MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcosdumay | 2025-05-19 14:41:24+00:00
There's a video that Youtube keeps sending me with a translated title "O segredo das lavadouras" (what translates to "the secret of washing machines") that is about picking screw washers...

But the real problem is when it decides to translate the titles of some perfectly watchable videos in English into something that uses the Cyrillic alphabet, what has no relation to my accepted languages, and is only used half-way across the world from where I am.
by lilerjee | 2025-05-19 14:41:52+00:00
Note-taking app is very complicated, even bookmark manager is also complicated. They need much time to develop and maintain. If one person develop a himself/herself such app, the possibility is giving up at last.

I think there are two ways:

1. Select an open source app which meet your requirements

2. Select and pay for a commercial app

do not waste your time and resources for it, just use a or some proper tools, and use the time for the most important things.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-05-19 14:42:08+00:00
I've started counting in a very weird way, because from an open hand, I can bring my ring finger down to my palm independently, but if I try to bring just my pinky down, the ring finger comes along from the ride.

So when I count, I start with a closed fist, then open my thumb, followed by my index finger, then middle, then pinky, then ring finger.
by jraph | 2025-05-19 14:43:08+00:00
Early versions of KDE 4.0 were terrible, and it lasted for a couple of years, but I've found later versions quite solid. Early versions of KDE 5 were relatively stable but were lacking features. I find late 5.X versions and all 6.X version quite robust.

There are still bugs but they do seem to be ironing them out, they go in the right direction.

The only big bugs I notice these days are the occasionnal plasmashell crashes but it comes back on its own. KWin doesn't crash and that's fortunate because on Wayland, that would bring down non KDE apps.

I exclusively use plasma, I'm quite sensitive to instabilities, it's not an issue for me with KDE.

I did avoid the first years of KDE 4 and was using GNOME at that time.

Have you tried Trinity?
by dinfinity | 2025-05-19 14:43:33+00:00
My point was that parents with children made their choice and should thus bear the responsibility for it. It's not some accident or unexpected thing like getting a disease or something. It is far more like having some super high-maintenance pet or hobby that sucks up gobs of time and complicates everything.

Now I do make an effort and will continue to visit friends and family with kids, but it is a much shittier experience than visiting friends and family that don't have kids. The children dictate way too much of the experience and suck up all the attention in the room (although this is also an artifact of modern Western parenting).

Again though: the parents chose that life. I had absolutely no say in it. So the situation is that I (have to) put more effort into our relationship and they put less into it. Due to the choices they made.

So don't try to make me feel bad for not feeling sorry for them or being tempted to choose social outings that are free from temper tantrums, brightly colored plastic toys, short attention spans and uninteresting conversations about how 'they can already do multiplication'. We all make our choices.
by phatskat | 2025-05-19 14:44:12+00:00
Yep, it puts the “F U” in fun!

Along the public transit line (ha!), the person primarily in charge of NYC’s road design and public transit planning back in the day made several anti-poor design choices, like ensuring overpasses crossing roads to less-poor (I.e. more-white) areas were just low enough that public busses couldn’t pass under them, as well as planning off-ramps that dumped a majority of the smog-ridden traffic into poorer neighborhoods, and let’s not forget how public parks in poorer neighborhoods had little monkeys adorning the fences. If you’ve ever wondered why a dangerously busy road with little in the way of safety measures for pedestrians cut between a neighborhood and a shopping district, you can thank Robert Moses.
by hoseyor | 2025-05-19 14:44:26+00:00
I find that curious, because I would not even really call that a design. The distinguishing characteristics are more what it lacks than what it has.

But for me it is in fact a symbolic character of the roughly 20th century that we still suffer from because it sucked all humanity and joy out of everything; including design, art, and beauty itself. That bridge represents the asphalt parking lot of bridges in my mind. Featureless, drab, barren, desolate, soulless, miserable, humanity crushing … the 20th century and its current ripple effects of shell shocked humans lacking any kind of identity, self-respect, or will for survival. It’s the “bare minimum nutrition to prevent by organs from failing” of bridges/design.

