MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saaaaaam | 2025-08-04 08:36:43+00:00
I’ve just moved house. I have a few high quality pieces of furniture that I’d like to keep but don’t have space for, so considered storage. They are things that I’ve bought second hand and at auctions, and part of the pleasure is the hunt. So I felt I’d invested both money and time.

But then I realised that I can sell them for pretty much what I paid for them, put that money into a savings account or investments and buy them same things back in a few years. So that’s what I’m doing.

And, of course, I probably won’t buy the same things back in a few years. If I do then I’ll have all the pleasure of the hunt again. Or maybe I buy something else. Or maybe I just have the cash sitting and I can count my gold, Smaug style.

But either way I won’t have spent thousands on storage.

That realisation was extremely liberating.
by throwaway4496 | 2025-08-04 08:36:53+00:00
There is also PDF to HTML, PDF to Text, MuPDF also has PDF to XML, both projects along with a bucketful of other PDF toolkits have PDF to PS, and there is many many XML, HTML, and Text outputs for PS.

Rastering and OCR'ing PDF is like using regex to parse XHTML. My eyes are starting to bleed out, I am done here.
Ask HN: Have you switched to a remote job? Was it worth it?
by vpaulus | 2025-08-04 08:38:18+00:00
Right now, I work in a flexible way: I usually have to be in the office, but I can work from home some days when I want or need to. The workplace isn’t toxic, and I don’t really have any major complaints.

Still, I’m thinking about quitting and finding a full-remote job. The main reason is to save around 2-3 hours each day and spend that time with my family instead. It’s not just the commute time; things like “mandatory social events,” such as long lunches that last 45-60 minutes, also take up time.

Of course, changing jobs is always risky. You never know how the new boss or coworkers will be or what the new codebase will look like.

For those of you who have already made the switch to full remote, what are your thoughts and experiences?
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-04 08:39:08+00:00
I don't understand how you can see it as okay from the point of view of European culture though.

Age verification requires treating a website, not as some random person, but as a platform which has control of content and some responsibility. Age verification requires giving websites information that they should not have.

Surely the European perspective should be that it is not Reddit's business whether I am 50 or 15. That they are just a website and should not care who I am and should not have that information.

Furthermore, this violent images are reality. It should be possible to discuss war in public, and use first-hand information and discuss horrible pictures in detail.
by DrScientist | 2025-08-04 08:39:38+00:00
> The US will be forced, it will not decide, but be forced, to inflate away its debt. Which means that people who cannot bury their wealth in (non-treasury!) assets will pay off the debt.

There is also the chance of capital flight - and hyper inflation. The debt holders could also lose out remember - if the dollar becomes less valuable then any holdings in the dollar ( including debt ) become less valuable.
by account42 | 2025-08-04 08:40:16+00:00
> Looking back, it's unfortunate that Unix authors offered piping of input and output streams, but did not extend that to arbitrary number of streams

They did though - file handles are inherited by child processes which allows you to pass one end of a pipe and then feed things into the other end. E.g. make uses this to communicate between recursive invocations for concurrency control.
by cherryteastain | 2025-08-04 08:40:18+00:00
Under EU/UK GDPR, data processing must have a lawful basis. You are obviously not getting anyone's consent to process their data - combination of name city and age is quite specific personal information.

Also, even if processing people's name age and city without consent were lawful, per GDPR you must remove people's personal information from your app permanently upon request and probably ensure they are never added again.

How do you propose your application will be compatible with GDPR, or will you ban users from adding European men?
by joseramalho97 | 2025-08-04 08:41:28+00:00
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by eric-burel | 2025-08-04 08:41:42+00:00
Hi, regarding streams interoperability I've documented how to handle file streams a while ago, after experimenting with Next.js old system (Node.js based) and new system (web based) : https://www.ericburel.tech/blog/nextjs-stream-files#2024-upd.... It sums up as "const stream = fileHandle.readableWebStream()" to produce a web stream using Node.js fs, rather than creating a Node.js stream.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-04 08:42:23+00:00
Oh I forgot about this conversation but uh:

> The places I've used "prove" are in totally different contexts that the context in which you pretended I was claiming some proof.

I'm pointing at the specific sentence that has the word prove in it, and using the word prove to mean the same thing. If you think it's a different context you don't understand what I'm saying.

> if there is a 25% effect, what does observing the same rate means

I dunno man you were the one claiming the lesbian rate is not actually the same, that was the biggest reason for the concession, you can't now rugpull me and tell me to explain the concession without the reason for it.

And that's also why I don't need to justify the specific number. The specific number is based on whatever the statistics say.

> If my impression is correct, it means that instead of looking at the arguments first and reaching the conclusion based on the arguments, you start with the conclusion that you prefer, and build arguments in order to defend this conclusion.

