MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonym29 | 2025-07-26 01:37:21+00:00
What gives you the impression that I might be offering my critiques lightly or arrogantly, as opposed to only after arriving at them through extensive, careful, and deliberate thought?

Humans engaged in tribalistic groupthink committing moral atrocities is a tale as old as time.

It is never wise to accept a majority or status quo position reflexively without thoroughly interrogating the ideas held within. A great deal of majority positions are morally reprehensible and ethically indefensible, and that has always been the case throughout human history.

Human sacrifices of the innocent were not a "different culture", they were barbaric murders that were always wrong. They were also normative in much of the world for much of human history.

The values espoused (but not always upheld) by western societies that many of us take for granted today are the exception to the rules throughout human history - rules that promoted needless bloodshed, widespread suffering, and persecution of the innocent.

It is not arrogant to assert that loss of innocent human life is reprehensible and the societies that normalize it should be condemned. To assert otherwise isn't simply innocuously defending pluralism, it's defending atrocities.

All life is inherently valuable and I will not apologize for asserting that, no matter how many billions of people disagree for tribalistic, persecutory reasons.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-26 01:39:16+00:00
That's what I was essentially asking. I'd want to start with small actions that feel realistic. I know it's not gonna just pop up overnight, so more reason to break it down.

If none of us know, then the next alternative is "can we point to any existing organizations to throw support at"? Or at the very least, an adjacent organization who can tell us steps to take?
by ajross | 2025-07-26 01:39:26+00:00
> reach to successively more niche weird Google additions to Chrome

Um... bluetooth? USB? Sensors? Basically anything dealing with external hardware is a huge hole. I can configure and flash my QMK keyboard from my phone or laptop just by following a shortened URL.

I mean, sure. "Web Sites" work great on Safari! But Apple cares deeply that "Apps" have broader capabilities than the browser, and it does it by crippling progress with PWAs.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-26 01:40:58+00:00
"Without throwing more cops at the problem"

From the article: "homicides were down 22% compared to 2024, and non-fatal shootings". The text is hyperlinked to a source for that claim. I click said link.

Here's what the link has to say:

"This year’s mid-year report highlights meaningful progress in reducing crime, hiring more officers, advancing Consent Decree compliance and addressing quality-of-life concerns".

What an absolutely disgusting article, by the way. I only read it far enough to click on the first interesting link I saw, which immediately refuted the article's title, and then left as fast as I could.
by Fogest | 2025-07-26 01:41:04+00:00
> Do you think a women's dating safety app is mainly about women lying

That's not what it is intended for, but many people after relationships end can be extremely emotional and sometimes very spiteful. It's not uncommon for people to embellish or lie about the truth to make themselves look better and the other person look shitty. Especially if you're the one being dumped, you may be even more likely to engage in petty behaviour.

I personally have experienced an ex making up a sexual assault story. This kind of app didn't exist then, but she even went as far as reporting me to the police. Luckily the police investigated and could easily discern it was a lie. Going to the police is obviously a much higher burden than using an app, and yet many females still go make false SA claims there. Do you really think it wouldn't be a common problem for people to do the same in an app at a much higher rate?

People often believe things like SA claims without any evidence and will often even attack people trying to defend the person or insist on some kind of proof. It means that someone making up bull crap on these apps is going to be treated like it is true, yet the rates of lies would likely be pretty high.

People can just be so crazy when it comes to relationships/love. Especially when it comes to people in their teens or early 20's, the brain isn't fully developed and dealing with these emotions is even more challenging and leads to even more rash decision making.
by MrJohz | 2025-07-26 01:41:34+00:00
> Information is proliferating and is more accessible, but a huge amount of that information is lies and manipulation I'm not sure that really counts as knowledge.

I don't think that's any different to any other period of time when communication was suddenly able to expand. Gutenberg's press didn't come with an automatic lie detector that meant the printed word could only contain true facts and nothing else. Instead, it was mainly used for pamphlets and other campaigning propaganda - some of which surely had some truth to it, but much of which was partially or fully fabricated.

