, a car is not a requirement for a good life and if the new residential developments are properly equipped with good OV connections, then we should use that space for parking to instead build more homes.

Since moving from the US to (rural) Limburg, I've been shocked how much less I need to drive. My partner still drives to work every day, but even then, they will come home and then walk to the supermarket instead of stopping with the car.
by DecoySalamander | 2025-11-03 09:25:25+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.

I'm in the opposite camp - I find it extremely annoying when sites clutter up the browser history with unnecesarly granular state. E.g. hitting "back" button closes a modal instead of taking me to the previous page.
by piva00 | 2025-11-03 09:25:33+00:00
ASML is responsible for all the engineering side of the research from EUV LLC, painting it as "direct result from DoD research" as to minimise the achievement is way backhanded. Without ASML the whole EUV LLC research would be dead in the water, it's a symbiotic relationship, and the amount of engineering R&D that ASML had to do to actually deploy the technology shouldn't be understated like that.

I don't think ASML was "funded" by American technology, it's actually ASML who has to pay for licencing...
by sethammons | 2025-11-03 09:25:37+00:00
Look up the american bison. The US government's official policy was to eliminate bison to eliminate Indians/First Peoples. Mountains of skulls. In under a decade, the bison population was pushed down from 30-60M to approximately 500 individuals.

Did tribes fight and war and capture slaves? Yes. They did that for forever. Then colonization and disease and westward expansion. Look up the Trail of Tears, the genocide and/or ethnic cleansing.

Your education may align with propaganda. Even today, first people nations are actively having their history taken. Pete Hegseth, sec of def/war, has pushed to close the door on the massacre of wounded knee, enshrining the medals earned for slaughtering woman and children. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/hegseth-wounded-knee.h....

Look up how the US government stole native kids and sent them catholic schools to have the Indian taught out of them. A system that was purpose built to stop their way of life. Or forced, non-consented sterilization of native woman that was happening in the 60s and 70s.

If you somehow didn't know the US government's history of conflict and abuse of Native Americans, you should question your formal education. And you should do some light research.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-03 09:25:44+00:00
As proven by ongoing research in things like Linear Haskell, one doesn't need to throw GC productiviy away, to get deterministic resource management.

Best part of Rust is catering to a crowd that not even at point gun will consider touching anything that might resemble having any kind of automatic resource management.

Hence why I consider articles like "How We Saved 70% of CPU and 60% of Memory in Refinery’s Go Code, No Rust Required" [0] interesting to read and make awareness, even if Go isn't one of the languages I happen to be entusiastic about.

[0] - https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-we-saved-70-cpu-60-memory-...
by mariusor | 2025-11-03 09:26:17+00:00
Did anything I say is actually untrue?

Maybe there's subtleties on why the situation is like it is, but the matter of the fact is that most developers need to go out of their way to support Apple (maybe even to a larger extent even than to support linux).

> spends resources on helping with porting games to Macs natively.

This is news to me, is there some writing about it somewhere?
by remus | 2025-11-03 09:27:53+00:00
I run a small website and am based in the UK and have used it a couple of times to summarise what I need to do to comply with different bits of legislation e.g. Online Safety Act. What's really useful for me is that I can feed in a load of context about what the site does and get a response that's very tailored to what's relevant for me, and generate template paperwork that I can then fill out to improve my position with regard to the legislation.

For sure it's probably missing stuff that a well payed lawyer would catch, but for a project with zero budget it's a massive step up over spending hours reading through search results and trying to cobble something together myself.
by Mashimo | 2025-11-03 09:29:07+00:00
Well it's a fact that you do get more open and relaxed with alcohol. The barriers go down.

And over the lifetime people almost all the time had alcohol when they where at parties. You start to associate alcohol with fun and parties.

Of course this is generalized and depends on cultures and groups.

That's what I like about them young Gen Z, they drink less alcohol. Sadly they also socialise less.

I once heard a story that Inuits in Greenland did not have access to alcohol so everyone could drink. Instead only half drank, and the other half had water but where allowed to act as if they where drunk. I'm not sure this is real, but I can see it happend.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-11-03 09:29:26+00:00
How often did you see an actual UFO?