I didn't even make the initial argument. I'm going completely based on the evidence cited above. This is not about what I want to believe. I would have guessed something very different. So your instinctual preference assumption is deeply misplaced.
by mopsi | 2025-08-04 08:42:36+00:00
> And yet Russia, a country that could barely hold itself together in the 90s, and is under severe sanctions, is winning.

I am not aware of any group, other than internet trolls and the gullible people who fall for them, claiming that Russia is winning. Territorially, Russia holds far less of Ukraine in the fourth year of the war than it did in the first month: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/3qbcv/16/?wmode=opaque Russia still hasn't even recovered from the Ukrainian counteroffensive of 2022.

The huge Soviet-era stockpiles have been depleted. Yesterday, the loss of one Russian tank was reported. The day before that: zero. The day before that: also zero. The shortage of vehicles and other equipment has forced Russians to fight using dirt bikes and minivans, leading to record losses that continue to climb month after month: https://i.imgur.com/PrPvQd8.png

Russian losses in fighting for just 1/10 of Ukraine have long surpassed German losses during their World War II offensive in Ukraine. They are now on track to exceed Soviet losses during their own offensive, with very little to show for it. One of the main axes of fighting is Pokrovsk, which lies just 25 miles outside Donetsk, a city Russia already held in 2022. After four years, Russian forces have still not reached Pokrovsk.

Is this what victory is supposed to look like? Is this what you call an "undisputed superpower"? For Russia, this is not just a defeat: it is one of the greatest military disasters in their entire history.
by ta20240528 | 2025-08-04 08:42:44+00:00
I may make a similar argument, but you go too far sir to imply I am aligned with evil people defending sweatshops.

I agree with Roosevelt that businesses should provide a living wage for their workers. Mine does.

I'm happy to have both: "minimum single-income with extended-family obligations wage" and "young, single individual minimum wage".

You just won't find a lot of the former.
by joshuamorton | 2025-08-04 08:42:53+00:00
> But isn't that bizarre? I can't think of anything else where we need engineers to do something by a deadline, and we just resign to the fact that they won't do it unless we sit them in a room and babysit them while they do it.

This is practically the point of meetings. Meetings exist as a forcing function to achieve communication that likely could have happened asynchronously but for some reason didn't.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-04 08:43:28+00:00
(2018-2025) I had to read and reread the references and watch the video again to be sure I heard the facts correctly. If ever there ought to be the death penalty considered for intentional criminal negligence causing mass harm, this would make the list.

https://youtu.be/nvtTnt7kwAE Consumer Reports also found heavy metals in baby food in 2018.

Baby food isn't regulated by the FDA or USDA. There were bills introduced in 2021 and 2024 to give the FDA regulatory authority over infant consumable products, but neither went anywhere.[1] Baby food is regulated in the US about as much as adult supplements, which is almost nothing.

1. https://www.food-safety.com/articles/9461-baby-food-safety-a...
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-04 08:45:36+00:00
I think what parent means is that 3dfx was founded by three former Silicon Graphics engineers, so I guess that the 3dfx hardware had a lot more SGI DNA than Nvidia's chips.

Nvidia's first 3D chip ~~Riva 128~~ (my bad, it was the 'NV1') also was a weird design, and it's successor the Riva 128 wasn't remarkable performance-wise especially compared to what 3dfx had to offer (Nvidia's only good decision was that they bet on D3D early on when everybody else was still doing their own 3D APIs - even though early D3D versions objectively sucked compared to Glide or even OpenGL, it turned out to be the right long-term decision).

Nvidias first remarkable chip was the Riva TNT which came out in 1998 (hardware progress really was unbelievably fast back then - 3dfx Voodoo in 1996, Riva 128 in 1997, Riva TNT in 1998, and both the Riva TNT2 and Geforce in 1999).

edit: fixed my NV1 vs Riva 128 mistake, somehow I merged those two into one :)
by smolder | 2025-08-04 08:46:54+00:00
That's a study that underestimates growth in cost of living, i.e. gouging by rent seekers and businesses, and ignores changes in status, i.e. people leaving the job market or moving down to something worse. It's not surprising that the lowest income earners got a substantial boost in that period, since life is getting substantially more expensive. Importantly, I don't think their "real wage" inflation adjusted values are fair. People being told inflation was one amount when their actual CoL was vastly outpacing that was part of what fueled the anger that got Trump elected again, not that he has helped (or will help) anything since '23 where that analysis ends.

Anecdotally, many people I know would be in dire straits if they didn't own appreciating real property, because their cost of living adjustments at work aren't coming close to matching inflation. Others I know are actually in dire straits. Some are doing fine and getting the benefit of profitable work. Overall things have been awful economically post-COVID, and there are a lot of causal factors, from the policy decisions of the last decade, to the surprises of COVID, natural disasters and geopolitics, to the AI investment bubble and the changing zeitgeist. (Oh and let's not forget simple demographics, birth rate, etc...)
by DrScientist | 2025-08-04 08:47:53+00:00
> There is no "overspending." There is only undertaxing. The debt is literally just the accumulated difference between spending and taxation.

