MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eclecticfrank | 2025-07-17 07:58:13+00:00
> Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family.

The stories we grew up to were indeed those which won "a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability". Only interesting stories got retold. Stories travelled further when made into songs. They became artworks when tranformed into plays. They became myths and legends in the luggage of those travelling the planet. And the art of telling stories also became a way of making a living much before our contemporary society produced the first pop star.
by vintagedave | 2025-07-17 07:58:31+00:00
> carrying a dedicated camera, a power bank, and using wired peripherals

I'm a small-phone person, and I don't think these _should_ be necessary. I'm fine with wired peripherals (and prefer them), but in 2025, with efficient chips, I don't see why we can't power a device much longer than 24 hours. What if it had decade-old hardware, and -- this is the bit I think is the problem -- the operating system and apps were efficient?

Same with a camera. It seems more about thickness than width; I don't believe it should be impossible to put a large-phone-format camera in a smaller phone. It may take battery space, but see above, we should be ok there these days.
by cardanome | 2025-07-17 07:58:43+00:00
> If you've got autism and the biggest thing that stands out is the way you walk... I don't think dragging a kid to a doctor to be told they're not normal is really all that beneficial.

There are very strict criteria on how people are to be diagnosed. More importantly you are NOT getting diagnosed if you are just happy and don't need any help.

You can NOT be diagnosed with autism without any support needs.

Same as you can not be diagnosed ADHD if it causes you not trouble at all.

> being labeled as having some sort of neurodivergence and being told they can fix it is surely more damaging than just letting them be a bit strange.

You want to know what going through life without an diagnosis for your neurodivergence looks like?

People hate you. You don't know why but they just do. You are wrong. Everyone else seems to know when to say the right thing at the right time but you don't. You are some weird alien that does not belong. You try to memorize things to say, copy how other people act, it works but the mask often slips. You must be hyper-vigilant in every social situation to not let the real you slip out. It becomes so automatic that you don't even remember who you are anymore. It is exhausting, so exhausting and alienating. You crash and burn from time to time.

Things that are easy for other people. You can't even fold your laundry. You are lazy. If you would just apply yourself, you could do so much. Achieve so much. But you don't. You lack discipline. Everything you try you just give up after a while. You read a bunch of self-help books, you learn you to organize your time, all the tricks but they never work for you. You are a failure.

Not being diagnosed is absolute hell.

Just being able to know why you struggle, to learn coping strategies that work with your brain, to talk with people with the same struggles, to finally find people that understand you, is absolutely life changing.

And no, it is not about fixing people. You can not fix ADHD, people are born with it and that is how they are. It is about them getting the help they need and embracing that people are different.

> I was a quiet kid

Quiet kids can have ADHD

> my parents got calls from a teacher

Teachers don't diagnose children. They don't decide whether you need to get medicated or not.

Furthermore, yes people where probably very ignorant about ADHD in your childhood, we understand it much better now.

> drugged up

That not how ADHD meds work. They can give you the super power to fold your laundry in a single business day, they don't get you high. Some people hate how they feel but for many they work great. Medication is just one option, you can also learn better coping skills through therapy or coaching.

> It feels rational to me

As someone who was diagnosed late, it seems more like ignorance to me.
by Tainnor | 2025-07-17 07:58:52+00:00
That's like saying "programming is just creating files with content".

Python is a purely interpreted language that runs in the context of your file system. Java code needs to be compiled and packaged, you have to write a manifest, you have to decide whether to include dependencies (fat jar) or not, or maybe you want to create a war (if you're stuck in the 2000s)... then what about maybe distributing the sources too?

Also, Maven works. Gradle works. Mill probably works too. The reason uv is a success is that everything Python had before was a broken mess. When people complain about JVM build tools, they come from a different position, not from one of "stuff is completely broken".
by kaoD | 2025-07-17 07:58:59+00:00
I wrote a longer comment saying this (deleted now since I was wrong).

