MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-11-06 03:10:35+00:00
> Earth's climate always changes over time, it's not unusual, although not always the best for us.

Earth's climate has been stable during the rise of human civilisation. It has changed more in the past 100 years than in the past 200,000.

It's true it's changed often over the course of the 4 billion year history of the pkanet. It's not true to claim it's fluctuated wildly over the course of human civilisation.

> What causes this climate change, how much infuence humans have on it, and how much we could possibly do about it is unclear.

False.

It's clear the cause is the increased insulation factor of the atmosphere. It's clear this change has been in the majority due to human activity dragging up millions of years worth of past captured C02 via fossil fuel extraction.

> That's not a reason to not do anything about it,

Naturally, because as stated it is false to claim the cause is unclear.

> but there's also no reason to be super intense about it.

Sure. It's true that no one alive today in a G20 non equatorial country need fuss much about it - all the real serious consequence will fall after their lives have passed.
by lumost | 2025-11-06 03:11:36+00:00
It would be utterly nonsensical for the US to take this deal. The easy alternative would be to subsidize GPU datacenter buildouts on favorable terms with nvidia/accelerator providers. OpenAI/Anthropic amd everyone else could then competitively bid on access.

I guarantee you that openai would leverage this deal to the gills and come back for more.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-06 03:12:20+00:00
The feasibility of this assumes one peer is always behind an endpoint dependent mapping. That's great if you only care about peers working with you and you control your style of NAT, but it's still pretty broken for the case you want this to work for any 2 peers. In practical terms, the success rate goes from something like the 64% with 256 probes down to something less than 0.01%.

If you can manage to bump it up to 65536 probes without getting blocked, hitting a NAT limit, or causing the user to fall asleep waiting, then it should hit the same success rate :D. I'm not sure many would like to use that P2P service though, at that point just pay for the TURN server.
by Huxley1 | 2025-11-06 03:13:34+00:00
I've used ChatGPT to help understand medical records too. It's definitely faster than searching everything on my own, but whether the information is reliable still depends on personal judgment or asking a real doctor. More people are treating it like a doctor or lawyer now, and the more it's used that way, the higher the chance something goes wrong. OpenAI is clearly drawing a line here. You're free to ask questions, but it shouldn't be treated as professional advice, especially when making decisions for others.
by tguvot | 2025-11-06 03:13:51+00:00
i have dishwasher that is loaded with cartridge that has 400g of powder. ideal scenario for dispensing detergent at will. yet, never mind what cycle I am using, it dispensed only during main wash cycle.

i also had in past machines from 5 different manufacturers. none of them had mechanisms that facilitate 2 releases or pre-wash compartments
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-06 03:14:06+00:00
> Come on, that example is practically useless for comparing both approaches.

Come on, I admitted it was trivial. It was a quick example that fit into a comment block. Did you expect a dissertation?

> that implementing all the test variations with EBT would be infeasible

That's kind of the point to my previous comment. PBTs will generate many more examples than you would create by hand. If you have EBTs already, you're one step away from PBTs (the generators, I never said this was trivial just to preempt another annoying "Come on"). And then you'll have more comprehensive testing than you would have had sticking to just your carefully handcrafted examples. This isn't the end of property-based testing, but it's a really good start and the easiest way to bring it into an existing project because you can mostly reuse the existing tests.

Extending this, once you get used to it, to stateful testing (which many PBT libraries support, including Hypothesis) you can generate a lot of very useful end-to-end tests that would be even harder to come up with by hand. And again, if you have any example-based end-to-end tests or integration tests, you need to come up with generators and you can start converting them into property-based tests.

> but choosing one strategy over the other should be a conscious decision made by the team.

Ok. What prompted this? I never said otherwise. It's also not an either/or situation, which you seem to want to make it. As I wrote in that previous comment, you can use both and use the property-based tests to bolster the example-based tests, and convert counterexamples into more example-based tests for your regression suite.