I think you are romanticising the past's approach to the written word here. It has always been possible to completely rewrite history, if you're willing to put the work in, and totalitarian regimes have had no issues in convincing their populations to burn their own books if necessary.
by bitpush | 2025-07-26 01:42:05+00:00
But when a company makes moral arguments ("We're better than others because of X") the bar goes up.

If Toyota says that we're the car company that cares about you, we want to keep you safe from the bad actors, and trust us on making right choices for you - and when you discover Toyota has been secretly building out an ad network, in bed with Chinese government, you have to call them out. And that's what Apple is doing.

Privacy is a human right, except in China where they are happy to go along with what the government wants. Google atleast had the balls to pack up and leave the country.
by charcircuit | 2025-07-26 01:42:24+00:00
Nostalgia changes how people perceive value. Network effects is about how exponential value can be gained from linear user growth. Boiling the frog us about slowly doing things to avoid changing how people perceive value. None of these are a sign a product has no value.

No one would advertise with Facebook if there was no value from purchasing ad space. The billions of dollars people spend is evidence there is value there for advertisers.

>will not take the time to migrate

Sure, people don't actively seek to maximize the value they receive, but that doesn't mean what they are currently getting value from doesn't have value.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-26 01:43:22+00:00
Just one person's opinion: I can't get into the mode of programming where you "chat" with something and have it build the code. By the time I have visualized in my head and articulated into English what I want to build and the data structures and algorithms I need, I might as well just type the code in myself. That's the only value I've found from AI: It's a great autocomplete as you're typing.

To me, programming is a solo activity. "Chatting" with someone or something as I do it is just a distraction.
by thomasfortes | 2025-07-26 01:43:39+00:00
Android has granular control over notifications, which is great because some apps that I need send a lot of marketing notifications that I don't care about but I cannot get rid of essential notifications.

Not all apps do it and some push all notifications through a single channel (and some manufacturers hide the granularity options in advanced settings, I'm looking at you Samsung) but at least it exists.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-26 01:43:47+00:00
Nono, I'm all for global->local innovation & enoki (& shimeji)

That's what the best of American patriotism looks like... And Earth patriotism :)

Even so, I'd like to see people other than founders get something from this kinda tech system..

Are you suggesting everyone become founders? That's a decent idea, but lots of schlep .. in revamping institutions

(Detour to F1nc: Jack Ma tried to do same Japan agri thing yet he's still not fully rehab'd )

There is a lot of triangle trade between assholes, capitalists & labor.. (though startups finc & smaller may not be such s/assholes/founders/ s/labor/talent/)

you may not return to this thread.. ntheless I had a frameshifting realization: Meiji 1870-1880 was pretty fully run by gen Z ( with a sprinkling of older guys) ... Including the Emperor!! Hot on the heels of Napoleonic France, I guess. There's a novel that got me on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_no_Ue_no_Kumo

Best American version.imho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga

What this means: pre Revo France (ru) had anomalously great (technical? Vocational?) edu with respect to the econ

THIS IS WHERE LLM
by cherioo | 2025-07-26 01:44:07+00:00
On July 29 2022, Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held that Brown Rudnick had adequately alleged facts in the Fleites v. MindGeek case that Visa engaged in a criminal conspiracy with MindGeek to monetize child pornography. Judge Carney also granted the plaintiff discovery that will reveal the relationships between the hundreds of allegedly sham organizations and the secret owners behind this alleged criminal trafficking internet platform.
by Nasrudith | 2025-07-26 01:45:18+00:00
> When I used to kill cops in GTA Vice City as a kid, 20 years ago, I wasn't killing actual cops(duh!). Has society lost their collective marbles since then, and can't differentiate what's a real crime and what's manufactured fiction anymore?

