MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-01 06:26:43+00:00
I could not disagree with this more. One of my children has sensory issues, is on the spectrum, and has problems controlling their emotions, and we’ve been able to help them without any physical harm learn to manage their feelings when they anger quickly or have the urge to be violent with another child (including their older sibling).

I don’t think spanking is ever warranted, and I’m shocked someone would recommend it.

> Research has long underscored the negative effects of spanking on children’s social-emotional development, self-regulation, and cognitive development, but new research, published this month, shows that spanking alters children’s brain response in ways similar to severe maltreatment and increases perception of threats.

> “The findings are one of the last pieces of evidence to make sense of the research of the last 50 years on spanking,” says researcher Jorge Cuartas, a Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who coauthored the study with Katie McLaughlin, professor at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. “We know that spanking is not effective and can be harmful for children’s development and increases the chance of mental health issues. With these new findings, we also know it can have potential impact on brain development, changing biology, and leading to lasting consequences.”

> Perhaps surprisingly, says Cuartas, spanking elicits a similar response in children’s brains to more threatening experiences like sexual abuse. “You see the same reactions in the brain,” Cuartas explains. “Those consequences potentially affect the brain in areas often engaged in emotional regulation and threat detection, so that children can respond quickly to threats in the environment.”

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/21/04/eff...

https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.13...
by a1371 | 2025-05-01 06:27:04+00:00
E-waste prevention is hella important. It's a tough situation though. I think for a board that goes out in the public, even at a prototyping level, it's important to know the chip you have is not tampered with. I once wanted to make a little people counter at a university campus with an ESP8266. I simply couldn't make sure it's resilient against some CS students poking at it.
by mmarian | 2025-05-01 06:27:19+00:00
I recently started https://developerwithacat.com . Don't tend to read blogs myself though - hypocritical, I know. But it's just that I like learning about things that help me become more successful with my business projects - eg tips to get more traction, exploring problem domains. And I haven't found anyone who does that. There's X/Indie Hackers, but it's quite shallow, so I gave up on that too.

I'm thinking of starting a series on postmortems about startup ideas I had, just to be the one that drives that change. Will see.
Are we allowed to promote ourselves here?
by warrenc | 2025-05-01 06:27:42+00:00
Title says it all. I gave the rules a quick look and I didn't see anything about self promotion. The job market seems pretty tough for me lately and I've been unable to reach even the human stage of the recruitment process. I thought my resume would be interesting enough to have a 15 min phone call about, seeing as I've had 3+ years of experience working at places like Meta and smaller companies like Tillster. Has anyone had success or heard of anyone having success posting their resumes here?
by jupp0r | 2025-05-01 06:28:02+00:00
I think you should appreciate more how much the tens of billions of dollars Google has invested in Chrome has benefited the web and open source in general. Some examples:

Webrtc. Google’s implementation is super widely used in all sorts of communications software.

V8. Lots of innovation on the interpreter and JIT has made JS pretty fast and is reused in lots of other software like nodejs, electron etc.

Sandboxing. Chrome did a lot of new things here like site isolation and Firefox took a while to catch up.

Codecs. VP8/9 and AV1 broke the mpeg alliance monopoly and made non patented state of the art video compression possible.

SPDY/QUIC. Thanks to Google we have zero RTT TLS handshakes and no head of line blocking HTTP with header compression, etc now and H3 has mandatory encryption.
by csdvrx | 2025-05-01 06:28:39+00:00
Read https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/06/phi-s...

I submitted it, as it gives a better picture of what Microsoft is trying to do: both the hardware, and the software.

Phi is small, not just for shows, but also to be able to run locally on the hardware they are planning for it to run on the copilot branded devices.
by Antipodes456 | 2025-05-01 06:28:51+00:00
So I manufacture cycling products from Taiwan + China, importing to US... he's paying 152% tariffs, on the cost price of the product. Previously would have been like 7% base, with maybe a 20% trade war tarriff added on.

