MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-17 18:59:25+00:00
I've not done this collaboratively with others, but do something like this myself with org-mode (for just this one thing adopting emacs and org-mode may be overkill, but it supports this well at least for individual work). org-mode lets you setup your tasks and use nested tasks with multiple states that you can cycle through. Default is just no state, TODO, or DONE.

* Projects ** TODO Integration [2/3] *** DONE Task 1 :bob: Write out some details and notes *** DONE Task 2 :alice: More details and notes *** TODO Task 3 [2/3] :bob:alice: - [x] AWS - [x] GCP - [ ] Azure

You can add tags (may be how you indicate someone is assigned), priorities, and other metadata to contents in org-mode which can help. If it's a small team, you can have ownership of a task be claimed by using NAME as one of the states where NAME would be ALICE or BOB, and other people on the team. That doesn't help if a task is shared though, so tags may be better for that.

The main thing missing from this, though the hierarchical structure somewhat helps, is with dependencies. org-mode can enforce linearity, that is that tasks 1 through 3 above are done in that specific order. It can also ensure that a parent task isn't marked done until all its children are done. But tasks across dependencies or more complex dependencies are not baked-in. [0] is something I've found, but not used, that would address this.

org-mode also has the agenda, so if you add dates (like deadlines or scheduled starts) it can help you keep specific activities on track. Say you need that Azure support finished by a particular date, you can add that information to this document. The deadline will appear in the agenda and help people prioritize the work.

And it has some pretty rich filtering available so you can see only what you care about at the moment, and of course it's plain text so grep works along with the regular search features in emacs.

[0] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-depend.html
by cryptoz | 2025-11-17 18:59:27+00:00
15 years later and still no word from Google if they will use the barometers in Android devices to assimilate surface pressure data. It has been shown that this can improve forecast accuracy. I think IBM may be doing it with their weather apps, but Google/Apple would have dramatically more data available.

Apple even bought Dark Sky, which purported to do this but never released any information - so I doubt they really did do it. And if they did, I doubt Apple continued the practice.

Been waiting a long time to hear Google announce they'll use your barometer to give you a better forecast. Still waiting I guess.
by 47282847 | 2025-11-17 18:59:27+00:00
You could say you create a paid job by not returning your cart. The downsides I see is that free wheeling carts can cause accidents (eg during wind) and create annoyances such as blocking parking spaces. We could probably find some more arguments on both sides. Personally, I consider the downsides to outweigh the pros, which is why I consider it to be the right thing to return it.
by kevinsync | 2025-11-17 19:00:04+00:00
Parallel but unrelated, you can play these tones [0] to unlock shopping cart wheels that have locked up on you. The literal only times I ever abandon a cart (not return it to the store or cart corral) is when they lock up and I can't move the god damned things -- and the rare times it has happened have been in the middle of aisles where cars are supposed to drive, FULLY LOADED CART, before I ever get to the car to unload.

[0] https://www.begaydocrime.com
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-17 19:00:13+00:00
I have gone ice skating a lot in the past. Many people rent the skates from the establishment. I don't think I have ever seen anyone, after skating, just leave their rented shoes by the lockers/benches when the switch back to their own shoes. They always return the rented shoes to the desk, even when there is a short lineup at rush hour.

It's very strange that people think the same courtesy should not be extended to shopping carts.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-17 19:01:07+00:00
I'm leery of any philosophy that is popular in tech circles because they all seem to lead to eugenics, hyperindividualism, ignoring systemic issues, deregulation and whatever the latest incarnation of prosperity gospel is.

Utilitarianism suffers from the same problems it always had: time frames. What's the best net good 10 minutes from now might be vastly different 10 days, 10 months or 10 years from now. So whatever arbitrary time frame you choose affects the outcome. Taken further, you can choose a time frame that suits your desired outcome.

