MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netsharc | 2025-07-02 18:31:14+00:00
Yes, it's janky but familiar. On the phone you'll see a "Click here" and know to use your thumb to touch the area of the screen to do whatever action is behind that, on the text-based browser you know you can tab to that "Click here" text and hit Enter to navigate. If a kid saw this you'd have to explain to them the historical context of desktop computers and mice.

Just because you're used to the jank doesn't mean it's the best design.

As sibling comment says, on the Mac the first menu item is about the app. App -> Preferences, App -> Exit, wouldn't such a convention make more sense?
by crazygringo | 2025-07-02 18:31:27+00:00
That's a screen reader problem and search engine problem.

It would be an extraordinarily easy for screen readers to have a heuristic that whenever a link is just "click here" or common variations like "tap here", "click", etc., to read the entire sentence containing the link. It's not exactly rocket science. Yes, you need an internationalized list of strings to detect. Also, if aria-label is present, just use that.

Likewise, search engines are great at inferring meaning from the page as a whole. I'm not going to change my link text for the benefit of search engines.
by corry | 2025-07-02 18:31:44+00:00
IMO it's wild to have the expectation that a Quaker author writing in a Quaker publication about his direct experiences with Zen Buddhism (as practiced in a specific New Jersey group) and how it helped him meditate is deficient because it doesn't provide caveats or overviews of the in's and out's of the various forms of Buddhism.

You REALLY think anyone would benefit from him adding:

BIG CAVEAT: BUDDHISM IS A RELIGION OF BILLIONS AND SOME PARTICULAR GROUPS MIGHT NOT FIT WITH THE DESCRIPTIONS OF MY EXPERIENCE!!!!

ALSO, IT IS ABSOLUTELY *IMPERATIVE* THAT YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME MILITANT BUDDHIST GROUPS IN MYANAMAR!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING!!

???
by enugu | 2025-07-02 18:32:06+00:00
Quoting examples without an effort to show that it is representative of Buddhist teachings is basically a smear. Like starting a discussion on liberalism, not with principles of individual freedom, but instead saying that the attempt to bring democracy to Iraq is the representative example of liberalism.

(Some on the left who oppose liberalism actually do some versions of this, quoting Mills on colonialism - but that is a genetic fallacy.)

It makes much more sense to say that anytime some teaching/philosophy becomes popular at a continental scale, the people who are involved in conflicts will try to appropriate it to justify their position.

If you want to evaluate the role of the teaching itself, one would have to compare it to alternatives and whether they would be more easily appropriated.
by lucaserla | 2025-07-02 18:32:09+00:00
I have been working on AutoGram in silent for the past 3 years. I had 6 friends using the tool with more features and aggressive strategies. They eventually all stopped using it due to Instagram's stricter policies. Considering all the tears and sweat, I promised myself that I would ship it one day. A simpler and improved version that hopefully won't piss off Instagram and bring you some joy.
by observationist | 2025-07-02 18:32:16+00:00
A big tech company firing a few thousand current employees and hiring twice as many H1B workers shows a net gain for jobs health, when this represents wages dropping, more people unemployed, and has a very negative impact on the economy. Many big companies game the metrics being Goodharted by regulators and watchdogs, and people guilelessly buy into the headlines, without inspecting the reality underneath.
by Animats | 2025-07-02 18:32:41+00:00
> I imagine there are similar issues with ship design.

The U.S. Navy built some stealthy ships.[1][2] But they were very expensive. It seems to have been a dead end not worth the trouble. There are so many sensors, shipborne, airborne, spaceborne, and onshore, that trying to hide a slow moving warship isn't likely to work against a peer opponent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow_(IX-529)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Zumwalt
by aerostable_slug | 2025-07-02 18:32:57+00:00
"According to her attorney, Andrea Velez was released on bond after being detained by immigration enforcement agents on Tuesday and then charged with assaulting a federal officer." [0]

That's good cause for an arrest. Civil disobedience carries consequences.

[0] https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/family-outraged-fed...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-02 18:33:06+00:00
> Send them abroad.

If I had the money to do that I wouldn't need to live with my 5 adult sons.

> Move where the jobs and money move.

Reestablishing to another market requires a fat stack of cash and a lot of luck. More so for 6 people. Once there the clock is ticking and whatever cash remains is evaporating while everyone searches for work. If enough jobs aren't found in time, 6 people are homeless.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-02 18:33:14+00:00
Yes, kindle books in certain formats after a certain version of the kindle OS do the popup modal for footnotes thing. Amazon auto-upgrades the format on a lot of books when you buy them from Amazon, but in my experience it's still possible to get (or still have) old MOBI files especially from third parties that only support the old endnotes links and it's also still possible you have a kindle from before the feature was added to the OS and it will still fallback to the endnotes style.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-02 18:33:34+00:00
Claude Code in the terminal has found the winning solution IMO. I have a multi-tab terminal with a session open in each tab and I keep cycling between them giving Claude tasks. I also keep VSCode open for diffing and making my own edits (with GitHub CoPilot enabled) and I also use GoLand for debugging.

