MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gabriel666smith | 2025-06-17 12:27:04+00:00
Apologies, late seeing this. I was attempting to describe the lack of cynicism in Brian Wilson’s work regarding the beauty of the tropes of mid-century American suburbia that, when taken to its extreme, felt like it made the work land, to me, often somewhere between the hyperreal and surreal. In this sense, it feels somehow beyond sincerity - an inversion of it, or an inversion of an inversion.

I used ‘bizarro’ to point towards both the surreal inverted-ness, but also to reference the Superman character, to try and link that part of the sentence to 1950’s USA, and Wilson’s childhood.

To me (it’s a subjective experience, of course) there are compositional aspects that create this feeling. In the early hits, for example, there’s an astounding lack of low-frequency sounds (bass guitar, kick drum mixed low, etc). It’s very much mixed for tinny radio - partly a product of the time, but also very much due to his arrangements. As if to say: ‘no darkness here’.

And equally (though I don’t think Brian was writing lyrics, but an arrangement of the sounds they create is enough for me) lyrically, even the early stuff is batshit weird:

“When some loud braggart tries to put me down, and says his school is great, I tell him right away: What’s the matter buddy? Ain’t you heard of my school?”

“A bushy bushy blonde hairdo”

Etc. I think the early work goes beyond ‘Americana’ into something weirder, but non-cynical. Very fever dream technicolor, and I think anticipates a lot of the work ‘darker’ Americana artists, like Lynch, who another commenter referenced, would later do.

Another commenter mentioned that Wilson’s father was, by many accounts, incredibly, incredibly cruel, and I think that’s perhaps not irrelevant to the uncanniness of Wilson’s work. Maybe there was a conscious choice to write only about the beautiful parts of his milieu, but that’s impossible to know.

A song like “In My Room” is terrifyingly beautiful / uncannily sincere in its optimism, given what we know about Wilson’s childhood. A lot of people, especially artists later in the century would, I think, find its hopefulness bizarre. And very moving.

That’s a very long version of what I was trying to say, or point towards - the usual cliches about the impossibility of writing about music apply!
by xpe | 2025-06-17 12:27:15+00:00
I respect doctors (and people in general), but I don’t give the medical profession a passing grade. To speak in generalities (there are exceptions), their training is somewhat insane: long hours, sleep deprivation, knowledge cramming, and more. Their daily practice leaves little time or incentive for keeping up with studies. Most were not adequately taught statistics in the first place. To vent a bit more, I don’t think it is unfair to say the system is crap. If we could redesign it from scratch, understanding human nature, how people learn, and the need for ongoing learning, and evidence-based medicine, it would not be this. None of this is meant to assign blame to individuals.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-17 12:27:56+00:00
Some of this can be taught, some not.

But anyway, my main point was, simply sending them a link like this will be perceived as baffling and rude, and I doubt that it can have a positive causal effect because it's not merely that they don't know about this rule of how to write messages, but that they require handholding. You can ask why they got hired then, but sometimes people can be confident and charming and that's often enough especially in non-programming interviews, or there might be also other reasons.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-17 12:28:00+00:00
> Asking for sources on corruption

Existence of corruption isn't what you asserted.

>> how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption

That's the assertion you made -- waste and corruption at scale.

It's very much a reasonable question to ask for sources of how much there actually is.

Otherwise, people just post things on the internet insinuating that there's a huge (unspecified) amount.

Is it 1% of the budget? 5%? 25%? (Hint: it should be trivial for you, the claimant, to dig up a source. And it's close to one of those)
by danaris | 2025-06-17 12:28:50+00:00
My whole family uses Siri—both through our phones and through the HomePod mini in the kitchen—to add items to the shopping list.

Siri occasionally misunderstands the name of the item, or needs to ask who's speaking (when on the HomePod), or has trouble because the phone of the person asking has briefly dropped off the Wifi, but in the ~5 years we've had it, I can count on one hand the number of times adding has just failed with any pattern remotely like what you describe.
by Simran-B | 2025-06-17 12:28:55+00:00
Another entertaining piece by the Lego Island guy!

My takeaway is that you should choose a passion project as your hobby and put in the time to learn and do whatever is necessary to achieve your goal on your own or together with similarly motivated people rather than relying on anyone external you have to pay - things go downhill fairly often and quickly it seems. Is any business a scam to some degree nowadays?
by giantg2 | 2025-06-17 12:29:04+00:00
The true test is can it write tests? Ask the dev if they use it to write tests. The answers to #1 is it can't really. The answer to #2 should be no.

AI can write some tests, but it can't design thorough ones. Perhaps the best way to use AI is to have a human writing thorough and well documented tests as part of TDD, asking AI to write code to meet those tests, then thoroughly reviewing that code.

