MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tialaramex | 2025-12-05 14:30:02+00:00
I think conventionally the verb is "to steelman" with the intended contrast being to a strawman, an intentionally weak argument by analogy to how straw isn't strong but steel is. I understood what you meant by "strongman" but I think that "steelman" is better here.

There is indeed a good reason regulators aren't just obliged to institute all recommendations - that would be a lot of new rules. The only accident report I remember reading with zero recommendations was a MAIB (Maritime accidents) report here which concluded that a crew member of a fishing boat has died at sea after their vessel capsized because they both they and the skipper (who survived) were on heroin, the rationale for not recommending anything was that heroin is already illegal, operating a fishing boat while on heroin is already illegal, and it's also obviously a bad idea, so, there's nothing to recommend. "Don't do that".

Cost is rarely very persuasive to me, because it's very difficult to correctly estimate what it will actually cost to change something once you decided it's required - based on current reality where it is not. Mass production and clever cost reductions resulting from the normal commercial pressures tend to drive down costs when we require something but not before (and often not after we cease to require it either)

It's also difficult to anticipate all benefits from a good change without trying it. Lobbyists against a regulation will often try hard not to imagine benefits after all they're fighting not to be regulated. But once it's in action, it may be obvious to everyone that this was just a better idea and absurd it wasn't always the case.

Remember when you were allowed to smoke cigarettes on aeroplanes? That seems crazy, but at the time it was normal and I'm sure carriers insisted that not being allowed to do this would cost them money - and perhaps for a short while it did.
by ferguess_k | 2025-12-05 14:30:05+00:00
People have to be interested in their jobs to care about it. Corporations know that people rarely get to do whatever they want, so they assume (correctly) that most workers do not care, so they move on to care about processes, workflows, which makes even less workers care about their jobs.

For individual workers, the best thing is to work @ something you love && get good pay. Like a compiler engineer, a kernel engineer, an AI engineer, etc.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-05 14:30:19+00:00
No you’re being pedantic. Compare Amazon Prime Video subscription content to Sony’s subscription content.

Is Amazon creating new content and giving other streaming services first dibs on it? Are they putting their back catalog content on other streaming services en masse?

Is Sony spending billions of dollars to produce content to go on their own streaming service like Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Peacock, HBO Max (for now)?

Heck is HBO releasing theatrical movies and giving first run streaming rights to other streaming services?

You’re not making serious arguments if you don’t see the difference between every other streaming service and what Sony is doing or seeing what companies with both streaming services and movie studios like Warner Bros, Disney, and Paramount are doing.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-12-05 14:30:56+00:00
> Most problems people report stem from a refusal to learn the underlying structure and models.

It's very easy to fall into the trap of believing this: git's implementation fits together neatly enough that it feels like the best you could do. Like, yes it's complex, but surely that's just intrinsic complexity of the problem? (Also, I think we all sometimes feel like someone with a different view must just not know as much as us.)

But if you have used other version control systems (I'm thinking particularly Mercurial here) you realise that actually some of that complexity is just totally made up by git.
by phartenfeller | 2025-12-05 14:30:59+00:00
It is probably not just a Netflix issue. But it is also quite a philosophical question as to who is to blame. The consumers who watch and pay, or the ones who fund the mediocrity.

It is definitely sad to see Netflix turn from their early phase, where they valued quality over quantity, and since have reversed that.

I just want to see more great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time.
by throaway123213 | 2025-12-05 14:31:46+00:00
Notice that your comment doesn't deal at all with the topic at hand or anything I said. Like, what's your point? The USA isn't any better to live in than a country like Nepal? Cause that is just...so ignorant and insulting to people that can't get out of those countries...its really hard to describe how insensitive you are being by saying something like that.

Im fully aware of the 3rd world conditions in the USA. Its why I choose to remain in Canada (which has its own 3rd world conditions if you look for them), and have voted for the far left party each election ive been able to vote in!
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-05 14:32:11+00:00
Good news is more Warner Bros content, bad news is, only 2 seasons worth per IP. Netflix drives me up a wall with how often they cancel interesting shows, reminds me of SyFy, you find something interesting and then they just cancel it. Sometimes people take a break from watching a show, but they always come back. At least end it cleanly damn it. It's why I don't bother with Netflix original shows unless they've got like four seasons.
by g-b-r | 2025-12-05 14:32:22+00:00
> For the reference implementation that will not actually be deployed as an official solution so far, yes

...or the IT-Wallet which is currently deployed, and who's developers stubbornly refuse to remove the requirement.

> In fact, I don't think you technically need to be signed into a Google account for Play Verification to pass

And you're wrong, Play Integrity checks that your phone's account really downloaded the app from the Play Store, and so requires a (signed-in) account.

