MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rickydontrun | 2026-01-10 15:01:00+00:00
> which for me starts at 6K 32”

that's a weird start. for me the start is 4k with proper blacks & proper color calibration

> given that a couple of hundred more over 5 years would have surely improved productivity by a little bit

no company wants the bulk of it's people to improve their productivity by even a little bit. you should be productive enough, that's it.

> It felt almost done out of spite to keep people in their place

otherwise amazon and the likes would have competitors in every country. but I don't think it's out of spite.

it's the 'established' interpersonal culture between employers and employees, like in packs without natural alphas: if one beta-beta steals the show of the beta-alpha a few times too many, he's a goner. in packs with alphas the performer gets commended and a chance to compete for the top because you want your team to be lead by the currently best. hasn't been the case in our species for a long while now.

companies don't treat their employees bad out of spite, it's so they can stick to low, moderate(d) standards and cultures, ... and have an easy work life
by crazygringo | 2026-01-10 15:01:16+00:00
The problem is that final decisions tend to be made in the last 30 seconds of a meeting. If you're a manager with a stake in the outcome, you can't leave the meeting until you've ensured that the outcome works for you. Leaving 5 min early is often simply not an option. While arriving 5 minutes late is. It's not an ego thing -- it's the fact that meeting leaders often let meetings run long.
by semi-extrinsic | 2026-01-10 15:01:35+00:00
No no, in comparison to academia, programmers have been extremely diligent at documenting exactly how stuff works and providing fairly reproducible artifacts since the 1960s.

Imagine trying to teach an AI how to code based on only slide decks from consultants. No access todocumentation, no stack overflow, no open source code used in the training data; just sales pitches and success stories. That's close to how absurd this idea is.
by foldr | 2026-01-10 15:02:18+00:00
>because [the King has] heard of what happened in France etc

And, err, in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I

>there is no "bill of rights"

There very literally is a bill of rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689

>which is akin to if we handed a bunch of decendants of the mayflower and rich industrialists and priests their own house of Congress.

The House of Lords does need reform, but this is not in any way an accurate picture of it since at least 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999). When you strip away the historical baggage, the House of Lords is just an appointed second chamber. I'm fully in favor of removing the last vestiges of the hereditary principle in government, but hereditary peers do not have a significant amount of power in the current system.

>And when they "elect" a prime minister

Elections really do happen in the UK and really do determine who is Prime Minister. No need for the scare quotes here.

> so basically, there's this constant ritual of pretending they're a democracy when really it's only like that because the king current feels like it.

I'll resist the temptation to point out which country is more pertinently and accurately described this way in the present situation.
by bluenose69 | 2026-01-10 15:02:41+00:00
I work in a university environment.

The teaching model is much like that proposed by the originator of this thread. Classes are 50 minutes instead of an hour (and similar for 1.5 hour classes). The start time is 5 minutes past the hour and the end time is 5 minutes before the hour. This gives students and professors enough time to get from one lecture to another (unless they have to commute across a big campus, in which case they simply do not sign up for classes that are too close in time).

I've served on a big committee on campus that solve the timing problem simply. It starts exactly on time. Every item has a designated number of minutes. And if it appears that we will not finish on time, there is a vote on whether to extend the meeting by 30 minutes.

I realize that a lot of the discussion on this thread involves bosses and employees, which is quite a different thing, of course. There's no point in starting a meeting at a designated time if the big boss is running late.
by bostik | 2026-01-10 15:02:48+00:00
> Also, most of us are unlike the author, and 0.07s vs 0.38s startup time means no difference.

That's quite likely a workflow thing. If you are popping up new (transient) terminals frequently, then a ~400ms wait time for each adds up and makes the entire machine feel really slow. I'm willing to wait extra half a second for a new terminal -- once -- after I've changed my autocompletion configs (rebuild + rehash takes a while), but if I had to wait for that long every time I hit Win+enter and wait for the terminal to become active, I'd be irritated pretty damn quickly too.

You get conditioned to immediate responses pretty fast.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-10 15:03:09+00:00
You literally wrote things, things that worked, in assembly, and you're wondering if you were ever able to code? You're being way too hard on yourself.

Although... "coding" originally meant doing what an assembler does - translating mnemonics into binary (or octal or hex) instructions, literally encoding the instructions. So by the original standards, if you're using even an assembler, then no, you're not.

But definitions change over time. By current standards, from what you said, you definitely are able to code.
by levmiseri | 2026-01-10 15:03:30+00:00
Thank you, this is great feedback. I hope you will try to give Kraa another chance in the future as it should have at least these points covered.

- An option to render markdown syntax vs immediate translation is coming

- The horrendous bug around word-wrap (in firefox only) should be fixed within days

- adding [ ] for tasks as an alt to [].

