MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2025-05-01 15:33:23+00:00
When you trim to the bone it's not entirely dissimilar to the kind of savings that can be achieved in other ways.

In the 1970's, when Nixon launched his recession after an equivalent lead-up, I worked at the University for one semester in a work-study job. They only paid minimum wage, and these were easy jobs like library assistants where you were expected to be able to study about half the time.

But you were working for the State just like all other State employees.

You know, the maintenance people, the professors, highway patrol, capitol admin staff, etc. Career employees.

Like everyone else, you had to wait two weeks after starting work before you would receive your first paycheck.

About halfway through the semester it got so bad they decided to hold paychecks for two more weeks.

:\

You mean everybody who worked for the State just didn't get anything for two weeks until it picked back up again?

Yup.

At the end of the semester I was made whole because my checks still kept coming in for a couple more weeks after I was no longer employed there.

"Just like" the career employees who would be collecting for a couple extra weeks themselves decades later after they retire.

Well, it was a recession, what do you want, prosperity? That ship sailed a long time ago :\

The source of prosperity done receded.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-05-01 15:33:28+00:00
That is just the kind of duct tape, that they would come up with, instead of fixing the underlying issues. To be fair, probably by now the Office mess is unfixable in any sensible time frame, without a massive effort. And since offline/local Office is not a priority for MS at all, they are probably not willing to invest the resources, and continue to sell shitty software.
by busterarm | 2025-05-01 15:33:33+00:00
I'm sorry but this isn't true. I'm taking care of my 80+ year old mother with dementia and my brother and I pay people to come look in on her specifically because we can't be there for her like that. More specifically, she's a narcissist and extremely abusive and we just won't/can't put up with that.

She needs way more than that too, but the money just isn't there. The entire situation is frustrating, exhausting and hopeless. She didn't provide for herself to live this long and probably will deteriorate over the next decade while we continue to not be able to provide her with good enough care.

Looking ahead to the later years of my own life, I don't have any family to take care of me and don't expect to be wealthy. I'm looking at assisted suicide as the way out of that kind of aging. Honestly it all seems a bit fucked.
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by _aavaa_ | 2025-05-01 15:34:00+00:00
> I want them to prevent social media companies from tracking my device across my other apps.

Apple is the one who implements the advertising ID companies use to track you. And preventing that tracking is a os-level feature, not a thing they review out of app.

> I want them to require Oauth that allows me to keep my email private from app developers.

You are describing a private email address.
by wdrw | 2025-05-01 15:34:14+00:00
There is a surprising amount of detailed childhood memories you may be able to retrieve by making a prolonged, conscious effort. I would guess that many people who say they don't have very many childhood memories have never taken e.g. 30 minutes of concentrated effort to really try to retrieve them. Here's what worked for me: imagine my childhood apartment, and mentally move along it, very very slowly, stopping in every part of every room, mentally examining every piece of furniture, etc. Of course it won't work for everyone, but for me memories associated with specific places just flooded in, I was very surprised at how many there were. I'm sure there are other methods as well. I think basically it involves trying a bunch of different "keys" that may be a match to "values" stored in memory.
by vidarh | 2025-05-01 15:34:23+00:00
I'm not sure I agree DS9 treated it in all that silly fashion, beyond involving the Ferengi's. It's part of what makes Rom's arc one that shows the greatest character development in Trek.

It's also one of few depictions of strikes in US TV that treated the strikers with substantially more sympathy than their counterpart. Incidentally, this is another parallel to Babylon 5, which also had a strike, and were the negotiator that was brought in was a really unsympathetic caricature.

DS9 even managed to paraphrase the Communist Manifesto, and still painted the strikers in a good light.
by cenamus | 2025-05-01 15:34:31+00:00
Additionally, Polish also has more different consonants that e.g. Czech, where the haček accents were first introduced.

sz contrast with ś/si, as does cz and ć/ci, or ż/rz and ź/zi, or dż and dź/dzi

(might have swapped one or two)

Add in some good etymological reasons why the consonant+i combinations are not respelled and the whole thing makes a lot of sense.
by toss1 | 2025-05-01 15:34:35+00:00
On average? Maybe not. But that is not the point; it's the massive info imbalance between US vs China population

I would bet, of the US 48% who read above a 6th-grade level, at least 2/3 of them know the rate is well over 100%.

The analyst's point is that even the literate in China do NOT know the rates because they have been systematically suppressed by the govt., so the info is simply not available (except to those few who have a reliable hole in the Great Firewall), so the Chinese population is already more controlled.
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-01 15:34:38+00:00
All renting gets you is the "privilege" of paying someone else's mortgage. The entire point of homeownership is to build equity and pay off the mortgage.

