MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Brian_K_White | 2025-06-21 06:55:47+00:00
I pay for youtube too and it still completely sucks. I hate when people try this bs.

* I don't want to have to have an account and be logged in to it.

* I pay for youtube but I don't always get to use my account. Other people's houses and devices exist. Other people's accounts exist even on my own device.

* I pay for youtube and still have to get all the baked in ads.

* I pay for youtube and have a wonderful black screen with no suggestions or discoverability because I have history turned off. (the feature does not depend on the history data, because for years this was never a problem, only a few years ago they suddenly decided to essentially penalize people who don't play ball like good little data cows). This even after I partially gave in and subscribed to a bunch of channels, which previously I never did.

* I pay for youtube and still have no control to disable shorts. (don't tell me about browser plugins. The world is far more varied than one browser on one pc. There is no youtube browser plugins for roku or the 100 other platforms that have youtube players. And even on a pc, you're not always on your own pc where you are free to hack on the browser.)

Here is the value you get from paying for youtube:

It's having only 8 of your fingernails pulled out instead of all 10.
by ethersteeds | 2025-06-21 06:56:02+00:00
It is sustained by grants and donations, although I'm not clear how near or far it is from being indefinitely sustainable.

The Signal foundation was established in 2018 with $105 million from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, and it actively solicits donations. I give $20 a month.

They released a blog post at the end of 2023 emphasizing the need for donations and estimating operating costs would cross $50m/year in 2025.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
by sMarsIntruder | 2025-06-21 06:56:40+00:00
> In March I argued that we should choose Bluesky over X/Twitter, based on the obvious reason of boycotting companies connected to Musk.

Let’s f*ck up Zuck just because OP doesn’t like him. How can a post like this be at the top?

Please not that I advocate people to use Signal.
by motorest | 2025-06-21 06:56:42+00:00
> Workers can only handle HTTP using the provided HTTP interface.

Not true. Cloudflare Workers support Cron triggers and RPC calls in the form of service bindings. Also, Cloudflare Queues support consumer workers.

Claiming "Workers can only handle HTTP" is also meaningless as HTTP is also used to handle events. For example, Cloudflare Queues supports consumers using HTTP short polling.
by Certhas | 2025-06-21 06:58:05+00:00
So nVidia has a huge software lead because of open source developers like you? Or because people employed by nVidia write closed source high performance drivers and kernels? Or because the people employed by Meta and Google that wrote Torch and Tensorflow built it on nVidia?

I am really sympathetic to the complaints. It would just be incredibly useful to have competition and options further down the food chain. But the argument that this is a core strategic mistake makes no sense to me.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-06-21 06:59:01+00:00
Sure, but DC relative to what? Can't be ground since that connection isn't there, so that leaves neutral.

I've got half an alligator clip on my workbench, the other half disappeared when I connected it to the floating ground of a 5VDC system. It just so happens the ground was floating on top of 120VAC. The ATmega didn't care, it only ever saw 5V between its Vcc and Vee, however once I made the mistaken of connecting its "ground" to an actual ground sparks flew.
by nofunsir | 2025-06-21 06:59:06+00:00
>I can view it under any terms I chose until they find a way to exclude me without excluding all the attention that being on the public Web gives them.

This is the unsung argument everyone forgets! It goes to the very start of why someone might register a domain name and set up a website on the... World Wide Web... for people to visit with their User Agent software, ask for some HTML and get some HTML back. "HOW DARE YOU NOT DO A RANDOM SOCIALLY DEFINED THING AFTER ASKING FOR OUR HTML (AND OTHERS' MP4S)?"
by deafpolygon | 2025-06-21 06:59:07+00:00
It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.

I’m surprised even more at the P5R sales! I might actually have to give it a real try— tried it a couple years ago (P5 non-R) and didn’t really take to it, but I was put off by the whole anime vibe.
by loehnsberg | 2025-06-21 06:59:38+00:00
I made that same experience. You can get individual people to install it, sure, you may even get a group to do this if you start it, but good luck convincing the other parents of your kid‘s sports team group, which btw you must be part of.

