MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 47282847 | 2025-04-06 05:37:20+00:00
The last time I had a sort-of externally imposed schedule was at school. At university, attendance wasn’t required, nobody cared as long as I passed the tests. Since then, which is over 20 years ago, I have exclusively worked jobs that are WFH, with teams on various time zones and frequent travel (for others, not me), so everybody is used to scheduling calls via doodle etc.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-04-06 05:37:22+00:00
> People expect you to promote your own products and take it with the grain of salt they should.

Similar thing happened with Amazon recently. They copied bestsellers and promoted their own products in their store leading to death of other companies. Now you are just making this loop in steroids. All the small companies would be forced to be sold to companies with eyeballs like Meta and Google.
by bakuninsbart | 2025-04-06 05:38:00+00:00
The book Why Nations Fail makes a pretty strong argument for the core feature of successful societies to be strong institutions with low perceived corruption. Sensible laws that are upheld equally are a part of that.

The US in particular benefits from an absurd amount of resources (not least of which is land), a perfectly safe geographic position, the global language and an immigrant culture. Basically able to coattail the British after independence, the destruction of much of Eurasia during WWII cemented its position as first. And great diplomacy, including the Marshal Plan, enabled the US to create an international system with many benefits and natural synergies with its inherent strengths.
by directevolve | 2025-04-06 05:38:25+00:00
Not all countries have the same free speech protections as America. I can easily imagine a country that simply has a bureaucracy whose approval is required to publish TV programming, or one that bans banner ads in social media, billboards, restricts shop signs in various ways, requires all packaging in the store to be black and white, etc. Advertising doesn’t have to ve banned outright. It could be killed by a thousand specific rules targeting the most obnoxious forms, provided there wasn’t a constitutional issue in the country implementing these measures.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-04-06 05:39:30+00:00
There’s an app/service called Endel which makes music I find helpful for focus too. My family finds it eerily void and dead, like it’s technically music but lacks any soul. I don’t mind; I don’t listen to it for entertainment. It’s like the white noise.

I also like the white/brown/pink noise a lot. I think sometimes I crave a bit more texture and feature in the noise and so I’ll pull up endel, but I get by really well without it a lot of the time too.
by csense | 2025-04-06 05:39:40+00:00
How do they know some entrepreneur won't buy a boatload of them, export them from China to France or Indonesia or wherever, then re-export them to the US?

Especially if said entrepreneur is working with (or an outright front for) US intelligence, so they're sophisticated enough at this game to run an Airtag detector over the cargo when they transfer it from the ship the Chinese know about to the one they don't.
by ignoramous | 2025-04-06 05:40:37+00:00
> 40% of Americans believe that God created the earth in the last 10,000 years ... If I ask an LLM how old the Earth is, and it replies ~4.5 billion years old, is it biased?

Well, the LLM is not American enough.

Just like there's a whole gamut of cultural/belief systems (for most, rooted in Abrahamic religions & tribes), Zuck claims humanity needs (or whoever he considers human) LLMs that align with people creating/using them (so, it reinforces their own meaning-making methods and not shatter them with pesky scientific knowledge & annoying facts).
by timewizard | 2025-04-06 05:41:02+00:00
> The team took advantage of the shift to restructure the database "because we found that our storage provider was being a little bit naughty", storing the data three or four times in order to charge more money.

This is the worst kind of graft and should result in criminal charges. The software development industry is still in a nascent stage and our tools are great but professional standards are still undeveloped.

> Technology is often seen as the problem, he said, but he generally found that the problems were due to using obsolete technology and a lack of knowledge about the data being handled. There is often no documentation of the data and its structure, coupled with no understanding of that by the people in charge of it. Poor leadership in the agencies is another barrier; there needs to be a champion for a change of this sort, who understands what needs to be done and properly assigns people to work on it.

Oh. Well. Precisely.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-04-06 05:41:37+00:00
Here, there's even a wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%93present_United_Ki...

