MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-21 08:07:12+00:00
The terms of the contract are the terms encoded in the HTTP protocol. They are:

- I, as the user, (or my user agent on behalf of me) ask for a resource.

- YT, as the provider, (or the server on YT's behalf) decide whether to send that resource to me.

- If you do, I'll use or not use it in accordance with my user agent configuration.

I asked for the video, and YT chose to send it to me. I'm not going to lose sleep over the morality of using the web as it was intended to be used.
by rcarmo | 2025-06-21 08:07:49+00:00
There is a missing piece in Wayland tha I’m worried about—or rather, a key functionality that will need to be sorted out: Remote Desktop, but not in the sense of access to an existing display — rather, fully in-memory accelerated compositing for multi-user, concurrent desktop sessions to the same machine. FreeRDP has been doing some work on that, but we need a mature Xrdp replacement and I don’t think that is around just yet.
by leshokunin | 2025-06-21 08:08:03+00:00
I used to run a matrix instance years ago. I remember the account setup being super difficult for my family members. And the client was so basic. Is it different nowadays?

Omemo I heard of. from what I read it’s a solid alternative to Signal’s protocol. Is it easy to use? Is there something we can just run the server, spin up some users and have them easily dm each other?
by imiric | 2025-06-21 08:09:33+00:00
> I'm not saying I don't believe you.

I'm not trying to convince anyone. Believe what you want to believe :)

> But I am saying that, as a programmer, if you told me I had to only use an iPhone at work I'd probably set myself on fire.

Sure, me too. But that's a software and ergonomics problem. There's no way you will ever be as productive on a 6" display, tapping on a glass pane, as you would on a much larger display(s), with a more comfortable physical keyboard with far richer haptics. Not to mention the crippled software environment of iOS.

But like I mentioned in other threads, it would be shortsighted to think that interfaces of XR devices will not be drastically better in the future. Everyone keeps focusing on how voice input is bad, ignoring that touch, eye and motion tracking in a 3D environment can deliver far richer interfaces than 2D displays ever did. Plus voice input will only get better, as it has greatly improved over the last 2 years alone.

> I'm not seeing a whole lot of benefit over smartphones, which are already ubiquitous. At best, I'm hearing that it won't suck that much. Which... okay not really high praise.

Have you seen the user avatars in visionOS 26? Go watch some demos if you haven't.

Being able to have a conversation with someone that feels like they're physically next to you is _revolutionary_. Just that use case alone will drive adoption of XR devices more than anything else. Video conferences on 2D displays from crappy webcams feels primitive in comparison. And that is _today_. What will that experience be like in 10 years?

I'm frankly surprised that a community of tech nerds can be so dismissive of a technology that offers more immersive digital experiences. I'm pretty sure that most people here own "battlestations" with 2+ screens. Yet they can't imagine what the experience of an infinite amount of screens in a 3D environment could be like? Forget the fact that today's generation of XR displays are blurry, have limited FoV, or anything else. Those are minor limitations of today's tech that will improve over time. I'm 100% sure that once all of those issues are ironed out, this community will be the first to adopt XR for "increased productivity". Hell, current gen devices are almost there, and some are already adopting them for productivity work.

So those are just two examples. Once the tech is fully mature, and someone creates a device that brings all these experiences together in a comfortable and accessible package, it will be an iPhone-like event where the market will explode. I suspect we're less than a decade away from that event.
by lyu07282 | 2025-06-21 08:10:48+00:00
> Paper straws you mentioned are just paper straws

No they are the decipline you are talking about, the delusion is, if everyone used paper straws we would save the ecological destruction of the oceans. The structural problems of endless profit maximization machines can not be addressed by appealing to individual action.

> Splitting should happen 10 years ago. I doubt it will have any special impact now.

That depends on the amount of pieces, don't you think?
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-21 08:12:43+00:00
It wouldn't forbid shipping the device with a virus scanner. It would only forbid refusing the user control over what software does and does not run.

There might be a couple messy edge cases if applied at the software level but I think it would work well.

Applied at the hardware level it would be very clear cut. It would simply outlaw technical measures taken to prevent the user from installing an arbitrary OS on the device.

Regarding warranties, what's so difficult about flashing a stock image to a device being serviced? At least in the US wasn't this already settled long ago by Magnuson-Moss? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
by mykowebhn | 2025-06-21 08:13:14+00:00
I know these types of comments are frowned upon here, but I find it really sad that posts about video game sales, for example, have many more upvotes than a post about positive efforts to reduce plastic waste. It shows where priorities and interests lie for the majority.

I comment like this because I understand that the struggle is not only to stop this kind of waste--and on a larger scale the environmental destruction of our planet--but also to engage and motivate the public at large to want to make these changes.
by hilbert42 | 2025-06-21 08:13:36+00:00
"I accept this metric. It means non-rooted devices are unsafe."

