MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TFYS | 2025-05-20 05:43:57+00:00
Come on, the U.S is devolving into a fascist dictatorship as we speak, mostly due to capitalism and the worship of wealth. And for as long as capitalism remains, it will only get worse and worse, because capitalism is deeply flawed in that it has exponential power concentration built it. Monopolies form and rent seeking wealth siphons the wealth from the working people to the top. Breaking large companies would help, but it's like fighting a fire with buckets of water, eventually concentrating capital corrupts the regulators and this happens. If you can't see the connection between what's happening and capitalism, you really should think about it more objectively.

People are also happier in most European countries than they are in the US, because the constant competition for wealth and using wealth as the measure of what everyone is worth is not good for mental health and does not lead to a peaceful society, but one where people are set against each other. Europe has problems, but fixing them with capitalism is not going to lead to better lives for most people.
by treyd | 2025-05-20 05:45:35+00:00
Would you consider making regular dumps of the database available in sharded torrents like Anna's Archive does so that users can back up the data themselves for preservation purposes? This would complicate retroactively removing users' activity, but that data could already be scraped.

And related, I'd like to be able to run this locally for exports of guilds that I'm on myself. Is that even possible with the architect you've built?
by jraph | 2025-05-20 05:46:14+00:00
> Many results, including a US-specific page of the Lenovo website.

Are you failing to see that this US-specific page gives you a long list of models you can consider elsewhere?

> Stockholm syndrome.

Yeah, no. It just appears I have different needs than you and value different tradeoffs. It appears that the incredible comfort Linux brings me offsets the minor inconvenience software rendered browser video playback causes me.

I'm done in this discussion, we've been quite far away the kind of interesting discussions I come to HN for for a few comments now.
by dcsan | 2025-05-20 05:46:51+00:00
Yes this is known etiquette eg in China where voice memos are widely used on WeChat. Sending a voice memo is slightly rude for business as it says I the sender value my time to dash something off more even if it’s inconvenient for you the receiver who has to then stop and listen to it. Between friends is a bit different as voice has a level of personal warmth.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-20 05:48:06+00:00
IIRC, European elites (nobility and royalty both, and royals more than lesser nobles) until something like the 17th-18th century overall lived shorter lives than the general population, largely because they spent more of their lives in cities, which were extremely unhealthy until fairly recently; more recently, though, British royalty has, for example, been living much longer [1] than the British population at large.

[1] https://theconversation.com/long-live-the-monarchy-british-r...
by tayo42 | 2025-05-20 05:48:56+00:00
I wish jenkins had a better config as code option. Not crazy about groovy and you still need to click in the UI to get some set up before you can use. Maybe im stuck with an old version or something

I mostly like Jenkins though, idk why people so desperately want to always move to something new. I guess I've never been on the maintenance side of running Jenkins for thousands of engineers though.
by chickenbig | 2025-05-20 05:49:25+00:00
> Btw, not "all" nuclear is not considered renewable.

There are perhaps two things being considered here, the EU Renewable Energy Directive [1] and the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities [2]. The former results in France being fined for using nuclear power (as nuclear is not mentioned as being renewable), the latter is a tool for investment categorisation, but weights towards closed cycle and Gen III+ reactors.

[1] https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/renewable-energy/renewabl...

[2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2022/6989... page 5
by potholereseller | 2025-05-20 05:49:45+00:00
A friend is listening to every recording of Coast to Coast AM, which began in 1988. He notes that it was a remarkably interactive format; people would call in and try to trick Art Bell with preposterous conspiracy theories; Art Bell would play along, because it was fun (and it was his job).[0] The 6pm news was never interactive; what they talked about was never fun; it was and still is an endless stream of terror.

[0] I'm not defending Coast to Coast AM; I'm noting it's interactive format.
by brudgers | 2025-05-20 05:51:17+00:00
How big is the friends planning travel together market?

Don’t get me wrong, it is great that you scratched your own dog food.

But it doesn’t seem like a significant problem for experienced travelers, business travelers, family travelers or tour operators…most travel planning doesn’t involve thinking “I wish I had a chat app.”

