MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonesjohnson | 2025-04-24 14:53:37+00:00
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. My experience with the N900 (and the N9 later) was pretty decent. The N900 was way ahead of its time. I got it in 2010. popped in a 32G µSD-card and I had 64GB, which was already a lot. The UI was amazing. True multitasking on a phone. IIRC the iPhone at that time wasn't able to do that. usable HW keyboard, headphone jack, two cameras, proper two-stage camera button, a little stand to prop it op, replaceable battery, IR emitter (there was a tv-b-gone app!), FM Transmitter to hear audio in any car...

It was a (small) brick and the resistive touch display + stylus was not perfect, but okay.

The software ecosystem was not good, though. Userbase was small. And when Nokia finally dropped it, it remained the first and last of its kind, so noone was keen on keeping developing for it.

Meego was getting better, and Sailfish is actually really ok.

I'm "temporarily" (4 years now...) using Android ("/e/os" - what a stupid name), but since I do not want to use any Google Services, I feel that it's always just whack-a-mole to get the app you want running on the device and have it properly working...
by iforgotpassword | 2025-04-24 14:53:38+00:00
But why do you even have to do this fucking bullshit that you randomly stumble upon, while googling error message after error message, ending up in random github repos and issues?

And no, just because the three random cards you have work doesn't mean "everything works". Just tried an MI300A a few months ago... I just wanted to test ollama as this is one of the hottest applications for GPU acceleration now, it will surely be well supported right? First, the gfx version listed for it in the ollama docs is wrong - but OK, figured it out. Then Tried some random models with it, the only output it ever generates is GGGGGGGGGGGGG. Apparently only fp16 models work, nothing more quantized. So I pick one explicitly. Then it's slower than running on the cpu in the same system.

Thanks but no thanks; this cost me two days when Nvidia just works first try.
by zeristor | 2025-04-24 14:53:38+00:00
Tricky to process, and normally found with Thorium for some reason, I think the Thorium waste is what processing it toxic, I think I’m just a humble physics graduate.

I did watch a video about the processing of some of the rare earths, to refine three of them a series of ion exchanges were used, very interesting but I can see why they’d be so expensive.
by n8cpdx | 2025-04-24 14:53:56+00:00
> I could have my own TRMNL for under $80, or, if you factor in my time, around $5,000, which is a bargain

I love the self awareness.

I'm trying to be better about factoring in my time, largely unsuccessfully.

E.g. I just spent $200 of my time trying to trade in an iphone at the apple store (the Apple Store sucks now and has terrible processes). Value of trade in: $200
by quantadev | 2025-04-24 14:53:57+00:00
I always had argued if Bitcoin somehow works without key rotation then so can Social Media. And if someone can steal your key, they can also "rotate it" out from under you too, so it's just wasted effort.

As for getting all devices to work, entering a 66 byte hex key into each device is totally fine imo too. I mean, you can even let people generate their Private Key from a Password string if ya want.

Nostr isn't flawed in those two ways. It's KISS in those two ways.
by mindtricks | 2025-04-24 14:54:03+00:00
I used to count how many non-friend items there were between friend posts. If I recall correctly, my max count was 20. And similarly to you, when I do see something it's from 3 days ago and feels no relevant to comment or interact with. I know so many people hate Facebook, but I used to really enjoy those small moments with friends where we could interact over small life updates and photos. Now they feed me garbage to groups I've never subscribed to based on some "guess" around my interests.
by jofla_net | 2025-04-24 14:54:35+00:00
>Most of my fellow execs hadn't ever shipped a 1.0 or been through winning over customers one at a time.

This is one of the largest roots of atrophy in the industry, currently. "Customers" are taken as a given, and there's no connection to them any longer. "High-Tech" is effectively now like Sears.
by rswail | 2025-04-24 14:54:45+00:00
Not only that but C envelope sizes match the A size. So an A4 piece of paper fits a C4 envelope flat.

A4 folded in half (size of an A5) fits in a C5 envelope.

An ISO standard that makes sense and isn't based on different professions like "letter" vs "legal" vs "folio" and other US sizes.

But also the reason that, for example, screens have 80 columns, (also related to punch cards), but that was about the width of a "letter" page at 10cpi.
by calibas | 2025-04-24 14:54:52+00:00
I should have been more clear, I'm not responding to Alvy-Ray's article, I was simply adding to the idea that a pixel is not a little square.

If you don't treat a logical pixel like a discrete little square, you can take advantage of subpixel geometry to effectively increase the resolution. It's not the same as antialiasing, even though it can be used for antialiasing.

Arguably, instead of treating pixels as squares, you're treating them as three times as many rectangles, but that should still contradict the mental model of pixels as little squares.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-24 14:55:11+00:00
It is what people wanted though, from Facebook. Most people, including you and I, connect with friends through DMs in various apps, WhatsApp, or an equivalent group chat messenger (iMessage, etc.)

