MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rollcat | 2025-04-13 09:14:23+00:00
> Web model is objectively better than [...]

Hard disagree. Modern web browsers are incredibly complex beasts that evolved by amalgamating decades of experimentation, poor non-standards, and elaborate counter-measures to fix that mess. I recommend reading <https://browser.engineering>, or even just building Chromium from source, to gain some appreciation. Most applications would benefit from something much simpler. But it's often practical to use as it is, pretty much exactly like terminal emulators.

The main difference being, terminal emulators are still several orders of magnitude less complex than web browsers, but in spite of that still require a lot of complexity to undo the side-effects of having a serial line between the CPU and the character grid. If you like monospaced fonts and character grids, you can probably render that with plain SDL, bitmap fonts with indexed sprite sheets (no Freetype), and in return get non-broken copy & paste, or even a dock icon. You know, the MVP of GUI.

Try <https://lite-xl.com>, it builds its GUI straight on top of SDL.
by santiagobasulto | 2025-04-13 09:15:10+00:00
> TUIs are an abomination of design that poorly mimic actually beautiful UIs

My mother used to have an early "digital company" back in the 90s in Argentina. We are from a small town in the "Patagonia region"[0] and there was only 1 programmer in the whole town. The guy was a huge nerd that had spent some time studying in Buenos Aires.

Long story short, my mother hired this kid to build software for him. This is around 1992 so it was all DOS.

This guy built a full TUI software with CRUD operation, reporting, "cron jobs" (some stuff that I never understood but would run every night), printing, etc.

Until this day I remember the people working at my mother's company how they just FLEW over the software. It was all keyboard and hotkeys. They'd just go back and forth, print stuff, enter data, connect with the Fax machine, all with their keyboard in this black screen full of green, white and orange glyphs.

I NEVER found any other software that is SO powerful and efficient and user friendly as TUIs.

[0] The "true" Patagonia region in the East of Arg.
by uniqueuid | 2025-04-13 09:15:13+00:00
Haha sorry, I understand that reaction to quite a lot of sociological theory.

Personally I find this the easiest simple mental model for reflexive modernity:

"Modernity linearly accelerated change. Reflexive modernity loops back on itself and accelerates the acceleration". So a bit of "singularity is near".

The whole theory itself has quite a bit more baggage, but again I agree, the wikipedia article does not help at all.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2
by jpc0 | 2025-04-13 09:15:31+00:00
> Yes but your project won't be sustainable without funding

What project? Maybe the ML model OP has might be a decent amount of work. OP clearly has no project, just a collection of tools they could conceivably use in a project. People don't pay for code, they pay for solutions to problems.

If OP wants to keep the code to themselves then go ahead, your IP nobody cares. If OP wants to build an actual project to monetize the code that way then go for it. But the industry long ago decided that random code snippets that haven't been integer into a project just isn't worth the overhead of monetizing. Open source it or keep it to yourself.
by rraghur | 2025-04-13 09:15:52+00:00
Not sure about specific ones here... But I feel financial basics should be a mandatory course before graduation... Maybe it is available as electives in other counties but here in India, fresh graduates are shockingly illiterate financially... Things to cover

1. Compound interest 2. Taxation 3. Insurance... Term/health 4. Asset classes... Equity /debt/real estate/gold/bonds and risk/reward 5. Evaluating investment plans/schemes
by af3d | 2025-04-13 09:16:20+00:00
Relatively speaking, perhaps, but things really have progressed by several orders of magnitude. When I was young we had access to very little "technology". (Maybe that's why people tended to be somewhat more down-to-earth?) I could change a tire by the age of ten, not to mention being fairly well-versed in a number of subjects. And I was certainly not the exception. Any given person was bound to be proficient at *something*. Younger folks these days however (on average) don't seem to think very deeply about things (probably too many distractions?) and as a result they can be surprisingly ignorant across the spectrum. Not all of them, of course, just an alarmingly high percentage....
by literalAardvark | 2025-04-13 09:16:37+00:00
My experience running a few hundred very successful shops (hundreds of thousands of orders per month) is that there's no need for quotes around 'abusive'.

