MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by germandiago | 2025-12-24 13:52:51+00:00
I have Bukele for a responsible person, just hard like Lee Kuan Yew was.

But as far as my knowledge goes, he does not execute or kill, just enjailed the gangs.

I could be wrong but I do not have evidence of the opposite so far. Just rumors and things mostly from sources I do not trust. If there is evidence, they should release it.

They also released 8,000 people, they keep reviewing for mistakes.

About the exception state, this came out from an 80 people murder. To innocent people and as a revenge. I think it was justified in this case, sadly.

I do not mean bad conditions, they more than deserve that. I mean if there has been torturing or such things. I would be against that, 100%.

The situation of El Salvador was almost like a war in times of peace. They did not have many options.
by orwin | 2025-12-24 13:53:00+00:00
Chernobyl reactor 4 explosion is a bit like this. Safety rules were ignored, again and again and again and again, two safety controls were manually deactivated (all within 2 hours), then bad luck happened (the control rod holes were deformed by the temperature), and then a design flaw (graphite on the extremity of the control rods) made everything worse until the worse industrial catastrophe of all time.
by YY49837439287 | 2025-12-24 13:53:12+00:00
> appear to be losing the economic race of the 21st century to a literal communist party.

Not surprising at all considering that socialism and centrally planned economies are inherently more efficient than liberal free markets - by removing the constant pressure for quarterly profit and removing or severely limiting the bourgeoise who only exist to take the value generated by companies for themselves, you have a system that does a much better job of allocating labour and resources. For example, imagine how much better Windows 11 would be if Satya Nadella wasn't taking home a $100m salary and that money was spent hiring or paying developers.

Frankly, American capitalists got so high on their own supply after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that they thought they didn't need to keep the boot on the necks of the communists any longer. As soon as the pressure came off the superiority of the Chinese communist system became evident and is virtually impossible to stop now.
by thunderfork | 2025-12-24 13:53:39+00:00
And the gun owners desperately fantasizing about finally encountering a situation that will allow them to live out their Falling Down fantasies are..? The civilized people?

If you encounter a failing justice system and your response isn't "let's fix the causes" but instead "thankfully I believe in convenient self-service executions", you aren't upholding peaceable society, and I suspect that a peaceable society isn't what you'd prefer.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-24 13:53:51+00:00
>It's been a few years since I've had battle Safari quirks, one example that stuck with me from a couple of years ago is that LocalStorage is not available in private browsing mode. Other browsers just treat it as ephemeral/SessionStorage basically.

so what's the spec say people should do? Does it not specify?

Well I have known a few things on accessibility and color spaces where Safari was way ahead for a good length of time so my theory has always been that they were ahead on the things they cared about and behind on the things that they didn't care about and depending on what you cared about they might seem like jerks or heroes.
by tomnipotent | 2025-12-24 13:54:12+00:00
Hardware is still 3x the revenue of services, and though it has a lower margin is the bulk of the companies profit. Apple was 3% of the PC market in 2010 and is 10% today, while Android is 75% of the global cellphone market - there's plenty of room for growth in hardware... if you stop looking at the marketing speak, whatever that means.
by bottlero_cket | 2025-12-24 13:54:23+00:00
This article is an absolute treasure trove of real problems I too have encountered on my own journey of creating an html game, and excellent solutions that I was completely unable to find on my own! I give real props for the depth of this analysis.

I would like to re-emphasize the author’s point that the mobile web begins to struggle with anything beyond a Wikipedia page about raccoons. I feel this point was understated!

Consider realtor.com (and many others) where zooming in a picture causes everything but the picture to zoom! Insane when you consider how much houses cost. What about on shopify—type websites, where everything scrolls left when you try to swipe left to activate the carousel of pictures. How often I wish they would design these sites as they would a Wikipedia article on raccoons — as bare bones as they can get!
by pwg | 2025-12-24 13:54:28+00:00
No, it is not. But given the abysmal lack of technical knowledge of the "typical computer user" they don't see the redacted PDF's as "having black stick-it notes stuck on top of the text". They see the PDF as having had a "black marker pen" applied that has obliterated the text from view.