So for back of napkin: $10 widget, selling for eg $40.

NORMALLY Product: $10, Shipping, storage etc: $10, Duties: $0.70, Marketing $10, Sale price: $40, Profit: $10

TRADE WAR Product: $10, Shipping, storage etc: $10, Duties: $15, Marketing $10, Sale price: $40, Profit: -$5

So to make even 15% profit, the price needs to increase from $40 to ~$52

So companies are either winding up and ditching their inventory in China (lose less), or if they can prices are going up 20+%. Inflation here we come

At that price they be losing a significant amount on this.

UPS has already laid off 20,000 people. There is about to be a tsunami of businesses winding up unfortunately (us included).
by arghwhat | 2025-05-01 06:29:00+00:00
No, a single person individual can register.

Doing business is orthogonal to being a company, and depending on your country, some "company" forms are just VAT filing registrations for an individual itself with no independent legal status. What you normally call a company is something that behaves as an independent legal person.

However, it may be legally required to register a proper company if your yearly business volume exceed a certain value - check local rules - but it may also be perfectly fine to do business as an individual below that volume, in which case the legal entity is just you.

(The alternative to being a business in a transaction is being a consumer)
by palata | 2025-05-01 06:29:46+00:00
> "It'd be foolish to sit here and try to defend every cryptocurrency in the world or everybody who's in that space. But in a lot of ways, it reminds me of the early internet," Felten posited.

My feeling is that Internet was immediately useful to most of its users. Cryptocurrencies have been a global phenomenon for close to two decades and still aren't.

> "What bothers me is that Signal makes you have updates every few days or something, and insist you use the latest version. And that means someone with a court order could say, 'Here, slip a bug into a version, ship it out, and make everybody use it,'" he warned.

Not that I disagree, but this is not exactly Signal's fault. If it really matters, one can compile Signal from sources and use that... but then "someone" could pay NSO to hack your phone.
by silisili | 2025-05-01 06:31:01+00:00
This might be too deep for this thread, but... does it ever get better?

Of course when I was a child my parents told me how much better my childhood was than theirs...cue uphill both ways stories.

But I find myself telling my child the opposite. I'll tell her how Walmart used to answer the phone, JC Penney used to have associates that helped you in each department, Home Depot used to employ skilled workers to answer questions, stores didn't lock up items, etc. Not to even mention about how the internet wasn't an ad laden crap hole.

And without saying as much to her, I feel like my child's life is markedly worse than mine growing up.

So, what gets better these days? I find myself just thinking everything will get continually worse until I expire. But it wasn't always this way. Where was the peak? My mind wants to say late 90s. I'm just hoping that's a local peak, and things will get better again in some fashion.
by thbb123 | 2025-05-01 06:31:16+00:00
In the late 90's, I attended a talk by Ted Nelson, the guy who coined the term Hypertext. To him, things started going downhill with HTML, and the URL. The gist of his complain is that he wanted links to be bi-directional.

In the 80's, telecom operators were complaining that TCP/IP and packet transmission was a regression over circuit commutation.

So it looks like the internet has progressed through perpetual regression.
by corimaith | 2025-05-01 06:31:28+00:00
>Balance trade? Trade isn't a single ledger that needs to be in balance.

By definition, global exports must be matched with global imports to sum to zero, unless if you are trading with aliens. This is basic double-entry accounting and mainstream economics.

>Nobody in the USA makes cast iron in the volume needed by haas; nobody in the USA makes PCBs at the price point needed by haas. Nobody's going to be able to start domestic production of either now

On the long term, factories can be built, workers can be trained. If the price point of manufacturing is more profitable domestically than through outsourcing via tariffs, then investment will naturally flow to account for those opportunities.

