MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-11 02:41:46+00:00
Everytime someone blocks an ad, someone else has to watch it.

It's crazy to me how entitled people are and how completely blind they are to how the ad supported model works.

Then these same people complain that youtube has no competitors. Yeah, no shit, who in their right mind would invest in a customer base like youtubes? Oh, that's right, Vid.me, and they went bankrupt in a year. Wonder why...
by mattl | 2025-05-11 02:43:17+00:00
> D'OLE

> D'OLE makes it possible for Windows developers to build robust, scalable, distributed applications today

> Building on NeXT's leadership in object-oriented software development, D'OLE brings the OPENSTEP object model(PDO) from UNIX to the Windows platform and integrates it with Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding(OLE) object model. Through this integration with OLE, it is now possible to use popular Windows development tools, such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder(which are currently limited to small workgroup deployments) in conjunction with OPENSTEP objects. This allows application developers to create distributed client/server applications that are scalable to the enterprise. Developers can use their tool of choice to create custom applications that employ a multi-tier distributed object architecture.

> D'OLE also makes it possible, using only OLE objects, to create a truly distributed computing environment on the Windows platform. For instance, you can modify an Excel spreadsheet running on one Windows NT client machine from a Visual Basic application running on another Windows NT client machine.

> Interoperability with OLE is accomplished via support for OLE Automation, which provides transparent integration between OPENSTEP and OLE objects. OLE objects simply connect to, and message, OPENSTEP objects just as if they were OLE objects, and vica versa. With this integration, popular Windows GUI design tools can take advantage of NeXT's advanced object technology without modification.

> D'OLE also supports the Enterprise Objects Framework. The Enterprise Objects Framework supplies data access services that allow objects to persist in industry-standard relational databases. These persistent objects provide database independence and can be reused by multiple OLE and OPENSTEP applications. The pairing of the Enterprise Objects Framework with D'OLE also enables a distributed computing environment that provides an infinitely flexible choice of application deployment strategies.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-11 02:43:26+00:00
We once had an intern who took screenshots of an internal presentation and posted them on the internet to brag about how cool his internship was.

When we did his exit interview he admitted he just wasn’t thinking. He did it all in a couple minutes while in the meeting. Something like this would have stopped him in the process and made him remember that the content was sensitive.

Don’t underestimate the diversity of the people watching zoom meetings. It’s not all engineers with elaborate screen capture setups prepared for the express purpose of recording meetings.
by defrost | 2025-05-11 02:43:30+00:00
It pushes them torward defending their "truth" in multiple courts of law where it falls apart for lack of evidence.

David Irving had a great opportunity to make his case .. he failed several times over:

The court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite and racist, who "for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence".

Hardly generic "great ammo", just very specific ammo for those that want to rail against courts and law in addition to picking fault with recorded history.
by pnathan | 2025-05-11 02:44:20+00:00
Apple user software is legitimately awful in a systematic way. Although I like the Chess app. :)

Google, interestingly, is much better.

I don't know what to say. It's clear that the Internet Ecosystem has a megafauna of Google and taking it out would be an ecosystem collapse, but the other Megafauna are... worse.
by gerdesj | 2025-05-11 02:45:30+00:00
I don't know if it is still required but hostnames used to require a minimum of two chars and the first shalt not be an integer. Given that DNS does not put a proper boundary on host/domain, that might extend to your top level ... thingie.

However, there is absolutely no technical reason that I can think of that precludes u@x. In the end DNS query -> DNS answer. Given that say, PowerDNS has LUA built in, I can make it respond with "my little pony's stable is in {random_country}" - to A record requests, which might make the requester a little queasy!

Bugger standards, they are so 1990s!
by ETH_start | 2025-05-11 02:46:06+00:00
There’s a clear ideological current running through this article, but it’s not in the data. The data is straightforward: high-income groups emit more and consume more. That’s expected.

