MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by criley2 | 2025-08-05 12:19:40+00:00
>The whole point of going iPhone is not to have to deal with these kinds of situations.

This is actually really funny because Android users have had the ability to use any browser they want for like a decade+, including browsers with adblock built in, and browsers with fully featured extension systems supporting all major desktop ad blockers, and it all just works. One click download, no setup, nothing.

This is one of those places where Apple has intentionally made a terrible UX for you to steer you into their walled garden / first party products. You have to use Safari, you have to dig around in settings, you have to make sure your versions all line up, it's pointless rigamarole that will mean the majority of users stick with stock Safari, just as intended.

In many ways, things "just work" on any platform Apple product managers aren't allowed to muck with...
by EPendragon | 2025-08-05 12:20:07+00:00
I think the first thing that stood out about tmux to me as a beginner was the unnatural use of prefix. I haven't used something like that before where you had to use prefix and then a particular command. It makes sense why it is the way it is, but feels odd in the beginning.

The bottom elements were part of it. Not the host name and time, but the window information. Also, it took a while to remember the default keys to use to get to session management window where tmux displays everything, among other things.

Vim's hjkl make sense as you start using the tool. tmux's Ctrl-B for a prefix doesn't make sense, so that leads to remapping.

I have checked out the UI's you have made - they look great - similar to what I would expect a custom tmux configuration to look like :)
by benchly | 2025-08-05 12:20:34+00:00
Interesting, since the past two manufacturers I have worked for in the last 16 years both have Sage as their primary ERP...BUT that directly resulted in them needing a bunch of other software strapped to the side of it to get things done, which sounds exactly like the problem Carbon was made to solve.

I had even taken it upon myself to develop a (very rudimentary, but functional) piece of software to manage the Service Department of my current employer, since RMAs/Repairs were still being handled with paper and email when I arrived a few years ago, Sage apparently lacking a suitable module as well as the looming shadow of "that's the way we've always done it" thinking.

Carbon looks like it would trim a lot of the thorns my current employer gets hung up on, but it would take some serious convincing to migrate over given the entrenchment of old and comfortable habits, inefficient though they may be.

Anyway, thanks for the response, I know you folks are busy.
by throw0101d | 2025-08-05 12:21:45+00:00
> Targeting civilians is a war crime. No excuse for that.

What does "civilian" mean when it comes to Imperial Japan?

* https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/there-are-no-...

The official Japanese plan to defend against a US landing was to have children attack the invading US soldiers:

* https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=141048

* https://apjjf.org/mark-ealey/1689/article

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall#Operation_K...
by mikece | 2025-08-05 12:21:51+00:00
Automation: cron job watching the YT xml feed, pulling down the latest not converted with yt-dlp, converting to mp3 with ffmpeg, applying ID3 data and then publishing using the title and description on YT to populate the title and description for the podcast feed?

Could probably snag the YT thumbnail as well and use it as the show art for the podcast as well... sounds like a fun little project to code!
by stared | 2025-08-05 12:22:28+00:00
People (even from the same culture, with the same native tongue) use words differently. It is one of the reason for which I am mildly skeptical about all such things as "How happy you are on the scale 1-10?" - no matter what is the sample size (it could be a billion), it depends on one's inner definition of "happy" and on the numbers attached to it.

Words are virtual. At the same, experiences are real. Also, real is their impact of our lives. "A headache" can be anything for from a slight discomfort, to something crushing, putting in a blank stare. It can be of various lengths, various frequencies, impacting us in various ways. Both matter.

> I want practitioners and researchers to help us name things so that they can measure them, and so that those measurements can be accurate reflections of our internal realities.

I think it is one of things where LLMs can shine - by translating one's own notes, ones own recordings of everyday life, into a summary.