We're looking for advice on next steps - potential pivots, growth hacks, anything really.

The important thing you built is a team who can complete a project together. There are no generic growth jacks, everything requires very specific hard work.

The best thing the team can do is build something else together. The team is what matters. Good luck.
by supermatt | 2025-05-20 05:51:20+00:00
> I would never buy a Chinese tech device, you are buying a surveillance system to allow its government to spy on you.

There is no public evidence that Chinese consumer tech has ever been used to spy for the Chinese government. None. Meanwhile, the USA has been caught running mass surveillance programmes like PRISM and tapping the phones of its own allies. That is confirmed. And yet it is the USA making the most noise, spreading fear about Chinese tech. People only seem to worry when the device doesn’t have a US brand on it. You can be a patriot, but don’t be naïve. Believing unproven claims while ignoring confirmed facts is not critical thinking.
by leptons | 2025-05-20 05:52:06+00:00
Not everyone gets to do the fun stuff. That's for people higher up in the chain, with more connections, or something else. I like my paycheck, and you're supposing that AI isn't going to take that away, and that we'll get to live in a world where we all work on "fun stuff". That is a real pie-in-the-sky dream you have, and it simply isn't how the world works. Back in the real world, tech jobs are already scarce and there's a lot of people that would be happy to do the boring mundane stuff so they can feed their family.
by MyHypatia | 2025-05-20 05:52:07+00:00
I get that only talking politics can be exhausting, but I think not talking about politics is the trap. If a hurricane can destroy my life, I should prepare for that before it impacts me: pay for home insurance, buy a generator, weatherproof my home, talk to neighbors.

I should prepare for politics that can destroy my life before it impacts me, and preparing for it means talking to other people about it.

If people don't vaccinate, and my baby gets measles before I can vaccinate her, she could die. If I have a complicated pregnancy, I could be forced to wait it out and get sepsis and die. If my friends get deported, they lose their jobs, homes, cars and I lose my connection to them. If I have to pay more for goods because of tariffs that is less money I can spend on my family.

If I wait until my baby has measles, I have sepsis, or my friends get deported to talk about these issues and convince others, then I haven't adequately prepared for politics that can destroy my life.
by mingus88 | 2025-05-20 05:52:19+00:00
It’s not always that simple.

Creativity is not a tap that you turn on and off. Sometimes it is hard to be creative, even if you enjoy it. Even if you are good at it.

When a student feels pressure to perform, and they have an LLM to fall back on, they can poison the well of their creativity. LLMs are that tap that they can always turn on.

Then soon enough they no longer want to put in the effort. Why, when an LLM can do it perfectly right now?
by ethersteeds | 2025-05-20 05:53:53+00:00
The charitable answer is that organizations across US society are currently all trying to be very still and quiet and not do anything to provoke a vindictive assault by this administration.

The less charitable one is that Moxie was the opinionated and uncompromising core of the Signal Foundation and has been removed from the board and completely vanished from the public eye. What it stands for now is a touch less clear.
by cornholio | 2025-05-20 05:54:46+00:00
IT staff that knew it was illegal to provide them tools for a conspiracy were fired or silenced. So the only people left were their cronies, who instantly complied with their illegal request, to the best of the cronies' abilities. For such national failures, the buck has to stop at the very top, not on some IT monkey.

This is typical for highly corrupt governments and autocracies, they crumble from within because the autocrats can't trust random, competent people so their inner circle becomes saturated with people who are selected on the basis of loyalty not competence, and these people end up making the most important decisions and running the country.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-20 05:54:54+00:00
For a brief but refreshing period in 2004-05, I was completely without a computer or Internet connection at home. When I moved that year, I also ditched my T.V. for a very zen experience.

It was a dank and dreary little studio apartment and my only companionship was an AM/FM radio. In an interesting turn of events, I experienced Hurricane Katrina solely through audio news reports. I suffered vicariously with the victims and sang along to Aaron Neville's "Louisiana 1929".

