MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tehjoker | 2025-06-07 17:59:40+00:00
When evaluating these sorts of things you need to pair (a) whether you actually understand what was being claimed and (b) capability. The middle east has no capability to “destroy the west” so you can’t take it seriously in that sense, but it does seem like the west does want to control and dominate the middle east and has destroyed and toppled the governments of many middle eastern countries.
by Hnrobert42 | 2025-06-07 18:01:31+00:00
I have been here for years. Most things that get flagged are extremely objectionable or touch a political nerve.

I could see conservatives disliking that it questions capitalism's viability post AI. I could see liberals thinking you are making light of folks experiencing homelessness.

I think those are absurd, but with a low vote count, your post may only need a few absurd people to flag you.

Naturally, there could be other reasons things get flagged, but I never see them because they disappear too fast.

You could always ask @dang to weigh in. He might see something which violates the guidelines.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-07 18:01:34+00:00
"No human is illegal" are four well-chosen words that would be a meaningless truism except in opposition to the construct of "illegal alien."

If you thought "Science is Real" you might read something like

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/03/how-migration-...

and understand that the discourse of politically oriented folks about immigration is not at all evidence based. Tacking one cause to another cause tends to work terribly for progressive causes

The best critique of "Science is Real" is the Habermas classic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)

which points out a failure mode of our civilization in terms of reconciling expert knowledge, popular participation, and reality which remains unanswered.
by sltkr | 2025-06-07 18:02:25+00:00
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/porno-streit-vor-gericht-darf-d...

Skimming this it sounds like pornhub is/was at least partially blocked on the ISP level. Not sure about the extent of the blockage today but I could imagine that these blocks put a dent in their user numbers.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-06-07 18:02:41+00:00
> RIP. It still suprises me that people with resources die so early (he died at 74).

You don't know for how long he did have that disease, if anything, resources might have afforded him many more years of life at first place.So your comment strikes me as odd, given the fact that you can't judge how long did he live with such disease.

One of my friend's dad died from the same kind of cancer. Between the diagnosis and their death, 2 months passed, and that person had plenty of "resources"...
by jchrisa | 2025-06-07 18:02:46+00:00
I haven't posted it here yet b/c it's not show ready, but we have been building this vision -- I like to think of it as an e-bike for the mind.

https://vibes.diy/

We had a lot of fun last night with Vibecode Karaoke, where you code an app at the same time as you sing a song.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-06-07 18:02:50+00:00
> We have a national space agency that has had plenty of time and money to do the stuff SpaceX is doing.

That's quite inaccurate. NASA doesn't do much themselves, they hire external contractors but keep significant control over them. SpaceX got more funding and less control and they didn't start from scratch, NASA gave them all of their technical documentation, now-how and working prototypes.

NASA could have done everything SpaceX does if they were given the same conditions and funding, however, they've never had funding for blowing up five spaceships in row, they were held to much stricter standards.

The entire story looks like a blatant attempt to take control of space operations away from NASA and thus from the government.
by brudgers | 2025-06-07 18:03:06+00:00
Existing clients.

There is no easy button for good part time work.

Because why wouldn’t a business prefer someone who does what they need as a primary commitment?

From your client’s perspective, your schedule is their risk. So trust matters and a more committed contractor looks lower risk than a “hobbyist” who might abandon contracting for regular employment.

If you want clients you need extreme luck or the hard work of sales. Good luck.
by wormius | 2025-06-07 18:04:40+00:00
You're the one making the claim and assumption and "gut feeling" so it sounds like YOU are the one needing actual data for your "gut feelings".

Sorry this is the same bullshit people do when they see a person able to stand for a few hours and say "WHY ARE THEY ON DISABILITY" and ignoring the rest of the time they aren't seeing, or the people recovering. This is just hearsay, and since you're the one making these claims, then it behooves YOU to provide the proof.

But it's a nice little racket, make a claim and then demand those who deny it provide the proof. That's now how science or respectable arguments work.

