MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theendisney | 2025-07-02 22:37:35+00:00
I see the strangest interview with an african farmer one time. He argued the manipulation of his country is so sophisticated that even the people excuting it dont understand it. He showed his rice and pointed out that it was gray, had rocks in it and wasnt uniform in shape. I would like to sell it but they are handing out free rice, perfect White uniform. There is no competing with this. Its a con but no one understands. If they sincrely wanted to give aid they should give me a bag of fertilizer. I would have more rice, i could sell it and next season i would be alle to buy it myself. Problem solved
by Derelicte | 2025-07-02 22:38:12+00:00
The game has millions of pokestops, gyms, and players. A game of this scale CAN'T run on one server.

Even if you could host it on just one or a few machines, if you sign up for one server and your buddy joins another, you can't do raids or anything together. And each of these player hosted servers has a player limit.

Anti-cheat that isn't being actively updated is next to useless. Community servers would be botted to hell.

The game requires a maps tile service. Expecting Niantic to provide map tiles for anyone to download is insane. They might not even own the rights to do that.

It's virtually impossible for Pokémon go to remain in a "reasonably playable state" after the servers shutdown.
by rfrey | 2025-07-02 22:38:31+00:00
You are begging the question, the question being whether consumers care. You believe they don't (e.g. that the expires-on date won't affect sales) and the creators of this petition believe people will care and will prefer games that do not have that expiry date.

So no, it's not inevitable that every game will just sprout an expiry date. It's possible but only if you're right that consumers don't care about owning versus renting games.
by jampekka | 2025-07-02 22:38:46+00:00
At billionairre scale money becomes qualitatively different compared to typical household scale. For households money typically goes to consumption (or future consumption via savings) whereas billionairre money goes to affect how productive (and often political) forces get organized.

At consumption money level at least inequality is also inefficient allocation of resources due to the diminishing marginal utility of money.
by jfengel | 2025-07-02 22:39:51+00:00
You don't have to see yourself as a high officer. You just have to imagine that you will be restored to your deserved state. In that state you are slightly better than average, and only those who are morally defective suffer. (Those are the ones who are now unjustly keeping you from succeeding on your merits.)

The high officials are the truly great ones who have restored the natural order. You don't need that. You just require being recognized as somewhat better than most.
by al_borland | 2025-07-02 22:40:10+00:00
I got the Switch 2. I played Mario Kart for maybe 20 minutes. I then spent probably 80 hours so far replaying BotW. The phone app is pretty handy once all the main stuff is done and you’re just looking to collect Koroks and get to 100%. It’s not new, but it’s so much smoother that it kind of felt like a different game. I don’t have any real regrets, but I also just like exploring Hyrule. My Switch one was basically just a Zelda machine 98% of the time.

Once I finish my replays of BotW and TotK I’ll probably give Cyberpunk a try (never played it), and by the time that’s all done I figure there will be some more releases. If not, I might try revisiting some of my other games I haven’t played in a long time. I’m hoping the 007 game next year is good, I had a great time with the N64 and GameCube Bond games.
by stavros | 2025-07-02 22:41:13+00:00
I had a very specific problem I wanted to solve, Opus kept being entirely sure that it knew what the problem was, and that it could fix it. Next iteration, when the previous solution didn't work, Claude was sure it was some other thing. So on and so forth, until I was $35 poorer and had a bunch of code that didn't really seem to do anything, and certainly not fix my problem.

Planning and discussion wouldn't have fixed that.
by pas | 2025-07-02 22:41:31+00:00
that's what the comment means we as people went from picking Ada to ReactJS

of course we also went from having no Rust and no TypeScript and only a few hundred thousand semi-academic people having some knowledge of programming to hundreds of millions of people doing some tutorial/bootcamp/cert/degree, or even built something, or actively learns, or right now works as a professional programmer.

(un)fortunately Ada was not able to grow to became the default tool for all these jobs that all those millions of people did or wanted to do when they did/do programming.

JS/ECMAScript is evolving, things are getting better!
by skeledrew | 2025-07-02 22:42:06+00:00
Interesting. I was wondering about that. There are definitely solutions out there that'd make this feasible on Android from a privacy perspective, but may need a bit more work. Perhaps like ntfy.

Also, as an offside, this is one of the things I hate about Google's handling of AOSP: they keep shuttling things into their proprietary layer, making it next to impossible for alternative approaches to gain traction.
by TexanFeller | 2025-07-02 22:42:51+00:00
At most I could accept if this were a feature for children’s accounts that parents could choose to enable. I’m not sure I’m Ok with even that though because slippery slopes quite often start with “ think of the children”.

Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.
by egypturnash | 2025-07-02 22:43:40+00:00
> Now think about a bad software product that you might encounter briefly or you are forced to use: a poorly designed electronic kiosk with 1000ms lag on every interaction, or a hospital electronic system. I think there's a high chance that the people building them rarely use them, or not at all.

looks at Adobe Illustrator

picks up the manual for Creature House Expression, a 2003 natural media vector editor just oozing with better and more thoughtful implementations of things Illustrator still barely does, bought by Microsoft and killed

sighs
by eastbound | 2025-07-02 22:43:51+00:00
It means Mozilla is unable to work with people who have other opinions.

I do not have an opinion on abortion, and I’d probably lean towards a yes. But Mozilla being capable of making it a problem out of someone’s history, 10 years earlier, a private donation, shows a major issue of intolerance.

The root cause: Mozilla turned woke, and did look into the past of each employee to fire them. The wokists see no problem with that, but for the rest of us, it’s the darkest time for intolerance.
by NickC25 | 2025-07-02 22:44:29+00:00
Also a great measure is the money supply & velocity chart - the M2.

If GDP goes up and the velocity of money drops, it means that real economic gains are not being realized by those who actually spend the majority of their income versus saving it.

Not that there's anything wrong with saving money - it's just that the more money that is being spent regularly, the healthier the entire economy is. Generally.
by Avshalom | 2025-07-02 22:45:09+00:00
I mean at it's most basic "monads" are

-a data type with some hidden information

-a lot of functions that can ignore that hidden information

-some functions that can act (switch|add|mutate|signal|sequence) on that hidden information

people seem to think talking about flatMap somehow makes this intuitive despite the tautological issue of flatMap only making sense if you already know what's going on.
by marky1991 | 2025-07-02 22:45:13+00:00
On what grounds? Could you give a simple search term for this?

This reminds me of the musk elonjet case on twitter. Generally, if I were to follow a person (in public spaces) and constantly report their location, is that against the law? (If yes, could you clarify which law specifically?) If it is truly against the law here, does it make a difference that here the reports are non-individual in nature, ie reporting that ice is present, not that a particular ice officer is present.

Is there something special about doing the same thing for police/ice?

I think I remember this kind of scenario coming up in supreme court cases before but don't remember specifics, and google isn't helping.

But I admit I generally feel that my response is "So what?"
by protocolture | 2025-07-02 22:46:02+00:00
There doesnt have to be an event.

The current accepted theory is (from the gps wiki article)

"is an alternative to the long-standing and widely accepted explanation that the Younger Dryas was caused by a significant reduction in, or shutdown of the North Atlantic Conveyor due to a sudden influx of freshwater from Lake Agassiz and deglaciation in North America."
by dbspin | 2025-07-02 22:46:11+00:00
Except that it doesn't actually take a photo - it (slowly) launches the camera app, which you can then use to take a photo. You can long press to begin filming a video, but at least by default it won't actually take a photo to press the shutter. Poster above is correct, it's slow enough that I frequently miss spontaneous pictures on my iPhone 16 Pro - as much because of the terrible recessed design of the shutter button as the software delay.
by vips7L | 2025-07-02 22:46:14+00:00
Swift has typed throws now.

> Swallowing exceptions because of bad ergonomics or misuse by library authors is unfortunately fairly common in a lot of Java code that I've seen

This is because the language has not invested to make the ergonomics better. Checked exceptions/errors are still superior than runtime exceptions. "Misuse" can still occur with values. Bad developers can still bubble errors they can't handle and that you can't handle either. I've written elsewhere [0] the things that Java needs.

> By contrast, most Kotlin code that I've seen uses exceptions only for unrecoverable errors

Except for the whole Kotlin standard library. Like you said the errors as unions proposal is very far away. So either I need to adopt some library and then when unions come I now have 2-3 competing systems + whatever the libraries are using. I'd rather just use checked exceptions.

> - and importantly they don't break when used with higher-order functions.

This is not a property of values or exceptions. It's a property of the type system. Checked exceptions can work perfectly fine with higher order functions, Scala has done good research there [1] and I believe Swift's typed throws works with lambdas as well; Java just hasn't invested in the language.

Ultimately, there is no difference because Result<T, Error> and T func() throws Exception. One is not superior to the other. What it comes down to for me is whether a language has support for checked errors or not, and Kotlin does not.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432640

[1] https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/experimental/ca...
by blueflow | 2025-07-02 22:46:46+00:00
How is this supposed to work with the sedimentation? The glass spherules under the lake are maxxing out 5-6 meters below the surface. Where does the material on top of that come from, and why didn't it fill in the lake, but leave it intact & with ridges?

Second, if you think of an impact at an angle, the crater and its ridges form an ellipse. If its coming very flat, the structures might look rather parabolic, but still bent inwards. In the article, the north ridge is bent outwards. How? Questions over questions.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-07-02 22:46:58+00:00
There’s also the concept of Minimum Lovable Product.

