MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-14 23:01:43+00:00
I am absolutely astounded by the pirate streaming sites for a bunch of reasons.

First, I'm amazed that they exist at all. I don't understand how they do it for both legal and monetary reasons. Serving thousands of gigabytes of video daily cannot be cheap! And their domains continue to stay active despite what I'm sure is legal barrage from rights holders.

Second, the UX of these sites is better than any commercial service, hands down (as long as you use an ad blocking browser or VPN). The GUIs are super clean and provide all the features you'd want: Sortable lists, the ability to search how you like, clickable links for actor, director, year, etc. to get a list of just those shows, links to Trailers on YouTube, constantly updated new releases carousel and more. And again, this is content that's streamed straight to your browser - no torrenting or external downloading, etc. Just tap and watch.

Third, as mentioned in the article, the pirate sites have a catalog of every video and TV show/series you can imagine. Just about anything that's ever been on physical media or streamed, it's there. Every time I read about how such and such show or movie is unavailable on any streaming platform because of licensing disputes or other reasons, I go check my preferred pirate streaming video site and it's always there.

Bonus: There are live streaming sites as well dedicated to sports. Everything from BBC Olympics coverage to subscription only Soccer/Baseball/NFL etc.

Bonus 2: If you're impatient or too broke to see a newly released movie in theaters, decent quality cam recordings always appear within a day or so, and are replaced when the original is published.

Seriously, if any company were to provide the same level of service, they could charge tons of cash for it and have millions of subscribers. They're that good.

Again though, how do these sites exist!? Where is the data stored? How is the bandwidth paid for? Who is updating the sites daily with new content? So many questions.
by convo-lang | 2025-08-14 23:02:01+00:00
Its an interpreted language. The interpreter and parser are written in TypeScript so it does use Javascript at runtime but its not a transpiled language that is just converted to Javascript.

The Convo-Lang CLI allows you to run .convo files directly on the command line or you can embed the language directly into a TypeScript or Javascript applications using the @convo-lang/convo-lang NPM package. You can also use the Convo-Lang VSCode and Cursor extensions to execute prompt directly in your editor.

The Convo-Lang runtime also provides state management for on-going conversations and handles the transport of messages to and from LLM providers. And the @convo-lang/convo-lang-react NPM packages provides a set of UI components for building chat interfaces and generated images.
by behnamoh | 2025-08-14 23:02:18+00:00
This just shows how little Apple cares about gaming on Mac. It's so sad that I spent thousands on multiple Mac devices (MBP, M Studio, etc.) only to be bottlenecked not by hardware, but by Apple's shitty approach to gaming software.

I know why they do it though. Apple can't take their undeserved 30% cut of Mac games the same way they take their iOS cuts.

We had a teacher years ago who said something that remains true until today: "everything is about money, especially the ones that appear to have non-monetary reasons."
by justsid | 2025-08-14 23:02:23+00:00
I would rather Apple actively maintains Metal than halfheartedly support Vulkan the way they supported OpenGL. If you have a relatively good graphics abstraction layer in your engine already, implementing a Metal backend isn't super hard, especially if you already support Vulkan or D3D12. Metal is a lot like diet Vulkan/D3D12, except for a couple of really odd decisions.

The hardest part about supporting Apple systems is honestly everything else and no amount of Vulkan drivers is going to help with that.
by slg | 2025-08-14 23:02:25+00:00
>Your analogy contains a category mistake

Yes, that was exactly the point of my question. I was subtly accusing you of the same thing you are now overtly accusing me of doing. I was showing that we shouldn't look at everything through the lens of a probabilistic model.

