MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by w3dada | 2025-04-11 14:55:14+00:00
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by Night_Thastus | 2025-04-11 14:55:40+00:00
Relatively, games and consoles have gotten cheaper. This is undeniable. But the wages have shrunk and the debts have grown for the average family compared to where they were in the 80's. $80 can feel worse today than $45 in '88 even though inflation-adjusted it's better.

It's also worth mentioning that the market is WAY bigger today than it was in the 80's. Successful games fly through millions of copies like it's nothing. Even if the margins are lower, the volume is way higher. (And each copy sold has no real additional cost)
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-04-11 14:56:29+00:00
The latest example for me was trying to generate a thumbnail of a PSD in plain C and figure out the layers in there as I was lazy to read the specs, with the objective to bundle it as a wasm and execute it on a browser, it never got to extract a thumbnail from a given PSD, it's very confident at making stuff but it never got anywhere despite spending a couple hours on it which would have been better spend reading specs and existing code on that topic
by eigen | 2025-04-11 14:56:30+00:00
> Lawyers, judges and juries understand the intent of the law, and are not bound like we software engineers are to the exact commands in front of them.

a good example is O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, No. 16-1901, also known as the Maine Dairy oxford comma case. the District Court followed the intent but the Appeals court followed the law as written.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/missing-oxford-com...

from the Appeals Court ruling

> The District Court concluded that, despite the absent comma, the Maine legislature unambiguously intended for the last term in the exemption's list of activities to identify an exempt activity in its own right. The District Court thus granted summary judgment to the dairy company, as there is no dispute that the drivers do perform that activity. But, we conclude that the exemption's scope is actually not so clear in this regard.

https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-190...
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-11 14:56:44+00:00
I am 'very online'. I have seen a huge rise in right-wing content on social issues, but also a huge rise in very explicitly leftist and anti-AI content in a way that did not previously exist - especially on economic/industry issues.

That public education has a left-wing slant in many jurisdictions seems difficult to deny, but I did go to a particulsrly leftwing school district. I do not think you really know anything about my POV and likely the inferences you would make based on my statement are wrong.
by edent | 2025-04-11 14:57:18+00:00
Sonic 2 cost about £40 when released.

Forty quid in '92, plus inflation, takes us to about... £80.

I wrote about this a few years ago - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/why-are-video-games-so-expe... - people have a terrible memory for what things used to cost.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-11 14:57:29+00:00
Maybe the Jan 27 entry, but the Nov 03 entry reads much the same if Garfield is present or not. What I mean is, the strips that focus on Jon talking to Garfield always had this element.

Remember, Jon is already talking to a cat who he assumes can't understand him & knows can't talk back. He might as well be talking into the abyss. Only we can read Garfield's inner monologue. Jon's actions are sometimes presupposed by Garfield's whims. This premise is already the basis of some horror or otherwise unsetting fiction.

If Garfield is there or not, if we focus on Jon as the main character of the strip, we might have to do some introspection, whether it's about expecting to have a conversation with cat as if he were your son, that our lives are as boring as his, etc. These are scary thoughts! Garfield's presence serves as a humorous distraction and allows us to forget these thoughts and laugh at Jon, even if briefly. In the same way, Freddy Krueger delivers funny one liners to break up the dread of realizing we're in some sort of living nightmare like people of Elm Street...
by XCSme | 2025-04-11 14:57:31+00:00
This can happen to anyone, and not only that, once you decide to send data to thrid-parties, you no longer have control of this data, and those third-parties themselves might accidentally leak the data. Who would then be to blame if you sent the data to someone that didn't respect the privacy regulations? Because the customer only had a contract directly with you, and only shared data with your company.

Offtopic: I wrote a TLDR of this incident here: https://www.uxwizz.com/blog/blue-shield-data-breach-why-self...
by ruffrey | 2025-04-11 14:57:57+00:00
As exciting as the last couple years have been in the AI space, I totally agree.

There was an advertisement on Twitter a few years ago for Google Home. It was a video where a parent was putting their child to bed, and they said, "Ok Google, read Goodnight Moon."

It felt like a window into a viscerally dystopian future where we outsource human interaction to an AI.
by zinekeller | 2025-04-11 14:58:32+00:00
Since that is a airline-related website, and you wouldn't probably believe me, but is this a possible case of very old backend systems running in batch outside of office hours? This is such a serious issue that some legacy government websites, like UK's DVLA, to this day still has an operating hours (https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-ser...)
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-11 14:58:44+00:00
Hmmm... Is it because I came to tolerate it for the paycheck that it sucked or is it possible it began to suck first?