Turns out that Git does somewhat store dirs (in form of trees). See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects (section "Tree Objects").

To understand op's repro look at the last two lines (objects in the tree) in each of their command outputs, not the files shown in the first few lines.

What I think op means is that the `testing` tree pointed in their first example is sorted after `testing.md` even though it's only called `testing` because it's being sorted as `testing/` and `/` is > `.` bytewise.

I'm not at a computer right now but it would be nice to test it with files named `testing.` and `testing0` since they are adjacent bytewise and would show the implicit forward slash more clearly with the tree object sitting between them.

This makes me wonder why Git can't just store an empty tree for empty dirs.

EDIT: did the Gist https://gist.github.com/alvaro-cuesta/bd0234e3e1a66819c7e9e9...

Notice the `git cat-file -p HEAD^{tree}` outputs.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-17 07:59:38+00:00
Construction unions do great across European countries.

Any company that can take advantage of workers will do it, no need for "dominant/ monopolistic".

There is a reason why security measures that put the workers life at risk are almost nonexistent on countries where unions hardly have a presence.

No helmets, no eye protection, no masks when dealing with chemicals, bending metal bars with bare hands, no protection shoes, hopping into a ladder alone,....

Some examples of what I have seen in practice.
by bubblebeard | 2025-07-17 07:59:50+00:00
Yes, but you placing your neck under that boot is a free choice. I admit, sometimes a little tricky to avoid, but a free choice still. As far as I know, there is always an option but please correct me if I am wrong.

With that said I think technology overall has become increasingly worse over the years in some ways. God, do I miss a TV without an OS.
by close04 | 2025-07-17 08:00:39+00:00
> Treating beef like coal

You'll just ruin it, nobody likes burnt beef.

Coal and renewables output the exact same thing (electricity), beef and alternatives don't. Unless they make money from coal, people don't want coal, they want electricity and they won't even know the source. But in this case people want beef. Almost every beef replacement failed so far. So it's not as straight forward as "treating it the same" because at least one generation of people will always know what they lose. The hill is steeper for this battle.
by orwin | 2025-07-17 08:01:00+00:00
Obviously? I mean, half of the GDPR is 'if you have to store users data, make sure it's encrypted and don't sell it unless the agree to it', doesn't matter if you make money or not. But just following industry standards is enough.

Like if you want to build a bridge at your own cost because the state doesn't want to do it. Even if you don't install a toll booth, you still have to follow safety regulations before people other than you can cross it, right?
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-17 08:01:09+00:00
> $700-800

I can.

Nothing will make happier than ditching Apple and get a smaller Android phone. In fact the size of iPhone 5s was the only reason that had piqued my interest and I had migrated to the iPhones. Then I stayed for other (and important) reasons.

> Stock Android OS

Ah, no. I take that back. That is not going to be worth 700-800 just for the size! In fact take more and put it to a fight which tries to force Google to "decolonise" every aspect of this mobile OS and push for apps to go for alternative app stores.

But as long as Google has it claws and fingers and feet and palm and teeth (imagine every other organ) into my data (and also existence via sensors and what not) on an Android phone in every way possible (sometimes not even imaginable), such pervasive and entangled, that getting out of this Kafkaesque privacy nightmare means using a custom ROM that no OEM supports (or probably will every support) and half the app I use (including bank/payment/Govt apps) will stop functioning and it makes me feel like puking - even the thought of being tracked like that non-stop!

Until then sadly I will contribute to the trillions of Apple and participate in this cozy duopoly these companies have established and rather be in this Kafkaesque control and closed walled garden. It is sad.

So no, I am done with "Stock Android OS" trope at this point :(

The reality is - and it is a sad truth - such a phone in today's world can only exist as a vanity/niche product and hence even with high cost it will suffer from lack of support, abandoned update/upgrade promises, and a really really bad support experience unless it is released to "just few cities" (not even few countries) because this is going to attract such a small number of people!
by n4r9 | 2025-07-17 08:01:13+00:00
Yes, it's Gauss. In fact the technique is sometimes known as "Gaussian summation". The New Scientist has an article where the author chases down early references to the story: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/gausss-day-of-reck...

