MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alex1138 | 2025-04-30 16:25:38+00:00
One thing that made Youtube work well in its early days was a robust and interesting recommendations system (for those who are old, like me). There was also a robust Trending section

They chipped away and chipped away at the usefulness of Youtube and the recommendations got worse and worse (and sometimes blatantly corporate), then they lied about what was trending, and now it's just a mess (some of the recommendations can still be good). And I'll forever maintain they absolutely do regularly remove videos (or demonetize channels) for reasons of 'misinformation' (which they aren't, at least some of the time); they've taken an ideological stance. And there's a reason why the default homepage isn't your subscriptions page

Companies do not listen to their users. I guess in part it's because if you did you'd have to take on board every asinine suggestion under the cover of "the customer is always right" but there's a middle ground, y'know? They just really don't seem to care, giving any sort of feedback is like screaming into the void
by film42 | 2025-04-30 16:26:22+00:00
Same. Shorts are actually a great product in terms of capturing attention, but I don't want them on youtube. I hear someone from the back shouting, "you're not the customer, you're the product!" but I pay for youtube premium... that makes me the customer; and I pay for the long-form content without ads! But 50% of Youtube shorts are just ads or product marketing. I never feel good after going on a youtube shorts binge. Please, youtube, let me turn it off.
by rambambram | 2025-04-30 16:26:27+00:00
I thought it was just me experiencing this last week. I thought I accidentally changed some setting, even checked my browser's zoom mode, and then just lived with it.

Also the lack of 'gutters' to lay my mouse cursor to rest while scrolling is annoying.

But hey, I subscribed to your RSS feed. That's at least some good news.
by tmountain | 2025-04-30 16:26:35+00:00
There is no "aim". The tariffs are something Trump has been "wanting to do" for decades, and now that he has almost absolute power and is surrounded by sycophants, he gets to do whatever he wants. This is a flex. A way for him to "play hardball" with the rest of the world but without any clear notion of what the next step us. He's said that other countries will have to "pay a lot". What does it even mean? There is no plan. There is no ask. There is no endgame. His cronies are too afraid of him to tell him that this is a terrible idea, and now that he owns it, he'll sooner go down with the ship than admit he was wrong.
by csomar | 2025-04-30 16:26:58+00:00
No. Most of these goods are things like blankets and spoons. Do you really want to manufacture those to be at the lead? Even if you hate China, you can offshore them somewhere else (ie: South of America). Instead, the policy should have been a targeted one: That is target a few key industries that are critical (ie: ship building) and put forward a plan to move capacity back to the US.
by AlienRobot | 2025-04-30 16:27:15+00:00
I go to TikTok, shorts.

I go to Youtube, shorts.

I go to Instagram, shorts.

I go to Facebook, shorts.

I go to Imgur, shorts.

I go to Pinterest, no shorts because it only plays 1 video per screen, but on mobile the screen is smaller so, shorts.

I go to Reddit, shorts.

I go to Bluesky, shorts.

I don't go to Twitter.

Tumblr is probably the only social media that isn't filled with vertical videos and that has an algorithmic feed. I go to Explore and I get dandelions. A static photo of them, not a video. I'm crossing my fingers it stays that way.
by jackcooper | 2025-04-30 16:27:33+00:00
Summary of the proposed solutions to block YouTube Shorts:

-Enhancer for YouTube extension (Firefox) — mopsi

-Unhook extension (Chrome/Firefox) — jabroni_salad, kelvinjps10

-YouTube-shorts block add-on — timbit42

-ReVanced for mobile — kelvinjps10

-Shorts filter list in Brave browser (works on mobile) — my personal favorite
by xp84 | 2025-04-30 16:27:36+00:00
Coins aren't so bad! In every country other than ours they use coins for the $1-2 amounts and it works fine. The reason being is that $1 get so much use that they wear out, whereas coins last for decades (unless they're our worthless pennies and nickels that people literally throw on the ground, those ones we mint billions of dollars worth per year at a loss just to keep up)