When someone then shows them how to copy/paste out the original text, because the PDF was simply black stick-it notes above the text, it appears to them as if that someone is a magical wizard of infinite intelligence.
by krisoft | 2025-12-24 13:55:30+00:00
> The amount of times this has been asked with no confirmation leads me to believe they still do not.

They do follow hand signals from police. There are many videos documenting the behaviour. Here is one from waymo: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/03/scaling-waymo-one-safely-acro...

Look for the embed next to the text saying “The Waymo Driver recently interpreting a police officer’s hand signals in a Los Angeles intersection.”

Or here is a video observing the behaviour in the wild: https://youtu.be/3Qk_QhG5whw?si=GCBBNJqB22GRvxk1

Do you want confirmation about something more specific?
by codingdave | 2025-12-24 13:56:35+00:00
> We assume that if we generate an embedding and store it, the "memory" is stable.

Why do you assume that? In my experience, the "memory" is never stable. You seem to have higher expectations of reliability than would be reasonable.

If you have proven that unreliability, that proof is actually interesting. But seems less like a bug, and more of an observation of how things work.
by triceratops | 2025-12-24 13:56:37+00:00
I've never had my ID recorded at any liquor store in my life. If that happens where you live I'd fight to have that practice banned legally for alcohol and tobacco purchases. Stores are definitely selling it to insurance companies.

Also after a certain number of birthdays, clerks have stopped demanding my ID. So my purchases are pretty much anonymous.

The card should be issued by a private company, or ideally, multiple companies. And it should be a scratch-off card with a unique code, so that codes can't be tied to transactions.
by fasbiner | 2025-12-24 13:56:41+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasions_by_Great_Br...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

This kind of historical blindness and hysterical hypocrisy does not seem to be an effective strategy for anything other than promoting ethnonationalist fairytales.

Is HN becoming a place where we should expect people to lie to us and promote bizarre ahostorical claims in order to foment cultural and racial hatreds based on current political conveniences?

"Never believe they are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. By giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."
by pwg | 2025-12-24 13:56:49+00:00
As far as creating a click bait title, yep, the editor knows what they are doing, and most likely picked the word for the click bait factor.

But I'd also bet the editors technical knowledge of how this "revelation" of the hidden material really works is low enough that it also appears to be magic to them as well. So they likely think it is a 'hack' as well.
by talideon | 2025-12-24 13:57:15+00:00
Polish is a rather extreme case, however. Czech orthography is a bit more straightforward. In spite of that, Polish orthography still does a rather good job.

Generally speaking, if you've a language with heavy use of palatalisation in its phonology and grammar, the Latin alphabet is going to struggle without hacks. Irish and Scottish Gaelic similarly struggle with the inherent limitations of the Latin alphabet, but chose a different set of hacks (necessarily, given the Irish has the second oldest written vernacular language in Europe after Greek).

Similarly, the Latin alphabet is poorly suited to the Germanic languages, Danish and English in particular, because of their large vowel inventory.
by dandanua | 2025-12-24 13:57:43+00:00
> hundreds of millions of people who are against the war

Lie #1. If they were against the war there would be no war.

> That's not very bright of you, to put it mildly.

Lie #2. He tell facts.

> "just listen how silly Ukrainian sub-language sounds, lol".

Lie #3. This is not what Russian propaganda said. They said Ukraine will not allow to speak Russian and will punish for speaking it.

> Which is an argument every sane human being finds disgusting and stupid beyond all comprehension, of course.

The language itself is not guilty, of course. It's the speakers.
by g105b | 2025-12-24 13:57:54+00:00
The idea is really cool. I thought the simplicity of the framework would mean there were lots of examples. Well, there are lots. But not one of them is working.