> I haven't actually written PBTs myself.

Huh.
Can a Startup Beat a Giant? When the Perplexity Case Isn't So Easy
by webkmsyed | 2025-11-06 03:15:02+00:00
What happens when a tiny team challenges the king of search? Aravind Srinivas and his crew at Perplexity AI didn’t settle for more links, they built an “answer engine” that actually resolves your questions, sources included.

Speed, focus, and bold risks drove their growth and strategies like Ship when 80% ready, ignore pitch decks, and solve the trickiest real-world pain point. The idea? Out-run the slow, network-heavy giants with a fresh, user-driven product.

But what does it really take to challenge decades of dominance? Perplexity picked their battles—targeting Google’s core product, not its social or media networks. As AI reshapes how we seek knowledge, Srinivas’s approach raises big questions: Is better tech enough, or do giants always win in the end? why the answer isn’t simple.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-06 03:15:07+00:00
> I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs.

> I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs.

It's Mozilla's data...

> explicit violation to the Mozilla mission

I'm not sure what this is referring to. I don't see any explicit violation of Mozilla.org's mission. If anything it seems consistent with that mission to provide universal translation with quick turnaround.
by mrandish | 2025-11-06 03:16:02+00:00
I've always thought such unnecessary padding was primarily to increase search engine ranking (more topic keywords & more length being generally favored). In today's world, almost no one is incentivized to answer your question as concisely as possible. Usually, quite the opposite because satisfying queries faster tends to reduce their metrics (page views, time-on-site, etc).

A secondary contributing cause is that many people aren't very good at structuring explanations. For example, the old rule of thumb that you usually won't miss anything important if you skip the first third of most YouTube how-to videos existed before the algorithm disfavored very short videos (and post-TikTok that's all changed too).
by brandon272 | 2025-11-06 03:16:50+00:00
Has nothing to do with whether it's art or a shrink-wrapped product, different people value different things. As an example, a vehicle may be an engineering wonder or a work of art to one person and a "silly mass-produced hunk of steel" to another.

And yes, I am romanticizing in-person experiences and interactions over the insistence that more and more things in life are best experienced through a phone or computer.
by will4274 | 2025-11-06 03:17:11+00:00
> By your logic, chrome could choose to stop supporting literally anything (including HTML) in their "browser" and not have done anything that we can object to.

Literally this. Microsoft used to ship a free web browser. Then they stopped. That's not something anybody can object to.

> because the IE specific stuff they didn't implement was never part of the open web standards, but rather stuff Microsoft unilaterally chose to add.

Standards aren't holy books. It's actually more important to support real customer use cases than to follow standards.

But you know this. If standards are more important that real use cases, then the fact that XSLT has been removed from the html5 standard is enough justification to remove it from Chrome.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-06 03:17:40+00:00
The problem is performance... requiring a web browser to draw a UI takes a LOT of CPU and memory, and not all devices have enough power to deliver a smooth experience across all potential workloads.

I worry that every year we keep increasing our processing requirements and bloat without good reason for it.

Why should every Windows release require a faster and faster CPU, and more and more RAM?

The recommended amount of memory for Windows 95 was 8 megabytes, and for Windows 11 it is 8 gigabytes. Why is this not horrifying?

My small Linux system with openbox GUI barely cracks 100MB memory usage in 2025.
by alwa | 2025-11-06 03:17:41+00:00
I did as you suggested with respect to “nemawashi.” I read about that and “ringi,” and I’m glad I did. Even to get just the gist of what I’m sure is a thin interpretation: that nemawashi refers to a “laying-the-groundwork” process of circulating a proposal between peer-level counterparts, before formalizing it and proposing to act on it.

Much less crashing in with it in the form of a “SumoBot,” as Mozilla seems to have done to its non-English communities… (with the disclaimer that I have zero insight into Mozilla’s process here outside of this writer’s account).

