MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by layer8 | 2025-07-06 00:40:34+00:00
It’s one thing to learn a few gestures that work consistently across the platform. But every app tends to do its own thing, and even if you are a power user of the respective apps and learn their idiosyncrasies, it’s still annoying that they all work in slightly or sometimes drastically different ways, and that they aren’t consistent in terms of discoverability.
by krebby | 2025-07-06 00:40:50+00:00
Grasshopper for Rhino is a big one, or VisualCAD/CAM. Blender, Houdini, or Unreal Blueprints are others. It gives you the exploration benefits of a UI plus the procedural benefits of code. Inputs tend to be auto-bound which makes exploration much, much faster.

I'm working on one for web map data visualization: https://youtu.be/GJ0ftFB8r4I?t=871
by phil21 | 2025-07-06 00:41:19+00:00
Has this co-mingling of sold by Amazon ever actually been documented at any scale beyond “extremely rare stock/pick” mistake? I am of course aware of the option for manufacturers to enable this for their registered products on FBA - and it may not have been optional at one point in time.

When I researched this a while ago I was unable to come up with much compelling evidence that it was an actual thing. It certainly has not happened to me over thousands of purchases - or anyone I know for that matter. Of course a fake could have been so good none of us could tell, but I do actually attempt to inspect carefully.

I have found counterfeit items from other web stores not on Amazon so it’s not like my detection skills are zero. Third party marketplace of course is different.

Heck, even Costco sent me an unsolicited refund for a counterfeit item they unknowingly sold me - so supply chain issues are bound to happen.

I don’t want to defend Amazon too much here, but this one is almost at urban legend status to me. Likely happened at limited scale some time ago, but it’s strange everyone says it’s endemic but no one IRL I know across probably tens of thousands of purchases has noticed it.
by echelon | 2025-07-06 00:41:29+00:00
Regulation is a moat. It costs money to build systems that comply.

Building compliance is not building for your customers direct asks and requirements. Especially software that does not originate in the EU. How many startups are building data export to comply with data export regulations?

I spent nearly a year plumbing through complex microservices to satisfy GDPR at my last company. We collected an enormous amount of PII and KYC data from payments processing, and there were so many downstream services impacted. And I was just one engineer from amongst dozens of impacted teams that had to deal with it.

Regulatory compliance is not free.

Regulatory compliance is frictionful.

I'm not saying regulation is bad, but that it is a cost of doing business and a tax on engineering. Especially for startups looking to go toe to toe with bigger incumbents that have already paid for compliance and that can afford to pay fees to ignore compliance to go fast.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-06 00:41:48+00:00
The other day I was locked out of my car the key fob button wouldn't work Why didn't I just use my key to get in? First, you need to know there is a hidden key inside the fob. Second, because there doesn't appear to be a keyhole on the car door, you also have to know that you need to disassemble a portion of the car door handle to expose the keyhole.

Hiding critical car controls is hostile engineering. In this, it doesn't stand out much in the modern car experience.
by danaris | 2025-07-06 00:42:03+00:00
Paying any tax supports programs that provide life-saving food to poor women and children, health care to sick, injured, and disabled people who have no other way of getting it, and enforcement of justice for everyone in the country.

If you're only going to pick one thing that a government does, yeah, it's easy to cherrypick something awful. But the alternative is literal anarchy, which is a) much, much worse for the vast majority of people, and b) 100% guaranteed not to last, as the people either organically organize a government from the bottom up, or some violent strongman (gender-neutral) (but let's face it, probably a man in practice) emerges and enforces an authoritarian government from the top down. And in either of those cases, they'll levy taxes very soon, whether it's to make sure that the things that a representative government needs can happen, or just to take as much as they can from everyone else.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-06 00:42:31+00:00
> My take away from this is that letting the small fish go under the premise that they are juveniles that will later grow to be bigger lets the adult midgets go, ruining the gene pool.

