MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piva00 | 2025-04-30 12:40:26+00:00
Also, nothing changes while the wedge being driven by the powers who want a populace divide has power, on both sides.

It's by design that those splits happen, when the desk jockeys earning six-figures are seen (and a lot of times, see themselves) as a completely different caste of people than the factory workers, gig workers, etc. it sucks all the air out of the room from real issues: less fortunate people left behind, lack of opportunities, the encroaching of work precarity which will eventually turn even to the current high-earning workers. It completely erases any reasonable public discourse about the real causes of all the social malaise symptoms we experience on the day-to-day.

It's harder to give any sympathy to people voting against their best interests, they've been swindled, bamboozled, and are completely oblivious to the bamboozle, which makes it all the more frustrating. Still, at least extending some pity to their ignorance might help oneself to feel less angry (but still disappointed) about their decisions, they don't know better and it fucking sucks.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-30 12:40:58+00:00
You're either not arguing in good faith, have an unusual definition of "more", or hate school so much that it clouds your judgement.

Do you honestly believe that is you were sent to University (or some other educational institution) with absolutely zero school knowledge, not even literacy and grade school math, you would be able to learn everything you learned at school in less than one semester?
by noirscape | 2025-04-30 12:41:19+00:00
At least internationally speaking, American products tend to have a reputation of being expensive, low quality and the company's marketing department is gonna try to find ways to squeeze even more out of you after a purchase, to the point of doing things that probably should be illegal.

This is in contrast to European designed products, which are expensive, but usually are high quality, work really well and last for much longer. (In exchange, the user experience does often feel like it was designed by someone who is way too technically minded/thinks that all UX innovations past the 80s or 90s should be treated with extreme prejudice, whether that's good or bad.)
by Xmd5a | 2025-04-30 12:42:17+00:00
Also the chat limit for free-tier isn't the same anymore. A few months ago it was still behaving as in Claude: beyond a certain context length, you're politely asked to subscribe or start a new chat.

Starting two or three weeks ago, it seems like the context limit is a lot more blurry in ChatGPT now. If the conversation is "interesting" I can continue it for as long as I wish it seems. But as soon as I ask ChatGPT to iterate on what it said in a way that doesn't bring more information ("please summarize what we just discussed"), I "have exceeded the context limit".

Hypothesis: openAI is letting free user speak as much as they want with ChatGPT provided what they talk about is "interesting" (perplexity?).
by kozikow | 2025-04-30 12:42:33+00:00
More to that - at this point, it feels to me, that arenas are getting too focused on fitting user preferences rather than actual model quality.

In reality I prefer different model, for different things, and quite often it's because model X is tuned to return more of my preference - e.g. Gemini tends to be usually the best in non-english, chatgpt works better for me personally for health questions, ...
by CivBase | 2025-04-30 12:42:37+00:00
> parents said that their kids needed phones because school shooters (which is a dumb argument.)

It really is a dumb argument. Your primary concern in a school shooting should be getting out safely not messing around with your phone. One more 911 call won't make police any more effective. The phone isn't making you any safer. If anything, it's a distraction putting you in danger. Once you've made it to safety, you won't have any trouble contacting your parents whether or not you have a smartphone.
by OskarS | 2025-04-30 12:42:41+00:00
It's actually stunning how off-putting it is. I started Duolingo because I was in a relationship with someone and wanted to learn their language. I paid for subscription because I didn't want to be assaulted with ads and upsells (and I believe in paying for software in general and I think subscriptions can be a fair business model), but even as a paying customer it was miserable!

It's so fucking lousy with gems and upsells and quests and "try the AI call, you get one for free and then you can upgrade to a more expensive subscription!". The gamification of everything in Duolingo is so bad. And, as you say: I feel like I'm wasn't learning any of the fundamentals, can't you just tell me how to conjugate this verb and then testing me instead of making a dumb guessing game out of it?

