MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superultra | 2025-07-02 18:18:27+00:00
You’re not wrong on most of your points - and I’m not denying the value of hard work. And I’m also well aware of the drudgery of office work.

That said, have you worked in the kind of factory that will come back? I did a summer stint at my dad’s steel mill as a 19 year old. I’m proud of that summer but that work took a lot of me. When other friends were out doing things, I was too exhausted to hang out. The money wasn’t great either. And that’s a microcosm of most of those older worker’s lives. Many drank heavily. I’m not bemoaning them at all or their work.

I’m just saying that the early 2000s wasn’t the 1850s either.

I don’t deny there’s a better life than office work but let’s not gloss over the kind of hard - as in, really hard - labor that industrialization requires.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-02 18:18:27+00:00
I don't know the law, and didn't say I did. I know the difference between right and wrong, though. I was responding to the GP comment where you basically argued that, "Well, actshually, nothing Trump's doing is illegal."

I also know that the courts are turning into wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Trump Organization. Not all of them, of course. But as for the rest, if there is no way for them to enforce their rulings -- and it seems there is not -- then they have no more power than random commenters on Hacker News, and deserve no more consideration.
by majkinetor | 2025-07-02 18:18:33+00:00
Exercise professors are guys teaching exercise science on universities.

Your experience is extraordinary, you seem to be protected for some reason or have high pain threshold or simply do not exercise hard enough. "Extreme positive effects on your entire life", that's so unbelievable, there is no such thing apart from acute drugs. I would respectfully suggest you to not deceive others, if you are deceiving yourself.

I am not trying to be an athlete, I am just observing the world around me. I also recommend exercise, its just not a silver bullet the guys like you are promoting. Its also almost totally useless for weight control, the thing that most people exercise for.
by bdcravens | 2025-07-02 18:18:36+00:00
Considering the following actual headlines by The Onion, I think that's less clear who's who these days:

"Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be" (https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he...)

"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation...)
by streptomycin | 2025-07-02 18:18:57+00:00
This doesn't answer the question though. Like okay, everyone ignored "do not track". So the correct response is to make an even more annoying system that can also be ignored just as easily as "do not track"?

And before someone says the new system has a law behind it so it can't be ignored as easily as "do not track"... that is irrelevant to the discussion of "built into browser" vs "each website implements its own custom thing".
by Retric | 2025-07-02 18:19:23+00:00
It doesn’t change if something lowers or increases the TCO, it only scales the impact relative to the costs.

The cash on hand bit isn’t the only take, but if you’re comparing 5 year loans and only keeping the car for 5 years then you can ignore time value of money. Suppose the monthly payment is 50$ more and you save 60$ a month, sure it’s only saving 10$/month but that’s essentially free money.
by djhworld | 2025-07-02 18:19:26+00:00
I've been reading the FAQ on the stop killing games website - they are not arguing for refunds, they're arguing for a EOL plan to be put in place for games

> No, we are not asking that at all. We are in favor of publishers ending support for a game whenever they choose. What we are asking for is that they implement an end-of-life plan to modify or patch the game so that it can run on customer systems with no further support from the company being necessary. We agree that it is unrealistic to expect companies to support games indefinitely and do not advocate for that in any way.
by timr | 2025-07-02 18:19:33+00:00
Yes, mites are arachnids, but this point is pedantic. Miticides don't work by counting legs and body segments.

Consider Amitraz [1]. It is both an insecticide and a miticide, and the method of action is on the central nervous system. Fluvalinate [2], another common one, is also broadly toxic to many different organisms.

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

[2] https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Fluvalinate
by j_walter | 2025-07-02 18:19:49+00:00
A majority of the chiplets are made by TSMC, but the main cores had still made by Intel. This has changed somewhat the last few years, but TSMC is still making a lot of chips for Intel. Supposedly the 18A node will be used for the latest gen CPU but it is still likely to use some TSMC chiplets.

Example: https://www.techpowerup.com/298027/tsmc-not-intel-makes-the-...
by Animats | 2025-07-02 18:20:03+00:00
That's a bit less true than it used to be. Shenzhen supposedly used to work that way. When some small factory ran out of capacitors in board assembly, they'd send a runner to Huaqiangbei for another reel. But now ordering has mostly moved online. There's less of a role for all those tiny stalls stocking components.