I suspect the answer is unironically yes to that question. I have seen far too many people citing fiction as 'evidence' for their positions. I think media literacy in the bottom half of the bell-curve has literally gotten so bad that distinguishing fiction from reality is beyond the capability of at least 10% of the population. In adults without any diagnosed mental disability.
by ferreiratb | 2025-07-26 01:47:18+00:00
While I believe that the tutorials for frameworks do not replace the official ones, I still find great value in having them available on MDN. Perhaps you are not seeing this because you are viewing the problem from the perspective of someone who already knows very well what these frameworks are and how they should be used.

I remember clearly how years ago MDN taught me what libraries and frameworks are and why I should (or not) care about them. I didn't have a CS background nor anyone to teach me. I would probably have been too intimidated to approach them if it weren't for MDN guiding me. I'm very grateful.
by DSingularity | 2025-07-26 01:47:54+00:00
I don’t think that’s entirely correct.

You need to work with good people. There is no substitute for ethics.

Also you need not go for roles where they offer .3 % and make a big deal about it. Don’t take less than 1% minimum and as soon as two years pass by and you have carried your weight start looking for a new job. If they value you they will bump you up. It they don’t you will bump yourself up by going for a new job. And don’t be afraid to go for competitors if you believe in the value of the space.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-26 01:48:04+00:00
These articles are a good reminder of a bittersweet truth: the US has an incredibly advanced and dense rail network, paid for with federal land grants[1]; we just choose not to use it to benefit travelers. That isn't to say that we need a system that's as good as most European countries have; having these railroad companies follow the laws around Amtrak's priority would be a good start[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_land_grants_in_the_Un...

[2]: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
by reactordev | 2025-07-26 01:49:01+00:00
12 years I’ve been saying this… 12, damn, years. React graduates look at me crazy. Angular devs say it’s not needed anyway. Svelte bros say get bent. I’m so happy that someone is paying attention.

You don’t need a shadow dom, you don’t need rerendering of everything when a simple value changes. You simply need web components and scoped js/ts with vite or whatever rollup you use.
by jongjong | 2025-07-26 01:49:06+00:00
I suppose the industry is not hot right now. EdTech was never really very hot. It was 'luke warm' at best, a decade ago. They own a lot of software, also, they publish their own math textbook (both digital and print). They have licenses with thousands of schools across multiple countries. I don't recall they have any debt.

I feel like they could easily bump up profits by $2 million just by letting go of people... But they could probably double the license cost per student. Although schools don't have much money, they are kind of slow and bureaucratic; set in their ways. It's a small cost for them anyway, once a system is part of the curriculum, they'll probably pay extra to avoid reorganizing the lessons.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-26 01:50:25+00:00
Aww, man, it's started https://github.com/neondatabase-labs/neon_local_vs_code_exte...

But, be sure you don't click on that link or you'll be in violation!!11

> If you have not agreed to an Agreement or otherwise do not agree to these terms, you may not use the Software or view, copy or compile the Source Code of the Software.

pigfuckers, putting that shit on GitHub with a "don't look at it" license
by dsp_person | 2025-07-26 01:50:39+00:00
Funny cause I was just thinking about the tradeoff of "internal wasm app" vs "internal native app".

The former has convenient distribution, but worse performance and other limitations.

The latter can be tricky to keep updated, ensure the environment is the same for everyone and/or cross-platform differences, etc., but significantly better/faster.

But both binaries about the same size. Assuming using something like sokol or SDL3.
by didibus | 2025-07-26 01:50:53+00:00
> why do all these business leaders all do the same things at the same time

It's like fashion, humans follow trends, almost always, and in the case of big companies, the CEOs are quite wealthy and that means the people they hangout with, the parties they attend, and the general circles they are part of, is pretty small (not that many people at that level of wealth), and so they're all mostly part of the same "clicks" that talk about and share the same ideas.
by adamwathan | 2025-07-26 01:51:42+00:00
We are still healthy and profitable but revenue is down about 60% from peak, and continuing to trend down (I think mostly due to AI and open-source alternatives to the things we've historically charged for.)