Besides a lot of NPR, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Wait Wait -- Don't Tell Me, and Lake Wobegon, I also listened to Art Bell's show; George Noory was often substituting at that point. It was really entertaining. In fact I used to be enthralled with the supernatural stuff when I was a really little kid picking up books at swap meets. I loved UFOs and OBEs and NDEs and SHCs. The Coast to Coast sessions brought back fond memories of those carefree days.
by Suppafly | 2025-05-20 05:55:24+00:00
>Huh, for me the nice part of being rich would be to not have to choose between so much goods.

A friend of mine has a friend that's a fancy lawyer and I went camping with them once and the lawyer had the best of the best of camping stuff. Like he just went to REI and was like "give me the best of whatever I need to camp this weekend." It's possible that he weighed the pros and cons of some of it, but I sorta doubt it. The tent fabric felt like silk and was the lightest weight of anything I've ever seen and I camp a lot of with a wide range of people that can afford nicer stuff. The tent didn't even have any branding on it. My friend was telling me about this bike the guy had, and it's basically carbon fiber everything probably $10k at least. He had wrecked his old bike and gave it to my buddy that would have just needed to get a few parts and have it assembled at a bike shop and it was basically too expensive for my buddy to justify it.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-20 05:55:58+00:00
This is not a game changer. Microkernels have been a reality for ages. See QNX or even Fuchsia. I don’t know what "modern" microkernel means. The architectural concepts haven’t changed.

There are reasons nobody uses true microkernels. IPCs are slow and the gains are limited compared to the strategies all broadly used kernels already use. They are no monolithic kernel anymore. Everyone has slowly but surely been shifting more and more things to user space in isolated processes including Linux and Windows.

Hongmeng might be an interesting kernel. It might also not be. Sadly its proprietary and there are very little benchmarks not published by Huawei. Personally I won’t hold my breath for this one.
by darcyrose | 2025-05-20 05:56:37+00:00
I happened to pick up Clerk for its ease of use and accessible free tier for my SaaS. The data locking was “solvable” but way too much effort as a solo dev. I had to use their webhook tool and set up a separate Inngest service to sync the data.

I’m very curious about Better Auth from what I’ve heard so far. I wish I knew about it sooner!
by whatever1 | 2025-05-20 05:56:49+00:00
> What is that based on? I haven't heard of any such problem, other than from people who are trying to cut education funding or social mobility.

Check any South/Eastern European country. Tons of degrees, insanely high youth unemployment. Devastating lack of labor for businesses. Of course an engineer will prefer to stay home with their parents instead of going to work as a barista.

> Undergraduate college degree holders are generalists. Nobody considers you a specialist, or will hire you as such, because of your undergraduate degree. Maybe some engineering degrees, but really you need a masters degree for almost every specialist job.

With generalists I meant unspecialized labor: servers, farm workers, construction workers etc
by randcraw | 2025-05-20 05:58:22+00:00
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/detectio...

You have a direct genetic history of prostate cancer, thus you are at higher risk than most men. At age 57 I had no family history and no symptoms, yet my primary care doc suggested I be tested anyway. My PSA was in fact elevated. I got a biopsy and found my prostate was 80% cancerous. I got it surgically removed just in time. 10 years later I'm still cancer free.

Every day I five thanks that my doctor did NOT follow the standard medical advice back then NOT to test. Forewarned is forearmed.
by al_borland | 2025-05-20 05:58:22+00:00
Soft skills in general are vastly under appreciated. It’s the biggest difference I see between those who excel and those who spend their whole career struggling for even a modest promotion.

I will say, it was CIS classes in college which got me to expand on my writing, not English classes. In high school, even with English class every year, I tried to do the bare minimum. It wasn’t until the papers were required to be 25-30 pages long that I was forced to really flesh things out into a narrative, rather that what amounted to a bulleted list shoved into a paragraph.

This was a doubled edged sword, as I now find it much more difficult to be concise in my writing, so that takes a focused effort.