95% of our load is from crawlers, so we have to pick who to serve.

If they want our data all they need to do is offer a way for us to send it, we're happy to increase exposure and shopping aggregation site updates are our second highest priority task after price and availability updates.
by jjav | 2025-04-13 09:16:39+00:00
> I thought to write a 'house manual'. Maybe knock up a little website.

> But, no. I can't. Because this is what we refer to as 'common sense'. Can I teach a stranger common sense?

Those hidden details about the house aren't really common sense. You know because you either set it up or had to figure it out.

I have started writing a house manual because I've owned this house since before it was built and there are a lot of little details I know (like what's inside walls where and why, where buried pipes and utilities are, etc) that would take a lot of trial and error for someone else to figure out.
by cladopa | 2025-04-13 09:16:51+00:00
All this simulations and experiments always have the same problem: They simulate giving people free money, but you are not simulating the other side of the coin: extracting the money from other people to pay for it(a.k.a stealing or "redistributing" euphemis)

The "surprising results" are so surprising to me because I talk to people in Germany and most people believe they pay too much taxes, specially young people. The difference is that middle class Germans are actually paying for the system. No free lunch there.

If robots take over human labor, you can always own robots(privately owning distributed means of production) instead of having a central planning system that never worked but interested people are hell bent designing so they benefit.
by maccard | 2025-04-13 09:17:33+00:00
I have a very nice television (C series LG), with apps built in to the TV. It has a feature where it shows your “currently watched” for various apps - iPlayer, prime, 4OD, etc. but each app implements their own account select choice prompt that block those features from working. Prime very regularly shows me 5 seconds of content, then the account switch, then an ad.

It’s a horrible, horrible UX and is a perfect example of PM’s going wild and not being pushed back on by other disciplines. It’s such a shame.
by uniqueuid | 2025-04-13 09:17:39+00:00
Sorry but I don't think that's right.

Do you have some sources for Sociology being hit harder than, say, Psychology, in the replication crisis? I personally don't even know of a many labs replication attempt from them (Sociology). So we probably don't know.

That said, Sociology is the attempt to explain the most complex thing in the universe (collective behavior arising out of sentient individuals), so if you think there's a better way, I'd be extremely excited :)
by gnulinux996 | 2025-04-13 09:18:00+00:00
God this publication is so over its head its absurd.

The fact that they have shifted from talking about economics to telling us about skills we should have or which countries the "free world" deems democratic enough this week is unimpressive.

This publication is nothing more than a pedestal to launch assaults on the average citizen.

They expect average Joe to decide about his health insurance plan? Joe is not aware of half his bodily functions let alone make decisions based on assumptions of what might happen to him 40 years down the road. And he has to be an expert in litigation as well because you can bet the insurance company is going to fight him in every way.

The fact that people are forced to transact is despicable.

I am a firm believer that libertarian content must be outright banned in this platform with a domain ban certain publications this one being the first.

/rant
by anvandare | 2025-04-13 09:18:10+00:00
"The limits of my keyboard mean the limits of my programming language."

If only they had had ⊥ and ⊤ somewhere on their keys to work with Booleans directly while designing the languages. In another branch of history, perchance.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/me...
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-04-13 09:18:39+00:00
- Remove (or perpetually switch to) daylight saving time

- Make everyone use the ISO8601 date format

- Have everyone drive on the right side of the road

- Eliminate the "sidewalk shuffle" by standardizing on always moving to the right

- Customer support lines/banks/etc must shift their opening hours slightly so that they are open outside of business hours, so that working people can use their services

- Make all instant messaging programs use XMPP, Matrix, or another open protocol

- Put the UK back in the EU

- Change world elections to be Alternative Vote, or similar

- Add another month and make all months shorter and the same length. Have an intermission period at the end of the year to iron out the remaining time. A la gormanuary.

