MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by close04 | 2025-07-02 08:31:12+00:00
> Again, I worked on these issues.

Working on something means you put in effort, not that it's focused properly or that you even understand the real issues. At best you'll solve your problems without caring or understanding if it solves anyone else's.

> Bezos and friends never showed up.

Case in point. Bezos and friends don't need to "show up" anywhere you'd know. Their interests are implicitly considered and they're transmitted on channels you and I don't have access to. I'm talking about the general issue of asymmetric representation. This is where money matters.

> The last few years have been a barn full of monied candidates being trounced by insurgents.

You are conflating winning a popular election with leading for the people. Such statements in 2025 US are ridiculously disconnected. Almost without exception in recent history the wealthy always increased their wealth faster than the poor, and at their expense. Just over a decade ago the poorest 50% had 0.4% of the US wealth. No wealth means no power, not even personal agency, let alone in national policy. Are you telling me that finally the "insurgents" are fixing this and with their help the bottom half will start gaining the wealth and power from the super rich? Because if you aren't saying this, you aren't saying anything. The powerful will keep pushing and getting what they need, and you'll keep blaming "the lazy" that things don't change.

> Most people who would call in on digital privacy don’t bother because they’re lazy or think it’s useless.

Most people are assaulted with many, many more attacks on their rights and wellbeing. Those are more immediate concerns. Over 50% of US population just barely eeks out more that $10k in wealth. When they're drowning in debt, living from (social security) paycheck to paycheck, worried what else they'll lose next, showing up to fight for digital privacy, or almost anything that's not life and death, is the least of their concerns.

You decided to label them "lazy". Ever wondered if your work "on these issues" is tainted by this opinion, and that's why ultimately all you can achieve is only for the people who can afford it? Because you can afford it, and the lazy don't deserve it. The correlation is there.
by davidknittel728 | 2025-07-02 08:32:24+00:00
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by belorn | 2025-07-02 08:33:54+00:00
> If a reputable business is offering horse rides, then I have a little extra assurance of the horse's training or the handler's capabilities.

Them what we are talking about is training. Many dog owners will agree that training is important for the well being of the dog and essential if you want to have them around other people (and dogs). For owners that want to have dogs off the leash it is extremely risky without extensive training, unless they are puppies under certain age.

The more potentially dangerous an animal is, the more training should be required before they are allowed in spaces that risk other people. Given the number of deaths and serious injuries that animals do each year to humans, it seems fairly common sense to have such requirement that scale with how high the risk is given any specific animal.

Horse riding by children would be a bit more complicated. Not sure it is possible to reduce the risk to safe levels, but then that is the role of training and certification regulations.
by hambes | 2025-07-02 08:34:58+00:00
I've thought about getting a web browser to work on the terminal for a while now. This is an idea that hadn't occured to me yet and I'm intrigued.

But I feel it doesn't solve the main issue of terminal-based web browsing. Displaying HTML in the terminal is often kind of ugly and css-based fanciness does not work at all, but that can usually just be ignored. The main problem is javascript and dynamic content, which this approach just ignores.

So no real step forward for cli web browsing, imo.
by lanthissa | 2025-07-02 08:35:06+00:00
there has yet to be a value openAI originally claimed to have that has lasted a second longer than there was profit motive to break it.

they went from open to closed. they went from advocating ubi to for profit. they went from pacific to selling defense tech. they went from a council overseeing the project to a single man in control.

and thats fine, go make all the money you can, but don't try do this sick act where you try to convince people to thank you for acting in your own self interest.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-07-02 08:35:36+00:00
There’s a huge difference between going from professionally produced real videos to amateur produced real videos and going from real videos to AI videos.

With the former it’s still real video. If anything, the amateur videos would be even more “real” with less editing.

But the AI videos could literally have a well known fact based doctor promoting wellness scams because they simply used AI to insert words in their mouths.

In fact, the “shorts” are basically completely filling up with wellness scams faking AI videos from well known doctors and scientists pushing their scam products.
by rudi-c | 2025-07-02 08:37:36+00:00
There's plenty of server-side components to Figma that are substantially more complex and expensive than that of the typical website.

Multiplayer means that every file that are user loads is loaded onto a compute server and retained in-memory on that server, processing every mutation to the document. Figma documents can get quite large -- they can contain the design system of an entire organization, dozens of variations of a product feature, etc. This means the server cost scales per active session at a given time, a higher "number" than active requests.

In addition to multiplayer, Figma attempts to keep most other parts of the application real-time. If another user adds a file to a project, you will see it without refreshing the page. That's a simple example, but certain types of queries/mutation can get much more complex.

Figma is an enterprise app, and the data models needed to support complex use cases (permissions, etc) means that DB load is a real challenge.

