MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by znpy | 2025-06-20 09:58:20+00:00
> Treating people under 18 is a politically losing issue.

This is the key point, imho.

In the transgender rights discourse no margin for error is admitted, but there is like in any other human field (of course).

There have been several cases of people being given a "gender disphoria" blanket diagnosis (eg: the case of Chlementine Breen[1]), which later caused issues. And of course some of those people are transitioning back and started doing activism against the trans rights movement.

It's weird that minors are not allowed to do something trivial as drinking a beer or driving a car yet they're allowed to take on irreversible changes (sometimes involving surgery) to their bodies.

This is hurtful to all people involved, and until this point is not understood, the attrition will continue.

[1]: that case is a textbook example of "no margin error admitted" because in order for their voice to be heard they had to resort to talking to the extreme opposite political side.
by MASNeo | 2025-06-20 09:58:20+00:00
That is more rough than I wanted it to be. Essentially we consider home cleaning the most complex activity and would charge more for that, the robot would be used more, has a higher probability to get mechanical or electrical issues or confused in someway and require a remote or even onsite assist by a technician.

The reason the individual activities are distributed is that we like to see which set of actives appeal more to potential customers. That’s actually a measurement for us but we likely make that an interactive selection in the next iteration. It completely get why you find it a bit confusing.

Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback.
by keiferski | 2025-06-20 09:58:33+00:00
As an American living in Europe for the last decade: there are actually quite a few small tech companies that are quite strong in their regions. I’m thinking of companies like Allegro.pl, which IMO is better than Amazon.

The problem seems to be that there is no real coherence to expanding local companies beyond their origin countries. Partially because of other competitors, which each country wants to promote their own, and partially because the whole infrastructure for serving ~30 states is a headache.

IMO major benefits would come from investing heavily into translation AI tech. Europe will never have one main language, and so it won’t have the single unified cultural market that China or the US have. But that can be reduced dramatically to make it as seamless as possible.
by deng | 2025-06-20 09:58:59+00:00
I will not restrict myself to an arcane subset of Make just because you refuse to type 'gmake' instead of 'make'. Parallel execution, pattern rules, order-only prerequisites, includes, not to mention the dozens of useful function like (not)dir, (pat)subst, info... There's a reason why most POSIX Makefiles nowadays are generated. It's not GNU's fault that POSIX is stale.

EDIT: There's one exception, and that would be using Guile as an extension language, as that is often not available. However, thanks to conditionals (also not in POSIX, of course), it can be used optionally. I once sped up a Windows build by an order of magnitude by implementing certain things in Guile instead of calling shell (which is notoriously slow on Windows).
by vladms | 2025-06-20 09:59:15+00:00
While I don't agree with other points, things got clearer once I reached the following:

> Marketers, content editors, SEOs, designers – they’re all locked out of the process. Because now, even simple tasks require technical fluency.

I worked in web development in the 2000s and then restarted in 2020s. The power of the tools, the speed of development and the result are all much better. The downside? You need to know more (because you can do more and some required things are more complex and people expect more) and less people might be required (ok, this is a downside for some people only...).

Why are we talking about some megabytes transferred nowadays? Most of us have in our pockets a computer 100 times stronger than the first one that beat a human at chess (not to mention that one was occupying rooms). It is more important to have the flexibility and to be able to scale complexity when you need to (hard and not given even with the frameworks), than to "save" some megabytes.
by Sophira | 2025-06-20 10:00:44+00:00
Although I agree that JS is being used incredibly irresponsibly, I also think this article is almost certainly AI-generated with minimal editing based on the way it reads, and I wish that wasn't the case because the topic deserves better than this.

[Edit: Although I recognise that em dashes are what a lot of people use to identify AI-generated text, that isn't what I was doing here. I hadn't even been considering them, to be perfectly honest.]
by helloguillecl | 2025-06-20 10:00:48+00:00
The problem is that getting those things right is 4x more difficult in a SPA app than a legacy, server rendered, app.

