MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MichaelGlass | 2025-05-19 13:43:21+00:00
I'm not sure it's so simple as "making it pretty costs more". I'd bet there are hidden utilitarian cost benefits as well. E.g., murals prevent graffiti. (No judgment concerning graffiti, but municipalities tend to pay to remove it.)

Or: maybe there is no large cost trade-off. Do beautiful manhole covers seen all over the world significantly affect the total cost of ownership?
by mcntsh | 2025-05-19 13:43:25+00:00
"in san francisco it costs a million dollars to build a public toilet. ergo, we should not build public toilets, because the cost is too high"

or, we should try to figure out why building costs so much money. 90% of the current NYC subway system was complete by 1960. in 2017, just 3km of track took 10 years and costed 5 billion dollars.
by blyry | 2025-05-19 13:43:30+00:00
Dude I've been running Ubuntu with Plasma for almost 3 years now as a daily, and it's perfect. It's what windows 7 could've been. Maybe I'm stuck in my ways, but as a dotnet and devops guy, 2020s was the perfect confluence of open source, works on Linux tooling to fully switch over. Rider, datagrip and vscode, and I don't have to deal with docker or wsl anymore. It's beautiful. I only boot into windows now when I have to deal with .net framework OG stuff, and I'm pretty sure I could kill a weekend and get a VM to boot from my windows nvme so I never have to leave.
by femto | 2025-05-19 13:43:39+00:00
As I see it, that the whole point in this case. Alexander wants to teach children how to program in text mode, but can't see the bridge from Scratch to text mode. With textboxes, the child can write small functions to start with. As they learn, they may well start making the blocks of code more complex. Eventually they might end up with a single block with everything in it, as you describe. At that point they ditch the Scratch "wrapper" and start using a typical text mode tool chain. Mission accomplished.

One of my children did something like this. In the days when Scratch was written in Squeak, he discovered that shift-clicking the 'r' in the Scratch logo dropped him into the underlying Squeak environment. He then started modifying and writing Scratch blocks and was eventually comfortable with text mode programming.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-19 13:43:39+00:00
I asked Grok for advice on a personal decision I was making. It suggested I do A. I said I was leaning toward not-A, and explained why. Then it said I should do not-A. I asked why, if not-A was the best choice, it hadn't said that in the first place. Was it unable to think of not-A before I mentioned it? It said no, it had considered not-A from the start, but thought A was the best choice for me until I gave it more context.

That reminded me how important it is to give it the full parameters and context of my question, including things you could assume another human being would just get. It also has a sort of puppy-dog's eagerness to please that I've had to tell it not to let get in the way of objective analysis. Sometimes the "It's awesome that you asked about that" stuff verges on a Hitchhiker's Guide joke. Maybe that's what they were going for.
by SideQuark | 2025-05-19 13:43:40+00:00
Anyone in computing, especially things related to deep learning, do.

If you prefer to think of human effort, there was also immense human effort building the models, the needed infra, assembling the data to train on, etc. There's usually 1000+ specialists on projects like this (see the last chat gpt paper author list, which took pages and pages as an appendix).

There is no way I can think any of this result was anything more than a massive effort, costing 10s to 100+ millions of dollars.

Go ahead and explain how this was low effort.
by b3lvedere | 2025-05-19 13:43:56+00:00
Not sure if Miele is still what it used to be. To my knowledge Miele products tend to live a tad longer for almost twice the price.

I do wonder what household appliances these homes have that Enes Yilmazer shows on his YouTube channel. It seems it's always the same huge black/silver color washer and dryer.
by georgeecollins | 2025-05-19 13:44:28+00:00
That's not really true. His father was an excellent businessman and left him what would be $1b in today's dollars. If he had just invested that money in the stock market he would be far richer in say, 2008 then he was. He probably effectively went bankrupt with the casinos, his creditors just didn't really go after him.

What turned around his fortunes was being a game show host. He did do well from licensing his name. Also he is now really making a fortune off memecoins and other stuff that seems grifty.

People that think he was a good businessman are like joe six pack or vibe economy types. People in finance or real estate in New York would laugh at the idea.
by roelschroeven | 2025-05-19 13:44:54+00:00
This drives me nuts.

Once upon a time French was used even in the Dutch speaking parts, in government, economy, high society. That was long before the internet got popular though. We've had a long fight to get rid of French in Flanders. Dutch is the only official language in Flanders, and it's the language people speak (except expats, or migrants who haven't learned the language yet).

So when companies still assume Belgium == French, it's not only wrong, but it comes across as very condescending. It feels like they haven't outgrown the times where Dutch was suppressed in favor of French.