The earliest reference is a biography of Gauss published a year after his death by a professor at Gauss' own university (Gottingen). The professor claims that the story was "often related in old age with amusement and relish" by Gauss. However, it describes the problem simply as "the summing of an arithmetic series", without mention of specific numbers (like 1-100). Also, it was posed to the entire classroom - presumably as a way to keep them busy for a couple of hours - rather than as an attempt to humiliate a precocious individual.
by scrapheap | 2025-07-17 08:01:40+00:00
> I don’t care how smart or ahead you are, but hard work always beats talent.

Although you do need some talent or working hard will just be making problems for everyone else, and all management will hear about is you being the cause of problems rather than a solution to them.

> Be Open to all feedback

Actually I'd suggest people don't just accept all feedback - before taking any feedback on board review it and see how it holds up. There's a lot of people out there that will give negative feedback, not because it's true, but for other reasons (e.g. it makes them look better to an onlooker, it pushes blame for a failure away from their team and onto yours, they're just an a**ole).
by usrusr | 2025-07-17 08:01:44+00:00
They could have made the SE large but slow (instead of small and slow) and avoided all cannibalization future and present.

My hypothesis about the supposed non-existence of the small phone buyer is that they very much do exist (personally, haven't bought anything other than whatever was the smallest Xperia at the time in more than a decade), but that this group has little overlap with the group willing to buy for list price on release day. But the perception of success of a given phone is very much dominated by the latter, the long tail of buyers isn't really seen. Even if the release day premium over mid-lifecycle street price (in countries where price fixing is not allowed) goes to the retailer and is of very little interest to the manufacturer.

Manufacturers should just move compacts to a three year cycle and forget everything about hyper-optimizing desirability for the kind of buyer who spends too much time reading questionable review sites.
by volemo | 2025-07-17 08:01:47+00:00
I’m not sure if your comment is sarcastic, but in case it isn’t: my friend group had a get-together two days ago, three out of six had a laptop with them, and it even came in handy when I started talking about the problem I’m working on, somebody got interested and I was able to show the plots and calculations. Also we have PowerPoint Parties somewhat regularly, where most of us bring their computers to make last minute changes or simply have a known environment.
by fzeroracer | 2025-07-17 08:01:58+00:00
> The remaining question is "Can they be good?" It's too early to tell.

You're falling into a rhetorical trap here by assuming that they can be made better. An equally valid argument that can be made is 'Will they become even worse?'

Believing that they can be good is equally a leap of faith. All current evidence points to them being incredibly harmful.
by sebtron | 2025-07-17 08:02:21+00:00
> In traditional security, we think in terms of isolated components. In the AI era, context is everything.

In traditional security, everyone knows that attaching a code runner to a source of untrusted input is a terrible idea. AI plays no role in this.

> That’s exactly why we’re building MCP Security at Pynt, to help teams identify dangerous trust-capability combinations, and to mitigate the risks before they lead to silent, chain-based exploits.

This post just an add then?
by bolobo | 2025-07-17 08:02:37+00:00
And chatgpt is going to pull the data from an random UK website when you are in the US and vice-versa, and will augment it with knowledge from its model that come from a reddit thread from 2010 written by an italian plumber.

I saw that on the DIY Uk subreddit where people were confused because ChatGPT was answering question using american standards. It's really hard to answer questions based on regional tribal knowledge.