"What can I do?" is a fine question to ask. This crops up a lot in anarchist schools of thought too. But you can't mutual aid your way out of systemic issues. Taken further, focusing on individual action often becomes a fig leaf to argue against any form of taxation (or even regulation) because the government is limiting your ability to be altruistic.

I expect the effective altruists have largely moved on to transhumanism as that's pretty popular with the Silicon Valley elite (including Peter Thiel and many CEOs) and that's just a nicer way of arguing for eugenics.
by andy99 | 2025-11-17 19:01:23+00:00
Seems early posters are blaming the customers, but at least in Canada the grocery stores treat their customers with so much disdain that i see no problem with people leaving their cart wherever, if it can make more trouble for loblaws et al. Framing helping out a hostile oligopoly as “doing the right thing” is nonsense.

For the record I generally bring back my cart, but I’d stand behind someone who wanted to hurl it into the middle of the lot, at least at one of the grocery oligarchs.
by hackthemack | 2025-11-17 19:02:00+00:00
I worked at a grocery store for a while in my teens and early twenties. It is really a surprise to me that this has become an internet topic and even more surprising how strongly people feel like it is a litmus test for good vs bad. I just do not think it is a good litmus test. People are busy, some people have kids. Who is really being inconvenienced?

One thing I want to point out is that everyone I worked with at a grocery store loved going out and getting the carts. The employees saw it as a mini-break from the drudgery of the day.

From having to go get carts many times, I will say, that if someone leaves their cart in a parking spot... well that is bad behavior. But if they just push it into the grass, or out of the way, who cares if it is tucked away there, or tucked away at cart corral. Someone has to go out and get the carts anyway, and it broke up the day, got you outside.
by chaps | 2025-11-17 19:02:12+00:00
Here's the top of a conversation I had with him, starting with me:

Thanks for the thought out response. I agreed with just about everything you said, which makes this whole situation that much more frustrating. On one side, you're right and you're trying to create substantive discussion, which their sensationalist reporting often rubs against. On the other hand, [dead] in its current state is neither informative nor allows for substantive conversation about why it's [dead]. Ironically, the action of [dead]'ing looks like a malicious response from you and your colleagues -- something that's still hard for me to shake, especially considering who owns HN and who's within its network. Or at the very least, it looks malicious in the face of potentially simple UX changes.

His response:

Yes, I hear those frustrations and they all make sense. I'm afraid I'm pessimistic, though (having been at this job for many years) about the possibility of a fuller explanation ever clearing up these perceptions—for example the perception about "who owns HN and who's within its network" being the main factor in what gets marked as [dead] on the site. In my experience, (some) people are going to believe that, regardless of anything we say or do. A lot of people on the internet are primed to perceive maliciousness and, sadly, I don't think we have the power to change that. I also don't think it's possible to "promote substantive discussion about why [a post' is dead" because that sort of meta-talk invariably becomes bogged down and self-referential. In my experience, such discussions don't lead anywhere productive, they just generate more and more of the same. The moderation burden such meta-discussions impose is high, because if we don't answer and explain, our absence gets taken to mean that we're hiding something and/or that whatever people are accusing us of must be true. That's potentially disastrous for HN because it means that those moderation resources get sucked away from things that matter more for the quality of the site. But I don't want to come across as too dismissive! I appreciate your openness and your suggestions and will think further about them.
by iLemming | 2025-11-17 19:02:30+00:00
> You say like it's some kind of feature

Oh, you just have no idea. It feels absolutely empowering and immensely liberating to have access to EVERY single line of code running and affecting your system editor. Whenever I need to solve a problem, I don't need to ask permissions, send PRs, dig through API documentation, google for answers, yell at LLM for not giving me answers - I can modify any behavior of any function on the fly and just move on. All that "it just works™" promise of other editors quickly evaporates when I, as a programmer, feel out of control of whatever happens on MY computer. Sure, yes, there's always a possibility that my "stupid hacks" just break for no apparent reason. Except, it rarely happens in practice, and when it does, I know how to quickly fix or put a workaround, because I precisely can pinpoint the exact line of code. Last time when something broke and it took me more than ten minutes to figure it out was about two years ago - the combination of multiple upstream updates and my lousy customization on top confused me for some time - it's all about trade offs, I'm happy to spend 15 minutes once every few years to fix some shit, if that gets me complete and total control over my environment.

