MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theanonymousone | 2025-07-26 05:28:50+00:00
I was a heavy Quora user from 2014 to 2019 with fairly many answers and questions. In 2019 they essentially blocked website for mobile users and urged them to download the app. That's when I decided to respect my dignity and deleted my account.

If you have a website, everyone with a browser should be able to use it.
by octoberfranklin | 2025-07-26 05:29:54+00:00
There's no objection, but it doesn't work because men compete while women collude.

This has evolutionary origins. A man can, theoretically, father around a thousand children or more in the time it takes a woman to bear one. Sperm are cheap so those who need sperm (i.e. women) don't need to fight with each other. There's plenty to go around. Eggs are scarce so males of myriad species fight each other to the death over them.

It's just biology.
by np1810 | 2025-07-26 05:31:06+00:00
On one hand, SPAs took off and became massively popular. On the other, I’m still curious why PWAs—especially the kind with service-worker-powered offline access—never really did. I don't like SPAs only if I find them bloated and with a messed up browser history that back button moves you out of the website.

Imagine an e-commerce site that lets you review your order history and product pages offline (even if a bit outdated). That kind of experience feels genuinely useful—much more so than the "you're offline, here’s a cute dog (I love the pictures though)" fallback most sites provide.

Over the weekend, I experimented with service workers for the first time (assisted by Vibe coding). My initial impression was honestly a bit magical—“this website works offline, unlike most mobile apps these days that are just WebView-wrapped SPAs and crash offline.” [1]

That said, debugging was rough. Vibe coding output had subtle issues I found hard to untangle as a newcomer, cache saved v/s cache matching was being done incorrectly in the code, which LLM wasn't able to point out (cors/non-cors requests had issue).And Chrome’s DevTools made debugging manageable, but Firefox’s service worker support felt clunky in comparison (personal take).

Curious if others feel the same—are PWAs underused because of DX hurdles, lack of awareness, or just industry momentum around SPAs?

[1]: https://ball-sort-game.vercel.app/
by ggm | 2025-07-26 05:31:22+00:00
It is indeed ironic that a campaign of modernisation which has transformed India into an ICT powerhouse, specifically focussed on software, has in turn entrenched English as a necessary tool for that economic activity.

Is suspect that it also applies in the call centre marketplace.

Neither industry targets the former colonial power specifically: the US would be the predominant market for the services alongside Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland as well as Britain, and those economies who realise cheaper Indian service supply is unlikely to be available in their mother tongue but is available in the modern lingua franca.

That, and resistance to Hindi (-northern) from economic powerhouses (-southern)

Bangalore is in south India. The Indian diaspora probably lives mostly in English speaking nations. Hindi nationalism isn't the primary driving force for this cohort I would think.
by Thorrez | 2025-07-26 05:31:26+00:00
What about someone who is unconscious but will recover? Is it ok the pull the plug on that person? There won't be any suffering (unless friends or relatives mourn, but let's assume this person has no friends or relatives).

Regarding the size of the organism, and amount of time spent developing, what about a very early preemie who is unconscious but will recover?
by jjaksic | 2025-07-26 05:31:56+00:00
This is somewhat tangential: people are debating a lot whether porn has negative effects, but has anyone thought about or studied positive effects? I personally think it's more likely for porn to have positive effects and that it's preferable to sexual deprivation. Horny and sexually deprived people tend to sometimes do awful things like sexual harassment or even rape, but if they have access to porn, they're much less likely to do those things.
by lossolo | 2025-07-26 05:32:01+00:00
> I suppose, if a huge proportion of workers get replaced by AI software, leading to mass unemployment, there will be impetus for governments to step in and force corporations to contribute to some sort of UBI or social wealth fund.

I looked for any comments that expressed this sentiment, and as of writing this, I only found one. It's like people don't know or remember history. I mean, look at the French Revolution—look at every other revolution. I kept waiting for the article to mention political changes, but it was only about capital and what to invest in, as if capitalism is something that will survive superintelligence (I mean real superintelligence, not chatbots).

What do these people think—that 99% of the population will just become beggars? Sooner or later, all capital will be overtaken by the state, because the main argument against it - inefficiency, will no longer apply. People will vote on AI-generated proposals for energy distribution, so basically where as society we want to allocate it. Budgets will no longer be about how much money we want to spend, but about how much energy we want to allocate.

Private capital and private companies stop making sense when you have a superintelligence that is smarter than any human and can continuously improve itself. At that stage, it will always allocate resources more efficiently than any individual or corporation.