AI saves me just a little time by writing boilerplate stuff for me, just one step above how IDEs have been providing generated getters and setters.
by glenstein | 2025-06-17 12:29:11+00:00
>Or do have these Fossify application some extra privacy features that do not come with the default ones?

It's this one. Google's built-in apps are closed source with undisclosed telemetry. Fossify are open source, and they don't send your contacts or calendar entries to Google. Google's apps also serve Google ecosystem lock-in, and Google's ecosystem serves ads.

The non-google options on the Play store give you the option of not sending telemetry to Google, but at the cost of typically violating privacy in other ways or including ads.

Fossify avoids either of those costs.
by daryllxd | 2025-06-17 12:29:36+00:00
I'm commenting on Hacker News, and I believe that getting access to a community of engineers, programmers, whatever, successful people, has been a net positive for me. So many good ideas get shared here.

Hobbies that you want to discover more in, but no one in your immediate friend group knows. You want to go deep in programming, basketball, golf, whatever. There's multiple Youtube videos, subreddits, etc. for it.

Video calling? Chatting with a person from literally thousands of miles away? My grandpa used to literally write a letter on paper to his brother who was in the States. Now I can just call my parents with video calls.
by Nursie | 2025-06-17 12:29:45+00:00
For my part I probably could benefit from studying philosophy and contemplating inner life a little more. It’s also fair to say I’m disillusioned with psychedelics - not that I don’t think they’re pretty amazing, but that time in my life has passed and I’ve come to view them as maybe overhyped.

I find my contentment and meaning in digging and planting these days, managing trees and general manual labour surrounded by birdsong and small animals. And in my relationships with my partner and my friends.

In many ways this is as irrational as any other path :)
by incomingpain | 2025-06-17 12:30:01+00:00
About a year ago I still had a few newspapers that I trusted. Reuters, National Post, CTV, financial times, etc.

Today, each one of those have fell. They each provided examples of bias exceeding my threshold. There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.

I trust none of them anymore. Journalism has fallen to their own BS.
by rmbyrro | 2025-06-17 12:30:08+00:00
I think many Apple users, especially people in the software industry, would prefer Apple software to be open source. It's not that they don't care, it's just that Apple quality is superior in multiple ways (hardware and software).

And it's not a coincidence that their software is closed. They can command ridiculously high margins and continue to invest in high quality products.
by berkes | 2025-06-17 12:30:12+00:00
They can be in more countries than just the Netherlands IIRC. And simple test-kits are available too - these aren't as good obviously, but can e.g. prove the absence or presence of certain (by)products.

Also, these tests are set up in a way that they are anonymous in a way that e.g. even if prosecutors could subpoena a test-location or lab to hand over administration, this administration won't contain any PII or even pseudonymous information.
by hidingfearful | 2025-06-17 12:30:28+00:00
> 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

US healthcare and childcare are private, not government. Likewise I suspect much of the education cost is private colleges/schools, not government.

You seem to be arguing that the private sector is less efficient and more corrupt than the public sector.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-17 12:30:31+00:00
my older brother used to dial into local BBSes late at night, tying up the phone line and pissing off everyone. mostly forums, file sharing, a few ascii games. he showed me how to telnet into some later on when it moved online. that story about the blind MUD player reminded me some folks never left. they just kept logging in. for them it was just... daily. guess some of these old servers turned into routine for people
by dylan604 | 2025-06-17 12:30:53+00:00
I once wrote a DAM that wrote to LTO tapes just using tar. The tape was operated with forward/rewind commands from mt. Nobody needed access to the tapes until after I was no longer at the company. Apparently, they spent weeks trying to install various backup software to read the tapes, but none could. They eventually contacted me, but due to how much software they had tried to use the original computer it was attached to was no longer the OS. At that point, they asked 3rd party companies for help and eventually found someone with a drive attached to a Linux system. I was then able to walk them through how to read and extract data.

Tape storage can be an absolute nightmare. Most will do the writes, some will say they verify with a read, but few actually test with a full restore. Just because the software says it can read the tape to show you the listings does not mean it can read the files themselves. This was alluded to in TFA(TFV??) but been there done that on trying to read from a bum tape/bad write. It gets worse if you write in one tape drive and read from another also mentioned in TFV. Now I feel old just thinking about it all
by squircle | 2025-06-17 12:31:06+00:00
Here is the distinction the author makes:

> Not having fucks left to give is when you stop caring what others think.

> Not giving a shit is when you stop caring.

Burnout? Sounds fair. However, there's a point beyond burnout, IMO, when failure is not an option, where you exceed your capacity and limitations and are no longer tethered or limited by feelings of exhaustion. Then, the question is: why should I care? For what should I care about?
by eimrine | 2025-06-17 12:31:11+00:00
Torrenting for downloading books on Science, Math or Philosophy.

