MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superpope99 | 2025-06-17 11:48:24+00:00
counterpoint - Sometimes I do this for myself to prompt myself into a reply when I'm finding it hard to compose the message. Once I've said something, no matter how small, I know I have to follow up within in a couple of minutes. It's like a kind of short-term Ulysses pact.

Also I'd say this depends on your existing work culture - I've been in places where the expectation is that everyone has Slack messages muted. If anything was really that time sensitive it's still possible to pick up the phone.
by georgehopkin | 2025-06-17 11:48:29+00:00
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, released yesterday, reveals a media landscape at a pivotal point in its inevitable evolution. Based on a survey of almost 100,000 people across 48 markets, the report details an accelerating shift away from traditional news sources towards a fragmented, personality-driven, and video-centric ecosystem dominated by social media and online creators.
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-17 11:48:33+00:00
My wife, god bless her, is really good with people. I try very hard to mimic her, but this multi-round interaction has completely permeated how she interacts over tech, even with tech. I cannot manage it.

Her: "Alexa, add to shopping list". "OK, what should I add for you". "Peanut butter". "OK, peanut butter added, what else?". <long pause while the house has to be quiet until alexa times out>.

Me: "Alexa add peanut butter to shopping list". "Peanut butter added".

Some people are TCP. Some are UDP.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-17 11:48:40+00:00
Having played MUDs as a preteen, I dabbled again in them a few years ago when I found some Spanish language servers. Thought it might be an interesting way to practice Spanish.

Ended up on mud.balzhur.org:5400 where I befriended a blind Venezuelan guy.

And after a while I soon realized that everyone on the server was probably blind.

Pretty fascinating.

I logged in just the other day and saw that he still plays daily. I want to talk to him again, but I need to go through the noob tutorial to remember how to do anything.
by defraudbah | 2025-06-17 11:48:47+00:00
do we have a version for this to people who call you out of blue? they have a single question and could type it out or email you, instead than ring to you

if you don't have the power to tell people to f- off, the only option left is to accept it and either play their game or ignore a type of behavior you don't want to reward
by bsenftner | 2025-06-17 11:49:04+00:00
> Validating what is written is just confirming facts

You wrote it, not the AI. My entire point here is not to have the AI write, ever. Have it critique, have it Socratically draw you to make the decisions to axe sections, rewrite them, and so on - and then you do that, personally, using your own mind.
by floppyd | 2025-06-17 11:50:10+00:00
What's strangely missing from the list of FOSS android apps is a simple "pixel-like" launcher. I have some old devices that I use for small tasks, and I'd love to install the very basic launcher on them, basically the only thing I need is a paginated grid on the desktop, a scrollable list of apps in the main app menu, and a swipe up gesture to bring this menu. I checked a lot of launchers some time ago, and all of them either go hard into "minimalism/functionalism" and don't even show icons, or go deep into customization and fail to be lightweight.
by infiniteregrets | 2025-06-17 11:50:15+00:00
indeed, we wanted to build an example for a quickstart to showcase "data in motion" and starwars seemed like a perfect fit, the OG had IP blocks in place which made it really difficult to use, so we thought of finding some OSS project that we could self-host and after a lot of searching we found "ascii-movie" (our patch: https://github.com/s2-streamstore/ascii-movie) and the end result was just as similar to towel.blinkenlights.nl -- https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart or simply telnet starwars.s2.dev 23

ps, it is running on fly.io so please don't melt the poor baby
by rkrisztian | 2025-06-17 11:51:15+00:00
What is accessible about a background that does not differ significantly in contrast from the text color?

See https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/contrast-minimum

"The intent of this success criterion is to provide enough contrast between text and its background, so that it can be read by people with moderately low vision or impaired contrast perception, without the use of contrast-enhancing assistive technology."
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-06-17 11:51:31+00:00
Yes, pasting lots of seemingly random context into Google used to work shockingly well.

I could break most passwords of an internal company application by googling the SHA1 hashes.