- No native back and forward button implementation. Now you must listen to an API and emulate the legacy behaviour.

- The concept of links, its also emulated via onClick events. This means that anything can be a link, so in many cases rows become links and their content is not really selectable as text. Legacy HTML has clear limitations for this not to happen.

- Same with buttons. There are no native buttons anymore. Anything can be a button, including any DIV with an event listener. Good luck tabbing through every DIV to get you to a button, that's also another difficult implementation.
by prmoustache | 2025-06-20 10:01:11+00:00
> All of them attempt to address the same requirement, and make different tradeoffs depending on use-case and environment.

All road shoes/pedals interface have the same requirements. All XC ones have the same ones, All Dh ones, same.

> Same as for shifters: the braking compound and design for a race road bike will be really different to what a DH race bike requires.

Regardless if we are talking shifters, breaks or pedals interface among a specific line (road, gravel, xc, DH) the requirements stay the same and more importantly those formats/shapes/interface almost never vary accross price point:

All mtb shifters from a given manufacturer and amount of gears available are usually interchangeable. A deore shifter can operate an XTR derailleur. Same SPD cleats accross all MTB pedals from Shimano. Same brake pad shape is used accross all lines for a given number of pistons. More importantly pads and calipers are usually interchangeable between road and mtb for a given manufacturer. Conpound, requirements and price point as little to do with it as manufacturers release pads with different compound but same shape.

What makes all these formats not standards is because every manufacturer wants to have its own for 2 reasons: 1) think it knows better 2) aim to capture a market and become a monopoly (through cleats format)

Only rarely they discuss between each others or release a standard and don't ask for royalties. Same as proprietary software vendors.

The open source fragmentation only really comes from reason 1.
by motorest | 2025-06-20 10:03:37+00:00
> Did they need to know this before Kubernetes?

Yes? How do you plan to configure an instance of an internal service to call another service?

> I've been in the trade for over 20 years and the typical product developer never cared a bit about it anyway.

Do you work with web services? How do you plan to get a service to send requests to, say, a database?

This is a very basic and recurrent usecase. I mean, one of the primary selling points of tools such as Docker compose is how they handle networking. Things like Microsoft's Aspire were developed specifically to mitigate the pain points of this usecase. How come you believe that this is not an issue?
by AIPedant | 2025-06-20 10:03:57+00:00
"BSD crap," "deserves to be punished"...

There's also an element of "Linus Torvalds is an antisocial jerk, and he's a genius, therefore if I am an antisocial jerk I must be doing genius-level work." In particular, it's a lot easier to attack someone with empty insults than it is to defend your own position with substantive thought.
by lmm | 2025-06-20 10:05:28+00:00
> From what I have seen there isn't a housing shortage as much as an "affordable housing" shortage.

It's generally much more illegal to build cheap housing, both in the direct sense that building codes require all new housing to be built to extremely high standards, and the indirect sense that in places without by-right development (which is most desirable cities sadly) your neighbours are going to fight a lot more against cheap houses getting built than they'll fight against expensive houses getting built.

> Housing subsidies will be next. Another attempt to prop up the rampant capitalism by means of socialism.

Already been happening for years.
by mola | 2025-06-20 10:06:34+00:00
Sry lack of new houses doesn't seem like a cause for homelessness.

Of you can't afford a house in the big city, you move to a smaller one.

The problem is lack of a working welfare infrastructure. People become homeless because they're unlucky and once they're down, it's almost impossible to get back up.. it's a failure of state at so many levels. Real estate development is the least of them
by potato-peeler | 2025-06-20 10:06:43+00:00
Language wars tend to get emotional, as clearly suggested by other commenters.

I think the problem is exasperated when developers can’t put emotion aside and recognise issues, it may be as simple as proper training or choosing the proper tools.

But just objectively looking at the point the author is making, he is right.

Case in point, Indiscriminate use of frameworks have made the web bloated. In fact, I bet half the Links posted in HN won’t even open in slightly older browsers.

But the content they post are interesting. It is not a question of skill, as other commenters here want to point out.

