MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roxolotl | 2025-07-06 13:02:13+00:00
The Onion has a great response to this from 2009: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY

Of course you can opt out. People live in the backwoods of Alaska. But if you want to live a semi normal life there is no option. And absolutely people should feel entitled to a normal life.
by meheleventyone | 2025-07-06 13:02:21+00:00
That’s because distribution is seperate from sale. For example Spotify has a license to distribute music but not sell it.

I suspect if you’re expecting to undo decades of IP law with this then you’ll be disappointed. I also suspect that the requirement to be functional rather than complete could also mean as long as the game continued to work removing the content would be fine.
by mathgeek | 2025-07-06 13:02:44+00:00
> The people who make the money in gold rushes sold shovels, not mined the gold. Sure some random people found gold and made a lot of money, but many others didn't strike it rich.

Another important group to remember is those who owned the infrastructure necessary for the prospectors to survive. The folks who owned (or strong-armed their way into) the services around housing, food, alcohol, etc. made off like bandits.
by prng2021 | 2025-07-06 13:03:07+00:00
How is this hard to understand? You’re completely missing the point. You’re basically saying if you get a spam text, don’t read it. If you get spam email, don’t read it. If you see an ad modal popup on a website, close it. It’s all still super annoying just like these AI features screaming “use me! click me! type to me!” all over the place in the UI.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-07-06 13:03:11+00:00
> Almost nobody applies critical thought to politics

Including you. This is a 3000 year old critique you just uncritically parroted. It is the the original thought terminating cliche. People have always been calling each other ideologically brainwashed NPCs and themselves independent maverick free thinkers.

Except my thoughts are original and critical, everyone else is just a sheep. /s
by cainxinth | 2025-07-06 13:03:36+00:00
Uber and Lyft are expensive but anyone who says they are worse than what they replaced doesn’t remember well the heydays of taxis. Sure, people in big towns like NYC could always get one fairly easily, but everyone else was stuck dealing with whatever potentially shady operation they could dig out of a phonebook, and even then getting a car wasn’t guaranteed.

Now, anyone anywhere can get a ride, often quickly. I’m not trying to excuse any predatory commercial practices directed at drivers or passengers, which are serious problems deserving of more strict regulation, but I absolutely do not want to go back to the old way.
by duckilicious | 2025-07-06 13:03:46+00:00
The author reeks of self importance and what he thinks is moral superiorioty. Was too hard to read.

To the point of the post, Amazon engages in lawful tactics to conquer the retail market. Consumers are incentivelzed to get the best value out of their money. If you want change legislation is needed. Your approach of shaming people for using their services isn't scalable. And I also don't agree with plenty of the premises in your article but it doesn't matter.
by sylens | 2025-07-06 13:03:59+00:00
We are already seeing the beginning of this as less and less games are made targeting the high end, bleeding edge specs. The Nintendo Switch 2 and a wave of portable devices similar in style to it and the Steam Deck will become the target platform for most developers over the next decade. There will be a proper PS6 but it will be incredibly expensive (perhaps more so than the PS5 Pro) and the audience for that will continue to shrink.
by dialup_sounds | 2025-07-06 13:05:02+00:00
Second!

Outliners are a very underserved space, eclipsed by overwrought note apps that treat outlining as formatting rather than a fundamental tool for organizing thought and communication.

Indigrid (https://innovationdilation.com/) was extremely promising but is presumed dead.

Bike on Mac (https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/) is probably the best living example.

...and there's not much else.
by vinhnx | 2025-07-06 13:05:08+00:00
Thank you for trying it out. I will look into it asap. Could you mind to share more on which model you chose, or you can send me an email at hello@vtchat.io.vn I will look into it. Thanks!

If that still doesn't work, please choose a Gemini Model (Gemini 2.5/2.0 Flash) and also check if you have set Gemini API key under API Key section in Settings page. PDF extract requires an Gemini API Key.

