MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-06-25 12:43:57+00:00
The good news is that if the browsers offered this natively, websites wouldn't need their own implementation of this. And if it's in the client (the browser), you're most likely gonna be able to turn it off globally, just like how you like it.

Worst case scenario a user-script/extension could monkey patch it out, but probably clients will let you disable it.
Show HN: I wrote a $5 guide on Digital Minimalism for Creators
by Theo_M | 2025-06-25 12:44:04+00:00
I'm a creative who was drowning in tools, tabs, and distraction. I used digital minimalism to rebuild my focus and workflow.

I turned what I learned into a 90-page e-book for creators who want less chaos and more clarity.

It’s called Digital Minimalism for Creators: How to Focus in a Distracted World. It includes: - A minimalist toolkit - Focus ritual guide - A 7-day digital reset challenge

Link (Gumroad): https://gum.new/gum/cmcbwwomr000y04jyhqs0a5aw Happy to answer questions!
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-25 12:44:16+00:00
>Well, "special operations" that involves foreigners running around in sovereign countries setting of bombs tend to be a sore subject in most countries I can think of, not sure Iran is very special in that regard.

The entire point of making the comparison to "doing the same thing in another country" rather than nothing or some alternative course of action was to head off this specific nitpick.

The US already tried that thing once in the early days of the current regime (literally linked in the comment I initially replied to!) and it's one of the bigger reasons we don't have normalized relations with them, though it's perhaps a distant second to the 800lb gorilla with a little hat in the region.
by bartread | 2025-06-25 12:44:34+00:00
There's a Behind The Bastards two parter on Stroessner: very much worth listening to. They cover the underage girls issue, for which I'd say the accusations are more than credible, but he was an absolute scumbag for plenty of other reasons as well, including his Nazi associations. Paraguay provided a key hub and waypoint for Nazis escaping Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-25 12:44:37+00:00
Thank you, I chuckled.

On a pedantic note (I know, as if anyone asked for more of that), hierarchy is not a single-dimension metric, it’s quite a bit more involved than just colour/internal visual complexity. A large part of it is positioning of an element relative to the viewport and other elements, negative space around it, etc. Unfortunately, in terminal output there is barely any control over that—unless you consider TUIs.
by _mlbt | 2025-06-25 12:45:39+00:00
If you need 32 bit support, your best bets are going to be Windows or NetBSD. Most other OSes are phasing it out.

Windows can't kill 32 bit support because even today a significant amount of software for the platform still depends on it, and that won't change any time soon.

NetBSD won't kill it, because support for tons of architectures and platforms is pretty much the reason why it exists. It supports platforms far more exotic and obsolete than 32 bit x86.
by jfengel | 2025-06-25 12:46:19+00:00
I'm all for anonymity, but anonymous identities should be taken with extreme skepticism.

I'd really like to see a hierarchy of trust. Get some certs signed by a reputable bank who has seen you in person, high trust. Self-signed certs, much less trust. Completely anonymous, you get basically shadowbanned; people who want it can go looking for it.

The Internet is an information flood (and so much worse now that we have LLMs). Filtering it has always been the key challenge. We should be able to filter on source, while still allowing people to say whatever it is they want. We just don't have to read it.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-25 12:46:44+00:00
That's not how science is meant to work. These things are fine if they happen in order:

1. We lack data on a topic so are collecting it.

2. Our data is certain but our understanding isn't.

3. Our understanding has been proven and here are some policies.

What's not OK is:

1. Our data shows X and our understanding is certain that Y is happening, so do Z.

2. Our data shows the opposite of X and our understanding is certain that the opposite of Y is happening, so do the opposite of Z.

The Newsweek article mentioned above says: “Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.” So the gap between proposing to melt the polar ice caps and James Hansen testifying about global warming to Congress was only about 13 years.