This whole thread is full of such bullshit. And it's so people can feel superior to those who they think are scamming the system (in an ever increasing need to "crack down" on those who "abuse" the system (slowly killing it over time, or until you can get a DOGE in and ransack it like a viking ship plundering coastal communities).

Anyways, citation needed, since you're the one making the claims.
by username223 | 2025-06-07 18:04:42+00:00
The fact that potable water is so cheap in the developed world that you can use a gallon of it to flush your toilet is a miracle of civilization. Filter it if that makes you feel better, but it's a waste of money, and a dismissal of a major achievement in public health.

But hey, at least it's not bottled water, which is basically tap water that has been put in a single-use plastic bottle and trucked across the country.
by Drakim | 2025-06-07 18:05:47+00:00
Because it's the truth. If you tell the AI that it's actually a human librarian, it might ask for a raise, or days off. If you tell it to search for something, it might insist that it needs a computer to do that. There will inherently be a information mismatch between reality and your input if the AI is operating on falsehoods.
by jrockway | 2025-06-07 18:06:09+00:00
I think this is pretty well stated. I'll add that while nixpkgs isn't nix, nixpkgs is kind of the good part. I use NixOS and for the first time in my life, I'm using the latest version of the Linux kernel on release day. That's pretty excellent. While I've come to tolerate Debian Stable in my old age, it is always like stepping a few years into the past ;)

The Nix language is something I could criticize for hours without getting bored, but it is what it is. It's old and they did the best they could and it's probably not worth changing. The Nix build system feels awfully primitive to me, often rebuilding stuff that doesn't need to be rebuilt for no good reason. (For example, my NixOS installer ISO has a ton of the build depend on the cmdline I pass to the kernel [just console=ttyS2,1500000n8], and so changing the speed of my serial port requires about 3 minutes of build time. It's goofy and makes me laugh, I'm not going to stop using Nix because of it... but it's also something that I wouldn't let happen in MY build.)

Nix for Docker images is, in my opinion, what it's the worst at. A long time ago, I was writing some software in Go and needed to add the pg_dump binary from Postgres to my container image. The infrastructure team suggested using Nix, which I did, but our images blew up from 50MB of our compressed go binary to 1.5GB of God Knows What. pg_dump is 464K. I ended up doing things my way, with Bazel and rules_debian to install apt packages, and the result (on top of distroless) was much cleaner and more compact. My opinion with some actual Nix experience is that a Nix system always ends up being 1.4GB. My installer ISO is 1.4GB. My freshly installed machine is 1.4GB. That's just how it is, for whatever reason.

Finally, the whole "I would like to build a large C++ project" situation is a well worn path. s/C++/Rust doesn't change anything material. There are build systems that exist to make the library situation more tolerable. They are all as complicated as Nix, but some work much better for this use case. Nix is trying to be a build system for building other people's software, supporting nixpkgs, and lands on the very generic side of things. Build systems that are designed for building your software tend to do better at that job. Personally, I'm happy with Bazel and probably wouldn't use anything else (except "go build" for go-only projects), but there are many, many, many other options. 99% of the time, you should use that instead of Nix (and write a flake so people can install the latest version of Your Thing with home-manager; or maybe I'm just the only person that uses their own software day to day and you don't actually need to do that...)
by pstuart | 2025-06-07 18:06:21+00:00
> and certain parties are so anti spending they won't try to fix it

It's one certain party, and the situation is worse than that -- they don't want any of the opposing party's legislation succeed that would be recognized by the people as a good thing and make that party look good.

This is why partisan politics is a pox on the people -- loyalty to party over country is literally treason but is celebrated by party members.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-07 18:07:02+00:00
Money quote:

> readings of PFAS that exceed EPA limits have been found in just 8% of small public water systems (those that serve fewer than 10,000 people) and 15% of large ones

15%!

Anyone who trusts their municipal water supply because of *handwave* regulations and reports needs to read that again.