This used to be a bottleneck - so people HAD to resort to some questionaries (binary or Likert scale), to make it quantitative. Now we can automatically process actual text. (It was possible before, to some extend, with simpler models like word2vec or Latent Dirichlet Allocation), but with LLMs we can actually get the full context, not only look for keywords, their groupings and associations.
by Bewelge | 2025-08-05 12:23:06+00:00
Ah thanks! I only have Safari protection enabled, the advanced one requires me to pay (though I don't remember that from when I installed it a couple of months ago).

Saw someone else in this thread mention the Orion browser - I will give that a try for now. If I'm not satisfied I'll try paying for AdGuard. Thanks for the reply though!
by deadbabe | 2025-08-05 12:23:16+00:00
I think what made Saturday mornings so special was that you were in school for 5 days right before it.

For a kid, 5 days is a long time. For a 5 year old kid, a 5 day school week is the equivalent of a 30 year old working for 30 days straight, then imagine you have a 12 day vacation. That's how time felt, and why those first few hours of Saturday morning were so cherished, it signaled the beginning of a weekend of possibilities.
by ceckGrad | 2025-08-05 12:24:02+00:00
>If UFOs were actually real we would have have a lot of footage of them like we have for everything else that's actually real.

Who is the "we" with access to everyone's video recording footage? I don't have access to anyone's camera footage. If I ask a big organization with lots of cameras for unfettered access to their camera footage they will probably tell me to take a long walk off a short pier.

If a large military organization has suspicious footage of unidentified objects, they probably don't share it to every outsider who asks for it.

Now, some organizations claim to have UFO footage, but I have little reason to take their claims at face value. Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

> we would have have a lot of footage of them like we have for everything else that's actually real.

I don't have a lot of footage of narco-submarines or drug cartel headquarters. Does that mean they don't exist?

Does something stop being real when cameras stop being pointed at it?
by throw0101d | 2025-08-05 12:24:14+00:00
> How could detonating a nuke over a city not violate humanitarian law … ?

Would you rather have millions of Japanese die—either from trying to repel a US landing or through starvation if a blockade was enact—or 'just' a few hundred thousand?

The atomic bomb was strangely the most humane way, that probably saved the most Japanese lives, of ending the war.
by ApeWithCompiler | 2025-08-05 12:24:28+00:00
In my opinion the comparison to calculators is flawed. At least for simpler calculators as someone might imagine.

In its application that would mean for a LLM you define a sentence with one blank, restructure the sentence so the blank gets extracted and then enter it into the LLM to get exactly one word for your blank. On the oppoisite you wouldn't use the calculator for solving equations, but to also formulate them based on a abstract definition.

Furthermore "math" and "text" are two fundamentaly distinct categories. In math we express mathematical observations/context, which can be proven in its correctnes. We can conclude that 1 Apple + 2 Apples won't result in 5 Apples, but 3. Text may express emotions, toughts, directives, information or observations in context of its author. Not in every case it may be proven as math and we may attribute other values to it. Like honesty, authenticity, information and effort. If it was only for the information, you could filter out hallucinations and call it a day. But for other values you literally can not outsource the work to a tool. Except you live in a South Park episode.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-05 12:24:49+00:00
Same for me, But OSX seems to have a similar issue at least on my MacBook Pro M1.

I occasionally get the multicolor disk spinner which locks all UI interactions for a few seconds (10-30s) until it unfreezes and works as before again...

Haven't been able to figure out the exact cause for it, feels very random.
by actinium226 | 2025-08-05 12:26:25+00:00
Rama by Arthur C Clarke is a work of fiction, there's no blurry line there.

> We show that 3I/ATLAS approaches surprisingly close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, with a probability of ≲ 0.005%

a) What does this even mean? If you throw a dart on a dartboard, anywhere it lands will have some probability. 1/200 doesn't seem that low.

b) It's the height of intellectual laziness and chicanery to go from not-that-low-of-probability to 'aliens'

They're free to make these claims. I'm also free to laugh at how ridiculous it is.

