MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ricardo81 | 2025-11-11 16:21:47+00:00
agreed. we interact with so many different types of software and I presume like me, we designate a confidence score of how things will work out because there's so many unknown quantities out there. Those little thoughts you have while an app/page is doing what it's doing, wondering whether it even works as it says in the first place.

I place value on grammar but appreciate in the web today that surely around half of English words in it are ESL (while ignoring AI). And that's fine, it's a human thing- not everyone was taught English or has known it a long time, or has dyslexia etc etc.

I guess in the end, allow end users to have full confidence in you in all ways possible.
by kulahan | 2025-11-11 16:21:47+00:00
$500 for something you might wear for a decade straight? A brand-new pair of Levis at JC Penny is gonna run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive.

But also, quality has diminishing returns in basically every category. At the low end, it's extremely efficient to improve the quality of your product and charge a bit more. At the high end, you can't make any more inexpensive moves to set yourself apart, so you use higher end materials, fabrication methods, and workers.
by fijiaarone | 2025-11-11 16:21:49+00:00
The American billionaire class absolutely controls Europe, and American politics dictates European policy. There is the illusion of European ascendance right now because the American soft power is being channeled through Europe because the faction of the US government (that still controls the majority of soft power) is out of power politically, so they project their values (and funnel their money) through Europeans.

When a Democrat returns to power in the USA, nobody will care what European vassal governments and corporations say or do anymore.

American projection through Europe has made Europe weaker and more subservient than ever.
by kossTKR | 2025-11-11 16:21:50+00:00
Yes its imperial logic so why arent you saying that to OP's bizzare US = peace and gay rights comment?

And the Uyghur repression is no genocide compared to Palestine thats complete US misinformation and frankly a sinister comparison - the US is much much more violent, again look at Palestine, before that literally 30+ wars for resources and markets with millions of civilians dead.

Im not naive about China but this US = beacon of human rights angle is frankly gross to me.

China has many problems but americans are literally worse and you wanting to boycut due to human rights, is this a joke?
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 16:21:51+00:00
It's not really about outsmarting them. Authoritarian systems of control rely on centralization. If you create an ecosystem where end users have lots of agency, of course most of them will go the path of least resistance, but the few who are willing to put in the effort to resist still can. Google and Apple tightening their grip over their respective mobile ecosystems is a very potent lever for authoritarian governments to pull.
by MisterTea | 2025-11-11 16:21:58+00:00
I dunno what happened to the 64bit port, the author just up and deleted it with no reason given AFIK. Thankfully someone had a recent clone and uploaded it to the archive.

Limbo is incomplete, forget what exactly but a few people on the 9fans discord recently ran into issues. Always remember, Inferno was forced onto the Labs people by Lucent in an attempt to compete with Sun's Java and built in a year. Bell Labs did not do marketing and Lucent fumbled the whole thing.

Plan 9 in a box is only useful if you MUST use a foreign host like Linux. Otherwise I would much prefer the machine actually run Plan 9.
by igor47 | 2025-11-11 16:22:31+00:00
> skeptics generally don’t care to push back

They do care to push back though! It's just that there's much more of a market for wishful pseudoscientific bullshit than for careful, history and evidence based sceptical bashing of hopes. Just another example of how broken our information ecosystem is.

I learned about TT from my favorite podcast the SGU, where it was placed in the historical context of the FC controversy and then roundly debunked.

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/
by bkraz | 2025-11-11 16:22:39+00:00
I may have the opportunity to use a much higher framerate camera in the future. Please leave suggestions for things that are fairly transparent to x-rays (no metal, or very thin small internal parts), and demonstrates the utility of high speed capture (typically things breaking, bouncing, shattering). The last requirement is that the object be very small, just 1 to 2 cm long. Since learning about ptycography, I may try that as well since x-ray ptycography is one of the real world uses for these sensors.
by NickC25 | 2025-11-11 16:22:51+00:00
>Apple's design team is now apparently unable to continue their job

Honestly id say this is a mix of both Jobs and Ive being gone.

Now under the operational maximalist that is Tim Cook, they just revert to old designs every few years and call it revolutionary. See: edges on the iPhone. First, rounded edges. WOW, revolutionary! Then a few years later, hard edges. WOW, revolutionary! Then a few years later, rounded edges. WOW, revolutionary! Then a few years later, hard edges. WOW, revolutionary!

All the while stripping actual functionality out of the devices and removing useful features like headphone jacks. There hasn't been real product innovation at Apple in over a decade.

But I digress.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-11 16:23:26+00:00
What I do, is have two different formats in the translation tokens.

