MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munificent | 2025-06-23 17:08:22+00:00
This is a really excellent observation. In addition:

> It’s such a curious, almost uncanny, feeling to enter one of these places. The inside feels much bigger and grander than the outside.

It makes sense for people to have an innate desire to be in places that are, you know, good for people to be in. The most obvious way to tell if a place is good for you is if it carries evidence that it has historically been good to other people.

Maybe we have some subsconcious processing that picks up on signs of human activity. That means wear and tear, built things, modifications. The way humans leave their mark on an environment when they spent time on it. All of that spent time is like accumulated votes that "yup, this is a good human place."

At the same time, we don't want to find ourselves hanging out in a dumping ground, slag heap, or other environment that humans have left their mark in by expoiting it. That's not a good place to be, because it's not just used, it's used up. So what we want to look for is not just signs of human activity (which a landfill has in spades), but a certain kind of caring activity. Marks in the space that seem to have been done to leave it more appealing to be in.

I think that's what the author is picking up on here. These tiny, aged spaces have a deep accumulation of caring attention. They feel bigger than they are because we pick up on that huge information density of all of the past people that have left their mark on a place. The place isn't large spatially, but it's large in time.

It's the exact opposite of how walking into a giant mall or corporate office can still feel claustrophobic because there's nothing—no things—there, no sense of history or connection to any lived experience.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-06-23 17:08:38+00:00
Book sales figures are so private that I don't know how to validate this, but my intuition is that this is just the mirror of the rise of genre fiction. It was never unpopular in the first place, and there's little if anything left of the 1960s-era consensus that genre fiction is fundamentally lesser. I read a lot, and it's just never occurred to me that I have to find literary fiction if I want something deep or thought-provoking.
by hinkley | 2025-06-23 17:09:11+00:00
When I was a kid I ate lunch with a girl who couldn’t have M&Ms because she was allergic to the red die. I was appalled by this.

And the strangest thing about that story is that she was maybe 4 years old when Mars pulled the red M&Ms due to a cancer scare with a different red food coloring. Though my recollection was that it was a few years more recent than that, given how shelf life and supply chains work, I may have been getting back stock. I think I eventually proved to her that there were no red M&Ms anymore. I guess her parents hadn’t bothered to check for years. Not the first injustice I had tried to right but the easiest one.

Five years later they added Red back and I would think of her every time I ate M&Ms for a long time after.
by Dracophoenix | 2025-06-23 17:09:51+00:00
These small cafés/bars are called kissa (kee-sah). Unlike a regular café, the kissa is designed to create an atmosphere allowing for a quiet appreciation of the music while drinks are served as an accompaniment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_kissa

For the interested, Chris Broad (Abroad in Japan) interviewed the owner of such an establishment (Basie) located in Ichinoseki: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1-9RMSbl_Uo

> (There’s one that’s chock-full of Star Wars memorabilia, for example.)

I'd definitely like to know where this one is.
by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-23 17:10:03+00:00
To back that up:

> The most common synthetic food dyes in the U.S. — including Blue 1, Blue 2, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 — are all approved for use in Europe. They use different names for them there, which may account for some of the confusion.

https://archive.ph/2025.06.18-205957/https://www.thecut.com/...
Show HN: GUI for Claude Code – parallel tasks supported
by loa_observer | 2025-06-23 17:10:08+00:00
Use Claude Code / CodeX CLI to perform multiple tasks in parallel with a Codex-style UI.

A code agent task management system that provides parallel execution of AI-powered coding tasks. Users can run multiple Claude Code agents simultaneously through a Codex-style web interface, with support for different agents for comparison and evaluation.
by wrsh07 | 2025-06-23 17:11:04+00:00
I've heard of it happening to friends, yes

Since any large tech co knows what Facebook offers look like, if you have an unusually good offer they might not believe you without proof and they certainly won't be able to expand the pay band without approval from someone. The easiest way to make that case is showing the actual offer.