Unfortunately, we living beings tend to go with what costs the least amount of energy - this being thinking and going through extra efforts to achieve a goal. Hence, we‘re stuck with WhatsApp by a law of nature.
by globular-toast | 2025-06-21 07:00:56+00:00
Exactly. YouTube wants to have its cake and eat it too. YouTube would not be what it is today if it wasn't public and free at the point of use.

Anyone is free to do something in private and ticket people for it. I'm doing a concert tonight in my home, it's 100 credits for a ticket, hope you'll come! I can't guarantee anyone will come, but I can guarantee anyone who comes will pay.

There are platforms like Floatplane that use this model.

Then there's the busking model. You do it in public. You can't guarantee anyone pays, but they'll definitely come, and some will probably pay.

YouTube wants both. It wants to be the place where people busk (like the public square) but also force advertising on you. You can't have it both ways. Either go private or accept that this is public and I will do what I want with my browser.
by lolive | 2025-06-21 07:01:11+00:00
[disclaimer: did not read the article , but hey welcome to HackerNews comments!] Small comment regarding augmented self via technologies: I received feedback from my colleagues that Obsidian [a famous note taking app] was overkill and a waste of time to fill, during all our endless meetings. Guess what? 3 years after I joined the company, my [bunch of notes, aka a] vault is probably more focused and insightful than 99% of the wikis, Google drives and spreadsheets my company struggles to govern. Plus I can find equally what was said yesterday, or the knowledge transfer of a now retired ex-colleague from 2023 whose knowledge is now crucial to our work. Ater realizing that my obsession for note-taking was more good than bad, my team will soon start a common Obsidian so we can collectively keep track and retrieve the information that flows in our corporate brains. We will see whether all that artificial content becomes a part of our minds or a parasite of it. [i vote the former]
by more-nitor | 2025-06-21 07:02:01+00:00
hmm have you actually read the article? did you find anything of "substance" other than hand-wavy "this company is from israel, so must be mosad" or "has notorious for its questionable practices" (without even giving actual examples or incidents)?

I mean, if I was the mosad guy planting a deal with samsung, I wouldn't even name the app "AppCloud"

heck, why would you even make it appear to the user?

this is a classic competitor-bashing article -- no substance, only hand-wavy "this guys bad!"

I'm guessing this can be traced to others like xiami/huawei/etc who definitely want to get samsung's slice of the market there
by nofunsir | 2025-06-21 07:02:09+00:00
The pedantry comes not from someone using their User Agent however they want to use it. It comes from a company trying to (with receipts and lawsuits to prove it) LITERALLY redefine the World Wide Web into their own money making machine, and punish anyone who rocks their boat. They can cry "legal argument" all they want. At the end of the day, they're trying to force pedantry on their users. The only problem is most of the public has bought it Hook, Line and Sinker.
Show HN: Atlarch – Organize and manage all your interviews from a single place
by aditya_rs | 2025-06-21 07:02:12+00:00
Hello, Atlarch helps you organize and manage all your interview from a single place. It helps you track applications and interviews across different companies and gives you detailed statistics about your job search. The idea for this started quite a while back, during one of my early job searches. As anyone who has applied for jobs would quickly realize you have to apply for a lot of jobs before you get a response, and you have to go through a decent number of interviews before you get a final offer. It becomes quickly obvious job search is essentially a funnel, and once you start modelling it as a funnel, you can apply a lot of the same tools and techniques developed for funnel analysis and conversion to job search also. Most companies with a mature HR function essentially view hiring as a funnel and they have tools that help HR's manage the "hiring funnel" which give them an overview of the pipeline along with other features. These can then be used for planning and so on. Atlarch is tooling for you, i.e, interviewers, which mirrors the capabilities of HR management tools but focused on how your interview process is going across companies and various applications. Currently it supports ability to track applications, interviews across companies. Statistics on how you are doing in specific interview types, statistics on applications and companies such as response rate, offer rate and ability to filter companies based on status.
by raybb | 2025-06-21 07:02:32+00:00
Last time I tried delta chat they didn't have chatmail so this is new to me.

