MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-07-06 02:07:00+00:00
No, there isn't. Like I said, the opportunity cost is invisible and impossible to measure.

All I know is personal anecdotes from people I talk to. I know a couple people who have a Mercedes EQS - they've all said the same thing: the big screen is cool for a little bit, then it's just annoying.

I think it will take a generation or two of cars before some consumers start holding back on purchases because of this. For now, they don't know better. But I'm sure after owning a car and being pissed off at it, they'll think a little bit harder on their next purchase. I think consumers are highly impacted by these types of things - small cuts that aren't bad, per se, but are annoying. Consumers are emotional, they hold grudges, they get pissed off.

I sort of feel the same way about fix-a-flat kits. Once people actually have the experience of trying to use a fix-a-flat kit, they'll start asking car salesmen if the car comes with a spare...
by jmb99 | 2025-07-06 02:07:09+00:00
The benefit of local-first means you’re not incentivized to sell your cloud offering, so you can just give options. Sync with iCloud, Google drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Mega, SMB, SFTP, FTP, whatever you feel like adding support for. And since local-first usually means having some kind of sane file format, you can let “advanced” users manage their own files and synchronization like people have been doing for the last 50 years.
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-06 02:07:39+00:00
David Suzuki is even known to people in Australia, he's expressed his views on our national broadcaster the ABC's Science Show many times. I think the first time I'd heard him talk was in the 1980s.

His view are well-known to anyone who has listened to his broadcasts. He is a clear and articulate speaker.

Edit: I agree with xnx's point that "the climate change "movement" and messaging is so bad and misguided that it is counterproductive." Suzuki is one of the exceptions, his arguments are logical, straightforward and backed up by scientific fact.
by skeledrew | 2025-07-06 02:07:57+00:00
I don't like how this is worded. Makes it sound as though the cod are actively reducing their size. But this is very straight forward Darwin's Theory, survival of the fittest, in action. In this case, the "fittest" cod are the ones with the propensity to be small, since they can escape the nets and survive to breed and pass on that propensity.

And it follows that there won't be a "bounce back" of the larger cod any time soon, as it takes thousands of years in a minimally interrupted state for such diversity to come about in nature. Of course this applies to all other living creatures as well.
by SCAQTony | 2025-07-06 02:09:40+00:00
When I read posts like this, or watch introverts doing comedy skits about their introversion, such as KallMeKris saying she needs 10 days in advance just to schedule a phone call. As an extrovert, I don't want to inflict angst upon an introvert just by striking up a conversation or inviting them to lunch. I cut off two "friends" who were introverts, and I don't think they noticed. Human kind is a social animal that expects reciprocation and teamwork.
by andrekandre | 2025-07-06 02:09:43+00:00
> taxation time bombs where rules have expiration dates or delayed starts several years in the future. > ... > Unless the bomb is hopefully retroactively cancelled, like happened now.

this is by design: the opposition usually get into power in midterms and next presidency can swap parties, so if there is a bad provision its moved out to "explode" when they aren't in power and hurt the oppositions continuing chances

as an example, the cuts to medicade don't start until right after the next midterms (which most are expecting to strongly favor democrats) [0]

[0] https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/05/27/medicaid-and-chip-cuts...
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-07-06 02:09:49+00:00
Mostly social reasons here but there are also practical reasons even for those who don't care about any of this stuff.

Amazon is becoming more and more like AliExpress and Temu. They can always do it cheaper, but it's very touch and go when it comes to the quality of the merchandise you'll receive.

If that quality isn't a concern for you, Temu and AliExpress can give you similar quality for much less. Take a screenshot of the item on Amazon with Google Lens and use the image search on either of these platforms to get the item even cheaper.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-07-06 02:09:56+00:00
Yeah, I know that's the theory, but if AI generated art is slop then it follows that it can't actually replace quality art.

I don't think people will suddenly accept worse standards for art, and anyone producing high quality work will have a significant advantage.

And now if your argument is that the average consumer can't tell the difference, then well for mass production does the difference actually matter?
by michaelmrose | 2025-07-06 02:09:59+00:00
> i would go one step further: the dream of malleable software is to unify users and programmers, such that there are just “operators” of a computer, and “writing a program” doesn’t sound any harder than “writing a resume”

People are on average very stupid, very lazy, don't want to think about anything deeply, and may in fact not only not only not know how to get from origin to destination may on average not even know what their destination ought to be.

Making something more accessible means enabling people who will still be called developers do more whilst knowing less it won't ever make everyone a developer.
by 123yawaworht456 | 2025-07-06 02:10:57+00:00
with the current TFR rapidly approaching 1.5 children per woman virtually everywhere in the northern hemisphere, even if it remains stable (it will not, it will continue to decline), its population will shrink to 1/10th of what it is today in less than 250 years.

there will be plenty of empty houses for the generations to come.
by pier25 | 2025-07-06 02:11:10+00:00
> why is confidence == good?