And why? If a company wants to use only one language for the whole country, it's better of choosing Dutch (as we indeed account for about 60% of the population). Many of those companies do have a perfectly good Dutch translation, which they use for their site when viewed from the Netherlands. Even if they don't, I much prefer English over French.
by nozzlegear | 2025-05-19 13:45:02+00:00
> It’s kinda astounding how hard you’re trying to cover for a group of people who have such obvious contempt for you.

> Truly remarkable how hard people will go to never have to admit “losing face”.

> Not only did they very obviously lie to your face, they’re now continuing to lie and you, instead of calling out their lies, and demanding accountability or something are gobbling up the lies and asking for more.

> Your incredulity doesn’t make you look clever it makes you look foolish, because everyone else knows who “they” is.

I think you need to take a step back and read my comment again. You're not engaging in good faith here, you're a hair's breadth away from labeling me a sheep or npc. Is "gobbling up lies and asking for more" truly what you think I'm doing? Don't you think you could find a more charitable interpretation of my argument?

> And you’re sitting here asking “what is a bad news cycle?”

I didn't ask that.

> The Jake tapper book points to an intentional cover up by Biden, his entire family and staff. It implicates nearly the entire DNC leadership. It’s not just a sad story about elder abuse, it’s an entire administration spending four years overtly lying to the public. It calls into question not just all those people’s credibility and integrity but also implicates them in multiple felonies.

Why should I believe Jake Tapper's take on events over Bob Woodward's take on events? I've read War by Woodward, and while it's not kind to Biden at times especially regarding his age and mental acuity, it certainly doesn't paint him as senile.

But even if we disregard books from venerated journalists, we can see with our own eyes that he's not senile. He's done several interviews after leaving office where he's the same Joe he's always been -- mumbling and stumbling, but lucid.
by breadmakerlc | 2025-05-19 13:45:04+00:00
I hate that this is a thing on physical products aswell. Panasonic being the latest offender by "supporting" my language. Then, when opening the safety instructions for the machine it reads grammatically correct but materially incorrect advice. Someone not following through with enough critical thinking could end up killing themselves.

Reading up on the english version it becomes clear it was machine-translated with zero persion checking on if any of it was proper.
by kmlx | 2025-05-19 13:45:13+00:00
just in case people are not aware what "legal aid" or what "Legal Aid Agency" are:

> Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in providing access to justice by ensuring equality before the law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial.

> The Legal Aid Agency is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the United Kingdom. It provides both civil and criminal legal aid and advice in England and Wales.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Aid_Agency
by derf_ | 2025-05-19 13:45:17+00:00
My favorite is the sites who do parse Accept-Languages, but then pick the last one in the list instead of the first. I have mine in rough order of my competence in them, which gets me my least-competent language on some sites even when my most-competent is supported.

I get a kick out of it when I see it, because you can understand how it happens. "Well, at least you tried."
by conductr | 2025-05-19 13:45:20+00:00
So this app that millions of people use, probably most of the ~1.4 billion iPhone users… instead of making some minor edits to the settings to make it better for a lot of people, the solution is we all just need to use the app the way you do?

Not even going to consider that some people are more phone dependent and not just fielding an occasional call from their lost dasher or uber driver. Overly simplistic view on the world, you need to think beyond your use cases and make software that is beneficial to the entire user base. It’s the whole point of having a settings section of the app, to allow some custom behaviors tailored to your needs and some you won’t use because they are tailored towards someone else’s needs
by Damogran6 | 2025-05-19 13:45:36+00:00
In covid had a whirlpool dishwasher that lasted less than 3 years (4 subsystems failing all at the same time)...it was either wait 2-X months for the Miele we wanted, or pay twice as much to have it today. ($2k vs $1k)

I'm uncomfortably enamored with this dishwasher. (Bought it over a Bosch as the percentage needing repair in the first year was 8% instead of 12% and I was flat done with it.)

The dishwasher is fully enclosed...the typical DW is open at the back with all the guts just barely contained in an open structure.

To balance the dishwasher, you slide it into the nook and turn two bolt heads that have a mechanism that raise the back of the dishwasher after it's set in place.

There are instructions on how to install matching cabinet faces...the buttons are on the top of the door...if you want zero indication you have a dishwasher, they'll accomodate.

While the drawers(?) are well thought out and can take a lot of dishes, it shines when you're entertaining, it flat SOAKS UP dishes and flatware and has cycles to safely wash crystal. We never seem to use this.

It has pucks full of detergent, a load now a days costs about $1.80...more than I'd like, but the simple avoidance of pouring soap and having a sixpack delivered when you need it is a crazy luxury.