How is this related to brexit? Well, it's mentioned several times in that page, but here: > Brexit has permanently diminished trade efficiency in the UK...weakening the UK’s international competitiveness.....intensified the UK’s longstanding productivity issues...imposed lasting structural constraints on productivity ...Brexit’s negative impact on productivity is enduring and structural. Additionally, Brexit has produced effects akin to a negative supply-side shock...An analysis conducted by NIESR colleagues, published in November 2023, suggested that UK business investment could have been about 12.4 per cent higher in 2023 if Brexit did not happen.

https://niesr.ac.uk/blog/five-years-economic-impact-brexit

Funnily enough, one thing that gets called out a lot is the rising wealth inequality that allows the shrinking group of well-off types to be completely ignorant of the worsening conditions at the bottom. You must be doing ok for yourself - but I am genuinely curious what kind of news sources you follow that you are not aware of the very serious levels of poverty and fear rising around the country, and the economic troubles underlying them.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-06 05:43:43+00:00
And how does broadcast Tv work in your no ad supported TV world? Would everyone have to pay for Google for search? Could you not get any news if you couldn’t pay for it?

Websites that do not have any European presence could care less about EU law. I just gave a real world example of what’s going on in the US right now. Florida has a law that says porn sites must have age verification. Xvideos completely ignores the law.

But back to Google, if it weren’t ad supported, does that mean minors couldn’t use it or the poor? Right now, poor and even homeless people can get smart phones for free with data (or use WiFi) from the government.

Would people he don’t have home internet access who can now go to the library not use Google if they don’t pay for it?
by dagmx | 2025-04-06 05:46:14+00:00
You haven’t really expanded on why basing off the Linux kernel would have made more sense, especially at the time.

People have responded to you with timelines explaining why it couldn’t have happened but you seem to keep restating this claim without more substance or context to the time.

Imho Linux would have been the wrong choice and perhaps even the incorrect assumption. Mac is not really BSD based outside of the userland. The kernel was and is significantly different and would’ve hard forked from Linux if they did use it at the time.

Often when people say Linux they mean (the often memes) GNU/Linux , except GNU diverged significantly from the posix command line tools (in that sense macOS is truer) and the GPL3 license is anathema to Apple.

I don’t see any area where basing off Linux would have resulted in materially better results today.
by timewizard | 2025-04-06 05:47:14+00:00
I've never liked the directory.d/* infrastructure. In so many cases, even with a properly configured sshd_config, the resulting configuration file is not so large that it benefits from being split up.

You have to deal with ordering issues, symlink management in some cases, and unless the "namespace" of sorting number prefixes is strictly defined, it's never something that's convenient or durable to "patch" new files into. The proliferation of 99_* files shows the anti-utility this actually provides.

I much prefer configuration files with a basic "include" or "include directory" configuration item. Then I can scope and scale the configuration in ways that are useful to me and not some fragile distribution oriented mechanism. Aside from that with xz I don't think I want my configurations "patchable" in this way.
by comex | 2025-04-06 05:48:23+00:00
The claim is inaccurate and mixes together multiple different things:

- The Mach microkernel originally supported true userland paging, like mmap but with an arbitrary daemon in place of the filesystem. You can see the interface here:

https://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/xnu/osfmk/man/memory_...

But I'm not sure if Darwin ever used this functionality; it certainly hasn't used it for the last ~20 years.

- dynamic_pager never used this interface. It used a different, much more limited Mach interface where xnu could alert it when it was low on swap; dynamic_pager would create swap files, and pass them back into the kernel using macx_swapon and macx_swapoff syscalls. But the actual swapping was done by the kernel. Here is what dynamic_pager used to look like:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds/blob/...

But that functionality has since moved into the kernel, so now dynamic_pager does basically nothing:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds/blob/...

- The vast majority of kernel memory is wired and cannot be paged out. But the kernel can explicitly ask for pageable memory (e.g. with IOMallocPageable), and yes, that memory can be swapped to disk. It's just rarely used.

