MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xg15 | 2025-11-17 22:53:11+00:00
I think the Soviet Union had sided with Palestine (and also with other countries in what today is called the Global South) for most of the cold war, and this is a remnant of that.

Another effect of that is that a number of ex-soviet republics, like Poland, have recognition of Palestine "grandfathered in" even if they're part of the West and generally pro-Israel today.
by nabbed | 2025-11-17 22:53:32+00:00
The exchange on https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/issues/4? If so, your botdar is better than mine. While the project owner doesn't understand the issue at first, they seem to get it in the end. The exchange looks sort of normal to me, but then I guess I am doomed to be fooled regularly in our new regime.

Some text in the book itself is odd, but I'll be a guinea pig and try to learn zig from this book and see how far I get.
by teekert | 2025-11-17 22:53:43+00:00
He does, doesn’t he. For one it’s pretty special to have the energy to do all this. Or is it just because it’s a summary of 20+ years?

Somehow you feel like someone who’s socially awkward would not just go on a 4 hours super deep conversation, as some form of experiment.

I wonder what this person is like irl. I did like this piece.
by gsf_emergency_5 | 2025-11-17 22:53:49+00:00
I don't know, man. You ought to have deeper convos with the pros working on cuprates if you want to keep citing that. I don't know any who will say that the Hubbard model doesn't explain the cuprates. The problem is that they can't get (ab initio, not fitted) quantitative predictions that get usefully close to the precision of experimental observables. Indeed, most don't care about finding a better model? If the pros themselves don't really care unless funding season comes around..

The chart looks useful! Are you saying that the grandiosity/worthlessness trampoline is unique to schizotypy?

I've noticed that "there are no weird people, only weird beliefs" which may or may not be consistent with Kohut

EDIT: the top guy in cuprates can glance at a band structure and put a bid on whether it will be superconducting. He's never lost money.
by imiric | 2025-11-17 22:54:16+00:00
Glorified? They're just text files.

The reason they're called configuration files is because they're often meant to be edited directly by the user. Which is why there are so many configuration formats, since everyone has a different opinion on the ideal UI/UX.

You can store configuration in an actual database, but asking your users to use SQL to change it is sadistic. In that case you really need a UI to allow users to change configuration, which defeats the purpose of the simplicity of configuration files.
by rShergold | 2025-11-17 22:54:29+00:00
We’ve had our Miele dishwasher for 5 years. Running on average 1.5 times a day. It’s flawless.

Here in the UK the customer service has been amazing. The company we bought from (AO.com) installed it incorrectly (the water pipe plug wasn’t removed) they told us to get stuffed. We called Miele. They sent someone to us the next day and fixed it free of charge
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-17 22:54:40+00:00
That might be the liberal position on average, but if you have a social circle that’s lefter than average, as in many metro areas, you’ll occasionally hear a desire for outright abolition of police. Not even a simple local constabulary walking the beat, as there is a meme going around that such law enforcement came out of gangs that hunted down fugitive slaves and is inherently tainted. (Nevermind the existence of such police in countries around the world that never had race-based chattel slavery.) Instead, more investment in social services will supposedly remove the need for them entirely.

But of course, whether that position or the number of people who hold it, has any real influence on gun sales is doubtful and the GP may have been a bait post.
by smeej | 2025-11-17 22:54:42+00:00
The best small talkers say very little. We just ask interested questions about what you've already said. An easy cold opener at parties is, "So how do you know the host?" Then inquire about whether they're still doing that thing, or how long ago it was, or where they did it, whether they learned any cool things--the point is to keep asking questions.

Most people love talking about themselves and things they like to do. If you can keep them doing that, they'll remember fondly the "great conversation" you had.

Fair warning: It won't get you past the third or fourth interaction, at which point you probably actually need to have something in common, but it's an easy way to get through parties.
by codingdave | 2025-11-17 22:54:47+00:00
From what I have seen, AI can detect AI better than humans. Humans are bringing baggage into it and vilifying legit writing techniques just because AI uses them. The whole concept that AI was trained on human writing, therefore uses well-known and proven writing techniques, but that those techniques are not exclusive to AI is utterly lost on some people.

The "dead giveaways" are not writing patterns, it is depth. AI will stay at a surface level when using argumentative writing patterns, whereas humans will add supporting information and connect the dots across sentences and paragraphs. It is the lack of connective language between thoughts and phrases that flag an AI.
by hoten | 2025-11-17 22:54:51+00:00
Once a YJIT block executes enough times to warrant compilation, how does this system keep track of which types to compile for? Each block is tracking how many times it's entered, but not how many times it's entered for int or float or whatever types; so in the given example how would Ruby handle the compilation of the "opt_plus" stub when the input types may vary?

