MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-25 18:26:41+00:00
>The ewaste from excluding a billion machines is just incredible.

Genuine question: In which country do you live where working Windows 10 PCs are sent to the landfill?

I look on my country's used market online every day for my hobby, and every functioning PC/laptop all the way from the MS-DOS, Windows 95 era, XP, Vista, and 10, finds a buyer for the right price. Pentium 4s, Pentium 3s, Pentium 2s, Pentium MMXs, 486s, you name it. Nobody's throwing them away in the landfill when there's always a buyer/taker for them if you have patience.

I feel like people are making up imaginary ewaste on the Windows 10 topic just to cause a hubbub, but where I live there's literally no such thing going on, nor have I seen any proof of it happening anywhere else. Even PCs older than Windows 10 always find a buyer! Let that sink in.

If people in your country throw working windows 10 PCs in landfills, I feel like the issue is with the people in that country being needlessly wasteful and uncaring to sell/give away to those in need, not with Microsoft.

Edit1: would the downvoters care to explain themselves with some arguments? Or do people love overreacting to ideas they don't like via a button instead of formulating a though?

Edit2: @kstrauser below:

1) why would you throw away a working PC instead of giving it away for free? Who have you met who throws away working PCs in the trash when they no longer get the latest OS? There's old people still using Windows 7 PCs just because it works for them and it didn't break down. What makes you think they'll throw away working Windows 10 PCs in dumpsters now?

2) Why would you ship the PC in another country using fuel, when someone locally will pick it up for free to use it? Like I said, there's always a taker.

I see no arguments so far against my points just imaginary scenarios of super wasteful people who throw away good stuff randomly, but then not Microsoft nor anyone can stop them throwing Bugattis off cliffs if that's their jam.

Edit 3: @SECProto below:

I asked how many people you know who throw in dumpsters working Windows 10 PCs, and you went on a tangent answered something completely different, in bad faith I would say. Of course all computing tech eventually gets landfilled due to obsolescence, that's inevitable, but if you post an ad for a Windows 10 PC now, someone will take it from you to use it, if you post an ad for a Pentium 3 PC now, someone will take it from you to use it. There's no excuse to just throw working PCs in a landfill other than malice. If your society mass landfills PCs the moment $LATEST_SW doesn't run on them, instead of finding new owners, then your society is at fault.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-25 18:26:51+00:00
There was a time when there was nothing (European) in the entire New World. There was a time when there was nothing known (to the US) about what was in most of the Louisiana Purchase. There was a time when there was nothing (European) in, say, Ohio. And then Nebraska. And so on.

There was literally nothing there? Why go all that way? To see what was there. And then to make something there.

[Edit, because I'm rate limited: No, interstellar space is something to cross, to get to stellar space. You think the New World was rich? How about a whole solar system of untapped resources?

That's why people will try to go.]
by Nextgrid | 2025-06-25 18:27:01+00:00
> I got the impression I could "get to the interview" for any of these companies

In my case I feel like most big name companies I can find wouldn't be that great of a fit. Also, due to spam and fraud epidemic currently happening (on both sides of the process) I feel like even if the job ad wasn't fraudulent, it's unlikely a human would even see/consider my resume under all the spam.

Ideally I'm looking for headhunters who would bridge the gap towards an unknown, smaller company (that I wouldn't have heard of myself - and ideally also one that isn't spammed to death by fraudulent applicant), where I could have a lot more impact than at a big name.

> I'd be interested to know what you mean by "exhausted the potential"

My current network is mostly tech recruitment agencies operating around EU/UK slinging your average "staff augmentation" roles - often no different to an FTE software developer. While they've been paying the bills fine, I feel like I'm stagnating and no longer learning anything, so looking to go upmarket, with either a bit of management or a deeper technical role, and those recruiters just don't have anything in that area.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-25 18:27:08+00:00
I wasn't even considering the sail.

Most of the designs for a system like this are "chip" designs where a single 1cm x 1cm silicon wafer is towed by the sail.

This design prevents the need for lasers so large that they create enough ozone to kill the entire human race.

The contents of the chip vary, based on who is speculating, but tend to contain exotic, uninvented, circuitry capable of both harvesting energy from the laser and doing "something" of use besides zipping by the target at 0.2c deaf, dumb, and blind. Sometimes it's even an AI-enhanced swarm! (Shoulda figured out how to work blockchain in there, post-doc guy)