Same here. It's manufacturers and software vendors such as Google and Microsoft that we need to most guard against.

Fully agree wirh your second paragraph, I've only seen viruses on non-rooted devices and I've never had a virus on any of the many rooted phones I've owned over the years.

Sure there are viruses and they can be troublesome but when you look below the surface much of the hype about locking down one's devices comes from manufacturers and software vendors, Google, MS et al, who benefit financially from not allowing users to control what runs on their phones.

It's not only phones, what Microsoft has done with TPM and Windows 11 and the deliberate obsoleting of millions of perfectly good PCs/forcing users to buy new hardware when it's unwarranted is simply outrageous.

Microsoft ought to be sued for committing environmental vandalism. …And that's just for starters.
by miki123211 | 2025-06-21 08:14:53+00:00
I agree, but I think three extra conditions would need to be added here.

1. Devices should be allowed to display a different logo at boot time depending on whether the software is manufacturer-approved or not. That way, if somebody sells you an used device with a flashed firmware that steals all your financial data, you have a way to know.

2. Going from approved to unapproved firmware should result in a full device wipe, Chromebook style. Possibly with a three-day cooldown. Those aren't too much of an obstacle for a true tinkerer who knows what they're doing, but they make it harder to social engineer people into installing a firmware of the attackers' choosing.

3. Users should have the ability to opt themselves into cryptographic protection, either on the original or modified firmware, for anti-theft reasons. Otherwise, devices become extremely attractive to steal.
by chaosbolt | 2025-06-21 08:15:51+00:00
No there are lots of Chinese phones with minimal bloatware, like the nothing phone cmf 1, sure they only come with 2 years of updates but what you gonna do at that price...

If you're in the middle east, I'm sure you'd rather be spied on by China.

Do you imagine that shit? You're a nuclear scientist, working on a program for generating electricity, your country is open to being audited and complies with the restrictions and has no weapon's program, one day you come home and then a fucking rocket comes right inside your appartment and kils you and your whole family.

Ain't that a bitch? I get Khamas was hiding there too... And since they have all that precise rockets that can take a single appartment down, why did they reduce Gaza to rubble?

The ramifications of this make me sick: evil not only wins but also writes history... And yeah the midwits here will unironically look you in the eye and explain how killing children is ok because of this of that... You being able to explain horrors doesn't make you smart or pragmatic, it makes you have no self respect and makes your personal boundaries weak, and the same mind that finds arguments to cope with the horror his tax money funds will find arguments to cope with a lot more until it's his turn on the grinder and by then it'll be too late.
by vladms | 2025-06-21 08:16:09+00:00
I would favor freedom over one size fits all "that is good, that is bad". 40 years ago you had no option to make and keep that many pictures.

Even if I would agree with you that people keep too many digital pictures, if someone wants to do it I would also defend their right, because I do not think it is that negative that is worth fighting against.

PS: to put it to the extreme shouldn't we spend any time on hacker news "but spent more time with their families, sharing stories and souvenirs."?...
by rstuart4133 | 2025-06-21 08:16:45+00:00
> Is there some reason why solid state batteries seem to be being deployed in cars sooner than in phones?

Oh, that's easy. I already knew the answer, which probably means just about every AI could tell you. Phone batteries use Li Polymer (which is solid state BTW), because they can be any shape, including flat, wide and very thin. Other chemistry's can't be thin.
by afeuerstein | 2025-06-21 08:17:25+00:00
> Won't this also forbid virus scanners that quarantine files?

Yes. If I really _want_ to execute malware on my device, I should be allowed to do so by disabling the antivirus or disregarding a warning.

> I don't think it's reasonable to expect any manufacturer to uphold a warranty if making unlimited changes to the system is permitted

It is very reasonable and already the rule of law in "sane" jurisdictions, that manufacturer and mandated warranties are not touched by unrelated, reversable modifications to both hard- and software.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-06-21 08:18:08+00:00
Not really relevant here, but this is actually exactly how it's done in embedded systems like Yocto, everything from gcc, make, etc. is built from source (I believe the host compiler is used in a 3-stage bootstrapping process for gcc).

And in these cases you really see the impact of internal dependencies (building rust/llvm takes around 30-40% of the entire build). The upside is that you can patch and debug absolutely any part of the system.
by alganet | 2025-06-21 08:18:20+00:00
Maybe AI is not nuclear power, or the printing press, but the optical mirror.

A simple, unordinary, boring, mirror.

Seemingly fantastical to those unfamiliar with it, it would have startled many who never saw one, with its apparent capacity to reproduce human likeness and nature.

Once you look behind it, there's nothing. No nature within, no magic, just a polished surface. A cute trick, destined to become a trivial object.

