MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-12 05:13:18+00:00
>The datahoarders of the world probably have somewhat decent archives of quite a few youtube channels and such, but since it's not publically availible, and reuploading to youtube or IA isn't really viable, it's lost as far as any of the rest of us are concerned.

We are talking archives, older archival processes were not much better. At best it would arrive in a public information nexus, but be filed away in a dark filing cabinet, not much different than data hoarding. At least data hoarding can interface with the wider internet incredibly easily should there be a desire.

Although I would agree that you are right and that there needs to be a better long-term infrastructure for this.

I think back to the original peer-to-peer applications and almost think that that loose framework would be an improvement - where different people with files with the same digital signature can serve as mirrors for a reference file through a decentralized network.
by SeriousM | 2025-08-12 05:13:55+00:00
That's the definition of an advanced scaffolding tool. And yes, I subscribe to that. From time to time I use Gemini CLI for little tools I have no time to read all the docs of thinkgs I'm not used to, but in the end I need to make flow changes and be forced to understand the generated code. x10 faster bootstrap, x30 slower manual changes, 100% my codebase problem.
by wcarss | 2025-08-12 05:14:23+00:00
this "further analysis" is comically biased, misinformed, misapplied mush. It's honestly like a gish gallop to quote this shit. Well, I read it, so I'm going to take the time.

> produce a negative financial benefit over their lifetimes

This is an absolute lie, pulled from the trash. Maybe you just didn't understand it -- I hope!

Claiming that either the distribution of contributions across ages, or the "age adjusted average net contributions" graph portray some kind of a "long term" picture of what people's contributions over the next two generations would be is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the graph and data represent, or is capable of representing.

The first chart is simply a calculation of contribution in 2018 by age. The second is a remapping of 2018's immigrant population's 2018 contributions and costs from their then-age distribution to proportions equivalent to the then danish-native age distribution. It has nothing to do with either populations' prospective future contributions. It's just a convolution of data which is presently skewed by extreme circumstance, i.e. being an active asylum seeker by definition means you are recently economically unstable, and far more likely to be a member of specific age demographics. It is not a projection of any likely future; it is solely a lens to remove one confounding factor -- the very different age distributions of the instantaneous populations compared -- for the purpose of comparing their 2018 contributions directly.

And then it goes off into justifying its conclusions by comparing "countries by IQ"?! Pure hack slop, and nothing else. There's references to coronavirus lies, and this being "an immigrant invasion" -- this is not remotely convincing nor unbiased, nor even an interesting analysis. It is just kinda long and filled with errors. Like I said: bit of a gish gallop.

To draw from it, and parrot its erroneous claims like they should convince us as they convinced you, the disinterested and enlightened scientist, is a new nadir on your dismal intellectual track record.
by jack_pp | 2025-08-12 05:14:56+00:00
12-year-old me was mostly procrastinating but sometimes fired up Pascal which required me to insert a floppy disk in my 486 compaq machine for it to work. the machine was a donation from my aunt, could only run DOS.

However chatgpt or gemini free tier is more than enough for a kid to figure out how python works and build some simple software. While I have the Gemini subscription I only got it because my family drive storage was nearly full. I could've probably got by with ChatGPT free to just stop using stackoverflow.
by tastyface | 2025-08-12 05:15:00+00:00
Evil is stopping all aid immediately without a tapering period. Evil is letting life-saving medicine and food rot in warehouses because somebody was horny about taking a chainsaw to the federal government, saving nothing and wasting billions in the process. Evil is making a cruel decision to let people die solely for the sake of political theater.

You can talk about this in the abstract all you want, but at the end of the day, someone chose to let people suffer and die when a far more humane approach with the same financial outcome could have been taken. For flash. For pizzaz. For revenge, perhaps.

That’s fucking evil.
by anonymars | 2025-08-12 05:15:36+00:00
Vista was an enhancement of XP. We got search in the start menu and made it a first class part of the OS with the indexer

WDM made graphics driver crashes not take down the OS plus no more window tearing

Shadow copies gave you file history (time machine without another drive)

No more running with full admin privileges all the time. Bitlocker was introduced

Yes, compatibility issues affected people to various degrees, and yes it required good hardware to run well. Intel's onboard graphics / 5400 rpm drives we're not kind to it. And there were too many editions

With good hardware Vista was peak Windows. I could go back to Vista but I couldn't go back to XP, there's too much we take for granted now
by lostmsu | 2025-08-12 05:17:05+00:00
> r4rk1 pp6 8 4p2Q 3n4 4N3 qP5P 2KRB3 w — — 3 27

Can you say 100% you can generate a good next move (example from the paper) without using tools, and will never accidentally make a mistake and give an illegal move?
by snapplebobapple | 2025-08-12 05:17:44+00:00
Yah, you're looking at it on too short a time frame. If enough people are butt hurt about something over a long enough time period, it will get reversed (as you just saw from this very issue that started the discussion). Also, unconstitutional does not mean something you don't like, it means something explicitly outlawed in the constitution. Things like stopping pregnant women from exercising their right to travel, not setting restrictions on abortion to a level higher than I personally would like.
by swivelmaster | 2025-08-12 05:17:57+00:00
Exactly. “AI will take over the world because it’s dangerously smart” is the exact opposite of skepticism!

