MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-14 06:56:35+00:00
> So if "people's experiences" are an untrustworthy source of data

People's experiences are, as yet, an inaccessible source of data.

People's claims about their experiences are an often untrustworthy source of data.

> pray tell us just what could possibly be a trustworthy source of data??

The absence of an trustworthy, accessible source of data does not make untrustworthy or inaccessible sources of data trustworthy or accessible.

> "Go outside and look for yourself" that's people's experiences

No, its not "people's experiences", but its also not a broad, general, representative source of data.
by prem_studio | 2025-08-14 06:56:38+00:00
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by snailmailman | 2025-08-14 06:56:54+00:00
I don’t know how possible that is anymore. Youtube is letting creators A/B test thumbnails and titles now. So the thumbnail and title isn’t consistent between users or page visits.

It’s tripped me up several times. Although it’s unclear how much it’s the new feature or creators manually trying to game the algorithm by shuffling the title and thumbnail around.
by kami23 | 2025-08-14 06:57:38+00:00
I tried this tonight as my first time using anything like Claude code, and having a week or so of copilot agentic mode experience.

It's the right path, I'm very smitten with seeing the sub agents working together. Blew through the Pro quota really fast.

I was a skeptic and am no more. Gonna see what it takes to run something basic in a home lab, and how the performance is, even if it is incredibly slow on a beefy home system, just checking in on it should be low enough friction for it to noodle on some hobby projects.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-08-14 06:58:05+00:00
Who's permission do you need to be allowed to accept $10 in cash? I mean there are regulations but that is usually not related directly to the cash payment itself but rather that you know you might need to pay taxes or there is regulation that you can't commit terrorist acts and you know that could be the blocker but then it's not really the cash payment that is needing permission. And again, nothing that Bitcoin or other crypto is solving because you still would have to have the same kind of permission or just not care about the permission but you can do that with cash too.
by jsiepkes | 2025-08-14 06:59:38+00:00
Also Oxide just raised a $100 million series B with their illumos based product [1].

While I respect Brendan I think the arguments he makes are kinda weak. For example take OpenZFS. OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD isn't that great;

OpenZFS on Linux is only an option if you want to support the compatibility. As long as OpenZFS can't have (parts) inside the main Linux kernel source tree there is going to be breakage on updates. Which means manually testing and maintaining updates. Or you have to confine yourself to Ubuntu because they are of the opinion you can combine the CDDL and GPL. Don't think Ubuntu indemnifies you against an Oracle lawsuit though.

You could use FreeBSD as an alternative. FreeBSD is great, but lacks a lot of functionality. For example a good I/O scheduler is missing in FreeBSD. The FreeBSD I/O scheduler will basically just do what is most advantageous for it. If you have competing I/O workloads which you want to serve "fairly" there is no way to do that on FreeBSD. Basically the load which "pulls the hardest gets the most".

[1] https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b
by paulpatan22 | 2025-08-14 06:59:50+00:00
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by pessimizer | 2025-08-14 06:59:50+00:00
For a long time, Mensa couldn't give people IQ scores from the tests they administered because somehow, legally, they would be acting medically. This didn't change until about 10 years ago.

Defining non-medical things as medicine and requiring approval by particular private institutions in order to do them is simply corruption. I want everybody to get therapy, but there's no difference in outcomes whether you get it from a licensed therapist using some whacked out paradigm that has no real backing, or from a priest. People need someone to talk to who doesn't have unclear motives, or any motives really, other than to help. When you hand money to a therapist, that's nearly what you get. A priest has dedicated his life to this.

The only problem with therapists in that respect is that there's an obvious economic motivation to string a patient along forever. Insurance helps that by cutting people off at a certain point, but that's pretty brutal and not motivated by concern for the patient.
by XorNot | 2025-08-14 06:59:58+00:00
This is a huge pile of uncosted assumptions.

If you take cash it means you have to hold it on site. To be insured you have to demonstrate secure handling for the insurer, which would include security systems and limiting the amount in the safe and register. Which means routine trips to the bank, which also incurs costs.

Like...that could all be true, but the rate merchants tried to ditch ever handling physical money rather suggests the fees were worth it (not to mention all the risk mitigation doesn't cover the increased danger to ones personal safety - walking $5000 to the bank is no fun at all).
by Szpadel | 2025-08-14 07:00:40+00:00
I agree with all you said, but I don't believe there is any way you could protect yourself from being recorded.

