MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-07-05 23:53:41+00:00
No, it does not know culture. And no, it can't handle talking about it.

Ask an LLM "Can you compare egyptian mythology with aliens?" and they will happily do it:

https://imgur.com/a/jfikuEO

That's an offensive, pseudoscientific view on egyptian culture shunned by academics.

Even ChatGPT "Critical Viewpoint" section (a small part of a large bullshit response) _still_ entertains offensive ideas:

https://imgur.com/a/RNiMmJZ

They should have answered that such comparisons are potentially offensive, and explained why academia thinks so, _before_ spilling out nonsense.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-05 23:53:54+00:00
Nextcloud with a few addons - all open source - gets you feature parity with all of that lot.

NC itself gets you file sync and webdav etc. An add on gets you the webby version of LibreOffice. You can bolt on AI addons to classify and tag your images/photos and with a bit more effort, your docs too.

It's properly local first.
by xp84 | 2025-07-05 23:56:34+00:00
My (uninformed) perception is that their “gaming” marketing department does their best to hype their gaming stuff that they have, while their senior leadership is in charge of whether they ship reasonable quantities of it, and, as an NVDA investor, they’re clearly making the right choices there. It sucks for gamers that the same silicon is useful for both gaming and AI, but that’s the situation.
by elcritch | 2025-07-05 23:56:51+00:00
Wolt is great. I’m in Cyprus currently and Wolt feels so much nicer to use than DoorDash, UberEats, etc. Much of it’s the user interface which feels a bit like Waze back in the day and without all the gimmicky ads and in your face junk. Bummer to hear DoorDash owns them.

That you can do groceries, order flowers, drinks, or dinner makes it great for dates.

Downside is that apparently Wolt charges stores something like a €250 fee a month. It’s ridiculous how much any of these services charge small businesses.

I hope automated drone delivery becomes a thing and make it easier to bring up competitors.
by bilsbie | 2025-07-05 23:57:46+00:00
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by liotier | 2025-07-05 23:58:11+00:00
> and every summer, young people, possibly a little drunk, jump into the water as a dare from bridges near Notre-Dame

After ending high school exams in 1993, we jumped into the Seine from Pont de Neuilly. I suppose this sort of antics have been going on since times immemorial and without counting bacteria beforehand... But I'm glad the river has cleaned up !

My first impression upon hitting the water: 1 - it is actually water (I expected mud !), 2 - wow, there is actually current and the shore goes by rather fast... No problems of any sort.

Anyway, it is fun - do it, and have a spotter to check for ships !
by tzs | 2025-07-05 23:58:38+00:00
What's the practical difference between changing the radio station on the built-in entertainment system and pressing the "next track" button on a playlist playing on a phone which is mounted on a dashboard mount in the same general area as the built-in entertainment system?

Playing the next track on the phone may actually be less distracting than changing the radio station because many built-in radios lack voice control whereas on the phone you might be able to use the phones voice assistant to change the track.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-05 23:58:50+00:00
These are good counterexamples to my "100% of people" claim as they illustrate something I hadn't taken into account in my answer: That a basic but obviously important question could have negative implications about other people. I agree that it's certainly not always the case that those people are OK with such questions.

When I wrote my comment, I didn't have such questions in mind. I wish I'd written it to exclude such questions, because I think they're not central to the issue here, which is whether or not asking questions that have negative implications about one's own ability is always a good idea.
by adriand | 2025-07-05 23:58:58+00:00
> Kennedy's proposal is also very unlikely to work the way he's claimed it would — the birds that provide eggs and meat on farms are descendants of separate breeding populations and do not breed themselves. So even if there were a population of resilient birds that survived H5N1 infection, that doesn't mean they're passing on their genetic traits to a subsequent generation.

Seems like a rather devastating flaw.
by subjectsigma | 2025-07-05 23:59:49+00:00
As someone who is very personally interested in the intersection between different political opinions, I really like how this article side-stepped individual issues to present the argument that Amazon is bad as a whole. “Ok, you don’t connect with BLM? Let’s talk about something else.” I find very, very often that conservatives & liberals are talking past each other and cannot even understand why the other side is making the argument they are. This is the first time in a while I’ve seen that side-step motion applied productively.

I agree with the authors conclusion about Amazon, but even if you don’t, you should think about how polarized the nation is and what political issues we can try to coalesce on.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-05 23:59:58+00:00
All products can be faked, but I thing that GP means "cannot be faked without being obvious". Obvious fakes are not as much of a problem since Amazon has a pretty good return policy.