There are different arguments as to why AI is bad, and they’re not all coming from the same people! There’s the resource argument (it’s expensive and bad for the environment), the quality argument (hallucinations, etc.), the ethical argument (stealing copyrighted material), the moral argument (displacing millions of jobs is bad), and probably more I’m forgetting.

Sam Altman talking about the dangers of AI in front of Congress accomplishes two things: It’s great publicity for AI’s capabilities (what CEO doesn’t want to possess the technology that could take over the world?), and it sets the stage for regulatory capture, protecting the big players from upstarts by making it too difficult/expensive to compete.

That’s not skepticism, that’s capitalism.
Ask HN: Does Google Drive secretly delete files?
by miohtama | 2025-08-12 05:18:05+00:00
Today, my wife had an incident where one of her spreadsheets on Google Drive was deleted, not by her. It's her customer list, CRM and life's work, so it was a pretty important spreadsheet.

To ensure she is not making any mistakes or human errors, I verified her Google Drive history using its audit feature and search. Indeed, the spreadsheet link was there in her browser, but when accessed, it gave an error "This file has been deleted." Accessed two days ago. But the file was not in the Google Drive trash bin, nor did it appear in the search. There was no record of deletion of the file, but when accessed, Drive told the file has been deleted.

When we contacted Google support, they just said "the file is now there" and it magically reappeared. This is spooky, and also worrisome if files can be disappear and no explanation is given.

Does Google Drive secretly delete files, and for what reason?
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 05:19:14+00:00
Don’t you live in China, lol?

Pre-covid, Austin’s homicide rate was around 4 per 100k. San Diego’s is typically under 4x DC’s never got below 14 per 100k (in 2012) and spiked up to 40 per 100k in 2023.

DC is 20% more populous than Baltimore. The nearest city larger than DC is Philly, 140 miles away.
by lormayna | 2025-08-12 05:19:36+00:00
Then we should not do anything in Calabria and Sicilia for the fear of the criminal organisations?

There are many suspects that criminal organisations are involved in the actual ferry management:

https://lespresso.it/c/attualita/2021/2/23/cosi-la-mafia-con...

Whit your mindset we need to stop them as well
by wand3r | 2025-08-12 05:19:55+00:00
I personally find this argument really lazy. In a very reductionist reframing, independent artists who uploaded some art to the internet for fun believe that AI shouldn't be allowed to exist without them being paid, essential alleging their contribution to AI is fundamental to it's existence. I would be a lot more receptive to the fact that all humans generally contributed to the information this system consumed and we enact some democratic law that 15% of all profits flow into some public tax fund, rather than litigate every single instance of potential copywrite on the per person or organizational level.

There are obviously laws that differ in every region but at a philosophical level I believe in the ideal of fair use. An AI is a distinctly different "work" than these originals and much like a human's own output is informed by all the information they have taken in over their lifetime, so is the output of a model.
by poink | 2025-08-12 05:20:55+00:00
I agree with your first paragraph, but there are lots of basically-broke people who live on boats

Old sailboats can be had for practically (and in many cases actually) nothing. If you’re reasonably handy and willing to learn you can do all the maintenance they require yourself

Boats can be some of the cheapest housing there is, even more so if you want to live somewhere picturesque

(There are, of course, significant downsides)
by woodpanel | 2025-08-12 05:21:46+00:00
> and does anyone really want to live in Jacksonville or Mesa?

So those people count less because they vote for the wrong guy?

Some apparently believe that because "cities are run by _democrats_" 164 years in charge is not a problem in itself. 164 years of continious ruling over a city, but of course the other side is the currupt threat to democracy. The mental gymnastics involved are olympic.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 05:24:12+00:00
It's so different that for as long as I've lived here I have seen a gun maybe a handful of times, the vast majority of those were guns holstered on the hips of police on patrol (and not even a single time in their hands) and a gun that a private owner was maintaining who uses it exclusively to shoot at a range. Other than that, no guns here, at all.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-12 05:24:23+00:00
> insufferable Apple Walled Garden don’t force you into all of this shit

No, but they will lock you out of your account if you have a long gone debit card on there that you don't remember the numbers for or access to that school email your uni yanked back.