It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change, that seems humane (and effective) in any culture—leave it to the Japanese to have a specific term for it…
by r00fus | 2025-11-06 03:19:21+00:00
You are confusing a 2-way race with a 3-way race. Mamdani could've won with a lot less than 50% (since there was no ranked choice - and even if it was, I doubt any Sliwa voter would have given Cuomo any 2nd place votes).

The fact that he cleared 50% in a 3-way race is itself a mandate.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-06 03:19:34+00:00
Divisiveness and extremism from both parties, when moderates are badly needed. On the issue of the shutdown specifically, there was some belief that Democrats (Schumer in particular) would approve a CR (resolution to fund the federal government) after the second “no kings” protest or perhaps after the election, like maybe it was a political tool they wanted to use for election gains. But it seems they’re content with just letting the shutdown continue indefinitely unless the COVID era “temporary” expansion of ACA subsidies is extended - which is effectively trying to make it permanent.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-06 03:19:53+00:00
That's a misleading title. A better source is at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offe...

Basically, it is 3 hours in the middle of the day and not everyone qualifies. If you have solar, then you wouldn't be paying anything during most of the day anyway. If you don't and you're a working adult, then you wouldn't be home anyway. Just from my observation, there's a lot of solar installations here and the power companies were starting to complain about grid stability and negative prices. The feed-in tariff(what I get paid for exporting my power back to the grid) is now very close to zero and I believe will actually drop to zero next year. Some states are now contemplating charging customers for the export.

So all in all, I think this announcement will have no effect on people's ability to afford the ever-rising energy prices here. The government did start a rebate for solar batteries recently though. And that had a beneficial effect on the prices and uptake for residences. Before that, the batteries would take too long to repay themselves and people were reluctant to install them.
by lutusp | 2025-11-06 03:20:19+00:00
The author of the article has a Ph.D. in psychology and the journal is named "Seeds of Science." To a seasoned traveler in life, these are both red flags (real science journals don't need to proclaim their relationship with science, and psychology isn't a science as the term is defined).

As I expected, the article fails to address its title in a systematic, constructive or scientific way, by for example defining what happiness is or establishing whether it can be reliably measured.

I imagine writing a substitute article that rings the same bells. Mine would begin, "I hope you didn't come here expecting a meaningful answer to this classic among unanswerable questions. Now enjoy my overly long, folksy narrative that only pretends to address its topic."
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-06 03:20:58+00:00
My Samsung bespoke combo washer dryer has that feature. It uses less detergent than we are used to so my wife uses pods, but I think this is better un general since the clothes come out clean even if they don’t smell like detergent. So not only do I not need to load detergent, I don’t need to transfer to the dryer. Still have to load sanitizer in unfortunately.
by anarticle | 2025-11-06 03:22:08+00:00
MBAs are the source of KPIism. We have spent many decades minting them at scale in the USA and now the chickens are roosting. Anything can be ruined by pursuit of KPIs at all costs. The model is to optimize a particular KPI, get your bonus, use this story to get your next job at +$X, leave, repeat. The longer story of the company does not matter, you shipped and got paid, even if the village burned down after you left.
by thelock85 | 2025-11-06 03:22:24+00:00
This.

Schools are not employers that can implement take it or leave it policies. You need coordination and agreement between school leadership, district leadership, staff, and most critically parents to put your foot down on anything while also working to ensure basic safety and decent academic outcomes.

Now that the ills of social media and screen time are mainstream knowledge, it’s easier to make a common sense argument without much pushback.
by gertop | 2025-11-06 03:22:58+00:00
The medical profession is not open about any kind of self diagnosis.

I've learned through experience that telling a doctor "I have X and I would like to be treated with Y" is not a good idea. They want to be the ones who came up with the diagnosis. They need to be the smartest person in the room. In fact I've had doctors go in a completely different direction just to discredit my diagnosis. Of course in the end I was right. That isn't to say I'm smarter, I'm not, but I'm the one with the symptoms and I'm better equipped to quickly find a matching disease.

