MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fallinditch | 2025-05-21 19:33:58+00:00
No me neither, but that's not the story. The deal was that Mephistopheles would come back at the end of Faust's life to claim his soul. As Faust dies, Mephistopheles tries to claim his soul, but angels intervene. Because of Faust's relentless striving and Gretchen's intercession, he is redeemed and ascends to Heaven.

So Faust enjoyed his life of pleasure and knowledge and got away with making his Mephistophelean deal.
by mingus88 | 2025-05-21 19:34:13+00:00
You will need to cite your sources that Apple is going the same way.

From what I see, Apple has launched private cloud compute with better privacy safeguards than any other big tech firm. In fact, their personal assistant is the worst one because it is so dumb.

They don’t seem to make money from your data because, as you say, they have already made huge margins on hardware and apps.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-05-21 19:34:27+00:00
We’ve been evolutionarily divergent for at least a hundred million years so it seems slim, but not zero.

Also don’t forget that mitochondria have their own genome and that it’s undeniable that the avian mito-dna lineage would also experience Darwinian (haha, apt) forces spurring the developments of these capabilities that our ancestors didn’t go through.
by jplusequalt | 2025-05-21 19:34:38+00:00
>which is that I'd like more young folks to be positive, pick up tools at their disposal and build good things with them

People have had access to tools for creating for generations. In the modern era you can buy a pencil and a sketch pad for dollars. You can buy an instrument used for as little as a hundred dollars. Hell, schools teach art and music for free.

>The future's coming, and it's going to be built out by people with open minds who are soaking up everything they can about whatever tools are available.

Not all technology presents a net good for society. These technologies only exist on top the mountain of stolen artwork created by millions of artists, and this tech will continue to hamper the livelihoods of artists as long these companies are pushing them.

>It's a sort of brain rot to gatekeep technology advances out of creativity.

JFC. Don't talk to me about brain rot. The "art" and "creativity" you speak about here is just more finely grained consumption. Now instead of scrolling through a feed, you can ask Google to present your dopamine addicted brain exactly what you want to see in that moment.

In contrast, focusing on improving a craft acts as a sort of antidote to "brain rot" because you're engaging in multiple important things at once:

- critical thinking

- delayed gratification

- habit formation

- emotional exploration

- and more
by nopelynopington | 2025-05-21 19:34:44+00:00
I'm in the same boat exactly, I build things for myself and then hope other people will use them. I struggle to market things, it seems like so much legwork and I've too many irons in the fire. I almost wish I could just hire a marketer who would take a 50% cut.

> If I did agile poker and code commenting and stuff it would take all the fun (momentum) out of sitting down at my home desk after hours at my work desk.

I hope you're not sitting for hours at work and then continuing to sit for hours in the evening. That's not healthy. It might just be a figure of speech but if not, I'd recommend a standing desk either at work or at home.

I know someone will probably argue with me about standing desks because internet people love arguing, but there's ample evidence that sitting all day is bad for us
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-21 19:35:25+00:00
Taoism though has a revolving door with Chinese folk religion and has numerous ideas such achieving immortality through physical and spiritual calculation and such. Insofar as Taoism has a canon it is an extract of those practices which is officially approved.

Buddhism has a way of getting pulled into syncretistic practices so you might go to a famous Buddhist temple and find there is a room in the back where there is a Buddha statue which is inhabited by a fox spirit (see the link in my other post) which is believed to be more effective to ask things from than the other statues. When Christianity was outlawed in Japan, Christians prayed to statues of Cannon because Cannon is a goddess of compassion a lot like Mary.

You could make the case for Chinese experiencing a spiritual vacuum like this: not long ago individuals were living in rural areas where they had folk religion in addition to officially approved Buddhism-Taoism-Confucianism. When they move to city they are cut off for these roots and could be looking for something.

My son had a Chinese friend who had bad relations with his parents, particularly his friend would ridicule his mother for growing up in a rural village where she learned that mental illness is caused by demon possession and such.
by askitmore | 2025-05-21 19:35:53+00:00
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by jack_h | 2025-05-21 19:37:34+00:00
This isn’t a lazy argument at all. It’s based off of millennia of humans questioning the proper role of government and their failure modes. The US in specific took a lot of inspiration from people such as Polybius and John Locke.

It’s not that there is no proper role for government, it’s that some paths end up being a Faustian bargain.
by ellisv | 2025-05-21 19:37:37+00:00
I've interested in solar and batteries but unfortunately the return would be too long for us if we hired a contractor and I'm not confident in my own skills to pull it off correctly.

Mostly I want an easy whole home battery just for some arbitrage. Our rate plan has a 4 hour peak period of $0.27/kwh vs $0.14/kwh off peak. Of course the peak time is when we actually want to use a lot of energy running our AC and other appliances.