- Delete America's guns, give America proper healthcare

- Standardize on Esperanto

- Replace Python with Ruby

- Make it so that Microsoft actually remembers my login session when I click "remember me" instead of logging me out all the time

This, I think, will fix most of the world's major problems.
by paweladamczuk | 2025-04-13 09:19:03+00:00
I think the most valid point is the one about assumming responsibility, like taking care of a family or owning property instead of renting.

It's difficult and scary, and it's tempting to use the supposed equivalents the modern economy offers.

I think we need to make an effort to explain to young people that along with responsibility comes independence and life satisfaction.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-13 09:20:00+00:00
This seems to be a common thread in articles about UBI experiments: Economists, critics, and others expect the behavior of the recipients to be determined by either (1) "economic rationalist" clockwork, or (2) some laughably simplistic (and very demeaning) stereotype of poor people.

And the results generally bear little resemblance to either (1) or (2).

Napoleon supposedly said "the moral is to the physical as three to one" in reference to the battlefield performance of military units. But the same is true across extremely wide ranges of human behaviors.
by 1dom | 2025-04-13 09:20:52+00:00
I think there's a personality type for old/high maintenance houses.

Having said that, a first time buyer will always be a first time buyer, and a house will probably suffer initially whilst they learn the skills to support their purchase.

This is what makes old houses a thing though: they're tough and built to tolerate a certain amount of stupidity - they wouldn't still be standing otherwise.

I try to take notes about things I do to my old house that I don't hear my peers with newer houses talk about, and if I do sell this house, I probably would offer to share all the notes when the buyer picks up the keys. Notes are also beneficial for my partner and future me.
by Jabbles | 2025-04-13 09:21:14+00:00
[1] Sabine says "It’s a two-phase project, the first one, called the FCC-ee would collide electrons and specifically measure the properties of the Higgs boson." approximately 20 seconds into the video.

It's unfair to merely critique the headline. If you do not wish to watch the video, here is a transcript: https://www.youtube-transcript.io/videos/elvEcWc7U7c

"This is very important work." is just an opinion.

"The more precise you nail down these uncertainties, the more theorists can do to verify their work, allowing the experimentalists to know where to look for new stuff, if any." Sabine's point is that there are countless theories and parameters that can be changed to fit any measurement. New results will eliminate some, but it will not reduce the total number of possible theories, as others will be constructed to fit the results without having any reason to think one is more true than another.
by lazide | 2025-04-13 09:22:32+00:00
Seniority based systems are ‘I got mine, f u’ or ‘politics in action’ depending on how you look at it.

More senior employees have usually figured out how to get leverage on the employer over time.

Non-seniority are usually ‘cheapest is best’, or ‘do what I say, or else’.

Both have pros and cons for everyone involved. There is always some system though, even if it’s emergent.
by mauriciolange | 2025-04-13 09:22:56+00:00
A good counterexample is the Arctic Weather Satellite project. It was defined as a new space process at ESA, so documentation required was reduced at the minimum, and risk acceptance was increased. Absolutely successful, on time, on budget, contractors happy, end users happy. But it is a small project and still difficult to replicate at large and to spread the mindset to other sections at ESA. Source: me. I work at that project as ground segment engineer.
by doctor_radium | 2025-04-13 09:23:36+00:00
I was living Amiga daily during the OS 3.9 days, and have no reason to think it didn't come from the Commodore source. Back then I got the feeling it was called "3.9" because the various powers assumed it would be the last release of 3.x. I've never used Hyperion's 3.x, but that is official, too, if largely a backport of 4.x, which of course also came from official source. I would say Hyperion jumped into 3.x (against their contract?) in search of cash, as nostalgia for these old systems increased and ARM emulator boards (etc.) made it possible.

