MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deinonychus | 2025-04-24 18:42:52+00:00
>but it's brief and I can quickly rationalise it: "how strange a thought, for a non-smoker".

i really love how you pose that. thank you for sharing, i'm going to come back to this post for inspiration. i personally get a lot of mileage out of the "lets see if i still care about this in 20 minutes" strategy for other things like food or a screen-related impulse.
by radioactivist | 2025-04-24 18:43:01+00:00
OpenAI o4-mini-high

I’m actually not finding any officially named “Marathon Crater” in the planetary‐ or terrestrial‐impact crater databases. Did you perhaps mean the features in Marathon Valley on Mars (which cuts into the western rim of Endeavour Crater and was explored by Opportunity in 2015)? Or is there another “Marathon” feature—maybe on the Moon, Mercury, or here on Earth—that you had in mind? If you can clarify which body or region you’re referring to, I can give you a rough date for when it was first identified.
by dmix | 2025-04-24 18:43:34+00:00
The main issue is Canadian politics/news is pretty boring so why would I pay for Globe and Mail or The Star when I can get the main gist from social media? Sometimes your product simply isn't interesting enough to be a big business like it used to be. Propping them up with taxes is just that, propping up something people don't really want. You can never shield them from competition on the internet unless you go full China.
by camilo2025 | 2025-04-24 18:43:39+00:00
Every time I open my FB I get hammered with dozens of random ads. Also, a randomly generated lists of posts from my network where things pop up, and are then completely lost in the aether, because that is how FB thinks it is going to increase engagement.

Facebook, and Instagram, is a frustrating, infuriating, alarming experience that really does not "bring joy" to my life.
by exceptione | 2025-04-24 18:43:41+00:00
There is not much to see on a server that is down, so let me share some free advice instead.

Visit Eclipse Theia in the mean time when you are serious about de-risking from VSCode. I think VSCodium is doing an uphill battle here, while Microsoft can't help them self being a sales company first. In Theia, everything is open and free of spyware. MS is under no obligation to provide an OSS editor, but playing tricks after luring people in is not nice.

EDIT:

1. Eclipse Theia is a different platform than Eclipse the Java IDE.

2. link: https://theia-ide.org/#theiaidedownload
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-04-24 18:44:46+00:00
A rate people want, or advertisers?

I'm sure I could (indeed, I do) get pertinent updates from actual friends and family with <10 minutes of checking messages, voicemails, and emails per day. I wouldn't mind increasing that to 15 minutes if it meant I got a few less relevant but still interesting updates about their lives.

But that's way, way under the daily minutes spent by most people on TikTok. And if I wanted/my addiction demanded another hit of that "Oh, neat!" buzz when I'd just put my phone down 10 minutes ago, there's little chance that anyone in my small circle would have posted a single thing in the interval.

I don't spend nearly enough time in my group chats to justify Facebook's valuation. And there are no ads (yet, I'm sure they're working on it) in those chats.
by SpaceNoodled | 2025-04-24 18:44:47+00:00
I prefer an app for grocery lists since it can be managed with a single hand while shopping - no need to stop in the middle of an aisle to pull out a pencil and cross something off, nor to print anything out before heading to the store, for that matter. Plus, I won't have to re-sync the list with what remain on the physical list at the end of the trip.
by 418tpot | 2025-04-24 18:45:03+00:00
I currently run LineageOS and am constantly frustrated with its limitations every day.

On desktop linux I can quickly write up a program to do most anything I want in pretty much any language, and in my text editor of choice. I don't know anything about android development and I don't really want to invest time in learning Google's proprietary GUI toolkit when QT/GTK, or even raw OpenGL is more portable. I once looked into it and gave up when it seemed like it was going to be very painful to write an app outside of android studio (why is there not just a CLI tool to compile these things?). On vanilla linux I can whip up most things in under an hour in C, Rust, or even Bash.
by jzellis | 2025-04-24 18:45:37+00:00
There's a lot of open positions in the beachfront hospitality industry in various lovely spots around the world. Personally, if I wasn't the sole tech decision maker for my company, and some jerkoff told me we'd be pivoting to an AI-first approach, I'd have a bag full of shorts and Hawaiian shirts packed and be on a plane by midnight. I'd rather be making margaritas for entitled tourists and living in a goddamn hut than putting up with that shite.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-04-24 18:45:41+00:00
I agree with you but FWIW I think a lot of folks on this site want HN to be Reddit. I think a lot of people these days use HN as another big subreddit and modulate their content and voting behavior on that basis. If anything, I think a lot of people left Reddit because they disapproved of the API changes and began to use HN the same way they used Reddit because they felt that HN's ownership aligned with their ideas of how to run a site better. The draw to them is the different ownership not different decorum or voting behaviors. If anything, the decorum and voting behavior on Reddit is probably their expectation for engaging with upvote-based social media. You can see this behavior leaking into a lot of other threads on this site, not just the political ones.

