MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by foldr | 2025-11-09 23:18:30+00:00
I’m sure the BBC gets lots of stuff wrong in its news coverage, just like any other news organization you could name. But if we’re talking about systemic bias in reporting on the Israel/Palestine conflict, it’s worth noting that “both sides” (much as I hate this expression) frequently claim that the BBC is biased against them. The whole issue is so contentious that it’s highly unlikely that any major news organization will escape criticisms of bias. Again, I wonder if you can name a different major news organization that regularly reports on Israel/Palestine and that nobody considers to have any bias in its reporting.
by mrpmohibur | 2025-11-09 23:19:26+00:00
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by vejeta | 2025-11-09 23:19:58+00:00
The opposite, from what I read in that page, they provide instructions to connect from the shell.

Conquer-web looks for avoiding the "problem" to connect to a server with putty/telnet or ssh through a terminal. You can just connect from the web.

I can´t provide a URL to try, because I want to provide some security measures, and create a proper world, before opening something like this, but the code is there.
by system2 | 2025-11-09 23:20:11+00:00
I doubt. Good artists are still killing it. I see it on social media all the time. Also, corporations rarely care about the art as part of business. I don't remember the last time a tech company (or finance, wholesale, manufacturing, etc.) hired an artist. It is part of the job description of some managers, maybe, but who cares about someone with mediocre Photoshop skills?
by gethly | 2025-11-09 23:20:35+00:00
Fear of sharing ideas is one thing, but code? Well, that is a different beast altogether. In the end, it depends on how much YOU value the code. It might be a nothingburger but it took you hours or days to write because of some intricacies or you had to study some specification. That in itself has a lot of value and sharing it freely might not be the right move. It might even by a completely dumb code, the simplest thing imaginable, but it represents some internal logic that might disclose some inner-workings of some applications that might bare some risk. So...yeah, you have to figure out yourself which code is ok to share and which is not.
by Covenant0028 | 2025-11-09 23:21:01+00:00
Again, there's probably a sense of responsibility towards the people moving through the airports who otherwise would be facing much greater risk to their lives.

As a non American who's having to transit the country during this period, I've nothing but respect for the individuals who're actually doing their jobs and keeping everyone (including me) safe without getting a penny for this vital work.

They could go on a strike and bring all airlines to a halt, but as a brown skinned person, I would then be risking a visit to "Alligator Alcatraz" or some other demented place because I failed the leave the country on the day I was supposed to. So again, glad they're not doing that.
by vidarh | 2025-11-09 23:21:03+00:00
If we take the lower number of 15, than that is nearly 5.5k a year. Even if we round it down, that'd be 25% a year if your number is right and this situation continued. Of course it can't continue very long, because there won't be that many old enough to have the choice, presumably. But it's a crazy rate.
by jonway | 2025-11-09 23:21:12+00:00
This is a fairly weak shower thought, but it was interesting to note (anecdotally) people's propensity to rigidly prioritize safety in some, but not all circumstances.

For example, I've had numerous conversations where people will point to safety rating in vehicles to defend their purchasing decisions. Its simple to understand really, I want the safest car for my family/child etc, that is why I refuse to buy an older, used vehicle or prefer a sedan over SUV. Safety becomes cover for preference and defending trends like expanding pickup truck sizes since the 2000s while there is no safety rating or even objective measure of the efficacy of these self-driving systems.

Hopefully I haven't wasted your time, its just a psychological trend that I think exists.
by don_neufeld | 2025-11-09 23:21:18+00:00
Not sure if it’s evident in broader statistics yet, but I think that because Tesla got the early adopter market (tech savvy people), they are now losing that same market first.

I had a party at my house a couple months ago, mostly SF tech people. I found the Tesla owners chatting together, and the topic was how much FSD sucks and they don’t trust it.

I asked and no-one said they would buy a Tesla again. Distrust because they felt suckered by FSD was a reason, but several also just said Elon’s behavior was a big negative.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-09 23:21:23+00:00
> But at least by retiring they will start getting paid (I think) via 401k, Social Security or pensions.

Gov't 401k is called TSP, and like regular 401k plans it's not accessible (without penalties) until you're 59 1/2. Social Security also has a minimum age (62) before you can start receiving benefits. ATC can access FERS earlier than other federal employees because of their mandatory retirement age (56) which is below MRA under FERS (57 for most people now). They can get their pension at age 50 with 20 years of ATC time or any age with 25 years of ATC time (some other services also get this benefit and count towards that).

And an important point there, because ATCs retire before 59 1/2 and before 62 by necessity (56 is the oldest they can be), they won't get their TSP or Social Security for several more years.

