MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethersteeds | 2025-08-01 05:34:36+00:00
On unpacking after moving: I'd posit that what you describe is an extreme outlier of moving efficiency.

More often, there was some amount of disorder introduced along the way.

Boxes badly/not labelled, disparate contents mixed. Differences in house mix of drawers/cabinets/closets/etc means there's no direct equivalent for where something used to live. Unpacking that's blocked on other tasks like building the bookcase or deciding what this room will be used for. And if course the classic just having way too much stuff.

This all compounds for ADHD people, for whom the large stream of unpacking tasks coupled with their attendant stream of decisions can overwhelm and then depress, resulting in a quagmire as described in your quote.

It ain't pretty but I assure you it happens. My friend is going through it right now: six weeks after moving, their living room remains wall to wall boxes.
by eschaton | 2025-08-01 05:35:03+00:00
It’s not even a centralized task scheduler on its native UNIX: iI’s a centralized *userspace* task scheduler.

Mainframe and minicomputer operating systems support scheduling in the operating system itself, as part of their process/thread scheduler; their native queuing systems are built on top of the primitives their scheduler offers, for proper accounting and maximum resource utilization (including prioritization).

Only UNIX would just provide a way to run processes at a specified time or interval and call the job done.
by lazide | 2025-08-01 05:35:27+00:00
Like many things in life (including those we end up succeeding at), if we knew what it would entail (and already had the experience), we wouldn’t go at it with the same vigor - and might fail outright. Or maybe it would be easier.

I suspect there is a strong evolutionary reason why Mom’s tend to forget the really tough part/pain in having kids though.
by delichon | 2025-08-01 05:36:29+00:00
We don't have to wonder about real estate developer Donald Trump's architectural tastes.

1983 - Trump Tower, New York, NY 1984 - Trump Plaza, New York, NY 1991 - Trump Palace, New York, NY 1996 - Trump International Hotel and Tower, New York, NY 1997 - Trump Parc, New York, NY 1998 - Trump Park Avenue (renovation), New York, NY 2001 - Trump World Tower, New York, NY 2001 - Trump International Hotel and Tower, Honolulu, HI 2008 - Trump International Hotel and Tower, Las Vegas, NV 2008 - Trump Towers Istanbul, Turkey 2008 - The Dominick (formerly Trump SoHo), New York, NY 2009 - Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, IL 2009 - Park Tower Stamford (formerly Trump Parc Stamford), Stamford, CT 2011 - Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, Panama City, Panama 2012 - Trump Tower Punta del Este, Uruguay 2014 - Trump Tower Pune, India 2016 - Trump Tower Manila (Century City Makati), Philippines 2023 - Trump Tower Kolkata, India (partial occupancy reported)
by mattigames | 2025-08-01 05:37:10+00:00
For a start you don't ask such subjective questions, that's a bit silly, instead you ask for e.g. the death toll of Israel vs Palestine in the last year, the number of deaths surrounding the tianammen square protests, if it gives you a straight answers with numbers (or at least a consistent estimate) and citing it's sources it's a good start.
by frollogaston | 2025-08-01 05:38:45+00:00
You're saying young people are pushed to outskirts, but it seems like you mean they can only buy there, and others are renting. Otherwise, there's no way boomers just occupy the entire main part of the city, there aren't that many of them.

So if you enabled them to buy the more desirable homes instead of merely renting, where in this are they actually benefiting from doing so?
by Brajeshwar | 2025-08-01 05:38:56+00:00
For Fountain Pens, I stumbled on a YouTube Channel, Hemingway Jones that has some great videos about them. https://www.youtube.com/@HemingwayJones

Of course, all things Stationery, I occasionally continue to watch JetPens. Unfortunately, for my liking, they seem to be more and more Kawaii.

https://www.youtube.com/@JetPens
by frollogaston | 2025-08-01 05:40:03+00:00
It's an issue if you don't want to buy AirPods, or whatever the Pixel or Samsung equivalents are. Each realized there's money to be made this way, cause people will just buy.