I read about this being tested in large fish tanks using either cod or trout some 20+ years ago, where they removed fish either randomly, or let the small ones go. They came to the same conclusion: letting small fish go results in reduction of average size of mature fish after a few generations.

The authors of the submitted paper references this[1] article, which points out the following:

Despite a theoretically strong conceptual basis, evidence of genetic change unequivocally attributable to wild-capture fisheries has been elusive. Among the top five threats to biodiversity, evidence for genetic trait change is strongest for studies of pollution and weakest for studies of overexploitation (and habitat change). Determining whether phenotypic change in declining populations is the result of evolution, as opposed to other influences on growth, survival, and fitness, or gene flow from adjacent populations, has proven challenging.

So this paper seems to provide evidence that the lab results holds up in the wild.

[1]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2105319118
by tehjoker | 2025-07-06 00:42:32+00:00
Communism with "cybernetics" (computer driven economic planning) is the appropriate model if you take this to the logical conclusion. Fortunately, much of our economy is already planned this way (consider banks, amazon, walmart, shipping, etc.), it's just controlled for the benefit a small elite.

You have to ask, if we have AGI that's smarter than humans helping us plan the economy, why do we need an upper class? Aren't they completely superfluous?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-06 00:43:56+00:00
There are two really good links to videos that I post in this discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44467685

which is supported by my commentary. In one you see Mamdani speaking for himself (if he keeps his cool like that while his enemies go apeshit... he wins!) [4] and in another some good analysis from people who are skeptical of his policies (as am I) who are still impressed with how he communicates.

You might say "couldn't a high D (dark traits) person mask as a low D person, as a wolf in sheep's clothing?" I don't think so, or at least they usually won't.

Contrast that to corrupt New York politicians like Cuomo, Adams, Clinton and such who don't know enough to be ashamed of their own behavior.

Narcissism in particular is considered to be an underdevelopment of the personality, as an absence rather than a presence. [1] [2] High D people don't understand Low D people and would have a hard time passing. A High D person who was successfully Machiavellian in a Low D culture (say Utah [3]) would probably have to pass but if you're in a culture where folks like Trump and Musk and the above New Yorkers are perceived to be successful if not "genius" you're not going to understand why you need to do that hard work.

As they say, "you can't cheat an honest man". There's that famous movie The Sting where they set up a trap for a crime boss based on his greed which has the same structure as those advance fee scams where they get somebody to (allegedly) pay to help an African general launder money. High D people victimize other High D people, Narcissists seduce other Narcissists. A person who presents as Low D is really Low D, particularly in a high D place like New York [3]

I found [3] lately and I've been doing a lot of reading about the calibration and implications of that scale, particularly how it relates to other tests

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734141432/what-dropping-17-00...

where the highest D country in the world (China) had the lowest rate of people returning wallets.

[1] Kohut Analysis of the Self

[2] Kernberg Borderline Condition and Pathological Narcissism

[3] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500830122

[4] Note there is no "billionaires shouldn't exist", no impugning the character of people who vote for someone else, and none of those weird words like misgynoir that make minorities and working class people run, not walk away
by thomquaid | 2025-07-06 00:44:58+00:00
The culled birds definitely arent producing. The proposal here is to let sick birds recover from their flu instead of being killed. True, you can effectively stop the spread of the flu if all the animals are dead, but the flu has a high survivability rate, and so once birds recover from their flu, they'll still be laying eggs (instead of being dead). That seems to be the proposed approach. It matches what we did for covid (we didnt cull the infected to stop the spread--it might have worked though).
by swsieber | 2025-07-06 00:45:06+00:00
Files come with certain restrictions, which don't matter for certain types of applications. But for others they do.

I think it boils down to provenance and concurrency. If we edit the same line a file, that's ba merge conflict when it really should be simple and something I shouldn't have to bother with. And when we do do the same line edit, I'd love to have provenance on that data.