Compare it to (say) YouTube Premium: I know a lot of people hate it, and that it's an expensive subscription, but I honestly think it's pretty fair. All the commercialization and upsell go away entirely, you get a very clean experience for something that I use more than any other streaming service. Don't mind paying for it at all. Not Duolingo though, I cancelled it after a week and a half.
by thefounder | 2025-04-30 12:42:45+00:00
People voted Trump for different reasons. Not understanding their reasons does not make you smarter. They were not all low IQ. Ignoring a big chunk of the population because they are "racist", "bigots" and "single-digit IQ yokels" will make you loose the next election to whoever decides to listen to them instead to lecture them.

Do that multiple times and you may end-up with a dicator(or at least someone who can become a dictator) sooner or later.
by anhner | 2025-04-30 12:43:08+00:00
Those rights can't be taken away... without existing legislation.

There are many rights that can be taken away, freedom of movement for example in the case of prisoners, but you need laws in order to not make that taking away a crime itself. You can't just apprehend and throw someone in your basement because they stole something from you.

Same thing with children's phones, a teacher can't just take away the phone because they didn't have the authority before.
by senectus1 | 2025-04-30 12:43:11+00:00
4d chess. Amazon won no matter what.

either WH says nothing and the values are shown.

WH says something in outrage (like they did) and amazon backs down.. but its such big news that the awareness has been heightened. Now even the most rabid MAGAhead knows that this is going to cost them at the hip pocket, and knows that the WH knew, and used their power to shut amazon up.

JB won this round.
by jfengel | 2025-04-30 12:43:33+00:00
I've never read any of Holiday's stuff, but I encounter it in the form of a podcast for French language learners. The host is a big fan of Holiday and other related self-help types in the "stoic" vein.

I'm not sure I'm learning much about either stoicism or French, but I did learn that the French name of the stoic Roman emperor is "Marc Aurèle".
by xyst | 2025-04-30 12:43:39+00:00
Although I despise MS teams and never want to use that godawful piece of shit outside of work. I love this type of story/indie hacking.

No need to bother with greedy investors. Just working directly with customers and solving a problem (created by incompetence at MS).

Only downside here is that MS at any time _could_ decide to improve their shitty built in wiki. Might take years and you won’t feel it until your revenue starts to drop.

Or MS goes completely anti-competitive/anti-trust and buys out the competition. Entrepreneur here gets paid out but customers left scrambling to migrate data out or shift over.
Show HN: Open-source sound effects and react library to spice up your website
by lschneider | 2025-04-30 12:43:42+00:00
Hi all, I've been using sound effects in a few web-projects lately (mostly for notifications) and it's always a pain to find good sound effects and then handle them in the browser. So, I compiled my learnings into an easy-to-use React library. It currently has ~70 sound effects (MIT licensed) and I'm happy to add more if you have any requests.

PS. the sound effects can of course be used without the React library!
by kylebenzle | 2025-04-30 12:43:55+00:00
Did you read comment above because yours does not not address the response at all (and you are wrong in that context).

Again, dude above is saying clearly that the issue is man man, we did this, it's not a natural disaster, so there is no one to blame but ourselves, pretending it was an outside power that did this to you is not valid.
by amazingamazing | 2025-04-30 12:44:13+00:00
salt and milk don't come out of your tap, though. would you agree with governments building giant towers everywhere resulting in humidifying the air with chemically infused mists (which are said to be beneficial)?

after all, if you prefer the current air, you can wear a breathing mask attached to a tank with your air of choice.

it's crazy to me that people can see what harm the government can do in 2025 and still think the government knows best.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-04-30 12:44:36+00:00
> Still, at least extending some pity to their ignorance might help oneself to feel less angry (but still disappointed) about their decisions, they don't know better and it fucking sucks.

The issue is that this isn't a new phenomenon. This has been happening since at least Reagan (over 40 years ago). That cross-section of America has decided to vote against their interests in every major election for decades. I'm over it.

