MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 3RTB297 | 2025-08-26 04:34:14+00:00
I use Lemmy, and while federated social media might seem like this up front, a good comparison is dorms and classes at a large university.

Every dorm/housing and school program has its own vibe and attitude. Your student ID gets you in to all of them, but you live in one dorm building in particular, let's call it Jones Tower. There might be some seeming overlap between buildings - maybe Dinkley Hall and the Rogers Building both have Engineering floors, but they're not the same at all. You can cross-list classes between the geology department and theater school and gerontology, that's cool. You can have friends that live in Dinkey Hall and the Blake Apartments, and they can all go anywhere they want.

Is it a mess? Not really. Is it as plain and one-size-fits-all as single-story high school like Facebook? Not at all. Does it take time to understand how to sign up for a cross-listed class? Sure. To some it's worth it to be there, and plenty drop out because it's not for them, and that's fine. IMO, the benefit is the barrier to entry. It's not for everyone and doesn't need to be.

Threads added federation, but only Mastodon servers are connected, and not all of them - this is like Threads is the private medical school across town that lets grad school students from the Fediverse Uni come over for specific classes.
by jbhifilover | 2025-08-26 04:36:14+00:00
You paid for the phone with the OS as a contributing factor (alongside the hardware) to the purchase no doubt, so the OS in itself must be compelling to you for some reason.

You didn't fund the development of the OS, contribute to it (presumably), you didn't market it or position it alongside your brand.

I'd agree with you if you said you have a right to run anything on the hardware under a different OS, but you have no god given right to run whatever you want on the OS.
by pmontra | 2025-08-26 04:36:55+00:00
I can do banking and otp at home with a 100 Euro phone that I use only for that. FB, TikTok, Instagram, etc, neve ever installed them on my devices.

The problem is that I want to make calls, SMSes, use WhatsApp and Telegram, Maps and OSMAnd, NewPipe, VLC, Syncthing and a few others on the phone I carry with me.

And to make matters worse I don't want a huge, thick and heavy brick like every Linux phone I read about. I'm on a Samsung A40 now and it's not easy to find a replacement with similar size and weight.
by arp242 | 2025-08-26 04:37:13+00:00
> Why is this level of analysis completely missing from the follow-up blogpost

Because that's not what the article is about. It's not about whether Pyon was correct or wrong, it's that they were a dick about it. Their opening words were "you should be ashamed". They doubled and tripled down on their dickery later on.

And no matter how good your point is or how right you are: if you're a dick about it people will dislike you.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-26 04:37:53+00:00
Retailer's prices are not set to be "fair", they're set to maximize their return on the supply vs demand curve. In other words, increasing prices will generally cost them money, rather than make them money. In other other words, they expect that if they charge 5% more, they will trend towards selling 6% less.

So in general they end up stuck between a rock and a hard place in a situation like this. The most logical path forward would be to work on supporting domestic supply chains, not subject to tariffs, and helping them to gradually reduce prices through increasing both volume and efficiency.

But the problem that concept runs into is that there's about a coin's flip chance that in 3 years these tariffs will simply be reversed. And any domestic suppliers that were relying on them for a competitive edge will simply be left buried. It thus discourages any sort of meaningful investment in these domestic providers.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-08-26 04:38:14+00:00
Would you mind sharing how you see the new ones as an improvement? I’m having trouble imagining how.

At least 3 of the 4 previous icons were pretty easy to recognize on sight (all but expansion slot utility). I would never guess 3/4 of the new ones (only wireless utility), and I probably would have a hard time recognizing them even after I knew what they were.
by godelski | 2025-08-26 04:39:17+00:00
> What they want is to get rid of apps like YouTube Vanced

I think it is also very telling where they're rolling out first. Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

It felt weird that the official press release was quoting entities from these countries, as if it should give confidence to the rest of the world. I can't imagine what these countries would want with apps that can be traced back to a government id...

Vanced and such is more of a First World/Western issue. I don't think you're wrong but I got a strong gut feeling there's other pressures in the works. Just something doesn't smell right...
by medhir | 2025-08-26 04:39:40+00:00
I agree there’s a ton of benefits from fully disconnecting. I’ve had periods completely off social media which were quite blissful, though I’ve always ended up coming back to some extent due the social aspects you described.

Given the choice between apps controlled by large corporations preying on attention vs decentralized protocols, I’d much rather have the latter.

I think having examples of apps that don’t demand one’s attention so fiercely, or provide better options for tailoring “the algorithm,” are an important step towards ending the mass social media addiction society is currently experiencing.
by 3RTB297 | 2025-08-26 04:42:04+00:00
I just commented above, but it's really more like being a student at a university. You can enter all the buildings with your student ID. You can be friends with people in other dorms and enter the building. Even though you're an engineering student you can take classes in the economics or theater or applied science schools.