That way, when you retire, your nest egg can go further because you only have to pay the property taxes, and when you die, you can pass the value along to your heirs and build generational wealth.

Houses are not index funds; ideally they should only appreciate at the rate of inflation. But they are absolutely long-term builders of generational wealth through the equity in the home. Heirs can sell them and then invest the proceeds, or live in them themselves without a mortgage.
by shrinks99 | 2025-05-01 15:34:48+00:00
Webrecorder's WACZ signing spec (https://specs.webrecorder.net/wacz-auth/latest) does some of this — authenticating the identity of who archived it and at what time — but the rest of what you're asking for (legitimacy of the content itself) is an unsolved problem as web content isn't all signed by its issuing server.

In some of the case studies Starling (https://www.starlinglab.org/) has published, they've published timestamps of authenticated WACZs to blockchains to prove that they were around at a specific time... More _layers_ of data integrity but not 100% trustless.
by kstrauser | 2025-05-01 15:34:51+00:00
I do so wish practical probability was a required class for all students.

Yes, vaccines — as with all medical procedures — have bad outcomes for some people. You can't inject everyone with saline without someone having a bad reaction, if only because it ended up stabbing a tendon or something.

However, the risk of injuries for all common vaccines are orders of magnitude less than the harm from the things they decrease. For ever 1 person harmed by a vaccine, 100 people don't get seriously ill from the disease it counters. And while it’s an enormous bummer for that 1 person, the other 100 experienced a modern miracle of public health.

No one’s ever said vaccines can't make you sick. (Well, they've said that they provably do not cause autism, but that's a different claim.) They've said that if you go to Vegas and have an option to bet where you have a 99% chance of winning $1000 and a 1% chance of losing $1000, you take that bet every time.
by mystraline | 2025-05-01 15:34:51+00:00
Its quite saying, that in order to get interviews, you have to basically lie your way with various generative AI.

Whereas, I've been looking for quite a while, with very few bites. And nobody so far on HN Who's hiring responds, except for a place that seems to want 60h/week and pay for 40h/week.

Being genuine and truthful in the age of generative AI, LLMs, quiet quitting, /r/overemployed (on the sly working multiple 40h week jobs).... Being honest in this environment seems to be a losing endeavor.
by desireco42 | 2025-05-01 15:34:59+00:00
You can just use Ollama and have a bunch of models, some are good for planning, some are for executing tasks... this sounds more complex then it should be or maybe I am lazy and want everything neatly sorted.

I have models on external drive because Apple and through Ollama server they interact really well with Cline or Roo code or even Bolt, but I found Bolt really not working well.
by mmh0000 | 2025-05-01 15:35:02+00:00
A quick comparison: think Linux Kernel (window manager) vs Linux Distribution (desktop environment).

A window manager is part of a desktop environment.

A desktop environment is usually made up of:

- A window manager (i.e. kwin, xfwm, i3, etc.)

- A file manager (i.e. Dolphin, Nautalis, etc.)

- Other utilities, such as a network configuration tool, a print config tool, maybe a web browser, a calendar or PIM system, calculator, etc.
by parpfish | 2025-05-01 15:35:08+00:00
but even if you know a company was under valued, you should only invest in it if you think it'll be 'properly valued' in the future. for that to work, there needs to be a mechanism for price discovery on individual stocks. but if (nearly) nobody is buying individual stocks, how would it be possible?

and it's not even that the index fund is driving price discovery of the aggregate market because people using these funds just keep dumping money in on a schedule because they've internalized the message "time in market beats timing the market".
by o11c | 2025-05-01 15:35:09+00:00
I just tested on a ramdisk:

tool cspeed size dspeed zstd 361 MB/s 16% 1321 MB/s lzop 512 MB/s 29% 539 MB/s lz4 555 MB/s 29% 1190 MB/s

If working from files on disk that happen not to be cached, the speed differences are likely to disappear, even on many NVMe disks.

