MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vdnkh | 2025-11-07 15:26:05+00:00
> But for some reason, democratic socialists refuse to engage with the book earnestly.

You're not as informed as you think you are, probably because you're not an NYC resident and have no actual stake in this election. We successfully passed 3 ballot proposals that reduce regulation and review time for building certain housing units. Mamdani voted for all 3 also. More deregulation is needed and expected under Mamdani - not to the tune of enriching developers, but for building actual affordable units.

Side rant: A lot of people on HN talk about building more supply. And we do - if you've lived in NYC for an appreciable amount of time, you'll know how different LIC, Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Downtown BK, and Gowanus (among others) look like after 10 years of intense development. Despite receiving tax breaks (421a), most units are not affordable. They're also incredibly cheaply built and generally unpleasant places to live, chock full of excessive amenities that drive up the rent. There's a balance here between freeing developers and allowing them to run buckwild with "affordable" 5k/mo studios. It's easy to quote Paul Krugman on HN about supply side housing and rent regulation but there's more to the story here than just "build more".
by ericzundel | 2025-11-07 15:26:13+00:00
I'm going through this decision right now. I agree, you are building a product with an unproven market and lots of time to grow organically, maybe you do want to start small and scrappy. Build something you can easily throw away and start over with. Build something that gets you to market as quickly as possible so you can pivot.

OTOH, If you are trying to sell the idea to investors and large companies that you are a serious player and have a plan and know-how to grow and scale your service quickly, maybe you do want to show that you have the design chops and ability to actually scale your product. Take a look and ask yourself, "Does my business model only work if it scales up dramatically, far beyond the capacity of a single database?" If the answer is "yes", start with a scalable architecture to save the 100+ person-years and endless gnashing of teeth it will take to untangle your monolith (been there.)
by electroly | 2025-11-07 15:26:26+00:00
It's like saying gas at the pump costs you $3/gallon but building a storage facility costs $100/gallon. Yes, they're both $/gallon, but these aren't the same measurements--one is for a gallon of dispensed gasoline and one is for constructing storage with the physical capacity of a gallon. One is the price of gas and the other is the price of storage. You can store and then dispense many, many gallons over the lifetime of that one-gallon storage.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-07 15:26:44+00:00
There is an entire network of "get rick quick just by my pdf" intagramers, who peddle a pdf teaching you how to find a chinese product, make a website, and then drop ship that chinese product for 3x the cost to unsuspecting buyers.

Probably 75% of products you see on instagram ads, you can go find on temu for their actual cost, usually at 80% discount.
by Aunche | 2025-11-07 15:27:07+00:00
You're overestimating the number of people who trust scientific concensus. More people believe in creationism than evolution by purely natural selection. What's your alternative to treating both sides with equal weight without making the unscientific side feel disenfranchised?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/647594/majority-credits-god-hum...
by davedx | 2025-11-07 15:27:08+00:00
> Preventing someone from getting value out of their work is theft

No, it's not. You (or random large media corps) do not get to unilaterally redefine words of the English language like that.

Pass whatever laws you want about it, enforce them however you feel is appropriate, but don't try to redefine language itself to push your agenda.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/theft
by tpm | 2025-11-07 15:27:13+00:00
> You see this type of usage elsewhere, for instance "state" schools[1]

Schools operated at the city/county level are called public schools in the US, no? So in the same vein these stores should either be called public or city stores.

Note that the Guardian article instead talks about "city-run" and "municipal-run" grocery stores. And the reason I'm mentioning this is that "city-run" sounds harmless while "state run" is exactly what you mention: "Coops get nowhere near the pushback (if any) that state run businesses (ie. "communism") get from Americans."
by fsckboy | 2025-11-07 15:27:13+00:00
>what is meant by chaotic media environment?

it means that the almanac does not bring in enough profit to make it worthwhile to continue or to find a buyer for the company, and the owners are also aware that many of the same profit related issues are in the public discourse as affecting (formerly-)print media in the now-digital market, so the owners conclude that their financial are part of the general trend in the industry rather than to specific problems with the business formula they have used for over 200 years.
by ferguess_k | 2025-11-07 15:27:22+00:00
Can you turn off AI in Jetbrain products? I turned off AI (I think it's Co-pilot) in VSCode.