How likely is it that you saw a plane made by humans that you misclassified due to lack of data vs how likely is it that it was actually an Alien made aircraft, coincidentally working in our atmospheric conditions, gravity and drag related physics?

Guess what, it's about likeliness and you are extrapolating the wrong assumptions. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, not the other way around.
by metalforever | 2025-11-03 09:29:30+00:00
Hello, thank you for taking the time to respond.

“ IMO, languages and platforms that require IDEs, also leads to complex software that is hard to maintain. ”

The truth is that I (and probably other users) don’t always have the luxury of choice and a large portion of commercial codebases have a very large number of files. Sometimes, it is multiple codebases at once with a very large number of files .

“ Easily resolved by using apmd and it `-z` flag. I think there's a couple utility out there that you can script for monitoring battery level.”

Yeah but I don’t want to accidentally lose data if I shut the lid and accidentally forget to plug the thing in for a few days . “ One of the good strength of OpenBSD is that the cli utilities are quite nice”

I don’t want to enter and exit a cli tool in order to increase and decrease the volume . Ideally it’s a control in the top right or a keyboard mapping . What if something loud begins playing in a browser tab and I have to change the volume quickly?
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-03 09:30:27+00:00
> And you could clearly see that on every release, iPhones were shifting the all the breakpoints more and more into the left, rendering more bars with less signal strength.

One thing explaining this might be that advancements in antenna design, RF component selection including the actual circuit board and especially (digital) signal processing allow a baseband to get an useful signal out of signal strengths that would have been just noise for older technology.

In ham radio in particular, the progress is amazing. You can do FT8 worldwide (!) communication on less than 5 watts of power, that's absolutely insane.
by KoolKat23 | 2025-11-03 09:31:18+00:00
You're ignoring what I'm saying. This has nothing to do with related parties. It's not simply a definition and it's not an opinion, this took a semester to put the pieces together. I've explained why it's treated as such in my prior answer.

As I say it's been a while for me. I've given chatgpts reply to your prior point. They've explained it better.

Equity-method accounting does not automatically mean the investee (OpenAI) is a “related party” under U.S. GAAP (ASC 850) unless there is control or common control, or one party can significantly influence operating or financial policies of the other in both directions.

In this case:

Microsoft applies the equity method because it has significant influence over OpenAI, but OpenAI does not have reciprocal influence over Microsoft.

Therefore, OpenAI is not a related party of Microsoft under GAAP.

Microsoft may disclose the nature of the investment and transactions (e.g., Azure hosting, licensing), but not as related-party disclosures—they appear in other sections (e.g., “Investments” or “Revenue from strategic partners”).

In short: → Equity method ≠ related party. → Disclosure still required, but not under related-party rules.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-03 09:32:36+00:00
> Quite ironic then that CoCs overwhelmingly lead to arbitrary and whimsical punishment.

I don't agree. I think it has been working quite well in spite of the conspiratorial bullshit excuses made up by those who failed so hard to human to the point they were slapped with one.

Nevertheless, one of the values of a code of conduct is that people like you and me can check the deliberation and hear what all interested parties had to say. Without a code of conduct, the one with the loudest voice and the more interest to subvert code of conduct deliberations could basically dedicate their life shit-talking the project.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-11-03 09:32:36+00:00
In Norway there is a state-owned monopoly on selling wine and liquor (anything above 4.75% ABV). They have 350+ physical shops, a large online shop and around $2bn annual revenue. This makes them one of the largest purchasers of wine and spirits in Europe, and they can get some very good deals.

So even though you have high taxes and a restrictive alcohol policy, the end result is shops that have high customer satisfaction because they have very competent staff, excellent selection and a surprisingly good price for quality products.

The downsides are the limited opening hours and the absence of cheap low-quality wine - the tax disproportionally impacts the low quality stuff, almost nobody will buy shitty wine at $7 per bottle when the decent stuff costs $10, so the shitty wine just doesn't get imported. But for most of the population these are minor drawbacks.