All for polymer bills too. Basically we should adopt all Canada's cash ideas.
by relwin | 2025-04-30 16:27:44+00:00
Gamers Nexus essentially produced a 3-hr doc on how changing tariffs affect the US computer industry: "The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation" https://youtu.be/1W_mSOS1Qts?si=pBVt65SMqb1p-Zte . Best part is having a product manager show a spreadsheet of costs and margins and explain in real terms ($$$) what tariffs do to their business.
by anonymars | 2025-04-30 16:28:07+00:00
I think people are missing your point: Trump's rhetoric wouldn't have taken hold if people weren't getting screwed. "The system" failed, and Trump was the result.

Harris's message: "Biden is doing fine and things are going great"*

Trump's message: "You're hurting right now, and I'm going to fix it for you"

Very similar to 2016 (in which Bernie's message was also closer to that of Trump)

Exercise for the reader: how might this framework explain Andrew Tate and the like?

* "The US economy is the envy of the world" (accurate though it may be) probably doesn't resonate when you can see your purchasing power slipping through your fingers (as highlighted by certain media outlets) and you can't buy a house
by toss1 | 2025-04-30 16:28:13+00:00
Agree the US is ill-prepared (and less-prepared vs Chins) for any kind of war, trade or otherwise, which was the point of the analyst I cited.

I won't dispute that the median reality for most people is far less than ideal. Yet from a historical perspective the overall life in the US is of historically unparalleled safety with overall peace and low crime rates, health with more ppl covered by insurance (but yes, less than 32 other developed nations, but higher top-quality care), and plenty of historically cheap goods imported from low-wage nations.

Yes, it can all be far better, the top 0.001% are stealing vast wealth that could literally transform lives, and there is a homeless problem from inadequate psych care. But we do not have massive poverty, unemployment is at record lows for decades, and so forth.

It appears we are about to find out what it is like to see breadlines and brutality.

And yes, I 100% agree the "trade war" is about cementing more gains for the top class because labor had it too good. They can only see a business model where they prosper only if everyone else suffers. They don't see the greater prosperity possible if everyone participates in building the prosperity.
by quesera | 2025-04-30 16:28:33+00:00
I believe very few votes require a supermajority in the Senate -- impeachment votes definitely do, and also votes to override a Presidential veto.

All ordinary votes just require a simple majority, but the filibuster is sort of a special-case that can be invoked any time, requiring 60 votes to bring the vote to the table at all.

You're right -- if this Senate abolishes the filibuster, it will likely be for "budget votes only" or somesuch. The Senate isn't quite as full of short-term thinkers as the House is though. I don't think the Senate Rs will go for it, because it's the only thing stopping a future D majority from doing what majorities do, and smart Rs know they are a minority party under ordinary circumstances.

But if I'm wrong, it will mean that the Senate Rs are going for broke on a short-term play, and may be discounting future risks. That would be the behaviour of the very desperate, or of the very powerful.

If the Senate Rs believe they are one of those two things -- either one -- the consequences could be enormous.

This is all very dramatic of course. Normally I'd dismiss such ideas. But the temperature is very high right now, and this time might actually be different, this time...
by II2II | 2025-04-30 16:28:35+00:00
It's too early to make that claim. There are multiple branches and levels of government to deal with situations like this. They have worked in the past for smaller scale violations. They should work in the present for larger scale violations. The problem is that it takes time, it always took time, so a lot of people are going to get hurt in the process. (Granted, it is also important for people to fight for their rights because the current government is pushing the limits.)
by Devasta | 2025-04-30 16:28:43+00:00
With AI, all we will need is staff to write down a few paragraphs of their needs and constraints and the computer will be able to deliver the desired outcomes.

Also, despite the fact that we were all working remotely for years, we need you all to come into the office because water cooler chats are far better than writing down a few paragraphs outlining what you need and the constraints.
by gs17 | 2025-04-30 16:29:05+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> FairTax is a fixed rate sales tax proposal introduced as bill H.R. 25 in the United States Congress every year since 2005.

