MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-16 05:27:12+00:00
The one thing I liked about RFK is that he was going to "take on" the big food conglomerates and all the garbage that they are feeding Americans especially those unable to afford, or who do not have easy access to, healthy alternatives (whereas the garbage food is ubiquitous).

It would seem dismantling the FDA is the opposite of that; what's needed are more regulations on food, or at least policies that result in more healthy food being available and affordable to Americans, not less regulation.
by dotancohen | 2025-07-16 05:29:13+00:00
I feel the same about photorealistic renderings. We really need to be clear about what are photographs and what are renderings today. As the renderings get closer to photographs, and with e.g. Starship the actual photographs and videos are of events that until recently were science fiction.

I know that bad actors will poison the pot, but in general I'd love to see images labelled "AI", "Drawing", "Content Edited", "Colours Adjusted" where appropriate. Cropping is fine.

I'm enthralled about robotics and generative techniques. But let's not quickly confuse them with nature. Not yet.
by weinzierl | 2025-07-16 05:30:07+00:00
Every couple of months a new "Operating System" kernel which does not provide hardware abstraction and only runs in a VM pops up.

Tilck is not like that!

Tilck is a real operating system. It runs on real hardware.

The space for the former is overly crowded but I think Tilck really fills a gap that has been mostly unoccupied before.
by Centigonal | 2025-07-16 05:30:47+00:00
Back when I tried sidebery, there was some weird issue where either shift-click or right clicking didn't work on mac, and that turned me off. I just tried it again, and both work fine now.

One other feature that is nice for me is the ability to collapse the sidebar to just the tab icons. It's a nice middle ground between being able to see what I have open and getting a full screen experience.

TST and Sidebery are both fantastic extensions, I don't think they do anything wrong. For whatever reason though, the FF native implementation worked for me where they didn't
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-16 05:30:50+00:00
The system has no morals, but every person operating within it does. If the system demands what it needs from us without regard for morality, it's on us, as moral agents, to refuse compliance. The system can demand what it wants, but no one is obliged to give it anything.

If the point is that the system will coerce what it needs from us, then it deserves not merely to perish, but to be destroyed, actively, deliberately, and ruthlessly. If births are the air it breathes, let us suffocate it by refusing to bear its children. Let it choke on its own demands.
by nxobject | 2025-07-16 05:31:14+00:00
There's that old chestnut about how the x86 instruction format -- at least up to the 486 -- is easily hand-assembled in octal [1], and that this may be have been the legacy of a design decision made for the Datapoint 2200. [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409100 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-16 05:31:44+00:00
Firefox has this really unsolved issue for me where firefox and firefox based forks basically first load through all of my cache which after months of using will take literal minutes and then and only then would my search queries / network requests by browser take place.

That means, to use my browser I have to wait literally minutes and yesterday, it was so long somehow on Zen (I created an issue there but they linked me to the firefox (downstream?) issue which wasn't solved in like sooo many years)

I basically just use a password manager and just create a new profile and start afresh most of the times but still its a little inconvenient I guess.
by Wilder7977 | 2025-07-16 05:32:17+00:00
Allow me to propose a different rationalization: "yes I know X might damage some people/society, but it was not me who decided, and I get lots of money to do it, which someone else would do if not me."

I don't think people who work on products that spy on people, create addiction or worse are as naïve as you portrayed them.
by adastra22 | 2025-07-16 05:32:46+00:00
Pseudonymous is not what is wanted here though. For your spying on my usage to be acceptable, it would have to be truly anonymous. Pseudonymous means that instead of you putting "HN user adastra22" in your database for everything I do, you instead use "fffa366bc5d3." So any human being looking at the database record won't immediately see that it is me.

But in any sufficiently complex real-world database, it is a trivial step to map these pseudonymous tags to actual users, and thereby undo the obfuscation. It provides no actual privacy protection.

And the privacy IS the issue here.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 05:32:55+00:00
These luke-warm takes become even more luke-warm when you look at the competition.