Speaking from experience as an introvert who suffered social anxiety...

A lot of people (probably extroverts) don't respond well when you're expressing anxiety and/or doubt. Clients won't want to work with you. People won't want to be around you at parties. Co-workers will speak behind your back about the weird person. Etc.
by EGreg | 2025-07-06 02:11:19+00:00
I’m also not making my own programming language, I’m using PHP. And I’m using MySQL. What is your point?

Are you saying that “invalidating caches is hard… if you insist on using only systems with no way to push updates, and oh if they have a way to push updates then you’re using someone’s library to consume updates so it doesn’t count?”
by amy214 | 2025-07-06 02:11:19+00:00
>I would say the odds are zero because that's the likelihood of being able to brute-force anything in the key space.

you are correct at first pass, but it's a fact wallets have been cracked many times, perhaps at least 100s of millions of dollars. The "keyspace" for the cracked wallet is a subset of the nominal keyspace - the much smaller space covered by either a flawed random number generator (RNG), or the whole brainwallet fiasco, or a RNG where a seed is crackable (e.g. milliseconds since 1970 or unix epoch - some cracks, whitehat, have used this method). That's all what we know in the whitehat space, surely other tricks exist in the blackhat space
by joshcsimmons | 2025-07-06 02:12:00+00:00
It would have been virtually impossible for pop bands like Kraftwerk to produce their music if not for the massive corpus of tools and practices developed by innovators on the ubuweb list.

I am actually bummed to see ubuweb referenced on HN. Musical taste is a very emotional topic for those that haven't made a formal study of it. Publicizing this to an audience of armchair music historians who think this tame list is "eclectic" likely won't take the time to understand that it is the bedrock of research that created pop electronic music.
by GianFabien | 2025-07-06 02:12:26+00:00
I would like to add one tip that works well for me.

First time is always very difficult. Identify recurring or comparable events. Over time you will meet some people you already know. Remembering some details from earlier encounters will build rapport. Likewise people will remember you from previous encounters. But, beware of the trap of only talking with those whom you already know. For every event, target to form at least a couple of new connections.
by armchairhacker | 2025-07-06 02:12:50+00:00
> States are starting to remove more unruly students from schools, and the Trump Administration is getting out of the way.

IMO this is much-needed reform. I hear many classrooms have a serious problem where a small set of disruptive students make it impossible to effectively teach everyone else. These students aren't being taken out of school or put in special education, allegedly to preserve their future opportunities; except their future outcomes still suck, they aren't "rehabilitated", and they negatively influence and disrupt the education of OK students.*

Apparently this was done for "racial" reasons: black students tend to be removed from school more often than white students. This is exactly the type of thing Democrats are criticized for, and rightly so; it's not racist to enforce reasonable rules and laws that happen to affect one race more. It's the wrong way to enforce "equity" and is a big factor why "DEI" is so unpopular, which is a shame, because there are genuinely, mutually uplifting "DEI" policies that face backlash by association.

For example, good policies that would help low-income black students, but also low-income white students and pushes them up rather than pulling others down: funding more, better school meals and free extra-curriculars. When done effectively, the funding pays for itself, because some of the students who benefit grow up to be productive members of society instead of criminals. However, the key is "effectively", which requires understanding that not every student can be saved, at least by those particular policies, and letting go of students who can't do the bare minimum. For school meals, that means not forcing students to take fruit and vegetables they don't eat (a policy I believe was spear-headed by Obama), and ordering less fruits and vegetables if many go to waste. For free extra-curriculars, that means quickly and effectively banning students who can't behave, because otherwise everyone else will leave (and unless it's a major offense, let banned students rejoin eventually, but only if they first demonstrate better behavior and improve their grades).

* A related problem is high-achieving classes being taken away allegedly for fairness to not-high-achieving students. Basically a scaled-down, real-life imitation of Harrison Bergeron (https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html), a short story that was ironically taught in my school.
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-06 02:12:51+00:00
> I know stuff about Linux, but I knew NOTHING about Ansible, FreeIPA etc.

Then you absolutely shouldn't be touching Ansible or FreeIPA in production until you've developed enough understanding of the basics and can look up reliable sources for the nitty gritty details. FreeIPA is security critical software for heaven's sake. "Let's make up for zero understanding with AI" is a totally unacceptable approach.
by briHass | 2025-07-06 02:13:26+00:00
It must be cheaper than UPS/FedEx for some items, because Home Depot and Lowes have started using DoorDash and other similar services for 'shipping'. I'm sure they batch up the orders and get discounted rates, but that seems to be their preferred method for items that exist in a store within 20 miles and can't be shipped directly from the manufacturer.