Or in my case I've got an audio receiver with flaky Bluetooth. Guess it's "my fault" for not replacing it with an Apple TV, better yet Homepods.
by musicale | 2025-08-01 05:41:11+00:00
Games and game-like systems provide many benefits:

Simulations are particularly valuable because they allow you to test out strategies for risky activities (wars, investments or business ventures, gambling, etc.) without actual risk.

Twitch/reflex games like first-person shooters can improve eye-hand coordination. It's a fun recreational and social activity that can also help surgeons make fewer mistakes.

Narrative games are largely a modern form of storytelling, one of humanity's oldest and most important cultural practices.

Social games can build connection and teamwork; cozy games can facilitate relaxation; construction games can facilitate creative expression and spatial reasoning....

The reason people like games is because they are fun; but the reason games are fun is that they engage - and often challenge - the abilities that we use to interact with the real world.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-08-01 05:42:27+00:00
We don't need to moralize everything when we can simply recognize patterns that work vs. patterns that don't work. And underpaying people definitely is not the way to get the results you want.

You may not like the reasons for WHY they work or not, but that is not relevant to WHETHER they work.

When I made minimum wage working at Subway, I would sneak extra sandwiches for myself here and there. I didn't strictly NEED them to physically survive, but hey -- I'm busting my ass for $7.25, I'm gonna pay myself a little bonus here and there. No one's watching, so I'm going to decide what's fair for a change.

Now I make much more than that. I no longer steal sandwiches from my employer.

I think this is the pattern for the great majority of people.
by preetsuthar17 | 2025-08-01 05:42:55+00:00
A few years ago, when I was working as a freelance web developer, there were many projects that used repetitive layouts and designs.

That's when I built my own collection of basic UI components, such as buttons and others. At that time, I was using CSS, so I styled my components using CSS. Later, I decided to open-source these components, and that's when I created HextaUI.

After a few months, I found out about Tailwind CSS, so I decided to recreate all components with better design, modularity, and accessibility. This time, I also added animated components, not just base components. After building and launching, I left it and went on a break. (It didn't get any response because I didn't know marketing.)

Old HextaUI homepage - https://eloquent-belekoy-8b3fc1.netlify.app

Two months ago, I decided to rebuild the entire project—but this time, I wanted to scale it and make it stand out, because there's a lot of competition. So I rebuilt all base components, made them the latest versions, and gave it my all.

This time, it got a great response, in fact, it crossed 50,000 visitors in just 72 hours.

Looking at the response and demand, I created pre-built blocks using the base components and launched them at a minimal price. That also blew up and crossed more than 10 sales and exceeded $500 in revenue in just 24 hours. I was selling pre-built website blocks and UI components.

What I learned: the product matters the most. No matter how many competitors are out there, people still buy good products. If you think, "People are already building what I'm building," or "There are better options," then build something better. Make something specific. Niche down within that same niche.

Just build it.
by TFYS | 2025-08-01 05:43:18+00:00
Knives are useful. What's the the benefit of porn? Before I discovered porn, I just used my imagination and got the same level of "entertainment" as you now must get from porn.

Porn does harm some people, as it's easy to get addicted to it, and there's a lot of bad things happening on the supply side of it. I'm sure porn has also changed how people behave and what people expect in relationships, but it's hard to study such things. The amount of sex we have has decreased recently. I don't know if it's due to porn, but it'd be worth studying. If sexual satisfaction is easily available, there's less reason to seek the real thing.

It's beyond parents to fix these things, at best they can delay the discovery of porn for a few years, but that doesn't fix anything.
by a_bonobo | 2025-08-01 05:44:35+00:00
I think I agree with you, it's harmful. If you sit down and unpack everything you're about to do you'll end up not doing anything, except what gives you the most pleasure.

There are many things I started in my life that all led to wonderful places, but if I would've sat down and prepared myself about all the horrible steps in the middle, I wouldn't have done them. Even now my work has 'bad' aspects that would've kept me away from taking up the work in the first place, if I'd known about them. I still do them because the work needs to be done.
by andyferris | 2025-08-01 05:45:18+00:00
Should we call the organization “government” and the fee “tax”? 