AI uses tab which completely destroyed my coding experience. Now I only use AI on webpages for discussion, but not for implementation. It is the implementation that really tests my mind and I don't want AI do that for me, to make me dumber. Ideas are always easier to digest and form, but implementations are much harder.
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-07 15:27:22+00:00
> I am not sure what you’re trying to tell us

Gotcha. So you are ignorant of why people are commenting.

The OP was talking about seeing 50% scam crypto ads. Our responses were to provide a comparison. Not to say that it doesn't happen, but that 50% scam crypto ads are not the norm for everyone. It's helpful to have that comparison when providing anecdotal information.

No one is saying those ads don't happen, only that it's probably not normal.

Next time, instead of being unnecessarily antagonistic, admit to being ignorant and ask.
by dspillett | 2025-11-07 15:27:46+00:00
Amazon has the advantage over some company I don't have experience with, of that I know returns are pretty easy and generally not questioned at all (at least for me, long-standing account in the UK, with infrequent returns, it might vary for new accounts, those who return more than they keep, or those in countries with worse consumer rights at the legally enforced level).

My two most recent examples: a couple of rolls of 3D printer filament that looked nothing like as advertised (bad sales images there I think, rather than a comingled-with-a-cheap-scammy-alternative issue) which was taken back unquestioned for same-day full refund despite one of them being opened, and a couple of years ago a replacement drive for my media RAID array that, while the right drive and not, as far as I could tell, counterfeit, certainly wasn't new/unused which is what I ordered, which again was taken back with no quibble or cost (other than my time of course).

There are problems dealing with Amazon sellers, but those can mostly be avoided with care and a healthy dose of cynicism (to avoid ordering crap in the first place). I'd never buy some things from there though: safety equipment, for instance.
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-11-07 15:27:48+00:00
I've been seeing legitimate pornography on Facebook while scrolling through reels. I thought it was "just my algorithm", but co-workers brought it up during lunch. Quite a few of them are seeing the exact same ads.

I've reported them a few times, but surprisingly (or maybe not), Facebook responds back with "we didn't find anything that goes against our community standards".

These ads usually link to a website where you can download an application (a chat app, or some AI generation). Of course, they're not in the play store. It's frustrating when I think of the times I was flat out rejected for my legitimate ads related to programming, or a job board, or real estate, but they approve PORNOGRAPHY. What in the world do those posters of pornography know that I don't? How could they get that approved? There has to be some cleverness going on.
by dmix | 2025-11-07 15:28:09+00:00
I just assume all government software is poorly written by huge consulting companies, like the famous FBI one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File

> a 318-page report [...] said the SAIC software was incomplete, inadequate and so poorly designed that it would be essentially unusable under real-world conditions. Even in rudimentary tests, the system did not comply with basic requirements

I figured the reason Palantir was so successful was because it was a SV software company instead of a defense contractor dabbling in IT or specialized government consultancy.
by _fat_santa | 2025-11-07 15:28:11+00:00
The problem with bailing out these companies is that it just kicks the can down the road. When GM and Chrysler got bailed out in 08, GM returned to profitability in 2010 and Chrysler returned to profitability in 2011.

The difference here is these AI companies have never been profitable and there is no telling if a bailout will even get them to profitability, it just gives them another few years until they need another cash infusion.

Currently my prediction is that OpenAI's IPO will likely blow up in much the same way that WeWork's IPO blew up and that will likely be the start of the great AI bubble burst.
by jpalawaga | 2025-11-07 15:28:40+00:00
I think it’s easy, too easy, to say something like “all mainstream media is biased and untrustworthy.”