So it seems to argue that these people just don’t care about accessibility or coverage of the tools they use.

Empathy is key. One should be conscious towards their audience, since web is open and far reaching. It is not just a group of developers in their near vicinity or latest conference hosted in a tech city, they should care about.

If you are building something, one should carefully evaluate the tools they use and how it will end up getting consumed by a wide demography of end consumers, who don’t have the same machine as they do.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-20 10:06:48+00:00
On a wired connection? No problem. On a crowded mobile network? Or when you got only EDGE (hello Germany)? Whoops.

Hacker News however? Blazing fast - one page and only the CSS is actually required for rendering the page, and it is using both a cache-buster in the URL and a 10 year (!) cache life time. The JS uses the same as well but it's only loaded at the end of the page, so after rendering is done.
by Avamander | 2025-06-20 10:06:50+00:00
It's not like anyone is actually monitoring it or would notice.

I know for a fact there are a lot of broken deployments out there, have been for a decade if not more, nobody really gives a rats ass.

From a technical perspective, lack of DNSSEC transparency is also a major downside of DNSSEC compared to WebPKI.
by soco | 2025-06-20 10:06:56+00:00
Now if there was some kind of interoperability standard... but anyway yes I can confirm: most "local" cloud providers are much too local for the taste of big consumers, and those big consumers (banks, insurances...) usually dictate the market direction. What is also helping is the amount of paperwork the big tech can provide to cya reasons - apparently the smaller folks aren't trusted to compete on the legal fronts.
by walthamstow | 2025-06-20 10:07:00+00:00
The bit about pure THC rings true. My guy here in Britain sells live resin but occasionally when he's out of that, I'll buy one of his homebrew dab carts.

He says they are 0.4ml live resin, 0.5ml THC distillate and 0.1ml terpenes. They weigh so much heavier on my brain, and have little euphoria, compared to live resin or regular old nugs.
by cycomanic | 2025-06-20 10:07:17+00:00
If you think this is insanity I encourage you to look up the expected data to come out of the SKA. Even after several processing steps they expect several hundred PB/year (the raw data which is not being archived is several orders of magnitude more). That is only SKA-low I think for SKA-mid we are talking Exabyte/year. I recall that their chief scientist said once they are operational they will process more data than google and facebook combined.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-20 10:08:00+00:00
Sure, but that still doesn't matter: the fact that I wrote my previous comment is what caused you to write your response, but it's not like I had a choice to write that comment or some other: the fact that I wrote that comment, as well as everything that led to me writing it (conversations with teachers, my parents letting me watch English cartoons so I learned English, etc), were predetermined the moment the Big Bang happened, or they're just a quantum fluctuation.

What I'm saying is that there's no logical point to the concept "should" unless you have some concept of free will: everything that happens must happen, or is entirely random.
by wahern | 2025-06-20 10:08:11+00:00
This stood out to me:

> For comparison, Bitcoin mining did only about 2^111 bit operations in 2022. ("Only"!)

Anyone have a source for this? Google results suggest in 2022 Bitcoin miners reached ~209 quintillion hashes (209 exahashes) per second. I don't know how many bit operations SHA-1 takes, but dividing 2^111 by 209 * 10^18 * 86400 * 365 gives 393891, which doesn't sound unreasonable for number of bit operations per SHA-1 hash.

Basically, it's fascinating that global compute is reaching those kinds of numbers. Even more fascinating is that it's just Bitcoin mining, so global total computations must be some multiple of that (3x? 10x? 100x?). These are numbers once considered (still considered?) unfathomable, let alone a quantity applicable to human endeavor. And that's 2022. Today the Bitcoin hash rate is 4.5x greater.
by bmacho | 2025-06-20 10:08:28+00:00
> —-

0.o

> No actual person talks like that

I think it is plausible that there are people (readers) that find other people (bloggers) basically always right, and that would be the first think they would say to them if they met them. n=1, but there are some bloggers that I think are basically always right, and I am socially bad, so there is no telling what would I blurt out if I met them.
by sofixa | 2025-06-20 10:09:34+00:00
> Across most of Europe (not all - the Baltic states have produced quite a few unicorns) there’s a pervasive attitude that technology is… icky. Struggling to come up with a better way of putting it, but at best entrepreneurship in tech is met with blank incomprehension, and at worst sneering contempt. People use it, unthinkingly, but to be interested in it, to invest in it, seems to fall into the category of “we must have world peace before we spend money on space exploration”.

