MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-06 07:50:11+00:00
Since Windows 8 as well, you're pretty much doing something wrong if it takes more than a few seconds to cold boot whenever you actually are going to use the PC.

Nothing saves more energy than turning it all the way off, this used to be a no-brainer. Sure makes laptop batteries last years longer.

Plus the failure to perfect partially-powered states over the decades doesn't have to have an impact.
by boroboro4 | 2025-04-06 07:51:09+00:00
While I believe there might be different explanations for the outcomes we observe I also believe that default hypothesis should be that there is racism and sexism. And there are facts (women were permitted to vote in the US like 100 years ago, and entered general workforce when?), observations (I saw sexism and racism at work) and general studies (I.e people have tendency to have biases among other things) to support that attributing differences to biology or whatever should be under very high scrutiny.
by loki49152 | 2025-04-06 07:53:17+00:00
You can derive morality from observation if you aren't looking for ontological "ought statements". Hume's position assumes that the religious approach to morality is the only one possible - that morality consists of these detached and universal "ought statements" that must be observable in the Universe somehow and take on the same form as Commandments from a God.

That's not how the Objectivist ethics works, at all. There are no "ought statements" because ethics, in Objectivism, is a system of judgement and reasoning. It's applied epistemology.

So, no, you won't find a mythological ethics in reality. But you can learn how to identify the nature of things and judge how they relate, positively or negatively, to human life. And that's the essence of Objectivist morality.
by Anon4Now | 2025-04-06 07:54:39+00:00
> - Consider having some sort of overarching thing in your puzzle, so it’s not just five words on a specific topic to guess, but something more, like a hidden word across all five etc. This makes a delightful discovery moment and sometimes might work as a clue.

You've essentially described the Jumble puzzle, which appeared in daily newspapers. It's been around since 1954, but I'm not surprised to see it reinvented since few people get a daily newspaper anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble
by vladms | 2025-04-06 07:55:51+00:00
Legislation usually tries to catch up with technology. In the times when people paid cash at a ticket office and they would not have had hundreds of options many of the things mentioned would not have happened - life was slower, there were fewer options, reputation was more important.

Would it have been possible for legislation to change faster? Probably, but that's politics, deciding together what is the next things to solve while having different opinions and many things to solve.

It is not bad they try to fix it, am I personally sure this was the most important? Not sure. There are many horrible things out there when some group takes advantage of another one...
by Hojojo | 2025-04-06 07:55:59+00:00
It's too late now, but you have to hit enter twice to insert line breaks.

- the code in the repo (https://github.com/akavel/clawtype) is under AGPL-v3, so you're totally fine to iterate on this part, as long as you keep the license and it terms

- which means you should be able to sell it all fine, just also providing users the iterated code, so they can further iterate on their own;

- the 3d-printed parts & structure design (https://www.printables.com/model/1231156-clawtype) is CC BY-NC-SA, so you can iterate on that part as long as you keep those terms

- let me know (https://merveilles.town/@akavel/) if you want to negotiate the terms with the designer, or just reach out to him by yourself;

- in the US, some aspects of the design are covered by A PATENT by the original inventor & designer John W. McKown, as explained on the original Chordite page: https://web.archive.org/web/20220201061603/http://chordite.c... with an exception for personal use

- the patent is http://www.google.com/patents/US6429854

- though IIUC the google page seems to claim it's expired, whatever this means in the legal system, and google claim IANAL on the page too.

- or do you mean some other aspect?
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-06 07:56:36+00:00
They are not hidden fees buried into a contract that you've signed. The term in the article is "dripped fees": the full price is disclosed step by step.

Ultimately the full price is shown before you enter into a contract and before you pay. You have no obligation to buy.

They are more of a misleading advertising practice to get your attention and further along the sale funnel.
Show HN: I made a briefing document generator based on your Questionary
by devmtk | 2025-04-06 07:57:11+00:00
I wanted an easy briefing generator—nothing from AI. Don’t get me wrong—I’m a fan of AI, but I wanted something that really fits.

I created as many Templates as I needed myself. I got a little crazy with all my Templates for the PDF versions. And did a little bit of overengineering for a questionnaire. I made it free and I hope it makes your lives just a little bit easier.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-06 07:57:18+00:00
There is an overlap in size between the biggest arthropods and the smallest vertebrates, but neither arthropods can be as big as the bigger vertebrates, nor vertebrates can be as small as the smaller arthropods.

Some arthropods could reach greater sizes than today during times when they had less competition from vertebrates and when the air was richer in oxygen, but that has become impossible later.

Arthropods have been the first terrestrial animals and then the first flying animals. In each case there has been a long time when they had no competition from vertebrates, so they could be significantly bigger than later, when they had to regress to their smaller optimum size.