5 years in and it's been faultless.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-19 13:45:40+00:00
As another religious person, your comment was as boring and difficult to follow as a typical Sunday homily, and for the same reasons. The world doesn't need even more bone dry exhortations and predictable parables. For God's sake, at least say something new and interesting, like how the Blessed Virgin Mary most likely wrote the Letter to the Hebrews and what that implies for the role of mothers, or how Judas was likely the biological son of St. Peter the Apostle and how this is a warning to children, or how Jesus and Mary being the new Adam and Eve implies that Joseph was the new Abel and how that fact helps fathers to know and live their vocations.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-19 13:45:51+00:00
99% agree, but there is a problem on mobile, to switch from Spanish to English when I click the glass to search for alternatives. I have to type "Ing" (that are the first letters of "Inglés") while it shows "English" in the list of matches. It would be better if I can type both "Ing" or "Eng".
by skeeter2020 | 2025-05-19 13:46:22+00:00
I think you have the motivation wrong. The cost-benefit economics work if you want to have fun building something, learn a lot and share it with others. It doesn't work if the goal is to make up to $100/month selling ads; getting a part-time job would be a better path. In this scenario not finishing your side project is the correct decision, and not starting an optimization of that.
by diggan | 2025-05-19 13:46:31+00:00
Meh, just change your personal definition of "finished" and everything gets easier :)

I too struggled with the feeling of not completing things, until I realized I didn't actually want to "finish" projects in the sense of "have paying users" but instead wanted to learn something new, try out some design/architecture or just solve a personal problem.

So for the last few years, my "finished" ratio is much higher, as I got the value I wanted out of almost every project I started.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-05-19 13:47:18+00:00
The Pixie dust is called China. BNEF is tracking 7.9 TWh of annual battery manufacturing capacity for the end of 2025 [1]. Chinese manufacturers' all-in costs for BESS are now down to $66/kWh and still dropping [2]. We (or at least China) have crossed the "knee" of the exponential for battery production, and loads of people don't seem to realize this.

[1] https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...

[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/24/what-are-the-implicatio...
by natmaka | 2025-05-19 13:47:22+00:00
> one country should be able to influence other countries in the EU.

Who pays decide (Germany is the first financial contributor), that's business as usual.

> Whereas the CO2 is in the air

In the UE the question is how much renewables and how much nuclear will be built, and their (dubious) compatibility. Very few want to see more fossil fuel.

The "nuclear waste is a solved challenge" is funny, as experts explicitly state that there is no safe solution (due to risks induced by seismotectonics, intrusions, casks imperfections...).

It's the "Asse II mine" joke all over again: "there will be no problem" followed by "Ouch! Err...". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine#History
by thrance | 2025-05-19 13:47:25+00:00
Well then, aren't death threats a form of speech? Because they're clearly illegal. What about a nazi saying "death to all <insert minority>"? It's just words at the end of the day, and most of them won't act on it, right?

> people nearly always come back with some sort of "that's not actually speech" weird categorization defence here

Grand parent neatly predicted your response, you are trying to categorize every kind of illegal speech forms as something else than speech. Either you can say whatever you want or you can't. There's no absolutism with restrictions.
by Vinnl | 2025-05-19 13:47:35+00:00
No, because then it will probably serve it in the original language regardless of the languages I speak. If the original language is French, I'd still prefer to have it in English.

(To be clear, with how widespread English is, and how often Dutch sites are Dutch-only, this is a minor issue - having English, then Dutch as my preference is usually good enough.)
by Reubachi | 2025-05-19 13:47:37+00:00
Thanks for summarizing my point ; It was a bigger issue in the media sphere ie; those whom read tech news, because the pushed narrative was that people will film your butt in public, and then look at it later, and so will nefarious Google engineers.

But to your example, doesn't the coffee shop have a totally legal camera up providing CCTV recording/surveillance that is literally hidden away on purpose? and same with dash cams outside parked in parking spots, red light cameras, DOT cameras etc.... All of these we have come to understand serve a legitimate purpose, and you'll basically never find anyone who questions them.

The populace (me included) who absorb media at any rate had this idea in their head that people with cameras on their faces are potentially weirdos, because "FANG bad". But those same people (again, me included) will go to disneyworld and register their face/thumbprint :D
by fidotron | 2025-05-19 13:48:21+00:00
The whole point of a spatial finder is it leaves things physically in the same place, which is very definitely not true of the ribbon menus (or their precursor in Office 2000 where menu item visibility was reliant on how often you used them), or anything that tries to hide/reveal things based on assumed intention.

Burger menus are just rotated tab bars that can adapt equally badly to mobile and desktop.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-05-19 13:48:29+00:00
Many of these articles are being written, probably because there's a paying customer. The late Soviet Union had an army of publicists whose job was to dismiss real and growing concerns with "but we just had a record crop and milk production is up".

