MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by croon | 2025-08-15 08:49:49+00:00
A couple of months ago I was sitting at my desk when the kids were asleep and was going to put some show on the second monitor while I was doing some boring admin. I open a Netflix tab on the same machine, same browser, same LAN, no VPN as I've been using for years, from the IP where likely 95% of our household Netflix traffic is requested.

I'm met with:

> Your device isn't part of the Netflix household for this account

> Not <my email here>? Create an account to enjoy your own Netflix today.

> Create an account

> Did we get it wrong? Watch temporarily until you're back on your Netflix household Wi- Fi, or sign out.

> Watch temporarily

> Sign out

Neither of the options actually worked to escape the bug(/feature?) either.

So that's when I cancelled my subscription after 8 years.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-15 08:49:54+00:00
> In an ideal world maybe learners could focus exclusively on listening and speaking first, then move on to kanji later. But writing is a very useful tool in learning, and having access to that tool can help speed things up.

There is no connection between these two sentences. You can learn to read and write in Japanese without ever learning a single kanji, and that's what everybody does do. Kana serve the purpose flawlessly.
by Hackbraten | 2025-08-15 08:50:32+00:00
> one approach is to create concrete (as opposed to virtual) records for each occurrence of the recurring pattern[1] so that any other software concerned with viewing/handling those events can be given precomputed UTC values and not have to worry about local user settings or parsing recurrence patterns.

This approach assumes that concrete records can actually be computed by the time the series is created. That may not be feasible. Some countries pass their DST policy on very short notice (i.e., days or months rather than years).
by maxehmookau | 2025-08-15 08:50:38+00:00
Define "accomplishments". Based on Woz's message, I would say he's been the true achiever in the game of life. He found, what he genuinely believes, is happiness.

Personally, I'd take that over being the creator of something valuable.

If Elon Musk is being held up as a pinnacle of achievement, I don't want that.
by edent | 2025-08-15 08:50:42+00:00
> However, it’s important to be kind to other humans and to treat humans with respect.

Very true. But why is that argument never deployed against the bullies?

Chrome's developers say "We want to do X". People say "No, please don't." Chrome says "I'm not going to respect your wishes."

Where's the equality in that?

> Now it can be difficult to voice opposition without coming off as rude but its definitely an important skill for a professional to have.

The same is also true of people making those proposals. Chrome devs should know (from bitter experience) that releasing a high-handed statement, studiously ignoring all dissent, and then swinging the ban-hammer is going to lead to ill-will.

Again, why isn't anyone calling for them to be more calm and respectful of the people they're hurting?

> I wouldn’t want to wish that on anyone.

I've been on the receiving end and - yes - it sucks. But given that they know these proposals would be contentious, why didn't they approach this in a more respectful and collaborative manner?
by sivm | 2025-08-15 08:50:46+00:00
1. Stand at first light: face EAST, then NORTHEAST. Let the BERLIN CLOCK choose; read where the shad 2. Make a narrow breach of light; hold still; as the edge moves, letters awaken and the sealed doorw 3. Four passes: hours, hour, minutes, minute. Read on each sweep; the rising sun will order what see

He is an artist, not a mathematician. It’s a physical reveal for this layer of the copper onion.
by rw2 | 2025-08-15 08:51:26+00:00
I think the future with AI has no room for Palantir.

Basically, their entire premise is go into some place, collect all the data and build models that are useful on top that data.

Those models are now pretty much useless in the age of LLMs as the LLMs are so powerful you dont need custom models to predict behavior anymore. The new meta in this space is probably someone taking all the data into some db and using LLM on it either through training or interpretation.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-15 08:51:31+00:00
> I still had the problem I started with of "I want to write the word べんきょう but can't bring to mind the kanji for it", because I had no association between Japanese words and the English keywords for their component kanji...

If you didn't know what べんきょう meant, how did you know it was what you wanted to write?
by JimDabell | 2025-08-15 08:52:27+00:00
> Why can’t things remain backwards compatible forever?