Unfortunately I haven't found any DIY stand alone battery systems that offer the simple scheduling I need since most seem to be only backup systems.
by evil-olive | 2025-05-21 19:37:46+00:00
> This object appears to be in a very eccentric orbit (0.948)

from [0]:

> Before its demotion from planet status in 2006, Pluto was considered to be the planet with the most eccentric orbit (e = 0.248). Other Trans-Neptunian objects have significant eccentricity, notably the dwarf planet Eris (0.44). Even further out, Sedna has an extremely-high eccentricity of 0.855 due to its estimated aphelion of 937 AU and perihelion of about 76 AU

> ...

> Comets have very different values of eccentricities. Periodic comets have eccentricities mostly between 0.2 and 0.7, but some of them have highly eccentric elliptical orbits with eccentricities just below 1; for example, Halley's Comet has a value of 0.967

so possibly an ignorant question, as someone who's interested in astronomy but doesn't follow it very closely - when this is categorized as a dwarf planet, does that include "it might be a comet" as a possibility? or have they already ruled it out as a possible comet through other observations?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity#Examples
by dbbk | 2025-05-21 19:38:19+00:00
The Verge says otherwise

> Ive won’t be joining OpenAI, and his design firm, LoveFrom, will continue to be independent, but they will “take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software,” in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion

https://www.theverge.com/news/671838/openai-jony-ive-ai-hard...
by kbelder | 2025-05-21 19:38:30+00:00
So it's roughly in the closest 200-year period out of 28,000 years. That means it spends 99.3% of it's orbit further away than now, and thus harder to find.

Simplistic odds would seem to imply that there's over a hundred more dwarf planets just like this but further away, so we just haven't seen them.
by vipshek | 2025-05-21 19:38:39+00:00
I find this perspective bizarre. Though I'm not happy about it all being centralized, the closest thing we have these days to the very niche phpBB forums of the 2000s is various subreddits focused on very specific topics. Scrolling through the front page is slop, sure, but whenever I'm looking for perspectives on a niche topic, searching for "<topic> reddit" is the first thing I do. And I know many people without any connection to the software industry who feel the same way.
by defrost | 2025-05-21 19:38:45+00:00
For interest:

William Goodge smashes record after running across Australia in 35 days

British athlete four days quicker than previous record holder who completed 3,800km feat in 39 days Spurred on by his mother’s battle with cancer, and with his father by his side, William Goodge crossed the finish line in Sydney just after 4pm on Monday. It brought an end to 35 days of pounding the pavement, striding the equivalent of two-and-a-half marathons a day.

May 19th, 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/19/william-goodge...
by hedora | 2025-05-21 19:38:51+00:00
I bought an AMD mini-PC. It came with windows 11, but I just yanked that NVMe drive out, and installed Linux on it. Linux support for such devices is excellent because they're basically down to just one SoC package that's been tested by AMD. This one also has an Intel Wifi/Bluetooth chip, which is exactly as flaky as any other Intel product would be with any other OS.

Anyway, there are options to disable TPM in the BIOS if you care, but I don't think any of the DRM stuff works by default.
by mingus88 | 2025-05-21 19:39:55+00:00
Until these vendors break into EDU it’s an uphill battle.

In WA, every school has Microsoft smart boards and laptops running windows. Kids grow up using it and when they buy their own computers they aren’t going to choose a small boutique builder running an unfamiliar OS they won’t know how to use right away.

Apple has a lock on a lot of EDU as well, and the iPhone is so ubiquitous it’s an easy sell to get folk using other products

Those systems look beautiful but it’s a minority of people that will make a large purchase on something like this.
by JackYoustra | 2025-05-21 19:40:00+00:00
Sure sure, my point is stuff like British national insurance and American social security are considered taxes, even though much of the money in expectation goes right back to you in retirement / health spending.

In Singapore, the flows are similar, even though the accounts are broken out individually and the top-ups are explicitly done.

In my view, the key is the government telling you what to spend your money on that gives it the shade of taxation. Whether they do so with labeled accounts or not seems more of an implementation detail.
by mweidner | 2025-05-21 19:40:00+00:00
Indeed, this is close to what Yjs (popular CRDT library) does: each client instance (~ browser tab) chooses a random 32-bit clientId, and character IDs combine this clientId with local counters. https://github.com/yjs/yjs/blob/987c9ebb5ad0a2a89a0230f3a0c6...

