MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j_w | 2025-06-06 15:05:16+00:00
On a micro level you can change your environment easily - stop buying foods that are bad for you at the store. Don't go down the chip and candy aisle. If you are not the one who shops for food in your household, inform the one who is that for your health they need to not purchase snacks.

In my anecdotal experience, fat people grossly underestimate how much they eat or lack the understand of how calorically dense the foods they consume are.
by tomrod | 2025-06-06 15:05:28+00:00
> Today, the concept of “spyware” has been obsoleted because every software is spyware. Google's “organising the information of the world” turned out to be indexing which Gaza families to bomb, children and all; “making money in the free market to invest in social change” was about bankrolling literal, textbook fascism. Today, for us Latinx to even briefly step in the USA, if we don't have an always-on handheld device with spyware “social media”, its absence is taken as proof of criminality. I will never visit Arizona again, and my kids will never know a world that's not like this; but for me I saw this world being forged up close and personal, deep in Mordor where the shadows lie.

This hits home.
by shakna | 2025-06-06 15:05:41+00:00
Even if we assume that's true (everything I've seen says it isn't), then a sole individual always affects others. Humans do not exist as lone monks in the hills, generally speaking. When they are ill, it affects their workplaces, it affects their families, it affects their friends. When they die, it's worse - it affects all of those, but also has tail effects on the health industry.

Nothing you do, ever, is in isolation. So nothing you do, ever, will not affect someone else. Pretending that everyone is a sole unit, to excuse behaviour, has never made sense.
by chubot | 2025-06-06 15:05:58+00:00
There are some mini typed functional languages here - https://plzoo.andrej.com/

Although they are implemented in OCaml, which feels like more magic than say a Forth or Lisp written in C. In C you can still "see" how it runs on hardware

I think Standard ML is actually the "usable mini ML"

These types of languages will always be bigger than Lisp/Forth/Tcl, because they require lexer /parser / type checker / GC runtime

---

Although I would like to see someone do the smallest possible C version of an ML

Something like c4 - C in 4 Functions (https://github.com/rswier/c4) - which actually has a type checker! (which is hard to see on first reading)
by kamaal | 2025-06-06 15:06:22+00:00
>>In theory maths should be able to be broken down to its basic components and be proven to be all true, or if something is false, then the whole thing collapses.

>>But in practice things like this become so complex that it becomes a matter of conviction, influenced by things like ego.

Isn't this like doing a bunch of AND , OR operations?

How does ego become a factor here? Either an expression evaluates to true or false. There are only two outcomes, why is there a confusion here.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-06 15:06:26+00:00
not really, it's basically just being anti fragile. Consider any corporate entity that interacts with you to be an Eldritch horror from outer space that wants to siphon your soul, because that's effectively what it is, and keep your business with them to a minimum.

It's just realism. Protect your private data yourself, relying on companies or governments to do it for you is like the saying goes, letting a tiger devour you up to the neck and then ask it to stop at the head
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-06 15:06:31+00:00
> Because going to McDonalds tastes better.

this is a problem for a some people

however for many more people, the issue is affordability

unhealthy food is cheap and widely available

healthy food is more expensive and in some neighborhoods unavailable -- so there's the cost and effort of going somewhere where you can actually get it; food deserts are a real thing, while soda and chips vending machines are ubiquitous

this is why there are much higher rates of obesity among lower income populations

it's a solvable problem (not entirely, but it's possible to greatly reduce levels of obesity), but there seems to be very little social willpower to fix it
by Phui3ferubus | 2025-06-06 15:06:34+00:00
TYT has to mark the ad segment, they are required by law to do it. And no matter how they try to obfuscate it, their own webpage must be able to extract that info, and present it to user. So it is pointless to integrate ads if you are going to provide the timestamps to skip.

Just look how Facebook does it, there is no "Sponsored post" anywhere in HTML, the literally place entire alphabet multiple times, each letter in separate span/paragraph tag, and then use CSS to actually style that into a message of their choice. All of that work just to prevent simple adblocking rules to work.
by belval | 2025-06-06 15:07:08+00:00
I think libreoffice suffers from a branding style issue more than anything else. It's not like Office 365 is inherently superior, but it looks like it is straight out of 2006 and that negatively impacts the users perception of it.

My hunch is that if maintainers were to invest into making it look more like Office 365 (purely in a cosmetic way), the opposition to using libreoffice would reduce significantly.

And for the old timers that will run to "Office 2007/10/13 was the best version and had the old UI". I get it and agree, but the average person likes nice things that look up-to-date.
by bluGill | 2025-06-06 15:07:11+00:00
I realize this is more than a week ago and nobody will see it, but...