You have Chrome, which disrespects it's users as a principle. And then you have chromium forks, which rely on Google for... let's see here... 99.99% of their application's code.

Mozilla might make mistakes, but next to Google, they are angel.
by chvid | 2025-07-16 05:33:41+00:00
This stuff:

- The company was a little over 1,000 people. One year later, it is over 3,000.

- Changes direction on a dime.

- Very secretive place.

With the added "everything is a rounding error compared to GPU cost" and "this creates a lot of strange-looking code because there are so many ways you can write Python".

Is not something that is going to last.
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-16 05:34:06+00:00
Theranos was worth $9B in 2013 money, and it latet turned out that they had literally nothing but hype. Enron was posting $100B revenue the year before it went bankrupt. Bernie Madoff's fund had huge banks as institutional investors. Magic Leap was valued at $4.6B and had some purportedly amazing demos behind closed doors that anyone who witnessed them thought would revolutionize entertainment.

While these are not necessarily typical cases, they show that it's absolutely possible to have gigantic valuations raised from industry experts with nothing to show for it, if you're good enough at lying.
by gora_mohanty | 2025-07-16 05:36:36+00:00
The story was powerfully honest, but I think it also concludes that love is as powerful as death. Death will come for all of us, and instead of trying to fight against it, it might make sense to try and understand what it is, and what it also brings. If we fear death so much, it is often because that fear has stopped us from truly living while we are still alive.

A wonderful novella in this context. Hard science fiction in one respect, with correct physics, but also literature in my opinion: https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reading/Ch...
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-07-16 05:36:44+00:00
So you basically want to add another tax on young single/unmarried people?

What if you are infertile? Is the government/state going to pay for all the procedures related to adoption/ fertility treatments?

What about gay people? Would they be forced to adopt kids or use surrogates to have children so that they stop paying this tax?

At what age should men stop paying this tax? After all, a man in his 60s and even later can still in theory father a child with a younger woman, so there is really no cut off date for men in this case?

Finally why not pay men as well if they are the ones doing most of the child raising? This would apply in cases where the mother died or left. Would that be acceptable?

I am sorry to say but your proposal is not very well thought out and on top of that your forget that people in relationships without children are already paying more than there fair share of taxes.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-16 05:36:50+00:00
> Maybe it has something to do with the “you are not good enough” treadmill the modern world has everyone on.

I don't think so. I think it's because

A new couple can't support themselves when rent=1mo typical wages. It is impossible to pair off. Parenting time is up 20-fold from the 1950s. Was a few hours wk. Now it's ceaseless, 24/7 adulting. Childhood is effectively ruined due to - eradication of free ranging area thanks to automobile and trespassing culture. - eradication of regular hours of adult-free peer time where critical social and growth skills are learned. Modern childhoods are spent in boxes w/ adults. Poor mental health follows and kids cope using devices. So adults predictably want to take that away as well.
by VariousPrograms | 2025-07-16 05:38:45+00:00
These are some feeds and aggregators I have bookmarked

gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/view.gmi

gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

gemini://calcuode.com/gmisub-aggregate.gmi

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/

gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/

gemini://sl1200.dystopic.world/juntaletras.gmi
by catoc | 2025-07-16 05:38:46+00:00
Exactly this - if not at all about hours spent (at least that’s not a good metric; working less will benefit a burned out person; but the hours were not the root cause). The problem is lack of autonomy, lack of control over things you care about deeply. If those go out the window, the fire burns out quickly. Imho when this happens it’s usually because a company becomes too big, and the people in control lack subject matter expertise, have lost contact with the people that drive the company, and instead are guided by KPIs and the rules they enforced grasping for that feeling of being in control.
by defrost | 2025-07-16 05:39:14+00:00
You're saying we shouldn't judge those who enjoy higher levels of domestic violence?