Though, IMO Mastodon not the better of the fediverse platforms, but I don't love microblogging social media. But it's all going to end up being like Linux. Some people tried it once, didn't like it, and then 10 years from now it'll be totally different and everyone will wonder where it's been all their lives.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-26 04:42:19+00:00
There's a reason Google is targeting a few specific countries with this first. Malware from APKs downloaded from the internet is more prominent in some countries than in others. The governments themselves are asking for this because educating the public has turned out to be an impossible task for them.

Still an awful solution that will get bypassed easily, of course. But there's more to this than "Google decided to be a bunch of dicks today".
by bitpush | 2025-08-26 04:42:19+00:00
Apple has been all about contradictions, and somehow that works for them. They strategically make a big deal about things, and then when silently does what every company is doing. The impressive part is they get away with it.

For instance, everybody thinks Apple hates advertising, esp user-tracking. The interesting thing is Apple themselves run a $6B+ ads businsess, which does first-party user tracking - which is the nuance.

Similarly, if Apple truely wanted user privacy, they'll outright ban Facebook from their platform.

Or most egregious is Apple "stands up to government" (famously with FBI) but is more than happy to bend the knee to Chinese government, or most recently with the gold plaque with Trump.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-26 04:42:39+00:00
That's true, but the point I made to that was more along the lines of "physically being present in the office, it's likely an employee will still provide enough benefit to make the money worth it". They don't have to be coding. Chatting with a coworker about something non-work-related can be enough of a bonding experience for that to.be worth the company the dinner money in intangible productivity benefits down the line.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 04:43:36+00:00
The CNBC article is actually the best, since it corroborates its numbers with their own price research.

Perhaps this is just coming from a finance background. But I’m not a fan of folks quoting numbers from “financial reports” without saying what report they’re citing.

> having a hard time finding the ideological bias you're talking about in the El País article

To be clear, I don’t allege this article has a bias. Just that I’m going to be sceptical of a paper calling something out that aligns with their priors.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-26 04:44:32+00:00
The article is right that the vacuum tubes, whose first application were the Edison lighting bulbs, then the Fleming diodes, which evolved directly from the incandescent lighting bulbs, are descendants of the Geissler tubes.

During the evolution of the Geissler tubes, the techniques of making efficient vacuum pumps and of sealing well the glass tubes were developed.

Only when the pumps and the glass tubes had become good enough, it became possible to experiment with the first vacuum tubes, by omitting the filling of the tubes with low-pressure gas.

Without the decades of playing with Geissler tubes there would have never been any incentive to develop the technologies without which making vacuum tubes would have been impossible.

Therefore there is no doubt that what the article says is correct, i.e. that the vacuum tubes are descendants of the low-pressure gas tubes, which were initially known as Geissler tubes.

So the vacuum tubes are a lateral branch of the development of the low-pressure gas tubes. After splitting, both branches have continued to evolve in parallel until they both have been replaced in most of their applications by semiconductor devices.

While vacuum tubes were better known by the general public, because they were present in things like radio receivers or TV sets, which many people owned, in industrial applications gas tubes have always had a similar importance to vacuum tubes.

Even the first electronic counter, which can be considered the ancestor of all electronic computers, has been made with gas tubes, not with vacuum tubes. (The first electronic counters were made to count the pulses from detectors of nuclear or cosmic radiation, for which the existing electro-mechanical counters were too slow. The circuits developed for this application were the basis for the development during WWII of the digital electronic circuits used in the first electronic computers.)
by zdragnar | 2025-08-26 04:45:02+00:00
I find there's a ton of value in "mob debugging"- if there's a serious issue, or your backlog or support queue is piling up with issues, turning the process into a live team exercise is fantastic.

Poor test coverage? Everyone sees the value in good tests in real time. Sloppy code that got through review? Everyone learns why you should be more diligent.

Tricky problem that needs an escape hatch from your framework to do something custom, or some advanced debugging tool usage to identify, or shed light on a database race condition? The impact of seeing it live is much better lasting than just getting a summary during a stand-up or a slack message.
by franklovecchio | 2025-08-26 04:45:24+00:00
I find this quite cynical, but I also can't speak to half of your family, ha!

I am one of the folks who, in my youth, purchased land in between Fort Garland and San Luis, with dreams of off-grid living. I succeeded, mostly, but not without many hiccups - the locals being one of them.

For me, "off-grid" was about _control_: control over my mortgage (none!), bills (no monthly subscriptions to privatized power companies generating profit!), and, well, life in general. I'd say the general theme wasn't so much about "sticking it to the man" (what's to stick and who?) or "being self reliant" (impossible), but about fighting classism _to some degree_ via a veritable case of civil disobedience.