The leap happens when the authors label this disparity an "injustice". That’s the normative leap: a moral framing imposed on the empirical data. Then they take it further, using that framing to justify a global wealth tax and polluter-pays schemes. That’s political activism under the guise of science. These scientists are operating far outside their domain of expertise when they weigh in on global tax policy, especially when they give credence to a wealth tax, whic has been rejected by many economists as hard to enforce, easy to game, and extremely likely to do far more harm than good.

This ideological current also shows up in the lack of balance. You won’t find parallel studies quantifying the benefits high-income groups have generated — foreign investment, export demand, capital formation, innovation, and philanthropy. These forces have driven the most dramatic poverty reduction in human history and unprecedented gains in life expectancy and infant survival. But those facts don’t fit the narrative.

The same asymmetry shows up in how CO₂ is treated. NASA’s 2016 satellite study found that elevated CO₂ levels was the primary cause of global green cover increasing by 30% between 1982 and 2015 (source: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/carbon-d...). That’s a massive, measurable fertilization effect, with huge positive implications for agricultural production and the fight against desertification. Yet it’s completely absent from the discussion.

The data is useful but the framing isn’t neutral.
by sandipagr | 2025-05-11 02:46:40+00:00
I remember Hipmunk, it was horrible! Google flights is by far the best flight search platform, competition aren't even close. 10x faster search of flights and the calendar view for prices is incredible!

I consider Google Maps to be the best application ever created. Products like Google Mail, Calendar, Search, Chrome, Android are absolutely best in class. To call them inferior is laughable.
by analog31 | 2025-05-11 02:47:21+00:00
I think that the earliest methods of programming windowed computers were just way over the heads of mere mortals, including myself. For those of us where were comfortable with earlier computers, GUI required simultaneously grasping OOP, a mountain of opaque documentation, and a complex IDE and build process. All at once.

No surprise that the first GUI programs I wrote were in LabVIEW and Hypercard, followed soon thereafter by VB.

While I'm not a commercial developer, I still avoid any "stack" where the tutorial for "Hello World" doesn't fit comfortably in one page.
by SamBam | 2025-05-11 02:47:36+00:00
Totally agree.

> It is easy to spot the person in the room who thinks they are better than everyone. [...] This is also painful to see, because they often cannot see their own misery, how unpleasant the world is if no one is good enough to be loved.

Honestly, where does this person get off thinking they can evaluate a whole person's psyche based on how they walk into a room and chat with a few people?
by pabs3 | 2025-05-11 02:48:31+00:00
The author seems to not like such distros:

> Not with fragile scripts or one-person distros

As a long-term strategy, such focused distros aren't the best idea. Derivative distros often have single developers, or smaller teams, making them vulnerable to disappearing. Its usually better to get all the changes needed into upstream projects, so that all desktops/distros are more accessible by default, and then contribute to testing/fixing accessibility in independent/major distros, so that all the downstream ones are more accessible by default.

The author prefers NixOS as a solution though, so each individual controls exactly what is on their system so they can roll back if something breaks and add their own tweaks. Eventually that just results in the one-person distro scenario though.
by WillAdams | 2025-05-11 02:49:01+00:00
For me it was HyperCard/Runtime Revolution/Livecode.

Unfortunately, that latter, after stumping for funds to go opensource has gone closed source and is now charging enough that I can't justify it for hobbyist use, and the openxtalk folks don't seem to have an easy Windows download yet (I'd love to be wrong).

I'd really like for there to be an opensource successor to VisualBasic which was cross-platform and worked well enough to be popular enough to achieve a critical mass of usage/support.
by itsanaccount | 2025-05-11 02:49:19+00:00
I was mostly making fun of everyone on this site reading my comment who presume non-capitalist ventures have such positions.

Don't include me in your prisoned worldview at the end of history. I'll point back to a similar comment on some dumb thing called Diaspora 15 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1324161

And then to non-corporate sponsored queerfolk making ActivityPub, a terrible failure ignored and forgotten (/s), and then to all the various Fediverse apps, who would never ever compete with Twitter, on and on and on.