The point of the scientific method is to build an understanding of a phenomena based on robust evidence, as well as to understand the limits of our own understanding. If a group of people claim to be scientists and then one day invert everything they're saying, then at some point the scientific method has broken down. If they admit that this happened and implement really convincing changes to prevent it ever happening again, then maybe that's recoverable. But if they ignore and try to cover up what happened, that should be the end of that group's credibility and funding. Unfortunately, in this case they have indeed tried to cover it up.
What If Awareness Is the Fundamental Substrate of Reality?
by GodlySharing | 2025-06-25 12:48:07+00:00
This is not a religious question—it's a philosophical and scientific one. What if pure awareness—not matter, not energy—is the primary fabric of existence? What if everything we perceive as external (space, time, matter, self) emerges from a deeper field of intelligence or "knowing"?

There’s a line of thought—found in Advaita Vedanta, nondual philosophy, and increasingly echoed in physics and consciousness studies—that proposes that all forms, including our minds and identities, are temporary appearances within a unified, self-aware field.

It’s not about belief in a "God" as a personified being, but recognizing that the same awareness that experiences your thoughts is the same one animating all life. In this frame, the universe isn't a random explosion of dead particles, but an intricately interconnected expression of infinite intelligence—self-aware through every node.

If that’s true, it flips the script on individualism, separateness, and randomness. Every action, every connection, might be preorchestrated—not as fate, but as intelligent unfolding.

Has anyone else explored this line of thinking? Any links between this and current research in integrated information theory, panpsychism, or quantum mind theory?
by aynyc | 2025-06-25 12:49:01+00:00
Be grateful of what you have, be hungry for what's ahead.

I'm in my mid 40s, willingly neglected personal health for others because they needed more. It worked out and I'm back focusing on myself. I honestly considered myself lucky as I see some other burned out or broke down due to lack of self care.

1. Get your finance/insurance in order. Financial stress is the #1 killer. You don't need to be rich like on social media. Just be comfortable with a safety margin.

2. Get your physical/mental health in order. Working out or find a sports that you can share with others will help you a lot.

3. Make some friends. I've lost a lot of friends over the years, and covid accelerated that as many have moved. Playing sports can give you a sense of friendship. The group that I climb with are now talking a climbing trip this and next year. It's great.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-06-25 12:49:16+00:00
200,000 revolutions per minute?

Boggles the mind that this is 3,333 revolutions per second.

I'm not saying you're wrong but a quick check of a few LLMs says that 90,000 RPM is widely cited as the practical upper limit for current operational centrifuges in facilities like those operated by Urenco, Rosatom, or Orano.

900m/s is approx Mach 1.5.
by fideloper | 2025-06-25 12:49:50+00:00
I might just be too dumb to read even an abstract, but it sounds like they said "meh idk, no strong evidence"

(also curious if they'd call going hard on crypto / options "gambling" or not :P, which might be more about how hard it is to get ahead in todays economy than playing games as a kid, but that point is a very hard digression from what we're talking about here).
by zug_zug | 2025-06-25 12:50:03+00:00
Definitely lucky relative to my experience then. My current manager is very strong, but prior to him that manager I don't think any programming experience/background at all (he was laid off within about a year of me joining, but it felt like I was taking crazy pills watching him in meetings having no idea what anyone was saying).

I also think some of the most variable managers you get are at the smallest companies. Like one company had a CTO who was 25 with no prior professional experience that I know of other than co-founding this company. He wasn't bad, bad but certainly not doing half of what he could at that level.

However I've also had experiences where the manager changed 2/3 times in 2-years at a larger company, which IMO is a bad experience.
by Aachen | 2025-06-25 12:50:14+00:00
> it was a rational decision. And up to the 10% cut, management just didn’t want to do the extra investment

Rational, or economical? I find it rational to help someone in need since I'd want others to do the same to me, even if it's not financially profitable for me. Imo more factors flow into what's rational, but I understand what you mean by corporate greed working this way (less than 10% of people are blind, neither male nor female, run a free operating system or can't afford a new computer, etc., so yep they're not profitable groups and for-profits don't optimise for that)
by alephnerd | 2025-06-25 12:50:19+00:00
I'm not denying that South Sudan's leadership aren't crooks, but the only way you can climb up in these kinds of environments is to be a crook yourself - reformists do not survive in political environments where violence and criminalization is normalized. And this is part of that naïveté I mentioned earlier.

