MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-06-20 14:46:35+00:00
My point is that from the outside this doesn’t look like randomness at all, unless you are mistaking ignorance of their motives as a random oracle. If you can infer what set of goals drives their decision making, and the decision making process itself (e.g. ADHD brain vs careful considered action) you can very much predict their decisions. Marketing and PR people do this every single day. People don’t behave like random oracles, they behave like deterministic decision makers with complex, partly unknown goals so our predictions of their behavior are not always correct. That’s not the same thing as random.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-06-20 14:46:47+00:00
> by claiming that other comments are so egregious that the guidelines shouldn't apply to you.

no man i keep claiming the same thing over and over: that you have done nothing about any other comment in this thread except mine. i've literally said this same thing like 5 times. and what's happening is you keep reasserting some kind of lattitude to ignore them.

> I'm not going to be goaded or shamed into acting on comments on the basis that "it should be obvious". We can't operate a site like that.

you can't have your cake and eat it too: if my comments are obvious enough given a particular value system that you can scold and censure me, then there can be plenty of others that are just as obvious.

edit:

> rather than insisting that you are above the guidelines... take responsibility for your own conduct

please point out for me (by using links) where i didn't "take responsibility"? at multiple points i admitted to being sarcastic/flippant. how would you like me to further take responsibility? would you like me to apologize to those people? would you like me to delete my comment so that they continue fly under the radar? would you like me to commit hari-kari?
by Bender | 2025-06-20 14:47:10+00:00
Make that a generic oral solution I can buy off the shelf in the vitamin / hormone section of the local store and give people a way to detect when they are losing muscle such as a urine test strip and I might experiment with it like I do all the other oral hormones and only if ceasing does not have a rebound effect. I will not go anywhere near a prescription.
by tetraodonpuffer | 2025-06-20 14:47:22+00:00
it only takes popular distributions making it default, then all sorts of things will start depending on it, and it will be difficult to not switch eventually. As somebody that has written a lot of xlib/xt/motif code years back, and that still has the full O'Reilly X series set on my bookshelves, I would prefer X11 to continue; but just like sysv->systemd it seems things are moving against that being the case.
by imiric | 2025-06-20 14:47:34+00:00
I can respect that. But reading and writing code, and discussing code with your colleagues, are pretty essential tasks to software development. If you don't enjoy either, then you probably would not enjoy working in the industry.

Which is fine, don't get me wrong. But that would be like if someone wants to work as an automotive engineer, but they only enjoy driving a car. It doesn't work that way. You should enjoy the entire process of manufacturing a car if you want to drive a good one. Sure, you may enjoy some tasks more than others, and this is fine, but you can't ignore the ones you don't. Otherwise you're only doing a disservice to yourself, your team, and the users of what you build.

> Doesn't mean I don't care about code quality, or good abstractions and having a reasonable design/architecture. But I'm focused on the end goal, having a particular problem solved, and coding is just the way there (sometimes).

But coding is just the mechanical part of building software. It's the last step of the process after everything you mentioned is taken into consideration. Everything else is how you ensure that you reach the end goal successfully. So saying that the end goal is your main focus doesn't make sense if you want to actually reach it.

This is why I think that people who enjoy vibe coding today, are not, and will never become software engineers. They want to fast track to the end goal by jumping over the parts that are actually important. Blindly accepting whatever a code generation tool spits out if it passes a quick manual happy path test is not engineering. It's something else that produces much inferior results. At least until these tools get much, much better at it, which still seems far away, and unlikely with the current tech.
by mtmail | 2025-06-20 14:48:00+00:00
https://www.heise.de/en/news/16-billion-credentials-No-new-l... "the source is once again Cybernews –, which has already attracted attention in the past with massive exaggerations and the sensationalist promotion of discoveries of data dumps with old, already known leaked data. In this case, too, excitement about alleged data leaks is misplaced."
by incomingpain | 2025-06-20 14:48:31+00:00
You ban plastic bags and now people buy reusable grocery bags(ok good?), but everything that goes in the reusable grocery bag is wrapped with plastic.

You now dont have regularly plastic bags, so you end up buying garbage bags and ziplocs to replace their original re-use.

You havent eliminated anything at all. You havent banned anything. You have in fact expanded the amount of plastic bags in circulation by doing a plastic bag ban.
by nikanj | 2025-06-20 14:48:34+00:00
In the 1950s the UK was adding about 260k babies per year with a population of about 50 million, or about 0.52% per year

Net migration (immigrants - emigrants) in 2024 was about 0.63%.

I would hope the productivity advances in the last 75(!) years would allow the Uk to build enough homes for 0.63% growth, when our 1950s tools and technology allowed them to accommodate a 0.52% growth
by tart-lemonade | 2025-06-20 14:49:14+00:00
> While the change detection currently only runs on a subset of about 2 million domains, the crawler is aware of approximately 36,000,000 domains in total, and about 1,500,000 of those are subdomains of tumblr.com.

