MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bloop0 | 2025-06-06 13:02:14+00:00
That's part of the problem with American culture — everything revolves around having more: more stuff, more money, more status. You're so bound to accumulation that you forget there's a different kind of richness in having less. Less to worry about, less to maintain, less to chase.

You could be fruitful and genuinely happy by simplifying, by letting go of this obsession with ownership and control. But instead, life becomes a constant cycle of buying, upgrading, storing, insuring, and eventually throwing away. It’s exhausting, and it never really fills the void.

You’ve been sold the idea that freedom means choice — but only if you can afford it. Meanwhile, the more you have, the more you owe: in time, energy, attention. And what gets lost in all this is the space to just be — to create, to connect, to enjoy what’s already around you.

Happiness doesn’t come from what you own. It comes from how lightly you carry your life. And somewhere along the way, that got forgotten.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-06-06 13:02:19+00:00
Their plan appears to be TheRock [0]. Further open sourcing and engaging the community and leveraging that to expand support faster.

There are some recent discussions on YouTube about it [1], including one with a senior VP [2].

[0]: https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tASUo7UqNw&t=4551 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8JOtS2Tew
by Xelbair | 2025-06-06 13:02:20+00:00
From what i've heard from creators youtube ads are such a small fraction of revenue that they don't count it - maybe horrible clickbait content mills depend on it but world would be better off without them.

Mostly it comes from patreon or equivalent, sponsorship deals and merch sales.

Youtube exists only because discoverability, and ads profit goes mostly to YT itself.
by myrmidon | 2025-06-06 13:03:38+00:00
Have taken this in Europe, was really nice, and I consider this quite competitive with inter-European airlines:

It saves a lot of time, because you can use central train stations instead of transfering to/from the airport, and you depart late in the evening (get full use out of the departure day) and arrive somewhat early in the morning (don't lose much of that day, either).

So it does not have to be cheaper than an inland flight, it just has to be competitive with flight + 2x transfer + hotel, and while it might be slightly less comfortabel than a hotel room, you avoid airport transfer and -security, which is nice.
by empath75 | 2025-06-06 13:04:31+00:00
Yeah, but I feel like there are sort of "substantial" and "accidental" dependencies to any invention. The example he gives of photography being dependent on firearms seem more of the "accidental" kind. Photography could have still existed without those influences, but the form may have been slightly different. The key thing was actually the silver chemistry and optics.

I think one can make a similar argument that Generative AI, for example was dependent on 3D video games, but that seems sort of contingent, and in another universe it could have happened in the opposite order.
by pharaohgeek | 2025-06-06 13:04:43+00:00
I'm using it on my most recent projects and have had a great experience. It doesn't have the ecosystem of a language like Java, which can be frustrating, but it certainly handles 90% of my needs out of the box. I've never had a performance issue with Vapor. Compile times can be a bit slow if you have a lot of dependencies, but runtime performance has been great.
by odyssey7 | 2025-06-06 13:04:54+00:00
There’s a practically infinite space of possible innovations. The fact that any part of it has ever been explored is just down to luck—and that’s ignoring the fact that once evolution discovers an innovation, survival of the fittest is still itself not a rule but rather a likelihood. Maybe there was a fish who could communicate telepathically and fly at the same time there was a fish with feet, but the latter ended up devouring the former in the nursery.

Once you reach a particular point, things might tend to play out in ways that look more deterministic in specific places, but fate is still hard to predict. Consider the Vaquita. A species that has thrived for ages has been nearly wiped out of existence because a random primate species evolved to invent plastic fishing nets, and now that same primate species might altruistically manage to govern itself out of destroying the Vaquita. Really, nothing in that story was guaranteed to happen based on the frontier of the search process 1,000,000 years ago, it was just how the dice landed.