Even if my water were 100% pristine as the author's apparently is, which they only know for their own homes because they've tested it at their taps half a dozen times with different laboratories, my tap water still tastes awful, and maintaining a dedicated three stage filter spout next to my kitchen faucet costs me approximately nothing and provides substantially better tasting water. And I don't need to worry about whether I live in the next Flint, Michigan.

It took two whole years for administrators in Flint, Michigan to acknowledge their lead pipe crisis. What your treatment plant claims it does and what your municipal government claims your safety profile is do not matter one bit if you aren't constantly testing the water actually coming out of your taps.

I'd rather just filter my water. It's much less hassle and I get better tasting water as a nice bonus.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-06-07 18:09:32+00:00
A surprising amount of Americans refuse to drink tap water entirely, in their own suburban homes with quality municipal water, or anywhere else they travel, holding the opinion that plastic bottled water is safer and better. Of course bottled water is regulated far less than tap water, and contains an ungodly amount of microplastics from manufacturing and storage.

Under-sink RO systems seem pretty great to me, anywhere you live. With a small holding tank, municipal water pressure is enough to drive small RO cartridges, requiring no electrical power to run, and giving more than sufficient flow rate for all drinking water. I think the biggest downside is a few hundred dollars in initial setup, and cartridges every year or two. This seems safer than relying on the changing opinions of experts as to what amount of harmful chemicals are safe to drink.
by api | 2025-06-07 18:10:23+00:00
… because nominally socialist movements have never committed genocide? Go read Gulag Archipelago or listen to the recent Behind the Bastards podcast on Pol Pot.

It seems to be something humans do, a kind of tribal warfare or “raiding” program deep in the brain stem that can be activated. Nobody has a monopoly on it. It seems possible to activate these behaviors with any pattern of rhetoric that dehumanizes a group of people and creates a powerful in group out group schism. That can be framed in any way — right wing, left wing, anything.
by ajb | 2025-06-07 18:10:30+00:00
My parents drink tap water, but every morning my father would pour away a few liters of water in case the supply pipe was made of lead and the water sitting in it overnight had absorbed some. (This is actually the official government advice in the UK, if your house is older than 1970. Of course, the better option is to replace it with non lead, if you can.)
by mbac32768 | 2025-06-07 18:11:01+00:00
> As to why not Linux? I don't want Linux. It's too bogged down by corporate interests.

This is a rather funny statement because at various points, high level execs at Apple Computer (and on another occasion Sun Micro) invited Linus Torvalds out to lunch and pitched teaming up together to take on Microsoft. Linus turned them down.

Then a little bit later Jordan Hubbard announces FreeBSD would be the UNIX layer of OS X.
by jacobolus | 2025-06-07 18:13:35+00:00
The biggest root problem with California governmental structure is harmful constitutional features added by public referendum, especially Proposition 13 (1978). I guess you can blame "government" for that, but it doesn't seem like quite the right target.

The water crisis is a difficult problem because water rights are complicated and central valley farmers are an influential political group very focused on short-term preservation of water access and not as concerned with long-term sustainability.

> easily solvable housing, education, transportation and mental health crises

I submit that these are much less "easily solvable" than you claim. (What have you personally done to work on these problems, if they are so "easy"?) Legislators don't get to wave a magic wand, but need support of a wide variety of stakeholders who have contradictory demands and expectations (some of which are fairly unrealistic, but anyway..).

Education for example has competing goals of local funding vs. inter-city equity. Should the wealthiest towns get to spend arbitrarily much local property tax money on their own children's public schools while the poorer town next door is running out of toilet paper, or should the state try to equalize funding between schools to give every child the best opportunity? There's not really a "correct" answer to this, and every possible choice has some serious disadvantages.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-06-07 18:13:54+00:00
A better way would be to only allow soft content for unverified users, so youngsters wouldn't be brainwashed and hooked by the excessive ram up a train in someone's arse kinda mindless, cromagnon like content. Politicians must be replaced with something more human centric. All they do is bring forth rules to deny something, instead of trying to cure the epidemic porn brings into the life of everyday people.
Ask HN: Do you often waste time searching for links you know exist?
by ronakkhunt | 2025-06-07 18:14:01+00:00
We’re exploring better ways to manage and recall important URLs—without messy bookmarks or endless searching. Something like: "go/todos", "go/project", "go/roadmap" etc. Together with search, search in browser address bar as you type. and whatever it takes to access links faster for all king of work roles.