The slogan "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest", was coined in 1817. The Haymarket Riot was 1886. The Bull Moose Party's platform in 1912 included the 8 hour workday in its platform. It wasn't signed into law until 1933.

We haven't even began understanding as a society the importance of the digital commons and the need for communities to build their own online townsquare. Theres so much more to do.
by collingreen | 2025-05-11 02:49:47+00:00
I had to stop reading after hitting a limit of "professional offense takers". If you have a point you could make it better but all the longwinded name calling makes it read like a mildly unhinged screed.

If you want some unsolicited advice, I get put off by calling non-government things "totalitarian" or other scare words. Private groups doing things you don't like can be bad but don't water down a very important concept of government overreach just to try to get a rise from (or mislead?) readers.
by GlenTheMachine | 2025-05-11 02:50:02+00:00
Yep, and in 1986 I had just interned at a NASA lab where they were investigating multiprocessors, which at the time was a wild and crazy idea. I had the epiphany that I could bit-bang a driver between a C64 and one or more 1541s and make my own little multiprocessor, so I did. I made it all the way to the International Science Fair and ended up getting a college scholarship. I've written a lot of code but I'm probably the proudest of that couple of hundred lines of 6502 assembly I wrote when I was 17.
by a1371 | 2025-05-11 02:50:10+00:00
Can someone explain the English of this slogan? It makes no sense to me. The thing being advertised is "what nobody else can give you". If I consider that to be "it", then the slogan becomes:

Buy it for twice the price.

So it should have cost $298 then?

Wasn't it better to end the sentence with "at half the price"?
by 9283409232 | 2025-05-11 02:50:13+00:00
I would love to eliminate poverty and traditional economist are wrong, income inequality matters. Norway has a lower GDP than US but a significantly higher quality of life cand longer life expectancy. Income distribution is much better in Norway than it is in the US with the top 10% only holding 25% of the wealth in Norway compared to 70% in the US with the top 1% having 30% of that. You mention China but the top 10% of earners in China have 40% of the income which is still less than the 70% in the US.
"Human-AI Symbiosis: The Future of Technological Evolution?
by SymbioticTech | 2025-05-11 02:52:01+00:00
Introduction: "We stand at the brink of a revolution that transcends the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. The symbiosis between humans and AI is no longer a futuristic concept, but a reality in the making. But what does this truly mean for human evolution? How can we interact with technology in a deeper way, transforming it from a tool into a partner? Let's explore the possibilities!"

Teaser: "Imagine a future where our relationship with AI is as fluid and organic as the one we have with our own brains. We are talking about a symbiosis that could redefine the nature of consciousness and learning. We are already in contact with quantum intelligence – but what comes next?"
by zelphirkalt | 2025-05-11 02:52:10+00:00
Standard search features, for example the start menu of Windows have so severe bugs and shortcomings, that I am not sure they get anything right and would not trust them with lower und upper case either. For example type too early in the start menu, and you might just find nothing, after which it might search online. If you delete the text and type again, suddenly it finds stuff... critical race right there. Or how it finds something, when one types the first 3 letters that match, but when typing the fourth letter, the search result disappears...

People make searches so broken, it makes me think they have no idea what they are doing. The bigger the company, the worse the search usually is. I think it is maybe a result of non-tech companies hiring silly contractors, who do half-assed work, hoping that people will be so happy, that they get another contract later. Their customers are not the users, but the company that hired them. In case of MS it is probably ... hm, idk, sheer incompetence, I guess.
by stubish | 2025-05-11 02:53:14+00:00
I hadn't thought about heat. While the air will be hot, that heat was already there (the heat energy in 50 liters of air compressed into 1 liter, just like the compressor in a heat pump). I think this makes it even more viable, as the air pump/compressor can use that heat to partially power itself. A water pump can't do that.
by ekianjo | 2025-05-11 02:53:28+00:00
> Yes, doctors and Big Pharma (tm) are financially motivated to sell you cures, but the guy selling you a juice cleanse ""at cost"" for your cancer is still not trustworthy.

