MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beefnugs | 2025-07-15 22:46:50+00:00
I used to be really angry at parents, thinking it was incredible cruelty to throw children into a world without teaching them just how hard capitalism is going to try and wreck them. But i guess it didn't "used" to be this bad, you used to be able to afford rent i guess.

But still, we need to be teaching above all the other dumb shit thats happening in school: how capitalism hates them. How you need to eliminate middle men, having a regular wage means you are going to be an oppressed slave for life. You need to come up with your own thing, that you own and control and get to do some kind of negotiating for its value. You need to invest in things that can be used to make money in the future, little side hustles always. And maybe even deep dives on how crime really does pay, and if not figure one out yourself at least know the huge majority of people that are going to try and scam you. It is pure evil not to teach reality in high school
by tshaddox | 2025-07-15 22:47:07+00:00
> SVCD provided a near indistinguishable quality difference with DVDs when using most CRT TVs

From what I remember, SVCD uses roughly the same MPEG-2 video compression as DVD-Video, but with a much lower maximum bit rate. Even with a movie split onto two CDs, the bitrate was still less than half the bitrate of a professionally mastered DVD. I always found the quality of SVCDs to be noticeably poor.
by itake | 2025-07-15 22:47:09+00:00
Yeah, drives me crazy when governments are trying to lower the cost of childcare with tax incentives or creating dating apps to encourage connectivity.

Yeah, this might convince some people, but money is not preventing educated women from having kids.

My 31-year-old ex-girlfriend told me she needs a high degree of career stability, especially after recently losing her job. Even if she landed a new role quickly, it often takes 1–2 years to feel secure and fully ramped up in a new position. As someone at a level 4/5, she'd likely be aiming for a promotion once that stability sets in. Realistically, that puts her promotion around age 33 to 35, which is right around the time when starting a family becomes more biologically challenging.
by acjohnson55 | 2025-07-15 22:47:30+00:00
There's a lot of debate in this thread about the merits of watching movies in the theater vs home, but my overall movie watching is way down, regardless of venue. I'm sure I watch less than one movie per month. I used to watch tons when I was younger.

Unrelated, I wish there were small screening theaters where small groups of people could watch films on-demand, drawing on a massive catalog.
by jjmarr | 2025-07-15 22:47:35+00:00
That is correct. I'm pointing it out because the "non-communicability" aspect is a whole genre called "infohazards", which is any SCP triggered by or involving communication. It's a very popular tag.

You might contrast with SCP-2521 that attacks those that use written or spoken language to refer to it, so the documentation page is one giant infographic without text.[1]

[1] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-15 22:47:59+00:00
The promise is that we can automate work.

The reality is that for any meaningful work automation, the currently available tooling is not meeting that expectation.

And 99% of us do not have the capabilities nor knowledge to build these SOTA models which is why A. we are not at OpenAI making 10M+ TC and B. We are application developers who are using off the shelf technology to build products and services.

As such, we have real world experience with these technologies.

BTW I use AI heavily every day in cursor and whatever else.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-15 22:47:59+00:00
I think their vending machine project might need to succeed before you should trust Claude for investment advice:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Fun aside, finance and code can both depend critically on small details. Does finance have the same checks (linting, compiling, tests) that can catch problems in AI-generated code? I know Snowflake takes great pains to show whether queries generating reports are "validated" by humans or made up by AI, I think lots of people have these concerns.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-15 22:48:15+00:00
Similar(ish) although I only really got as far as BASIC on a 80286 running DOS 3.something!

I did manage to get something in C to compile and work with hard coded co-ordinates but it took me ages and didn't float my boat but it was rather faster 8) I suppose I'll always be a scripter.

I had a copy of the "Beauty of Fractals" and the next one too (can't remember the name). I worked in a books warehouse as a holiday job before Poly (UK Polytechnic - Plymouth) and I think I persuaded my parents to buy me the first and the second may have fallen off a shelf and ended up in the rejects bin. I got several text books for Civil Engineering too, without even needing to cough drop them myself.

