MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themafia | 2025-11-09 01:00:03+00:00
Are you so enamored with a statue that you missed the overwhelming gang violence? Stop being simple and looking for opportunities to push your narrow politics into a conversation.

Chicago is simply _not_ in good shape. Ask anyone who lives there. Ask them if these problems started with or predated Trump? Ask them if they think their problems has one wit to do with national politics.
by caminante | 2025-11-09 01:00:09+00:00
> I think a root problem is that many companies are bad at hiring, and many of those get confidently bad at it.

Precisely. And who are we kidding? I know a lot of people that have performance objectives to grow $ or cut $. I don't know anyone who has a comp clawback for making bad hires.

Spending too long (vague) consulting for one company doesn't measure your competencies or value you bring to the team. I bet they just needed a reason to knock you out and shortlist the hiring manager's preferred candidate who they don't know personally, but know via close friend referral.
by agiacalone | 2025-11-09 01:01:04+00:00
> I would be immensely skeptical of this unless he was talking about something much more narrow, like how there's a fraction of people who have really unfortunate genetics and can only improve their blood lipids with medication.

I am one of those unfortunate genetic people, sadly, and have had high cholesterol numbers since my early 20s. Most of my older grandparents passed from heart disease. Now in my 40s, have a decent diet, and my numbers are < 100 for LDL. Current (and previous) PCPs have indicated to me that diet will have little effect for me, and that I will likely be on statins for most of my life. Experiments with stopping the statins have shot my LDL numbers through the roof.

The good news is that it's a pretty low dose with decently high effect.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-09 01:01:17+00:00
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/copy_constructor....

> For non-union class types, the constructor performs full member-wise copy of the object's direct base subobjects and member subobjects, in their initialization order, using direct initialization. For each non-static data member of a reference type, the copy constructor binds the reference to the same object or function to which the source reference is bound.

Would you call this deep or shallow? I think most would call it a shallow copy.
by fastball | 2025-11-09 01:01:29+00:00
This sub-thread isn't really about what is legal (or illegal) in Europe or any other jurisdiction. It is about what is right.

When it comes to legality and enforcement though, it does seem highly inconsistent to enforce something like this, which isn't actually discrimination on its own (rather it could lead to discrimination), when at the same time orgs are very obviously participating in actual discrimination ("we'd like this role to be filled by {insert group here}") in Europe and elsewhere.
by nowittyusername | 2025-11-09 01:01:46+00:00
I was using stable diffusion 1.5 when it came out and had my first LSD trip shortly after that, prolly like a few months. Anyways, what struck me was how similar the closed eyes visuals were on LSD compared to the generated images from stable diffusion when i was using it on low CFG and also some of my poorly trained textual inversions at the time. Watching the "training process" of the textual inversion in the early epochs made a lot of such images before the TI finally completed. Makes me think if the processes are somehow related, like if in human brains the reason we don't have experience seeing these "hallucinations" is because we have many robust subsystems that filter out the noise and make the mental model cohere on a stable world view.
by btilly | 2025-11-09 01:01:53+00:00
If my health is my responsibility, then shouldn't the treatment that I receive be to the standard that I request?

In 2015, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26551272/ showed that medicating all of the way to normal works out better than medicating down to stage 1 hypertension, then insisting on diet and exercise. And yet my request in 2018 to be medicated down to normal blood pressure was refused, because the professional guidelines followed by the experts was to only medicate down to stage 1 hypertension, then get the patient to engage with diet and exercise. The expert standard of care was literally the opposite of what research had shown that they should do.

I agree that experts should not be accountable for my laziness. But can you agree that experts should be accountable for following standard of care guidelines that are in direct conflict with medical research? And (as in my case) refusing the patient's request to be treated in a way that is consistent with what medical research says is optimal?
by tptacek | 2025-11-09 01:02:48+00:00
I don't care. She had never once lived in the district before declaring her candidacy for it, and only somewhat recently moved into the district --- after starting her campaign for it. I don't care who her partner is.

Think about the message that campaign sends: nobody, in one of the most progressive districts in the country, is as qualified to faithfully represent its progressive ideals as Kat Abu, who has neither ever lived there nor ever held elective office. To me, that's a campaign of contempt for the district.

I've seen the videos of her getting shoved at Broadview. Her immigration politics seem in line with the district. My response to that is: stand on Noyes and Sheridan and throw a rock. You'll hit someone who has identical immigration politics to her.

IL CD9 gets to decide, not me (I'm in CD7). But I do have an opinion!
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-09 01:02:59+00:00
Websites absolutely spontaneously send letters, or advertising flyers.

The company could be from china or Russia with little interest in diplomatic pandering for such a small incident.