Granted, those aren't local first thing exactly, but I think there will be apps that want all of that.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-06 00:45:12+00:00
“I trust the guy who published a paper on White House letterhead with hallucinated citations in some instances, and conclusions in complete contradiction of the cited paper in other instances, and who expressed no remorse for such errors.”

It’s just so incredibly dumb to listen to recurrent (and especially unrepentant) liars. Even if you know they’re lying, your brain subjected to that will break down. Propagandists and conmen through all of history have discovered it. All you’ve gotta do is say it over and over again and hope there are people dumb enough not to stop listening the first 15 lies.
by echelon | 2025-07-06 00:47:15+00:00
The vast majority of apps, or at least data consumption, will not fit the shape of "fitness tracker". Budgeting, emails [1], workout routines - those will fall into a non-generative bucket of applications.

I still purport that in the future, most applications and screen time will fall into a generative AI bucket: creating media, writing code, watching videos, playing games, searching for information, etc. I wouldn't even be surprised if our personal images and videos get somehow subsumed and "enriched" with AI.

[1] Well, email might fall into a non-generative bucket. There are already tools that purport to both read and write your emails for you. I'm not quite sure what to make of those.
by jameskilton | 2025-07-06 00:47:28+00:00
What is this? There's a lot of red flags here.

* The name "D" for a programming language was taken in 1999: https://dlang.org/

* There's no source, the docs install link is wrong (repo is https://github.com/Angel250511/D-).

* Release is a binary upload to GitHub.

* Is not Python-like at all
by shtripok | 2025-07-06 00:47:50+00:00
It is very difficult to get the driver included in the upstream. This is why almost none of the Chinese equipment manufacturers do this. And those that do do it for one or two models out of 2-3 dozen produced, and this process rarely takes less than 2-3 years. That is, by the time the device is included in the kernel, it is usually already out of production for a year or more.

So don't repeat these legends from 20 years ago. However, this may not have been true even 20 years ago.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-06 00:48:26+00:00
Maybe, but I tend to trust 中沢克二. He has a fairly successful track record on reporting on Chinese elite politics, and Japanese reporting on China is fairly high quality given the economic interdependence along with naval tensions between the two and certain irredentist sentiments around Ryukyu.

That said, stuff is absolutely different in the CMC and MOFA today - I don't think similar churn at that level has been seen since the 1980s.

That said, this should NOT be construed as "Chinese Collapse". That said, this is exactly how succession works in authoritarian countries. We saw similar confusion in China during the 2009-12 period [0]. Fourth plenums be wonky

[0] - https://research.nus.edu.sg/eai/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/B...
by 65 | 2025-07-06 00:48:27+00:00
There is no reason why an icon can't be skeuomorphic. Flat design was inspired by Swiss design, which really only existed because of technical constraints of graphic design in the 50s and 60s.

An icon should indicate what the program does, and with higher quality displays, there's no reason why more detail in the icon would be worse. Icons aren't logos in the sense they have to be adapted for every possible use case (where those use cases may have technical limitations), e.g. on a huge box truck, embroidered on a shirt, or as a favicon.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-06 00:49:29+00:00
When it has bad support for just zip I think phrasing it as windows lacking an unarchiving utility is reasonable enough, and certainly not bad enough to get flagged like the comment currently is. It's not bad faith, jeez. I'm going to go vouch for the comment and hope it survives.

And it's only because of that comment that I learned windows 11 finally improves things.
by tombert | 2025-07-06 00:50:06+00:00
While I would agree with your overall synopsis, RFK Jr. actually has some conflicts of interest with regards to the anti-vax stuff. He directly profits from anti-vax lawsuits, and if he's in charge of the CDC and FDA he has the motivation to try and publish fake reports from (previously) respected departments.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/22/nx...
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-06 00:51:25+00:00
Is it even "music" at that point? It has nothing that I associate with music: rhythm, melody, scale, etc... I don't mean these are unpleasant or uninteresting, but we are stretching the definition of music a bit here.

For example you won't call a recording of a a busy café, a thunderstorm, a jungle or a conversation "music". Foley and sound effect artists are not making music either.

