skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a common communications failure, in that you'll do far better not just with children, but with adults to, if you provide a reason instead of assuming that the other party know why you're making the request you're making.

Instead you're inviting pattern matching - the child will have been told to go to bed because it is late, so it's a natural statement to make if you don't understand why the parent is stating it.

Explain the steps, and the consequence of failure in a way that the child can relate to, and you're likely to get a very different reaction("come home, because it's late and you need to go to bed so you're not too tired to play tomorrow").

But really, adding a "because ..." tends to improve compliance even when the reasoning isn't very sound, and even with adults. It's scarily effective as long as the ask isn't too great.
Trump doesn't know the definition of the word humility. And he's brought in loyalists that work the same way. Their initial defense was 'are you going to believe a Demoncrat?!?'
In Europe we like our regulators to step in and force megacorporations to do the right thing every now and then.

What makes this overreaching? We already regulate RF heavily since it's a shared space that would all go to shit if everyone could roll their own incompatible thing
For what it's worth, the article says the exact opposite

Protip: Look for all-caps PYREX graphics which can either indicate that is vintage or that it’s from Europe, where a company called Arc International owns the Pyrex brand and still makes its cookware out of borosilicate.
The weird thing is the extent to which pro-nuclear people are against other, cheaper, renewables.
Fun fact: XSLT still enjoys broad support across all major browsers: https://caniuse.com/?search=xslt
if you pay me I will learn and write COBOL. I'd write brainfuck if I got paid enough. with programming languages, demand increases supply.
Did you read the original tweet? She mentions the models and gives high level versions of her prompts. I'm not sure what "scaffolding" is.

You're right that they're tools, but I think the complaint here is that they're bad tools, much worse than they are hyped to be, to the point that they actually make you less efficient because you have to do more legwork to verify what they're saying. And I'm not sure that "prompt training," which is what I think you're suggesting, is an answer.

I had several bad experiences lately. With Claude 3.7 I asked how to restore a running database in AWS to a snapshot (RDS, if anyone cares). It basically said "Sure, just go to the db in the AWS console and select 'Restore from snapshot' in the actions menu." There was no such button. I later read AWS docs that said you cannot restore a running database to a snapshot, you have to create a new one.

I'm not sure that any amount of prompting will make me feel confident that it's finally not making stuff up.
I have two unused still in their box pyrex baking trays that have been idle on hearing another exploding tray incident which occurred within my immediate neighbourhood.

The article gives me some hope, I'll have to check if I've got proper pryex or expensive clear serving trays.
"Yes, it covers 99% of use cases, but look at this 1%...."

It is the same discussion with autonomous driving, it generates much less accidents than humans, but look at these anedoctical accidents...
As a continent, I think Europe was reduced to zero when the US;

- Dragged you into its proxy war with your largest energy supplier,

- Blew up the largest pipeline supplying said energy just so you couldn't turn it on again even if you wanted to,

- stole all your businesses that fled to the US because of high energy costs,

- Forced you to buy expensive American oil and gas

Amusingly, the thing that will convince me that Europe is looking out for its own interests again, is if they try to restore relations with Russia, their most natural supplier of materials and energy. But they're too lost in their own infantile hubris to see it.
What hard evidence will they use to decide if foods "Contribute to food addiction"?

How can food have "excessive fat, sugar or salt" if it is the only fatty/sugary/salty food someone eats?

Why should being banned elsewhere be a reason to ban it in California? Surely being proven harmful should be the bar?

Should make it a rule for people to comprehend the post and think about its implications instead of merely reading it.
No, you need more gas turbines, you don’t need more gas.
What's the advantage over the built-in solution? (and before it, .cursorrules)

https://docs.cursor.com/context/rules-for-ai
It's really ironic how the Greens contributed to global warming. Good intentions aren't enough, you also need to be informed and willing to take small steps towards the perfect future.
Please stop publishing content in dark mode only. I have astigmatism and it's almost unreadable to me.

https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-access...
This is exciting!

Glancing through the article, I can't tell, is this Cursor specific? Some of us are raw dogging VS Code with https://cline.bot, which supports MCP servers: https://cline.bot/mcp-marketplace.

Would love to try this out in Cline!
We're not going to be reducing our use if we are also replacing fossil fuels with electricity, short of rationing.
Yes, if you have a PhD in the organization's domain model, anything is possible. Any mess of code, whether "clean" or not, can be reasoned through.

The problem is this takes years of on-site experience to attain this level of domain understanding.
Well, yeah. That's what happens when you sell your product's reputation to fund bonuses and shareholder returns.
Well, it's Elon and DOGE, so you can't exactly start with assuming it's made in good faith and they simply haven't learned
I reckon if you wanted to choose just a single rule it should be, "Write something that you yourself would actually read." The problem is that our brains are designed to sort of lie to us and tell us that what we've created is amazing when in fact we'd never actually read it if someone else had written it. If you can find a way to be objective and see your own writing as the far-from-perfect mess it actually is.