I already said why:

> The complexity and attack surface area isn’t justified by its utility, so it’s hard to make the case for keeping it.

If you read the GitHub issue that this submission links to, the issue points out security vulnerabilities and links to:

> Although XSLT in web browsers has been a known attack surface for some time, there are still plenty of bugs to be found in it, when viewing it through the lens of modern vulnerability discovery techniques. In this presentation, we will talk about how we found multiple vulnerabilities in XSLT implementations across all major web browsers. We will showcase vulnerabilities that remained undiscovered for 20+ years, difficult to fix bug classes with many variants as well as instances of less well-known bug classes that break memory safety in unexpected ways. We will show a working exploit against at least one web browser using these bugs.

— https://www.offensivecon.org/speakers/2025/ivan-fratric.html
by motorest | 2025-08-15 08:52:38+00:00
> How would you know if it adds nothing of value if you stopped reading it? :)

If you write a wall of text where the first pages are inane drivel, what do you think are the odds that the rest of that wall of text suddenly adds readable gems?

Sometimes a turd is just a turd, and you don't need to analyze all of it to know the best thing to do is to flush it.
by culebron21 | 2025-08-15 08:52:42+00:00
1) No, it's just Russian translators are aware that in English, Daniel and John start from different letters and want to indicate that. I think it's the only case of 2-letter initial in English->Russian translation. Can't recall any other cases, but maybe there are such with translations from other languages.

2) like Spanish perro, but accent on the last syllable, "perró". I think Pierrault would add a "soft sign", Пьерро.

3) There's no equivalent of W in Russian, and different translators take different ways - either В (v) or У (u). E.g. I read two translations of Sherlock Holmes with Watson being Уотсон and Ватсон.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-15 08:53:36+00:00
$ ldd ./citybound-v0.1.2-685-g8a11e4d linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007f6f3c2d2000) libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6f3c299000) librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f6f3c294000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6f3c28f000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6f3c260000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6f3aa16000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6f3c2d4000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6f3a928000)

The workaround is copying the right lib{ssl,crypto}.so to lib{ssl,crypto}.so.1.0.0, but I do not have the time right now.

Looks good enough on the video.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-15 08:54:01+00:00
Argentina. Have been using BitTorrent directly from my home connection for close to 20 years now without issue, no VPN or anything. Never heard of anyone getting a fine, a warning, or anything like that. Never ran into transfer cap issues either; despite my ISP having a stated monthly cap of 250 GB down (although that was years ago; it may have changed), I handily exceed it every month, and some months I've passed 1 TiB without getting throttled at all. The record according to pfSense is 2.2 TiB in a single month.
by windward | 2025-08-15 08:55:10+00:00
>hallucinations

This is the first word that came to mind when reading the comment above yours. Like:

>They can't, despite marketing, really reason

They aren't, despite marketing, really hallucinations.

Now I understand why these companies don't want to market using terms like "extrapolated bullshit", but I don't understand how there is any technological solution to it without starting from a fresh base.
by nottorp | 2025-08-15 08:55:33+00:00
> If you want to play video games, you should probably buy a console or a desktop PC.

> White-hot take: you’re allowed to own a PC and a Mac.

I do own a console, a pc and two macs. But for what I've paid for the macs Apple should make it easy for me to play games on their hardware if i so choose.

There is some hope: Lies of P is actually very playable on the minimum requirements M2/16G ram. And you get the Mac version on Steam with the Windows version so you're not limited to a single platform.
by toyg | 2025-08-15 08:55:46+00:00
> It was terrible, but i was so proud of it at the time.

Terrible why? Bookmarklets and XSLT (and things like Greasemonkey userscripts) were some of the things that made the web more "read-write" in the '00s: anyone could remix web content however they saw fit, optimizing it for their personal use-cases, and often attracted kids and "normies" to coding.

Even today, they can be used to do stuff that most people find magical. Unfortunately they are unfashionable, so they're slowly getting strangled by the big players who want to have all the control all the time.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-15 08:55:51+00:00
> Why shouldn't people be overly emotional?