Regardless, during the 40 trillion kilometer voyage to Proxima Centauri, that 1x1cm silicon wafer (and the sail) will hit space dust, and numerous other atoms and molecules (including carbon rings) because empty space... isn't.
by Xmd5a | 2025-06-25 18:27:13+00:00
Hey the interface on YouTube loads super slowly for me. The change appeared a few months ago. I'm not talking about the video streams, but the ajax loading of the UI. Whether it's opening a new youtube tab or navigating between videos within youtube, it takes forever. Chrome/Safari -> same deal, 30 seconds delays is what I observe. My macbook pro is 10 years old, the problem doesn't appear on more recent hardware, but still youtube shouldn't be the slowest website to load on my machine. I can load spotify.com just fine in about 5 seconds.
by setgree | 2025-06-25 18:27:24+00:00
YMMV, but I found it useful for drafting a pull request on GitHub, where it basically just did all the boring work, including finding the particular line in a large codebase that was throwing the error. It wasn't a hard problem, but it still would have required a bit of mental effort on my part, and I'd rather spend that reading a book.
by y-curious | 2025-06-25 18:27:28+00:00
Women's contraceptives in the states require a prescription. Which requires a doctor's appointment + insurance. If you are poor or live with strict parents (ironically), you are much less likely to seek them out.

Condoms are their own bag of worms. I think there are cultural differences in condom use here, as well as the same problem with them being a cost. This doesn't even touch on men being shady with stealthing and pressure.

On the other hand, the abortion clinic requires only an appointment and a way to get there.
by andymasley | 2025-06-25 18:27:49+00:00
Basically everything I think is here, I think this is all pretty simple and straightforward: https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/ai-can-be-bad-ove...

If you bought a hammer and never used it, so it never actually improved yourself, would you say the hammer itself isn't "useful"?
by Hizonner | 2025-06-25 18:27:58+00:00
>> So go to keys-are-names.

> Elaborate, please.

Identify a service directly by its crypto key. When you configure something else to connect to it, treat the IP address as a hint, not the primary identifier for what it's talking to. Standard idiom.

... and before you tell me that that's infeasible because you'd have to modify software, go do a survey of all the code out there, and see how much of it supports IP address certificates. If you're moving around the parts of some big complex system, it's pretty much guaranteed that many of those parts are going to choke if you just blindly go and stick IP addresses in https:// URLs.

And if you're fixing the software anyway, then it's not sane to "fix" it to attach identity to something you're going to want to change all the time, like an IP address. Especially if they're global addresses (which are the only ones any Let's Encrypt or any other public CA is ever going to certify) in the IPv4 space (which is the only one any "enterprise" ever seems willing to use).
by oezi | 2025-06-25 18:28:37+00:00
As somebody who knows a lot of journalists I can report that I haven't met any journalist who spilled the beans on that cabal who conspires to report on a false world.

I have heard them talk so negatively on the owners and chief editors of populist media such as Murdock, Berlusconi, Springer that I have just cut them completely out of my news consumption.
by ben_w | 2025-06-25 18:28:41+00:00
I remain fascinated how many people (not just you) describe something as minor as a materials or structure requirement of a minor sub-item of one of several different ways in which drinks are prepackaged into individual potions, with terms such as "draconic".

It's not like people get the death penalty for littering, which would fit the etymology of the term.

Still, language drifts.
by shiryel | 2025-06-25 18:29:03+00:00
That is also how Krita stores brushes. Unfortunately, that can cause some unexpected issues when there's too much data [1][2].

[1] - https://github.com/Draneria/Metallics-by-Draneria_Krita-Brus...

[2] - https://krita-artists.org/t/memileo-impasto-brushes/92952/11...
by georgemandis | 2025-06-25 18:29:13+00:00
I watched your talk. There are so many more interesting ideas in there that resonated with me that the summary (unsurprisingly) skipped over. I'm glad I watched it!

LLMs as the operating system, the way you interface with vibe-coding (smaller chunks) and the idea that maybe we haven't found the "GUI for AI" yet are all things I've pondered and discussed with people. You articulated them well.

I think some formats, like a talk, don't lend themselves easily to meaningful summaries. It's about giving the audience things to think about, to your point. It's the sum of storytelling that's more than the whole and why we still do it.

My post is, at the end of the day, really more about a neat trick to optimize transcriptions. This particular video might be a great example of why you may not always want to do that :)

Anyway, thanks for the time and thanks for the talk!
by pessimizer | 2025-06-25 18:29:53+00:00
But do you think they'd start letting more people into the country, just to charge to detain and deport them? It's actually sort of an ideal solution. Big business gets back labor that it can threaten to deport if it demands anything, then they can clean up on the public-private deportations. Factory managers could send ICE a list of their most annoying employees to visit. It would be so 80's, I almost typed "the INS."
by warrenm | 2025-06-25 18:29:58+00:00
None

Features are not why people switch

If features were good enough, Google+ would have left Facebook in the dust

If features were good enough, Mastodon would have buried Twitter years ago

Adapting the adage "amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics" - "amateurs talk features, professionals talk problem solving"

"Features" are how bad marketers promote their offerings

Problem solving is how good marketers promote their offerings

You need to solve a problem for me to consider you - a 'feature' has never solved a single problem

Identify problems (real or imagined) that I have that your XYZ solves for me (at all; in a better way than what I am using now; etc), and you have a chance to get me to switch

Try to pitch me on your "features", and I will keep on surfing by
by crat3r | 2025-06-25 18:30:09+00:00
Sarcasm? Weird statement if not.