Facebook has become a lot like TikTok because that's what people want from an app that has a feed. We, en masse, don't engage with a feed of just our friends' posts (FB actually has a friend's feed which gets relatively little usage). When we open a feed-based app, we want the long doomscroll. I do think your restaurant analogy is apt. I mean nutritious food is healthier for people, but a miniscule number of restaurants serve such a thing, and none do which aren't trying to fill a small niche in the market
by allturtles | 2025-04-24 14:55:21+00:00
> Is the article wrong?

Yes. Or more to the point, it is uncritically repeating the medical theories of its eighteenth-century sources, which were wrong. See also [0], [1]. People had a really hard time figuring out how to stop scurvy, and the use of citrus as a remedy was not generally accepted until well into the nineteenth century.

> Does beer have vitamin C?

No.

> Does beer have something else that also cures Scurvy

No. Scurvy is vitamin-C deficiency.

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12810402/

[1]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/04/the-budweiser-di...
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-24 14:55:40+00:00
But how will it improve the market? By making a less addictive (read: less engaging) app that does social media "the old fashioned way" where you connect with friends an not much else?

I love that intention, but it wouldn't be competitively viable. That's why yes, social media in that form is over. The reason Instagram and Facebook are valuable is because billions of people have accounts there and are habituated to go there in every spare second and look at whatever the screen serves them, whether that's Johnny from 7th grade math getting married or a snake being friends with a cat in rural Egypt.
by jjulius | 2025-04-24 14:55:47+00:00
>It's a clear step backwards and is representative of the covid-era stazi-like mentality people developed where they felt it was unsanity to share their views or life with the world at large...

... what? I'm in my late 30's and group chats have been a part of life for myself, my friends and my family since the late 90's. I've never wanted to share my views with "the world at large" online, but I have no problem being myself and sharing my views in meatspace, where being open and honest about who I am is far more impactful to those I interact with and the world around me than it ever has been on social media.

Within the world of the pop-web, even on this website to a point, the ability to have a truly nuanced discussion has essentially been eliminated. People would rather throw out hot takes based on disingenuous interpretations of someone's comment/statement rather than try and have an impactful, open conversation.
by graemep | 2025-04-24 14:55:51+00:00
I do not get the appeal either. You have to put something in your pocket and take it out occasionally.

> And then phone as a key is incredibly nice, definitely my preferred way.

Your phone becomes a point of failure for one more thing.

> Incredibly freeing compared to having to carry a bunch of junk in my pockets just to get groceries or whatever.

All I put in my pocket to buy groceries are keys and a wallet.
by coldpie | 2025-04-24 14:56:08+00:00
Yeah, every system has pros & cons. I think the lack of an approximately-one-foot (30 cm) unit in metric is clumsy to work around, and I think degrees-C are too wide. We can argue about the details if you find it fun ("yards in a mile" does not come up all the time), but they're all evolved from hundreds of years of usage, and that means they all work fine at the end of the day.
by bluGill | 2025-04-24 14:56:25+00:00
Most of the time the GPL request is a waste of time with no purpose other than annoy a company. You can download linux source code from many places, why do you want to get it from us?

There is a slight possibility we have a driver that you could get access to, but without the hardware it won't do you any good. Once in a while we have hacked the source to fix a bug, but if it isn't upstream it is because the fix would be accepted (often it causes other bugs that don't matter to use), and in any case if it isn't upstream, the kernel moves so fast you wouldn't be able to use it anyway.
by II2II | 2025-04-24 14:56:50+00:00
While I strongly disagree with the framing of loyalty, it is also important to remember that there is a relationship between what you put into a job and what you get out of it. I'm not going to claim that the relationship is always going to be fair, but walking into a job while seeing everything as transactional is going to have a negative impact upon your employer, your coworkers, and yourself.

By all means, set boundaries. Make it clear that your time off is for you to pursue your own things (hobbies, families, friends, etc.). Also ensure that you are balancing your personal are professional obligations, which is to suggest that it is not reasonable for your priorities to become other people's problems just as it is not reasonable for other people's problems to become your problem. And if you do cross that line, don't view your trip to the unemployment line as a lack of "loyalty" from the company. It is you failing to hold yourself accountable.

Now I'm not going to claim that my words apply to every workplace. Some workplaces are seriously messed up and are truly exploitative. On the other hand, I have also seen workplaces where the employers try to be accommodating to an employee, yet the employee is "doing their best", either intentionally or unintentionally, to spread their misery.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-24 14:57:40+00:00
I think I am somewhere between the two groups you mention

I don't really get any joy from the act of coding, but I also take a lot of pride in doing a good job.