As an example, this app[0], is currently only localized in English, but I still use tokens, whenever I do apps, so the base localization[1] has stuff like this:

"SLUG-CLEANTIME-DIVIDER" = "\nThis is "; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEAR-EXACT" = "exactly one year."; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEARS-EXACT" = "exactly %d years."; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEAR" = "one year"; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEARS" = "%d years"; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-MONTH" = "one month"; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-MONTHS" = "%d months"; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-DAY" = "one day"; "SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-DAYS" = "%d days";

Which is actually composed in this dependency[2].

It's not perfect, but is pretty flexible.

Silly stuff, I know, and the app is not exactly a viral sensation, but the folks that use it, like it.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nacc/id452299196

[1] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/NACC/blob/master/Sources...

[2] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_UICleantime/blob/mas...
by varispeed | 2025-11-11 16:23:26+00:00
That argument explains symptoms, not causes. “The British are lazy” is a convenient myth told by people who spent decades dismantling the very conditions that make pride and skill possible.

Japan’s work ethic didn’t appear by magic. It’s the result of long-term industrial policy, lifetime employment norms, and a culture that rewards skill. The UK spent the same decades casualising labour, cutting apprenticeships, and outsourcing production. You can’t get a proud, productive workforce by paying poverty wages and sneering at manual work.

And let’s be honest - would you give your best when your boss says he “can’t afford a raise” while pulling up in a new sports car? Low pay kills motivation. People stop caring because the system made caring pointless.

It’s not a conspiracy; it’s class logic. When those at the top treat labour as a nuisance rather than a partner, the whole structure rots. Japan’s elite reinvest in their workforce. Britain’s extract from it.
by bloomingeek | 2025-11-11 16:23:42+00:00
"Plug and stay" is a bad idea. A couple of laptops ago, when putting it into the laptop backpack, my hand slipped and the laptop dropped about eight inches into the pocket. It landed directly onto a mouse dongle still plugged into the USB slot. (I know, the dongle should have been "up", I was distracted!) The result was a broken slot, bummer.
by jgrantme | 2025-11-11 16:24:30+00:00
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by hello_moto | 2025-11-11 16:24:33+00:00
Where in the article it suggested the spread due to immigration?

If any, it is due to misinformation and reluctance of those communities (mentioned specifically Alberta rural, y’know, the province that has been burned with misinformation, public health scandal, crazy Premier that has been stoking Separatism while cozying with MAGA that has threatened Canada sovereignty)
by lacoolj | 2025-11-11 16:25:05+00:00
Not only is this incredibly cool, but it bridges my knowledge of x-ray (CR/XR, in this case, DR) even further. I work for a medical imaging company and we actually sell and promote our digital radiography machine that will do this, but for humans (at a much, much slower rate, but enough to be useful in medical diagnostics).

I had never considered an application of use outside of medicine.

So, my day is now accounted for. In addition to "overdue training" on things I already know, I will be youtubing all the x-ray, MRI, ultrasound fun things that you would never see otherwise.

Thank you OP!
by leoc | 2025-11-11 16:25:11+00:00
It isn't entirely true though. The original Erlang guys made Erlang: The Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE and the sadly missed Joe Armstong made plenty of blog posts https://joearms.github.io/ and public appearances and expressed a number of strong opinions (though genially) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 . Robert Virding's public profile is not as high, but he's by no means in hiding either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naTisAcey5Q — or indeed https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rvirding )
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 16:25:13+00:00
The content industries should have been the ones to invent LLMs, but their head is so stuck in the past and in regressive thinking about how they protect their revenue streams that they're incapable of innovating. Publishing houses should have been the ones to have researchers looking into how to computationally leverage their enormous corpus of data. But instead, they put zero dollars into actual research and development and paid the lawyers instead. And so it leads to attitudes like this.
by mrob | 2025-11-11 16:25:13+00:00
It would be clearer with a comma after "increases". Without that it's a garden-path sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

You read "increases" as a transitive verb, and then reach the "collapses" at the end of the sentence and have to re-parse the whole thing when you realize it was really intransitive.
by jajuuka | 2025-11-11 16:25:33+00:00
US government has FAR more control over Apple as a company. China only has control of the Chinese operations. The president is personally beefing with companies and buying stakes in them. The tariffs alone could have severely hurt Apple, but Apple bent over backwards to appease the president. The US government can simply request an app be removed and Apple and Google will do it worldwide.

China does not have that power over Apple. China can threaten Apple but they have already diversified their manufacturing to other countries so China does not have a strangle hold on the supply line.
by energy123 | 2025-11-11 16:25:40+00:00
This misses a very important point, which is that civilian manufacturing can be pivoted easily to defense manufacturing during wartime. Absent civilian manufacturing, you have no choice but to invest in dedicated defense manufacturing, which is not useful in peacetime (beyond deterrence).

