MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_snooze | 2025-04-24 14:25:20+00:00
> “[Ford said] ".. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

> "Odd," said Arthur. "I thought you said it was a democracy."

> "I did," said Ford. "It is."

> "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

> "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

> "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

> "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

> "But," said Arthur, going in for the big one again, "why?"

> "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in.”

Negative partisanship is a hell of a drug.
by pookha | 2025-04-24 14:25:20+00:00
I hate group chats (hate). It's a cliquey childish high-school cafeteria mode of communicating (thus why highschoolers use group chats). 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 (and maybe, given what we've learned about social media and nation-states, that's not without merit -- i.e the UK). Perfect world social media is a means of forming connections and expanding your little room(s).
Ask HN: What sites or apps has AI helped you complete?
by technojunkie | 2025-04-24 14:25:25+00:00
In the last decade or so, I started and stopped so many potential sites, plugins, apps, and more because I got to a point of complexity that needed help. Occasionally, I've used sites that have mentors or freelancers, they've been helpful, but the costs add up.

Trying out the services from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more, I have actually completed a handful of projects, either for free or cost effectively, that I wasn't able to complete previously.

What kind of accomplishments have you made because of this new paradigm of digital mentorship using AI?
by gizmo | 2025-04-24 14:26:49+00:00
Phones and tablets are already among the most energy efficient devices. A tablet sips power compared to a desktop PC. Isn't energy use totally dominated by lights, cooling and heating of the spaces we inhabit?

Repairability rules I like. Rules about OS updates are good too. But the energy claims look like BS to me:

> In 1990, the annual electricity consumption for (networked) standby of the base stations and charging cradles of cordless landline phones was 37.1 kWh. In 2020, without measures, this would have been 24.5 kWh. Due to the Ecodesign standby regulation, this was reduced to 16.1 kWh in 2020, a 34% saving. Due to the addition of the 2023 Ecodesign regulation on phones, this is expected to further reduce to 8.0 kWh in 2030, a 63% saving versus no measures.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-24 14:27:04+00:00
NVIDIA's blobs are different when compared to others. They do not want to give away how their GPU clocking and enablement works. As a result, NVIDIA's blobs are both signed and picky about "who" they communicate with. You can't use the NVIDIA's full fledged firmware with nouveau for example.

On the other hand, the card enablement sequences are open for AMD and Intel. AMD only protects card's thermal and fan configuration data to preventing card damage, AFAIK. You can clock the card and use its power management features the way you like. For NVIDIA, even they are out of reach.

AMD's open drivers work way better than NVIDIA's closed ones, too. I have never seen how a single application refused to launch until I used NVIDIA closed drivers.
by vb7132 | 2025-04-24 14:27:09+00:00
After working at the same (big tech) company for nine years, I feel like an outlier. My career has had phases of intense hard work and periods of rest. However, my happiness was influenced by many other factors. While working hard and being in the flow can be incredibly gratifying, it can also be stressful. Additionally, the relationships at work play a significant role, more so than the work itself.

In my friend circle, I’ve noticed that the happiest people are those who are pursuing their own interests and achieving moderate success in them. Ultimately, this seems to create a sense of purpose. And I am envious of such people.

Work is also a crucial component of the "work-life" balance dichotomy. If you’re not working enough, you’re likely to feel unhappy.
by parpfish | 2025-04-24 14:27:42+00:00
i actually think it's good that you need to explicitly share the photo with each group. people like getting a message that they know you decided you wanted them (or their little group) to see.

if i see a photo that a friend broadcasts out once on a social feed, i see it and move on.

if a friend puts a photo in a text/group chat, i know that it's something they wanted to share with me
by taeric | 2025-04-24 14:27:52+00:00
To be fair, if firefox had the intelligence to know that it was being asked to attach a file it didn't have access to, it could prompt for a password. I don't expect full TRAMP like smarts from Emacs, but I don't see why this wouldn't be doable?

Granted, I'm viewing this as far easier than the sandbox "fake file system" approach? Firefox would be able to see the file exists, most likely, but just not have read rights to it. Yes, you can have some things it can't list, but I would expect that to be low on probability to want to attach to an email?
by SR2Z | 2025-04-24 14:28:08+00:00
Chrome is wildly popular because it's a GOOD BROWSER. Google's search and ad monopoly do not matter; people loved the browser because it was fast, minimalist, bundled flash and PDF readers, and had great support for adblockers.

More than for any other Google product, Chrome won because it was good in its own right.

Now that Google has gotten rid of adblockers we will see exactly how much ability they have to compel people to use the browser :)

This third-party cookie thing has been in the news for half a decade at this point. It's not a new idea at all.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-24 14:28:24+00:00
They do, in several areas, at least according to the definitions of EU law. This may not meet your individual definition of dominant position of course (e.g., one might hold you need 50% market share in certain markets to be dominant, but the EU definition does not hold this requirement).