So Tumblr makes up ~4% of all internet domains (or at least, all linked publicly-accessible domains)? Makes sense, but still wild to think about. I'd love to know what the top 10 domains (by sub-domain count) are.
by mooreds | 2025-06-20 14:49:47+00:00
Whenever you are validating your idea, you want some kind of commitment from your possible users.

Possible validation:

* visited a page

* signed up for a waitlist

* paid you money

The further down the list you go, the more commitment you have, but the fewer people who will be willing to give you that commitment.

A waitlist is a nice option in the middle, plus it gives you a way to reach out to interested folks if/when your project is ready. It costs you approximately zero too.

I think that is the main reason you see this so often.
by mnahkies | 2025-06-20 14:49:48+00:00
I often submit minor bug fixes or features to fairly popular projects, and as an outside contributor the communication can be very async. It's typically limited to GitHub PR/issue discussions, and sometimes the latency is measured in weeks/months.

I think it's probably quite different if you're a "core contributor" and likely using additional channels like slack and scheduled meetings, more akin to a company operating.
by financetechbro | 2025-06-20 14:50:09+00:00
The article is really vague on its criticism - I think it shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the finance industry works. Most banks don’t like to hold risk so even when they create these exotic products for institutional clients they typically get sold off to investors who would the risk. Most risk averse banks prefer to be the broker rather than the dealer.

Not to say there isn’t anything wrong with the current permutation of banks, but I just don’t think there is a strong argument in TFA.

Also credit unions are a thing for those worried about big banks.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-06-20 14:50:20+00:00
I made a private fork of ALICE back in the day and maintained my own response ruleset to give it a bespoke personality. I extended the main ALICE codebase with a TCP-based API server, and wrote another service that connects ALICE to IRC channels. I also made a GTK-based UI for starting, stopping, reloading and monitoring ALICE and to ease writing rule files. This gave me an IRC buddy that joined me in chatrooms.

If I remember correctly, I also modified the Graphmaster to add support for rule priorities, so that I can better manage rules beyond the tree-based matching approach.

One of the first things people would do, upon discovering that she's a bot, is trying to break her responses.

All of this was for private use, nothing was open sourced. Unfortunately I think I forgot to copy it over from an old hard drive during a computer hardware migration, so it's gone now.

I remember Richard Wallace writing something along the lines of "if I were to build an artificial intelligence, I wouldn't use flesh and bones, that's just a bad choice" (not a verbatim quote) in defense of people accusing AIML for being a too simple/dumb of an approach, with those people favoring more complex approaches. In the age of LLM, that statement aged both well and badly.
Show HN: SimpleeFood – a simple self hosted recipe app
by abhchand | 2025-06-20 14:50:54+00:00
Hello HN - I built SimpleeFood, a simple self hosted recipe app

I found most of the self-hosted offerings out there to be too bloated. Recipes aren't complex - you largely want to store them, search them, and view them easily.

SimpleeFood tries to be minimal and functional, with a high bar for adding new features.

And in the spirit of self hosting, I've also tried to ensure that hosting the application is easy. The docker image runs on any VPS or Home Server and all data is self contained in a single SQLite DB.

Key Features -

* search and tag recipes * import recipes from a URL * fullscreen mode, for easy cooking on your tablet or phone

I enjoyed making it. I hope you enjoy using it - bon appétit!
by tarboreus | 2025-06-20 14:50:55+00:00
I like that this article isn't just a bunch of GNOME hate. But I freely admit to being frustrated that this switch is being forced when they're still developing basic accessibility functionality for GNOME. Once I switch to Wayland, I have to find new ways of:

- Adding hotkeys

- Replacing all my utilities that involve screenshot + OCR

- Making sure Orca works to some extent (low expectations here, but I need some of it to work)

- Reversing the gamma ramp

- Screen magnification

I have mapped out some approaches to most of these, but I full anticipate one or more to be show-stoppers or items I have to attempt to implement from scratch. I'm looking at 100 hours of work, minimum, to make this switch, and am basically just left out in the cold to figure all these workflows out under more hostile circumstances. It's also a chicken and egg, since I need to bootstrap into the new environment without any of my old tools working.

It's great that GNOME is taking some of this seriously, but they're forcing a very difficult transition, and it's frustrating that they think accessibility is in a usable state, or that we're low prioritiy enough to not matter. I'vbe heard the word "edge case" used a lot, it really stinks to be in a category where your entire computer use and professional career are considered an edge case.
by Symmetry | 2025-06-20 14:50:59+00:00
The YouTube videos will never stop.