A very big arthropod would become much slower than a vertebrate of the same size, due to difficulties in respiration and circulation that would not be able to supply the muscles with enough oxygen and fuel for sustained effort and due to the need for requiring very thick nerves for an acceptable speed of propagation for the nervous signals.

Molting creates problems because reaching a great size requires a very large number of moltings. Each molting is a time when the animal is extremely vulnerable, being unable to move or defend itself. Many moltings create many opportunities for being killed by some predator, and for a bigger animal it would be more difficult to find a hiding place during molting.

Arthropleura was very long and thin, which alleviated the respiration problems, but even so it must have been a slow animal. Fortunately for it, at that time there were few terrestrial predators and they were still small. When that has changed, nothing approaching the size of Arthropleura has ever evolved again.
by tcfhgj | 2025-04-06 07:59:11+00:00
> You can say would prefer to just pay full price for it and avoid the ads, but most people clearly would not like to when given the option.

Truth is, you pay the full price anyways, because the money earned through ads is also paid by you.

Even worse: you additionally pay the advertising industry

> Businesses still need to get their message out, so what do they do? They hire YouTubers to play talk positively about their product, they wine and dine journalists and publications for favorable coverage, which becomes easy because without ads they are hurting for revenue. If ads were banned this would get worse.

No, we wouldn't see it at all, because that's advertising.
by pydry | 2025-04-06 07:59:32+00:00
The productivity gains come from:

* You get unstuck faster.

* When the passenger does background research/slacking stakeholders meaning that the driver doesnt have to context switch. Sometimes they even just know the answer to something you would have to spend 30 minutes researching.

* When the passenger spots something you didnt (antipattern, bug, problem) and they spot it quickly before you dug yourself a hole with it.

* When it makes it easier to take bigger decisions and bigger risks as a pair - risks/decisions most people wouldnt feel confident about taking solo.

* When those decisions are better - fewer rabbit holes are jumped into, more landmines are averted.

* When your respective coding philosophies developed over decades hit one another and you try to synthesize something that accomodates the best of both (this is next level pairing).

Mostly I find the productivity gains come from the quality of decisions being higher, which is invisible short term but overwhelming long term.

It doesnt help much if the person is very junior and needs to have everything explained but if theyre junior pairing is the best way to train and mold them into something better, which is probably what you want, right?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-06 08:01:35+00:00
> Lead content in the samples was wildly different, from 7 micrograms to 800, indicating that the sampling procedure itself was unreliable.

That isn't the only possible explanation for the variance. That much variance could have been in the product itself, e.g. if the suppressant was supplied by different companies or by the same company that has sourced raw materials from different mines for different batches.
by immibis | 2025-04-06 08:02:49+00:00
Protesting against Israel's carpet bombing and mass starvation of civilians, targeted missile strikes and sniper strikes on journalists (more than any other war in history and there might not be any left by now) and so on is considered to be supporting Hamas. Because if you weren't a Hamas terrorist, you'd support everything Israel says it does to get rid of Hamas. That six year old girl and the paramedics trying to save her? All Hamas. The flour massacre? Hamas. Journalists? Hamas. I'm skeptical that you haven't seen this rhetoric constantly since Oct 7 2023.

Are you aware that people were chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", because it rhymes, and they were not chanting "from the river to the sea, let's gas all the Jews again"?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-06 08:03:05+00:00
That isn't actually removing anything, it's just spreading it around.

Removing dirt from the carpet and washing it down the drain is fine because ordinary "dirt" (i.e. soil) is made of non-toxic or biodegradable stuff. By contrast, washing toxic materials or heavy metals into the water table is the place you don't want them. There's a reason it's illegal to pour used motor oil down the drain.
by barnabee | 2025-04-06 08:04:18+00:00
I’m over 40 and I think banning advertising is perfectly reasonable and should be done. I have been certain of this since at least my 20s, and since before the emergence of the current fully formed hellscape.

I have long thought advertising is the new smoking. One day we will look back and be amazed that we allowed public mental health and the wellbeing of our civilisation to be so attacked for profit.

I also manage to fairly easily live a life in which I see remarkably little advertising.

* I use a suite of ad/tracking blockers

* I don’t use apps that force ads on me

* I watch very little TV, and never watch broadcast TV

* I live in the UK which has relatively little outside advertising, and I mostly get around by walking/cycling (thus avoiding ads on public transport)

* etc…

It astounds me when I speak to friends and travel just how pervasive advertising is for some people, and particularly in some places.

The US, for example, is insane. I can see how some people used to living in such an environment may think it’s not possible or reasonable to get rid of advertising, and for sure there will be edge cases and evasion, but my experience is that it really wouldn’t be so hard to dramatically reduce the amount people are exposed to.
by stock_toaster | 2025-04-06 08:04:36+00:00
> Eating at a restaurant seems like a subpar experience now compared to my own table.