They also meet the definitions of a gatekeeper (as defined by the DMA) in several areas, which is the related law this fine actually came from.
by jsiepkes | 2025-04-24 14:28:27+00:00
> Or building your own services, presumably?

In case of Android and Google Play services that is never going to work reliably. Your users will experience breakage on a regular interval and you will make yourself wildly unpopular with app developers (since they will be getting the bug reports of the subtle incompatibilities). Probably to a point where they might just block their app from running on your phone.

All this stuff works on paper but it is going to be a constant up hill battle which you will loose in the end because your users will become fed-up with the constant needling of broken stuff and having to wait for you to fix it. It similar to using Wine on Linux. It works _a lot_ of the time but not all the time.

If you want to experience using reverse engineered Google play services, try an Android phone (or emulator) with microG on it [1].

[1] https://microg.org/
by mjevans | 2025-04-24 14:28:40+00:00
Why would a specialized instruction be necessary? 'the stack' is stored in memory just like everything else.

Expensive is the (very slow for modern CPUs) operation of _writing_ that change in value out to memory at it's distant and slow speed compared to that which the CPU operates at, as well as the overhead of synchronizing that write to any other caches of those memory locations.

Maybe you're thinking of the trick of a band new page of memory mapped memory that is 'zeroed' but is in reality just a special 'all zeros' page in the virtual to physical memory lookup table? Those still need to be zeroed by real writes at some point, if they're ever used.
by Izkata | 2025-04-24 14:28:47+00:00
> isn't that intentionally creating a lot of mental anguish every day (trying to make 80% last the full day)

Not at all, I only use around 40% per day.

> in exchange for just one day of simplicity

More like avoiding months of that mental anguish in the future because my phone can still easily handle the 40% I use instead of having degraded down to where that is the limit.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-24 14:29:11+00:00
Multi-millionaires (not billionaires), but they are business owners and finance folks.

They own a mansion and a yacht (Bugs Bunny reference).

But you are correct. Different orbit from the ultra-wealthy. They still hang out with plebes like me.

However, if this happens to these folks, then you can bet that it also happens to the next valence level.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-24 14:29:47+00:00
> Most scrapers don't run browsers.

The specific risk I was talking about was that if OpenAI buys Chrome, they could (and I think it's likely they would) use the contents of whatever pages the users browse to as training for their models. Basically, turning the browser into a disguised crawler that would be immune from the usual anti-crawling methods, including putting up a login page.
by peepee1982 | 2025-04-24 14:29:52+00:00
This is a useless definition, especially in this context. Washing my dishes is not work, because it's ultimately irrelevant whether I do it or not, although I'm doing it still because I have a result in mind.

It also comes across as very out of touch and privileged, because unless you have a relatively cushy job, you would definitely not see the difference between being paid or not as irrelevant. There are plenty of people who have to work very hard just to make ends meet, be it physically exhausting work, or repetitive and monotonous work. And they will not have the capacity to work even harder once they clock out of work, no matter the incentives, because they'll be spent and unable to.
by miiiiiike | 2025-04-24 14:30:00+00:00
It's weird how moments can go from "we were playing a game when.." to "The New York Times is covering a game we played 15 years ago". What I've heard from people who were in the game was that he wanted to go to bed so he was trying to negotiate a quick end to the game. There was a time at a con where I did something similar (i.e. we had to finish, we couldn't just leave the game setup and play later.)

Everything is viewed through a mirror darkly.

"HE FORCED OTHERS TO KNEEL BEFORE HIM, EVEN IN BOARD GAMES!1!" vs. "He wanted to go to bed so made a dickhead comment that would let him both win and sleep." Think back to your 20s, which feels more likely.
by curiousllama | 2025-04-24 14:31:14+00:00
There has actually been a friends-only feed on FB for years. Timelines -> Friends filters everything down.

The problem? Nobody I care about posts anymore. The "flywheel" is broken.

Social Media hasn't died - it just moved to group chats. Everything I care about gets posted there.

Honestly, I would love a running Feed of my group chats. Scan my inbox, predict what's most engaging, and give me a way to respond directly.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-24 14:31:14+00:00
They only really claimed to believe in the conspiracy theory of lab leak, which many do and isn’t at all outrageous imo.

But to your point, I 100% agree. Even if Covid was zoonotic, it absolutely could have been a human fuckup. The amount of lab leaks over the years, including things like Anthrax, Polio, SARS and even Covid (yes, in Taiwan after the initial outbreak) from BSL3 and 4, are just waaay to common.