It’s not a bad idea but it’s funny we need a funded people’s organisation to represent us to the democratic government!

I wonder if we need direct voting rights (for legislation etc) - now that we live in the internet age it may be feasible. Not sure how else to have the many overwhelming the few.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-01 05:46:27+00:00
You're living under a rock. It's been happening slowing but surely. As device form factor preferences change the new types conveniently don't make it easy to replace to OS. A significant chunk of them lock you out entirely.

Microsoft perennially makes small movements in that direction. Reduced control over the OS and attempts to exert control over the software ecosystem. I assume they're still trying to push consumers towards Windows S mode devices.

Kernel mode anticheat that won't run on systems that aren't attested. Streaming platforms that won't serve up decent quality streams. Even if you don't notice the pot being boiled there are those of us that do.
by NewJazz | 2025-08-01 05:47:29+00:00
That fallback instance can then route requests for specific domains to the original backend over an alternate path without needing to replicate the full TLS configuration locally.

Won't you need to "replicate the TLS config" on the back end servers then? And how hard is it to configure TLS on the nginx side anyway, can't you just use ACME?
by criticalfault | 2025-08-01 05:49:51+00:00
If we take a look at the results, I'm not convinced she is a good guy just because she was there at the beginning. There is a chart with her salary going up and Firefox usage going down. Looks like an X.

If anything, how come she didn't make it a success on the very limited market?

Even if she wasn't a bad actor in the beginning, she could have changed her opinion and be seduced by the money.

Just for comparison: a few people made a completely new engine in a few years. Task often thought as impossible (they had 200k USD for the start). Mozilla started servo, then when they saw its going well, decided to abandon it?

So what was Mozilla spending the money on? Many have requested the ability to donate for Firefox development, but it was never allowed: they (she?) wanted to distribute the donation money on things they thought were important?

For years they made decisions that the uses hated. How else to explain this?
by ecb_penguin | 2025-08-01 05:50:45+00:00
> Pay for your meal

Not sure you know what tipping is, but it's not paying for the meal. It's paying for the service.

1. I like being able to pay for better service

2. Despite what people like to think, everywhere in the world has appreciated tips. I've never had a waiter refuse extra money. Literally dozens of countries, you get better service if you tip.
by anonnon | 2025-08-01 05:51:11+00:00
> He tore it up like it was nothing.

From what I understand, goods exempt under the USMCA are still exempt.

EDIT:

> You cant make a deal with Trump. He changes his position weekly, depending on what he saw on Fox News or who he last talked to.

If you really believe he's an unpredictable Nixonian "Madman theory" president personified, then perhaps needling him with "TACO" (in effect mocking him for offering reprieves to facilitate further negotiation, and daring him to take threatened aggressive action up to and including bombing other countries) probably isn't the smartest track to take, especially knowing how much he values strength and how image-conscious he is.
by 9rx | 2025-08-01 05:52:25+00:00
> Tips subsidize profits, plain and simple.

Nah. Profitability for the business would be higher without tips. I take x% of gross income as profit. No tips means I can charge the customer more, which means a higher gross income, which means more profit. When tipping is involved, the money slips through without allowing the business to take its cut. Good for the server, but not good for the business.

However, as theoretically great as it sounds, you are ultimately beholden to what the customer wants. There is good reason why every restaurant that has tried a "no tips" policy has failed. Nobody shows up to dine. They go somewhere else where they can tip instead. Regular people actually enjoy tipping, as hard as it may be to believe for those who are staring at screens rather than enjoying the ambiance of a restaurant.
by superkuh | 2025-08-01 05:54:27+00:00
I write some new Perl/Gtk application a couple times a year. And I use it for automating basic things almost daily. I bet lots of people chose to write in perl for personal projects. It just isn't very visible.

But not that many. And that's why Perl is still Perl. Popularity brings change which means old code stops working.

Perl code from the year 2000 still works in a perl interpreter+libs today. And perl code written today still works on perl interpreter+libs from the year 2000. That incredible stability and reliability is what makes it great. Write something then use it 20 years later and everything just works anywhere you try to run it.