If you haven't tried Claude Code yet, it takes like 30 seconds to install and get started and shows its value very quickly.
by rimunroe | 2025-07-02 18:33:59+00:00
> But quakerism as a living religion is extremely small and quite diverse for its tiny size, and groups practicing the traditional silent worship are a small minority even within that. The majority of living quakers experience a religion much closer to the main stream of evangelical christianity than you will expect from reading about it online.

Could you elaborate on this? This is fairly surprising to me as someone raised as a Quaker and who still attends meeting occasionally despite being an atheist. While I’m aware of a few different sects within Quakerism, I’ve never heard of one which eschews silent worship. I haven’t ever personally encountered an evangelical Quaker, and the thought seems particularly strange to me.
by ryandv | 2025-07-02 18:34:44+00:00
Determinism, in that given some set of inputs you only ever receive one output.

Non-determinism, in that given some set of inputs it's possible to receive a collection (a list) of possible outputs.

With lists you can express things like all possible pairings of all possible outcomes, or the Cartesian product:

ghci> liftM2 (,) ['a', 'b', 'c'] [1,2,3] [('a',1),('a',2),('a',3),('b',1),('b',2),('b',3),('c',1),('c',2),('c',3)]

... or in more explicit monadic do-notation:

ghci> :{ ghci| do ghci| x <- ['a', 'b', 'c'] ghci| y <- [1,2,3] ghci| return (x, y) ghci| :} [('a',1),('a',2),('a',3),('b',1),('b',2),('b',3),('c',1),('c',2),('c',3)]

and so on.
by superultra | 2025-07-02 18:34:48+00:00
I looked up the EPA report for the brownsite. It listed arsenic, barium, multiple chromium compounds, 2,4-dimethylphenol ethylbenzen lead, 4-methyl-2-pentanone, methlyene chloride, naphthalene, toluene, and xylene at hazardous levels. It also mentions steel, zinc, and nickel dust and fumes.

I do know that I drove by the old site a few years ago, and you can see the outlines of not just the buildings but the machinery because the dirt is a different color, and there's either no or very little grass or just stubborn weeds growing in those areas.
by nec4b | 2025-07-02 18:35:01+00:00
Is it possible for you drive over the border to Mexico and have best Mexican food costing almost nothing. Can you fly to Caribbean or Hawaii over the weekend? Can you camp in Grand Canyon, Yosemite or Yellowstone? Your view is in no way representative of a typical European who cares a lot more about money then you. Money, which you ironically made in the states.
by Volundr | 2025-07-02 18:35:07+00:00
Nope! Do I need a fleet of servers to run it? No problem! Do I need a specific release.minor.patch of FreeBSD? No problem! Do I need your proprietary kernel patches? Yeah you need to release those.

Or do you have tooling that allows your devs to run it on their machines without the server components (most online games do)? Releasing that instead is also an option.
by vlmrunadmin007 | 2025-07-02 18:35:57+00:00
It's impressive how the MCP example in https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/examples/template-search search retains visual context across multiple images and tool calls. Unlike most chat interfaces, it enables seamless multi-step reasoning—like finding a logo in one image and tracking it in another—without losing state. This makes it ideal for building stateful, iterative visual workflows.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-02 18:36:06+00:00
This is a proposal for new games, not existing games. If the requirement for this is there in the design stage then it incentivizes developers to design it in from the start and pushes the implementation costs down signficantly.

If a developer decides to not take that requirement in the design stage then that is their prerogative, but not even doing it would be like not following any other EU consumer protection law.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-02 18:36:14+00:00
> There's another old practice of refusing to swear on the Bible before telling the truth, as that would imply that they weren't telling the truth before they were sworn in.

I've always found it extremely odd that anyone swears on the Bible, since it pretty plainly says not to do that:

Matthew 5:33-37

“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

https://www.esv.org/Matthew+5/
by thaack | 2025-07-02 18:36:27+00:00
You would think it would be that black and white, and under normal circumstances I would tend to agree, however pay is well above average for the location and skill especially when you factor in the benefit package.

I really think it comes down to the fact that people have no interest in working in low skill manufacturing. The business loses people to Walmart etc. where they get lower pay and no benefits all the time. There is more variety of work and potential for advancement at a company like Walmart. Even at a larger scale low skill manufacturing plant advancement is sparse.
by missedthecue | 2025-07-02 18:36:39+00:00
Textile manufacturing is basically just a derivative of electricity and labor costs. There isn't much more too it, and per sq meter, it's extremely cheap to ship product around the world.