Yes some doctors appreciate the initiative. In my experience most do not.

So now I just usually tell them my symptoms but none of the research I did. If their conclusion is widely off base I try to steer them towards what my research said.

So far so good but wouldn't it be nice if all doctors had humility?
by viega | 2025-11-06 03:23:30+00:00
Author of the article here.

Absolutely, the code box under the ascii art is a complete implementation, just paste that in a C file, and then use `H4X0R_VA_COUNT(...)`.

Or, you could follow the link the my typed variadic arguments article (from which this post forked off). The repo there is: https://codeberg.org/h4x0r/vargs
by teleforce | 2025-11-06 03:24:27+00:00
>CUE:I would just use TypeScript instead of this programming language.

Unlike TypeScript, CUE is not a Turing complete programming language, it's meant to be used with other proper programming languages.

CUE is the probably the best of the bunches for configs, including yours.

Some times minimal is not what you want since it will be deficient as "Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler".
by yodon | 2025-11-06 03:25:46+00:00
For those not familiar with where cities are located in the US, that map is basically a population density map of the US. High population density regions are blue, low population density regions are red. This is true even in "deep red" states and "deep blue" states.

The founders knew this divide would exist, because the same basic divide was there 200+ years ago (different parties and party names, but the same rural/urban political divide). They purposely chose to design the electoral college system in a way that gave rural regions a significant say in political outcomes even when their population densities are much lower than those of cities. They also purposely placed seats of government away from major cities, for much the same reasons.

The country may be more polarized today, but the color pattern on the map is not new.
by Incipient | 2025-11-06 03:25:47+00:00
There hasn't really been any significant money in competing with cuda however. Nvidia had a bit of a gaming premium over amd, and crypto really boosted all GPUs...but until about 3 years ago, there wasn't literally trillions of dollars on the line to replace cuda. There is now. Companies ARE replicating it. The Mi300 is very competitive on token throughput as far as I'm aware.

No one is sitting around. I'd argue if there was more wafer supply you'd see amd/others undercutting nvidia...but it's hard to when supply is incredibly constrained.
by beej71 | 2025-11-06 03:26:12+00:00
I'd never written any XSL before last week when I got the crazy idea of putting my resume in XML format and using stylesheets to produce both resume and CV forms, redacted and not, with references or not. And when I had it working in HTML, I started on the Typst stylesheet. xsltproc, being so old, basically renders the results instantly. And Typst, being so new, does as well.
by alwa | 2025-11-06 03:26:37+00:00
For sure. Common sense <> common, etc… although it does seem relevant that it was specifically a Japanese-language sub-community who were reacting here.

I have to say it feels like a really familiar, NGO-flavored disrespect, though: “we’re doing this favor for underrepresented language communities,” regardless of whether they want/need it or not.

“There’s only X number of you having to shoulder the load in XX sub-community, don’t you want us to impose a bunch of ‘help’?”

Well, no, if the choice is between a formidable volume of slop and a smaller but well-executed volume of volunteer labor-of-love…

(…I say as a person very much without all sides of the story, and shooting from the hip a bit. I don’t mean to impugn anybody’s intentions, and I imagine at the end of the day we’re all on the same side here.)
by kaveh_h | 2025-11-06 03:26:43+00:00
Some people do these type of contribution or charity work not just to do some good but also to feel some autonomy and mastery in a world were much of the regular top down driven drudgery work does not provide much of that feeling. These people are canaries in the coal mine. I expect more people feel a loss of purpose and rise of anxiety and depression in the world.
by drnick1 | 2025-11-06 03:27:05+00:00
> And how does that freedom help anyone?

