MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunshiney0992 | 2025-11-03 19:07:08+00:00
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by AndrewDucker | 2025-11-03 19:07:08+00:00
This would be the case if the people who liked the most poopular things ever tried things outside of that, and there was a shared swapping of preferences, and openness on all sides.

But there never is. If you like things that are niche then you don't get a "Oh, that's not something I've heard of, tell me about it!" - and I agree that the world would be a better place if you did.
by gruez | 2025-11-03 19:07:20+00:00
The article revolves around a poll showing that people expect that political violence will increase, but this is likely more of a reflection of how terrible people's perceptions are, than a bellwether of actual impending political violence. People are terrible at assessing how willing the other side is willing to use violence. This study from 2021[1] shows that the overwhelming majority of americans don't support political violence, but massively overestimates how willing the other side is willing to.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116851119#fig01
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-11-03 19:07:49+00:00
This is just incoherent drivel. The headline suggests there is some point being made about "Web3", which is apparently about "economic alignment through tokens, transparent on-chain value flows, DAO governance giving communities real control, blockchain enabling true decentralization"

Well, yeah, okay I guess? But then, there was a brief AWS outage, which then implies that "millions of people simultaneously experienced digital serfdom."

And the solution is... more GPL? I don’t know? And neither does the author? Because the real issue here is whether we’ll have "the courage to design your way through it"? Which doesn't sound like a licensing issue at all?
by charlescearl | 2025-11-03 19:07:51+00:00
- The excess deaths experienced by unhoused persons - The excess deaths of persons that live in in the so-called Cancer Alley https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards-of-lo... - The persistent excess deaths of those incarcerated in american prisons https://www.vera.org/news/the-hidden-deaths-in-american-jail... - The american mass shootings in 2025 https://massshootingtracker.site/ - The internationalized violence of ICE arrests and attacks https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5538090/ice-detention-c...

These are all instances of political violence. The political class in the united states deemed particular populations disposable, and enacted policies that lead to excess deaths and extreme violence upon those populations. Millions in the united states live under the threat of state violence and politcally accepted exposure to premature death.

The article and comments refer to the resulting counter-violence that perpetrators of the un-remarked systemic violence may become exposed to.
by anosidium | 2025-11-03 19:07:52+00:00
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by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-03 19:08:00+00:00
A lot of sites removed even tranquil and harmonious comments sections due to fear of legal liability, and also because moderating them was a cost center. IMDB used to have a comments section where film buffs could talk about cinema, often in much greater depth and competence than one would find on e.g. Reddit today. Lonely Planet had the Thorn Tree forums where one could discuss travel with a real community of fellow travel nerds. All gone.

Beyond the decline of longform text due to phone keyboards, I actually think that the restriction of active communication to a handful of detrimental social-media platforms is a big part of why people report feeling more lonely today. Back when the blogosphere and Phpbb forum ecosystems were healthy, people talked about finding friends around the world online.
by I_Am_Nous | 2025-11-03 19:08:14+00:00
One of the big ones I remember from the last decade was the Congressional baseball shooting in 2017, where luckily nobody was killed. This isn't a sudden problem to brace for, it's a continuing problem to finally accept and address.

Charlie Kirk was not an elected public official, but he was definitely still political in a way that a lot of regular Americans are political. So even if it's less significant with regard to elected officials being targeted, it was political violence that regular people felt and could conceive of being targeted with, for similar reasons as Charlie. I believe that was what made his assassination resonate with people, much more than an elected official being assassinated does.
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-03 19:08:31+00:00
> Also, IIUC the guys in The Big Short would've lost everything if the government stepped in sooner since the banks controlled the price of the CDSs and could've maintained the incorrect price if they had a bunch of extra cash.

Yeah. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry had an investor panic and nearly lost everything. He was right, but he nearly got the timing wrong.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-03 19:08:31+00:00
>if PostHog was able to do what they're doing on the stack you're abandoning, do you think that stack is actually going to limit your scalability in any way that matters?

Also, considering the project is an AI framework, do you think the language ChatGPT is built on is a worse choice than the language we use because it's in the browser?
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-11-03 19:08:32+00:00
> The Society of the Spectacle. When I reread this, I was alarmed at how applicable it is today.

i read this too young and it set me up for a lifetime of hopeless depression. highly recommended. i just started 'simulacra and simulation' and the development on the ideas covered in 'spectacle' is even less optimistic.
by nilmethod | 2025-11-03 19:08:39+00:00
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by hopelite | 2025-11-03 19:08:46+00:00
Yes. Considering you cannot even say write/speak things without vindictive people using various methods like down voting or abusive language to stifle conversation and discussion and that has metastasized into things like "moderator" censorship and evil like shadow banning, hiding conversations ... not from being said, but controlling what adult humans are allowed to see ... all of which are directly and inherently treasonous for Americans to engage in due to their responsibility to uphold and defend the Constitution and the universal human right to free speech; then yes, it seems clear the internet, as the replacement of the public square AND books/newspapers, etc, as well as simply just universal freedom of expression and communication has made not just culture, but humanity worse off.