To my understanding, it is basically illegal OR extremely difficult to find a living situation where someone else (bank, etc.) isn't profiting off folks, and I find that, well, avarice. But you could find a situation like that out in the valley, because land was cheap and you could "get away" with a lot out there, which basically is just another way of saying folks could _afford_ to be poor.

America is entrenched in classism, and everywhere I look someone with less money getting fucked. And this is ESPECIALLY true when it comes to building code enforcement: wealthy folks pay the same amount as poor folks for things like permits, et. al. ($$), code means nothing when you can afford to hire engineers to prove its safe, pay for costly zoning variations, etc. So as harsh as the valley was in climate, it was basically an oasis of sorts to younger me for all those reasons.

All that to say: there are other genres of fiction worth exploring :)
by toast0 | 2025-08-26 04:45:45+00:00
Your work visa could be rescinded at any point, yes. But if you're eligible to immigrate, the earlier you start, the earlier you get to a permanent status, right?

Also, even if your visa is rescinded on short notice, and you must leave immediately, you would likely earn more abroad than you can in your home country, right? What you've earned and not spent can likely help your future at home... Maybe it's enough to start a company at home where you can use your STEM skills. The experience you've gotten and the network you've built might possibly enable working remotely.

All that said, STEM fields vary widely. Many fields need tremendous capital to do 'great things', computer science does for some things, but not for others.
by conception | 2025-08-26 04:45:49+00:00
They are actually getting exactly what they want unfortunately. It’s a fairly well documented phenomenon, and I admit I used the gpts to hunt for the study so apologies for the slop forth coming but the studies are real -

A classic, directly on point study is:

Tajfel, H., Billig, M., Bundy, R., & Flament, C. (1971). “Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination.” In these “minimal group” experiments, people randomly split into trivial groups repeatedly chose allocations that reduced their own group’s absolute payoff as long as it increased their advantage over the out-group. In other words, participants accepted worse outcomes for themselves to ensure the disliked/other group got it even worse. https://ia902305.us.archive.org/23/items/15341_Readings/1534...

If you want an economics variant showing the same logic at the individual level: • Zizzo & Oswald (2001), “Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Others’ Incomes?” Participants literally paid to “burn” others’ money—taking a loss themselves to make others worse off.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/ajoswald/final...

As long as whoever they’ve been told is the outgroup, and that group is getting hurt, they will literally pay for that out of their own lives .
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-26 04:46:52+00:00
> The internet permission is the only regular manifest permission you can't toggle in the settings.

That's not even a little bit true? There's a ton of 'normal' permissions, almost none of which are user-overrideable. Like, say, android.permission.VIBRATE. Or android.permission.GET_PACKAGE_SIZE. Android has an obscene number of permissions ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... ) and almost none of them have a UI to control them nor any ability to be rejected

> It is an obvious win for an advertising/surveillance company like Google. What is wack about it?

How, exactly? How does Google benefit from random 3p apps having Internet access? And remember, Google has play services on every device to proxy anything it needs/wants.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-26 04:47:18+00:00
> When you claim some technique would give a corporation a significant competitive edge, and yet most corporations don't take it (at least not for most projects), then that is evidence against that claim because usually companies are highly motivated to gain an advantage.'

Corporations will generally want to optimize for ease of development and general ecosystem maturity. Rust is at a clear disadvantage at least wrt. the latter - the first generally usable version of the language was only released in late 2018 - and other safe languages are generally GC-based (compare Java/C# with C++). It's quite normal that a lot of performance would be left on the table wrt. both CPU and memory footprint.
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-26 04:48:51+00:00
The internet permission is exposed to the user, it just can't be revoked by the user. But that's true of like 100 other permissions, too. It's the default case that permissions are not revokable.

And I did provide 2 reasons why that's the case for Internet specifically, neither of which were even attempted to be refuted in this comment chain
by al_borland | 2025-08-26 04:51:54+00:00
What is the killer app people are sideloading these days? For people to get onboard they need to feel like they are really missing out on something they find valuable. iOS doesn't have sideloading (outside of some TestFlight loopholes), and I don't see anyone is real life talking about it. It's just activists for this kind of thing online.

I don't think the average user feels like they are really missing anything, which makes it a hard sell.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-26 04:52:12+00:00
Retailers typically have thin margins, e.g. 2%. They're paying $0.98 to sell something for $1 so they can keep $0.02. Not all of the $0.98 is imported products (a lot of it is salaries and rent etc.), so a 10% tariff might only raise their costs by 5%. But then they're paying $1.03 to sell something for $1. Do they care more about maintaining their volume at that point? Of course not, they're going to raise price instead of making a loss. But so are their competitors, because their costs went up too, which prevents them from losing sales to the competition anyway. Then they only lose sales to customers being unable to afford it, e.g. because they have to spend more on food and then have less to spend on new cars.