> many phones do make completing the Google sign-in a requirement

I'm not aware of any such phone, although they sure make it seem like it's a requirement

> Although you could also go with an Apple account

With a cheap, and very open and privacy-respecting, iPhone
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-05 14:32:42+00:00
They'll refuse warranty if the difference between thread is too much between front and back as that causes wear of the clutches. Just like you should have the same tire on the same axle.

Or if the tires are not the right size, especially in staggered setups.

If you come from a car that is FWD with AWD capabilities, it doesn't matter as much.

But BMW (at least the ones with the engine mounted longitudinally) which have xDrive are permanent AWD.
by glitchc | 2025-12-05 14:32:43+00:00
It's really an education problem. The public schooling system in US has stopped failing kids. We have had kids graduating high school who cannot do fractions for a few decades now. Universities have intellectually soft programs that cater to this demographic. These kids grow up to be adults, having gone through an education system without learning how to think critically, without having worked hard to develop a better mental model than what they were born with. Social media gives them a voice and a position. Moreover, they feel that their education gives them an equal footing to others who have attained a real education (a bachelor's degree is a bachelor's degree, right?). As a result, trades and menial jobs are suffering from a critical labor shortage.

This cohort is quite large (~30% of the population). They are easily swayed since they never learnt to think for themselves.
Show HN: Real-time compliance dashboard (IBAN, Swift, OFAC, 6 blockchains)
by ADCXLAB | 2025-12-05 14:33:15+00:00
A real-time compliance dashboard for banking + blockchain data. Includes IBAN/SWIFT validation, OFAC screening, payment corridor checks, and on-chain validation across 6 blockchain networks.

Would appreciate feedback from anyone working with financial data, risk systems, or regulated infra.
by gwbas1c | 2025-12-05 14:33:32+00:00
Videos about Jesus aimed towards children. She never showed them to me. I'm assuming they're either Bible stories, "Jesus loves you and died for your sins" kind of things, or otherwise typical American evangelizing towards children.

We aren't a religious household, but we do occasionally expose our children to religious things because we live in the US and it's a big part of American culture and my extended family. For example, when my oldest was into ancient Egypt, I watched the 10 Commands (Charton Heston Movie) with her, then read Exodus with her. I also explained that this is not literal history but that some people believe it is, and that she shouldn't discuss religion at school.

She saw the videos shortly after we read Exodus, so I wonder if she was searching for for clips from the 10 Commandments or things about Exodus.
by alams | 2025-12-05 14:33:35+00:00
Netflix’s content selection has always felt weaker than traditional studios. Sometimes it even looks like filmmakers take Netflix’s massive budgets but don’t give them the same level of serious, polished work they deliver elsewhere.

So, if Netflix ends up managing Warner Bros or HBO, it’s hard not to worry. HBO and Warner Bros are known for premium, high-caliber content, and Netflix’s track record suggests the overall quality could easily take a hit.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-05 14:33:36+00:00
The problem is all the crap kills the prestige. HBO remains what HBO is because they don't put out 600 other shows besides Game of Thrones that are utter garbage.

Netflix is the Walmart of entertainment at this point. Yeah you can find basically anything there- and VERY occasionally, you'll find something damn good- but you're wading through a sea of mediocre shit to do so.

And like, personally I unsubbed forever ago because I'm not interested in subsidizing all the garbage to get the occasional Frankenstein. Meanwhile I've maintained an HBO subscription for that entire time.

Obviously I am but one data point here and I know my opinion is in the minority, but yeah. I don't pay attention much to Netflix.
by vips7L | 2025-12-05 14:33:39+00:00
Those two aren’t natively compiled. They can be, but it’s not the norm, and it’s hard/time consuming.

Java’s type system isn’t as strong as it could be either. It is still lacking proper compile time support for null and there’s been no investment in making error handling better. I’ve written it every day for 10 years and the type system definitely doesn’t help you write correct programs.
by walletdrainer | 2025-12-05 14:33:43+00:00
Snorting adderall does not typically cause brain damage, and the list of substances rich white kids (I’m guessing here) would typically upgrade to is pretty much just cocaine.

Typical cocaine use also does not result in meaningful harm.

The financial industry chugs along just fine despite approximately everybody using these drugs.

I’ve used cocaine regularly at social events since I was a teenager. The vast majority of people I know, whether they’re 25 or 65, will not say no when offered. In my whole life I’ve known two people from my circles to have developed an actual coke problem, and I know a lot of people.

At this point coke is just the cigarettes of the upper classes, but likely less harmful.
by csomar | 2025-12-05 14:33:51+00:00
While this might have been/is true for China, that country is speed running when it comes to automation and "green" in general. I wouldn't be surprised if they are on par in environmental concerns to the EU in a few years. People forget but the country only stopped taking garbage in 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_waste_import_ban

> The playing field simply isn't level

It never was. European and Western countries had a significant head start. There should be a "right for CO2 emission" per capita offered for countries that didn't industrialize and are way behind. And exported CO2 shouldn't count.
by elcritch | 2025-12-05 14:33:52+00:00
The compiler can still enforce checks, such as with nil checks for pointers.

