MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-07-18 03:06:02+00:00
The only image in the article shows the Turkey 2023 quake damage, BUT:

"Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36896423 July 2023

> "Despite extensive reporting across the earthquake zone in the hours, days and weeks after the quake, no-one mentioned getting an alert to the BBC. So we began to search specifically for people who had got the warning. Our team travelled to Adana, Iskenderun and Osmaniye, cities between 70km (43 miles) and 150km (93 miles) away from the epicentre. We spoke to hundreds of people with Android phones. Although we managed to find a small number of people who had got an alert for the second earthquake, we couldn't find anyone who got a warning ahead of the first, most powerful quake."
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-07-18 03:06:12+00:00
I think Gutfeld is number 1 overall, and has been for a while.

But TV ratings overall are down so low, I haven’t had cable since 2003, and at the time people thought I was a radical. Now it seems like the people that have cable are the rare ones, Especially if there is noone over 45 in the house.

There is a reason they all format their shows in a way that is easy to break up into youtube videos. If they didn’t, most kids under 30 wouldn't even know who they are
by Nursie | 2025-07-18 03:07:07+00:00
I just bought my third dock/hub thing.

I've been on a Macbook M1 Air for the last few years and wanted multiple screens, so I got a USB 3 hub (Dell D6000) which does DisplayLink. I had almost everything hooked in there, but still connected one screen direct via usb-c. Displaylink is good for an M1 as you can add loads of screens if you want, but you can't watch streaming services on them as MacOs thinks your screen is being 'watched'.

I did want a thunderbolt hub but as far as I could tell at the time Thunderbolt and Displaylink just didn't come in the same package, so I was stuck with two cables.

Three years on, I picked up an M4 machine that can do two external screens natively, great, I can reach my goal of only plugging one cable into my macbook. But the Dell can't do that on a Mac because of something or other meaning it would work as mirrored-only.

Time to grab an actual thunderbolt dock. I picked up an HP TB3 refurb (HP P5Q58AA) which was cheap (30 AUD) and seemed great on paper, only to find it needed a type of power adaptor I didn't have that put me back another 60 bucks, and when I got it all hooked up it didn't always work and couldn't support decent refresh rates on my monitors, with one always being stuck at 30Hz. There was a software update available, but for that you need a windows machine with a TB3 port, not something I have.

So then I grabbed a Kensington SD5750T, which was another 140 bucks, but I am pleased to report that it just works and supports dual 4k60 over thunderbolt/USB-C. There is no HDMI or Displayport on this thing, but my monitors both have USB-C in so... Unfortunately, now that I've read the article, I can also confirm it contains a Realtek 0x8153, and is an OEM'd 'goodway' dock.

Just as well I'm happy with wireless networking!
by sprior | 2025-07-18 03:07:19+00:00
I depended heavily on Pocket for over a decade as a free user. It started to get bogged down with about 20k bookmarks. I used to spend hours manually tagging saves and the search function never seemed to actually return results. This time around I wanted a self hosted solution.

I looked at Walabag and Shiori before I decided on Karakeep. I just didn't like the UI of the first two. I already have an Ollama server and the AI tagging feature of Karakeep is far better than Walabag's, in fact the tag management feature in general is. And Meilisearch adds a really fast search engine to Karakeep that has allowed me to discover new value to the 16k bookmarks from Pocket after cleaning down from the 20k I exported, it's super impressive.

Now the less great news, Karakeep is much newer and less mature than the other options and currently only supports a SQLite backend and I really hope that changes. The only API for Karakeep goes through its web interface and so I don't think I even could export all my bookmarks. If the data was stored in a standalone real database like MySQL or PostgreSQL other options would be possible.

The AI tagging is AMAZING but it generates a LOT of tags and that makes the tag management screens in Karakeep difficult or impossible to use because they are overwhelmed. I am looking forward to the next and future releases which aim to help with this.

I use the Android app which works really well.

Karakeep does make your server into a web crawler and because of the little war on AI LLMs we're experiencing these days an unfortunate number of websites have started to fight all crawling. Karakeep uses a SingleFile browser extension which allows you to prove you are a human or log in to a website and then capture a page and submit it to Karakeep. This is a little awkward because you may end up bookmarking something once using the regular Karakeep extension and then see that you didn't get what you want and have to do it again via SingleFile. I'm hoping that at least a config list will be added so that the regular Karakaap browser extension will automatically invoke SingleFile for websites known to block bots.
by colechristensen | 2025-07-18 03:07:21+00:00
They are likely not following the USB spec correctly. Things like pulling certain pins high or low or having a set resistance between certain pins or communications between the host and device will all affect what goes over the wire and whether the host or the device will accept this. Cables will also have some pins entirely unconnected.