There is also a lot to be said for finding the intersection between technology and X. Having a well rounded education can provide more opportunities for people to discover where these intersections can foster new growth or innovation. I often wish I went into a non-computer field, so I could have applied technology to the job, rather than technology feeling like the job itself.
by chickenbig | 2025-05-20 05:58:33+00:00
> A cheap system is a combination of cheap components, land, and the labor required to assemble it.

The point is that cheap components may require the use of other components to compensate for its deficiencies, and so on.

Solar panels need batteries, synchronous condensers, more transmission capacity, electrolysers, hydrogen storage, backup power stations, demand side response, etc.
by dbdoskey | 2025-05-20 05:59:13+00:00
If the WSL 1 ended up working, it would have been one of the best historical coincidences in MS's history. A long forgotten feature in the NT kernel, unique to pretty much any other OS out there, used to push it's dominance in the 90's, is revived almost 30 years later, to fight for relevance with Unix based OS, once again. To quote Gorge Lucas, It's like poetry, it rhymes.
by jacobobryant | 2025-05-20 05:59:49+00:00
Hey HN. Since this has showed up here maybe a status update would be interesting? This continues to be my main side project--amusingly it's had more traction than any of the startups I tried to build with it. Over the past year I've been working on some experimental features for Biff that are meant to help with medium-to-large codebases[1] (I've been doing this as I rewrite one of my Biff apps from scratch). There haven't been many code releases in that time, so I've got a decently sized backlog of things I'd really like to get to. E.g. XTDB v2 is almost out of beta; once I finish the app rewrite, that's next on my list.

[1] https://biffweb.com/p/structuring-large-codebases/
by tannedNerd | 2025-05-20 05:59:52+00:00
I didn’t think I’d see corporate utilities propaganda on hacker news but here are.

The main rebuttal to this is why are non of the public utilities (Sacramento, Santa Clara, and La power) in California trying to get on nem 3.0 if it’s such a profit loss and causing so much “unfairness”? The answer is because it’s made up and the investor utilities want to be able to sell you all the power. They would love to get rid of rooftop solar.
by JellyBeanThief | 2025-05-20 06:00:02+00:00
Web Annotations are what we need right now. Let people write and scribble all over webpages and share with other people in an open, vendor-neutral format. Choose who you trust, from journalists to organizations to neighbors to experts to conspiracy theorists. Let commentaries and interpretations appear overlaid on government websites and documents, Wikipedia, opinion pieces, social media, Archive.org, anything and everything. Let it be out of the hands of the content hosts.
by sph | 2025-05-20 06:00:40+00:00
> The linked site goes against everything the Linux* platform has historically stood for

Nonsense. Linux is about libre software. It might be about choice, if you want. It’s not about “all software needs to let my desktop look like a clown makeup set or it’s literally 1984”

Amateur environments from the 90s let you do that, but it has nothing to do with the Linux philosophy
HarmonyOS 5 Educational Scenario Practice
by zhxwork | 2025-05-20 06:01:30+00:00
Preface: When HarmonyOS Meets Smart Education

In the booming era of digital education, HarmonyOS 5 is reshaping the development paradigm of educational applications with its powerful distributed capabilities and AI technology stack. The three core capabilities brought by this upgrade inject new momentum into the education sector:

Distributed AI: Seamless collaboration across devices.

AI Speech: High‑quality, low‑latency text‑to‑speech (TTS).

ArkUI: Declarative UI for rapid, maintainable interfaces.

I. Case Overview

1. Scenario Value

This case uses HarmonyOS’s AI speech capabilities to transform literary text into expressive voice broadcasts, applicable to:

Accessible reading: Helping visually impaired users enjoy the beauty of literature

Multimodal experience: Adding an auditory dimension to traditional reading

Content consumption: Enabling an “audiobook”‑style consumption mode

2. Effect Preview
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-20 06:01:50+00:00
I actually have kids, two of them in kindergarten. I can already see this problem affecting them, because beyond Frozen and Paw Patrol and a couple others, everyone also has their own favorite series on YouTube that few other kids heard of, and I can see kids trying and failing to bond over those.