For now, PDF support only works for Gemini and Anthropic Models. I will try to support more models soon in future.
by surgical_fire | 2025-07-06 13:05:12+00:00
> Also as a side note, I think that it's kind of arrogant to think we can create a society where no one does work they don't like, for wages that are always perfect.

I would agree if there were no billionaires in a country where people also cannot afford things such as housing, food, healthcare and basic education. With economic inequality this high, I don't think we are trying hard enough to create a more egalitarian society.

> I get your stance on the cruelty of the current system, but I want to note that in the span of human time we've had MUCH crueler systems in place.

That scaphism is more cruel than stoning as means of execution, it does not make stoning more humane.

I think you get my analogy.

> I mean that we in the sense that no known society has collapsed because of a lack of UBI (would love to be corrected here). UBI is clearly, objectively not a need

No society collapsed directly because of use of slave labor. Many actually thrived in such a system.

That should not be an argument in favor of slavery.

Just because the lack of UBI does not cause society to collapse ot does not mean that a society as inequal as ours cannot be improved.

> Yes, except that is happening at the same time that we've turned what could be a huge corner on automation of both white collar and maybe eventually blue collar work.

I don't think we turned this corner. But if we did, then perhaps it's fine we head towards extinction. With no humans there will be no inequality eh?

> we need higher taxes on businesses or automation or both.

Agreed.

> The classic refrain to the increased tax is that businesses will leave. I think that's absolute bullshit

I always say the same. If businesses leave, but the demand for goods and services in that society still exists, other businesses will occupy that space. Either existing businesses will seize that opportunity or new businesses will spawn.

> What we lack is politicians who can/want to reign in corporate power.

In no small part because our current system favors capital above all else, and excessive capital concentration allows its owners to distort institutions to their will. Excessive economic inequality is a bitch.

Note that I said excessive. I am not against some economic inequality. I think it's alright for a surgeon to have a nicer house and a better car than, say, a store clerk.

I don't think it's alright for one to have a mutiple yachts and mansions on ski resorts, while the other fights starvation.

Not that I think surgeons have multiple yachts or mansions on ski resorts. But I think you get my point.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-06 13:05:23+00:00
> How do you technically prevent a cloud vendor from changing their pricing?

Through regulating markets to ensure fierce competition - including things like portability, standard APIs, banning egress fees and similar lock in techniques, breaking up infrastructure (DCs and networking) from service providers. In cloud we have 3 vertically integrated mega oligopolies. That’s not a healthy market.

> data portability […] probably requires a technical solution

Yes, formats and APIs are needed for technical reasons, but it already exists (or fairly trivial to implement) and is not provided – sometimes actively obstructed – for business reasons. Imo interop is predominantly bottlenecked by social/business concerns.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-06 13:06:42+00:00
The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models.

That's what we're seeing with Youtube for instance: your choice is to pay Youtube's price for Premium (litteraly paying to not get bullied), sit through all the ads in the world, or get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough.

Of course you're still free to go somewhere else, in a world where even public guides and presentations will often be pushed on youtube only, to alleviate for the bandwidth costs on standard web services.
by mattlondon | 2025-07-06 13:07:21+00:00
Well I think that actually this is the whole rationale for adding redundant safety systems: i.e. you are going to have "holes" even if you don't know it, so add another system and hopefully the holes don't line up. I don't think is is an argument for not adding more - if anything it is the opposite surely?

Obviously at some point you say enough is enough, no more cheese. I guess the nuance is how much cheese is enough.
by kesor | 2025-07-06 13:08:03+00:00
Companies didn't ask your opinion when they offshore manufacturing to Asia. They didn't ask your opinion when they offshore support to call centers in Asia. Companies don't ask your opinion, they do what they think is best for their financial interest, and that is how capitalism works.

Once upon a time, not too long ago, there was someone who would bag your groceries, and someone who would clean your window at the gas station. Now you do self-checkout. Has anyone asked for this? Your quality of life is worse, the companies are automating away humanity into something they think is more profitable for them.

