MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2025-11-03 21:02:13+00:00
As a very long time C programmer: don't try to be smart. The more you rely on fancy preprocessor tricks the harder it will be to understand and debug your code.

The C preprocessor gives you enough power to shoot yourself in the foot, repeatedly, with anything from small caliber handguns to nuclear weapons. You may well end up losing control over your project entirely.

One nice example: glusterfs. There are a couple of macros in use there that, when they work are magic. But when they don't you lose days, sometimes weeks. This is not the way to solve coding problems, you only appear smart as long as you remember what you've built. Your other self, three years down the road is going to want to kill the present one, and the same goes for your colleagues a few weeks from now.
by umbula | 2025-11-03 21:02:26+00:00
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by michael1999 | 2025-11-03 21:02:44+00:00
No. This is not a new problem. Measles, mumps, whooping cough, etc. are all problems that were basically eradicated in the mainstream population. But the Mennonites, Hutterites, etc. are having outbreaks. If you have stacks of dry tinder, you're gonna have a fire. The only question is when.

The "immigrants" that spread this one were Ontarians visiting New Brunswick and bringing it back to Ontario. Do you want vaccine passports at provincial borders now?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/measles-outbreak-trac...

Here's a case where a Mennonite kid who brought it home after catching it from an unvaccinated 9-year-old from the UK while on a trip to Disneyland (see p 251). Are you blaming that on "immigrants"? TBH - your comment presents as nothing more than lazy racism.

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/migration/phac-a...

The Anabaptist communities are well aware that they are at special risk when the whole community opts-out. What's changed is they are starting to travel and build a truly international community. Once you combine international travel and a vaccine-hesitant community, you're going to have trouble. Immigrants have nothing to do with this.

https://www.mennoniteusa.org/measles/

2002 - https://www.immunize.ca/sites/default/files/resources/74e.pd... 2015 - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/immunization-rates-so... 2025 - https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/measles-outbreak-trac...
Show HN: Visualizer Eden - 3JS audio visualizer
by ieuanking | 2025-11-03 21:02:45+00:00
Built this with 3JS so I could visualize my own music for live sets - I added a demo song so you can play around with it.

Little clunky right now - some issues with the time selection/pausing and playing.

But trying to make it run in Ableton so I can control with a midi controller like my APC40, so I can change the visualizer live time during my live sets on stage.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-11-03 21:02:59+00:00
> For local elections, I have to frantically google on the day my ballot is due to figure out how to vote for.

what on earth??

practically every metropolitan area and tons of smaller communities have multiple news sources that publish "voting guides" in addition to voter pamphlets that go out before elections which detail candidates positions, ballot initiatives etc.

barring that you can also just... do your "frantic googling" before the election. it's not a waste of your time to put a little of it toward understanding the political climate of your area and maybe once in a while forming an opinion instead of whatever constitutes a "moderate" position during the largest rightward shift of the overton window in decades.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-03 21:03:42+00:00
>Oh, though, if it were an in-person demonstration sign in public, the kind that's for an audience of broadcast TV news cameras, I suppose maybe self-censoring the word might be more likely to get it on the air? Or at least that could be the thinking?

But by doing that it turns it from a demonstration into much more of a performance. Someone who's actually angry doesn't say "eff", he says "fuck". I would question how really angry or frustrated someone is if they still bother to self-censor while they rant. Think back to Samuel L. Jackson's censored line in Snakes on a Plane and try to imagine someone actually saying that. You'd think "well, okay. He's not that fed up about it if he's still joking around."
by bitwize | 2025-11-03 21:04:02+00:00
I'm also reminded of the bit from Neuromancer where Case removes and then reinserts the Dixie Flatline "ROM construct" cartridge, resetting Dixie to the moment just before his death and causing him to forget their previous (albeit brief) conversation. Dixie can't meaningfully grow as a person. All that he ever will be is burned onto that cart; anything he learns since then is stored in temporary memory. Perhaps this is part of the reason why he wishes to be erased forever, ending his suffering.
by ivape | 2025-11-03 21:04:11+00:00
Not every kid born in the last five years will know Google as a verb as we do. They’ll be adults in 15 years, which is a paltry investment timeline for the type of Black Swan event we’re talking about, which AI is.

