MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-04-11 12:35:09+00:00
What this is describing is not what the Ford quote is talking about. Netflix and all the rest didn't TikTokify because they were trying to create some massive visionary innovation, but the opposite.

They did it because it's more profitable to shovel slop than to distribute quality. Quality content is expensive to make. Slop isn't. The way you do that is by hypnotizing people with addiction. To do that you have to have control over what people see and use algorithms to optimize that to "maximize engagement." You need your users mindlessly scrolling, not searching and categorizing and exploring. You need to disengage the neocortex and engage the brain stem.

TikTok is being copied by everyone because they nailed this formula better than anyone. They didn't invent it, just perfected it. I'd say Meta/Facebook invented it, which is why Zuckerberg should be known as the man who destroyed the Internet.

The next step beyond TikTok is a 100% AI generated algorithmic feed. Drop the human creators entirely. Everyone gets a personalized feed of low-quality AI slop tuned for maximum engagement.

Addiction is the best business model.
by 1dom | 2025-04-11 12:35:58+00:00
Strong agree.

I've also seen it a lot: sales person at a small tech startup convinces business person in large tech company to ignore their own engineers. I suspect most engineers at large firms have been on one side of this experience at somepoint, and most engineers at small but successful tech startups have been on the other side (lead engineer to sales: "You told them our our product could do _what?!_ That's fine. I never wanted my PTO anyway...:(")
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-11 12:36:16+00:00
Hold the phone, since when is a "clock tattoo" a gang symbol?

>"Jump Man Symbol"

You mean Nike's Air Jordan symbol? Since when is that a gang symbol? Is this for real or is DHS just fucking with people based on movies they watched?

At this rate they will start arresting people with black hoodies as that's the symbol of computer hackers.
by dekervin | 2025-04-11 12:36:41+00:00
Interesting. I have been working on a service in an adjacent space, that I hope is innovative enough, but not ready yet for prime time.

I would love to exchange with you about it ( even if it's just a few short emails ) and show it to you when it's ready.

Is there anyway to reach you? I'll leave my email on my profile for a few days too !
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-04-11 12:37:43+00:00
If you wish to do some of your own tests, vs using a service, swab test kits have a reputation for being very poor quality and unreliable. This led this gal to start a kind of one-woman crusade on the topic:

https://tamararubin.com/2023/01/dont-panic-these-lead-test-k...

She recommends the american brand Scitus for swab test kits.
by ashish-r | 2025-04-11 12:38:23+00:00
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by Taek | 2025-04-11 12:38:28+00:00
The root problem seems to be monopoly and fragmentation.

When Ford was working on a car, people who wanted a faster horse could go to the horse store. There were reasonable alternatives to Ford's new method of transportation.

But here, you can't recreate Spotify from 2015. You'll never get the rights to play the music for users. Same with Netflix, you'll never get the rights to show the movies.

Same thing with Twitter, Facebook, etc. Even if you know exactly what content your user wants, you can't fetch it for them because it was posted in some other walled garden, and that wall stops you from competing.

If you want a faster horse, change the laws so that people can build faster horses and compete.
by aab107 | 2025-04-11 12:39:13+00:00
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by bell-cot | 2025-04-11 12:39:36+00:00
Worth noting, for those unfamiliar:

Similar to a real-world prison, an "inescapable" FreeBSD jail may be easy to break out of, if you have help from the guards & staff. In particular, `man jail` warns against an easy route for a jailed root user to, with a quick assist from a low-privilege user on the host system, gain root on the host. So if the security is lax within one of your jails, because "it's all locked in a jail, they can't do much" - yeah.
by iszomer | 2025-04-11 12:40:23+00:00
They might, if their expectations are as simple as an on ramp to better or more stable things. It would also make sense for those who are using this method for career change.

I have a coworker who "couldn't hack it" as a paralegal and is now working in the line for server assembly. Or another coworker who came from a major daytrading firm to work quality control with me.
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-11 12:40:29+00:00
Yup I have realized that too, it's just two faces of the same coin. I have also found out that what I really WANT to do is usually not something I'm good at.

For example I consider myself good at being a middle man between backend and analyst (I work as a data engineer in between) because none has the time and interest to communicate with each other -- so I usually took up the initiative and clear up things. I also work in small companies where people are expected to wear multiple hats, so no one gets their toes stepped on. But oh how I HATE that part of the job. How I want to get into some low level programming which is further from the "stakeholders" and the scope is larger than two weeks! Then I did a bit of low level projects and found myself not really good at what I want to do -- at least not good enough to even think about applying for such a job where everyone has done projects left and right when they were in schools. The mental doesn't help either. I might be able to be more productive if I don't need to work or/and don't have a family, but I can get rid of none.
by hobs | 2025-04-11 12:40:33+00:00
Hell, small in this context can be Snowflake or Databricks, this is the concept of Shadow IT - a slick sales call can convince and move things in a business that an army of engineers will struggle to convince their bosses of.