These tracks felt to me more like a movie, but without the image, dialogue, and score, leaving only the ambiance sounds and effects.
by michaelmrose | 2025-07-06 00:53:00+00:00
I believe this is correct. Linux drivers and support duration were garbage at least 2003-2015. AMD fanboys feveretly expressed opinions notwithstanding. Especially so when AMD started the process of open sourcing their drivers even though many chips already existing didn't qualify for the new upcoming open source drivers. 2015-2018 drivers were acceptable but performance was poorer than Nvidia and wayland support wasn't a notable for most parties.

Now wayland support is an important factor and AMD is a perfectly acceptable and indeed economical choice.

Basically 15 years inertia is hard to counter.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-07-06 00:53:05+00:00
The overfishing altered the allele frequencies of certain genes.

Actually directly altering the genes would have to involve mutation or direct engineering which is a bit more involved.

I think a good way to think about this is with human dwarfism. Many humans with achondroplasia get it through de novo mutation, but some get it by a combination of having two recessive loss of function genes that get transmitted by both parents (often of normal height)

Now imagine a laser beam that went and killed every human above a certain height. Young people would be spared along with adults with dwarfism. Over many generations, previously rare genes for dwarfism would increase in frequency shifting the average height of the population lower and lower.

It is the change in frequency that matters here more than the underlying explanation of what changed the genes.
by RachelF | 2025-07-06 00:53:07+00:00
Similarly the disappearing menu items in common software.

Take a simple example: Open a read-only file in MS Word. There is no option to save? Where's it gone? Why can I edit but not save the file?

A much better user experience would be to enable and not hide the Save option. When the user tries to save, tell them "I cannot save this file because of blah" and then tell them what they can do to fix it.
Ask HN: Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?
by pkdpic | 2025-07-06 00:53:12+00:00
Was very inspired by a hacker space on a trip to Seattle. In Sacramento CA where we used to have an amazing enormous space "Hacker Lab". We still have one but it's more crafts oriented which is fine but trying to think about a more computer-oriented one for kids specifically. Thinking about overhauling our garage to be a space for my kid's / kid's friend's little nascent computer club and feeling it out from there. Just wondering if people have any wisdom / advice.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-06 00:53:45+00:00
For a lot of random things, like... say, a suction cup thingy that mounts my smartphone to a car dashboard, I have no idea which stores are likely to sell such things, and they could have a wide discrepancy in prices. I can type into Amazon and see a list of products and prices, but if I want to buy one at a local retailer I might have to call three or four stores before finding someone who carries the thing I'm looking for. It would be really nice to have a search engine that can search products across brick-and-mortar retailers.
by frankacter | 2025-07-06 00:55:25+00:00
https://x.com/tyler__palmer/status/1941615907266232707

>reduce debt, responsible spending only

>modernize military with ai/robotics

>pro tech, accelerate to win in ai

>less regulation across board but especially in energy

>free speech

>pro natalist

>centrist policies everywhere else

Obviously that last catch all bullet is where things get complicated.
by joechenphd | 2025-07-06 00:56:27+00:00
Super cool feature that one can upload their own images and interact like a game! Fun examples from X: - https://x.com/chongdashu/status/1940655090127516017 - https://x.com/farfetched_ai/status/1940597724107493462 - https://x.com/the_carlosdp/status/1940657574535483742
by brundolf | 2025-07-06 00:56:53+00:00
Amazing that there's no mention of AI in this post. People have been trying and failing to blur this line since the beginning of computing, and the only real success story has been excel. And it's because rigid computing systems have to draw a line somewhere between user and developer, and if that line is in the wrong place, people will either get hampered or lost. And the correct threshold is different for every user and use-case

AI is going to finally be the realization of this dream. I don't think it could have happened any other way
by rapatel0 | 2025-07-06 00:57:10+00:00
This is nonsense. Your credibility’s (and mine) come from the body of work and associated experience. Not a stamp from an org that costs x dollars per year.

