MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kstrauser | 2025-05-01 15:23:18+00:00
That stuff was surely popular, too! But we were running LAMP stacks in the late 90s to host customer content on cheap x86 boxes, and it that was an enormously popular hosting solution for many years before 2005.

Sun boxes were very nice machines, but an entry level Sun Fire V480 debuted for $20K, and that would buy a whole tabletop of x86 servers in tower cases.

There was a much greater variety of plausible server options back then, to be sure. I'm mainly arguing against the idea that Linux+x86 was useless until 2005 or so. I had personally worked in 5 different ISP/hosting companies by then which all used that exact combination.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-05-01 15:23:52+00:00
Actual memories blur together with synthetic memories constructed from old photographs, and stories told by others.

These days it's really easy to accumulate synthetic memory material in the form of thousands of photos and videos. My kids are covered that way. The hard part is still having access to them a generation later. At least the sparse material from back then survives as fading photographs in a physical album. Not so sure about the flood of material accumulating on people's phones these days. Mine lives on reliable backups but I figure once I'm gone all that digital data will bit rot like everyone else's.

As for "same person"? Of course not. Both body and mind change over time as you accumulate life experiences, both good and bad. It's a continuum of change. I'd have quite a bit of stuff to tell my 30 year ago self. Don't know if he would listen.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-05-01 15:24:03+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-05-01 15:24:08+00:00
No. A speaker can only speak with words as he understands them. It is impossible to know what other people are thinking.

A good speaker will define the words as he speaks (still relying on some baseline shared understanding of the most common words, of course; there is only so much time in the day...) so there is no room for confusion, but in absence of that it is expected that the listener will question any words that show an apparent disconnect in meaning, allowing the speaker to clear up what was meant, to ensure both parties can land on the same page.
by f38zf5vdt | 2025-05-01 15:24:18+00:00
> That's possible I suppose, but do you have any evidence of that

Yes, in the chat where a reporter was accidentally present, many of the messages were set to be disappearing. I don't know why anyone would do that if not to avoid recordkeeping laws.

> The images of the text chain show that the messages were set to disappear in one week.

https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-hegseth-signal-chat-inv...

Further, Project 2025 suggests bypassing federal record keeping legislation by simply holding in-person meetings without record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxe55mU4DA8

Oddly, the Project 2025 training videos that presumably the members of the executive cabinet have seen say _not_ to delete messages or set messages to auto-deleting _because_ that would be in violation of federal record keeping legislation.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-01 15:24:30+00:00
>In the US, the mortgage markets are propped up by the government and are basically subsidized as good investment vehicles. You can pretty much guarantee that governments aren't going to get their act together and make housing affordable (change zoning laws etc) so it makes sense to buy ASAP.

I have some thoughts on this. Not because owning a home is a bad idea, but because you should really factor what you're buying and why. None of this is to say your premise is incorrect, but merely there should be more nuance when thinking about this.

Buying a place you want to live in is fundamentally different than buying an investment vehicle.

I currently rent an apartment, but also own multiple investment properties. Why? Because it makes more sense for my situation, where I myself may need to move more often and therefore some aspects of being in a home that isn't turning profit into my pocket are undesirable, where as buying a house where I am going to live has a very different set of checkboxes, namely between economic issues in the macro and personal health stuff where myself or my wife have to travel a bunch, we're regionally limited and have determined we may or may not want to live in our current metro long term.

That said, I absolutely did buy one of the properties with the future intent of living there myself, I simply am delaying that to make money on the property rather than letting it sit empty. I'm easily a few years away from permanently moving into it myself, but in the advent I decide to live elsewhere long term than where I am right now, I at least have the income stream.

and absolutely, the regulations (and there by, the law) favors home owners every time. Renters get screwed in this I even tell this to young renters who rent from me. You simply can't get a break on the ever growing rise of rent vs a fixed rate mortgage, but you gotta understand what you're buying and why, and don't conflate the difference between a home and an investment vehicle, as many people do.
by donnachangstein | 2025-05-01 15:24:45+00:00
They used their leet "OSINT" skillz to ask the most basic of questions and background checks that nearly any traditional interview process would immediately uncover, then think it's so novel it's worthy of a blog post.

On the surface it seems the "security" industry is lacking in the most basic of security processes when hiring.

I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that could accidentally hire a North Korean without uncovering it somewhere in the hiring process, and all my jobs have been especially uninteresting.

What bothers me more is there are talented people sitting on unemployment right now that can't find a job, yet fake people are getting hired left and right. Something in the industry as a whole is quite broken.
by bombcar | 2025-05-01 15:25:12+00:00
Because in the USA the deck is stacked so hard toward home ownership that it's completely batshit.

Nothing else will let you take a government-protected 30 year fixed rate loan at rates barely above what the US government itself pays, that you can pay off anytime and cannot be called, leveraged to 80% or more.