And instead of recognizing that like normal people, they want to push the onus onto literally anything else (immigrants, trans people, higher education). Fuck that. And fuck them for continuing to want to drag us back to the stone age.
Debezium to olake.io – PhysicsWallah switch for CDC
by pkhodiyar | 2025-04-30 12:44:45+00:00
We recently hosted a small online meetup at OLake where a Data Engineer at PhysicsWallah, walked through why his team dropped Debezium and moved to OLake’s “MongoDB → Iceberg” pipeline.

Video (29 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqtE_BrjVkM

If you are someone who prefer text, here’s the quick TLDR;

Why Debezium became a drag for them: 1. Long full loads on multi-million-row MongoDB collections, and any failure meant restarting from scratch 2. Kafka and Connect infrastructure felt heavy when the end goal was “Parquet/Iceberg on S3” 3. Handling heterogeneous arrays required custom SMTs 4. Continuous streaming only; they still had to glue together ad-hoc batch pulls for some workflows 5. Ongoing schema drift demanded extra code to keep Iceberg tables aligned

What changed with OLake? -> Writes directly from MongoDB (and friends) into Apache Iceberg, no message broker in between

-> Two modes: full load for the initial dump, then CDC for ongoing changes — exposed by a single flag in the job config -> Automatic schema evolution: new MongoDB fields appear as nullable columns; complex sub-docs land as JSON strings you can parse later

-> Resumable, chunked full loads: a pod crash resumes instead of restarting

-> Runs as either a Kubernetes CronJob or an Airflow task; config is one YAML/JSON file.

Their stack in one line: MongoDB → OLake writer → Iceberg on S3 → Spark jobs → Trino / occasional Redshift, all orchestrated by Airflow and/or K8s.

Posting here because many of us still bolt Kafka onto CDC just to land files. If you only need Iceberg tables, a simpler path might exist now. Curious to hear others’ experiences with broker-less CDC tools.

(Disclaimer: I work on OLake and hosted the meetup, but the talk is purely technical.)

Check out github repo - https://github.com/datazip-inc/olake
by motorest | 2025-04-30 12:45:14+00:00
> They are having the "time of their life" sitting in a desk chair at a corporate office. It's not the same as what the parent poster is describing -- which is presumably traveling and exploring the world.

Is it though?

The FANG engineers I know have been leveraging internal transfers to relocate abroad to places like Madrid, Milan, Amsterdam, etc. Not to mention business trips abroad for all kind of things like hiring events.

> Try asking the younger generation which is the better job.

This is not a generational thing. This is about objectively comparing jobs. Accusing each and every single FANG engineer of being miserable whereas a random low-paying role is the envy of the world screams the fox and the grapes.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-30 12:45:57+00:00
This doesn't help you, at least not at the moment, but: When you get a job you love, where they treat you well, where management is sane and the people are decent, think hard before you leave that job, even if it doesn't pay the best. It's not easy to find that. When you have it, don't be in a hurry to leave.
by toddmorey | 2025-04-30 12:45:59+00:00
Curious if there is anyone here who genuinely sees this as short-term pain / long-term gain for American economic interests. That is of course the political angle, but I've yet to see an economist concur with that theory.

EDIT: I can find very few voices (not currently working directly for the administration). There's Jeff Ferry who believes "tariffs imposed during the 19th century spurred industrialization and ultimately positioned America as a global superpower". (That historical view is uncommon and wouldn't account for the current realities of global supply chains.)
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-30 12:46:04+00:00
Yep. 3 Months ago:

> The implicit justification for valuing Tesla now is not "we sell good cars", it is state capture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023325

Indeed I also heard it in context of South Africa. But Wikipedia also has other, earlier examples too.
by RajT88 | 2025-04-30 12:46:05+00:00
No. Unless you want the US added to the list of countries where the advice to tourists is "Don't drink the water".

Water additives are proven to improve the health of the populace. There are corner cases, and we can debate appropriate levels, but an outright ban of all additives is regressive.

There seems to be a lot of regressive attitudes going around these days. See: Measles outbreak.
by dsr_ | 2025-04-30 12:46:12+00:00
To a first approximation, nobody eats raw flour.

Flour is cooked in a pan with fat to make a roux; a roux plus broth can become gravy.