And by what process is the correct compiled block used depending on the input variable types?
by buu700 | 2025-11-17 22:55:13+00:00
In my experience, Grok is amazing at research, planning/architecture, deep code analysis/debugging, and writing complex isolated code snippets.

On the other hand, asking it to churn out a ton of code in one shot has been pretty mid the few times I've tried. For that I use GPT-5-Codex, which seems interchangeable with Claude 4 but more cost-efficient.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-17 22:56:24+00:00
A rose by any other name. If you'd prefer I'd have said

"But for keeping up to date on news, people use link aggregation boards where other users post links to stuff on the web and then talk to each other about them. RSS isn't the missing piece of the puzzle for changing that, an app on top of RSS is. And in the absence of Reader, nothing has shown up to fill that role that can compete with just trading gossip on Hacker News."

... that would be the same point. RSS, by itself, is a protocol for finding out some site created new content and is just not particularly compelling by itself for the average user when they can use "link aggregation boards where other users post links to stuff on the web and then talk to each othe about them" instead.
by tovej | 2025-11-17 22:57:05+00:00
This narrative about the founding of Israel is false.

Israel was founded in the middle of an offensive when it was "descended upon by the Arab world". That was a defensive reaction to Israel's brutal Plan Dalet, an invasion and occupation of Palestine, which extended far beyond what the UN had drawn up.

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

And then they destroyed 500 villages, ethnically cleansed Palestine of three quarters of a million of Palestinians and never let them return.

They went around with detailed lists of people identified as Arabs in each village, rounded them up, set fire to the villages, and then blew up the rubble. How can you believe that is the act of a legitimate state? It is quite simply evil. Nazi-level shit.

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

This was not an operation that was sanctioned by the UN's partition plan (which was ridiculous and at odds with the UNs founding principles of self-determination to begin with) it was just retconned into being a legitimate action.
by eek2121 | 2025-11-17 22:57:11+00:00
Typical. I may get absolutely destroyed for this, but being professionally proficient in a ton of languages, including Ruby and the ones I mention below, and the ones I'm about to mention:

This sounds like Microsoft when they moved from VB6 to VB.Net. At least they have a good thing going with C# though.

VB6 was quite an interesting beast. You could do basically everything that you could do in languages like C/C++, but in most cases, you could churn out code quicker. This even extended to DirectX/Direct3D! For Web pages? ASP Classic.

The tl;dr is that I really wish that ease of development were prioritized along with everything else. One of the reasons I like Ruby is the elegance of the language and ease of using it.

Note that I've been using it since the mid 2000s or so, but not exclusively (both it and VB6 defined my career, however). C# is my second most favorite.

If Ruby had the GUI design tools VB6 had, it would be interesting to look at the popularity stats

Anyway, I'm rambling, so there is that. ;)
by maldev | 2025-11-17 22:57:13+00:00
Mostly nobody is against building more housing. The big issues, especially in California, are the Water supply issues. The cities largely run at capacity and the water system can't really handle the increased load. Then you have traffic and other safety concerns like electricity. It's not as simple as building more houses, it's a long road of improving infrastructure. I used to date a housing advocate who attended city hall hearings for a non profit, and no one objected, it would always get to close to being approved, then the water guy comes in and they can't do it.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-17 22:57:14+00:00
Clarifying:

1) The best years of a Stanford Undergrad's life are still ahead. 2) The best years of 20 somethings's lives are still ahead based on analysis that never mentions things like how typical wage earners are supposed pair off and start families in a 4 income economy.

The evidence for this comes from comparing 20-somethings to older populations. The olders are happier so the 20 somethings will be too. Which totally ignores the opportunities that disappeared wholesale between these generations.
by m-hodges | 2025-11-17 22:57:33+00:00
In case anyone is actually interested in US gun ownership trends in the data — instead of just posting your prior-affirming vibe take — there is a lot of data.¹𝄒²

¹ https://news.gallup.com/poll/653621/gun-ownership-rates-spik...

² https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-11-17 22:57:36+00:00
LLMs do not output knowledge. They output statistically likely tokens in the form of words or word fragments. That is not knowledge, because LLMs do not know anything, which is why they can tell you two opposing answers to the same question when only one is factual. It’s why they can output something that isn’t at all what you asked for while confirming your instructions crisply. The LLM has no concept of what it’s doing, and you can’t call non-deterministically generated tokens knowledge. You can call them approximations of knowledge, but not knowledge itself.
by ekidd | 2025-11-17 22:58:18+00:00
I know a bunch of trans gun owners. They're pretty standard gun geeks, and a few of them do shooting competitions.

I've asked them how they got into shooting sports, and a lot times, they tell me some pretty scary stories of real-life encounters with bigots. Some have also encountered armed right-wing protestors outside of a bar that held a late evening drag event.