And if a coup were to happen, would stuff even get any better? Countries run on institutions, and a coup by default undermine institutions by normalizing violence as a short circuit to consensus building. This weak institution building due to the power of the gun is what lead both Argentina and Pakistan to stagnate despite being economic darlings in the early and mid 20th century respectively.

And more critically - we in the US do not want to normalize private citizens fundraising armed movements en masse in the 21st century. This is a bad precedent.

Finally, the Wikipedia article has clearly had some PR panache attached to it based on the edit history, and it's silence about Ajak's case despite having been going on for over a year now.
by delfinom | 2025-06-25 12:50:21+00:00
>Microsoft cannot dominate the Linux kernel but it can gain control in userland. Imagine if they gained traction with their applications being installed by default in popular distributions.

Yes, but how do they make money by doing this.

Unlike the socialist hiveminds that end up being behind the distros. Microsoft has salaries and bills to pay.

As far as I've always seen, everyone loves to leech on Microsoft's free stuff but nobody wants to pay for a product.
by nemoniac | 2025-06-25 12:50:38+00:00
Here's a tidied up version of the Python code to generate the MRZ from the passport data. It also corrects a padding error.

https://pastebin.com/k0Tty22a

My Dutch driver's licence has a single MRZ-like line across the bottom. It seems to encode the country and licence number but I can't make any sense of the rest of the line. Anyone have any leads?
by oersted | 2025-06-25 12:50:41+00:00
Maybe I'm being reductionist, but it is rather obvious that if someone likes gambling but doesn't have access to it due to their age, they will reach for gaming as the closest substitute, sure.

That doesn't mean that gaming makes you like gambling. There are many player archetypes, some of which get enjoyment out of games from factors that are quite dissimilar from gambling, and they will probably never gravitate towards it. I could see the reverse being true though, probably gambling does make you like some kinds of gaming.

Also, this is saying that online gaming is correlated with online gambling. Well yeah, it's all sitting at the computer playing competitive games against strangers, money or not it's a similar activity.

Indeed, they show no correlation between "playing games at 9" and "online gambling at 20". It might be the age difference, but it also might be that gaming in general has little correlation with online gambling, it's just competitive online gaming that correlates, which makes a lot of sense.
by bartread | 2025-06-25 12:51:12+00:00
They have (or had) bus services somewhat similar to Greyhound in the US. A friend and I took a trip to the Iguacu falls from Asuncion (more than 20 years ago, granted), which was an overnight bus trip with a brief stop in Ciudad del Este. It was reasonably comfortable as these things go. In a car it would be quicker but still probably 5 - 6 hours even though it's not much more than 200 miles because, as you've pointed out, the roads aren't amazing.

The railway had closed down only a few years before I visited but, at that time, there was little hope of it reopening. I've no idea what's happened since.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-25 12:52:34+00:00
Goodreads is the worst. At this point, Amazon should just shut it down.

Amazon reviews are unironically better, because you can see if somebody actually bought the book or not, and Amazon has very sophisticated anti-Astroturfing measures. (Good luck getting your friends and family to leave good reviews of your book -- they'll catch it and delete them.)

Goodreads is infested with marketing and publishing cliques and a lot of their reviews are fake or paid for. It has never been more over.
by mkayokay | 2025-06-25 12:52:49+00:00
> Ask to put it in a separate room...

Yes, that's what I had to do for meetings that the organizer thought were important enough. Also, in very sensitive areas special rooms with anti-eavesdropping gear are common [1].

> I could turn it off entirely, but what if someone needs to call me for an emergency?