The first iphone for example, was very barebones: slow EDGE internet, only a few apps, very low powered device. But people loved it because the things it did well it did very well- for instance it was a beautiful touchscreen that always remained silky smooth. The feeling of sliding something and having it stay under your finger really tricks your brain in a way nothing did before, and is so good you forget the weaknesses and missing features.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-07-02 22:46:59+00:00
The problem with exercise is that we have evolved to be energy efficient and this includes being lazy when we have food/shelter so the resistance to it is high.

However once we start exercising for any period of time and observe the positive outcomes then the difficulty drops and it becomes enjoyable.

The problem is peoples expectations and approach.

> Yes, going from a modern sedentary lifestyle to running will feel rough for a few months as you acclimate

This is a terrible idea and for someone who has been sedentary they will likely just injure themselves and/or feel miserable. People don't have realistic expectations. It's better to do something like "couch to 5K" running on a grass or a dirt track. In a couple of weeks they will feel good after a run (if they are not too distracted and outward looking) then from there the runners high reinforces the behavior and they will look forward to exercising.
by perryprog | 2025-07-02 22:47:22+00:00
> Not being able to hear sirens, or oncoming trucks, or cars honking their horns, or cyclists saying "on your left".

For what it's worth, it's generally thought that deaf drivers are safer drivers. See https://www.handspeak.com/learn/280/.

> fire alarms

ADA requires fire alarms to include visual alarms (as in flashing strobes) for this reason.
by rafram | 2025-07-02 22:47:43+00:00
> Like when the BBC said all converts to Islam are "reverts"

They didn't. They used their interviewees' own preferred terminology to refer to them in the story, which is fine. "Reverts" is the most common term among Muslims. Sort of like how capitalizing God in a story about Christians doesn't invalidate the beliefs of people who worship multiple gods.

> Or when the BBC framed an Ad as racist

The first line: "Scottish Labour has described [...]".
by AkshatM | 2025-07-02 22:47:57+00:00
Joe will be fine. Cloudflare is pretty good at differentiating humans from bot traffic - see how we do it here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/

The idea behind the headers is to allow bots to bypass automatic bot filtering, not blockade all regular traffic. In other words:

- we block bots (the website owner can configure how aggressively we block) - unless they say they're from an AI crawler we've vetted, as attested by the signature headers - in which case we let them pay - and then they get to access the content

(Disclosure: I wrote the web bot auth implementation Cloudflare uses for pay per crawl)
by nirav72 | 2025-07-02 22:48:13+00:00
I'm not sure what Elon stands to gain by taking on the admin. Sure Elon has piles of cash to dump on various congressional races. But that's about it. On the other side, Trump currently has the full power of the U.S government to take apart Elon's empire. Including Elon. He is better off making amends and focus on his businesses. Even if he does lose out because of the BBB.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-02 22:48:28+00:00
I have to say that some of my favorite images of our solar system are from the solar observatories. The opening to TFA is an example of why. I love the different views from the use of the different filters. I used to play with the images from SOHO by downloading the image sequence and then rendering the timelapse to a video. It was my first foray into using curl in an automated fashion once I learned their server's structure. Every day, I'd have a new video to see what the sun was up to the day before. I guess because of the activity compared to the other bodies in the solar system, Sol is the only one that gets me attention like that. Earth being second. Even Jupiter's images are lackluster in comparison.
by Symbiote | 2025-07-02 22:48:42+00:00
That's a pretty big assumption.

The largest site I work on has 100,000s of pages, each in around 10 languages — that's already millions of pages.

It generally works fine. Yesterday it served just under 1000 RPS over the day.

AI crawlers have brought it down when a single crawler has added 100, 200 or more RPS distributed over a wide range of IPs — it's not so much the number of extra requests, though it's very disproportionate for one "user", but they can end up hitting an expensive endpoint excluded by robots.txt and protected by other rate-limiting measures, which didn't anticipate a DDoS.
by NickC25 | 2025-07-02 22:48:54+00:00
And the money velocity!

A healthy economy is one where money is made via wages, and spent via economic activity.

The more active a given dollar is in terms of circulation through the economy, the healthier the economy usually is.

Economies tend to stagnate when a small group of people hoard the vast majority of the money, and don't circulate it back into the economy.
by ivape | 2025-07-02 22:49:26+00:00
And in most places in America, you can get to a place where you can get both for free.

I’m speaking about mass scale unemployment and underemployment. Our homeless infrastructure cannot even handle our homeless. The underemployed and underpaid are basically 6 months removed from homelessness without work, so call a duck a duck.

How long can you keep food/shelter without a job? Six months for the average American? If we are going to artificially create jobs, then I recommend we artificially house and food people instead because that’s the core issue. Your average American is freaking scared of everything if they go 6 months without a job, and that’s a problem.