But like I said, what you fail to see is that firms like Haas Automation are not reflective of the larger US economy, the majority of the US economy is supported by consumption, not manufacturing, and actually it's the top 10% that accounts for almost 50% of domestic consumption, meaning a whopping 10% of US consumers account for 15% of global consumption. Counter-Tariffs aren't going to mean as much to Investment Bankers, Lawyers, Doctors, Senior SWE etc. People will come to and build production if China is not available because they will want to grab the lucrative opportunities of the largest consumer base in the world.

On the other hand for surplus exporters, bereft of such a consumer base, unless if they find a way to make up for that consumer base (which is very difficult), all those factories are going to close down very quickly, and mass unemployment ensues. It's not just China, it's possibly Vietnam, most of SEA, Germany, Japan, etc. And that matters for the negotiating table, hence why many did not pursue counter-tariffs. But they've been doubling down on manufacturing rather than shoring up domestic consumption, the US reaction is by definition the Beggar-Thy-Neighbour as a consequence of their greedy actions.

The larger argument really is for a more balanced global trade, where countries current account balances would be near 0. It's true that US consumption rate will probably need to go down for it, but that also means that the rest of the world would be increasing their consumption (and their living standards) rather than suppressing domestic demand for the sake of manufacturing fetishism. It would be an all around more resilient to trade shocks than the status quo today.
by rjzzleep | 2025-05-01 06:31:48+00:00
They push local chips for independence, but unless the west embargoes them, I don't think you will see a major leap forward.

Huawei is a whole different beast though. They have a everything from the chip design up, and by now also an operating system that has arguably both a better frontend framework and a better kernel that the Linux alternatives. When we talk about Chinese AI chips being slow we specifically talk about classic desktop chips.

Also! For normal desktop work a 2011 intel chip is plenty fast. A lot of critical systems like train booking systems are keyboard focused ancient UI systems, and they seem fine.
by agnishom | 2025-05-01 06:31:59+00:00
I'd hope that with diffusion, it would be able to go back and forth between parts of the output to adjust issues with part of the output which it had previously generated. This would not be possible with a purely sequential model.

However,

> Prompt: Write a sentence with ten words which has exactly as many r’s in the first five words as in the last five

>

> Response: Rapidly running, rats rush, racing, racing.
by visarga | 2025-05-01 06:32:47+00:00
The homepage of YT has become a disaster area, it has almost zero customizability or exploration value. Can't remove vertical video shorts, can't control the topics displayed at the top. It maximizes engagement and time waste, not what I need.

But you can use Gemini for better search, recommendations and you can play videos right in the chat window. At the very least replace search and recommendations with the model. You can explain what you want to explore and guide the recommender much better than on YT. There are no ads in Gemini itself.
by valunord | 2025-05-01 06:32:50+00:00
I must say that I do not think you read my remarks to have the visceral and unwarranted response that you did. There was nothing in my remarks that recommends spanking in a negative manner.

Being on the spectrum myself and having worked with many in these situations and with this, I will tell you that my personal experience says otherwise. Believe what you will, and I will believe what I will. I can assure you that wonderful and salutary results come through helping children to learn not to harm other people in proper and healthy ways.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-01 06:34:03+00:00
One would think the same of C, where exploits trace all the way back to Morris worm in 1988, that is 36 years of thinking the problem are the developers, not the language, with new projects being started every day still.

At least C++ has mechanisms to write safer code, provided one makes use of them, even if still there are issues.

To use a modern example renaming the JavaScript file extension to a Typescript one, only gets you so far.

Then one can make use of Typescript's type system, or switch to Elm to the next level.
by troupo | 2025-05-01 06:35:28+00:00
what discovery?

For "discovery" people would have to regularly check the App Store app and read the "today" page. Maybe perhaps Spotify or Netflix will appear there once a year among 15000 stories about games.

Or you mean search? If people search for Spotify/Netflix, they already know about it. And right now Apple will helpfully cover half of the screen with an ad for Gmail if you search for Spotify (and will hide all other Spotify apps like Spotify Kids and Spotify for Creators six screens down)
by rienbdj | 2025-05-01 06:38:02+00:00
> Using AI well is a skill you need to learn and if you don’t see positive results on your first couple of attempts that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad, it just means you are a beginner.