Pensions are being held up for people who are retiring right now as the people processing retirements are also furloughed (I don't think all, but it's impacted friends of mine with delays to processing). Retirements are already slow to process and occasionally people end up waiting 6+ months to get their pension (they should get back pay in that case, but it's still months without income).
by throw0101a | 2025-11-09 23:21:41+00:00
> I'm a heavy gamer. I like lots of strategy games.

Politicians should have to play several hundred hours of 4X games (Civ 4/5/6/7, Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron) before they're allowed to run for office.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

If they can't beat some of these videos at the highest difficulty settings they should not be allowed to break things IRL.
by seanwilson | 2025-11-09 23:21:42+00:00
A tool for creating custom Tailwind-style color palettes for web and UI design that pass WCAG contrast requirements:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

The interface is optimized to let you quickly explore and tweak multiple tints/shades at once so you can customize all colors exactly how you want e.g. try dragging vertically through the saturation curve in one motion to edit all the tints/shades at once, or shift whole curves horizontally by dragging between the dots on a curve.

It uses the HSLuv color space, where (unlike say HSL) the WCAG contrast stays the same when you change the hue and saturation sliders. This makes it much easier to explore accessible colors choices as you know only changes to the lightness slider will impact the contrast. You can also switch from the WCAG2 contrast checker to using APCA, which is meant to correct for inaccuracies in WCAG2, such as it being too forgiving for dark mode color combos.

Note the mobile version is more of a preview and the desktop version has more features.

I probably need to add something like a tutorial as there's a lot going on, but I've added more hints and tooltips recently. Open to feedback on what's initially confusing and what changes might help!
by simonw | 2025-11-09 23:22:26+00:00
Yeah, that makes sense.

Honestly at this point you could build a full periodic table of AI hesitancy/resistance/criticism and have it be a useful document!

I'm staunchly opposed to the whole "model welfare" thing, deeply skeptical of most of the AGI conversation and continue to think that outsourcing any critical decisions to an AI system is a catastrophically bad idea in a world where we haven't solved prompt injection (or indeed made much progress towards solving it) - so carve me out a bunch of squares for those.

Maybe there's room here for one of those political compass style quizzes.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-09 23:22:58+00:00
> More to the point, they won't know what to look for, or might decide on something inappropriate (or even just unexpectedly hard to use).

Why does it matter. They try something out, it doesn't work, they try something different out next time. A child learning on it's own always works like that. They try random things out and see what works.

My parents gave an RPi and I had root, because I needed to install it myself. I broke it a few times, but why is that a bad thing? It's not like I could destroy anything important.
by twodave | 2025-11-09 23:23:14+00:00
I disagree for most crimes at least. Most crimes are either going to be some form of illegal dishonesty (theft, fraud, etc.) or violence. I would hope the company I work for is able to screen individuals for such behaviors before hiring them. “Willing to lie/cheat/steal for gain” in particular is such a huge red flag that any company who hired someone and ignored such red flags could reasonably be sued for negligence whenever that employee inevitably commits another similar crime. There are examples of this in the news literally today.
by sponaugle | 2025-11-09 23:24:22+00:00
A 68030 based computer - https://github.com/jeffsponaugle/roscoe

It has been a super fun experience so far - I'm using CPLDs instead of an FPGA which makes the logic a bit more era period. I have a working system now with the math coprocessor, SRAM, DRAM, and other device support.

I am just about ready to get the VGA card I designed produced so I can work on debugging the design.

While this is fundamentally a system that ss less powerful than my apple watch, it is just fun to work on. Going back to very first principles debugging, building tools, and of course getting to exercise an old logic analyzer!
by lrvick | 2025-11-09 23:24:26+00:00
I had this lifestyle when I worked from an office, and at home, in both individual contributor and leadership engineering roles. I also travel quite a bit.

Just set expectations with others and it works just fine either way. Only thing in the way is cognitive dissonance for most people.

In my case people absolutely forgive not being able to reach me every second of every day because I am a productivity machine due to being able to actually focus.
by oezi | 2025-11-09 23:24:55+00:00
I am currently working on a fork of Alt+Tab replacement Switcheroo to show all available windows in a tabular format. Current windows in the center. Apps with many windows on the left sorted by process name (e.g. Excel or PDF windows). Pinned windows such as open emails on the right. https://github.com/coezbek/switcheroo
by silisili | 2025-11-09 23:25:31+00:00
It's hard not to zoom out and look at the world as a game at times. If you do that, and go back way more than 10 years, it feels like every country is playing terribly.