I don’t disagree with you entirely, but I’d argue the second level apps are harder to chase because they get so specialized.

Death of Google (as everyone knows Google today) is a tricky one. It seems impossible to believe at this exact moment. It can sit next to IBM in the long run, no shame at all, amazing run.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-03 21:04:34+00:00
That’s like claiming that “as an advanced search engine, knowing that Google promoted sponsored products and reranks its algorithms accordingly sometimes means it’s worthless”

Regardless of if that’s true, it’s clearly still a huge business opportunity. And you point out Facebook ads are a scam yet they bring in $164B/year and growing. Regardless of value judgement, there’s clearly a lot of money to chase.
by kulahan | 2025-11-03 21:04:44+00:00
In what world is it not a zero-sum game? You don't think that the human population has affected others? You are not aware of what keystone species are, like how wolves are so singularly important, they can literally force geographic changes to a region, which obviously has a massive effect on other species?

I think you might be a bit out of your depth here. You really seem to not know much about evolution.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-03 21:05:32+00:00
One of the actual responses was "Htmx isn’t designed to work with JSON APIs at all. It needs HTML back from the server."

It sounds like they are referring to hx-swap and not arbitrary javascript callbacks though, and in that case, I don't see why calling JSON.parse() inside htmx (when the content-type is json) is that big of a deal.
by postflopclarity | 2025-11-03 21:05:37+00:00
> not counting the 2015 murder of SC Senator Pinckney

fair enough. not sure how I skipped over that one.

> So trend impressions are very subject to frames of reference & familiarity with history.

I don't disagree with this. but nonetheless in my lifetime (< 30 years) I have mostly lived through only the "relative peace of recent decades" so the increase in political violence over the last few years is very scary.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-03 21:06:03+00:00
"Highly contested" but not by genocide scholars or international law bodies.

Every genocide is contested by the people doing it and its apologists. Let's imagine someone commented on the holocaust wikipedia page:

> I assume good faith of everyone who has worked on this Holocaust "genocide" article. At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Nazi Germany committed genocide, although that claim is highly contested.

This would rightly trigger a lot of outrage. Yes, it's also accurate to say that it's "highly contested". Honestly this really highlights issues with striving for "neutrality", when there is bias in the people defining what neutrality is.
by balazscsomor | 2025-11-03 21:06:05+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-11-03 21:06:36+00:00
Where are you located? E.g. the average wait times for CT scans and MRIs in Canada is weeks: https://canjhealthtechnol.ca/index.php/cjht/article/download.... UK NHS is 6-18 weeks. Here in suburban Maryland I’ve never had to wait more than a day or two for anything.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 21:06:59+00:00
The article misses three critical points:

1. Conflates consciousness with "thinking" - LLMs may process information effectively without being conscious, but the article treats these as the same phenomenon

2. Ignores the cerebellum cases - We have documented cases of humans leading normal lives with little to no brain beyond a cerebellum, which contradicts simplistic "brain = deep learning" equivalences

3. Most damning: When you apply these exact same techniques to anything OTHER than language, the results are mediocre. Video generation still can't figure out basic physics (glass bouncing instead of shattering, ropes defying physics). Computer vision has been worked on since the 1960s - far longer than LLMs - yet it's nowhere near achieving what looks like "understanding."

The timeline is the smoking gun: vision had decades of head start, yet LLMs leapfrogged it in just a few years. That strongly suggests the "magic" is in language itself (which has been proven to be fractal and already heavily compressed/structured by human cognition) - NOT in the neural architecture. We're not teaching machines to think.

We're teaching them to navigate a pre-existing map that was already built.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-03 21:06:59+00:00
Yes, but... even if you know that it is APL inspired, that does not change the fact that this is not how you want to write C.

The C pre-processor is probably one of the most abused pieces of the C toolchain and I've had to clean up more than once after a 'clever' programmer left the premises and their colleagues had no idea of what they were looking at. Just don't. Keep it simple, and comment your intent, not what the code does. Use descriptive names. Avoid globally scoped data and functions with side effects.

That doesn't look smart and it won't make you look smart, but it is smart because the stuff you build will be reliable, predictable and maintainable.
by teleskope_ds | 2025-11-03 21:07:24+00:00
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by rickydroll | 2025-11-03 21:07:52+00:00
I definitely agree. Trump is a crazy old man shaking his fist at the clouds with extreme prejudice. Unfortunately, he is backed by people whose philosophy is to shrink government to the point where it could be drowned in a bathtub.