An R-GA sponsors it every year and it never gets further than "introduced", with fewer co-sponsors on it now than ever AFAIK. Technically, if it did get into law, it could create greater chaos, it has a provision to terminate itself if the 16th Amendment isn't repealed, so enough incompetence could eliminate taxes entirely.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-30 16:29:22+00:00
In the age of the internet, I don't think its the media doing the gatekeeping. Arguably, exploitive social media algorithms have put a serious dampening on surfacing better information to the average citizen, because unfortunately thats were seemingly the majority of folks consume media, and that is optimized for what is effectively outrage, regardless of the platform.

What we've lost is independent media having outlets to reach an audience. Pre proliferation of centralized social media platforms, it was easier to find independent voices on the internet through more de-centralized means. I remember coming across the works of Fredrich Hayek and Paul Krugman via the same message board in the early 2000s. Diversity of thought was at least respected, even if it got heated.

I've noticed a steady decline in diversity of thought co-existing on the internet as general social media coalesced around Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Snapchat, Twitter and TikTok. Reddit has also had a slower but meaningful decline in the co-mingling of ideas on merits, and perhaps subjectively, I feel it took longer to get there but ultimately has ended up in the same place, an echo chamber.

There was a time I remember, when progressive, liberal, and conservative people also could seem to agree on some baselines, like not enabling racists.
by wolfgang42 | 2025-04-30 16:29:28+00:00
20 GB of JSON is correct; here’s the entire dump straight from the API up to last Monday:

$ du -c ~/feepsearch-prod/datasource/hacker-news/data/dump/*.jsonl | tail -n1 19428360 total

Not sure how your sqlite file is structured but my intuition is that the sizes being roughly the same sounds plausible: JSON has a lot of overhead from redundant structure and ASCII-formatted values; but sqlite has indexes, btrees, ptrmaps, overflow pages, freelists, and so on.
by jihadjihad | 2025-04-30 16:29:29+00:00
> but who knows how his supporters will actually react.

It's all about the framing. Prices up, wages down during Biden? Armageddon and only Trump can save us.

Prices up, wages down during Trump? It's okay, we're making an investment--we tolerate being worse off today to be better off tomorrow. Look at all the trash Trump's taking out! It's only going to get cleaner!

One test will be how much pain we've endured by the time midterms roll around, and how many people sour on the current admin and elected reps.

Another will be in 3.5 years, where we will find out if the joists and beams raised by our democracy's framers were solid enough to last 250+ years.
by musesum | 2025-04-30 16:29:31+00:00
My chain of thought:

1) Aaron Marcus - who found optimal menu count to be 5 +/- 2

2) Magic number 7 +/- 2

3) Fitt's Law selectivity (bigger is easier)

4) Shared layout for mobile + desktop

5) I hate short form

6) Is 5) a non-sequitur?

7) No! I now have the attention span of a goldfish.

8) Maybe I should read a book
by niam | 2025-04-30 16:29:48+00:00
> Scaling the onboarding of new Wikipedia volunteers with guided mentorship.

Depending on what's meant by "mentorship": this is the bit I'm most keen to see. Much of the criticism lobbed at Wikipedia nowadays seems to come from how much of a pain it is to contribute (which perhaps leads to second-order criticisms about censorship, even if that's not the intention).

It's often been the case that the person most-worthy to speak on a subject is not the most worthy steward of a Wikipedia page on it. Any attempt to make those two people one-and-the-same seems welcome.

If this "mentorship" takes the form of UI hints, I think they'd go a long way. Having volunteers take an AI course, on the other hand, might be useful but might also be a complete waste of time.
by mubou | 2025-04-30 16:29:53+00:00
> You can also set this in your browser with the _reduce motion_ parameter.

Unfortunately there's no way to set this per-site, at least in Chrome. Similarly, if you disable animations in Windows, you also disable all animations and transitions in websites that support prefers-reduced-motion, causing some sites to feel janky as a result.

