MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robocat | 2025-08-18 05:00:43+00:00
Apple are similarly bad with iCloud nagging on iPhone: Microsoft and Apple want recurring monthly income and are willing to use dark patterns to obtain it, keep it, or regain it.

I unfortunately signed up to iCloud while traveling because I wanted my photos backed up (I've had phones stolen and broken while traveling so I know the value of backing up). It was a nightmare to downgrade to no backup. Persistent email reminders and other nags for months. Difficult to downsize icloud storage with prompts warning of data loss. Had to delete stuff on the phone because it was simplest way to downgrade. I'm still left with a permanent red badge on the settings app to "update payment details". I changed from Android to Apple because I liked the iPhone security features. But I'm unsure the nagging is worth it. The nagging is annoying enough that there's a good chance I'll change back to Android (although I'm no fanboi of Apple or Google).

Microsoft prioritises nagging about OneDrive because they want the income from signups. And nagging takes priority over other needs like lockdown (profit centers run businesses).
by Svip | 2025-08-18 05:00:58+00:00
It definitely seems to include a lot of questions that may be related to what a Go programmer might encounter, but are technically _unrelated_ to Go.

> 471.What does SQLite not support compared to PostgreSQL?

I mean, I definitely use both SQLite and PostgreSQL in relation to Go. (Although my first thought when I saw the question was "true numeric types!", until I noticed it was not an option.)

As someone else suggested, it feels like the questions may well have been generated by a LLM, and then not filtered.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-18 05:01:33+00:00
My previous post lists other ways users can ingress to the internet. Chrome is not the only app that connects to the internet.

>If I own a brand, I have to pay Google ads to rank for my own brand

Google will still rank your page even without ads. Normal search results are shown after ads. Other platforms as I mentioned before have search ads. This is not a unique thing.

>Google just sits there taxing the whole internet. (And half of mobile...)

Investing billions of dollars into platforms for other people to build upon for free is not "just sitting there." Unlike other apps like TikTok where the company has to spend resources developing mobile apps, websites can utilize the browser Google is writing.

>Take Chrome away.

If you remove a platform a similar one will take its place.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-18 05:02:04+00:00
Emulating NUMA on a single chip is already a known performance tweak on certain architecture. There are options in place to enable it: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-fo...

Even the Raspberry Pi 5 benefits from NUMA emulation because it makes memory use patterns better match the memory controller’s parallelization capabilities.
by svat | 2025-08-18 05:02:23+00:00
If I'm reading this correctly, this is about the deals Google had, between December 2019 and March 2021, with Telstra, Optus and TPG (apparently Australia's three largest telecommunications companies), to be the default (and only) pre-installed search engine on Android phones sold by those companies, and those companies would in return be paid by Google some fraction of its search-ads revenues.

Some things I'm curious about, and would be helpful context:

- Why did they stop in 2021, and is it normal for these things to take 4+ years to resolution?

- Does Google have similar deals in other countries, e.g. in the US does it have similar deals with T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T? If yes are they are similarly anticompetitive, and if not why not?

- Similar question about the agreements Google has with Mozilla and Apple, to be the default search engine on their browsers.

- Roughly how much would this deal have been worth to Google? I imagine it's not very likely the providers would have chosen a different default search engine, though without this deal they'd likely have more options pre-configured so users would have had more choice (and this I imagine is the primary anti-competitiveness complaint in the first place).
by alexchantavy | 2025-08-18 05:02:39+00:00
> If writing online matters to you, you’re probably better off starting a blog and building things there. You’ll get less views and less engagement but there’s less temptation to post nonsense just for likes. You’re going to have a harder time getting people to stick around and read what you’re writing but that additional pressure raises the bar.

Telling people to “raise the bar”, and then suggesting they should aim for less engagement just sounds strange. Who decides where the bar is, and why should hitting it require fewer people to see what you made?