The Vaquita’s survival or loss is playing out in some ways as an international diplomacy story, where the first Trump administration saw declines in Vaquita numbers and the Biden administration took steps to improve their chances, and then Trump was re-elected, with some people believing that came down to Biden—a single human man who does not live in Mexico—experiencing age-related declines, and with others believing oligarchs bought the election to support causes like Russia’s pursuit of Ukraine. Really, this is about as random and as divorced from survival of the fittest as it gets. But it is no more random than the fact that the person who might have ushered in 1,000,000-year era of world piece and cured all suffering in all species would be just as likely to die as a child in a car accident as anyone else.

In ML, evolutionary algorithms are classified under randomized optimization, due to the way that they take random steps to forge random paths into vast combinatorial spaces that could never be completely understood or completely explored.
by daniilkhanin | 2025-06-06 13:05:04+00:00
Often entrepreneurs, after learning about the power of unit economics and seeing the magic of the tool, start to heavily weigh everything with metrics, measure, collect data and completely forget about what kind of business they were doing and why they needed unit economics. That's why it's important to put your tasks and processes first, and unit economics is just a tool to help you make decisions.

Besides, like any tool, unit economics has a cost of use, and if you spend more on the tool than you get benefits, it is not right and it is better not to use such a tool.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-06 13:05:05+00:00
> Getting out of the physical fat trap, strictly speaking, is simple: Develop basic sleep habits so that you get decent sleep. Exercise daily or almost daily. Reduce refined carbs, unhealthy fats and alcohol from your diet. Focus on getting enough vegetables, fruits, complex carbs and healthy fats.

Well... and that's the problem. It sounds easy on paper but in fact it is not easy at all in practice for the wide masses:

- work 8 hours, add 1h overtime and lunch, add 2 hours for commute, so out of the 24 hours a day, you already lose 11 hours to work related matters. Add 8 hours for a decent sleep time and whoops, only 5 hours remaining in the day for everything else: getting ready for work in the morning (0.5h), do chores (1h), make, eat and digest dinner (1.5h) have some quality time with your partner (1h) and children (1h), and whoops the entire day is gone before even considering anything actually relaxing, hobbies, or working out.

- shift work, particularly rotating shifts, or on-call work that's effectively being abused as regular overtime, makes developing healthy sleep patterns outright impossible.

- many people are outright unable to afford healthy groceries, which is why they're going for unhealthy highly processed food

- of those that are able to afford groceries, good luck getting them in one of the way too many food deserts

Our health issues (and the lack of children) to a very large degree tie back right into the expectation that people have to work 40 hours a week just to afford bare survival. That is the true trap - systemic forces leave the wide masses no other way.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-06-06 13:05:22+00:00
Twitter's strategy was to keep the platform very open and inviting, in order to make it relevant. This included having a relatively unrestricted API compared to other platforms.

I don't know if this was successful or not. Ultimately they convinced someone to buy the platform for $44bn, so I guess you can say it was. That buy has locked the platform down more, and the new version certainly feels less culturally central and relevant than it used to.
by nobleach | 2025-06-06 13:05:23+00:00
Isn't this kinda the idea behind TinaCMS? Using git/files instead of a database? It's been a long time since I've looked.

The "sweet spot" really depends on the use case. If you're wanting to give content control to folks that couldn't write HTML, or to folks that want to quickly update what content flows into pre-built structure, almost any headless CMS will do. In my case, I need a CMS that can do this:

* Schedule content release * Preview content in the actual pages * Store drafts

I hate to say it but, Drupal can do all of that. I hate Drupal. I've considered writing my own but got no further than a save/read set of endpoints. (https://github.com/nobleach/cobaltcms) Who has time to write yet another headless CMS??
by muzani | 2025-06-06 13:05:37+00:00
I put explanations of the code in other .md files. There's architecture.md, checklist.md, (feature).md, components.md, navigation.md.

These are designed to be easy for humans to read. There's also notes on things like deprecated libs to avoid, or how to use the design system. Get it to update things as they change.