The deindustrialization that creates this reality has nothing to do with the military-industrial complex. They benefit from it but they didn't create the context.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-11 16:26:03+00:00
Diet. When I was younger than 16, we and everyone had home cooked meals every day, no choice. Places like McDonalds did not start showing up in my area when I was 12 or 13.

As time went on, divorce rates increased and/or both spouses were forced to work full time, meals gravitated towards fast and/or ultra-processed food. Why ? The parents had no time to cook.

So here we are.

I wish the article had rates based upon household income too. I kind of expect the children of the very rich is avoiding this trend because they could have servants/hired caregivers cooking for them.
by dmbche | 2025-11-11 16:26:39+00:00
Any digitizing is done before color grading.

All steps before try to not affect the color and keep as much dynamic range as possible to give as much leeway as possible for the colorist.

Realistically, for Pixar and Disney (not people with limitwd funds, say), the color grade is much much more relevant to the final color than the specifics of digitizing.
by brookst | 2025-11-11 16:26:49+00:00
As others have said, some combination of perspective on realistic outcomes and risk/reward.

Every experience we have changes us; every job, every family interaction, every book we read and travel we enjoy (hopefully). Learning musical instruments of foreign languages changes neuronal connections. Is there a goal to maintain a static brain over time? (honest question, reasonable if some people think the answer is "yes").
by jitl | 2025-11-11 16:27:07+00:00
my conclusion is that designer fashion is not for average people

see also apple watch hermes $500 watch straps (https://www.apple.com/shop/watch/bands/apple-watch-herm%C3%A...)

or (non-apple) LV purses, $5000+ https://us.louisvuitton.com/eng-us/women/handbags/all-handba...

or LV phone strap, "Contact Us" https://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/products/monogram-phone-s...
by blibble | 2025-11-11 16:27:08+00:00
and training on mountains of open source code with no attribution is exactly the same

the code models should also be banned, and all output they've generated subject to copyright infringement lawsuits

the sloppers (OpenAI, etc) may get away with it in the US, but the developed world has far more stringent copyright laws

and the countries that have massive industries based on copyright aren't about to let them evaporate for the benefit of a handful of US tech-bros
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-11 16:27:25+00:00
I feel like in geo-politics. No country can be good.

Personally, I feel like america still has (had) hope with zohran mamdani but after the recent american shutdown, I would consider democratic party to be an extension of republican party or not doing anything radical except bernie,aoc, zohran and some other people.

I feel like America could have a hope to swing whereas china doesn't imo.

although, I feel like what is happening is that people made (short term?) decisions earlier generations earlier which lead us to where we are today where any country over-all needs a radical change as both europe and america and a lot of other countries need to radicalize what they are doing to give hope to the youngsters

Personally I feel like we shouldn't care much about US or chinese products but rather the ideologies of the product creators if we are worried about things and I think this is one of the reasons I love open source so much.
by saghm | 2025-11-11 16:27:28+00:00
Without agreeing or disagreeing with your view, I feel like the the issue the issue with that paradigm is inconsistency. If an individual "pirates", they get fines and possible jail time, but if a large enough company does it, they get rewarded by stockholders and at most a slap on the wrist by regulators. If as a society we've decided that the restrictions aren't beneficial, they should be lifted for everyone, not just ignored when convenient for large corporations. As it stands right now, the punishments are scaled inversely to the amount of damage that the one breaking the law actually is capable of doing.
by mc32 | 2025-11-11 16:27:45+00:00
Agreed; vaccinations save lives, lots of them. But the but we also should blame the establishment for making people suspicious by being quasi-scientific and at times authoritarian about things. For example fining and threatening arrest of people alone at a beach with no one nearby during Covid, etc., as well as the obviously stupidity of six feet of separation. If something is contagious via aerosol six feet is not going to impact spread very much.

Sweden took a much more pragmatic approach and didn’t suffer for it. They’ve got a lesson we can learn.
by soganess | 2025-11-11 16:27:51+00:00
Then demonstrate?

In 2015, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines shifted from implying that one egg a day is “probably a bit much” to saying “one egg a day is fine if you don’t fry it.” This coincided with the removal of the quantitative cap of 300 mg/day on dietary cholesterol (a single egg basically maxes that out).

EDIT: The calorie count used to compute the portion of the comment below were incorrect. I'm leaving it unchanged for posterity, but want to clarify that an egg has about 80 cals.

Four eggs a day is almost 1,000 calories of egg, roughly half of many people’s total daily calorie intake.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-11 16:27:54+00:00
SDF seems to be one of the better solutions for text rendering.