I'm a hacker, not a florist - I want precision and complete transparency, not pretty buttons. I don't want any magic - I can't trust some extension to "just work" on a button click, without precisely knowing what it installs, where, and to what extent.

> what's the Emacs answer to those?

Ah, just like I said before, you're talking about things as if you're staring at the surface of the calm water of a lake. Except for an ocasional splash, it may seem lifeless to you, yet you don't have the faintest idea of its depths or what lies beneath.

There's currently an implosion of different LLM packages for Emacs - gptel, gptel-agent, ECA, agent-shell, claude-code, claude-code-ide, monet, claude-repl - and numerous others I haven't even heard of, these are just off the top of my head.

Emacs community may not be big enough and may lack incentives to constantly innovate, but they have no problem borrowing ideas from other places.

> All editors are catching up to VSCode

Wake me up when they figure out things like indirect buffers and executable source blocks in different PLs that can pipe data into one another, or when someone uses VSCode to control their window manager. Or when I can use literate programming to manage my dotfiles. And I haven't even gotten to the REPL part, even with Joyride it still falls short - there's no "I can hook to everything and redefine anything" in Code.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-17 19:02:52+00:00
the key difference is that China and Russia have direct borders and land beefs; they may well be rivals, but it's easy for China to feed them tech and learn from their mistakes while getting a serious cut (25% or more) on oil.

discount at the gas station while a potential rival hollows itself out and turns into the Canada of China -- a mostly empty resource hub that follows your lead
by matt3D | 2025-11-17 19:03:10+00:00
Is there a term for what I had previously understood Effective Altruism to be, since I don’t want to reference EA in a conversation and have the other person think I’m associated with these sorts of people.

I had assumed it was just simple mathematics and the belief that cash is the easiest way to transfer charitable effort. If I can readily earn 50USD/hour, rather than doing a volunteering job that I could pay 25USD/hour to do, I simply do my job and pay for 2 people to volunteer.
by LadyCailin | 2025-11-17 19:04:00+00:00
I can’t speak to Swedes, but as an American Norwegian, I can say that the level of trust in Scandinavian is WAY higher than in the US. It’s not utopia, of course, (see Chat Control, for instance) but you really can trust the government here to take care of things when it goes off the rails for whatever reason.
by sunaookami | 2025-11-17 19:04:22+00:00
Is the second part actually true though? I can't find any sources about this, in fact the opposite seems to be true. North Korea recently changed their constitution and describe South Korea as a "hostile state" which means they officially recognize it as a "state" at least[1]. Before that they explicitly had a goal for unification in the constitution which implies (or can be implied) that there never was such a view that "the entire Korean peninsula has remained united under the rule of the Korean Workers’ Party". There is also this sentence:

>This North Korean world map is centred on the Pacific Ocean, which gives Korea a privileged position on the global stage

This is normal for asian maps, Japan does the same thing for example.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-repor...
by buggymcbugfix | 2025-11-17 19:04:22+00:00
Is this a US phenomenon? Here in Germany, people always return their shopping carts. Yes, the carts take a coin as a deposit, which can be removed when the cart is returned, but many people have shopping cart openers (for want of a better word) on their keyrings, that circumvent the deposit, yet I haven't EVER seen anyone leaving their shopping cart. I'd go so far as to say that'd be even less socially adequate than urinating in public.

I've been around Europe a fair bit and from Bulgaria to Portugal, people just return their carts. It's a no-brainer.
by Majromax | 2025-11-17 19:06:14+00:00
> 15 years later and still no word from Google if they will use the barometers in Android devices to assimilate surface pressure data.