The authenticity of the video was not a coin flip in which the results would be random within some sort of probabilistic distribution. We were not predicting a future event. We were observing and analyzing a past event. AlotOfReading didn't just come to the wrong conclusion. Their analysis of the evidence was flawed from the start and that is why I disagreed with them in that original thread before either of us knew the truth.
by tabtab | 2025-08-14 23:03:05+00:00
There's an interesting job interview question: do you want to be more like Woz or S. Jobs? Elon Musk's management style is very Jobs-like: Motivates via manipulation and wow-factor of cutting edge, has grand visions, yet knows what factories and the market can and can't handle, tries odd drugs, etc. However, Jobs rarely stuck his nose into politics; Jobs mostly just trolled about tech.
by usefulcat | 2025-08-14 23:03:51+00:00
> can we stop acting like it's a choice

By 'it', I assume you mean war? Sure, right after we stop acting like all weapons are only ever used defensively.

Also, I think it's worth pointing out that the particular weapons being discussed here (precision targeting capabilities) are probably a lot more likely to be useful to an aggressor than to a defender.
by trealira | 2025-08-14 23:05:07+00:00
> I'm really not sure why Democrats don't just let Trump shoot himself in the foot.

That had been their strategy, to just let Trump do things and become unpopular without drawing attention to themselves, but while Trump and Republicans have become less popular, Democrats' approval ratings have been sliding down as well (although they have a lead in the generic ballot) and polling indicates most Democratic voters think they're not doing enough to stop Trump. So, making a big show of "playing dirty" (threatening to gerrymander back in retaliation), and publicly saying that they'll no longer tie their hands behind their back, probably brings satisfaction to those people they're polling badly with. It's the kind of sentiment I've heard for years from online Democratic voters, and from people I know, but never was validated by the actual Democrats until now.
by rectang | 2025-08-14 23:05:25+00:00
> moderation inevitably leads to exclusion

Yes, it has to, because trolls and haters are relentless. The choice of whether or not marginalized communities are allowed to ban abusive posters is fundamental because moderation resources are finite.

Of course, there are many who believe that marginalized communities should not be allowed to moderate posts and should be willing to absorb a constant onslaught of abuse as the price of existing.
by sgtwompwomp | 2025-08-14 23:05:29+00:00
Unfortunately these scripting tools just are untenable when dealing with so many desktop flows that all have changing UIs and random popups. You end up having to repair all of them all the time, in fact there's a whole consulting industry out there just to do this all day.

The whole idea of Cyberdesk is the prompt is the source of truth, and then once you learn a task once via CUA, the system follows that cache most of the time until you have to fall back to CUA, which follows the prompt. And that anomaly is also cached too.

So over time, the system just learns, and gets cheaper and faster.
by jimt1234 | 2025-08-14 23:05:33+00:00
I really hate to say it, but I had a different experience. Woz came to the fintech company where I work for a lecture and Q&A. I was super excited to see him, like a Little Leaguer meeting his favorite baseball player. However, Woz came off kinda rude, like "Everyone else is wrong. I'm right about everything." Maybe he was just having a bad day, or he didn't really wanna speak at my lame fintech company but somehow got roped into it. Or, maybe it's a case of "Never meet your heroes", but I was kinda disappointed. Woz and Kevin Mitnick were my two heroes as a young nerd.
by ripley12 | 2025-08-14 23:06:15+00:00
> This has already led to more easily introducing GUI features like a new GTK titlebar tabs option

Yes! This is huge, I previously gave up on Ghostty because the title bar wasted so much space on my laptop screen: https://bsky.app/profile/reillywood.bsky.social/post/3lebapf...

I found the PR in case anyone else is curious what the new functionality looks like: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8166
by Teever | 2025-08-14 23:06:41+00:00
Because this is a thread about apple and the other companies are implied with the word 'collusion.'

As to your other points these things are not a binary, they are a gradient with Apple and the companies they colluding with having an incremental effect on the market that accrues over time as they consolidate wealth and restrict competition and the innovation that comes from it.

It is difficult for people to find jobs at other companies that don't exist or that are floundering because apple and others have illegally restricted the flow of capital that would spur their creation.

It seems from your line of questioning that you don't consider the criminal collusion that Apple and others participated in to be detrimental to the software industry and consumers as a whole.

