MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by im3w1l | 2025-08-15 15:38:26+00:00
We know that people can easily end up irrational either way. Some people more naively positive and others more cynical and bitter. Maybe it's even possible to make both mistakes at once: The same person can see negatives that aren't there, positives that won't happen, miss risks, and miss opportunities.

We cannot say "I'm criticial therefore I'm right", neither "I'm optimist therefore I'm right". Right conclusion comes from right process: gathering the right data, and thinking it over carefully while trying to be as unbiased and realist as possible.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-15 15:38:49+00:00
Hard for me to know what you watch and listen to. Stereotypical "podcast bros" are one big thing I've seen - there's a lot of political content out there that gets cast as "apolitical" because the nominal topic is something else or the hosts are sympathetic to Bernie Sanders. (And this is something I'd absolutely is a both-sides thing, a lot of the content creators I follow do take broadly left-wing themes for granted.)
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-08-15 15:38:52+00:00
Youtube may have exasperated the situation, but gear obsession in hobbies certainly predates even the internet, much less youtube. It seems kind of natural, mastering your tools takes time and maybe talent. Buying them just takes money.

I remember the original Dawn of the Dead poking fun at it when they raid the gun store in the mall:

Peter: Ain't it a crime.

Stephen: What?

Peter: The only person who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.
by c-hendricks | 2025-08-15 15:38:56+00:00
Interesting, I wrote something similar to switch my computer between the display in the office and the TV, and also switch the audio and disable / enable controllers in the rooms. But just went with a basic API over HTTP, which allowed me to just create shortcuts, and those are available on all my speakers / Apple devices so I can just say "hey siri, tv switcher tv" and it switches over.

It's neat because then everyone with access to your Apple Home can't login to your steam account and run up your credit card with purchases.
by macNchz | 2025-08-15 15:39:11+00:00
> They claim that somehow hundreds of unique kinds of river/lake fish escaped notice for centuries, that this happens every year, and each one of those kinds of fish is critical to preserve. Is this plausible?

I don't disagree with the premise that environmental laws are being abused by people with ancillary agendas, but arguably humans have been underestimating the complexity of ecological systems for generations, incorrectly assuming that we understand everything well enough to manage and control our impacts without long tail side effects.

It may well be plausible that there are many hundreds of undiscovered fish species out there, and that interfering with any subset of them could cascade into other consequences. We've certainly been learning a lot about the impacts of dams on fisheries in recent years—changes made centuries ago that had profound long term effects on our food supply, to take a tangible example.
by openstock | 2025-08-15 15:39:22+00:00
My very first mobile app is now live on the Apple App Store! SkillRoulette → https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skillroulette/id6747604960

Ever wanted to learn something completely random in under 5 minutes? That’s SkillRoulette:

Useful? Occasionally.

Ridiculous? Frequently.

Entertaining? Always.

Built with Cursor, the journey from “Hmm, this could be fun” to full deployment took just 4 weeks. Vibe coding is thrilling (and dangerously addictive), but it’s also a reminder that crafting something delightful takes real dedication.

Give it a spin — I’d love to hear which bizarre skill you land on first!
by kstrauser | 2025-08-15 15:39:38+00:00
I’m sympathetic to the idea that someone has to pay if they want to keep the site online. It costs money to create the site’s content, even if the marginal cost to deliver it to a visitor is approximately $0.00. But there’s an astounding amount of laziness in their approach. Seriously, renting rectangles on a site is the only way to get paid by non-paying visitors? Hogwash.

For instance, they could be running affiliate links to online stores. “We reviewed these laptops: click here and we’ll get a commission.” “But that compromises our integrity!”, they might counter. But so does renting out space to advertisers! I genuinely don’t see the honest version as, well, less honest.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-15 15:39:46+00:00
I said nothing of the sort. All things have ups and downs. Many entities, both historically and globally have managed similar problems with varying methodologies.

If you think the current governance scenario in the United States represents the apex of republican democracy, your patriotism is clouding your judgement. The current trends as they are have been devastating to rural people. I live in a county that had 500 dairy farms in 1970, 80 in 1990 and 2 today. Just that industry represented probably about 10k good paying jobs.

Most rural areas are the economic equivalent of inner cities with more space. But of course, if you don't care about people, just the sacred abstraction of "states", so I suppose that's ok.
by deaddodo | 2025-08-15 15:39:57+00:00
> The context is that MS had much more capable hardware to run 95 on than the 68020 based Macs.

MacOS 8's initial release was after PowerPC-based hardware was already released. The OS had a separate kernel for that hardware. MacOS 9 never ran on 68k hardware (with an MMU or not).

It was perfectly capable of having that functionality, yet didn't.

