MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akavel | 2025-06-12 15:32:22+00:00
There's also a kind of super-cheap Bluetooth "Chinese" thermal receipt printers, also known as "kitty printer" or "cat printer". There's plenty of reverse-engineered software for printing to them in a number of languages; one I use is: https://print.unseen-site.fun/ The disadvantage is they don't cut automatically, and their "cutter teeth" are super crappy. But cheap!
by BobaFloutist | 2025-06-12 15:32:39+00:00
>Despite what I've said I for the life of me cannot understand why people trust Google with their data without first backing it up elsewhere.

What's actually a good solution to backing up your data?

Let's assume I would like to spend hundreds, not thousands of dollars, and I'm not interested in physically mailing copies to friends or maintaining a safety deposit box.

Last I checked, the usual recommendations are pretty dang clunky.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-12 15:33:16+00:00
I really do think that there's something reifying about the physical act of writing it down. I think that because in one of my many stutterstepping starts into the world of weightlifting I tried keeping a log on my phone and it did all the same things that keeping a log on the wall does (arguably more, the whiteboard doesn't track historical data and can't automatically generate charts for me) but it just felt like shouting numbers into the void every day. There was no sense of job-well-done satisfaction when I hit a personal best, there was no little ceremony of removing a number from the board to make room for a new, higher number. There was just a bunch of individual workouts and I either did them or I didn't and no one cared either way, including me.
by mattl | 2025-06-12 15:33:59+00:00
Yeah my “internet” access was using Mini Office 2 on the CPC to make a modem connection to another computer and that computer had internet access. Later the Numbus machines were replaced with 486 SX 25 machines from RM (via the UK supermarket Tesco’s computers for schools program, previously they’d been supplying Acorn computers) which made things a little easier.

I would later write it in Protext on the CPC and copy it to the floppy disk and IIRC remove a few control characters from the file before uploading it from one of the 486 machines.

Most of the Nimbus and 486 machines were diskless and floppy driveless. Reserving one with a floppy drive was a crapshoot. Eventually one machine in the school was secretly outfitted with a small hard disk someone got their hands on from elsewhere.

For the longest time I had never seen the web outside of a text browser, despite having a website (really a single page for a long time)
by rurp | 2025-06-12 15:34:31+00:00
The times I've really had to scramble on something at work describe both some of my best working experiences and some of my worst. I think a big differentiator is clarity. If I know that X needs to be done, and it's important and urgent I'm happy to dig in.

The bad emergencies tend to be scenarios where I'm told OMG we need to fix A, it's an emergency, only to be told a short time later that actually never mind problem B is the real emergency, and then jumping to problem C after that, and so on. That kind of scattered direction can be soul crushing, where I invest in a problem and get far along on a good solution, only to be told that oh actually that urgency was BS, but trust us this new emergency is totally important.
by mgkimsal | 2025-06-12 15:34:33+00:00
I've always been intrigued with him - had hoped to meet him at a concert years ago, but didn't happen. To be complete, I guess David Marks was an outsider too, although living across the street(?) he was probably 'closer' to the family for a time than Al was.

He's always struck me as just a basic down to earth guy. That may be in comparison to the rest of the group members and their antics.

His voice has remained remarkably strong and good. He was by far the best voice when I saw him on Brian's tour in 2016, and was good (on the couple songs he got?) on the 2012 tour. I don't think his solo songwriting is all that great, but he focuses on what he does and does it well.

I suspect he's got some good behind the scenes stories that would break a lot of myths, and I also suspect he'll never tell all.
by randomNumber7 | 2025-06-12 15:35:10+00:00
Some people trust their own thinking to judge what they see.

We know it called mayday and then lost communication. It also stopped transmitting GPS data.

Looking at this it likely lost all electric power. The electric power comes from generators driven by the turbines.

If you lose both turbines you lose electricity. You also lose the hydraulic system so you can not get in the gear or change flaps.