After a plane crash, there are almost always changes to protocol, equipment or even the aircraft. Here, we had millions of casualties globally, and this risk is as real now as yesterday. I get that we have pandemic fatigue, and nobody wants to think about it. But if keep playing with fire, it will happen again, sooner or later.
by marcusb | 2025-04-24 14:31:17+00:00
I think you're bending over backwards here to rationalize this 'review'. Assuming this person does use throwaway accounts as you suggest, you'd have to believe that in February of last year, they were busy writing a dice-guessing game and a rock-paper-scissors implementation and in February of this year, they are experienced enough to write a lengthy critique of the architecture of someone else's project. A review, by the way, that is longer than the code it criticizes.

If you believe that, that's fine. I don't.

As for the correctness of the 'review', it is absolutely nuts. Total nonsense.
by RankingMember | 2025-04-24 14:31:48+00:00
Different strokes I guess! I will say that there's something unique I get from travelling that I don't get from anything else- the visceral in-person reminder that people are, at their core, very similar everywhere- mostly decent people just living their lives. It's like an antidote to the "other"-ing that sometimes creeps into the psyche from our media landscape.
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-24 14:32:02+00:00
I have found that in the age of work from home its increasingly difficult to have any loyalty or community with the people I work with. Been in my current company for ~4 years and I just feel nothing for them. The pay is good so I work hard. Other than that, 90% of my co-workers are off shore so I have almost no interaction with them aside from a 2 hour or so overlap in the morning. Couldn't tell you what most of their names are or what they do. They are just a series of letters sending me teams messages asking me for help or to work on a ticket.

The entire thing is a black box. I put work in and I get money out.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-24 14:32:03+00:00
I do.

108 Billion humans have ever lived on planet earth. 8 billion-ish currently.

Most of them live lives that in no way reflected on their hard work and talent, but rather their circumstances, starting with where and when they were born but encompassing a million different contingencies outside the control of their hard work or talent.

So do you think you have talent and hard work greater than 99% of those many billions? If you're posting on HN you've probably got "success" in that extreme even if you've never applied yourself or excelled in anything of any note.
by inkcapmushroom | 2025-04-24 14:32:10+00:00
Not sure if you meant hiking the whole AT or not, but thru-hiking the AT costs an estimated $1k per month (most thru-hikers take 5-7 months and spend about 5-7 grand). Equipment, food, occasional lodging and doing nice things on the way, and you'll still likely have to be paying all your normal expenses while you're doing it.
by WoodenChair | 2025-04-24 14:33:13+00:00
I used the form on the author of the book's website a few weeks ago to invite her on our books podcast:

https://sarahwynnwilliams.com

She didn't respond, which is fair enough, it's probably not big enough to be interesting to her. But then I got auto-added to her PR mailing list. I didn't ask or consent to be on the PR mailing list (all the page says as of now is "To contact Sarah, please complete the form below"). Seems I was just added because I used the "contact" form.

Auto-adding someone who contacts you to a PR mailing list is a dark pattern. Seems she learned something at Facebook. I found it ironic.
by krapp | 2025-04-24 14:33:15+00:00
Asked myself my opinion on politics - launched into a polemic rant.

Asked myself my opinion on AI - pessimistic doomerism.

Asked myself my opinion on God - agnostic cynicism.

Asked myself my opinion on myself, lots and lots of snark.

Lots and lots of shrug emojis.

Smug, self-important overly verbose troll. 8/10, but it cribs too many comments verbatim.
by corobo | 2025-04-24 14:33:34+00:00
Ooh speaking of birthday reminders - if Facebook is browsing this thread looking for things to fix: bring back the birthday iCal feed!

You literally had notifications via my calendar bringing me back to your site every few days/weeks to say happy birthday and maybe have a bit of a browse. Now the reminders are in my todo list and I say happy birthday via text or call instead. Path of least pain in the backside.

Absolutely bizarre they ditched the birthdays and events iCal feeds.
by hamburglar | 2025-04-24 14:34:10+00:00
I retired last year. Decided I’ve got enough money to last me the rest of my life if I live reasonably, and that’s good enough for me. I have a 40 hour a week job doing development, but it’s a passion project that I’m doing purely for enjoyment (and I’m working completely for equity). I felt my life instantly get easier the moment I quit my old job. It’s conceivable that this job will make me a pile of money, but I know it isn’t likely. I see my kids a lot more, I take time off when I need it, and I still feel like I’m doing something useful. I have decided that this is truly the way to live.
by chii | 2025-04-24 14:34:15+00:00
> what happens when WidgetCorp lays you off?

While you're at widgetcorp, make your name known in the industry as the expert of widgets. Essentially, it's a sort of public portfilio. Surely, there are widgetcorp competitors out there, which if they get wind of your immenent layoff, might take a bet at hiring you. Not to mention you might be able to poach the other members of widgetcorp as an entire team.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-24 14:34:15+00:00
I agree with you that battery tech is basically getting better by itself.