You're just retroactively applying rationale to a bad design and making bad faith arguments (or "explanations"). Even Apple knew it was bad, that's why they threw it out.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-15 15:40:08+00:00
I think ML has lots of potential in this area specifically.

Imagine a game with bare-bones graphics and lighting, and a NN that converts it into something pretty. Indie developers can make AA-looking games and all game developers can devote more effort into design and logic. Artists will still be needed for art direction and possibly fine-tuning, although there will be less needed for each game (also less developers needed with AI agents and better tools).

Related, ML also has potential for AI enemies (and allies). Lots of players still prefer multiplayer, in part because humans are more realistic enemies (but also because they want to beat real humans); but multiplayer games struggle because good netcode is nontrivial, servers are expensive, some players are obnoxious, and most games don’t have a consistent enough playerbase.
by nineplay | 2025-08-15 15:40:11+00:00
My partner has become tiresome about this - even if I was to tell them that I responded to your comment on HN, they'd go "You probably just responded to a bot".

Are bots really infiltrating HN and making constructive non-inflammatory comments? I don't find it at all plausible but "that's just what they want you to think".
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-08-15 15:40:28+00:00
I am generally anti-capitalist, and a big reason is because I don't think capitalism, inherently and fundamentally, can become anything other than what it is now. The benefit its provided is rarely accurately weighed against the harms, and for people who disproportionately benefit, like most here on HN, it's even harder to see the harms.

Anti-capitalist sentiment was incredibly widespread in the US during the 19th century through the 1930s, because far more people were personally impacted, and most needed look no further than their own lives to see it. If nothing else, capitalism has become more sophisticated in disguising its harms, and acclimating people to them to such an extent that many become entirely incapable of seeing any harm at all, or even imagining any other way for a society to be structured, despite humanity having exited for 100,000+ years.
by logicchains | 2025-08-15 15:40:41+00:00
>It's telling that before the Patent system the solution was secretive guilds that jealously (sometimes lethally) guarded their secrets to avoid competition. This was obviously terrible since it greatly slowed down innovation.

Nowadays HFT technology is extremely competitive, with firms investing tens of millions in custom harder to achieve nanosecond latency improvements, but all this has happened entirely without patents. As an industry HFT is way less monopolised than tech, suggesting trade secrets alone are enough to achieve growth and competition.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-15 15:41:01+00:00
If I do that in a Chrome-based browser, the text looks like it's selected, but it isn't. Same if I just mark the text using the left button. It won't paste when I click the middle button. I have to click again, then double click, and then it'll paste - most of the time.

Elsewhere I either double-click on a word, which will select that word for pasting, or I mark a section with the left button (press and hold at the beginning of the selection, move and release). And the middle button will paste. And paste again, if I wish.

But URLs in Chrome-based browsers instead behave in the annoying way described above. In the past it worked as expected.
by Glyptodon | 2025-08-15 15:41:14+00:00
Creating the content is a sunk cost.

That said, the evidence on content creation and financial incentive is quite blurry - there's some relationship but there are also lots of people who create lots of things without tremendous financial incentive. And the genesis of copyright wasn't to protect authors, but publishers who had significant costs for producing first editions compared to those who might just copy a first edition.
by pc86 | 2025-08-15 15:41:15+00:00
> That's why you're "never supposed to point a gun at something you don't want to shoot", right? The logic there is that it could always go off unintentionally.

I'm going to take you at your word that you're not trolling and treat this as a legitimate good faith question/argument.

The logic of that is emphatically not that guns randomly go off on their own so you do that for safety. They're not supposed to (obviously), and if you're looking at modern firearms it really only happens due to damage or massive design flaws (which would cover the 320).

The logic is that it's a Swiss cheese threat model that is designed to reduce the odds of a negligent discharge and reduce the damage should one happen (which in 99.99999% of cases is someone pulling the trigger unintentionally).

1. Treat all guns as though they are loaded - if you're ever handling a gun, the first thing you're supposed to do is visually and physically check the chamber and the magazine well that there is no magazine and an empty chamber.

2. Don't point the firearm at anything you don't want to destroy - even immediately after checking a firearm if you flag someone with it a lot of gun stores will kick you out. Even with no magazine and the slide locked back it's incredibly poor form to point it anywhere close to another person.

3. Be sure of your target and what's behind it - pretty self-explanatory and a borderline repeat of #2. In a self-defense type of scenario this also means "don't shoot at unidentified things."

4. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot - the only purpose of the trigger is to send a round downrange so there's zero reason to be messing with the trigger otherwise (one notable exception not really worth discussing here).

So it's really not "don't point the firearm at stuff you don't want to shoot" because guns occasionally go off on their own, magically, it's really "people make mistakes, the Swiss cheese model of accident causation is real, and this is one more thing to mitigate the impact of accidents when they inevitably happen."
by digitalPhonix | 2025-08-15 15:41:22+00:00
This was in response to

> So you basically become an indentured servant, always afraid Da Bossman will fire you [...]