By definition overly emotional is bad – that’s what separates “overly emotional” from just “emotional”.

Regardless, having emotions is not the problem, lashing out at others because of those emotions is the problem.

> These are all valid and useful emotional responses. Telling someone "if you do this it will make me sad" should be useful feedback.

The person you are responding to said:

> we were constantly called names for absolutely any change we would do. Insulted and accused of the worst intentions.

Why are you misrepresenting this as “it will make me sad”?
by perching_aix | 2025-08-15 08:56:00+00:00
> Nothing I’m saying implies I don’t think they’re speaking how they truly feel.

Then how am I supposed to interpret "people so desperate to pretend they're at the top of the moral totem pole"? You literally say people are pretending.

> when they say he’s some kind of monster because he didn’t get chemo (???) and was rude to people and took up handicapped parking spaces

I would 100% say he was "some kind of monster" for power abuse (verbal harassment), as well as for denying and neglecting his child, yes. The scrambling for an organ donor after his drug-addled delusions fell through thing doesn't sound too hot either.

Judgements are subjective. Usually people operate under shared assumptions, so one would just expect that their judgement would be widely shared - but this doesn't make them some universal truth.

This is how and why you end up in a circle when people describe things he's a bad person for, and then you just say "well I don't find those things to be bad". Great, we already know he's not a bad person for you, you said as much. People just disagree and see it different, and list things off for you to try and relate. And so you list off counterpoints to make them try and relate.

> I’m saying it’s unrealistic to target him specifically for being a dick

Yes, well, being extremely "well known", along with his personality, despite never having met 99.999% of the people who "know" about him is pretty unrealistic / unnatural to begin with. This includes me of course.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-15 08:56:53+00:00
AI has had many, many lay meanings over the years. Simplistic decision trees and heuristics for video games is called AI. It is a loose term and trying to apply it with semantic rigour is useless, as is trying to tell people that it should only be used to match one of its many meanings.

If you want some semantic rigour use more specific terms like AGI, human equivalent AGI, super human AGI, exponentially self improving AGI, etc. Even those labels lack rigour, but at least they are less ambiguous.

LLMs are pretty clearly AI and AGI under commonly understood, lay definitions. LLMs are not human level AGI and perhaps will never be by themselves.
by haburka | 2025-08-15 08:58:33+00:00
> Would you be okay if LinkedIn and GitHub banned your account without any explanation?

If I was doing something like shitting on the brand and advertising my competition product with the platform then I would not be totally surprised. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

> Or are you of the opinion that it's not a possibility because you follow all of their ToS to the letter at all times?

Yes. Platforms literally have the right to ban you for any reason without giving an explanation. If you don’t like that then you should lobby the government. I do think it would be better for society if there were certain laws platforms had to follow! But do I trust the government to get those laws right? Not yet. Maybe in 10 years.

>Do you admit that you'll never provide any objective feedback about these companies since that may (or even should?) violate their ToS in your opinion?

WTF ? You can definitely provide objective feedback to LinkedIn in the form of like feature requests lmao. But when you insult their product and then sell your own product that’s not objective feedback. You’re obviously self invested. Your goal isn’t to improve LinkedIn, it’s to sell your own product.

Which is ok! LinkedIn is a platform with many issues that there absolutely should be startups that try to fix them. But don’t pretend it’s like a massive tragic conspiracy when your account gets banned. You were simply poking a bear and the bear swiped at you.

> Why are you disparaging the author of the essay? What if she's your colleague, too?

I am being critical - I don’t think it’s the same as calling people who work at a company stupid or malicious. I never claim the author is stupid, just blind sided by their own hubris maybe. I believe they’re very smart and I’m sure they’re good at their job.

> How can you be sure that the person who's been deplatformed is not a colleague of yours, too?

I’m not sure of that. I tried to be fair in my critique. Maybe I got a bit spicy but it’s the internet.