Is that a fair assessment of your opinion? Can you expand on your opinion regarding this matter?
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-08-14 23:06:42+00:00
> (which contains no personal info; it's some kind of UUID or whatever)

And now all the websites have an uncircumventible and highly reliable fingerprinting scheme to track you across literally anywhere. Only identity thieves care about whatever data the agency would be safeguarding: linking up accounts between websites is more than enough for anyone else who would want to abuse that information.
by seadan83 | 2025-08-14 23:07:02+00:00
> claims that true AGI wouldn't be any more powerful than humans very very much have a burden of proof. That's a shocking claim that I've honestly never heard before, and seems to fly in the face of intuition.

The claim in question is really that AGI can even exist. The idea that it can exist, based on intuition, is a pre-science epistemology. In other words, without evidence, you have an irrational belief - the realm of faith.

Further, I've come to fully appreciate that without actually knowing the reasons or evidence for why certain beliefs are held, often we realize that our beliefs are not based on anything and could be (and possibly often are) wrong.

If we standing on just intuition there would be no quantum physics, no heliocentric galaxy, etc.. Intuition based truth is a barrier, not a gateway.

Which is all to say, the best known epistemology is science (assuming we agree that the level of advancement since the 1600s is largely down to the scientific method). Hopefully we can agree that 'science' is not applicable to just a courtroom or a philosophy class, it's general knowledge, truth.

Your framing also speaks to this. As if it is a binary. If you tell me AGI will exist, and I say "prove it". I'm not claiming that AGI will not exist. The third option is I don't know. I can _not_ believe that AGI will _not_ exist. I can at the same time _not_ believe that AGI will _exist_. The third answer is "I don't know, I have no knowledge or evidence" So, no shocking claim is being made on my part here AFAIK.

The internet for sure is a lot less entertaining when we demand evidence before accepting truth. Though, IMO it's a lot more interesting when we do so.
by antisthenes | 2025-08-14 23:08:03+00:00
You're giving them too much credit.

There isn't a boomer conspiracy that they are all in on. There isn't a secret Whatsapp chat for boomers to conspire to cheat the next generations out of housing.

It's just bad local policies, because small towns hate density and don't understand second order effects.

99.9% of boomers don't make conscious policy decisions either.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-08-14 23:08:06+00:00
>> The lottery is, famously, a tax on people who don’t understand probability

I buy lottery tickets. Usually if I'm at the grocery store, I'll buy one.

I have some understanding of probability. I have a minor in math, I took a graduate combinatorics class. Given the rules of a specific lottery I can tell you the odds of winning it, the expected value of a ticket, and back when I was taking that combinatorics class, I could have given you a proof of those odds. Probably couldn't do the proofs now.

I also took economics classes. I remember having a discussion in micro on the conditions under which it would be rational for someone to play the lottery. They're pretty obvious.

There's a condition called "engineer's disease". One symptom of that terrible terrible disease (along with a general disgust with humor and sarcasm) is that everything under discussion must be converted into the nearest available math problem. I think, sad to say, that the person who originated your famous quote probably had a bit of that condition.

Or maybe I'm just a stupid guy who buys lottery tickets because he can't math.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-14 23:08:25+00:00
Most jobs have benefits on top of salary.

Distributing part of the profits would be a reasonable benefit.

There are hundreds of millions of profits here. Distributing even 10% of that to employees would be a tremendous amount of money. Even a lot less would have a big effect.

A 10% profit share makes plenty of sense. Yes, even while insulating employees from losses, it still makes sense. Owners need to be able to reap profit but they don't need to get all of it forever. Employees owning stock is not the only way profit sharing can work.
by crote | 2025-08-14 23:08:30+00:00
And it has only gotten worse since then. A copyright for a decade or two is completely reasonable, but "life of author, plus 70 years" benefits only large companies. Someone is violating your rights? Good luck suing them if you are an indie creator! Want to create a parody, which is totally legal? Sorry, you can't upload it anywhere - all the hosting companies decided to apply Copyright 2.0 instead!
by wofo | 2025-08-14 23:08:41+00:00
Having worked on a few Rust projects that interface with C libraries, I think your last question is a good summary: once you introduce a C API boundary it's back to tools like Valgrind.