At least do the equivalent of showing yourself and brushing your teeth by painting the bridge in some way so you are not constantly reminded that your culture, identity, and self-respect is dead and you have no will for survival.
by pyrale | 2025-05-19 14:44:43+00:00
> And so slow that I would bet against "Open Source" becoming widespread in French schools within the next decade.

It's not a risky bet: no organisation this large, private or public, would manage to replace its IT this fast, even with appropriate funding (which schools don't have).

There's a reason why people say change in a company only happens as fast as people retire. large scale change is long, hard and costly.
by dcminter | 2025-05-19 14:44:52+00:00
I always thought this Welsh art installation was a rather risky choice:

https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/article10291631.ece/ALTERN...

I can't say I ever otherwise felt like the British frequency of road signs was a risk in and of itself, but I suppose it's a matter of what you're used to.
by DrScientist | 2025-05-19 14:45:00+00:00
I agree - in many cases a surrogate key is better than a natural key.

However there is a problem when people start creating surrogate keys by default and stop thinking about the natural candidate key at all, nevermind not putting on the appropriate constraints.

Especially in the case where the natural key values are within your control. Also not using them for the key ( and FK ) can create the need for additional joins just to go from surrogate to natural key value.
by notsydonia | 2025-05-19 14:45:01+00:00
Sorry, I guess what I meant is that this hypothetical ultra-wealthy person wouldn't think "I am going to get a <premium brand> dishwasher, as such. They'd assume it would be the absolute best. If this rich person fancied themselves as a chef, they'd absolutely obsess over the oven etc and have a very clear concept in mind - eg: a high end Aga. But the real estate brochure boast of all Miele (or Bosch, whatever) kitchens would not move them, as such.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-05-19 14:45:02+00:00
I have had bad allergies for a lot of my life. I probably have some sort of histamine intolerance behind it all.

Recently my allergist gave me a tip with regard to nasal congestion. First, you can use Flonase and Astepro together, apparently they work better when used together. Astepro has an antihistamine in it that can help. Second, moisturize the interior of your nasal passages with a drop of muciprocin in each nostril applied inside your nose at the tip of it, then squeeze your nose gently to distribute. This lets you use get the benefits of Flonase without drying out your nose (which can trigger congestion).
by vbezhenar | 2025-05-19 14:45:30+00:00
I was wrong and I'm sorry about it. Turned out, I disabled one setting in my Google Chrome password manager, which apparently also disabled passkey creation functionality.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/417941069 more here.

For my excuse I should note, that this passkey support is relatively recent (end of 2024) and error message was really unhelpful to understand the issue. I was trying to use passkeys on my Linux computer like every few months since they started to appear on various websites and was frustrated by lack of support in Linux.

Thanks for pushing me into right direction, so at least I can now use them.
by raoulritter | 2025-05-19 14:46:00+00:00
I'm thinking that now with all these agent to agent frameworks this could potentially work for that. If you send off one agent you want them to keep up to date and sync / talk to each-other. Could your solution work for something like A2A by google or similar to enhance the synchronization across the different agents doing their tasks and prevent them from landing in a loop or similar.
by song | 2025-05-19 14:46:19+00:00
> The display luxury category: anything by LVMH, Birkin bags

Birkin bags are also actually better products for more money, they can last quite a while with minimum care. They are display goods for sure but there is a qualitative difference between a good quality handbag from certain brands and a much cheaper one.

Just as an example, my wife's only handbag is a balenciaga bag that she's had for 12+ years, she's been using it to carry back food from restaurants, put anything she needs in it, etc... and it's still in good shape. In the end, her bag has cost her so far 60 usd/year.