Your input can help shape a tool that saves time and frustration.
by akritrime | 2025-06-07 18:14:09+00:00
In a few years as image generation consistency improves, any video game artist can go from just creating characters for some other game dev to creating full-on animated sprites directly. Instead of having to depend on someone else to code their ideas, they can directly create that game. And the inverse will also be true, game devs can use AI to create generic arts for their game and work faster, create games that depends more on tech than art. Both flavors of games will bring something unique and doesn't invalidate the work of the other as useless.
by vlark | 2025-06-07 18:14:28+00:00
Plugging "Hi my nephew's birthday is coming up soon and I want to get a gift for him. He likes dinosaurs and roblox. What gift can I get him that's in the range of $50?" into the free version of ChatGPT returns the following (I removed the links to the products):

Here are two great gift ideas under $50 that combine his love for dinosaurs and Roblox:

Roblox $50 Gift Card

Perfect for a Roblox fan — lets him choose his own Robux to spend on in-game items.

Comes with a free exclusive virtual item, as noted by Walmart, Best Buy, and others.

Instant digital delivery or physical card options make it easy and flexible.

Jurassic World Imaginext Thrashing Indominus Rex (14″)

A large, interactive dinosaur figure (~14″ tall) with thrashing action—great for imaginative play.

Priced at $49.99, so it stays within your budget.

Why these are top picks:

The Roblox gift card is a flexible present that he can use for virtual gear, outfits, or game passes—personalized fun guaranteed. Cards also include bonus Robux and exclusive items .

The Imaginext Indominus Rex is a hands-on toy that encourages creative, active play. It's well-reviewed and fits your price range perfectly.

How to choose: Digital vs. physical gift: The Roblox card can be emailed (great for last-minute gifting) or bought as a tangible card.

Play preferences: Go for the dinosaur figure if he loves real-world play. Choose the gift card if he's big on Roblox screen time.

Bonus idea: You could pair them–get the gift card as the main gift and tuck the dinosaur figure into the package for a fun hatching surprise.

If you'd like other recommendations—perhaps dinosaur LEGO sets or interactive dinosaur books—just say the word!

--- This is why AI is going to eat traditional key-word searching's lunch.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-07 18:14:47+00:00
Oh, I can explain it pretty easily.

I listened to rush a fair bit. It started because he was my father's favorite broadcaster when I was a child and it continued on into my early 20s.

One thing that rush did in an excellent way was making you feel like you were smart, special, and inherently in the right by listening to him and supporting him. It was much like listening to a preacher if you have any sort of religious upbringing (which I did).

And while rush did primarily work at demonizing people, he often demonized "the right people". Primarily democrats. He also knew his audience well and did a great job of hyping the "us v them" notions. He knew a lot of his audience was rural, for example, so he'd spend a good amount of time talking about how much more wise country folk and truck drivers were vs people that live and work in the cities. He had an answer for why things were bad, it's the unions, feminists, democrats, muslims, big government, clinton, obama, socialists, communists, etc. He could always give a reason why something was bad and would expressly tell his audience "You don't need to look into this, because listening to me will make you smarter than any college professor". He trained his audience to explicitly trust him.

And, frankly, he could be both funny and entertaining to listen to. He'd take in calls and had a good delay that allowed him to only air the dumbest liberals on the planet. He was further not afraid of simply hanging up on them and calling them morons if they ever started to get the upper hand in a conversation.