(It just so happens that the concatenation of all text-looking .tar files I happen to have on this machine is roughly a gigabyte (though I did the math for the actual size)).
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-01 15:35:12+00:00
This is why high progressive tax rates, let alone high marginal tax rates, are justifiable. The less you earn, the lower a percentage of your earnings you can afford to lose before having to make drastic lifestyle changes. However, relatively low on the absolute income range for Western countries, you reach a point where you could lose 90% of your income, live in a high-cost-of-living area, and still experience negligible change in your circumstances. Tax rates should be based on analyzing where that point is.
by aientech | 2025-05-01 15:35:19+00:00
Anti-science sentiment is taking hold of the public in a way we've never seen before. More and more people distrust any scientist because of propaganda that tells them to do so. How do we combat this? Of course we can dissect the propaganda and show people how it is deceptive. But we also have to rehabilitate public perception of the scientific community. That's where all you scientists come in! Do you want to show the world who you are, what you do, and why it's important? Submit a profile piece for my "Get to Know a Scientist" series! It's easier than you think! Watch this and shoot me an email if you think it's a good fit for you.
by 9rx | 2025-05-01 15:35:30+00:00
> but in practice the audience understanding is important

Where audience understanding is important than you will definitely go out of your way to ensure that definitions are made abundantly clear and that the audience agrees that they understand.

But, in actual practice, most of the time the audience understanding really doesn't matter. Most people speak for the sake of themselves and themselves alone. If the audience doesn't get it, that's their problem. Like here, it means nothing to me if you can't understand what I'm writing.
by lr4444lr | 2025-05-01 15:36:22+00:00
> perhaps everything behind the scenes could fall apart

The problems in the world that would result in the entire top line public companies falling apart that make up the TSM or even S&P 500 fall apart protractedly - not like a few companies getting knocked out and replaced by others but the _entire concept_ failing - would be of such magnitude that people's retirement savings would probably not be the 20th thing on their list to worry about. Look at how COVID even at its worst could barely knock things down more than 25% or so for a few months.
by doublerabbit | 2025-05-01 15:36:43+00:00
No, took the wrong drug. Entered psychosis, saw myself of who I was to be in a mirror. Family pulled me out of the psychosis and I swore to never be that person. 10 years later, I have my own apartment, have stability and more of a solid personality.

It hurts to change oneself but so glad I am not in the place I was before.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 15:36:57+00:00
Trust me, we are more free than it might seem

Yes, for sure we are limited by our biology. Someone born crippled will never be an olympic body builder. Someone born stupid will never be a math researcher.

And of course we have a lot of inputs like family, upbringing, schooling, culture, etc which all shape us

However, humans are capable of being inputs into our own system as well. It is not easy, necessarily, but I do strongly believe that we are capable of shaping our own identities as a result of being able to be our own inputs.

We can also choose to relocate, change friend groups, change careers, whatever else we need to do to change our external inputs as well

Of course we are limited by physical reality and limited by things like money and opportunity, our intelligence and aptitude and such, but as long as we can find something within our capabilities, we can shape ourselves into it

For example, I am nearly 40. I have ice skated my whole life but never used to play ice hockey.

I'm never going to play in a pro league, I'm already too old even if I was phenomenal somehow. But it is well within my capability to join a beginner old timers league and play with people my skill level if I want to
by casenmgreen | 2025-05-01 15:37:19+00:00
> During the Battle of the Bulge in WW2, the Germans infiltrated Allied lines with fake officers who would give orders that messed up the Allied command structure. The fake officers were Germans who spoke perfect English and had often grown up in the US.

This did not happen.

However, at the time, in the massive confusion of a wholly unexpected large-scale German attack, rumours and paranoia were rife, including that of German parachute landings behind the lines.

A result of this was the widespread belief, at the time, that Germans had infiltrated and were giving fake orders, etc, and so troops were indeed widely being suspected, and asked for example the capital of Illinois and so on (and being asked by privates, who did not know that the actual capital is Springfield rather than Chicago, to generals, who did know).
by pyrale | 2025-05-01 15:37:21+00:00
> This touches upon something that Europeans generally don’t understand about Americans’ individual wealth: the very last years of your life can drain almost any retirement account.

This is also true in some parts Europe. Retirement home is very expensive, and the service is usually mediocre at best. There's also been the same kind of stories with some kindergartens lately.

On many services, we're much better off than the US, but when it comes to retirement homes, we're very bad aswell.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-05-01 15:37:34+00:00
I really do not know what you're trying to nitpick here, but note that if you create a not-original-enough derivative work (which is what is happening here), you will not have any copyright whatsoever. Neither you nor the original author.

Binary decompilation is also the textbook definition of a "simple translation". It is almost always done with a mathematical formula aka algorithm and the resulting program is not only identical in observable behavior to the original one, it is also identical in the non-observable behavior (I.e. bit by bit identical on-memory data structures). The chance that you can end up with such identical program without looking at the original one is zero for anything but the most trivial programs.

Licenses are also almost totally irrelevant (even in this context) and for most software they are only enforceable by copyright anyway (e.g. the temporary on memory copies to load the program).