Still, any code that does this needs to be careful to avoid deadlocks. Even though userland is no longer involved in "paging" per se, it's still possible and in fact common for userland to get involved one or two layers down. You can have userland filesystems with FSKit (or third-party FUSE). You can have filesystems mounted on disk images which rely on userland to convert reads and writes to the virtual block device into reads and writes to the underlying dmg file (see `man hdiutil`). You can have NFS or SMB connections going through userland networking extensions. There are probably other cases I'm not thinking of.

EDIT: Actually, I may be wrong about that last bit. You can definitely have filesystems that block on userspace, but it may not be supported to put swap on those filesystems.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-06 05:48:46+00:00
Traces its roots to the Rochdale pioneers. I'd say it's not just "a" co-op, it's likely the oldest in existence on Earth.

But yeah, working there is not going to be too much different to working at any other store.

Still, don't underplay that. Having something you can go to, walk away from without having to bring home any work, get your 30-40 hours/week (and they'll pay a decent living wage), so you can pay the bills and keep your creative energy for your art... it's not a bad way to be.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-04-06 05:50:51+00:00
Thanks for the links, the "tradeoff" aspect of paraconsistent logic is interesting. I think one way to achieve consensus with your debate partner might be to consider that the language rep is "just" a nondeterministic decompression of "the facts". I'm primed to agree with you but

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41892090

(It's very common, esp. with educationally traumatized Americans, e.g., to identify Math with "calculation"/"approved tools" and not "the concepts")

"No amount of calculation will model conceptual thinking" <- sounds more reasonable?? (You said you were ok with nondeterministic outputs? :)

Sorry to come across as patronizing
Ask HN: Is the admin using ChatGPT for tariffs the most damage so far?
by doctorpangloss | 2025-04-06 05:51:50+00:00
I thought going viral on TikTok for cheating through school was pretty bad. But if the rumors are true - and anyone working at OpenAI can trivially search the logs and determine this - the admins asked ChatGPT to design its ridiculous tariff formula.

Is OpenAI worth the $2T in losses sustained by the market so far? Did anyone anticipate gross incompetence being the way "AI" harms people?
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-06 05:52:03+00:00
Reach - the publishing group that owns a lot of local papers as well as some national titles in the UK, such as the Daily Express and the Mirror - has run their online portfolio into the ground. All their paper websites are like this, and staff have been complaining for some time that their content is getting buried under adtech noise. Worse, the writers have page view targets - no wonder morale there is so poor.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-04-06 05:52:31+00:00
Climate change is going to make large, heavily populated areas somewhere between unattractive and uninhabitable even within the US. Likely outcomes of this are millions of people eventually trying to move from deserts in Texas and California to the PNW or the Midwest. The population of these areas is going to increase, barring the magical peaceful disappearance of half the country, or the unmagical violent disappearance of half the country. If you think you can prevent that climate change, or prevent inland California or Arizona etc from being waterless deserts, or somehow make it safe for everyone to continue living where they are today - go nuts. If you don't think that, start figuring out how your area will absorb more people. It's gonna need a bigger housing supply.
by szszrk | 2025-04-06 05:55:10+00:00
I use Hacki mobile app mostly: it marks what I saw already, lets me favourite, upvote, reply, browse by top/best/ask and so on. It's easier to navigate large posts (many comments).

Then I still come back to best/top/favs at work because there is always something cool I missed or a "show HN" that has a project I'd like to test.

Mobile app helps to keep it tidy and HN has plenty of content easy to consume like that l.

Hacki is on fdroid.
by genezeta | 2025-04-06 05:55:40+00:00
While the game is ok, there's unfortunately a problem on Firefox on Android.

I know, who cares, only three people in the planet use Firefox on Android. But if you want to know anyway...

