MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-05-10 12:12:10+00:00
You'd need a well optimised-website to fit on a domestic broadband connection's monthly allowance.

I grew up with business allowances lower than current domestic allowances, but it does mean no videos and actually caring about how big the images really are.

But none of that is the main problem with doing an internet business while taking a gig-economy driving position or whatever: you need enough income to stay above water, gig economy roles don't earn much per hour, so you need to spend a lot of hours on them to survive, and then there's not much spare time to work on the business — "exhausted from my 6 hours of doordash driving to make less than 200$ that day" to quote the article.

Edit:

Worse than I thought regarding home-hosting from a laptop: "Videos which I would upload patiently from the supermarket seating area, having canceled my home internet service the week I was fired in a bid to save every dollar possible in order to not lose my house and everything I've built." — so they can't host from domestic broadband, because they don't have it.
by omneity | 2025-05-10 12:12:47+00:00
Thanks, that's so true! We learned this the hard way building Monitoro[0] and large data scraping pipelines in the past, so we had the opportunity to build up the required muscle.

One thing to note, there are different "tiers" of websites, each requiring different counter-measures. Not everyone is pursuing the high competition websites, and most importantly as we learned in several cases scraping is fully consensual or within the rights of the user. For example:

* Many of our users scrape their own websites to send notifications to their discord community. It's a super easy way to create alerts without code.

* Sometimes users are locked in their own providers, for example some companies have years of job posting information in their ATS they cannot get out. We do help with that.

* Public data websites who are underutilized precisely because the data is difficult to access. We help make that data operational and actionable. We had for example a sailor setup alerts on buoys to stay safe in high waters. A random example[1]

0: https://monitoro.co

1: https://wavenet.cefas.co.uk/details/312/EXT
by Hilift | 2025-05-10 12:13:08+00:00
The US has a lot of people that were from affluent families and sort of drifted away. Another fascinating person is Huntington Hartford. He inherited most of the wealth of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. He funded the Gallery of Modern Art at Columbus Circle in NYC in the 1960's. He later became a heroin addict. His daughter found him in NYC being looked after by someone who was supporting them by selling off his art, one painting at a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Hartford
by skybrian | 2025-05-10 12:13:27+00:00
> (Terminology aside: Note that the economic system in much of medieval Europe is better understood under this term, manorialism, rather than ‘feudalism.’ Feudalism, as a term, has been generally going out of style among medievalists for a long time, but it is especially inapt here. In a lot of popular discourse (and high school classrooms), feudalism gets used as a catch-all to mean both the political relationships between aristocrats and other aristocrats, and the economic relationships between peasants and aristocrats, but these were very different relationships. Peasants did not have fiefs, they did not enter into vassalage agreements (the feodum of feudalism). Thus in practice my impression is that the experts in medieval European economics and politics tend to eschew ‘feudalism’ as an unhelpful term, preferring ‘manoralism’ to describe the economic system (including the political subordination of the peasantry) and ‘vassalage’ to describe the system of aristocratic political relationships.)

https://acoup.blog/2020/08/21/collections-bread-how-did-they...
by robviren | 2025-05-10 12:14:27+00:00
I'd argue you could even take that one step further. Limiting it to the data encoded by DNA does not take into account what it is interacting with. DNA interacts with an ocean of protein leading to untold numbers of interactions. The DNA could just be the operating system in all this calling upon RNA and other "devices" to execute functions.

To expand upon your compression idea, the index it is using exists outside the DNA encoding itself which means it could be holding an absolute ton of data.

Bonus: https://xkcd.com/3056/
by vidarh | 2025-05-10 12:14:29+00:00
> Now I just assume Claude is being intentionally daft and treat it as such with questions like "why would I possibly want a fix specifically designed to pass one test instead of a general fix for all the cases?" Oh, yeah, that's its new trick, rewriting the code to only pass the failing test and throwing everything else out because, why not?

The best one I've seen is when it tries to disable a test because it can't make the code pass it.