The "positivity ration" claims it takes 3:1 good things to overcome a bad thing. I would argue though that the nature of the evil that the internet facilitates is not just many bad things, but they also taint all the other things. We are in effect moving into a dynamic that is related to the pre-printing press era, when the ruling class had total control over information and the dissemination of it.

If you interrogate that aspect of history, you will clearly see the thread of that impulse throughout especially European history, even after the advent of the printing press. It was the same before the internet when things like state radio/TV stations and rules controlled what could be said and how. The internet briefly breached that containment from about '90 to '10s, until the speech control and tone policing or even the constant change and shift of language to dominate people.

It is naive, childish, and underdeveloped to simply take all the positives of the internet and ignore that there are many turds floating in that punch bowl.
by xp84 | 2025-11-03 19:08:47+00:00
Exactly. And the noise, in all forms, has been exponentially increasing. In every medium there is “good” - even in like the “TikTok and its clones” category… but it competes with idiotic rage bait and engagement bait like the “life hacks” that intentionally make no sense, uncreative political BS, advertisements for only fans models, and of course, AI-generated everything that masquerades as content but is actually devoid of meaning or usefulness.

I blame the ad-supported model for everything.

Ad-supported is what made the Internet’s adolescence, in the early 00s, so impactful, because it paid the bills, or at least promised a path to profitability to VCs who paid the bills.

But once the adtech got good enough and everything went mobile, ad revenue became the ultimate bad incentive driver for everyone. Nobody at NBC in 1950 could dream of getting viewers to spend 8 hours a day watching TV, but that kind of watch time is 100% possible today and the TikToks, IG and YouTubes of the world won’t rest unless average watch time reaches 24.00 hours per day.
by westurner | 2025-11-03 19:08:55+00:00
Pagefind: https://pagefind.app/ .. https://github.com/pagefind/pagefind :

> The goal of Pagefind is that websites with tens of thousands of pages should be searchable by someone in their browser, while consuming as little bandwidth as possible. Pagefind’s search index is split into chunks, so that searching in the browser only ever needs to load a small subset of the search index. Pagefind can run a full-text search on a 10,000 page site with a total network payload under 300kB, including the Pagefind library itself.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31321024 :

> Sphinx searchindex.js does Porter stemming for English and other languages: [ sphinx.search: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/tree/master/sphinx/sear... ]

atsphinx/pagefind adds pagefind search to sphinx docs : https://github.com/atsphinx/pagefind
by CryZe | 2025-11-03 19:09:05+00:00
You can buffer overflow in fil-c and it won't detect it unless the entire buffer was its own stack or heap allocation with nothing following it (and also it needs to be a multiple of 16 bytes, cause that's padding that fil-c allows you to overflow into). So it arguably isn't much different from wasm.

Quick example:

typedef struct Foo {

int buf[2]; float some_float;

} Foo;

int main(void) {

Foo foo = {0}; for (size_t i = 0; i < 3; ++i) { foo.buf[i] = 0x3f000000; printf("foo.buf[%zu]: %d\n", i, foo.buf[i]); } printf("foo.some_float: %f\n", foo.some_float);

}

This overflows into the float, not causing any panics, printing 0.5 for the float.
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-03 19:09:06+00:00
> Today, very often people silo themselves into a single genre, or even subgenre, of music, and anything else is "other" and bad.

I heard many people who grew up before 2000 say their children, grandchildren, students, or so listened to more varied music than they did at the same ages. I heard none say the opposite.
by zingababba | 2025-11-03 19:09:20+00:00
Well the extremes are quickly becoming the norm on both sides. Fuentes is making the rounds, just recently on Tucker's podcast. The talking points on the right are increasingly becoming that the left needs to be absolutely crushed. Mayors/governors arrested, etc. The idea that Trump is being nowhere near extreme enough is very much being discussed openly. Pundits are all decrying the immanence of civil war. If you go deep right you find communities are VERY actively prepping and gathering like-minded individuals together.

The left meanwhile is busy attempting to cover up massive fraud under their watch (Minnesota,) voting in self-proclaimed socialists or those who vow allegiance to other countries entirely and shutting down any conversation that does not maintain their simulacrum. If you go deep left you find communities are gleefully celebrating the murder of their opponents and are also actively buying arms (often for the first time in their lives.)