External sales person says "oh you've been struggling with that for YEARS?!!?!?! We can get that done in 90 days if you can get that group of people on board" (3 years passes, everyone involved doesn't work there anymore, the project is a mess)

External sales person says "oh you've been struggling with that for YEARS?!!?!?! We can get that done in 90 days if you can get that group of people on board" (3 years passes, everyone involved doesn't work there anymore, the project is a mess)

You get the idea.
by netsharc | 2025-04-11 12:40:55+00:00
I can imagine the systems were rickety that it was more convenient to have routine maintenance hours. Routine in the sense of "We just need to wait until tonight to fix the problem", rather than "We need to fix this, we have to apply for a maintenance period, wait for it to be announced to the customers, etc, etc."

Since it's Germany it'd have to go through to many departments and take at least a week to be approved.
by Freak_NL | 2025-04-11 12:41:11+00:00
One upside: by degrading the experience¹ Netflix did make it a lot easier to simply stop your subscription and hop over to another streaming service for a few months.

A very interesting development: in the Netherlands KPN, one of the largest telcos, introduced a feature where any household with several of their products in use (e.g., two cellphones and fiber internet) could choose a free 'gift'². The gift is a choice from a bunch of subscriptions, including Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max. And you get to switch monthly if you want to. So we ditched our own Netflix subscription and started watching Disney+ for now. Perhaps we'll switch in a few months.

These services probably realise that their customers are made up of 'hoppers', and 'stackers' (people who take out multiple subscriptions to streaming services at once). I wonder what the distribution for each service is.

1: In part forced upon them by the content owners waking up and wanting to set up their own exclusive shops of course, and in part because of, well, greed (the UI suckiness).

2: The trade-off is obviously that this stimulates consumers to consolidate their telco products with them. In my case this was already so, so for me this is just a small incentive to stay with them (i.e., it saves me €9 a month).
by IHLayman | 2025-04-11 12:41:27+00:00
I love the idea of this flake to run Ollama even on Windows, but just pointing people to your _everything_ flake is going to confuse people and make it look harder than it is to run Ollama on Nix.

If you are using a system-controlling Nix (nix-darwin, NixOS…), it’s as easy as `hardware.services.ollama.enable=true` with maybe adding `.acceleration=“cuda”` to force GPU usage or `host=“0.0.0.0”` to allow connections to Ollama that are not local to your system. In a home-manager situation it is even easier: just include `pkgs.ollama` in your `home.packages`, with an `.override{}` for the same options above. That should be it, really.

I will say that if you have a more complex NixOS setup that patches the kernel or can’t lean on cachix for some reason that using the ollama package takes a long time to compile. My setup at home runs on a 3950X Threadripper and when Ollama compiles it uses all the cores at 99% for about 16 minutes.
by re-thc | 2025-04-11 12:41:29+00:00
> if this thing goes that way

IF...

> weird fingers and shit just a year ago, now it's hard to identify AI generated images

It's still easy and it's never been about the fingers. Things like lighting are still way off (on the latest models).

> At some point the single file shit stew will be good enough

At some point we'll be living in Mars too.
by sokoloff | 2025-04-11 12:41:59+00:00
> Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches

For street usage, I think those cars are popular because they’re beautiful more than because they’re fast (or because enthusiasts like them).

My utterly soulless Lexus will drive more than fast enough to get me in serious trouble. No one will look at it and feel stirred by its beauty, whereas the typical Ferrari or Porsche coupe will look at least appealing to most and beautiful to many, even those who can’t tell the three marques apart or even unaided recall the name Lamborghini.
by soco | 2025-04-11 12:42:14+00:00
It's important to look at the competition as well for this. I think we can all agree that streaming is here to stay. But how are the others faring here? In a more and more fragmented landscape, Netflix still has the fattest offering. Also the quality of the service (aka, search, languages offered, subtitles, trailers, stream quality, own productions...) is way better than say Prime or Disney+. So why shouldn't they be leading the stats? Even if you think they suck, compared to the rest of the pack they suck the least.
by JackMorgan | 2025-04-11 12:42:17+00:00
You've got it backwards, Netflix doesn't want people to just doom-scroll, the users want to doom-scroll.

Attention destroying apps reduce the long term focus and reward centers such that doom-scrolling through the catalog probably feels better than just watching something. Most of the folks I know who start a movie or show immediately pull out their phones anyway to scroll elsewhere.
by Ukv | 2025-04-11 12:42:33+00:00
> A journalist posted a altered photo not a meme.