So at least among the people I've met out in the real world, it was fairly common to be motivated by specific real-life events. The numbers might be different for gun owners who don't go to the range regularly.
by ryeights | 2025-11-17 22:58:51+00:00
Disclaimer: no affiliation, and in early development

DCFlight is a new Flutter framework from solo (!) dev Tahiru Agbanwa (https://x.com/squirelBoy360) that uses a React Native-like virtual DOM and Yoga layout engine to replace Flutter's widget tree, rendering UI from native widgets without the use of platform views.

It provides a set of primitive components, a plugin architecture using method channels to write your own native components, and an escape hatch to use traditional Flutter widgets within the DCFlight architecture.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-17 22:59:28+00:00
Yes - the experience / quale has nothing to do with words.

The point (opinion) I'm trying to make is that something like the quale of vision, that is so hard to describe, basically has to be the way it is, because that is it's fundamental nature.

Consider starting with your eyes closed, and maybe just a white surface in front of you, then you open your eyes. Seeing is not the same as not-seeing, so it has to feel different. If it was a different color then the input to your brain would be different, so that has to feel different too. Vision is a spatial sense - we have a 2-D array of rods and cones in our retina feeding into our brain, so (combined with persistence of vision) we experience the scene in front of us all at once in a spatial manner, completely unlike hearing which is a temporal sense with one thing happening after another... etc, etc.

It seems to me that when you start analyzing it, everything about the quale of vision (or hearing, or touch, or smell) has to be the way it is - it is no mystery - and an artificial brain with similar senses would experience it exactly the same way.
by chrisnight | 2025-11-17 22:59:41+00:00
I personally don’t like it intertwined with conversation, but I do think I like how it adds color to help emphasize certain information, outside of the text. A red X or a green checkmark is easier to see at the start than a sentence saying something is valid halfway through a paragraph.

Also, it using emojis helps as a signal that certain content is LLM generated, which is beneficial in its own right.
by Bender | 2025-11-17 22:59:45+00:00
Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being exploited. Microsoft also fixed a glitch that prevented some Windows 10 users from taking advantage of an extra year of security updates, which is nice because the zero-day flaw and other critical weaknesses affect all versions of Windows, including Windows 10.
by timeon | 2025-11-17 22:59:50+00:00
> Trump gave information against Epstein in 2009

Pre-2009 records on Trump there are nasty. One example:

> ... It was at these series of parties that I personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old. I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop.

Only difference between Clinton and Trump is that Trump is still president.
by nocoiner | 2025-11-17 22:59:53+00:00
Although it’s mentioned in the article, I’m surprised that the author didn’t place more emphasis on the different set of state laws that typically apply to mobile homes given their status as (theoretically) moveable property. The relative ease of eviction compared to real property (houses, condos, things without wheels) is probably the primary factor for the private equity investment thesis. It’s a material driver of the economics of these investments and substantially reduces the risk profile of the generally marginal tenant base.
by NobodyNada | 2025-11-17 23:00:30+00:00
> On one hand, the fact that the same sound can be named A# and Bb may be puzzling for a kid

I think that, given the toy is (currently) diatonic, and doesn't really have any ability to visualize the chromatic scale (like a piano keyboard does), using the formally correct note names is more intuitive. That way, only the accidentals change when you change modes ("when I change it to C minor, the B becomes a Bb"). This naturally teaches a simple and correct mental model: "the slider chooses a letter and pushing the orange knob makes letters flat or sharp".

If you only ever use sharps instead of sticking to the correct notation, then the notes change inconsistently between different keys ("changing from C major to C minor turns the B into an A#, but changing from C# major to C# minor changes the F into an E"). This is incomprehensible unless you've already memorized the piano keyboard layout.

The OP's choice of restricting to the diatonic scale seems sensible to me -- it helps the kid learn the vocabulary of Western music (if that's your goal!) and it benefits the parents as well by making it hard to create something that sounds bad.
by pas | 2025-11-17 23:00:38+00:00
Chromium can be forked (probably there are already a bunch of degoogled ones) to keep Manifest v2

what's missing is social infrastructure to direct attention to this (and maybe it's missing because people are too dumb when it comes to adblockers, or they are not bothered that much, or ...)

and of course, also maintaining a fork that does the usual convenience features/services that Google couples to Chrome is hard and obviously this has antitrust implications, but nowadays not enough people care about this either
by culi | 2025-11-17 23:01:07+00:00
Even if Trump cut off ties with Epstein in 2017, he should clearly be held accountable for his past actions. Here's 2 pretty damning emails:

---

Epstein to Maxwell 2011-04-02

> i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump... [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there

---

Epstein to Ruemmler 2018-08-23

> you see, i know how dirty donald is. my guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip
by keybored | 2025-11-17 23:01:34+00:00
> Zig does share some things with C - the language is simple and values explicitness - but at its core is one of the most sophisticated (and novel) programming primitives we've ever seen: A general and flexible partial evaluation engine with access to reflection.

