MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oskarkk | 2025-06-17 14:19:37+00:00
You don't have to be a geek, you don't need a rack, you don't need much time to do this. Just buy some external drive and copy at least something there. We're talking about "30 years of irreplaceable photos and work". Doing a backup one time a year would save 90%+ of that data in case of problems, without any need for technical knowledge or dedicating significant time to this.

I agree that the companies should not be allowed to just lock you out of your data like that, but even if there was a strongly enforced law mandating companies to not do this, you still should have some backup. Many things could happen, and doing a simple backup is a very small investment which can save you from losing 30 years of data (even if the risk is very small).
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-17 14:19:42+00:00
Lit 1.0 used non-standard decorators in 2019: https://lit.dev/blog/2019-02-05-lit-element-and-lit-html-rel...

A decorators proposal (and it was a different one than what Google was building stuff off of in 2019) didn't make it to Stage 3 until 2022 (and still hasn't made it to Stage 4).

This also contributed to the idea for years that Web Components were more complicated to support in non-Google browsers or without complicated build processes.
by escapecharacter | 2025-06-17 14:19:49+00:00
I am a person who loves building and testing new interaction models. When you do this as a team, you end up climbing away from the main local maxima and building a new one. However, you get so used to living in that new local maxima and thinking about how great it is, you forget how to onboard people to it.

With a new interaction model, it often matters more to build the path to get people there, not the new local maxima itself (unless you're going to get kids to adopt it first, but Wave was definitely not targeted at them).

The Wave "onboarding" experience definitely should have had more demo videos, had features that turned on or were discoverable slowly, or had sandbox rooms where you could try it out with basic bots. It's a major missed opportunity that Google didn't do this; it feels to me like Google didn't have an internal playtesting or dogfooding culture where they intentionally left some people out so they could be fresh. I wrote about how to build this culture here: https://dustinfreeman.org/blog/playtest-rituals/
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-17 14:19:53+00:00
I use a passport card, doesn’t contain my home address and works for age/identity verification and TSA (domestic air travel). With that said, TSA IDEMIA hardware that has to make a passport query to identity proof at a checkpoint is a few seconds slower than a driver's license or Global Entry card if that matters to you.

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

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...
by brucehoult | 2025-06-17 14:20:21+00:00
I suppose everything that isn't a toy implementation has a store queue.

Even the U54 Core Complex (later U54-MC) manual from August 2018 states in Section 3.4 "Stores are pipelined and commit on cycles where the data memory system is otherwise idle. Loads to addresses currently in the store pipeline result in a five-cycle penalty."

It probably inherited this from Rocket.
by ecshafer | 2025-06-17 14:20:46+00:00
These studies are all deeply flawed. They find willing participants, give them some drugs, then ask how they feel about it. Of course they say they feel spiritual and connected with the world and all of that, that's what the drugs do. But I know plenty of people who claim that mushrooms or lsd were spiritually awakening and connected them with the world, who wouldn't think twice about stealing from an old woman's purse, robbing people, or worse. I know alcoholics who claim they don't have a problem and think drinking is just good fun, but are also violent assholes when they drink.
by raattgift | 2025-06-17 14:21:12+00:00
If everything must be constrained to the lattice points, yes. However, empty space has high Boltzmann entropy: you can cut a patch of empty space from here and swap it for the same volume of empty space from there, and the two coarse grain macrostates will be indistinguishable.

Expanding de Sitter quasi-vacuum has tremendous growth in entropy. Gibbons and Hawking gives this (for 3+1d de Sitter) as a quarter of the horizon area: S_H = \frac{Area_{H}}{4} \sim H^{-2} with the "quasi-" giving us increasing growth in the horizon area as DoFs exit the horizon compared to classical pure de Sitter vacuum.