But you would also not be reachable if the killswitch is active ;)

Don't get me wrong, I think a killswitch can make a lot of sense for highly sensitive areas (R&D, politics, military, ...), but I don't think Fairphone 6 are the devices that target this demographic and thus should not include one. Furthermore, current "offline" measure seem to mitigate the problem okay enough to not need such a killswitch - else we would already have phones with such features. And lastly, killswitches can only mitigate parts of the features modern spyware [2] implements and does not protect from simple human-based errors like the United States government group chat leaks [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group...
by linguae | 2025-06-25 12:53:22+00:00
Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Computer History Museum

My favorite part about the Computer History Museum is the events they hold occasionally where they have live interviews and demos from legendary figures in computing. Over the years I've been to events celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Xerox Alto (including a live demo of Smalltalk-76 run by Dan Ingalls on a Xerox Alto!), the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa, and the 40th anniversary of the original Apple Macintosh. There's also a chance to meet legendary figures in person. I've met and had conversations with Dan Ingalls, Yoshiki Ohshima (who is a long-time collaborator of Xerox PARC legend Alan Kay), Charles Simonyi (created the Bravo word processor at Xerox PARC, became wealthy at Microsoft, and founded Intentional Software), Marshall Kirk McKusick (BSD), David Ungar (created the Self programming language), and Donald Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics, TeX, and much more).

I'm also a fan of the museum's recorded interviews with legendary figures and the digital artifacts they have, including source code to historical projects.

One of the best parts about living near Silicon Valley, in my opinion, is being able to meet and converse with people who made significant contributions to computing, since many of them live in Silicon Valley. While the cost of living is a challenge (I'm a tenure-track professor who teaches CS and thus I don't have a FAANG salary, not to mention I don't get bonuses or stock grants), it's great being able to be in close proximity to the people who encouraged me to pursue a career in computing.
by SirFatty | 2025-06-25 12:54:12+00:00
They're not talking about playing Mario Kart, but more about things like loot boxes, which really is akin to gambling.

"Loot boxes have come under fire from lawmakers and regulators around the world who claim selling random chances at rare or coveted in-game items is akin to gambling."

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295676/epic-games-fortn...
by sillysaurusx | 2025-06-25 12:54:25+00:00
The reason I made books3 was to help force a decision on this issue. I’m happy to see that it’s settled, and that it’s legal for robots to read books.

It’s also proof that an individual scientist can still change the world, in some small way. Believe in yourself and just focus on your work, even if the work is controversial.

(I’m late to the thread, so ~nobody will see this. But it’s the culmination of about five years of work for me, so I wanted to post a small celebratory comment anyway. Thank you to everyone who was supportive, and who kept an open mind. Lots of people chose to throw verbal harassment my way, even offline, but the HN community has always been nice.)
by gus_massa | 2025-06-25 12:55:15+00:00
Congratulations! Is the boy already sleeping this month? Are you already sleeping this month? :)

PS: Note for not parents: First month is brutal, because the baby does not sleep and you don't sleep. With 5 month sleeping should be fine, hopefully.

PS2: Beware that at ~5 month they learn to roll and may fall from the bed. Each age is "interesting" in it's own way.
by re-thc | 2025-06-25 12:55:26+00:00
> In aggregate its roughly the same.

That's like saying if you pay tax you already pay for everything since your tax dollars is always involved in some part of it.

There's no separate section on Twitter or Facebook with said "news" with a separate charge. If I e.g. pay for a Twitter account I pay for it all.