I would argue that planes are falling out of the sky because management types believed that getting somebody to take a test and get a stamp is sufficient to call somebody an engineer and delegate them critical work with irrespective of their work or experience.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-06 00:57:24+00:00
I drive a Toyota that is nearly old enough to run for US Senator. Every control in the car is visible, clearly labeled and is distinct to the touch - at all times. The action isn't impeded by routine activity or maintenance (ex:battery change).

Because it can be trivially duplicated, this is minimally capable engineering. Yet automakers everywhere lack even this level of competence. By reasonable measure, they are poor at their job.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-06 00:58:18+00:00
That's less helpful than you might imagine - gzip isn't seekable by default; if all you know is the seek point, you still have to decompress everything up to that point to start decompressing from there. And if you have to do that, reading the tar headers as you go isn't a serious burden.

What might help is saving the state of the decompressor periodically, rather than just the index in the file. But that's getting pretty far into the weeds for an optimization to an infrequently used feature.
by vel0city | 2025-07-06 01:01:19+00:00
I fully agree with you on this. If the car is moving you shouldn't really do anything more than previous/next/volume. And of those they should be on the steering wheel.

You want to mess with your equalizer, do it when stopped. IDGAF if it's dozens of physical buttons and knobs and sliders or hidden in menus; you're supposed to be driving not mastering an audio file.
by Dwedit | 2025-07-06 01:01:32+00:00
.tar itself gives you enough information to seek forward past each file, though every file must be visited.

.gz does not give you enough information to randomly seek within the big compressed .gz file, so you cannot skip past files within a .tar archive.

But if you load a .gz file and consume the entire stream, but keep periodic checkpoints of your past sliding window (about 64KB) every 1MB or so, you can get random access with 1MB granularity. You still had to consume the entire stream to build the lookup though.
by jjaksic | 2025-07-06 01:02:47+00:00
> It's a big loss if a user has to wait 3 months for a bugfix

This is incredibly short-sighted. You're talking about 1 user 3 months, and you think that's "big" ? I'd say it's a much bigger loss if the project gets kicked out because of one person's impatience. Then everybody will have to wait forever, how is that better?

If the fs is as good as you claim, then you better play by the rules and make sure the project survives and eventually goes GA. If it happens a few months later, then so be it. Think about the long term.

If you're worried about a single user leaving, then a much better strategy would be to explain to this user the Linux release timeline, or how to apply a patch, than to go up toe to toe against Linus.

And btw, squeezing a fix/feature in at the last minute in order to help one user is not as good as you think it is. Even if that one user appreciates your responsiveness, to everyone else it sends a message that the key dev is super impatient and unprofessional. So even if you manage to keep that one user, how many potential users are you losing by sending that message?
by yupitsme123 | 2025-07-06 01:03:22+00:00
Sure, maybe the Grand Algorithm could do what the market currently does and decide how to distribute surplus wealth. It could decide how much money you deserve each month, how big of a house, how desirable of a partner. But it still needs values to guide it. Is the idea for everyone to be equal? Are certain kinds of people supposed to have less than others? Should people have one spouse or several?

Historically the elites aren't just those who have lots of money or property. They're also those who get to decide and enforce the rules for society.
by khuey | 2025-07-06 01:03:42+00:00
I don't think Amazon has ever outright admitted that they do, but Amazon's own terms give them the right to commingle their inventory with those of third party sellers.

F-4 Storage

We will provide storage services as described in these FBA Service Terms once we confirm receipt of delivery. We will keep electronic records that track inventory of Units by identifying the number of Units stored in any fulfillment center. We will not be required to physically mark or segregate Units from other inventory units (e.g., products with the same Amazon standard identification number) owned by us, our Affiliates or third parties in the applicable fulfillment center(s).

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external...

That combined with years and years of anecdotal reports of this happening certainly suggests a "where there's smoke there's fire" situation to me.