I'm not sure how confining some species of matter to expanding lattice is different from quasi-vacuum in the limit where the lattice spacing is large. I guess you have to abolish continuum spacetime in favour of a taxicab geometry with an analogue of dark energy? Otherwise, how does it differ from an isotropic homogeneous FLRW dust?
by bayindirh | 2025-06-17 14:21:36+00:00
Your airline, to bug them to land to a gate closer to luggage hall (which might cost them more), and to the airport operator, to don't make especially convoluted paths to mask other operational delays (if there are).

OTOH, you can't make things easier if the airport is really big. e.g.: Rome, New York, Amsterdam (to an extent) and Istanbul.
by MontagFTB | 2025-06-17 14:21:37+00:00
This isn’t new. Have we not already seen this everywhere already? The example at the top of the article (in a completely different field, no less) just goes to show humans had this particular sin nailed well before AI came along.

Bloated software and unstable code bases abound. This is especially prevalent in legacy code whose maintenance is handed down from one developer to the next, where their understanding of the code base differs from their predecessor’s. Combine that with pressures to ship now vs. getting it right, and you have the perfect recipe for an insipid form of technical debt.
by nathan_compton | 2025-06-17 14:21:50+00:00
I think that might oversimplify things, in addition to being a model-laden description. There are empty-space solutions to GR (and indeed many a physicist has found the intuition that there is nothing but empty space appealing, cf geometrodynamics) and in these situations spacetime itself interacts with itself, no particles at all.

In any case, I would say this is a somewhat bold description of what we know about gravity.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-06-17 14:22:01+00:00
If this is about that Tomb Raider mod that someone mentioned up above, this reaction is so overblown as to be hysterical. Three sentences of text that indicate a game that came out 30 years ago might have some offensive racial stereotypes is somehow so egregious to you? What is this about "restoring an experience?" The text displays before the game starts; it doesn't impact your experience at all. I highly doubt 99.99% of people care, let alone are upset that Crystal Dynamics would dare to acknowledge that games from the 90s weren't always tactful in their depictions of diverse ethnic groups.

It's so dishonest to strip out the context in your reply to try and make this issue sound like some valiant crusade when it's really just some racists who enjoyed a racist thing feeling bad that someone told them they should feel bad for being racists.
by justinrubek | 2025-06-17 14:22:45+00:00
My personal motivation for doing these things is precisely because the device doesn't just work™ out of the box. If it was sufficient at its job, such hacks would not be required. It's because it isn't that they are reached for.

Yes, the current trade-off seems to be that stuff like that can break. That isn't the desired state, but it is what was prescribed by the manufacturer who seemingly has an interest in making the device less functional than it could be.
by epistasis | 2025-06-17 14:22:56+00:00
This is what I think about 95% of startup web pages too.

Somebody told them to advertise the benefits, rather than the what, and it leads unintelligible meaningless ad copy.

Probably, Google didn't want to limit what Wave was and wanted to learn from user usage patterns that people invent. Give people a blank slate and they know to take notes or draw. Give them a blank slate with knobs and drawers and zippers, and they will be wondering "what does this zipper do, why do I need that on a blank slate?"
by davidmurdoch | 2025-06-17 14:23:03+00:00
Read somewhere a few years ago this was a manufacturer defect and they were in the hook for replacing them all.

I've (not seriously) considered buying a pellet gun to shoot out the 4 massive neon purple lights at the entrance to my quaint 1970s era neighborhood. They didn't remove the old light poles after installing the new ones about 3 years ago, so it's double lit with sodium vapor and purple now.

Curious is there is a single person on the planet that prefers the white (er, purple) street lights?
by xnorswap | 2025-06-17 14:23:05+00:00
Paid mods are problematic because what happens if a game update breaks the API the mod uses? This frequently occurs in many games. Suddenly you've got an unhappy customer, and with money comes liability.

I doubt any game developer would want the burden of being liable to maintain backward compatibility for old mod APIs to support third party mods, but if they take a cut of any money then they ought to be responsible for maintaining that.