Claude.md for me is a kind of directory to tell it what to read based on what it's trying to do.

Roadmap.md is one of my favorites. A lot of the problems that arise for both human and LLM coders is that we don't notice that there's tech debt or incomplete items. It's also easy to get back into 'flow' 7 months later.
by adamgordonbell | 2025-06-06 13:05:48+00:00
Losing weight is hard. Maintaining weight is easier, except that you have to do it forever.

It was incredibly hard and took me a long time to lose 15 pounds as a always had been skinny person whose weight slowly crept up.

I've never been obese and I'm sure it's super challenging to change, considering how hard loosing 15 lbs was for me. But if I were, I do think I'd try a GLP-1 agonist to get my weight down.
by jnurmine | 2025-06-06 13:06:14+00:00
Why only code?

Anything funded with public money should have same proportion going back to the public (the organization running the area which funded it).

For example: a 100% EU money funded innovation should be free for everyone to use within EU and outsiders should license a patent.

50% public funding from state of Norway, then state of Norway has 50% ownership.

And so on.
by dfawcus | 2025-06-06 13:07:11+00:00
Except the official report stated something different.

Report here: https://hmicfrs.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/publications/pol...

The below from the FSU page:

> However, HMICFRS explicitly found “no conclusive or compelling evidence” that the disorder “was deliberately premeditated and co-ordinated by any specific group or network.” Most offenders were local, often young, and had no ties to extremism. The report also cites the Children’s Commissioner, who similarly concluded that conversations with those arrested “do not support the prevailing narrative… that online misinformation, racism or other right-wing influences were to blame.” Although ‘harmful’ online content may have circulated, the report acknowledges the causal factors were “more complex than were initially evident,” including longstanding social deprivation, loss of trust in policing, and generalised political disaffection.

Found via: https://freespeechunion.org/southport-riot-report-undermines...
by lanfeust6 | 2025-06-06 13:07:45+00:00
> Getting out of the physical fat trap, strictly speaking, is simple:

Because it's CICO. Focusing on whole-foods can make you resistant to undesirable weight-gain, but losing substantial amounts of weight requires caloric restriction in some form or another. That isn't easy to adhere to, it needs to be done in whichever way is the most sustainable. Low-hanging fruit is to boost protein and fiber at higher-than-normal amounts for satiety.

All of the programs/diets that don't have you track calories are just tracking something else as a stand-in, obfuscating restriction. If you go low-carb and hit a wall, what are you going to do next, cut out negative carbs? If you go low-fat, will you cut out fat that's no longer there?

> The notion of two traps, a physical trap and a mental trap, comes from Allen Carr’s fantastic Easy Way To Stop Smoking. He states, quite convincingly, that there is a physical aspect to smoking (nicotine addiction) and a mental aspect to smoking (feeling that you need it).

I think Carr's perspective is very strong advice for kicking a bad habit. However, "emotional" and/or binge-eating may benefit from more targeted therapy.
by dcow | 2025-06-06 13:07:55+00:00
We don’t need the government to throw money at “open source”. That’s silly. Youtube used to be a means to an end. I need to send my friend or a teacher a video but email has a 25mb attachment limit. Need to use youtube or image shack. These days you can just use a text message or whatever platform you’re using to communicate. So youtube has now become a platform for “content creators”. It’s a different beast. To compete with youtube you have to not only make the video stuff work but also break the network effect and figure out how to pay creators.

Further, plenty of VCs don’t give two shits whether your thing is open source or not, they just want ROI. In my experience it’s tech law (or lack thereof) that missed the infusion of “internet maker ethos”. The depth of the average startup legal advice is “here’s a privacy policy and EULA that maximally protect your company at the expense of users”. “Here’s an employment contract template that tries to fuck your employees.” “It’s safest not to share your source code and keep it a trade secret.” “Go have fun.” If you want to see more open source then you need to cultivate that ethos among the people in power running the companies. So often I see the prevailing sentiment even here to be anti-gpl. The gpl may be imperfect, but if you care at all about the proliferation of open-source in a western copyright regime, then pissing on the gpl as “the brainchild of crackpot Stallman” is not the way to get there.