In my opinion it’s overall cleaner if the compiler handles enforcing it when it can. Something like “ensure variable is initialized” can just be another compiler check.

Combined with an effects system that lets you control which errors to enforce checking on or not. Nim has a nice `forbids: IOException` that lets users do that.
by gglitch | 2025-12-05 14:34:47+00:00
You're in for a treat. The quote, in case you haven't looked it up yet, is "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious." The canonical work is The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
by bluGill | 2025-12-05 14:35:45+00:00
What is a reasonable price? Hybrid seeds at 3x the price of traditional seeds could well be a great value because at the end of the year you get that much better of a crop.

Of course you have to pay for the seeds up front and get the reward at the end of the year. Investments are like that, a lot of poor farmers could spend 4x their current annual income on modern technology (seeds, fertilizer, tractors) and at the end of the year have more money left over than they had the previous year - but of course they need to get to harvest to get all the money. Worse there will be bad years where they lose money - it works out on average over 20 years but the individual years can be a killer if you start in the wrong year.
by millerm | 2025-12-05 14:36:02+00:00
I'm in the camp of "If your target is Go, then prototype in Go." I don't bother with the intermediate step. Go is already so very close to being a dynamic language that I don't get the point. Just write "bad" Go to prototype quickly. Skip the error checks. Panic for fun. Write long functions. Make giant structs. Don't worry about memory.

You mentioned running someone else's python is painful, and it most certainly is. No other language have I dealt with more of the "Well, it works on my machine" excuse, after being passed done the world's worst code from a "data scientist". Then the "well, use virtual environments"... Oh, you didn't provide that. What version are you using? What libraries did you manually copy into your project? I abhor the language/runtime. Since most of us don't work in isolation, I find the intermediate prototype in another language for Go a waste of time and resources.

Now... I do support an argument for "we prototype in X because we do not run X in production". That means that prototype code will not be part of our releases. Let someone iterate quickly in a sandbox, but they can't copy/paste that stuff into the main product.

Just a stupid rant. Sorry. I'm unemployed. Career is dead. So, I shouldn't even hit "reply"... but I will.
by ontouchstart | 2025-12-05 14:36:04+00:00
How do you prevent AI agent to scrape your data the same way you scrape HF?

For example, I can “cache” your page as a shared link in this comment

https://www.openpaperdigest.com/paper/paperdebugger-a-plugin...

Or in a gist somewhere:

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/38d80cab66794014d17e193...

Then I can have a bot to scrape these pages with context as training data.

This can be out of hands for you in inference cost. Then you need VC money to sustain your website. Wish you the best luck to get there.
by ADCXLAB | 2025-12-05 14:36:21+00:00
Thanks for checking this out — happy to answer any questions.

This dashboard is built to be fully stateless and deterministic for banking + blockchain validation. AI hints are optional and non-blocking.

If anyone here works with IBAN/SWIFT data, OFAC rules, AML pipelines, or on-chain analytics, I’d really appreciate feedback on what matters most in real workflows.
by IcePic | 2025-12-05 14:36:34+00:00
If you are writing HelloWorld-webscale daemon from scratch, then counting +lines is probably "ok", but considering some existing large project like Linux (for instance), you would be well off keeping people who has managed to retain functionality while removing lines. Old projects have a tendency to get a lot of old cruft in which tends to stick (chestertons fence and all that) but someone clever enough to rewrite and remove old useless code is a net win for you, so I agree that if you fire some percentage on most-committed-lines you either had a very recent project from scratch or the measurement is stupid.
by chasd00 | 2025-12-05 14:36:45+00:00
> And the reason standardization won't happen: the feudal lords of each of those branches of the hierarchy strongly believe their way is the only way that can meet their business/tech needs

I work in implementation of large enterprise wide systems. When I do projects that span departments/divisions/agencies what you’re describing is the biggest hurdle. The project always starts with “we’re bringing everyone together into one solution” but as time goes on it starts to diverge. It’s so easy to end up with a project per department vs one project for all. You have to have someone with the authority to force/threaten/manipulate all the players onto the same page. It’s so easy to give in to one groups specific requirements and then you’ve opened Pandora’s box as word spreads. It’s very hard to pull off.

I think public sector (governments) is the hardest because the agencies seem to sincerely hate each other. I’ve been in requirements gathering meetings where people refused to join because someone they didn’t like was on the invite. At least in a for profit company the common denominator for everyone is keeping their job.
by deelayman | 2025-12-05 14:37:04+00:00
The author suggested that if senior leadership had a development background then tech debt would be easier to get support and resources to deal with. Between the lines I'm reading that the risks are just inherently understood by someone with a tech background.

