MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zb3 | 2025-11-12 00:02:24+00:00
> There are many possible reasons and instead they should be continued to be encouraged to find proper mental health counseling

There are many possible reasons, that's why they should be PROVIDED with help, not "encouraged to somehow find it" as if they didn't know that something was wrong already..

> And it’s not your place to decide what is suffering or not for them. That is exactly the problem. The fact that you checked on this persons profile and decided based on that he’s continuing to suffer is exactly the issue.

It's not my place to decide, but it's THEIR place to decide. I don't need to be a trained mental health provider to see that that person is TELLING the world that they suffer, posting and interacting with other people who also suffer.

> You are not a trained mental health provider I’m sure.

No, but I am the person who used to suffer, and that makes me more qualified to talk about these problems than a trained+qualified+certified+award-winning "mental health provider" (which.. did not help me btw, others from the community did).

> Encouraging someone in that place to commit suicide is exactly the problem

I'm not encouraging anybody to commit suicide.. where did you even get this idea? My stance is to not prohibit that last resort solution.

> What if in 10 years that person has a child and finds true joy and meaning, glad that they went through what they did in the previous years. There are many such cases.

It doesn't delete these 10 years of suffering which you apparently see no problem subjecting people to. It was his decision and that decision was not respected. Should it not be interrupted, that person would not suffer ever again and we'd not need to have this discussion.

> with some kind of self satisfaction and sense of control over another’s life that you took away an individual’s suffering by helping them kill themselves.

I did NOT encourage them to do that. It was their decision and it was interrupted. The people who interrupted that have that "self satisfaction", I see things as they are. Those people didn't care about that person at all, just called the police and forgot about him. It's not that they could pay his bills or anything, they didn't care.

> AND they need to be in a healthy mental state to make that decision. Depression is not a healthy mental state, it’s a period of delusion.

Disagree, if someone decides that it's enough suffering for them, that decision should be honored. If you can't cure that person instantly, prolonging this "unhealthy state" is what I'm against.

> and anyone who knows someone who contemplates suicide and came out the other side living a fulfilling life with joy and happiness would understand exactly why.

Nothing bad would happen to that person should they not be interrupted. This search for "joy and happiness" is absurd and it blinds you so that you accept that you might subject someone to literally years of suffering.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-12 00:03:26+00:00
> I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole your laptop.

One day the company was giving employees some swag, little retractable lanyard-things, branded with the company name and logo, for each of our anonymous white RFID keycards.

I, uh, escalated my concerns that this meant anyone who stole/found a keycard would also know where they could go use it. For whatever reason, that particular swag stopped being available.
by igouy | 2025-11-12 00:03:53+00:00
Let's remember: Dancin' Duke Java Applets distributed with Netscape's web browser. "Sun is giving away Java and HotJava free, in a fast-track attempt to make it a standard before Micro-soft begins shipping a similar product"

https://archive.gyford.com/1997/wired-uk/1.08/features/java....
by JSR_FDED | 2025-11-12 00:03:59+00:00
When Apple was making a comeback from being all but dead, the logo was a quick way to identify other members of your tribe. And you could walk into a coffee shop and get an instant tally of how Apple was doing. It was really precarious for a time, and then after some months it became reassuring and then some more months and you could stop worrying altogether.

Hard to believe that was ever the case!

Iconic photo from 2007: https://macdailynews.com/2007/10/02/lecture_hall_photo_shows...
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-12 00:04:34+00:00
The problem is you have these hugely expensive facilities like the tank plant in Lima that's pretty much only good for making tanks. Transitioning manufacturing to production lines that can be economically kept online because they make non-tank products when we're not fighting anyone is the way to go.

There's a ton of work going on in this area, and has been for a while (check out DARPA's AVM project for some of it).
by dgacmu | 2025-11-12 00:04:48+00:00
I had an astoundingly high blood pressure reading last year when I tore my bicep the day after the election and dragged myself to the ER. The staff freaked. I was like, "I had a normal reading two weeks ago in my doctor's office and I'm really in an awful lot of pain and worry right now". But it still earned me the "oh shit hypertension you must do extra pre-surgical clearance".

It was kind of interesting watching my blood pressure tick down back to normal over the course of about 4 days though.

I guess the lesson is don't rip your bicep off, it will transiently elevate your BP. ;)
by arkensaw | 2025-11-12 00:06:09+00:00
In case anyone is confused

> Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that can run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared code-base.

This new development adds Linux and Browser to that list.

