MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by montagg | 2025-07-06 16:28:37+00:00
Most people are intimidated by airplane cockpits. I think you’re right that specialists in certain situations where they’re familiar have much higher tolerance for visual density because, to them, it isn’t dense, it’s meaningful.

Most people for most situations, using most phone apps, do not have that familiarity. Mobile design has to simultaneously provide a lot of power and progressively disclose it such that it keeps users at or just past their optimal level of comfort, and that involves tradeoffs to hide some things and expose others at different levels of depth.

So while I agree that a lot of mobile design, and OS design in particular, pulls back way too far on providing affordances for actions, I would not use an airplane cockpit as a good guide, unless you’re also talking about a specialist tool.
by spacemadness | 2025-07-06 16:28:39+00:00
By playable do you just mean new content? It will be perfectly playable in 10 years just like all the other classic CRPGs. It would be amazing if modding in content was easy like NWN, if that’s what you mean, because it obviously isn’t. It does seem like such a waste. I’m in a second replay and it’s enjoyable but just so long and will become more repetitive. There are certain sections in Act I that I can’t see myself enjoying a third time at all. Some smaller modules would be amazing. I think the closest thing to that will be Solasta II in the modern era.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-06 16:29:28+00:00
Yes it's the content delivered by the phone. My first mobile phones could only make calls. Not even text messaging was supported. So pretty obviously you're not going to pull out your phone and call someone during a lag in conversation unless you are just supremely rude or maybe it's a call to invite someone to come over and join the group. You might answer a call if you get one I suppose, but it would be fairly awkward. I do remember the people who always seemed to be on a mobile call, often with a headset of some sort, and thinking they were complete douchebags, but they stood out by being few in number.

As text, email, other messages, websites, Facebook, etc. became available the draw became stronger and so did the addiction and the normalization of looking at your phone every 30 seconds while you were with someone.

Did SNL or anyone ever do a skit of a couple having sex and then "ding" a phone chimes and one of them picks it up and starts reading the message? And then the other one grabs their phone and starts scrolling?
by griffzhowl | 2025-07-06 16:29:36+00:00
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that: previously there were genetic variants for large and small sizes. Now a high proportion of the larger variants have been removed from the gene pool. To reverse that in a similar time frame would need a massive selection pressure on the smaller variants. So you would need something like industrial scale fishing that removed the smaller adults, but didn't take out the juveniles who would become big fish, while also letting go the bigger adults. It doesn't sound feasible
by mdavid626 | 2025-07-06 16:30:59+00:00
True, most people don’t drive that much at once. BUT When I need to drive a lot, then I want to be able to do it. Driving for 600km / 6 hours, taking few hours break and coming back 600km the same day is easily possible with a gasoline/diesel car. It’s a pain with an electric one.
by data-ottawa | 2025-07-06 16:31:17+00:00
I've been doing this for little utilities and it's been great.

I created one utility to show my launchctl/launchd tasks with status indicators for what is loaded/unloaded/running/failed (very much like the menu icon you get for OrbStack) and it works great. With claude it only took a couple of hours to get workig and dial it in the way I wanted.
by mpalmer | 2025-07-06 16:31:19+00:00
You should absolutely make clear that this site was generated and may have errors. That is table stakes for stuff like this, especially when it's about financial estimates. I don't fault you for using Cursor, but be up front with your users, not just to HN.

The most glaring error is that Cursor insists on referring to a real bill that was signed into law as "hypothetical", since it happened after the model's knowledge cutoff.

Smaller, subtler things are no less misleading. The phrase "our free tax comparison calculator" implies this was created by a group, maybe a company, who might usually charge for such a thing. Lends false credibility to the project.

Strongly suggest going to the trouble of doing a cursory (ha) review of things like this before publishing.
by dfxm12 | 2025-07-06 16:31:45+00:00
A few things. Apple wants to control the visual narrative. They don't want icons to stand out because they want people to think they're using an apple device, not an Adobe product.

Companies see design as gold plating rather than something that gives a competitive advantage. This means they copy what's popular or outsource.

There's also probably fewer design firms working with these companies. This means fewer original ideas.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 16:31:53+00:00
There is a competitive advantage for being able to hold onto your code and builds. It currently requires quite a lot of effort and skill and persistence to resurrect live service games. This allows us to make money by re-releasing games and remastering them and so on.

If you require us to release server builds and or code "while still respecting copyright", the result will be that countries like Russia and China will offer competing services against us and we will not be able to make nearly as much money anymore.
by watwut | 2025-07-06 16:32:27+00:00
I do not know why this is downvoted. If you know tv 2000 words and can use sentences like they do in TV, you are already in pretty good situation. You wont be able to discuss complex topics, but you will be able to get by and communicate more of what you need.