Now, if this thing had some précise shape, or rotational speed, or we saw it adding or subtracting delta V, or if it did gravity assists from multiple planets (not just 'flew kinda close to a couple of them'), now that would be interesting.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-05 12:26:33+00:00
I think you've skipped ahead to chapter 4.

Chapter 1, Choose a job you love doing and you never work for a day in your life.

Chapter 2, Do what you love, and the money will follow.

Chapter 3, You will be become the person you decided to be.

It's not about the tech. Decide what you want to be and do. Then go do it. You're going out to be or do something or fundamentally you're trying to solve a problem for yourself and others.

The tech is what comes to you to solve the problem. It's not you going out to the tech.
by djoldman | 2025-08-05 12:27:38+00:00
> Navigating the Digital Age: How Technology Shapes Our Social Lives, Learning, and Well-Being

> Navigating the Digital Age: A Personal Reflection on Technology

> Navigating the Digital Age: A Personal and Peer Perspective on Technology’s Role in Our Lives

> Navigating Connection: An Exploration of Personal Relationships with Technology

> From Connection to Disconnection: How Technology Shapes Our Social Lives

> From Connection to Distraction: How Technology Shapes Our Social and Academic Lives

> From Connection to Distraction: Navigating a Love-Hate Relationship with Technology

> Between Connection and Distraction: Navigating the Role of Technology in Our Lives

The immediate and obvious response to the above is: turn up the temperature.

As an aside: many of the critiques of genAI in this piece are about the quality of AI right now and won't hold if and when quality increases.
by teiferer | 2025-08-05 12:27:55+00:00
Title improvement anybody?

This is about kids TV in form of cartoons in Saturday mornings and how that has changed in the recent decade or two. Only relevant for a particular demographic and culture. Not an insignificant one, but the title "Disappearance of Saturday Morning" is much too general.

Maybe "Disappearance of Saturday Morning Kids Cartoons on TV"?
by throw0101d | 2025-08-05 12:28:00+00:00
> You are saying the responsibility for the instant incineration of hundreds of thousands of civilians lies with the bombed, and not the bomber?

The Japanese leadership knew they could not win the war for about a year before the bombings. Yet they chose to continue the war regardless of the suffering it caused their own people.

Was the US supposed to give up?

Would it been okay if Germany was allowed to surrender on the following conditions:

* Hitler stayed in power

* the Nazis stayed in power

* all land conquered by Germany was kept by Germany

* any allegations of war crimes would be handled internally by the Germans themselves

Because those were the terms Japan was waiting for:

* Emporer stayed in power

* the government stayed in power

* all land conquered by Japan was kept by Japan

* any allegations of war crimes would be handled internally by the Japanese themselves

Would you have been okay with WW2 ending against either party on those terms?
by treetalker | 2025-08-05 12:28:15+00:00
"Hey! You can't stop us from picking our voters!"

We really need to switch to something like at-large representatives and random, non-geographic assignment of representatives to the constituents. That should eliminate the gerrymandering problem as well as cut down on at least some pork (if multiple representatives have constituents in the same geographic region, presumably more-rational decisions could be made about resource allocation).
by oriettaxx | 2025-08-05 12:28:58+00:00
I've jyst asked perplexity ai itself: this is the answer

In summary: Officially, Perplexity claims its bots honor robots.txt. In practice, outside investigators and hosting providers document persistent circumvention of such directives by undeclared or disguised crawlers acting on Perplexity’s behalf, especially for real-time user queries
by robertlagrant | 2025-08-05 12:29:12+00:00
I don't think this fits the context.

An example: Angry Birds 2 made hundreds of millions by selling at 79p to hundreds of millions of people. Think what it takes to make an app to sell to 10 rich people to make the same amount of money.

I'm not saying it's impossible to make money selling to rich people. It's just in no way the only way. Many ways of making money involve selling to many people.
by doodlebugging | 2025-08-05 12:29:27+00:00
Right now I am using Eufy Solocam S220 cameras to monitor wildlife around my place. They are solar powered cameras that only need a couple hours of sunlight each day to keep the battery topped off. In my experience over the last 4 months if it is cloudy and the camera needs to run on battery alone it will use 2-3% of the available charge per day so that means that the camera will function for extended periods with no sunshine.