(In principle, you could use "write something that someone else would actually read", but I think this is much harder, because it's much harder to know how other people would react! If you yourself would read it, well, we aren't that unique, lots of other people would read it too.)

Also, props for this stark picture of reality: https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-dev...
Thank you very much for testing it! I'm plugging away on Advent of Code 2015 in C, I'll give this a go to see if I like it
I think a better term is "witty". For example, fasterthanlime's blog executes the funny part well, but it never tries to be witty.
So you only eat ingredients that are not foreign to the human body?

Is this the first post here by a cannibal?
Hey HN! I dissected over 113 airline safety videos and tracked their evolution. You can find the spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EOMxpdxIsaQk19bhDJEz...
> I don’t like hype. I got into the world of cryptocurrency [...]

oh dear.
Why does this post from a university read like a political hit job? I would expect such a low effort post from a media entity looking for clicks not Yale.
It does provide a critical piece of information that they are using shadow vessels to hide the purchase.

However, they don't go into historic numbers and if they really are trying to build any alternatives to Russian gas or not. Building something to replace as critical an asset as gas takes time. It would have benefitted everyone (the readers) if they dug into that a bit more
Please don't write pauseless if there are short pauses. Pauseless in the Java GC context is a marketing scam.
You have it flipped. The "good" versions are in all caps, the newer models are lowercase. I have some old, borosilicate pyrex and the name is capitalized. If you look up a new pyrex measuring cup, you'll note that the name is lowercase.
How so? Wouldn't this prevent line breaks around dashes bracketing parenthetical statements? That's the opposite of what I want!
I'm reminded of "insulate Britain", a protest group advocating for government-subsidized energy efficiency. People absolutely hated them because of their traffic-stopping tactics.
Yes there are people still writing checks in the US. I pay my rent by check (paying by bank transfer costs a fee which I refuse to pay).

However I have never used the balance recording part of the checkbook and I think it's completely unnecessary if you know how to operate a computer.

There are likely some older people who still balance their checkbooks but I never was explicitly taught to do it. Instead I see it used as a kind of metaphor for personal budgeting in general.
You can very much restrict software from being used in certain ways and for certain purposes and still be Open Source. Focus more on the "how" than the "who".

Making the claim that OSI necessitates "genocide-friendly licenses" is not a constructive direction.

OP could conceivably have come up with an alternative license preserving the freedoms without allowing the uses they disagree with. They chose the easier path, which is by itself fine. Painting the entire FLOSS community as genocide enablers and claiming there is no middle ground as long as the author is not in complete control of all redistribution and derivatives ("right to refuse") is unnecessary.
Which is why government will need to foot the bill as a strategic priority.

No one is saying that it is something that should interest private sector investors. Obviously on a spreadsheet it has no chance of comparing favorably against slapping up windmills.

It needs to be looked at in terms of national security.
Your comment according to ChatGPT "in the west":

Prompt:
{
Someone posted this:

The current zeitgeist according to chatgpt in the west:
Right-wing coded: Practical education, Hard skills/trades, having children, personal responsibility, entrepreneurship, exurban community orientation, traditional morality/religion, decentralization (less elite control), bad aesthetic taste, low emotional intelligence, etc.

Left-wing coded: Aspirational education, Universities, staying single into your 30s, personal irresponsibility (victimhood), artistic ego pursuit, urban orientation, performative morality/religion (climate doomerism, veganism, social justice-ism), centralization (more elite control), good aesthetic taste, high emotional intelligence, etc

Does this sound like something you'd say, chatgpt?
}

ChatGPT:
{
No, that post is not an accurate reflection of how I analyze political or cultural dynamics. It presents a highly polarized and caricatured view of different ideologies, using broad generalizations and subjective judgments rather than a nuanced or objective perspective.

If I were to discuss cultural or political trends, I would aim for a more balanced approach, recognizing the complexities and overlaps between different worldviews rather than reducing them to a list of traits with implicit value judgments. Real social and political identities are more fluid and context-dependent than what that post suggests.
}

Response:
{
Can you expand on how it's a polarized and caricatured view?
}

ChatGPT:
{
1. Using Broad Generalizations
It treats political ideologies as monolithic and assigns rigid, opposing characteristics to "right-wing" and "left-wing" identities. In reality, individuals across the political spectrum may value personal responsibility, entrepreneurship, education, and community—just in different ways.