They really need to add a per-site toggle for that, and a browser-level option to ignore the OS' setting. Turning off animations in Word shouldn't turn them off in Google Calendar.
by dorian-graph | 2025-04-30 16:29:59+00:00
> .. and "AI bad"

He's not saying that though, is he?

He's quite literally said that people have found AI useful, and that's great! For example:

> We don't actually have to follow along with the narratives that tech tycoons make up for each other. We choose the tools that we use, based on the utility that they have for us. It's strange to have to say it, but... there are people picking up and adopting AI tools on their own, because they find them useful.

And:

> The strangest part is, the AI pushers don't have to lie about what AI can do! If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them. If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then ..

Anyway, how many layers of accused irony and snark can we go down? Am I the next?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-30 16:30:20+00:00
> There is always a great deal of political heat around minimum wage increases, largely driven by concerns about job losses. After a minimum wage increase, the story goes, many employers will not be able to afford to pay their workers the new higher minimum wage and will therefore shrink their payrolls. If these job losses are large enough, they could even swamp the higher wages and lead to lower overall wage income for the entire group of affected workers.

> Actual evidence shows that this narrative is largely wrong. A new review that I co-authored with Arindrajit Dube finds that most minimum wage studies find no job losses or only small disemployment effects. In other words, the vast majority of minimum wage research implies that minimum wage policies have unambiguously raised the total earnings of low-wage workers.

> This conclusion is strengthened by focusing on the studies that examine broad groups of low-wage workers or the overall workforce, not just narrow segments like teenagers. As the figure below shows, the median employment response is essentially zero among these more comprehensive studies, with 90% of these studies finding no or only small disemployment effects.

Most minimum wage studies have found little or no job loss - https://www.epi.org/blog/most-minimum-wage-studies-have-foun...

Own-Wage Elasticity: Quantifying the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment - https://www.nber.org/papers/w32925 | https://doi.org/10.3386/w32925

Repository of underlying data for the claim: https://economic.github.io/owe/
by tuetuopay | 2025-04-30 16:30:23+00:00
This bugged me so much and yet I ended up noticing a simple workaround: keep the mouse in the top bar where the search box is.

By all UI logic this should not scroll as this element is not scrollable (it's the top bar above the scrollable content), but YouTube and Google in their infinite UX wisdom kept the scroll mouse events go behind the hovered element. I won't complain about this one too.
by Someone | 2025-04-30 16:30:27+00:00
I would start with a tree primitive. That’s difficult enough, with variations on branching factor, whether the tree is self-balancing, whether it is immutable, etc)

I guess/expect that will have to expose the implementation detail of the branching factor (yes, a binary tree is a special-case of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree for B = 2, but algorithms tend to be different)

On top of that, build a library of tree traversal routines (breadth first, depth first with a few variants), allowing the user to specify code that decides, on each node visited, whether to navigate further down and whether to stop the traversal.

Now, whether the language proper needs a generic way to specify tree traversals? I doubt it, and doubt even more that it is possible too that in a way so that a) most graph traversal algorithms can use the primitive and b) the result is easier to use/looks significantly nicer than just calling those routines.
by wokwokwok | 2025-04-30 16:30:31+00:00
You’re being down voted because you’re not saying anything meaningful.

Yes, you can argue that [person] is [performing an action] because they believe, from their POV that [reason1, reason2, reason3].

> Or does [what person believes] not matter when they act upon it?

Yes.

What people choose to believe is distinct from fundamental baseline reality.

Let me put it another way for you; if I believe that fairies have invaded from space and I go out smashing peoples cars because, I personally, believe that this will make the fairies go home…

…does it help to argue about whether I believe in fairies or not?

It does not.

The arguement must be about whether fairies exist in baseline reality or not.

What I believe is not a point worth discussing.

…so, to take a step back to your argument:

Does he believe this will help? Who. Gives. A. Flying. Truck? Does it matter what he believes? Can we speculate what he thinks? It’s a useless and meaningless exercise and a logical fallacy; because anything can be justified if the only criteria are “you believe it will work”.

The discussion worth having is, in baseline reality, will it actually help?