I think it’s a very easy skill to acquire, which is why we’ve see such fast user growth for these products.

Most of them have the same interaction model as talking to someone on iMessage / WhatsApp / Messenger.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-05-01 06:38:05+00:00
The author indicates that the mod authors' account was "likely compromised" indicating a bad actor took over their account somehow, perhaps made easier by prolonged inactivity?

I don't think the author of this piece found it useful to speculate though and I have to agree. No need to break out pitch forks - let those involved get to the bottom of it.
by photonthug | 2025-05-01 06:38:52+00:00
> zero improvement this past decade. In fact, stuff seems to be worse.

Sigh, yes, even keeping copy/paste working is problematic for the last several years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886954

Luckily the top comment in that thread says "this is the process working" so I guess we're good
by makeitdouble | 2025-05-01 06:39:24+00:00
The finer point is where these tens of billions came from.

All of it was ad money, and a lot of these innovations were also targeted at better dealing with ads (Flash died because of how taxing it was, mobile browsers just couldn't do it. JavaScript perf allowed these ads to come back full force)

The net balance of how much web technology advanced vs how much ad ecosystems developed is pretty near 0 to me, if not slightly negative.
by arghwhat | 2025-05-01 06:39:30+00:00
Doing business and registering a company (a separate legal person) are orthogonal concepts that are specific to local legislation. You can do business as a private individual, and various "company" forms in various countries are not actually companies but just VAT/financial registrations for the individual itself and have no legal status of its own. Whether you need to register a company form depends on local rules and may be subject to e.g. volume limits (e.g., okay below 10k USD annual).

The alternative to being s business in s transaction is being a consumer (as in B2C), and you're obviously not a consumer when publishing an app.
by withinboredom | 2025-05-01 06:39:31+00:00
Did we ever know those things before? Even talking to a human face-to-face, I’ve had people lie to my face to try and scam/sell me something and people resell art all the time. You have little ability to tell whether an artist’s work is genuine or a copy unless they are famous.

And the job? I’ve been laid off several times in my career. You never know if you will have a job tomorrow or not.

AI has changed none of this, it is only exposing these problems to more people than before because it makes these things easier. It also makes good works easier, but I don’t think it cheapens that work if the person had the capability in the first place.

In essence, we have the same problems we had before and now we are socially forced to deal with them a bit more head-on. I don’t think it’s a bad thing though. We needed to deal with this at some point anyway.
by locallost | 2025-05-01 06:40:16+00:00
This is a known issue with tariffs, so "governments" are on the lookout for it. It's risky, and there are consequences if you get caught.

There were however reports of Chinese companies actually setting up production in e.g. Thailand. The products are more expensive then, so it doesn't actually change anything - at least it was like this before the introduction of the one billion gagillion tariffs.
by watwut | 2025-05-01 06:42:03+00:00
There was whole massive campaign against her comparatively much milder infraction. It is crickets now. It was huge.

So, maybe 10 of you care, but the assymetry is beyond apparent.

For that matter, I remember when Obamas tan suit was horrible unpresidential infraction amd lack of respect. Same people voted for Trump not a peep about respectability.
by xp84 | 2025-05-01 06:42:08+00:00
I doubt it was because people wanted The App Store. If the PocketPC/Windows Mobile had an App Store it would not have won.

Featurephones had App Stores like Verizon’s “Get It Now” and it was obvious that they were money grabs like Apple’s.

Apple and Google won the game because the phones were powerful enough to make web browsing feasible, and had great text input.

If nobody had thought of app stores, it would have been trivial to distribute .ipa’s and .apk’s on the Web just like Windows and Mac software still predominantly is.
by sach1 | 2025-05-01 06:42:35+00:00
> How can a chaotic system possibly work?