While the DAU count of Figma might not be as high as other consumer apps, the amount of time those users spend in Figma is often substantially higher.

Those are some of the things that contribute to a high bill. While Figma is most known for the frontend editor, the infra work is plenty interesting too.
by smusamashah | 2025-07-02 08:38:16+00:00
Their privacy policy / licence allowed collection of passwords and whatnot. Copying from older comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38204923

https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

Look at Section 2B

B. Personal Information Collected Automatically We may collect personal information automatically when you use our Services. Automatic Collection of Personal Information. We may collect the following information automatically when you use our Services: Contact Information: Your email address Identifiers: User ID: Such as screen name, handle, account ID, or other user- or account-level ID that can be used to identify a particular user or account. This information could be provided via your Fakespot account, Apple ID, Google Account, or other accounts you may use on the Services. User ID also includes your account password, other credentials, security questions, and confirmation codes. Device ID: Your device information which includes, but is not limited to, information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Usage Data: Product Interaction: How you interact with our Services and what features you use within the Services, including Fakespot’s sort bar, highlights, review grade, seller ratings, alternative sellers, settings and popups. Other Usage Data: Individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Service, and other information about how you interact with the Service. Browser Information: Information your internet browser provides when you access and use our Services. Application Search History: Information you provide when you perform searches in our Services. Purchase Information: Your purchase history or purchase tendencies which we may use to recommend better products and sellers. Location Information. We may collect your location information, such as geolocation based on your IP address in connection with your use of our Services. Publicly Available Information. In providing our Services we may collect data (including personal information such as profile names of reviewers) that is made publicly available via the internet on the websites analyzed and crawled by our Services.
by Avalaxy | 2025-07-02 08:38:24+00:00
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by realusername | 2025-07-02 08:38:27+00:00
Yes I have, I worked with it for years, there's the officially supported standards and then there's the buggy reality you have to deal with. I've encountered bugs with backgrounds, zIndex, videos, forms, localStorage, SVGs, all basic browser features.

Then Safari also is the last non-evergreen browser so it's the slowest to update compared to all the other browsers. If you have a bug, there's a good chance you'll have it for years
by bobthepanda | 2025-07-02 08:38:33+00:00
The problem is that to get these effects you need large canopies of trees, and to get that to happen the trees have to take the space of something else. For street trees it takes away land from parking or traffic lanes; for properties it occupies both horizontal and vertical square footage since the sky above the tree needs to be clear. These are unpopular with some political affiliations and interest groups.
by msgodel | 2025-07-02 08:39:14+00:00
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by m4rtink | 2025-07-02 08:40:44+00:00
While the Orion drive indeed works perfectly fine in atmosphere - or actually even better than in vacuum - no one says you need to launch them from the ground.

While it would be preferable due to the immense weight, you can either lift it by conventional means or possibly build it from local resources in the long run.

Once in space Orion is much less problematic & might be even easier to dock and maintain than normal nuclear thermal rockets, where the unshielded reactor will just put out insane amounts or radiation in all directions outside of its shadow shield.

Correctly engineered pusher plate should be much easier to deal with.
by Tomotoes | 2025-07-02 08:40:54+00:00
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by KaiserPro | 2025-07-02 08:40:56+00:00
There are a couple of ways to read the "coup" saga.

1) Altman was trying to raise cash so that openAI would be the first,best and last to get AGI. That required structural changes before major investors would put in the cash.

2) Altman was trying to raise cash and saw an opportunity to make loads of money

3) Altman isn't the smartest cookie in the jar, and was persuaded by potential/current investors that changing the corp structure was the only way forward.

Now, what were the board's concerns?

The publicly stated reason was a lack of transparency. Now, to you and me, that sounds a lot like lying. But where did it occur and what was it about. Was it about the reasons for the restructure? was it about the safeguards were offered?

The answer to the above shapes the reaction I feel I would have as a missionary

If you're a missionary, then you would believe that the corp structure of openai was the key thing that stops it from pursuing "damaging" tactics. Allowing investors to dictate oversight rules undermines that significantly, and allows short term gain to come before longterm/short term safety.

However, I was bought out by a FAANG, one I swear I'd never work for, because they are industrial grade shits. Yet, here I am many years later, having profited considerably from working at said FAANG. turns out I have a price, and it wasn't that much.
by benchly | 2025-07-02 08:41:28+00:00
Rather that taking yet another opportunity to dump on Mozilla (it's easy, I know), I think a better question would be who is the alternative out there doing the work that Fakespot tried to do? Is this telling us that the task is too large for any current solutions to handle?