Leaving that kind of power in the hands of the wealthiest 1% means only one thing: over time, 100% of land and resources would end up controlled by that 1%, the new kings, making the rest of the society their slaves forever.
by atq2119 | 2025-07-26 05:32:36+00:00
> Wait, you're literally advocating for handicapping everyone because some people can't handle the tools as well as others.

No, they're arguing on the grounds that the tools are detrimental to the overwhelming majority in a way that also ends up being detrimental to the disciplined minority!

I'm not sure I agree, but either way you aren't properly engaging their actual argument.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-26 05:32:37+00:00
"Every SPA app I've ever seen". I'm yet to see a fast one. Maybe they exist! I wouldn't know.

YouTube, for me, is unfathomably slow. It takes about a minute before I can get a specific song in one of my playlists playing. Every view change is 5-20 seconds, easily.

Facebook and the like now show polyfills for 10-30 characters of text, because hundreds of thousands of servers struggle to deliver half a line of text over terabits of fibre uplinks. Meanwhile my 2400 baud modem in the 1990s filled the screen with text faster!

Jira famously was so slow that this would never fail to be mentioned here any time it was mentioned. Service Now is better, but still slow for my tastes.

Etc...

If you disagree, link to me a fast SPA app that you use on a regular basis.

PS: Just after writing this, I opened a Medium article, which used -- I assume -- SSR to show me the text of the article quickly, then replaced it with grey polyfills, and then 6 full seconds later it re-rendered... the same static text with a client-side JavaScript SPA app. 100 requests, 7 MB, for 2 KB of plain text.
by motorest | 2025-07-26 05:33:28+00:00
> The United States is about half of the "collective West", the EU being the other largest single body.

The EU represents 27 sovereign states. NATO has 32 members. The US population is around 75% of the population of the EU.

And now decided to break off political, diplomatic, economic and defense ties.

I don't think this fact dawned upon you people. I mean, recently the EU basically banned the US defense industry from supplying EU's armed forces, which was unthinkable only a few years ago and it takes place during a rearmament push to prevent Russia's imperialist agenda. You can't whine about isolationism and still expect partners to still consider you relevant.
by remarkEon | 2025-07-26 05:34:38+00:00
For what it's worth I'm also "ex-military" and the person you are replying to is in fact wrong. For many, a "manual safety" is a preference but for others confident in their training it's not necessary or desirable. I also own a P320 (but will be purchasing a Glock soon) and stopped shooting in shortly after these stories came out. Unfortunate, because all things considered I really did like that pistol. Anyway, depending on branch of service, deployment experience, time in service etc a lot of veterans' experience with handguns is minimal, amounting to firing enough rounds on the qual range once a year. No idea about OP's experience, but these things do tend to correlate if you get my meaning.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-26 05:34:46+00:00
Well, I had a high-paying job, six figures. But that six-figures came with less freedom, higher-paced work, life bureacracy, and I wasn't happy. I had no time or mental space to just sit and think. Probably the least happy I was in my entire life. So I quit. Now, I do live a slower-paced life, and earn very little. But I'm the happiest I've ever been.

But YMMV I guess.
by noodletheworld | 2025-07-26 05:35:05+00:00
I feel like many web developers want this to be true, but it is categorically false.

When you target a higher level abstraction, be it web, or flutter or whatever, you are explicitly choosing not to follow the platform native UX.

It’s more convenient to developers not to have to worry about that.

That’s it.

Web is easy. It’s free.

That doesn’t mean it’s better, or that it’s even possible for it to be as good as a native experience.

You can make a web app that is good; but it is the unavoidable and undeniable reality that web applications have a glass ceiling.

It is. Not. Possible. to write a web app that is as good as the equivalent native application can be. Certainly not a cross browser one.

There are reasons, you can blame Apple and safari or whatever you want, but that’s where it’s at, today.

> The reason I believe the web experience is inferior is because companies put more resources into apps at the expense of the web.

It’s not a falsifiable argument.

“That is not as good because I believe less effort was put into it”.

Ok.

I believe that for the equivalent effort you could create a better web app than a native app. I think you could measure that, and it would be pretty clear.

However, I believe many large native applications could not be implemented using the web platform. I think react native and the disaster that is is a reasonably solid proof that this is true.

They’re worse because web is worse, not because they didn’t bother to put effort in; because it wasn’t possible to do it using the web platform.

Native is always better if you out the effort in. It has capabilities that web doesn’t.

It is impossible for it not to be better.
by ggm | 2025-07-26 05:35:33+00:00
There's probably a place for ridiculously protracted animated transitions between windows, like falling down the matrix telephone pipe. Or, overlays of "Hollywood OS" password cracked popovers.