But I think the author missed a trick by not including that time one of our Spots got shot.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-dynamics-robot-do...

EDIT: And a link to the programming languages inspiration for this post if you haven't read it already.

https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...
by mooreds | 2025-06-20 14:51:10+00:00
I posted this on a different community, but someone was worried about their job as an IC w/r/t AI tooling, and this was my advice.

Connect to the business.

I often seen engineers focus on solving cool, hard problems, which is neat. I get it, it's fun.

But having an understanding of business problems, especially strategic ones, and applying technology as needed to solve them--well, if you do that you stand out and are more valuable.

These type of problems tend to be more intractable, cross departments, and are techno-social rather than purely technical.

So it may take some time to learn, but that's the path I'd advise you and other ICs to follow.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-20 14:51:11+00:00
Right. The solution (or part of the solution, there is no "all-around solution") is not only building more housing, but having a social structure that allows people to earn enough to afford the housing. But our society isn't set up that way. Employers want to pay as little as possible -- or feel they have to pay as little as possible to stay competitive and above water. If you're not earning a living wage, then it doesn't matter how much housing is being built.

And to say "just build so much that supply > demand and prices will drop" doesn't work, because private developers won't build housing they can't make a tidy profit on.
by arp242 | 2025-06-20 14:51:25+00:00
> We don't care about the "side"

I'm sorry, but what? A quick look at this person's profile has tons of flagged comments on every page. None of it is pretty. I see rants about pretty much every non-White Christian group. You can't just ignore that.

But yeah, almostgotcaught is the one who needs a bollocking because he got a bit testy when the Nazi was goosestepping around ... :-/
by toast0 | 2025-06-20 14:51:25+00:00
Google glass was a display that was up and to the right of where you want to be looking.

I don't know about everyone, but I found it pretty hard to use. Caveat, I didn't get them fit to me, I was supervising an intern working on a speculative Glass project, and they were fit to him.

AR would be neat, but voice interfaces are acheivable at an approachable cost. I'm not one to talk to a computer, and I wear prescription lenses, so these glasses don't appeal to me, but I can see there's a market there, not sure how big or if Meta can capture it.
by Garcia98 | 2025-06-20 14:51:31+00:00
As a Spaniard who was about to take a well-deserved siesta, I found these points so blatantly inaccurate that I had to get up and address them.

>>3% tax on my global wealth every year (in effect it's more like 4.5% because there is also significant capital gain tax)

This only affects multi-millionaires, and even then, your numbers are wrong. The national wealth tax only applies to net worth over €3M. The top rate of 3.5% is only for assets over €10.7M. And some regions like Madrid and Andalusia offer a 100% exemption from the regional tax.

>>60% tax on a semi-decent tech salary

False. The top income tax bracket is ~47% on earnings over €300K, which is far beyond a "semi-decent" salary here. More importantly, as a foreigner, you can use the "Beckham Law" to pay a flat tax of 24% on your first €600K of income for six years.

>>25%+ capital gain tax for my investors (if I find any)

You're cherry-picking the highest rate again. It's a progressive tax starting at 19%. It only exceeds 25% on gains over €200K. Besides, if your investors are not in Spain, they are taxed in their country of residence under its tax treaties with Spain.

>>people don't speak English, many of them are proud of it

We are not French, we won't scold you for trying to speak English. While not everyone is fluent in rural areas, people will genuinely try their best to help you, even if it's through Google Translate.

>>scheduling anything with anybody is impossible, the concept of being on time doesn't exist

You're confusing social life with professional life. Yes, we might be 15 minutes late for a beer, but in a business context, being late is just as unprofessional here as it is in London or New York.

>>Bureaucracy is slow, full of paperwork, can't be done online, can't be done in English, the result depends on clerk's mood on a given day

Spanish bureaucracy is as slow as in anywhere else, but it is indeed digitized. You are required to file your tax forms (available in English btw) digitally, and you can register a business, get your SSN, etc., with a digital certificate from your computer. I've only had to show up in person once in the last five years to register my address after moving to a new city.

>>if someone comes to my house when I am away I can't kick them out, need to find another house and keep paying bills for the new occupa(s)nts

This is just rage bait. What you are describing, someone entering your primary home, is trespassing, a criminal offense. The police will have them evicted within 48 hours. The infamous "okupa" issue applies to properties that are clearly abandoned or second homes left empty for years, not your actual residence.
by fragmede | 2025-06-20 14:52:08+00:00
Not all of them, no, but if you give someone keys to a home the problem of them not having a home is solved. We may not be equipped to solve their other problems, but that does actually solve that problem.