I do not understand what to see here that even has a hint of originality. This is why clean room is super important, even if not strictly necessary: it goes a long way to convince that the implementations do not come from the same source even if they are related.
by kassner | 2025-05-01 15:37:38+00:00
I’ve read through the comments here, and something most people here don’t get is the importance of App Stores for discoverability. The first thing non-developers think when you tell them “download xyz app” is to open the App/Play Store and search there. If your stuff isn’t there it just doesn’t exist.

That’s specially true for 3rd-world countries (I can only speak about Brazil, but my guess India would be pretty similar), where for a long while obtaining apps was a dice roll if you’d get a malware or not. Eventually the Play Store made it safer, but also created a group memory of “stuff outside Play Store is cut-and-dry unsafe”. In the circles I have access, people would hesitate to even open your website if you tell them to, but saying “my app is on the Play Store” makes it instantly “safe” in their minds.

I’m still in the process of bringing my App to the Play Store (after being on Apple’s for 3 months now), and honestly catering to Android with the new rules has been the biggest regret in my 20-year career so far. Yet, there is no alternative, because every time I tell people about my project, they always come back saying “I couldn’t find it” when the project name is literally a domain name.
by bombcar | 2025-05-01 15:37:42+00:00
The best argument I've been able to find is when they're offered a company match in their 401(k) or similar.

Basically - total market index funds have very low cost, and the entire market has very rarely gone down 50%, and eventually recovered.

Since your company is matching you 50% (or 100%) on your contributions, if the market goes down you're losing "house money/free money" you wouldn't have otherwise.

Then after years and years they just get used to it.
by duttish | 2025-05-01 15:37:48+00:00
Working out.

For me the key has been two things, remove thinking and at least five minutes.

- Find a programme, doesn't really matter which one as long as it's one you can follow for at least six months.

- Set the days you're working out.

- Pack or prepare everything the evening before.

Less thinking is less opportunity to go "Hmmm, I'm tired. I'll do it tomorrow". Just follow the programme. On those days do that amount of reps of those exercises.

The five minutes thing is that I always do at least warm up and then five minutes more. After that I'm allowed to stop, but at that point I'm changed, at the right place, warmed up and doing it. 39/40 times I do the workout.

My brain is ridiculously easy to fool, it's quite convenient.
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by TheDong | 2025-05-01 15:38:24+00:00
We're on Hacker News, not Granny News.

Being a hacker means having curiosity about the things around you, having the desire to be able to change and understand things.

On android, I wrote small toy apps for myself, I could build and self-sign an APK, I could poke at how the system worked and read all the source code I wanted.

Tragically, due to blue bubbles and group chats within my family, I was forced to switch to iOS, and I thought sure, it wouldn't be so bad...

No, it sucks for hackers, you can't build and sign apps from linux reliably, you need an apple account and to pay $100 even if you do have a macbook, the APIs are limited, you can't see the source code for the most of the kernel or platform, apple has a ton of APIs you're not allowed to use.

My firefox addons I developed for myself installed fine on android, but I can't even use those on iOS.

I want apple to let me use the device I paid for.
by EPWN3D | 2025-05-01 15:38:50+00:00
I'm sorry, but people have lives and kids of their own. To frame this as "Children are being cruel by putting their parents in nursing homes" is totally disingenuous and ignores the realities of modern society.

Caring for the elderly who cannot care for themselves is a full-time job that requires more than a little bit of specialized medical expertise. Throw a 3 year-old into that environment, and it's a recipe for disaster, injury, and marital dysfunction.
Show HN: Robot Unlock – an open-ended programming game/zachlike
by adrianton3 | 2025-05-01 15:38:53+00:00
Hello,

In 2010 I made an open-ended programming game based on Befunge and Brainf*k. I was young and didn't know what I was doing - coding it in AutoIT of all things and using borderless windows for sprites. Nevertheless, it was a full game and some people actually played it, sharing solutions with each other. I took it as a sign that the game had some potential - I appreciated this very much at the time.

It was zachlike at its core, except that it came out earlier than SpaceChem and the term hadn't been coined yet.

Years passed, I worked in the game industry, had some fun, learned a few things and eventually burned out. Meanwhile, Zachtronics kept making games and managed to define a genre, proving that there indeed was a market for such games. I'm very happy about that.

Now I want to have a shot at going indie and almost 15 years later I'm launching the sequel to my 2010 game. One of my playtesters has been at it for 26 hours so I know it can be a real nerd sniper. It's a game for the type of person who loves quirky languages and optimizing their programs under extreme constraints.

I have been hanging out on HN for a long time and thought some in this community might like the game. I want to keep doing this and I will as long as I can afford it.

Looking forward to your questions and feedback.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3318050/Robot_Unlock