I don't flag these stories, but I do think this "fight" is one we'll eventually lose. The majority of users here want to use HN as another Reddit. They don't really care about what made HN different. As such I think it's time for us to accept the new normal. Our party is over.
by arrowsmith | 2025-04-24 18:45:41+00:00
Not to defend Musk but it's not like "X" was a bastion of neutrality and even-handedness before he took over (the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story being one prominent example.) Nor are the platforms Musk doesn't own yet.

Does the author of this piece take a principled stand against censorship and bias? Or is he just upset that the censorship and bias isn't going in his preferred direction?
by krapp | 2025-04-24 18:46:17+00:00
I have seen some journalists and orgs move to Mastodon but the culture being what it is, people will be hostile to anything that looks like an attempt by corporate entities or propaganda outlets to capture and commoditize the platform.

And honestly, I'm fine with it. Corporate media is a cesspool. It can all choke on its own fetid stench and die for all I care.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-04-24 18:47:14+00:00
Yay for the energy label!

We replaced our old tumble dryer with a modern one. The ones we had to choose from all have the energy sticker and fall into a similar band.

Choose a programme, wait a couple of hours, and bam! You can go from wet to still damp, just like that.

In other news, manufacturers game the system.
by gspencley | 2025-04-24 18:48:08+00:00
Not only that, but people have discovered that comments shown to you on YouTube videos are also subject to "algorithmic scoring", based on your preferences, just like video recommendations.

About a year ago a video went viral where someone in a romantic relationship demonstrated that the opinions expressed in comments on videos shown to her differ radically from the opinions expressed in comments on the exact same video when viewed by her significant other using his account.

My wife and I then immediately verified that this was true for us as well.
by Freak_NL | 2025-04-24 18:48:10+00:00
Sure, but omitting it is like having a study about 'a dominant social medium' and not mentioning that it is Facebook or X in the abstract (or a study about radicalisation of young men focusing on 'an anonymous imageboard' and not putting 4chan or whatever in the abstract). These are for the most part unique beasts, not interchangeable venues.

It is relevant information for anyone scanning through dozens of abstracts on the topics addressed.
by Arnavion | 2025-04-24 18:48:17+00:00
I maintain the PinePhone for pmOS. It's my only phone and I've been using it without major problems (not including temporary regressions) since 2021. I use it for calls, SMS, camera, firefox and a couple of Android applications in Waydroid (Element X, Doordash).

Can't speak for the other user who says "degraded in recent stable release"; I use edge and I'm not aware of any issues, and latest stable is as stable as edge is.

Edit: Actually, one "degraded" in the last few months is that GTK dropped support for hardware acceleration on the PP's ancient GPU (2008, GLES 2 only, gtk requires 3 now) so GNOME-related DEs like Phosh use the CPU for rendering now. It's still snappy enough for the way I use it but it might be slow for videos and such.
by thesuitonym | 2025-04-24 18:49:34+00:00
Or, hear me out, what about "competition exists but I also get to vote and be represented." Where I live, there are two ISPs, the local cable conglomerate, and a telecom coop.

The cable company, as you might expect, is completely and utterly awful. They go for all of cable's greatest hits, from low introductory payments that explode after the first year, to service that is constantly down, to sending you to collections for equipment you returned. They do it all. The speeds are slow, and the customer service is non-existent.

The coop, on the other hand, is beyond delightful. The speed always exceeds what I'm paying for, and every couple of years they readjust their packages to give me more speed for the same price. Only three times in almost a decade have I had any problems with them: One was an outage that was caused by a natural disaster, and the other two were problems with my ONT that were fixed next day at no charge. Oh, and since it's a coop, I get a check every year as part of the profit sharing. For me, it only equates to about a free month of service, but it's still pretty nice.

So I guess the tl;dr of it all is that you don't need to get rid of free markets to have social control of things. And since the profits go to the people paying for the service, there's no incentive to extract extra value, so there's no real enshitification.
by jimt1234 | 2025-04-24 18:50:03+00:00
> In the course of the past decade, though, social media has come to resemble something more like regular media.

That seems accurate to me, and it makes me think of the old-media saying, "If it bleeds, it leads." In other words, anything to get eyeballs/clicks.

Meet the new-media. Same as the old-media.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-24 18:50:03+00:00
In Barcelona? I do, and have never had a problem like I had in the US where I was afraid someone wasn't paying attention and was going to hit them (with multiple near misses). Call it urban planning, call it people in a European city taking more care, whatever the root cause, that is my anecdotal observation. You can always compare vehicular pedestrian deaths in the US to those in Europe if you're looking for something more data driven.