Every large project has this position. Smaller projects it isn't a full time job and so they distribute it amoung the team members and don't track the cost. Larger projects it is too large for a full time person and so they are forced to distribute the costs of this and just cannot track the costs. We happen to be in the sweet spot where a full time person can do the job and so we can track that cost. However make no mistake everything this person is doing is done on every project.

I agree with tooling being important. the person we have doing this job is a great engineer who automates everything he can, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. Some of it cannot be automated. (many of the problems are people problems)
by eigenspace | 2025-06-06 15:07:18+00:00
Depending on the coutnry, this is somewhat overstated.

For example, here in Europe it's rather clear just by eye (but also borne out in the data) that the increase in obesity here is actually just an increase in age.

Older people (up to a point) tend to be plumper than young people. The rapidly increasing average age in Europe then causes an average increase in obesity.
Show HN: Exercode – A macOS Client for Exercism
by medeem | 2025-06-06 15:07:19+00:00
I've been building a macOS client for the Exercism coding platform. The goal is to make it easier to browse tracks, try exercises, run tests, and submit solutions without leaving your desktop.

You just need your Exercism token, and you're set. It's still early and a work in progress, but it’s functional. You can:

Join language tracks

Download and work on exercises

Run tests

Submit solutions

I'm continuing to add features (like mentor feedback and CLI-style track navigation), and would really appreciate any feedback, bug reports, or contributions.

Repo: https://github.com/apps-fab/exercism-app Built with Swift and SwiftUI.

Thanks!
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-06 15:07:26+00:00
A stream is generally of lower quality than a photo which should make it significantly more difficult to get a good scan of a QR code from a stream --- particularly if the code is changing every few seconds. I'd probably recommend showing a code for 3 seconds then a black screen for 3 seconds then repeat with a different code.

Cameras need to focus on both ends and the stream has to be scaled to fit the available display parameters. Could easily turn into an exercise in frustration.
by fulafel | 2025-06-06 15:07:37+00:00
Strix Halo is the powerful-GPU product version.

More generally there isn't really a place for low performance integrated graphis any more and southbridge style chips are made with old old cheap processes that cripped with poor memory access would probably not run any modern desktop well. A second option for the memory would be to put a small amount of local memory on the mobo along with the chipset, which again would be slow and still costly while losing the normal iGPU advantage of unified gpu & cpu memory access to th same data (UMA).
by vips7L | 2025-06-06 15:07:39+00:00
I don’t think anyone actually believes that the language change is what made the difference in that post. As far as anyone can tell there were 2 things that made their rewrite better:

1. They had experience on the type of app and you tend to do things better when you do it the second time.

2. Reading between the lines they were likely running an ancient version of Java from 10+ years ago.
by pnathan | 2025-06-06 15:09:12+00:00
I was a teen in the 90s, in my circles it was Understood that the data was not private.

Some of this in any case sounds like the usual "did not grow up in white collar society, got white collar job, got in trouble for violating white collar norms" that class-changers go through. Lots of !!fun!!.

I too get troubled when the operations staff get "invisible'd" - they are members of society too and should be treated with dignity. But in a tolerably decent situation, they are recognized and respected in their field as well. Even if its the evening shift to do the janitorial work. There's nothing _immoral_ about having a party and hiring some people to clean up. It's treating them as _lower_ than you that is the failure.

Anyway. There's an - as far as I know - as yet unwritten story around those of us who came from non-white collar backgrounds and found this new world confusing.
by ho_schi | 2025-06-06 15:09:20+00:00
Yep. And that's good for customers and Linux.

Maybe Zen 6. AMD already provides the Z-Series specifically for handhelds. The Steamdeck uses currently the regular Zen2 with a RNDA2 from Zen3+. Best would be passive cooling, which would probably run well with native Linux ports like Counter-Strike 2. But I'm worried that they need to use fans again.
by tstrimple | 2025-06-06 15:09:39+00:00
At some point I'd expect these questions to have come up enough for you to have some basis on which to speak. By the tenth interview asking a similar question, are you still trying to come up with something brand new on the spot? I have a lot of the issues mentioned in the article from face blindness to a general lack of memory around events. But I've talked about the time I accidentally ran "rm -Rf /." instead of "rm -Rf ./" on a production system on one of my first jobs and the lessons I'd taken away in probably over a dozen interviews during my life. I don't have to try to remember it.

One of my favorite managers comes across as a very charismatic person who always had great stories to tell about his life and work. After working with him for years, it became clear he had half a dozen decent stories he could tell well and rotated through them. Enough new people were introduced and others enjoyed his stories so would encourage it "Tell them about the time you worked for the Canadian Mafia!" They were crafted by that point. He didn't have to "remember" them so much as they were tools in his belt that he could pull out on demand. I'd guarantee some of those stories come out when he interviews somewhere.
by j_w | 2025-06-06 15:09:45+00:00
People who say that they cannot cook on a 40h work week are just inefficient at cooking. It sucks to take a long time to prepare meals, but you will get faster.