So yes, it's not obvious to people not in the know but even products that seem to be display luxury category can actually be worth it from a quality perspective.
by peatmoss | 2025-05-19 14:46:22+00:00
I keep hoping to see advancements in lab grown wood beyond what was reported a few years ago. My dream is enormous sheets of plywood with many layers of fibers all with ideal orientations, grown at sea on barges, taking up growing nutrients and e.g. fire retardant minerals from sea water. The barges would cross the equator seasonally to maximize sunlight.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-05-19 14:46:26+00:00
"I usually encourage people to place all PII in a separate table. Only those who engage with customers e.g., verifying customers identities should have access"

This sounds nice but usually falls apart fast. "separate table" is neat but access at the user-level is generally not implemented at the DB layer, so which table it is in is unrelated. Also IME data access is usually "everyone up to the role that actually 'needs' it gets it". So e.g. if customer support has access to something, generally so does every single engineering team in the middle. Which is generally a shitton more people than the people who designed the access control mechanisms probably imagined as they bothered adding all this granularity.

Realistically, I think the threat model needs to be looked at from the other side: who's most likely to accidentally leak the data? Is it a support person having their laptop stolen? An engineer getting phished? An engineer accidentally sending Splunk PII in logs? How you address the actual threats your data faces often look almost completely unrelated to what you'd build if you sat down and said "ok big boss says we have to secure the data. what did he mean by this."

I do agree about not holding on to data you don't actually need tho.
by tom_m | 2025-05-19 14:46:29+00:00
There's going to be a limit though. Plus you have to instruct them correctly.

B. Yea, that's true. I used to have over 4,000 GitHub contributions a year and it dropped to 1,000 as I got older and managed people. I used to be able to work 48 hrs straight but can't as much anymore...but you still have to be there to instruct the AI agent. It can't do it all on its own.
by sowbug | 2025-05-19 14:46:36+00:00
OT: someone please make a RPi image that "prints" a page to an eink display. I want to duct-tape an RPi Zero and a rechargeable battery to the back of a display, then be able to print recipes to it while cooking. Other people might print board-game rules or speech notes while rehearsing -- anything that you'd typically print and then throw away after brief usage.

I know I could make a PDF, sideload it to a Kindle, etc. Too many steps. I just want the display to appear as a printer on my phone.
by photochemsyn | 2025-05-19 14:46:44+00:00
Politically partisan economists don't seem to grasp the fundamental problem with hyper-financialization of the economy or even understand what made such a program possible.

Take outsourching of industrial manufacturing to overseas labor zones. Historically, industrial economies (eg late 19th century Germany) were reluctant to do this because they knew they'd lose control of their technologies and profit streams (thus German companies resisted British demands that they build their chemical factories in Britain to serve the British market). The American neoliberals, in contrast, thought they could control the overseas sweatshops through a combination of economic free trade deals backed up by covert regime change and overt military interventions, with the result being concentration of wealth domestically combined with an economic shift towards financialization - wealth management in other words. These policies were bipartisan and the result - gross wealth inequality leading to societal tensions - should have been obvious to all - except to the academic economists and their aggregate econometric models.

The wealth inequality problem isn't going to be solved by Democrat-supported handouts to the poor from Congress - the first step will be to accept the fundamental flaws in hyper-financialized investment capitalism, which merely extracts wealth from the middle class and funnels it upwards, versus a mixed system of industrial capitalism and socialism, which encourages middle-class prosperity along with industrial and technological development.

A simple example is illustrative: if we have the Fed print $1M for each US citizen, then at 5% return on investment, everyone gets a universal basic income of $50K/yr and nobody ever has to work again... except for the slaves on the overseas plantations?
by gruez | 2025-05-19 14:47:27+00:00
>If Bitcoin wallets would be designed properly they would ask for a second confirmation before sending 100k USD.

They already do? Here's a random screenshot I found:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4597798/33999728-3...

the details are blacked out, but you can make out that it shows the address label along with the full addresse
by fakedang | 2025-05-19 14:47:44+00:00
> But yup: buying x times the exact same car when times comes to change cars is kinda just weird.