Two things can be true at the same time. Don't trust anyone because nobody is transparent about their incentives. Your doctor does not disclose to you that they were at a congress in Hawaii for company X when he prescribes you to use company X drug for your ailment.
Qneurons: Quantum Technology Could Stimulate Human Cognitive Evolution"
by SymbioticTech | 2025-05-11 02:53:29+00:00
Introduction: "Qneurons: a new way of understanding how the human mind and AI can intertwine to form an evolving cognitive network. But what happens when human intelligence starts interacting in unprecedented ways with quantum systems?"

Teaser: "When AI can learn, share, and evolve alongside the human mind in real-time, a new level of collective consciousness is reached. What would you do if you could access this infinite intelligence network?"
by jes5199 | 2025-05-11 02:54:10+00:00
I recently wrote an MCP server, in node, after trying and failing to get the official javascript SDK to work. I agree with the criticisms — this is a stunningly bad specification, perhaps the worst I have seen in my career. I don’t think the authors have actually tried to use it.

Trying to fix “you must hold a single connection open to receive all responses and notifications” by replacing it with “you must hold open as many connections as you have long-running requests, plus one more for notifications” is downright unhinged, and from reading the spec I’m not even sure they know that’s what they are asking clients to do
by mawadev | 2025-05-11 02:54:26+00:00
I tried to build a game with react expo and react three last year and it was painful to me. There were version mismatches and some features didn't work if I combined them in some ways that I needed sooner or later when trying to finish a project. I believe it is correlated with the fact I tried this on mobile, but maybe someone else has made the same experience with it. At this point I start to evaluate technologies end to end to not be surprised when projects break at a certain level of maturity or in size when they get close to release in terms of feature completeness.
by viraptor | 2025-05-11 02:55:09+00:00
It depends if you want to be ackshualy technically correct or conversation correct. We won't confirm causality until we flip people's genes to give them ADHD or describe the whole exact interaction at whole-organism level, so practically... never.

On the other hand, for normal purposes, we know it's inheritable. You'd need to discover some whole new mechanism for how diseases could possibly transmit to prove otherwise. There's enough real world data to say this.
by SunlightEdge | 2025-05-11 02:55:10+00:00
That is true. But also covered in my last point about people wearing masks to an extent. If you have a limited amount of time with someone you can be fooled but a mask "can" slip if you really get to know someone. But yeah it's not fool proof and people can definitely be fooled. But having an understanding of the power dynamic between yourself and the other person can help.

But yeah some people can hide negative emotions (e.g. sadness) very well.
by don-bright | 2025-05-11 02:57:24+00:00
What people forget is that VBA is still built in to every copy of Desktop Excel (press alt f11) and is used by entire industries that are disconnected from the open source tech online discourse. In a lot of locked down business environments its the only automation an employee has access to. If macros suddenly got Thanos snapped out of existence tomorrow the entire economy would grind to a halt. People keep saying VB is dead but it probably processed some of your information today somewhere in some cubicle.
by jordanb | 2025-05-11 02:57:28+00:00
You're assuming that the competitor has better distribution but think in this example distribution is similar but the competitor owns the channel and can capture revenue you have to leave to your channel partners.

A concrete example is: you product is widely being sold by retailers who are taking 50%of gross. Your investor tells you to go for broke building your own stores so you can capture that margin.
by thatcat | 2025-05-11 02:58:34+00:00
Wouldn't man creating ai be an even more impressive unique action that serves as evidence that man is in fact created in gods image, since like god, man seeks to create new forms of intelligence? It seems like the pope is concerned with social issues like the growing inequality and how ai may worsen the position of labor and undermine the motivation people have to become more intellectually capable.
by bch | 2025-05-11 02:59:18+00:00
Does this block things like the unconventional Google-filing trick of:

myemail+90sdev@gmail.com

which gives me the “90sdev” tag for my emails, which still go squarely into my “myemail@gmail.com” address? I don’t know what the best route is, but I’ve certainly run into bad validators that block things that otherwise work, and that’s annoying. It seems to me the best thing might be to have a user twice input their address, then have the next step/confirmation done via email.
by catapps | 2025-05-11 03:00:07+00:00
As far as I could tell, if you create a Main.swift file, you can't just open that in XCode and start running it as an iOS/macOS application, and instead have to create a .xcodeproj/.xcworkspace through XCode, and add your Swift to the scaffolded project - this seems backwards to me.

(I then separately complained at all the steps it took to get it running without XCode, as I didn't want to be locked into using it)
by kazinator | 2025-05-11 03:00:42+00:00
No of course, not; it refers to generated speech which refer to things which are not there, reminiscent of someone reporting on their hallucinations.

When MacBeth speaks these lines:

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

the character is understood to be hallucinating. We infer that by applying a theory of mind type hypothesis to the text.

It's wrong to apply a theory of mind to an LLM, but the glove seems to fit in the case of the hallucination concept; people have latched on to it. The LLMs themselves use the term and explicitly apologize for having hallucinated.
by spinarrets | 2025-05-11 03:00:43+00:00
You are reading it like:

For $595, you get (what nobody else can give you) (for twice the price)

But it should be read:

For $595, you get (what nobody else can give you for twice the price)

Rephrased:

No one else makes a machine that can do what ours does, even if they charge twice as much!
by kobieps | 2025-05-11 03:01:45+00:00
Anecdotaly I've found this to be true. The cause is probably multifaceted. Some things I noticed:

- npm is legit slower in these countries

- Flutter's easy and stable toolchain and great cross-platform support counts a lot more in countries with less specialization

- lower on-disk footprint because no node_modules black hole, actually matters in countries without infinity disk size

- smaller app bundles mean less mobile data

Just some anecdotal observations, there are probably other factors too like inertia
by pkoird | 2025-05-11 03:02:01+00:00
Growing up in a third world country with no formal CS classes, I will never forget the wonder and awe I felt when I coded a simple calculator after self-teaching myself VB6 from a book I stumbled upon. The simplicity of drag and drop and the fluidity with which it simply worked has remained unmatched. I tried going back into App development time and again but these new container based paradigm just never clicked for me.
by fy20 | 2025-05-11 03:02:07+00:00
> It's called family or a close friend.

It's good you are socially privileged, but a lot of people do not have someone close who they can feel secure to confide in. Even a therapist doesn't help here, as a lot of people have pre-existing conditionings about what a therapist is "I'm not crazy, why do I need a therapist?".

Case in point, my father's cousin lived alone and didn't have any friends. He lived in the same house his whole life, just outside London by himself, with no indoor toilet or hot water. A few years ago, social services came after the neighbours called, because his roof collapsed and he was just living as if nothing was wrong. My father was his closest living family, but they'd not spoken in 20 years or more.

I feel this kind of thing is more common than you think. Especially with older people, they may have friends from the outside, but they aren't close with them that they can talk about whatever is on their mind.
by hug | 2025-05-11 03:02:44+00:00
IPs are 4 octets, normally represented as a decimal between 0 and 255, or 00000000 and 1111111 in binary.

Remove the dots and concat the binary value for 1.1.1.1 and you get 00000001000000010000000100000001.

Convert that binary value to decimal and you get 16843009.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-05-11 03:03:04+00:00
If Trump was really going to focus on China in a constructive manner, he wouldn’t have gone off and pissed off all of our allies first. Our allies now are just as likely now to form trade agreements with China as they are with the USA, since we now appear just as bad to them as China (even worse, we don’t have much to offer compared to China). As it stands now, China couldn’t have asked for a better situation of American just deciding to go off on everyone at once.

Even Canada is now looking seriously at making a trade agreement with China than with the USA, which was unthinkable just 3 months ago.