Cheap, bad, shortcuts, etc. will result in an out of spec cable being necessary for an out of spec device to work correctly with an in or out of spec hub. It's terrifically frustrating but a fact of the world.

And this isn't just random no name knockoffs. The Raspberry Pi in certain versions didn't correctly follow the power spec. Both the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 either incompletely, incorrectly, or intentionally abused the USB spec. The Lumen metabolism monitoring device doesn't follow the USB spec. This is one of those things where you want a bit of a walled garden to force users of a technology to adhere to certain rules. Especially when power and charging is involved which can cause fires.
by userbinator | 2025-07-18 03:08:03+00:00
However, I can’t help but feel a little bit cheated by companies just buying off-the-shelf products, slightly modifying the case layout, and then quadruple the price because it’s “from a reputable company”.

LOL. Welcome to the world of OEM/ODM. As a conservative estimate I'd guess >95% of all consumer electronics is done this way. Even the big names like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, etc. do it.

However, if you are - according to Wikipedia - a two-billion-dollar company like Realtek, then I expect you to get your shit together. There are exactly zero excuses for Realtek to not have a driver release ready almost a year after Big Sur has been announced. Zero.

Mac users are in the minority. It's worth noting that the RTL8153 is a native RNDIS device, which has its history on the Windows side, and Realtek has only started contributing drivers to Linux relatively recently.

FWIW I've had great luck with Realtek NICs, although I don't specifically recall using their USB NICs.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-18 03:09:24+00:00
Among other things, Colbert said:

“Now, I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: It’s big fat bribe, because this all comes as Paramount owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance.”

maybe they are worried that Colbert will say things that are actionable and could lead to more lawsuits?
by markbao | 2025-07-18 03:09:55+00:00
I’ve experienced this too and it’s not just no-names. I have a wireless gaming keyboard from SteelSeries, certainly a very legit brand. I lost the original USB-C cord. Tried every USB-C cord I could find, and they power the keyboard and charge it to exactly 1%, but no more.

Found plenty of people online with the same issue but no resolution.

Finally just paid the $25 to get the OEM SteelSeries replacement cable and it charges fully again. wtf… I guess the replacement cable was USB-A to C and I’ve only tried USB-C to C cables?
by jonkrohn | 2025-07-18 03:10:20+00:00
In this new hands-on workshop, Ed Donner and I (Jon Krohn) introduce AI agents, including multi-agent systems. All the essential theory of agentic AI is provided alongside hands-on code demos in Python that feature the critical agent frameworks: MCP, CrewAI and the OpenAI Agents SDK. From design considerations through to practical implementation tips, by completing all four modules in this video, you will have all the knowledge and skills needed to develop and deploy your own multi-agent teams.

The four modules are: 1. Defining Agents (with OpenAI Agents SDK) 2. Designing Agents (with CrewAI) 3. Deploying Agents (with MCP) 4. The Future of Agents

The accompanying slides and code are available in GitHub: github.com/ed-donner/action
by wakawaka28 | 2025-07-18 03:10:32+00:00
Mercurial is slower than git. It has a few minor features that git does not have, but git has major features that Mercurial doesn't have. Git also supports interoperability with SVN out of the box, but Mercurial only has unofficial (and probably broken) plugins to do that. I used Mercurial for a few years but there is absolutely zero reason for me to go back. I would miss several lesser-known git features that I have come to rely on.
by intended | 2025-07-18 03:11:08+00:00
When my life was spreadsheets, we were expected to get to the point of being 99.99% right.

You went from “do it again” to “go check the newbies work”.

To get to that stage your degree of proficiency would be “can make out which font is wrong at a glance.”

You wouldn’t be looking at the sheet, you would be running the model in your head.

That stopped being a stochastic function, with the error rate dropping significantly - to the point that making a mistake had consequences tacked on to it.
by internet2000 | 2025-07-18 03:11:32+00:00
Looks like he only bought cheaper things, so no wonder they all eventually died. My USB-C hub is an HP Thunderbolt dock. It's beefy as heck, lasted for years with no issues. It has a tiny fan inside, which I assume helps with the longevity. I hear good things about CalDigit docks too. Those also are very expensive.
by p1necone | 2025-07-18 03:15:00+00:00
Agreed - my CS degree exposed me to a bunch of low level 'algorithms & data structures' type stuff + a bit of assembly, prolog etc + some math stuff all of which I likely wouldn't have gone out of my way to learn on my own unless it came up in a very obvious way in a problem I was trying to solve. But like 95% of the actual large scale software engineering type work (read: actually building useful software) I learned on my own by building unnecessarily over engineered side projects, or by building stuff while working.