Just like in the rest of the country, violent crime in Oklahoma has been trending gradually lower in recent years. But at roughly 418 offenses per 100,000 people in 2023, the Sooner State’s violent crime rate is the 14th highest in the country, according to FBI statistics. Of particular concern is a sharp rise in domestic violence homicides, which State Attorney General Gentner Drummond recently called an “epidemic.”
by K0balt | 2025-07-16 05:40:25+00:00
Being fine for decades is not a useful metric, unfortunately.

If you want to know, look into the last time it was flooded.

If it has never flooded in the scope of human history, it’s possible that the danger of flooding is indeed not significant.

If it has flooded, it will likely flood again.

If it is a flood plain, it will probably flood again many, many times. Weather changes associated with climate change may exacerbate this. It would not be particularly surprising to see the variance in significant precipitation events to double, triple , or more.

In any rate, climate change aside, it would not be particularly remarkable for a flood risk that aggregates to one in ten years to not flood for 50 years running, just as it would not be unexpected if some such areas flooded each year for 3 years straight. Both of those events would be consistent with patterns that would be expected to happen in the big picture.

I know nothing of your situation, but if I were living within less than 100 feet of the altitude of a nearby river or sea, I would consider moving. Life is short, and in my tiny life I have been humanly connected to floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes within my direct circle of friends and family enough to internalize that these risks are not theoretical.

When an existential risk can be categorically eliminated from your life, it is often worth doing.
by smcin | 2025-07-16 05:41:05+00:00
> 2025′s worst state for quality of life: Tennessee

If you take statewide averages, yes. But Williamson County, TN is the US's 7th richest, according to Forbes magazine's annual rankings, with a median income of $104,367 [0]. [It also has the lowest violent crime rate of TN counties [1]].

> "The fastest growing county in Tennessee, over half of the 489,250 residents are college educated. The biggest employers in the county are Community Health Systems Inc., United Healthcare and Nissan North America. Williamson County attracts new business with low costs— it has the lowest county tax in the Nashville area, no state income tax and the Nashville area has a 4% lower cost of living than the national average," Forbes wrote.

[0]: https://patch.com/tennessee/franklin/williamson-county-natio...

[1]: https://mtsusidelines.com/2024/04/11/crime-rates-in-tennesse...
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-07-16 05:41:13+00:00
I think clearly Google want Firefox alive as a 'competitor', and they explicitly are buying that Google search is the default. I highly doubt they have any agreements limiting Firefox's market share or features though - that would undo the benefit of it being a competitor if it ever came out, but more significantly they don't have to. Mozilla have managed to achieve all that on their own. I actually think Google would probably rather that Firefox was at say 10% market share so they had a more legit argument that it was a competitor.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-16 05:42:18+00:00
Nope, Microsoft and Apple didn’t just sell GUI. They built an entire solution for a problem around GUI. And even then, they made their money elsewhere. Apple on hardware and Microsoft on enterprise licensing of a full end to end stack of almost everything a person would need. They did so much they got sued for antitrust because of how many fucking pies they were trying to shove themselves in. To call Microsoft and Apple success as “GUI companies” means that you would have no idea what an AI company is. Certainly it won’t be ones developing the basic platform then.

Companies selling GUI toolkits in the 90s are all dead. No company made money on selling “GUI” as a technology. No one called Microsoft and Apple “the GUI companies”
by hobs | 2025-07-16 05:42:28+00:00
Economy Infrastructure Workforce Cost of Doing Business Business Friendliness Quality of Life - specifically

With workers in short supply, companies are seeking to locate in states that can attract a broad array of talent. That makes quality of life an economic imperative. We rate the states on livability factors like per capita crime rates, environmental quality, and health care.