To my understanding (and I still haven’t used Zig) the “comptime” inherently (for sufficiently complex cases) leads to library code that needs to be actively tested for potential client use since the instantiation might fail. Which is not the case for the strict subset of “compile time” functionality that Java generics and whatnot bring.

I don’t want that in any “the new X” language. Maybe for experimental languages. But not for Rust or Zig or any other that tries to improve on the mainstream (of whatever nice) status quo.
by btown | 2025-11-17 23:02:13+00:00
Has anyone had success with specific prompts to avoid the agent over-indexing on implementation details? For instance, something like: "Before each test case, add a comment justifying the business case for every assumption made here, without regards to implementation details. If this cannot be made succinct, or if there is ambiguity in the business case, the test case should not be generated."
by orwin | 2025-11-17 23:02:31+00:00
From my understanding, the issue with the police in the US is that they have to do to much, work as EMT, social services, mental health services, community police (proximity police? basically neighborhood cop), peacekeepers (during protests or organized events), investigating, policing traffic...

So you actually have a big "company" responsible for something you could dispatch to at least 4 other services (i've heard call to divided it in 7 parts, but i can't find where i read that, so let's be reasonable and say 4), and they have too much political power because of it. Divide the budget accordingly, correctly train teh police and "new police", call it "police" too because branding works and to stop people from crying out in fear ("mental health police" might not be the best brand, but other might work), and actually separate departements, and concerns. Separate training material, separate training place, split the union. Also make a department that will take care of orphaned police kids.

"Divide the police" is a way better catchphrase anyway.
by robocat | 2025-11-17 23:02:35+00:00
Good for you if your friends and family are wealthy enough to pay for support and pay for antivirus subscriptions and pay to upgrade their laptop because their old one has been obsoleted by Microsoft. Microsoft's focus has shifted away from their users.

Linux is a distraction - why do you strawman it? Raw Linux is only to be recommended to very few end users.

The last time I had to support Windows was while I was travelling in Argentina and my father asking for advice about his worry about a virus. His worry was the primary issue, whether he actually had a virus was secondary. There's no way I could safely hand him to a third party to support him (the only third-party people I might trust needed business accounts and had expensive chargeout rates). My answer was change your banking password and "use the iPad I bought you" for any sensitive activities like banking. I couldn't have solved his Windows issue (perhaps didn't exist), nor could I fix his worry. Windows laptop was the cause, and there was no way to work around it. And now he's fighting the side-effects of a forced Windows 11 upgrade.

Windows is an expensive answer, only suitable for a subset of users. Apple and Google have their downsides, but both are less confusing than Windows. Everything has its compromises.
by porphyra | 2025-11-17 23:02:41+00:00
Apparently potbellies can be caused by:

* extreme protein malnourishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor

* intestinal parasites

Given that the kids don't exhibit extreme wasting on their facial features and limbs, I would say it's probably the latter. Still really sad though, the poor kids!
by eek2121 | 2025-11-17 23:03:56+00:00
Post is arguing design patterns rather than OOP vs. non-OOP.

OOP can save time, lines of code, and can abstract things out if implemented properly. I know guys that take it too far, of course, but done right, it does what I mentioned.

It sounds like the author got caught up with folks (like I did a couple decades ago) that over-architected software rather than focusing on building.
by counters | 2025-11-17 23:04:14+00:00
Sure - you'd simply use a regional, high-resolution model. In some parts of the world, these exist for free (e.g. NOAA runs the HRRR [and soon the RRFS] over CONUS, which is re-run every hour and outputs data on a ~3km grid at up to 15 minute temporal resolution). There exist vendors that will run a custom NWP simulation over a region-of-interest for clients, typically forced by GFS or ECMWF forecasts at the boundaries; some power users of these type of data even have internal teams that will do this. And in this arena are models like StormCast and CorrDiff from NVIDIA - which a few weather companies have white-labeled to replace the NWP models they used to run as mentioned above.
by Aachen | 2025-11-17 23:04:46+00:00
When the deed is illegal in both places, they can be tried under either jurisdiction and convicted instead of continuing to roam free and fuck up the open web for everyone else. Yes I do think we'd want that

Borders currently get in the way but we needn't have law enforcement on foreign soil to solve that. Exchanging information and reliably acting upon it could be all these agencies need to do in their respective countries. When this proves effective aside from crime states that have no interest in upholding even their own laws (since dual illegality would probably be a prerequisite for any of this), they may eventually find themselves increasingly cut off and distrusted until they, too, cooperate or self-isolate like NK