I wonder how many college kids got locked out of their iTunes account permanently after they graduated.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-12 05:25:12+00:00
My point was that neither Mesa nor Jacksonville are seen as great places to live, and you aren’t going to convince HN that they should vote like these cities do so that their own more appealing cities can be more like those less appealing cities.

There simply aren’t many examples of what America’s economically vibrant cities would be like if the other side was in charge, but maybe vibrancy is just not compatible with conservative ideology, and the stick to the suburbs, small towns, and rural areas because they are more…conservative (places elect leaders that mesh with their values).
by lmm | 2025-08-12 05:26:53+00:00
> We don't allow early-stage developers to bypass security policies so that they can learn

Back when I worked at an F500 it was normal practice to give early-stage developers access to a "research" environment where our normal security policies were not applied. (Of course the flipside was that that "research" environment didn't have any access to confidential data etc., but it was a "prod" environment for most purposes)
by moi2388 | 2025-08-12 05:27:42+00:00
2. With us it is. Not for seniors, but juniors, interns, people out of college, we want to see how you program so we know how much effort the training is going to be.

3. We do not fill multiple roles. But if a person might join your team, the team gets to talk with the candidate. This always also becomes a tech talk because we’re developers and we like talking about it. That’s not a second job role at all.

4. Our managers are tech people. They are not always actual developers though, or might’ve been 20 years ago.

In general it goes like this: Junior? - talk with manager and tech lead of the team, just about who you are, what you’ve done and what you’re looking for. All to see if you are a match personality wise. - if we liked the talk you get invited for a technical interview. You go sit with the team as they work, you get to do some challenge. We’ll help you and discuss your solutions - we all together decide yes or no

For experienced developers we have the same, minus the coding challenge. The talk with the team is more about the personal match, but it usually is about tech stuff or what we’re working on because the candidate is curious.

I find it very natural and relaxed. The team eventually decides themselves which candidate they prefer.

Also I have no idea what you mean by there not being time for leisure. With us there definitely is, and liking the team you work in is very important to us. If you don’t like it or it’s not working we might place you in a different team where you match better. Or maybe you don’t think the apps we work on are interesting, but those of another team are. Why shouldn’t working somewhere be enjoyable?
by johnbellone | 2025-08-12 05:28:01+00:00
Perhaps it is worth going to actually read some of the limitations (representation, budget, taxation) of what the government of DC is actually capable of doing versus doing a simple straight line math exercise. Crime is a problem, but taken within context it isn't anywhere near as bad as Baltimore or Philadelphia.

You keep citing the homicide rate but do not consider the geography and constraints of the capital region, i.e., some of the crime and violent offenders are from non-residents. You can't simply compare it to a city like London or Paris for many reasons.
by Ray20 | 2025-08-12 05:28:30+00:00
> How do you even defend against planted digital evidence?

With your good name. In the end, it is not important what the politician had or did not have on the disk, but who the public will believe more, the secret services, who claim that there was something there, or the politician, who claims that he is being set up and groundlessly persecuted for the purpose of political pressure.

And as long as public opinion about the special services is what it is, politicians can safely stash CP on their disks without fear that they will be charged with anything even if they are found.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-12 05:30:43+00:00
The easiest solution seems to be to patch it to use offline dictionaries. merriamwebster.txt is 24MB, not a big deal.

stardict --install en_US hi_IN ta_IN

For a trilingual person, just 100MB of storage. Problem solved no?

Edit: it's a full dictionary with all sorts of information. Example entry:

ABANDONED A*ban"doned, a.

1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. -- Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28.
by Tyrubias | 2025-08-12 05:31:36+00:00
I’m not sure if I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying but I think it does matter. First of all, the police shouldn’t be militarized, so the fact that they already are doesn’t make it any better. Second of all, the military is fundamentally different from the police, who are at least nominally controlled by the city (yes, I know the President can and has taken control of the D.C. police). The people of D.C. shouldn’t be policed by a force that doesn’t answer to them, especially since the vast majority of them didn’t vote for the federal administration that’s currently seizing control of municipal law enforcement.
by seansh | 2025-08-12 05:31:37+00:00
> “But what about collaboration?” - I use work tools for work. This is for my life.

I've been experimenting with this at work too. I created a separate internal git repo for the team with 4 never ending files:

- in-progress.md

- up-next.md

- for-future.md

- done.md

So far it's been easier to use than trello or any other project management platform.

Personally I use a single emacs org-mode file for my private work which is 30K lines as of today, but I'm not sure how other people's editors (vscode) handle big files like that.
by js8 | 2025-08-12 05:31:56+00:00
No, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866613. If the theory of comparative advantage is to give any useful advice, it cannot just rely on people doing "the right thing". That will quickly make it into an unfalsifiable tautology.