You do need to treat it as if it's trying to sneak stuff past you sometimes because you do get the occasional bout of what in a human I'd have treated as "malicious compliance", at a level well beyond stupidity.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-10 12:16:02+00:00
> The hard pill to swallow is that you can be an "hard core environmentalist", "born in a socially aware an progressive family" and still statistically be in the top 10% contributor of co2/pollution, this isn't mutually exclusive at all.

Count me in that exact demographic. Pill swallowed - long ago.

Still: humanity's dealings are unsustainable, period. The way I see it, there's a few ways out:

# Large scale conflict (nukes deployed?), human civilization thrown back to a dark age. Grim, but more sustainable than today!

# Technology: 'synthetic' foods, regenerative agriculture, fusion power, etc. It helps, but don't hold your breath.

# Get our numbers down. Yeah this is not a popular subject. But the sheer no. of humans is a big part of the problem.

# Out of control consumerism, fast fashion etc must be curbed. Starting with the 1..10% wealthiest people looks like low-hanging fruit to me. 'Wild' example: an immediate, worldwide ban on mega-yachts would hurt no-one.

# Fossil fuels must go.

Attacking all these angles simultaneouly (& co-operating / co-ordinating where possible) is the only way to avert a worldwide chaos/conflict scenario.
by ggandv | 2025-05-10 12:18:08+00:00
Exactly. They raise campaign funds and appear on tv and cross examine industry leaders like Altman and Zuckerberg. Clearly that is not “nothing”. But some worry that is not enough to keep pace with emerging threats and opportunities and that’s given justification for presidents to increasingly fill that gap, to disastrous effect. Some argue that a single strong leader calling the shots via EOs is better than having congress try to get up to speed on complex, emerging matters (ie AI export controls) but I’m unconvinced.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-05-10 12:18:46+00:00
The US is undoubtedly ahead at the moment, but the point is that this moment is developing into a turning point where the US is reducing science funding while simultaneously being openly hostile to both scientists and very concept of science itself. If US scientists feel this not just a transitory bump but a genuine change in the political climate going forward, then Europe is going to look inviting, especially if they start offering incentives.
by charlescearl | 2025-05-10 12:18:58+00:00
Racists will always find a way to make ending racism “illegal” (they write those “laws”). Love how the US Civil Rights Acts and various emancipation clauses always contain loopholes to re-enslave folk. Like using civil rights law - mostly constructed to make life for formerly enslaved Africans plausible - now being used to erase, incarcerate, unemploy, de-legitimize, kidnap, and perform deportation of the same folks it was intended to protect. It was never “color blind” because slavery was not “color blind” (the terms always re-inscribe the borders of racism and ableism don’t they?) Never trust colonizer “law” or “logic”. Rant done.
by phh | 2025-05-10 12:20:12+00:00
FWIW, for several years I've tried backuping my gmail account with imap (including some stuff made specifically for gmail): It never succeeded. The best syncer were running for one month, and after one month it hit some mails that it simply couldn't retrieve? Like I guess it was in too cold storage and timeout-ed? I don't know.

So I can understand why using Google's proprietary API might work better (or not, I don't know)

Anyway, as a sibling says, nowadays Google Takeout includes mbox and work properly (and is pretty fast, like half a day), but doesn't allow continuous update.

And I migrated to another mail provider (infomaniak), and I've thanked myself for using my own mail domain name years earlier.
by pqtyw | 2025-05-10 12:20:41+00:00
I do get it. However it's hardly any different or less trustworthy than a random person making a random claim identical to what ChatGPT would say.

Of course a 'Chatgpt told me this' disclaimer does indicate something, i.e. either that person has no clue about the topic and is unable to verify the answer at least to some extent on their own and is just blindly copy pasting something and/or believes that anything LLMs say is inherently credible on its own without extra verification.
by worotyns | 2025-05-10 12:22:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I really like the concept of Essential Spaces from Nothing OS, especially the idea of a dedicated button to access them. You can see a demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzJPmsWgKU

Since I didn’t want to switch to Android just for one feature, I recreated a lightweight version of this experience on iOS using:

- Apple Notes - Apple Shortcuts - Accessibility features (AssistiveTouch / Back Tap / Action Button)

I shared the setup, ready-to-use shortcuts, and a short demo in this blog post:

https://worotyns.ovh/essential-spaces-alternative-for-ios-

Hope it’s useful, enjoy!
by tlb | 2025-05-10 12:23:04+00:00
LLM coding assistants are a partial solution. Recently I typed

vec4 rgb2hsv(vec4 rbg)

and a few tab-completes later it had filled in the body of the code with a correct color conversion routine. So that saved me searching for and pulling in some big-ass color library.