So it’s kind of hard to get a job before getting fired if the firing is a perpetual threat.

> this visa designed for workers in high demand

No, it’s designed for people with “theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge”. Nothing about demand. If there was one person in the world who could frombulate widgets and only one employer in the US who needed to frombulate widgets, that person would be suitable for an H1B (subject to all it’s other restrictions).

That person would not be able to find another job quickly.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-15 15:41:29+00:00
> Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, phrasing each response in the form of a question. [0]

Doesn't sound like a test of intelligence to me, so no.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!
by btilly | 2025-08-15 15:41:37+00:00
For most of us, certainly including me, a lot of those electric fences are alive and well.

They are powered by thoughts associated with pain. Anything that triggers those thoughts, triggers that pain. We are not even aware of how our thinking has been constrained. We just avoid the possibility of triggering the thought.

A person constrained by such a fence is very obvious from the outside. We see the irrational rationalizations that they can't. Because our thinking isn't constrained by the pain that shapes their thinking. But it takes work to accept the pain of your own painful ideas.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-08-15 15:41:43+00:00
Aren't like MSNBC and CNBC part of the same group? isn't CNBC a news channel about capitalism and the free market?

I find it so odd when billion dollar corporations publish pieces like that... like, can't you first look in the mirror? this weird alliance between economic liberalism and that neo marxist intersectionality is so... hypocritical...
by alephnerd | 2025-08-15 15:42:10+00:00
You can drop the weapons catalog requirement that Israel has, and you would still add significant guardrails against misuse.

Even without Israeli style gun cataloging, the rest of the Israeli gun control requirements should be able to pass the "objective criteria" test from Buren while also reducing the risk of misuse by tying license ownership with criterias such as mental health, training, and access to safe storage.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-15 15:42:46+00:00
And Moore's law will last forever!

Right?

Where as to get AI to any sort of approximation of what it's hyped up to be, may involve exponentially higher hardware costs.

So for the longest period of time, AI was sitting in about 90% accuracy. With the use of Nvidia hardware it's going to say 99 to 99.9%. I don't think it's actually 99.9%

To replace humans, I think you effectively need 99.999% and even more depending on the domain like self-driving is probably eight nines.

What's the hardware cost to get each one of those nines linear polynomial? Exponential?
by leonmoonen | 2025-08-15 15:42:54+00:00
A common trick (also often needed when using non-gel ballpoints) is to add some extra weight to the pen (for example, put a small glass jar/cup upside down over the pen, or use some large machine nuts).

Beware that this is harder on the servo lifting the pen, so you may want to order a few extra of those (also at TaoBao/AliExpress). I've switched from the cheap SG90 servos that are often used to the only slightly more expensive MG90S with all metal gears that seem to do better.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-15 15:42:55+00:00
Like a youtube video where he narrates his whole idea with different cuts of his ideas in action.

Videos that contrast as he narrating the beauty of text based pages with examples of the contrary and a panning camera.

For this:

>You can paste the whole thing into an email to a friend. You can put it in ChatGPT to ask questions.

>Hell—you can post the whole thing on X and pretend you wrote it!

I'd like to see flashcuts of a person in front of the computer actually doing it while he narrates it. With cool music.

That style. Because this is what my brain is producing in my head if he doesn't.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-15 15:43:06+00:00
I am not a sports follower, but the site is very nice.

It is a very nice quick goto when some friends start talking sports and I can pretend I care :)

My favorite sites are:

https://lite.cnn.com/

https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html

https://text.npr.org/

Plus gopher and gemini :)

Thanks
by psunavy03 | 2025-08-15 15:43:18+00:00
The Swiss model would be a much more reasonable approach. Shall-issue purchase permit on passing a background check, and the requirement to keep the firearm locked up when not used. But if you live alone, your locked front door counts as "locked up."

Statistically, the problem isn't keeping scary guns away from everyone, because the vast majority of people will never shoot anyone. The whole "you're more likely to shoot a household member than an intruder" is a red herring, because the vast majority will do neither of these things. What matters is disarming the suicidally depressed, as well as a subset of people who are disproportionately likely to commit violent crime. 60-85 percent of gun deaths in the US are suicides, jurisdiction dependent. The prototypical gun homicide in the US is a young minority man with a criminal record being killed by another young minority man with a criminal record using an illegally-possessed handgun, usually involving street gang disputes and/or the illegal drug trade.

So what matters is being able to disarm people who exhibit violent tendencies and/or suicidal depression "left of bang."
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-15 15:43:24+00:00
To be fair, in the States, you can own a small business, come up with a good idea, and someone can just copy it and compete against you regardless if it's copyright infringement or not. And that's in the context of a domestic legal issue.