Generalising a whole continent with such nonsense is... bold. Any data to back this up? Surveys? Anything? There are tons of people in tech, and tech startups all around various European countries. Most don't become unicorns, or get bought out by American giants. But that doesn't mean that people generally find them "icky".

Or did you only talk to 80+ year olds in some rural areas in Belarus?
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-20 10:09:35+00:00
>The only good traitor is a dead traitor. Don't betray your country. Don't fly the flags of its enemies.

In essence, you're an authoritarian moron, shitting out justifications for vicious repression under the name of protecting against extremists. There's already no shortage of this same foolish nonsense being bayed and barked for by Trump's supporters against their supposed "enemies of the nation" on the progressive left or by anyone who doesn't lock-step support their half-baked policies.

These same people quickly label anyone who disagrees with them on various things as a traitor and really, so much of that boils down to exactly what you foolishly claim you don't support, which is banning X arbitrary things one dislikes. You can yammer as much as you like about how stupid slippery slope arguments are, but their justifications absolutely do exist, especially when applied based on the ridiculous criteria by which you seem to hatefully enjoy defining the idea of treason and fantasizing about how'd you love to see supposed traitors executed.

There's more rehashed stupidity to unpack in the rest of your comment, but why bother?

No, we should not let the state decide -based on often ideological, nationalistic or simply corrupt criteria- what thoughts, symbols or expressions of opinion by people are suddenly treason. Those enforcing such things have historically, almost inevitably slid towards authoritarianism and those supporting such things as members of the public tend to make their own slide towards applauding nationalistic idiocy.
by dgellow | 2025-06-20 10:10:31+00:00
I know the rhetoric but I disagree. You can create accounts on open protocol platforms for free. You don’t have to do a cost intensive migration. You can use multiple platforms at the same time. Over time you can influence your peers to move to the open protocol platform more (assuming it’s actually one that considered UX seriously).

The feeling that you’re locked is more a psychological barrier you have to pass than anything else
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-20 10:10:44+00:00
> The leaked e-mails

Curious to read these. Got a source?

I've always been very skeptical of Scott "Alexander" after he and his supporters tricked half of reddit into harassing some journalists for "doxxing" him when his identity was public knowledge seemingly because he just really didn't like the takes presented by the journalists. The way he refers to them like it was a hit piece targeting him reeked of conspiratorial and paranoid thinking.

edit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod...
by darqis | 2025-06-20 10:11:20+00:00
Sorry, but k8s is not low maintenance. You have to keep the host systems updated and you have to keep the containers updated. And then you have paradigm changes like ingress falloff and emergence of gateway API. k8s is very time intensive, that's why I am not using it. It adds complexity and overhead. That might be acceptable for large organizations, but not for the single dev or small company.
by benchly | 2025-06-20 10:11:22+00:00
This tracks based on my limited contact with LessWrong during the whole Roko's Basilisk thing.

I quickly lost interest in Roko's Basilisk, but that is what brought me in the door and started me looking around the discussions. At first, it was quite seductive. There was a strange fearlessness there, a willingness to say and admit some things about humanity, our limitations and how we tend to think that other great thinkers maybe danced around in the past. After awhile it became clear that while there were a select few individuals who had found some balance between purely rational thinking and how reality actually works, most of the rest had their heads so far up their asses that they'd fart and call it a cool breeze. Reminded me of my brief obsession with Game Theory and realizing that even it's creators knew it's utility was not quite as advertised to the layman (as in it would not really help you predict or plan for anything at all, just model how decisions might be made).
by intelVISA | 2025-06-20 10:12:13+00:00
It must be tough running a Euro company, your own taxes end up funding your competitors!