Exactly How Far U.S. Street Safety Has Fallen Behind Europe, in Three Bombshell Charts - https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/10/exactly-how-far-u-s-s... - October 10, 2020

Trends in pedestrian fatalities per capita [graphic] - https://lede-admin.usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/si...

Shifting Gears: How Driving Cultures Influence Pedestrian Safety Across Continents - https://medium.com/@noamaital/shifting-gears-how-driving-cul... - Jan 8, 2024
by philocalyst | 2025-04-24 18:50:04+00:00
Have an idea of how I would do this already, give me until the end of the week. To be clear, an interface like this?

Infat list [--identifier] [--application] Where identifier and application are mutually exclusive, and application lists the openers it is capable of opening by default? Merging the application flag for simplicities sake, so either returns a list with both their possibilities *and* the assigned apps.

Thoughts?
by greenpizza13 | 2025-04-24 18:50:16+00:00
Like this one a lot. Perplexity gets this right, probably because it searches the web.

"When was Marathon Crater discovered? I don't need an exact date - a rough estimate will be fine"

There appears to be a misunderstanding in your query. Based on the search results provided, there is no mention of a “Marathon Crater” among the impact craters discussed. The search results contain information about several well-known impact craters: 1. Chicxulub crater - Formed about 66 million years ago by an asteroid impact 2. Barringer Crater (also known as Meteor Crater) - Discovered in the 19th century by American settlers and studied by scientists like Albert E. Foote in 1891 and Daniel M. Barringer in the early 20th century 3. A recently discovered 3.47 billion-year-old crater in Australia’s Pilbara region (announced in March 2025)
by janalsncm | 2025-04-24 18:50:23+00:00
Their “for you” feed is engagement bait. In other words, it appears to be running almost entirely on CTR. It seems to pull from a pool of posts that are engaged with by those you follow. Limit seems to be 24h.

It’s not a very sophisticated algorithm, likely because the best people aren’t super keen on working there for WLB reasons.
by riffic | 2025-04-24 18:50:37+00:00
poorly thought out aspirations then.

Many of the communication outlets through this utility have as well their own web infrastructure, hopefully serving as a single source of truth, whether that looks like wsj.com or whitehouse.gov. Interestingly enough the W3C has a recommendation to publish activities through an interoperable manner. There's even talk of putting the Bluesky protocol through whatever process the IETF uses to create a request for comments.
by mleonhard | 2025-04-24 18:50:51+00:00
From the article:

> The EU regulator also dropped Meta's Marketplace's designation as a DMA gatekeeper because the number of users fell below the required threshold.

The EU government explains this in their press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...

> Today, the Commission also found that Meta's online intermediation service Facebook Marketplace should no longer be designated under the DMA. The decision follows a request submitted by Meta on 5 March 2024 to reconsider the designation of Marketplace. Following a careful assessment of Meta's arguments and as a result of Meta's additional enforcement and continued monitoring measures to counteract the business-to-consumer use of Marketplace, the Commission found that Marketplace had less than 10,000 business users in 2024. Meta therefore no longer meets the relevant threshold giving rise to a presumption that Marketplace is an important gateway for business users to reach end users.
by thunky | 2025-04-24 18:51:22+00:00
> It's camaraderie

Ok, but it's not loyalty. At least I hope not...

Those like-minded peers you've had owed you no nothing. You had a fair, respectful, professional relationship with them that was self sustaining and therefore did not demand allegience in either direction.

If a better opportunity came along for them I would hope that you would want them to take it despite your history and the camaraderie you've established with them. And same for you.
by imglorp | 2025-04-24 18:51:50+00:00
Die, how? It's a vibrant project with 5.9k stars, 727 forks, 132 contributors: https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

Yes, the legal fight may end up permitting the clawback of the trademark, in which case the project will carry on under a different name and repo. But that's not death, that's fork.

The source is out of the bag under Apache 2.0 and there's no putting that back in the bottle.
by aeturnum | 2025-04-24 18:51:54+00:00
> Social proof used to reflect crowd wisdom. Now it reflects algorithmic endorsement — triggered not by consensus, but by proximity to influence. A single interaction can distort scale, making selected content appear widely supported.

I think this is barking up the right tree with the wrong lesson - these things are the same. Elon Musk, for worse mostly, is a social influencer. You can tell because a lot of people follow him. I am sure the algorithm in unreasonably kind to him (as he can write it) but it's also true that a lot of people care what he does and what he does changes what people care about.

The real question here, to me, is: does this kind of mass social calculus make any kind of real sense? Can we actually extend the idea of interest to 219,000,000 people or do we leave the coordinate system at some point? I suspect it doesn't hold up.

I am a long time believer in the need for good algorithmic filtering. There is more happening in the world than I have attention for and I want a machine to help me. Most solutions are quite bad because they are focused on how much money they can make instead of how much they can help. But I think it's a real problem and the bad, money-grubbing algorithms that surround us now are making our lives much worse.