Cutting corners and producing sloppy work is anathema to me, even when I don't really enjoy the work itself

Any work worth doing is worth doing a good job on, even if I don't enjoy the work itself
by ryandrake | 2025-04-24 14:57:41+00:00
> Not sure if it's being exaggerated for comedic purposes but it is interesting to me how alien the act of sending a letter by post is to the author.

It was pretty recognizable as trolling--the very good and clever "old school Internet" style of trolling where it sounds plausible and sincere, but then you get done reading it and say, "Oh lawd, he got me! Good one!" The kind of writing that people used to spend a lot of time perfecting on Slashdot. I refuse to believe there are adults out there where things like using a pen to write and mailing a letter are alien concepts that need to be learned. It was very earnestly written though, bravo!
by kemayo | 2025-04-24 14:58:18+00:00
You can think of mutual-loyalty as an extended transaction, if you prefer. If, in exchange for you not planning on leaving the company, the company actively does its best to treat you well and preserve your job long-term, that can be a good trade-off.

The mutuality is important. You absolutely shouldn't think of yourself as "loyal" to a company that won't stick up for you. (And many companies won't, to be clear. If asked to choose between cutting executive salaries by 2% and firing you, most companies won't think too hard about that. You shouldn't be loyal to those ones.)
by everdrive | 2025-04-24 14:58:30+00:00
Zuckerberg is one of the architects responsible for its demise, so he'd be well-placed to declare its death. Early facebook really was an amazing product; all you saw was content from your friends, no one shared links, it was just a way to communicate with each other. Importantly, very few people were on facebook, which helped people be much, much more candid on the platform. Zuckerberg killed both of these features -- pushing garbage and ads, pushing the feed, and populating facebook as thoroughly as possible. I looked at my early feed (~2008?) years ago, and it was actually just friends catching up and girls flirting with me. I wasn't even that popular. To them, it was just another chat venue. They'd never consider the same these days. The platform is a cesspool.
by bsnnkv | 2025-04-24 14:58:34+00:00
> What does loyalty have to do with the quality of your work?

For me? Everything

Maybe this won't be the case anymore when I get assigned to the severed floor, but until then...

> but my “best” work tends to come out unpredictably when the conditions are right

I get this, but the moment this "feeling" comes up during my 9-5 I nip it in the bud
by zpeti | 2025-04-24 14:58:35+00:00
This is quite an interesting post. I would guess that facebook does actually show you friend content if that's what you engage with. After all their single metric of success is ads viewed on the platform, which is the same as time spent.

So theoretically, everyone here complaining about not seeing friend content should probably try and train the algorithm to show more of it.

Or to be an asshole about it - if you see generic clickbait content on facebook, its your fault. You engage with it...
by mattl | 2025-04-24 14:58:41+00:00
I used to work at the FSF and one of my jobs was replying to these letters. They would be so infrequent by 2008 that I think I handled less than 10 in my time there. I sent way more copies of books to prisoners who requested them, gave more tours of the office, etc. I also did some other stuff when I worked there but if you were to look at the FSF website today you might think I’m still there as pages often have the name of the person who created the page listed as the author still.

The FSF has moved a few times.

* 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge.

* 59 Temple Place, Boston

* 51 Franklin St, Boston

* 31 Milk Street, Boston

The first address wasn’t around for too long, but does still exist. It’s an office building above a bank in Central Square, Cambridge right above the Red Line stop.

The second address was around for a long, long time. A few years ago, the building was demolished and turned into a hotel. I don’t know if 59 Temple Place is still a valid address or not. For this one, I found many of most frequent places and filed bugs to get it updated. Greg K-H helped me update the kernel and many of the issues I opened got resolved with other projects. Worth noting too that the FSF had two different offices in the same building but mail would go to the building. Mail did forward from here to the next address for a while, but I’m not sure if it’ll forward again to the latest address.

51 Franklin St is just around the corner from 59 Temple Place. When they moved here, many staff were able to walk their stuff over to the new office. This one finally closed last year. I worked here my entire time at the FSF.

The final one is a PO Box but also around the corner from 51 Franklin St.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-24 14:58:43+00:00
Sibling provides an example: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-requirements/r...

If you want to market small circuit boards from the EU into the EU, you need to register in all EU countries. It's not 100% clear whether the requirement is incurred at "making available for sale in country X" (ie as soon as you put it on the website) or at the point you make your first sale.

This is on top of trying to untangle what CE marking testing may be required.

On the other hand, if you're a Chinese small board vendor, you just advertise it on AliExpress, put it in the (subsidized!) small parcel post, and ignore the EU rules.
by sanderjd | 2025-04-24 14:58:49+00:00
In addition to what others have said about loyalty to the people who happen to work at a company, which I agree with entirely:

I think it's good to have admiration for the company (or any organization) you work for. If you can't find anything you admire, it might be better to find another place to work where you can.