It was possible to reliably identify plants or insects by just googling all the random words or sentences that would come to mind describing it.

(None of that works nowadays, not even remotely)
by mcv | 2025-06-17 11:51:43+00:00
I'm very happy with their galley and messaging app. They're absolutely perfect.

I think I also have their launcher, but it regularly seems to lose my widgets. No idea why that's happening, but I clearly need to shop around a bit more. Or debug the issue?

I tried their keyboard, which is fine, but not quite what I'm looking for. I'm currently back to GBoard and unhappy with it. I need something that doesn't try to accidentally insert emojis everywhere.
by nashashmi | 2025-06-17 11:52:46+00:00
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I have the full understanding of your perception on this. And judging by the number of downvotes I got, your sentiment seems to be shared among others.

My advice is very different from “run”, assuming running is not an option. I want you to imagine a person who has never had too many opportunities in their life, and works in a downtrodden environment. And does not have the qualities to work somewhere better. Now this same person has wife and kids. The only thoughts that come from this is hopelessness.

In this hopelessness, minute incremental improvements is a huge world of difference. Communication, even snarkiness, will shake things. Praise will keep situations cool. Providing Safety will keep your opportunities open. I fundamentally believe that these three things at least will allow for improvements in the person.

As for your points, suffering through pain (coming from a superior or subordinate, or the environment) will make it worse, either hardening the heart or tearing it down. That is where mastering the psychology of the oppressor comes in. Knowing who you work with helps to cope with the pressure. Think of it as knowing the bully so you won’t get bullied. Retribution is not the intention, just communication. Communicate the full problem no matter how difficult it may be. And if the problem is with the person themselves, make it humorous. Codependency makes two people similar in nature. This would be the opposite of improvement.

On reflecting on my comment, I think it was a bit rushed and did not go fully in depth. It sounds very difficult to grasp. I apologize to everyone. If I could delete it I would.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-17 11:52:56+00:00
I forgot what it was called, it was years ago. It was one of those "scan" with the camera to create PDFs of documents with some basic OCR included. The cloud feature gave you some cloud space, but OCR has to be done on the cloud (used to be locally done).

Even some quasi opensource software is no better... OsmAnd (openstreetmaps for android app) had a paid "OsmAnd+" version (that i bought), and then they decided they need a "pro" version too, 2.99/month, to get 3d relief and "colored routes".
by Delphiza | 2025-06-17 11:53:00+00:00
OpenAI is locked into _someone's_ compute resources... the one that is the cheapest. AFAIK OpenAI doesn't have much (any?) of their own hardware. With the mega-clouds buying up all the GPUs and building datacentres, you have to 'partner' with someone. Most likely the one that gives you the biggest discounts. The amount of compute that OpenAI needs dwarfs almost any other consideration.
by fpoling | 2025-06-17 11:53:19+00:00
If one thinks about it, even basic truth may not be so evident.

For example, consider Cogito, ergo sum. As Latin has no continues verb time, that phrase may mean I exist because I think. Or I am existing because I am thinking . The latter implies that when one stops thinking the existence stops, the opposite of the former. Philosophers still debates what exactly Descartes meant.

Or consider the notion of time flow. In 1908 John MacTaggart published a paper arguing that the feeling of time flow is unreal. Again, there are heavy debates about the validly of his arguments without any conclusion with quite a lot of philosophers accepting the argument and even arguing that the time flow is an illusion.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-06-17 11:55:16+00:00
> WhatsApp was the first ever primary convenience brought by the advent of the internet - it fulfilled a legitimate need all over the world by providing essentially free, limitless, boundless communication if you had few megabytes of internet in your mobile quota.

Yes, truly WhatsApp was the first of its kind. It's all the communication of sending a letter through the mail, except delivered electronically - one wonders why they didn't call it "electronic mail", or perhaps "e-mail" for short.

The group chats it offers are another huge innovation - for the first time, people were able to chat with each other by relaying their messages across the internet. Truly a marvel.