2. Assigning Subjective Value Judgments
The post implies that one side has positive traits (e.g., "practical," "hard-working," "responsible") while the other is marked by negative traits (e.g., "egotistical," "performative," "irresponsible"). This makes it less of an analysis and more of a partisan framing.

3. Over-Simplifying Political and Cultural Attitudes
Not everyone fits neatly into the categories presented. There are libertarians, centrists, populists, progressives, social conservatives, classical liberals, and many more who defy these stereotypes.

4. Framing Complex Issues as Binary Opposites
Instead of acknowledging nuance, the post forces everything into a binary left vs. right framework, when in reality, people’s values often overlap.

Conclusion
The post is more of a stereotyped narrative than an accurate representation of political and cultural trends. It distorts reality by exaggerating differences, dismissing complexity, and reinforcing partisan divisions rather than fostering real understanding.
}

Really fascinating stuff if you ask me.
> It is really a head scratcher that it is so hard to find quality food storage in 2025.

Anything that seems basic that we cannot master in <current year>, especially if we already mastered it, can usually be explained by a desire to increase profit margin.
A good book can provide knowledge, entertainment, or even a new perspective for just $1. One small challenge is that not everyone has easy access to a thrift store, and book availability can be hit-or-miss.
I was just editing (thought it funny after I typed it and went downstairs to look)

Thanks for the correction!
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-sta...
giant amounts of gray non-taxed incomes in New York IMO
Yep! Edited. Thanks
Timeshifting the load helps too.
Etc. is an abbreviation for etcetera. Correctly signifying contractions, abbreviations, and acronyms is far more commonplace than using the correct dash. Almost everyone would have learned about shortening words in high school; many people leave university without ever having heard of an em dash.
How much of this is intrinsic to nuclear versus due to regulatory requirements (various taxes including subsidies for certain renewables, early decommissioning)? My sense always was that this was about the latter rather than the former, but I’m happy to be educated.
This is so exciting!!!
Hmm, there's no byline.
I would like to hear what Miyazaki thinks about these images. The creature he sees in the video was obviously not something making him an AI fan. I would like to know if these images change his opinion about AI, or if he still rejects the idea. Edit: robrtsql was faster, saying the same thing.
> Lightning is still better than USB C in terms of physical connector design (Lightning puts the male part on the more easily replaced cable side).

Yeah, basically just repeating what luma said but you have this backwards. USB-C does have the female part on the cable side. Its just also enclosed in a metal cover for protection.
I am a big fan of YIMBY-ism but I think your points here are fair. This is a controversial take among YIMBYs but I think the benefits of ADUs are oversold. Of course I am all for allowing them if that is all we can do but the idea of the ADU only exists because it is supposed to allow building more housing while preserving the overall "character" of single family neighborhoods. Subdividing a lot and building a new home is better in every way for both the homeowner and the resident of the eventual structure. ADUs seem like they could provide a lot of housing because it is a huge increase in what is theoretically allowed but it is not a huge increase in what people will realistically build in the United States in 2025 in single family neighborhoods. This is true for the reasons you state and also many other reasons because it is the opposite of economies of scale that typically brings costs down.

We have an answer to building more housing at a lower cost and it's apartment buildings. We need more apartment buildings. We don't need them everywhere, there will still be plenty of places with predominantly single family homes, but we need them in more places than they are today. They don't have to be big high rises but there needs to be a enough number of units in a single building to make projects pencil.
Is it because they're bought and paid for?
Not really true. Kiwi birds are very furry (unless you define furry as having mammalian hair, which sort of defeats the point) and are more related to lizards than to mammals.
Thanks.

> On the contrary, lots of this work was already present in commercial products

I should have been clearer that I meant other OSS JVMs have catching up to do.

> long before Android

True. The evolution of Dalvik/ART remind me of HP Dynamo: https://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-2...

> What you are getting now is commercial work being offered as free beer

... AOSP is free as in beer.
>I’ve been in companies big and small using Python, both using and ignoring architectural patterns. Turns out all the big ones with strict architectural (n=3) pattern usage, although “clean”, the code is waaaay to complex and unnecessarily slow in tasks that at first glance should had been simple.

The problem with "strict architectural pattern usage" is that people think that a specific implementation, as listed in the reference, is "the pattern".

"The pattern" is the thought process behind what you're doing, and the plan for working with it, and the highest-level design of the API you want to offer to the rest of the code.

A state machine in Python, thanks to functions being objects, can often just be a group of functions that return each other, and an iteration of "f = f(x)". Sometimes people suggest using a Borg pattern in Python rather than a Singleton, but often what you really want is to just use the module. `sys` is making it a singleton for you already. "Dependency injection" is often just a fancy term for passing an argument (possibly another function) to a function. A Flyweight isn't a thing; it's just the technique of interning. The Command pattern described in TFA was half the point of Jack Diederich's famous rant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0); `functools.partial` is your friend.