Any given collaborative document will probably only see ~1k clientIds in its lifetime, so the odds of a collision are fairly low, though I'd be more comfortable with a 64-bit ID.
by paul7986 | 2025-05-21 19:40:17+00:00
If they act as friends only and do not try to go elsewhere sure I’m fine either way. I myself in life have had friends where if they too showed interest then it would’ve been more, but I knew what those relationships were & enjoyed them as is ..find my fun & love elsewhere.

I mentioned I made a solid platonic friend and travel buddy. I hang out with weekly and we go to happy hours with other straight to non-straight dudes. Only one of them has been inappropriate, but we worked it out and there are no more advances. If they want to continue being my friend great as that’s all, I’m looking for on a friends app and/or through happy hours.

And personally if they called it, something else that problem would still exist.
by presbyterian | 2025-05-21 19:40:18+00:00
> Apple is too expensive

Is it? You can get an M1 MacBook Air at Walmart for $699 now. That's more than many of the bottom-of-the-barrel Windows machines out there, but it's not an unreasonable price at all. It'll keep away the lowest-end users, but most of those users 1) are not going to care about the security issues, because they don't know anything about computers beyond base utility, and 2) have mostly switched to doing everything on their phone/tablet, and aren't as big of the computer demographic these days anyway.
by oblio | 2025-05-21 19:41:19+00:00
> Trump and his negotiators are not remotely interested in fixing problems globally, they're fixing their own vision of internal problems.

Look at their pharma complaints. Pharma companies (many of which are American, but far from all) develop new drugs. In single payer systems, these behemoths have to go against state managed insurance systems, which generally set specific rules for purchasing (maximum price, etc). As these pharma companies WANT to sell in all the markets they can, they accept these rules. As a result, drugs made by them cost, let's say, $100 in those countries.

In the US, where pharma companies are still behemoths, they can divide et impera insurance companies, so pharma companies pretty much impose their prices, leading to absurd stuff like fancier insulin costing $1000.

Now, instead of working to reduce costs in the US, too, Trump & co want to INCREASE the cost of these drugs globally.
by perihelions | 2025-05-21 19:41:25+00:00
I can't steelman the position that "the topic of the article might disappear at any moment because of funding cuts" is unrelated to the article. If it were a post about a startup releasing a new product, and the top comment was "hey FYI, this startup has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy", would that be off-topic too?

And: the article itself puffs about how this is attracting physics research to the US; how can contradicting claims the article makes be off-topic to discussion about self-same article? It can't be a "they're allowed to speak but we're not allowed to contradict"—this is HN! Discussion is the whole point!
by ChuckMcM | 2025-05-21 19:41:28+00:00
"That's no moon" :-). But more seriously, just another giant lump of stuff swinging around the solar system. I am not an astronomer, so I'm not sure about some of the things I'm reading in that report but to me, it seems to be in the solar ecliptic. But its far enough away even at perigee that the only thing of note it might interact with would be Pluto.

I suppose that flying through the Oort cloud it might periodically launch ice balls into the inner solar system.
Casey Neistat has to get Beme 2 out
by ugur2nd | 2025-05-21 19:41:38+00:00
Nine years ago, Casey Neistat released the Beme app. I think he should announce Beme 2 because it addresses a real need right now—reality!

Casey Neistat is a world-famous YouTuber. He launched a social media app 9 years ago, complaining that everything was artificial. But it didn’t go as planned. But I think he should release version 2.

There is a straightforward answer. It’s because of artificial intelligence. Right now, in the age of artificial intelligence, the only truth is that everything is very synthetic. It has exactly the kind of environment he wants.

If you edit these, the app can be as high as BeReal:

1. Excellent UX! The old one was not easy to understand. It is very nice to use, but there are problems with daily use.

2. Excellent onboarding! Everyone comes with excitement, but loses that excitement because they can’t learn. Explain it to them as a flat cartoon/illustration in GIF form.

3. A rationale to increase loyalty! Instead of doing it with notifications, do it with culture. Create a solid slogan. This slogan should even include the name of the app. It could even be a phrase that is remembered when interacting with it every day. Such as if “It’s going to rain rocks on our heads!” is the tagline, “Rain Rocks” should be the name of the app. It could be something to say when you are very familiar with artificial intelligence. It’s something to think about.

These 3 things can make the product very usable.

Can you watch this again with today’s eyes? Do you see how relevant it is for the world right now?

https://youtu.be/mixsze6uJPg

There is so much potential here. Moving away from artificiality! BeReal is an example of that! Beme has a different usage dynamic. It’s a Gen Z product.

There’s just a problem with the name because someone else is using the name and domain right now.

Hey Caisey, I’d like you to give the product a second chance. And thank you to the team because we’ve never seen a use like this.
by Jaxkr | 2025-05-21 19:41:49+00:00
> In terms of value per minute spent, it’s the same tier of slop as TikTok or Instagram

Insane take. Reddit hosts deep threaded discussions on almost any topic imaginable. In its prime it was the best forum on the internet. There’s a reason people commonly add “reddit” to the end of their search queries.