I agree that a lot of LinkedIn content is cookie-cutter garbage, but advising others to invest serious effort into thoughtful writing with the expectation of no reach feels deeply unhelpful.

Instead, you could encourage others to write content on LinkedIn that sounds less "what X taught me about B2B sales" and improve the culture of "toxic mediocrity".
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-18 05:03:40+00:00
> YouTube that isn't just filled with conservative conspiracy stuff

I often see people complaining about this; but it's just not something I ever experience myself (provided I'm using my account, of course). While I do cultivate my YouTube recommendations using the "Do not recommend again" menu item, I think I've only needed to click that a few times a year - plus most of the videos I watch are from video producers I'm subscribed to (mostly retrotech, sci/tech/edu youtubers and archive film accounts; I do subscribe to a bunch of defence-economics and political youtubers but only because they don't engage in theatrics: it's all very bookish and academic, so that also helps keep the bad content away.

...so if you're seeing extremist and/or conspiratorial content, may I ask if you're clicking the "Do not recommend" menu option (not just the Dislike button) - and have you built a Subscriptions list of consistently non-extremist content? I imagine those are the 2 main things that informs YouTube's recommendation algo.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-18 05:03:58+00:00
A thing can be a dinner party and an experiment. Awareness of the experiment doesn't erase the dinner party, just as awareness of an experimenter doesn't erase the fact that people are still eating together. Both categories can overlap without contradiction. We do this all the time in our daily lives.

Just the same, I can still be me and participate in an experiment. My identity doesn't collapse into “only subject” when I'm studied, and the same continuity of self applies to someone in the Chinese room. The role doesn't erase the person.

Occam's Razor is a heuristic, not a law. Applied too bluntly, it favors the easiest seeming explanation even when the phenomenon, like consciousness, is exactly the kind where every explanation comes with complexity, making "simplicity" a misleading standard. Occam's razor in social situations biases toward implicit social assumptions that smuggle their way into the conclusion without accounting for their contribution toward complexity.

Finally, why should a person communicating from the Chinese room sometimes be treated as simply themselves and other times as only a mouthpiece of the system? Nothing in the setup changes about who they are or what they're doing. Once we allow that kind of shifting interpretation, any conclusion about group sentience is dead before it begins.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-18 05:05:04+00:00
Except American movies(and entertainment in general) haven't been good for about 10 years now, it's all slop based on established IP from 20-30 years ago.

When I was a kid growing up in the post communist 90-00s, we were going nearly weekly to the cinema to watch the latest American movies: Blade, Shrek, Toy Story, The Matrix trilogy, LotR trilogy, American Pie, Batman trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Fast & Furious, X-Men, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Scary Movie, Rush Hour, etc

We couldn't get enough of US entertainment, while now everyone here avoids the new US releases like the plague since it's only cash grabs injected with $CURRENT_DAY identity politics, diversity box ticking based on focus group testing, resulting in sterile, predictable, zero-humor, zero-edge, zero-creativity slop that's not even worth pirating.

Americans have no idea how much soft power they lost worldwide by forcing their identity politics and ideologies in entertainment. Japanese anime and Koran movies and TV shows now run rings around the US entertainment industry.
by pavlov | 2025-08-18 05:05:05+00:00
This is coming close to WWW's original vision because the very first web browser was also an editor. Tim Berners-Lee's application on the NeXT was basically a wrapper for the operating system's built-in rich text editing class named TextView. (It later became NSTextView on Apple's Mac OS X and still powers the TextEdit app on Mac.)

We lost editing for two reasons:

1) The HTTP PUT method didn't exist yet, so edited HTML files could only be saved locally.