This is one of those things where: if you never get them to tell you "no that's too much" you probably aren't asking for enough
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-06-23 17:12:28+00:00
> China opened up no visa needed for western European and many Asian countries, so…they have the right idea.

Here are a couple of examples of the challenges in traveling to certain parts of China: https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycletouring/comments/1bdbsh5/

https://www.the-sun.com/travel/14418546/little-known-law-chi...
by jyounker | 2025-06-23 17:12:55+00:00
It's goes back even further. Artificial dyes already had bad reputations by the late 70s.

In the mid-late 70s labels on foods and cleaning products told you exactly what was in them. I remember because my father was an organic chemist by training, and he would look at most labels and explain what was in them, and why we weren't buying them. (My family ended up shopping for most of our groceries at organic food stores.)

It turns out that a lot of people didn't want those ingredients either, and it was impacting sales, so companies successfully lobbied to get the disclosure requirements watered down. These days labels in the US basically tell you nothing.

I studied organic chemistry in college, and there's little as disturbing to me as "natural flavors" or "natural colorings". You have no idea what the chemicals are, what they were extracted from, how they were extracted, and what compounds/processes were used in the extraction. It's a non-label that tells you nothing about what's actually in the food.

We should be entitled by law to know what we're consuming, so that we can actually make informed decisions, and industrial food manufacturers don't want us to know, and have spent vast sums of money to ensure that we can't easily find out.
by klik99 | 2025-06-23 17:13:22+00:00
Why did it take an insane person to actually get sensible regulation for food dyes in? Rhetorical question because I think people like RFKJr got into power because previous administrations didn't take care of the obvious things that need regulation, and if you ignore the basics for too long people flip over to someone who packages a couple of reasonable stances with a lot of damaging ideas.

I agree with RFK for pushing for change in this industry but I give him no credit, instead I blame previous administrations on both sides for not taking a better stance on regulating food like every other developed country in the world.
by variadix | 2025-06-23 17:13:56+00:00
The institutions have failed to follow their own (supposed) standards, and failed to purge bad actors that subverted or abandoned those standards. Yes, ultimately it is the people at those institutions that have failed not the institution in the abstract, but their failure to be accountable triggers the only response the public has: to distrust or abandon existing institutions and seek or create new ones.
by timr | 2025-06-23 17:14:16+00:00
Housing is absolutely an investment vehicle in Japan. It's just that Japan has been economically stagnant for 30+ years, bordering on deflation, and anywhere outside of a first- or second-tier city is effectively dying. Couple that with the Japanese cultural distaste for pre-owned housing, and this is the outcome.

If you operate a rental in any area outside of the core of the major cities, you are in the business of charging a huge monthly premium over a property value that is rapidly depreciating to zero. This is fundamentally different than the US.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-23 17:14:29+00:00
> I don't understand how people can willingly spend every couple of hours every week to trim their lawn to a pristine, perfect cube of grass.

I do ours because our lawn is 70% tumbleweeds (kochia) and cutting it before any of it can go to seed increases the chance that one day it will be only 30% kochia.
by p2detar | 2025-06-23 17:14:31+00:00
Afaik, Die Linke still have anti-NATO stance in their program and call for it to dissolve and a new collective defense pact be created with Russia in it, which was an eyeroll to me, given the war, cyber attacks and everything.

Edit: I last read some of that program in 2024, so not sure what’s their stance lately on this.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 17:14:39+00:00
Most of these people have lived off their water source all their life. To them, "it's fine".

They'd like it cleaner - but they'd also like their house smarter, their kids better educated, their bike cheaper to run and their roads to have fewer potholes. That's literally what everyone wants.

But without education, they won't realise that the slightly murky water is what caused their child to get sick and die, or that the arsenic poisoning is why they've been low on energy for their whole life and struggle to concentrate in class.

Most people - both in developed and developing nations - don't understand the importance of clean water vs all the other things they'd like in their life.