Of course there will be a room for improvement ... but you will be able to get along in foreign language speaking environment and bootstrap from there.
by budding2141 | 2025-07-06 16:32:48+00:00
>but it felt like they didn't value it enough to give

I still feel like this.

>It doesn't feel rude if somebody breaks out their phone mid-conversation and starts scrolling for a little bit.

And I do not agree about this either. Also, I think most of the people I spend my time with would also agree. But perhaps I'm (unfortunately) an outlier.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-06 16:33:25+00:00
> Did the rise of fire, the wheel, the printing press, manufacturing, and microprocessors also give rise to futures without economic rights?

The rise of steam engines did. And the printing press and electrical engines did the opposite.

It's not hard to understand the difference, it's about the minimum size of an economically useful application. If it's large, it creates elites, if it's small, it democratizes the society.

LLMs by their nature have enormous minimal sizes, and the promise to increase by orders of magnitude.
by pploug | 2025-07-06 16:33:26+00:00
Author could have boiled this article down to his conclusion at the end and saved everyone alot of time:

"Ergo, I don’t use Docker and containerization, I’m annoyed by them and I don’t do tutorials on them. They are not for me or for people who want to do basic personal sysadmining. I think enterprise sysadmins would definitely do better doing more for their personal life outside of things like Docker, but again, there are reasons people use these things for many professional use-cases."
by theptip | 2025-07-06 16:33:35+00:00
> I think it would be reasonable to require developers to release online multiplayer capable server binaries.

Not a game dev but would there be concerns about forcing devs to ship binaries for a codebase that was previously purely SaaS and proprietary, and likely containing logic that is a reusable for future games? The edge cases here seem a little gnarly. (Maybe it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, how much competitive advantage comes from the MMO server code? I gather it can be tricky to do some things well like AoC pushing high player counts.)
by kqr | 2025-07-06 16:33:49+00:00
I'm not convinced the run-time performance always comes from the same pool as start-up overhead. If the regression is waiting-based because resource contention or whatnot (very common) then that won't make the OS start up new processes more slowly, for example.

Sure, there are regressions that will make start-up overhead worse, but I mean, there will be pathological regressions in any configuration.
by skotobaza | 2025-07-06 16:34:07+00:00
But it's true. Most people pay for what's being currently promoted. So "voting with wallet" doesn't really work, because you will be outvoted by majority of people who don't know what they're getting into. That's why gacha games and other lootbox-heavy ones are most profitable. This is where "vote with your wallet" brought us.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-06 16:34:16+00:00
Honestly if you are ugly the only chance you have of getting a partner is in real life. Dating apps only serve the top 10% of men, and this isn’t even red pill incel conspiracy, this is fact corroborated by studies done by companies such as okcupid.

Second, if you talk to a stranger in line at the coffee shop nobody is going to put you on the local creeper list, maybe just don’t comment on how smooth their skin is.
by ben_w | 2025-07-06 16:34:44+00:00
Staying out would not have been sufficient to ensure the defeat of Stalin, but it would definitely have meant someone besides the USA got the first nuke, and also meant that the USA wasn't defending its interests in the Pacific.

After the war, the British Empire (under either the British or the Axis depending on how that fight went) may well have been turned against you directly as a way to recoup losses, and regardless of which of Axis or USSR (or the British) won, someone would have gotten the magnetron and the rockets and the nuclear explosives, and it wouldn't have been the USA.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-06 16:35:42+00:00
One recent thing I did was make cute little illustrations for an internal slide deck. I’m not even taking work away from an artist, there was no universe where I would have paid someone to do this, but now every presentation I give can be much more visually engaging than they would have been previously.

The reason your bosses are being obnoxious about making people use the internal AI tool is to push them into thinking about things like this. Perhaps at your company it’s genuinely not useful, but I’ve seen a lot of people say that who I’m pretty confident are wrong.
by techjamie | 2025-07-06 16:36:03+00:00
Ross addresses these things in his videos on the initiative. For one, the game doesn't have to be 100% functional, it just has to do a bare minimum.

They might not even need to release server binaries, even. I would think releasing documentation on how the network commication runs, and adding a box to enter a server IP into the client at EOL would be sufficient. The community, if enough people care, would then be empowered to write their own server implementation without needing the reverse engineering step.
by ptramo | 2025-07-06 16:36:15+00:00
As per the post, I wrote this tool to confirm I was getting jerks of ~10ms every few seconds on one USB port and not the other. This would _suggest_ I can catch differences around the ballpark of 100 Hz.

I'm game for a randomized blinded test on 120 Hz refresh rate vs 240 Hz refresh rate. I would indeed be very curious to confirm I can tell the difference with a proper protocol.

Many years back (we were on CRTs), I was in similar shoes, convinced my friend couldn't tell the difference between 60 Hz and 90 Hz when playing video games.