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

> Juno curses Echo by making her unable to initiate a spoken sentence on her own and instead only being able to finish a sentence started by someone else. "Yet a chatterbox, had no other use of speech than she has now, that she could repeat only the last words out of many."
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by jerrimu | 2025-06-21 08:19:45+00:00
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It's a custom nodejs server using plugins and it's nothing you couldn't do at home, but it's fast, it's easy, and it's free.
by lordnacho | 2025-06-21 08:20:00+00:00
I'm guessing this is actually looking at the wrong thing. If you've ever headed a ball in practice, you don't think it's dangerous to head the ball. If you do it right, it barely feels like anything.

But if you are trying to maneuver your head to a position where you can head the ball, you sometimes find the danger is actually other people's heads. If you've ever knocked heads with someone, you might suspect it is not healthy.
by miki123211 | 2025-06-21 08:20:58+00:00
They're for the bank's (and other customers') security, not yours.

I think they're supposed to prevent people from reverse-engineering banking app APIs and writing bots that perform millions of requests per second, trying to brute force their way into peoples' accounts.

As an extra protection, SafetyNet also makes it harder to distribute apps that repackage your genuine banking app, but with an extra trojan added.
by int_19h | 2025-06-21 08:21:22+00:00
It's not just a US thing, though.

I believe that some form of this is pretty common in general simply because that's how people cope with the very fact that homelessness exists in the first place. Like, it's either a massive injustice that pretty much demands that you, personally do something significant about it... or it's "just the way it is", and you can look away. But this latter outlook requires some amount of dehumanization, so people rationalize that the best they can.
by goku12 | 2025-06-21 08:21:49+00:00
The context makes a big difference here. Human connections are indeed very important. But people used to manage those satisfactorily even before the advent of instant long-range communication systems. They still managed to keep each other updated and alerted about important events. Today's digital interpersonal connections feel important more because of the fear of losing them, than because of their actual worth. I realized this after having switched my communication media (chat apps, phone numbers, etc) numerous times. Many connections drop off in the process. But people with relations that truly matter always find a way to reestablish it.

That flexibility gives you the freedom to chose the communications platform according to your self-interests. And in today's targeted ads economy, those self-interests matter too much to neglect in favor of staying connected with everyone.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-21 08:22:10+00:00
Having your vehicle serviced by someone other than the dealer could void your warranty and poses a safety risk.

Cooking animal products at home poses a health risk. You should be sure to only ever consume animal products prepared by a duly licensed establishment.

The chauffeur's union would like to take this opportunity to remind you that amateurs operating their own motor vehicles risk serious injury and even death.

The FSD alliance would like to point out that hiring a licensed chauffeur also poses a non-negligible risk. Should you choose to make use of a personal vehicle it is strongly recommended that you select one certified by the FSD alliance. Failure to do so could potentially impact your health insurance premium.
by imiric | 2025-06-21 08:22:20+00:00
It seems that many people here misunderstand what centralization is.

The fact that Google is the largest email provider doesn't mean they have a monopoly on email. That's ridiculous.

Yes, they can take advantage of their position to influence the market and strengthen their position, which would be illegal. They're arguably doing that with Chrome, as Microsoft did decades ago with IE, but that's a legal matter.

The difference with email is that it's possible to use it without depending on Google at all. It is a public service not controlled by any single entity precisely because decentralization is built into the protocols. Again, the popularity of individual providers makes no difference.
by mrob | 2025-06-21 08:22:53+00:00
I think paying for Youtube will increase the chances of my Google account getting banned. I've never heard of Google banning somebody for rejecting adverts. But if I pay them money, there's a chance there will be a problem with the payments, and that risks triggering false positives on automatic fraud detection. If that happens I assume I would be banned with no recourse and no human intervention. The safest thing to do is never change how you interact with Google in any way unless you absolutely have to.

I don't like depending on Google in this way but I've had a Gmail account for a very long time and changing to a different email address would be a major inconvenience.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-21 08:23:01+00:00
Why do you assume that the millions of people who buy the new Persona or Mario Kart game are the same ones that bought the old one? It's very likely that they're fresh 12-20 somethings that were younger or otherwise just missed the old ones.

Not to mention, for Perosna in particular, each Perosna game tells a whole new story, so buying the fifth one is like going to see the fifth movie in a franchise: you know you like the style, and you want to experience a new story in this style. It's also not even a very long series - compare to Final Fantasy, for example, which will soon get its 17th main game (probably more like 25th or something if you included spinoffs).
by Borgz | 2025-06-21 08:23:58+00:00
Perhaps one justification for blocking ads is protecting users from personal information harvesting, tracking, and malware delivered through advertising networks. Aside from that, I can't think of a justification.

I actually think it would be good if there were filter lists that whitelisted ads that were not harmful to users in those ways, but that sounds difficult/impossible to fairly maintain, and I doubt anyone else wants it.
by arccy | 2025-06-21 08:24:17+00:00
That's different though. Paying through Patreon is directly giving the creators a larger share, but neither party (you or the creator) pays for video hosting service in this transaction.