So things are fine but we do need to reverse the trend which is why we are pretty focused on the commercial side of things right now.

We started a corporate sponsors/partner program recently, and I'm hoping that will earn us enough funding to focus more on the free/open-source stuff, since that's where we create the most value for the world anyways. Fingers crossed!
by halfmatthalfcat | 2025-07-26 01:51:58+00:00
yankees.com redirects to mlb.com/yankees and this has been the case for decades. All of the clubs have their sites managed by the League. All of the owners went in on MLBAM (MLB Advanced Media) in the 2000s to centralize the tech league wide. MLBAM became BAMTech which then sold to Disney to became Disney+. The league still has a whole tech team to maintaining not only the majors but minor league teams too.
by apparent | 2025-07-26 01:52:40+00:00
I looked into Amazfits, and the UI is not great in English. It was clearly designed for the Chinese market, and the international edition was an afterthought.

The screen is also totally different from the Pebble. If you put an Amazfit in always-on mode, the battery won't last nearly as long as the Pebble. Also, the Amazfit not as readable when outside.

More importantly, any device that is going to have access to my real-time GPS location needs to be as trustworthy as possible. Most apps can be prevented from getting your location because your smartphone will only give it to apps when you grant permission. But an app that syncs with your GPS-enabled watch doesn't need permission to get your location because it already has it. I don't fool myself into thinking that anyone is especially interested in tracking me. But given the choice between Eric and a Chinese company I don't know anything about, I choose Eric.
by whynotminot | 2025-07-26 01:53:49+00:00
If you give it another try, my goto right now is Sonnet 4 Thinking. There's a pretty massive difference in intelligence by switching from just plain 4 to 4 Thinking. It's still pretty fast, and I think hits the right balance between speed and useful intelligence.

However, at least in my experience, nothing beats o3 for raw intelligence. It's a little too slow to use as the daily driver though.

It's kind of fun seeing the models all have their various pros and cons.

> To be fair though, a big part of the issue for me is that having not done the work or properly thought through how a project is structured and how the code works, it comes back to bite later. A better model doesn't change this.

Yes, even as I start to leverage the tools more, I try to double down on my own understanding of the problem being solved, at least at a high level. Need to make sure you don't lose the plot yourself.
by zholer | 2025-07-26 01:54:29+00:00
true, but 99% of the apps don't generate any traffic at all :) If you look at the top 1% of apps, all of them could have been PWA's but can't. Here is a case study from aliexpress who achieved a 104% increase across all users for conversions when they deployed as a PWA: https://web.dev/case-studies/aliexpress
by ThrowawayB7 | 2025-07-26 01:54:34+00:00
People can still buy non-subscription versions of Office if they want. MS doesn't really advertise their existence but they're happy to take your money for MS Office 2024 if you insist.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
by Fogest | 2025-07-26 01:55:20+00:00
I feel like that is part of the problem with it. Not only can somebody post about you make things up about you. You also may never know. And it could end up silently impacting you. Say you apply for a job and a female HR person checking your job application decides to use this app to do a "background check" on some of the males applying. If she sees someone on their saying you sexually assaulted someone, she probably isn't going to choose to interview or hire you. And she probably won't even tell you why. And the claim against you could be totally bogus.

This is the scary reality of an app like this, especially if it continued to go more mainstream.
by apparent | 2025-07-26 01:56:29+00:00
I prefer when people discreetly glance at their smartwatch rather than pull out their iPhone. I try to look at my watch discreetly, whether I'm checking the time or glancing at a notification. When I'm trying to be especially discreet, I'll look at the other person's watch rather than my own.