Providing a user a service in exchange for payment is also aimed at a specific person in a specific country.

heck, if no laws can be applied across borders, it could be a website selling the service of fake extortion letters.

And don't mix up "difficult to enforce" with "legal". Constantly changing domains and hiding who is behind the service are efforts to avoid being caught by very real and enforced laws.
by simonw | 2025-11-09 01:03:53+00:00
They announced it on Twitter yesterday: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1986861734619947305 and https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1986861736041853368

> GPT-5-Codex-Mini allows roughly 4x more usage than GPT-5-Codex, at a slight capability tradeoff due to the more compact model.

> Available in the CLI and IDE extension when you sign in with ChatGPT, with API support coming soon.
by mft_ | 2025-11-09 01:04:39+00:00
I’ve played with this a lot in the past for similar hobby reasons, and you’re right that getting hold of the flight routing data is prohibitively difficult: it’s seen as data with value, meaning it’s guarded and, if you go to official providers, expensive. Scraping is possible if you find a website that exposes the routing data you need in a format close to accessible (very rare) but it’s also complex, as the availability of each route can (and does) change at random times, multiple times per year.
by xphos | 2025-11-09 01:05:08+00:00
Remember the ATCs never recovered from the staffing shortage when Reagan fired them for striking on working conditions. The conditions have not improved the hiring has never caught up. Rates of alcholalism from work induced stress is extremely high and they have been showing up for work while not getting paid.

Anyone who calls all public sector people lazy or entitled, remember ATCs are government workers do work extremely hard and most log extensive overtime. These are government workers and they are American Heros through and through
by mediumdeviation | 2025-11-09 01:05:43+00:00
It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi screens like modern Macbook displays, probably they did not exist back then. The site mentions Google Font has a hosted version of it now and you can look at how it is meant to be rendered https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Averia+Libre
by Hizonner | 2025-11-09 01:05:45+00:00
> It's a matter of UK law and, I'd bet, many countries, that they have the sovereign right to legislate about matters in and outside their borders.

Basically all countries take that position legally. But there are norms and customs about how often you exercise it (as well as practical questions of power).

Extraterritorial regulation of Web sites is unfortunately in the process of being established as normal, but it's a bad norm. Not as bad as drone striking anybody who lights a cigarette in Paris (which could be made legal), but a bad norm nonetheless.
by kelthuzad | 2025-11-09 01:05:52+00:00
>If it doesn’t revolve around her, why should revolve it around you?

I know reading comprehension is hard, but you will get better at it, if you put in some effort: "It is irrelevant what system I am personally using, since it's about the principle and not about personal preferences" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859640

>Also “shill”? I don’t work for Apple. I am not Tim Cook. I have no reason to shill for anyone. That’s just an ad hominem.

Your profile states "Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple", so you have an evident conflict of interest, that's just an objective fact worth mentioning; especially when one is dedicated to making bad faith arguments in defense of anti-competitive business practices regurgitating bogus narratives[1].

[1] https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook
by neom | 2025-11-09 01:07:03+00:00
I've not had that experience with Salvia but I've read about what I presume you're talking about and I don't believe they are the same. 2cb feels like boundary dissolution, I'm still very much me but my edges have melted into the...couch, pillow, sheet. I think become them is way too strong of a term when compared to Salvia, I think Salvia is more towards ego replacement but 2cb is more somatic boundary changes. The 2cb effect is extremely pleasant.
by kingstnap | 2025-11-09 01:07:06+00:00
In my experience everyone openly talks about how benchmarks are bullshit. On Twitter or on their podcast interviews or whatever everyone knows benchmarks are a problem. It's never praise.

Of course they tout benchmark numbers because let's be real, if they didn't tout benchmarks your not going to bother using it. For example if someone posts some random model on huggingface with no benchmarks you just won't proceed.

Humans have a really strong prior to not waste time. We always always evaluate things hierarchally. We always start with some prior and then whatever is easiest goes next even if its a shitty unreliable measure.

For example, for Gemini 3 everyone will start with a prior that it is going to be good. Then they will look at benchmarks, and only then will they move to harder evaluations on their own use cases.
by dmitrygr | 2025-11-09 01:07:07+00:00
It is so rare and nice to see such clear defense of free speech, with full admission that it is precisely the unpopular speech that needs it. The ACLU used to do this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...), but no longer does (https://nypost.com/2022/01/31/ex-aclu-head-ira-glasser-slams...). I am glad to see someone still does

Thank you
by btilly | 2025-11-09 01:07:36+00:00
Your anecdotal report that diet and exercise did not have a huge effect on your cholesterol does not discount the mountain of evidence that we have showing that diet and exercise has a huge effect on health and lifespan.

These effects were first demonstrated in 1953. And has been confirmed over and over again since.