Unfortunately it feels like the community has gotten much dumber after they banned third party apps and restricted API access. It’s also lost almost all of its Aaron Swartz style hacktivist culture.

Reddit, in its prime, was incredible and beloved by almost everyone I know (most of which are far outside the HN sphere)
by NAHWheatCracker | 2025-05-21 19:42:33+00:00
In some ways, yes. If you want to optimize at that level you ought to use another language.

I'm not a low level optimization guy, but I've had occasions where I wanted control over which threads my goroutines are running on or prioritizing important goroutines. It's a trade off for making things less complex, which is standard for Go.

I suppose there's always hope that the Go developers can change things.
by timschmidt | 2025-05-21 19:43:52+00:00
I explicitly mentioned WebOS, meaning the devices released around 2009, which competed with 1st gen iPhone old stock, and directly against iPhone 3G - the second generation.

The first gen iPhone is not a smartphone by today's standards. No multitasking, no copy/paste, no centralized instant messaging, all things WebOS devices had on release.

Even the second generation of iPhones felt half baked by comparison.

Which just goes to illustrate my point, that they weren't technologically superior, just more committed.
by hahaxdxd123 | 2025-05-21 19:44:15+00:00
I wrote this opinion essay on the American tech sector, which the Trump administration conveniently ignores when talking about trade surpluses. As global trade is upended, I argue America's trade partners should more carefully examine the place the American tech monopolies have in their countries.

The prevailing wisdom is that American dominates tech simply because American companies are better. While that's true, I argue that a huge portion of this comes instead from the monopolistic winner-take-all dynamics of tech not found in other industries. Despite the American car manufacturers being significantly worse, they still exist. The European tech industry is significantly worse, and they're almost nowhere to be found in tech. The Chinese tech industry is worse in many ways as well, yet shielded by the Great Firewall, they've found themselves with cloud hyperscalers, frontier AI models, global consumer businesses, etc.

Once upon a time, this mattered less, but as American values diverge from the rest of the liberal democracies, the the effect American tech has on our political discourse and economies are becoming a matter of national security.

This is from the perspective of someone who works in the American tech industry but is not American, and has spent a fair amount of time in China.

As an opinion piece, I'm not sure my arguments are entirely correct, but I think they're worth thinking about.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-21 19:44:48+00:00
I think that's right. The point of sortition is for the body to look (statistically) like the wider public. The smaller the number of people in the body, the more likely it is that they are not representative.

I'm sure statisticians could give a better answer than I can about where the line should be. I think it is basically a statistical question.

But for a one-person executive? No, probably not a good idea.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-05-21 19:44:51+00:00
> https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ch4s3

> Except Friedman wasn't a racist, and the quote is cut specifically to make it appear that way.

He doesn't say that Friedman was racist, you made that up.

He says that Friedman was a fundamentalist and that people should be allowed to discriminate on the basis of race, and the quote illustrates that well and the context doesn't change anything to that point.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-21 19:45:25+00:00
> Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible at coding, so we’re excited to bring it to Google AI Studio’s native code editor. It’s tightly optimized with our Gen AI SDK so it’s easier to generate apps with a simple text, image, or video prompt. The new Build tab is now your gateway to quickly build and deploy AI-powered web apps. We’ve also launched new showcase examples to experiment with new models and more.

This is exactly what I see coming, between the marketing and reality of what the tool is actually able to deliver, eventually we will reach the next stage of compiler evolution, directly from AI tools into applications.

We are living through a development jump like when Assembly developers got to witness the adoption of FORTRAN.

Language flamewars are going to be a thing of the past, replaced by model wars.

It migth take a few cycles, it will come nonetheless.
by askafriend | 2025-05-21 19:45:39+00:00
Look the reality is yes Instagram and TikTok have extremely problematic incentives built into their products. But they're also remarkably useful, entertaining, and fun products too. Both are true.

Do you think multi-billion-user products can exist without "slop"? What do you think the average person wants to consume? The equivalent of salad? Have you met the average person?

I think people have fundamental misconceptions of the average person's desire.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-21 19:46:30+00:00
[I'm lost with all the recent discoveries.]

Assuming 500Km, is in in the top 10 by size/mass[1][2]? Top 100? Top 1000? Top 1000000?

[1] Yes I know it's not the same. Whatever criteria is easier to measure.

[2] I guess not top 10, but I have no idea about the current knowledge of the long tail. Fake Edit: I took a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_possible_dwarf_planets So between 20 and 30???