Heck, in my travels I've met a lot of people who get water from a stream to drink, and even own a water filter, but can't be bothered to use it because it takes a few minutes for the water to seep through.
by wrsh07 | 2025-06-23 17:14:41+00:00
There are a few things worth understanding.

If someone wants to work at a startup, Google isn't really going to compete for your offer

But if you're going to big tech cos you can get them to compete with each other.

Know your audience: say, I'm really excited about the potential of working with you, however I have a few other interviews with comparable public tech companies

I'm not ready to make a decision because I want to see that process through, although there exists a number you could tell me that would get me to stop looking immediately.

This will probably give you a worse number than you'll get if you actually get the additional offers, but if you don't have them it's a truthful way to indicate they're not quite hitting the mark
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-23 17:14:47+00:00
Me as well. My best guess is that someone found various streamed radio sources from around the world and put them in a database. Add lat/long and you can present a UI on top of that.

I'd like to reproduce the concept if anyone has any better insight than what I just gave. I want to make a stand-alone device (I wish they made spherical touch screens) so I can just have a "radio" in a room that allows you to select world streams. (Thinking etch-a-sketch style controls would be adequate — user moves a cursor along latitude, longitude with the knobs — radio stations appear when the cursor is near.)
by eqvinox | 2025-06-23 17:15:24+00:00
Arguing its SED successor status 35 years after the end of the GDR is positively silly, especially considering it's only half right since the party is a fusion of PDS and WASG, the latter having no SED or GDR connection at all.

And from the people I know, the Moscow parts of Die Linke have in fact largely left for BSW. Some are a bit too pacifist about Ukraine, but that's about it in terms of alignment with Moscow.

[Ed.: if anything, the SED successor flag should be given to BSW I'd say, but even that's off the mark.]
by shwouchk | 2025-06-23 17:15:42+00:00
tramp is great. all the other mentioned solutions are nowhere near as seamless for “just do what i want, without distractions”.

vscode? “trust me bro, i will run a networked daemon on your server”. enjoy wondering which plugins to reinstall on your remote. enjoy installing proprietary shareware+telemetry plugins just to use git. try opening a local file and a remote file side by side in the same window. wifi connection broke for a sec? oops, you have to refresh the whole browser window.

want to edit a single file on a host you rarely connect to? enjoy spending 10 minutes setting up autosync solutions.

with any of the above - oops, you actually need sudo for that file in /etc? yeah, drop to shell and edit in vim.

there are other options to do stuff and for very specific predefined workflows they may win, but the versatility of tramp is still unmatched, especially if you do use emacs.

the only times ive had issues is when i have a weird shell setup on the remote - for that there is /sshx: instead of /ssh:
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 17:16:12+00:00
> 1. From the perspective of a kid, everything is like that.

To some degree, but, for example, the car wasn't as mind blowing to my generation as my parents' and grandparents'. And the kids today don't seem to recognize it as anything special at all. I expect you can say that about any technology. The telephone (not to be confused with a pocket computer) meant nothing to me, but was one of the greatest inventions ever known to people from an earlier time. There seems to be a natural decline as something reaches greater and greater maturity. Who here is thrilled by, say, the threshing machine? Who here even knows what a threshing machine is...?

> 2. There's a lot of "wow you can do that!?" out there but it's locked in niches.

Like I said, we're not inundated with it anymore. There are still special moments here and there, to be sure, but they don't come around often, so it is not the same continual high we once lived when the internet was new. Again, I think you can say that about anything becoming more and more mature. Going back to the car, in the early days they quickly improved with new features and better technology. Cars too lived the same "Wait. What? You can do that?" period. Now? A slightly larger infotainment screen is the biggest selling feature. Boring.