Part of the reason KSP has ironically had a modding renaissance is because the community knows that there won't be any updates which could break some of the more ambitious mods being made.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-17 14:23:11+00:00
UBI will lower rent.

The most common criticism of UBI is that landlords will raise their prices to capture all of the gains. I disagree, I believe that a properly implemented UBI will lower rent prices.

Rent rises quickly because both supply and demand are inelastic and renters are relatively price-insensitive. Any market with relatively fixed supply and demand experiences large and quick price changes. The most prominent example is oil -- a small change in supply causes a large change in price because demand is inelastic; people don't stop buying gas just because the price went up. But oil experiences quick price changes in both directions. Rent only seems to increase.

Housing is a necessity. If there are more families needing housing than there are houses, families will pay as much as they are able to ensure they're not the ones without housing. So when supply exceeds demand, price rises rapidly. The converse is not true. Most landlords are not as desparate to rent their dwellings. When supply exceeds demand they have the ability to say no, they can and do choose to leave the dwelling empty rather than accept a lower price.

But prices do eventually come down when supply exceeds demand. For example, the rent for 1 bedroom apartments in Toronto is down 10% in the last 12 months.

If implemented poorly UBI could definitely be inflationary. If UBI is paid for by money printing rather than through taxes it will be inflationary. But if it doesn't increase the money supply and is constant across the country UBI will lower rents rather than raising them.

Why? Becuase it makes demand elastic. Right now people are moving to the expensive cities because that's where the jobs are. They don't really have a choice. UBI gives them a choice. You can move to San Francisco and work 2 jobs to be able to afford rent, or you can move to West Virginia and pay your rent out of UBI and not need a job. Some people are going to do that. Not many, but likely enough.

There's a saying. "100 supply, 101 demand; price goes up. 100 supply, 99 demand, price goes down". Small changes on the margin can have a large impact on prices.

Keep in mind that any UBI that is fully tax supported is going to necessarily be very miserly. US average income if $40K. So if you set tax rates at 100% and spent every penny on UBI then UBI could be $40K. Obviously neither assumption is going to be true. Tax rates will have to be significantly less than 100%, and we'll spend money on our military, etc. A UBI of more than $1000/month seems highly unlikely without money printing. And there are basically only three ways you can live on $1000/month: Move to a low cost of living region like West Virgina, live on the street or live in highly shared accomodation. All three of these scenarios reduce housing demand in expensive cities rather than lower it.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-17 14:23:34+00:00
> Thats exactly what is happening today but in reverse.

No, it's not.

For a start: it's not some overlording organization demanding this from the top: it's a ground-swell of people who come from diverse backgrounds entering the industry and making their voices heard.

For another it isn't an edict at all from an organization, government-affiliated or otherwise. It's companies realizing that making inclusive games boosts sales, and it doesn't hurt that they get a huge dose of free marketing from the Outrage Merchants by courting controversy that no well adjusted person gives two shits about, and well adjusted people tend to have more money which is all they care about.

If you don't like nonbinary pronouns, don't use them. If you find the new Horizon simply unbearable because Aloy doesn't look like a pornstar, don't buy it. There is simply no version of this where "Every product in this market isn't suitable for me, therefore I am oppressed" is going to scan for anyone outside your weird little group.

Touch grass.
by SpaceNugget | 2025-06-17 14:23:45+00:00
According to a quick search on google, which is not very useful these days, the maximum query length is 32 words or 2000 characters and change depending on which answer you trust.

Whatever it is specifically, the idea that you could just paste a 600 line stack trace unmodified into google, especially "way before AI" and get pointed to the relevant bit for your exact problem is obviously untrue.
by wilkinsonsmooth | 2025-06-17 14:23:54+00:00
One thing about AI that I feel like no company that is already inserting into their workforce is thinking about is what the future looks like when your company depends on it. If AI is doing the work that junior employees used to do, then you are losing the base knowledge that your employees used to learn. Maybe in the coming years it starts to take over more and more roles that people used to do and companies can decrease their workforce. AI comes a lot cheaper than real people (at least that's the selling point).