Textile mills in Bangladesh are able to pay $0.025 US cents per kwh, and factory laborers can be employed for about $150 a month. From their main port to the US west coast, when sent by container ship, costs about $0.10 per sq m. There is no universe where anyone else can compete. It's not within America's comparative advantage anymore.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-02 18:36:54+00:00
I think you should do some more investigation and spend more time thinking about your "backup plan" - a master's degree is no walk in the park, even though it's "easier" than a Ph.D. Plus, it can be expensive. I'd consider staying in-state and going to a solid engineering school with good industry connections.

I don't know much about an MFE degree but it sounds rather specialized. Would you better served by just doing a broad Master's in Computer Science degree, and choosing a specialization? Finance is something you can easily learn on the side, I'm not sure how useful it is to go to school for it. Same goes for an MBA.

Another option worth consider is Georgia Tech's Online Master's in Computer Science (https://omscs.gatech.edu/). I've heard very good things about it first-hand from a colleague, and even considered it myself (before deciding I don't really need a second master's degree...). This would allow you to perhaps pick up part-time work/freelancing while doing your master's. Plus the degree is something like $10k all in, which is a huge bargain for how good the program is (top 10 CS I believe).
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-07-02 18:37:34+00:00
IMO that's the problem of the screen reader/search engine. It's a fine line between "accessibility" and actively making things worse (i.e. less accessible) for the majority just to cater to a small group of screen reader users.

That's similar to replacing all major doors in a building with automatic ones that can't be operated manually and take forever to open, despite the typical occupancy by wheelchair users being 0. Accessibility is great, but accessibility for few should not come at the cost of accessibility for most.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-02 18:37:53+00:00
Making your own push system on Android is rather unreliable. On phones from several brands (Samsung, for one) the system would constantly try to kill any long-running polling operation or background refresh daemon.

I don't really see their point about device IDs, though. There are ways around that, from cryptography to on-device filtering.

It's also not like Apple isn't storing device IDs to send these push messages. There's no difference to user privacy.

All of that said, by leaving it up to Apple to keep track of device IDs, they're not going to be on the hook for warrants. The government can get that data from Apple instead, but they can claim innocence. It's CYA.
by mxuribe | 2025-07-02 18:37:59+00:00
> American employees are, for the most part, being replaced by H1-B visaholders via off-shore contracting companies...

American companies have been trying to replace American works for decades....this is not new. I wonder if trying to stop folks trying to make a simple decent living in the U.s. is not the right approach? ...Rather, i think the focus should be against the leaders of the American companies...Because they seem to be the ones pushing to get rid of ALL workers...sure, for now, they're trying to replace American workers, but soon enough they'll want to get rid of the H1B workers too...and eventually get rid of ANY/ALL workers if it means they can squeeze as much money for themselves.

If/When AI and robots come en masse to "steal jobs", would you blame the workers who get kicked out of the companies (even if they had upskilled themselves), or would you blame the leaders who kicked the people out? With all due respect, my opinion is that i think you're blaming the wrong people.
by languagehacker | 2025-07-02 18:38:55+00:00
Can someone double-check my understanding of this?

Double is a portfolio management service that purchases shares that match the blend of a specific index for its customers. So instead of owning an index, you own the shares.

Double is winding down because they are not profitable. They are instructing their customers to either fully liquidate their holdings, or perform an ACATS transfer, which generally requires that any fractional holdings be liquidated first. However, the business model will necessarily require holding fractional shares because of the way indexes work.

So my question is, this is going to cause many of their customers to get dinged by short-term capital gains tax, right? That stinks.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-02 18:39:34+00:00
> You haven't told us what -you- have been telling your sons about women & marriage.

I told my sons about people and relationships. They know way more than I did at their age.

> How was your love life?

I assume you mean sex. No one wants to know about their parents sex life at any age. Wisdom endlessly reinforces that.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-02 18:40:08+00:00
Attended Quaker meeting as a kid growing up as well. I appreciated the non-heirarchical aspect of it. No priest or anyone "leading" the "worship". No crosses or statuary of any kind. A simple room with half the seats in the room facing the other half. Occasionally someone broke the silence and said something short ... meditative?

When I was told Quakers did not kill, would not take up a gun and point it at a fellow human, I was surprised. "What if they are trying to kill you?" little kid me asked with incredulity. "You cannot even kill in self-defense," I was told.

Even then I could appreciate the seriousness of their conviction.
by vintagedave | 2025-07-02 18:40:17+00:00
It looks completely different and is a non-profit:

> Couchers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization ... [incorporated] in the United States in late 2021, and the project was moved under the purview of this new non-profit in early 2022.