The problem is, who do you trust instead? Twitter? Like that’s not biased. Actually I think it’s much worse. Not only is the editor of Twitter very biased, but it’s filled with bots and there is nobody providing any reliable fact checking. It’s very easy for motivated parties to portray a fringe idea as mainstream. It’s also easy to shout the truth out of the room. What one person tweet is just as valuable as another. Dunking on people (ratioing, etc) becomes your signal.

TikTok? Maybe less easy to influence, but now the editor is an adversarial nation state.

YouTube? If you thought msm wanted engagement, YouTube is much worse.

Substack? Respectfully, is full of people who are not trustworthy enough to be platformed anywhere meaningful, and for the few that are independent for legitimate reasons, don’t have the resources to do consistent factual reporting in anything more than a very narrow domain.

Long story short, maybe msm is imperfect, but imo it’s the best we got. And I’d rather have some source of truth that is at least attempting to fact check and get the truth right, even if biased, because when you don’t have any truth compass—when all information is equal regardless of how far from reality it is—it becomes very easy to be manipulated.

Now who would want that?
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-07 15:28:42+00:00
No, I mean language. Even if you are alone with yourself in a solo project, you need language to structure your ideas. Communication is when you need to transfer these structures in place (you and a team) and/or in time (you and yourself in different points in time). But it's first and foremost a problem of language, of giving structure to reality.
by iluxonchik | 2025-11-07 15:28:46+00:00
If you think that Bitcoin is harder to seize than gold, you are probably wrong. At least according to the data.

In the history of Bitcoin's existence, much much more Bitcoin has been seized than Gold. You don't need to compromise cryptographic primitives to seize Bitcoin.

In the past 10 years, ≈$90B in Bitcoin has been siezed vs ≈$3B for gold (using today's market prices)
by bashmelek | 2025-11-07 15:28:48+00:00
Even when I was still in school and looking for internships I could feel this. In CS we learned more about compilers and operating systems, but companies wanted web developers, so IT and IS had a big edge. I did game programming on my own time, so companies would recommend interning with a game company. It was frustrating.

I’ve been working in web development for many years now. It’s okay. I still don’t know what I want to be in the future. I still don’t feel like a “real dev”. But still do some side learning. I’m happy it worked for the writer, and I hope it does for you too.
by vel0city | 2025-11-07 15:29:16+00:00
I'm using an M4 Macbook right now and I constantly have issues with USB devices (especially hubs) failing to work properly after sleep. Its very unpredictable too, I can't seem to make it happen.

Its actually kind of funny, because while people talk about how unreliable Bluetooth is, moving a few of those devices from USB to Bluetooth (like my trackball mouse) made the situation far more reliable. Sleep has been that bad.
by cesarb | 2025-11-07 15:29:34+00:00
> it will just crash the program, but will not cause an expensive and urgent CVE ticket.

Unfortunately, security hysteria also treats any crash as "an expensive and urgent CVE ticket". See, for instance, ReDoS, where auditors will force you to update a dependency even if there's no way for a user to provide the vulnerable input (for instance, it's fixed in the configuration file).
by yoursitee | 2025-11-07 15:29:37+00:00
we're building YourSitee, a platform that helps people share all their links in one place (linktree alternative), but we keep debating how simple it should be. some users love full customization, others just want a clean, one-click setup

so i'm curious: when you create your personal page or portfolio, do you prefer minimalism or control? where's the sweet spot between simplicity and flexibility?

and if you could write a review/feedback about our service, we would appreciate it

thx
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-11-07 15:29:38+00:00
> Jewish refugees were welcome in Istanbul, but the current receptivity is so much colder.