The problem is the sizes are not adjusted correctly and so the fixed header/upper part overlaps the scrambled word list, almost completely hiding the first word. You can, through some tricky scrolling, manage to see it and then solve it. But it's tricky. And ugly.
by ctrlp | 2025-04-06 05:56:21+00:00
So, basically, regarding journalism: they had learned nothing and forgot nothing. Something died in me when I realized TAL and NPR were largely just bullshit factories. Glass isn't even coy about his motives being to tell/sell stories. He admits that truth is secondary to theater, and he's pretty unapologetic about dressing up performance as journalism. So unconcerned about it, in fact, that he's proudly teaching such ethics to students at prestigious journalism programs when he should be teaching at the performing arts school.
by Const-me | 2025-04-06 05:58:20+00:00
I think the language is OK, it’s just that you are consistently ignoring “in order to promote a product” clause.

The first case is legal because waiter gets paid by the restaurant to serve meals, not to promote the specific brand of rose wine. Only illegal if the waiter has another, secret contract with the wine manufacturer to “recommend” specific wine.

The other two cases are legal because the money exchanged in order to receive goods. The fact the goods are then used to promote something is irrelevant.
by timewizard | 2025-04-06 05:58:55+00:00
TV news in the early era was concentrated. There were only three national networks. When CNN first when on the air in 1980 it signaled the beginning of this change.

During this entire time; however, print journalism was still widely distributed and you could find an absolutely huge range of off beat reporting even from fairly large publications.

The internet era was initially great for this model but once all the advertising effectively got monopolized and search giants started walling off and cherry picking content to place under their own banner it finally killed the rich set of options available in print.
by grey-area | 2025-04-06 06:00:26+00:00
I think if you inspect your answer you’ll see why guns are not what is required for overthrowing a government. Citizens willing to risk their lives, property and liberty is the main requirement, usually because the current situation is so intolerable to them.

Most overthrows result from the population refusing to cooperate, going to the seat of power en masse and forcing a change. Guns would be counterproductive in that process and would justify brutal reprisals. An unarmed civilian crowd is far more persuasive for wavering troops ordered to fire on it.

In addition, most armed rebellions bring out the worst characters as leaders and lead to dictatorship.
by Matumio | 2025-04-06 06:01:00+00:00
Yet we have laws against fraud, rape, and so on. Where do you draw the line for those? There are some crystal clear cases, and there are unclear cases where you could argue forever.

So it is for advertising. You don't need to draw a clear line for every case before you can make a law.

I like how it turned out with email advertising, actually: spam is defined to be whatever people put into their spam folder.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-04-06 06:01:46+00:00
Haha, I love it. It's incredible how tables turn once you submit your resignation. I was being outsourced and my boss declined even the smallest raise, saying that his client would have to raise the payment as well, and I cannot skip him as the middleman. So I resigned and found another job. The next day client reached out to me and asked if I want to skip the middleman, because suddenly it's fine and there are no contractual problems. That would probably mean like a 40% raise at the time. I was tempted, but it was too late.
by 01100011 | 2025-04-06 06:01:55+00:00
Beyond type II bipolar, I don't have a diagnosis for anything psychological but I'm pretty sure I have ADHD with a touch of Asperger's(based mostly on a review of my behaviors over the past 50 years). But yeah I've found "smoothed brown noise" to work wonders.

I also had some success with wearing a snug fitting balaclava. It's odd, but it worked.

Nicotine helped, but I now have NAFLD and nicotine might be a factor in it so I quit.

Modafinil really worked, despite leaving my body feeling drained and sore. I didn't want to keep taking it though.
by cyberax | 2025-04-06 06:03:34+00:00
> Do you think they really mean "per liter" of the actual sample or is this possibly the amount in an already diluted solution that they made from the sample? It seems like an odd unit of measurement otherwise.

The article doesn't specify. But it doesn't particularly matter either way.

Basically, don't drink the fire retardant, and you'll be fine. Even habitual exposure is not a big deal at these levels.
by AndrewDavis | 2025-04-06 06:05:25+00:00
> Usually this is because of the Modern Standby/S0 crap and in many cases there isn't a solution because the BIOS removed support for S3.

Also, modern windows won't let you select S3 sleep if it detects support for S0. There used to be a simple registry edits you could do but Microsoft seem to have closed that loophole.