I recently tried out .NET MAUI to see how easy it was to build a hello world app. It was quite messy getting it setup on Mac but eventually I got a simple hello world app working. Nice to use XAML again after all these years. I always liked it.
by Retric | 2025-11-12 00:06:43+00:00
The SR-71 had a strait forward mission well suited to a specialized airframe, and again you’re focusing on the airframe.

Just the software for the helmet alone provides a huge technical advantage that has little to do with how the aircraft is manufactured other than having the appropriate sensors, communication systems, and computing power. Yet through all that bureaucracy what would normally be 3 different airframes all get to leverage the same systems without the need for retrofits etc. It’s inherently a two step process to figure out what you need before you can finalize the design.

By comparison vs the F-35, the B-2 spirit was vastly more expensive and far more limited. The F-35 also costs less than the more specialized F-22, but that versatility takes time.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-12 00:07:10+00:00
Invest in technology that makes the facilities that manufacture primers useful for more than just that one product. One might do that by changing the nature of the manufacturing facility towards a multipurpose "forge", changing the nature of primers so they're more like commercially attractive products, or some combination. DARPA has been working pretty hard on these topics over the years.

I was working on one when we got shut down due to a political squabble resulting in sequestrations. Reminds me of our recent shutdown in many ways.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-12 00:07:28+00:00
Good question.

I put the Shelly relay in a pre-existing junction box in the basement.

Previously, this box worked like this: There were romex cables for power/neutral, lights, and the switch itself all inside of that box. The switch, located elsewhere, interrupted power to the lights. (This isn't necessarily the most-typical arrangement, but it's how it is in the house I've got.)

Currently, the box works like this: We still have romex cables for power/neutral, lights, and the switch itself inside of that box. That part hasn't changed at all. But now the Shelly relay interrupts power to the lights.

Thus, the lights are always controlled by software.

And the light switch? That just provides an input that is acted upon by a software script.

The script (which runs internally within the Shelly relay) only does 3 things:

1. If relay is on and switch toggles, turn relay off.

2. If relay is off and switch toggles, turn relay on.

3. If relay is turned on by any mechanism, start timer, and then turn off after timer expires. (Plus other useful timer mechanics like resets on additional toggling, but you get the idea.)

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It's easiest to think of a Shelly relay like a replacement for a light switch, but that's kind of a limiting way to think about it because that line of thought strongly implies that it should to be located where the switch is. And while it certainly can be installed that way, in practice it really doesn't have that limitation.

For my unfinished basement, there's no neutral at the light switch location so using a regular smart switch didn't pan out. (I could have added a neutral but that would have meant using more parts and getting into some drywall and paint.)

Instead, there's that neat (who am I kidding, it's a mess) junction box I that described, up on the ceiling where all of the things come together... So that's where I put the relay.

Or: There's a box behind a light fixture (well, there "should" be anyway). Often, this box will have the same functions available inside that my junction box happened to have. Power, neutral, light(s), switch input. A relay can go there.

But many houses do have neutral at the light switch location, so a relay can go there instead. Power/neutral feeds in, power for lights feeds out, with a switch (and/or relay!) in the middle. All in one accessible box on the wall. This matches the easy-to-think-of scenario. (IIRC all new homes are supposed to be this way in the US, but...)

It's (usually!) just a matter of finding the right physical location in which to install the relay.

(Note: None of this is intended to be an exhaustive list of variations. Things can and do get weird with household wiring, and regional variations of what "normal" means can vary quite tremendously.)
by worik | 2025-11-12 00:07:29+00:00
> Conflating the "establishment" into a false monolith is rhetorically convenient. It's also wrong.

Nonsense

How is a person supposed to tell the fine grained difference between the perpetrators of cruelty?

It is all the establishment. Largely private actors ( doctors, lawyers, school teachers...) backed up with state scantioned violence in the end
by lacker | 2025-11-12 00:07:32+00:00
There are a lot of Flock supporters out there. In my neighborhood, homeowners can volunteer to put Flock cameras on their property, and a number of people are doing this.

It's like having a Ring doorbell and sharing the feed with the police, which is also pretty popular in some areas. If you trust your local police to ethically fight crime, why not help them out?
by mindslight | 2025-11-12 00:07:33+00:00
It seems like you switched your argument from they didn't lie to the lie was justified ?

But even in your framing, I think they could have simply not said anything for a few days to the general public while healthcare workers went and scooped up whatever was still floating around in the consumer inventory. Coming clean and saying we think this might help, but the supply is low and they're more important for healthcare workers would have built trust rather than creating another transparent move that undermined it.