Most of lodash.js can be avoided with LLMs too. Lodash's loops are easier to remember than Javascript's syntax, but if your LLM just writes the foo.forEach((value, key) => {...}) for you, you can skip the syntactic sugar library.
by vintermann | 2025-05-10 12:23:24+00:00
Information can only be defined with respect to states where you 1. Can tell (or could in theory tell) the difference and 2. Care about the difference between states. The differences you care about, and the ones you don't, are baked in whenever you use any definition of information.

It doesn't matter much, unless you use it to sneak in what you think we should care about, or use it to make philosophical arguments whose circularity is carefully hidden.
by m000 | 2025-05-10 12:25:34+00:00
So her criticism is that Varoufakis' term is invalid because we do not have a perfect analogy to medieval feudalism? Of course the analogy is not perfect! I mean when we talk e.g. about "fascism" in modern day, how close is it to Mussolini's fascism? When we talk about "democratic government" how close is it to the Athenian democracy?

This is just being pedantic over the terminology, as means to discredit Varoufakis' thoughts and arguments.
by the_third_wave | 2025-05-10 12:26:28+00:00
Move to a farm and get some outside cats, they shit in the woods but come home overnight. If they don't they get eaten by foxes etc. so they better. We never had a litter box until the cat turned 15 and started to become less willing to go out in the snow.

Ok, moving to a farm just to get some outside cats might be slightly overdoing it but there's loads more reasons why you want to live on a farm, preferably somewhere out in the woods so you might as well enjoy the cats which come with the territory.
by jmull | 2025-05-10 12:27:48+00:00
It sure feels like Swift governance is broken.

They're just shoveling stuff in to the language.

Individually, most items aren't so bad, but collectively they've got a mess and it's getting bigger fast.

None of the decision-makers seem to have the sense or incentive to say "no" to anything.

It's sad, because the language had such promise and there are some really nice things in there.

Well, at least it's relatively easy to avoid or ignore.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-10 12:29:09+00:00
I strongly dislike business books. Not because I'm disinterested in the topic or dislike the author, but because I'm put off by the presentation as having come up with some new magic formula (I did X and was successful, so all you need to do is X and you'll be successful too), when in fact 90% (95%? 99%?) of the time their success is due to a combination of luck, timing, common sense and perseverance (aka survivorship bias).

I think my repulsion for these books also stems from how we attribute almost mythical status to some of these celebrity business leaders (i.e., Steve Jobs), to where when they do something that any reasonable and not-an-asshole person would do ("he said hello to me in the elevator!", "he wrote me a nice email!") we laud them with praise in amazement.

I do admire what these people have accomplished, but the hero-worship is so off-putting that I have a hard time hearing the message.
by UncleMeat | 2025-05-10 12:29:33+00:00
Hiring on merit can increase representation of underrepresented groups. There are also shitloads of decisions one can make that increase representation of underrepresented groups without violating Title 7.

You can have better parental leave and part-time work policies. Or you can open an office in a region with different racial demographics. Or you can send recruiters to events like Grace Hopper. The idea that leadership saying "we want to increase representation of underrepresented groups" converts to people illegally hiring worse candidates because of their demographics is... odd.
by gingerBill | 2025-05-10 12:30:26+00:00
So Odin the language in-itself is effectively done. But of course the core library, vendor library, tooling, etc are still very much being improved.

The reason for the lack of "social media presence" is because Odin is kind of weird to market for: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/09/08/odin-weird-to-...