> Why is it okay to disparage private individuals in private capacities (and to deny them their livelihood in these cases of LinkedIn and GitHub bans), but not okay to provide less than ideal feedback about monopolistic multibillion-dollar companies?

It’s ok to provide feedback of platforms. Just if you do it and you get banned don’t be surprised. Getting banned from a platform doesn’t meant you did something that “wasn’t ok.” It just means the platform decided to do it. Providing critical feedback of a platform while promoting your own competing product is not surprising to get a ban.
by sivm | 2025-08-15 08:58:46+00:00
4. At dawn I stood east then northeast, counting by the clock; the rim's shadow wrote the hidden lin 5. First light, east to northeast. Copper grid in shadow. Sample on the beats. Write only what the l 6. Trust the clean edge, not the flicker; the mind finds patterns, but the edge alone reveals the me

Perhaps a 3D artist can model it and run some simulations with light.
by pm215 | 2025-08-15 08:59:04+00:00
I knew the word (including how it is spoken and what it means), so I would have no difficulty of understanding if it was said to me in conversation, I could read the word whether in kanji or hiragana, I could compose sentences in my head which used it and use it when speaking, I just didn't always remember how to write it in kanji...

(Here べんきょう is just an example: the same issue applies to essentially every word.)
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-15 09:00:08+00:00
> that makes the terminal (just text) feel like a different thing than just text to them

Terminals are a lot more than just text. They were once physical machines. Now they are software emulating those old machines. These machines, physical or virtual, are controlled via in-band signaling. In many ways they are like extremely primitive browsers. Terminals are so old they actually predate copy paste.

> it just feels like 99% of the world works and the 1% that doesn't is the terminal

They don't actually work like all the other applications. They are completely different. Terminals are extremely complex legacy devices that require special kernel support to even work. The terminal line discipline is maintained by the kernel: Linux actually processes every single incoming and outgoing byte.

Nobody really expects to be able to paste text into a video game running inside a Super Nintendo emulator. Terminals are like that. It's actually amazing that modern terminal emulators were able to provide this feature.

> We terminal nerds lose nothing if more people understand terminals, quite the opposite.

Do you want people to actually understand terminals? To me it seems like you want to change terminals into something new that just happens to be easier to understand. They wouldn't really be terminals then, would they?

Things like ^C and ^D and ^[ are literally ASCII characters. Literally. Everything is ASCII text and that includes control characters, whose input is literally enabled by the Ctrl key. These bytes cause the terminal machine and sometimes even the kernel to do interesting things such as sending an interrupt signal to the slave program, closing its file descriptor or interpreting the next bytes as code in a sort of terminal instruction set. Typing on the keyboard just sends these codes into the system which can do any number of things in response.

We simply cannot have "normal" copy/paste with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. If we did this, terminals would no longer be the simple ASCII input devices described above.

Getting people to truly understand terminals means they have to understand all this.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-15 09:00:13+00:00
None of those sources detail anything that I would describe as “two large bombs”. And I can’t find a 72 hour power outage in Seattle in 2020.

Can you help me out?

mrangle also later said [0] they live “in a major city between Boston and DC”. So they aren’t describing Seattle. (Or actually any city in the US based on what they have shared so far)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888781
by vidarh | 2025-08-15 09:00:16+00:00
As someone with aphantasia, I'm also not convinced that is the cause. I can draw better than average from memory, and used to be quite good but haven't practiced for many years.

There are also animators and artists with aphantasia[1].

My spatial recollection is particularly good - I can sketch out precise diagrammatic drawings from memory much better than I can do artistic drawings.

So while it's not impossible that not having aphantasia would've been a benefit to him, I don't think there's much evidence that it's has any big effect on the ability to draw - something that also fits Ed Catmull's experience on surveying his old employees in the article mentioned.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256
by archaeans | 2025-08-15 09:00:21+00:00
The essay is just bad. Its answer to "How important were the Achaemenids as a template for Sasanian power?" is "very important" and proceeds to squeeze that from the analysis at any costs. There is no nuance, no balance, just hammering on the point that it was very important.