For WeatherNext, the answer is 'no'. The paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10772) describes in detail what data the model uses, and direct assimilation of user barometric data is not on the list.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-17 19:06:35+00:00
Man this is such a loaded term. Even in a comment section about the origins of it, everyone is silently using their own definition. I think all discussions of EA should start with a definition at the top. I'll give it a whirl:

>Effective altruism: Donating with a focus on helping the most people in the most effective way, using evidence and careful reasoning, and personal values.

What happens in practice is a lot worse than this may sound at first glance, so I think people are tempted to change the definition. You could argue EA in practice is just a perversion of the idea in principle, but I dont think its even that. I think the initial assumption that that definition is good and harmless is just wrong. It's basically just spending money to change the world into what you want. It's similar to regular donations except you're way more invested and strategic in advancing the outcome. It's going to invite all sorts of interests and be controversial.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-17 19:07:09+00:00
not that guy, but to quote someone else from HN

something to the effect of: "Russia has a way out of this war. They can release some or all of Ukrainian territory, take their ball and go home.

Putin however has no way out of this war, as dictators cannot look weak and there was already the revolt from Prigozhn.

There is no reality where he can just walk away without facing repercussions.

He could try to repress his way to security but the Tsars tried that too..."
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-17 19:07:28+00:00
My dad never returns carts. He also worked at a grocery store when he was young and had the same mentality as this. He also said that he is "creating work" for these young kids and it's good for them ha.

Personally, I return carts - because when I worked in a service job, I always had more "important" things to do than clean up after slob customers.
by lakkal | 2025-11-17 19:07:29+00:00
I always return my cart to a collection kiosk thing out in the parking lot, or to where the carts are lined up at the store entrance if that's closer. I don't recall when this became a thing, though. Back in the early-mid 1980s as a teenager my first job involved going out into the lot at K-Mart and bringing in all the carts.
Ask HN: Why All the Indonesian Spam?
by al2o3cr | 2025-11-17 19:08:26+00:00
The "new" page with dead articles shown has about 5 submissions per page with Indonesian titles and spam contents usually containing a phone number.

Sometimes they're posted by brand-new accounts, sometimes it's "aged" accounts that have never posted before. For instance, this one created in 2021 has posted 12 times in the last 2 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheDarkLegend

(you'll need to have showdead turned on)

Is this the world's most misguided phishing attempt? AFAIK dead posts don't get picked up by any search engines etc...
by dngray | 2025-11-17 19:08:38+00:00
> For conviction I agree, for suspicion not so much. Suspicion isn't guilt. The authorities should suspect people based on probable cause, courts should presume innocence and require the state builds a flawless argument beyond reasonable doubt.

Except it doesn't work like that in practice. It would be nice if it did. Often a person can be found guilty simply by jury in a trial based on what they think a person might have done. That's reality, and it is the case in western would countries not some obscure dictatorship.
by salawat | 2025-11-17 19:08:40+00:00
>the high ticket prices incentivise the creation of new venues and the entrant of new artists into the market.

Always amuses me that the wannabe market experts ascribe theory of mind to markets. Personal risk tolerance and ability to execute without starving is what constrains supply of talent, who are not intrinsically born with either the knowledge or capability to begin the market based transaction process.

God (or your market) does not magically whip up concerts in response to spreadsheets. People taking risks do.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-17 19:08:56+00:00
Designed a protocol to supersede an old one is a good design goal. It makes encompassing all of the previous functionality and use cases a design priority.

It doesn't imply that websockets would be deprecated by WebTransport. It's a goal to make WebTransport an easy choice.

> Also, it's messed up that WT is only available in HTTPS. There are so many cool use cases for web technologies in local contexts where HTTPS is not a practical option

WebTransport is relatively heavy compared to websockets. Once you consider all of the layers, HTTP/3, possible HTTP/2 fallback, and transports, adding TLS is minimal overhead for code size.