The only way for this to work are legal regulations. But those can be easily dismissed as not possible to implement. So this is good PoC to show what is possible and way to discover how this could function. Without such implementation I don't believe you are able to convince anybody to start working on such regulations.
by giorgioz | 2025-08-14 07:00:46+00:00
I love the concept but the implementation in the demo seem not good enough to me. I think the black and white demo is quite ugly... 1) Explainer videos are not in black and white 2) the images are not drawn live usually. 3) text being drawn on the go is just a fake animation. In reality most explainer videos show short meaningful sentence appearing all at once so the user has more time for reading me.

Keep up refining the generated demo! Best of luck
by smartmic | 2025-08-14 07:00:50+00:00
I also tried Nyxt, but I never stuck with it. I believe there are different UI contexts depending on the goal. For example, browsing the web is a different task and experience than editing text. That's why it comes naturally to me to use a mouse- and keyboard-driven application, Firefox in my case, for browsing and Emacs for anything text-related.

In other words, using the purely text-driven Emacs interface to browse multimedia web pages does not feel natural to me.
by ljf | 2025-08-14 07:00:51+00:00
As a side note, I bought an Aliexpress $25 'hanging arduino plotter' - I was never able to get good results from it sadly - though I felt a learnt a lot from it and scratched the plotter itch that I had.

I'd also be very interested in a 'good' cheapish plotter - to try a few things that I was never able to with the extra low quality one that I bought
by dcow | 2025-08-14 07:03:21+00:00
I can’t see a way around it without more government incentive to combat the drift of gerontocratic capitalism. Children aren’t valuable anymore in the access to cheap labor sense because our economy has scaled beyond the phase where that’s a competitive x factor.

Whether we created organically, or capitalism lead us into, a worldview where both parents are better off as good reliable corporate wage slaves, we’re at the point where dual incomes are expected which puts a lot of strain on any family wanting to actually raise their kids, which not too long ago was the default expectation.

I am sure diversification of assets will help, but I don’t see 40 yr old “we’re over populating the earth” and “parents don’t know what they’re doing they aren’t suited to raising children” types having much shareholder empathy for an economy that takes a haircut to support 30 hour work weeks and 6 month paid parental leave.

The feasibility of having children has to be supported by society and systems that work against it have to be kept in check.
by attila-lendvai | 2025-08-14 07:03:31+00:00
compulsory education is a main pillar of the twisted power structure in our society.

power in society comes from a knowledge gap, and powerful people have all the incentives to sustain it. consequently education is a battleground, and we, the honest people, have pretty much lost the battles for about a century now.

the OP only makes sense when also considering this aspect of the question.
by b112 | 2025-08-14 07:03:47+00:00
> much of how USA copyright law works has been exported to many other countries

I'm not blaming you for bringing it up, however I did make it clear that I was speaking of a different jurisdiction. And yes, of course you're right, it's always a "big deal" when trade negotiations come up.

Canada has multiple different things in play to protect the individual. The non-profiting dude. Fair use is one, far expanded. Notice-and-notice is another, which currently means you have to pay to send an 'infringed' notice to people, as a copyright owner. Damages are also capped, at an amount that makes legal action untenable for most. And the bar of proof is significantly higher.

And that's for torrents.

For years we've had things like "you pay a tiny tax on hard drives", but then "that means you've already paid for anything you'll ever copy" and the tax goes into a fund to pay Canadian artists. While this may seem strange, it's one solution we've had to help keep art alive, but also not punish the average citizen with crazy law suits, and insane attacks from massive law firms.

Essentially, we don't let the US bully us into agreements which are massively harmful to our citizens.

But back to the LLM side. I see the current situation a weakening of copyright law, a massive one. And not for the average joe, but instead for the most commercial of entities.

I want copyright law, in some circumstances, to be weakened for people. Not companies. They get to pay artists. Creators. Developers.

And of course, there'd be no GPL without copyright law. So while I agree for individuals, especially in the US, copyright law is very annoying and a problem? Let's again focus on what I'm saying.

It currently isn't and doesn't have to be an absolutely

You can and we already have, as we've both discussed, different outcomes for copyright. EG both for fair use and breach outcomes, for corporations/for-profit and just some person. So let's stop talking about copyright stronger/weaker as a generic, and a specific.

I support weaker outcomes of breach, and enhanced fair use for people.

I support stronger outcomes of breach, and so forth for companies.

Further, I support sliding scales too. A one person youtuber isn't the same as a 10B company. A person playing parts of one song in their video for a few seconds, as a one person corp, isn't the same as an entity scanning all of humankind's knowledge and laughing in our faces.