The list goes on, but almost none of these are "against the values of the people there" unless their values are making less money and getting screwed over.
by sMarsIntruder | 2025-07-16 05:42:37+00:00
CNBC’s model puts hefty weight on social-policy scores (abortion, LGBTQ protections, worker rules) and only a light touch on nuts-and-bolts stuff like housing costs, taxes, and job growth. If those social factors top your list, the rankings make sense; if you care more about affordability or wages, the picture flips.
by kqr | 2025-07-16 05:43:09+00:00
Algol is in the funny position of being both very dead, yet not dead at all given its legacy. I suspect that's sort of inevitable: if all of a language's spirit is cannibalised by newer languages, it will be hard to argue for using the old language and it dies.

(In contrast, Lisp retains some unique ideas that have not been adopted by other languages, so it survives by a slim margin.)
by sothatsit | 2025-07-16 05:44:32+00:00
This is absolute nonsense. I am arguing that cherry-picking one expense is ridiculous. A much more reasonable approach would be to say that your donation is spread out over the entirety of the spend of Mozilla. That would suggest 1% of your donation is going to the CEO, not 100% of it like earlier commenters suggest.

It is dishonest to pick out one expense you don't like and equate that to all of the donation money being spent on just that. That's all. I don't know how you got from that to "this guy thinks money isn't fungible."
by graycat | 2025-07-16 05:45:19+00:00
Maybe a related practice (what I do): Write actual proofs or good documentation that contains essentially proofs and combine that with Knuth's Literate programming.

For what is to be proved, try to use divide and conquor to make the whole proof consist of separate steps, each of which gets a short proof and each of those steps might become a subroutine (whatever the terminology and functionality of the programming language and environment).
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-07-16 05:45:33+00:00
I used it for many years but ultimately abandoned it because its memory use was just unacceptably high. A couple of windows with 30-40 tabs in each would eat all my laptop's memory - Chromium in a similar setup will sit around 40% used. I don't know what Firefox is doing but it's crazy far off the pace there.

Mozilla should be focusing on fixing things like that and making the browser be good before the barely related campaigning, let alone the whole "we're going to be an advertising business as well" thing.
by sneak | 2025-07-16 05:46:35+00:00
I don’t hate it, but I question the use. You can use HTTP to do what it does, but better.

The modern web is opt-in. I build and use sites that aren’t SPAs and shitted up with 3p resources and images and code.

HTTP is great, and deserves our time and attention. I get that they seem upset with the modern web, and I am too - but it isn’t HTTP’s fault. It’s the sites you visit.

If you want to build new and smaller communities, I really think we should be building for browsers. Perhaps a website design manifesto is in order.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-16 05:46:42+00:00
This is almost 100% the answer, despite it pissing literally everyone off. I really feel like the only long term solution is getting artificial wombs figured out. Last I checked, we're closer than I thought, but people are still hung up on all the ethical questions that will probably evaporate when we realize it's the only way people are largely going to have kids at all.
by codingminds | 2025-07-16 05:48:23+00:00
If you consume a service that's free of charge, it's at least not reasonable to complain if there's an outage.

Like mentioned by other comments, do it on your own if you are not happy with the stability. Or just pay someone to provide it - like your ISP..

And TBH I trust my local ISP more than Google or CF. Not in availability, but it's covered by my local legislature. That's a huge difference - in a positive way.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-16 05:48:34+00:00
Yes without a search engine it’s a very real possibility that I could not find a web. Without a phone I couldn’t reach a person faster than I could physically move in space. Without a space rocket, I couldn’t escape earth’s gravity. Without AI I couldn’t… I don’t know how to finish this sentence without having it be self referential. As in “without AI I couldn’t have used AI to do this”. What can it be?
by kqr | 2025-07-16 05:48:37+00:00
Not quite. They explicitly drew a lot of inspiration from OCaml, but they never intended it to be an OCaml compiler for .NET.

F# was – from the start – a functional language designed specifically for the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime. Whenever OCaml and CLR diverged in how they did things, they went the CLR route.

(See e.g. https://entropicthoughts.com/dotnet-on-non-windows-platforms... for more information, or the Don Syme history of F#.)
by Simon_O_Rourke | 2025-07-16 05:49:23+00:00
Ahhh now, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Just because the kid doing the narration happened to have close family in a military organization somehow negates the ideas presented in the piece?