Personally, I divide the internet into two eras - "before Whatsapp", when there was simply no primary convenience of any sort to be found upon the internet and all users were deeply encumbered by bounds; and "after Whatsapp", when I and others can communicate, conveniently, via the internet, because of WhatsApp, boundlessly.
by lm28469 | 2025-06-17 11:55:32+00:00
> I don't have interesting hobbies, I am not an influencer, I don't post interesting posts on social media and I don't travel a lot, I don't do extreme things, I barely have any money at the moment, I bore others, in fact when I try to amuse my colleagues or the opposite sex, my jokes regularly fall flat and even my voice is dull I believe.

That's everyday life for the vast majority of people, we got tricked by smoke and mirrors on social media into thinking life has to be something it isn't, most of what you see there is fake in part or in whole. People should just enjoy what they have/are instead of burning out running after made up things other people pretend to be doing to be happy
by JdeBP | 2025-06-17 11:56:12+00:00
It's related, certainly, as are mine, Charles Cazabon's, and Mark-Jason Dominus's. But it's not addressing what the headlined page is, which is largely a thing that is a behavioural issue on interactive real-time chat fora.

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html

* https://pyropus.ca./personal/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list...

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.h...

* https://perl.plover.com/Questions4.html

None of us really cover the case where someone is employing a human version of the Nagle slow start algorithm. (-:
by prmoustache | 2025-06-17 11:57:30+00:00
There is no need for a car to do that.

I've lived 40km from my office, commuting by bicycle (there was an highway and a railway available as well). I was super fit at the time. I've lived 100km from my office, taking a mix of train + bicycle. Despite being a wee bit slower than using a car, I could do something ( or sleep/nap) in the train, so that was better time spent.

Anyway you look at it, even when it is faster, using a car in an area that has decent public transport is a time that is not well spent over different modes of transportation and you don't really gain time if you think of it thorously.
by alex-vlasis | 2025-06-17 11:57:34+00:00
I come from a Muslim family but aren’t deeply religious myself. My first LSD trip felt deeply spiritual and echoed themes from the paper on psychedelics and religion. Here’s what I took away, which might interest anyone curious about this topic:

- Prophetic Sensation: It was so profound that, 5,000 years ago, I could’ve thought it was a prophetic vision. I didn’t feel like I was speaking to God, but I got how prophets might’ve felt something divine.

- Inner Peace & Clarity: LSD brought pure joy, warmth, and peace. It stripped away mental filters, showing me the world as it is, not just how I see it.

- Accepting Death: I felt at peace with death, seeing it as a natural part of life. I’d never really thought about it before, but there was no fear—just acceptance.

- Divine Music: Music felt heavenly, amplifying the moment’s emotional and spiritual depth. It was like it carried the experience.

- Spiritual Connection: I didn’t think about whether religions are “true,” but it felt spiritual, like touching something bigger—hard to explain, but so meaningful.

- Right & Wrong Philosophy: I realized “right” and “wrong” are labels we create. Right feels like harmony, wrong like harm, but they’re fluid, shaped by context. Things just are, and we use these ideas to navigate life.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-17 11:58:29+00:00
>> In Germany, Britain, America, and France, the period of explosive growth of railways mainly took place in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

There's a curious European vs American distinction that the article doesn't address -- many modern, large American cities are younger than that.

Especially southern and western ones that grew up on rail lines.

There, the only thing that would be needed is the political will to fund and build new bypass, outside-the-city freight track to free up the contiguous in-city rights of way.
by coldtea | 2025-06-17 11:58:32+00:00
>This made land ownership possible for this group of people. Low value land that was too far from work was now usable for those same jobs.

The same is the case with public transport where available and where the city is built to support it. Which is what the poor people and rising middle class used -- especially as they didn't afford a car until the 1930s (and in places like New York not even then, though they still managed to turn from piss poor Italian, Jewish, Greek, Bulgarian, Irish, etc immigrants to middle class).
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-17 11:59:00+00:00
>"Value" is a loaded term as used here. Not all value is economic. Most value has a degree of judgement involved.