When you first start cooking for yourself you'll easily double the times online recipes say. As you get better at prep and more of an understanding you'll eventually reach their times. Dishes afterwards are included in this: most recipes have downtime that you can entirely clean up during.
by rurp | 2025-06-06 15:10:02+00:00
Exactly! Many people on HN and elsewhere (including myself) could see that this was never a serious effort to make the government more efficient and called it out from the start. The evidence was overwhelming.

It was dismaying how many people took the Doge claims at face value, hopefully at least a few people will remember the chain of events and be more skeptical of these actors in the future.
by jcalabro | 2025-06-06 15:11:09+00:00
I remember reading a similar thing about FoundationDB with their DST a while back. Over time, they surfaced relatively few bugs in the core server, but found a bunch in the client libraries because the clients were more complicated and were not run under their DST.

Anyways, really interesting report and project. I also like your youtube show - keep up the great work! :)
by plant-ian | 2025-06-06 15:11:21+00:00
A real mystery indeed ... Or ... we are slowing moving towards some crescendo where all this enshittification is intertwined: cheap packaging, maliciously deceptive marketing, marketing EVERYWHERE, garbage food, exploited workers, etc. The "rant" about corporations are ruining everything is just real life now more than ever. Finding healthy food is difficult and getting more expensive. In general finding quality anything is getting more difficult and more expensive. All while we are bludgeoned with advertising that tells us the opposite.

The idea that one person could fight this battle day in and day out on their own if they just try harder seems comical at best. Feels like victim blaming to be honest and I hate it. Make healthy food easy to find, identify and buy and tax trash food because it is a burden on the community, just like actual pollution/cigarettes/etc.
by ezekg | 2025-06-06 15:11:34+00:00
This is interesting. I've been using my transactional email provider (Sendgrid) to manually [0] send newsletters to ~10k subscribers -- essentially the active accounts -- but I've noticed that my response rate has been super low the last year or so (relatively), so I'm wondering if my domain rating has taken a hit. This firewall is interesting. Maybe I should switch to a newsletter provider like this instead of sending as transactional email? I figured it wouldn't scale and that it'd bite me eventually...

[0]: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/blob/master/lib/task...

p.s. it's a pet-peeve of mine when docs subdomains have no obvious link to the top domain!
by devinbhushan | 2025-06-06 15:11:42+00:00
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by uberman | 2025-06-06 15:11:47+00:00
I don't really care too much what tools one integrates into their repertoire and I personally think being "good at good" is a valid problem solving skill. By extension, being "good at llm) seems like a valid skill as well.

What I would say is the velocity matters though, so not being confident unless reading a book sounds like an impediment but that could be my own bias.

For what it is worth, I could care less if someone can write code to balance a tree in their head. That extends to a large number of competitive coding questions. I would rather someone use a reference than confidently introduce an off by one bug.
by dragontamer | 2025-06-06 15:11:54+00:00
Powerful for iGPU.

I think Strix Halo is up to 44 CUs? Which is more than a 7600xt but less than a 7700xt.

So a bit on the low-end in the scheme of dGPUs. But Strix Halo might be the most powerful iGPU ever made.
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 15:12:00+00:00
Idk, McDonald's doesn't seem that cheap to me but I haven't been in quite some time. Food deserts are a real issue, but if you're driving to McDonald's you can just keep on driving to the grocery store IMO.

There's an educational piece, a motivational piece, and a marketing piece (you'll be like Lebron James if you eat Burger King!!! or whatever) and lots of other general barriers. But it's a problem that we can make progress toward.

Though with all this being said I had hoped to really convey the problem of nutrition advice which misses the component that matters the most which is cooking proficiency. You eat out because it tastes better, but it tastes better even if you could make the same thing at home, because you don't know how to cook or cook well enough.

(not you specifically of course :) )
by kurthr | 2025-06-06 15:12:14+00:00
And yet, there are much more pernicious elements to dystopia Google has become and ways that it perpetuates them through the efforts of people just like this so that they can literally have a "free lunch". These are the type of complaints that minimize the actual failure of "don't be evil" as implemented by their very efforts. Personnel minutia distract from the Orwellian prize.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-06 15:12:53+00:00
> Your response reads a lot like “if you don’t have anything to hide…”

That's not what I said.

>We must force the state to use open coercion when it wants to stretch the limits of its reach.

That's exactly what I said.