We are all receptive of Jewish people. We are not receptive of our country, who cut off food benefits, cut people's flights, cut people's medical insurance subsidies, funding and enabling a state where of the native born population, only Jewish people get to vote and have autonomy, and other non-Jewish ethnicities live under the control of a state they have no rights in purely because of their ethnicity. No one supports that part
by mmaunder | 2025-11-07 15:29:46+00:00
“ What's next for me? Something small. Something new. Something I don't fully understand yet. Something uncomfortable. I could have moved to something else inside Meta. But I needed to know what's out there. I needed to do something small again. I couldn't live with the counterfactual regret of never trying something outside Meta.”

Shades of Siddhartha. Back to the forest.
by cjonas | 2025-11-07 15:30:00+00:00
No... these are "paid promoted" videos that show up in your feed[0]. They are different from ads that roll when a video is playing. Example screenshot I found on reddit [1].

- video from screenshot[2]

- coe from video[3]

I'm guessing I get served these because I typically interact with them because I'm curious to read the code they link to see how obvious the scam is. It's also fun to reverse face search the actors and find them on fiverr.

[0](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/141808?hl=en) [1](https://imgur.com/ckAxmuk) [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsGCvw9AFM) [3](https://pastecode.io/s/pcp4ao4q)
by happymellon | 2025-11-07 15:30:35+00:00
You can dismiss without a rating.

But I do submit 2 star with the feedback window being the reason because it comes up after every call.

Well that and the chat is terrible, and the calls aren't better than anyone else, and if you do the small group calls it does a chat call rather than a meeting so it is silent to the recipient.

I mean, who the fuck thought *that* was a good idea? You normally have to call and put "call here" in the chat to make people aware.
by seeingnature | 2025-11-07 15:30:38+00:00
Your comment is so naive. Most products out there have a terms and conditions that equate to 'the company can change the product at any time and you're always free to stop using it', while giving their salespeople little to no idea about future progress because that would limit sales. Even if you didn't "maybe forgot to ask", there isn't anyone to respond with the truth.

If you purchase a product that doesn't have ads and then they introduce ads - that is a huge change in the value proposition of the product.
by lukan | 2025-11-07 15:30:41+00:00
A bit offtopic, but if it would have been playable in the browser I would have tested it, but I don't want to download and install a (for me) random exe.

(and I don't see how performance could be an issue unless a major screw up, but like others have said, use a profiler. Sounds like memory leak from what was shared here)
by iluxonchik | 2025-11-07 15:31:04+00:00
If you think that Bitcoin is harder to seize than gold, you are probably wrong. At least according to the data. In the history of Bitcoin's existence, much much more Bitcoin has been seized than Gold. You don't need to compromise cryptographic primitives to seize Bitcoin.

In the past 10 years, ≈$90B in Bitcoin has been seized vs ≈$3B for gold (using today's market prices)
by john01dav | 2025-11-07 15:31:50+00:00
Many elite engineering programs in the United States (I don't know if this is what you mean by "our") are elite solely due to social status (rankings need to publish rankings that feel right, or they're ignored, and they accept bribes to rank specific programs) and research output, with little to do with quality of pedagogy. Instead, pedagogy is generally poor because the elite researchers usually view teaching as a chore and many don't have any real skill in it either.
by L_226 | 2025-11-07 15:31:52+00:00
Is Troy rotating out old breaches? Because I have 2 email addresses that were definitely part of leaks (I got notified by the parties that were hacked), and one of them used to show up as compromised on the site, but no longer. The other one was part of the Qantas frequent flyer leak (I got an email from Qantas about it), but this address doesn't show up as part of that leak.
by joshmn | 2025-11-07 15:31:57+00:00
That was one of the lessons I took away was that not every customer is a good customer. While I did have really accessible customer service, I didn’t want to be everything to anyone, even if it left money on the table. The quirks and features of the site where enough for the typical Reddit user (at the time) to discern, more so than those who were accustomed to official services, sports or otherwise.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-07 15:32:01+00:00
> These are the only types of meaning that matters

They may or may not be the only types of meaning that matter. Regardless, the fleeting nature of those moments ultimately make them meaningless and most people are not happy about it.