There is obviously both - as you say it's the difference between two numbers - and sure how you portray that differences is often politicised - just as you are doing now.

Also remember there is borrowing in the equation - it's not just money in the system, but the ability to spend made up money today based on future promises, the with the rich benefitting from the interest on that debt.

ie those with assets benefit twice from a gap between spending and taxation - they get to not pay their way, and also get a nice return on lending the money then didn't pay in tax to pay for the necessary spending!
Ask HN: ADHD and focus during meetings: what works for you?
by ainiriand | 2025-08-04 08:48:16+00:00
I have ADHD and struggle with long or meandering meetings. One trick that surprisingly helps me is running a Freecell game in parallel — it keeps part of my brain occupied and oddly makes me more attentive.

I’m curious: what techniques have worked for you (with or without a diagnosis)? Any unconventional or surprisingly effective strategies?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-04 08:49:37+00:00
Good question to take seriously.

But you got me?

If the simple answer is "things that money just can't buy" that would be a metric which ends up being equally gamed before you know it. Like anything else.

How would you avoid that while remaining simple?

Well people may not want to take money out of the equation, but sometimes it cancels itself whether it appears on both sides of the equals sign or not :\

Which probably reduces to "the best metric is not an accurate measurement".

This in itself is apparently realistic even though it has not been proven in all cases.

Now there could be further simplification to a corollary; "the best metric is not a measurement" :0

But only over the limited range where P <> NP.

Or it could get more complicated than it already is.
by Georgii007 | 2025-08-04 08:49:47+00:00
Thank you so much for your candid comment - and for sharing your personal experience. You are absolutely right: emotional and psychological abuse has no gender, and your case emphasizes how important it is to make space for support for men too.

In the first phase, we are focusing on the female audience because of the specific threats that women face most often in online dating. But we will definitely add the ability to verify for all genders and sexes as well - including men caught in toxic relationships. It's an important and necessary part, and it's already in the plans for upcoming releases.

Thanks again for your kindness and sensible remark
by formerly_proven | 2025-08-04 08:49:50+00:00
My old family doctor used to have IBM terminals into the early 2010s, I'm fairly sure there was an AS/400 somewhere in the back rooms where all the serial lines in their practice converged. Very fast system. Meanwhile I was at a specialist some time ago and they had to switch back and forth between notepad and the medical app, because you can't enter more than a few words at once into the app. So he would write everything that's not a drop-down in notepad then copy-paste it.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-08-04 08:49:50+00:00
Trump uses wild % amounts as a negotiation tactic. Is it the best way to do it? I don’t know. You can’t argue though that it does force the other side to come quickly to negotiation table to talk about the deal. So, if the goal is to get the deal now, then it’s effective. If the goal is something else, then it’s not a good tactic.

I do not have enough information to definitely say whether it’s good or bad. Most of the things in life are neither because they have good side effects, and bad side effects to them. So, I think looking for a “good only” solution is a loosing strategy.
by ryanjshaw | 2025-08-04 08:50:12+00:00
If I make the observation that some vaccines can have anaphylaxis as a side effect, am I making an argument against vaccinations? Obviously not. In that case, you’d take precautions at vaccination sites: have EpiPens available, make people wait 15min after taking the shot before leaving.

In this case, I’m sure you can apply yourself and think of ways we can counter the effects of wage compression now that we’ve unemotionally identified the fact that it occurs.
by DrScientist | 2025-08-04 08:50:52+00:00
Explain to me the benefit of attracting the wealthy if they don't pay tax?

Come to our country - have our police and courts and soldiers protect you wealth - all for free.

Oh - and because you are not paying tax - can I borrow some of that wealth please so I can pay for the stuff I'm providing for you free - I'll give you a healthy return.

The rich benefit the most from civilisation - and it costs - you can't just keep running from country to country hollowing it out for ever - eventually there will be nowhere left you can free ride.

Oh and in terms of the charts where you increase a particular tax and revenue goes up in the short term and down later - that's because people adapt - they find new ways to avoid tax ( yep including to pretend to have left the country ).

