MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whitehexagon | 2025-06-23 17:54:14+00:00
I found a beautiful giant Giant Sequoia last I was contracting in Luzern, probably as old as the city itself. It's been my (digital) wallpaper ever since.

But my favourites have always been the oaks, and I still plant acorns whenever the opportunity arises. I have a few saplings in pots right now waiting for new homes. Maybe 500 years from now, someone will be sat under one of my oaks, reading a history book on the collapse of democracy during the 21st century, and the almost total destruction of global biodiversity. Planting trees feels like pretty much the only positive contribution I can make to this crazy world.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-23 17:54:15+00:00
Every president you've lived under has sent Americans to kill and die in other countries, either with or without congressional oversight. Usually without. For reference, neither Korea nor Vietnam were ever declared wars by congress. For Vietnam Congress authorized LBJ to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States". Korea was never a war, and instead was undertaken solely at POTUS's discretion as a "police action" in response to a UN resolution and while Congress did support the effort to procure money and blood to spend in Korea, they never formally authorized any sort of aggression in Korea.
by jacquesm | 2025-06-23 17:54:17+00:00
I have to pay you my respect. I've been watching DDG pretty much since day #1 and against all odds you've managed to both stay the course (which pretty much everybody claimed you would not) and steadily improve on it. It's one of the most impressive projects in this space, which many have tried and eventually gave up on (or compromised their ethics). Thank you.
by Hilift | 2025-06-23 17:54:25+00:00
Why end it? Ukraine is the most successful proxy war in the history of war. Ukraine has destroyed much of Russian ground forces and armor, and eliminated the only advantage that Russia did have, which was artillery. Now artillery accounts for only 20% of casualties on the battlefield. Even if the war ended today, Russia will not receive any of their funds frozen in Europe for decades, if ever. Russia has no military or technology advantage, and no way to rebuild it. Europe is safer than it ever has been.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-23 17:54:41+00:00
Look at what Trump does. After the Syrian fall, he continues the long standing policies and proposes the MIGA regime change in Iran. Since this is a decades old goal of US foreign policy, I assume he'll go through with it. They are already promoting Reza Pachlavi on Fox News.

Unless you have proof that he made a secret deal with Putin (you get Ukraine, we get Syria and Iran), how is this pro Russian?
by scoofy | 2025-06-23 17:54:45+00:00
Articles like this always make me livid. I feel like it’s a kind of clickbait.

We have a wildly successful woman (used to “work” at playboy, uses Raya as a dating app for Christ’s sake) suddenly concern with where all the men are when dating stops being trivially easy for her. She looks for them at her haunts… in her 50s.

For women in your 50s looking for men. Take up golf. I’ve been a member of a public golf club since my late 30s. It’s just mostly single men in their 50s and 60s who don’t have other places to be. They have friends, get exercise, have fun.

The men aren’t behind their screens… they just don’t want the life you want. You have to meet them where they are: at their clubs, doing things they like to do.

And the NYT should know better, but writing a column that fits the vibes is infotainment in a way that sending a reporter out to actually figure out what is going on isn’t… and is honestly probably pretty banal.

Dating is hard. It’s work for the people who aren’t being chased. We all need to be easier on each other and stop assuming the worst because you personally aren’t getting what you want.
by pwg | 2025-06-23 17:54:47+00:00
> Apple's designers (and those of many other companies) come back to the idea of translucency giving order and imbuing personality. I cannot for the life of me understand where this idea comes from.

When the company employs designers on a permanent salaried basis, those designers must make changes in order to assure their continued employment. To do otherwise risks the bean counters in the accounting department asking the pointed question: "Why are we employing all these designers when they are not producing anything?". The result is that there must be change for the purpose of assuring the designers continued employment. Result: translucent designs no one wants, but that looked great in the powerpoint presentations used to assure the designers remained employed.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 17:55:35+00:00
I post photos on Mastodon and Bluesky, I get about the same amount of engagement despite having more followers on Bluesky.

Bluesky has been shrinking since it got a burst of followers after last year's election. My guess is that they will turn out the lights when the funding runs out, but Mastodon will still be here.
by nicbou | 2025-06-23 17:55:36+00:00
In January I left the house without my phone. I visited Leipzig and Dresden from Berlin. After 5 days I grew bored of the German winter, but I could have gone on longer.

It took a 3 hour train ride to lose the impulse to check my phone. After that it was easy.

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At home, I leave my phone on silent mode in a different room. The smallest delay is enough to keep you reading.

You can also make it an activity. Reading with the morning coffee, reading before bed, reading in a café or a park, etc. Making time for it helps.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-06-23 17:55:57+00:00
I think this is a great product overall and many people have had great things to say about it all the time. However, I still felt concerned with possible dependency on the network and the lag that can come out of it.