> European cultural hostility to business

Is that the real issue? I thought it was that trying to compete in such a stacked market, against the incumbent Usual Suspects who are gorged on "R&D investment" packages makes SF VC look a cakewalk so you just move to the US instead.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-06-20 10:12:14+00:00
I'm not sure how you'd run a double-blind experiment on this. You can single-blind the experimenters, but the participants are always going to know whether they've been drilling IQ tests.

Your point about counterfactuals is good, but… subjectively, I ended up with a better understanding of IQ test genre conventions (which is also why I bang on so much about "culturally-specific": they really are). My speed at solving the problems doubled or tripled, and my accuracy went from 80%-ish to near 100%. This did not translate to any improvements to my real-life skill at anything (although, I suppose it might've generalised a bit to other multiple-choice exams). I've got a lot more evidence to analyse than just an n=1 scatter plot.
by NetRunnerSu | 2025-06-20 10:12:18+00:00
The "emptiness" in meditation is not the dissolution of consciousness, but its dynamic reorganization. According to the Integrated Predictive Workspace Theory (IPWT), it's a higher-order cognitive activity that actively minimizes Free Energy (FEP) by suppressing low-level sensory predictions, thereby restructuring information integration (Ω). It maintains continuous Predictive Integrity (∫PI), ensuring the continuity of self-experience.

This parallels the "false vacuum" in physics: it's not empty, but contains potential energy. A true vacuum, the lowest energy state, would lead to a catastrophic, universe-altering decay. Thus, meditative emptiness is an active, structured "false void," not ultimate entropy.

https://dmf-archive.github.io/docs/story/facing-the-abyss/
by sofixa | 2025-06-20 10:12:48+00:00
> Without people choosing to open phones? Computers? Spending hours on the internet a day?

Exploiting basic human psychology to incite people to come back to consume whatever you're giving them (small dopamine hits) doesn't absolve the people doing it, but it doesn't absolve the people exploiting it either.

> “altering the human mind at will” is a pretty wild claim

How is it wild? Humans are social animals, and there have been numerous studies on the effect of social media on teenagers (up to and including body dysmorphia and suicides) or politics, including influencing the results of referenda or elections, or even starting riots.
by swiftcoder | 2025-06-20 10:13:21+00:00
People don't really choose those things anymore. A generation of us got to choose it a long while back, but the last few decades of everyone making that same choice has made it pretty inevitable - you can't bank without a smartphone, you can't do shit without access to email and/or SMS, you can't stay in contact with friends without a popular instant messaging platform...

Short of moving to a cabin in the woods, network effects hold us all hostage to the mind-altering, ad-delivering, capitalism machine
by ta32423hoi2h | 2025-06-20 10:13:25+00:00
Sure, if you don't mind living out in the sticks :P France has a big concentration of people around the big cities with a big empty diagonal in the middle of the country, form south-west to north-east (literally called 'la diagonale du vide'). Not only are you far from anything resembling a city, but infra for public & private transport are lacking. So if you can wfh and find a place with good 4g/5g coverage, and you won't miss social interactions, it can be great value. But as soon as you get closer to e.g. Paris or Lyon, things look very different.
by tpoacher | 2025-06-20 10:13:35+00:00
Speaking from a London perspective, though I'm sure a NY one is worse, not better.

> Sry lack of new houses seems doesn't seem like a cause for homelessness. If you can't afford a house in the big city, you move to a smaller one.

This would only make sense if the smaller houses were reasonably priced as opposed to the bigger ones. This is not the case.

And creating more housing would absolutely be a step in the right direction in terms of reducing extreme housing prices. Unless you don't believe in demand and supply economics, that is.

> Once they're down, it's almost impossible to get back up

Yes but that's partly because they can't afford to rent even basic lodging, let alone afford to buy one, and a basic roof over one's head is a pivotal basic need for most things one needs to do in life.