In the "cannot be faked" category, you can have:

- products so cheap that making a fake wouldn't make sense. for example an unbranded glass jar won't be faked because anything that looks like a glass jar but isn't a glass jar will be more expensive than a glass jar.

- products too complex and/or too low margin to be worth faking. For example, you will probably never find a fake desktop printer, as even the most simple printers are hard to make and sold at a low margin, maybe even at a loss. However, consumables are (very) high margin and you will find fakes, lots of them.

- products that have effective anti-counterfeiting systems. For example, Nintendo Switch games.
by orionblastar | 2025-07-06 00:00:17+00:00
I heard of this on other websites. AI chatbots are web scraping data off websites, and you have to use fail2ban to block them. People are learning how to teach AI Chatbots to hack websites as well. My website http://blastar.in/ was affected, and I don't host it; a friend runs it for me, but he doesn't respond to email.
by swsieber | 2025-07-06 00:00:26+00:00
I've been using instantdb in anger for the past month or so for a side project of mine. I'm building a personal budget app.

I should probably write a blog post, but I will say that I investigated power sync, electricSQL, livestore and powersync before. I briefly looked at jazz tools but wanted something a bit more structured.

I'm pretty impressed this far. I've actually been writing it with Vue and a community library. Permissions were a bit tricky, but once I figured it out it was simple. And I like their magic email login. And I like their dashboard/reply, but there are a few big changes I would make there to make it less fiddly.

I love that it's open source, and that if I want to, I could self host it.

As for the other options:

- jazz wasn't structured enough

- livestore came off as too fiddly with the event store, but it was appealing. That the dev tools are payealled was disappointing, but understandable

- electriSQL really only provided half a solution (read, not the write model

- couchDB / pouchDB wasn't structured enough for me, and I wanted better cross document support than was obvious / baked in.

- did not investigate zero really
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-06 00:00:30+00:00
With all due respect, I have to disagree. The article is actually pretty even-handed about things, as articles on "drugs" in the US go.

> Ketamine is not something to experiment with on your own.

That's about as good as reports will go on "street drugs". There's a 100 year or so history of mass media doing moral panics about drugs. Google for "reefer madness", a 1930s movie that tried to whip up a panic about marijuana.

In my own lifetime, I've seen weird, hair-on-fire reporting about LSD, heroin, PCP, marijuana, crack,cocaine, flakka, krokodil, captagon, and meth. I assure you that this is a pretty mild article in comparison.
by m11a | 2025-07-06 00:01:38+00:00
Use the human brain as an example then. We don't really know how it works. I mean, we know there's neurotransmitters and neural pathways etc (much like nodes in a transformer), but we don't know how exactly intelligence or our thinking process works.

We're also pretty good at working around human 'hallucinations' and other inaccuracies. Whether it be someone having a bad day, a brain fart, or individual clumsiness. eg in a (bad) organisation, sometimes we do it with layers of reviews and committees, much like layers of LLMs judging each other.

I think too much is attached to the notion of "we don't understand how the LLM works". We don't understand how any complicated intelligence works, and potentially won't for the forseeable future.

More generally, a lot of society is built up from empirical understanding of black box systems. I'd claim the field of physics is a prime example. And we've built reliable systems from unreliable components (see the field of distributed systems).
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-06 00:02:44+00:00
Consider the set S of all properties which confer high status. "Got into Yale" is something we have assumed is in S, so S is nonempty. 'I have at least one property in S' seems like it would be a fine candidate for the necessary characteristic you're after, and it's not vacuous either, it can actually be achieved in reality. Therefore there is something that it takes to be high status, in your words.
by tombert | 2025-07-06 00:03:34+00:00
If we have learned anything from this administration, even RFK Jr. specifically, is how lazy they are in pushing their agenda.

They published a "report" claiming that vaccines cause autism that was lazily created with ChatGPT that had fake citations, or citations that actively go against what they're saying. Everything in the administration is half-assed.

"Letting the virus spread to pass on the genes" seems like an idea that would come from a conversation when two drunks who are discussing how they'd solve all the world's problems.
by HYPRFLX | 2025-07-06 00:04:11+00:00
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by caymanjim | 2025-07-06 00:04:34+00:00
What do we care what happens in a few generations? We'll all be dead, and the people alive will probably have universal translators implanted in their brains at birth. We absolutely won't need a "signal" to translate on a device anymore (that'll happen in just a few years, forget about generations), and there won't be anyplace on the entire planet that doesn't have network connectivity (that will also happen in just a few years; it's already reality with Starlink cellular).
by geraldiner | 2025-07-06 00:05:25+00:00
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by rezmason | 2025-07-06 00:05:57+00:00
Nicely executed. The website, I mean. It's like a memorial to principle.