That just cuts out a layer in the distribution chain. The part you want is probably manufactured not too far away.

The US used to have manufacturing cities where you could get everything you needed in specific industries. There was the New York City garment district for clothes. Mary Quant, inventor of the miniskirt, writes in her autobiography, "Quant by Quant", about her first visit to New York with a native guide. She was getting things set up for manufacturing in days instead of the months it took in the UK.

Detroit had cars, of course. Most of the auto parts suppliers were nearby. Now, the US auto industry is very spread out. "Trenton Makes, the World Takes" is still on a huge sign in Trenton, NJ., but it's more nostalgia then reality. Waterbury, Connecticut had watch manufacturers and other mechanical precision devices.

Those centers of industry are mostly gone. Even Hollywood is in troublel
by nemo1618 | 2025-07-02 18:20:05+00:00
I think this adds more confusion than it removes.

A list is not a monad. A list is a data structure; a monad is more like a "trait" or "interface." So you can define a List type that "implements" the monad interface, but this is not an inherent property of lists themselves. That's the sense in which a list "is a" monad: the OOP sense.

Haskell's List monad provides a model for nondeterminism. But that certainly isn't the only way List could satisfy the monad interface! It was a deliberate choice -- a good choice, possibly the best choice, but a choice nonetheless.
by jerf | 2025-07-02 18:20:07+00:00
Actually, it sounds to me like you largely have it.

"The trouble I have with Monads is that what get for free doesn't seem very exciting."

I think there's a lot of truth to that, actually.

One of the persistent myths about "monad" is that they somehow "add" to a datatype, that the datatype was able to X and Y, but now that it's a monad now it can do X and Y and Z and M and N. But that's not true. Monad is an interface that can be implemented on things. Once you implement it, you get a lot of little tools, but individually, none of them are necessarily mindblowing, and pretty much by definition it can't be anything the data type couldn't already do.

(Likewise, I'd suggest that what you get with iterator isn't really all that "exciting" either. Useful, oh yes beyond a shadow of a doubt. But it's not exciting. Iterator qua iterator doesn't let you do anything you couldn't do without it.)

The convenience comes in that they're now the same across all monads. mapM does what it does and you no longer need to consult the specific type you are currently using for what it does, and so on for each thing.

If one "removed" monad from Haskell, that is actually what would happen. It's not the Haskell wouldn't be able to do any fewer things. It's just that you'd have to consult each data type for these functions, and they'd be named different things. (And you wouldn't be able to abstract over these operations in different datatypes without basically rebuilding monad in the process.)

I think the standard for "knowing" monad isn't that you can type a bit of a do block and get it to do something, or that you can understand what a particular block of code using list as a monad does; it's when you completely naturally are programming along in Haskell, and you realize "Hey, I've typed

do x <- something1 arg1 y <- something2 x z <- something3 y t <- something4 z

out, I bet there must be something to do that in Control.Monad" and you go and look it up and find out that yes there indeed is, and add >=> to your bag of tricks.
by mijoharas | 2025-07-02 18:20:20+00:00
Part of the article said this:

> The app is only available on iOS, because it would have to collect information on Android that could put people at risk.

Can anyone describe what this means? I don't know of a requirement to collect data on android? Is there something I'm not thinking of?

[EDIT] carried on reading the comments and it appears to be answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445392
by sophiechoi | 2025-07-02 18:20:42+00:00
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by rovr138 | 2025-07-02 18:21:44+00:00
It depends on x, right? For example, it could end up being, 'for learning more about Hacker news click here'.

I think that signals to visitor using screen readers and without, what that is and how to interact with it.

If someone with a screen reader is jumping through links, they'll get context for the link. A visitor not using it will see get the context since it's all highlighted together. Someone using a keyboard, the outline will highlight all of it.