2) Mosaic built a cross-platform web browser that defined what the WWW was for 99% of users, and they didn't include editing because that would have been too complex to build from scratch in their multi-platform code base.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-18 05:06:26+00:00
Honestly I found a better strategy to name branches after the fork point and the date you started the fork. So you’d have main-2025-03-07 for a fork of main started 03-07 another main-2025-05-08 for a rebase. The patch set above that is just what you carry. I’m not sure maintaining them as literal patches is that helpful vs just keeping it as explicit patches to apply in git. But maybe this is the right strategy once your fork gets complicated but at that point you should be hard forking rather than soft forking IMO.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-18 05:08:14+00:00
If you want a real answer: If one country started implementing fines so massive that it was devastating multi-national companies then many companies would simply stop serving those countries.

We got a little peek into this when the GDPR was rolled out and many small and medium companies simply blocked GDPR countries rather than risk the massive fines spelled out in the GDPR. This has lessened somewhat as it has become more clear that those massive fines aren’t being handed out and the language has been clarified, but I sat through multiple meetings where companies were debating if they should block GDPR countries until the dust settled even though they believed themselves to be compliant. They didn’t want to risk someone making a mistake somewhere and costing the company a percentage of global revenues.

Talking about massive fines that destroy big companies and crush their executives is really popular in internet comment sections but it would be extremely unpopular if people woke up one day and found Google was blocked in their country for fear of violating some law with extreme damages.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-18 05:08:48+00:00
> So Telstra and Optus entered into this agreement and profited from it, too. Singling out Google is a strange choice given that all parties profited.

Kind of like how Microsoft was found[0] to do something similar with PC manufacturers?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
by intended | 2025-08-18 05:09:33+00:00
Even in cheap countries, manufacturing is being automated. This is a problem for countries globally, the only ladder left to uplift their population is services.

Machines don’t take breaks, don’t need holidays, don’t get injured, and when deployed are more consistent and efficient.

Having people work in factories, and get paid is great in a vacuum. However this is a competitive economy, your competition is doing lights out manufacturing, and is making more consistent goods, cheaper, and faster.

And we’re getting better at building robots. The American debate is about 20 years late.
by martianlantern | 2025-08-18 05:09:54+00:00
Hey, really cool work love the idea of focusing on key decision points. I was curious though since confidence can be non monotonic during CoT[1], how does binary search handle cases where there are multiple ups and downs in confidence? It seems like there might be more than one "pivotal" token, so I wonder if there's a plan to support multi-token pivots or use a different approach than binary search?

[1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14489
by anovikov | 2025-08-18 05:10:18+00:00
The question that must be asked, why with the stagnant population, cities need to keep expanding? Maybe it's unwise to move young, rich and actively working people to city centers with no shelters and no chance to escape? Maybe this is what left wants America to do because they are CCP sock puppets and want to make America more vulnerable? Suburbs are at least safe: too widely spread out to be targeted, have plots big enough to have insufficient density of combustible material to produce firestorms, and mostly have basements to be used as shelters.

Maybe wise policy will be to make it unattractive to move to big cities (say, by truly crippling taxes), to force people to spread out? If they don't flock to a limited number of megacities, there's more than enough space for everyone to live in a suburb.
by doix | 2025-08-18 05:12:17+00:00
I worked at a place that was allergic to contributing patches upstream. We maintained a lot of internal forks for things and had no problem collaborating.

You don't need to push the rebased branch to the same branch on your remote, if that's an issue (although I don't see how it is).

Maybe this is a case of "Dropbox is just rsync", but I feel like just learning git and using it is easier than learning a new tool.
by bradley13 | 2025-08-18 05:12:34+00:00
This is a problem in many countries. A lot of it is attributable to misguided investments in renewables. I have solar, so I'm hardly an opponent, but the grid-scale investments have often been misguided.

Energy is civilization, from muscle power through oxen, water wheels, steam, all the way to nuclear. Cheaper energy raises living standards. The reverse is also true.
by goku12 | 2025-08-18 05:12:53+00:00
The thing with therapy is that it works well if the problem is an imaginary one or from the past. But it's only a band-aid coping mechanism against ongoing real-life problems. Body shaming and judgement are ongoing real-life problems. It's not hard to find videos of men being judged by their height. These problems can't just be hand waved away with suggestions of therapy. Besides if you read the article, it does mention a female patient as well. So it's clearly not a man problem or a therapy problem. It's a society problem.