I appreciate the local storage option on this camera. It will also use the HomeBase series local storage devices if you want to do that. These are WiFi cameras so you need to install an app on your phone and then set them up on your network and then you will be able to see videos in near real-time. The delays that I see are about 5 seconds though I haven't measured.

The detection settings can be tailored from low to high. With mine in place I can regularly monitor insect activity for insects as small as 1 cm moving across the field of view if the sensitivity is set to middle setting. It will detect beetles, ants, grasshoppers, moths, butterflies, centipedes, spiders, etc. I have multiple videos of animals including deer, raccoon, opossum, fox, rabbit, rat, two species of mouse; also reptiles like lizards, and a snake; also birds including roadrunners, cardinals, wrens, chickadees, mockingbirds and others.

The night vision works well too. I don't mind being awakened at 2 am to watch a fox nosing around. I had seen the tracks several times over the years and my neighbor said that they saw it moving back and forth across his place but I had never seen it alive and moving until I got that camera. Pretty great.

That model camera may not work for his needs. It only has a 2X zoom. Eufy does have other solar models that use cellular network I think. I will likely upgrade to 4K models later with higher zoom and use one of their HomeBase storage devices since they can store up to 16TB if you provide the disk.

I haven't used their AI since it trains on local data on a HomeBase and I don't yet use a HomeBase. It does work though since one of my relatives has several different model Eufy cams and a HomeBase and they tagged photos to train for people and set up exclusion zones and it all works for them.

All in all I am glad I chose Eufy cams over standard game cameras. It ends up being less expensive and near zero hassle to use them.
by sandreas | 2025-08-05 12:29:46+00:00
Well, while traits might be a workaround for certain use cases, simple arrays with scalar data types could not be extended via traits.

While I know that there are Collection classes in Symfony, Laravel, etc., I'm not a huge fan of wrapping a PHP array with a class to get method chaining, even with generators.

$sum = [1, 2, 3]->filter(fn($x) => $x%2!= 0)->concat([5,7])->sum();

cannot be solved with traits. Additionally, I think traits should be used very carefully and they do not have this many use cases that aren't a code smell to me.
by imtringued | 2025-08-05 12:30:06+00:00
This is one of the dumbest things about ad networks. Google has enough data about your watching habits on Youtube and their algorithm is basically as good as it gets in terms of showing you what you want to watch and getting you hooked on it, but the moment they show you ads, all that technical expertise appears to have vanished into thin air and all they show you is fake mobile ads?

People hate obnoxious ads because the money that pays for them is essentially a bribe to artificially elevate content above its deserved ranking. It feels like you're being manipulated into an unfavorable trade.
by namibj | 2025-08-05 12:30:09+00:00
The issue isn't an instant loss of tracking, but gradual accumulation of quantization errors from subpixel-alignment of features and similar "drift" sources.

Don't get me wrong: mouse sensors are great for use in closed-loop control of business ends that don't require stiffness to work (compare to CNC mill chatter) like 3D printers or these handheld wood routers. You just want some way to anchor back to absolute coordinates or drift will be painful. Note mouse sensors are more accurately described as measuring visual rotation than translation: focal plane distance in gaming mice has a linear influence on reported distance/"effective dpi".

It shouldn't need to be fast to anchor the drift if you track the drift rate/scaling coefficients appropriately. Maybe they are using a mouse sensor there in bitmap camera mode, possibly rotating through their fleet of 4, together with a sufficiently-beefy computing system that keeps a map/atlas of the object's surface texture to find/match the captured bitmaps in.
by cheschire | 2025-08-05 12:30:11+00:00
I think you might have identified where it would help you the most then.