Admittedly, the driverless car hype got us really excited for a while, but the ball was kind of dropped on that one. Quite possibly the greatest marketing blunder of all time, and as a result I'm not sure the emotions have been able to recover as we start to see the technology actually be realized.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 17:16:17+00:00
If the drivers were upstreamed it would be supported by the latest kernel.org kernel even before release.

AFAIK outside the Pinephone and Liberem 5 no hardware manufacturers explicitly target this and only 10 year+ old Qualcomm (other vendors such as Freescale tend to behave much better) SOCs have open source graphics drivers because the SOC vendors themselves often refuse to support their own hardware.

Google is able to do this because they build their own SOCs (probably because they got tired of being jerked around by Qualcomm) but still don't merge their stuff upstream (or at least they don't last I checked.)
by jcalx | 2025-06-23 17:17:05+00:00
My main gripe with fingerprint sensors on the back is that it's easy to inadvertently smudge the camera lens when unlocking the phone. Some phones have/had fingerprint unlock on the side power button which is similarly convenient, although I actually don't mind the underscreen sensors that are most common these days. I do appreciate being able to sneak a peek at my phone by discreetly unlocking it at very oblique angles that aren't possible with Face ID.
by more_corn | 2025-06-23 17:17:09+00:00
The question of when misinformation is child abuse might be more complicated than you think.

Imagine a family brings up their children worshipping the “Sun god” Ra, believing he will guide them in the afterlife, performing rituals and observances of his teachings speaking of always seeking his favor and following his guidance.

Absurd, silly, and dangerous Right? Ra is of course made up bullshit invented by some priests in Egypt thousands of years ago. But knock one word off that description (re-read it with “sun” struck through) and people think it’s entirely reasonable to indoctrinate their kids into that system.

Indoctrination into the approved made up system of belief is fine. “What is the approved system of belief?” Any sane person will run screaming rather than go on record answering that question.
by _ncyj | 2025-06-23 17:17:33+00:00
https://archive.is/20250623152635/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

I'm honestly surprised Israel hasn't used its nukes yet. Against non-nuclear nation, there isn't really much threat of retaliation. Given how much Iran has already suffered, they'd be stupid to not try & get nukes. If even North Korea can get them, it can't be that hard.

Also, I wonder if Iran really has that much uranium or if it's another Iraq WMD situation again considering the lack of radiation leakage and all
by yndoendo | 2025-06-23 17:17:46+00:00
Windows API is built on kludge of functionality, not performance. For example, GetPrivateProfileString [0] does exactly what you stated for files. Opens, parses a single key value, and closes. So much time and resources are wasted with the GetPrivateProfileXXXX APIs.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...
by dh2022 | 2025-06-23 17:18:10+00:00
Yeah, of course Russia does not want to invade Germany - it is just arming itself to the teeth. And of course Russia did not want to invade Ukraine in 2021 - they were just building up their military on the border since Mar 2021 [0]. So Ukraine was safe all the way up to the of morning Feb 24!!! 
Only those bad war-mongers would think that Russia was going to attack Ukraine 
.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_the_Russian_invasio...
by klik99 | 2025-06-23 17:18:19+00:00
> Are artificial dyes actually bad for you?

The fact that this is a legitimate question is very concerning. Some of these dyes are/were ubiquitous and there is very little research about them. IIRC a few have evidence of harm. Nothing should be this widely deployed without understanding them more.

If you were more questioning "Is natural actually better for people or just a nice sounding word" which could also be implied by your question, I agree with that, with the caveat that artificial stuff has more potential for surprises since it doesn't have the history of being used safely "natural" stuff does, and should have a higher bar of research.
by atoav | 2025-06-23 17:18:24+00:00
Well don't you know? In the worldview of certain people there are major powers and all other countries have to lick their boots or perish. Whether that major power is the US, China or Russia depends on the particulars, but a surprising amount of people hold that opinion, probably without even being aware of it.

What made me realize that was the people who jumped in defense of Russia, because the people of Ukraine aren't allowed to join EU or NATO, because for some reason the people of a sovereign country have to respect the will of a paranoid neighbour, who wants to keep a "buffer zone" for completely irrational reasons. Who would have invaded? The Belgians?