Always be reframing the narrative to focus on chickens*t issues like this to distract from Israeli tanks machine gunning starving people waiting for food aid.
by i_niks_86 | 2025-07-16 05:50:38+00:00
Ironically, AI tools can make you slower if you rely on them for complex tasks without understanding the internals. You end up spending more time prompting, debugging, or reverse-engineering the generated code than if you just wrote it yourself. This tradeoff is especially noticeable in open source work, where maintainability and correctness trump speed. AI tooling still requires substantial human judgment.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 05:51:45+00:00
> Do you think it might contribute to the incel epidemic and the associated violence?

No actually I don't, not at all. I blame the patriachy and feminism for the creation of incels. Not in the sense that feminism is bad, but the contrary.

What I mean is, incels have always existed. However, our tolerance for widespread misbehavior of men has grown thinner over the last 70 years.

When I was in college, it was typical to hear "oh man, don't go to that frat house, they roofie!" Looking back, it's almost comical. What? They... roofie? Is... anybody going to do anything about this? Should I tell someone? No, evidently - just don't go there.

Of course, it used to be worse. Men used to be able to just beat women, and nobody cared. Financial abuse was not only common, it was mandated by law.

We've come a long, long way. And, we've left a lot of men behind. Before, you could be a piece of shit and still be almost guaranteed a marriage, or at least sex. Our standards for behavior are much higher.

Men have been, understandably, slow to evolve. It's a much less sweet deal. This is compounded by the fact we've really never had a progressive movement for men. To this day, there are infinite ways to be a heterosexual woman - but there's only one way to be a heterosexual man. Men are closed in, trapped, by social expectations. We carry all the baggage of the patriarchy and misogyny of days gone, but we reap few benefits. We are not so liberated, not so open-minded.

It's a fine line. You must evolve, but not too much so that you may reject the performance of masculinity. You must be progressive, but not so much so. You must be traditional, but only in the right ways. Some men, even a lot of men, cannot keep up or fit into what is expected of them. And, there's no moving back.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-16 05:52:12+00:00
Time has also stopped for photons, which does nothing to stop them from moving from place to place.

I don't see a way to read your comment that allows for the possibility that a black hole might move, which is something they do.

I'm riiiiiiight on the edge of concluding that you are a poet and the only thing you know about the words is the way they sound. Is there more to it than that?
by kqr | 2025-07-16 05:53:27+00:00
Assuming "solve" is meant loosely: much like in C++, with RAII-style resource management. The Ada standard library has what are called _controlled types_ which come with three methods: Initialize, Adjust, and Finalize. The Finalize method, for example is automatically called when a value of a controlled type goes out of scope. It can do things like deallocate dynamically allocated memory.

That said, Ada also has features that make C-style dynamic allocation less common. Ada does not have pointers but access types, and these are scoped like anything else. That means references cannot leak, and it is safer to allocate things statically, or in memory pools.
by opello | 2025-07-16 05:54:06+00:00
I was curious and went looking and found these:

* https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay/engraving...

* https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/snippets/expres...

The documentation shows a number of configuration directives to control the display and confer semantics generally with the aim of improving readability.
by freejazz | 2025-07-16 05:54:55+00:00
You didn't. You said the peak hit in 2002. Presumably something happened that caused the trend to start in 2003, which could obviously not be the fact that eventually in 2025 it would be more convenient to instead stream movies at home.

>In 2002, watching a movie at home for most people meant flinging a low quality VHS or DVD onto a ~27" tube TV (with a resolution so worthless it might as well be labeled "new years") using a 4:3 aspect ratio pan & scan of the actual movie. Getting anything recent meant going out to the Blockbuster anyways. In 2022, watching a movie meant streaming something on your 50+" 16:9 4k smart TV by pressing a button from your couch.

Is what I was responding to.