MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2025-07-11 16:04:28+00:00
I want the old internet back, considering that history is cyclical I have high hopes that it will come back. However I subscribe to the idea that history doesn't repeat itself but rhymes so I expect it to be amazing again in a slightly different form.

Currently its infestation of for-profit content that got even worse with generative AI and curated through for-profit algorithms that drain our life for attention.

However, if you pay close attention to the non-advertiser friendly content and content that AI refuses to generate(which is mostly extremist left and right BS), you will see that there's a sustainable path for content that is not discovered and created the way it is now.

Yes, currently the only organic content is the extremist content. Yes, those de-platformed people actually didn't go away. They create authentic high quality Bull Shit, have audience that care and they are doing just fine. Which makes me believe that there must be a way for non-crazy, non-racist, non-extremist people for once again have authentic high quality content.

Interestingly, when Erdogan of Turkey cornered the mainstream media and deplatformed the non-complying journalists those journalists also adopted new ways. For many years, the advertisement on those channels were laughing stock. It was mostly hair removal cream and ideology oriented books but they survived anyway and the Erdogan acquired media lost steam as it wasn't authentic anymore and those small channels and social media platforms became mainstream. To the point that he is now once again trying to destroy them as his media is no good to push his narrative.

So yes, content is king and nature finds its way.
by antonvs | 2025-07-11 16:04:45+00:00
In my more benevolent moments, despite not being religious, I take a Jesus-like attitude: "Forgive them, they know not what they do."

It all seems to have been a very predictable consequence of the de-emphasis of teaching any humanities at all in favor of STEM uber alles.

It's like the line from "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist": "Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong... as a joke."

Except it wasn't a joke, it was an economic strategy.

> time traveling robots

Won't someone think of the children, I mean, future simulated me?
by kemotep | 2025-07-11 16:04:57+00:00
Land owners make up a plurality of voters. In some cases those land owners are retirees living in a house they bought 45 years ago others are people who own 500 houses.

The land value tax “equally” punishes them for their inefficient land usage. But at some point we need to pay our fair share on taxes and the later group hiding behind the former group is how you end up with California’s dumpster fire of a housing crisis.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-07-11 16:05:19+00:00
It's 2025 and McDonald's is still the #1 most popular restaurant in the whole world.

Social Media is fast food. The masses will consume it to their death...

The rest of the population is bifurcating. The only people who will remain on Social Media will be poor, uneducated and the stupid. Not that different than the people who eat fast food, often.
by maplant | 2025-07-11 16:05:22+00:00
We're not so isolated from normal every day people that noticing trends within ourselves and other people like us have zero chance of bleeding into the mainstream. I too have begun limiting my usage of social media to basically zero, and I'm not so naive to think that I'm a trendsetter anymore rather I am responding to already occurring trends.

I remember what these social media platforms used to be like. They didn't consume my entire life because I was just checking in on my friends. I looked at my screen time recently and decided enough was enough, and deleted everything. Now I only look at my phone if I have an actual reason to. I don't think I'm the only person this is going to happen to.
by zeta0134 | 2025-07-11 16:05:58+00:00
I'm starting to sloooowly build up an audience as I work on my game project, and I can already tell I do not at all have the necessary drive to build that audience as large as it needs to be for the game to "go viral" based on that alone, no matter how good it is. No, I think the necessary evil will be actual marketing, possibly by reaching out to other streamers and whatnot that DO have those followings and seeing if I can spark their interest in the project. I know I don't have the mental energy to keep it up myself, especially not solo. I'll focus on what I'm good at: making the best game that I can, the sort of thing I'd love to play. The rest will have to be up to the experts in their field, which I am not.
by gruez | 2025-07-11 16:06:20+00:00
>USA has a 250 year history while Japan has 10x of that.

Is that supposed to imply that Japan has more culture, or that it needs more protection because it's 10x longer? Even if Japanese culture is 10x longer than American culture, it doesn't necessarily follow that there's less of it. Pop music and hollywood music might not be considered "culture" by snobs, but they're still culture, and arguably more plentiful and pervasive than Japanese culture.
by phoronixrly | 2025-07-11 16:06:44+00:00
I hope apple engineers see this and cringe as hard as I do each time people have to come to such hacks to work around their infamous thermal design...

Take the product expected to have top-notch design with best in its class UX and discover you need to open it up and make a hardware modification and then cover its metal body with a cheap-looking plastic case...

If you run Asahi on it as well, at this point why even bother with Apple...
by wpm | 2025-07-11 16:06:47+00:00
>taking advantage of the cheaper options with an portable external chassis and a nice thunderbolt cable.