(as an aside: "don't overengineer things" is great advice when your goal is to actually finish creating something useful, but imo if you're coding to learn then horrendously overengineering everything is super valuable to the learning process - you should totally set up a full custom CI pipeline, design your own networking protocol, write a parser for a DSL etc etc in service of your dumb little tic tac toe game or whatever you're making - you will learn things)
by wyclif | 2025-07-18 03:15:57+00:00
So this has been a problem in the tech market for a while now. Nobody wants to hire juniors for tech because even at FAANGs the average career trajectory is what, 2-3 years? There's no incentive for companies to spend the time, money, and productivity hit to train juniors properly. When the current cohort ages out, a serious problem is going to occur, and it won't be pretty.
by intended | 2025-07-18 03:16:26+00:00
Hell - SF doesn’t have motorcyclists or any vehicular traffic, driving on the wrong side of the road.

Or cows sharing the thoroughfares.

It should be obvious to all HNers that have lived or travelled to developing / global south regions - driving data is cultural data.

You may as well say that self driving will only happen in countries where the local norms and driving culture is suitable to the task.

A desperately anemic proposition compared to the science fiction ambition.

I’m quietly hoping I’m going to be proven wrong, but we’re better off building trains, than investing in level 5. It’s going to take a coordination architecture owned by a central government to overcome human behavior variance, and make full self driving a reality.
by hansvm | 2025-07-18 03:17:01+00:00
The aquaducts and viae were built block by block too, but they're, I hope we agree, clearly not buildings. In my mind at least, the pyramids are too close to not having an inside relative to how big the outside is -- like how you wouldn't call a mine or a tunnel a building either.

Words are fuzzy concepts meant to convey ideas. Etymologically, I imagine the pyramids are "buildings" in that they're things that are built, like you're describing, but in my internal idea of what a building is, pyramids are too close to just being a carefully shaped mountain. There's also the issue of the fact that they weren't designed for _any_ living person to stay or visit, pushing it closer to a "monument" or "memorial" or something than a "building" in my mind.

Interestingly, if there were more internal space or if they were actively used by people (at any point in history) instead of just being left to the dead in the sands of time then it'd be a lot less clear-cut for me.

I'm not totally sure how other people use that word, but a (obviously biased) survey of the top 10 people I knew would care and respond quickly unanimously called the pyramids of giza "not buildings," the most common alternative description being a "monument."
by __d | 2025-07-18 03:17:16+00:00
Fascism implies (paraphrasing Wikipedia):

* a dictatorial leader

* an authoritarian government

* nationalism and/or racism

* militarism

* promotion of a "natural order"

I don't think any of those accurately characterize a dominant ideology on HN. If anything, in my observation, HN is somewhat libertarian-leaning, rather than fascist.
by rendaw | 2025-07-18 03:17:23+00:00
People use transformative filters on their faces on dating apps all the time. If you show up and find someone with a completely different face, is there any chance of romance? I have no idea... the best I can guess is

- No, but people do it anyway due to anxiety

- People can be pressured, the trick is to meet them the first time

- People say they care about faces, but don't actually care about faces
by dwood_dev | 2025-07-18 03:19:24+00:00
I have purchased multiple devices like this over the years. In all cases, it is that it doesn't have whatever circuitry is required to have a USB-C PD charger send 5v down the line. Using a USB A to C cable works every time. Ironically, using a C to A then A to C then makes it work with a USB-C charger.
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-18 03:19:51+00:00
> Then you've made the choice to not pursue other things that will make you happier than "working".

It not about being happier. You didn't read what I said. I said they were my responsibility. You fundamentally don't understand what I am trying to tell you.

> Yet my point initially was that working is not anywhere close to the only way that people can stay active and away from "rotting."

I never said it was. Like many replies of the replies I've had on my initial reply in this thread they have conflated doing something productive, with going to work. Going for a cycle is more productive than Netflix, learning crotchet is more productive than Netflix.

> No, this assumes that people will need help quitting an addiction.

If you don't wish people to misunderstand you, then you shouldn't use language that implies that you believe it to be a disease.

> Both scenarios are grim and best avoided. The better solution is to help solve the problem, not to act like work is a cure-all.

I never said work was a cure-all. You keep on adding things I never said.

You asked me what is better between two scenarios was. I gave you an answer which I thought was better between the two with a rationale.

> For many people, work is the reason they drink, or do drugs, or have anger issues.

No. That is one of the excuses they use to justify their poor choices. I know because I used the same justification.

The reason they have drink, drugs or anger issues is because they choose to.

> A proper UBI helps people maintain a healthy lifestyle without having to put themselves in a position where they are stressed and powerless for the rest of their working life.

So you proclaim. I believe the opposite is likely to happen in the long run. I know what the (negative) affects of welfare are in the UK and UBI IMO will make things worse.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-18 03:20:11+00:00
Cats are domestic animals, and dogs are even more.