Apparently a good source are the tradesmens shop? THey might know their customers? Word-of-mouth?
by internet_points | 2025-07-17 08:02:51+00:00
Norway has gamified summer reading https://sommerles.no/svar It's quite popular in the first half of elementary school. You get points for registering read books (even if your parent read it for your, or audio books) and every week all the libraries put up a poster with this week's "code word" which you get points for typing into your profile, and whenever you level up ten levels you get a little prize you can pick up from the library (like a tiny toy, they had shark teeth one year)
by therealpygon | 2025-07-17 08:03:10+00:00
Really depends on how motivated and how much time you want to invest.

I find Tinkercad to be an incredibly simple (and yet also surprisingly useful) way to build our simple to moderately complex parts, it’s free, and you can even sell parts you’ve created with it. It’s no Fusion360, but it also doesn’t have nearly the learning curve.

Fusion is fantastic for complex parts, but costly if you ever want to sell anything. It is a combination CAD/parametric modeling program. FreeCAD has gotten better over the years, though it’s a bit clunky but has a lot of parity where it counts for 3d printing. Either one is going to require a time investment. Others have provided good resources for that.

Personally, I’d start with Tinkercad to dip your toes in the water. Let your needs decide whether you should invest more time in another program (or not). You might be surprised at how for it can take you, and it will introduce you to the thought process you’ll need for designing 3d objects.
by ACCount36 | 2025-07-17 08:03:21+00:00
LLMs are already capable of complex behavior. They are capable of goal-oriented behavior. And they are already capable of carrying out the staples of instrumental convergence - such as goal guarding or instrumental self-preservation.

We also keep training LLMs to work with greater autonomy, on longer timescales, and tackle more complex goals.

Whether LLMs are "actually thinking" or have "volition" is pointless pseudo-philosophical bickering. What's real and measurable is that they are extremely complex and extremely capable - and both metrics are expected to increase.

If you expect an advanced AI to pose the same risks as a faulty thermostat, you're delusional.
by Emdeha2357 | 2025-07-17 08:04:38+00:00
Nope, I strongly disagree with that comparison. One doesn't need to pull up a big stick in hand using elbow and shoulder to flip this fuel switch _down_. Would a car's hand brake stop your engine if it's thumb-push-button lock failed silently and you happen to let something fall on it, like a hand? no. But this little fuel switch would.
by zhuyuanqing | 2025-07-17 08:06:02+00:00
Provide an ultra-fast AI-generated experience. Image generation takes less than 2 seconds, and video generation is no more than 2 minutes. It supports multiple high-performance models, including the FLUX series (such as the 12B-parameter FLUX-dev ultra-fast image generation model) and the WAN-2.1 video model. It can perform 480p/720p conversions from text to video (T2V) and from images to video (I2V), and can also achieve personalized style customization through LoRA fine-tuning. The platform has enterprise-level stability and provides a simple and easy-to-use RESTful API, facilitating quick integration by developers.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-17 08:06:06+00:00
Just like 16e, Mini and SE were meant to push up the sales of their "other" phones. Otherwise they would not have had both Mini and SE. I mean it was a joke.

But Hanlon's razor and the way Apple has been on a screwing up spree of late I doubt it was anything intentional. They f'ed up knowing not what to do at all. They don't anymore.
by peter_vukovic | 2025-07-17 08:07:02+00:00
From a systems perspective, civilization is the greatest pollutant. Whether it's Mesopotamia, Rome, industrial Britain, or the modern global economy, each civilization is a complex machine that extracts resources, generates waste and disrupts ecosystems. There’s no version of it that’s truly sustainable long-term, just degrees of delay or harm reduction.

There is absolutely nothing special about beef. We could replace beef with palm oil, lithium, air travel, or even data centers. The same system logic applies: convert energy and resources into power, growth, and order, while displacing entropy elsewhere.

A clean planet is a planet without civilization. This is a factual observation, not nihilism.
by nullc | 2025-07-17 08:07:52+00:00
> That's about as naive as the Do-Not-Track header, which was basically kindly asking companies whose entire business is tracking people to just not do that thing that they got paid for.