I could even argue they are useful and encourage a break from "false flow"

Neko had its day. The x11 cockroach also. But lo-fi radioactive glitter as I type and language specific animations? That's.. god.. its got to be a major productivity suck. Hugely entertaining. Use sometimes. Rarely.
by creer | 2025-07-26 05:36:11+00:00
It's hard for the big companies which want to stay big - and so feel that they can't live without credit cards. But indeed that's not an issue for newcomers.

The problem with alternatives to things like OnlyFans is that the performers who work through OnlyFans want to go where people can find them. They can dumb down their acts - and have lots of paying traffic, or they can do what they would prefer - and have hardly any paying traffic. That's tough.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-26 05:36:48+00:00
> We throw away 1/3 of the food that we make. We're overweight and waste energy in terms of carrying that weight.

But it's efficient in terms of working as a slave for the technological system, though. It means less time spent on life, more time spent on thinking about technology.

> We're less physically active as a result so we require motorized transport that is predominantly single passenger cars which in turn causes us to be even more inactive and unhealthy.

Again, quite efficient for the system.
by astahlx | 2025-07-26 05:36:55+00:00
The civilization will destroy itself first. States are not addressing what really matters and especially not the multi billion/trillion companies. The US fight against social security and less inequality, the things that wealth should enable. We are destroying jobs that brought purpose, just because some small percentages in margin. We are not training the AIs to solve climate change but to code well. Maybe it’s time for the UN to become the main government of this world, to deal well with the uneven distribution and discrimination of work force. It is too much about egos, too much thinking in cultural groups to protect from outsiders, too much war and destruction, still too much burning fossil fuels, too much destruction of our environment and the nature. Maybe with the appearance of aliens first to have a visible outer enemy first? But I guess it will be the same as always: as long as most find some distraction, some misinformation that calms down fears and anxieties, nothing will change for the common good.
by flanbiscuit | 2025-07-26 05:37:01+00:00
iOS app store would reject an app like this, according to their guidelines. At least Google allows you to put PWA as apps in the Play store

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...

4.2 Minimum Functionality

Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website.
by chrisg23 | 2025-07-26 05:37:20+00:00
For LLMs, I just found this useful directive (I’ve tested with ChatGPT):

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-26 05:37:31+00:00
> Rip out the land grant system, and you wouldn't reduce the viability of all of the lines being added in Ohio; although the lines people are working in, say, Indian Territory, will suffer mightily. But the latter are already in the not-dense portion of the network, whereas the former are in the dense part of the network.

I wasn't just thinking of the far West; I mean also the Southwest. To take an example: I don't think the centralization of meatpacking in the Midwest would have happened to nearly the same degree without land grant-subsidized railroads through Texas, New Mexico, etc. Same for the Gulf Coast with refineries.

But also, I think you're understating the "why" of Chicago being the "big prize" for the West. It's because it opened up California's bread basket to the rest of the country, including the East Coast and European markets represented on the East Coast. The US didn't carry beef, corn, and wheat across the country just to dump it in Lake Michigan; it got carried to Chicago so that it could be sold to points beyond.

Period fiction played on this: Frank Norris never finished The Epic of the Wheat[1], but it was supposed to end in Europe's wheat markets, having started in the San Joaquin valley in the first book. Already in that book, from 1902, is the European market well established:

> “The result is over-production. We supply more than Europe can eat, and down go the prices. The remedy is NOT in the curtailing of our wheat areas, but in this, we MUST HAVE NEW MARKETS, GREATER MARKETS. For years we have been sending our wheat from East to West, from California to Europe. But the time will come when we must send it from West to East."

(Norris confusingly says "East to West" as in "Western Europe.")

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epic_of_the_Wheat
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-26 05:37:55+00:00
Go out and observe and enjoy nature, enjoy good food, the company of lots of friends, etc. I wouldn't mind a world where people had more time to do that, if it meant I had to carry around a Walkman or go to live concerts...

Of course, not all innovation is bad. Banning smoking in restaurants does not require technology to restrict it...
by jMyles | 2025-07-26 05:41:21+00:00
> They are legitimately fighting for what they legitimately think

You've indicated two things here which you assert are legitimate:

* Their fight for their goals

* The thinking underlying these goals

On the latter: Nobody except the people doing the thinking can (at least with current technology) truly know. And it may be entirely unimportant. My best guess is that u/fenomas has it about right; their aesthetic seems to have informed a manufactured narrative about societal impact. It may be that these people have personal unresolved sexual trauma which is activated by these subjects. Surely no matter their reasons, they deserve to be treated with compassion. But I don't think that u/fenomas is being illogical here, or failing to steelman their position; I think that it's perfectly reasonable to question someone's basis for advocacy of censorship.