>even if it means criminals and deviants will face less obstacles

Curios how liberal you'd be with the criminal who'd wronged you. Mercy towards criminals is a crime towards their victims.
Ask HN: What are some good resources for coding best practices?
by genericmask | 2025-06-06 15:13:02+00:00
Hi all,

I've been recently promoted and am now managing a summer software engineering internship. Based on the feedback we got from the interns last year, I want to teach them best practices and good principles for writing good code and designing maintainable solutions.

They've heard about DRY and SOLID, we're writing unit tests, they're familiar with git and we're applying agile principles, but I'd love to hear what you all found helpful early in your career or what resources you use now to teach junior engineers the fundamentals.

Thank you!
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 15:13:41+00:00
Yea I agree too. It really is a skill. The first few times you cook a dish you are reading a recipe maybe, oh whoops forgot to cut the celery, ugh this is stressful! but then by the end of a few attempts you start to get much better and much efficient at it.

I get that not everyone wants to cook though, but for those who do or want to eat healthier food you can do it and you WILL suck the first few times you cook anything because you're a human being and you haven't done it before.
by socks | 2025-06-06 15:13:46+00:00
Pure chance - what should get assigned to me mere hours after reading this article but a ticket regarding SCIM users not being disabled with Entra...

> It turns out that Microsoft’s default behavior sends a boolean value as a string

> You can force Microsoft to send you the proper JSON if you use a certain feature flag (aadOptscim062020), but that’s really not an obvious solution!

Boom. That was exactly my issue.

> This sort of stuff is very time-consuming and demoralizing to resolve.

I would have sunk hours into this - thanks Ned O'Leary - you made my day!
by staticman2 | 2025-06-06 15:14:22+00:00
I promise this comment will circle back to Elevenlabs:

When my cat died after a few months of cancer treatment, the staff of the animal hospital sent me a condolence card with comments by staff members.

On the one hand, this was a very touching, very human thing to do. On the other hand, this was presumably a work assignment that had to be passed around and completed for staff members to meet their employer's goals, while juggling the other medical and administrative duties at the animal hospital.

So whether this was a good thing or bad thing might depend on how taxing you view it from the staff member's POV.

With the audio book market: it's kind of a similar dichotomy. There's undoubtedly more human touch in the style an audio book is read by an actual human. (Though if that human touch is "stuttering awkwardly because I'm very self aware as I read, you probably wouldn't want to buy my audio book...)

However, for a human to make an audio book, you are asking someone to sit in a room for many hours, being careful not to stutter as they work through a book. If there's joy in that, maybe you see Elevenlabs as an evil company eliminating the human touch in audiobooks. If it's soulless labor, why not replace it with a machine?
by jfengel | 2025-06-06 15:14:34+00:00
Kayfabe, in itself, is improvised. The wrestler develops their character and performs it live. The wrestling federation will help fine-tune the performances and set long-term arcs, but a new wrestler generally develops their own character at the start.

The outcomes of the matches are scripted, and so is the story leading up to the match, but "kayfabe" is about what the wrestler does any time they're in public. It refers specifically to the fact that they always practice it in public, and never drop the character.

As it applies to this... there are accusations that this is being plotted out by various nefarious actors, but I don't think so. We have comically oversized, outlandish performances -- possibly different from who they are when the cameras aren't on them, but the cameras are always on these two. People want the kayfabe, and they seem happy to provide it.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-06 15:14:53+00:00
Without even the opportunity to make money, there's very little incentive for creators to spend time and effort making videos for these channels.

The reason YouTube is huge is because they invite anybody in to try to get paid for their content, and nobody else does that.

This is why most content which should be an article or even a podcast is instead posted as some guy talking in front of the camera on YouTube.
by rbanffy | 2025-06-06 15:16:17+00:00
I can't wait to see the GPU equivalent of Backblaze's hard disk reliability reports. And, considering Intel is building a 1000W CPU with direct liquid cooling, I would love to see one for CPUs as well.

I wonder if multi-phase cooling, fridge-stye, would be an option - pushing sub-zero fluids to the heat exchangers on top of the chips to remove more heat than just water would.

As a fun side note, IBM mainframe CPUs run at 5.2 GHz continuously for years without significant expected failures. The latest one uses liquid cooling with glicol.
by technothrasher | 2025-06-06 15:16:28+00:00
> I appealed both cases and got rejected.

I had an unlisted video with all of about six views blocked because there was a radio playing softly in the background. When I looked at their process for appeal, they specifically said that incidental background radio music is ok, and appropriate for an appeal. So I appealed. It instantly got denied. I gave up at that point as this private video really didn't matter. But it made it clear that their appeal process is just a sham.