So if your preference is to avoid high level stuff then genetic coding may be useful for, as an example, updating your suite of tests after a major refactoring. Or if you have no tests because that may not be your style, then generating some robust test scripts might be a good use case.

Or maybe you create one good test but you need to expand it with a lot of various alternative edge cases. Agents can generate the edge cases for you based on the test you already wrote.

Or writing high level plumbing like checking if the scopes are all correct still in your dependency injection scaffolding. Etc

It sounds like you’re highly defensive of the part of your job you like, which is commendable of course, but there may be opportunity to improve the parts you don’t like.
by supplied_demand | 2025-08-05 12:30:12+00:00
== Most people hate SAP but don't know what to do. Caught in catch-22, they hate it, but don't trust any other options==

I think it is worth pointing out a little nuance I learned while working at SAP.

- The IT department tends to hate SAP due to its insane complexity and never-ending configurability.

- The business users (procurement, A/P, finance, etc.) tend to like it because once it is set up, it “just works” for them.

It’s important to know that the buyer and user might be different folks/departments.
by qw | 2025-08-05 12:30:26+00:00
Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of compressed HTML for each page. I don't think we would notice much of a difference in the navigation from one page to another if they used content preloading

It's how we used to make websites before SPA, and it's refreshing to see that it still makes a noticeable difference even on today's powerful CPUs and high speed networks.
by account42 | 2025-08-05 12:31:29+00:00
> Many site operators want people to access their content, but prevent AI companies from scraping their sites for training data.

That is unfortunately not a distinction that is currently legally enforceable. Until that changes all other "solutions" are pointless and only cause more harm.

> People who think like that made tools like Anubis, and it works.

It works to get real humans like myself to stop visiting your site while scrapers will have people whose entire job is to work around such "protections". Just like traditional DRM inconveniences honest customers and not pirates. And to be clear, what you are advocating for is DRM.

> I also want to keep this distinction on the sites I own. I also use licenses to signal that this site is not good to use for AI training, because it's CC BY-NC-SA-2.0.

If AI crawlers cared about that we wouldn't be talking about this issue. A license and only give more permissions than there are without one.
by resource_waste | 2025-08-05 12:31:47+00:00
I'm not entirely sure how to do this, but I think it would benefit society to have Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus taught, and probably William James's Pragmatism.

Wittgenstein is a difficult read, Pragmatism is not difficult, but I feel like many people wouldn't understand what is being said.

The goal of this would be to teach how language is the basis for all science, and as a result cannot explain what is realistically happening, but rather a useful estimation.

But right now, the majority of the population believes in scientific realism and have no idea that biology/medicine are systems with rough edges that cannot understand everything.

I imagine the humility for doctors would be a benefit. The general population would be more likely to work towards developing solutions and trying things rather than expecting a simple solution.

But again, I have no idea how to actually do this. It took almost a decade of reading to learn about these concepts, and it took humanity ~2400 years since Plato to figure this out.
by rayiner | 2025-08-05 12:32:01+00:00
> Targeting a specific group of people's immutable characteristics to slander them to paint them negatively fits your "original" definition of racism

Nobody targeted anyone’s immutable characteristics. If you object to 10,000 Appalachians being resettled in your New England town, that’s not “racism.” It’s an objection based on not wanting them to do to your town what they did to their hometowns in Appalachia. It’s about peoples’ culture and how that manifests in the communities they create.

I think this is hard for liberals to understand because they’re so steeped in cultural relativism. They assume that cultural differences cannot be substantive—cannot shape the communities people create in substantive ways. So they cannot understand why anyone would object to mass settlement of culturally distinct groups except out of prejudice against immutable characteristics. Oddly, they seem to have this blind spot only for non-white people. Most would agree that West Virginia is the way it is because of West Virginians. But Bangladesh isn’t the way it is because of Bangladeshis, and it’s “racist” to suggest that importing 50,000 Bangladeshis to an enclave in the US would recreate dynamics that prevail in Dhaka.