Unless there's an opt-out, as a user I'm paying for it. Whether I use it or not.
by Aachen | 2025-06-25 12:55:28+00:00
> advanced compression (finite-state entropy, like ZStandard)

I've not tried it on images, but wouldn't zstandard be exceedingly bad at gradients? It completely fails to compress numbers that change at a fixed rate

Bzip2 does that fine, not sure why https://chaos.social/@luc/114531687791022934 The two variables (inner and outer loop) could be two color channels that change at different rates. Real-world data will never be a clean i++ like it is here, but more noise surely isn't going to help the algorithm compared to this clean example
by twiss | 2025-06-25 12:55:35+00:00
> But you would also not be reachable if the killswitch is active ;)

I would be, because I asked for a killswitch for the microphone and cameras, not a killswitch for connectivity like the original comment.

If I get a call while the killswitch is active, I can stop the sensitive conversation, turn on the microphone, and answer the call.
by mrangle | 2025-06-25 12:55:40+00:00
I don't have experience with CoPilot, but I do with other LLMs. I'm not sure that omitting "provide me with" is enough to get the job done, generally, aside from being lucky that it correctly interprets the prompt. In my experience, other LLMs are just as prone to incorrect divination of what one means given telegraphic prompts.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-25 12:55:49+00:00
What throws a big wrench into determining causation is that Starbucks tries to avoid opening where there isn't already a sufficient customer base.

Even if you do manage to tease out causation tech and other "sophisticated" industry startups are also just the tip of the entrepreneurship iceberg.

The bulk of the area under the curve of a city's wealth is the long tail of blue collar people who wouldn't voluntarily associate with the kind of people who go to Starbucks starting and making moves to grow businesses that HN snobs don't even notice.
by _mlbt | 2025-06-25 12:56:20+00:00
> Hiring is messy. It always has been and always will be precisely because it involves human beings. I've been on both sides of the table often enough, and every hire is ultimately a coin toss. You try to weed out the people that are obviously horrible, and give a chance to the people that seem like they have a few useful strengths or might be able to grow into the role. Most important is that they can fit in with a team.

During hiring, it's never been my experience that resumes are particularly helpful for any of these things. Interviews, on the other hand are incredibly valuable for these things. It's my opinion that the most effective way to do hiring is to weed out all the obviously unqualified applicants as quickly as possible, and then if necessary dwindle down the remaining applicants to a reasonable number to interview based on X number of individuals who appear to be the most qualified for the position. I just see resumes as unnecessary additional friction in the process of narrowing down who should be interviewed for a job.
by delfinom | 2025-06-25 12:56:39+00:00
"Better tools for the job" isn't always "the tool currently bringing in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$". So you live with it.

Sure, maybe by switching to linux you can squeeze out an extra CPU core's worth of performance after you fire your entire staff and replace them with Linux experienced developers, and then rewrite everything to work on Linux.

Or, live with it and make money money money money.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-25 12:57:17+00:00
Negativity is unavoidable, but adaptable.

As you write "50% gone" you've revealed a counting, quantitative mindset, so ask yourself if that's how you directly find life, or have you unconsciously adopted this way of thinking.

There's great news: the entirety of human history has left trails for you to follow and some of them lead to enlightenment and beauty.

There's terrible news: a lot of them lead is ugliness and pain.

All of it comes to bodily death. Is that good or bad news?

Since you've awoken to the idea of a conservation of yourself, and given that your question provides that you don't know what this means-- which indicates a normal orientation in midlife-- maybe you're ready to earnestly explore history?

I assert that science knows little about life and never will. But it can reveal opportunities and hazards.

It is in the arts and philosophy that the seeker may further prosper.

What value do you find is obtained from wealth and accomplishments?

What does history reveal about the others in your situation and with your views?

Can you engage with and trust your direct experience? How do you adapt to pain and pleasure?

Adventure.
by 0xWTF | 2025-06-25 12:57:46+00:00
I first found this site via photo.net back in the 90s or perhaps early 2000s. I had recently gotten my BS in Physics and happened to be a photography buff. I took a day in the summer at my parents' house and just read it. Digital wasn't a thing yet so frames of film were precious. He clearly explained the EV system and everything suddenly just clicked. I took hand written notes in an A5 notebook, which became the foundation of a lifelong habit of journaling.