Just bwcause they run, that's not a reason to stop pursing them.
by ipnon | 2025-08-04 08:51:08+00:00
Most ongoing social trends in the United States can be traced back to this. When foreigners are puzzled and ask me why is X or Y happening in America, this is usually the best answer. The majority of young people, but not the majority of the electorate, are in a tough or even dire situation, and so they do not have much interest in maintaining the status quo. The result is social upheaval, the varieties of which I'm sure we're all familiar with by now, and need not be repeated.
by rusk | 2025-08-04 08:51:47+00:00
The community withered. 10-15 years ago the cries of “Ruby” “Ruby” “Ruby” were deafening. I used Ruby and I really enjoyed and I thought I would leave Python behind but it but it never went anywhere from there. Somewhere around 3.x I think there were a load of breaking changes introduced and I imagine lots of people like myself just went back to using more stable platforms.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-04 08:52:36+00:00
Maybe they have heavy period cramps (see also endometriosis). Maybe they just need a break (taking a "mental health day" is encouraged by some employers). Maybe they have a cold, which means they will feel crappy for a day; speaking for myself, I can power through one of those but it would probably be better to take the day and rest up instead of powering through which may make the cold last longer. Maybe they had a vaccination, I know the covid shot hit me pretty hard.

Anyway, over-announcing is good; take away the stigma of calling in sick or taking time for yourself/your family.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-08-04 08:52:37+00:00
> That particular outcome is possible when you make tariffs in a smart and predictable way.

You would have to prove that claim. There is more than one way to achieve a specific goal.

> Trumps tariffs are unpredictable and also make local producers pay more for raw material they need.

It’s one of the consequences. There are other ones. Is your only objective is to ensure that local manufacturers pay the least amount possible for their raw materials? This is very simplistic view of things.
by lordnacho | 2025-08-04 08:53:00+00:00
Well, you can definitely sense it if you browse Reddit. Young people are freaking out about the job market, the house market, and the dating market. I don't mean to dismiss their concerns, far from it. It does seem like we've been making it harder and harder for anyone to become an adult over the past few decades.

Here's the quote I found most relevant to my own experience of work. It really does come down to autonomy. I could be writing the exact same code and feel awful about it, if it were done in an office with a guy looking over my shoulder. If you're young, you're more likely to have this problem.

> More broadly, employers are successfully deploying new technologies to minimize ‘break’ times, and exert greater control over production processes, often aided by close technological monitoring of work processes, which limit worker control and autonomy over ever-more-demanding processes, all of which – based on Karasek’s (1979) theory regarding the importance of worker control and autonomy for wellbeing – should result in a decline in the wellbeing of workers. Evidence from task-based studies of work, and social surveys in which workers report on the nature of job tasks, indicates there has been a growth in job demands and a reduction in worker job control in the United Kingdom (Green et al., 2022) which, presumably, is mirrored in the United States. During COVID, the shift to home and hybrid working, whilst beneficial in some respects, may have exacerbated feelings of social isolation experienced by the young in particular as they missed out on the social component of the workplace. The demise of collective bargaining and trade union presence in the workplace implies a diminution in workers’ bargaining power, making it even more difficult for workers to resist such changes and to alter their terms and conditions of employment (Feiveson, 2023).
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-04 08:54:40+00:00
> why do people living that reality overwhelmingly disagree

Because a hard life feels harder when prices rise. If you're at the bottom of the wage statistics, even a large increase in salary (eg. 20%) will still leave you struggling day to day, before inflation in your costs.

> Official numbers were 10% but literally everything went up at least 20%

Inflation numbers consider a wide variety of things. It's probably at least partially the reality that the necessities are rising faster than discretionary purchases. As an example, iPhones are "cheaper" today accounting for inflation since Apple hasn't raised prices much, especially on the high end. Obviously the poorest X% of people aren't buying new iPhones, so they don't get those savings.

Anecdotally, my grocery bill for packaged goods has risen dramatically, while my produce costs are flat. I'm a vegetarian so IDK about meat costs. My utilities have risen, my housing costs have risen, and my subscription prices have risen. Meanwhile, most of my other non-travel spending (eg. home goods like towels, electronics, etc) is pretty flat for years.
by Georgii007 | 2025-08-04 08:54:56+00:00
Thank you so much for bringing this up — I really appreciate it, and you're absolutely right.

Right now, the app is still in pre-MVP stage — no real user data is being collected or processed yet. But as I build this, GDPR compliance is something I’m absolutely planning for before any public launch, especially if the app is ever made available in the EU or UK.

Here’s what I intend to do before launch:

The app won’t allow full names or uniquely identifying info like phone numbers or social links.

Reviews will be pseudonymous and moderated, with clear rules to avoid doxxing or identifiable posts.

I plan to implement a “Right to Erasure” mechanism, so anyone mentioned can request complete removal — and I’m also exploring a way for individuals to opt out preemptively, so future mentions get blocked automatically.

If proper GDPR compliance can’t be guaranteed by launch, I’ll restrict access from EU/UK regions until it’s fully ready.

I want this to be a tool that helps people feel safer — not one that puts others at risk. Privacy and ethics are core to this, and I’m grateful for feedback like yours that keeps the vision grounded and responsible.