Take this passage for example:

"The importance of the Achaemenid model for Sasanian power was profound yet selective, manifesting most clearly in royal ideology, administrative structures, and religious policy, while being mediated through the complex filters of historical memory, practical necessity, and contemporary innovation."

This is nonsense. "Profound yet selective" what does that even mean? Was it profound or selective?

Another problematic passage:

"Ardashir's son Shapur I's Res Gestae (ŠKZ) explicitly invokes the memory of past Iranian greatness, presenting the Sasanian dynasty as restoring a glory that had been diminished under Parthian rule."

It most certainly does not. There is no such claim to "restoring" something the Parthian rule had "diminished".

As usual, LLMs can write very convincing nonsense if you don't or can't scrutinize.

This is bad historical analysis dressed up as a pompous essay that looks knowledgeable to the lay person.
by nottorp | 2025-08-15 09:00:57+00:00
Heh, I play mmos in a window if i play them.

WoW on Linux with wine used to be a superior experience to WoW on Windows. Because the system didn't lock up for half a minute when I alt-tabbed.

[Haven't played WoW in a long time though, maybe in Windows 10 and up you have an easier time alt-tabbing between heavy 3d apps.]
by Gareth321 | 2025-08-15 09:01:05+00:00
Radarr and Sonarr are my two favourite pieces of software ever. Together with Plex I get an experience FAR superior to any streaming service. For the record I would be happy to pay for such a service, but they're so greedy they'll never offer such a unified service. Instead they keep making the direct to Netflix content worse. Removing content without any notice. Making the app UX worse, including removing useful reviews from the platform, and making content auto play when browsing. The best example of this clusterfuck is the Pokemon where to watch guide: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-...
by lan321 | 2025-08-15 09:01:12+00:00
Doesn't sound like the bad part to me.

If Masimo wanted to, they'd have offered them the same or more to keep them, but they didn't. I don't believe an employer has any right to expect other companies not to offer positions to their employees. Employees should not be kept in the dark on opportunities for better pay and conditions because you can't or don't want to fight that offer.
by troupo | 2025-08-15 09:01:20+00:00
> This is of course horseshit. Vulkan was being developed before Metal and Apple was even part of that development

It's fascinating that history is changing so fast now that even events of 10 years ago can be claimed to be something they weren't.

- 2013: AMD starts developing Mantle, and it is only available as part of AMD Catalyst, and only on Windows.

- 2013 (at least): Apple starts working on their own graphics API.

- June 2014: Metal 1.0 on iPhones is announced by Apple (it means it had already been in development much earlier, that's why I wrote "2013 at least" above)

- July 2014: Khronos starts work on Vulkan

- August 2014: The announcement of the Vulkan project and the call for participation.

- June 2015: Apple announced Metal on Macs.

- Sometime in 2015: AMD discontinues Mantle and donates it to Khronos.

- December 2015: Vulkan 1.0 specification announced by Khronos group

- February 2016: The full spec and SDK for Vulkan 1.0 released

So, reality: Metal had been released two years before Vulkan even had a specification.

> also well supported on Windows by GPU vendors.

Keyword: GPU vendors. Not by Microsoft.

> Vulkan is the primary rendering API on Android and Linux these days

But not on Macs, iPhones, Windows, XBox, and Playstation.

And yet, "omg why doesn't Apple support this late-to-the scene quite shitty API that it must support because we say it must".
by worble | 2025-08-15 09:01:32+00:00
Personally I've found googles responses to be very rude; they've asked for feedback and people have come back saying "We're still using this, please don't just remove it" and despite that they seem to be completely uncompromising on removing it without any adjustments like shipping the wasm polyfill instead of native code.

It kind of baffles me that they could even consider this, maybe I'm just naiive but the webs greatest strength has always been it's backwards compatibility; I can fire a page up written 30 years ago and it still renders (assuming it wasn't built in flash lol). Breaking the user experience like this and saying "well the owners need to update their site" doesn't work - a lot of these pages won't be actively maintained or under the control of someone who can make changes.