For one, it prevents criminal companies like Google and Facebook from exfiltrating massive amounts of usage data from grandpa. This includes, but is not limited to, places the phone has been, what networks it interacts with, DNS lookups, phone numbers called, etc. That's on top of the tracking done by third-party apps like Whatsapp, that share with the mothership absolutely everything except perhaps the content of messages (they claim it's encrypted, but the client is almost certainly backdoored).
by chirsz | 2025-11-06 03:27:08+00:00
The behavior of C macros is actually described by a piece of pseudocode from Dave Prosser and it is not in the standard:

* https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20060626/

* https://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/jrnl/2006-DDJ-Finessing/html/S...

* https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-prs/2001-q1/msg00495.html
by gyomu | 2025-11-06 03:27:49+00:00
As a multilingual/multicultural human it’s been pretty weird witnessing what AI translation has been doing to regional languages & cultures on the internet in the last few years.

Sure we had machine translation before, but it was still a little off. Now the latest language models get us 99.9% there, so they are judged good enough to deploy at scale. What results is a weird twilight zone where everything is in your language, except it feels kind of wrong and doesn’t really communicate in ways specific to the culture from which the language is.

You’re in France, you search for something, a thread pops up with everyone interacting in French - seems reasonable enough, but it just reads kind of weird? Then a message is entirely out of place, and you realize that you’re reading an English language thread translated to French.

Or your mom sends you a screenshot of a Facebook thread in her native language that has her worked up - and reading it, you realize it’s an LLM translation of something that should have no bearing on her.

Same with various support pages on websites - it all reads mostly fine until you hit a weird sentence where the LLM messed up and then you’re transported back to the reality that what you’re reading was not authored by anyone who can actually operate in that language/culture.

There’s a lot of nuance in language beyond the words - how you express disagreement in English is not how you express disagreement in Japanese, how you address the reader in French is not the same as in Korean, etc. Machine translation flattens all modes of expression into a weird culturally en-US biased soup (because that’s where the companies are headquartered and where the language models are trained).

I have no illusions that this trend will reverse - high quality translation work is skill and time consuming, and thanks to LLMs anyone on Earth can now localize anything they want in any language they want for ~free in ~0 time.

The weirdest part is seeing this bubble up to the real world. I’ve been hearing young people use turns of phrases/expressions that I recognize as distinctly American, except not in English.

The classic linguist response to this, which I subscribe to, is “no language is fixed, language is ever evolving in response to various external cultural pressures“. Which is true. But it doesn’t make our post-LLM language landscape any less weird.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-06 03:28:41+00:00
The current administration won the vote. And in fact the continuing resolutions that would fund the government have majority support in both houses of Congress, by the representatives of American citizens. But it needs 60 votes in Senate not just 50 votes. Right now most Democrat senators (all but 3) are voting against even a clean funding resolution that makes no changes to the pre shutdown status quo.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-11-06 03:29:20+00:00
> repair manuals and was pretty repairable

Very interesting, I might consider Asus laptops if repair manuals can be easily found.

Can you point me a direction to find it?

From my experience, Asus does not provide any official repair manuals on the specific laptop site. Googling for model keywords doesn't seem to provide any good sources, aside from the typical YouTube videos but these sometimes misses/skips specific instructions/techniques that are mentioned in official Dell/HP repair guides. Will be glad to finally have reliable sources to get Asus repair manuals.

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> If you have to do this more than once or twice over a ten year lifespan of a laptop, you probably should invest in air cleaning systems.

If you're referring to home/work area air filters I don't think its possible since the mentioned laptops are not mine. Unless you mean there's a heatsink cleaning tool that cleans the exhaust fins without disassembly? I'll gladly consider this tool if it means I don't have to do a disassembly.

Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I'm the go-to repair guy in the family. Not unusual to find the fans spinning at high with clogged exhaust + likely old thermal paste (not sure for thermal pads helped much but I used new ones anywhare while the laptops disassembled anyway).

While typing this, I recalled one of the old Dells that had to have the bottom cover assembly replaced more than once, the plastic part of the bottom cover holding the metal hinge mechanism is absolutely terrible. Thankfully the specific part numbers in the repair manuals made it easy to order replacement parts.