Countries used to routinely go on domination quests for land and resources. They used to go find exotic lands and claim them as their own. They used to harvest resources and enslave the losers.

Now, not so much. If you watched it zoomed out as a game, you'd assume the powerful players all got bored with it and gave up.

Of course, realizing it's not a game but real people, you realize the world collectively is probably in a better place. But it also means powerful countries giving up power, which is weird to see happen.
by zulban | 2025-11-09 23:26:26+00:00
I'm adding an overly elaborate item and levelling up system to the adventure mode of my chess variant AI sandbox: www.chesscraft.ca

Items have a prefix and suffix system similar to Diablo 2 so I'm having nostalgic fun building it. None of this gives any advantage to the chess games you play. It's just a pointless cycle of gems, items, and experience to get more gems, items and experience. Seems fun so far.
by aatd86 | 2025-11-09 23:26:30+00:00
So on an online forum, do you really think that you can force people to choose a profile picture that represents them accurately? Or is it a lie and it is a bannable offense? How do you enforce the truth?

> Asking for information and someone declining that information has nothing to do with lying by omission.

You may want to look up the definition of 'lying by omission'. Within the context of asking for profile information, it might well be. My point is that you need to be more measured. Even lying can be for protection at times. Sometimes it is not. It is not as straightforward as you make it seem.

An interesting thesis if you have time: https://theses.hal.science/tel-02170022/file/Icard-2019-Thes...
Show HN: Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer
by efromvt | 2025-11-09 23:26:48+00:00
SQL-first analytic IDE; similar to Redash/Metabase. Aims to solve reuse/composability at the code layer with modified syntax, Trilogy, that includes a semantic layer directly in the SQL-like language.

Status: experiment; feedback and contributions welcome!

Built to solve 3 problems I have with SQL as my primary iterative analysis language:

1. Adjusting queries/analysis takes a lot of boilerplate. Solve with queries that operate on the semantic layer, not tables. Also eliminates the need for CTEs.

2. Sources of truth change all the time. I hate updating reports to reference new tables. Also solved by the semantic layer, since data bindings can be updated without changing dashboards or queries.

3. Getting from SQL to visuals is too much work in many tools; make it as streamlined as possible. Surprise - solve with the semantic layer; add in more expressive typing to get better defaults;also use it to wire up automatic drilldowns/cross filtering.

Supports: bigquery, duckdb, snowflake.

Links [1] https://trilogydata.dev/ (language info)

Git links: [Frontend] https://github.com/trilogy-data/trilogy-studio-core [Language] https://github.com/trilogy-data/pytrilogy

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44106070 (significant UX/feature reworks since) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42231325
by majormajor | 2025-11-09 23:27:02+00:00
I already get multiple cold emails a month selling me some sort of software product or service that I don't need and that wouldn't work for me.

If a bunch of additional people start going and building MVPs, what keeps that from becoming even more of a flood, like what you get if you post a job application on LinkedIn nowdays?

I think sales is likely to get harder, not easier, soon.

And to your earlier post, I think the big question is: can individuals get more done on their own now building new things because of less organizational issues compared to incumbents, or because of less product complexity and scope? Is the organization the problem, or is the complexity of stuff built to try to service a thousand different previous sales deals and customers?
by Aachen | 2025-11-09 23:27:48+00:00
Please also cite where he allegedly said that it's a doomsday event before you put up the strawman and debunk it with "look even this guy changed his mind"

Edit: The only concrete thing I've found in trying to seek through your tedious video links for 10 minutes (idk why I'm spending my time on this but here we are) is the claim that, instead of living healthily, we'd be "constantly dealing with the human and financial crises at a historic scale". That's in line with the text you've quoted: it'll not be the end of all humans but it's a serious consequence for all of us (but not evenly distributed, even if it affects everyone to some degree)
by ben_w | 2025-11-09 23:28:01+00:00
I hear you, but GenAI also gets the opposite fork from people who hate it: It's good result that used GenAI at any point => your prompting and curation and editing is worthless and deserves no credit; it's not good result => that proves AI isn't real intelligence.

As with Marmite, I find it very strange to be surrounded by a very big loud cultural divide where I am firmly in the middle.

Unlike Marmite, I wonder if I'm only in "the middle" because of the extremities on both ends…
by vejeta | 2025-11-09 23:28:14+00:00
Not exactly what you ask, but for example, for unix textual games, Debian (the GNU/Linux distribution I know best) provides the package called bsdgames: https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/bsdgames where many games like this are provided https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/bsdgames

The thing is that list is not constant and is changing overtime, depending on the usage, demand, and effort to maintain them from the debian maintainers.