Kinda surprised to find this on privacy policy of the default chatmail instance:

> unconditionally removes messages after 20 days

Didn't see any warning about this in the GUI or the chatmail page.

Does this mean after 20 days the messages on my app will disappear? or just they'll only be available on my local app after that point?

In any case, that's a pretty big red flag that it's not clear.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 07:02:44+00:00
> How far do you drive in them?

I drive a gas-powered Subaru because the Volvo dealership in Montana was being insufferable when I wanted a C40. My neighbour can easily go 200+ miles in the winter. (Apparently pre-conditioning is a thing.) Works fine for road trips to Missoula and Salt Lake City, for them, from Jackson.
by maerch | 2025-06-21 07:02:47+00:00
That hasn’t been my experience. A few tech-savvy people and those close to them may use alternatives, but even then, it’s usually just for groups where someone refuses to use WhatsApp. For everything else, they still rely on WhatsApp.

On top of that, nearly all groups related to kindergarten, school, or various clubs use WhatsApp, and there’s practically no way to convince them to switch. If my wife weren’t in those groups, I’d have no idea what’s going on.
by kseistrup | 2025-06-21 07:03:51+00:00
I haven't run into that problem, but yes, it's possible.

One problem I did run into was “allowed number of outgoing emails”. If you use groups in DeltaChat, even a small grouop of say 10 members will incur a lot of outgoing messages. The provider I originally used has a limit of 200 emails per day, so that was a showstopper.

If you use DeltaChat's chatmail server (which will happen per default if you don't provide an email account of your own), this will not be a problem.
by teekert | 2025-06-21 07:04:36+00:00
Idk, I simply enjoy gathering knowledge and understanding things.

Formally educated as a biologist, nobody ever forced me to install Gentoo. Or compile kernels, or self-host all the things, or read Harari. It was all just curiosity. And I believe many if not most people here are like that.

So be careful generalizing I guess I’d say.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-21 07:05:01+00:00
We need regulation which defines that any hardware device capable of running software developed by a third party different from the hardware manufacturer qualifies as a general purpose computing device, and that any such device is disallowed to put cryptographic or other restrictions on what software the user wants to execute. This pertains to all programmable components on the device, including low-level hardware controllers.

These restrictions extend outside the particular device. It must also be illegal as a commercial entity to enforce security schemes which involve remote attestation of the software stack on the client device such that service providers can refuse to service clients based on failing attestation. Service providers have other means of protecting themselves, taking away users control of their own devices is a heavy handed and unnecessarily draconian approach which ultimately only benefits the ad company that happens to make the software stack since they also benefit from restricting what software users can run. Hypothetically, they might be interested in making it impossible to modify video players to skip ads.
by 6510 | 2025-06-21 07:05:21+00:00
All I know is that the most obvious room for improvement in yt transcription is that it will regularly get words wrong that are mentioned 50 times or may even be spelled out in the title or description of the video. If there are many thousands of clues the video is about [say] LLM's it shouldn't be necessary to endlessly fail to spell "chat GPT"
by anigbrowl | 2025-06-21 07:06:28+00:00
Ignorant statement. There are lots of sub-tendencies in communism, and they argue bitterly over their differences. Groups like tankies and Maoists tend to be authoritarian and pro-Stalinist, while Trotskyists hate Stalinists (guess why!), orthodox MLers dislike both for different reasons, many orthodox Marxists are skeptical of Bolsheviks, and then there are all kinds of socialist tendencies that don't identify as communists at all.
by nofunsir | 2025-06-21 07:07:06+00:00
Ironically, they'd try to get you ... or someone... anyone! on fraud. Can you imagine the same argument made in the example of getting up and going to the kitchen?