Not really, decision fatigue is a thing.

My colleague actually took me out car shopping a couple of weeks back, to the Ferrari showroom because apparently to get some models, you need to be one of their favorite customers or a referral from one. We also visited a Lamborghini showroom next (which apparently didn't have such restrictions). But deciding between their cars was so tough, and I really wanted to get an EV instead for my daily driver, that I just ended up renewing on my rental Honda Civic for a few more months lol. I could buy these cars, but I tend to be vested in things I buy, and suffer from FOMO for not buying the rest, so might as well postpone the decision to when I can afford to hold them all together and give them time to maintain them.

There's also the real problem with rose tinted glasses. For example, I was a huge fan of the Testarossa ever since I was a kid, but just one drive inside one showed me how badly designed it actually is in the interior.
by svat | 2025-05-19 14:47:48+00:00
> pagans […] false idols […] pagan gods are slavery and bondage for us

Just want to point out that abuse of other religions, and using “pagans” as a disparaging term, continues to be done casually in the Christian-influenced sphere, basically legitimizing the history of colonialism and the wiping out of other traditions. Keep it to yourself man! In other contexts terms like “casual racism” and “hate speech” would apply. As another religious person, I can assure you that no, the GP is right and the analogy with religion is weak; being obsessed with phones is not in itself like a “pagan” religion either, which too is about the “truly transcendent and holy things in life” (just with less of a binary distinction between the sacred and the mundane, so that one can go about one's daily life while staying in touch with what's truly valuable, which again is the opposite of the stated effect of "scrolling").
by BugheadTorpeda6 | 2025-05-19 14:47:59+00:00
For applications or middlewares and systems and utilities?

For applications, COBOL is king, closely followed by Java for stuff that needs web interfaces. For middleware and systems and utilities etc, assembly, C, C++, REXX, Shell, and probably there is still some PL/X going on too but I'm not sure. You'd have to ask somebody working on the products (like Db2) that famously used PL/X. I'm pretty sure a public compiler was never released for PL/X so only IBM and possibly Broadcom have access to use it.

COBOL is best thought of as a domain specific language. It's great at what it does, but the use cases are limited you would be crazy to write an OS in it.
by dgb23 | 2025-05-19 14:48:42+00:00
Same here. My native tongue is German, I live in Switzerland, but my settings on all devices are English.

I do this on purpose, because I find everything is more searchable. I don't even know any German terms for most technical things I might search or look for. So even if the automatic translations were good, which they aren't, this would be a non-feature.

My browser already tells them what my preferred language is. Just use it.
by madaxe_again | 2025-05-19 14:48:58+00:00
Yes, I understand statistics and survivorship bias - I’m a mathematical physicist by training. I’m also a pretty average schlub.

Most people aren’t wealthy because they don’t even try, and instead run on a treadmill until they drop dead.

I have no interest in going to work on Wall Street or anything similar.

My entire investing philosophy is basically based on this site. There is constant signal here on what will be big in 5-10 years, and all that’s required is that you get in before the press start talking about it, too.

A $10k investment in NVDA 10 years ago is worth $2.6M now - and if you were paying attention 10 years ago, when CUDA was fairly new and shiny and rapidly gaining mindshare, you would have noticed that they were inevitably going to own the ML/AI space, and that this shit was going to be huge.

This is also why I said $1M, not $100k - because I have managed exceptional returns - but with 10x the starting capital even moderately good returns can grow rapidly. I’ve also bet on some absolute lemons where I’ve lost every last red cent.

Either way, it seems that many would sooner be bitter than do something to improve their situation, which is sadly very common, and again, why not everybody is a millionaire.
by petesergeant | 2025-05-19 14:49:14+00:00
The Western mind simply cannot fathom what some of our Eastern brothers and sisters have managed to achieve on the roads.