If the market needed those workers and jobs it would have created them at any price, no price would be too low or too high. The reason the market doesn’t conjure up food and shelter for people is because that’s not what it’s for, so it’s best we decouple.

I’m suggesting that a large percentage of Americans are functionally homeless and basically on a weekly food-shelter lease program in our society that can be cut off to them at any time (sorry, capitalism). In America we call this a career, gig, a livelihood.
by teslaq | 2025-07-02 22:50:04+00:00
The Lancet, which came up with the estimates, is an internationally respected publication https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Also, ten separate global institutions co-authored this page -- is the conspiracy to inflate deathcount that wide-ranging? What factors on the Lancet's paper are you objecting to specifically?

a Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil b ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain c Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain d Paediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain e Fundação Ariel Glaser, Maputo, Mozambique f Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique g ICREA, Barcelona, Spain h Institut Clínic de Medicina I Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain i CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain j University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
by kkfx | 2025-07-02 22:50:40+00:00
Well... A personal take as someone who build his own domestic p.v. power plant with storage:

- 99% of what's available on the market is NOT meant to be integrated, and that's a big break. I have and EV with a 400V battery and there are on sale p.v. inverters supporting 400V batteries with BMS canbus comms. There is NO DAMN REASON why my car can't be a powerful and big extra battery for my home, just no one have done so, because grid operators dislike semi autonomous people...

- despite having many open stuff Tesla is a self-contained ecosystem, which is in general a bad thing and in particular if they do not offer nothing really complete in their own garden. I do want V2L and V2H for my EV, at least many EVs offer the former. Not Tesla.

- heat pumps and cold/hot water storage could enable a big energy savings well integrated with p.v. so far only Toyota have announced an experiment of car+home p.v.+heat pump project and I still see nothing on sale. Tesla offer none as well, even if "they evolve the concept of heat-pump in cars"...

So well... Why buy a PowerWall? A Victron MultiPlus/Quattro and Chinese batteries offer more power, more storage, more modularity at a cheaper price... Victron also offer an EV domestic charging station BADLY integrated with home p.v. (sometimes does not star charging even if there is plenty of p.v. available, charging settings are awfully limited, for instance you can't say "go full power with Sun, but keep going from the grid as needed at maximum X amps till a certain time" and similar not that strange nor complex logic)...
Show HN: Qrblox – AI Chat with QR Codes
by sarahoh | 2025-07-02 22:51:03+00:00
Qrblox is an app that reads the website behind the QR code and chats with you. QR codes could do more to connect businesses and users so I have a history view, notifications, and feeds to send updates. I'd like to add call backs and voice AI for small businesses.

Roast my app? There are dozens of QR code apps, do you just use the native camera or use a QR code app currently? Storing local codes for privacy makes sense, but when you want to stay connected I thought a cloud-based app would be helpful.

Just launched on the Apple app store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737632062?pt=12727...
by kulahan | 2025-07-02 22:52:02+00:00
Not that I have much of a bone in this fight - I already own a home and don’t plan to ever move (which makes this especially easy for me to say) but generic, identical housing is probably going to be essential moving forward. One of the reasons we haven’t found a way to make home construction faster is because every single project is about as unique as can be.

Not to mention, there are still billions of people needing housing, and with the climate situation we’re already in, building billions of unique homes will make the problem a LOT worse.

Again, I don’t really care much about the issue, but I just think it’s worthwhile to remind people that the American way of life (which developing nations aspire to) is absolutely untenable as far as all modern as currently-feasible technology is concerned. Maybe we could live with not being expressive just on the outside of our houses specifically?
by marky1991 | 2025-07-02 22:53:28+00:00
I googled some more and found this, https://firstamendmentwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/C...

which seems to suggest this specific scenario has not been addressed by the supreme court, but has been addressed by various appeals courts, and it claims that 61% of the population lives in states that have affirmed this right.
by leptons | 2025-07-02 22:53:53+00:00
There was already a case of a copycat dressing in a mask and tactical gear and "asserting his authority". If they don't need to identify, then nobody needs to identify. And if they don't identify then they are nothing more than a masked gang.

I'll also add that masks are illegal to use during crimes to hide identity - which is exactly what these people are doing. They are committing crimes by abducting US citizens and they are blocking due process and they are exporting people to foreign 3rd countries. What they are doing is against the Constitution. We will track down and prosecute these people after this fascist regime is over, which is why they are masking and trying to hide their identity - they know what they are doing is illegal.

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-lawsuit-trump-adminis...
by eightnoneone | 2025-07-02 22:53:53+00:00
This is the internet hill I'll likely die on. A call-to-action is one thing, but a page that only links the word "here" is a hard fail of an author not understanding the hypertext medium.

I think of "click here" as stage direction mistakenly left in. When most authors write, they often don't write in a hypertext context. Instead of using a Markdown-like notation for links, they default to stage direction.