So don't discount the value of diet and exercise just because losing weight didn't fix your cholesterol.
by mothballed | 2025-11-09 01:07:58+00:00
The fact that liberty died far before Trump was part of what he used in his cards to gain power. He sold a tale of draining the swamp, and tailoring back the federal of government. Of course, he's basically expanded the more dystopian power, and pumped in more swamp water, but part of the reason why his campaign is successful was that indeed liberty has been lacking in the USA for a long time and to some of the people that actually cared, he whispered the right lies.
by gpm | 2025-11-09 01:08:37+00:00
> A some point, if you do not have any relationship with the UK, go as far as blocking its residents but they still want you to abide by their law

Ofcom appears to agree that geoblocking UK residents would satisfy the requirements of this law. They also however appear to believe the OPs clients are simply lying about actually geoblocking UK residents - and Ofcom appear's to be the quasi-judicial entity which decides (at least as a first step).

I can't imagine OP's response to Ofcom that "we aren't doing that, but we won't explain what we were doing when we created the domain you think we created to do that" was particularly convincing.

> aren't they just declaring war on the entire world?

No, that would only happen if they started attempting to enforce the law by going into "the entire world" by force. Just declaring that some foreign entity broke your laws and owes you money and maybe that you'll arrest them if they come to your country isn't an act of war. Acts of war look like drone striking alleged drug smugglers in some other countries territorial waters without that other countries permission.
by rainsford | 2025-11-09 01:08:43+00:00
What's fascinating to me about this shift is that I've yet to see a clearly identified root cause. Some people on the left identify cost of living and things like that, but we're generally richer and better off than ever and still having fewer kids. In fact higher standards of living seem generally negatively correlated with number of children. Some people on the right blame birth control or women not knowing their place or whatever, but it seems odd that propagation of a species would rely on essentially forced participation of prospective parents.

Given those things, I wonder if there is an actual problem here or we just don't have the experience to see how it resolves. It's hard to see the side effects of increased standards and living or more choice and equality for women as inherently bad or something we need to fight against, especially when there seem to be few effective solutions that are compatible with a free and modern society.
by komali2 | 2025-11-09 01:09:25+00:00
Wasn't the main issue with this that fuel is paid for by cargo ship customers (the container owners), not the shipping company? So the shipping company doesn't want to spend a ton of capital to get a 10% discount to all their customers, and there was no way for thousands of random customers to exert pressure on the shipping company to do so. Basically the economics didn't make sense.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-09 01:09:25+00:00
>I don't know why anybody ever assumed that professions would ideally be 50-50 by gender

It’s not that. We know that in most professions there’s no reason to assume that they should have a preferred gender. This means that even if pool of candidates is 99:1, that 1 candidate must have equal opportunities for employment. And that means no pre-screening through targeted ads.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-09 01:09:41+00:00
Interestingly, Ireland seems to be one of the few countries whose constitution explicitly limits the reach of its laws:

> It is the firm will of the Irish nation, in harmony and friendship, to unite all the people who share the territory of the island of Ireland, in all the diversity of their identities and traditions, recognising that a united Ireland shall be brought about only by peaceful means with the consent of a majority of the people, democratically expressed, in both jurisdictions in the island. Until then, the laws enacted by the Parliament established by this Constitution shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws enacted by the Parliament that existed immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution.

(Which means the territory of what is now called the Republic of Ireland, that is, explicitly excluding any claim to Northern Ireland in order to comply with the Good Friday agreement)
by LexiMax | 2025-11-09 01:09:53+00:00
It's so interesting that you automatically became defensive about left vs right wing bias of this site.

The fact of the matter is that depending on the thread, it can swing in either direction. And that's the problem - you end up with unaccountable moderation via populism, which is the worst kind of moderation.

Hacker News is not a functional social space. It can't be, by design, because it has an easily-gamed and incredibly punishing form of user moderation. The incentives for abuse are abundant, and the potential downsides are negligible because the moderators who are supposed to be a check on these abuses are demonstrably hands-off.

> "Couching statements in soft language" is a significant part of keeping a polarizing discussion civil in my view, so that makes sense to me.

A Modest Proposal isn't civil - it's satire. It describes in flowery language how the poor could sell their children to the rich for use as food. The dehumanization is supposed to horrify and anger you, and the satire is contained in the limitations of pretenses of civility.
by slg | 2025-11-09 01:11:13+00:00
There is a reason I started my first comment the way I did. For Trump's entire time in politics, there have been people trying to communicate the type of person he is and the plans he has for the US and there have been people like you who have said we're overreacting.