Uncaught TypeError: The specifier “lume-js” was a bare specifier, but was not remapped to anything. Relative module specifiers must start with “./”, “../” or “/”.
by WoWSaaS | 2025-12-24 13:57:55+00:00
Most AI marketing tools are just fancy wrappers for text generation. They save you time on writing, but they don't solve the real problem: knowing what to write and whether it will actually work.
I wanted to move away from the 'ChatBot' paradigm and build a proper Command Center for marketing. The goal was to create a closed loop that follows a professional strategic workflow:
Signal Harvesting: Instead of relying on static training data, the system uses real-time search grounding to find what high-intent audiences are actually asking for this morning.
Resonance Simulation: This is the core 'unfair advantage.' It runs your copy against thousands of simulated LLM-personas to predict clarity and persuasion scores before you spend a cent on distribution. It identifies 'Conversion Killers' (vague promises, passive voice, cognitive load) using behavioral psychology frameworks.
Autonomous Execution: Once the strategy is simulated and verified, it hands off the execution to self-driving agents that handle the multi-channel deployment (LinkedIn, X, Email).
The UI is built as a command bar rather than a form, lowering the barrier to entry (Lazy Registration) and focusing on 'Value-First' output. We’ve found that by treating marketing as an engineering problem—research, simulation, deployment—we can achieve significantly higher ROAS than traditional agency workflows.
I’d love the community's feedback on the simulation engine logic and how we might further reduce the 'hallucination' friction in autonomous agents
by YY49837439287 | 2025-12-24 13:58:13+00:00
If they don't want far-right Russian puppets to win then they should actually respond to the wants and needs of their voters instead of scolding anyone who goes against their neoliberal warmonger groupthink as "pro-Russian", whatever that means. They're only digging their own graves if they think denying reality will save them.
by triceratops | 2025-12-24 13:58:17+00:00
In my proposal private companies would issue the "age check cards" for sale, not the state.

And I don't know how things work in other places, but I've never had my ID scanned when buying alcohol. These days clerks don't even ask me for ID because I obviously appear to be legal age.

In my proposal the token would be a scratch off card with a unique code. It can't be associated with the transaction.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-24 13:58:53+00:00
>How someone like this gets a paying job as a journalist is beyond me.

You seem highly confused on what a journalists job is in this era. Very few publishers are about correctness. It's about speed of getting the article out and getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at the ads in the article.

Or as the saying goes, A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
by Moldoteck | 2025-12-24 13:59:10+00:00
I do have some use-cases for a tv to be 'smart'. It's on/off trigger from a smartphone and casting anything you like from YT/Spotify.

It would make sense for a washing machine to be smart/have ai if it could detect clothes types and suggest a washing regime or warn you that selected regime can damage them. It'll also be nice to be able to schedule the washing so for ex. it's done when you get at home from work. For dishwasher - maybe somehow detect stuff that's incompatible with dishwasher and warn you?

I do also see a point in having a smart fridge that would detect products that expire based on some qr codes printed on them, otherwise idk...
by adpatersbad | 2025-12-24 13:59:42+00:00
> Wrapping libraries makes a lot of sense

The best assumption to start with is that adapters are bad by default, because they are an unnecessary layer to maintain (and potentially a point of failure and bottleneck depending on what they are and do). Then, make the argument for the adapter as a guilty until proven innocent case.

If you can make a solid case for it, fine. There are many solid cases for adapters, but as an example, if it’s too much burden to have to integrate directly because it would balloon the codebase and be a nightmare to maintain, then write/use the adapter.

Never write an adapter that you can handle more scalably, flexibly, and almost as easily by calling something directly.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-12-24 14:00:03+00:00
You're really deep into painting everyone with the same brush, aren't you?