Then the author suggests that senior leadership without a tech background will usually need to be persuaded by a value proposition - the numbers.

I'm seeing these as the same thing - the risks of specific tech debt just needs to be understood before it gets addressed. Senior leaders with a development background might be better predictors of the relationship between tech debt and its impact on company finances. Non technical leaders just require an extra translation step to understand the relationship.

Then considering that some level of risk is tolerated, and some risk is consciously taken on to achieve things, both might ultimately choose to ignore some tech debt while addressing other bits.
by rmunn | 2025-12-05 14:37:23+00:00
I don't know of any studies yet comparing the two approaches, but https://www.tauday.com/a-tau-testimonial is the story of one student who finally "got it" when using tau instead of pi. I strongly suspect she's not unique.

If there's more data available, I don't yet know where to find it.

P.S. Yes, angles are first presented in degrees in most contexts, and understanding sines and cosines is easier when given the degree units you're familiar with. But radians do need to get introduced at some point during trig, and it's exactly the study of radians which should be done using tau (the equivalent of 360°) rather than pi (180°). Because a right angle, 90°, is a quarter of the way around the circle, and that's tau/4. A 45° angle is tau/8, one-eighth of the way around the circle. There's no need to memorize formulas when you do it this way, it's just straight-up intuitive (whereas 45° = pi/4 is not intuitive the same way).
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-05 14:37:36+00:00
Tomato, potato. If you refuse to address the issues people have, or even just wrongly feel they have, and the only party that even pretends to care is your spooky boogieman right wing party, and you're so sincerely worried about the implications of that, then pull your head out of your ass and meet people where they are.
by SunlightEdge | 2025-12-05 14:37:36+00:00
Its subjective, and full of nuance, but I do feel that Netflix has its own style that is very different to HBO's style. Consider the witcher vs game of thrones or black mirror pre-netflix vs post netflix. Its not black and white though, as Netflix animations (Castlevania, Pluto etc.) are amazing TV, but personally I would much rather watch a HBO show than a Netflix one - especially if its a fantasy/science fiction one where Netflix's style isn't one I find appealing.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-05 14:38:00+00:00
> In pure gambling, everyone gets the same expectation of gains.

I think this is an overly narrow definition of gambling that excludes too much. Playing poker for money, betting on horses or dogs, and the like are all affected by skill and knowledge but are still gambling.

If the gambling produces truly randomized winners, then what you have is a specific kind of gambling: a lottery.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-05 14:38:06+00:00
How many competitors do you need? Apple, Disney, Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount are five major competitors.

If you as a hypothetical video content creator want to get your content distributed to a wide audience, you have five companies to go to, you can publish it to any of the video on demand services, try to monetize it through ads on YouTube, etc.

We aren’t in the 30s anymore where the only way you could see content was by going to the movie theater.

Before HBO Max was a thing, they were already selling distribution rights of content to Netflix. No one said that was a monopoly.
by delichon | 2025-12-05 14:39:55+00:00
I can feel the pull of glyphosate. I want to kill the weeds right around my house, but that's where my dog sleeps and rolls and eats the grass. Roundup is the popular weed killer and I've got a bottle in the garage. So I look up its effects on pets, and it says "manageable with precautions", particularly waiting for the fluid to dry before letting the dog on it.

I'm not very comfortable with that so looking around for other solutions I see a guy on Youtube telling me how to manage weeds with vinegar. I figure that must be safe, so I buy a bottle of the recommended concentration, but for the hell of it look up its safety for dogs before applying it. They say hell no, this is way too strong for pets and can cause burns, etc. I would need to dilute it quite a bit, making it a lot less effective.

So I ended up using glyphosate, but I'm looking for something better.
by manuelmoreale | 2025-12-05 14:40:01+00:00
The spirit of the 90s is still here. There are still many, many people who are happy to have a space on the web and share what they’re passionate about or what is in their heads simply because they enjoy the process.

It’s not an all-or-nothing scenario. The two things can coexist. Some people will pursuit monetization, others are happy to share for the sake of sharing.

It comes down to individual choices.
by goatlover | 2025-12-05 14:40:12+00:00
And which side has been driving the majority of the polarization over the past several decades? It's right-wing billionaires and far right groups that don't care for liberal democracies. There's plenty of things to criticize the Democratic party in the US over, but at least they're not trying to reshape America into some form of Christian Nationalism or techno fascism.
by triceratops | 2025-12-05 14:40:33+00:00
I don't think the Netflix vs HBO comparison is fair.

HBO was always one channel in a home. They produced a limited amount of high-quality content. You watch it a few times a week and network TV reality shows or whatever other trash the rest of the week.

Netflix wanted/wants to be the only channel in cord-cutting and cord-never homes. When that's your goal you have to produce mostly crap and some good stuff.