Maybe you could even say Zig is at an advantage there, because tools like Valgrind are considered part of the game, whereas in Rust they are way less commonly used (pure-Rust codebases don't need anything of the sort, unless you are using `unsafe`).
by bithive123 | 2025-08-14 23:09:00+00:00
War will happen as long as ignorance exists. Ignorance may exist as long as humans exist, but let's not pretend that humans are not responsible for wars.

I take your general points. There is a saying "there is no right or wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong."

Violence is the unnecessary use of force. It may occasionally be necessary to kill in self defense, but it is always a tragedy. Killing people is both bad and a choice. This is actually a harder reality to face than "people be violent".
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-14 23:10:04+00:00
My core point is that whatever is involved, it's also involved in $2 aliexpress hubs with probably $.50 chips. If a computer costs more than $20 it can afford to have PCIe lanes.

If there's lockin because they're stuck using particular chips, that makes sense. But it's not because there's particular difficulty in dealing with the signal rates of PCIe 3 or at least 2.
by mwarkentin | 2025-08-14 23:10:16+00:00
Uv solves this (with some new standards). ./script.py will now install the python version, create a venv, and install dependencies (very quickly) if they don’t exist already.

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "ffmpeg-normalize", # ] # ///
by Copernicron | 2025-08-14 23:10:35+00:00
There are a couple different streaming services that I subscribe to for different reasons but it gets harder to keep doing it.

CBC Gem - free public broadcaster, but I want to remove ads

Shudder - $50/year, cheap as chips

Netflix - cheapest way to watch WWE pay-per-views live

Crave - got a year for 50% off on a Black Friday deal. I don't know if I'll renew

TSN - only during hockey and football season

AppleTV - wouldn't subscribe separately, but they throw it in with my Apple One family plan

Honestly my Jellyfin server sees more action than any of them. The biggest reason to pay for streaming is live events, which I believe is why Netflix is pushing to get more into them. And I've been increasingly annoyed at how many things I want to watch are simply not available at all, or not available without subscribing to yet another service in the hopes they might have it. I'm planning a Sergio Leone spaghetti western binge. The only place I found what I wanted was usenet.
by anonymars | 2025-08-14 23:13:34+00:00
I went down a similar rabbit hole when I bought my OLED monitor, finding that you can neither stream UHD nor play UHD Blu-Ray (it was possible on a few generations of Intel chips before SGX was deprecated because it was not in fact secure; 10th-gen was the latest)

Well, okay then -- chump don't want the money, chump don't get the money
by bodge5000 | 2025-08-14 23:13:43+00:00
Unfortunately it's this attitude which perpetuates those kinds of actions. Of course it never starts off that way, it starts off as just wanting to protect yourself from harm, but you can eventually justify just about anything with the argument that its necessary for your "survival" (not literal survival, of course, but you get the idea).

"If I don't exploit this person's kindness now, I'll fall behind those who do and they'll use that leverage against me" gives you some idea
by ysavir | 2025-08-14 23:14:36+00:00
My understanding is that this isn't Netflix's fault. They were king when they were the first major streaming service, and studios and networks were happy to get extra income from hosting their content on Netflix. But Netflix knew that any success it has would be mimicked by those same studios and networks, and that they would pull their own content to their own services as soon as they have them up and running, and so Netflix started making its own content in preparation for that day. And that bet paid off.
by nosignono | 2025-08-14 23:14:38+00:00
I've been to plenty of Food Not Bombs events where people are being fed and the prevailing attitude was, "If there are people needing to be fed, let them come and we'll feed them." The same folks were handing out harm reduction supplies.

These same folks went on to figure out the logistics of preparing food. So no, I don't think it's at all axiomatic that the people who disagree with nationalism are necessarily affluent in the slightest. In fact, I've found most solidarity with refugees and anti-nationalist movements in the working class. The overall community of folks I saw ranged across income brackets -- plenty of software engineers, tech folks, trades folks, unemployed folks...