In a society where you don't have government protection for such companies, there would be other companies who provide a better service whose competition would win. But when you have a fat corrupt government, lobbying makes sense, and crony-capitalism births monopolies which cannot have any competition. Then they do whatever they want to you and society at large, and they don't owe you, you owe them. Your tax dollars sponsor all of this even more than your direct payments do.
by animal531 | 2025-07-06 13:08:13+00:00
Youtuber/Engineer William Osman had a great rant some time back when he bought a new microwave and it came with a ton of buttons, his argument being that a microwave only really needs one (and ideally its just a dial instead of a button).

My previous one lasted more than 20 years, from when my parents bought it for me when I went to study until some time in my 40s. It was still functional, but its dial had become loose and it didn't look that great anymore.

The one I bought after that follows the new pattern, it has buttons up the wazoo and who even knows what they do? To be honest I just need one power setting with a time and maybe a defrost option?
by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-06 13:08:15+00:00
> A class of people would have a larger spending power.

Spending power with no real alternatives (i.e. in monopoly/oligopoly conditions) isn't actually very useful IMO. It's mostly just more guaranteed money for the current monopoly/oligopoly -- you're just guaranteeing revenue streams.

In a pre-UBI world, you can at least assume that companies can't completely shaft employees because then no one can buy anything. If the government steps in to make sure people can still buy stuff, that has almost the opposite effect.

I think walmart & it's treatment of employees (with employees reportedly needing to ALSO depend on food stamps) as a perfect example of the system kind of working against itself. The fix for that problem is within our reach right now, but it's just unpopular for the usual reasons with the people with the ability to make the fix.

> Naturally, implementing UBI would require the entire financial sector to adjust. We would likely need to significantly raise interest rates (Which, IMHO would be great) and have a period to manage inflation. > > But beside the initial recalibration phase, I have not seen any convincing arguments for why prices on non-positional goods would increase. Even with the increase interest rates, we would likely see that prices on positional goods / assets would stabilize as dead-cheap capital is not available.

OK, so then how about we do this without the UBI bit and just raise interest rates? I'm not seeing where UBI actually has a material benefit here, and there are other real problems with raising interest rates, because losing access to cheap credit also hurts those at the bottom of the economy (arguably even more) -- the solution there is political, likely (i.e. lower income borrowers could somehow be advantaged, but then we have shades of 2008 all over again if excessive greed/moral hazard sets in).
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-06 13:08:50+00:00
Not sure how that will work since JWST orbits the second Lagrange point.

It would be like asking for the GPS coordinates of the moon. NASA did test receiving weak GPS signals on the moon with LRO in 2023. It wouldn’t be useful for navigation though (not yet unless someone has like a way to do reverse GPS on the moon but not sure how that would work)

Reason this works for the ISS is because of the subsatellite point. It can receive GPS signals regardless of altitude above the Earth’s surface.

Also TLEs apply to the ISS because it’s earth orbiting.

TLEs are designed for satellites in Earth orbit, where they define position and velocity using orbital elements interpreted by models like SGP4.
by sfn42 | 2025-07-06 13:08:58+00:00
You don't have to participate. I don't play any pay to win games. I play some games with in-game micro transactions like cosmetics and such, but I don't spend money on it.

For me it's really an ideal situation. I can play great games like overwatch 2, Apex legends, cs2, path of exile and more completely for free. I can ignore bullshit games like I dunno Genshin impact? I think that's one of the really toxic pay to win games. There's also that Diablo mobile game. I don't participate in those.

It's that simple. You offer a good deal I take it, offer a bad one I dont.
by tomhow | 2025-07-06 13:09:12+00:00
The thing is you just don’t seem to be able to convey why it is that it’s such an important issue. Nobody else cares about it. But you take us to task about it again and again with these lengthy comments but not a clear statement of what the fundamental problem is.

For what it’s worth we have systems and methods for finding good new articles, like the second chance pool. We wouldn’t ban other people’s scripts for the same reason there’s always room in the marketplace for different variants of a product; someone else’s variant may be better than ours at least in some ways.