Meanwhile the middle is getting slammed by layoffs.
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by justupvoting | 2025-11-03 19:09:39+00:00
Depends on the source. I've been doing nogi BJJ (not on the comp team: I am old, we train hard but not competition hard) about ten years or so.

People training technique will grey out pretty much routinely as they talk through things with their partners and work strategies for techniques.

People go out now and then, usually on purpose with folks who understand when it happens.

The BJJ community is mature at this point. There are folks on comp teams basically having fights every day. I suspect when those people go out, you are right. Damage is done and it accumulates.

I suspect when folks like me and my training partners go out, there is no trauma to speak of.

What is the net of this lifestyle? I don't know; I've had no major injuries (requiring surgery or major downtime-- popping the cartilage in your rib working top control drills will take fucking forever to heal tho), I've learned a lot, made good friends, and have only this life to spend as I see fit, so I can only anecdata.

But the understanding in our world is this: trauma is traumatic (and sometimes causes loss of consciousness, sometimes not), but not all loss of consciousness is traumatic.
by benbayliss | 2025-11-03 19:09:39+00:00
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by everdrive | 2025-11-03 19:09:52+00:00
This is merely a debate about what it means to "think." We didn't really previously need to disambiguate thinking / intelligence / consciousness / sentience / ego / identity / etc.

Now, we do. Partly because of this we don't have really well defined ways to define these terms and think about. Can a handheld calculator think? Certainly, depending on how we define "think."
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by nullkevin | 2025-11-03 19:10:02+00:00
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by tzs | 2025-11-03 19:10:04+00:00
When using football fields as a unit of length you should use American football fields rather than soccer fields because American football field sizes are more standardized.

For American football professional, college, and high school games are all played on the same sized field, which is 100 years long.

Compare to soccer, where they can even have different sized fields in the same professional league. The English Premier League wants to standardize on 105 m x 68 m but several clubs are still using other sizes: Brentford (105 x 65), Chelsea (103 x 67), Crystal Palace (100 x 67), Everton (103 x 70), Fullham (100 x 65), Liverpool (101 x 68), and Nottingham Forest (105 x 70).

For international play FIFA has a standard, but it is a range: 100-110 m x 64-70 m.

There are parts of a soccer field that are precisely specified and so could be used as a standard of length.

Some examples are the radius of the circle around the center mark (9.144 m), the penalty area (40.23 x 16.46 m), distance from penalty mark to goal (10.97 m), goal area (18.29 m x 5.47 m), distance between goal posts (7.32 m), and the height of the crossbar (2.44 m).

The reason none of them are nice integers is that they were actually originally standardized in Imperial units. In those the aforementioned measurements are 10 yards, 44 yards x 18 yards, 12 yards, 20 yards x 6 yards, 8 yards, and 8 feet, respectively.
by hintymad | 2025-11-03 19:10:26+00:00
> Python async sucks

I always find this line of thought strange. It's as if the entire team hinges their technical decision on a single framework, when in reality it's relatively easy to overcome this level of difficulties. This reminds me of the Uber blunder - the same engineer/team switched Uber's database from MySQL to Postgres and then from Postgres to MySQL a few years later, both times claiming that the replaced DB "does not scale" or "sucks". In reality, though, both systems can work very well, and truth be told, Uber's scale was not large enough for either db to show the difference.
by creata | 2025-11-03 19:10:27+00:00
> that logic also suggests Strang's explanation is defective

I haven't read Strang's book, so I can't comment on that. But yeah, if it never mentions the formula ||a||·||b||·cos(θ) or at least talks about how the dot product relates to parallel and orthogonal vectors, I would consider that a big hole in an introduction to the dot product.

> How would that have fit with the goals of this post?

Because the post is titled "an introduction to linear algebra... the dot product", and this is something that I believe should be in anything that considers itself an introduction to the dot product.

You seem to disagree, and I'd like to ask: why? I think this a fundamental aspect of the dot product, again, just as fundamental as the relationship between complex multiplication and rotation. I think my view is common.

> calling out a blog post

I didn't intend to do anything as strong as "call out" the blog post. I just wanted to express surprise at someone so strongly praising ("its sauce is stronger [than 3B1B's video series]") an alright post.
by vessenes | 2025-11-03 19:10:39+00:00
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by dralley | 2025-11-03 19:10:41+00:00
There have been rumors for quite some time that Mercedes has the best power unit for the upcoming 2026 regulation set. It's entirely possible that this is part of that picture.

"Sustained power output between 350 and 400 kilowatts" is also a bit interesting since that is basically right in line with what people expect out of the 2026 electrical component of the power unit.