One of the books had pseudo code functions throughout which even I could manage to turn into BASIC code. I remember first seeing a fern leaf being generated by a less than one screen (VGA) program which used an Iterated Function System (IFS) and I think a starter matrix with carefully chosen parameters.

Nowadays we have rather more hardware ...
by jacobgkau | 2025-07-15 22:48:52+00:00
That word has a literal meaning, and it does not apply to me, nor would it fit in the context of your comment. You used it in the derogatory manner of a curse word. You can't just say "not a curse" to make a curse word not be a curse word.

Thanks for demonstrating the level of critical thinking you operate with as someone who likes to curse, though. Attempting to frame an insult as an objective reality (and at the same time insulting two other people on the basis of one internet comment) is surely less self-righteous than what I said.
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-15 22:49:00+00:00
Since you're posting on Hacker News you're probably in a pretty high income bracket, and your married male friends probably are as well. High income brackets have seen pretty steady marriage rates, and as someone also in this bubble, they tend also to have men with more egalitarian views on marriage. But the flipside is that high-earners tend to delay childbirth-- they have to, because you need a lengthy period of education and work experience to get to that high bracket.

It's lower income brackets where marriage rates are really collapsing. A lot of this is economic-- the earnings potential for lower-class men has eroded-- but it's also the men in these income brackets tend not to have adopted upper-class views on egalitarian partnerships, and their potential partners aren't having it.

So among high earners you have stable marriages but where they can't start having children until their careers are secure, while among low-earners the men are both economically and temperamentally unacceptable to their partners. So fertility collapses in both groups.

If this view of marriage sounds unfamiliar, you might want to see e.g. [0], in particular the point about how "top-half marriage and bottom-half marriage are so unalike they might as well be completely different institutions."

[0]: https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/marriage-is-down-beca...
by ASalazarMX | 2025-07-15 22:49:08+00:00
Same here, vanilla Firefox snap on Ubuntu. If anything, Firefox with hundreds (literally) of tabs starts way faster than Chrome with 10, thanks to lazy its loading. RAM usage has always been stellar in Firefox, in my experience.

Maybe their distro has a broken Firefox package, they messed with the default installation, have too many extensions, or malware? A slow mechanical disk?
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-15 22:49:24+00:00
9.6kW is 40A at 240V, and a 240V 100A single-phase residential service is 24kW.

Still, 9.6kW should be more than enough to run a fridge, lights, receptacles, sump pump, a 2-3 ton A/C unit, and a furnace fan. It would be challenging to impossible to back up a home with electric (resistive) furnace and electric (resistive) water heater with only 9.6kW.
by molticrystal | 2025-07-15 22:49:50+00:00
Yes, Firefox should focus on being a lean mean machine, with the caveat that it returns to exposing its API and making it easily accessible for anyone who wants to go beyond that principle of leanness at the expense of speed or memory.

I’d even go so far as to say that extensions should have full control over Firefox again. They shouldn’t have to wait 20 years for a tray icon on minimize feature to be added or require external apps to add that feature on certain operating systems. Min2Tray existed. They should have the ability to completely alter the UI to make it function however you want. For example, the old search was great for keyboard users. A couple of strokes and you could switch search engines to site specific ones. Now it takes dozens. And when they all have the same icon, it is a painful experience. There was even at one point an add-on to restore that functionality. All this should be exposed.

The extension and plugin infrastructure didn’t die. It was killed! If security is a concern, just add more warning cones and blood red messages.
by kenjackson | 2025-07-15 22:50:00+00:00
As another commenter notes, because you get access to a lot of functionality for free. And other providers are also providing free alternatives. The ratio for their free/paid tier is about the same as YouTube's. And like YouTube, it's not that YouTube isn't providing great value, but rather that most people get what they need out of the free tier.