It's usually a bad default to assume incompetence on the part of others, especially when many experienced and knowledgeable people have to be involved to make a thing happen.

The idea behind the DNT header was to back it up with legislation-- and sure you can't catch and prosecute all tracking, but there are limitations on the scale of criminal move fast and break things before someone rats you out. :P
by AnonHP | 2025-07-17 08:08:18+00:00
Defined this in whatever init script the shell uses so that I get a long listing of files (first alias below) and long listing of files sorted from oldest to newest (second alias below):

alias ll=“ls -l”

alias lln=“ls -lrt”

Apart from this, I have a few aliases defined to get the size of specific folders and their subfolders (using ‘du -h’ for human readable sizes). The aliases are named like “duh”, “dut” and so on.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-07-17 08:08:33+00:00
Watching Mr. Rogers as an adult, I was surprised by how opinionated the show could be. There was an episode where one of the puppets was trying to teach a child puppet to read before they entered school, and it was presented as a extremely harsh and mean way to treat a child. A human actor comes in and starts scolding the puppet that it's not necessary to teach the kids to read before school and that she needs to stop. Later, Mr. Rogers talks with an actual kindergarten teacher, and they discuss how it's completely unnecessary to teach kids to read before they enter kindergarten.

It felt like it was indoctrinating kids into believing that the right way to raise them was the way that Fred Rogers preferred.

There's this strange point of view that once it's decided that something is good and it's being made by good people, it's absurd to look at it critically and anyone who does should be mocked.
by VoxPelli | 2025-07-17 08:08:44+00:00
If one were to make a iPhone 17 Pro Mini as thick as the iPhone 4 then it would:

- Likely still weigh less than a Pro Max - Have a battery with a capacity larger than the Pro Max - Have the pro cameras stick out about as much as they did on the iPhone 6

And it would feel as robust and solid as an iPhone 4 – my favorite iPhone so far
by pjmlp | 2025-07-17 08:09:06+00:00
The C myth keeps being perpetuated, sadly.

And had not GNU/FSF made C the official main language for FOSS software on their manifesto, by the time when C++ was already the main userspace language across Windows, OS/2, Mac OS, BeOS, that "It is the reason for C's endurance" would be much less than it already is nowadays, where it is mostly UNIX/POSIX, embedded and some OS ABIs.
by okanat | 2025-07-17 08:09:22+00:00
Smaller phones has always been limited in performance, batter life, the app support and the camera quality. Camera is the most important factor and battery is the second.

General population doesn't buy phones every year and they don't want a nerfed phone when they have to pay 500-1000 $/€s. So they gravitate towards higher end ones.

Companies including Apple has always treated the small size as an entry to mid segment phone. The only exception I know is Sony z3 and z5 compact which suffered heat and battery swelling issues due to Qualcomm messing 810 series SoCs up.

Companies also want you to buy the most expensive phone. So they market the premium models and train their store personnel to sell more of the premium line. If they stop intentionally nerfing the smaller phones, I think there is a market there. However, it will still be smaller.
by blub | 2025-07-17 08:09:46+00:00
Because they’re both complicated languages, but for different reasons. Rust didn’t really solve memory safety, it just pushed all the complexity into the type system. If one was struggling with memory errors in C++ that’s nice. If one was using Java, that still sucks.

Furthermore some programmers really like complicated languages like Rust, Haskell, etc others like straightforward languages like Go, Python, etc.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-17 08:09:49+00:00
That is not the reason at all.

Google was very new when the EU proposed these laws in 2000. It certainly didn't have a browser.

I think the privacy provisions and disclosures required under GDPR give users more useful information (ie they now actually need a privacy policy), and Cookie popups are just a silly distraction that offer no further value. We open so many web pages, so quickly these days, most users are not making informed rational decisions about the popup - they're just clicking it to make it go away. They both annoy users and give them a false sense of improved privacy protection.

The blocking of third party cookies by browsers, and proper privacy disclosures are a much better solution.