I still have yet to replace a single application with an LLM, except for (ironically?) Google search.

I still use all the same applications as part of my dev work/stack as I did in the early 2020's. The only difference is occasionally using an LLM baked into to one of them but the reality is I don't do that much.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-25 18:30:37+00:00
At least in Seattle, crime is "way down" because many businesses have stopped reporting it, because the police don't respond to less serious crimes anymore.

A shopkeeper friend of mine closed his business in Seattle after multiple lootings of his place and the police never showing up. He relocated to a bedroom community.

Crime statistics are not necessarily accurate, and politicians have an interest in minimizing those statistics one way or another.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-06-25 18:30:53+00:00
1. Create a website with a series of tasks to capture this data.

2. Send link to coworkers via Slack so they can spend five minutes doing the tasks.

3. Capture that data and create thousands of slight variations saved to db as profiles

4. Bypass bot protections.

There is nothing anyone can do to prevent bots.
by standardUser | 2025-06-25 18:31:02+00:00
They fail to mention the reason the prison population soared in the 70's and 80's, because of ultra-harsh prison sentencing for drugs. In retrospect, those laws appear to have been deliberately designed to create a massive and permanent prison population, far beyond what locking people up only for non-consensual crimes could ever sustain.

Now, most of those laws have been rolled back. In the past 10-15 years the number of people locked up at the state level for drug crimes is down 30% even though drug arrests remain high. And those still getting locked up are getting shorter sentences. (though over 40% of inmates at the federal level are still there for drugs)

I'm not sure why they failed to mention such a key issues related to incarceration. They repeatedly refer to the surge in crime in the drug war era as a "crime wave". And they link to 3 other pro-drug war articles by the same author. Maybe Keith Humphreys had a bad trip in his youth and now he's making it everyone's problem.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-25 18:31:21+00:00
> Ideally a headhunter would bridge the gap towards an unknown, smaller company (that I wouldn't have heard of myself - and ideally also one that isn't spammed to death by fraudulent applicant), where I could have a lot more impact than at a big name.

That's exactly what happened with me.

In my case, the name was quite big, but the company was very small, and quite exclusive.

It was a good fit.
by lxgr | 2025-06-25 18:31:43+00:00
> I was thinking more about it more as just measure for anti-spam and limiting bots

It won't help with that at all, since without requiring active involvement of some credential or trusted party, all there is is a static signature saying "there's a person called $name born on $dob", but nothing saying "and that person wants to <send an email|register an account|...>".

There is a way to use ICAO documents supporting "Active Authentication" in such a way, and I've seen proofs of concept leveraging it, but it was an unintentional consequence of using RSA signatures for authentication and fixed/removed in newer cards.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-25 18:32:03+00:00
> There was literally nothing there

No there wasn't. There was a whole continent of untapped resources.

You can argue that the solar system is a lot of untapped resources too. Harder to extract than sailing a piece of wood across an ocean growing some food, and killing the people who are already there. Harder than colonising Antarctica or the surface of the sea too, but there are resources - not just minerals but solar energy too.

But interstellar space? Beyond the Oort Cloud? There's no evidence of anything other than perhaps some very sparse dust. That is nothing, and (jokes aside) completely incomparable to Ohio.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-25 18:32:20+00:00
The answer is likely unknowable, but I can think of several factors that tie into the plummeting birth rate:

- While the Freakanomics citation of widespread access to abortion has been debunked as a sole cause, I think it remains credible for at least a contributing factor. Fewer young people born to folks who are too poor/busy/not wanting to raise them is doubtlessly going to reduce the number of young offenders who become the prison system's regular customers their whole lives.

- Beyond just abortion, contraceptives and contraceptive education have gotten much more accessible. For all the endless whining from the right about putting condoms on cucumbers poisoning children's minds with vegetable-based erotica, as it turns out, teens have sex, as they probably have since time immemorial, and if you teach them how to do it safely and don't threaten their safety if they do, they generally will do it safely.

- Additionally, there has been a gradual ramp-up in how badly negative outcomes stack in life, and "messing up" on your path to adulthood carries higher costs than it ever has. Possibly contradicting myself, teens are having less sex than ever, as all broad forms of socializing have decreased apart from social media, which is exploding but doesn't really present opportunities to bone down. Add to it, young people are more monitored than they've ever been. When I was coming up, I had hours alone to myself to do whatever I wanted, largely wherever I wanted as long as I could get there and my parents knew (though they couldn't verify where I was). Now we have a variety of apps for digitally stalking your kids, and that's not even going into the mess of extracurricular activities, after school events, classes, study sessions, sports, etc. that modern kids get. They barely have any unmonitored time anymore.