Ultimately I think this comes back to operationalizing human relationships. What does it math for Musk to have that many followers? This is distasteful but real, I fear, in the age we live. Social influence is clearly real and we are measuring it in flawed ways and we should try and improve those flawed measurements.
by asr | 2025-04-24 18:52:25+00:00
Exactly the right attitude. If you're dealing with an employer that thinks everything should be transactional and that it's no issue if they nickle and dime you on small things, it gets tiring (ask me how I know). When your employer acts in ways that value their employees, it's ok to put a value on that, even if you recognize they're not your spouse and they may lay you off or act in other un-loyal ways in the future.
by nomel | 2025-04-24 18:52:42+00:00
Sure, but that PPD number is what prevents me from using these headsets as a primary display replacement. I personally don't need a virtual display that fills 100 degrees of my vision and would happily sacrifice FOV for something usable.

This is from someone who has spent hundreds of hours coding in VR, which currently requires big font sizes and screens that take up massive FOV, which I find very uncomfortable for extended periods.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-24 18:52:55+00:00
The writing was on the wall a decade ago when everyone and their cat was posting junk content. Zuck's original idea was outstanding. He slowly cannibalized the massive success into outright gross platform:

Get to know girls at Harvard!

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Get to know girls at select universities!

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Get to know anyone we've invited! We're so popular, we've got profiles of people at every major university! Write them messages, organize parties, etc! Upload pictures of parties or anything interesting!

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And now you can play addicting games on Facebook!

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And you can make a profile if you don't have a school!

And be fed ads and clickbait!

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while we quietly dump-sell all your info to anyone!

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Now meet 20% more criminals and scammers! Sell your car on our marketplace! You'll regret every message!

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Now with international crime!

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Now with more bots than humans!

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Why is everyone not respecting us? Oh, its over!
by omneity | 2025-04-24 18:52:57+00:00
Disclaimer: OT and pretty ranty.

I don't know if that's what the GP hinted at, but as a Svelte developer and big advocate for more than 6 years (single handedly training and evangelizing 20+ developers on it), I found so many concerns with Svelte 5 that it simply made me use React again.

It's a temporary choice and I'm desperately evaluating other ecosystems (Looking at you SolidJS).
by lelanthran | 2025-04-24 18:53:04+00:00
> A single app that lets a team manage work without constant interruptions would be the dream.

I can see how it can work, using a native application client to interface to something like develops or jira and then bolt on instant messaging (or the reverse).

The question is, can I get a company to open their wallets for this? From experience, I think not, but i am open to being convinced.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-24 18:53:31+00:00
I read the article and while it doesn’t say this nor imply it, this is my takeaway, though correct me if I’m wrong:

Model innovation is effectively converging and slowing down considerably. The big companies in this space doing the research are not making leap over leap with each release, and the downstream open source projects are coming closer to the same quality or in fact can produce the same quality (e.g DeepSeek or LLAMA) hence why it’s becoming a commodity.

Around the edges model innovation - particularly speed ups in returning accurate results - will help companies differentiate but fundamentally, all this tech is shovels in search of miners, IE you aren’t really going to make money hand over fist by simply being an LLM model provider.

In another words, this latest innovation has hit commodity level within a few short years of going mainstream and the winners are going to be the companies that make products on top of this tech, and as the tech continues to become a commodity, the value proposition for pure research companies drops considerably relative to application builders.

To me this leaves a central question: when does it hit a relative equilibrium where the technology and the applications on top of it have largely hit their maximal ability to add utility to applicable situations? That’s the next question, and I think the far more important one

One other thing, at the end of the article they wrote:

>Ultimately, businesses won’t rearrange themselves around AI — the AI systems will have to meet businesses where they are.

This is demonstrably untrue. CEOs are chomping at the bit to reorganize their business around AI, as in, AI doing things humans used to do and getting the same effective results or better, thereby they can reduce staff across the board while supposedly maintaining the same output or better.

Look at the leaked Shopify memo for an example or the trend of “I can vibe code with an LLM making software engineers obsolete” that has taken off as of late, if LinkedIn is to be believed
by taftster | 2025-04-24 18:53:32+00:00
The author mentioned this exact problem. Quoting:

> There was a problem that I noticed right away, though: this text was from the GPL v3, not the GPL v2. In my original request I had never mentioned the GPL version I was asking about.

>The original license notice makes no mention of GPL version either. Should the fact that the license notice contained an address have been enough metadata or a clue, that I was actually requesting the GPL v2 license? Or should I have mentioned that I was seeking the GPLv2 license?

This is seemingly a problem with the GPL text itself, in that it doesn't mention which license version to request when you mail the FSF.