> Your honor, they agreed to our terms and conditions which stipulate you MUST stay in the recliner facing forward the whole time. By getting up to <do something important and not waste their life watching ads>, they've defrauded our advertisers! We demand to be repaid in the form of 43 lazyboy hours per year.
by CreepGin | 2025-06-21 07:07:09+00:00
This was many years ago, after Unity released mathematics and burst. I was porting (part of) my CPU toy pathtracer to a compute shader. At one point, I literally just copy-pasted chunks of my CPU code straight into an HLSL file, fully expecting it to throw some syntax errors or need tweaks. But nope. It ran perfectly, no changes needed. It felt kinda magical and made me realize I could actually debug stuff on the CPU first, then move it over to the GPU with almost zero hassle.

For folks who don't know: Unity.Mathematics is a package that ships a low-level math library whose types (`float2`, `float3`, `float4`, `int4x4`, etc.) are a 1-to-1 mirror of HLSL's built-in vector and matrix types. Because the syntax, swizzling, and operators are identical, any pure-math function you write in C# compiles under Burst to SIMD-friendly machine code on the CPU and can be dropped into a `.hlsl` file with almost zero edits for the GPU.
by troad | 2025-06-21 07:07:09+00:00
This makes me very uneasy. Not in what it is per se, but in what it shows about the direction of Phoenix.

I've been working with Phoenix a lot the last few months, and I like it a lot. But I do get the sense that the project suffers from wanting to perpetually chase the next new thing, even when that comes at the expense of the functional elegance and conceptual cohesiveness that I think is Phoenix' main strength.

LiveView is a great example. It's a very neat bit of tech, but it's shoe-horned surprisingly awkwardly into Phoenix. There's now a live view and non-live view way to do almost everything in Phoenix, and each has their own different foibles and edge cases. A lot of code needs to work with both (e.g. auth needs to happen at both levels, basically), meaning a surprising amount of code needs to have two, nearly identical variants: one with traditional Plug idioms, and then another using LiveView equivalents. Quick little view helpers end up with either convoluted 'what mode am I in?' branching, or (more likely) in view-mode-dependent wrappers around view-mode-independent abstractions. This touches even the simplest helpers (what is the current path?) and becomes more cumbersome from there. (And given the lack of static analysis for views, it can be non-trivial to even find out what is and isn't actually working where.)

Not every website should be a live view (e.g. hiking directions, for example), but that is clearly the direction of travel in Phoenix. Non-live views get the disparaging moniker 'dead views', and the old Phoenix.HTML helpers have been depreciated in favour of <.form />-style live components. The generators depend on those, plus Tailwind, Hero Icons and (soon) DaisyUI, all fetched live from various places on the Internet on build. This tight coupling to trendy dependencies will age poorly, and it makes for bumpy on-boarding (opinionated and tightly coupled isn't necessarily a smoother experience, just a more inflexible one).

So with all of that in mind, while I'm not shocked to see Phoenix jump on the vibe coding hype train, I guess I am disappointed.

The revelation that AI is now writing PRs for Phoenix itself is not confidence inspiring. I rely on frameworks like Phoenix because I don't want to have to think about the core abstractions around getting a website to my users; I want to focus on my business logic. But implicit in that choice is the assumption that someone is thinking about those things. If it's AI pushing out Phoenix updates now, my trust level and willingness to rely on this code drops dramatically. I also do not expect Phoenix' fraying conceptual cohesiveness to get any better if that's the way we're headed.

Phoenix is still an amazing piece of tech, but I wish I felt more at ease about its future trajectory.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-21 07:07:39+00:00
>What is moderate free software? Having access to the source code but not too much?

Thanks for asking. My postulate would be having access to binaries.

You can achieve the four user freedoms with binaries to some extent. Mathamtically Freedom(source)>freedom(binaries)>freedom(SaaS)

You can use software for any purpose with a binary. You can study software, although in a less efficient manner, with a (complete, offline) binary. You can modify the software with a binary! You can share software with a binary.