This has a number of downsides on macOS. I am well aware of the cheapness of this, but you also get a worse user-experience. I have a huge NAS that I could connect to over 10GbE too, save for no native iSCSI drivers. I have a handful of external SSDs in enclosures, but I can't easily boot off of it (and if I do, certain features of the OS get disabled). I can't easily or reliably move my home folder to it. I can't clean up my desk without buying expensive external "docks" or something that in addition to a standard M.2 SSD, come out to more expensive than the iBoff upgrade. I have to waste my time juggling files back and forth from the external to the internal in situations where I either want to (for faster speeds) or need to (in cases where Apple's software refuses to work if its not on the internal SSD).

Yeah, 20 years ago the thought of 5GB/s for less than a grand was fantasy. It's not fantasy anymore, and it's not 20 years ago. I'm tired of pretending it is to justify these outrageous prices Apple is extracting from their customers.
by whycome | 2025-07-11 16:06:58+00:00
It's interesting because it's a term that emerged due to a legal allowance (renovation+eviction: allowance to evict a tenant when major renovations to a building have to be done).

What other legal-derived portmanteaus are there?

There's something human and clever and beautiful in the smart portmanteau in that it just communicates an idea so well.
by 8200_unit | 2025-07-11 16:07:05+00:00
If the author was really done with social media they would delete their accounts. Since the accounts are not deleted the door is still open. I deleted my accounts over 5 years ago and don't miss anything. In fact I think it has strengthened my connections with friends pushing me to text and call more people. The only regret I have is as a security researcher I lose out on some good OSINT data. There are ways around it but the walled gardens are quite secure and require ID to enter.
by taco_emoji | 2025-07-11 16:07:14+00:00
Right, I think this is one of those myths that catches hold because it's contrarian and has a grain of truth.

Like I think dull knives are more dangerous than you'd think, but saying they're "more dangerous than sharp knives" is IMO patently false. I've certainly slipped more with dull knives, but... they're dull. They just cannot do as much damage. A dull knife will not take the tip of your finger off. A sharp one will do it before you even feel the pain.

A sharp knife without proper technique is FAR more dangerous.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-11 16:07:20+00:00
Remember back when libertarians had bumper stickers that said things like "married gay couple should be able to defend their weed with machine guns"?

Back in ye olden days if you said that someone was a conspiracy theorist it was a boolean that meant that they believed that literal conspiring was happening and now "conspiracy theorist" this whole diverse spectrum that people who believe various things are not exactly as portrayed exist on.

Oh how the goalposts of fringe have shifted over time.

Never mind how it shifts simply based on who you're asking. I'm sure there's beliefs that are fringe among the Cornell faculty who did this research that are wholly uncontroversial over in the maintenance department.
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-11 16:07:25+00:00
I wasn't blaming yaml at all. Our mistake is thinking we are using it as a configuration file. When we are actually using it as an interpreted language. Not yaml's fault people are writing dsl interpreters unknowingly. It's just related because people who make that mistake are picking yaml. I nearly made the mistake with toml a few years ago. You could even make the mistake with complicated environment variable usage. Whenever your configuration source is flexible enough to create executable primitives it needs to be sanitized. And really that is whenever a configurable value gets used in a conditional, which is often. Especially considering that even numeric values become conditional when they are used in operations that can result in ub or even just exceptions/panics/unhandled errors. Not a yaml exclusive.
by 9rx | 2025-07-11 16:07:28+00:00
> Or maybe they are less of assholes in that regard.

What's the difference? There has been nothing to suggest that the kids today are afraid of fire itself – with earlier implication that they would have bonfires in parks if allowed to – so, what else could they be afraid of other than to upset someone else? Perhaps you forgot to read the thread before replying?

> And starting them does not make one courageous, just jerks.

Now you're going off into la-la land. Did not read the thread confirmed.
by pstuart | 2025-07-11 16:07:30+00:00
I'd like to see nuclear be (safely) viable, which to me means SMRs or go home.

Even SMRs can't compete on price along - current estimate (per the Goog):

SMRs: SMR LCOE range from $80-$90/MWh. Renewables: Solar and wind LCOE can range from $20-$50/MWh, with some estimates even lower.

Yes, having "guaranteed" output has value, but I'm of an age where I can remember the promise of "power too cheap to meter"
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 16:08:11+00:00
The Prime Minister could, in principle, instruct the Queen (this whole arrangement was abolished before Brian got his mum's old job as we'll see shortly) not to issue the Letters Patent for a new Lord, but Parliament has explicitly laid out the rules for this, so, he is in contempt of Parliament. This seems like an unwise course of action as of course he serves only at their pleasure and even Sir Keir, who has an unusually large majority, has discovered that if they don't like what he proposes they can just ignore him.