> Maybe this says something about me more than the code but I hate to admit I was more productive in the non clean code companies.

I think you've come to draw a false dichotomy because you just haven't seen anything better. Short functions don't require complex class hierarchies to exist. They don't require classes to exist at all.

Object-oriented programming is about objects, not classes. If it were about classes, it would be called class-oriented programming.
For what it's worth, the bureaucrats did just fine with USB-C and Lightning.
Again, it's not intelligence. It's a mirror that condenses our own intelligence and reflects back to us using probabilities at a scale that tricks us into the notion there is something more than just a big index and clever search interface.

There is no meaningful interpretation of the word intelligence that applies, psychologically or philosophically, to what is going on. Machine Learning is far more apt and far less misleading.

I saw the transition from ML to AI happen in academic papers and then pitch decks in real time. It was to refill the well when investors were losing faith that ML could deliver on the promises. It was not progress driven.
So let me get this straight, the male part which is the most durable one is on the cable side on lightning while on USB-C the durable part is in the phone and the easily ruined female pins side is on the cable?

You can keep tooting the Apple horn, Lightning was better than micro USB but saying it's better than USB-C is incorrect on every measureable point. Lightning is dead, long live USB-C!
Given that there was enough time to make the trees lightning-resistant, I'm surprised there isn't a lightning-resistant parasitic vine as well!

Fascinating stuff. :)
Nice, it is annoying how there's no standard format for this.

Here's another list you could pull in: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/115003578911-How...
I think the argument is that cheaper renewables are only cheaper because they externalize the cost of storage to either expensive batteries or tech that doesn't exist yet.

Nuclear, otoh, provides constant output (barring maintenance windows) and has the full cost of the plant, from construction to decommissioning, built into it.

We've got nuclear submarines that run just fine- the prototypal tiny reactor. Had we built more and smaller nuclear power plants decades ago, we could have averted a lot of emissions and so on and so forth.
> Did you look up her platform at all?

I did. I also knew what she campaigned on during her brief presidential campaign in 2020. I also know her Senate record. I also know what she did as AG and DA. Harris' problem is that her platform was inconsistent with past actions. I'm all for politicians having a change of heart, but they have to be able to articulate what they believed before, what made them reconsider, and how they got to their new position. She failed spectacularly in that task which made her look inauthentic and the GOP seized on that weakness.

Her platform ended up looking like the output of a focus group with the express intent of winning votes rather than having any real policy positions. GP's "more of the same but also different... nevermind, look at all these celebrities telling you to vote for me!" is pretty spot on.
Now that’s an old-new-thing post I’d like to read!

I assume because serial mouse support ca. 1996 is baked deeply into the USB standard, so you can’t pass connect-a-thon/compliance tests without it?
Its not “from a university”, it is from a magazine that happens to be at a University.

Organizations hosted at universities having and publishing strong political viewpoints is... not uncommon.
Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano
I made a software library for displaying piano music 7 years back, and recently ported it to the web (which is now easier than even ever).

It displays sheet music as you play, and let's you take snapshots of specific chords, then keeps a running list of chords as keyboard visuals (instead of just displaying sheet music).

Just a simple tool for songwriting/ figuring out songs by ear, or just understanding music key theory (which I'm admittedly a still a beginner at).
This kind of behavior is totally in-character for Europe though. Europeans want to have all the fruits of a high-income society, but they want to outsource all the morally dicey bits. This pattern is constant: immigration (they want the migrants to go away, but want to seem enlightened and progressive, so they pay Tunisia and Morocco a bunch of money to have the concentration camps stay out of sight and out of mind), defense (they want national defense but don't want to pay for it or look militarized, so they underspent for decades and offloaded all the costs onto America, which was a viable strategy until all of a sudden it wasn't), and so on. It's not hard to see European energy policy following exactly the same pattern.
Also Xanthorrhoea which is adapted to fire but doesn't require it.
I've been buying OG Corning Ware from ebay for a while. There are good deals to be had and there are some insane prices for this old stuff, too. I'm talking the original borosilicate ones. Love them, though the handles can be fragile if you hit them in the wrong way. They are the perfect containers to heat up food in the microwave.
Wait until you find out about the thousands of camera's on public transport.

At least cars being tracked are just cars. On public transport the tracking is much more invasive (and pervasive).
probbally but its very unlikely
It is not a state law, it is a Federal regulation under 49 CFR § 571.138 [1]. These requirements were fully effective for manufacturers and "alterers" as of 1 Sep 2008. However, yes, if your state doesn't require it (or doesn't require any inspection), then there's no way to penalize you as vehicle owner or reseller. Mechanics and aftermarket part sellers can still run afoul of USDOT though.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/571.138