Ultimately there’s just no need for us to spend a whole lot of time thinking about it because it doesn’t cause problems (that we can’t address with routine human oversight).
by meheleventyone | 2025-07-06 13:09:14+00:00
No they don’t need perpetual licenses for physical copies. They just need to stop distributing physical copies when they lose the license. For example a reissue of a rhythm-action game (or a release on another platform) might be missing songs from previous releases of the same title. The issue with digital distribution is that you can’t redistribute the content once the license has expired. So if someone needs to redownload the game for whatever reason then they can’t provide content they no longer have a license for.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-07-06 13:09:26+00:00
No, you are probably correct for your own circumstances.

I was shopping for something to run Home Assistant on last week. (if you don't know about HA, check it out, it's crazy good!). I was befuddled, I kept coming back to online threads like this where people claim these mini PCs are much better than a Pi 5 setup AND cheaper too. That's just not true for my region, because of a very confusing, complex set of constraints:

- Most of these good, new, low-power Mini PCs are not imported into my country

- The ones that are imported are higher-end versions (e.g. Beelink S12 Pro) which cost more than twice the Pi setup

- I can buy from Ebay, Amazon, Aliexpress etc. and get it imported but the import tax is so huge it stops being cheaper

- I can easily get a second hand Mini PC in the cheaper-than-Pi5-setup range, but all of them are old machines with high power consumption that'll them more expensive than the Pi5 setup in a single year or two, with my current price of electricity

In the end I opted for a Pi5 4GB, which is more than enough for running HA. The total was $125 for the full setup with cooler fan, 128GB SSD and original power supply. Though I got the Pi5 second hand, otherwise the total would be $145.
by nemothekid | 2025-07-06 13:10:03+00:00
No that’s fair - I don’t think I articulated the difference between normal social rules and dating apps.

What I’ve found is that the first couple of interactions (up until the second date) can be completely formulaic - and what can look like outward success is just a treadmill.

If you get too good at optimizing the dating apps funnel you can find yourself on a regular rotation of dates without actually connecting with anyone.
by cs702 | 2025-07-06 13:10:42+00:00
> If you don’t like something, don’t buy it.

The OP's point is that increasingly, we don't have that choice, for example, because AI slop masquerades as if it were authored by human beings (that's, in fact, its purpose!), or because the software applications you rely on suddenly start pushing "AI companions" on you, whether you want them or not, or because you have no viable alternatives to the software applications you use, so you must put up with those "AI companions," whether you want them in your life or not.
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-07-06 13:10:52+00:00
Relativity isn’t needed because rockets never get anywhere near the speeds or gravitational extremes where Einstein’s equations matter. At rocket speeds, Newtonian mechanics is so accurate the difference is negligible, so why make things harder? NASA sticks with Newton because it’s simpler, faster to calculate, and gets the job done perfectly for launching rockets into orbit.
by porphyra | 2025-07-06 13:12:50+00:00
That's part of the reason, but it doesn't explain the use of chrome, rectangular or round headlights instead of molded headlights that integrate into the bodywork, and many other design elements that have remained virtually unchanged since the 1970s. I think a lot of it is just that Americans like the look.

Even a brand new electric cab over garbage truck looks vintage: https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/zero-emission/520EV
by amelius | 2025-07-06 13:13:09+00:00
I think in many cases there is a negative reinforcing aspect to anxiety that needs to be addressed. For example, anxiety can trigger certain physical symptoms like sweating excessively, tension leading to e.g. reduced loudness and loss of voice, clumsiness. This can spiral down and eventually the anxiety can be almost entirely about those physical aspects.

This is just a different way of looking at it. What you do by addressing what you call dread is basically putting a halt to this feedback loop.

(disclaimer: IANAMD)
by samus | 2025-07-06 13:14:38+00:00
40W is scary strong for a laser. Almost like a nuke compared to a firecracker[0]:

> 5 milliwatts is wimpy. We can do better.

A 1-watt laser is an extremely dangerous thing. It’s not just powerful enough to blind you—it’s capable of burning skin and setting things on fire. Obviously, they’re not legal for consumer purchase in the US.