And then the loans are often non-recourse, and the asset protected in bankruptcy.

https://johntreed.com/collections/real-estate-investment/pro... has even more ways that the government is fighting hard to force you to accept leveraged appreciation.
by mmh0000 | 2025-05-01 15:25:20+00:00
<beep beep sarcasm detected>

But, for anyone on a site literally called "Hacker News", a DIY dropbox should be trivial. The fact that anybody, especially, "nerds" or "hackers" would pay good money for what is effectively an FTP server with file versioning is insane.

I am mostly jealous that I didn't build and sell dropbox. Becoming an overnight millionaire by setting up an FTP server.

But seriously, modern approach, rclone[1] + "cloud" stoage (webdav, ssh, wasabi, whatever)

[1] https://rclone.org/
by charcircuit | 2025-05-01 15:25:32+00:00
>No, derivative work require human creativity themselves.

Then it would just be a copy then. Copies need a license.

>Fortunately no, otherwise your internet provider would need a license from the copyright holders to copy the blob from Netflix server to your machine.

No, I believe this is because internet providers do not save the content which means that a copy is not considered to be made. If copies were allowed of binary blobs people could legally make pirate sites sharing copies like that.
by hannasanarion | 2025-05-01 15:26:02+00:00
Which would be entirely valid if it had any basis in reality whatsoever.

The law you're scaremongering over criminalizes "KNOWINGLY sending FALSE information with INTENT to cause NON-TRIVIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL HARM to a LIKELY audience".

Emphasis mine on all of the words establishing a very high and reasonable legal bar that were cut out by the razor-thin quotes that you relied on to make your argument above.
by qwerty456127 | 2025-05-01 15:26:08+00:00
Yes, mouse pointer is among major articles driving refresh rate demand. Code auto completion/hinting is another one. But these are not essential for every workflow, there are many people who don't really need these. The most itchy thing is waiting for a letter to appear on the screen after you press a key - everyone wants this real time but some people still can tolerate a delay.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-01 15:26:13+00:00
This article is misleading in three ways. First, it ignores the markets are the cause of this problem. Second, it falsely claims Google is responsible for the development of other companies' browsers. Third, it treats Google paying for their development as a good thing with antitrust action being evil.

There's countless companies that depend on web browsers. Most don't buy them or contribute to their development. The biggest companies that include browsers in their products or platforms have budgets to build their own browsers, esp starting with existing code. They don't purely due to selfishness which, for many, hurts them in the long run as 3rd parties dictate their requirements.

That brings us to Apple and Microsoft. These are among the richest companies in existence. Their strategy is to create lock-in to their platforms which heavily use browsers. They have their own browsers. If they don't invest in their browsers, whatever happens is their fault alone. Double true since, unlike most alternative browsers, they have the money to sustain the project.

Third point is that it's good that the business model is to hope Google keeps paying for two of them with their advertising revenue. While it's great that they do, let's not forget both the dangers of (a) monoculture centered on one, greedy company; and (b) that many of us thing Google's advertising practices, especially in search, are so horrible we're trying to avoid using Google. I'd rather the the projects be self-sustaining and independent even if Google is a major customer.

Which brings me to a point of agreement where the one, independent project... Firefox... could be really hurt by a loss of Google funding. That's a sad reality I'd like to avoid. Meanwhile, I'd like to see more non-Google funding for Firefox or products layered on it from Mozilla. There should be a really, strong push to make sure Google isn't necessary for their survival. Most of what I see Mozilla promoting isn't that.
by xhrpost | 2025-05-01 15:26:27+00:00
Anyone remember when you could buy a physical copy of Netscape Navigator off a store shelf? I personally feel in this weird position where I don't want to pay for software and expect it for free but maybe not fully grasping that "free" software (particularly from for-profit companies) still comes at a cost. Trying to make myself more open to paying for good software again. Unfortunately the subscription model everyone is moving to doesn't make that easier.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-01 15:26:32+00:00
In a browser/on the desktop? I would think everyone would use a dedicated application, probably on their phone. For Linux users in particular, I would be unsurprised if they use OsmAnd. Maps also shouldn't require webgpu or wasm. e.g. XForms made something like a scrollable map application trivial to develop years before wasm was a thing[0]. That shows what could have been a browser improvement if W3C standards were still relevant. Google maps of course predates those things by over a decade.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yYY7GJAbOo
by XorNot | 2025-05-01 15:26:40+00:00
One of the glass or diamond based storage technologies really needs to take off. What we're missing right now is something matching HDD/SSD in capacity but providing very long term endurance of the "it's been in a box in the attic for 50 years" type

CD-R was thought of that way, but wasn't really stable in the long term at a usable price point.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 15:26:54+00:00
Have you been to the county of Modoc? The urban coastal enclaves do not California make.