Just relying on consumer judgement has certainly proven to be inadequate in combating fake reviews, and without incentive, we're not going to get many legitimate reviews.
by jamesmunns | 2025-07-02 08:41:51+00:00
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by jwpapi | 2025-07-02 08:42:18+00:00
It’s nothing special. Not in the realm of anything technical outstanding. I just stated that to emphasize that it’s a slightly bigger project than default single-dev coded SAAS projects which are just a single wrapper. We have workers, multiple white-labeled applications sharing a common infrastructure, data scraping modules, AI-powered services, and email processing pipelines.

I’ve had an impossible learning curve the last year, but as I should rather be vibe-coded biased I still use less AI now to make sure it’s more consistent.

I think the two camps are different in terms of skill honestly, but also in terms of needs. Like of course you are faster vibe-coding a front-end then to write the code manually, but build a robust backend/processing system its a different kind of tier.

So instead of picking a side it’s usually best to stay as unbiased as possible and choose the right tool for the task
by mnazim | 2025-07-02 08:42:55+00:00
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by latexr | 2025-07-02 08:43:36+00:00
> And for anyone who’s going to say “Sketch was Mac only that’s why it failed!”

Why would anyone say that? Sketch is still alive and (presumably) well. Apple themselves continue to officially release design files for Sketch with every OS release. They share more resources for Sketch than any other app, including Figma and Photoshop.

http://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

> after they depreciated Fireworks

I’ve been seeing that word used a lot in this context, so just wanted to point out (I’d appreciate if someone did the same for me) that what you mean is “deprecated” (no “i”), as depreciating is a different thing.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-02 08:44:17+00:00
While you will need C++26 for real reflection, you could use some of the libraries that make do with what is already possible via concepts, if constexpr and type traits.

For example,

- https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_pfr.htm...

- https://github.com/getml/reflect-cpp

And kudos for using modern C++.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-02 08:44:18+00:00
Yes, I believe so. The only thing that was addicting to me was coding. It really was addicting. I did not leave the house all summer when I was >13 because I was busy coding. But then again, this "addiction" helped me a lot in today's world. That said, I am left with a serious impostor syndrome, however, and my social skills aren't the best, which is also required in today's world, by a programmer. :/
by Nursie | 2025-07-02 08:44:22+00:00
> the cost of paying for the moderation would cut too much into their profits?

This one. Not just in terms of needing to take on staff, but it would also cut into their bottom line in terms of not being able to take money from bad-faith operators.

> And the problem with the second one is that the cost of doing it properly would not only cut into the bottom line but put them deep into the red on a permanent basis, and then it's not so much a matter of unwillingness but inability.

Inability to do something properly and make a commercial success of it, is a 'you' problem.

Take meta and their ads - they've built a system in which it's possible to register and upload ads and show them to users, more or less instantly with more or less zero human oversight. There are various filters to try and catch stuff, but they're imperfect, so they supply fraudulent ads to their users all the time - fake celebrity endorsements, various things that fall foul of advertising standards. Some just outright scams. (Local family store you never heard of is closing down! So sad! Buy our dropshipped crap from aliexpress at 8x the price!)

To properly, fully fix this they would need to verify advertisers and review ads before they go live. This is going to slow down delivery, require a moderate sized army of reviewers and it's going to lose them revenue from the scammers. So many disincentives. So they say "This is impossible", but what they mean is "It is impossible to comply with the law and continue to rake in the huge profits we're used to". They may even mean "It is impossible to comply with the law and continue to run facebook".

OK, that's a classic 'you' problem. (Or it should be). It's not really any different to "My chemical plant can't afford to continue to operate unless I'm allowed to dump toxic byproducts in the river". OK, you can't afford to operate, and if you keep doing it anyway, we're going to sanction you. So ... Bye then?

> Should the small forums be able to get away with it though?

This is not really part of my argument. I don't think they should, no. But again - if they can't control what's being delivered through their site and there's evidence it contravenes the law, that's a them problem and they should stop using those third party networks until the networks can show they comply properly.

> if every social network was eliminated and replaced with nothing... not so much.

Maybe it's time to find a new funding model. It's bad enough having a funding model based on advertising. I's worse having one based on throwing ad messages at people cheap and fast without even checking they meets basic legal standards. But here we are.

I realise this whole thing is a bit off-topic as the discussion is about age-verification and content moderation, and I've strayed heavily into ad models....
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by BlackFly | 2025-07-02 08:46:35+00:00
Yeah, science.org is editorializing. The actual investigators say

> While viruses are a likely end-stage cause of colony death, other stressors such as nutritional stress and agrochemicals may have also played significant roles.

because their study just cannot tease apart the origin cause due to selection bias in the methodology. That isn't the point of their study. Their hypothesis was that miticide resistant varroa were killing (possibly already compromised) bees due to novel viruses and pathogens. Thus the use of current miticides won't help colony collapse.