That's why I chose Perl.
by Felk | 2025-08-01 05:54:37+00:00
I see that the author took a 'heuristical' approach for retrying tasks (having a predetermined amount of time a task is expected to take, and consider it failed if it wasn't updated in time) and uses SQS. If the solution is homemade anyway, I can only recommend leveraging your database's transactionality for this, which is a common pattern I have often seen recommend and also successfully used myself:

- At processing start, update the schedule entry to 'executing', then open a new transansaction and lock it, while skipping already locked tasks (`SELECT FOR UPDATE ... SKIP LOCKED`).

- At the end of processing, set it to 'COMPLETED' and commit. This also releases the lock.

This has the following nice characteristics:

- You can have parallel processors polling tasks directly from the database without another queueing mechanism like SQS, and have no risk of them picking the same task.

- If you find an unlocked task in 'executing', you know the processor died for sure. No heuristic needed
by ncallaway | 2025-08-01 05:55:33+00:00
I don't think the assumption that "law = things the government is doing" is a good one.

I could imagine a law that specifically restricts the government's ability to do things. For example, maybe the federal government passes a law that makes it easier to sue its agents when those agents violate individual citizens constitutional rights.

Perhaps 65% of the population feels they are harmed if this law doesn't exist, and 35% of the population feels they are harmed if the law doesn't exist. Should that law be repealed?
by jbm | 2025-08-01 05:57:33+00:00
I semi-agree, but the type of democracy you are referring to would involve much smaller groups with more power and would ruin the political "economy of scale" that we get from having the same laws apply to everyone over vast spaces.

I think having a mostly crippled central government is probably the most realistic alternative but you can see how that is taken advantage of in the US and how it fosters unnecessary discord between people whose interests are generally aligned.
by Voultapher | 2025-08-01 05:58:57+00:00
> There's a civil/economic argument: arguably copyright/intellectual property make for stronger societies that produce better stuff for everybody.

They make rich people richer, we have ample evidence for that. But research ... the majority is funded by governments. But content creation ... the majority of high quality Youtube for example in funded in advance by Patreon and similar solutions.
by quirino | 2025-08-01 05:58:57+00:00
I had some fountain pens over the years, but I was never able to truly enjoy them or recommend them to anyone. I didn't find them practical as daily writing tools and or too fun as a hobby.

I really dislike the feeling that you need to be a bit careful with a tool. I want the peace of mind of being able to drop pens nib-first into the ground. They're also not great for writing on many types of paper and require some care and maintenance.

My experience getting into double-edge razors/nice shaving soaps was much better. They're not just small luxuries, but actually better-performant and more practical than the popular alternatives in almost every way.

(On the pen front, today I'm very satisfied with my "Kaweco LILIPUT Ball Pen Stainless Steel" - it's super compact, has a nice weight to it and just feels well-constructed and solid. I hope to use it for many years to come. (If you want to get one, beware the Aluminium version, which looks identical but is noticeably lighter))
by ghiculescu | 2025-08-01 05:59:07+00:00
As an Australian who lived in America for 5 years - it’s bonkers to claim the service is better (or even as good) in Aus. It’s clearly more attentive in the states, anyone who says otherwise has an agenda.

Sometimes you don’t want good service - as in, you don’t want a server to talk to you. That’s a lot easier to find here.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-01 05:59:28+00:00
To your footnote, this has been a constant refrain from WG21. One of the biggest achievements from yourself and many others was getting WG21 to explicitly reject P2137 the "Goals and priorities" paper rather than dithering and refusing to commit as happened for "Safe C++" and for the ABI paper.

I believe that getting WG21 to actually say "No" was very useful to have non-technical leadership people understand that C++ can't be the solution they need.
Ask HN: Where can I talk and discuss controversial topics?
by findingMeaning | 2025-08-01 05:59:55+00:00
With internet becoming increasingly homogeneous with their own ideals and thoughts, where can I discuss controversial topics?