The better question is what if all LLM services stopped providing for free at all -- how many paid users would there then be?
by harmonic18374 | 2025-07-15 22:50:41+00:00
I am not trying to advance wild hypotheticals, but something about his behavior does not quite feel right to me. Someone who has enough money for multiple lifetimes, working like he's possessed, to launch a product minimally different than those at dozens of other companies, and leaving his wife with all the childcare, then leaving after 14 months and insisting he was not burnt out but without a clear next step, not even, "I want to enjoy raising my child".

His experience at OpenAI feels overly positive and saccharine, with a few shockingly naive comments that others have noted. I think there is obvious incentive. One reason for this is, he may be in burnout, but does not want to admit it. Another is, he is looking to the future: to keep options open for funding and connections if (when) he chooses to found again. He might be lonely and just want others in his life. Or to feel like he's working on something that "matters" in some way that his other company didn't.

I don't know at all what he's actually thinking. But the idea that he is resistant to incentives just because he has had a successful exit seems untrue. I know people who are as rich as he is, and they are not much different than me.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-15 22:51:13+00:00
The main errors in GPS are usually due to variation in the propagation of the signals through the atmosphere, and uncertainty in the exact position of the satellites. (Solutions for these exist, but are generally too expensive and/or impractical for a lot of applications. But e.g. realtime GPS on the order of cm is something you can get now, if you pay for a subscription to the right service or operate your own reference base station)
by sunshine-o | 2025-07-15 22:51:15+00:00
From what I remember (and I might be wrong) WiMAX was first competing on the "home" Internet market. Mostly against cable & DSL I guess at the time. It was a USB dongle you would put in your laptop.

Having a one WiMAX enabled smartphones was the cherry on top and probably more of a long term goal. The only one I remember was the HTC Evo 4G [0] (the first 4G enabled smartphone released in the US, and by 4G they meant WiMAX, not LTE).

My guess is there was for sure a big battle between Intel, major phone manufacturers, telcos, infra providers and various patents holders.

There was probably a chicken and egg dilemma for mobile phone manufacturer since they had to wait for the network to grow before risking launching their WiMAX phone but having a WiMAX enabled phone would make WiMAX at home really attractive.

My guess is also that since people usually get their phone from their telco, phone manufacturer had to be careful not to go against their interests. And since most telco wanted LTE, WiMAX couldn't take off.

But there might be more to this story, including the fact Intel was also trying to get in the phone SOC market at this time.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G
by echelon | 2025-07-15 22:51:40+00:00
Our dreams and aspirations, a product of our society, do not easily fit within our biology and our short lifespans. I'm not just talking about women and children.

There's too much opportunity (good!) and too much opportunity cost.

We're truly gradient ascent explorers in the rawest sense. And our adventures take us off the evolutionary path. We've jumped the shark on our biology.
by bigiain | 2025-07-15 22:52:04+00:00
Sadly "I'd like Firefox to not be owned by an advertising/surveillance company" is unlikely to be considered in that forum (even if I were prepared to sign up to comment).

Everything else is minor details compared to that.

(Yes, this was posted using LibreWolf, but I often wonder if I can even trust that, having the vast majority of it's code written and managed by Mozilla.)
by xedrac | 2025-07-15 22:52:22+00:00
As someone with 5 kids, I can attest to #1. Kids are hard and expensive, but they are also the single most rewarding aspect of my life. I rushed into having kids in my early twenties, and those early years were very difficult. Now that my kids are a bit older, I am so grateful for them. My life is infinitely richer because of them, even though I may have less time and money for myself.
by anyfoo | 2025-07-15 22:53:29+00:00
Maybe that's why I like Into The Breach so much, and keep coming back to it. It's a turn based strategy game, but one with exceptionally high information, compared to pretty much all the rest. You even fully know your opponent's entire next move!