For that reason, I hooked myself up into Logitech Bolt technology, where you can pair up the same device to up to three devices and switch between them using a dedicated button. It has always worked very well for me.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-23 17:56:05+00:00
Population is declining everywhere (or will do after the lag of the current old generation). It's a serious problem as the world will have fewer workers looking after more non-workers who are used to a higher standard of living htan before.

It's pretty much settled that it's far better to only make 1 device than 3, even if you were to recycle the 3 devices and not recycle the 1 device.

On the whole recycling is a con from companies who make a fortune by making more waste. Some recycling is far better than others, but reuse is orders of magnitude better.

In the past milk came in glass bottles, delivered, drank, and then reused. That's far better than recycling the bottles after just one use, although recycling glass is far better than plastic. But there's more money to be made selling you plastic in the supermarket several times a week, so that's what we have.

Same with electronics. Far better to reuse the electronics for multiple years than to get a new one each year. Same with clothing.

> I really don't understand the push-back here.

If you currently recycle 0% of a phone every 2 years, that throws 5 phones away every decade. If you recycle 0% of a phone every 6 years, that throws 1.7 phones every decade

If you currently recycle 30% of a phone every 2 years, that throws 3.5 phones away every decade. If you recycle 30% of a phone every 6 years, that throws 1.2 phones every decade

If you currently recycle 50% of a phone every 2 years, that throws 2.5 phones away every decade. If you recycle 50% of a phone every 6 years, that throws 0.8 phones every decade

To increase recycling levels to make it better to recycle, you'd have to go from 0% to 65% recycled, or from 30% to 75%.

As a consumer I don't want a new phone every 2 years, I don't have a new phone every 2 years. I've had 4 iphones in the last 15 years. I don't even pay for them - work gives them to me for free when I push a button. I don't want a new laptop every 2 years either, the laptop I'm typing on was new in 2017. I have a desktop that I rarely use, but that still does the exact same job it did in 2016 when it was new.
by jtuple | 2025-06-23 17:57:02+00:00
> Do I just miss the freedom of childhood?

I loathed my childhood, and have far more freedom as an adult then I ever did then.

School, homework, chores, strict bedtime, dial-up Internet, shared desktop computers...

Yes, I spent a ton of time playing games, compiling the Linux kernel, and screwing around on the Internet back then. But outside of summer vacation (which I do miss dearly), I spend just as much or more online today as then.

I absolutely do miss the old Internet, not just that time period.

But, there's bright spots in the modern Internet too. The rise of online D&D via Discord during the pandemic was amazing. I play far more D&D thesedays then I ever did since the 90s. Discord also scratches the MUD/IRC itch. But, not sure Discord will survive the next decade either.
by refurb | 2025-06-23 17:57:15+00:00
That fails the scientific method in several places.

Science doesn’t ban things with questionable data from poorly designed studies when other studies say the opposite.

Science doesn’t ban things because of some other problem where a causal link hasn’t been proven.

We already have a “default deny” system in place. Unless you have data saying it’s safe (according to regulations), a chemical can’t be used as a food additive.

Edited to add:

GRAS definition....."the use of a food substance may be GRAS either through scientific procedures or, for a substance used in food before 1958, through experience based on common use in food Under 21 CFR 170.30(b), general recognition of safety through scientific procedures requires the same quantity and quality of scientific evidence as is required to obtain approval of the substance as a food additive."
by superkuh | 2025-06-23 17:57:17+00:00
The only institution cited in this article is from the "California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment" study. Otherwise it was consumer advocate groups. No FDA studies are cited and these are direct quotes from the article we both read,

>Kraft is the latest company, including Tyson Foods and PepsiCo, to transition from artificial colors for popular products under pressure from government officials.

“The FDA has failed for so many decades that state legislators had no choice but to step in to protect our kids.”

The FDA science isn't and hasn't been behind it but at state government scales dietary memes and their profitable consumer groups are influential enough. And now the feds have been coopted and the FDA is being forced into this by Kennedy. They're trying to migitate the damage as much as possible on the way down. Lets hope the replacements are so well and throughly vetted by science and time as the ones being banned for no reason but 'natural = good' memes.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-23 17:57:21+00:00
I wrote my PhD (physics) in LaTeX and I indeed needed to compile twice (at least) to have a correct DVI file.

It was 25 years ago, though, but apparently this part did not change.

This said, I was at least sure that I would get an excellent result and not be like my friend who used MS Word and one day his file was "locked". He could not add a letter to it and had to retype everything.