Occam's razor checks out.
by mandevil | 2025-06-12 15:35:25+00:00
This is what my wife (a hospital pharmacist) thinks too. She has developed her medical intuition on thousands of patients, through education, rotations, residency, years of working, etc. And most patients are straightforward and easy. But it is those easy cases that build the judgement skills necessary to make her so fast and effective when she gets to the hard cases.

Maybe an AI would be better on the easy cases- slightly faster and cheaper. But it would mean that she would never develop the skills to tackle the problems that AI has no idea how to handle.
by indigo945 | 2025-06-12 15:35:32+00:00
Just to add on to this, because I agree with all points you make: the article argues that "people chatting with Claude a lot and asking if it feels conscious [...] is neither good AI research, nor a deep philosophical investigation", but then builds half its argument on a second-rate sci-fi novel:

> The sci-fi novel Permutation City captures the absurd endpoint of > this logic when a simulated mind considers its own nature: "And if > the computations behind all this had been performed over millennia, > by people flicking abacus beads, would he have felt exactly the same? > It was outrageous to admit it—but the answer had to be yes." [...] > A theory that demands we accept consciousness emerging from millennia of > flickering abacus beads is not a serious basis for moral consideration; > it's a philosophical fantasy.

Concluding from a random novel the author has read that an argument that actual philosophers working in actual academia on actual problems of Philosophy of Mind is invalid because, to wit, it feels invalid -- I assume that's the "good AI research" and "deep philosophical investigation" the author was looking for, then?
by Jelthi | 2025-06-12 15:35:40+00:00
My only experience with a dirty Waymo was smell. I reported it in app and got a message they recalled it to be cleaned.

I think the fact they can just take a car out of rotation and to the hub which probably has dedicated cleaning staff is a big reason it will last.

Your average uber driver is desperate to work. I’ve seen a driver open his trunk and clean up urine from a drunk female passenger he just dropped off in front of me and then just carry on with our ride like it was no big deal.
by iwanttocomment | 2025-06-12 15:36:28+00:00
In Austin, Waymos are hailed via the Uber app, which will quote you a price which is good for either a conventional Uber or a Waymo, and you get a Waymo if one is available. Same price. The Waymo is actually cheaper because there's no tip.

The issue I have with Waymo is that getting in and out of those i-Paces as a "person of height" is rather difficult - I really have to do a strange contortion - and if I want to sit in the right rear, there's nobody in front to pull the seat up for me so there's not enough legroom. (I've moved to adjusting and sitting in the front passenger seat when I get a Waymo, something human Uber drivers hate.)
by Sanzig | 2025-06-12 15:37:28+00:00
Yubikey does TOTP on-board, but you need to connect it to a phone or computer (no display or on-board power). It solves a different problem, where you want to have your TOTP credentials on a tamper resistant hardware security module. It doesn't solve the "don't want to carry around a phone for TOTP" problem.
by StableAlkyne | 2025-06-12 15:37:47+00:00
Yes, in a perfect world there would be professionals doing this instead of putting it all on the academic.

However, we live in an imperfect world. When people say "should" in these contexts, they're not describing some ideal way the world works. They're prescribing actions that are realistic based on the current system we live in.

The world sucks. It's more useful to work with the small amount of control one has, than to do nothing because the action doesn't solve a wider systemic problem.
by toast0 | 2025-06-12 15:37:52+00:00
Fit and finish aren't there, and have barely improved. It just looks bad. And it starts slowly (but so does Microsoft Office). Having to decide which fork to use is a problem.

Otherwise, I haven't had major issues. Sometime it doesn't work well with complex excel sheets, or complex word docs; create doc in X, edit in Y, view in X is likely to be disappointing if formatting is critical, but I've seen people use a publish to PDF, edit by change requests flow for that instead.