No it isn't. Most value CAN be objectively measured. I'll give you examples. US outspends all the other developed nations at healthcare, education, childcare and yet is behind them all in actual results with poor education, high infant motility and lower life expectancy. That's what waste and corruption does. Germany beats France at military spending and yet it's military is significantly less capable than France's. Waste and corruption. I could go on.

If someone tells you the value of their work can't be objectively measured, it's because they're dodging accountability and they have their hand in your pocket and wish to keep it that way.

>There are things we want as a society that would not be adequately replaced by market solutions. Roads, for example.

Fine, let's go with roads. If the "market price" price for road construction is 6 million/KM, but your government signed a deal with a contractor for a basic road at 20+ million per KM without any objective justification of why the price hike, then the taxpayers are being taken for a ride, called waste and corruption.

And I'm not even saying anything out of the ordinary. Such grifts are the norm in plenty of countries.
by Clein | 2025-06-17 11:59:54+00:00
Hi HN, we're the creators, Clein, Kelly, and Ronald. We're incredibly excited (and nervous!) to share this with you all. We started this project on our phones using termux, driven by the frustration of how complex modern software deployment has become. Our goal is to build a tool that's simple, secure by default, and truly portable. This is version 0.1, a very early MVP, but it demonstrates the core concept. The project is fully open source, and we're here to answer any and all questions. We would be grateful for any feedback, harsh or kind! We're ready to learn.
by coldtea | 2025-06-17 12:00:15+00:00
The "that's an advantage for the rich" has an easy fix: ban all city traffic except commercial vehicles for delivery of goods, ambulances, etc.

A good public transport is a boon to the poor and even middle class. In Europe, in cities where it's available, even the rich (the top 10%-5%, not the top 0.01%) routinely take it.
by dkdbejwi383 | 2025-06-17 12:00:28+00:00
I’ll do the same - when I get around to it, which might be an hour or two after it was sent.

If the person on the other end then decides to draw out the small talk with “how are you” etc, it might take a few days for them to get an answer to their actual question, but that’s on them, it doesn’t bother me. I get to messages when I get to them. If they aren’t of substance I don’t care.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-17 12:01:03+00:00
They probably need handholding to go through the issue and aren't good at putting into words explicitly what their issue is. Especially nontechnical and nonprogrammer people have problems around structuring and breaking down an issue into explicit parts, with a clearly formulated goal and required inputs and expected outputs etc. Most people's problem-solving relies on a collaborative thinking process where short sentences are exchanged and you rely on the other person actively steering as well, not like an empty chat box.

I don't tend to see this "hello" issue with people who are competent in programming or troubleshooting things themselves.
by LoganDark | 2025-06-17 12:01:19+00:00
Oh boy. I've had quite the experience with my own ADHD medication (dextroamphetamine in my case, which is essentially the stuff Vyvanse metabolizes into), and when they substituted for a different brand, that brand was completely different and so totally not compatible with this body. So now I have a Brand Medically Necessary because when they tried to switch it on me I went into hypertensive crisis :)
by giantg2 | 2025-06-17 12:01:58+00:00
If they've been there for 10 years, I would try to find what changed in the past few months. Is it an issue at home, or maybe something that happened at work? I feel like you have to find the root cause to fix it. It could be something where they're going through a family illness or a divorce and need some lower complexity tasks for a couple months.

Also, being somewhere for 10 years doesn't make it hard to fire someone. You could fire them for performance issues easily if the stuff coming back is low quality and half done. You can give them metrics to hit on a PIP and if they fail, they're gone. But I wouldn't want to do that until I knew what was going on that caused the change. It could be a temporary thing or an easy fix.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-17 12:02:03+00:00
IF you're Trump, you're going to be remembered for many centuries.