OS4 is still the future, but the cost of PPC motherboards greatly limits the market size.
by Reubend | 2025-04-13 09:26:21+00:00
> Usually articles like this are a form of narrative shaping for profitable social problems caused by corporations

True. In this case, it's not difficult to imagine that someone who wants to sell "adulting classes" would get some PR help to drum up awareness for their product.

> "Lots of people get (very profitably) mired in debt" -> ban usury which would be unprofitable but net positive for society

You haven't thought this through. "Usury" is easy to get angry at, but to actually ban it, one would need to set limits on interest rates and fees, and lenders would need to start rejecting far greater numbers of poor/risky borrowers to stay compliant.

It's sort of like putting limits on insurance rates. It sounds like a great pro-consumer move. But the second order effects can be terrible, as evidenced by taxpayers needing to bail out insurance companies after the recent LA fires. See https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/03/proposed-fixes-for-ca...
by adrian17 | 2025-04-13 09:27:57+00:00
> but of course doing so requires some expertise, and expertise still isn't cheap

Sure, but at the same time, the number of people with expertise to set up Anubis (not that it's particularly hard, but I mean: even be aware that it exists) is surely even lower than of people with Wordpress administration experience, so I'm still surprised.

If I were to guess, the reasons for not touching Wordpress were unrelated, like: not wanting to touch a brittle instance, or organization permissions, or maybe the admins just assumed that WP is configured well already.
by etiennem30 | 2025-04-13 09:28:28+00:00
I built SlashType to solve the repetitive typing problem we all face, especially with AI tools. It's a Chrome extension that lets you insert predefined text snippets—including your entire AI prompt library—anywhere on the web using simple slash commands.

SlashType works like this:

Create snippets with associated tags (e.g., "/gpt-coding") Browse the web normally Type your tag in any text field (including Claude, ChatGPT interfaces), and your text appears instantly

Technical points:

No backend requirements (works completely client-side) No registration or account needed Compatible with ~90% of standard web text fields Lightweight extension with minimal permissions Organized with an intuitive color-coding system for prompt categories

Use cases I've found valuable:

Maintaining a categorized AI prompt library for different use cases Quickly accessing my best Claude & ChatGPT prompts without retyping Standardizing customer support responses Inserting code snippets Managing recurring instructions

Looking for feedback on UX and feature requests for future versions.
by kowabungalow | 2025-04-13 09:30:02+00:00
The world changes so parental advice may need some adaptation, but the general idea is that they show their child when they make decisions. This may have been more about what job they took for what pension it came with and what car they bought for which labor price and now it is which car to never buy.

This kind of thread bothers me with it's hand wringing. Parents and teachers often spoke of their lives in casual conversation when I was growing up and it was pretty clear to me that, aside from it being a response to having no adult around to make a more useful conversation with for them, there was an element of educational intent.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-13 09:30:21+00:00
> not to mention most people would balk at their partner doing that when they share a bed. consider yourself lucky. but do check that you are giving enough attention to your partner otherwise. i have at least one friend who got divorced specifically because he was more interested in computers than his wife.

The question was about a laptop as contrast to AR glasses. AR glasses are worse here.
by zelse | 2025-04-13 09:30:26+00:00
"They are shrinking from responsibilities such as marriage, homeowning and child-rearing because “adulting is hard”, as one of his students put it. Western culture, Mr Hayward wrote, indulges childish fancies."

Yes, it is surely that young people are just wusses and not that they're also much poorer than previous generations, which forces them to postpone things like marriage, child-rearing, and purchasing a home.
by troupo | 2025-04-13 09:30:53+00:00
The obsession is with information-dense quick-to-use low-latency interfaces that are nearly impossible to replicate with most modern tools [1]

Whether libraries like this one manage to replicate the experience is a whole other question.