I must point this out. Many here on HN are getting too comfortable with being judgemental against men.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-18 05:13:20+00:00
With some emulators (at least DOSBox-X) you can enable modern graphics modes that show up in SVGA in the emulated DOS and can be supported by DOS software just like any other modes. Anyone making DOS software today that isn't going explicitly for a retro look can try to detect and support a few modes like 1920x1080 and only fall back to more common old modes when necessary.
by Arainach | 2025-08-18 05:13:25+00:00
>shut down labor strikes

Biden could have done better about the railroads, but his administation and his appointees increased union protections, dramatically increased enforcement of punishments for union busting, extended overtime wages to huge classes of new workers and more. You're cherry picking things to complain about and again, if you don't think any of the last three Democratic nominees were any good you're not arguing in good faith.

Holding out for perfection gets you fascism.
by cameronh90 | 2025-08-18 05:15:18+00:00
I'm finding GPT 5 (via Codex CLI on a pro subscription) is far better than Opus for my use cases. Much more than the small difference on swe-bench would suggest. However, the Codex CLI is so immature by comparison that I'm still mostly using Claude, and only escalating to Codex when Claude snookers itself.
by positron26 | 2025-08-18 05:15:37+00:00
IMO, matter of time before x86 or RISCV extension will show up to begin the inevitable unification of GPU and SIMD in an ISA. NUMA work and clustering over CCXs and sockets is paving the way for the software support in the OS. Question is what makes as much of Vulkan, OpenCL, and CUDA go away as possible?
by echelon | 2025-08-18 05:17:53+00:00
> My previous post lists other ways users can ingress to the internet. Chrome is not the only app that connects to the internet.

I'm glad the normies will read your post and find other routes of ingress.

Defaults and distribution matter. Google has your parents and grandparents on lock.

> Investing billions of dollars into platforms for other people to build upon for free is not "just sitting there."

They've spent more in stock buybacks. No better way of saying they don't know how to spend the money.

It doesn't matter how much the trillion dollar company spent. They're an ecological menace. We need a forest fire to clear away the underbrush and ossification, to create new opportunities for startups and innovation capital. Google is like an invasive species. Like lionfish. They're ruining tech for everyone else, taking far too much meat off the bone across every channel.

> Unlike other apps like TikTok where the company has to spend resources developing mobile apps, websites can utilize the browser Google is writing.

I wouldn't know because I use Firefox, but on the subject of apps - these are taxed by Google too.

> If you remove a platform a similar one will take its place.

That's literally the point. Something with less surface area moves in and competes.

Companies should face evolutionary pressure constantly. Business should be brutal and painful and hard. Google is so big they'll never feel any pain. That's been bad for the web, for competition, for diverse innovation. Everything just accrues to Google.

Not to mention these tech conglomerate oligopolies get to put an upper bounds cap on startups and the IPO market. They get to dump on new companies and buy them on the cheap when they give up. It's easy to threaten to subsidize competition for any new company when you're making hundreds of billions a quarter.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-18 05:19:37+00:00
A couple notes regarding the GitHub repo.

First, adding a `.gitignore` with at least the following:

.*.swp *.swp

Would help.

Second, committing the generated `gem` artifacts is not a good practice. Either publish[0] it or let those who use it build and distribute it themselves.

0 - https://guides.rubygems.org/publishing/
by TheTaytay | 2025-08-18 05:20:23+00:00
You likely know this, but in case you don’t: Termius makes it easy to use “mosh”, which makes your connection resistant to network drops and resumable. I am experimenting with it right now. Once you install mosh on your serve, click the “mosh” setting in the connection settings in Termius, and you are good to go.
by biffles | 2025-08-18 05:20:26+00:00
Could you expand on your point re more sophisticated prompting?