And I mention the Ukraine because they will surely think:"We should have kept those nukes". And wo can blame them, one of the powers at the Budapest memorandum attacked them while the other two reluctantly sent weapons. So with nukes they would have had better cards.

After this episode the Iran is probably more motivated than ever to get nukes. And who can blame them, they had a good deal with the west, Trump comes along tears it up, can't deal with the consequences of tearing it up, Israel is so comfy the US will dance to its tune they attack and surely the clowns dance. Lesson: don't make deals, these idiots just listen to raw power.

Who loses? Everybody.
by roryirvine | 2025-06-23 17:19:25+00:00
It's one of the more common fringe beliefs in the UK, having been popularised by a notorious conspiracy theorist, David Icke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory#Da...

The theory is loosely based on the Protcols of the Elders of Zion, only with lizards instead of Jews. It's complete nonsense, but Icke was fairly well-known in the UK at the time so his association with it gained it more attention than it would have got otherwise.
by eqvinox | 2025-06-23 17:19:46+00:00
I'm not even disagreeing, just right now the AfD does not have actual power yet. They cannot make federal laws or decide policy.

They probably will be able to do that either after the next election or after the government coalition collapses.

But as of now all they can do is b*tch and moan.

Btw, who says you can't block a party just because half the country voted for them? You can't wish the sentiment away, yes, but you can totally force them to rebuild the party infrastructure. Again and again, if needed, if they keep making an illegal extremist party.
by mindslight | 2025-06-23 17:20:58+00:00
Sure, as a libertarian I'm well read on the failings of bureaucracy. As I said, the deep mistake here is letting our frustrations with bureaucratic authoritarianism be pinned on the bureaucratic aspect rather than on the authoritarian aspect. We're all acquainted with being on the wrong personal side of a committee member who is then able to vindictively hold up your application. Getting rid of the bureaucracy in favor of autocratic authoritarianism just drops the pretense of impartiality.

And sure, the resources spent on make-work bureaucracy running would be better used elsewhere, even if it was just paying people to walk through their local parks and pick up litter. But we're pretty bad at resource allocation, especially resources from that centralized fountain of new money that seems to be necessary due to Gresham's law. So make-work paper pushing is still better than just giving those resources to asset holders via banks bidding up the everything bubble. Given that those resources are going to be somewhat wasted somehow, the authoritarianism seems like the more important part to be focusing on.

(as for the numbers from the Ministry of LLM Slop, understanding is harder than generation, so I don't see the point of trying to scrutinize them rather than doing a good faith analysis to begin with)
by Aurornis | 2025-06-23 17:21:03+00:00
> I studied organic chemistry in college, and there's little as disturbing to me as "natural flavors" or "natural colorings". You have no idea what the chemicals are, what they were extracted from, how they were extracted, and what compounds/processes were used in the extraction. It's a non-label that tells you nothing about what's actually in the food

Ironically, this is what the legislation is moving toward: Anything "natural" is good, while anything "chemical" is bad to a lot of the world.
by jordanb | 2025-06-23 17:21:04+00:00
That's actually most of space. Space is a very hot environment, especially where we are so close to the sun. Think about it. When you stand outside in the sun you heat up. All that heat is coming from the sun. But a lot of it was filtered by the atmosphere, so if you're in space near earth it will be hotter than standing at the equator on a sunny day, in terms of radiation.

Then there's the fact that heat is very difficult to get rid of when in space. The ISS's radiators are much bigger than its solar panels. If you wanted to have a very-long eva spacesuit you'd have to have radiators much bigger than your body hanging off of it. Short evas are handled by starting the eva with cold liquids in the suit and letting them heat up.

All of the mockups of starships going to Mars mostly fail to represent where they're going to put the radiators to get rid of all the excess heat.