Compared to that my concern about where a figure would land in the final document was nothing.
by godshatter | 2025-06-23 17:58:12+00:00
YouTube is providing these videos through the standard html ports with no authentication necessary, like most websites on the planet. This is how you give away information away for free on the web. I don't feel entitled to free stuff, but if someone is giving it away, why not take it?

And since I'm taking what they are giving me for free, then whether or not I decide to watch the parts they try to force on me to try to entice me to buy something I have no intention of buying is none of their business.

If they didn't leave this door wide open then I would be forced to decide if it's worth enough for me to pay to use it. But since they do I do what I want. It's not up to me to make sure that YT's and creator's business models are making them money.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-23 17:58:15+00:00
> It is also discovered that the Nataral chose to go into a kind of suspended animation around a black hole, joining two even earlier species, to wait for the other civilizations of the universe to develop interstellar flight capabilities.

They used their interstellar flight capabilities to go wait for someone in the universe to develop interstellar flight capabilities. Checks out.
by throwworhtthrow | 2025-06-23 17:58:35+00:00
They'd have to scrap all the food currently in the production and distribution pipeline, plus there would be a gap in food delivery as producers switch over to a new process. It's less disruptive to transition gradually.

Similar to why the USAID closure was gradual and gave aid recipients plenty of time to find new donors, because we wouldn't want hundreds of thousands of women and children to die of starvation and disease just to save a few bucks or wring out more viral memes [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-do... / https://archive.is/5BIAF
by nomilk | 2025-06-23 17:59:25+00:00
> on the vibrant business and street culture in Japanese cities and the seemingly very, very low barriers to entry for regular people to participate.

An astute observation that allowing markets to operate without onerous licensing schemes and regulations often has wonderful upsides, allowing quirky and niche interests to survive and even flourish.

A similar situation was true of Melbourne's small bar scene vs Sydney's. Sydney's more expensive/onerous licensing requirements were prohibitive for tiny bars. Whereas Melbourne's licensing was more permissive and less expensive, resulting in an abundance of quirky and interesting venues. Possibly my favourite example was a tiny indy video game bar (it shut down during covid, I think). https://barsk.com.au/skgames/?p=done
by bee_rider | 2025-06-23 17:59:30+00:00
Lots of games that are billed as “strategy” are really more operations (or even tactics!) than strategy, right? I mean it is often the case in a strategy game that you just start out at war with everybody else, taking away the most important strategic decision.

Or, there are games like Civilization or Total war where, really, c’mon, you know it is just a matter of when, not if, you go to war.
by bowsamic | 2025-06-23 17:59:47+00:00
I hate configuring things. I tried to use PyCharm and it works great until it doesn't, then it's a nightmare. For example, the ruff support is non-existent and the only plugin is broken as hell. I think at some point you just have to accept it won't be perfect, but it is sad because I can "imagine" the perfect IDE. I just don't have the time or energy to make it reality, and apparently neither do Jetbrains
by nlawalker | 2025-06-23 17:59:59+00:00
> Salary negotiations are very asymmetrical. Companies know this and routinely exploit it. Job seekers don't, perhaps because they think doing so would be unfair, and the word exploit makes them acutely uncomfortable.

This assertion seems to be a keystone of the article and the way it's positioned, and it doesn't make any logical sense to me. Job seekers don't exploit it because there's nothing to exploit, the whole problem is that the negotiation is asymmetrical, and the asymmetry is rarely in their favor.

I'm also not at all convinced that most any job seeker would refuse to negotiate salary because they feel it would be exploitative or unfair. If the situation was that hundreds of companies were submitting their resumes to me to try to hire me and I got to pare the list down by seeing who was willing to be strung along through an interview process, you'd see me looking like the people in the old NYSE trading floor pictures with multiple phones held up to their ears.
by carefulfungi | 2025-06-23 18:00:31+00:00
But, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, others have done this before RJF's appointment.

During the Obama administration, cherry picking some example:

* Food safety regulatory improvement bill: https://www.fda.gov/food/guidance-regulation-food-and-dietar... * Improved labelling rules: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/health/fda-nutrition-labe... * EPA water safety rules made stricter, then rolled back by Trump: https://www.sgrlaw.com/epa-announces-plans-to-revoke-obama-w....

It isn't correct to see these changes a singular improvement. These rules are constantly being fought over, sometimes becoming stricter, sometimes looser.

Another example, NYC has fought to reduce sugary drink serving sizes and to require labels on high sugar foods. (https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/cdp/added-sugar...)
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 18:00:57+00:00
> Then it's clear your didn't read my comments.

Whether or not I did is irrelevant. I replied to a specific bit of your comment that wasn't related to the rest of the conversation. If you didn't want to discuss that tangent, why did you bring it up?