Also most midrange restaurants I have been to lately are just so _loud_. Not sure if it is all the hard surfaces that are so popular, or if people just have less social awareness anymore and yap away at such high volumes.

Seems wild. I’d rather just make something at home, hit up a good food truck, or go somewhere fancy.
by derriz | 2025-04-06 08:04:57+00:00
You must be lucky. I've wasted hours or tens of hours diagnosing sleep issues on my mac. What's infuriating is that this used to "just work" and was a major selling point for MacOs. It was one of the reasons that made me abandon an experiment to switch to using a Linux laptop. Windows was even worse.

I now avoid leaving my MacBook unplugged overnight because I fear the battery draining to zero will cause it damage. This has happened a number of times when I've had some heavy Safari pages open when closing the lid. Some other process wakes the OS and now Safari stars chewing up power.

I tried systematically dealing with each cause and eliminated most of them but am still plagued by a few issues including some mDNSResponder stuff that is ungoogleable.

Nothing that the Macbook has done while "helpfully" waking from sleep has EVER provided any value to me while on multiple occasions, it has caused issue by draining the battery - which, long term, is actually damaging to the hardware. I wish I could have the old MacOS Sleep behavior back.
by hdjjhhvvhga | 2025-04-06 08:08:34+00:00
Everybody is different. When I visit the office sometimes, I do it to socialize and talk about things not related to work mainly. And then I get back to do the actual work. If I need to communicate with someone, I simply ask them for their time - they can get back to me whenever they are free. This system serves me and my coworkers well but it's obvious there are many people who prefer synchronous in-person communication for most tasks.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-06 08:09:36+00:00
> If it is, your new license doesn't matter, they may use it. If it isn't, your new license doesn't matter, they're lready acting illegally. Is this argument wrong?

Well, yes. "It hasn't been tried in court yet" is not the same as "Precedent says this is explicitly allowed".

Add in the fact that the main AI players are negotiating commercial agreements to use publicly available content from the main publishing corporations tells you everything you need to know about how they think the lawsuits are going to turn out.

From the PoV of the main AI companies, they've already indicated that they know what the outcome is going to be.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-06 08:10:14+00:00
Try booting in admin safe mode, looking in Device Manager, Show Hidden Devices, and manually uninstall the phantom old wifi device that's not really there any more.

No guarantees but that's what I would do before expecting great progress otherwise.

The theory is that Windows is lying awake at night wondering if their old familiar accomplice is going to ever be seen again or not ;)
by barnabee | 2025-04-06 08:11:00+00:00
I like the direction but some things are difficult to imagine happening at all without extremely large companies.

I have wondered before about restricting a company’s diversity. Effectively giving a time limit after a company over a certain size develops a new line of business by which it must be spun off into a new company. Say 12 or 18 months.

For example, Apple would have been allowed to develop and launch Apple Music but it would have been forced to spin it off.

The rule would need to be carefully crafted, and would need regulators to be active in enforcement as it would require interpretation to be applied (similar to how anti-trust works today, perhaps).
by Tildey | 2025-04-06 08:12:40+00:00
AFFF is being/has been phased out pretty much everywhere in the first world. There is still plenty of it around though - disposing of, and then filling with fluorine free foam can be an expensive process.

Personally, it’s about $10/litre to dispose of. Regardless of concentration. So properly rinsing out old equipment is expensive. But I know the situation differs by country, and what’s deemed “acceptable” varies too.

Powder doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds, at least to my knowledge. The role of fluorosurfactants is in increased wetting and emulsifying with hydrocarbons. Not really applicable to a dry agent.

Phos-check doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds.
by immibis | 2025-04-06 08:12:58+00:00
I don't like these systems where configuration is built from a million separate files. They're unpleasant to work with.

The best reason to do it this way seems to be that files are the unit of package management. Perhaps we need a smarter package manager.

My nginx.conf life got better when I deleted sites-available and sites-enabled and defined my sites inline in nginx.conf.

The only thing worse is when the configuration is actually a program that generates the configuration, like in ALSA.

And the only thing worse than ALSA style is Xorg style, with a default configuration generated by C code and you can only apply changes to it without seeing it. Xorg also has this weird indirection thing where the options are like Option "Foo" "Bar" instead of Foo "Bar", but that's a nitpick in comparison.
by timschmidt | 2025-04-06 08:13:58+00:00
> because things like this are not naturally equal.

Really? Seems to me like no one has the singular line on reality, and everyone's perceptions are uniquely and contextually their own.