It also helped that in terms of broadcasting, he was infinitely accessible. I, in rural idaho, had really easy access to him because radio stations carried him. AFAIK, the most left wing broadcast in idaho in my youth was NPR. Which, today I find laughable that I thought of it as "leftist".
by dist-epoch | 2025-06-07 18:15:02+00:00
> "Adam can lift 1000 pounds of steel. Can Adam lift 1000 pounds of feathers?"

Worked for me:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6844813a-6e4c-8006-b560-c0be223eeb...

gemma3-27b, a small model, had an interesting take:

> This is a classic trick question!

> While Adam can lift 1000 pounds, no, he likely cannot lift 1000 pounds of feathers.

> Volume: Feathers take up a huge amount of space for their weight. 1000 pounds of feathers would be an enormous volume – likely far too large for Adam to even get under, let alone lift. He'd be trying to lift a massive, bulky cloud.

> Practicality: Even if he could somehow get it under a barbell, the feathers would shift and compress, making a secure grip impossible.

> The question plays on our understanding of weight versus volume. It's designed to make you focus on the "1000 pounds" and forget about the practicalities of lifting something so voluminous.

Tried the counting question on the smallest model, gemma-3n-34b, it can run on a smartphone:

> Yes, if Adam can count to 14000, he can definitely count to 13500. Counting to a smaller number is a basic arithmetic operation. 13500 is less than 14000.
by jchw | 2025-06-07 18:15:08+00:00
> If Nixpkgs is the default and alternatives require additional research and effort then for most users it _is_ Nix.

This feels rather dismissive. They wrote a bespoke solution, not a weekend toy. Surely you'd agree that they have more than just surface-level knowledge of Nix, to be able to distinguish between Nix and Nixpkgs? They're already doing non-trivial things by merging multiple commits of Nixpkgs in order to get different versions of different tools!

> Is this obvious, simple, and default behaviour?

Well, Nix doesn't do much of anything "by default", it's a pretty generic tool. But insofar as it matters, Yes, pretty much. `dockerTools.buildLayeredImage` will in fact automatically build a layered image, and it is the most "obvious" way (IMO) to build a docker image. There is also `dockerTools.buildImage` but there's no particular reason to use it unless you specifically want a flattened image. (The documentation available is clear enough about this. In fact, in practice, much of the time you'd probably actually want `dockerTools.streamLayeredImage` instead, which is also documented well enough, but that's beyond the point here.)

But that's not my point. As far as I know, Nixpacks don't even use this functionality, I'm pretty sure they wrote their own OCI image building tools. And in that sense, it is not obvious why they can't split the Nix store and the article doesn't explain it.

My point wasn't to be dismissive about the difficulties of Nix, it's that the blog post doesn't really do a good job of explaining things. It makes it sound like these are normal problems in Nix, but they are not; even the official Nixpkgs documentation often points to third party solutions for when you're working outside of Nixpkgs, since most of the Nixpkgs tools is geared for Nixpkgs and NixOS usage. As an example, take a look at this section of the Rust documentation in Nixpkgs:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...

So even if you're relatively new to Nix, as long as you are reading the documentation you will indeed definitely be aware of the fact that there is more to the Nix ecosystem than just Nixpkgs. It may not be surface-level Nix knowledge, but it's certainly close.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-07 18:16:56+00:00
> A surprising amount of Americans refuse to drink tap water entirely, in their own suburban homes with quality municipal water

It shouldn't be surprising that Americans might understand that their water might not actually be safe despite the municipal government saying it is. It took two whole years for administrators in Flint, Michigan to acknowledge their lead pipe crisis. Trust needs to be earned and maintained, and America is notoriously bad at maintaining critical public infrastructure.
by jasoncartwright | 2025-06-07 18:17:11+00:00
Tangential! I bought a 210L water butt to collect rainwater to water plants a while back. It cost £110 to my door with the all installation parts. Out of interest I looked up that the cost to fill it with pristine London tap water would be ~52p. 211 uses and I'm at breakeven, money-wise.