For contexts where setting up certificates is not practical, I assume the workaround will be to generate a self-signed certificate and then tell the client to ignore certificate validation problems.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-17 19:08:57+00:00
Yeah, it showed up front-page here early this morning.

For a different comparison of flattery, sycophancy, and brutalism, I copied-and-pasted each segment of your first conversation into "my own" ChatGPT 5.1: https://chatgpt.com/share/691b71ea-4e58-8005-8ce6-a6b5d10120...

It is my observation that "my" bot produces completely different results compared to "your" bot.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-17 19:09:05+00:00
What I find fascinating is the mental gymnastics people go through to justify not returning their shopping cart. It's not enough to simply be quietly selfish. Peoplw want affirmation for their actions. Often you don't need to return it to the store. There are return bays scattered all ove rthe car park. The goal is fairly simple: carts can cause accidents, damage vehicles or simply block parking spots.

Yet you'll find any number of posts from people saying "I've got my kids in the car so I'm not returng my cart". But didn't you have your kids with you when you went into the store? Can't you unload your cart, return it then walk you and your kids back to your car?

This is (IMHO) one of the worst cultural norms in America: people want to be celebrated for largely pointless selfish actions as some kind of virtuous display of their rights. Often being community-minded requires very little from individuals. You're not a hero for bucking that norm.
by bluGill | 2025-11-17 19:09:10+00:00
The vast majority do return carts in my country. But when you have 100 customers an hour (which isn't much) and 5% don't return carts that is 5 carts per hour - odds are you will always see a couple carts out of place. The numbers above are made up of course, but the point remains that a small minority makes everyone look bad.

Only one store near me has a coin deposit: Aldi which has European roots - it has probably never occurred to them to check if the cost of the coin collectors is worth it (I'm sure it adds $5 to the cost of a $300 cart). Every other store finds people return their carts often enough that it isn't worth the bother to put those in place.
by bitwize | 2025-11-17 19:09:38+00:00
Well, duh. The least you can do is wheel it into the nearby cart corral, where the store employee will shepherd them all back in with a CartManager XD (whose name is extra hilarious to me). If you know anybody who's worked in retail you understand the suckage of drawing the short straw of having to round up all the carts, especially in inclement weather.

My wife had a couple of joint replacements a few years back, and for a time she availed herself of a motorized cart where available. I LOVED driving these back into the store, and I got indignant when a staffer tried to offer to take it in for me.

One time I was approached by a kid who I swear to you, looked just like Morty Smith, offering to take the motor cart back. A little skit formed in my head, which I related to my wife on the car ride back home:

Morty: Aw, geez, I could—I could take that back for you, sir.

Rick: Oh no you don't. Mario Karting this thing back into the store is the most fun I get to have on our weekly grocery trip. How DARE you try to take that from me.
by meandthewallaby | 2025-11-17 19:10:00+00:00
This is really important: You're not the end user of this product. These types of models are not built for laypeople to access them. You're an end user of a product that may use and process this data, but the CRPS scorecard, for example, should mean nothing to you. This is specifically addressing an under-dispersion problem in traditional ensemble models, due to a limited number (~50) and limited set of perturbed initial conditions (and the fact that those perturbations do very poorly at capturing true uncertainty).

Again, you, as an end user, don't need to know any of that. The CRPS scorecard is a very specific measure of error. I don't expect them to reveal the technical details of the model, but an industry expert instantly knows what WeatherBench[1] is, the code it runs, the data it uses, and how that CRPS scorecard was generated.

By having better dispersed ensemble forecasts, we can more quickly address observation gaps that may be needed to better solidify certain patterns or outcomes, which will lead to more accurate deterministic forecasts (aka the ones you get on your phone). These are a piece of the puzzle, though, and not one that you will ever actually encounter as a layperson.

[1]: https://sites.research.google/gr/weatherbench/