Lots of western academics have seemingly started writing for Pravda these days. They are (deliberately?) missing the point: human perception of economic wellbeing is relative, not absolute. Antibiotics and running water are nice, but they are expected bare minimum.
by josefresco | 2025-05-19 13:48:34+00:00
> But as Giannandrea’s engineers raced to get Apple Intelligence out, some were often given vouchers to eat for free, breeding resentment among other teams. “I know it sounds stupid, but Apple does not do free food,” one employee says. “They shipped a year after everyone else and still got free lunch.”

Yikes. Even if the "AI team" delivered on it's promises it doesn't seem wise to play "favorites" with your core teams.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-19 13:48:38+00:00
I know that German brands get a lot of cred, but I have never really experienced it much. And thinking about it, it kind of makes sense:

Who in first world developed countries, that is smart, competent, and capable, wants to take a ho-hum salary to develop home appliances? From an economic and financial perspective, it doesn't make sense for Germany to pump out high quality innovative home wares. The brightest German minds aren't working on stove tops, nor should they be.

It makes way more sense for emerging economies to dominate in the space, and unsurprisingly China now seems to be the global hub of mid-tech manufacturing, with lots of innovation in this space.
by joseda-hg | 2025-05-19 13:49:54+00:00
Jesus H Christ, I once a month google to see if there's a proper way of stopping this (You can block this with TamperMonkey)

2 things that absolutely kill my experience,

1. Messing up with titles, specially if the contents of the video are still in a different language, Which Kurzgesagt will I get today? Only YouTube knows, this is annoying if I know the youtuber could use a different language in the title to make a joke

2. Messing up with the default audio tracks, I don't mind if the YouTuber has a dubbed track, that's awesome for getting more exposure, but I already know and expect a specific voice and it's extremely jarring

I know what Mark Rober sound like, leave it be
by eythian | 2025-05-19 13:50:03+00:00
Fwiw, you can set (on Android at least) the language of Google Maps independently of the rest of the system. I also have my phone set to English, but maps set to Dutch because otherwise the reading out of street names can be incomprehensible compared to their proper pronunciation.

This does mean your navigation instructions are also in that language, which may or may not be a problem, depending on your fluency (but there's not really a whole lot of phrases to learn.)
by lucasoshiro | 2025-05-19 13:50:20+00:00
> I can understand English and don't need these automatic translations

I think it is far worse than that:

1. If I don't understand a language, probably that video is not for me. Most videos targeted for international audience are in English, or at least the author translated it by theirself.

2. Titles are small sentences, and they don't have enough context to be translated. Once I saw a video called something like "Vamos assistir uma conexão com o passado", which in Portuguese means "Let's watch a connection to the past". I needed to de-translate it in my brain to understand that the original title was "Let's play A Link to the Past"

3. Online resources are a great way to exercise a second language. So, please, don't underestimate my capabilities. At least let me try to read in the original language by myself, if I need the translation I how to use Google Translate or a dictionary.

I reckon that this feature makes the access to online content more democratic, it's ok. But at least let me disable that since it makes the experience worse
by Reubachi | 2025-05-19 13:50:34+00:00
"we" as in "the global west", which yes I agree is a catch all term with subtle context not caputered by grand stereotypes.

Case in point; if you can legally provide dash cam footage in ANY type of court case civil or criminal in your locale, then I can promise you that my comment rings true in your country. I can assure you that there are street cams supported by tax dollars, and private businesses with private insurance whom use these to protect their liability.

it is not evil to use cameras; it is a circumstance of the way we have decided things should be in most "western" countries.

Don't take my comment so personally. I am simply saying "hey, this piece of tech failed due to perceived X, whilst most of the civilized world sits in front of a work laptop that for all intents and purposes could be doing exactly the same."
by jonathaneunice | 2025-05-19 13:50:45+00:00
Agree if that power is truly sustainable.

OTOH, if you have solar panels and drive power to the grid, you can sell "credits" to large power users who will use them to "offset" their less-green power sources to appear to get their power in sustainable ways / be carbon-neutral. Kind of an "I'm using dirtier power, but I teamed up with someone who's using fully sustainable power, so it all comes out in the wash!"
by sidewndr46 | 2025-05-19 13:51:08+00:00
I obviously don't know anything about you, but if you used computers in the 486 & Pentium era most operations were instant. There were few things that took enough time to visually notice them happen, even in graphical interfaces. I remember even later in the Pentium III era trying to benchmark different practical operations and coming to the conclusion that when it takes less than 1 second to do most things, my benchmarks weren't worth much at all.
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