But every turn becomes a tight little puzzle to solve, with surprisingly many possible outcomes. Often, situations that I thought were hopeless, do have a favorable outcome after all, I just had to think further than I usually did.
by benbridle | 2025-07-15 22:53:42+00:00
Each screen pixel has two colours because there are two screen layers, a foreground layer and a background layer. Anything you draw to the foreground layer will be draw over anything on the background layer, so you can use the foreground layer for fast-moving elements like mouse cursors and game characters without having to redraw the entire background every frame.

So each pixel has a colour on the foreground layer and a colour on the background layer, and will be drawn as one or the other. Normally the foreground colour of the pixel will be the colour used, but if the foreground colour is palette colour 0 (treated as transparent), the background colour will be used instead.
by eth0up | 2025-07-15 22:54:01+00:00
I use FF as a primary browser on Desktop and Nightly in Android. There's much I could say about FF, but I think it would be futile.

In Debian, I'd use FF-LTS and regular FF. Since moving to Void, xbps allows only one version, so I use FF and Vivaldi.

I'd appreciate any opinions on Vivaldi. It's the only functional alternative browser I've found in the repos. But I have to start it with:

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

Which sucks, and applies to OpenShot and a lot of other software that gets fussy with intel chips in some versions of Linux. Chromium I prefer to avoid, and it wants a password to initiate, which I understand but refuse to comply with. But that's all aside the point. Opinions, please...
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-15 22:54:19+00:00
>People are stressed about the state of the world. Are we going to enter an era of greater political unrest? Is AI going to ruin the economic prospects of almost everyone? Is climate change going to ruin civilization? Most people I talk to are not hopeful about what the next 40 years are going to look like.

At least on this one I beg to differ on reality if not people's perceptions. You think that worry about the future was somehow lesser during, I don't know, the entire course of the 20th century with two colossal world wars, almost immediately followed by a cold war in which the superpowers were laden with planetary destruction machines and noisily, constantly on the brink of annihilating each other and everyone else? (in aggressive ways that aren't quite matched today I'd argue)

Maybe social media and the always-connected modern culture of publicly fetishizing nearly any social/personal anxiety you care to think of has made people more neurotic about the future, but we've never in modern history had a shortage of things to cause that, while still having plenty of babies for decades.
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn 3D modeling for 3D printing?
by wand3r | 2025-07-15 22:54:27+00:00
I am looking to find a course or series of videos to learn how to create and design things to be printed by a 3D printer. At least for me, this seems to be very complex. Something like solidworks takes the already unintuitive and nature of photoshop and adds an additional dimension. There are many tools and hotkeys and principles that are quite difficult to simply learn by picking it up and messing around. I would like to find a course that explains how to use modeling software to design 3D objects. It is a bit overwhelming when you don't know what you don't know. There are many different software tools and of course once you are within a tools "ecosystem" there are many buttons, knobs and principles to learn.

Tl;dr Are there any good video or written courses that help a beginner get to an intermediate level of 3d modeling for a 3D printer?

Specific to me: I own a Bambu PS1 and a year long subscription to Coursera.
by astrange | 2025-07-15 22:54:36+00:00
That's fine for SCP - part of the idea is that there's always something else out there and the Foundation is always more prepared than you thought.

I thought it fit their ethos, eg these two older ones are similar.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000
by jeffbee | 2025-07-15 22:54:36+00:00
I'm not sure this scans really because teenage births as well as teenage pregnancies enjoyed a local peak around 1990. There certainly was not a general pan-American societal instinct against teenage births at that time. The rate has fallen by more than 75% since. Even the mother-under-15 birth rate in 1990 was ridiculous (about 10x more than today, in most states).
by daxfohl | 2025-07-15 22:54:39+00:00
That's the thing though. I think we're pretty close to AI being able to add fairly vanilla features that fit into the existing architecture fairly autonomously. But I think we're a long way away from AI being able to do major refactors by itself, or even determine what needs refactoring and when. Maybe someday it will, and it can already be useful in implementing pieces of a refactor, but it's nowhere near close on being able to design a major platform shift at the moment. That's entirely a human domain.