If y'all like icons, I'm not above plugging my free Mac screensaver, Iconic, an "Aqua Icons" screensaver remake which attempts to showcase the icons you didn't know you have, and highlight some noteworthy icons of Mac history:

https://github.com/Rezmason/iconic
by ruined | 2025-07-06 00:06:24+00:00
trawlers historically haven't really discriminated by size. development of decent selective trawling equipment, and introduction of a minimum size is fairly recent

as a data point, a recent change in regulations regarding eastern Baltic cod had no statistical effect on reported catch https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03308-8_...

>Data quality for stock assessments has deteriorated, discarding of cod has not decreased despite a reduced minimum size and there are no indications of increased gear selectivity in the fishery
by HappMacDonald | 2025-07-06 00:06:42+00:00
It can also help to align the incentives of multiple parties to actually care about the same goals.

"Mechanically preventing wrongdoing from happening" can be a bit of a Shangri-La. What Tech can mechanically do is increase the cost of wrongdoing, or temporarily deflect attempts towards easier targets. But that by definition cannot "solve the problem for everyone" as there will always be a lowest hanging fruit remaining somewhere.

What contracts can do is help to reduce the demand for wrongdoing.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-06 00:07:00+00:00
The comment in the example I made deserves to be removed. It is inflammatory, bad-faith, and deliberately dishonest. There is no intellectual merit to it, so it gets removed like an advertisement or a slur would.

If that constitutes "thought police" in your mind, you're welcome to start your own HN with blackjack and hookers.
by user3939382 | 2025-07-06 00:07:17+00:00
I loved and love the look of macOS 9. I like how the menu interactions work, everything. I’ve been thinking about going back to it as my primary for personal/non dev computing. I anticipate some challenges with the browser, etc though and not sure if all can be overcome. Modern macOS brings me no joy.

I had a similar love for the BeOS UI, happy to see Haiku humming along.
by tombert | 2025-07-06 00:07:43+00:00
While I don't really agree with political assassinations, and you are likely to get flagged for this, it's not like the US government hasn't done similar stuff to leaders that we thought were harmful.

The CIA tried to kill Castro a bunch of times [1], presumably because they felt that him being in power was harmful and killing him was a net good. It's not like this kind of stuff is unprecedented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_assassination_attempts_on_...
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-06 00:08:37+00:00
Only tangentially related, and a seemingly lost old-man battle: stop hiding my scrollbar.

Interesting article. Some points I didn't quite agree entirely with. There's a cost and practically limitation to some things (like a physical knob in a car for zooming in and out on a map - although that was probably just an example of intuitive use).

I just recently switched a toggle on a newly installed app that did the opposite of what it was labelled - I thought the label represented the current state, but it represented the state it would switch to if toggled. It became obvious once changed, but that seems the least helpful execution.
by babymetal | 2025-07-06 00:09:08+00:00
In the spirit of HN I will only point out here this fact: RFK Jr's attack book on Fauci was extremely poorly produced. Specifically, the text rolled up to the top and bottom edges of the pages as well as the sides. As a bookseller this was a big red flag for me: either the book was poorly self-published, or no-one big (and sometimes reputable) wanted to publish it, and it looked like they were trying to save paper and ink. Also, it has an inordinate amount of footnotes which makes it very difficult to imagine a person following them all. I didn't read the book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58063409-the-real-anthon... 4.49/5.0 on Goodreads with 8.5K reviews.

[edit]: misspelled "imagine"
by alwa | 2025-07-06 00:09:26+00:00
It felt pretty insulting to me. It had the smug, sarcastic, holier-than-thou kind of flavor to it—"there are only 3 ways to think about things, I already know more than you do about who you are and what you believe, you must be one of THAT tribe of one-dimensional dummies, here's YOUR flavor that I've so generously dumbed down for you."

Kind of like the "didactic" voice that the young men on YouTube use when they're cosplaying documentarians or newscasters.

It works better for authors who genuinely know what they're talking about--but in most cases, the closer you look at something, the more complexity you notice, and the less breezily confident you are about it. So often, it's like this—"reheated nachos," do the kids call it? A big sassy omnibus "take" of "takes," more than, like, facts and analysis? All building up to a meaningless language-of-empowerment call to action?
by protocolture | 2025-07-06 00:11:10+00:00
In my opinion Weir is learning to write in full public view. I tolerate it largely because he is definitely getting better. But its not everyones cup of tea.