I remember the first time I went to visit my father in Kathmandu what his address was, and he patiently explained to me the street he lived on simply had no name or unique identifier. Or driving for the first time in Vietnam and being inducted into a traffic system where your only responsibility is the cone in front of you of things you can see. Or the terror of realizing that your second taxi driver of the day in Bangkok is literally on speed.

All this to say: no, I assume he means he can’t handle driving in Mumbai.
by wiether | 2025-05-19 14:49:33+00:00
> If you found something perfect for you that works >5 years, holy crap. You are blessed.

Having been unable to find an out-of-the-box app fitting my needs, I built my own personal finances app in 2012 and I'm using it weekly since then.

I'll probably work again on it one day because the technical stack is old, which makes it harder to host, but otherwise it still does exactly what I want, how I want it.

> That honestly should not be the standard for tools these days—ESPECIALLY in a today’s world.

Maybe I'm not interpreting it correctly, but you make it sound like having a perfect system for more than 5 years is unhealthy.

Whereas, I'd say it's quite the opposite.

Back to my finances app, since I'm using it I've been able to focus on improving/mastering other parts of my life. Not having to get back to find another system to manage my personal finances means that I'm able to focus on other stuff.

I have a hard time seeing how that would be a bad thing?
by toss1 | 2025-05-19 14:49:33+00:00
>>This is kind of how plywood is made - take wood chips and glue and press them together.

You are evidently thinking of chipboard, not plywood.

Chipboard (also known as Particle Board), is a wood composite material of wood chips and sawdust, compacted and bound together with adhesives.

Plywood is made of multiple cross-layered wood veneers, pressed with adhesives.

A bit more detail at [0].

[0] https://www.thewoodworkplace.com/plywood-vs-chipboard/
by nonethewiser | 2025-05-19 14:49:42+00:00
Strongly agree. I struggled with the same. A key discovery for me was that this "paralysis by analysis" is a form of perfectionism.

I always thought perfectionism was someone who was productive but way too hard on themselves, overworking to achieve some end that's just not worth it. Not necessarily - it can also mean DOING NOTHING because you dont see a way to do it perfectly.

This has helped me a lot with writing. Sometimes you just have to write down incoherent slop. Let the ideas flow and be content with knowing they will have to be revised later. By all means if you write with more purpose and structure without getting too bogged down to continue then do so.
by bemmu | 2025-05-19 14:49:59+00:00
I've noticed it depends on one's personality.

To me, trying to make money with random projects is the most motivating thing. A dollar earned from some little project is emotionally to me worth many times that of the same dollar I'd earn as salary (as long as I don't starve). Most of my friends do not seem to share this feeling.

Also the internet is very big. You can sometimes have success with something, even it's a very silly badly implemented little thing. What people like, how you happen to get traffic, it's all quite unpredictable.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-19 14:50:28+00:00
> South Korea probably already has immigration reform ready to

Nope. The population is still strenuously opposed [0]

> A “Korean” in 2100 might have Filipino, Indian, African ancestry

Other than Filipinos, highly unlikely. There's no pull factor for SK from India or Africa unlike in much of ASEAN.

[0] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9420350/
by Orygin | 2025-05-19 14:50:29+00:00
You'll be glad to hear (I guess) that the pain is shared by french speaking Belgians.

It happens all the god damn time that the websites render in Dutch (or I guess Flemish) instead of the set Accept Language I have (EN then FR). Google is regularly showing me results in Dutch, most online stores default to Dutch even if they have English and French versions available.

Just imagine, all the websites that correctly (for you) display in Dutch, are websites that we have to change to French. I would guess there are more Dutch-defaulting websites than French ones, but I can't know for sure.

Btw, our neighbor is huge and french speaking too, so I'm not surprised companies coming from there favor French on their site. The same way that NL companies operate in Flanders but less so in Wallonia have their default to Dutch.

Also I'd argue that companies operating in Belgium should default to asking the language instead of guessing, otherwise you'll always anger half of the population.