I am just a keyboard user. I have no idea if this is the best way. But I think it gives the same info to everyone.
by mxuribe | 2025-07-02 18:21:46+00:00
Here's what i learned: the person buying software/services at many enterprises cares very little whether the thing being purchased is actually any good or not. They either pick based on some brand awareness (who doesn't know who IBM used to be, and who Microsoft is nowadays?), or they defer to someone else in the org...and that "some other senior leader person" in the org may or may not be the proper person to make the decision, etc....and then, the rest of the employees from said enterprise are stuck using something that very few might have chosen. Do i think there are good purchasers out there? Sure, but my direct experience is that the good ones are very few and far between sadly...and then momentum takes over in perpetuity.

And, then of course there's the "do as the competitors do", where when employees DO BRING UP good alternatives, the same aforementioned type of purchasers use the argument: "Well, lots of other firms and even our competitors use Microsoft...so why not stick with Microsoft...etc?"

Years ago, there used to be the phrase: "No one got fired for buying IBM...". I suppose nowadays you swap that brand out with "Microsoft", or "Google", etc. This rabbit hole goes really deep....but i encourage the interested to look up this IBM phrase, and you'll get tons of literature on why companies make purchasing decisions, and more importantly why they're often poor decisions.
by yourapostasy | 2025-07-02 18:22:25+00:00
This happens everywhere with lots of people in many different contexts. I call it the “‘why don’t we just’ disease”, or WDWJ Disease. When you’re in any leadership position, you have to stay especially careful to catch yourself from falling prey to this pernicious effect and behavior, and its equally debilitating sibling yak shaving when you over index on preventing WDWJ.
by sophiechoi | 2025-07-02 18:22:31+00:00
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by cmrdporcupine | 2025-07-02 18:23:04+00:00
Capitalist countries (actually there are no other kinds of economies, in reality) are leading the open source software movement because it is a way for corporations to get software development services and products for free rather than paying for. It's a way of lowering labour costs.

Highly paid software engineers working in a ZIRP economy with skyrocketing compensation packages were absolutely willing to play this game, because "open source" in that context often is/was a resume or portfolio building tool and companies were willing to pay some % of open source developers in order to lubricate the wheels of commerce.

That, I think, is going to change.

Free software, which I interpret as copyleft, is absolutely antithetical to them, and reviled precisely because it gets in the way of getting work for free/cheap and often gets in the way of making money.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-02 18:23:23+00:00
>> For all their flaws, US cops are some of the least corrupt

> I actually kinda agree,

It is my long and consistent experience (MI spouse) that the quality of police officers depends on the quality of the police chief.

We had good, experienced officers here a generation ago. A funding-addicted sheriff was elected. He fired cops w/ decades of exp and replaced them with just-graduated kids. The remaining cops were subject to some kind of dept environment that left them half-unhinged.

Addicted sheriff quit after a few terms and his replacement was pretty good for a while. Now he's average, so kind of crappy.
by echelon | 2025-07-02 18:23:23+00:00
> The general consensus is that the dislike of AI is so strong

This is such an echo chamber. Most people love AI. It's one of the fastest growing types of content across all social media.

The news media is telling us we hate it (eg. John Oliver, 404 Media), but this is not the mainstream consensus. Views and likes don't lie.

"Normies" think this technology is magical. Some organs of the traditional news media are trying to skew their opinions.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-02 18:23:29+00:00
Apple fought back against forced decryption orders. They could theoretically decrypt any iPhone they're given with new firmware but they don't want to.

On the other hand, Google isn't exactly working with the authorities either. They moved Google Maps' location history to on-device storage because of the many warrants they were served, for instance, and they too refuse to decrypt phones.

These companies know to pick their battles, but they did take on the government various times.
by carefulfungi | 2025-07-02 18:23:30+00:00
Tell me you've never worked as a cashier ...

NRF reports that total retail shrinkage in 2021 was 1.44% - from all sources.

> The survey found that the average shrink rate in 2021 was 1.44%, a slight decrease from the last two years but comparable to the five-year average of 1.5%

Apparently the most recent survey was 1.66%..

https://invue.com/resource-center/blog/6-retail-shrinkage-st...
by eviks | 2025-07-02 18:23:42+00:00
> while you won’t actually be able to see the part of the image under the sidebar, on the other hand the transparency effect applied to the sidebar will make the text on it less legible overall. A great lose-lose situation, visually, don’t you think?