Most tech companies however tend to operate following a standard enshittification schedule. First they are very cheap, supported by investments and venture capitalists. Then they build a large user base who become completely dependent on them as alternatives disappear (in this case as they lose the institutional knowledge that their employees used to have). Then they seek to make money so the investors can make their profits. In this case I could see the cost of AI rising a lot, after companies have already built it in to their business. AI eventually has to start making money. Just like Amazon had to, and Facebook, and Uber, and Twitter, and Netflix, etc.

From all the talk I see of companies embracing AI wholeheartedly it seems like they aren't looking any further than the next quarter. It only costs so much per month to replace so many man hours of work! I'm sure that won't last once AI is deeply embedded into so many businesses that they can start charging whatever they want to.
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-17 14:24:45+00:00
Eh, it's not quite that simple.

What the person above you is thinking of is almost certainly "swarm classic" which is actually dead (see: https://github.com/docker-archive/classicswarm)

Docker does support a different "Swarm mode" style deployment configuration, which is functionally https://github.com/moby/swarmkit, and really feels much more like Kubernetes to me than the original docker swarm.

I'm... honestly not sure why you'd pick it as a solution over all the k8s tooling they've been doing instead. It feels like the same level of complexity and then only benefit is that it's easier to configure than bare metal k8s, but things like k3s and microk8s tackle that same space.

If anyone is really using the swarm mode for a production service, I'd love to hear different opinions, though!
by perlcommunity | 2025-06-17 14:25:14+00:00
It follows when someone discovers Perl,

"Yes, we know it's nothing new It's just a waste of time We have no need for ancient ways The world is doing fine

Another toy will help destroy The elder race of man Forget about your silly whim It doesn't fit the plan.

I can't believe you're saying These things just can't be true Our world could use this beauty Just think what we might do.

Listen to my music And hear what it can do There's something here as strong as life I know that it will reach you.

Don't annoy us further We have our work to do. Just think about the average What use have they for you?"

-Rush, 2112
by Ajedi32 | 2025-06-17 14:25:53+00:00
> when someone needs something to survive, the market stops working because the value is infinite to them

No, that's precisely the situation where markets work best: when resources are scarce. A single gallon of water isn't worth much to a data center or a farmer; you can't water a field with just one gallon. But it's potentially worth a lot to someone who's thirsty. Prices will go up, demand will drop, and supply will increase to meet demand, unless you kneecap that process by imposing artificial price controls - then you'll have shortages.

> you can have people who need it but are too poor to pay what others will pay for it

You're right, markets are not charities; they're only concerned with efficiency. Caring for people who can't take care of themselves isn't efficient, but it is the right thing to do. Even in this situation though you're better off with markets than without them, because it's way easier for people, organizations, and governments with excess resources to provide for the needy when they're operating in an efficient environment than in an inefficient one.

> If someone [...] buys all the water

That's called a monopoly and I agree that's not good, because if one person owns/controls everything it's no longer a free market; you're essentially back to central planning. Individuals and data centers should be able to buy their water in a competitive market, not one dominated by a single supplier.

> It also doesn't work when the product is common use, like a road or a park

Markets are actually great at allocating things like road space. NYC's congestion pricing is doing wonders for the efficiency of their road system right now, and tolls have been a thing basically forever. But I agree in principle it's hard for markets to allocate resources that there's no practical mechanism of charging for. Thankfully, water generally doesn't fall into that category.
by bandoti | 2025-06-17 14:26:29+00:00
The hamburger menu is a pet peeve of mine! It takes much less cognitive load to simply read the word “menu”.

Also, it used to be important when screens were nowhere near as wide but now there’s no longer any reason to use it the way it is.