-- https://couchers.org/foundation
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-02 18:40:17+00:00
At git.ardour.org, we block any attempt to retrieve a specific commit. Trying to do so triggers fail2ban putting the IP into blocked status for 24hrs. They also get a 404 response.

We wouldn't mind if bots simply cloned the repo every week or something. But instead they crawl through the entire reflog. Fucking stupid behavior, and one that has cost us an extra $50/month even with just the 404.
by StratusBen | 2025-07-02 18:41:00+00:00
tl;dr We re-wrote the entire codebase that was backing https://ec2instances.info/ - the popular EC2 instance price comparison tool. Its much, much faster.

I'm Co-Founder & CEO of Vantage - we're a cloud cost management tool. We acquired ec2instances.info about four years ago. The site has grown from about 275,000 visitors to nearly 4,000,000 visitors in that time frame. The codebase backing it was...rough. It was over 10 years old and was never meant for this much usage or this much data....AWS has launched a lot of EC2 instances over the years.

As a result, we did a complete re-write. We have a new modern codebase backing the site that makes it blazingly fast compared to its old self. We also can deliver much, much faster on product feature requests as well so if you have requests please feel free to open issues on the underlying repo here: https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
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by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-02 18:41:41+00:00
I attended a silent meeting in the US almost two decades ago and this was my understanding at the time too. I later got interested in the demographics of religion and keep checking on the quakers and it's just not at all what you would extrapolate from this.

In the US iirc only about half of meetings are "unprogrammed" which is the traditional silent meeting. The other half more or less follow a normal low church formula, with congregational singing, bible readings, and one or more sermons. Also usually a period of silent worship still but it's not the bulk of the meeting. The doctrine of these churches is still quaker, because nearly anything can be, but people's polled beliefs are basically protestant christian.

Outside the US this second style was much more active in evangelism and missionary work and so the "programmed" style is vastly more popular. The majority of silent worshipping quakers are in the US & england, but globally they only represent something like 20% of active quakers. Africa and a few south american countries outnumber them by a huge margin.

The numbers are not good or reliable either because it's an extreme minority religion, something that might not be obvious if your exposure was in a large american city (or esp in one of the historical quaker regions) or on the internet. But best counts are less than half a million globally so even by the standards of minority religions just so so small. By comparison with other religious minorities there are more jews in los angeles, more muslims in chicago than there are quakers in the world. So whatever your local expression or personal experience of quakerism is it is probably unique and in some sense a historical outlier.
by Eggs-n-Jakey | 2025-07-02 18:41:47+00:00
it's not even that man, it shows insecurity in their growth and future business, they're terrified they took the wrong bet on their massive investments into Ai, or the perception of those investments.

A layoff is a complete and utter failure in leadership top down.

Then applying for 6k visas that are going to be compensated well below industry levels is just a complete joke.
by babypuncher | 2025-07-02 18:41:55+00:00
It's like any economic discussion I have when visiting my parents. I'll advocate for something every other developed nation has, like paid paternity leave or a sane healthcare system, and they immediately start talking about communist East Germany like that's somehow relevant.

Yeah, we know cops in Mexico are corrupt. Our police force has a very different problem set that we need to solve. Pointing out a different problem in a different country contributes nothing.
by BuckRogers | 2025-07-02 18:42:28+00:00
I used Firefox for roughly 19 years at least or a bit more. I switched to Edge and have been very happy for years now. I didn't know they committed to supporting V2 but it does appear they intend to as long as it serves user choice and privacy needs.

I left because they kept stripping features out that I was used to whether it was my RSS toolbar feeds or something else. I forgot which feature removal was the final straw, or if it was a bug or two that irked me. While I was never a Chrome user, I found Edge was an alternative that I was happy with. I also see a lot of benefit to native browsers. Ironically, that I learned about from Mozilla's own devblogs.

Supporting V2 like this is the exact opposite of what drove me away. I'm cruising so happily on Edge that I'm unsure if I'm willing to do another shift, but I am going to reconsider my life choices.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-02 18:42:47+00:00
Cheaper and easier to build. Apple's SDK offers a lot of options and doesn't require a lot of credit card details, unlike some of Google's APIs.

Plus, web apps are gimped on iOS (no notification support without going through a cumbersome PWA installation flow and data getting wiped every 14 days if you're just letting it run in the background).
by lambdaone | 2025-07-02 18:42:59+00:00
There would probably be a Universal Common Embedding used as an intermediate representation between people's individual private neural representations. Likely the distant descendant of our open-source neural models.

And machines would of course also use the Universal Common Embedding to communicate, as man and machine meld into a seamless distributed whole.

It all seems a little bit too inevitable for my liking at this point.