I never thought I'd be thankful for global, toy-pushing franchises, but they at least serve as a social object for kids, when the current glut of kids videos on YouTube doesn't.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-20 06:02:19+00:00
Booksellers that overstocked the "wrong" books have ways to return stock to the publisher. Publishers will try to recoup losses from overstock in various ways, including withholding future royalties or dropping future projects from authors.

(The way of overstock returns I was most fascinated by as the type of kid who loved deep dives into weirder parts of the libraries is that some libraries have an "illegal" section of books that they literally dumpster dive local bookstores for. These books had their original covers removed, which is the simple, minimal way how the bookstore "marks" them as unsold/unsellable/"destroyed" before tossing them in a dumpster, because by that point even the publisher doesn't want the overstock physically back collecting dust in a warehouse, but also still needs a good relationship with bookstores. Many publishers still to this day have some form of wording in print books like "if this copy was found without its original cover it is to be destroyed and is illegal to be resold". The bookstore would get some form of partial refund on all the "destroyed" overstock.)
by ndr42 | 2025-05-20 06:02:53+00:00
In your first comment I thought you were talking about teaching. Now It seems your main point is about diagnostics. I don’t dispute that both are intertwinned, but my reply to you was about „you can replace 90% of teachers“ with ai.

One of the strong areas of school is the in-person-interaction part of learning that can not be easily replaced by ai.
by jader201 | 2025-05-20 06:04:56+00:00
Full time people spend roughly 24% of their week working.

Factoring in PTO/holidays, roughly 20 years of education and 20 years retirement, part time and unemployment, that number drops quite a bit (I’d guess roughly half, to 12%).

Of course, some people start work earlier and retire later, and some work more than 40 hours per week.

So to me, 16% seems about right.
by johnQdeveloper | 2025-05-20 06:05:54+00:00
> This is my first large scale project, so I'd love to hear your feedback!

> I have placed restrictions on searching directly by user ID to prevent doxing. I also made the opt out process one click, for those who do not want to be archived.

1) I'd suggest anonymizing the usernames / author ids to something more privacy friendly such as how some image sites were generating 3-4 random words as a human readable unique id. This removes a lot of the reason people would opt out (i.e. posts being tracked down years later)

2) You not seem to have a clear rate limit documentation. If you are asking people to pay for commercial use, I'd suggest making it clear what the rough original limits are as well as the rough price range of what you'd offer.

3) Tbh, the only real thing I want from this project is basically narrative / roleplay / writing content for LLM reasons as I'm trying to build a rules-oriented system that narrates via LLM. If you don't want people using this data for this purpose, I'd suggest making that clear.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-20 06:06:01+00:00
> Oh please. The French are doing far better than we (the US) are.

I’m French.

The French hasn’t chopped the head of their aristocracy. Despite going through five republics, two monarchies and two empires in the last two hundred years, the country has very much de facto recreated an aristocracy. It’s one of the most unequal when it comes to social mobility in the whole OECD. Ever heard of Bourdieu?

What France has is a lot of redistribution so its Gini coefficient is quite low and a very generous through currently financially unsustainable safety net. Public services are also working fairly well even if it used to be better. That’s why I hate how ungrateful most French are. People have no interest in maintaining and protecting what they have. They prefer whining constantly while waiting for other people to do the work. That’s how you end up with the far right and the far left at 30% despite them only peddling non sense.

I’m not really interested in commenting further on your weird fascist obsession. I think it would be good for the discussion if you brushed up on what is both fascism and a state however.
by bjornsing | 2025-05-20 06:06:09+00:00
I’m using the word ”bureaucrat” mostly as a derogatory term. The problem as I see it is actually a lack bureaucracy. It arises when you hire ”bureaucrats” and tell them ”you are now a general do-gooder who can do whatever you want, like an angel investor but with public money”. The systems that are bureaucratic (in the real sense of the word) actually work pretty well. Sweden owes a lot of its prosperity to a generous unemployment benefits system, for example.