The scenario is definitely contrived to introduce interplanetary travel to a near future setting.

The amnesia parts of of the book are not very coherently written.

However what Weir IMHO excels at is having fun self insert characters solving problems. When you get past the cruft and get to the "This is a book about troubleshooting in space" sections, it takes off.
by dialup_sounds | 2025-07-06 00:11:17+00:00
I think it's because it reads as "app", which is a more contemporary and encompassing conception than for users than just an icon or logo. Blame the very first iPhone for choosing slightly-Aqua-like roundrects for everything.

Yes, it looks weird to old eyes on the desktop, where the button-like shape is more familiar as a touch target, but we still recognize that they're apps.

It also allows the developer some control over the canvas that their arbitrarily-shaped logo is painted on, rather than just dropping it right on your user's wallpaper of their kids birthday party.

(As an aside, I'm on a Pixel that uses circles, but the Play Store (whose logo is a triangle) uses roundrects, so there's also a certain flexibility in app icons being a canvas within a platform-variable container shape, even if that's not a roundrect everywhere.)
by dovin | 2025-07-06 00:11:38+00:00
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by neilv | 2025-07-06 00:11:54+00:00
Skimming the article, it seems to touch on a lot of the right points, but the motivating first paragraph seems weak:

> Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost.

"Apple pie might be tasty and nutritious and exactly what you want, but, theoretically, apple pie could burst into flames someday, and take your favorite pie-eating bib with it.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-06 00:12:25+00:00
evem tho unique starts with a vowel, we say a unique, not an unique, I guess because it's pronounced like "younique", long u. Short u would still be an tho. As in, "An understanding"

"It exists" is correct

"It doesn't exists" is incorrect, exists becomes exist, "it doesn't exist"

the "does" in "doesn't" absorbs subject-verb the conjugation, does is now the verb that needs to agree with the subject, it. Exists returns to it's infinitive (unconjugated) form, exist.

"They arguments doesn’t hold" typo they ought to be the, those or their, not sure what you meant. Since arguments is plural you want don't, not doesn't, alternately "the argument [singular] doesn't hold"

'national ones creates money' subject verb agreement again, either one creates or ones create

"and the are" s/the/they

"bitcoin pools mentioned ahead": ahead doesn't quite apply to comment threads, like on a road you have cars in front (ahead) and in back (behind), but with comments it's above and below, because you scroll up and down, not forward and backward. You could also say aforementioned referring to something mentioned earlier.
by jongjong | 2025-07-06 00:12:29+00:00
Something which drives me mad is how modern operating systems (both desktop and mobile) keep hiding file system paths. There used to be a setting on OSX which let you show the address bar in Finder (though it wasn't default) but nowadays it seems to be impossible (unless you get some third-party extension) and I have to resort to using the terminal. It's bonkers.

It makes it impossible to locate files later when I need to move or transfer them.
by nsriv | 2025-07-06 00:13:22+00:00
Very slightly unrelated, but this trend is one of the reasons I went Android after the iPhone removed the home button. I think it became meaningfully harder to explain interactions to older users in my family and just when they got the hang of "force touch" it also went away.

First thing I do on new Pixel phones is enable 3 button navigation, but lately that's also falling out of favor in UI terms, with apps assuming bottom navigation bar and not accounting for the larger spacing of 3 button nav and putting content or text behind it.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-06 00:13:53+00:00
All I'm actually arguing for is exercising judgement in deciding whether to ask something that might be considered "a stupid question", rather than following black-and-white advice to always ask it anyway. All I'm arguing is that there exists a question that is too stupid to to be worth the reputational damage of asking.

> I get the feeling that it's because of fear of being marked dumb by people like you actually.

I make positive and negative judgements about people based on things they do, which is an imperfect heuristic but the best one available and much better than nothing. So do you.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-06 00:13:55+00:00
>statements like "she succeeded 'cause she was tough" are meaningless as advice or actionable/verifiable statements

The action you are supposed to take from this is to figure out whether you're tough, and if you find out you're not, to give up and go to something else you're better suited for. This seems like exceptionally actionable advice - just not advice that strokes anyone's ego.

I will give you an example. When I was 17 I spent exactly one day as a door to door canvasser for an environmental charity. I got dropped off into a neighborhood I had never seen before, told to walk up to people's doors and beg them for money for something I was pretty sure wasn't particularly effective at solving anything important, and then do this about a hundred times.

Door #1 gave me one dollar. Door #2 let me call my parents in tears to come pick me up. Whatever Unusual characteristic that particular job needed, I did not have it. I do not have it to this day.