As for changing paragraph style, this is purposefully 'hidden' inside the leaf settings (with tons of customization options for everything, not just paragraphs).
by bambax | 2026-01-10 15:03:35+00:00
Not just Russia and China. Musk does Nazi salutes and Grok promotes pedophilia. Trump invades countries and talks about taking over Greenland, which is part of Europe. The US are no less of a threat than Russia.

Contrary to widespread belief, Europe has the means to fight those threats. It just chooses not to, for reasons I don't understand.
by threetonesun | 2026-01-10 15:03:55+00:00
Do you believe that ChatGPT is doing the the research? I'm all in favor of better access and tools to research but at least in the US all of the research is being defunded, we're actively kicking researchers out of the country, and a bunch of white billionaires are proposing this as an alternative, based on training data they won't share.

This is a product feature that invalidates WebMD and the like. It does not solve any health problems.
by metalman | 2026-01-10 15:04:15+00:00
the french, bieng french already, are only dimly aware of all this other tedious blither blather that other people get up to, and only partisipate in the greater world at all, because it reafirms the sense of how hopeless the condition of non frenchness remains.
watching someone attempting to project even viruelent racism and predjudice on the french is revelatory, as they bask in noise and expeded effort, as these are the kinds of things they expect from excited animals, and makes them happy.
though I have personaly managed to break through all that with my own chearfull unintentional manglement and demolition of there language, to which they will say "non, please dont, this is wrong, please no"
by idopmstuff | 2026-01-10 15:04:53+00:00
Well first off, generally if you are arrested in another country you would in fact call your government. Most people do this, and it'd be foolish not to. If you get sued for a large amount of money or defrauded or face any number of other issues, also reasonable to call your government.

Anyway, not a great comparison because you're talking about legal regulations governing speech on the internet. This isn't a jaywalking ticket, it's a deeply complex regulatory issue involving politics, law and international relations. It's also an issue that the current administration has shown interest in, so if you're an affected American business it would be pretty foolish not to seek help there.
by zdragnar | 2026-01-10 15:05:37+00:00
Ostensibly, the Affordable Care Act was supposed to reduce the average family's premiums by $2,500 a year.

When that didn't happen, the story changed to that number being how much more premiums would have risen.

Insurance premiums have only gone up as far as I can remember, though there's a ton of variables at play here. Inflation is an obvious one, plus continual introduction of more and more costly treatments- biologic injections, cancer therapies and so forth. The unfortunate increase in obesity rates in my lifetime (along with all the health complications) has been a significant contributor as well.

It all adds up.
by afandian | 2026-01-10 15:06:07+00:00
We recently had a significant test of this. Boris Johnson asked the late Queen to prorogue (shut down) parliament in order to prevent debate on the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the European Union.

In theory he was asking permission from the Queen. But in practice, everyone knew that the Queen was powerless to reject his request. Even for something as plainly anti-democratic.

The Supreme Court eventually ruled that the prorogation was not lawful.

Lots of people were hoping that the Queen would stand up for the people. It was a complicated moment when she didn't!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_prorogatio...
by crazygringo | 2026-01-10 15:06:34+00:00
I've worked a place that tried it. It does nothing. It's a random number that nobody cares about. Everyone quickly concludes that running a company is expensive and gets used to that. It's not their money, after all. They don't to spend the saved money on a fancy lunch or something. It's just more money going into the pockets of owners/investors.

People have meetings because there's a need for a decision that requires conversation, and they're often late because they're coming from other meetings that ran late because they were having difficulty coming to a decision. Awareness of cost doesn't affect these at all. The decisions still need to happen.
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 15:06:42+00:00
Exactly. In those cases, getting 100 reqs/sec or 1000 reqs/s probably means you're getting DOS'd. Any rate limiter is enough.

Or you could still use multiple instances, not for scaling but for patching without downtime and so on.

Availability can be way more important than sheer performance or number of concurrent requests.
by pflanze | 2026-01-10 15:06:45+00:00
If the code in the closure moves a value, then the closure becomes an FnOnce and does move the value out of the context. That's what you probably have in mind.

So, Rust does support partially-moving closures, and does so automatically.

But the converse is also true: Rust does not move values just because. If the code inside the closure doesn't move the context, then it will only move context if you use the `move` keyword (in which case the lifetime of the closure is not restricted by borrows of the context; Rust doesn't automatically move things to satisfy the closure's required lifetime, that's a manual decision process consistent with how Rust behaves in other places).