Just kidding! You can pick one up for $300[1].

[0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/

[1]: http://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic
by Jensson | 2025-07-06 13:15:15+00:00
> Pretty much every piece of evidence we have points towards this being utterly impossible with billions of humans, habitat destruction and food web damage is simply way too severe for such a large number to be sustainable

What are you basing this on? More land gets arable when the world is warmer, the earth is more lifeless today than at almost any point before due to the cold and lack of CO2 making plants not grow very quickly.

Biodiversity will go down from this event, but temperate areas will be fine and earth will likely be able to support more people in 1000 years than it can today thanks to global warming.

What people are afraid of are short term disruptions to current systems, but the long term livability of earth is going to be fine. The people who argue otherwise just hasn't looked at what earth was like when there were many times more CO2 than there is here now, that wasn't that many million years ago.
by mrob | 2025-07-06 13:16:10+00:00
All countries fare worse.

I think it's extraordinarily unlikely that some technique can reach AGI but not reach ASI. It won't have the same limits to modification as human brains. Why would it stop at a level that's just slightly disruptive? If you can make an AGI you can make a better AGI, with no obvious limit. And that AGI can help further improvements, leading to the singularity intelligence explosion scenario. Assuming AI researchers continue with the same attitude toward safety as usual, and I see no evidence of this changing, the most likely result is the extinction of all biological life.
by vlade11115 | 2025-07-06 13:16:55+00:00
> “Anybody who wants to put Valve out of business could do so, but nobody cares,” argues Michael Pachter, a gaming industry analyst at Wedbush Securities.

This is untrue; many tried. Almost every major publisher has its own launcher. The problem with them all is they absolutely suck. Even Epic Games Store, the biggest competitor with the most money poured into it, is ridiculously bad in almost every way. Aside from the lack of network effect, it just misses most of the QOL features, is slow, ugly, and very unpleasant to use. Almost universal agreement in the PC gaming community is that EGS is a bootloader for free games that it throws at the user. Every time I use EGS, I am constantly amazed by how bad it is, despite probably tens of millions of investments.

The second point that the article completely misinterprets is Microsoft's role. Microsoft (Xbox specifically) is hands down the closest company to beating Steam in its own game. PC game pass provides a constant stream of very good games available on day one for dirt cheap. The work that Microsoft is doing on optimizing Windows for games in general and for handheld consoles in particular is very promising (see Xbox Ally X). This is the threat that Valve faces. Not just a better store, but the absence of a store and "buying games" in general. For example, I intended to buy The Outer Worlds 2 on launch. Now that I know it will be available day one on Game Pass, there is almost zero chance that I will buy it on Steam or anywhere else.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-06 13:17:51+00:00
I guarantee that you will LOVE the user interface design and menu system in World Quester 2:

Game Helpin' Squad: World Quester 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy9hJauXns

Every time I'm using Cursor and select "Cursor => Settings => Cursor Settings" I giggle and think of World Quester 2.

I love World Quester 2 so much, I implemented its most innovative feature, the "Space Inventory", in the WASM version of Micropolis (SimCity):

https://micropolisweb.com/

WARNING: DO NOT PRESS THE SPACE BAR!!!! (And if you accidentally do, then definitely DO NOT PRESS IT AGAIN!!!! Or AGAIN!!! Or AGAIN!!!)

SimCity Micropolis Tile Sets Space Inventory Cellular Automata To Jerry Martin's Chill Resolve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=319i7slXcbI
by moffkalast | 2025-07-06 13:18:11+00:00
Maybe you're right, but I mean I'm in my late twenties and I grew up on Win 95 and XP mainly, smartphones only started to become a thing in early high school. You'd probably have to look under like 16 to really find those who haven't ever seen an interface designed for the mouse.

> Classic Shell, Gnome Shell task bar options

Yeah mods, hacks, and extensions don't really count for either. The more time passes the more this nonsense becomes mandatory. Luckily KDE still exists for now and has it all native.