Bitcoin as pithekanthropus-free payment system.

Buying and especially selling some second-hand items.

Talking to foreign friends via video with totally zero cost.

Upgrading my free and open-source software with no CD/DVD.

Web2 forums and private text-only chats with strong cryptography.

I don't recommend this to everybody, but listening to youtube all day long, the catch is in dealing with Algorythm to prevent bad recommendations.

I don't recommend this to everybody, but reading political news without fakes was impossible in paper era, now it has simplified to just a very hard.

That's a full list, every else use case of Internet by me is forced to me without any my appreciation.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-17 12:31:13+00:00
We do need to do something about the "holiday conundrum", for lack of a better name. That it, there are times during the year, most notably around Christmas, where suddenly everyone in the city gets time off and wants to travel to visit their family out in the middle of nowhere - and that also includes the operators of public and commercial transportation networks. You have a sudden influx of commuters at the same time as transport service capacity drops to a fraction of the normal.

Not sure how to handle this short of abolishing holidays entirely

(Not necessarily a bad idea - too many things in society already run in synch where they shouldn't; see e.g. most people working 9-5, including services all those people need, so there's e.g. no good time to go to a dentist or visit a bank without taking a day off at work.)
by ryukoposting | 2025-06-17 12:32:16+00:00
Yknow what? This doesn't bother me. I've had coworkers who do this. You just respond "hello!" and maybe they just ask their question, or maybe they ask about your day, or whatever else. God forbid I spend an extra 4 seconds per day thinking about a person I work with. Do "hello" messages waste time? Yes. Am I happy to field them anyway? Yes!
by mariusor | 2025-06-17 12:32:48+00:00
I had no idea this CSS API existed. I'll add that to my CSS, thank you! :)

I'll check if the issue tracker has anything related to supporting titled alternate stylesheets (and eventually allowing users to pick one of them), because on the website where I made efforts for the markup to look reasonable on links, I also have a "simple" style that removes most of the CSS fanciness.
by K0balt | 2025-06-17 12:33:50+00:00
Self-reply here since the edit window timed out:

I think the driver here is cost. You don’t see 50mhz ARM cores for $0.07 for a reason, and that reason is that the licensing of the ARM ISA does not make that possible.

So at the low end, riscV is 1/2 to 1/3 the cost for comparable performance based on licensing costs alone. In a market where discrete components sell for thousandths of a dollar, a few cents is huge and a dollar is catastrophic. The difference between ARM and riscV can easily be a 40 percent reduction in BOM cost, or significantly improved features and performance at the same cost.
by chronogamous | 2025-06-17 12:34:18+00:00
Know then that what you've heard is incorrect. Heroin especially tends to cause nausea and vomitting on first time use, as the body reacts to something as unexpected. Meth may be great the first time round, and still be nowhere near as good as it can be - the drug has a steep learning curve and requires rigorous discipline for it's effect to be exploited fully - a mindset rarely present in first time users. With practically any drug, initial effects are very much subject to the intention of the person taking it, just as much as physical attributes (fitness, body-type, metabolism, etc).

Not to downplay all obvious and less obvious hazards of these 'harder' narcotics, just saying the whole 'first time being the best time' as an explanation of why exactly people become addicts relies very much on hearsay. It's the sort of language that came with the whole war-on-drugs-thing, and does not reflect reality.
by nooneinpart | 2025-06-17 12:34:23+00:00
For example, it has been written in the letter to the Ephesians 5.15-21:

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Because of this don’t become foolish but understand what the will of the Lord is and don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the lord; giving thanks always concerning all things to God, even the father, in the name of our lord Jesus Christ; subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-17 12:34:26+00:00
I think it’s plausible, though probably not quite intentional at any point.

The first step is a rule that all class must be valid Tailwind names. Honestly this would be useful, because people make mistakes, Tailwind’s names are often obtuse, and without this it’s hard to realise when you’ve got mistakes, because there’s so much noise. If you think a CSS checker should complain about unknown CSS property names or values, it stands to reason in this brave Tailwind world that the class attribute should receive the same treatment.

Then the second step is making that rule autofixable, by removing invalid values. This is the sort of thing that shouldn’t happen, but easily could.
by danaris | 2025-06-17 12:34:26+00:00
> You can always change yourself, while it is so much harder to change others that it is almost futile.

This is a defeatist attitude.

Sure, there are some people who will refuse to change no matter what. But many—probably even most—people, if you explain that this is your preferred method of communication when they have a question for you to answer, will at least try to operate that way.
by atq2119 | 2025-06-17 12:34:27+00:00
While you're likely right in describing the status quo, it's unfortunate that it has come to that.

The one thing that's really objectionable in that section is the last part about people who attack or flame without apparent reason. Such people should be called out by other community members in the same way ESR describes for newcomers in the first part of the section.
by ozim | 2025-06-17 12:35:09+00:00
You just wrote exact confirmation. Running 3060 Ti gemma-3-4B to play with as your local assistant is toying around.