It doesn't matter what actually happens. I could probably list dozens of examples, from the overturning of Roe v Wade to the violence of ICE, of times we have been told that our predictions were detached from reality until they eventually became reality. At this point if you can't recognize that the lines of acceptable political behavior have constantly been pushed under Trump's control, then I doubt you will ever admit it.
by crazydoggers | 2025-11-09 01:11:24+00:00
> I doubt Ofcom are motivated by "concern for individuals well beings in the midst of a mental health crisis"

Do you have evidence for that? Because when I search I do see them doing investigations concerned with abuse of people including mentioning coercive and controlling behaviors

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...

> If all of them followed a policy like UK's Ofcom, the internet would be gone in no time and world-wide user-to-user communication would become impossible for legal reasons.

Sounds like a slippery slope fallacy to me. Again, not necessarily supporting the policy, but when such arguments are used against it, it’s not convincing.
by bargainbin | 2025-11-09 01:11:29+00:00
Anyone note where to get this full blood panel done in the UK? I’ve got issues with high blood pressure and swelling in the lower extremities. Blood tests and ECG showed nothing.

Both granddads died in their 50s from heart attacks. I’m convinced I have an issue with my circulation but the blood tests I had done doesn’t seem to cover everything stated here.
by Codazoa | 2025-11-09 01:11:41+00:00
That could be down to the fact that homeopathic treatments have largely been legal. The studies have been done and showed that a lot of it doesn't work so it isn't offered in traditional medicine. There were a lot of promising studies into the effects of LSD and Psilocybin before they were made illegal. Now with the loosening of restrictions we are able to get more research into the potential uses of psychedelics and there have been a lot of positive results. The research into MDMA for PTSD is really exciting, as well as Ketamine, LSD, and Psilocybin for different forms of depression for example.

They will never be a solution for every problem like some people evangelize but where they work, they give people with these conditions another avenue to try when other "legal" drugs have failed.
by stack_framer | 2025-11-09 01:12:45+00:00
Missing a promotion is extremely challenging.

I started working toward a promotion to staff engineer at the beginning of 2023. By the end of the year, my manager said I was ready, but he had been asked to step back into an IC role, so he couldn't start my promotion paperwork.

My new manager felt I wasn't ready for promotion, but she claimed I wouldn't have to start over. It felt like starting over though, because it took another year to convince her. During that time I consulted regularly with her and my director of engineering—seeking and taking every possible opportunity to demonstrate that I could operate at the staff level.

My manager then spent six months writing an 18-page promotion packet, highlighting my accomplishments, and outlining why I deserved the promotion. The packet was approved by my director of engineering, so they both felt I was ready. It was then presented to an anonymous promotion committee, which ultimately makes the promotion decision.

Despite two and a half years of effort, the committee rejected my promotion. They even provided a list of 12 bullet points where they felt I was coming up short.

I gave up trying for the promotion, for my mental health. Sheesh.
by Uehreka | 2025-11-09 01:12:51+00:00
> Regardless of your thoughts on immigration and ICE, if a cop tries to pull you over, and instead you decide to speed off and barricade yourself inside a daycare, you’re probably going to get arrested.

I view ICE as wholly illegitimate. If I were on the jury in this case, I would vote to acquit Ms. Galeano no matter what the prosecution said, and many people out there who have not said this online would do the same.

There’s no need to be so fatalistic.
by caminante | 2025-11-09 01:15:01+00:00
Respectfully, didn't you just reject such reasoning 2 days ago with a valid counterargument by you? [0] Except this time, you didn't provide any rationale.

Scratching someone out for being an alleged job hopper on the surface is pre-mature optimization for hiring talent. What is your concern that you can't mitigate? e.g., call their referrals, backload their comp, etc.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830434
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 01:15:50+00:00
My X13G3 does not have such a setting in EFI setup but the fancy power management setups that come with most (if not all DEs) does not seem to play well with it, it seems to wait for some processes to finish before sleeping even though those processes have already been suspended and will not finish, so it never goes fully to sleep even though the laptop's lid LED says it is suspended. I never investigated this issue since I was just seeing how KDE and XFCE had progressed since my last try of them. Have not had any issues with it using old fashioned suspend setups with just a WM and no DE.

Other things; it really did not play well with the 5.x LTS kernel of slackware 15, poor performance all around but switching to slackware current with its 6.x kernel solved that. KDE also used the GPU which decreased battery life but was still good, certainly better than the Windows that it came with which had abysmal battery life. I think the DEs also played with the CPU governor, at least with KDE, seem to recall that it reved up to full speed long before it needed to but don't quite remember.

Overall, love the X13, especially the 16:10 screen ratio, but I think the G1s had a 16:9?

Edit: With the DEs my X13 also goes into a half awake state when you plug it in when suspended. Generally not an issue but it will stay in that half suspended state until the lid is opened and then reclosed which means if you just unplug it and toss it into your bag, it is still in that half suspended state and will eat the battery. Another thing which I never investigated because I don't use DEs.