It's not "hypeable" like Zig or Rust mainly because it doesn't have any "killer features" but rather is a very pragmatic language by design. The people Odin attracts are also not the types of people to evangelize Odin either, since they are not there for the hype-train but to actually program.

So if you can help us find a way to market Odin itself without lying or exaggerating or overblowing minor features, then that would be very much obliged. It's a lot harder than you think.

As for "1.0", we have never worked to a timeframe for anything nor any sort of roadmap. The reason being is that we do not want to give false promises/hope about anything. Roadmaps are purely for advertisement, and the problem is, we don't even work to one so why present one? The other problem is that for "1.0", the language itself is well known: it's pretty much what you see today. But "1.0" for the general tooling? Now that's a harder question. We have plans but since everything is being worked on as we go (mostly volunteers), we cannot say when things will be finished. The biggest project at the moment is `core:os/os2`, the replacement for the `core:os` package. `core:os` was the first package ever written for Odin and it's absolutely dreadful and needs replacing. And that's what we've been doing with `core:os/os2`, slowly. And when it is ready, we will tell people many months in advance when we will make it the official one. This will be a breaking change, but probably the last biggest one for Odin.
by Leftium | 2025-05-10 12:31:01+00:00
https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

- Open source

- Resume (so backups/restores will eventually complete)

Honorable mention: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/

- Not open source

- GUI with index: nice for searching mail locally

- Resume only for backup (so large restores generally fail)
by malfist | 2025-05-10 12:31:22+00:00
This article is just another example of worshipping at the alter of billionaires.

The whole argument hinges on falsehoods. They argue that participation is optional in the current web ecosystem and that's just simply not true, not only for the web as a whole, but individual fiefdoms too.

Try getting a job without LinkedIn. Try buying a phone that doesn't run android or iOS. Try selling an app without sharecropping an app store. Try running a browser that's not based on chrome or Firefox.

And there's others with slightly more choice, but not a lot, email, social media, link aggregation, music platforms. All with just a small few main choices.

And the other argument is that feudalism stiffled innovation with its rigid hierarchies, that that's exactly what we have today with a few platforms having all the network effect, and killing off innovation. Small Web is dead. Small forums are mostly gone. Used market place is hidden behind a Facebook login wall.

Technofeudalism is here, you have no choice.
by deergomoo | 2025-05-10 12:31:51+00:00
It’s insanely buggy. My wife has two user accounts, one for her work and one for everything else, so she can switch out of the work user at the end of the day to put it out of her mind.

She comes across bugs on the regular that I’ve never seen in 16 years of Mac use, but only when the other user account is logged in (i.e. quick user switching rather than a full log out).

Stuff that user accounts shouldn’t even make any difference to, like the menu bar disappearing or rendering too far up so it’s half off screen. Save dialogs stop appearing. Windows that are open but appear to be rendering off screen somewhere. It’s wild. This is on a < 1 year old MacBook Air running the latest OS. It’s an absolute shambles.
by subscribed | 2025-05-10 12:31:52+00:00
It's well known for making the stuff up because this is how it works

The Guardian found a article attributed to them, generated (not "written") by chatgpt.

A silly lawyer got into trouble trying to use chatgpt-generated precedences in court.

Everything chatgpt prints out is made up, and that includes links.

Seriously, heed the warning the company itself prominently prints I app and in the webui.

Chatgpt may print out mostly true made-up sentences, but by definition, because oh how it works, it doesn't generate truth. It generates tokens that make up words.

Chatgpt is not a RAG, come on, it's 2025!
by danabramov | 2025-05-10 12:32:13+00:00
First of all, this is not an argument against the model. I could easily remove all JS and it would still work. I’m keeping it as a choice, not as a consequence of the model.

I have interactive examples on some pages. I’m planning to have more of them and more complex ones. Very little of the infra for this is actually render-blocking — try disabling JS and see that my site loads just fine.

All data and interactive stuff is loaded after the text and doesn’t block the first paint.