None of this matters for the Supreme Court, and thus for about 15 years now. It's true that the Supreme Court's justices are made life peers (its original members were of course already peers having previously constituted the Law Lords, but new members are granted a peerage) - however that's merely a convention, if you don't make them a life peer it makes no difference to their job on the court, it just makes you look petty. I don't even think it's contempt now, because the law saying they should be elevated was repealed - unless the new law also says they must be given a peerage when they get the job, I glanced through it and didn't find that, but it's a huge law because making a Supreme Court was not its main purpose.
by timr | 2025-07-11 16:08:32+00:00
You're not going far enough: before Covid, finding a place (excluding conbini) that took a credit card was rare. Credit cards are common now, like you say, but nearly any business will still accept cash.

I think I've encountered at most 1-2 restaurants in Japan that don't take cash, and none that don't at least accept credit cards.
Show HN: Photo viewer, right in the terminal, cross-platform, no need for x11
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-11 16:08:45+00:00
A utility for viewing images in the terminal, convenient, fast and works anywhere, even on weak devices, written in pure C, does not require RGB is ~300kb in size on all platforms. More details in the repository: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...
by RHSeeger | 2025-07-11 16:08:50+00:00
I can't reply to the person that replied to you, so

> You’re looking as a dev, but the reality is that a consumer cannot see technical debt.

The consumer can't _see_ technical debt, but they sure as heck can be impacted by it.

- Technical debt means the code base is harder to work with later. So fixes/enhancements take longer to make it into the code (and sometimes never can)

- This particular type of technical debt means the code by the game developers sets precedent, and the next developer may us it as an example. So the amount of code incorrectly using the api grows faster over time
by cubefox | 2025-07-11 16:08:53+00:00
Some have also argued that the academic theory of "systemic racism" (as opposed to conventional racism) is a conspiracy theory. It's an invisible force that can be postulated to explain any form of discrepancy. "Group X performs worse than group Y? Must be due to systemic racism!" Basically the opposite of alleged Jewish "nepotism". Unlike racism, systemic racism cannot be observed directly, and its existence is only inferred from its hypothetical effect: group disparities.
by itake | 2025-07-11 16:09:18+00:00
I think people in Indonesia would say the same about ChatGPT’s model being pro Christianity. If you ask ChatGPT, how many wives a husband should have, it says one which isn’t true for the majority of religious believers in the world.

Specifically for deepseek there are “controversial” truths based on low quality sources information about certain historical events.

I think people are just upset that a popular AI model doesn’t agree with them and I’m saying “look in the mirror”
by WillAdams | 2025-07-11 16:09:26+00:00
Or skip the power tools to begin?

I use a:

https://bridgecitytools.com/products/jmpv2-jointmaker-pro

and have worked with a number of kids to make small projects using it (and hand saws/drills/yankee screwdrivers/braces/planes)

Their Chopstick Master is a great introduction.
by tempfile | 2025-07-11 16:09:28+00:00
> Discriminating good answers is easier than generating them.

This is actually very wrong. Consider for instance the fact that people who grade your tests in school are typically more talented, capable, trained than the people taking the test. This is true even when an answer key exists.

> Also, human labels are good but have problems of their own,

Granted, but...

> it isn’t like by using a “different intelligence architecture” we elide all the possible errors

nobody is claiming this. We elide the specific, obvious problem that using a system to test itself gives you no reliable information. You need a control.
by throwaway8333 | 2025-07-11 16:09:33+00:00
I've been through that. Even with a BMI below 18 when you already look like a walking skeleton and can't do more than a minute of physical activity without having to rest, you still continue seeing yourself in the mirror as obese, focusing in on small imperfections and exaggerating them to absurd levels. I really saw myself as fat, even though the weight was far below the normal range. You don't believe what other are saying because the mirror is objective and won't lie to you.

It can be fixed though — the hospital stay after passing out from low glucose levels finally straightened me out, but she really needs to figure this out for herself. Good luck.
by 0points | 2025-07-11 16:09:43+00:00
Oh, that's unfortunate :-(

I don't know these compiler internals, but how come the use of DIV_ROUND_UP() make the compilers ignore the unused state of the end variable?

I mean, after the DIV_ROUND_UP(), theres a bit shift:

psize <<= ashift;

Only after the bit shift, nobody uses the result.

Shouldn't this be enough clues for the compiler to realize the variable is unused?
by freeopinion | 2025-07-11 16:09:55+00:00
I think posting a note about your graduation so that all your friends and family can read a single note is a great use of social media. Reading about your niece's archery trophy is social media.

You can do this through email. But a personal website is a bit more interesting and preserves some privacy for the audience. Hosting your own site is beyond the abilities of most people, so it makes sense to have some easy hosting solution. A social media service is a fantastic idea.

Doom scrolling through Tiktok is not social.

Most people do not use "social media" services strictly as social media services. They use them as news services, music streaming services, etc. And most "social media" services encourage this and make it difficult to use their sites for social media.