Make the same as a startup or a company and you most likely will be out of business in 3 to 6 months because big guys will have everything faster and better in no time. GPT-o3 price drop of 80% most likely made running 3060Ti more expensive if you check your energy bill.
Show HN: Bugster – Autonomous UI testing agent for Next.js applications
by flopezscala | 2025-06-17 12:36:20+00:00
Bugster is a dev-first testing agent that runs UI tests without setup overhead. – Install and authenticate from terminal – Auto-generates an E2E test suite – Run locally or integrate with GitHub When integrated with GitHub: – Executes only relevant tests for each PR – Runs in Vercel preview environment – Comments results directly on the PR Works out of the box with Next.js + Vercel. Would love your feedback → https://www.bugster.dev/
by Bender | 2025-06-17 12:36:20+00:00
I do not know the answer to your specific question but I do know there are consumer 6 lead ECG's that one can purchase [1] for much less than the amounts you are talking about. Some of them are stand-alone [2] and some require a cell phone.

For 10 minutes in April I was seeing double.

There are many things that can cause this unrelated to the heart and should be looked into by a doctor. I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. Even staring at a screen too long can cause temporary diplopia and there are nutrient/mineral deficiencies that can exacerbate this unless you mean you were going cross-eyed and there are multiple things that can cause that. Don't panic, talk to professionals. I personally would start with an ophthalmologist and nervous system specialist (that is one person).

just an example, there are many of these, not medical grade but don't need to be for your doctor to see if something is off.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/KardiaMobile-Personal-Device-Heart-Mo...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/EMAY-Portable-Channels-Compatible-Sma...
by freddie_mercury | 2025-06-17 12:36:23+00:00
Uber doesn't have car seats.

California requires car seats until age 8.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/SACB/CDPH%20Do...

Your friends little kids aren't taking Uber. Your friends big kids are taking Uber. They're already 50% of the way to driving a car themselves by the time they can take Uber.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-06-17 12:36:28+00:00
Yep this is what happened in my home city in india as well. Our property which my ancestors purchased for dirt cheap on the outskirts of the city is now smack in the center and valued higher. Populations have also shifted.

We always had a good train network around here. When the shift happened though, the "hub" stations have not really moved. Today the main stations are still where the old center of town was. As a result, taking the train for me is a bit like going to the airport you're gonna have to take a 30min trip(without traffic) and 60min trip(with traffic) or a 30min metro (crowded) or a 45min (but less punctual and gets full too often) bus/suburban train to reach the station.

As I type this, the city keeps expanding on one side, so in a decade's time, there will be a new city center, closer to the airport, but further and further away from the hub station. I'll have to wait and see if they change the hub station to a more central one at that point.
by imiric | 2025-06-17 12:36:58+00:00
> Sure, XMPP is a thing, which has been mostly dead for well over a decade.

It's really not.

I've had a good experience moving close contacts to Snikket, which uses XMPP. Text, voice, and video chat work great across platforms.

Previously I tried Jami, which seemed promising, but message delivery was too unreliable due to it being fully P2P.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-06-17 12:37:21+00:00
Psychedelics caused me to isolate from society and those around me. It makes you feel more connected while actually becoming less connected, it makes you feel that you understand while actually understanding less.

I see now that the real pleasure in life is in being connected with your local community, with those around you — not because you agree with them, not because they think or look the same as you, but because they are yours, and you are theirs in a very deep sense.

I also see now that the Church of Christ makes this possible, it's a vehicle for fulfilling our purpose in life. No other thing exists which provides the same avenue, nothing else even comes close.

The specific changes the books made in my life is that it helped me get over my superficial objections to Christ (I was an atheist from the age of about 14), it helped me see the whole, and thus helped me adopt Christ as my saviour, and the Church as my Church, and it brought me to a point where I have faith without doubt.

> We know better than the scholars, even those of us who are no scholars, what was in that hollow cry that went forth over the dead Adonis and why the Great Mother had a daughter wedded to death. We have entered more deeply than they into the Eleusinian Mysteries and have passed a higher grade, where gate within gate guarded the wisdom of Orpheus. We know the meaning of all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate. And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying, ‘These things are.’ It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, ‘Why cannot these things be?’
by demosthanos | 2025-06-17 12:40:14+00:00
If that's the distinction you're drawing then it's totally meaningless in the context of the question of where the information is going to come from if not Stack Overflow. We're never in a situation where we're using an open source library that has zero information about it: The code is by definition available to be put in the context window.

As they say, it sounds like you're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. You're correct within the extremely artificial parameters that you created for yourself, but not in any real world context that matters when it comes to real people using these tools.