Other than multiplayer support, it's still much nicer than Google Docs, which can look better but likes to get into weird partially loaded states or runs simple spreadsheet tasks very slowly due to mandatory interaction with a server.
by cvsv | 2025-06-12 15:37:55+00:00
The Waymo cars are really comfortable luxury Jaguars. For Uber and Lyft there are many price tiers, but to reliably get an equally or more comfortable car you probably need to book the black car options. I’m sure Uber / Lyft are way more expensive per mile than Waymo on that tier.

In addition to all the things people have pointed out that makes it a better experience.
by xnx | 2025-06-12 15:38:05+00:00
> The “consistently clean” part won’t last, that’s just because they’re new.

A fair bit of the unclean part of Ubers/Lyfts comes from the drivers: cigarettes, marijuana, food, perfume, air "fresheners", body odor.

Waymo's have internal cameras that can detect visible uncleanliness.

Easy to report and have accountability (to the previous rider) if there's a significant cleanliness problem (spilled food, vomit).

Next generation Zeekr vehicles (limited by tariffs right now) might be better designed for cleaning: better materials, fewer nooks and crannies, larger door openings.
by uticus | 2025-06-12 15:38:32+00:00
> You think the prospect of injuries in among military personell are going to prevent policies and practicalities that increase operational fitness?

My point is that someone has to shoulder the costs. I'm not sure I would classify the Navy as an "idiotic beaurocracy" but it is not an efficient organization. They can "get it done" as you imply only with an obscene amount of money budgeted (and even so still have to shuffle money around every year). In one scenario, contracting out helps operational fitness by letting sailors focus on their MOS and taking the burden of upkeep and maintenance off the table.

Sure, contracting is often done poorly or even wickedly, but the best solution isn't always to replace contracting with an MOS.
by GlenTheMachine | 2025-06-12 15:38:33+00:00
From the article:

‘They suffered fourteen nets (which was all they had) to rot and spoil, which by orderly drying and mending might have been preserved. But being lost, all help of fishing perished.’ (25)

(25) Strachey, W. 1998b [1610], ‘A True Reportory of the wrack and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas; his coming to Virginia, and the estate of that colony then, and after under the government of the Lord La Warre’, in Haile 1998, p. 441

I originally learned this by talking with a Jamestown National Historical Park docent. I said that, having grown up in Virginia in the 20th century and knowing what tidewater Virginia was like in the 17th century, it would have been very hard to starve to death. American chestnut was still the dominant forest tree, and provided literally tons of nuts per tree. Black walnut and acorn were also plentiful and make good survival foods if you know how to prepare them. The Chesapeake Bay had enormous oyster beds, with oysters being described as "the size of dinner plates", and John Smith said that he thought he could have walked across it on the backs of fish, and if you know how to dry or salt fish it doesn't matter that the sturgeon and rockfish are seasonal. Mussels and crab, likewise, would have been plentiful, and unlike fish, accessible year round. Deer, turkey, rabbit, groundhog, squirrel, opossum and raccoon were plentiful, and passenger pigeon were also around, not having suffered the overhunting they did in the early 20th century.

She indicated that the majority of the English settlers weren't farmers or fishermen and didn't have the hands-on experience to make use of the resources at their disposal. I went home and did a bit of internet research on that statement, and it seemed fairly accurate.

I do not claim to be a trained historian of colonial Virginia; I just grew up there.
by black3r | 2025-06-12 15:38:34+00:00
my eastern european mind cannot comprehend 2 things:

- if the average price per ride is $20.43 and average price per km is $11.22 does it mean that the average ride length is 1.8km? that seems kinda low..., like that's something I would walk if I didn't hurry..

- if the higher prices are really influenced by costs of operating AV and not simple greed fueled by "offering a better product", how long it's gonna take to be competitive in countries where driver salaries are lower than US? In Bratislava where I'm from the UberX price per km outside surges are lower than 1€ (there's a minimum price per ride of 4.50€ though, but a ride to the airport which is 9km away is 7.41€ now (and that's without the frequent discounts Uber offers, currently I have a 30% discount offered and it would cost me 5.19€ with the discount)...
by klabb3 | 2025-06-12 15:38:53+00:00
And carsickness. In stop-sign city traffic, I get nauseous with the breaking and speeding of aggressive driving. I mean stop signs are problematic for other reasons too, but I don’t want to get to a dinner with friends feeling sick.