There's still one difference to the macro case: the closure borrows all the values at once. So if it needs &mut access to some variable in the context, you can't take another &mut to the same variable outside the closure as long as it is alive (as determined per what the non-lexical lifetime borrow checker can do). Those cases need to be worked around by instead passing in the &mut as a closure argument. Code deposited by macros is not subject to bundling all captures together, hence the borrow checker has more allowance to reduce the borrowing time of each borrow.
by Mawr | 2026-01-10 15:07:09+00:00
Sure they, do, the problem makes no sense as stated. The solution to the stated problem is to remove all weights all at once, solved. Or even two at a time, opposite the centre of gravity. Solved, but not what you're asking I assume?

You didn't even label your ASCII art, so I've no clue what you mean, are the bars at the end the supports or weights? Can I only remove one weight at a time? Initially I assumed you mean a weightlifting bar the weights on which can only be removed from its ends. Is that the case or what? What's the double slash in the middle?

Also: "what order and/or arrangement or of removing the weights" this isn't even correct English. Arrangement of removing the weights? State the problem clearly, from first principles, like you were talking to a 5 year old.

The sibling comment is correct, you're clearly picturing something in your mind that you're failing to properly describe. It seems obvious to you, but it's not.
by perrygeo | 2026-01-10 15:07:22+00:00
I've never thought of open source as something you can make money on directly. It's hard to see how it benefits an IC economically, besides getting some recognition and a sense of pride.

Open source has always felt explicitly like a benefit for companies.

- They get free code, buy vs build is irrelevant when you can just pip install.

- Systems become largely homogenized, thus contributors are replaceable.

- They get an established pool of workers who know the technology already, no training required.

- They get free labor from contributors outside their organization maintaining their dependencies for them in perpetuity.

It's a great deal for employers! Especially if they forbid their employees from contributing back! If you work out the game theory, there's literally no reason for a company to do anything but sit back and siphon the benefits for themselves.

This doesn't really change with LLMs, it just makes the end game much more explicit. The goal was always to capture the intellectual output of open source contributors for private profit. Always. Now that it's actually happening, who's really shocked?
by Merad | 2026-01-10 15:07:28+00:00
Do you seriously believe that you should have the right to demand access to the private medical records of every teacher, soldier, judge, cop, etc. in the country because their pay comes from taxpayers? If yes I'm not quite sure how to respond, IMO that's an utterly absurd position. If no, why are astronauts being singled out for this treatment?
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by AndreeFrby | 2026-01-10 15:07:35+00:00
Hi HN
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The Stack:
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Known Issues (please, be gentle guys):
I know the site isn't perfect yet. For example, the Reset Password flow is currently broken (working on it maybe this weekend xD).
i'm aware of the irony of a security site having bugs, right? I'm building this to learn and improve both my dev and sec skills.

i'd love your feedback on the concept and the approach to Red Teaming. If you find vulnerabilities in my platform, please let me know,, I'm here to learn and if you want you can buy a plan for it
thanks!!
by simianwords | 2026-01-10 15:08:08+00:00
You are exaggerating. LLMs simply don’t hallucinate all that often, especially ChatGPT.

I really hate comments such as yours because anyone who has used ChatGPT in these contexts would know that it is pretty accurate and safe. People also can generally be trusted to identify good from bad advice. They are smart like that.

We should be encouraging thoughtful ChatGPT use instead of showing fake concern at each opportunity.

Your comment and many others just try to signal pessimism as a virtue and has very less bearing on reality.
by wolletd | 2026-01-10 15:08:24+00:00
I haven't checked out starship yet, but if I understand what you are using, that is Zle functionality. It's part of OMZs configuration (here: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/lib/key-bindi...) but doesn't use other OMZ features.

I don't know if starship is still using Zle. If so, this should be possible to configure without OMZ.
by DudeOpotomus | 2026-01-10 15:08:44+00:00
With all due respect, you are thinking like a good person, a human being who spent decades of their life to learn how to care for people. You took a pledge to Do-no-Harm. You are looking at these tools as tools.

The owners and future owners of said data do not care about anything other than profits and exploitation. They do not care about the patient, the doctor let alone the consequences of their doings. They took a pledge to make-profits regardless of the harm. A position fundamentally opposed to that of the medical doctor.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-10 15:08:58+00:00
Brother, I have been trying to follow iranian discussions and I think me and you both but once again, this is not a dupe as I wanted to discuss on hackernews about the death mounts

Is there a specific thread for the sad deaths of protestors of iran, people should discuss about it as its a recent development and one which can have farspread consequences

Even aside from that, morally speaking, Rest in peace to the protestors who died an unjust death.
by mirawelner | 2026-01-10 15:10:08+00:00
Maybe I’m just a silly lab engineer who doesn’t know how big companies work (i did work at a startup for a time but that’s even more anti meeting than a lab) but I feel like maybe if you have so many back to back meetings that you need to plan around them you should have fewer meetings?