Define russian federation first. Am I it? Is it land? Is it government? Is it those zombie mercenaries who execute criminal orders? Is it those who got jailed after protests against war? Is it those who got conscripted? Those who fled the country to avoid that? Those who struggle to meet ends? Those on boards of 150 meter yachts?

Who is this elusive mrs. russian federation?
by bayindirh | 2025-12-24 14:00:22+00:00
For anyone who thinks legibility in typographic design is a minor issue, please read about highway sign design, Saab's "Night Panel", Germany's license plate font (which is a fruit of another legibility problem), Atkinson HyperLegible fonts, and aircraft dial design studies done in the past.

This is important work and is being outsourced (so no heavy load on Volvo employees besides reviewing the work), and I believe this is as important as reducing any distractions during driving.

Ford used to have (and may still have) a cockpit/dashboard simulator where they install prototype dashboards and test their mental load by creating "unexpected hazards" in the simulation while tweaking something on the dash.

I can operate my car's controls without even looking at them and just by feeling them, while looking at the road. The dials are extremely readable, so I'm not aware that I'm checking them even.

This is important work.
by SilasX | 2025-12-24 14:00:41+00:00
This. Similar issue if you introduce someone to how you can "view source" and then edit (your view of) a website. They're like "omg haxors!"

True story: one time I used that technique to ask for a higher credit card limit than the options the website presented. Interestingly enough, they handled it gracefully by sending me a rejection for a higher amount and an acceptance for the maximum offered amount (the one I edited). And I didn't get arrested for hacking!
by pwg | 2025-12-24 14:01:33+00:00
Most journalists are ex. English majors (or some other non-technical degree). I would not expect any (even the supposed tech. journalists) to understand the technology they report upon to the level that us here on HN understand that same technology.

Their job is to write coherent articles that gather views, not truly understand what it is they are writing about. That's why the Gell-Mann Amnesia [1] aspect so often crops up for any technical article (hint, it also crops up for every article, but we don't recognize the mistakes the journalist makes in the articles where we don't have the underlying knowledge to recognize the mistakes).

[1] https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-24 14:01:57+00:00
React's homepage says "The library for" and "Go full-stack with a framework. React is a library. It lets you put components together, but it doesn’t prescribe how to do routing and data fetching. To build an entire app with React, we recommend a full-stack React framework like Next.js or React Router." and "React is also an architecture. Frameworks that implement it let you..."

React's Wikipedia page says "React ... is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library", and has no mention of Framework.

Why die on a hill that it "is" something it says it isn't?

[] https://react.dev/

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(software)
by bArray | 2025-12-24 14:02:46+00:00
I've literally been here (many) years ago whilst trying to stream video from a potato Linux SBC via WiFi. As you walked further away, the H264 stream would just die and hang, no matter what you did. Stream JPEGs? Worked excellently and adjusted the number of JPEGs per second depending on connection (only requested the next frame after the current one arrived or a timeout occurred).

This got me thinking about video calls, which have be notoriously bad on bad connections. Half the time I am just streaming a screen with static information on it, we're not watching videos together. And yet the streaming pipeline is optimised as this article suggests for the higher bandwidth modes - when we're never really using it at all.

The most important part about a video call is rarely the video, is usually the audio. It's counter-intuitive but you are better off having your call without video than you are without sound, and yet when the video falls over it takes the audio with it. Insanity!
by quadrifoliate | 2025-12-24 14:03:30+00:00
> The work of London-based type design studio Dalton Maag, the new typeface is designed ‘to improve readability, sharpen attention, and promote a calmer, safety-focused driving experience.’

That's a quote from either Volvo or the designer. You're right -- it doesn't explicitly say that this was a quote from Volvo; but I'd be a bit surprised if a well-known designer was just making that up without it being part of the shared vision around the work.

And if that's true, the critics are correct. Volvo should be putting in physical buttons to make safer cars. Instead, they are claiming some bullshit "early adopter" status and putting in large amounts of control and information on an unsafe touchscreen to save money.