I chose my current laptop because in the BIOS it has a sleep setting, and if you pick the oddly named "Linux sleep" it disables S0 sleep. Thereby allowing S3 sleep in Windows.

This is after having a previous laptop act like a heater to my lunch in my bag, or being dead despite being full charged after waking up overnight and running hard till the battery ran out. Or perhaps the most obnoxious, my wife closing her laptop with a video running and at 3am her laptop bringing itself to life waking us up.
by martin82 | 2025-04-06 06:05:34+00:00
No it is not. Right leaning opinions are heavily censored and shunned in all major publishing platforms that bots can scrape.

For example, before Trump, if you contested the utterly normal common sense and scientifically sound idea that a trans woman is still a man, you would be banned - therefore, people with common sense will simply disengage, self-censor and get on with life.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-06 06:06:15+00:00
It was easily comprehensive enough, that I printed it out and was showing people today what the differences were in the last couple of os releases, while ruminating about snow leopard. No one mentions that the blue box became Rosetta, and Rosetta II did the same thing in the switch from Intel to ARM.

There are some very tiny points, but this is easily very best to date. ( I started with Rhapsody, and Linux in swedish, and NT 3.1 )( Ran MKLinux on a 7100, but never got accelerated video to work. )
by spondylosaurus | 2025-04-06 06:06:16+00:00
So... I can speak to this because I've listened to almost the entire TAL back catalog, lol.

The show has a stronger journalistic focus now than it did 10 years ago and _way_ more than it did 20 or (almost!) 30 years ago. It's always been part of the show—people who complain that TAL "didn't used to be political" clearly don't remember how many segments they ran about the Iraq war—but for the first decade or so the show had a very strong focus on the arts; they'd have a lot of guests sharing personal essays, short fiction, etc.

The serious journalism-type stories were generally either (1) on-the-ground reporting from their own staff, like a really great episode where they toured an aircraft carrier (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/206/somewhere-in-the-arabia...), (2) stories sourced from other journalists or professional organizations who had serious reputation to lose if they were caught in the supply chain of misinformation, or (3) "this is a thing that happened to me"-type firsthand accounts and observations. And I guess the now-debunked Apple factory story falls into the third category, but the types of stories that had previously fallen into that category tended to be far smaller in scale and/or were presented as more subjective than the Apple story had been.

All of that to say that I think you raise a valid question, and I'm sure some stuff slipped through the cracks over the years, but I also think the implication of that crack-slipping was far less dire in the show's earlier days, and there were just fewer news-ish stories overall.
by rhet0rica | 2025-04-06 06:07:12+00:00
OpenAI may not be the culprit. Patrick Boyle claims ChatGPT answers the question a little differently. It has been proposed that they actually asked Grok, which would certainly be on-brand. So long as there is doubt over which LLM they actually used, there's plausible deniability over where to point the finger.

But that's not the real story of all this.

An AI just made a government decision at the highest level for one of the most powerful countries on the planet, affecting the lives of billions of people.

All it needed was some stooge to ask it for assistance.

Safety researchers must be kicking themselves right now. They've spent years fixating on misalignment and dishonesty[1] when the greatest danger of AI is actually the staggering fallibility of human operators[2].

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer_(...

[2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Apple_(episode)
by cyberax | 2025-04-06 06:07:18+00:00
> It's also not a "nothingburger." How much area do you think one liter covers in ground area?

Quite a lot? This makes it even safer. The next rainfall, and all the retardant is diluted to safe levels.

> All that crap washes down into waterways or leeches into the soil, then into the water table.

It's already there. Where do you think arsenic, chromium, lead, and other minerals come from?

> Chromium doesn't have a safe level

You do realize that chromium is a component of stainless steel? Your cookware leeches plenty of it.

And it's not particularly dangerous, either, unless it's in its hexavalent form.

> just like there's no such thing as a safe level of radiation.

There is. The normal background are about 20 micro-Roentgens per hour.