I am wondering if such a collection, no matter the license, and no matter the status of the codebase is maintained somewhere (for specific unix/bsd/linux text based games)
by adrian_b | 2025-11-09 23:28:37+00:00
This is a matter of opinion. I consider Dijkstra's arguments quite strong.

Some decades ago, I have disassembled and studied Microsoft's Fortran compiler.

The fact that Fortran uses 1-based indexing caused a lot of unnecessary complications in that compiler. After seeing firsthand the problems caused by 1-based indexing I have no doubt that Dijkstra was right. Yes, the compiler could handle perfectly fine 1-based indexing, but there really was no reason for all that effort, which should have been better spent on features providing a serious advantage for the programmer.

The use of 1-based indexing and/or closed intervals, instead of consistently using only 0-based indexing and half-open intervals, are likely to be the cause of most off-by-one errors.
by krackers | 2025-11-09 23:29:15+00:00
> is just annotation and labeling kind of work

Given that this is presumably all data used for RLHF'ing, I wonder how much of this is responsible for things like LLM "sycophancy" or the issue of "hallucinations". What if the reward-hacking entity isn't the LLM/optimizer but the human annotator in the loop.
by foobarchu | 2025-11-09 23:29:48+00:00
That's debatable. If I let my friends impersonate me to use my zoo membership for free entrance, then were clearly defrauding the zoo (obviously that's not high stakes, but I dare someone to argue it's not). If one of a set of identical twins is better at math and takes all the math tests for their sibling, that's pretty clearly academic fraud, again pretty low stakes but fraud is still fraud

Key note because in case someone decides to go bad faith here, I think the gp comments use case of fraud is a positive thing (if a bit dangerous). Redefining a term just because you don't like the pejorative implications is not a positive thing, though.
by chrivers | 2025-11-09 23:29:50+00:00
Raptor - a new (Free software) way to build things like:

* Disk images

* Liveboot isos

* Container images (docker/podman)

Many build products are supported, with more on the way:

https://chrivers.github.io/raptor/builders/index.html#compat...

It uses a syntax that is inspired by Docker, but significantly enhanced.

Take a look at:

* The project: https://github.com/chrivers/raptor/

* The book: https://chrivers.github.io/raptor/
by rdtsc | 2025-11-09 23:29:52+00:00
10 years or so ago the controllers got hit with a hiring scandal https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...

Wonder how that changed the perception and the desire to become an ATC. Did it have a measurable impact, with folks avoiding that line of work. Or, it hasn't really made much of a difference? The idea is if many are retiring but we're graduating or hiring just as many or more, that's not that bad.
by 8organicbits | 2025-11-09 23:30:17+00:00
I'm working on some writing on my blog [1], trying to improve my writing and explore style.

My current series of post follows the surge of interest in UUIDs with the uptake of UUIDv7. I've seen some subtle misunderstandings spreading, so I dive into nuance. This has spun off some mini projects, like an RFC compliant UUIDv8 implementation based on XKCD 221 [2] (humor intended). I think I have two more in the blog series.

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/uuid-oops/

[2] https://github.com/robalexdev/uuidv8-xkcd-221
by pessimizer | 2025-11-09 23:31:00+00:00
I think this is the last stand they can take that will (under normal circumstances) be completely forgotten before midterms. Democrats need to drag it out as long as possible and look for populist Republican allies.

They need to start campaigning for midterms now, and to be generous towards those populist worker-friendly Republicans and especially those that are threats to Republican incumbents. That means campaigning on something other than illegal immigration and trans. It also means that shutdown misery will be part of what they'll be campaigning on, so everything Trump is doing now will backfire. He cut his base out from under him with H1Bs, Israel and Epstein, so as terrible as they are, Democrats have a chance to get to popularity parity or even turn the tables right now.

Trump also gasses when he starts losing control of the situation. He lost at the end of his last term because everything was going wrong; he looked tired, and like he had lost interest in the job completely. A dragged-out shutdown will weigh him down and bore him like covid did. He doesn't even care about ACA tax credits.
by jeena | 2025-11-09 23:31:05+00:00
I bought the Samsung SmartTag 2 to track the children, keys, etc. and connect them to HomeAssistant. Turns out Samsung actively blocks me from me being able to connect HA to their solution and the guy who was able to keep circumventing it and created a HA component which worked, gave up on it and archived the git repo.

Now only I who has a Samsung phone is able to use it, my wife and the children can't make them ring when they're looking for them and can't see on the map where the things might be.