If you want more open source then founders need to come to fundamentally understand that their source code is not what makes their business valuable, it’s the time and effort they put in to provide a service that others aren't providing or is better than the competition. Too many founders are living the delusion that at a software level their engineers are writing novel patentable or trade secret level code that gives them a true algorithmic leg up. 9 times out of ten their shit is just new and fresh and disruptive. I understand that in rare cases people are doing truly novel things with software, but that certainly isn’t the default case.
by gspencley | 2025-06-06 13:07:57+00:00
> Interesting position - when somebody posts illegal content on YouTube, they are not liable, it’s not their speech.

> But when I want to post something they don’t like, suddenly it’s their freedom of speech to remove it.

There is no contradiction there.

Imagine a forum about knitting. Someone, who has it in for the owners of this knitting forum (or perhaps even just a SPAM bot) starts posting illegal, or even just non-knitting content on this forum.

The entire purpose of the forum is to be a community about knitting.

Why is it the legal or moral responsibility of the knitting forum to host SPAM content? And why should they be legally liable for someone else posting content on their platform?

You're equating specific pieces of content with the platform as a whole.

There is no reality where I will accept that if I create something. I spend and risk my money on web hosting. I write the code. I put something out there... that other people get to dictate what content I have to distribute. That's an evil reality to contemplate. I don't want to live in that world. I certainly wont' do business under those terms.

You're effectively trying to give other people an ultimatum in order to extract value from them that you did not earn and have no claim to. You're saying that if they don't host content that they don't want to distribute that they should be legally liable for anything that anyone uploads.

The two don't connect at all. Anyone is, and should be free to create any kind of online service where they pick and choose what is or is not allowed. That shouldn't then subject them to criminal or civil liability because of how others decide to use that product or service.

Imagine if that weird concept were applied to offline things, like kitchen knives. A kitchen knife manufacturer is perfectly within their rights to say "This product is intended to be used for culinary purposes and no other. If we find out that you are using it to do other things, we will stop doing business with you forever." That doesn't then make them liable for people who use their product for other purposes.
by flkiwi | 2025-06-06 13:08:12+00:00
Ok, but there's also an environmental (and one completely reasonable mental) factor: I live in a place where it is unpleasantly hot (upper 90s and humid) most of the year and there are few public outdoor spaces generally thanks to rampant overdevelopment, I hate gyms and toxic gym culture, I have a quaint bungalow that doesn't have space for equipment, I work an intense job that keeps me focused for hours at a time, I live in a country that prioritizes fast, processed, sugary foods, etc. Much like fighting climate change, placing all the responsibility on the end user without changing some of the social conditions is a flawed approach, even if there are some things individuals can do to help. Put another way, there are plenty of situations where all the mental fortitude, discipline, self-honesty, commitment to change, and persistence won't be enough in the face of it simply being difficult to find time, space, or money to be healthy.
by muzani | 2025-06-06 13:11:15+00:00
Be the change. You don't have to quit overnight. But start paving the better road, brick by brick. Other people are doing it too. Eventually, across years or centuries, it leads to a way out.

Not everything can be bought or killed over.

One of the things that's consistent through history is the tyrants always lose in the end, even though they amass all the resources. Because the average person would rather die than support the tyrants.

It may seem like everything is in SF today, but maybe in a few decades, it will all move to Lisbon or Sydney.
by atrus | 2025-06-06 13:11:23+00:00
> Put another way, there are plenty of situations where all the mental fortitude, discipline, self-honesty, commitment to change, and persistence won't be enough in the face of it simply being difficult to find time, space, or money to be healthy.