As far as going somewhere else, the problem is accessibility of resources for the unhoused. Many municipalities don't like the idea of random people going to their town and using the benefits from that town, you have to have lived in that town for many years and ostensibly contributed taxes while you were able to work. So if you were previously housed in LA/NYC, your best bet to getting services is to stay there because having been housed there previously gets you moved up on the list for housing.
by coldpie | 2025-06-20 14:52:36+00:00
Running in kernel space does not automatically make something malware. There are legit reasons for some software to run in kernel space, and anti-cheat is one of them. It performs a useful function for users who want to play online games without cheaters. Running proprietary software in kernel space may not be worth the trade off to you, and that's fine and I agree personally, but that doesn't make it "malware."
by TheAncientGeek | 2025-06-20 14:53:16+00:00
.

Popperians claim that positive justification is impossible.

Popperians claim.Induction doesn't exist (or at least , matter in science)

Popper was prepared to consider the existence of Propensities objective.probabilities, whereas Bayesians, particularly those who follow Jaynes believe in determinism and subjective probability.

Popperian refutation is all or nothing, whereas Bayesian negative information is gradual.

In Popperism, there can be more than one front running or most favoured theory, even after the falsifiable ones have been falsified, since there aren't quantifiable degrees of confirmation.

For Popper and Deutsch, theories need to be explanatory, not just predictive. Bayesian confirmation and disconfirmation only target prediction directly -- if they are achieving explanation or ontological correspondence , that would be the result of a convenient coincidence.

For Popperians, the construction of good theoretical conjectures is as important as testing them. Bayesian seem quite uninterested in where hypotheses come from.

For Deutschians, being hard-to-vary is the preferred principle of parsimony. For Yudkuwsians, it's computation complexity.

Error correction as something you actually do. Popperians like to put forward hypotheses that are easy to refute. Bayesians approve theoretically of "updating", but dislike objections and criticisms in practice.

(Long term) prediction is basically impossible . More Deutsch than Popper -- DD believed that the growth and unpredictability of knowledge . The creation of knowledge is so unpredictable and radical that long term predictions cannot be made. Often summarised to "prediction is impossible". Of course , Bayesians are all about prediction --but the predictive power of Ates tends only to be demonstrated in you models, where the ontology isn't changing under your feet. Their AI I predictions are explicitly intuition based.

Optimism versus Doom. Deutsch is highly optimistic that continuing knowledge creation will change the world for the better (a kind of moral realism is a component of this). Yudkowsky thinks advanced AI is our last invention and will kill us all.*
by walterbell | 2025-06-20 14:53:37+00:00
https://gizmodo.com/telegrams-founder-plans-to-open-source-h...

> fifteen years ago, a friend asked him to donate sperm at a clinic to help them because they were having trouble conceiving.. "The boss of the clinic told me that ‘high quality donor material’ was in short supply and that it was my civic duty to donate more sperm to anonymously help more couples.. I plan to open-source my DNA so that my biological children can find each other more easily.. The shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, and I’m proud that I did my part to help alleviate it."
by legacynl | 2025-06-20 14:53:37+00:00
I can't recommend Arch enough. It's specifically the install process that I think helped me understand everything much more clearly, and helped me break the cycle of installing a distro, encountering problems, and weekends of googling around. My friend jokingly referred encountering an problem during remodeling his new home to installing a linux distro. Like he just wants to be done with this remodeling already, but these problems lead him to spending his free weekends on some problem that shouldn't even have been there.

But arch basically starts you with nothing and you build up, you'll exactly know what software does what, and when problems arise you know where the problem is coming from. That being said, I've never had a system that is as stable and 'just works' like my current arch install, and besides from twice needing manual intervention after not updating for a while, it's been going 8 years. I'm currently at the state that whenever something is not working (adb not recognizing my phone, external usb-harddrive bay not being properly recognized) I always know that those things will just work as soon as I reboot my machine into arch. Although on win10 most things 'just work' as well, so those moment's aren't that common.

As a side note Arch has some very good informative wiki pages on basically any software you might want to use on linux. Even if you're not using arch it's very useful for basically any linux user, and it often has a section with known issues and workarounds.
by albrewer | 2025-06-20 14:54:01+00:00
I've housed two sibling that were labeled as "mentally unstable"(raised by mentally abusive narcissists) and "lazy"(has narcolepsy), respectively. Both situations were pretty bad before they landed in our home, but everyone in their lives called us "angels" for taking them in.

Each of them lived with my family for two years. All my wife and I did was let them exist in their own space with no pressure to do anything (other than coexist in our house, but that's purely logistics).

Both of them have gone on to go to college and pursue their respective dreams. The elder of the two lives independently, and the younger just shipped off to college.

The broader point being that most people just need a support network and a stable place to live to start to thrive.

Granted, that's just anecdata on my part, but it seems to line up with moth metal health studies I've read when it comes to homelessness.