Which is what the post you are replying to is addressing; but instead or following that up, you’ve moved this discussion into a meaningless sub thread of unprovable points about what people may or may not believe.

Which is why you’ve received my downvote.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-30 16:31:07+00:00
Have you interacted with humans anytime in the last five years?

People scroll TikTok or equivalent scrolly things as they drive, eat, poop, cook, as they "talk", as they walk, as they queue, as they "watch" movies and tv shows, during their down time, up time, in the bed until the small hours of the morning, people wake up on their day off and have a big plan and then... scroll the whole day. People go to the beach and scroll, they climb a mountain and scroll. They cycle and scroll, I've seen them do it.

If they can't hold it - showering, exercise, love-making (sometimes) - they get the thing to pump audio and/or visuals in their general direction, sometimes propped up, sometimes just strewn there. It's a riot.

And yes - people also scroll on these devices, if you can possibly imagine it, when they work. In schools, even! And in post offices, betting parlors, nail salons, cafes, while they do their only fans performance, you name it.

I've never been to Finland, don't speak a word of Finnish, and don't know much about Finnish culture, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if I had a 20c coin for every time a teacher in Finland scrolled TikTok for a minute or two during work hours, I'd have, roughly, a completely ridonculously large bag of 20c coins.
by CYR1X | 2025-04-30 16:31:26+00:00
Phone bans in schools have been going on for 20 years. Yeah we didn't have smart phones back then, but with tactile buttons kids would text each other without even looking at their phone and keeping it in their pocket. Before phones kids were playing snake on their TI-83 when they weren't in math class. At it's core these devices are just a distraction when they're supposed to be paying attention.
by jaydenmilne | 2025-04-30 16:31:31+00:00
Its oddly relaxing.

As an aside, this is something I've noticed recently switching to KDE from Windows/OSX No one is trying to get me to do anything with my computer to pump their metrics. You log in the first time, there's a little welcome popup, and that's it. You are now free to use your computer as you wish.

It's oddly stressful being a rat in a bunch of PM's maze.
by n4r9 | 2025-04-30 16:31:46+00:00
Fair point about comparing performance reviews. It's also practically impossible to judge someone's performance on novel tasks, or whether they're caring enough about tech debt. Even as I wrote my first post there was a nagging voice in my head saying "Almost no one does performance reviews well enough for that".

In my (limited) experience, the tasks you want to assign to elite devs are less amenable to AI in the first place.
by rchaud | 2025-04-30 16:31:56+00:00
The Canadian elections are structurally different though. Not everybody changed their mind, the Conservatives won more seats than before. What happened was that Bloc Quebecois and NDP voters broke ranks to vote in a Liberal MP for their riding, to block what seemed like a surefire supermajority for the Conservatives. This is possible when you don't have a 2-party system with deeply calcified divisions.
by kangda123 | 2025-04-30 16:32:02+00:00
As far as my experience, there's little code in Python that I would like to replace with OCaml. Python stuff is research code and small services that were written hastily.

I would love to replace my Go code with OCaml. It was always kind of on the verge though. On one hand, once you use a proper type system, you cannot look at Go. On the other, Go's multicore is just so much better than Async/Lwt. In terms of programming, in terms of debuggability, surely in terms of performance too. Having proper multithreading in 5.0 suddenly makes OCaml strictly superior in my (rather biased) opinion.
by tuetuopay | 2025-04-30 16:32:18+00:00
Why I do agree, the autoplay is a distraction preventing me from reading the video title and which channel posted it. Also, the clickbaitiness ends up being a feature for me: they have a specific "style" that's recognizable almost immediatly. A bit like AI-generated images, that have some eerie feeling to them. This way, I know I don't want to watch them.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-30 16:32:20+00:00
>Most people need to work to get good grades in school" is a very self-evident statement, is it not?

No? I obviously had to put in a lot of work in university, but during school I never did, which was quite common, at least among my friends.

Even for the semi-standardized test at the end of school I tried learning, but I didn't know what to do, so I gave up.