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by const_cast | 2025-07-06 02:13:36+00:00
GrapheneOS goes much, much further than that, providing stronger sandboxes for apps and Google Play Services. GrapheneOS also allows multiple users, isolating things like your filesystem and camera roll from groups of apps.

You can do things like install and update apps in one profile with stronger permissions, and then actually operate the apps in another profile that's locked-down. You can also do things like install apps that require Google Play Services in one profile, but then run them in another with no Google Play Services. In practice, you can have a phone that never phone homes to Google while still running apps that depend on Google Play Services. If you're really savvy, you can even protect your identity from google entirely, using anonymous accounts for the Play Store. You can even get RCS up and running with no Google Services running or Carrier apps running.

As far as I know, you can't turn off phoning home to Apple on iOS. Nor do you know what, exactly, is being phoned home.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-06 02:13:43+00:00
For most of us non-dualists, the human brain is an existence proof. Doesn't mean transformers and LLMs are the right implementation, but it's not really a question of proving it's possible when it's clearly supported by the fundamental operations available in the universe. So it's okay to skip to the part of the conversation you want to write about.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-06 02:13:59+00:00
I still think they'd come to their senses. I mean, it's somewhat tautological, you can't control something that's smarter than humans.

Though that said, the other problem is capitalism. Investors won't be so face to face with the consequences, but they'll demand their ROI. If the CEO plays it too conservatively, the investors will replace them with someone less cautious.
Show HN: MangaCraft – SaaS that audits Webtoon series using AI (SEO)
by Ibrasama | 2025-07-06 02:14:33+00:00
Hi HN

I'm working on MangaCraft, a no-code SaaS tool designed to help Webtoon creators improve their visibility, engagement, and publishing strategy.

The idea is to provide creators (Canvas, Tapas, GlobalComix) with:

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A visual dashboard with performance metrics

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Gamified progress system to keep creators consistent

Built with:

Browse.ai (scraping)

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Zapier (automation)

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The project is live as a beta and I’m looking for early feedback and creators willing to test it.

Here’s the landing page: https://manga-craft-boost.lovable.app/ You can leave your email to get notified when the beta opens.

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by bluGill | 2025-07-06 02:15:08+00:00
It was always expensive. Car makers need their cars to last (the used market is imbortant since few can afford a new car the scrap in 3 years) so they are not buying the cheap switches. a cherry mx will run near a dollar each in quantity. Then you put the cap an it plus wires and it adds up fast per switch. A touch screen is $75 in quantity and replaces many switches.
by joshcsimmons | 2025-07-06 02:16:07+00:00
This isn't for introverts its intended for people with social anxiety, they're different things. Introverts don't necessarily dislike networking they just need recharge time afterwards.

At any rate it doesn't address the core concept. Anyone with anxiety (raises hand) will tell you that the worse thing you can do is care MORE about the thing you're anxious about, yet you've prescribed a bunch of rituals for someone to perform so that they do "well".

The best way to network well is to stop giving a shit about doing it well.
by faizshah | 2025-07-06 02:16:19+00:00
I’ve also thought about this moreso as part of a workflow for quickly prototyping stuff. At least for a lot of the modern JIT languages I believe their startup times will be dominated by your imports unless you go with a fastcgi model. This came up as I started adopting h2o web server for local scripts since it has clean and quick to write config files with mruby and fast-cgi handlers and is also crazy fast: https://h2o.examp1e.net/configure/fastcgi_directives.html

Another place this can be useful is for allowing customers to extend a local software with their own custom code. So instead of having to use say MCP to extend your AI tool they can just implement a certain request structure via CGI.
by djoldman | 2025-07-06 02:17:54+00:00
Is this true given all the chips modern cars have, all the programming that must be done, and all the complex testing and QA required for the multitude of extra function?

I would gladly gladly keep my AC, heat, hazards, blinkers, wipers, maybe a few other buttons and that's it. I don't need back cameras, lane assist, etc.

I find it hard to believe it's cheaper to have all the cameras, chips, and other digital affordances rather than a small number of analog buttons and functions.
by padolsey | 2025-07-06 02:18:41+00:00
Agree utterly. It's a real shame, and severely affects accessibility for disabled and elderly people. Not only UI discoverability but also the types of swiping or holding movements required on mobile devices. The initial mobile interfaces felt way more accessible, so I don't think its an implicit implication of limited screen real-estate. This has been a trend-driven flattening of UI, with aesthetics over functionality. The palm and compaq pilots felt sublime to use, and the ipod and early mp3 players were fine, as was the originally charming iphone skeudomorphic iconography. It's all been downhill since then.
by smeej | 2025-07-06 02:19:01+00:00
Oh I read it.