I like that my smartwatch vibrates in different patterns for different apps. That lets me know whether I'm being texted, called, or notified by some other app. I generally only check when it's texts or calls, and even then only some of the time. I try to leave my phone in my pocket as much as possible when with others.
by qkhhly | 2025-07-26 01:57:26+00:00
i had many startups reaching out over the years but i just could not make the numbers work to make the shift.

it's not uncommon that a regular salary from a big tech in the bay area would amount to ~$2M total after 4 years (considering stock appreciation).

if you were given 1% of equity of the startup then start up has to worth $200M after 4 years. or more likely you would be given 0.1% of equity of the startup, and then it has to worth more than $2B, in order for it to make sense for you.

how likely is that going to happen?
by ThatPlayer | 2025-07-26 01:59:46+00:00
In a similar use, a few of my hobby projects are hosted on static web servers. So instead of rendering out everything into individual pages, which would've been tens of thousands of pages, I have a JSON file that gets rendered by the client in a SPA. I have even used Github Pages for this

I'm playing around with a newer version that uses a sqlite database instead. Sqlite officially has wasm builds, and the database file is already built to be separated into pages. With HTTP Range Requests, I can grab only the pages I need to fulfill any queries.

Sqlite full text search even works! Though I'm hesitant to call that a success because you do end up grabbing the entire FTS table for shorter searches. Might be better to download the entire database and build the FTS table locally.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-26 02:00:12+00:00
Most apps, these days, seem to be “hybrid,” where they use a system like Ionic or React. These systems usually slap on some considerable libraries.

I understand why, but I’m not a fan of hybrid apps. I like to do native, which results in much smaller, faster, and more efficient apps. It’s just not as cost-effective, if you want to support multiple platforms.

However, native apps aren’t automatically well-behaved ones. In fact, they usually have access to even more tools for eroding privacy or user agency.

Good behavior is up to the app developers, and that doesn’t seem to be much of a priority, these days.
by jcranmer | 2025-07-26 02:01:23+00:00
> the US has an incredibly advanced and dense rail network, paid for with federal land grants

Note that only a small portion of the US rail network was built with land grants, about 18k miles out of ~250k miles in the peak of the US rail network. Also, most of the land-grant railroads are in the Western states, which is actually generally the least-dense portion of the rail network (in large part because the population density of that area is quite low--which is a large part of the reason for the land grants in the first place!).
by gsnedders | 2025-07-26 02:02:34+00:00
To some extent, it's cases like this which show the real fragility of everything existing as a unified whole in google3.

While clearly maintenance and ownership is still a major problem, one could easily imagine deploying something similar — especially read-only — using GCP's Cloud Run and BigTable products could be less work to maintain, as you're not chasing anywhere near such a moving target.
by homeonthemtn | 2025-07-26 02:02:35+00:00
I really, truly don't. I was exposed to so much insane traumatizing content in near every setting. I want my kids no where near any of that.

That's the thing with this whole discussion though. both of these asks are totally reasonable My kids should have freedom to explore | my kids should not be exposed to violence and crude sexual content despite my best efforts to moderate their Internet usage

But the responses are overwhelmingly lopsided
by lucyjojo | 2025-07-26 02:03:00+00:00
i have no financial freedom, i have a family, do little overtime, and suffer from little stress.

that said, if i die, the mortgage gets nullified and my wife/kids get the house. and if i'm alive, i should be able to make enough money (which is - not much).

+ i keep healthy enough to avoid most chronic stuff that would stop me from working until the house is paid, so i see no reason to stress.
by montymintypie | 2025-07-26 02:03:14+00:00
Human interfaces, sure, but there's a good chunk of industrial sensing IoT that might do some non-trivial edge processing to decide if firing up the radio is even worth it. I can see this being useful there. Potentially also in smart watches with low power LCD/epaper displays, where the processor starts to become more visible in power charts.

Wonder if it could also be a coprocessor, if the fabric has a limited cell count? Do your dsp work on the optimised chip and hand off the the expensive radio softdevice when your codesize is known to be large.