Perhaps it is permissible on a busy UI with many buttons, but that job was taken by the ellipses, which also takes less cognitive burden!
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-17 14:26:29+00:00
> of course the fruits of this productivity should be shared with the wider population

we're quickly getting closer to that stage with the promises of AI-increased productivity; and yet, there is not the faintest signal from those building and profiting from AI that the fruits of the increased productivity will be shared; quite to the contrary it will be captured almost entirely by shareholders -- why are investors pouring hundreds of $B into AI otherwise?
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-17 14:26:33+00:00
Conversations with Tyler Cowen, Complex Systems with patio11 are two off the top of my head that concentrate on useful information, and certainly aren't "> 90% fluff and human interaction sounds".

Unless of course people talking in any capacity is human interaction sounds, in which case, yes, every podcast is > 90% human interaction sounds.
by donatj | 2025-06-17 14:26:57+00:00
My parents live just 40 miles outside Minneapolis and use a very unreliable T-Mobile hotspot because the DSL available to them still tops out at a couple megabit. Their internet drops constantly and for completely unknown reasons.

I've been trying to convince them to try Starlink, but they're unwilling to pay for the $500+ equipment costs.
by Bender | 2025-06-17 14:27:35+00:00
It seems this is an issue that has risen and fallen a few times since 1797 in the United States of America [1] so it seems there may not be a complete answer to the question at hand and there may be some unwritten or underlying challenges not yet addressed if this keeps coming up. I think the better questions would be what have we not done differently in the last 228 years that would move this forward or what have we done to paint ourselves into a corner?

My own personal concern would be what impact UBI would have on existing social security that everyone in the US has spent their entire adult life paying into. Social Security is neither a benefit nor a welfare program. It is a paid for security blanket that all working people in the USA have paid into with no option to opt out. Would social security go away and would I get all my money back?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_by_coun...
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-17 14:28:01+00:00
Yeah that's exactly what happens. Especially because not every app allows per-user notification control on android so I just disable notifications altogether for the apps I don't use so much. I only want to be notified for the most important stuff, I don't have time to constantly tend to my phone every time someone says something. So I tend to look at it just at the end of the day.

One thing that's nice about matrix is that you can select keywords to trigger notifications. Most of the other apps don't have that. So I tell people to say PRIO or PRORITY if their message is really important, so they can force a notification. Any other messages just get looked at when I get around to it and don't notify. If they abuse the priority I simply remove their right to do that.

But none of the other apps seems to be able to do these keywords or (even better) have an option to mark a message as urgent or something.
by avemg | 2025-06-17 14:28:44+00:00
But I find THAT attitude to be quite rude. You are prioritizing your preferences when it's me that you're reaching out to for help. Nobody's saying you have to write a complete and detailed problem description in your first message, but give me something to know what i'm getting into.

BAD: Hey, you there?

GOOD: Hey, you there? I'm trying to do X but I'm running into some issues and I wanted to get your advice.

Once I've responded and you know you have my attention, then you commit to filling me in on the gory details.
by esperent | 2025-06-17 14:28:59+00:00
I got curious after writing my comment and decided I should research it. What I found was a couple of people on reddit saying it was possible, but getting a ton of downvotes and replies saying that they're wrong, that it's no longer possible. At the very least it looked fairly convoluted, and possibly you need to also own the game on steam to download mods for non steam (pirated or otherwise) versions of the game.

I don't have an oar in this fight - my comment about pirated games was mostly tongue in cheek - but I am glad the main mod site isn't tied to owning the game on one particular store.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-17 14:28:59+00:00
I couldn't agree more. The hamburger menu is in my list of the worst UI elements around. It has nothing good to recommend it.

It's barely tolerable in situations where screen space is at a premium, but it's still pretty awful.

> Its growing ubiquity helped standardize its meaning: Through repeated exposure, users learned to recognize and interpret the icon with increasing confidence.

Sure: it's the symbol of the "junk drawer" of the UI. Who knows what random assortment lurks in there? It's a place you go only as a last resort.