Anecdotally, I bought at least one phone where slightly easier/cheaper repairability of screen + battery would have made me keep the old one.

I think making these metrics clear on product packaging is also becoming more important, because the improvements in phones have slowed down already, and longer lifetimes should be a consequence/benefit (but this is against manufacturer interests).
by Ballas | 2025-04-24 14:34:23+00:00
Code-hopping remotes have existed for a very long time, and I am really surprised that it's not the case here. I have had cars that were made in the 90's that used keeloq, a technology from the mid 80's.

In fact, all of my door openers and car remotes have some form of code-hopping and it's certainly not because they were specifically chosen for that aspect.

Sure, there are attacks for code-hopping systems as well, but it's a completely different league.
by oxguy3 | 2025-04-24 14:34:45+00:00
One time at my old job I was trying to load the printer, and I said something like "Oh shoot, these are oversized sheets; I need the 8.5x11."

My coworker looked at me like I was crazy. "The what?"

"The normal printer paper, the 8.5 by 11 inch paper"

"Why do you know the exact size of printer paper??"

I did not know how to respond to this question.
by Supermancho | 2025-04-24 14:35:17+00:00
> Do you think it’s interesting to respond to a general claim with a rebuttal based on a tiny and relatively insular population?

I think it's a microcosm that is more aware of the effects than a population who (mistakenly) thinks the decisions they make are the reasons they experience specific effects, as opposed to the flow of individuals in and out of a virtual bounds of a larger population with very minor influence on socio-political issues.

Good luck with whatever.
by maccard | 2025-04-24 14:35:23+00:00
Credit Card, Debit Card, or Bank Transfer.

Faster payments [0] is pretty much instant. Some banks have lower limits, and CHAPS[1] is same day and unlimited. I used faster payments for buying a car, and for paying a house deposit. My bank transferred my mortgage via CHAPS.

[0] https://www.starlingbank.com/resources/banking/guide-to-fast... [1] https://www.hsbc.co.uk/current-accounts/what-is-a-chaps-paym...
by Frieren | 2025-04-24 14:36:09+00:00
> Sure, a construction worker can't be climbing the rafters at 80 years old, but this idea that we just transition to leisure and getting together with friends at a certain point is both fairly novel and of dubious value.

Peopled died and killed for the right to a pension. And many more are still fighting for it around the world. To disregard that so costly-gain right so lightly seems quite a privileged position.

A cosy job, stress-free, well paid, creative... may be worth keeping if you do not have hobbies nor family. But that is not the case for most people. Rich people lives longer than the poor, job conditions is one important factor.
by int_19h | 2025-04-24 14:36:35+00:00
Free (as in competitive) markets are indeed great, but capitalism is not free markets. It is, in fact, antithetical to them, since what capitalism really is about is a property rights system that allows for unlimited accumulation of capital (hence the name!), which inevitably leads to its aggregation in the hands of a few monopolists who then strangle said free market.

Free markets themselves, though, are a concept far older than capitalism, and are compatible with a broad variety of economic systems, including many forms of socialism and left-wing anarchism - e.g. Proudhon, the granddaddy of modern anarchist thought, was very much anti-capitalist and pro-free-market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism#Free-marke...
by adornKey | 2025-04-24 14:36:41+00:00
I now use PostmarketOS as a daily driver on the old standard Pinephone, and it looks good to me. After trying a few recent distributions PostmarketOS seemed to work best.

Before PostmarketOS I used Arch on a Pinephone Pro for 2 years, but I think it finally updated itself into oblivion... The software never reached a really stable state, but I was surprised, that it worked so long.

In the beginning of the PinePhone I think Mobian worked best, but the most recent version didn't look as good as PostmarketOS to me.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-04-24 14:36:48+00:00
Yeah, I don't think bundling programs by default should be considered anti-competitive for exactly this reason; there's a near infinite number of possible combinations of configurations and it would be ridiculous to expect users to have to make an affirmative choice between all of them every time they buy a product.

What should be considered anti-competitive is when you take active steps to block alternatives from existing. Like if Windows started requiring start menu alternatives to have a signed certificate from Microsoft in order to run; that would be anti-competitive. Or if they wanted to block a manufacturer from selling computers with Start11 pre-installed, that would be anti-competitive.
by comrade1234 | 2025-04-24 14:36:50+00:00
I ask it to explain the metaphor “my lawyer is a shark” and then explain to me how a French person would interpret the metaphor - the llms get the first part right but fail on the second. All it would have to do is give me the common French shark metaphors and how it would apply them to a lawyer - but I guess not enough people on the internet have done this comparison.