A decent social media provider, like a decent email provider or hosting provider would have to charge money for their service. I don't know how many people would want such a service nor how many people would be willing to pay for it.
by danudey | 2025-07-11 16:10:15+00:00
I took a look at their privacy policy and agree that it doesn't specifically list that it logs which domains are being queried. It does list a bunch of things it does log as counters, all of which seems reasonable, but they don't explicitly say "we count which domains are being queried".

That said, I think it's entirely reasonable for them to log domains alone if they're completely disconnected from any user activity, i.e. a simple "increment the counter for foo.com" is reasonable since that's unrelated to user privacy.
by benreesman | 2025-07-11 16:10:21+00:00
We could also stop gerrymandering the use/abuse line and just make a call as a society: we use drugs (most people most places most of history) or we don't fuck with drugs (most of the Islamic world, certain subcultures).

America is a Puritan origin society with a temperance faction that has been everything from writing the Constitution to largely ignored, standards for alcohol, cannabis, scripts fluctuate like hemlines: a typical adulthood will see multiple incompatible regimes of acceptable use vs unacceptable abuse.

None of that is anything to do with compassionate provision of high-quality medical care to vulnerable people (a strict ethical and practical good). Compassionate provision of high quality support is both expensive and leaves no room for insider/outsider lizard brain shit, i.e. not a very American thing to do in the 21st century.

Our society needs to get its shit together on this, not further weaponize it.
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-11 16:10:28+00:00
> I'm not a natural on camera and I don't have that talent for talking effortlessly and engagingly to a lens when alone in a room that successful social media personalities need. I was forcing it all the time, making myself record multiple takes and doing things again and again until they looked "natural" (a highly unnatural behaviour). My video editing skills are basic, so turning out regular videos took me a long time.

They would have done better and would have resented it less if they had just owned it and not worried as much. They would have become more comfortable on camera as a result. You first attempts at this are going to be rubbish anyway.

So it better to just put stuff out there and iterate. All the big mistakes have been made by others and if you avoid those you will be fine.

When I first started doing YouTube vids. I was determined I should be like some big coding channel. I didn't have the video editing skills, nor really knew enough OBS to do it effectively. So I was stressing about it. My videos did pretty decently (I had less than 50 subs and I had 1200 views on one of my videos).

Now I am doing as if it is a hobby that I will hopefully turn into something more and I am enjoying it a lot more. I get decent engagement / views for my channel considering the size (200-1000 views per vid) when you have less than 500 subs is decent IMO. As I get better with the OBS/Kdenlive/Resolve I am sure I will have more fun editing.
by SkipperCat | 2025-07-11 16:10:33+00:00
What you describe is the best of what social media can be. Real people connecting, interacting with each other and helping folks. Sadly, a lot of social media is not this. Its people and bots posting content designed to inflame, generate hate and make people feel bad about themselves by comparing their own lives to unattainable goals (eg: Instagram).

Add to this the addictive way Social Media engineers their sites to keep people swiping rather than interacting with real people and you have a product which may be more net negative than positive.

I wish there were more instances of Social Media operating in the way you describe. That was the dream...
by wpm | 2025-07-11 16:10:49+00:00
The linked repo has a pretty good rundown of possible reasons:

> If non-square screens on Macbook Pros make your blood boil with rage

> If you can't afford or don't want to pay for a Macbook Pro (smart choice)

> If you have ergonomics concerns with shrinking laptops and one size fits all keyboards

> If you like your systems to be repairable and modular rather than comprised of proprietary parts shoehorned in to a closed source design available only from a single vendor for a limited time

> If you are blind (and don't want to carry a screen around)

> If you want to use AR instead of a screen and therefore prefer to be untethered

> If you are on a sailing ship, submarine, mobile home, campervan, paraglider, recumbent touring bicycle, or otherwise off-grid

> If you want a capable unix system to power a mobile mechatronic system

I'd add in not having to deal with a Macbook in clamshell mode doing stupid crap like forcing you to double-tap the touchID button sometimes, refusing to connect to external keyboards and mice on wake, and some of the other annoyances I have dealt with.

Also, a Mac Mini is small, and a MacBook is not, at least as a function of "desk area" vs "area consumed".
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-07-11 16:10:57+00:00
I am more on the AI skeptic side (LLMs are not a path to general intelligence, most positions cannot be 100% replaced with any version of product I have seem to date), but I fully agree. Some form of AI text generation is likely to be here forever. Maybe it gets vastly more efficient per clock cycle, but compared to N years ago, all of the tech vendors need more compute to offer this service.
by conductr | 2025-07-11 16:11:01+00:00
Not at all bothered by this, this is very unique. Scissor skills are important but more so for paper which has limitations versus cardboard. I use a lot of power tools and my kid watches me kind of bored, unable to participate. I could easily see him feeling like we were 'working together' if I had one of these setup in my shop. He also likes to create all kinds of stuff and I'd be interested to see what he'd come up with.

But, what does bother me is the price, $250 seems steep.