(I mean, sure, by population they mostly do, and are overwhelmingly Democratic, but if you are going to look for a county that goes against the partisan trend of the state, staying in the urban coastal enclaves and picking Orange is actually a fairly weak example.)
by toast0 | 2025-05-01 15:26:54+00:00
In the time since Index Funds were created, retail trade commissions have gone to zero and fractional share trading has become mainstream possible.

If it becomes untenable to trust firms to manage index funds, it would be possible , if onerous, to replicate at least a S&P 500 in a retail brokerage. There's a lot of nice things the fund does to earn their 0.03% expense ratio that you'd miss out on, especially convenience; but you'd also be able to vote your shares as you wish for all that that's worth.

The indexes themselves I don't think can stray too far from their mission, or funds will throw a fit, S&P 500 index consideration is nearly a mechanical judgement. At the tail end of companies on the 'all market' type indexes, there's perhaps room for shenanigans that could be material for those doing the manipulation, but given the realities of a market value weighted index, it won't make much difference to those following the index if an inappropriate company is added to the index and followers have to spend 0.001% of their fund on it.
by platypii | 2025-05-01 15:26:58+00:00
Funny you say that, because I built these tools because I wanted to build something very much like what you're describing!

I was trying to look at, filter, and transform large AI datasets, and I was frustrated with how bad the existing tool was for working with datasets with huge amounts of text (web scrapes, github dumps, reasoning tokens, agent chat logs). Jupyter notebook is woefully bad at helping you to look at your data.

So I wanted to build better browser tools for working with AI datasets. But to do that I had to build these tools (there was no working parquet implementation in JS when I started).

Anyway I'm still working on building an app for data processing using LLM chat assistant to help a single user curate entire datasets singlehandedly. But for now I'm releasing these components to the community as open source. And having them "do a single task each" was very much intentional. Thanks for the comment!
by Zambyte | 2025-05-01 15:27:14+00:00
It's my primary mobile device; it's completely replaced my phone at this point besides GPS, and I don't even have a personal laptop. I just plug my ZSA voyager into it and use a bluetooth mouse and it becomes my laptop. I believe the primary thing that puts it above alternatives is that it can be very reasonably used for input (no noticible latency for typing or any finger / mouse inputs). The fact that they don't try to fight you / treat you as a child is a breath of fresh air for a modern device too. They have official recommendations for hacking on your device with custom ROMs and OSs.

The biggest cons for me are:

- without using the backlight, the battery lasts on the order of days vs e-ink which can last on the order of weeks or longer. With the backlight I can drain it in a day.

- The display is not as reflective as traditional e-ink, so there are lots of lighing environments where e-ink can be comfortably used without a backlight, but the Daylight would be difficult to use. Natural outdoor daylight (as the name suggests) or well lit indoor environments are perfectly fine to get away without the backlight though.

- The lack of a camera can lead to tricky situations sometimes. I have to use an alternative client for Signal (Molly) to be able to use it as my primary device, because the Signal app requires you scan a QR code to pair with a desktop. USB cameras are arbitrarily blocked too, I tried.

For me, the fact that it's smooth enough to be able to watch videos without a hiccup, be smooth for any kind of input, and treats me like an adult out-weigh the cons. I use it more than any other computer, but I also don't feel the same attachment to it like I used to have with my phone. It's great and I highly recommend it if you can afford it.
by nitin_j11 | 2025-05-01 15:27:17+00:00
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by goosedragons | 2025-05-01 15:27:23+00:00
These ARE the same slow panels. The high refresh rates are basically done with compromises on quality during refresh. Large eInk panels are expensive. Just look at how much a 13" eInk device is vs. 10" or 7" or 6". This is a whole level over 13".

If you are going to use these on a computer at all you need some sort of high refresh mode. Things like scrolling and typing are just way too annoying without it.
by sbenitez | 2025-05-01 15:27:34+00:00
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by pavlov | 2025-05-01 15:27:35+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.

I’ve often had the conversation with Finns who are envious of American 401k balances. But they fail to see the real value of a national pension system that is guaranteed to pay roughly 52% of your last salary for the rest of your life, and a healthcare system that guarantees that the expensive cancer you get won’t mean selling your house.

Not having to think about whether you’ll be bankrupt at 80 is a kind of freedom too.
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by dvngnt_ | 2025-05-01 15:27:48+00:00
We've have smart phones since ~2007 and you're right students did use t9, they could also be doodling in class not paying attention.

I find it weird that all of these schools have contracts with https://www.overyondr.com/phone-locking-pouch. It's one thing to discipline a student who has their phone out it's another thing to compel all students to give up their own devices or install managing software used to spy on kids.

This isn't really about helping them succeed. It's more about training them to accept being watched and controlled all the time. Instead of teaching kids how to manage their attention or use technology responsibly, we're teaching them that they don’t own their time, their devices, or even their personal space during the school day.
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