Huge differences of scale and scope.

Look at it this way. Some of these companies have downloaded torrents. If a person did what they did, they'd receive billions in fines!!

Yet they're getting a lesser outcome, as in freaking nothing.

It's the wrong place for copyright weakening.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-14 07:03:51+00:00
> The Crime Survey carries out large-scale surveys of a sample of 75,000 households. It's not some dinky little opinion poll.

So? Sample size only addresses sampling error, not nonsampling error, for nonsampling error its exactly as bad as the dinkiest little poll on the same topic (and for sampling error, it's not much better; polls are the sizes they typically are because it doesn't actually take a very large scale to be fairly reliable when you only consider sampling error, and, again, adding more size doesn't help at all against nonsampling error.)
by nottorp | 2025-08-14 07:04:29+00:00
> The mouse is for circle strafing and then my right hand stays on the rodent.

Hmm do the newer 4x games still allow unit movement from the numpad? Of course with a hex map you don't have enough directional keys on there, but it could probably be done.

Don't have any Civ installed atm so I can't check easily.
by uncircle | 2025-08-14 07:04:50+00:00
Before 2010-something, the very popular meme in software engineering was that functional programming is really hard to understand, and really not suited for anything outside of academia. [1] Now that I've been programming in an immutable functional language for almost a decade (Elixir), I'm certain the meme was mostly born out of unfamiliarity [2] than actual complexity; it's really not that much different than imperative, just requires a different approach and understanding of the trade-offs. Writing a distributed system (say, a web app backend) in an imperative, mutable language in this day and age is increasingly a laughable proposition in my view. Use the right tool for the problem at hand.

Many academically-trained developers never got exposed to FP in school, and to this day you can still hear, albeit in much lesser numbers thanks to the popularity of Elixir/Clojure/etc., the meme of FP being "hard" perpetuated.

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1: I would go so far as to blame Haskell for the misplaced belief that FP means overcomplicated type theory when all you want is a for loop and a mutable data-structure.

2: I played with OCaml 10+ years ago, and couldn't make head or tails of it. I tried again recently, and it just felt familiar and quite obvious.
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by vidarh | 2025-08-14 07:06:47+00:00
You conveniently left out that this ranking shows London top of 28 selected capital cities for a selection of 10 crimes in 2003/04, which we know from the Crime Survey for England and Wales was significantly closer to the UK all time peak.

You'll also note that the paper itself then provides data from additional capitals that it's conveniently not included in the main list. Several of those additional cities ranking above London. In other words, it's a sample that even the paper demonstrates isn't remotely comprehensive.

I don't need to provide any other sources - you're the one that made a claim that was based in "data" that was entirely worthless, and this new data still isn't even close to backing up the original claim.
by ksec | 2025-08-14 07:06:50+00:00
Nvidia only for now. Precisely because they got fed up with Intel and AMD ( And Amphere as well ) for extremely slow PCIe adoption.

I believe only next Gen Intel and AMD Zen6 will get PCIe 6.0.

I am hoping Nvidia officially move into Server CPU market not only for their CPU but for wider Web Hosting as well. More competition for Server Hardware.
by swiftcoder | 2025-08-14 07:07:03+00:00
Erlang faces a similar uphill battle when it comes to syntax - there are three different punctuation marks used as terminators depending on context, and you have to keep in your head the rules for all 3. As someone who has written quite a bit of Erlang, but infrequently, it's always a battle.

And I think a big part of the reason that Elixir has done so well (Elixir pretty much starting out as Erlang-but-with-Ruby-syntax)
by rcarmo | 2025-08-14 07:07:41+00:00
Well, right now I'd say it would be _consistent_, at least. I run Fedora on my desktop/laptop/remote devboxes and use Debian as either a base container image (for Docker/LXC) or as a server (whenever the option is there), and I must say I like Trixie's little CLI quality of life improvements.

Not really sure I'd swap Fedora's _really good_ driver support for it, but since I'm running Silverblue and most of my "civilian" apps are flatpaks I probably wouldn't notice the difference.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-14 07:08:18+00:00
That is why if I feel like doing ML style programing I rather reach out for Kotlin, Scala or F# than Rust, and even then Java and C# have gotten enough inspiration that I can also feel at home while using them.

I am no strage to ML type systems, my first one was Caml Light, OCaml was still known as Objective Caml, and Mirada was still something being discussed on programming language lectures on my university.