> Here is the original comment that I addressed

Again, that has nothing to do with our conversation. Perhaps it is you who didn't read (meaning here to understand; I know you took in the individual words) my comment?
by arscan | 2025-06-23 18:00:59+00:00
What is the temperature on either side of this “wall”? My mental model here, which is probably incorrect, is that the “temperature” on the outside of the wall could be higher but the density is much lower, thus even less heat transfer going on (but, still, high energy particles that can hit you, registering a high temperature). I get all kinds of mixed up regarding the difference between heat transfer and measured temperature.
by maxgrinev | 2025-06-23 18:00:59+00:00
Good catch! Yes, recalculating metrics across all historical data every run would be expensive in Snowflake. I chose this example for simplicity to show how the three operations work together, but you're absolutely right about the inefficiency. The flow can easily be optimized for incremental processing - pull only recent orders and update metrics for just the affected customers:

steps:

# Step 1: Pull only NEW orders since last run - op: http_request request: source: "shopify" url: "https://{{ var('store_name') }}.myshopify.com/admin/api/{{ var('api_version') }}/orders.json" method: GET parameters: status: any updated_at_min_expression: "{{ last_run_timestamp() or '2024-01-01' }}" headers: "Accept": "application/json" response: success_status: [200] tables: - source: "snowflake" table: "shopify_orders_incremental" columns: { ... } data_expression: response.json()['orders'] # Step 2: Update metrics ONLY for customers with new/changed orders - op: transform source: "snowflake" query: | MERGE INTO customer_metrics cm USING ( SELECT customer_id, SUM(total_price::FLOAT) as total_spend, COUNT(*) as order_count FROM shopify_orders WHERE customer_id IN ( SELECT DISTINCT customer_id FROM shopify_orders_incremental ) GROUP BY customer_id ) new_metrics ON cm.customer_id = new_metrics.customer_id WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET total_spend = new_metrics.total_spend, order_count = new_metrics.order_count, updated_at = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP() WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT (customer_id, total_spend, order_count, updated_at) VALUES (new_metrics.customer_id, new_metrics.total_spend, new_metrics.order_count, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()) # Step 3: Sync only customers whose metrics were just updated - op: http_request input: source: "snowflake" query: | SELECT customer_id, email, total_spend, order_count FROM customer_metrics WHERE updated_at >= '{{ run_start_timestamp() }}' request: source: "mailchimp" url_expression: | f"https://us1.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/{var('list_id')}/members/{hashlib.md5(record['email'].encode()).hexdigest()}" method: PATCH body_expression: | { "merge_fields": { "TOTALSPEND": record['total_spend'], "ORDERCOUNT": record['order_count'] } }

This scales much better: if you have 100K customers but only 50 new orders, you're recalculating metrics for ~50 customers instead of all 100K. Same simple workflow pattern, just production-ready efficiency.

Does this address your concern or did you mean something else? Would you suggest I use a slightly more complex but optimized example for the main demo? Your feedback is welcome and appreciated!
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by penpendian | 2025-06-23 18:01:44+00:00
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by josefritzishere | 2025-06-23 18:01:45+00:00
I reject the entire premise of AI. Having a non-sentient algorith with no understanding of objective reality read or edit for me is counter productive. What it read, I did not read. What it researched, I did not research. What it edited, I did not edit. If we do nothing, we learn nothing and accomplish nothing.

If we go too long without doing things we lose the ability to do them. It degrades our skills, and cognition. From this perspective AI is antithetical to life, and in fact harms life.

I can read my own damn emails thank you very much.
by kristjansson | 2025-06-23 18:03:46+00:00
e: I misread your example, disregard below irrelevant pattern matching of 'uv add --script' to 'uv add' in the project context!

~~That mutates the project/env in your cwd. They have a lot in their docs, but I think you’d like run --with or uv’s PEP723 support a lot more~~

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/
by gertlex | 2025-06-23 18:03:56+00:00
I really appreciate this method of sharing workflows. Well catered to the audience. Actually was slightly hoping there'd be sound to the vid, too, but reading the list of actions after-the-fact was reasonable. I learned a few things I could do and/or approach differently in my own flows.

You mentioned the arcane keyboard shortcuts of tmux. I'm curious if you or others here have tried/use byobu (which I think of as a wrapper around tmux, basing most commands on the F# row). I was shown it a decade ago and have used it since (after a couple prior years of primitive tmux use).
by RamblingCTO | 2025-06-23 18:04:12+00:00
I think that's the biggest issue nowadays/back then: we don't test shit like at all and find out decades later that it destroys us. For what? Because the market incentivizes temporary gains for "competitiveness". The whole system is misaligned. We have those e/acc and silicon valley peeps telling us it's for the PrOgReSs and it's necessary. All the while they eat grass fed beef. You gotta live what you preach!