I do get they were under significant pressure, especially with the anti-leadership above them causing unnecessary chaos for political gains. I just think if we're doing a postmortem here we should acknowledge that the lying was a mistake.
by basilgohar | 2025-11-12 00:07:38+00:00
It's going to become the "MP3 sizzle" that young people at the time started to prefer once compressed audio became the norm on iPods and other portable music players, along with film grain and the judder of 24fps video. Artifacts imposed by the medium themselves become desirable once they become normal an associated and in fact signs of "quality", when, in fact, they are introduced noise and distortion to an otherwise more pristine or clean signal.

See also the "warmth" that certain vinyl enthusiasts sought after from their analog recordings which most certainly was mainly dust and defects in the groves rather than any actual tangible quality of the audio itself.
by omgbear | 2025-11-12 00:07:43+00:00
I have the Kinesis Advantage 360 which is split but has all the non-numpad buttons.

I do spend lots of time in Emacs, but also use it for plenty of gaming. Just remap in-game to ESDF and only use the left hand. (Or set up layers, but I'm generally too lazy for that).

I think the thumb clusters are great, but may not be to your taste. I'm very happy with it, but have used various iterations of kinesis keyboards for a long time now.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-12 00:07:51+00:00
The new Museum's site also has a very cool view through a window, but it's a view of the passing trains [underground], because historically that building (one of London's markets) had a freight service and of course there's no room to move a railway line under London so even though it hadn't needed a freight service for decades the passenger service over the same rails still exists and you will be able to wave to surprised (if they haven't taken that route before) passengers from inside the museum.

A friend lucked into (there's literally a lottery for popular sites) tickets for the new site in Open House London 2024 and the window existed but wasn't really set up for tourists yet of course.
by QuercusMax | 2025-11-12 00:08:05+00:00
I just saw Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in concert last night (he's 90 and can still play that horn!) and one of the things he talked about was recording his vocals for This Guy's In Love With You written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. He's a great musician but not much of a trained singer, and he said when he got into the studio, he sat down and did a relaxed first practice take, expecting he'd go and record one "for real".

Instead, they told him his first take was absolutely perfect - and it went on to be Bacharach/David's first #1 hit song.

Sometimes you get lightning in a bottle, and you just don't mess with it because it's perfect even in its imperfections.
by keyle | 2025-11-12 00:08:34+00:00
More info here [1]

the big difference is this

Predictable performance: Impeller compiles all shaders and reflection offline at build time. It builds all pipeline state objects upfront. The engine controls caching and caches explicitly.

or as described here [2]

Flutter’s Impeller renderer outperformed Skia. Impeller eliminates runtime shader compilation stalls, delivering lower frame times and more stable performance. For animation-heavy, graphics-rich apps, enabling Impeller significantly reduces jank and provides a smoother user experience.

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/perf/impeller

[2] https://medium.com/@raiden.lpf666/skia-vs-impeller-a-perform...
by charles_f | 2025-11-12 00:08:49+00:00
Yes and no, decision is not the only problem. Some people tend to default to ask for someone's help everytime they get blocked. Or managers drop a quick "ask Bob, he already did something similar", which might be ok on the short term because Bob might indeed give you the answer, but Alice didn't spend the time struggling and learning to be independent in the process, and Bob gets buried in random requests that prevent him from shipping his own stuff.

It's not a clear cut thing, definitely helping each other is useful, but like everything there's a balance, and striking it is bot straightforward
by gottorf | 2025-11-12 00:08:50+00:00
The GP's point is that levelheaded cost-benefit analyses on things like that seem to escape regulators, and everything is greatly skewed towards "it's worth it if it saves even one life".

Sure, fire safety in homes is a good thing to have. But is it so good that we can't economically build buildings to meet them, and people end up with no home at all?
by mauvehaus | 2025-11-12 00:09:58+00:00
> Would you nationalize factories but leave them idle?

Yes. Historically, these would be the national armories, Navy Yards, and Air Force plants. You know, Springfield Armory (of .30-06 Springfield fame, now a museum), Watertown Arsenal (now a fucking Home Depot, among other things), Charlestown Navy Yard(Boston, now largely a museum), Philadelphia Navy Yard (redeveloped? not my area), Air Force Plant 42 (near LA, still in use by Skunk Works among others), and others.

Having the capital idle/underutilized but maintained and a core group of people with the institutional knowledge ready to pass on during that rapid scaling up is what would make the factories able to scale up. Gun barrels (of all sizes) are relatively specialized from a manufacturing standpoint. Nobody is seriously arguing for having capacity to scale up to build 16" guns for battleships, but 5" guns are extremely common in naval use and 155mm guns are common for artillery. Being able to surge production of those without having to go through a learning curve would be a really great ability to have.