If you're the manager, YOUR job is to figure out how to get the information from the people who owe you a report, not weaponize my presence at a meeting to ferret out people you can't manage to reach.

But honestly the condescending tone of this whole exchange tells me everything I need it to about why you struggle to get information out of people.
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-07-06 02:19:07+00:00
This would make cloud vendors kind of like banks. The cloud vendor is holding a kind of property for the user in the user's account. The user would have clearly defined rights to that property, and the legal ability to call this property back to themselves from the account.

This calling back might amount to taking delivery. In a banking context, that is where the user takes delivery of whatever money and other property is in the account. In the cloud vendor case, this would be the user receiving a big Zip file with all the contents of the account.

Taking delivery is not always practical and is also not always desirable. Another option in a financial context is transferring accounts from one vendor to another: this can take the form of wiring money or sometimes involves a specialized transfer process. Transferring the account is probably way more useful for many cloud services.

This leads us to a hard thing about these services, though: portability. Say we delineate a clear property interest for user's in their cloud accounts and we delineate all of their rights. We have some good interests and some good rights; but what does it mean to take delivery of your Facebook friends? What does it mean to transfer your Facebook account from one place to another?
by alganet | 2025-07-06 02:21:43+00:00
> A handful of smart people just needed to get together

Things don't work this way, unfortunatelly. This kind of thinking just pushes the problem to someone else do deal with, which only serves to shift up blame. Small groups are vulnerable to corruption, or distractions, or silly power plays.

We needed _lots_ of people with good education and reasonable awareness of the risks, it was the only way to have a chance to develop a more solid plan.

However, you got your way. There are small groups of smart people working on these issues. But many, many of us know that their chances are slim (due to the shortcomings mentioned earlier). Unfortunatelly, not that many to form a critical mass.
by tehjoker | 2025-07-06 02:22:30+00:00
The computers serve us, we wouldn't completely give up control, that's not freedom either, that's slavery to a machine instead of a man. We would have more democratic control of society by the masses instead of the managed bourgeois democracy we have now.

It's not necessary for everyone to be exactly equal, it is necessary for inequalities to be seen as legitimate (meaning the person getting more is performing what is obviously a service to society). Legislators should be limited to the average working man's wage. Democratic consultations should happen in workplaces, in schools, all the way up the chain not just in elections. We have the forms of this right now, but basically the people get ignored at each step because legislators serve the interests of the propertied.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-06 02:23:21+00:00
And for a lot of things, we don't trust single humans to do it on their own either. It's just a matter of risk and tolerance. AI isn't really any different, except it's currently far less reliable than humans for many tasks. But for some tasks it's more reliable. And the gap could close for other tasks pretty quickly. Or not. But I don't think getting to zero hallucinations is a prereq for anything.
by maxglute | 2025-07-06 02:23:45+00:00
It's july / august, summer lull for PRC political news, gov officials (including Xi) take breaks / reduce activity around now, no major political meetings or events. So queue retarded western Chinahands with helping dose from FLG tier actors doing their annual "palace intrigue" wank AKA Xi health / Xi power rumor cycle because there's nothing else to "report". Like clockwork.

E: I've actually never bothered to quantify pre LLM, but here's a lazy/cursory chatgpt chart of Xi public appearances, and O_O at pattern. TFW Xi gets stage 10 cancer in July, August but full remission by September. Make of it what you will.

https://imgur.com/a/QZi1tWD
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-06 02:23:51+00:00
"Just" does so much work in these comments.

I mean... Why do the smart people not "just" develop a perfect economic plan? Or "just" end world hunger? Or "just" stop global conflicts?

Anyway, there have been multitudes of plans and strategies and actions to chip away at the problem. All of them require sacrificing political capital, raising taxes and the costs of products, and effort. And you get nothing substantial in return.

So while the entire scientific community tried pushing education and solutions galore, the political and corporate establishment fought tooth and nail against any aspect that did not immediately profit them. To the point that now an entire party in the richest country on Earth that holds all three branches of government uses opposition to solving the problem as one of the core tenants of their platform.
by keithnz | 2025-07-06 02:24:01+00:00
a lot of the things being pointed out seem like non issues. It seems to me that this doesn't really explore that knowledge in head UIs are actually a lot more straightforward and easy to use with the knowledge in head. Most attempts to circumvent that bloat UIs. Also whatever you give people, if it's a repetitive use UI they tend to learn it and turn into knowledge in head, even if its a knowledge in world type of UI, you then change it and people get confused.
by achillean | 2025-07-06 02:24:03+00:00
Around 40,000 services on the Internet are currently including the header:

https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=x-clacks-overhead+...

For some reason, a lot of honeypots are also using that header so I filtered those out. The number of services has slowly increased over time:

https://trends.shodan.io/search?query=x-clacks-overhead+-tag...