Wrong is relative: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

But it seems certain that we're all wrong about something. The brain does not contain enough bits to accurately represent reality.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-04-06 08:14:26+00:00
>is a valid and desirable function

No I don’t think so. I would genuinely guess that 97% of the ads I see are irrelevant garbage or, more commonly, bids by products I know to raise awareness to increase the probability of their sale. I discover the vast majority of what I care about through word of mouth and I suspect I’d be fine without ads. There are so many negative externalities that it’s actually ridiculous.
by gusgus01 | 2025-04-06 08:15:12+00:00
For the restaurants mentioned in the article, I fully agree. Especially because you're not losing much quality. A pizza hut pizza will be just as bad at a pizza hut as it will be 15 minutes later at home or in a park. The same goes for the mostly deep fried or microwaved food at Applebee's or a Wing Joint.

But I will still opt to eat in at nicer establishments, where I'm paying for quality and don't want to suffer any lose of it. A nice plus is they usually have a nice atmosphere and a selection of cocktails/cocktails that I wouldn't make at home.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-06 08:15:19+00:00
> capitalism was never reviewed or updated according to new science about anthropology, sociology, and economics?

If taking a human-science view, then one interesting take on capitalism is that it isn't a thing at all. It's the absence of a thing. It's a positive freedom. There can be no "science" of capitalism.

It allows the direction of excess human psychological energy. It is the absence of regulation of anti-social criminal behaviours, by creating an allowable "grey area" between moral and wicked behaviours - what so many business people like to call "amoral". But that same energy is innovative, creative - the destruction of what is old and weak is part of any finite-sized system. The need to destroy, dominate and exploit is strong in a significant percent of the population. Any decent study of criminology is continuous with "business".

William James, in The Moral Equivalent of War [0] suggested that we coped with this in the past by having every few generations of males kill each other in wars - and of course implied that it's mainly a gendered issue. During frontier times, as the European settlers conquered America and other lands, there was ample "space" for exploitation as that energy was directed against "nature" (and the indigenous folks who were considered part of "nature" as opposed to "civilisation"). Now we've run out of space. The only target left for that energy is each other.

Social-"ism" etc are projects to try controlling that nature by reducing "individualism" (and insecurity-based consumerism is an obvious first target). It's major fault is that the anti-social criminals tend be want to be the ones doing the controlling - just wearing the mask of civility and preaching the primacy of "the group".

If we cannot change human nature we must find a new outlet for that energy. Space exploration as a new frontier always looked good, but in reality it's something we are unlikely to achieve before self-destructing the technological civilisation needed to support it.

That leaves little else but a kind of cultural revolution. The pharmaceutically catalysed version of that in the 1960s is worth studying to see where and why it went wrong. See Huxley.

Any realistic systematic change would need to address this "problem" of the individual ego, creating some new focus that is the "moral equivalent" of war.

[0] http://public-library.uk/ebooks/65/5.pdf
by coldblues | 2025-04-06 08:15:42+00:00
Focusmate is probably the most popular tool in this category. I don't like the other ones, I am more comfortable in a 1-1 video session rather than multiple people. It works really well when I want to force myself to get something done.

For the most comprehensive and effective solution, medication is still the go-to. Disregard any stigma and misguided fears around it and just get medicated.
by juliendorra | 2025-04-06 08:16:18+00:00
The blob keyboard was never publicly shown (at least not until Kocienda's book in 2018) and was quickly morphed into something else internally.

So Swype probably reinvented the idea independently (as others did too I think)

Apple did patent some swipe behaviors for keyboards at the time of the first iPhone: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8059101B2/en
by Sparkyte | 2025-04-06 08:19:52+00:00
I really wish that was the case. You can give it only so much context before it starts to go down a path where the context doesn't even make sense to it, and yet if you explained it to a colleague they would instantly understand.

Context has layers and really 1st or 2nd layers ever get reached by AI but it can't dive further because it is too focused on the final output rather than the continuation of the output.

For example you write code and then tell it what the final expect output is, it some how always divorces itself from rudimentary implementations and poops out something that cut a lot holes out or shortcuts all of your work. Removes modularity in favor of that immediate outcome. AI is just not good enough to understand the complex relationship of maintainable code and deliverable code. So it poops out what is easily made to meet the deliverable.
by juliendorra | 2025-04-06 08:20:30+00:00
There's no up swipe in the prototype made in 2005 by Ken Kocienda (which this is a reproduction of). It's tap for center letter, and swipe for the sides.

What do you mean by "widen the margins"?

In any case, Ken Kocienda validated this reproduction's behavior as very close to his original blob keyboard (see bluesky posts between him and me)

The goal is not to make it better than the original prototype! But to the contrary, to give you the same experience that pushed Kocienda to explore further and design the right user experience.