When there's a blank template of someone holding a sign, and people are adding on messages intended to be humorous/satirical (e.g: https://x.com/Wrdlbrmpfd_Wrdl/status/1618755937355063296) then spreading it on social media, that'd generally be called a meme.

> The photo is based on a real photo of her holding a paper with „we remember“ written on it.

I linked the original and edited version above, yeah.

To be pedantic, Bendels' edit appears to be based on a blank template used by other posts (e.g: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnrNpDzXgAEsmtI.jpg) and not directly on the original photo itself.

> Those satires have lead to insults and death threats in the past and people like him know that.

People sending death threats or calling for violence should be prosecuted. But I do not think it's reasonable to criminialize satire like this on the basis that it might "lead to insults" from other people.

Or at the very least, if you do hold that view, you should see why others would consider it an impediment on free speech.
by Breza | 2025-04-11 12:43:38+00:00
I agree with your specific point. I think copyright should last for 50 years. That would protect long running franchises like Harry Potter or the Dresden Files but still allow things like Spiderman and Aretha Franklin to be freely reimagined.

However, most of the examples in the article should still be protected. Lara Croft first appeared 29 years ago. Any copyright system should still be protecting IP from 1996.
by brap | 2025-04-11 12:43:38+00:00
There are ways to handle side effects with pure functions only (it’s kind of cheating, because the actual side effects are performed by the non-pure runtime/framework that’s abstracted away, while the pure user code just defines when to perform them and how to respond to them). It’s possible, but it gets very awkward very fast. I wouldn’t use FP for any part of the code that deals with IO.
by andai | 2025-04-11 12:43:40+00:00
This is brilliant! It really is context dependent. There's probably exceptions to that though.

I heard an example yesterday that dealt with a more "universally" negative trait: a boss gave feedback to a colleague who was widely considered an asshole.

Everyone had already told him to stop being an asshole and that didn't help at all. That's not actionable.

Instead, they boiled it down to four specific behaviors that produced the complaints, and then came up with alternative behaviors to execute in those situations.

The complaints went away within a week.

Source: Alex Hormozi

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Edit: I've just read a few of the other posts on this blog (Terrible Software), they are equally brilliant. Highly recommended.
by rchaud | 2025-04-11 12:43:53+00:00
> If you need AI to tell you about a guest and tell you what to ask them, why are you having them on your podcast?

Podcasts today are little but another appendage of the PR grist mill. Like reality TV, it costs almost nothing to produce yet it can be stuffed with just as many ads. Tools like this help lower the bar even further. Why put out one pod a week when you can churn out 3?

Of the top 100 podcasts today, at least half that are in the "lifestyle" genre where the hosts do nothing besides interview Internet personalities in the wellness, productivity and finance sectors. The pods are 2-3 hours long (more ads can be fit in that way) and I've noticed that the hosts often know zero about the guest and figure it out along the way.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-11 12:45:40+00:00
To suffer is human for sure, no amount of technology or progress would solve that fundamental state of being.

That said, it is quite possible to be content with what you have and actually experience joy and fulfillment, you don't even need all the modern luxuries and even your basic needs to be met for that. But disease, pain, discomfort and an endless class of issues that stem from the "other people" category are a forever reality.

In my experience, if you can figure out how to get along with your own self, lead a life you yourself approve of and be content with your situation, suffering becomes something you experience once in a long while as you adapt to new situations, not a perpetually endured reality.
by another-dave | 2025-04-11 12:45:58+00:00
which is also what I feel about the Spotify algorthim at times — no matter what I'm listening to, it invariably brings me back to what it thinks are my "old reliables" once it gets onto recommending stuff.

I might just listen to it, if I have it on in the background, which then in turn feeds the algorithm that it made the "correct choice", but it's a million miles away from, say, listening to a radio DJ where you like their rough output but they're cherry-picking what to play next.
by ozim | 2025-04-11 12:46:23+00:00
That’s leg work you have to do on your own.

Just like football scouts need to actually visit some niche teams and watch not that interesting stuff to find talent before it is too late.

With tech it might be easier because you might create niche groups so those people come to you.

Just like PG created HN. Nowadays HN is too mainstream so all ideas here are seem already popular so it is like going to scout high school t am that won local championship everyone already knows which players are lined for pro contracts.
by kleiba | 2025-04-11 12:46:41+00:00
Cool tech, but for some reason, the very first sentence in every reply the AI gives in the demo videos is really off-putting to me personally. It seems to me like perhaps this kind of joyful helpfulness introductory sentence is expected in US culture, but it immediately turned me off. I come from a culture that is less verbose in general and more to the point, so this feels like a mismatch right away.
by sylware | 2025-04-11 12:46:52+00:00
Corollary: many wrongly think the account creation spam is a BOT issue, they forget about click farms (real humans) using VPNs.