From what I see, I also kind of find the same, too many people rush out for Rust thinking that ML type systems is something new introduced by Rust, without having the background where all comes from.
by incompatible | 2025-08-14 07:09:03+00:00
"Diverse discussion" is just something I don't want. Of course I've made up my mind about all kinds of things and I don't really need to see opposing points of view as though they are novel thoughts that I've never considered before. Sure, tell me again why your religion or your conspiracy theory proves that the scientific consensus is a hoax. Maybe you'll convince me this time?

I don't mind Mastodon, but I'm pretty selective in who I follow, and diversity of opinions isn't one of my criteria.
by vidarh | 2025-08-14 07:09:27+00:00
A company is engaging in a marketing stunt for a problem that people perceive to be disproportionately high.

Do you think this tells us anything other than perception? Which several people have already pointed out we know are out of whack with actual survey of peoples actual experience with crime?

It's clear there are many phone thefts. It's also clear people believe the extent of crime is far higher than it is. It seems like a perfect thing for a company like Curry's to profit from.
by voidUpdate | 2025-08-14 07:09:31+00:00
If I fly from outside of the country into o'hare, I'm not technically in america until I pass through immigration. When you get off the plane, I don't think you are technically in any country.

If you have incorrect documents, a border agent can deny you entry, but if you have committed a crime, you are entitled to a lawyer etc, which is due process. If you are simply thrown in a van for unproven crimes and sent out of the country, that is not due process
by lgeorget | 2025-08-14 07:09:38+00:00
Well... it just works, so it's fine. I remember a time when I was a student where I would change distribution every six months: Fedora, Debian, Archlinux, Gentoo, FreeBSD, etc. but I finally landed on Debian and stayed there as I grew older.

In the stable distribution, packages tend to be a little dated obviously, but at least it is _stable_. And you can go with the _testing_ distribution for more up-to-date packages.

Also, as a sysadmin, I like having it on my computer to develop and test scripts without having to SSH in a dedicated environment (I still have to eventually but only for the final tests).
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-14 07:09:41+00:00
Even manufacturing without instructions gives you practice. Also you need only so much instructions per practice, getting instructions won't actually help you get better you also need to do it.

The master very much cares about your quality, because if it doesn't look like his quality nobody will buy it. If the quality goes down to much, there will be complaints to the guilt and he looses its ability to do business.

If you have problems with your master you can look for another one. The good always needed to reject prentices, the bad had nobody showing up. In-fact you were required to stay with multiple masters.

If you complain about them not having an 8-hour day, nobody had that in the middle ages. But tradesman were more of the richer people in a city, maybe behind tradesman.
by hnarn | 2025-08-14 07:09:52+00:00
There are many reasons to run Debian as a user, why wouldn't there be? I'm sure there's also many reasons not to. By "derivative distro" I assume you mean for example Ubuntu, or maybe Linux Mint -- personally my love for Debian is that it's _not_ Ubuntu. There's no "firefox installed as snap", it just feels cleaner and snappier while still being very similar to what I'm used to. Debian used to be slightly more difficult to install, but I don't feel that's the case anymore, especially not since they ship non-free firmware on the install media now.
by pletnes | 2025-08-14 07:10:42+00:00
I think I have a similar experience in some ways, but building python from source should work on linux in my experience. On a debian ish system I’d expect apt installing build essentials and the libraries you need and you should be good. I’ve done it with some pain on red hat-ish distros, which have tended to ship with python versions older than I’ve experience with. (I guess it’s better these days..?)
by WalterBright | 2025-08-14 07:10:56+00:00
I taught myself how to ride a bicycle, but was baffled for a long time how the bike stayed up. I did some very careful observation of what my body was doing to make it work, and finally figured it out. I've had some difficulty transferring that skill to the dirtbike, and spend a fair amount of practice time just doing figure eights.

Another weird thing. I've been using the same text editor for 40 years. I no longer remember what the commands are - but I can still edit files just fine. Sometimes I watch my fingers to see what the command actually is.
by apparent | 2025-08-14 07:12:36+00:00
Because one of the best things about wearing a smartwatch is that you can use it as a silent (vibrating) alarm that doesn't wake anyone else up.

I've heard some people say that newer AWs can last indefinitely if you charge only while in the shower. That could be good enough. But I still don't want to have to bring another charge cable with me every time I take a trip. One week is good. Two weeks is great. A month is amazing (partly because after the battery degrades for years, it will still be two weeks).