Most people though? 200 years from now you literally wont exist on earth. Everyone and everything will have forgotten you.

So why would you ever subject yourself to anything bad? Go do the thing you enjoy.

How does that play into 'not giving a shit' vs 'no fucks to give' it's not quite right is it? You'll give a shit or a fuck about what you care about and enjoy.
by logifail | 2025-06-17 12:02:06+00:00
I'd not really considered connections or which trains which run in which track/tunnel once it's finished(!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_line_2_(Munich_S-Bahn)#/...

> zwei Stammstrecke will make it horrible long to switch from platform 1 to platform 2, through elevators 40m up + down on each side, forcing you to go completely upwards, and then going down again

Are the connections between the faster and the slower lines going to be equally bad at all five connection points (Laim, Hbf, Marienhof or -platz, Ostbahnhof and Leuchtenbergring)?
by danielbln | 2025-06-17 12:02:29+00:00
> I want to be a tinkerer, not a manager of tinkerers.

We all want many things, doesn't mean someone will pay you for it. You want to tinker? Great, awesome, more power to you, tinker on personal projects to your heart's content. However, if someone pays you to solve a problem, then it is our job to find the best, most efficient way to cleanly do it. Can LLMs do this on their own most of the time? I think not, not right now at least. The combination of skilled human and LLM? Most likely, yes.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-06-17 12:03:00+00:00
This. They've been pushing these at my workplace and the only thing I can think to use it for is have the LLMs generate empty long-winded corporate-speak emails that I can send to managers when they ask for things that seem best answered by an empty long-winded corporate-speak email. Like "How are using using all these AI tools we are forcing on you without asking if you needed or wanted them?"
by jnsie | 2025-06-17 12:03:10+00:00
I have nothing but respect for physicians but my experience is that each acts as a more narrow filter than the last and, beyond their direct expertise they have very little expertise in billing, pharmacy or anything outside of their direct domain, nor do they have the bandwidth for it. Add to that the advertising phenomenon of 'ask your doctor about X' and I suspect that anything beyond the immediate care you're receiving has very little chance of receiving thought/cogent answers.
by marliechiller | 2025-06-17 12:03:17+00:00
Personally, I dont think so. I can understand a mathmatical axiom and reason with it. In a sequence of numbers I will be able to tell you N + 1, regardless of where N appears in the sequence. An LLM does not "know" this in the way a human does. It just applies whatever is the most likely thing that the training data suggests.
by hocuspocus | 2025-06-17 12:03:42+00:00
Jibe is the only RCS backend in 180+ countries. The few MNOs that had deployed third party solutions (mostly from Mavenir and WIT) eventually killed them off once Google made clear they weren't interested in a federated network anymore.

The US was actually the only market where a federated RCS was tried at scale for a few years (the CCMI) but all carriers eventually gave in as the UX was poor and unreliable.

To my knowledge there are only two other non-Jibe RCS "islands": China (that runs RCS solutions from national providers like ZTE) and +Message in Japan. +Message is on its way out, as carriers are now pushing subscribers to Google Messages and Jibe, anticipating the iOS support.

And Apple is in on it: MNOs don't have a choice here, they now need formal agreements with Google (Jibe is paid through RBM revenue share) and IMS configuration and (de)provisioning workflows that are sanctioned by Apple and de facto tested only against Jibe.

Apple's communication around E2EE in UP 3.0 is also directly following Google's work on replacing their ad-hoc Signal implementation by MLS.
by amarcheschi | 2025-06-17 12:04:37+00:00
I studied wcag in a course in uni this semester, it is truly mind blowing how experts were gathered to make a list of "list of all things you need to know about accessible webpages" and yet so many websites don't care about it. I mean, it takes just some scrolling to understand that they're very useful tips. And having something accessible might make it for a better experience for regular people too

Partially unrelated, but at a venue I work at there's the console managing stage lights that has the button to save and the button to delete the saved presets next to each other. That's one of the worst things that I could imagine for an interface