If anything, running a webpage test shows that the CSS requests are blocking the first render a bit. Maybe I should inline them or something.
by drooby | 2025-05-10 12:33:32+00:00
I've spent a lot of money trying to solve this problem.. including buying the $700 litter robot, etc.. (that thing is not worth it at all btw)

The best litter box is the Tidy Cats Breeze (if your cat accepts it)

Bad smells (usually) (mostly) come from urine mixing with feces.. this litter box separates urine from feces, and the pellets and pads are engineered to control odors. Plus, the pellets are easier to cleanup than other boxes..

If you use that litter box, and feed your cat foods that it digests well - which in general usually means feeding your cat healthy food.. then cleanup is going to be very easy and painless.
by ghaff | 2025-05-10 12:33:58+00:00
One of the big problems in my experience is that strategies are often both interesting and useful. But the real results are very situational and depend on boots on the ground. I won't single out anyone in particular but I've definitely seen very sensible-seeming frameworks and approaches (which are hard to really argue with in the general case) that led to analyses that empirically turned out to be totally wrong for individual situations.
by emilfihlman | 2025-05-10 12:34:08+00:00
Thank you for the reply!

Of course as a part of the Cryptpad team you have a bias, but if I'm looking to replace Google Drive and its functionality, is Cryptpad a good replacement, or is there another one, maybe Nextcloud(?), that could do it better (just user interaction etc wise, not E2EE)?

Would you have a list of things Cryptpad can and can't do compared to other solutions? It would make choosing the best replacement easier.
by tempaccount420 | 2025-05-10 12:35:37+00:00
That's a matter of taste.

I enjoy "bloated" languages. Many languages are bloated nowadays, but the community agrees what set of features to use, what to avoid. Still, those rare features can be useful for stuff like making DSLs through clever use of the language.

It's much worse to have a minimal language that takes years to add new features, like how Go took over a decade to add generics.
by jorams | 2025-05-10 12:37:33+00:00
That is not an example of a power tripping moderator, it is a moderator doing their job. The question is bad.

The message is telling you something is going to happen. You already figured out what that something is. You already figured out you are not in the 1% on which it is being tested. You are asking whether something that doesn't affect you somehow affects you anyway. The included screenshot tells you how to test what it otherwise would have done.
by Phreaker00 | 2025-05-10 12:39:03+00:00
Three-dimensional printing offers promise for patient-specific implants and therapies but is often limited by the need for invasive surgical procedures. To address this, we developed an imaging-guided deep tissue in vivo sound printing (DISP) platform. By incorporating cross-linking agent–loaded low-temperature–sensitive liposomes into bioinks, DISP enables precise, rapid, on-demand cross-linking of diverse functional biomaterials using focused ultrasound. Gas vesicle–based ultrasound imaging provides real-time monitoring and allows for customized pattern creation in live animals. We validated DISP by successfully printing near diseased areas in the mouse bladder and deep within rabbit leg muscles in vivo, demonstrating its potential for localized drug delivery and tissue replacement. DISP’s ability to print conductive, drug-loaded, cell-laden, and bioadhesive biomaterials demonstrates its versatility for diverse biomedical applications.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-10 12:39:17+00:00
Mass Effect is actually one of the game series that convinced me that video game stories aren't really worth it. Taken as a series, Mass Effect is a pretty bad story with wildly inconsistent writing quality. Taken as individual games they are all pretty good for different reasons, but they don't really form a coherent whole trilogy. I didn't bother playing Andromeda

Mass Effect 1 had the worst gameplay, honestly. The shooting mechanics weren't good, the RPG mechanics felt tacked on. It did have the best story and most developed lore and characters though, but they aren't good enough for me to ever want to replay it

2 had the best gameplay imo, but ths story took a nosedive. Some of the characters are alright, but overall it's a really bad story here

3 was probably the middle ground between them. The story picked up a bunch of the hanging plot threads from 1 that 2 wound up ignoring. It also changed the gameplay a bit from 2 in ways that weren't good imo

I used to think this sort of thing was the pinnacle of video games. Now I prefer playing stuff like Monster Hunter or Dark Souls, where the story is not the focus, but the gameplay is very fun and dynamic