If that was true, then literally everyone would be fat in your area. You can learn to cook, you have room for bodyweight exercises. You don't need equipment to feel really sore the next day! It's not going to be easy, it will be miserably hard, but it is possible.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-06-06 13:12:06+00:00
I think is just simply to diet and culture

take this quick video as example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg3Y3tCmBWo

the different portion size is ridiculous

and now you compare it to serving size from asian country, you would find it very hard to get fat at this places

and I mean it, even if you get fat its nowhere near american fat
by alfanick | 2025-06-06 13:12:10+00:00
It’s super complicated and anecdotal topic. I have phases: a) “good phase” - I can compete in ultramarathons, I can run 100km a week, I can lift some insane weighs, b) I cannot. Temporary burnout. No physical activity, gain like 10kg.

Then I need something that motivates me again and move from b) to a).

Long term fat is bad, but if you are able to burn it, it is the fuel
by colanderman | 2025-06-06 13:12:32+00:00
I do this. I think this applies only to adverbs modifying verbs. Adverbs modifying adjectives or participles stay put.

"She runs quick," is a thing I'd say.

"***The topic was hot debated," would be ungrammatical to my ears.

Not sure how widespread it is. I think it just falls out of a natural tendency to elide utterances which don't alter the meaning of a sentence. In many positions it's obvious that an adjective is meant to modify the verb rather than a noun.

It's not a hard and fast rule. In formal writing I'd use adjectives per standard grammar.

Maybe also related to the (standard) use of adjectives as describing the state into which something is transformed by a verb. In "I painted the wall red," "red" is properly an adjective and modifies the transformative act, not the object. I suspect this construction has been unconsciously widened to apply to nontransformative verbs also.

Notably "***she quick runs" sounds highly ungrammatical to my ears.
by ThatMedicIsASpy | 2025-06-06 13:12:37+00:00
Cannabis made me lose 20kg in a short span (~2 months). But the main reason was extreme loss of appetite. I cooked normal and after 40% of a plate I was full.

You do this for a few days and then you start changing your cooking habbits. This was a year ago and I've held the weight since and simply started eating less. My old eating habbits did not make me gain weight though as my old weight was constant for 10 years.

My main liquid is 98% water. I cant stand soda unless its mixed with 90% water.
by sanitycheck | 2025-06-06 13:13:02+00:00
I sympathise with the author but I fear what he's doing here is adding one more item to that list of thoughts: "I'm in a trap"

There's a lot of stuff I started writing from personal experience but I've just deleted it because I sense what's being talked about in the article is probably classifiable as an eating disorder and I am in no way qualified to say anything about eating disorders. People who identify with the sentiments expressed in the article may want to consult a doctor.
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by mhnnnn | 2025-06-06 13:13:19+00:00
Hey everyone, I've just finished a new project, a marketplace for abandoned MVPs/projects.

I remember reading in a post on a reddit sub a year ago that someone was looking for websites where he can purchase MVPs or unfinished projects in order to give them a try & monetize them. I didn't find any website specifically dedicated to this niche of projects.

I think all of us have at least a couple of "dead" projects which we won't ever touch again and are just gathering virtual dust. So if you have this kind of projects (or if you're looking to buy some), take a few minutes of your time and put up a listing, maybe you'll get lucky :) Currently the website isn't monetized, there aren't any ads nor promotions.

Let me know what you think about it. Any feedback is much appreciated
by dkarl | 2025-06-06 13:13:32+00:00
Some people are going to ding him for including exercise, and it's true that the physical calorie expenditure of exercise won't achieve much for weight loss unless you make cycling a major hobby. However, I think exercise goes a long way towards loosening the mental trap. It helps you build an identity as a healthy person, it relieves the guilt about not taking care of yourself, and it takes the edge off of emotions like anxiety. All of these things make it easier to avoid excessive eating. I don't think exercise is a must-have for everybody for weight loss, but I think more people should try it, and I think it gets overlooked because most of the claims about the calorie burn aspect of it haven't stood up.