This is true of most taxes in a competitive market. Competition was keeping margins low so the money has to come from higher prices or lower salaries, and salaries are sticky so it's usually higher prices. So if the tariffs are instead of some other taxes, it's just a revenue-neutral tax change, not inherently raising prices. But if the tariffs are on top of other taxes then it's a tax increase which gets passed on as higher prices.
by stock_toaster | 2025-08-26 04:53:30+00:00
> The fanaticism and cult of personality seems unusual for a living figure though.

Covid, both the disease and/or the isolation of lockdown, did some weird things to several people I know -- they just didn't come out the other side the same person. Coupled with social media and what seems like a global rise of nationalism fervor, the outlook doesn't seem good.
by MindSpunk | 2025-08-26 04:53:35+00:00
While I'm not saying waste when things are plentiful in general is okay, I think water is a unique case that can be treated differently.

Comparing to energy costs isn't the same because using the energy for the incandescent bulb consumes that energy permanently. The gas/coal/fuel can't be un-burned. Although solar changes this as the marginal cost of that energy is free.

Comparing to food is similar. Once the food is wasted it is gone.

Water is typically not destroyed, it's just moved around in the water cycle. Water consumption in a region is dictated by the throughput the water cycle replenishes the reservoirs you're pulling from. "Waste" with water is highly geographic, and it's pretty reasonable to take exception to California projecting their problems to geographic regions that they aren't important.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-26 04:54:26+00:00
Are they really that sneaky? Literally every economist who's not trying to give Trump a handy says this is the obvious outcome of tariffs (heck, the entire way that tariffs protect native jobs is by making foreign goods more expensive so native goods, which are more expensive to produce due to higher labor costs/lower productivity, are competitive).

Saying stuff like "China will pay the tariffs" was always bloviating fantasy to anyone who can stitch 2 brain cells together to make a coherent thought.
by Ameo | 2025-08-26 04:54:41+00:00
I know that some people really find value in this and even enjoy it, but I can't imagine it and would never accept a role at a company that does anything close to this.

For me, so much of the value and enjoyment in programming comes from getting locked in and grinding out some feature or fix solo based on a spec or description. I also feel like programming without listening to music is way less enjoyable.

Again, no flame at all for people who work this way. It just doesn't match at all with my own sensibilities and work style to the point where it's hard for me to imagine doing it at all.
by rayiner | 2025-08-26 04:54:44+00:00
The economic incidence of tariffs (like any tax) depends on elasticity. But yes, in general, some portion of the tax will be passed onto consumers. So what? Economists agree that taxing consumption is better than taxing income or capital gains: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-... (points 3 and 4).

A tariff is a consumption tax that’s less than 100% passed onto consumers, which has the effect of discouraging imports. All good things.
by dang | 2025-08-26 04:55:54+00:00
"one who wishes months or years of suffering and misery on the terminally ill solely to assuage her own conscience" was a reference to the person you were arguing with and an attack, hence a personal attack.

I didn't see that other comment. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)
by masswerk | 2025-08-26 04:56:28+00:00
PS, Another way to put this: are these still icons, as in "indicative of something", or are they merely ornamental, particularly in their individuality? And, if the latter, how good are they as ornaments? Is there even a need or a place for ornaments in an interactive environment that is meant to be tuned for efficiency?

(In my experience, if an interface elements raises questions, even more so, if these are fundamental questions, you do have a problem. If not for other reasons, just for the few more bits of awareness spent on these questions, every time you see them.)
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-08-26 04:57:22+00:00
I prefer having answers to questions and then go on with my life. I'm not into discussing things that matter to me. I'm not into arguing about things that matter to me. I want the right answer that gives me results.

As I said, I have a thousand little questions. A thousand of them. And it's not about what is my vision in life. It's about every little question that you could think of. So what you are saying is, I assume, questions like "Is there a simulation or are we real?" or "Is time travel good".

And that's not at all what I am talking about. Those questions don't lead to useful results especially when asked by laymen who just want to be right and the other party to confirm their view.

That's also what bugs me the most, people think by setting boundaries I wanted to discuss things, or I cared about their unfounded opinions. I don't.

I want applicable knowledge and compassion from others and only that.
by zrobotics | 2025-08-26 04:57:54+00:00
Those rotary drywall cutters are the ticket for cutting plastic. I first used one when I was a mechanic before changing careers, and we used one for trimming tough plastics like bumper covers. Takes a bit of practice to get a nice cut, since they are super aggressive, but they make a very nice, clean cut that's far better than any other tool I've tried. I've actually never used mine on drywall, I prefer one of the oscillating tools or a jab saw, but I've used it quite a bit for automotive and electronics work. You can make a front panel for a project stupidly quick with one of those, and it turns out nicer than cutting with a dremel cutoff blade.