Casually window dressing this designer work as a "safe" typeface smacks of trying to cover up shoddy mistakes, and they need to be called out for that obfuscation specifically.
by g947o | 2025-12-24 14:03:47+00:00
> explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of

Is this from real experience of something that actually happened, or just imagined?

The only things that matter in a decision are:

* Services that are available in the region

* (if relevant and critical) Latency to other services

* SLAs for the region

Everything else is irrelevant.

If you think AWS is so bad that their SLAs are not trustworthy, that's a different problem to solve.
by posix86 | 2025-12-24 14:04:12+00:00
> Hustle-culture optimizes for work input because it's sexy. It's easy to post the inputs. It's hard to face the output.

Hustling is sexy insofar as the output is sexy imo. What hustlers miss is that working hard is only cool if the work you do makes sense - work for its own sake is one of the most uncool things there is. And I also think that willingness to work hard comes on its own if you find something meaningful; reading on how to work hard is like treating symptoms (you don't work hard) rather than actual cause (you don't have anything to work hard on). Getting up at 5am to go to the gym then manage.your 500 dollars of crypto portfolio you don't understand anything about is the epitome of finance bro that everyone cringes about.
by hylaride | 2025-12-24 14:05:10+00:00
> The e-scooters that clutter up pavements may seem like a new thing, but a hundred years ago, there were already people zooming around London on powered scooters.

The problem is that we've given so much space to automobiles that there's no room for anything else (bikes, scooters, etc). Pedestrians have been given a sliver only because drivers need to walk between parking and their destination. This is true even in cities where the majority of people don't even drive!
by 0xTJ | 2025-12-24 14:06:34+00:00
I finished my Master's a couple years ago, and in our IC probing lab, it was almost all GPIB. All of the pieces of test equipment, except for a single cutting-edge Keysight scope (which used Ethernet instead), were connected together via those chunky but satisfying and robust cables, usually controlled via MATLAB or some other IC measurement software package.
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-24 14:06:57+00:00
Thanks. I actually don't know much about concurrency/lock so I just took whatever the post said. I shall quote:

Galen Hunt Author
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
3d
@Sukesh Ashok Kumar No memory safety. No concurrency safety. Of course, for a single C or C++ code base, these qualities can be achieved with extraordinary discipline and effort--and lost with just a single mistake. With Rust, can be proven by the compiler.
by sva_ | 2025-12-24 14:07:28+00:00
> The third thing the EU penalized X for is not giving researchers better access to public data. This enforcement is not about the DSA’s more famous and controversial requirement for platforms to hand over internal data. It’s just about information that was already publicly available on X’s site and app.

The EU commission has no right to let researchers perform studies on users of the platform without the explicit consent of each user whose content is included in the study, so kudos for upholding their rights. There is also precedent that this 'research' loophole has in the past been abused to massively scrape data off Twitter.

Additionally, this whole thing isn't just about X, but also about "N"GOs like "Hat aid" who sue individual citizens for stating their opinion on the internet.
by mablopoule | 2025-12-24 14:09:05+00:00
100% this. To this day the official website still describe itself as a library, and I'm convinced it's completely for marketing reasons, since 'framework' feels heavy and bloated, like Angular or Java Spring, while 'library' feels fast and lightweight, putting you in control.

Framework can be more or less modular, Angular or Ember choose to be 'battery included', while React choose to be more modular, which is simply choosing the other end of the spectrum on the convenience-versus-flexibility tradeoff.

React ostensibly only care about rendering, but in a way that force you to structure your whole data flow and routing according to its rules (lifecycle events or the 'rules of hooks', avoiding mutating data structures); No matter what they say on the official website, that's 100% framework territory.

Lodash or Moment.js, those are actual bona fide libraries, and nobody ever asked whether to use Vue, Angular or Moment.js, or what version of moment-js-router they should use.