I agree with what another poster said about bringing in some French people to teach us the importance of general strikes and shutting everything down to make our point.

Failing that, I think blue states should offer a federal tax escrow service to pay for what they've been promised but denied.
by tbhaxor | 2025-11-03 21:07:55+00:00
I created Licentra, an open-source tool, to handle software (SaaS) subscriptions in a way that benefits both business owners and their customers.

SaaS owners design the billing that completely shut users out when they stop paying, which I've always found annoying because it undermines trust.

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by bArray | 2025-11-03 21:07:56+00:00
I mostly agree with Jimmy's statement [1] which is far more neutral than this article. I have concerns, though. It is difficult to find good sources without a large political bent.

If we look at the following article "Casualties of the Gaza war" [2]. If you read link (108) you see a Guardian article "Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war" [3], which says:

> Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians.

See how the language in the article itself walks back the strong claim. The argument made is that all persons not in the Israeli military intelligence database are automatically civilians. If there was a similar Israeli database of confirmed non-combatants, and this only contained 17% of the people who have died, would this mean that the remaining 83% were military? Of course not. And this all assumes that these databases are actually accurate.

Then we must ask ourselves, how are the number of deaths in total calculated? How do we know that each death is attributed to Israeli actions? How many deaths are due to direct action and secondary action (i.e. illness, dehydration, starvation)?

When we look back at any conflict in history, we see the inflated deaths of civilians, the deflated number of military persons killed - it's propaganda. How much of what we currently see is propaganda?

I think we need to think extremely carefully and consider all possibilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide#Statement_f...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20250821135825/https://www.thegu...
by goatlover | 2025-11-03 21:08:05+00:00
Reading the quote in context seems to indicate Dijkstra meant something else. His article is a complaint about overselling computers as doing or augmenting the thinking for humans. It's funny how the quote was lifted out of an article and became famous on it's own.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867...
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-03 21:08:37+00:00
Thanks.

One nice side effect of having done this is having a small rolodex of other people who are like that.

So, like, if I had a good use case for Elixir and wanted a pal to hack on that thing with, I know a handful of people who I'd call, none of whom have ever used Elixir before but I know would be excited to learn.
by legitster | 2025-11-03 21:08:46+00:00
> As many of you will know, I have been leading an NPOV working group and studying the issue of neutrality in Wikipedia across many articles and topic areas including “Zionism”. While this article is a particularly egregious example, there is much more work to do. It should go without saying that I am writing this in my personal capacity, and I am not speaking on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation or anyone else!

I've definitely noticed this a lot more lately on Wikipedia where an article will be really quick to label something as "pseudohistory" or "pseudoscience" or likewise in the summary. Sometimes it makes sense, but there are quite a few articles where the difference between "crackpot" theories and acceptable "fringe" areas of study are fairly subjective. Or that someone feels the need to stand up a separate page about "denialism" of a topic where it was largely unnecessary.

And even for actual pseudoscience topics like Flat Earth Theory - the page has so much good information on it. But the summary on the page is terrible and does not even reflect a good summary of the page's own content! Mostly because people feel an unnecessary need to shoehorn in assessments of the myth status of the theory.
by exabrial | 2025-11-03 21:08:50+00:00
> Simple home-made driver for the SX1276 and SX1262 LoRa chip

Beware of what nailed the Meshtastic people: These chips don't have temperature dependent crystal oscillators. Transmitting more than a few milliseconds causing a temperature rise, throwing the clock off, causing transmission warpage, causing timing errors, causing transmission failures.
by varsis | 2025-11-03 21:08:54+00:00
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by tptacek | 2025-11-03 21:09:41+00:00
Re the more abstract approach to transformations, fair point, and I feel like that describes Axler well too. I'd soften my argument to just that being Strang's approach to bringing in the subject.

I agree orthogonality is important. But Strang doesn't get to `a⟂b=0` by means of `cosθ`. You're halfway into the book before he's even defined the Euclidean norm. He derives orthogonality mostly algebraicaly; the only angle he talks about is π/2.