However, on the former, I more strongly disagree with your use of the word "legitimately". Using the heavy hand of the state (including the unfortunate configuration in which payment processors need its anointment and good graces and are thus vulnerable to political pressure) to censor the internet - a resource characterized chiefly by its cross-cultural and cross-political availability and unity - is not a legitimate tactic. The internet does not seem to tolerate this variety of censorship; in every instance, the Streisand Effect, May 35, and similar phenomena have quickly and decisively punctured the erected walls.

Whether these people truly view these materials as likely to harm society or not, their legitimate avenue of change is through voluntarily persuasion, not censorship by way of force.
by osigurdson | 2025-07-26 05:41:51+00:00
I'd say its a combination of myopia + overthinking. On the inside, of course everyone knows the difference between .NET core vs .NET framework. Then, I suspect the final name is chosen via a process similar to selecting a new Pope.

What they should have done, in my opinion, is to use a different name entirely since .NET was always weird to begin with (using a "." in a product name is always strange).
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-26 05:42:48+00:00
I don't expect a particularly strong correlation between "good comment" and "half of people agree". Nor do I think those are going to bring the most discussion. And most discussion is not the point of comments either.

And all those caveats are just for a purely agreement-based voting system. When you add in votes based on quality, comments hovering around 1 are usually iffy.
by gchadwick | 2025-07-26 05:43:23+00:00
Both? Theoretically amazing hardware that just needs the magic compiler to work well is a well worn path in the hardware world (The itanium being a notable example). A design can be impossible to compile well for and very hard to program manually if it hasn't been developed well. Equally you can indeed have a bad toolchain for that hard to use design making it even harder to get the best out of it.
by K0balt | 2025-07-26 05:43:59+00:00
This. I moved in a developing nation with a GDP smaller than most US states. I have access to excellent modern healthcare and facilities, get more than 5 minutes in front of my doctor, often 1/2 hour+, and my (nearly 60 years old) health insurance is less than 75 usd a month. Covers 90 percent plus, including mental health, limited dental, and optical. The healthcare sector is private / public hybrid, profitable, and growing. Hands down better in every way than the US state I left.
by motorest | 2025-07-26 05:44:46+00:00
> Legally they have no right to anything.

What are you talking about? The scenario involves someone stealing from you. Do you think the legality of it is a dissuasion?

Also, OP's point was that "Physical ownership = real ownership."

> Physically, they access whatever they access. That's how it's been forever. I don't get the point of the question.

The whole point is that that's not the expectation or desire of every single person around you. Not one.

That's the fact you're not understanding. The ability to lock down a device and prevent unauthorized third parties from accessing it is a strong ask by everyone, not only "megacorps". The ability to track down and remotely pull a kill switch are sold as premium features by some manufacturers. Mobile operators have for a long time the ability to block cellphones by IMEI to prevent theft. A very popular product from one of the biggest companies in the world is a small tag that consumers can attack to their property to be able to find them and recover them.

And in spite of all these facts, are we suppose to pretend no one wants control access to their hardware to prevent unauthorized access from third parties?
by amibm | 2025-07-26 05:45:48+00:00
I have been in almost exactly same situation with a big tech. It's true that your fate has already been decided and no point fighting an org that doesn't want you, read memo and accept and leave.

And do not waste time to show improvement on PIP, no one's expecting, rather use the time to secure the next job. If it's difficult to find the next job, just do the minimal to share something on the 1on1s.

Be nice to everyone, it's not personal, rather they will appreciate you if you handle this in matured fashion.

You will do well.
by hkt | 2025-07-26 05:45:54+00:00
I immediately think of mining. Mining in most countries places little value on miners: it is a dangerous, life shortening occupation very often done by those without much alternative. It's history is one of random deaths and maimings, quite often of large groups of people at once. It is associated with numerous health problems. Pretty much the only thing that has ever improved conditions for miners anywhere is either collective action or paternalistic, labour-sympathetic government. Mining and jobs like it are among the stereotypical situations where people imagine that education for their children will lead to a better life.

All of which is to say, will the most awful jobs actually be automated? Not just awful, either, but poorly paid? Logically it makes more sense to approach knowledge work first: it requires only one kind of investment, namely data centres. There are thousands of niche skills in manual labour that will be awkward to make robots for. I think also of old housing stock that needs to be maintained by plumbers, in particular: legacy stuff built up over decades (or where I live, centuries)

Language models seem to have come a lot further because they can use the generalisable capital of computers. Outside of controlled environments (factories, cities with grid systems) I don't imagine robots will represent such a good investment any time soon. Knowledge work is dying, time to learn a trade. Maybe.

(It would have been great to have been able to learn and practice a profession for a lifetime. Library churn is awful, I suspect what will follow for most of us here will be worse)