To give a concrete example, Users can share WhatsApp, if a user doesn't have Whatsapp, it sends a link to their phone through SMS to download the application , you can also share the installer files on desktop. The right to share is not infringed. That said, you are not allowed or empowered to modify Whatsapp. This is a distinct type of partial freedom which is easier to concede, that some of the freedoms can be infringed. Whereas the stronger claim above is that even a single freedom can be partially fulfilled.

I think that's my motive, to recognize that WhatsApp isn't the Devil as a 0.5 star rating would suggest. Extremism goes even against the very goals of the ideology, as it's very hard to take seriously if it requires so much dedication and extreme stances, it's much easier and reasonable to ignore free software than it is to accept is tenets completely or moderately. Make it more moderate and achieve more penetration.
by 9dev | 2025-06-21 07:07:48+00:00
I have a feeling that Liquid Glass is just made for a younger demographic than most people complaining about it right now, and I don’t mean this disrespectfully; the design field has always been brimming with the ideas of young designers, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing at Apple.

All the affordances and interface clues we used to have were made with users in mind that had low familiarity with digital interfaces. It’s different now. Children that grew up with iPhones don’t need them; just look at the Instagram app. It’s confusing the hell out of me: you can swipe everywhere, click things that don’t look clickable to me, there’s nested menus like five layers deep. And yet, every single teenager out there is navigating this mess easily.

So I guess this just means the world is changing in a direction many older people don’t like too much, and I don’t really know what to make of that yet.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 07:08:10+00:00
> the reality is it is a money-making scheme so they price it just right so that most people will pay it

Not how a Laffer curve works [1].

Demand for almost everything is non-linear and usually somewhat logistic. Increasing the tariff by 20% doesn’t reduce demand by 17%. Being congested practically guarantees one can raise revenues by raising the charge.

The limit on raising charges isn’t revenue concerns. It’s the politics of raising a use fee.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
by PurestGuava | 2025-06-21 07:09:04+00:00
You pay to make the content. You would have to "pay" to make the content no matter where you hosted it. You don't pay YouTube to host it. That's a silly argument.

You seem to ignore that you would probably have no audience - or have a significantly smaller audience - were it not for YouTube hosting your content. They are providing you a service, but you seem to think that nobody - not you, not your viewers - should have to trade anything for that service, despite the hosting and streaming of video being one of the most expensive possible tech services in the world (bar perhaps running genAI models.)

I dunno it's just very annoying how a lot of people have memed themselves into this train of thought where the big tech companies aren't actually providing them anything of value, when if they decided to suddenly stop providing their services they would be up a creek without a paddle.
by seethedeaduu | 2025-06-21 07:09:06+00:00
This is why I hate online "debates". Because over and over people will repeat the same stuff that have been debunked thousands of times before.

The DSM criteria for gender dysphoria aren't particularly useful when you are diagnosing kids that play with dolls despite not expressing a trans identity or wish to switch sexes by themselves.

In addition to that, when you are dealing with a conversion therapist it is only natural to depress, but this doesn't mean that it's healthy for you eeither mentally or physically. This is something that was forced onto me as well.

Finally, you seem to be considering transitioning to be inherently something that should be avoided, otherwise why would less kids desisting be considered a negative?
by zevon | 2025-06-21 07:09:12+00:00
There is a lot of humanity in the web. Small blogs, niche forums, personal websites, art and so on - all those things still exist. They may have become harder to find among a lot of trash but using, for example, a mix of different search engines and, more recently, treating LLM output like a first-semester-student's literature review, they can be found. Personally, I also just don't use Instagram, Facebook, Discord or whatever the closed platform du jour currently is.

When I learned how to use the web, google and Facebook were not around. I remember switching search engines as well as adopting and adapting search strategies multiple times. Then, there was a relatively long era of google (as in: It was simply the best and fastest way to find what you were looking for) - but as giants get too big, they inevitably fall, so keeping ready to continue adopting and adapting is - IMO - always a good idea.