In this case, you also forget that the pricing signals have a time horizon, which is bounded by the expected time of survival of the private company being non-competitive. But government (society) can take a longer term view than a company that is influenced by pricing signals, See the LG example I gave elsewhere in this thread.

Another reason is incomplete information. Free market works in theory because you assume complete information; in the real world, this is not the case.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-12 05:32:31+00:00
I left China in 2016 and now I live in Seattle. I lived in Austin for a summer in 2001 (the summer before 9/11) and it was…hard, I had to evict a squatter from my sublet, the property crime was high and people skulked around in the morning looking through everyone’s trash. Anyways, not sure if your argument is that it is better or worse now, but definitely not a place I want to live in ever again.

There are 6.3 million in the greater DC area, DC is a small part of what goes on in that region.
by lithocarpus | 2025-08-12 05:32:43+00:00
One theory is that the most important nutrient that we really need a certain amount of every day is protein, and thus the body wants us to keep eating until it thinks we've got enough protein. (And for the vegans, I'm not saying meat - even most green plants and mushrooms are about 1/3 protein by dry weight). In nature almost every food has some amount of protein. If you get meat, you don't need to eat that much for your body to have all the protein it needs. If you are eating cake, it will take an awful lot of cake to have an adequate amount of protein.

In evolutionary past, if one had access to fresh fruit it might make sense to eat a lot of it right away since it won't keep, and the sugar in the fruit is easy for the body to store as fat and use later. In nature it's very rare to find a diet with very high fat and low protein but suppose you live by a macadamia tree, you may need to eat a lot of calories worth of macadamias to get enough protein. I have a feeling though that excess fat can go right through you in some cases like that - because there have been times where I was binging on peanut butter, like easily 16-24oz in a day often, like 2-3000 calories extra on top of my normal diet, and I didn't gain weight, I think a lot of it went through me undigested.

These are just hypotheses I'm not claiming they are necessarily the reason, and definitely are not the only mechanism involved as it's extremely complex. But they make sense as a simple place to start.
by lithocarpus | 2025-08-12 05:35:35+00:00
Same here - there are other feelings than a dry mouth or "feeling thirsty" that tell me I need more water. The slight beginning of a headache for example, or feeling a little bit dizzy, or many other things. I guess I could call these "feeling thirsty" since I now know when I feel these things that I probably need water and that's how I interpret them.
by keith82 | 2025-08-12 05:36:45+00:00
I do IT stuff for a local pizza chain. They are still on an ancient Linux POS system. With dumb terminals using PS/2 keyboards with 3 rows of function keys for buttons for every pizza topping and such.

I’ve kept them running cloning the old drives to compact flash cards and IDE readers.

However to get the software license blessed again it requires the sole developer who lives in Thailand now to ssh in over dial up.
Show HN: Sarpro – Fast Sentinel-1 SAR GRD → GeoTIFF/JPEG in Rust
by danielVi | 2025-08-12 05:37:00+00:00
I’ve released sarpro, an open-source Rust tool for converting Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Ground Range Detected (GRD) products into GeoTIFF or JPEG.

Why? You know batch conversion can be painfully slow. sarpro is fast (Rust-based), supports CLI, GUI, and Rust API, and includes: • Batch processing for many GRDs at once • Synthetic RGB composition from polarization channels • Autoscaling and padding for consistent image rendering • Output as GeoTIFF or JPEG

On my machine M4Pro12, (~500MP) dual-band image scaled to 2048px on the long side and carrying metadata took just 35 seconds with CPU < 22% usage.

I’d love feedback from the remote sensing / EO community — ideas for more processing modes, more RGB presets, or cloud pipeline integration with other tools and workflows welcome.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-12 05:37:01+00:00
Careful what you wish for! Mahjong is the opposite: you're always playing or setting up the next round, there's no down time, you can't stop paying attention even for a moment or you might miss an important tile, and you can't even skip a round for a comfort break.

Also it seems to be complex enough there is no mental space or time left to talk about anything other than the tiles. Exhausting!
by Tyrubias | 2025-08-12 05:38:18+00:00
The criminal justice system is racist. The solution to crime is more complicated than “let all the criminals go” but sending in the National Guard is definitely not the solution. Also, given the current state of affairs, this will be forgotten about — because Trump will do something even more outrageously authoritarian. And your $100 won’t help when the regime kidnaps me out of my home.
by krige | 2025-08-12 05:38:26+00:00
Absolutely loathed moving from 98 to XP. The stability wasn't much better, the resources were hogged more, and the default toys-r-us theme was an incredible eyesore (thank god for UX hacks). It was overall so much pain but Vista was even worse in many respects so I kinda weathered it until 7 came along, and that one was insanely good.