Your argument only makes sense if you watch the creator's videos exclusively on Patreon (paid by the cut they take from your transaction) or on a platform like Vimeo (paid directly by the creator for hosting). In which case, what Youtube does isn't relevant to you.
by water-data-dude | 2025-06-21 08:26:12+00:00
No? Your plumbing shouldn’t matter if you’re distilling the water.

Some volatiles are going to come through (which can be mostly mitigated with an activated charcoal filter at some point in the process), but you’re vaporizing the water and condensing it back into a liquid, leaving behind stuff like metal and microplastics.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-06-21 08:26:57+00:00
I think it is anyone who wanna make sure they write correctly. I know for example David Sparks (MacSparky https://www.macsparky.com ) uses it (or at leased used it). And he was an American lawyer and he says writing has been his passion his whole life so I assume his English is better than the average person.
by thejazzman | 2025-06-21 08:27:03+00:00
And where I live it's an ever growing hell of political signs, dominos pizza, and anyone else who realizes there is no enforcement against this wide scale littering. The signs are never removed and continue piling up. Abandoned / unmonitored lots are also a frequent target.

And it's rapidly getting worse

Glad you're cool with it though, I guess? Cuz I've considered running for office on the sole platform of having them perpetually removed and perpetrators prosecuted.

There are literally signs advertising to hire people to place more signs.
by gtsop | 2025-06-21 08:29:24+00:00
Thinking is still currently unique to living things, so you don't need to resort to what you describe to find the human brain uniquness.

Onto what you describe, it has to do with memory. Memory is storing and playing back sensory input, in the absence of that sensory input. So your brain plays back some past sensory input and checks it against current sensory input.

Eg you left the pen on the table. When you come back the pen isn't there. Your brain compares the stored memory of seeing the pen on the table vs what you see now.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-06-21 08:29:37+00:00
> If I go to Costco and see an advertisement for tires... well, I’m at Costco, where I buy stuff. Things are sold at Costco and people go there to have things sold to them

If you visit content on the internet that the Google Ad network thinks suggest you might be interested in purchasing new tyres, then showing you ads for companies that sells tyres is, unfortunately, relevant no matter what your doing now, because you're more likely to click them, or remember the company/brand when choosing a purchase.

Also a large proportion of ads aren't designed to affect immediate purchase - cars, movies, coca-cola, and other brands are hoping to get into your (sub) consciousness so you'll remember when you buy days, weeks or months later.
by AngryData | 2025-06-21 08:30:18+00:00
I find that 38 hours per acre for corn figure a bit inflated as someone who use to plant 2 acres of corn each year using a 1901 corn planter and harvesting it by hand with my father. It never took the two of us more than a day to harvest the entirety of the corn, store it in our corn crib, and bundle all the corn stalks, while working at a fairly leisured pace. Tilling, fertilizing, and planting only took a day and only required one person for the first two, granted we did use a 1940 farmall tractor, but like I said its not like we were working at any real speed trying to get it done as if we needed it to survive. It was just a cheap and easy way to get corn to fatten up a cow or two before slaughter. It is also an absolutely miniscule amount of work compared to the amount of food it produced. Using 1900 corn yields (we didnt actualy weigh our own yields), it was over 3,000 pounds of corn, and it was likely much higher growing a more modern variety. Going by bulk grain corn prices at the local Tractor Supply the value rivals or exceeds the average local wage, and if it was sweet corn would surpass local wages multiple times over, so doesn't seem like a bad deal at all.
by topspin | 2025-06-21 08:30:50+00:00
Pacifiers. For a while I watched dash cam video from police car chases. I'm over it now, but one interesting thing frequently happens: officers yank the drivers out, get them on the ground and cuff them. In most cases, the drivers are yelling about their phone. "My phone!" "My phone!" Cars is wrecked, they've got knees pressing them into the dirt, frequently injured, facing all manner of charges, and the one thing they care about it some phone.

After sitting in the patrol car for a quite while, some officer opens the door to speak with them. Immediately: "Can I get my phone??"

Sometimes they'll still have a phone after being cuffed and detained. They will nearly dislocate joints to thumb their phones continuously while cuffed. They will not stop until someone takes it.

I don't know...
by eknkc | 2025-06-21 08:31:02+00:00
I’m in Turkey no UK or US so I can only speak for here. It’d be like denouncing electricity and saying join me. Good luck with that.

Its not friends and family. Our office administration basically runs on a WhatsApp group. I just sent a location to a plumber using WhatsApp. They dont know / use / want anything else.

At best, you might get some close people to use Signal or whatever but you have to use whatsapp to function.

Especially American people won’t understand that because I believe iMessage and SMS is still the de facto standard. That would be WA here.