And AI strapped to mouse and keyboard on an headless google or apple web engine trained with the data of click farms (or directly trained by the humans there) is lurking around the corner... if not already there, ofc.
by bloak | 2025-04-11 12:47:38+00:00
This sounds like an economic problem with no obvious solution: network effects => monopoly => "optimising" for typical user. Where there isn't a monopoly (or anything close to a monopoly) you find different firms specialising in different ways. For example, small independent restaurants survive by being distinctive, not by trying to imitate McDonald's.

YouTube and LinkedIn are practically monopolies. Netflix isn't a monopoly in the same way but you usually don't have a choice of streaming services for watching a particular film or series so it's different from being able to buy the same cheese or the same wine from any of several different supermarkets.
by jbverschoor | 2025-04-11 12:47:53+00:00
I'm not seeing any broadcasts.

What it does is it has a private network for the containers and itself (all containers get their own unique IP, so there's no port mapping needed).

http://orb.local simply lists all running containers.

The host-names are automatically derived from the containername / directoryname / compose project, but you can add other hostnames as well by adding docker labels.

It works really well.
by randcraw | 2025-04-11 12:48:22+00:00
I hope this is an April Fool's joke.

I just retired after 19 years in the pharma industry. Animal testing is essential for new drug safety assessment because off-target damage to tissues cannot be detected using any method other than entire animals since drug byproducts from digestion or absorption do not exist in the lab -- in vitro or in silico. Measuring drug effects on the body requires exposure to ALL of an animal's tissues to see which will react. Drug efficacy too can't be measured usefully without full body animal and human studies.

Whomever proposed this obviously did not talk to _anyone_ in the pharma industry. The strategy is completely and dangerously clueless. I'm sure Derek Lowe will very soon explain this in more detail in his blog at Science.

Washington has gone insane.
by nicolaslem | 2025-04-11 12:48:37+00:00
As someone who is routinely impressed by Home Assistant and its official iOS app, I think you will have a tough time convincing users to switch.

> For comparison, Home Assistant’s Nabu Casa service costs several times more.

Undercutting Home Assistant's added services on price doesn't feel particularly elegant since this is what they use to fund HA development.
by nodesocket | 2025-04-11 12:49:16+00:00
Appreciate your detailed and thoughtful comment.

1.) Agree, need to add a description to the README. Will do.

3.) Wildcard record support would be cool. Also want to support hot loading of hosts.json without needing to restart the server. Building an API is probably not going to happen (time constraints), but hot loading support allows users to use their tools of choice to simply modify the hosts.json file.

4.) Yup, the ability to override the default fallback DNS resolver is needed. Most likely will implement as an ENVAR.

5.) Serving TXT and other record types probably not going to happen (again time constraints).
by lukev | 2025-04-11 12:49:38+00:00
I've had quite my fill of "real time" and "interactive" web pages. Slow, bloated, terrible UX as often as not.

Even Datastar/HTMX might be too much. Server-side HTML can get you very, very far in most applications. It's faster, lighter, and looks and feels cleaner.

Case in point: do you really prefer a heavy, real time interactive message board like the default interface of Reddit? Because we're talking on HN, which is super fast, light, usable, and completely server-side.
by jt-hill | 2025-04-11 12:50:07+00:00
I’m sympathetic to the desire to recapture the electricity of early Twitter, but I’m reminded of the famous quote that “a man cannot step in the same river twice.”

I’m on Bluesky too, and it’s alright, but the internet has changed, the world has changed, and I have changed. It can’t ever be quite the same experience.
by mikelevins | 2025-04-11 12:51:14+00:00
We need art, too. We may not know what we need it for, but we evidently need it for something.

We've been making art for a really long time. We've been smearing colors onto surfaces for at least tens of thousands of years, and carving patterns into rocks and shells for at least hundreds of thousands of years.

Everywhere you find human communities, you find some kind of art. We must need it for something. If we didn't then it wouldn't be so ubiquitous.
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-11 12:51:31+00:00
I wonder how much it costs to do the following -- let's backtrack.

We already know that US companies can design phones, like Apple.

OK so the next step is to figure out where to source the components -- and under the context of OP's article, that means which components can be sourced directly from the US, or from the EU (i.e. manufactured inside EU, not branded in EU but sourced elsewhere).

Once we can figure out which components are economically feasible to be manufactured in the US and EU with the tariff, we might be able to go from there and slowly expand the operation to the rest of the chain.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-11 12:51:36+00:00
Yeah, more like Netflix (and we might as well add Amazon here) became popular because of "the long tail". Once, I could easily find 1930's classics like "Stella Dallas" on Netflix (and early Ultravox! on Amazon when they would have to be ordered from brick and mortar music stores at the time).

For some reason (perhaps because it costs money to keep a large catalog?) Netflix retracted the long tail while Amazon at least kept theirs unfurled.