That said, if I’m going mostly highway to the airport I want a driver who’s knowledgeable and opportunistic, picking the best lanes and not missing lights.
by jnwatson | 2025-06-12 15:39:02+00:00
I just finished writing one. It is essentially the onboarding doc for your project.

It is the same stuff you'd tell a new developer on your team: here are the design docs, here are the tools, the code, and this is how you build and test, and here are the parts you might get hung up on.

In hindsight, it is the doc I should have already written.
by jayd16 | 2025-06-12 15:39:10+00:00
It's still _very_ heavy and quite niche outside of just a screen alternative. A real screen is still better in every category but portability. Software is still not compelling. Despite the raw specs, the Quest 3 is a better headset.

We have an AVP in the office but it's just collecting dust. Just not enough reason to strap it on.

AR has a lot of potential but Apple is still very far away from that. They introduced 3d widgets but then showed....a clock.
by ausbah | 2025-06-12 15:39:35+00:00
it’s really hard to be consistently “excited” about this space when half of the AI companies are proudly proclaiming their commitment to try and automate your job (doubtful but the mantra is suffocating) and the other half are just about increasing your productivity (you get more done at the same pay). i guess some boilerplate is truly automated which is a mild qol improvement
by tonymet | 2025-06-12 15:40:20+00:00
flimsy definition of “covid death”. Questionable & in-flux PCR testing, Shoddy antibody tests (calibrated against PCR), Dubious definition of “covid disease”, e.g. “you can have covid and be asymptomatic”.

7 digits of precision. How many digits died with the actual disease, from the actual disease, or coincidentally with an antibody test?

A few million elderly die each year regardless. Re-classifying a large share as “covid” is a plausible accounting mistake.
by afavour | 2025-06-12 15:40:52+00:00
> I would wear it for work if it meant I could walk around while working

The key point here is "while working". That is the distraction, not the mere presence of things in your eyeline. If I strapped a laptop to my chest and walked down the street while reading through a codebase I'd be distracted. Having that in helmet form instead doesn't seem like it would make a dramatic difference?
by cmilton | 2025-06-12 15:40:56+00:00
I have a related experience. Our project was moving from Office 365 to Google Workspace. Lot's of Windows PCs replaced with Chromebooks.

Over a year after completion, many users still have Excel and we do lots more app virtualization. I will say the biggest hurdle that still remains today, users accepting and adjusting to change. The migration also exposed lots of unknown user-created processes that no longer worked as usual, making it difficult for them to transition.

Overall, most users made the necessary adjustments, did the training provided, and are excelling. There's always that subset that can't, or maybe won't.
Show HN: Sokuji – Real-Time Voice Translation for Online Meetings(Edge Add-Ons)
by jiangzhuo | 2025-06-12 15:41:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a solo developer working on tools to help people communicate more easily across language barriers using AI.

Today, I'm excited to share that Sokuji, our real-time voice-to-voice translation tool for online meetings, is now available as a Microsoft Edge Extension: [Edge Add-ons Store Link]

What Sokuji does:

Translates your spoken words in real time and outputs them as speech in another language

Powered by OpenAI models, with customizable prompt control

Supports Google Meet (others coming soon), with speaker/mic selection and translation monitoring

Built for accessibility, remote collaboration, and language learners

Previously, Sokuji worked only as a native app (Linux client). With the Edge extension, you can now use it directly in the browser—no system setup required.

We built this for people struggling with language communication in meetings—whether due to hearing, speaking, or comprehension issues. We’re planning to support Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and a Windows-native client next.

Let me know what you think—feedback, bug reports, feature ideas are all welcome!
by msgodel | 2025-06-12 15:41:57+00:00
China already makes VR glasses that do this for 1/20th the cost (and it's almost certainly going to get cheaper) with zero vendor lock in (they're plug and play on Linux devices with USB-C display port.)