Also why is there a hard end time rather than a maximum time? What is even going on? How are you getting work done?
by therealpygon | 2026-01-10 15:10:14+00:00
Yes, I’m sure aircrew never get so violently sick as to affect millions or billions of dollars in crew and and supporting assets due to an emergency, and armed service members are never transported by emergency transportations for eye-watering costs. Technical inequity that ignores facts is the argument of those without arguments.

The specifics of “who” has zero relevance to what is necessary for an ongoing situation; you don’t get to dictate your access and timeline to information just because you contributed a fraction of a penny to something.
by tel | 2026-01-10 15:10:50+00:00
I've recently begun replacing Markdown with Gemini's .gmi/gemtext format. It is Markdown with fewer features. I appreciate the simplicity and it's tremendously easy for custom tools to parse.

It has no inline formatting, only 3 levels of ATX headers (without trailing #s), one level of bullet points using only asterisk and not dash to delimit, does not merge touching non-whitespace lines (thus expecting one line per paragraph), and supports only triple-backtick fenced preformatted text areas that just flip on and off.

Maybe the biggest change is that links are necessarily listed on their own line, proceeded by a `=>` and optionally followed by alt-text.

My gemtext parser is maybe 70 lines and it is arguably 95% of what one needs from Markdown.
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-10 15:11:07+00:00
Time is a surface area of which particulate are spinning hyperdimensionally. Half spins cause torsion (and bind the particle to mass locality), that torsion interferes with the surface area of the time dimensionally (which is merely potential decaying.) This is gravity.

Universal potential, and the discrete “spinners” packetizing particulates exist outside yet tethered to space and time.
This explains entanglement, which I believe is a vibrational coordinate though more separately on that.

Besides I would like to cry “lie” to the basis of presumed 3D reality. Everything is spinning falling and ephemeral (potentials interfering and resolving as opposed to fundamental states.) True coordinates are based on axis and planear offsets, not unlike those used in navigation.

In existential reality, coordinates must be translated to and from relative dispositions, and in our video games or short hand equations, we use x,y,z. While still performing translations on demand and calling that convention.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 15:11:24+00:00
What difference would this make to you? It would unnecessarily violate someone’s medical privacy for no actual benefit to the public other than satisfying someone’s curiosity.

> You don't get to go to space on other people's money and expect privacy.

Yes, everyone gets privacy. You don’t get to see their private communications back home. You don’t get their medical records.

They aren’t receiving money from taxpayers like a gift. They’re doing a job. It’s ridiculous to demand that they forfeit their privacy because tax money was involved.

> We might want to learn from what went wrong here.

NASA will learn what went wrong here because they’re in a position to act on

You are not in a position to do anything about it. Violating their privacy would make no difference.
by nvader | 2026-01-10 15:11:59+00:00
I think this is definitely a step in the right direction, and is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. Thank you!

`llm` gives my tool a standard bin to call to invoke completions, and configuring and managing it is the user's responsibility.

If more tools started expecting something like this, it could become a defacto standard. Then maybe the OS would begin to provide it.
by bryant | 2026-01-10 15:12:11+00:00
Since this is a special publication and since it was published in 1977 (after the Privacy Act of 1974), I'm wondering if NASA's condition for astronauts on this mission was to release mission-related medical science to the public.

Speculating:

If this is a condition of employment as an astronaut, then it probably wouldn't include conditions confirmed not to be caused by being in space, which means this'll stay confidential until NASA has fully diagnosed the crew member and figured out what likely happened.

And if it turns out the crew member's issue was entirely unrelated to the mission, it stays under wraps but new science or procedures are devised to better manage this and related conditions in space.
by jcpst | 2026-01-10 15:12:16+00:00
First off, I agree with the point made, though I think a more reasonable comparison would be something like a subaru. The people I know who have to deal with excessive snow or mud on country roads commonly opt for that. Of course there’s the “men” who compensate for their lack of buldge with 350s, dualies, etc. If you don’t work a farm, those whips are dummm.

That was a good perspective though- I grew up hearing Citroen makes garbage.

Side note- The vast majority of pollution is from industry. By a lot. That is where the finger needs to be pointing. Pointing the finger at SUV drivers distracts from the real issue and keeps us blaming each other.
by Andrex | 2026-01-10 15:12:50+00:00
The best way to fix a problem is to bring it into the light, not pretend it doesn't exist. "Security by obscurity" has been debunked for decades.

If our system is so flawed Snowden's leaks would have blown everything up, maybe the system deserves to be blown up.

Otherwise we're just papering over flaws which likely will be discovered and exploited eventually.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-10 15:15:16+00:00
If you can read people, you know a person like this is going to be constantly invading your privacy, inventing conflicts and complaining. Probably trying to make you join in his vendetta against some neighbour, and if you decline he will make a vendetta behind your back against you.

These kind of people are so easy to spot once you have some experience.