I get it that money coming into the industry made the whole industry suck. Honestly, Apple was a much more fun to place to work at when there was no money to be made there (no more than a paycheck anyway). Others may disagree, but I found its success made it increasingly a shittier place to work. (Others though, as I say, may have enjoyed the wider reach the platform enjoyed with its success.)
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by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-11 14:58:56+00:00
Thanks, especially two is very interesting. Admittedly the framework itself is the actually interesting part and that's what I meant with this work being "rare" (I mean how many people work on those kinds of frameworks fulltime? It's not zero, but..)

I think what I engaged with is the notion that most programming "has some side-effects" ("it's not 100% pure"), but much of what I see is like 95% side-effects with some cool, interesting bits stuffed in between the endless layers of communication (without which the "interesting" stuff won't be worth shit).

I feel FP is very, very cool if you got yourself isolated in one of those interesting layers but I feel that's a rare place to be.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-11 14:58:59+00:00
I think it’s fair to believe that democracy has failure modes where we say, “Nope, this outcome didn’t work.” For example, if fellow citizens start getting rounded up in camps or deported, regardless of due process, what the electorate wants and the votes communicate are no longer relevant. I think we’re almost at that point, but not quite yet (depends on whether checks and balances on illegal actions of the executive branch are successful).

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —- attributed to Ben Franklin

(The US is a federal republic, not a democracy)
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-04-11 14:59:24+00:00
All of the examples listed have something in common: they are services for accessing content you don't own. So it is in the provider's interest to find ways to satisfy you with less and/or cheaper content.

The Netflix changes aren't attempts to make their product better. They are attempts to save money by obscuring the amount and/or quality of available content.

By contrast, if you buy BluRays from one company and BluRay players from another company, everyones incentives are better aligned.
by thechao | 2025-04-11 14:59:29+00:00
Do we even have a way of estimating the billions it will cost to resecuritize our infrastructure? What about the cost in lost soft power? The total knock on effect in loss to the economy for not subsidizing basic research, that led to the U.S. being a major power in medicine & pharma? This is the very definition of penny-wise–pound-foolish.
by horsawlarway | 2025-04-11 14:59:40+00:00
Cooperation always requires this kind of coordination, though.

It's equivalently messed up to do something like say "You can borrow my car on Thursday to drive to the doctor" and then wait for the person to show up on Thursday only to say "Nope - changed my mind".

Basically - cooperation requires honor. It requires that parties value that the things they say they will do are the things they actually do.

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My biggest problem with the current administration is that - regardless of what you might like or dislike about their policies - I think it's impossible to argue that they are honorable.

They explicitly do not value what they say. They are dishonorable - in the rawest, most traditional meaning of that statement.

That behavior inevitably leads to strong social backlash from the other parties involved. Some psychology studies strongly hint that this is literally built into us: We value punishing bad behavior even if it means loss more than we value accepting it at a gain.
Show HN: Quote Quote. A minimal app to save quotes from physical books
by gael_ser | 2025-04-11 14:59:58+00:00
I read a lot both digital and physical books. Saving quotes from ebooks is easy, but I always struggled with physical books: post-its, phone photos, scattered notes.

So I built this small app: https://quote-quote.vercel.app You take a photo of a printed page, the app extracts the text via OCR, and you can save it as a quote with the book and author.

It’s free and very minimal by design. Still early but useful to me so far. Curious if others find this kind of tool helpful, or have ideas for improving it.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-11 15:00:05+00:00
Nice, I hadn't heard about that before. The original Mac game was really fun, but your new Steam version looks way smoother. I like how the UI's like an old B&W Mac UI but with Egyptian touches thrown in. If you don't mind me asking, what was the new version written in (C, C++, something else)? Were you able to reuse any of the logic from the original Pascal version, or was everything more or less done from scratch?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-11 15:00:09+00:00
Ads are embedded into the media Netflix sells. See almost any car chase scene, either wholly unnecessary or unnecessarily long to advertise the car brand, many times with the actors’ speaking lines solely to advertise the car.