Turns out he only needed to look at the pointer through one push of the mouse to tell right away, successful 100% of the time in a blinded experiment.
by pier25 | 2025-07-06 16:36:20+00:00
Icons should be first and foremost about usability. It's like the only thing that matters now is following a particular aesthetic (which I personally find ugly but that's besides the point).

Most of the new icons are incomprehensible at smaller sizes. Heck some are even incomprehensible at a large size. How are a bunch of color bubbles related to games?
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-07-06 16:37:26+00:00
Most people that know many languages, know many languages because they're trying to do things with many languages, and they grow up in that situation: they have to speak many languages. You need to get things done, so you communicate in the way that allows you to do that. They're not thinking about grammatical rules, in fact many people that learn many languages almost never learn grammar very well at all, what they learn is how to ask for a bathroom, where an address is, what's such and such called, or how do you say..., or how are you today?, how much is this?, that is okay, and various responses, ect., things that allow them to do things with people who speak different languages. Often the languages are from similar families and the peoples are from similar regions. I've met many people from the indian sub continent, for example, who can speak 4+ languages, or people from the European alps who can speak 3 or 4, quite well (which does not mean grammatically accurate in a school sense). The people that learn wildly different languages are devoting extensive amounts of time to it and are outliers. They obscure the reality that speaking many languages is a part of different communities interacting and trying to get stuff done together. It's not a private mental exercise, it's a part of public life for many.
by petre | 2025-07-06 16:37:26+00:00
Maybe, but the semis are also faster due to bureaucratic reasons involving train operators, which are mostly state owned companies in Europe. So p derivate enterprises just hire a trucking company to deliver goods faster. Rail is mostly used for cement, oil products, fertilizer and grain.

For instance in my country the public train company is absolutely brain damaged as it doesn't have enough bike transportation spots (only some trains do). There are even trains with a bike symbol that you're not allowed with a bike on. Thanks to the EU Green Deal they are now forced to provide them.
by LgLasagnaModel | 2025-07-06 16:37:28+00:00
Good point. Also, the fact that I’m adamant that one cannot fly a helicopter to the moon doesn’t mean that I think helicopters are useless. That said, if I’m inundated everyday with people insisting that one CAN fly a helicopter to the moon or that that capability is just around the corner, I might get so fed up that i say F it, I don’t want to hear another F’ing word about helicopters even though I know that helicopters have utility.
by TheRealPomax | 2025-07-06 16:37:36+00:00
If you need "practical applications" for some part of math to have value to you, then large parts of math will not be for you. That's fine, but that's also something you should accept and internalize: math is already its own application, we dig through it in order to better understand it, and that understanding will (with rather advanced higher education) be applicable to other fields, which in turn may have practical uses.

Those practical uses are someone else's problem to solve (even if they rely on math to solve them), and they can write their own web pages on how functions as vectors help solve specific problems in a way that's more insightful than using "traditional" calculus, and get those upvoted on HN.

But this link has a "you must be this math to ride" gate, it's not for everyone, and that's fine. It's a world wide web, there's room for all levels of information. You need to already appreciate the problems that you encountered in non-trivial calculus to appreciate this interpretation of what a function even is and how to exploit the new power that gives you.
by layer8 | 2025-07-06 16:37:57+00:00
Modern physics says little about causality. The fundamental laws are all field equations. Those set constraints about how the physical state of a system can evolve between two points in time, but there is no notion of causation, only of consistency or (im)possibility.

Causation in physics is a complex and problematic notion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-physics/
by saulpw | 2025-07-06 16:38:08+00:00
Sex is an intimate physical act, which often/usually has intimate emotional consequences.

Sex work is not foul like garbage collection. Sex work is invasive like body horror stunt work.

How many jobs have an essential requirement to put non-edibles in your mouth? Claude suggests people who are paid to play wind instruments. Note that flutists own and maintain their own instruments. It would be really "gross" to stick someone else's used instrument in your mouth. Particularly if you had no relationship to the person and didn't know to what extent you could trust them.
by izzydata | 2025-07-06 16:38:11+00:00
If game publishers could in clear writing at time of purchase commit to a set number of years that game will be live then I think that is a good start. For example when the next live service game is released and you go to purchase it there is a clear warning that the publisher has only guaranteed the game to be live for 2 years. Personally that would prevent me from buying the game, but perhaps not others.

The idea that a publisher can sell a live service game and shut it down in 1 month with no legal repercussions is ridiculous to me.
by t-3 | 2025-07-06 16:39:03+00:00
> As for women who don't want to be approached, harassment is an entirely different issue. Just because talking to strangers and harassing women were more acceptable in the past doesn't mean that one follows from the other.