You probably didn't adapt to understanding cats as much as cats have adapted over millennia to be understood by humans. Working with and being understood by the dominant specie that is humans is a big evolutionary advantage.

Understanding a wild animal like a lion is a different story. There is a reason why most specialists will say that keeping wild animals as pets is a bad idea, they tend to be unpredictable, which, in other words, mean we don't understand them.
by 0manrho | 2025-07-18 03:20:15+00:00
> I've had great luck with Realtek NICs, although I don't specifically recall using their USB NICs.

I envy you. Realtek NICs (especially over USB) are tantamount to trash in my mind after 2 decades of fighting their frequent failures. Be it failure to initialize at all to driver crashes to pisspoor feature sets (or claiming to have features that don't work at all), and a myriad of other problems. Granted, they usually work in Windows, but I don't work in windows (I live and work in linux/BSD). It has become my personally policy to avoid/disable and realtek NICs and replace them with something actually functional whenever possible.

Hopefully their work on linux-side drivers will change this given their proliferation.

To be honest I've yet to find a reliable USB based network interface regardless of chipset/brand/manufacturer, outside of the ones that do PCIe passthrough via USB4/Thunderbolt and those tend to be quite expensive (though they are starting to come down in price).
by jonstewart | 2025-07-18 03:20:36+00:00
There’s also a huge difference between CS grads from 15+ years ago and newer CS grads. Older CS grads had computer labs, insane old profs who’d cut their teeth on the first computers, and negative stereotypes of computer geeks were still in play. So there was selection bias, most (or at least many) CS majors loved computers and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. These days—with CS the most popular major, which is mind-blowing—most CS majors are kids who would have been business majors 20 years ago. It’s not to say those that love computers don’t still major in CS, but I interview many many many CS college kids who “don’t want to program” and expect to get well-paying computer-related jobs.

One thing I have learned is that it’s not enough for a junior/intermediate programmer to practice practice practice. They also must read. I respect self-taught devs (I am one), but self-taught devs who don’t read books plateau quickly.
by aniforprez | 2025-07-18 03:21:32+00:00
It was extremely telling to me that the Zed editor team put out a video about using their AI interface and I don't remember what model they used but they asked it to add a new toggle for a feature and then spent half they video demonstrating their admittedly excellent review workflow to accept or reject the AI generated code and you could directly see how useless it was down to adding completely superfluous new lines randomly and the explanation was "it just does that sometimes"

I'm really not seeing these massive gains in my workflow either and maybe it's the nature of my general work but it's baffling how every use case for programming I'm seeing on YouTube is so surface level. At this point I've given up and don't use it at all
by wakawaka28 | 2025-07-18 03:22:04+00:00
It's safe to say that everyone you meet knows something you don't, regardless of background. But in the context of this discussion, it is pretty obvious that self-taught people on average have nowhere near the hundreds of hours of experience solving theoretical problems. Not having that background will actually set people back when it comes to solving hard problems that occasionally (or often) arise. Watching self-taught programmers talk smack about degreed professionals is like watching a couch potato make sweeping generalizations about how sedentary people who don't go to the gym are more physically capable than people who do, because the people who don't are not limited to performing certain exercises.
by j_timberlake | 2025-07-18 03:22:37+00:00
The sane way to do this (if you wanted to) would be to give the AI a debit card with a small balance to work with. If funds get stolen, you know exactly what the maximum damage is. And if you can't afford that damage, then you wouldn't have been able to afford that card to begin with.

But since people can cancel transactions with a credit card, that's what people are going to do, and it will be a huge mess every time.
by zdw | 2025-07-18 03:22:40+00:00
The ubiquity criteria also informs scaling - for example, if a tooling or backend dependency is being production deployed by a company at a scale of 10^2 or 10^3 times your use case, you're much less likely to hit insurmountable performance issues until you get to similar scale.

They're also much more likely to find/fix bugs affecting that scale earlier than you do, and many companies are motivated to upstream those fixes.
by ehnto | 2025-07-18 03:24:04+00:00
Is that for per token costs or in these bundled subscriptions companies are selling?

For example, when playing around with claude code using a per token paid API key, it was going to cost ~$50aud a day with pretty general usage.

But their subscription plan is less than that per month. Them lowering their limits suggests that this wasn't proving profitable at the current limits.
by aniforprez | 2025-07-18 03:24:14+00:00
Colleagues take that feedback and improve. It seems a large number of people here seem to find these kind of improvements in other humans useless in the hypothetical case of them leaving but I occasionally look at my mentee's LinkedIn and feel a sense of pride at having contributed. I also feel joy when they appreciate my efforts.

I genuinely don't understand how often people compare AI to junior developers.