[1] Just look at what modern tools FilePilot and RAD Debugger can do with their UIs and compare that to nearly every single one of modern apps.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-13 09:31:02+00:00
We had enough tests to know that no other rule configuration worked. Heck, we had mathematical proof (and a small pile of other documentation too obsolete or cryptic to be of use), and still, the only thing that saved the project was noticing different stylistic conventions in different parts of the source, allowing the minor monolith to be broken down into "this is the core logic" and "these are the parts of a separate feature that had to be weaved into the core logic to avoid a circular dependency somewhere else", and finally letting us see enough of the design to make some sense out of the cryptic documentation. (Turns out the XML held metadata auxiliary to the core logic, but vital to the higher-level interactive system, the proprietary binary encoding was largely a compression scheme to avoid slowing down the core logic, and the system was actually 8-bit-clean from the start – but used its own character encoding instead of UTF-8, because it used to talk to systems that weren't.)

Test-driven development doesn't actually work. No paradigm does. Fundamentally, it all boils down to communication: and generative AI systems essentially strip away all the "non-verbal" communication channels, replacing them with the subtext equivalent of line noise. I have yet to work with anyone good enough at communicating that I can do without the side-channels.
by Reubend | 2025-04-13 09:32:21+00:00
pydry commented that The Economist is "is Rothschild owned", which is partially true but quite misleading. The Rothschilds are minority owners, but other investors have much more control over the company than they do.

avshalom seems to have interpreted that as anti-Semitic. For what it's worth, I also interpreted the comment that way at first, but I think that it's best to assume good intent here, so in that spirit I would say that pydry probably just meant it to represent rich people rather than Jews.
by reify | 2025-04-13 09:36:21+00:00
would have been helpful if it was in English and not Spanish.

Enough of this pro AI therapist bullshit.

Empathic responses can be taught, that is true, however, for a human being to really experience empathy, as in the therapeutic healing, one must experience a whole lot more than the regurgitation of taught words.

As in all Therapy, being real, or authentic is at play here. A human being can easily distinguish between fake empathy and empathy that is authentic and genuine.

The best way to understand empathy is to watch a mother with her new born child in her arms while she is talking to her baby. Now study and imagine all the unspoken empathic responses between mother to baby and baby to mother.

Then think of AI as a substitute mother.

AI will never ever be able to reproduce the depth of empathy required for therapeutic change.

A simple undergraduate understanding of empathy:

Therapist notices that the client is clenching their fists and their stomach is moving up and down in a roling fashion while talking about an abusive family member.

Therapist responds: I noticed that when you are speaking about the family member you seem to get really angry and your stomach seems to roll.

Client; looks down at their stomach moving and their clenched fists. yes, I do feel angry all the time.

will AI ever be able to understand the link between the clench fists and the client being unaware of, and unable to express, their anger.

NO!
by notahacker | 2025-04-13 09:36:26+00:00
> How exactly do you imagine a government contract working if it's not reviewed before being granted?

This. ESA's grant approval process is, to its credit, usually considerably more focused on technical excellence than handwavy projections and box ticking common in other government grant applications and tenders, and whilst PSS forms may be a PITA, you'd think a company destined to solve the hard physics and unit economics problems of building a viable commercial launch service could figure out how to fill them in when given a EUR160m incentive to do so.

The European Launcher Challenge is based off the NASA COTS programme that originally funded the Falcon 9 (just with less money, because Europe, which is a bigger problem than straw bureaucrats) Don't know why people seem to think SpaceX got that money through NASA's magical genius American foresight anticipating Starlink, as opposed them being impressed with how SpaceX complied with their requests for very detailed milestone based plans (which two companies that failed to make progress also managed...)
by dharmab | 2025-04-13 09:36:46+00:00
Ripping DVDs is pretty easy these days, and you can buy used for good deals.

This is of course more expensive, since you have to buy a large storage drive, a disc reader and discs. But you have more control and rights with physical media than streaming; in practice no one can take your bits away.

If you are less scrupulous there are of course, other sources.