I have found it hard to replicate high quality human-written prose and was a bit surprised by the results of this test. To me, AI fiction (and most AI writing in general) has a certain “smell” that becomes obvious after enough exposure to it. And yet I scored worse than you did on the test, so what do I know…
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-18 05:20:29+00:00
> It's miserable to parse C++ and that's fine, because only a few people have to write a parser while 5 orders of magnitude more have to read and write it.

Really? I was under the impression that the fact that it is miserable to parse C++ directly means that it's also miserable to compile C++ - it can't be done quickly - which is something that everyone has to do all the time.
by fblp | 2025-08-18 05:23:27+00:00
Actually, Google has faced major antitrust enforcement globally for similar conduct:

EU: Already fined Google €8+ billion across multiple cases, including specifically for Android pre-installation requirements. Just issued new violations under the Digital Markets Act.

US: Federal judge ruled in Aug 2024 that Google illegally maintained search monopoly through exclusive default agreements including on mobile. DOJ seeking various remedies including divesting Chrome. This case is still in progress.
by lottin | 2025-08-18 05:25:51+00:00
By definition the average answer will be average, that's kind of a tautology. The point is that figuring things out is an essential intellectual skill. Figuring things out will make you smarter. Having a machine figure things out for you will make you dumber.

By the way, doing a better job than the average human is NOT a sign of intelligence. Through history we have invented plenty of machines that are better at certain tasks than us. None of them are intelligent.
by AdamH12113 | 2025-08-18 05:27:24+00:00
> Does "career development" just mean "more money"?

No. Career development includes paid training sessions, title promotions (junior -> senior, etc.) opportunities to work on larger projects in more significant roles (resume building), and opportunities to transfer into management, as well as (in some cases) opportunities to publish conference papers and the like. As you get older, this kind of career development becomes more important because it is recognized by people who will hire you.
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-08-18 05:27:51+00:00
> It's not only smart it's awesomely genius to hoard on digital intellectual. The mind of genius

Its not. You will never ever ever read the things you collect, or even search through it. And for that 0.000001% chance you do need one specific needle from that haystack and you can even remember having that needle, you can use the internet to find it. Because chances are you arent going to find it in the terabytes of shit you hoarded.

You're not a dragon, so don't hoard shit.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-18 05:28:32+00:00
Spotify has been getting really bad on my end. It is practically useless for anything beyond discovery and listening to mainstream slop now.

If I try to play the same obscure album more than 5 times, there's a very strong chance it will magically disappear and then reappear as some shitty remaster with half the tracks missing a few days later.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-18 05:28:54+00:00
>I'm glad the normies will read your post and find other routes of ingress.

Some of the apps I listed have billions of users. The normies know about them.

>They've spent more in stock buybacks

This is moving the goal posts. They still have done a tremendous amount of work creating and maintaining platforms that millions of people are building upon. Companies can always do more, but you can't say that they are doing nothing at all.

>these are taxed by Google too.

Ad revenue, which makes up the bulk of revenue, is not taxed.
by delfinom | 2025-08-18 05:29:14+00:00
The problem is, in the last few years NYC and NYS have mandated all kinds of green energy goals. One of the biggest one that is causing a fuck ton of concern and spending is "no more new gas cars after 2035". Well guess what that means! _infrastructure_ that someone has to pay for and the mandates are unfunded by the state. The city and state have also been pushing various schemes to ban decrease natural gas installations as well, resulting in _surprise_ more electric for heating and cooking.

The other problem we have is moronic NIMBY and environmentalist behavior that led to our only nuclear power plant shutting down and a second one never being allowed to go online at all. The entire Long Island region is still on the hook financially to pay for vetoing a previously approved and built nuclear power plant decades ago. This leads to NY to now depend on imported electricity from other states and Canada at increased rates. And it's only going to get more expensive as datacenters eat up cheap electricity from the same sources.