Flour is cooked in a pan with liquid to make pancakes or crepes.

Flour is cooked in an iron to make waffles.

Flour is cooked in an oven for baked goods.

Who do you know who eats raw flour, other than by accident?
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 12:46:26+00:00
No they cannot. My school had multiple doors that could not see each other - more than once my parents were waiting for me at a different door from the one I was standing at waiting for them. We did find each other, but only after a lot of searching - sometimes we even passed each other as we both switched doors to wait at.

Okay, it did work out, but not nearly as well as a simple cell phone. Smart phones add additional functionality. (I can see on google maps where each kid's phone is)
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-04-30 12:46:40+00:00
for what it does, its cool but claiming it's useful for games/vr/xr is a bit of a stretch, in it's current state it's only good for fixed position vr (which is a pretty rough experience) as the illusion falls apart when you move your head slightly. For games you could use it for environment maps or maybe a non-interactive background in menus or visual novel style.

But kinda think claiming a panoramic generator as a "World Generator" is intentionally hoping people expect it to be more than it delivers.
by mariusor | 2025-04-30 12:47:05+00:00
In my household we have "Starterday" for Friday - when the starter gets fed, "Riseday" for Saturday - when the dough gets kneaded, shaped and left to rise, and finally "Bakeday" for Sunday, when the bread goes in the oven early in the morning. A 1.5Kg loaf usually lasts until next Bakeday for both me and my partner.
by perlgeek | 2025-04-30 12:47:18+00:00
At my daughters' school, the rules are roughly:

* no phones during classes or during breaks (with the exception of lunch break, I think)

* phone can be allowed by teachers for a particular class and purpose

* if a student uses a phone while it's not allowed, the phone will be confiscated until the end of the school day

* (there might be a more severe rule for repeat offenders)

IMHO this strikes a pretty good balance between allowing phones for coordinating transit to school and back home, and no distraction in the class room.
by sham1 | 2025-04-30 12:47:25+00:00
The point of schools is an attempt to provide uniform education to all pupils that are funneled through the system. Whether or not they succeed on this is irrelevant for the point. Also forcing kids of an age cohort to socialise with each other, which can be used for things like networking and forcing social interactions across class boundaries, which is why home schooling for example isn't regarded that well here in Finland.

In other comments you've made the point that we could have children do something else other than 12 years of schooling. And so I want to turn the question to you instead. What would be an example of an alternative to schooling? What would you have preferred, especially since you seem to have gotten what you need from university education.
by zx90 | 2025-04-30 12:47:26+00:00
Sorry, I was not clear.

Absolutely smartphones should be banned, at least during lessons, and at best during the whole time in the school, recess, etc.

Giving a child a dumb-phone in an environment where everybody else uses a smartphone doesn't work. If smarphones are not banned then _all_ will end up with a smartphone, and socialisation difficulties, etc...

This is a case where individual freedoms end up in collective damage. Maybe I'm an outlier here but I'd ban all kinds of social media all the time.
by dweekly | 2025-04-30 12:47:53+00:00
Those are good reasons to have a smart watch with cellular capabilities.

They are not good reasons to have a phone at school.

In terms of QOL: there is a meaningful body of research about the impact of giving a teenage girl access to a phone on their quality of life.

https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/7/576 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882...
by sumtechguy | 2025-04-30 12:48:15+00:00
Back in the slashdot days I would experiment on changing conversations. This was due to the way SD would rank and show its posts. Anything below a 3 would not change anything. But if you could get in early AND get a +5 on your post you could drive exactly what the conversation was about. Especially if you were engaged a bit and were willing to add a few more posts onto other posts.

Basically get in early and get a high rank and you are usually going to 'win'. Now it does not work all the time. But it had a very high success rate. I probably should have studied it a bit more. My theory is any stack ranking algorithm is susceptible to it. I also suspect it works decently well due to the way people will create puppet accounts to up rank things on different platforms. But you know, need numbers to back that up...
by hereonout2 | 2025-04-30 12:48:21+00:00
True, it's a cliche but it's my dream also.