This implies having the privilege of having options. For me, it's probably the primary reason I try to direct my career toward having skills or connections that give me options.
by ragle | 2025-04-24 14:59:05+00:00
My experience has been almost the opposite.

Typing isn't the fun part of it for me. It's a necessary evil to realize a solution.

The fun part of being an engineer for me is figuring out how it all should work and fit together. Once that's done - I already basically have all of the code for the solution in my head - I've just got to get it out through my fingers and slog through all the little ways it isn't quite right, doesn't satisfy x or y best practice, needs to be reshaped to accommodate some legacy thing it has to integrate that is utterly uninteresting to me, etc.

In the old model, I'd enjoy the first few hours or days of working on something as I was designing it in my mind, figuring out how it was all going to work. Then would come the boring part. Toiling for days or weeks to actually get all the code just so and closing that long-tail gap from 90% done (and all interesting problems solved) to 100% done (and all frustrating minutia resolved).

AI has dramatically reduced the amount of time the unsatisfying latter part of a given effort lasts for me. As someone with high-functioning ADD, I'm able to stay in the "stimulation zone" of _thinking_ about the hard / enjoyable part of the problem and let AI do (50-70%, depending on domain / accuracy) of the "typing toil".

Really good prompts that specify _exactly_ what I want (in technical terms) are important and I still have to re-shape, clean up, correct things - but it's vastly different than it was before AI.

I'm seeing on the horizon an ability to materialize solutions as quickly as I can think / articulate - and that to me is very exciting.

I will say that I am ruthlessly pragmatic in my approach to development, focusing on the most direct solution to meet the need. For those that obsesses over beautiful, elegant code - personalizing their work as a reflection of their soul / identity or whatever, I can see how AI would suck all the joy from the process. Engineering vs. art, basically. AI art sucks and I expect that's as true for code as it is for anything else.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-04-24 14:59:28+00:00
Remember when they told us that capitalism would cause people to trip over themselves to give us what we want and need because that would naturally be where most of the profit could be had? Why do you think it didn't do that in this case? The answer of course is that facebook does serve it's customers. It serves the people who can afford to buy ads, and what it serves them is you.
by g48ywsJk6w48 | 2025-04-24 14:59:30+00:00
There are indeed several services that help manage subscriptions and the budget for them. There are separate applications that help manage passwords and track password database leaks on many services. There are separate applications that help to sort through and sort digital vaults.

But I haven't seen anything that does it all at the same time.

A couple of weeks ago, I was working through this concept from the perspective of Marie Kondo's methods. It turned out to be a very promising but very expensive project. It's hard to do it alone in a reasonable amount of time.
by Mister_Snuggles | 2025-04-24 14:59:35+00:00
Do people not look at the operating costs before buying a vehicle? Do they really just negotiate a monthly payment and get surprised at the amount they have to pay for fuel/maintenance/insurance?

When I bought my most recent car I had a spreadsheet which projected fuel (whether that's gas, electricity, or gas+electricity) and maintenance costs (there was some ball-parking here) for a dozen different models based on our driving habits. Once the list was narrowed down a bit I did some online quotes at my insurance company to add that in.

There were no financial surprises when I bought the car.
by zelon88 | 2025-04-24 14:59:47+00:00
The irony of this statement is; most of the people who have adopted the views you're criticizing used to believe what you believe. I am one of those individuals.

I used to think that my worth could be measured by the amount of work that I produced. That there was some big tally board and everytime I did something valuable I would get a "tick" and that the "ticks" would eventually be tallied up and there would be some reward. Some relief. Something.

Only after having been literally told "This is my company, my revenue, my profit, and there's no relief coming for you no matter how hard you try" by not one, but TWO different employers did I finally start to adopt the thinking of prioritizing my own well being.

And only after prioritizing my own well being did I develop this sense of value in things I enjoy. Armed with the knowledge about the value of myself I was able to finally prioritize between work and home.

I highly recommend the book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" by Mark Manson. It is really good at demonstrating how "if everything is sacred, then nothing is sacred."
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-24 14:59:47+00:00
> I can't run 80 mph but I can drive a car that fast

If you drive a car 80mph you don't get to claim you are a good runner

Similarly if you use an LLM to generate 10k lines of code, you don't get to claim you are a good programmer

Regardless of the outcome being the "same"
by int_19h | 2025-04-24 14:59:50+00:00
The whole yard vs feet thing is especially weird. Indeed, in US as well, feet are normally used to measure sizes - at scales where it's reasonable - while yards are normally used to measure distances. Even though the two units are in the same ballpark / order of magnitude. And yes, as you rightly point out, it means that few people can estimate distances in feet.

OTOH on road sings, US at least seems to be using miles alone consistently, so you end up with labels like "1 3/4 miles" every now and then, which I find to be difficult to parse quickly.