Yes, of course, but it looks bold and innovative and designers can waste years tweaking various details across many apps!

> reduces the amount of information displayed on screen, and you’ll have to scroll more as a consequence. ... You’re just injecting white space everywhere.

Sure, but that's a common scourge in all modern design, why would an innovative design company stay behind?
by quacked | 2025-07-02 18:23:52+00:00
It's always weird to see Quakerism be mentioned somewhere else. I grew up Quaker and still sometimes attend Quaker meeting, and I related to his ceiling-tile counting; I used to count the wooden boards that formed the ceiling of our meetinghouse.

The best part about Quakerism, in my opinion, is that it teaches a very hearty disrespect of un-earned authority without teaching disrespect for the concept of authority itself. One of my favorite anecdotes is a group of Quakers who refused to doff their hats for the King, as they only doff their hats for God.

There's another old practice of refusing to swear on the Bible before telling the truth, as that would imply that they weren't telling the truth before they were sworn in.

I find the inclusion of Zen in this article is interesting, as you won't find the word "Holy" or "God", used, and "Spirit" is only used twice, once to comment on how he felt pressured to receive a message from it. The original purpose of Quaker silent worship was to remove the church-imposed barrier between man and God (the "Holy Spirit") so that anyone could be a mouthpiece for the wishes and desires of the Spirit. Modern American Quakers, especially the ones who write in Friends Journal, tend to be pretty secular.
by croon | 2025-07-02 18:23:56+00:00
In this specific case I absolutely agree with you, but if going outside the thread on GPs point, I am way more lenient towards (non commercially backed) OSS projects. I'm usually using the product because no one other than the volunteers are doing it, and if I want something fixed, I might have to put in some work to dig and pinpoint the issue to help a fix along, put in a PR myself, or accept it being broken for a while until someone makes the (unpaid) time. And that's ok, or at least a reality for a lot of OSS.
by whoisyc | 2025-07-02 18:24:20+00:00
In Factorio you throw iron ore in an electric furnace and it turns into iron plates. In reality you need coal or coke or charcoal to reduce iron to its metal form. Steelmaking is one of the largest single source of CO2 for a reason.

This is just one example among many. The truth is every single facet of industrial production is incredibly complex and there does not exist a single video game that captures all the nuance. Period. Factorio abstracted away all the boring details of industrial production and that is why it is good entertainment. But it’s still just entertainment. To think someone would become knowledge about industrial production because he played Factorio is like thinking someone is a good driver because he played Mario Kart.
by soulbadguy | 2025-07-02 18:24:34+00:00
Yes... but no... From the article : > At a 2015 office Christmas party with a Back to the Future theme, François allegedly told a member of staff that he liked her 1950s dress. He then allegedly stepped towards her to kiss her on the mouth as his colleagues restrained her by the arms and back. She shouted and broke free.

Every team and sub culture will have an "energy" and different attitude etc... sure

But this is much more than racy poster on the walls... This behavior was never acceptable. I find it fascinating that we have to rediscover and relearn every generation why professional etiquette is so important. And what happens when. We blur the line between professional life and "familial" attitudes
by ericmay | 2025-07-02 18:24:45+00:00
The OP wrote:

> I have a 6 year old phone that was cheap when it was new, and it still runs 100% of what I use my phone for, and most people use their phones for, perfectly.

They made the claim, you should ask them for evidence instead.

Given that Apple continues to create new features that are only available on certain iPhones and market those functions and features heavily, we can guess that people buy new iPhones at least in part for those features.

We also know that not all features available on an iPhone today are available on all iPhones. For example, the original iPhone doesn't have the chipset required to do tap-to-pay transactions. The iPhone 11 (I'm guessing it's 6 years old and the one OP was referring to) can't play whatever the latest games are with the same performance with respect to graphics and battery life, as another example. While I don't care, many people do and spend quite a lot of money gaming on their iPhones. Think about all the new accessories that people use as well.

I don't want to suggest that I necessarily find those things valuable or that they are a reason to upgrade, but it seems very weak to suggest that other people don't value those things.