Even critically acclaimed shows like Slow Horses from a supposedly prestige media seller like Apple has scenes where you watch actors put on AirPods Max headphones (obviously with no relevance to the plot).

More accurate is “streaming without discrete ad breaks.”
by tikhonj | 2025-04-11 15:00:14+00:00
I don't have a great read on how it happened at Mercury originally; I assume that they started using it near the beginning since lots of Haskellers like Nix and it solves some pain points with packaging, and they've been using it ever since.

The key insight is that it's been able to scale and still work pretty well even as Mercury is hitting a few hundred developers. There's a bit of friction here and there, but the overall dev experience is pretty good; in a number of ways, it's distinctly better than what I've seen in places that heavily use Docker.
by agent281 | 2025-04-11 15:00:41+00:00
I wonder how much the workforce plays into it.

If you have a bunch of people who work at companies that are trying to maximize eyeballs then they shuffle around to different companies, are they going to adopt the goals of the new company? Or is their existing perspective and skills going to shape the new company?

I imagine it's a bit of both. Given how big Google and Meta are and how much talent circulates among big tech companies, this might cause companies to lean a bit more heavily into the attention economy than they might otherwise need to.

Also, attention is just easier to measure than satisfaction. Makes it easier to fall down that path.
by sepositus | 2025-04-11 15:00:48+00:00
Fair enough, but I would be concerned about the people who think that making (offensive) psychiatric diagnoses over the internet is a good thing that should be promoted. In the best case, it only confirms people's biases and does nothing to move the needle towards unity rather than continued division.

> Jesus turned over tables when they were trying to profit inside the church. His movement seemed to turn out pretty good.

Applying this story to posting anonymous comments on an internet forum seems like a stretch. There are hardly any meaningful consequences for your decision to write in this way, whereas Jesus very much became a target after that demonstration.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-11 15:01:11+00:00
Worth mentioning that games are still among the cheapest forms of entertainment when you look at dollars per hour.

Lets say Mario Kart had a cost of 40 dollars. If you played that version of Mario Kart 20 hours over your lifetime that is 2 dollars per hour of entertainment. If you played it 40 hours over your lifetime that is 1 dollar per hour of entertainment.

This new Mario Kart costs 80 bucks. So now the cost per hour has gone to maybe 4 dollars an hour or 2 dollars an hour.

Ultimately this is still one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. The only thing cheaper would be watching free videos on YouTube or Tik Tok. Or maybe Netflix streaming (but even this depends on how many hours a month you spend watching Netflix stuff).

Of course the best form of entertainment is still reading books. It's the form that is the best for you as a person and it is still the cheapest considering the price of books and how many hours it takes to read a good book. And books are free at your local public library so that's even better.
by rtkwe | 2025-04-11 15:01:15+00:00
And they got caught by the system already... You can't just snap your fingers, destroy the entire apparatus of academia and get it back again on a whim. It'd be a century or more to rebuild fully if you really did try to start over again.

The impulse to cheat is even exacerbated by thinner funding not fixed by it because you're pressed extremely hard to get results to justify the next grant, and your tenure board in 5 years, and there's basically no grant money for replication and no prestige at all.
by milesvp | 2025-04-11 15:02:16+00:00
XP also inexplicably required at least twice the ram as 2000. when XP came out that was a significant cost, and I personally was able to salvage many laptops at the time by downgrading them from XP. Eventually XP became the default for me because ram got a lot cheaper and the service packs and driver support made it more viable.

But then, tangentially, I started using ubuntu at work, in a sort of misguided belief it would make me a better sysadmin, and it was only a matter of time before I couldn’t stand windows at home as well.

I thought win7 was pretty solid, though I didn’t upgrade until well after win8 was shipping. But lucky for me, proton finally got really good, and that allowed me to basically skip win10+. Now it’s only for the rare tool that I even boot into my windows partitions anymore. When I do, being bombarded by random attention grabbers is completely jarring and I want flee as fast as I can.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-11 15:02:31+00:00
I will totally agree you have a valid point. But ponder this, both the democratic and republican parties have held fully stacked power at various times since 1798. Why didn't any of them repeal the alien enemies act, which is clearly an authoritarian bypass of due process?