For a given definition, it doesn't. At least, not without vastly understating the gov's role (some might say responsibility) to step in and monopoly bust, regulate strategically important sectors of the economy, and generally try to provide human-scale stability to a system that tends to want to burn itself and polite society down more than a caffeinated toddler with an outlet, a fork, and a dream.
by Nursie | 2025-05-01 06:43:14+00:00
> how well considered the idea was.

Part of this is down to the politicians who were running the show - David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, thought the referendum was a good way to put the issue to bed - you've had your vote, we're staying in, shut up.

He more or less directly said that they weren't going to make any concrete plans, because he thought the idea was so bad that they weren't going to spend the money on them, and because releasing explicit plans would probably just give ammunition to the 'leave' side. It certainly would have torpedo'd one of the major arguments of the 'remain' vote, which was that a vote to leave was a vote for uncertainty.

So in that way it was a self-fulfilling threat - you don't know what's going to happen because we refuse to make a plan!

> The referendum passed because people were largely ignorant of what Europe actually is

This too is a failure of politicians over several decades - the EU was always 'them', not 'us'. It was something that happened somewhere else. It was convenient to blame the EU when UK politicians couldn't or didn't want to fix something. MEPs were always pretty anonymous, unknown by local people who then (predictably) didn't turn out to vote in EU elections very much.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-05-01 06:43:44+00:00
> The other members of the five eyes had better be careful about what they share with the U.S. while this is going on.

Right, but this is nothing new: Hegseth is only a recent example of Trump's camp mishandling sensitive docs; I'll bet there's been an inner secret Four Eyes group since the the Mar-a-Lago bathroom official-document-archive story dropped years ago.

What surprises me is that I expected Tulsi Gabbard to be the centre of mishandling allegations, not SecDef.
by ezst | 2025-05-01 06:45:33+00:00
This has nothing to do with Unicode and everything to do with input methods, of which there are a variety. Some methods are indeed shape-based like you suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method#Shape-bas...

By the looks of it, Pinyin (a phonetic one) won by a landslide, which I suspect this is the result of a long effort by the Chinese government to install Mandarin as the official language of China, above regional dialects (different regions would write similar characters but pronounce them differently, and defaulting to Pinyin has this "nice" effect of having people "think of how it would be pronounced in Mandarin first", even when the result are characters that would be read by a Cantonese speaker).
by OutOfHere | 2025-05-01 06:45:48+00:00
This is a good thing. It's time for a big change. Some contenders are:

1. A lighter browser that goes back to the early 90s, supporting HTML, forms, sockets, a handful of codecs, and nothing more. The newer modern features have added disproportionate security risk. There are so many exploited zero-days in modern browsers that no modern browser is safe.

2. A chat system limiting to what AI can directly infer (in a rendered sense). Usually this content is limited to markdown/text/HTML and images/video, but no scripts. The AI's internal representation does not render a script like a browser does. Sockets can be simulated by message updates.
by pests | 2025-05-01 06:45:55+00:00
> interesting cultural revolution flashback element

Interestingly this section either appeared in the beginning or somewhere in the middle depending on the translation/version (I forget how the distinction was made) due to it being so different from the rest of the book.

It was in the beginning when I read it years ago and I think it took a bit for its context to make sense but I also read many lost interest during it.

I enjoyed all the books. (spoilers incoming) I actually enjoyed the love story elements, how a star given to someone would play such an important role later. How he survived in the end and communicated the three fairy tales, and enjoyed each in turn. I've never seen a story span such a vast amount of time nor remember one that took us literally to the end.
by xp84 | 2025-05-01 06:46:32+00:00
These days that’s obviously true. Back then web technologies lacked a lot but today I seriously question why say, a retailer, needs to waste the massive cost of building an app and putting it on both of the App Stores and updating it for every OS change. Especially considering it’s just going to be using React Native and likely isn’t any faster or more responsive than the Web.

And as a user it just feels idiotic to have to download a dedicated program to say, pay for parking or order a sandwich, in a city I’m just visiting for the day. As though taking a credit card on the Web is a foreign concept.