Unwanted advances, whether sexual, social, or commercial in nature, are all harassment. They all make the recipient uncomfortable, and others should be able to identify and respect anti-openness signaling like wearing earbuds or not sustaining eye contact.
by hinkley | 2025-07-06 16:39:05+00:00
Information hiding is why I insist that Bamboo is the worst CI/CD tool that had ever existed. (Note: I have used CI/CD long enough to have used cruisecontrol, which is demoted to second place).

You don’t even know what features Bamboo has that would be nice to use - or ask someone else to use on your behalf - because if you don’t have permission it’s almost all hidden away.

Developer tools in particular and productivity tools in general need to leave everything out there for discoverability to function. Taking it away is a disservice to everyone.
by watwut | 2025-07-06 16:39:42+00:00
> Discovering good new music is a problem becasuse there's so much of it

Not really, discovering it is a problem because it is hidden. Current algorithms are designed to revert you to the same old and to show you stuff similar to what you have seen. You need to know specific terms to find something new - but of course if it is truly new for you, you do not know those terms.
by ModernMech | 2025-07-06 16:39:46+00:00
I've been doing this recently; I don't really know swift, and I wanted to see how well I could use almost 100% LLM to do my coding. For the most part, I have been able to get a pretty substantial app going, but once it gets to a certain size, things start to become hairy.

For instance, I am adding bluetooth capabilities to my app, and the bluetooth manager can be quite large, to the point where the LLM context window starts to become an issue.

When it gets to that point, the LLM can start making suggestions that don't make sense; it's starts forgetting what you had already done, it can start making architectural suggestions that contradict what you had been doing before. So if you follow them, you end up in this weird state mired in conflicting decisions. Almost like design by committee without the committee.

It's important to recognize this when it's happening rather than just blindly following what it suggests, so some expertise at engineering is still necessary even though the LLM can write okay Swift code.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-07-06 16:39:59+00:00
Scholars back then had good intution:

"Did we know the mechanical affections of the particles of rhubarb, hemlock, opium, and a man, as a watchmaker does those of a watch ... we should be able to tell beforehand that rhubarb will purge, hemlock kill, and Opium make a man sleep; as well as a watchmaker can" -- John Locke
by Xmd5a | 2025-07-06 16:40:04+00:00
"Almost more even than the extraverted is the introverted type subject to misunderstanding ... because the style of the epoch in which he himself participates is against him. Not in relation to the extraverted type, but as against our general occidental world-philosophy, he finds himself in the minority, not of course numerically, but from the evidence of his own feeling.

In so far as he is a convinced participator in the general style, he undermines his own foundations, since the present style, with its almost exclusive acknowledgment of the visible and the tangible, is opposed to his principle. Because of its invisibility, he is obliged to depreciate the subjective factor, and to force himself to join in the extraverted overvaluation of the object.

He himself sets the subjective factor at too low a value, and his feelings of inferiority are his chastisement for this sin. Little wonder, therefore, that it is precisely our epoch, and particularly those movements which are somewhat ahead of the time, that reveal the subjective factor in every kind of exaggerated, crude and grotesque form of expression. I refer to the art of the present day.

The undervaluation of his own principle makes the introvert egotistical, and forces upon him the psychology of the oppressed. The more egotistical he becomes, the stronger his impression grows that these others, who are apparently able, without qualms, to conform with the present style, are the oppressors against whom he must guard and protect himself.

He does not usually perceive that he commits his capital mistake in not depending upon the subjective factor with that same loyalty and devotion with which the extravert follows the object By the undervaluation of his own principle, his penchant towards egoism becomes unavoidable, which, of course, richly deserves the prejudice of the extravert.

Were he only to remain true to his own principle, the judgment of ‘egoist’ would be radically false; for the justification of his attitude would be established by its general efficacy, and all misunderstandings dissipated. "

Jung -Psychological types

"You want to be understood? That’s all we needed! Understand yourself, and you will be sufficiently understood. You will have quite enough work in hand with that"

Jung - Red book
by spacemadness | 2025-07-06 16:40:12+00:00
Having seen the almost rabid and fearful reactions of product owners first hand around forcing AI into every product, it’s because all these companies are in panic mode. Many of these folks are not thinking clearly and have no idea what they’re doing. They don’t think they have time to think it through. Doing something is better than nothing. It’s all theatre for their investors coupled with a fear of being seen as falling behind. Nobody is going to have a measured and well thought through approach when they’re being pressured from above to get in line and add AI in any way. The top execs have no ideas, they just want AI. You’re not even allowed to say it’s a bad idea in a lot of bigger companies. Get in line or get a new job. At some point this period will pass and it will be pretty embarrassing for some folks.
by theturtle32 | 2025-07-06 16:40:17+00:00
I hate everything about this. We've done such a disservice to the next generations by giving them the most dumbed down interfaces to grow up with that they never develop an intuitive sense of how things actually work under the hood. Evidenced by how college students in STEM classes today are often confused when they have to deal with real software that requires them to know where to put files for the first time.