Interestingly, Goex, maker of black powder, is located on a military facility (Camp Minden) because that process remains both hazardous and surprisingly relevant to modern military use.
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by krick | 2025-11-12 00:10:13+00:00
That's weird. If the color difference is caused entirely by some peculiar chemical properties of the film, it should be trivial to calculate the filter that you need to apply to the digital source material so you get the "authentic" colors. So why not just do that and distribute the movie as it was designed? Or, heck, even 2 versions if you insist that some audience likes that new more vibrant look.
by scottlamb | 2025-11-12 00:10:40+00:00
Yuck.

The attitude I like to have is that the author can choose to do the design (doc + approval, or live discussion, some kind of buy in) first or go straight to the PR.

If the design is agreed on first, reviewers would need a really good reason to make the author go back and rethink the design—it happens, sometimes a whole team misses something, but it should be very rare. Usually, there's just implementation things, and ones that are objective improvements or optional. (For project style preferences, there should be a guide to avoid surprises.)

If the author goes straight to a PR, it's an experiment, so they should be willing to throw it away if someone says "did you think about this completely different design (that might be simpler/more robust/whatever)".

This is not the approach suggested by this article, and I'm okay with that. I tend to work on high reliability infrastructure, so quality over velocity, within reason.
by aquariusDue | 2025-11-12 00:10:46+00:00
Yep, lots of people doing knowledge work vastly underestimate the material cost, effort and skill associated with artisan goods. On one hand I blame modern manufacturing which justifies this ignorance somewhat but on the other hand I die a little inside when I hear about people willing to fork over large sums to something better advertised.

Though it's worth mentioning that some people are jumping into hand crafted stuff as a business first, cranking out subpar cookie cutter designs and while not terribly expensive and still a minority it's worth making sure you support people who care about the craft first. A category to watch out for is minimal leather wallets, while quality leather and correct thread selection practically guarantee the wallet will last, the care put into making it determines how enjoyable it will be to use.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-12 00:12:06+00:00
There are alternatives such as gstreamer and proprietary options. I can’t give names, but can confirm at least two moderately sized startups that use gstreamer in their media pipeline instead of ffmpeg (and no, they don’t use gst-libav).

One because they are a rust shop and gstreamer is slightly better supported in that realm (due to an official binding), the other because they do complex transformations with the source streams at a basal level vs high-level batch transformations/transcoding.
by QuercusMax | 2025-11-12 00:12:16+00:00
Music is the same way, especially with improvisation. When you're improvising, you don't make stuff up entirely from scratch - you glue together all the little bits you have in your toolbox to make something new. That's why we endlessly practice scales, arpeggios, learn new songs, copy others' licks, etc.

Why do you think half the keyboard/organ solos in classic rock songs sound like jazzed up versions of Bach and Mozart? That's what they had learned as kids or in music school before going on to make rock and roll.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-12 00:12:36+00:00
> Costco scans everyone's card upon entry into the store.

Not the case where I am: You just ask for a "code 99", because they are legally required to sell alcohol to nonmembers where I am. I'm sure there are other loopholes too ("I want to browse to see if I want to join"), but nonetheless, no tracking for me.

> it's possible that Costco may be using some sort of AI / facial recognition software alongside the cameras

It's possible that they have a magic genie that grants wishes to shoppers who rub the right pallet, but if we have no evidence of either, we need not entertain such hypotheticals.

> Probably true, although who knows whether Costco purchases data about its members from brokers?

Those brokers are literally the people to whom we're comparing Costco. If Costco must outsource the act in question to the brokers even in the analogy, then Costco is not analogous to the brokers.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-12 00:12:54+00:00
The profit margins of UNH/CVS/Cigna/Elevance/Humana/etc are 2% to 3%.

The PBMs are departments of these companies, hence they don’t have profit margins. Prime Therapeutics is owned by the various non profit Blues.

I don’t see how they are relevant. If they are earning more money from medicine, then it is being used to subsidize premiums.

There is a reason the market cap for almost all the pharmaceutical companies are bigger than the managed care organizations. UNH is slightly different because they sell far more high margin healthcare rather than just low margin managed care services.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-12 00:13:09+00:00
You seem very angry. Why don't you reread my post and reflect on the fact that we actually agree?

Hiring illegal labor can be difficult to prosecute, much like straw man gun purchases can be difficult to prosecute. In both cases I feel we should try much harder.

Removing the economic incentives for illegal migration is the only way to make a massive dent in it.