You have to be able to defend your intellectual property, and that's expensive, which is the parent comment's point.

I mean, imagine you, AlexandrB, come up with some good idea, start working on the implementation and delivery of that good or service, and someone just... copies it. Or copies it and releases it for free.

Should... we just not care about that? Because the idea of not having any intellectual property protections whatsoever is even more absurd than having them.

It requires incredible, statistically insurmountable effort, attention, and revenue to create even a two-person, full-time, sustainable business. More so in software and hardware where everyone is releasing open source software, everyone wants everything to be free, no one wants to pay for anything, and hardware designs are regularly stolen.

Forget that dude, you can make more money selling lemonade in your neighborhood.

A kid selling candy bars for school fundraisers has a better chance than someone creating a product in our field and taking it to market.

No, we definitely need intellectual property protection and it should be essentially free to defend yourself as an individual or small business.
by In5an1ty | 2025-08-15 15:43:32+00:00
And when it comes to online behavior: 1. governments do monitor citizen's words online, like in QQ groups (something like slack / discord). 2. In most circumstances, complaining too much or even curse the country will not be punished, only those who take action in reality will be sent to prison, e.g. organizing demonstrations. 3. But discussing about things like how to build a bomb will lead to a conversation between you and the police. I know these because I have experienced all these kinds of things in China. However, most (at least 80% of my acquaintance) do NOT care about this and support these policies. (To be honest, I personally also do not care about this kind of policy —— as long as the government does not raise taxes, I and most chinese do not care where the tax goes.)
by N_Lens | 2025-08-15 15:44:18+00:00
This article 2 links deep had better technical details -

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/mobile-graph...

Upscaling solution mainly targeted at mobile gaming, with an 'AI pipeline' for upscaling graphics (They claim 540p upscaled to 1080p at 4ms per frame). I'm a bit skeptical because this is a press release for chips that are in the works and claim to be releasing in DEC-26, and then on actual devices after that. So sounds more like a strategic/political move (Perhaps stock price related manoeuvring).

Unreal Engine 5 plugin will allow previewing the upscaled effects using the though, which will be nice for game developers.
by TheDong | 2025-08-15 15:44:28+00:00
> The (semi-official) Japanese language tests do not test language production in _any_ way, even on the highest levels.

This is simply not true. The Kanji Kentei is probably the most popular Japanese language test Japanese people might take outside of school, and it tests writing heavily.

If you're talking about the JLPT, that's a test meant only for non-native speakers.

> all single-choice answers.

Not even multiple choices? Maybe they should reconsider that one.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-08-15 15:44:39+00:00
It's funny you talk about Google Plus. the only reason I didn't stay more than 10 minutes on that social media is because of that horrible sticky header that was taking 1/3 of the browser screen on a laptop.

How could that design choice go past basic UI/UX checks is still beyond me after all these years, it made that website horrible to browse.
by tw04 | 2025-08-15 15:44:57+00:00
>Given the advent of computers, the internet, video conferencing, it is outrageous how much of the current system requires physical paper, physical presence in a courtroom. It is outrageous how the slowness and cost of the system itself is used by the wealthy to bully the poor.

You're leaving out the part that there are a limited number of judges, and to be a good judge requires a LOT of education, a LOT of experience, and a LOT of time (in other words it's expensive to become a good judge and they need to be compensated to reflect the cost of becoming one).

Computers and Zoom don't change the fact our options are either: Put thousands of new unqualified people into positions of power (judges) Or continue with the current system where getting into a court is slow and expensive.

Unless you're planning on building an entirely new court system removed from the current one specifically for IP. To which I say: good luck, because it'll be a massive expansion of government that doesn't include lining the pockets of our current little dictator or his supporters so we'll hear about how we need to shrink government and reduce the debt.
by rickcarlino | 2025-08-15 15:45:16+00:00
I agree that a text-focused web experience is important. The modern web makes it too easy to add trackers, consent banners, ads, and other distractions that pull attention away from the content.

There’s actually a network protocol separate from the web with a small but growing user base. It uses a Markdown inspired format called Gemtext, has no cookies or trackers, and avoids most of the usual bloat seen in 2025. It’s called the Gemini protocol. It’s not perfect from the perspective of protocol design (which some people on HN can’t seem to get over), but it works, it has real users, and you can try it today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
by kleiba | 2025-08-15 15:45:17+00:00
That's quite a cynical point of view, and while all charities certainly have overhead to account for, and not all charities are created equal in that respect, organizations like Charity Watch can tell you a long list of organizations that use donations very efficiently - in the sense that almost all of the money actually goes towards the cause, not the people running the charity.

https://www.charitywatch.org/our-charity-rating-process