Valve had this problem solved since 2007. I'd argue this technique is a big part of what gave TF2 its impressive visual style. That game ran at 100+ fps on hardware like the 8800GT at the time.

https://www.redblobgames.com/x/2403-distance-field-fonts/
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 16:27:56+00:00
we get why it might look that way on the surface

the real difference though is the monumental effort happening behind the scenes. We're building direct partnerships with brokerages, one by one, to sync their entire inventory onto Venturu.

For many of them, it's the first time they can put all their listings online without getting hit by massive per-listing fees. It might not sound like a huge deal, but we believe this will eventually reveal the true size of this hidden market.

It's a world still built on handshakes and business cards, and we're just trying to help pave the way.

we do use some generative models for mundane things like headlines to make that free discoverability possible, but our core tech, like the valuation tool, is "old school".

My cofounder, Luis, built that model over years in a spreadsheet from his experience buying businesses. My job was to turn it into code and supercharge it with historical data and location-specific variables.

Fun fact, the model was actually born first, Venturu came later
by ch_123 | 2025-11-11 16:28:01+00:00
There is a community of folks who are really into this firmware, and a lot of those people buy SwissMicros other models of calculators, (e.g. DM42 or DM32) and put keyboard stickers on it. This allows them to buy the model with the correct key legends up front.

The low volume and the relatively high build quality involved pushes the prices up.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 16:28:42+00:00
> If we see potential, the first step is always asking the candidate upfront for their expected salary, availability, and whether they want full-time or part-time. Since we are focused on efficiency, we need to respect people’s time as much as our own. Most candidates appreciate it; for example, it immediately filtered out a very qualified candidate whose salary ask was 4 times our budget.

I feel like the "respectful of applicants' time" thing to do would be to state a salary range in the posting.
by NickC25 | 2025-11-11 16:28:48+00:00
I'm sure that if you got super high quality durable running shoes, and only used them for running, you'd get some good milage out of them before the shoes either wore out or wore through.

I play tennis regularly and only go through a pair of shoes maybe once a year or every 18 months. I always pay extra for a higher quality and more durable pair because they last. I only use the shoes for tennis - I put them on when I enter the court and take them off when I end my session. The shoes probably run me $180-200 but totally worth it if they can last me 100+ hours.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-11-11 16:28:56+00:00
Softbank had 5% of Nvidia stock just before gen AI boom. Then they sold it when it was at its lowest. If they didn't it would have covered all their losses many times over with a profit of more than 200 billion dollars.

It's just baffling they are still getting billions to spend.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-sells-entire-nvidia-st...
by munificent | 2025-11-11 16:28:58+00:00
I believe you can blame Ken Thompson for this. In DMR's paper about early C history, he says:

> Other fiddles in the transition from BCPL to B were introduced as a matter of taste, and some remain controversial, for example the decision to use the single character = for assignment instead of :=.

I think Ken did most of the early design of B and DMR came along later to help with C. Ken has a famously terse style, so I can definitely see it being on brand to shave of a character from `:=`, which is what BCPL uses.

It's sort of a tricky little syntax problem. It makes perfect sense to use `=` for declarations:

int x = 1;

At that point, you really are defining a thing, and `=` is the natural syntax for a definition. (It's what BCPL uses for defining most named things.)

You also need a syntax for mutating assignment. You can define a separate operator for that (like `:=`). Then there is the question of equality. From math, `=` is the natural notation because the operator there is often overloaded as an equality predicate.

Now you're in a funny spot. Declaring a variable and assigning to it later are semantically very similar operations. Both ultimately calculate a value and store it in memory. But they have different syntax. Meanwhile, defining a variable and testing two expressions for equality use the same syntax but have utterly unrelated semantics.

Given that math notation has grown chaotically over hundreds of years, it's just really hard to build an elegant notation that is both familiar to people and consistent and coherent.
by driggs | 2025-11-11 16:29:08+00:00
Of every story you've ever heard about this child, this singular event is your evidence for telepathy? Shouldn't that alone be strong evidence against your interpretation?

I'm reminded of the anecdotal, arbitrary miracles attributed to Jesus in the gospels of the New Testament. An omniscient, all-powerful son of god chooses to prove his infinite power by providing wine at a party.

Or maybe there was another, much more likely and mundane explanation.
by ang_cire | 2025-11-11 16:29:08+00:00
> If they didn't read the catering closely, did they also skim the electrical schematics?

This is dumb pop-psych stuff, like the "make interview candidates wait then reject them if they don't know the other candidates' names" type hiring "tricks". It's barely different than judging someone based on their handshake grip strength, imo.

Perhaps these companies prioritized the work properly, and determined that electrical work and scaffolding- both things that could kill people- were more important than M&Ms.

> If you don't release until your pluralization is perfect you've waited too long.

But I put making sure the pluralization was perfect in there to see if you're the kind of people who pay attention to detail! ;P