This isn't an attempt at "both parties equally bad." I understand some people and parties use the powers in a more brutal way than the other. My point is part of the problem is the power is there in the first place. You can't eliminate that with a simple vote, nor by majority vote, and in many cases the process of amending the constitution has been made so onerous you can't do it if it's block by a minority of people (that looks a lot like the guys that signed it).
by anotherhue | 2025-04-11 15:03:04+00:00
I have observed a sharp disconnect in the philosophies of 'improving developer experience' and 'running a tight ship'.

I think the last twenty years of quasi-marketing/sales/recruiting DevRel roles have pushed a narrative of frictionless development, while on the flip side security and correctness have mostly taken a back seat (special industries aside).

I think it's a result of the massive market growth, but I so welcome the pendulum swinging back a little bit. Typo squatting packages being a concern at the same time as speculative execution exploits shows mind bending immaturity.
by joquarky | 2025-04-11 15:03:09+00:00
> In fact, to the extent HTML elements are supposed to be semantic, we shouldn't have headline levels in the first place! Instead of <h1>, <h2>, ... we should just have <header> - the headline level is implicit in the nesting anyway

The <header> vs <h#> decision often ends up being a flow-breaking exception in my development process.

It also bugs me that we have exactly six hardcoded heading levels. Something about that feels like it violates a deep, lizard-brain-level DRY principle.

My main concern is how well screen readers and assistive tech would handle a semantic-only approach, as the <h#> elements go all the way back to the beginning of HTML and are pretty deeply rooted in standard practices.
by rowanseymour | 2025-04-11 15:03:34+00:00
> Programming is getting democratized

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean but I keep hearing the same about art, music and other creative fields and it sure sounds like contempt for creative people.

I personally don't lose any sleep over LLMs being powerful wizards for getting started on new projects.. that's what LLMs are good at.. pulling together bits of things they've seen on the internet. There's a chasm between that and maintaining, iterating on a complex project. Things that require actual intelligence.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-04-11 15:03:40+00:00
> You cannot commit genocide through rhetoric

Maybe you've missed this, but Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and has laid utter waste to Gaza. But genocide also requires intent, and Israelis have loudly broadcast that intent to the world.

> They are taught to hate Jews from the start.

No, they aren't. They learn to hate Israelis through bitter experience. If you live under a foreign military occupation, with constant humiliation by foreign soldiers on your territory, with foreign settlers stealing more and more of your land, and with that foreign military killing tens of thousands of your countrymen, nobody has to teach you to hate that foreign country. It's actually amazing that UNRWA has managed to set up such a politically neutral education system under these circumstances.

Palestinians don't hate Jews. If you're Jewish, you can go to the West Bank. People will be friendly to you if you're sympathetic to their situation. What they don't like is Israel, the country that controls their lives and oppresses them day in and day out.
by damnitbuilds | 2025-04-11 15:04:20+00:00
You can start by discussing things and not quibbling over terms.

> What does "defend" mean?

Keep it from being replaced by another culture. I think we all understand that.

> How can a minority "impose" its culture?

By being locally dominant. By catering to people from their own community who prefer not to join the local culture. By providing cheaper/better/more profitable things to the locals than the local culture does.
by em-bee | 2025-04-11 15:04:43+00:00
i was using it as a general term for whatever money you receive after you retire except personal investments or savings. i could not find out how 401ks work, specifically i did not find out whether 401k works like any other pension scheme or not. the wikipedia page on pensions does not say that 401k is not a pension, therefore i figure it is included in the definition.

i just checked the 401k page, and it says: a 401(k) plan is an employer-sponsored, defined-contribution, personal pension (savings) account.

so it's a pension.

but what we call it doesn't really matter. more important is the question if the payout depends on future generations paying in. in my brief search i could not tell whether the 401k is protected against that or if it even can be protected. but if it is i'll have to retract my claim. my apologies.
by pbowyer | 2025-04-11 15:04:58+00:00
I borderline love Varnish cache, but the way the open source and commercial versions have diverged and all the nice features only go into the $10k/yr+ commercial version sucks.

Features like the memory governer [0], because trying to predict how much memory (open-source) Varnish will use is an absolute PITA and a sure-fire way to run out of memory if you're not careful.

My clients can't justify the commercial license costs (as a sibling comment says, CDNs eat Varnish's lunch in that market) and yet what I can do with Varnish and the power it gives me makes it real magic.

It would be nice to see a modern reimplementation of Varnish, open-sourced, but I doubt that would ever happen.

0. https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/two-minute-tech-tuesd...