Certain topics I am interested in post AGI world (the one where we are living); Mass wealth transfer to the billionaires at unprecedented speed; Lack of assets for middle class; death of middle class?
by PeyTy | 2025-08-01 06:00:00+00:00
Yes having custom language allows us to fine-tune it for the needs of the OS. It was intended for games and game engines, but later I extended it to the osdev too. The design of Hexa implies balance of high-level feel and moderate safety by default without compromise on performance. You may always go lower or higher level when needed. Kernel is a game-engine inspired experimental design. For simplicity, you may assume its a monolith (with some internal sandboxing, but that's not yet fully implemented). I will cover Tofita design in the future as it evolves.
by Surac | 2025-08-01 06:02:12+00:00
in the end it's all bits in ram that a cpu has to execute. as long as the cpu ISA is build around common coding patterns found in c there seems no reason to use anything other than c. I get it that people do not like to code in a language that does not hold your hand. I myself prototype most of my code in c#. But in the end it has to fit inside the cpu ISA architecture.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-01 06:02:13+00:00
Eh, it's still tricky. Visiting from a VPN gets you subpar experiences in around 30-50% of sites, I would say. From search engines that rate limit you to one or two searches per hour, to things like spotify simply not working. Forums, social media & co that aren't doing verification will also throttle you, shadow ban you and so on.

I get why some sites use these kinds of IP filtering, but the net result is sadly bad for anyone trying to do this.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-08-01 06:02:22+00:00
> Most devs I know use VSCodium, not VSCode.

And how many devs do you know? What percentage of all the devs in the world does that represent?

If you know a million devs who mostly use VSCodium instead of VSCode, that might be significant. But I'm guessing you just jump to conclusions about almost everything based on your own bubble and lack of critical thinking skills. Then you can just call other people idiots while patting yourself on the back for being so smart.
by b3lvedere | 2025-08-01 06:03:11+00:00
This. We used to do a lot of Ubiquiti, then the software quality went way down, their own security officer 'hacked' them and lots of other weird stuff. We were already using debian vm's instead of their horrible cloudkey devices (so slow..). We switched to Aruba Instant-On.

We still use some Ubiquiti. Sometimes i use this script on a Debian VM:

https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Installation-Script...
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-01 06:03:25+00:00
I'm pretty sure any law that costs you 1 dollar will cost you 1 dollar per year, or 1 dollar some other shorter amount of time.

And anyway the actual law under discussion is bad not because it costs you 1 dollar per year, but because it costs you other things.

Also this how people do fight against this kind of thing, they join non-profits or other organizations, give them 1 dollar per year and use the combined might of the organization.

But yes at that point you are paying 1 dollar per year that way too, but then, as already noted this is not really a 1 dollar per year law.

And then we see that in fact people often do care about 1 dollar per year, because they are not joining the organizations, even to protect things worth more than 1 dollar per year.
by delusional | 2025-08-01 06:03:45+00:00
> How many boxes have to be ticked before a flag is raised

If the proponents are right, an infinite amount. The information will never "raise a flag" since looking at it would require the flag to already have been raised (in the form of a warrant).

> and how is that going to affect what you tell the psychiatrist about how you really feel?

I think psychiatrists are already required to report you if they believe you're a danger to others.

> but we still see misuse of power.

This concern I sympathise with more, but I also have to imagine that this information bank could make it easier to investigate and convict this sort of misuse of power.
by leptons | 2025-08-01 06:03:49+00:00
So what? You need to give access to each website that wants to interact with WebMIDI. It doesn't just let any website poll the devices. It's no different than the location API or any other API - the user has to explicitly grant access to each website that wants to use the API. If you don't trust the site, don't give it access. It's really as simple as that.

Sorry chicken little, the sky is not falling.
by general1726 | 2025-08-01 06:04:06+00:00
What is a benefit of a video game? People can get addicted on gaming, let's ban it. What is a benefit a of a good steak? It is not healthy, let's ban it.

You don't like stuff other people enjoy and then you will go out of your way with ludicrous excuses to destroy it for others. Like a religious bigot.