- Another point: alternative sexuality (or the lack thereof) is more accepted than it's ever been by mainstream society, and anything that isn't man + woman is virtually guaranteed to not create unwanted pregnancy unless something truly interesting happens.

- Lastly, I would cite that even if you have a heterosexual couple who is interested in having kids, that's harder than ever. A ton of folks my age can't even afford a home, let alone one suitable for starting a family. The ones that do start families live either in or uncomfortably close to poverty, and usually in one or another variety of insecurity. The ones that can afford it often choose not to for... I mean there's so many reasons bringing kids into the world right now feels unappealing. It's a ton of work that's saddled onto 2 people in a categorically a-historic way, in an economy where two full time salaries is basically mandatory if you want to have a halfway decent standard of living, and double that for one that includes children. That's not even going into the broader state of the world, how awful the dating market is especially for women, so many reasons and factors.

Any stressed animal population stops reproduction first. I don't see why we'd think people would be any different.
by rgavuliak | 2025-06-25 18:32:20+00:00
> And nearly the entirety of retail sales

Not really? Retail is mostly driven by normal transactions.

> Aside from logistics, the problem with micro-transactions for news that I can see is that it would encourage only the more sensationalistic news and discourage the more mundane news that is likely more important for people to know.

Exactly - it essentially kills journalism that requires a lot of upfront research or work.
by collinmanderson | 2025-06-25 18:32:25+00:00
You don't know what you're missing if you haven't spent 5 minutes trying out uv.

If you're intentionally not trying it simply because you don't want to get addicted like everyone else clearly is, I could see that as a valid reason to never try it in the first place.

I usually avoid jumping on bandwagons, so I've always stuck with vanilla pip/venv, but at this point it really is clear to me that uv really is the "One True (tm) python package management solution", and probably will be for the next 10 years.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-25 18:32:43+00:00
They didn't believe there was literally nothing there. They went all that way to find unclaimed riches.

The hypothetical riches were quite obvious: same stuff we have over here, but not owned by someone yet.

What are they hypothetical riches of outer space?

This is a question we should think about clearly and logically without resorting to stuff like "oh tally-ho the adventure!" type nonsense.
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-25 18:32:46+00:00
Rapidly declining numbers of youth are committing crimes, getting arrested, and being incarcerated

Well also, the number one crime these youths were getting arrested for was drug possession. With drug trafficking being second. 15 years ago the vast majority of people in prison in texas were there for drug possession or trafficking. If all of a sudden everyone's drug of choice is marijuana, and it's being decriminalized everywhere, I have to think that makes it hard to get the numbers you used to get in terms of arrests.

Not that this is a bad thing. I'm just pointing out that while arrests did go down, I don't necessarily believe that the prevalence of pot smoking decreased.

One benefit is that this new environment should help them to have better futures than the youths that came before them.
by bluGill | 2025-06-25 18:32:56+00:00
> the act of having a child is much more deliberate and the parents likely having more resources

This is both good and bad. Having a child is very difficult, but it gets harder as you get older. You lack a lot of monitory resources as a teen or the early 20s, but you have a lot more energy, as you get older your body starts decaying you will lack energy. A kid had at 40 will still be depending on your when you are 55 (kids is only 15), and if the kids goes to college may have some dependency on you when your peers are retiring. Plus if your kids have kids young as well as you, you be around and have some energy for grandkids.

Don't read the above as advocating having kids too young, it is not. However don't wait until you think it is the perfect time. If you are 25 you should be seriously thinking in the next 2 years, and by 30 have them (if of course kids are right for you - that is a complex consideration I'm not going to get into). Do not let fear of how much it will cost or desire for more resources first stop you from having kids when you are still young enough to do well.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-25 18:32:56+00:00
To quote Babylon 5

Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and - all of this - all of this - was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars
by timschmidt | 2025-06-25 18:33:24+00:00
I seem to remember executives from Framework being active in the HN comments at the Framework Desktop launch in which CAMM2 support was a highly requested feature. I suspect they received the message.

Lovely thing about the PC industry which differs from our friends in Cupertino is that it tends to explore the full design space over time. All good things come to those who wait.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-25 18:33:26+00:00
Everything new is optional. This is not a breaking change. Old PNGs and software continue to work just fine. And these new changes are backwards-compatible as much as they can be. So old software can display a new PNG and be mostly correct. By that I mean, the user will still say "it is a picture of a red apple". But if the software isn't HDR, they might not get the bright highlights and inky blacks of the HDR PNG.