Except the dream includes first using a tech salary to pay off a mortgage or at least most of it, and then being able to comfortably work with my hands in some romantic artisanal manner.

AI probably gets me closer to spending 60 hours a week doing back breaking groundwork and struggling to pay the bills.
by amazingamazing | 2025-04-30 12:48:34+00:00
water additives are used to remove bad things in the water. so in effect the additives exist to actually move the water qualify closer to the "default", not "enhance" it. if tap water was literally h20 and nothing else the additives would be unnecessary, no?

as far as measles go, people have the right to not get vaccinated if they choose - it's dumb, though and others have the right to not let them participate in things since they're not vaccinated, too. it's not really analogous to the fluoride thing at all anyway.
by oortoo | 2025-04-30 12:49:23+00:00
Can't "just take away" ie, there has to be a law prescribing the removal of the right. Lawful rights vs inalienable human rights. Same thing exists in US. You have a right to certain things, like the right to privacy, but that right can be lost in the right circumstances as determined by law.

The difference here is that in the US, children don't by default inherit the same legal rights as adults and instead have a different set of rights which often means they never had a legal right to, for example, privacy or ownership, in the first place.
by chiph | 2025-04-30 12:49:43+00:00
I was expecting Hyundai to have a higher domestic content, actually. Culturally, they seem to prefer to be vertically integrated. I would expect something like the Santa Fe (produced in Alabama) to draw nearly all their parts from local partner and related firms (is "chaebol" an anti-trust term in the US?) and not import major parts like BMW does in Greer SC where engines are flown in on cargo 747s from Germany.

I won't say that NAFTA is dead, but supply and production lines were designed with the assumption the parts could cross the borders any number of times without paying duty. The WSJ looked at the Ford 10-speed transmission used in the F-150 and it apparently crosses the Canadian border at least 3 times, paying different duties each time depending on the content (machined aluminum casting, steel planetary gear sets, subassemblies, etc.)

My guess is that by imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the government is intending to block the Chinese firms who are attempting to back-door their way into the US economy by building factories in the traditional maquiladora areas. Bold move, let's see how it plays out.
by fluidcruft | 2025-04-30 12:50:26+00:00
One of the leading researchers in MRI methods development has been doing collaborative work in China for many years. About 5 years ago I was chatting with him about how he's in China so much lately and he told me that the great thing about China is he can get an idea rolled out en masse to over 100 scanners(!!) and have multiple hundreds of case results in various different diseases in less than a month(!!!). This is shocking speed and quantity of data as these things go. Who wouldn't prefer to work in that environment?
by awongh | 2025-04-30 12:50:45+00:00
> "racist", "bigots" and "single-digit IQ yokels" One of the narratives I hear repeated a lot that is simply untrue is around white americans. Trump doubled his numbers for minority (male) voters vs. the last time he was elected.

But rather than coming up with a new, more nuanced view of what's happening people would rather trot out old tropes like *republicans are white and racist and bad*.

Even with all the anti-immigrant stuff Trump increased his share of non-native born american voters.

The refusal of people on the left to update their world view was one of the big reasons why they lost the election.

I thought this Ezra Klien interview taling about election polling data was informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0J7dIlL7c
by pjc50 | 2025-04-30 12:51:31+00:00
> Adding fluoride to water is a strange topic people get very worked up about

Yes. It's weird, it seems to be given a special level of paranoia. And it's a longstanding one, the paranoid general in Dr Strangelove was obsessed with fluoridation.

Lots of substances have arguments over safe legal levels, with varying levels of scientific evidence. This seems to have a crusade, and I wonder who started it.
by karamanolev | 2025-04-30 12:51:46+00:00
I don't believe the regime in Russia (and potentially many other places) will allow your site to be "out of politics" in the classic western-democratic sense. If I understand correct, it either exists (and in unison with the regime) or it just ... doesn't exist. There might be an option if it's really small, then the FSB simply isn't interested. If it becomes big enough, you don't get the option.