> and its fleeting nature is why we need to appreciate and savor them.

We can appreciate those moments. We can savor those moments. But we can't be happy about the fleeting nature of it. For most people, the fleeting nature of those moments are a source of sadness. It's why smart people invented religion or other means of rationalization to bring permanence and meaning to the impermanent and meaningless.

Smart people tend to realize this and hence are sadden by it. Some accept it. Some use religion/rationalization as a form of escapism. But the truth is the truth.
by et1337 | 2025-11-07 15:32:16+00:00
At $WORK we have taken interface segregation to the extreme. For example, say we have a data access object that gets consumed by many different packages. Rather than defining a single interface and mock on the producer side that can be reused by all these packages, each package defines its own minimal interface containing only the methods it needs, and a corresponding mock. This makes it extremely difficult to trace the execution flow, and turns a simple function signature change into an hour-long ordeal of regenerating mocks.
by dahart | 2025-11-07 15:32:40+00:00
That video is excellent, thanks for sharing. BTW it does back up the point @subb was making, that the experience of color is a perceptual thing; “light isn’t what makes something a color. As we’ve seen, colors are ultimately a psychological phenomenon.” Which is true.

FWIW I suspect the issue in this thread is that color models and color spaces are not necessarily modeling perception. The word color is overloaded and has multiple meanings. Just because color experience is perception, that doesn’t mean “color” is always referring to perception nor that phrases like “spectral color” or “color model” are referring to perceived experience, and they’re often not.

A color model is any numeric representation that captures the information needed to recreate a color, and it can be a physical or spectral color model, a stimulus model (cone response), or a perception model. Being able to recreate a color does not imply that the information is perceptual. Spectral “color” measurements are just pure physics, and spectral color models are just modeling pure physics.

By and large, the color matching experiments that lead to our CIE standards mostly measured average cone response for an average observer, and were never intended nor designed to capture effects like adaptation and surround. This is why many of the 3D color spaces we have that trace lineage to those experiments, especially the “perceptual” ones, are primarily modeling cone response and not perception. CIE color spaces do involve some kind of very averaged out perception of color, in a static unchanging, well adapted, no surround kind of way, which is for example why the “red” color matching function goes negative. [1]

There are people doing stuff like adaptation and spatial tone mapping in video games and research, and they’re using more tools than just 3D color spaces for that. That’s the kind of discussion I was hoping @subb would get into, i.e., what specific cases require going beyond the CIE models.

[1] https://yuhaozhu.com/blog/cmf.html
by pjmlp | 2025-11-07 15:33:15+00:00
I have come to the conclusion years ago that it is easier to work on a consulting agency, where everyone is "jack of all trades master of none", than trying to apply to regular HR positions.

In agencies, a bit like startups, everyone "knows" everything up to the point of winning projects.

While everyone knows here how famous some of those projects end up being, but if you can take this ongoing pressure to "know" everything, it is much easier to switch between roles and programming stacks, than the usual HR looking for X on the CV and nothing else.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-07 15:33:18+00:00
> Also related, imagine you wanted a HN QR code with 'Hacker News' written in the middle. This would work as a box in the middle but would be hard to read. So you can make a line across the middle rather than a box in the middle. This will break the QR code but not if you rotate the QR code 90 degrees first.

The outside (the parts between the alignment marks) have metadata, separated from the data by a dotted line. If your line touches the metadata that's bad. But as long as you stay within the data block any shape should work as long as you are not modifying more pixels than the chosen level of error correction can handle
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-07 15:33:18+00:00
Feels weird to lump all media together.

Ironically this is something I see in media a lot and dislike. Things like "80% of people think country going in the wrong direction".

Well while you're polling them, ask which direction is correct. Because 40% wanting less Trump bullshit and 40% wanting more Trump bullshit is totally different than letting your average reader assume 80% agree with their own assesment of what's wrong.

I want people to have strongly negative views on Fox News and the even worse variants of that kind of propaganda.