I think that when people say, "They don't really mean it" or "their principles wouldn't stand up if it meant a disruption to their lives", they are not aware of just how much work folks are actively doing every day to live by those principles and invite people in.
by _diyar | 2025-08-14 23:14:46+00:00
We expect this approach to work because it's currently the best working approach. Nothing else comes close.

Using symbolic language is a good idea in theory, but in practice it doesn't scale as well as auto-regression + RL.

The IMO results of DeepMind illustrate this well: In 2024, they solved it using AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry, using the Lean language as a formal symbolic logic[1]. In 2025 they performed better and faster by just using a fancy version of Gemini, only using natural language[2].

[1] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...

[2] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-ge...

Note: I agree with the notion of the parent comment that letting the models reason in latent space might make sense, but that's where I'm out of my depth.
by ak217 | 2025-08-14 23:16:15+00:00
> Spotify

> “enshittification” of streaming

I've been a happy paying Spotify user since 2010 or so. I'm still mostly happy with what I get out of it... they did try to shove podcasts down people's throats, but backed off pretty quickly. One thing that recently infuriated me though, was something they call "smart shuffle". Like, you press shuffle on your playlist, it starts shuffling. You press it again, it should turn off the shuffle, and just keep playing in order, right? Not according to Spotify's amazing designer team. With Spotify it's a tri-state switch. If you press it again, it activates a "smart shuffle" which has nothing to do with shuffling, instead it adds extra suggestions to your playlist.

There is a way to turn this "feature" off on mobile, and they've been promising a way to turn it off on desktop for many months now. As a paying user, being treated like an idiot this way definitely makes me resentful and is the most enshittified thing I've seen Spotify do.
by egypturnash | 2025-08-14 23:16:21+00:00
I do my work on a Mac. I game on a game machine. Which right now is a Steam Deck. In the past it's been PS4, 360, Gamecube, PS2, etc.

I think the only game I've put serious time into on my Mac was Hades 1, which I pretty much finished before the console ports happened.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-14 23:16:27+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/politics/stephen-mille...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/politics/stephen-mille...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/after-stephen-miller-s-w...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/stephen-mi...
by nosignono | 2025-08-14 23:17:22+00:00
Generalize this line of thought. "A thief stole an iphone and dropped it on my doorstep. I kept it, despite knowing it was stolen, because I did not ask the thief to steal it for me".

It's very silly on the small scale. It's no less silly on the large scale, you are simply more accustomed to the cultural understanding the colonialism is not something you have any responsibility for.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-14 23:17:23+00:00
In my view the primary reason for GTK’s prominence on Linux rides on one thing primarily: it’s got C bindings, and thus it has decent bindings for just about every other language under the sun too. If you’re not trying for anything fancy, these bindings can even be auto-generated.

The runner up Qt is much more tightly tied to C++ and Python to its detriment. You really need to meet devs where they’re at instead of insisting that they adopt a particular language to use your UI toolkit.

Aside from that, at the end of the day, if you’re building a full fat complex desktop app an old style imperative UI toolkit is probably one of the more practical choices you can make. They have an exhaustive set of battle tested, accessible widgets built in and their pitfalls are well known. Newer approaches expect you to write or import everything and start requiring increased contortions from the developer past a certain point of complexity.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-14 23:18:20+00:00
Okay Pastor touchems.

Sexuality is part of the human condition that doesn't start on one's 18th birthday just because over-protective parents want complete control of their child.

It's weird that parents believe they need to control every facet of their child's life, down to being able to learn about why they feel the way they do. It's a form of abuse and coercion.
by SilasX | 2025-08-14 23:19:07+00:00
> The correct answer is to look at the data and verify it's legal to use.

So repeal Section 230 and require every site to manually evaluate all content uploaded for legality before doing anything with it? If it’s not reasonable to ask sites to do that, it’s not reasonable to ask FB to do the same for data you send them.

Your position seems to vary based on how big/sympathetic the company in question is, which is not very even-handed and implicitly recognizes the burden of this kind of ask.