Apple instead has you strap an entire Macintosh to your face and then refuses to even give you a shell on it. It's a complete failure of imagination in my opinion.
by lproven | 2025-06-12 15:42:00+00:00
It is, but CCP/M is a descendant of it.

What stifled CCP/M in its era was that it wasn't compatible with MS-DOS device drivers.

Today, that's largely irrelevant: there aren't any modern ones.

I feel a modernised FOSS Concurrent DOS could be a fun toy: a multitasking x86-32 OS that can handle 4GB RAM and multitask lots of DOS apps. Slap a GUI on it -- DR GEM is FOSS now -- and it could do all many people need, while being about 0.01% the size of a lightweight Linux distro.
by freejazz | 2025-06-12 15:42:02+00:00
> We are discussing the nuances of suspicious "miscarriages" that appear to be home abortions constituting valid reason for investigation and possible prosecution

No. We weren't. We were talking about miscarriages being tracked through these kinds of apps. You selected one of over 20 examples provided by one poster.

> you are hung up on ridiculous strawmen as if you're the only person who understands the issue so everybody else who disagrees must be an uninformed sociopath

It was your strawman. You talked about "suspicious miscarriages" or whatever the exact term was. Something you made up on your own.

> Yes, I have the basic concepts of mammalian biology well understood

That's actually not clear at all as evidenced by the several other posters that took the same exact issue with your bizarre characterizations. But great job making yourself into some sort of victim here!
by bee_rider | 2025-06-12 15:42:16+00:00
There’s a difference between “valid concern” and “any possibility.” LLMs are possibly sentient in the same sense that rocks are, technically we haven’t identified where the sentience comes from. So maybe it is in there.

Personally, I’m coming around to the spiritual belief that rocks might be sentient, but I don’t expect other people to treat their treatment of rocks as a valid problem and also it isn’t obvious what the ethical treatment of a rock is.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-06-12 15:43:53+00:00
Disclaimer: I'm not super into magic, and I don't know what David Copperfield's "flying" looks like.

I think probably it's just too similar looking to easier tricks. A magician/enthusiast can appreciate the craft of the trick and the difficulty in executing it, a naive audience member is probably just thinking "Well it's wires somehow, I just don't know how," which is less exciting than "Wait I genuinely have no idea what on earth is going on here I could have sworn that ball was somewhere else."

We see singers and acrobats and circus clowns "flying", and while I'm sure it's vastly less impressive to anyone that knows what's going on, from four-hundred feet away it just doesn't actually look all that different.

My other (very speculative) suspicion is that I think object permanence is a pretty old, primitive part of our brains. They've done studies showing toddlers, and even a lot of animals, get confused when you clearly demonstrate violations of object permanence (e.g. put a ball in a tube and have it come out the other end, then put in another identical ball and it doesn't come out). I suspect tricks that make an object disappear or transport or duplicate or some other seeming nonsense have an easier time having a big impact because they're legible enough to impress a dog, and an audience full of cocktails isn't that different from a dog, when you get down to it.

Edit: and you said levitating has long been a very popular illusion, so maybe this wasn't the case in the past; I would suggest maybe modern audiences are just more familiar with wires/stage "flight" from other performers, or even, like, The Matrix. But again, I'm speaking from no knowledge, just thinking.
by jononor | 2025-06-12 15:44:01+00:00
They might (or might not). Extraterrestrial beings might also need moral standing. It is ok to spend a bit of thought on that possibility. But it is a bad argument for spending a non-trivial amount of resources that could be used to reduce human or animal suffering. We are not even good at ensuring the rights of people in each country, and frankly downright horrible for denying other humans from across some "border" similar rights.

The current levels of exploitation of humans and animal are however very profitable (to some/many). It is very useful for those that profit from the status quo, that people are instead discussing, worrying and advocating for the rights of a hypothetical future being. Instead of doing something about the injustices that are here today.