So while we're in the middle of those two pivot points, I think most of our work will be on the architecture side. Continuously clean up the platform so the LLM agents can keep humming along on it.

Eventually we'll perhaps get to the point where AI can automate 100% of this as well, and I have no clue what will become of engineers then. But I don't see that happening in the next ten years, and even when it does happen, I'm sure the changes will create whole new industries, workflows, and sets of problems for human engineers to solve. (SciFi me expects a whole new field of extracting the most value out of AI without letting it run amock. As fast as it goes, and as intelligent as it will be, we won't be able to just let it take over. We'll need to design guardrails for it so that it does the things you want, and doesn't make decisions that you don't want. This, by definition, has to be a human driven process. So I think there'll be work for human engineers to do for a long long time.)
by lisbbb | 2025-07-15 22:54:41+00:00
What loss? It was not her but her "girlfriend" which I don't even know how to correctly interpret these days. Is she saying it was her love interest or just a friend who is female? Heaven knows!

Kids aren't even dating anymore hardly. My son (15) is having a horrible time navigating social interactions. The girls at his school are all horrible people, it seems (not true, I'm sure, but I constantly have to hear about how he is treated like crap by the girls all the time).
by rcxdude | 2025-07-15 22:55:49+00:00
From what I understand, the relativistic effects are a lot less sensitive to nearby mass than the acceleration due to gravity (basically a 1/r relationship instead of 1/r^2). So while a sensitive enough gravimeter can pick up a nearby fairly heavy mass moving and such an elevation change, an atomic clock is going to be much more sensitive to elevation changes than nearby changes in density.
by itake | 2025-07-15 22:56:19+00:00
My sister is one of these cases. My take is the bar for marriage / life partner is really really high in modern relationships. Women aren't able to attract the mates they want, so they would rather try to do it on their own or wait, than "settle" for a guy that isn't meeting their standards.

The female dating coach Logan Ury wrote a book called "How not to die alone" which discusses this issue.
by mavilia | 2025-07-15 22:57:02+00:00
For AI news in general I just browse HN.

For useful tools I basically wait until something starts appearing in multiple places like HN comments, YouTube tech videos/comments, or on Reddit. This is what led to me hearing about Claude Code and trying it out before convincing other engineers at my company to try it. Now we're considering it over Cursor not so much because of Cursor pricing change but just because Claude Code is doing so much better.

That then leads me to an even more specific topic which is how I stay on top of info about the tools I'm using and for that I tend to stick to subreddits i.e. /r/ClaudeAI

Some YouTube sources would be any of the "tech-influencers" like ThePrimeagen[0], Internet of Bugs[1], or dare I say Fireship[2]

0 - https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen 1 - https://www.youtube.com/@InternetOfBugs 2 - https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship
by pxc | 2025-07-15 22:57:36+00:00
They do indeed use a different implementation of these features than the one that ships with VSCode, though they're not the original authors of it. They used to host their version separately here: https://github.com/anysphere/open-remote-ssh

But I guess they've just rolled it into the Cursor repo? Idk, because Cursor itself is proprietary.

There's a similar extension for WSL integration, though I'm not 100% sure if Cursor's implementation of this feature is based on it: https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-wsl

You can sideload proprietary VSCode extensions to add them to VSCodium or some downstream fork, but you may also have to patch the extensions themselves because some of them refuse to run if they aren't being used with Microsoft's VSCode: https://github.com/OliverKeefe/vscode-extensions-in-vscodium
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-15 22:57:44+00:00
Having a kid is no longer high-status for women. The only women (in the US) having kids in excess of the replacement rate are the poorest and most wealthy, in other words those too destitute for child-rearing to bring them any lower, and too rich for the burdens of it to have any effect on them. For all those in the middle, pregnancy and raising a kid is catastrophic to free-time, career success, and a sense of freedom in one's life trajectory.